Legs
I just wandered everywhere in the room, trying to find my pajama pants, before I realized I was wearing them.
The end of the end of the end of the era
Okay. A method has been announced to theoretically convert a Shenmue US save file to a Shenmue UK save file. I knew people would be jumping onto this.
Now all we have to do is hope the game actually gets released in Europe. A few sites are saying it’s doomed there as well, but in general the word seems sound so far. As odd as it might sound, I think I do believe it will be released there. SoE, during this last stretch, seems to be picking up everything SoA is abandoning. I’m not sure what’s gotten into them, as traditionally SoE has been by far the lousiest out of the three branches — but as long as I can get versions of Shenmue II and Headhunter, I’m not complaining. I think Rez can be imported from Japan with less difficulty, seeing its genre, and SC5 Part 2 will undoubtedly stay in Japan, when one notices how much work had to be put into dubbing the first game in order to get it released in the West. So I guess that’s where that one’s coming from as well. Again, for a game like SC5, I doubt it will be too much of a sticky problem.
Oy. I can work around these things.
Only five games left…
A Wolf Named Rock
While nodding off today, it occurred to me (as a result of some comment I half-heard uttered from my teacher) that “Mark of the Wolves” refers to Terry’s jacket, or at least to the star emblem on it (thus the large star in the game’s logo). Terry was the “Lone Wolf”, and since he’s trained Rock and passed his place, and if not specifically his jacket then a very similar one, off to the kid, I guess Rock is therefore the new “wolf”, so to speak.
A wolf named Rock. Hm.
Cats.
Louis Wain. It’s odd how things pop up again. Long ago I showed the cover of the Oingo Boingo EP to a friend with whom I was doing some music at the time. He said that he knew the painting used on the cover, and that it was the work of some guy who was in the process of going crazy. He kept repainting the same cat face over and over, and each time it became more twisted and disturbing. He didn’t remember the person’s name, but I thought this was interesting and I filed it away in the back of my head.
Earlier today I was reading a posting of Kibo‘s where he randomly threw in the mention of a Louis Wain painting creepy cat heads. I’m not sure where I made the connection, but I made a guess that he was referring to the same person my friend briefly described several years back — and indeed he was. Now I know the guy’s name, and I’m glad I do. This is interesting…