new savings account / fonts / Buffy game

[supercheesegirl]

I was meaning to post all day that I did a responsible good thing today. I went in to work late (no, that's not the responsible part, wait for it) because I stopped at the bank to open a savings account. See, I had to close the one I had in PA that I'd had since I was 14 because it was in, well, PA, and I don't live there anymore and so couldn't access it regularly, and also the minimum balance was $500 so because I didn't have the minimum they were charging me $5 a month. I figure I lost about $60 this way because I had to wipe my savings to get this apartment a year ago. Grr. So I finally closed that account, and I realized that I had enough extra cash to start a new savings account provided the minimum balance wasn't too high. And it wasn't. I now have a savings account, associated with my checking account so that I can move money into and out of it easily at the ATM. W00t.

In other news, I realized once again that I'm an editor!geek on the T ride home tonight. I was looking at this poster about a long-distance phone plan, and it said "PLEASURE vs. PAIN" in big letters. And I was looking at it, thinking that they had used two different fonts for "pleasure" and "pain", but then I realized that they were in fact the same font, they just *looked* a bit different since in "pleasure" there's an L and two Es and an S and in this particular font the serifs curved attractively on these letters, while "pain" only contains letters that had very straight edged serifs. Also "pain" was several points larger. I looked closer and realized that in fact all the lettering on the sign was done in this font. I couldn't name the font, though. Close to two years ago, I would've been able to, but I've lost almost all the font of knowledge (HA! a Milesworthy pun) I gleaned from my publishing class. Still, I'm a big nerd.

Tonight I played the Buffy game for a while--I couldn't get past the damn quarry, so I decided to start a new character from the beginning and see if I could get some of the secrets I'd missed with the first character. Then Dann came out and I suggested we play multiplayer, but something happened--when I hit the reset button, the goddamned son of a cock ass PS2 erased my fucking game again. This is the second time it's done this. Now the game I started tonight (and played through level 3) is gone completely, and the first game is back at the Magic Box Revisited when it *was* at the quarry. I hadn't even *touched* game A tonight, and I didn't hit reset when the "saving; don't hit reset" message was on the screen, either. There's no reason for it to fucking do that. I could hardly enjoy the multiplayer game stuff because I was so pissed off at the fucking machine. There should've been like 10 more characters available for us to use, but no. I guess it's okay, since I was going to play the game through to the quarry again anyway, but still. It's the principle of thing. (Hey Alli: do you have any tips for me on beating Kakistos at the end of the quarry level? He's a real asshole.)

I'm completely zonked so I'm going to sleep now.

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[theemdash]

(Hey Alli: do you have any tips for me on beating Kakistos at the end of the quarry level? He's a real asshole.)

Um, get really drunk?

Honestly, keep moving. Basically we won by going around in a circle. You hit one, then start moving to the next one. Eventually you can get the pattern, but going in a circle seems to work.

That level did suck.

[supercheesegirl.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I found a few walkthroughs that just basically said to incapacitate but not kill the zombie skeletons (so that they're crawling on the floor and you won't have to deal with new ones popping up all the time) and then just keep running around. Those spells are so hard to kill! I think the farthest I ever got working on this was to destroy one of the three spells. Kakistos is a big dork. At least now I know it's possible...