Quiet Sunday
May. 1st, 2011 10:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickFolks are back from Block Island -- they had a good time. I also started my Alice playthrough today -- I'm up to the first Skool level.
-VD: What's the difficulty?-
Medium -- I figure that strikes the best balance. *will probably never attempt Nightmare without yanking up the cheats*
-M2: Heh -- God Mode?-
Maybe -- but I wonder if I could get away with just giving myself the Deadtime Watch. Life becomes a lot easier when you can freeze time at will.
-TD: But only once per level.-
Once is all I'd need on the earlier levels. And the best part, according to a certain Let's Play, is that the damn thing works on bosses before (and including) the Mad Hatter!
-D: But not the Jabberwock.-
No, damn his eyes. Well -- eye. That right there is the main reason not to do Nightmare -- how the HELL would you get past your second boss battle with him?! When Helloween tried it, the damn game ended up crashing because he'd died so much or something! Ah well, that's for the future if I ever DO give it a go.
As for the present, I believe I said I had a Drabbles88. Well, here you are:
73. Binoculars
Having grown up as an outcast, George knew all about watching people from the outside. When he wasn’t writing his stories or being bullied, he spent his time observing his classmates. He knew all the gossip – who was dating who, who wanted to date who, who was smoking, who was drinking, who would neck with you in the balcony of the Town Theater. If anyone had thought to ask him, George could have provided them with a full and detailed map of the Hill Valley High School social scene.
Truthfully, he kind of liked his position. Being bullied was no fun, of course – more than once, he wished Biff Tannen would disappear down a hole one day. But he found he enjoyed watching people. There was something about being invisible in the crowd, being privy to people’s dirty little secrets, which excited him. He knew everything about everybody, and nobody suspected a damn thing. It gave him a feeling of power, of control, that he lacked in the rest of his life.
He kept such thoughts to himself, though. And, apart from a few “peeping tom” incidents in his teenage years (including the one that, ironically, led to him meeting his wife), he managed to keep his habit of people-watching from getting too out of hand. He contented himself with watching and listening while his wife shopped, or his children played in the park, ignoring the urge to sneak closer, to find out the deepest, darkest thoughts the strangers around him held.
Then one day – one glorious day – the Citizen Brown police force approached him about a job. A very important job, that would benefit the city greatly. They’d finally gotten the last of the surveillance cameras in, and they wanted him to be one of the Monitors – to record footage for the commercials and documentaries that advertised Hill Valley’s perfect way of life to the world.
George had jumped at the chance. It was like a dream come true – the ability to watch everyone in Hill Valley, whenever he wanted! To be privy to anything they did, anything they said! To all of their secrets, their best-kept thoughts and urges! And the best part was, he was doing it in the name of a good cause! To make life better for everyone! He grinned around his office, at each bank of monitors and VCRs.
Who needed science fiction stories anyway?
-M: . . .Thanks, that's JUST what I wanted to see. My dad as the biggest creep on the planet.-
I'm sorry, this is just what popped into my head after Episode 3! It makes sense that shy, outcast George might be a people-watcher, right? After all, that "peeping tom" incident is canon.
-VuM: Yeah, but -- was it really necessary for him to stay a -- what the hell am I talking about, it's Doc Dystopia.-
Yeah, I know. It makes horrible everything it touches.
Anyway, yeah, this was inspired by George's job in the third episode of the Telltale Game. The whole thing with Lorraine in Part I of the movies suggests George had a few "people-watching issues" when he was younger. In Doc Dystopia, these urges got some rather unhealthy expression, especially after sci-fi was banned.
-VM: Oh, hey, yeah -- without his stories, Dad doesn't have much of a hobby anymore, does he?-
Exactly! I also just liked the idea of George knowing basically everything about his classmates without them even realizing, since he's just "the weird kid." :p Initially, I had Edna come to George in person to give him the job, but then I realized that was probably not gonna happen. Edna has more important things to do than to visit each of these guys personally. So I changed it to the police force. I dubbed George (and his invisible ilk) "Monitors" just because I liked the name.
-VDM: Makes sense, I guess. I really prefer non-creepy Dad, though.-
We all do. And he redeems himself nicely in Episode 4, right?
-VDM: *grin* Damn straight. *smile fading* Too bad Edna's shock troops were gonna drag them off to -- okay, WHY is Citizen Brown so surprised we have about no sympathy for Edna?-
He was married to her, so there's SOMETHING. Maybe if Marty had brought up the megaphone thing. . . .
-OD: Doubt that would have helped. Probably would have convinced him she needed someone to maybe help keep her in check.-
That I can actually agree with (I'm sure everyone else would be happier if she was too busy with a husband to employ that megaphone) -- if only he could realize it would be better if that someone was NOT HIM. *sighs and waits for Episode 5 to try and smack a little sense into him*
So yeah, hope you enjoy! Me, I gotta prep up for my last full week of school. And keep my fingers crossed for warmer weather. Why the hell was it so cold today?!
-TD: Trust me, all of us would like to know.-
-VD: What's the difficulty?-
Medium -- I figure that strikes the best balance. *will probably never attempt Nightmare without yanking up the cheats*
-M2: Heh -- God Mode?-
Maybe -- but I wonder if I could get away with just giving myself the Deadtime Watch. Life becomes a lot easier when you can freeze time at will.
-TD: But only once per level.-
Once is all I'd need on the earlier levels. And the best part, according to a certain Let's Play, is that the damn thing works on bosses before (and including) the Mad Hatter!
-D: But not the Jabberwock.-
No, damn his eyes. Well -- eye. That right there is the main reason not to do Nightmare -- how the HELL would you get past your second boss battle with him?! When Helloween tried it, the damn game ended up crashing because he'd died so much or something! Ah well, that's for the future if I ever DO give it a go.
As for the present, I believe I said I had a Drabbles88. Well, here you are:
73. Binoculars
Having grown up as an outcast, George knew all about watching people from the outside. When he wasn’t writing his stories or being bullied, he spent his time observing his classmates. He knew all the gossip – who was dating who, who wanted to date who, who was smoking, who was drinking, who would neck with you in the balcony of the Town Theater. If anyone had thought to ask him, George could have provided them with a full and detailed map of the Hill Valley High School social scene.
Truthfully, he kind of liked his position. Being bullied was no fun, of course – more than once, he wished Biff Tannen would disappear down a hole one day. But he found he enjoyed watching people. There was something about being invisible in the crowd, being privy to people’s dirty little secrets, which excited him. He knew everything about everybody, and nobody suspected a damn thing. It gave him a feeling of power, of control, that he lacked in the rest of his life.
He kept such thoughts to himself, though. And, apart from a few “peeping tom” incidents in his teenage years (including the one that, ironically, led to him meeting his wife), he managed to keep his habit of people-watching from getting too out of hand. He contented himself with watching and listening while his wife shopped, or his children played in the park, ignoring the urge to sneak closer, to find out the deepest, darkest thoughts the strangers around him held.
Then one day – one glorious day – the Citizen Brown police force approached him about a job. A very important job, that would benefit the city greatly. They’d finally gotten the last of the surveillance cameras in, and they wanted him to be one of the Monitors – to record footage for the commercials and documentaries that advertised Hill Valley’s perfect way of life to the world.
George had jumped at the chance. It was like a dream come true – the ability to watch everyone in Hill Valley, whenever he wanted! To be privy to anything they did, anything they said! To all of their secrets, their best-kept thoughts and urges! And the best part was, he was doing it in the name of a good cause! To make life better for everyone! He grinned around his office, at each bank of monitors and VCRs.
Who needed science fiction stories anyway?
-M: . . .Thanks, that's JUST what I wanted to see. My dad as the biggest creep on the planet.-
I'm sorry, this is just what popped into my head after Episode 3! It makes sense that shy, outcast George might be a people-watcher, right? After all, that "peeping tom" incident is canon.
-VuM: Yeah, but -- was it really necessary for him to stay a -- what the hell am I talking about, it's Doc Dystopia.-
Yeah, I know. It makes horrible everything it touches.
Anyway, yeah, this was inspired by George's job in the third episode of the Telltale Game. The whole thing with Lorraine in Part I of the movies suggests George had a few "people-watching issues" when he was younger. In Doc Dystopia, these urges got some rather unhealthy expression, especially after sci-fi was banned.
-VM: Oh, hey, yeah -- without his stories, Dad doesn't have much of a hobby anymore, does he?-
Exactly! I also just liked the idea of George knowing basically everything about his classmates without them even realizing, since he's just "the weird kid." :p Initially, I had Edna come to George in person to give him the job, but then I realized that was probably not gonna happen. Edna has more important things to do than to visit each of these guys personally. So I changed it to the police force. I dubbed George (and his invisible ilk) "Monitors" just because I liked the name.
-VDM: Makes sense, I guess. I really prefer non-creepy Dad, though.-
We all do. And he redeems himself nicely in Episode 4, right?
-VDM: *grin* Damn straight. *smile fading* Too bad Edna's shock troops were gonna drag them off to -- okay, WHY is Citizen Brown so surprised we have about no sympathy for Edna?-
He was married to her, so there's SOMETHING. Maybe if Marty had brought up the megaphone thing. . . .
-OD: Doubt that would have helped. Probably would have convinced him she needed someone to maybe help keep her in check.-
That I can actually agree with (I'm sure everyone else would be happier if she was too busy with a husband to employ that megaphone) -- if only he could realize it would be better if that someone was NOT HIM. *sighs and waits for Episode 5 to try and smack a little sense into him*
So yeah, hope you enjoy! Me, I gotta prep up for my last full week of school. And keep my fingers crossed for warmer weather. Why the hell was it so cold today?!
-TD: Trust me, all of us would like to know.-
