Okay so, related completely to the new egg mentioned earlier, I've been trying out the beta test of a cute lil' kids' MMO made by NatGeo...sort of in the same vein as Neopets or Club Penguin. Want to get a sense of how the game works and what the art style is like. It's abhorrently cute. Make little animal characters, give them flashy colors and patterns, play minigames, read nature facts, buy them accessories and prizes with points, all that usual kid MMO stuff. So I made a little blue and white wolf and named it Sir Snarkyfoot, and have just been running around collecting points to buy cute things...game is in beta so it's obviously not that big right now.

And while running around, I run into a little pink wolf (I think wolf is the most popular animal, not surprisingly) and she's like "My friend said you were here! You want to go out with me?"
Me: .........(uhh) "Okay, sure."
Pink Wolf: "Okay, let's go back to my den!"
Me: *finally figures out how to visit another player's home base, goes there*
Pink Wolf: "Yay!" *proceeds to chase all her other friends out of her den, runs around making little hearty faces; sends me a nature postcard*
Me: ...fffffffffffffffffffffff *makes little heart faces too?!*

WTF, I've only been trying out an MMO for two days and I already have an internet girlfriend who is probably half my age HOW DID THIS EVEN HAPPEN 8|||||


Millennium Actress
I was going to do Goodbye Lenin! today, but the YouTube copy seemed to lack subtitles, so I went for this instead. I'm glad I did...I've only seen Paprika and Tokyo Godfathers thusfar, but this one was just as good (and dreamlike). The animation was amazing as always, and it was just an awesome way to tell a love story...a kind of art imitating life imitating art, story-within-story-within-stories method. All the characters end up playing a wide variety of themselves, to the point where you can't tell the difference between who is "real" and who is fictional, but it hardly matters. It just proves that life sometimes is like the movies, and movies reflect life...it doesn't matter that she's chasing a shadow; the journey is where she really finds joy. The only part I didn't get was who the old woman with the wheel was. I was guessing the older, jealous actress, but I don't think that was it.

Of course, watching this also just made me real sad that Satoshi Kon won't be around to make more great films. :( What a terrible loss...


Hmm, I should go clean out my tags now...

Drawing: LG and a little practice stuff here and there

Writing: Still nothing

Days until BBS release: 13