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I shall mention that I watched Advent Children tonight in an odd stop-and-go DVD with English and Swedish subtitles. All I know of FF7 comes from translating djs lo these many years ago. (So many years ago that I feel quite nostalgic about it now.) This is a good thing because, as I discovered while googling for extra info without which the film is just a tad obscure, yes? the original graphics for the game are little short of giggle-worthy. The unsettling eerieness of AC's look is still preferable to these cute chibi guys in their brite colours.

Also no-one commenting on Gojou's five most lovable traits mentions that he reads on the john, but we actually have Minekura's word for that.

Also my mouse has gotten quite genki all of a sudden and overhighlights whenever I highlight. I have dark suspicions that this is somehow linked to the computer having arbitrarily decided that it will once again turn off screen and hard drive after 30 minutes as instructed. It used to, then it stopped, now it does again. HAL approaches sentience. Tremble.

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Soooo, you have succumbed and watched FFVII:AC. Now it will eat -your- brain, too. What a pity.

It will? But there's nowhere to go with it. The game has those funny graphics. The doujinshi are by the numbers. And the video itself had more WTFery than Evangelion, to say nothing of tedious motorcycle chases and waving about of ridiculously unwieldy swords. ("No, no! You don't *understand*! That was Sephiroth's final power break!!!" And other reasons why I'm not a gamer.)

It's pretty, but I don't care enough about any of these guys to pursue it. Translating doujinshi can make you immune that way.

I've never seen the game, y'know. Or any game, for that matter aside from watching a few rounds of Doom over the brother's shoulder and finding it somewhere over and beyond the pale of boredom.

However.

It goes like this. You're sitting there in the middle of the night working away at something utterly unrelated then, out of NOWHERE you think, "Cloud is very sulky and pretty." Then, later, you think, "Also, Sephiroth has a sexy voice."

Next thing you know, you're hauling it out again to fast forward to the good parts. It's like a disease. (All very thrilling for the Conrad/Yuuri 'shipper in me as well.)

Anyway, there was an anime called "Last Order" that was released at the same time, I believe. It goes with (sort of).

I suppose it's a good thing then that the DVD was a rental. Also that the stuttering soundtrack was so annoying that I don't really remember any good parts. (Cloud is sulky and Sephiroth is wimpy and together they become uke x uke ie nothing happens.)

I suppose if I have a weakness it's Rufus, but self-respect will not allow me to have a weakness for Rufus. Besides, I have a dj-induced conviction that the man is actually a pudge in a suit.