FF ramblings

[ria_oaks]

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.

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[ria-oaks.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I'm looking into business/marketing/professional courses at SFU downtown... Mom thinks I'd be suited for marketing. ^^ It does sound potentially interesting... they have some sorta interesting sounding certificate programs at the downtown campus, and they're part-time and flexible so I could work while taking them. Wouldn't be a bad idea, I suppose - I really do need to get some more training (and useful training, as opposed to a BA in doing fuck-all) so I can start actually getting a career instead of working in a tiny credit union on a tiny island, which I'm quite fond of, but... need to move forward, I suppose. And I don't want to move forward in finance. ^^;

Looking at this - http://www.sfu.ca/wp/buscert.htm
Or this - http://www.sfu.ca/wp/editcert.htm (my cousin thinks I should go into editing, heh...)
Or this - http://www.sfu.ca/wp/pubcert.htm (could be an interesting area; I've briefly considered it in the past).

[bk635.livejournal.com]

But do you see yourself enjoying that kind of work? Now? 10 years later? 30 years later? Marketing in particular involves presentations and public speaking (think T-Bag ;p). Well, not necessarily all marketing positions, I suppose, but...

Anyway, those are very important questions that you need to consider, because we're still at a crossing-point where we have the option of not trapping ourselves into a career we don't enjoy and pursuing the things that we do enjoy.

Granted, it's kind of idealistic thinking, but on the other hand, we're barely into our 20s so there's still plenty of time.

Did the Van Arts program pretty much fall off the map?