Help my eyes are burning

[trinityvixen]

...so...tired...can't....see....

Just had to stay up until 2:30 this morning to watch feiran beat Portal. Urgh. Ruined for the day, I think. Fucking Mondays.

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[fairest.livejournal.com]

I haven't had that much fun with a game in *ages.* Wow, was everybody right. I love it when something touted as extraordinarily awesome fulfills my expectations.

Want to find me an mp3 of the ending song? :D

(the cake is a lie)

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I'll take a look, sure.

And I wait cake! I was promised cake!

[hslayer.livejournal.com]

I sent you the mp3 via email.

[fairest.livejournal.com]

Score! It is to thank. THANK YOU!

[viridian.livejournal.com]

You know they have it for Rock Band, yes?

[edgehopper.livejournal.com]

Not yet--but maybe tomorrow? We'll find out what tomorrow's DLC is any minute. But it will be DLC at some point in the near future.

[fairest.livejournal.com]

:D!!!

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Y'arp, I was informed. In fact, I told feiran that last night when we were sitting there slack-jawed with awesome over how funny that song was (in all the wrong ways).

[ecmyers.livejournal.com]

Also, here's the songwriter performing it.

[cbreakr.livejournal.com]

Isn't it just the most amazing thing ever! I'm so upset that it was so short.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

How much longer could it have been, really? Like with Myst and games of that ilk, there's only so much puzzle-only solving that can sustain a game. There was no gradation to the goal--no sidequests, no story building detours--that would have justified the thing lasting longer than it did.

It's like trying to make a three-hour movie out of the concept for Cube. It's a great concept, but not for that long. And, as the sequels to Cube proved, trying to force narrative onto a more avant garde "setting" movie just doesn't work. I can't imagine explaining why the hell you're stuck in a subterranean lair with a psychotic, cake-obsessed computer would make the game better.

Sequel? Hell yeah, but story? Mmm, not so much.

[cbreakr.livejournal.com]

I remember back in the day when there were expansive, 100+ level puzzle games that I loved to play for hours, like Lode Runner or Daedalian Opus. Portal's a lot better than all of them but wasn't long enough to get me my fix.

If the puzzles increased in complexity as they had been throughout the game, I could have easily played for another 3 hours. The damn thing was just fun!

[ecmyers.livejournal.com]

I think you mean helping feiran beat Portal :)

I found out this morning that the ending song was done by Jonathan Coulton, and it all makes sense now.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Heee, he wrote the "Re: Your Brains" song!

[bigscary.livejournal.com]

I'm sure it was a triumph.
You're making a post here:
No Sleep Left

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

It's almost a haiku, or it is. I can't count syllables, I'm too tired.

[negativeq.livejournal.com]

There is a perfectly synced AMV of "L" singing "Still Alive". And of course he has cake.

Mmmmm cake.

I laughed so hard I choked on my cracker.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

It is crazy easy to get mixed up in the cake nonsense. I watched feiran play for less than half the time she spent on the game and I was like, "Do I get cake now?" for the entire time. It really brainwashes you about that cake. Mmm cake. I wonder if I can have some cake.