This Was A Triumph.

[rionaleonhart]

Last night, I dreamt that cane_tie had sent me a copy of Portal for the PS2. I was quite distressed when I woke to remember that no such thing exists and I still have no means of playing it. I don't know why I was distressed, because I actually seemed to be inside the world of the game at points, and I am fairly certain that Portal would be a very bad game to find oneself trapped in.

Of course, this leads me to wondering whether any game would be a good one to be trapped in. Jak II: oppressive dystopia. Most Final Fantasy games: the world is in peril. Katamari Damacy: not a good idea.

Here is a poll that has no relevance other than being connected to video games. I was going to include 'I haven't met Irvine' and 'I haven't met Larsa' options, but those tend to dwarf the actual answers, so just skip the question if you haven't met the character. Feel free to answer only the third question if you don't play Final Fantasy but feel like writing genderswap minific anyway!

[Poll #1162428]

Seriously, I thought that Larsa was a woman for the entire mine mission. When Ba'Gamnan called him 'boy', I didn't believe him. It took 'fourth son to the Emperor and brother to Vayne' for me to begin thinking '...all right, maybe this character is male'.

(The dream inspired me to search on Amazon, trying to find out whether the Orange Box had miraculously dropped in price enough to make buying it purely for one two-hour game worth it, and it turns out that Portal is being released on its own for the PC on the eleventh of April. Awesome. I may be able to play it after all!)

Comments

[squeemu.livejournal.com]

To be fair, when I first saw Larsa, I was just very confused about his gender. I wasn't sure if he was a girl or a guy. ...whereas I honestly thought Michael Jackson was a girl the first time I saw him.

I AM NOT IN ANY WAY COMPARING MICHAEL JACKSON WITH LARSA. Except in the way where I say they both kind of look female.

[rionaleonhart]

This comment inspired me to search Google for 'larsa "michael jackson"' (I AM SURE THAT THIS IS A PERFECTLY NORMAL RESPONSE), and I can find nobody else who has made this comparison (although someone did say 'An unfortunate fact is that Michael Jackson was originally supposed to be the voice actor for Larsa', which I suspect may be untrue). HOWEVER, I have found pages saying the following:

Vaan looks like a blonde, younger Michael Jackson
Vaan, the Michael Jackson ripoff: His nose is exactly like MJ's and he is all girlish
Vaan is like the lovechild of Tidus and Michael Jackson.
vaan looks like he's based on michael jackson
Vaan is hot. :) Not so much in the face, though because it reminds me too much of Michael Jackson for some reason. (Maybe since they're both CG)
Put blonde hair on Michael Jackson and you get Vaan.

I AM A BIT ALARMED BY THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO THINK THIS.

[squeemu.livejournal.com]

...AUGH

AUGH

I -- now that I think about it, I guess I can -- I can vaguely see it. GOD I HOPE I CAN STOP SEEING IT.

I am so disturbed by this. And am strangely wanting to either force someone into do terrible photomanips of this, or do them myself. It would be a terrible idea.