I’ve decided I should be doing these WS blog updates. I keep wanting to be more involved with the strip (because, you know…I’m not that involved, I just write the damn thing), and this seems like a good outlet for that. Besides, it wouldn’t hurt if every few days I step out from adding a ton of widgets and WordPress add-ons that we don’t use to give you guys a nice Tycho Brahe-esque blog post.

So, now the part where I ramble on about something unrelated for you to comment on! I finally broke down and decided to actually play a game today, and the game of choice was Final Fantasy X. To anyone who’s ever played it, I direct your attention to “Catcher Chocobo”, a racing game. You ride the Chocobo, which is a giant yellow chicken that steers like a fucking tank. The goal of this exercise is to race to the end as fast as you can. No, wait, that’s too easy. Race to the end on your yellow chicken tank, and try to collect balloons, which will shave 3 seconds off your time. No, still too easy. Ride your giant yellow chicken tank, collect balloons to make your time 3 seconds shorter, and dodge birds who add 3 seconds to your time whenever they hit you. Crap, that’s still too easy. Ok, ride the chicken tank, collect balloons to lose 3 seconds, dodge birds or you’ll gain 3 seconds, and race the Chocobo trainer, who is the worst Chocbo trainer ever, because her Chicken tank (which is apparently the extra nimble version) moves faster than you, and she likes to ram you from the side so that you hit the birds. Perfect!

Just for shits and giggles, though, why not have this be the game required to get Tidus’ strongest in-game weapon? And in order to do all that, you have to finish the race with a score that, after tallying in the collected balloons and collided birds, is less than 0:00:00. Needless to say, this is why I’ve not yet beaten Final Fantasy X. Tune back in Friday morning, when I’m found a pile of goop from trying to conquer this beast.

Skwerl quickly chastised me for the below post.  Apparently, FFX and its hellish Chocobo game is not a hot button topic.

Honestly though, I’ve not yet beaten FFX.  I’m one of those bizarre, crazed perfectionists.  I want to get everything, multiples of them if possible.  So when I see what I have to do to get Tidus’ ultimate weapon, I bawked, and rather quickly gave up.  And since I did yet again attempt the game today, it makes it a hot button topic.  I’m sure other RPGers (read: people who aren’t like Skwerl and can stand reading more than a paragraph of text) will agree).

Needless to say, I am a rather insane gamer.  Hell, I’m that crazy bastard who thought Final Fantasy 8 was a masterpiece, and that Final Fantasy 7 was a steaming pile of horse shit.

So, in short, Skwerl sucks and I rock.  Hope you enjoy the comics.