Been A While, No?

I haven't been here in a while, have I?

Not that there's a lot to talk about. No, not really.

I've stopped playing games for a while now. I don't feel the need fo them anymore. The hunger, the blood-thirst is gone. I think I'll start playing again in the future, though I'm not sure what game is going to spark that need again. The last game I played was Legend of Legaia, which was very entertaining, even if I lost interest in spending hours on end becoming more and more powerful in that game.

I recently watched the film 300. I liked the action and the human element of the film was okay. However, the historical and tactical inaccuracies gnaw on me and annoy me. Spartans wore armor and didn't fight barely clothed. The portrayal of how Leonidas ended up at Thermopylae in the first place is inaccurate. The Oracle was at Delphi, not Sparta, for one thing. The prophecy also involved the death of a Spartan king in exchange for saving Sparta. In the film, no mention of this required sacrifice was made. History makes no mention of the Ephors (who are misrepresented to be inbred priests at the Oracle) being bribed by Persian gold, either. Leonidas did send home the other Greek troops, but there were 1000 Thespians who chose to remain. No Spartan was sent back, either, as that would have been interpreted as a retreat. The phalanx tactics of the film also lacked historical truth, though nowhere near as impossible as the Persian horde's creatures and pitiful "charge like mad" strategy. Even an amateur armchair general can figure out that the terrain was disadvantageous to the invasion force, particularly against better armed and better trained defenders.

"It is easier to defend a fortification that to take a fortification," and all that.

My personal life? Damnable, truly. No progress made on all fronts, save for the possibility of finding someone special all over again. My social life has been in the pits for a long time now, so I doubt that situation will improve soon. Oh well, at least I still have my online friends and those very few, very dear women in my life.

On the creative front, I think I have The Spark going once again. While what I'm working on has no title as yet, I should be able to come up with one eventually. This one is..."closer to home" than anything else I've written before and I doubt that I'll ever write anything of this sort once this is done. I'm drawing on my own memories, perceptions, notes, and thoughts for this one more than any other piece I've worked on. The first chapter, completed in (I think) one and a half week's time, is up on Tuxedo Jack's boards, in case you're interested. I'm thinking of making some minor alterations and adding a dedication and foreword to the text once I'm done.

Anyway, that's all for now.