Trabia Garden

I've fallen back into my terrible addiction to watching What Would You Do? clips on YouTube, alas. For those unaware of it, What Would You Do? is an American hidden camera show in which actors play out scenarios (e.g. 'Some arsehole's hitting on a woman who clearly wants him to leave her alone! What would you do?') and see whether bystanders step in. It is utterly, shamelessly emotionally manipulative. I can't resist.

There's one particular actor called Jeremy who appears in many of these scenarios, almost exclusively as some sort of terrible scumbag (he's the unwelcome flirter in the clip I linked to above). Troublingly, I've started to find him very attractive. Why does this happen to me? I hope I'm never asked to describe my perfect man, because I think my answer might have to be 'deeply unpleasant and covered in blood'.

(Here's a fanfiction idea I'm ashamed to admit I've considered: Jeremy the actor is creepily seduced by 'Jeremy', the awful character he plays. The only reason I'm not writing this is because I haven't seen nearly enough of the actor out-of-character to be able to characterise him, which is probably just as well; I'm not sure that What Would You Do? fanfiction is really something the world needs.)


I've been thinking 'hmm, perhaps I've been posting too much about videogames lately'; if the alternative is talking about What Would You Do?, though, I suppose that might be for the best. Back to videogames!

I finished Lightning Returns a few days ago! Final verdict: there's not nearly enough of the original cast - the reason I love XIII so much is because of all the relationships between the characters, so it saddens me that we see so little of those relationships here - but you can make Lightning wear a mask of her own face and therefore this game is amazing.

I forgot to mention in my last entry, but Chocolina is the best character in Lightning Returns. When I first saw her, I exclaimed 'OH MY GOD, IT'S CHOCOLINA' aloud. My very favourite of all the silly things she says: 'Here's your reward. You know, for that "job". This conversation never happened, capisce? I'm just kidding! I don't ever want to forget any of our exciting conversations!'

Being a fan of the Troy Baker Forms an Intense Relationship with a Teenage Girl videogame genre, I thought I'd give BioShock Infinite a try next, despite having been spoiled for more or less everything. Unfortunately, I am not a fan of first-person camera angles. I've had to slow the camera movement down to a crawl to avoid motion sickness, and I don't ever want to touch a skyline again. I'm intrigued by the relationship between Booker and Elizabeth, though, so I'll probably persevere!