"You see, this tail of mine," unnecessary comma, "moves quite independently of my will."

Arrrrgh. I'm slowly but surely being drawn into the maddening, all-consuming, yawning maw of Final Fantasy VII - I fear there's no return from this journey.

I am starting to question my sanity. How can I so much fall in love with a game with repulsively obvious subtext, generally pathetic dialogue, and a combat system straight out of stone age?

It is a great mystery.

Hmm, I'm nowhere near the end, but I've been listening to the sountrack quite extensively.

I wish someone would make a little bit more lighthearted remix of One-Winged Angel, with lyrics from some other parts of Carmina Burana...

:;: In taberna quando sumus
non curamus quid sit humus
In taberna quando sumus
non curamus quid sit humus
SEPHIROTH! (tattattattattattattattaaaattattattt)
SEPHIROTH! (tattattattattattattattaaaattattattt) :;:
Bibit hera... bibit herus...
bibit miles... bibit clerus...

...and so on =)

(The first sign that you're worried that you're going to lose your mind: Trying to make humorous twists of the thing you fear.)

Aside of this, I think I need to finish Zelda: Ocarina of Time soon. Only two dungeons to go. Probably need to look at the most annoying one first.

Hurm.

Let's see: I started playing Neverwinter Nights a lot again. I'm finally continuing the Hordes of the Underdark campagn.

The weird bit yesterday: I did some magery, there was a wild magic surge, which incidentally made my character spam the balor lord in the next room, through the closed door mind you, with a fireball - quite unusual, since the character doesn't know that spell. Understandable, since that was a wild magic surge. Anyway, the balor lord blew up. So did the application. Did a spell and I ended up adoring the desktop. Now that was wicked.

Great Dialogue:
"Umm... Boss... How do you spell 'atmospheric'?"

Tonight: Three hours straight Final Fantasy VII. And just as I was about to actually start to enjoy it, it crashed when I waltzed into one of them "random encounters". Well, I didn't ask for a bloody random encounter!

Great Dialogue:
"..."

Frustrated, I tried to play Ultima VIII. But guess what? Oh, since I've got an USB mouse, I've got to play it from Windows DOS Shell, and, you know, it has this small stability problem, even with the fan-made windows patch... Hrrrrrrm.
(It always crashes Win98 completely when I try to get out of the gateway leading to the royal hall. I've got to figure out a way to hack the items. I'll make the plaques read "Hotel California".)

Great (Hypothetical) Dialogue:
Avatar: "Nice axe!"
Shaana: "That's got to be the worst pick-up line I've ever heard..."
(...and an ancient joke from a web page long gone and forgotten too... =)

That's it. Three crashes in such short period of time is enough. I think I'll switch to writing pen-and-paper D&D adventures for a while. The rulebooks definitely won't crash (though, if I were a less lenient DM, they might, often), and OpenOffice.org Writer rarely does, either.