Wanged

Youlanda's take on Mary-Sues, the scourge of bad RPs.

And I agree. Granted, every character has a piece of myself in them, but I don't go out of my way to flash people with it. (And it isn't even my wang. It's 5 inches, what male wants to show the ladies that?)

But, seriously, I feel that the first character anyone should play is themselves. If you put your feelings, thoughts, and personality forth in a way that would make best sense for him/her, then you're playing your self-character well. That's the basic essence of RPing--playing the personality to the best of your ability, no matter how you build him/her. Use your strengths, diminish your weaknesses, and aim for something worthwhile. The rules are simply the physical laws of your setting.

Now I must go and get wanged upon a case of Livewire.

The Don is in...

Don Katamari, that is. Thank you, Monty & Morrigan! Keep reading GerbilMechs, people!

I picked up Katamari Damacy (along with Viewtiful Joe) recently, and I think this game is the pickle in my schnitz. (And considering that I don't even like pickles...) Consider this: Your papa, the gargantuan King of All Cosmos, knocks out the stars in the sky in the Mother Of All Benders. He figures that he'd spot you, the bite-sized Prince, to go and help fix the problem as a task worthy of Princehood. So he drops you onto Earth with something called a katamari--a sticky ball that allows you to roll up just about anything as long as it's the right size or smaller of your current ball's 'capacity.' The game just goes downhill from here, rolling like the dickens over junk, animals, and other interesting crap. It's seriously fun once you get to a size large enough to roll over people. "Ooo! It's a punk!" *rolls katamari over him* "Yay! An extra foot!"

The nicest touch is that the bulk of the controlls all lie in the dual sticks on the controller. Any other button is purely for the times when you're not trying to beat the clock. Did I say that? Yes, you have to beat a time limit when rolling that katamari around. So it's not as easy as it sounds--I've been sweating trying to roll a 2.5m ball from a 50cm Katamari in 10 minutes. There's even special stages where you have to collect enough of a certain type of object to build a constelation--for example, Cygnus, you go around collecting swans from eggs. (That was was, I think, 23 swans/21% completed. And don't get me started on Coronus Borealis, the crown stage...)

Go get it, if nothing else appeals to you. You won't be dissapointed--the Japanese have a reputation of spawning strange but good games.

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