Hello super lucky fun time best friends! Me am much not thinking good right now. I have some work-related uh, work to tend to, so I’m putting the Thursday strip on hold until Friday to play it safe while I prep some things. Stay tuned, whatnot.

Actually while you’re being tuned in, wish me luck too. That’d be much obliged too.

Being reminded by the older gentleman I’m training at the lab today has, I think, been a revelation that “Talk Like A Pirate Day” is getting out of hand. And really, is it worth it? Do you people really want Hallmark to get their mitts into it and create another Frankenholiday, like Secretary’s Day or Sweetest Day? SWEETEST DAY, JESUS. The layered hulls of an oil tanker are an example of a needed redundancy. Valentine’s Day II, is not.

I fear for the day when we’re inundated with theme candies and perforated, grade-school valentine style greeting cards, with sayings like “I CLAIM YER BOOTY!” and “U ARRR THE 1” etched over badly illustrated pirates.

Can it be Tay Zon-Day instead?

DO THE IMPOSSIBLE!
SEE THE INVISIBLE!
RO’! RO’! FIGHT THE POW-UH!!

BREAK THE UNBREAKABLE!
TOUCH THE UNTOUCHABLE!
RO’! RO’! FIGHT THE POW-UH!!

(I’m gonna have to find something else to watch in two weeks…)

Finishing Luminous Arc and beginning the New Game+ has been an odd experience so far in regards to character continuity. It’s one thing to have the usual ‘slogging through the tutorial in spite of superior levels,’ experience, but characters who change classes and titles over the course of the game stay in their ‘endgame’ forms for the purposes of battle. It’s clearly another to have to go through all the early-game “THE WITCHES ARE SO EVIL” drivel only to have Cecille the priestess return to her goth-witch getup upon the battle’s start. Or “Rym Hero” Alph demanding to know what a Rym is. You also have free use of the entire cast in non-story battles.

Word of warning though, if you level up characters you have to fight against, they’re going to be the level you left them at last, as I found out facing Vanessa at Level 60 surrounded by Level 3 or so henchmen.
In other gaming news, it’s been brought to my attention that there’s going to be a DS sequel to the obscure Treasure shooter Bangaioh. I can only hope it’s localized (or dumped to the web…) in a timely manner, since I’m getting a craving for action. Contra 4, Megaman ZX Advent, and Phoenix Wright: Trials and Tribulations are already coming out by the end of next month. I may explode.

(comic’s running late btw don’t hit me)