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2009 Dec 03 elly


Guy Blade Guy Blade---03:19:00


Blue Curiosity
During the past two days, I have beaten two games. The first game was Professor Layton and the Curious Village. This game had been a birthday gift from Imani, so it got to jump in line once I finished 358/2 Days. The game itself is essentially a never-ending onslaught of puzzles. The game itself claims to have 120 numbered puzzles, of which I ultimately beat 102 of them (the remainder I was unable to find). The puzzles themselves vary widely. Some are word puzzles, some are math puzzles, at least one I solved using trigonometry. Most of the puzzles are clever, but I find that too many of them rely on imprecise wording to create their difficulty. In word puzzles, this is acceptable even perhaps expected. In peg-and-string puzzles, this becomes incredibly frustrating. Overall, I would say that it was a rather fun game, and would recommend it to people who like puzzles. Just be aware that the game has essentially zero replayability due to the fact that the puzzles themselves don't actually change.

The second game that I beat was Blue Dragon. Blue Dragon has been in the game in my 360 since the beginning of September. In general, it is a classic Japanese console RPG. It is perhaps most notable for its pedigree: its story was written by Hironobu Sakaguchi (Final Fantasy) and character designs by Akira Toriyama (Dragon Ball, Chrono Trigger, Dragon Quest). Nevertheless, the game itself is quite average. Gameplay follows standard job-based JRPG tropes. I also had serious issues with the game's achievements. Most of them are of one of several forms: (1) Do something annoying perfectly, (2) Max out something, (3) Kill an optional boss that is ridiculously difficult. Eventually, I got tired of attempting to get 100% completion and just went and killed the final boss. Due to getting several of the type 2 achievements (maxing out all the jobs for all the characters), the final boss' second form never got a chance to attack me and the third/final form only got two actions before death. I had picked up the game relatively cheaply from Newegg at some point, but honestly I can't recommend the game. There are better RPGs for the 360 and this one doesn't really bring anything special to the table.

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2009 Dec 02 elly


Guy Blade Guy Blade---10:22:00


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I did some comparison shopping and I decided to switch to Geico for my auto insurance. They were about $50 cheaper than the revised Progressive rate, but still more expensive than the previous rate. The comparison shopping proved to be a bizarre experience. Esurance was about the same as Progressive. Allstate was about $100 more than Progressive/Esurance. Nationwide was about $200 more than Progressive. State farm's website gave me the middle finger in the form of the message We are unable to furnish an online quote with the information provided. Please forward your information to a State Farm agent who can help determine your insurance needs.

State Farm was also a bizarre one. About an hour after completing my Geico purchase, they called my telephone and wanted to talk about me getting a policy through them. I informed them that I had already bought through Geico and they asked if they could contact me in 6 months when it comes up for renewal. I made known my doubt that they would be competitive (when I was looking at insurance after moving out here, they were about double the lowest quote), but said that would be fine in order to get them off the phone faster.

State Farm agents must be really hurting if they are calling people who are getting quotes within mere hours of the quotes being issued. Doubly so if they are actually so desperate as to try to plan out future poaching.

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