uberreiniger | I say unto Pharoah, "Let my people go..."

...So we all set out for the Promised Land. Ready Set Go! (That's a joke that only

dungeonwriter will get.)

This has, been, by uberreinigerien standards, a very wild weekend. I've actually been meaning to blog about it for a while now but just haven't had a moment's rest to do so.

Friday night I met some of Mel's friends for the first time (and have a slew of new LJ friends now as a result,) and celebrated a Pagan holy day by eating some of the best lamb I have ever tasted. After that we went out and this erotica writer got to see his first real live burlesque show. Apparently there's an art district in Kansas City which everyone knew about but me and once a month they have a sort of festival with live entertainment and open art exhibits. Anyway, so yeah, burlesque. And also tribal bellydancers, spoken word poetry, and an emcee who belted out the best version of "You Be Good to Mama" I've heard apart from Queen Latifah herself. I'll be honest, a lot of the dance acts were just sort of okay, but a few of them were really memorable and outstanding. Sadly Mel and I had to miss about half the show since we had about two hundred people crammed into a space that couldn't have been much bigger than our apartment. We had to spend a long time walking around outside or else risk fainting from the heat.

Saturday we continued our Gary Gygax Fairwell Dungeons & Dragons experience at

kakita_shisumo and

duendegrrl's house. It was another epic gaming experience complete with pizza, coke, and the infamous Bag of Devouring, a cursed magic item which all D&D players live in fear of, but that in all my years I have never actually seen in play until now. My character is currently trying to raise money to replace Mel's character's severed hand. The game session was also notable for the many puns on the names of Egyptian gods.

Between it all I've been very busy in World of Warcraft. I have started no less than five new Draenei characters this week and am leveling them all simultaneously. My Horde main isn't even to 70 yet so I don't know what I'm thinking. But I'm having fun and the beautiful cloven-hooved aliens are just so pretty to look at. They're like a kinder, gentler Satanic Winter Goat and the males sound like Sayid from Lost!

Today hasn't seen any social activity, although

pinkfaeriestarsand family will be over shortly. Instead I've spent it grocery shopping and washing dishes. If there was a lesson to be learned this weekend it's that being social makes dishes really, really pile up.

On a sadder note, this weekend marks the passing of Charlton Heston; one of the last cinematic giants of his generation. A big, decadent epic film is nothing without an actor who can carry it and Heston's broad shoulders did it time and time again. I admired him as an actor and films like The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur are still amazing works of art even to this day. But they would have been nothing without the man who starred in them. Farewell to yet another legend.

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Fortunately nearly all of the monsters in SH2 and SH3 do something interesting. 1, not so much, and 4... eh... a lot of people complain about the jaguar-growling dogs and the belching nurses. I don't. They're fine. However, a gorilla with a golf club is just silly.

The SH4 ghosts are a serious problem, since in D&D there is no such thing as an unkillable monster. I'm thinking about ruling that they die if you manage to kill the head ghost who is performing the Sacraments (e.g. Walter.)

LOL however silly the monsters are in SH4, it doesn't stop them from scaring the ever living shit out of me each time I play. Whenever I play SH, there are always screams of terror.

And I dont care what anyone says about SH4. I'll still love it, cause it was my first.

I know what you mean. It's much easier to laugh at a gorilla with a golf club when it's NOT lunging at you!

What SH (non-boss) monster do you find the most scary? For me it's the mumblers (SH1) and the mannequins (SH2).

All of them are scary in a way..given the fact that they lunge out of darkness at you...or in SH 4 (with no radio) you never know where they might be.

The scariest...hmm...I dunno! The HUGE monsters don't scare me really (the closers and like, the Abstract daddy) but the nurses, mannequins and straight jackets are scary.

The SCARIEST for me though, would be in first person in Henry's apartment, with the hauntings...because first person SUCKS its WAY scarier.

See, Abstract Daddy scares the HELL out of me, moreso now that I know what it is. Very few of the SH3 monsters are scary in the same way that other monsters are, but I hate most of the monsters in that game the most on account of how hard they are to fight. Closers hit for massive damage and are very hard to kill without guns. Slurpers and Pendulums have charge attacks that there's practically no way to avoid.

Oh man those hauntings in 4 are just evil! The only time I got the haunting with the ghost crawling out of the wall was right at the end and I thought it was some kind of boss fight. I ran the hell out of that apartment!

I remember first playing that game...and the first part is looking around your apartment...we were SO freaked out there was something/someone in there, we were like...edging around corners and shit.

And then one of the first hauntings was the little boy in the closet, and you wake up in your bed, suddenly there's that fucking loud annoying noise letting you know SOMETHING is eating your fucking SOUL and you turn to get out of bed and HI LITTLE BOY IN THE CLOSET NO THNX PLZ.

My first haunting was something boring. Cracks in the walls or something. Obviously, my favorite/scariest is Walter in the television screaming I'M ALWAYS WATCHING YOU!

Walter in the television...I don't remember that.

I DO remember Walter's face in the picture in your room...while the telephone says, " I'm ALWAYS watching you!"

And the fucking heads floating past the fucking window...we were RIGHT about to look out the fucking window, so we were REAL close, and it just floats by...fucking head!

I was mixed up. You're right. There is a seperate haunting in the television.

I say unto Pharoah, "Let my people go..."

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