I've lost my DS. I don't know where, but my hunch is the theater, and some kid found it and just kept it. Suppose I can't blame him, but my faith in humanity dropped a notch.
{This is the point at which I started typing on my computer, which is now rebooted, and much easier for text entry.}
Anyway, I've decided to bite the bullet and just go ahead and buy a new system. Actually, I'm going all out. I'm gonna import a DS Lite (they're region free, so that's not a problem), and buy new copies of both the games I had in my DS at the time: Kirby's Canvas Curse and Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories. I'm not too upset about losing either of those, I guess. Kirby was pretty easy, and I enjoyed playing it. On the other hand, I was actually sort of playing Kingdom Hearts nearly like some sort of chore, as though it were required reading for Kingdom Hearts 2. I managed to make it through Sora's story fine, and was in the middle of Riku's "Reverse/Rebirth," which is sort of extra, I guess, so I won't mind not having beaten it. Besides, I cheated. GameFAQ's has a game "script", revealing the entire story without all the messy battling. So I know how it ends anyway. Still, I'll probably play it through once I re-get it. In fact, I have a dream of taking a Kingdom Hearts vacation of sorts, playing through the whole series over the course of a couple of weeks. This isn't for at least a year from now, since I want to beat KH-2 right away first, and then take a break, sorta.
So, in thinking about Kingdom Hearts and such, combined with last night's writing bug, and another bug I saw at work today (Spider Man), I found myself on this train of thought: What do Superman, Bruce Wayne, Peter Parker, Luke Skywalker, and Eragon have in common? Give up? (The last one may have thrown you.) Here's the one I have in mind, anyway. They're all orphans. Why is that? What is it about being a hero that means that you can't have any parents? Frodo's parents are never mentioned, and neither are Neo's, and though they're never explicitly denied, you'd think that a person's parents would play a big enough part in their life to matter, right? But lot's of people have parent issues. The dude from Final Fantasy X (Tidus, I guess), his father turned out to be the very incarnation of evil in the distant future, or something. I can't remember his real name, but Robin from the Teen Titans comic, his dad died while he was on duty, before he got a chance to tell him the truth. Or something. I'm a little sketchy on the details. But Superman's parents sent him a far away planet as the sole survivor of his race (more or less). Bruce Wayne saw his parents shot by a thief. Parker's parents died (in a plane crash, according to ULTIMATE SPIDERMAN), then his Uncle gets killed by the robber he let get away. Luke Skywalker is raised by his aunt and uncle as well, who are killed by, oddly enough, his uncle's step-brother.
If you were wondering why I referred to everyone by their "secret identity" with the exception of Superman, well, here's my reasoning, courtesy of Bill (the one that got Killed)
An essential characteristic of the super hero mythology is, there's the super hero, and there's the alter ego. Batman is actually Bruce Wayne, Spider-Man is actually Peter Parker. When he wakes up in the morning, he's Peter Parker. He has to put on a costume to become Spider-Man. And it is in that characteristic that Superman stands alone. Superman did not become Superman, Superman was born Superman. When Superman wakes up in the morning, he's Superman. His alter ego is Clark Kent. His outfit with the big red "S", that's the blanket he was wrapped in as a baby when the Kents found him. Those are his clothes. What Kent wears, the glasses, the business suit, that's the costume. That's the costume Superman wears to blend in with us. Clark Kent is how Superman views us. And what are the characteristics of Clark Kent? He's weak, he's unsure of himself... He's a coward. Clark Kent is Superman's critique on the whole human race.I dunno, I just like that quote. I was surprise I hadn't posted it before.
What follows now is from a couple of text messages I sent today during my lunch break:
Hot dogs are delicious. Very delicious. I'm glad I can eat them at work all I want. Also, there are no good sitcoms. Were there ever? I mean, was I just fooling myself? I'm so glad I've cut down on TV. It's really not that good.I dunno, I just found the revelation about sitcoms startling. I used to watch Full House, Family Matters, Home Improvement, etc, RELIGIOUSLY. Not like, I followed the characters or anything. Just that it was "the best thing on." Now, I look back and think they were bad for my brain.
I've been pissing and moaning about how terrible my computer is. After pondering it a bit, I'm prolly gonna get myself an Apple laptop. Low range, but still high up enough that it'll run WOW better than what I've got here. That'll be exciting. I've tried to stop thinking of it as being better or worse than the computer I have now, and more of it being somewhat parallel. One'll be the PC, more of a strict computer for important business, and also movies and other multimedia affairs, but which is sadly docked to its spot in the house. The other will by my Apple, which will be for fun and randomness. Or something like that. We'll see.
Finally, I've decided where to let my writing bug loose. Earlier today, I sat and watched the first three episodes of the Transformers (Generation 1, natch), the three part "More Than Meets The Eye," while fiddling with the Alternators 'Prowl' and Cybertron 'Evac' I'd bought the night before. At work, the idea crept back into my head. I've had it before. A school for Transformers, when they were "kids," or juveniles, or whatever. As I rolled it about in my head, I realized that really, Transformers are fresh out of the box with all the "knowledge" they need, but there are a few things that can't be learned from a file, only experienced, so an "Autobot Academy" of sorts may actually be of use. Plus, since the Autobots draw their ranks from robots built for manual labor as opposed to combat, a re-education may be necessary.
This story is gonna be set on Cybertron, in the present. The robots on Cybertron who DIDN'T go to Earth with Prime and company have spent four million years in a sort of stale mate. There wasn't enough energy to do much of anything, really. The battlefront on Earth has become something of the main combat field, with Cybertron being merely a sort of headquarters, home to mostly civilians. Though they've been around for the four million years the Ark was dormant, they didn't do much of note.
Anyway, my main character is going to be something like the Soundwave / Blaster of his time. Young, hip, Earth Pop culture junkie, intelligence position, non-vehicle alt mode, that sorta thing. He doesn't get little cassettes or anything though. I decided that, for the alt mode of a spy in 2006, instead of going with a tape recorder (or iPod, the modern equivalent), you'd want a fully technical device. For a time I considered a PSP, but that didn't sit well. Something else fit better - a laptop. I was thinking about making him an Apple laptop, as an homage to my upcoming rig, but really, Transformers (at least now adays) aren't brand specific, and I couldn't find a reason to make him "Apple" any more than he should be "Windows". He'll prolly run his own operating system, and just have a generic looking shell, like most other laptops. Only, where the company logo is on most laptops, you'll see this:
Gnight folks.
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