Video Games: Is there any more annoying character than FF7’s Yuffie? Well have you ever played Rumble Roses? Ugh. Cliche is painful.

Gaming: When it comes to annoying other people and being annoyed myself with forced story lines the character that comes to mind is a bulldog pooka I played in a LARP. I liked the character. She was a childing, so of course the whole “Oh look a child character, time to draw out the whole CPS plot line” got dragged out. To make matters worse in game the fae at the time were largely just wannabe vampires. The core of the Changeling world is that becoming banal literally kills a fae (though they can live on as boring humans after) and little is more banal than the vampires. But the fae at the time were rubbing elbows with the vampire court, going to their parties and “humorously indulging” their udder death-bringing presence.

So I did a lot of things to the vampires, like sneaking into the Elysium and glamouring the speech of the Prince to sound like a flushing toilet. And turning our water elemental guardian to Jello. Things meant to make people laugh, to remind the fae of who they were, which was not pretty vampire side kicks.

Needless to say the other characters didn’t get the point and the storytellers targeted me. When I spent almost 2/3rds of a game not playing at all because I’d been kidnapped and drugged up, and therefore I couldn’t even jump into the fight to rescue me I got fed up. I also accepted a staff position which came with the rule that my characters weren’t allowed to kill PCs. Since the now delirious, drug-mad, very vengeful little pooka was going dark places and blamed the fae–who spent most of the game debating how to save her instead of just doing it–for her psychosis I knew I had to drop the character.

Overall I think I as a player and the people I was playing with all agree that Diesel was my most annoying character.

Full Meme List

Day 1 – Your first videogame
Day 2 – Your favorite character
Day 3 – A game that is underrated
Day 4 – Your guilty pleasure game
Day 5 – Game character you feel you are most like (or wish you were)
Day 6 – Most annoying character
Day 7 – Favorite game couple
Day 8 – Best soundtrack
Day 9 – Saddest game scene
Day 10 – Best gameplay
Day 11 – Gaming system of choice
Day 12 – A game everyone should play
Day 13 – A game you’ve played more than five times
Day 14 – Current (or most recent) gaming wallpaper
Day 15 – Post a screenshot from the game you’re playing right now
Day 16 – Game with the best cut scenes
Day 17 – Favorite antagonist
Day 18 – Favorite protagonist
Day 19 – Picture of a game setting you wish you lived in
Day 20 – Favorite genre
Day 21 – Game with the best story
Day 22 – A game sequel which disappointed you
Day 23 – Game you think had the best graphics or art style
Day 24 – Favorite classic game
Day 25 – A game you plan on playing
Day 26 – Best voice acting
Day 27 – Most epic scene ever
Day 28 – Favorite game developer
Day 29 – A game you thought you wouldn’t like, but ended up loving
Day 30 – Your favorite game of all time

*This didn’t post Saturday like I’d thought I’d set it to. Sorry.*

When FF7 came out we all played it tons. And we named the characters after people we really knew. My husband named Aeris after me. This was before we knew she dies at the end of the first disc. When he got to that part he pretty much felt like crap and explained to me all the reasons he named her after me. Those reasons are why I still usually name Aeris after myself as well and when it comes to video games she’s a sort-of avatar for me.

As for gaming-gaming the character that comes to mind is Lily, who was a teleporting healer in DH’s Marvel game. She was beautiful, fast, strong, and a true good person (I often play nebulous or neutral characters). She was smart and was a true hero. So really, that’s who I wish I could be.

Full Meme List

Day 1 – Your first videogame
Day 2 – Your favorite character
Day 3 – A game that is underrated
Day 4 – Your guilty pleasure game
Day 5 – Game character you feel you are most like (or wish you were)
Day 6 – Most annoying character
Day 7 – Favorite game couple
Day 8 – Best soundtrack
Day 9 – Saddest game scene
Day 10 – Best gameplay
Day 11 – Gaming system of choice
Day 12 – A game everyone should play
Day 13 – A game you’ve played more than five times
Day 14 – Current (or most recent) gaming wallpaper
Day 15 – Post a screenshot from the game you’re playing right now
Day 16 – Game with the best cut scenes
Day 17 – Favorite antagonist
Day 18 – Favorite protagonist
Day 19 – Picture of a game setting you wish you lived in
Day 20 – Favorite genre
Day 21 – Game with the best story
Day 22 – A game sequel which disappointed you
Day 23 – Game you think had the best graphics or art style
Day 24 – Favorite classic game
Day 25 – A game you plan on playing
Day 26 – Best voice acting
Day 27 – Most epic scene ever
Day 28 – Favorite game developer
Day 29 – A game you thought you wouldn’t like, but ended up loving
Day 30 – Your favorite game of all time

LARPs. While not exactly guilty, because I’ve made no secret about having met my partner at one, LARPs have gotten a reputation over the last few years (you know, having appeared on Tosh.0 and all) of being completely silly. Well, yeah, a little bit. FIREBALL!

But mostly it’s a bunch of people getting excited, getting dressed up, getting together and hanging out. They’re also performing a pretty complicated improv skit which almost entirely consists of playing off each other and the complications other people present. I mean, in theater it’s lauded as amazing. But throw in vampires and it’s silly? (Okay, so you’re also throwing in sometimes unwashed people playing the same character in a different name that they always play. And sometimes it is silly, but how is the idea of getting a bunch of people together, getting drunk or high off util you can’t see straight then letting chaos ensue not silly?)

Truth is, despite not getting along with some of the people, I miss it tons. It wasn’t about being someone else. It was about how well you pretended to be that someone else, how much you affected the people around you and how many people were talking about your performance at the end of the night.

As for video games; Farmville. I spend too much time playing it, and find myself way to driven to complete all the level of stuff and collections and what not. It started in the middle of winter because I missed gardening, then became something I did at night before bed so I didn’t have writing or reading on the brain and dream of working all night (because that’s not restful). But now there are levels of crop mastery and crafts to make and collections to get and ugh, damn if I’m not a little neurotic about trying to completely master a game. (Speaking of which ask me about trying to get a 100% on Final Fantasy 7…)

Full Meme List

Day 1 – Your first videogame
Day 2 – Your favorite character
Day 3 – A game that is underrated
Day 4 – Your guilty pleasure game
Day 5 – Game character you feel you are most like (or wish you were)
Day 6 – Most annoying character
Day 7 – Favorite game couple
Day 8 – Best soundtrack
Day 9 – Saddest game scene
Day 10 – Best gameplay
Day 11 – Gaming system of choice
Day 12 – A game everyone should play
Day 13 – A game you’ve played more than five times
Day 14 – Current (or most recent) gaming wallpaper
Day 15 – Post a screenshot from the game you’re playing right now
Day 16 – Game with the best cut scenes
Day 17 – Favorite antagonist
Day 18 – Favorite protagonist
Day 19 – Picture of a game setting you wish you lived in
Day 20 – Favorite genre
Day 21 – Game with the best story
Day 22 – A game sequel which disappointed you
Day 23 – Game you think had the best graphics or art style
Day 24 – Favorite classic game
Day 25 – A game you plan on playing
Day 26 – Best voice acting
Day 27 – Most epic scene ever
Day 28 – Favorite game developer
Day 29 – A game you thought you wouldn’t like, but ended up loving
Day 30 – Your favorite game of all time

Without a doubt: Marvel. A lot of people haven’t heard of it with competitors like D&D and White Wolf and RIFTS. But a lot of my favorite games have been Marvel games, or used the Marvel system based on Marvel with a different world setting.

Of course running neck and neck with it is In Nomine, one of Steve Jackson Games’ other RPGs. This one seems to get the most ire from my gaming-type friends. It’s not the system, it’s the subject matter, since you play either angels or demons in the war over humanity’s souls. It could also be that Jason and I both like putting characters through really morally ambiguous situations and a lot of people don’t like such heavy thinking (like, you know, was 9/11 really an attack of evil or pureness, seeing as the terrorists believed they were completely, socially and religiously justified for their actions) and especially don’t like being put in a position to question their own beliefs. And as eager as we are to make “other” religions the bad guys, that same study is sometimes near-violently defended when you make Christian religious extremists the bad guys.

It doesn’t tend to make for light-hearted playing. And Jason and I don’t tend to like role playing when there are absolute goods and bads.

As for video games: I’m still a die hard Monster Rancher fan, and it’s gotten lost in your God of Wars and Halos. Also I think a lot of gamers dismiss the Pokemon franchise as silly kids stuff when I’ve enjoyed the Game Boy games quite a bit.

Full Meme List

Day 1 – Your first videogame
Day 2 – Your favorite character
Day 3 – A game that is underrated
Day 4 – Your guilty pleasure game
Day 5 – Game character you feel you are most like (or wish you were)
Day 6 – Most annoying character
Day 7 – Favorite game couple
Day 8 – Best soundtrack
Day 9 – Saddest game scene
Day 10 – Best gameplay
Day 11 – Gaming system of choice
Day 12 – A game everyone should play
Day 13 – A game you’ve played more than five times
Day 14 – Current (or most recent) gaming wallpaper
Day 15 – Post a screenshot from the game you’re playing right now
Day 16 – Game with the best cut scenes
Day 17 – Favorite antagonist
Day 18 – Favorite protagonist
Day 19 – Picture of a game setting you wish you lived in
Day 20 – Favorite genre
Day 21 – Game with the best story
Day 22 – A game sequel which disappointed you
Day 23 – Game you think had the best graphics or art style
Day 24 – Favorite classic game
Day 25 – A game you plan on playing
Day 26 – Best voice acting
Day 27 – Most epic scene ever
Day 28 – Favorite game developer
Day 29 – A game you thought you wouldn’t like, but ended up loving
Day 30 – Your favorite game of all time