Trifoilum

Not yet.

But I am well.

A storm has cancelled my flight until tomorrow, but I'm not too fussed : D

Everytime I see your avatar, I drool

I really have especially liked reading your posts lately.

How are you?

One should, based upon my philosophy, define that for themselves. A set standard, such as a benchmark, has been shown to fail...miserably. It's hard to determine how much is enough but I think, at times, you can generally realize when you don't have "enough" of something. Hehe, I believe that we need both, I just realize that effectively, nationalized citizens are more "useful" and efficient than knowledgeable ones. Well..maybe not interesting but, entertaining. With that being said, I didn't have the sheer willpower to see all 12. Although it gets easier as you hit new game +. I think I played Chrono Cross when I was..8 or so. I always attempted to get 100% but my will would wane. The more senseless what I was doing was, the less I started to care. Only a few games have kept me interesting, such as Lost Oddseey. The side quests were a bit more interesting than the actual story lol. Oh, lordy, Wild arms. Those games...lol.

I've always been a fan of video game soundtracks. They seem to be an interesting mix of orchestral and modern influences. I find it more entertaining than most classical music and symphonic music. Would you agree?

True. And even then, quite a few people know little about their national culture and even the individuals who are knowledgeable only know rather large chunks, it's nearly impossible for an individual to completely understand the culture they are placed in. It's actually quite a bit interesting. And hmm, it's important to understand how your nation works, it's more effective for the nation as a whole. Knowledgeable people are useful but can be quite difficult to make them "fall in line"

Yeah, the main villain is the time Devourer and lol, the endings are all quite interesting. Lol. When I was young, I played through tons, when I hit about 16 or so I started to lose interest in boring quests so, typically, I would get half way through the game and then just quit because I didn't like doing random quests even though they were intended to progress the story.

How to decide what is important n stuff.

I'd think so. I find being knowledgeable about your own culture/national heritage to be slightly different. I agree, pop culture does a bit to spread culture to the masses. Course, it tends to be highly popularized and superficial but everyone has to start somewhere, of course. I think that having the proper interpretation of a cultural item is important but not important enough to completely nix the idea of including something, such as the fact that Shiva was declared a female. Any basic research into Shiva would have shown that that claim was incorrect but without the introduction to "Shiva" via the third party, Final Fantasy, the individual would be none the brighter. If that makes sense. The game was Chrono Cross, my favorite video game, and I like to play RPGs in general but I do have a preference for JRPGS; Final Fantasy, Suikoden, Dragon Quest, .hack, Xenosaga, Xenogears. Sadly, these days, I don't play many video games.

I've read the first couple - my brother in law got me it for Christmas. I definitely enjoyed it though, would totally get the next one.

I suppose you could measure it by objective measures: go around and ask the average populace questions about the government, media, language, and history of other nations. Qualitatively, you could just ask a person what his/her favorite country is outside of the one that s/he stays in and ask them to explain why. Realistically though, there's no real god way to measure. You can kind of sense it though. For example, a very distant example but one all the same, I was looking up information on my favorite game and only yesterday did I find out that the main villain was based off of Mexican folklore. Typical JRPG but they had influences from South America, Japan, America, and Europe. This game was made in 1998. Games before then weren't exactly "worldly"

Yep. The Asians I know who're seeking to reconnect with their culture in a shallow way are into the boy bands of korea and, as a byproduct, I now listen to some of the music. Shallow music isn't always unenjoyable and if it makes some people more interested in a culture, albeit for fake reasons, I'm not one to complain. It's progress to a worldly world.

But nenyways

Sorry I didn't respond yet. How are you?

Mmhmm. ^^

Thank you! And yeah, it surprised me too. I knew the ending was by 2pm but this is amazingly j-popish, even for 2pm.

Yep, existential.

they're a solar phenominon you see in the North polar regions. the aurora. thanks for the rep.

Mostly FPS (XIII, Bioshock (2)) and action/adventure (like Tomb Raider, Portal (2) or Mirror's Edge).

you're welcome..and thanks back for doing me, lol! Mischievous, definitely. And I mostly do hide in silence. But I do like being noticed (outlined by the full moon), yet retain an air of mystery (a silhouette, the details unrevealed).

That's great : ) I think keeping track of EVERYTHING is really helping me out this time

Tri heyy! <3 my life is good, i'm on vacation technically these days and trying to make the most of it. How are you?

Yes. I can see that too. I still took no offense and I appreciate your willingness to make sure I didn't. HUG

Some more than others, but yes, lol. Never got into palmistry much, though...didn't really work for me.