I Buy Sushi

Some may get the subtle reference/joke that is the title of this post. Most won't.

Anyway, a vaguely entertaining weekend just passed me by. I managed to snag a copy of Warriors Orochi for the PC, and spent a few hours or so in hack-and-slash fun. Sure, it isn't the deepest, most engaging plot in the world, but right now, I need less thinking, more killing in my games. Doesn't help that the female characters of the game are just so darn cute sometimes. Mildly annoyed by how hard it is to complete everything in the game, though. Not to mention how disturbing it is to notice that the lines of spoken dialog seem to suffer from an ungodly delay, which can seriously be detrimental to completing some of the tasks. Still, the game is repetitive but fun overall. Definitely a nice game to break in my new laptop, Kaguya, with.

I also discovered that, after many years of loyal service and hours of fun, my time-worn copy of Baldur's Gate II is now officially dead. The "redundant cycle check" problem, not to mention some scratches here and there from years of abuse, have finally taken their toll. The prospects of me finding another copy anytime soon are rather low, which is sad, really. Sure, I don't play the game as often as I used to back when I first got it, but I delve into the Forgotten Realms and install it every now and again for a few hours. Or when there's a new mod that I'm interesting in trying out. This would not have been a problem had I kept a clean install somewhere, but I neglected to do that after formatting my older laptop, Sakura, who had been suffering from some hard drive problems.

Yesterday, me and the family also went to Manila Ocean Park. Lots of fish, which is good. Lots of people, which is bad. And sharks, which is just beautiful. I am mildly disappointed that there wasn't much in terms of variety. There weren't any truly exotic species there, either, but I guess that is understandable. Still, the place had sharks (including my favorites, the black-tip reef shark) and rays, so I'm not that disappointed.

Pictures!