Random thoughts on game plots, stories, and plays.
The Hero/ine:
- Usually completely oblivious until some "thing" tells him/her, and usually denies the role. Then completely got involved and ignores all facts of life just because.
- Usually emo, or crazy.
- Carries 6932 items around, including 60 swords, 9 types of bows (no, not arrows, they are expensive,) 600 completely random objects, 6 rocks, and 4 gold bricks and still walks around with ease.
- Doesn't get hungry, EVER.
- Picks up food from random strangers and knocked over garbage bins.
- Hellbent on not jumping over a 3 feet wall, despite higher than normal strength and dexterity, but will gladly jump down a 600 feet cliff to a gruesome death.
- Takes about 600 bullets, 60 sword through the heart, and 5 chops in the head to kill.
- or dies stepping on an ant, or walking into a door.

The companions:
- Usually do most of the work and let the hero takes all the credits while they fade back into the unknown.
- Swarm around the hero, or form a neat line behind the hero, or worse, hermit inside the hero.
- Often state the complete obvious details of the environment.
- First to headbutt into conflict to get hurt, only to create more of a hassle for the hero to fight.
- mostly useless in fights.
- major source of discouraging advice.
- Usually imperative to yell the name of the spell when using said spell.
- When companion offers to do something, usually screwing it up, BADLY.

The Villain:
- Overly confident, despite the hero killing all of his minions and every single guard in his hideout.
- Never, EVER sends powerful troops to overwhelm the hero when the hero is still weak.
- Only acts when the hero has matured and more than a match (root the source, eh?)
- usually stops expanding his influence as soon as the hero started exploring, instead just sits and does absolutely nothing.
- has a tendency to not send more than 2 bosses at a time.
- usually takes about 58432908 hits to die.

The national army:
- completely useless.

The NPCs:
- Stand around the same spot for eternity.
- Have little concerns for home security.
- Will tell you the same thing over, and over again.
- Gets in the way.

The Creatures:
- usually carry spare change of the relevant currency, despite of their size. Sometimes they have weapons inside their bodies.
- groups neatly from weak creatures to strong creatures.
- always attacks the hero, and just the hero; never attacks NPCs unless told to do so.

The Environment:
- A locked door is mostly invulnerable to all damage, despite you shooting at it with a thermal nuclear device.
- will have something to block you from the next step. Anything, including an NPC you can kill in 1 hit.

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I am beginning to think the registrar are ran by TV program planners. Your IQ cannot go any lower.

Bleeding weather forecast is saying that despite the best effort to prove that global warming is real by those tree hugging green hippies, it is going to be a very snowy with a touch of cold. Well not really... it is not cold anymore. It is beyond cold. Scientists and Dictionartists still have not figured out a word for a word that can describe what bone cracking and nose freezing and horn cracking thing that will blow your mind literally. What kind of weather are we taking on here? If you go outside right now I am sure you will freeze to meet your great great great grandfather in law in about the time it takes you to say Jolly Ranchers, maybe even shorter. This indescribable cold can only be mentioned and actually take place in history and mystery books, and should not be happening right now.

Good thing I don't have to go outside for the next few days; but then, things may change... I can't believe you understand all that.

Is it really ridiculous to spend 2 grand on two things? Not big things, like furniture or plasma TVs, I mean little gadgets. The stuff I am really keen on getting right now is the Fujitsu U820 UMPC and the HTC Touch Pro PocketPC phone. One is $1100, the other $800. I work on a philosophy of spend only if you really like it, and the two objects both fall in that category. The UMPC sounds alright, but I am a little unsure about the amount of money I am willing to drop on a phone.

My other choice would be the O2 Stellar / HTC Kaiser (somehow I like O2 devices), which is $400 on ebay, and is the device I wanted a year ago. The main thing is the QVGA screen and the lack of video drivers.

Maybe I'll wait on the phone part, but I am dropping my $ on the U820 for sure. It is the perfect thing to replace my aging Axim. The NOR flash memory really sucks.