Collecting, the bane of nerds

In some ways, I hate all the little extras in games like FF7. (Which I'm playing because a friend loaned it to me with his Playstation, because he figured I should play it, since we're playing a quasi-FF7 Exalted game.) The problem with all the little extras is they turn on my nerdish collecting instincts, and I don't want to miss any of the options, even when the options require you to pick one over the other. So I end up using the vast powers of the interweb to find all the secrets to make sure I don't miss them, which means I really don't get the joy of finding them. Though sometimes, the "joy" of spending hours poking at almost identical pixels is overrated.

Or maybe I'm just indecisive.

Daily Drabble (with a guest star)

I looked down at the fortune. "This is ridiculous."

"What's that?"

"Even fortune cookies are outsourcing now. Look."

I read the fortune and handed it to the buddha. "If you cannot find wisdom within, try the Internet."

"On the other side, you get the Chinese pictogram for Cheeze-whiz."

"It's not a fortune. Monkey loving proverb cookies have been taking over the market. You don't seem annoyed."

"Being one with the universe gives perspective. Wisdom can be found on the Internet."

"If you can get past the porn and the wankers whining on LJ."

"Cynicism is best directed at itself."

The shoulders of...well, not giants, mostly me, really:
Stories from the Rabbit Hole
Stories from the Rabbit Hole, Part 2
There's a Buddha on My Bed
A Discussion of Procrastination and Buddhism
Buddhablog
Haven't Seen Him in a While
The Illusion of Pain
Stuff that Binds
More About Failure
The Joy of Scrubdom
Book Reviews with a Buddha
Who's Afraid of a Little Enlightenment?
Special Guest Star Daily Drabble

Reality checks

Whenever I'm doing homework and start to think "Y'know, Arabic's easy and I'm getting good at it," I have to remind myself "Dude, you haven't even learned all the letters in the alphabet yet."

A moment of Nerd.

I got my first batch of Magic Player Rewards cards in the mail today. They're pretty! I got textless Hinder, Pyroclasm, Terror, and a spirit token. Plus the nifty clear plastic DCI card, though I think I'm gonna hang on to my old Mana Membership cardboard thing too, just 'cause I've had it for like eight years now. I wish the local shop had actually run some tournaments in the past like, two months. (There's either been not enough people, or the person supposed to be running them wasn't here, or...) 'cause then I'd have probably gotten a third set of cards. And maybe even the shiny Hypnotic Spectre. I haven't seen it yet, but me want. I hope it has the old art. The new art is really cool, but it looks like a Nazgul, and looks a LOT bigger than 2/2.