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So I went to my Mum’s yesterday, it was lovely. Because of the snow and other random issues, we still hadn’t given David his Birthday presents form the beginning of January, so it was nice to finally be able to do that. David and Katie told me the date for their Wedding (does the word “wedding” require capitalisation? I am unsure) – 27th May. David asked me if I would be his Best Man, and I accepted. Thinking about it now, will I be required to do a speech? Oh my, the nerves have started already. Will I have to take him to a strip club for his Stag Night? Anyway, the theme for the Wedding is “Black and White”, which basically means you can wear anything you want as long as it is black or white. I’m toying with wearing a dress. … David also gave me a belated Christmas present, it had not arrived from Japan in time for the big day itself, and upon opening it I was greeted by Majin Buu and an actual packet of Senzu Beans… Utterly amazing. He’s sitting there on the window ledge now (well floating really) between Master Chief and Guile. The day was also good because I got to play with my adorable little Jasmine again – it’s funny how much of a change I see in her every time I go over. She’s a lot more vocal now, and she has totally mastered crawling backwards. She still needs to have that “Eureka” moment of moving her knees and hands in time to go forwards, but she’ll get there soon – And when she does, there’ll be no stopping her! This is a pretty lengthy and boring post about a really shitty situation. I recommend you give this one a miss.
Funny, it’s mine too. Before you start reading, click play on this Youtube video – you don’t need to watch it, just have it playing in the background as you read. I know it’s not the Phantasy Star Universe ending, it’s actually from Phantasy Star Online, but I chose this one instead as the PSU ending music is awful. Well, last night was the last night. Jane, Donk, Siri, Mood and myself had one last PSU session. Those of us who didn’t already have it got the final Achievement, and I luckily got a Rare mission earlier in the day. I ran Sleeping Warriors for old times sake, so we could run Phantom Ruins once (just so we could say we had done it all if nothing else). It all started with the PSU Beta. Loads of people tried it, even those who never ended up getting PSU. Powers, Garly, Tiarny, Aaronayl, Stu, along with some of the regulars who did end up in Gurhal for real, Orca, Stellar and Crimson. At one point I couldn’t join the RF party as it was full! That never happened in the real PSU. Some of the events were great. Operation: Firebreak was the first and I wasn’t quite up to my elite status by then, soldiering on a dozen levels below the cap, trying to make ends meet. Going was tough early on in PSU, most money went on Scape Dolls as back then if you died in a mission and had to be revived then you ruined the final rewards for everyone else. This was an Orca speciality. Seeing a fire element Gohmon for the first time and thinking “…hold on, Gohmon are ice? Aren’t they?”, as they instantly killed you with a fast ‘n’ fierce Foie. The 1up Cup was another highlight, and probably the last “actually fun” event we had. Finding that Jane and I couldn’t really survive as a twosome in Gurhal for much longer, we sent out a plea to popular British gaming forum rllmuk, and thus we met Donk-Bot, and came to know, understand and respect his deep, deep love for bacon. Stopping now and thinking about it has made me realise just how many people I’ve got to know whilst playing PSU. In the early days it was Stellar, Crimson and Orca. The five of us would take arms and muddle through as best we could, marvelling at Stellar’s stories of how he bought loads of Chicotite for 500 Meseta each and sold them on for massive profit. Crimson and I would take the late shift, playing into the wee hours. One defining memory of PSU will always be Orca’s obsession with Diga. Or “DIIIIIIIIIIIIGGER” as he put it. Hexx joined in a little later and I was always amazed he could watch Eddie Izzard DVD’s while playing PSU. As I mentioned earlier, eventually it was just Jane and I playing every night, and we were having some difficulty playing high rank missions with just the two of us. Asking for help on rllmuk opened up a whole new cast of characters that joined our adventures. Strawdonkey, the bacon loving stat-whore who would happily pay through the nose for marginally better equipment. He also sent me a keyboard so I could type stuff, he is a generally all round great guy. Siri the ever cheerful, who can still baffle me with total randomness to this day. Marcface the grumpy troll. Willei, Corleth and Kiskio. Raff, the Fortegunners Fortegunner. Ryan, who was the only person I knew who had a Spread Needle. Siri eventually coaxed Moodmon back to PSU and when together, they conjured up some astonishing mental images: Laia Martinez falling over in a wheelchair being a prime example. Strangely, I also met people who didn’t play PSU: Hank Wangford often joined our Xbox Live party while we were playing PSU and he was playing something else, just to chat about stuff. I don’t know where to start with trying to explain the in-jokes. Maybe I’ll just mention my favourite ones along with some of my favourite moments. 1st rule of Phantasy Star: Don’t get surrounded. Singing “It’s a Copernia” to the tune of Love Machine by Girls Aloud. They call it Olpad; It is a gemstone. Dam-noob-barta. I blame Stellar. I’m immune to Megid. Naked Thursdays (although they never really took off). Can I have your stuff? Sam Kenaydee. Pay me for heals and buffs. Wynter’s hat. Chippy Chips. Discy Discs. Rare-rare-rare-rare-rare. “He’s just gone for a quickie with Sam”. Shit-kikami. Crimson forgets to fill up his weapons. Crimson forgets to buy Trimates. Crimson uses orange server select crystal to fill his weapons and ends up in his room. DIIIIIIIIIIGA. AWWW TOKKY. The various ‘Fests being PSU-free zones. Scape Doll and Gourmet Cake boards. Hunting for Crea Doubles. Synth failure noise. The Blackbull saga. Event pose 5. Guardian Heroes. VEST VULC MERC. PLZ DO NOT BAN ME. All my family are dead. Donkpedia. wat the hell tim. The Jabroga song. Shut up. Here are some Boomas covered in piss. MRRGH. Why don’t you buy… A Psycho Wand? Phil NOOOOOOOOOO. Bruce’s Sexy Dungeon. Roundroundroundroundroundroundroundround. Everyone spamming “1up”. Everyone spamming “Happy Birthday Sonic!”. Everyone spamming “EH DONK”. “Dear Sega Team…”. Poor dog. Looking at peoples equipment. New content. ROLLBACKS. Gacha Rinsing Co. and the Great Gurhalian Cup. “Hey guys, don’t do that”. Guntechers. Picking up Kerselines in random games. Give me all your monies. ADMIRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL. Bacon. Walking on Sunshine / Cock in your ear. Leaderboard Face. I R INTELIGANT. Tornado Dance. Can I have 30p? Probably my favourite, which I started doing very early on, was doing the male Nanoblast action on people who were sitting down. For those of you who never played PSU, it basically looked like I was rubbing my arse in their face. I did this A LOT. So much so, that I’m actually surprised no-one ever reported me for it. I loved seeing peoples reactions, be it immediately getting up and running away, to telling me to fuck off, to people sitting there, moving their head around and saying “Oh yeah!”. Great fun. Here, have a boatload of pictures from our time on PSU. This is mostly arbitrary numbers and words to those of you who never got into PSU. I recommend you don’t even bother clicking to read more. Today’s the day then. One final hurrah, or at least as much of a hurrah that we can be bothered to launch into. It’s strange we had to actually organise this final World Tour, a year ago everyone would’ve been online playing PSU anyway, regardless of which day we wanted to play it on. I’ve gone on and on about the bad points of PSU, but from now on it’s only going to be good stuff, cherished memories, recalling baffling in-jokes, and a final look at my progress as a Guardian. I expect I’ll do a piece about it tomorrow, gather as many of the images I took on my phone of memorable moments as I can, tell some stories, that kind of thing. In other news, the house is finally taking shape and becoming home after the move. Our bedroom is almost finished, we have curtains and shelves and a new bookcase and lots of storage – 90% of the boxes are unpacked and have found a home. We’re just waiting for our new bed to arrive, then it will be complete. Our study isn’t as sorted just yet, I’d like to get the tower unit of the PC on the floor once there aren’t as many boxes hanging around, and Jane needs to sort her craft stuff out, but she has some shiny new storage boxes to put it all in and some sturdy new shelves to put it all on. We’ll get there eventually. I’ve read two books by Jeffery Deaver recently, The Blue Nowhere and The Vanished Man. I shall have to do a proper write up of them in the near future, something I would like to do with all the books I have read, so I have more than just my memory of them.
First of all, put Megiverse on the X button of a TECH-Mag. You’re essentially casting Megiverse after you’ve switched weapons. You can repeat this multiple times by equipping more TECH-Mags with Megiverse, but the timing does get harder once you’ve cast one or two as the game slows down a bit. My record is four casts – which is probably the maximum as Megiverse doesn’t last too long.  Three Megiverses Hold on, did I say free Megiverse? Why yes, I did. The PP from the Megiverses still drain from the weapons, but if you switch to one you’ve just glitched a Megiverse with, as long as the weapon has 1 or more PP left, it should automatically refill on the next tick. It works best on areas that don’t cause slowdown. Forget using it in places like Rykros RELICS and missions like Flowery Pursuit. This also works with Regrant, and in combination with Megiverse. I have in the past glitched a Regrant to keep a Jarba flinching in a corner, then glitched a couple of Megiverses a few times to recoup the health that Regrant was taking away.  Dave shows off his pink weapon For posterity. I was looking forward to getting back into a more normal routine and not having so many other people around all the time so I can just get on with studying, but alas, the recent snow has caused travel problems, so everyone has had to stay off work most of the week. Nothing else to add really, apart from I’m desperate to go and see Jasmine. Oh, and give David his Birthday presents, of course! Damn snow has put the kibosh on that too. Damn snow. |
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