Nos morituri te salutamus

I went home last night after work and totally made out with my girlfriend. Then I totally played the hell out of the copy of Final Fantasy XII that had just arrived in the mail.

In short, it was a desperate last grasp at joy before everything goes pear-shaped for the holiday rush (the madness of which is intensely compounded by the near-simultaneous launch of two major consoles. Thanks, Sony and Nintendo!). The long-standing tradition of an evening of hedonism and debauchery the night before marching into battle. Of course I’m just a sedate geek, so in my case the hedonism and debauchery amounts to snuggles and a few hours of videogames, but the goal is the same: to remind myself that life is pretty dang good before I’m force-fed a month’s evidence to the contrary.

See you guys after Launchageddon.

27 thoughts on “Nos morituri te salutamus”

  1. is it sad that i sat and translated that thread title before realising what it (obviously) says? yay declensions.

  2. I went home last night after work and totally made out with my girlfriend.

    Uh… ::awkward silence::

    *cough*

  9. Doesn’t pretty much everybody work 80 hours a week these days? Once I finally run out of schools to attend, I know I’ll be working that much.

  11. So there I was, at glorious Wal-Mart for an oil change. (Aside: there was a stuffed frog that looked like a pre-angst ToastyFrog.) I happen to pass by the DS shelf, glance over, and see Contact, Scurge, and Magical Starsign. I’m going on a trip for the weekend, and realize that the last level of ZX isn’t going to be enough. After much deliberation, I grabbed Contact.
    –
    Really, all this is about, is tell Tomm to give a huge thanks to whoever thought of the design for the manual. Masterpiece. Oh, the game’s cool so far, too, but I’m still holding out for ‘weak spots’ :P

  13. “Doesn’t pretty much everybody work 80 hours a week these days? Once I finally run out of schools to attend, I know I’ll be working that much.”
    .
    I don’t like the world you live in. I once had a perfectly decent job that paid well (for its area) and they let me go home at 5. I guess I’ve been conditioned to civility.

  14. “Tomm, are you still scared of women?”
    .
    You know, that explains a lot. I didn’t quite know what to make of his constant “Ass patting” at E3.

  16. “I don’t like the world you live in. I once had a perfectly decent job that paid well (for its area) and they let me go home at 5. I guess I’ve been conditioned to civility.”
    .
    I’m in my final year of undergrad, and everybody I know who has a job lined up for after graduation is looking at 80 hour weeks. I’m going to delay real life by going on to grad school, but I’m going to be working that hard in the aftermath. It does suck, but eh, that’s life.

  17. I somehow find it easier to sympathize with your underpaidness and overworkedness when your posts don’t begin with “totally made out with my girlfriend.” SO LONELY.

    Best of luck, however. Hope it turns out easier than you expect.

  18. I never said I was underpaid. I’d just like more time to do something that doesn’t involve sitting in front of a computer getting fat.

  19. sinfony – where are you, and in what industry? I ask just so the rest of us can avoid its soul-crushing depression.

    (I myself have managed to find a nice mostly 9-to-5 tech job with the Master’s in CS. Sure, I could get paid more elsewhere for working twice as much, but balls to that. I like having hobbies.)

  21. Whatever. I just know one thing: V-Tech will be the next leader in home videogame console market, Sony’s videogame run ends with PS3 and Nintendo will continue creating great stuff and I predict a second era of Mario and Zelda gummies and cereals! YUMMY!

  22. Haha, I feel sorry for people who have to survive the console launches. =/ In general, it seems like [game, but somewhat in a general sense as well] journalism is just too much about fawning over stuff (though, in this case, I honestly believe FFXII is going to rock my socks…and other articles of clothing). But with respect to new consoles…

    I’ll feel especially sorry for you if you can’t find an hour or so for this:
    http://speeddemosarchive.com/demo.pl?SuperMetroid_SS_032

  23. Squall–thank you for your compliments. It was in fact I who conceptualized the manual of which you speak. So, I don’t need to thank the one responsible because you already did.

    But I’m leaving Atlus now so there’s no hope at all for quality manuals…………save one Nich Maragos…

  25. heh, well I was trying to indicate that I believed that that was the case, but I’m not so good with words. I was thinking more of “next-gen,” you know. Surely I’m not the only one who thinks that “current-gen” is not only fine but totally fantastic…

    In fact, I’m buying FFXII on Wednesday, and if it sucks, it’s all your fault. :P

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