I love snow!

And apparently I’m the only one.

There’s been some slush storms, for sure. But otherwise, I don’t feel like we’ve had The Big One. The storm that landed yesterday/last night was pretty powdery. I think it made for a really pretty landscape. Of course, most people can’t get past their own “Gawd, I got shit to do and there’s all this white stuff in the way!” to stop and admire how clean and serene the world looks with a blanket of snow on it.

(And yes, that’s totally ‘what she said’.)

I will say that having a garage will definitely be on my list of aspirations. So much nicer to just plop in your car and go, without having to clear your car off. Ice cold steering wheels suck.

Playing through Twilight Princess. It’s going much faster than the first time. I’m recognizing all the places we initially “got stuck”. I think it’s fun to get frustrated a little, because once you know the trigger or tricks for an area, you’ll remember it every single time you play through. “Go here, then go here, then learn this this, then use the thing you just learned…”

I’ve read that they want to take Skyward Sword in a different direction, try to break the explore/dungeon pattern. People will bitch, but I admire when they try something different. With a series like Zelda, it’s pretty much impossible now to please everybody. At the very least, with wiimotion plus capabilities, I hope they add a lot of completely useless functions.

Let me expound on that. In Link To The Past, I had a lot of fun just cutting the grass and plowing through hedges. I’m apparently not the only one, as there’s numerous areas in Ocarina of time where you can destroy lots and lots of pots. And! Who didn’t have a lot of fun chopping down those signs? Twilight Princess, I have a lot of fun doing the wii-waggle to swing my sword while running, makes me cut the grass as I go. This amuses me endlessly.

So improved motion controls necessitates that they’re going to force you to USE it, I just hope there’s extraneous little things tossed in that have absolutely no effect on the game.

(Also, they need to come out with a better nunchuck. I have a hard time figuring out the difference between the shield attack and the sword circley.)

:: waves his nerd flag ::

Missed a calc class this morning. I’m going to be a smart boy and study ahead slightly. Then I need to go home and… install Aion on Kelly for the girl. Expect the game to look fantastic. Kelly’s got it goin` on. Quad-core phenom II, good video card, and SIXTEEN GIGS OF RAM. She could quad-box that shit.