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just a bit curious: i've had no trouble loading FFVI, FFVII, FFVIII, FFIX and Chrono Trigger on to my vita (sidebar: FUCK YES FINALLY!) but i've been unable to load Grandia. i'm guessing since content manager doesn't see the install data that it's a problem with the emulation? maybe? does anyone know a workaround to this? i'd figured there would be hiccups with the emulation, but instead was surprised that all my other games seemed to work great. and CowboyPoet, yes, loading a cart the first time creates an icon that stays on your homescreen permanently. you can move it the same way you move any other icons, and when you put the cart in again the homesceen will automatically find it and make it 'bounce' to tell you its ready to play.

saw it last night, and i think i'd agree with TheCowboyPoet in that it was closer to Batman Begins than The Dark Knight. while i had a few problems with it, it still had quite a lot to recommend (and i honestly doubt we'll ever get a better movie incarnation of Batman than this, so for that i'm grateful.) so yeah, those are my thoughts.

i'm far from a hardcore fighting gamer, but i thought i'd relate something that happened to me while playing online recently. SF3: third strike is by far the SF game i am best at. i like using Shaun. the kid's got some great moves. anyways, so my friend who's usually way better (seriously, waaay better) than me at these games lost to me a couple of times in a row. "wow," i thought, "maybe i'm actually good at this." so i did what anyone would do: went online to have my confidence shattered. so, it's my first online SF3 fight ever. and who does it match me up with? a player at level 12. so i'm bracing myself for the worst. surprisingly, my opponent immediately goes for Shaun. i do too. we fight 2 rounds. obviously i lose both of them, but not embarassingly so. the rounds were rather close, with my opponent pulling out a victory in the last 25% of his health bar each time. i'm feeling pretty good about myself, even though i lost. then i see my opponent's sent a message to my inbox. "great," i think, "time to get called a fag." my opponent's message reads like this: "hey, good fight. i like it when ppl play as shaun. hes my favorite character cuz hes an underdog." i message back: "thank you! shaun's my favorite too. i am pretty bad at this game but i've gotten better playing as him." he messages back: "yo, use his fierce punch more." and now we're friends. THE END.

you better eat that cookie yourself. i haven't played a MK since MK3 came out. and i sucked pretty bad at that one too.

seems to me like Sony could incorporate game vouchers into ps+, as right now there's literally no reason for a vita owner to sign up. even if it was as simple as "PS+ members get discounted downloads on already-purchased games" that would be awesome, and probably quite successful. unrelated, but my copy of Mortal Kombat for my vita is arriving today! can't wait to get home and spill some blood.

my girlfriend and i have been watching Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. i'd watched it back when the new episodes were airing on hulu, so this is the 2nd time for me and i'm right back into it. truly one of the great animes. i'm blown away by how fast the story moves despite the show's ridiculous length. right now we're on episode 51. i guess since i'm new to these forums and this thread, i'll list off some of my favorite animes and maybe y'all can throw me some suggestions too. -Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood -Paranoia Agent -Gurren Laggan -Monster -Samurai Champloo -Cowboy Bebop -Ghost in the Shell: SAC -Sgt. Frog making lists feels good. i guess that's why the internet's full of 'em.

just dropping by to say i picked up Mortal Kombat for my vita this weekend. it was on sale online at gamestop for $10! very excited, as i haven't played the console version at all. MK was always the fighting game i was worst at (though, come to think of it, i was really awful at KoF too) but i've heard such good things about this new one that i had to go for it.

it's kind of the obvious choice (haven't checked the early thread to see if you've already mentioned it) but Deadwood is one of my absolute favorite tv shows of all time. this is largely unrelated but the two shows that have been killing it recently for me are the Ricky Gervais Show (season 3 just wrapped up) and this new show Gravity Falls on the disney channel. Gravity Falls is really one of the best animated shows i've seen and it's only on the 4th episode. i think if it catches on it could be the next Adventure Time.

to be more specific, it was the fact that you can switch between characters on that radial menu that really made the system click for me. i may have just missed that particular instruction but once i realized it everything just sort of fell into place. and yeah, my mage has healing and physical spells but a backup healer does sound very useful. we'll see how it goes. here's a quick gameplay question: do you have to worry about leveling up characters you don't use? am i gonna be forced to use one of them at some point, only to discover that they suck? i've been trying to give them all a bit of an opportunity, but my core team is very effective.

oh boy, i just started this game. i've got several other games going, but i'd bought this Ultimate Edition a couple weeks back and hadn't really given it a chance. i'm about 4 or 5 hours in, with an elven lady mage (i usually make sneaky rogues but i thought i'd branch out for this game) and having a ton of fun. i'd popped the disc in back when i first bought it, but something about the combat system totally didn't click for me so i put it away til now. honestly, just learning that you can pause the game via the radial menu and set up attacks that way was a revelation, and something the game should probably have tried to teach me about. anyways, needless to say this time it clicked and i'm already having a ball. i think i'm gonna toss Morrigan out of my party, even though i've heard great things about her character. there's only room for one sexy lady mage and it's ME.

SO! i've been out of the loop these last few days but i just saw this news article saying psone support is forthcoming on the next firmware update! this is gonna be GREAT! when all the final fantasies went on sale a few months ago i used the opportunity to buy almost all of them (i got VI, VII, VIII, and IX) with the intention of loading them up on the vita when that got sorted out. needless to say i am happy about this news. BUT ALSO if you look at the bottom of that news item there's something kind of shocking. sony is talking about ps2 support on the ps3! i suppose it's not that shocking, as the ps4 is forthcoming, but it still seems surprising... earlier this year i spent 30 bucks on a ps2 at a thrift shop (and it WORKED) so i'd be a tiny bit disappointed if all of a sudden my ps3 did the same thing (only a tiny bit). i can only guess it's a strategy to give the ps3 a sales bump in the last year of it's life.

since no one on here has seen this old stuff of mine, here's another: Ode to Asimov (2008)

i actually have not heard that, though i'm always curious about that kind of stuff. can you paraphrase, or do you have a link? it was a bit more personal for me, a family friend when i was growing up was a Buddhist and i always loved going to her house because she had tons of animals there. at least 10 cats, several dogs, a whole wall of her living room devoted to a giant birdcage, a tank full of fish, you name it. i sent her the original drawing as a gift.

@Kau_Kau, @Strangelove: technical skills are great and everything but it's better to have a passion and desire to draw. obviously it's best to have both, but you can get by with either one independently. personally i prefer the passionate. here's one of my favorite drawings from a comics anthology i worked on, Funny Aminals 2. Buddhacat. i'll try to keep posting stuff. everyone else should keep it coming too!