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Cleverbot is supposedly a chat AI that 'learns' to make more clever, human-like responses as people type to it. Very entertaining to talk to, even though sometimes I half suspect there's real people typing back. The fun/amusing thing is that (unless someone's debunked it, and I'm pretty sure Jon would've found it if they did, hehe) I'll never really know!

But it's a fun diversion. You'll find that it's pretty well-versed in internet memes already -- for example I think it can follow along with almost the entirety of Rick Astley's "Never gonna give you up" :P and it knows about things like "over 9000!" and "This is Sparta!" too. Totally useless but amusing knowledge.

I'm going to play Sims 2 this ENTIRE DAY!

I find it oddly therapeutic to just immerse myself in Sims 2 for an extended period of time. Afterward, for some reason, life just doesn't seem as bad! Maybe it's the feeling of having complete control over a society and its people. Gives me some sort of confidence and satisfaction (I do always strive to give my Sims happy lives!) More so than with games like Spore or Sim City, because Sims are a lot more like 'virtual people' with their various social and interpersonal interactions.

Anyway, I have a lot to do and get done (both online and in RL) so I'm not wanting to be in a down mood much longer. It's hard to fight it :( but I did go and exercise on my own without prompting today, and that's something.

I also joined a depression forum. I don't know whether it will do much for me yet, but it does help to be able to talk about depression and know people know what I'm talking about.

WCNews -- this site really brings back the nostalgia for me. Wow. :O

I almost wish I'd stayed in the fandom. As fandoms go, WC doesn't look like a terrible one. Kinda niche, and decent(ly obsessed) people from what I can see. That site's collected a great deal of Wing Commander info I didn't even know EXISTED, and is still getting more!

Sadly, I really only played the first two games before I went onto other pastures. I have some fond memories of the WCHQ, writing interactive fics and such. It was damn cool being one of the only girls I knew into the games, besides my sister, of course. I remember at one point I actually wrote a fic to be posted on a Wing Commander fanzine, based on the first contact Terrans had with the Kilrathi! *boggles* Ahh yes, and it was called Trid-Link (the fanzine), after that lil' booklet you got in the Wing Commander 1 box.

Geez... :D I almost want to replay WC now. Maybe I'll get Jon to do it if I can't. x.@ I suck badly at those kinds of games nowadays!

And lastly (for tonight), here's some amusing "lookit us be stupid on OpenRPG!" screenshots.

Where da Hoot? - named so 'cause of the shoop da whoop face Jon and I drew and my monocle (suspiciously missing an ORLY owl.) This was the result of us testing out the whiteboard and degenerating into intarweb lulz.

Entertainment and Ataraxia - proof that we did, indeed, use OpenRPG to play hangman. I would've only saved one example of this, except "Ataraxia" amuses for being both Kalli's hangman word and the name of her Maple Story guild that she ran. XD Dork points! (I think Jon got his for recognizing the word as one of Raja's skillz in Phantasy Star 4. Mwahaha.)

I have no other words for this. Except the three of us ought to get together to play stuff online some more. XD

So I got accepted to theworldrp. I'm starting to play Juri already (here's her LJ, btw: la dame vaillante, which means "the valiant lady") which has been fun. :O

Apparently Kalli says I am a big hit. ?! Not sure how that happened. I ended up getting onto an AIM chat with a bunch of the girls RPing in "the world" and they all seem really nice and fun. I am seriously UNUSED to being accepted in fandom. I mean... this is the first time I've done ANYTHING related to fandom since the Breath of Fire days. Crazy. But they're great ladies. I felt welcome... I really, really appreciate that.

As for the RP... I kinda feel like I'm cheating, really. My characterization of Juri is not all that far off from Archana. In fact, I ultimately chose her for just that reason. The difference of course is that Archa is a soldier/priestess, and Juri more of a socialite/aristocrat.

Soo my online (gaming) life is a lot more exciting than my RL one. What's new?

Also, I need to stop staying inside so much. Bad me. x.x Just... it's been bad lately, again. Don't know what to say about that. I really should be spending time outside instead of poking incessantly at all these RPs, but... *sigh* I just... don't know. I can't, somehow.

I'm going to try on Tuesday and Wednesday though. Go out on both days! *shakefist* I'll even try to take a walk before Nekira's game on Thurs, and maybe go out on Fri and bring some books with me to plan for Soul Collectors outside, assuming the weather's good. Or on any other day that might be a good, warm day.

I just really have to break this agoraphobic streak and get more exercise. Bah. That said, though, here's the first part of my RP updates!

Why am I up?! well, at least partially because I'm waiting on email from HostForWeb, they're adding a reverse DNS record for my server's hostname, since it kept resolving (in certain apps) as 'unknown.hostforweb.net'. I am kinda DNS-dumb so I ended up asking the techs to do it for me. ^^;

Ah, and I got the email just now. Working with HFW has been painless more often than not for me, so I'm always glad to see their customer service continues to be swift.

Meanwhile I was helping my sis test her shell and FTP accounts (they work fine! woo!) and poking around at Anonymous / Scientology protest videos. It's interesting seeing how many people have gathered together at those protests, and the dedication of Anonymous to continue them. Who knows who will come out on top.

One of the videos I saw had this awesome song called "Heavyweight" by Infected Mushroom, an Israeli trance band. This song is 8 minutes of pure awesome to my ears. I want to hear more. I have my eye on their new album now. ;.;

I also recently got Diamanda's Guilty Guilty Guilty, more impressions when I'm not so sleepy / busy.

I was going to spend tonight working on Rosalia's sheet, but once again, I was thwarted. :/ Deadlines and weariness aside, friends > RP and I really wanted to be there to talk.

I've seen with my own eyes, and lived with my own experience, how much damage depression can do to a person's life -- and sometimes, the lives of others, too. I understand all too well the self-destructive urge, but I have the wisdom of many years of self-analysis and a husband who just never quit when it comes to making me face the *truth* of my condition. I honestly consider myself lucky that I've had these years to think about myself and what's really wrong with me. Many people with my condition never get that far -- they only continue to blame themselves, and believe that everything that goes wrong in their life is their just desserts.

Yessss~ Etrian 2 website in English! I AM SO STOKED.

The release date is June 17th. *droooool* I want this game so bad. I don't even think I'll finish the first Etrian Odyssey before I can buy it, but I don't give a crap. XD

Also, someone at Into the Labyrinth (an Etrian Odyssey fansite w/forum) recommended Mystic Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer. Ohgod, everything I'm reading about this game says BUY ME. A roguelike for the DS? I am SO THERE. I read some comparisons to Orcs and Elves, which I've also played (and I learned from the same forum it was originally a cellphone game, which explains its shortness. Huh!) but the general consensus is that Shiren is MUCH better. "Longer and harder", in fact. Ahaha.

Darnit all, now I'm convinced I've got to get myself a copy of Shiren the Wanderer, too.

Actually, I was (nearly) caught a couple times for April Fools.

But I mostly just spent my time away from anyone and anywhere I'd be fooled.

The IGN Zelda trailer got me for a few seconds. :P

The other one is on PSUPedia, they actually had a post there claiming two things: that the JP and US/EU servers would be merged (yeah right) and that there'd be a Guardians arena mission called "Guardians Rivalry" (neet idea, but I didn't buy it, since I never heard of it happening on JP servers).

So... I guess my April Fools was pretty boring! :D (and thanks for the heads up on the new Hero's Journey info.)