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I happened to check Rpgamer.com a few minutes ago and noticed that FFIII:DS comes out today (I haven't really been keeping track...). I'm probably just being too over-emotional, but this day feels rather historic in the RPG world - the last Final Fantasy that wasn't released in the US is finally here. I checked, and it's been approximately 16.5 years since FFIII was released in Japan - well, better late than never, I guess. XD I mean sure, I played it years ago on a translated ROM and I won't be buying this version anytime soon (lack of a DS... and lack of time to play. woe.), but it's still cool to think that it's here. It's sort of a pity that the original version of the game will never make it here, most likely (how hard would it have been to include the orignal version in the new game, really...?), but the new version looks pretty spiffy. Hopefully I'll get to play it someday.

3 FF games in the past 2 weeks, 2 of which are new to the US (FFXII and FFIII:DS) and one of which only ever made it here in a mangled fashion (FFV Advance) - makes me miss the days when I could play all the time... I haven't really been into gaming as much the last few years, largely because of a. lack of time during school, b. other interests take up my free time, and c. i'm lazy., but I still get excited hearing about games and still want to play when I get the chance. I'm way behind on all the games I'm playing, but I still plan to ask for either FFXII or Disgaea 2 for Christmas (leaning towards the latter - FFXII will be easy enough to find for years to come, and it'll get cheap fairly quickly, whereas Disgaea 2 will start disappearing soon...). I am sorely tempted by FFXII, though - it's been getting fantastic reviews, and hell, it's FFXII! We've been waiting for this game for years, and it's finally here... and I really can't justify the time or money to get it. Part of me, too, is still a bit uncertain about it - but most of the reviews have said that the game is nothing like (and much better than) anything we've seen of it to this point, including the demo. I plan to give it a chance eventually, but can't do it yet.

And... I'm procrastinating. Back to my Farscape paper... it's due tomorrow at 9, so I need to get moving. Up to 5 pages, need about 12 - and I'm still blathering on about the context, haven't even gotten to analysing the series itself! Ehehehe. baaack to work.

Date: 2007-11-13 01:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bk635.livejournal.com
Just one of those vague Bit Torrent errors that could mean several things. It could be a software/hardware firewall misconfiguration, you might be trying to connect to a private tracker that requires registration, the tracker might be extremely busy and congested, or the tracker itself might be down.

Usually it's either of the latter two issues, so you can't really do anything but wait. If the problem persists, and you find that you cannot connect to other trackers, then usually it's a problem on your end. But I see the problem has already fixed itself so I'll leave it at that.

Date: 2007-11-13 01:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ria-oaks.livejournal.com
Yeah, seems like it's working now. It just seemed odd that I had a torrent (that according to Mininova had several hundred seeds) that I left on all night and it didn't start at all. But I've got one going now at a good clip, 30-50 kb/s, so all's well. :)

Date: 2007-11-13 01:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bk635.livejournal.com
Run the Speed Test on uTorrent when it finishes. :o

Date: 2007-11-13 01:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bk635.livejournal.com
Wait, no. Test if port is forwarded properly. That's under the Speed Guide in the Options menu.

Date: 2007-11-13 02:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ria-oaks.livejournal.com
okay. ^^ Though I'm not using uTorrent anymore - just tested that briefly, and when the torrent didn't work I went back to Azureus... anyway, it's working okay now, so not too worried. Guess those torrents just weren't very good.

Date: 2007-11-13 02:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bk635.livejournal.com
Azureus is pretty poor compared to uTorrent, which is probably the client to use these days. Azureus is coded in an inefficient language, making it very bloated. When I used it, it brought my computer to haul, so I switched to uTorrent a few years ago and never looked back.

Date: 2007-11-13 04:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ria-oaks.livejournal.com
Really? Hm. Might switch, then - Azureus does use up an awful lot of my system's resources. Annoying.

Date: 2007-11-13 05:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bk635.livejournal.com
Yep. uTorrent is so light weight that you don't even need to install anything, as you know; and doesn't bog your system down while in use.

Date: 2007-11-13 05:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ria-oaks.livejournal.com
Sweet. My computer's too damned slow as it is...

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