This Guy Are Sick

After classes got out at lunchtime today, I wound up eating lunch with a friend and eating WAY too much food. A giant plate of nachos and Bailey's flavoured cheesecake (yes, it was as delicious as it sounds). Then, went to the yarn store and was totally good and didn't buy any sock yarn althought I felt up a couple of skeins for a while.

Lately I've been replaying FFVII on my PSP. I tend to play it when I'm on my stationary bike. Obviously VIII is my favourite, or else I wouldn't write so much fanfiction about it, and I wouldn't even put VII in my top three or even top five, but I must like it a little since I've replayed it so many times. Barret's horribly racist and stereotypical ebonics, and all the really bad grammar and translation errors have always irked me, but this time I find that it's the dialog itself that's pissing me off to no end. It's not just the bad punctuation or the spelling - it's the content of each sentence. It's like tangent city! Sentences often don't make sense compared to the one that came prior, even if it's being spoken by the same character. They didn't even take into account that when you translate between languages, you have to actually change sentence structure and context, because they aren't the same damn culture. This game needs a remake so bad. Not because it's the best in the series, which is so isn't, but because it's aged SO TERRIBLY. The graphics look like ass and the script is dated and horribly translated.
I've also noticed that as I get older, I like Tifa less and less. Of course I'll still choose her to be in my party over some of the other characters (if I could, I'd ditch Cloud, and have an all girl party), but when I played it the first couple of times, I thought Tifa was so fucking awesome, and I loathed Aerith. I've really softened on Aerith, but still think that she and Cloud shouldn't be together. Crisis Core made me fall in love with Aerith/Zack (enough that I actually would consider writing a het fic about them). Aerith already has a love, and it's not boring-ass Cloud. Crisis Core actually brought about a huge change in the way I saw a scene in Advent Children. The end where you finally see Aerith's face, and she walks away with Zack into the light of the Lifestream. It's like... they finally got to be together again, and it became my favourite scene in the whole movie, by a huge margin. Though, I don't know if I'd like her as much if she hadn't sacrificed her life. That's the crux of her character. In fact, I liked Tifa so much better that this is the first time that I actually got to see the Aerith date cutscene at the Gold Saucer. I know that's kind of impossible to believe since it's pretty much *supposed* to be Aerith there, but I never used her, and was purposely mean since I was pro-Tifa (I still am in regards to who should be with Cloud, though). I liked how she was so attracted to Cloud because she wanted to essentially be with Zack again. Swoon~! But, Yuffie is still a staple in my party. I told myself that I was going to use Red XIII and Cait Sith more this time, but I just can't bring myself to pull Yuffie out of my party. I'm at the Temple of the Ancients now, and am using Cloud/Aerith/Tifa, and it's actually kind of killing me to not see Yuffie there. Best party member, materia stealer or no!!

But, at least I've gotten closer in trying to finish all my Christmas sock knitting. I'm still not sure if I'll get it all done in time, but I'm trying. 1.5 socks down! (8.5 to go, but I'm not going to think about that or I'll go insane...)