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I'm late to the party as always -- I got FFXIII a little while back. So far I've played about 14 hours. A lot of people are complaining about the game, but I quite like it.

I'm not a huge FF-nerd; I haven't played a lot of the older games, like really played them. The only ones I can think of are FFIV, V and VI on the SNES. And I used an emulator. And I cheated...

Compared to the older games, FFXIII is very linear, or at least have been for most of my 14 hours. Some of the enviroments can get a little boring because of it, but so far, for the most of it, that hasn't been a huge problem. I actually kind of like knowing where I'm going for a change.

Another thing I like a lot compared to the older games is how when you die, instead of being returned to the title screen (which pisses me off to no end) you're prompted with a dialogue asking if you want to retry the battle. It brings you back to the very moment before engaging in the battle, meaning you can adjust your gear or spend Crystarium Points or whatever before attempting the fight again. Very nice.

It supposedly takes 50+ hours to beat the game. Knowing me - and I do know me - that's probably closer to 70+ hours... So far so good though. :)

Sometimes it feels like we don't have enough cards to play with. But then I remember all the cards we're no longer using in our decks and I die a little inside. There's plenty of them.. u__u

I feel some reluctance in buying new cards, even though I don't mind some new cards to play around with, using the word 'some' rather loosely. I've ordered a New Phyrexia fat pack and the Duel Decks 'Knights vs. Dragons'. They both look pretty neat. :-)

Edit May 19: Upon ripping open one of the nine booster that came with the fat pack I found Karn Liberated - a bloody Planeswalker! Pretty rad and oh so over-powered. (If you didn't know, I'm not a huge fan of Planeswalkers).

If that wasn't "bad" enough; when I opened the last booster I found yet another one. I mean, for real, what are the odds..? At first i was a little bummed that I didn't get a different Planeswalker at least, but then I found out he's the only one in the expansion...

My brother and I took the duel decks for a test drive and I started out with the Knights. His Dragons won... We swapped decks and tried anew; the Dragons won again. We concluded that the Knights are inferior. Or we're just lousy shufflers...

I recently started watching NCIS, which supposedly is America's favourite TV show. I don't watch a whole lot of TV, but the Yank's got this one right; NCIS is really good.

I mean really, really good. I really like the chemistry between the characters. Gibbs is a really cool but mysterious "father figure", the fights between "brother and sister" Tony and Kate are fun to watch and Abby....Sweet delicious Abby, she blows me away.

The one thing that's sometimes bugging me is how fast they solve a case. But hey, with shy over 40 minutes I guess there's only so much time for questions. :-)

I'm currently running a Linux Mint livedvd as my primary OS. My boot manager got screwed up a week ago and I can't be arsed to fix it so a livedvd is the best I can do for now.

This means less time using the computer (I'm basically down to only surfing), and more time for other, perhaps more constructive things, such as reading. Or maybe more importantly, playing Portal 2. :-)