More weird dreams

Lots of weird dream things,

The first was a false God Versus true God problem, really long scene.

Basically, I was out at some shopping mall, playing a new version of beatmania with some kids I didn't know at an arcade. Buzzwords were going around about a new church, maybe meteorites that happened, and I didn't really know what was going on, but people began to leave and just walk away, like something was drawing them in. Apparently, there was this vibrant magenta stone that was percieved as God, and people were gathering around it as the stone began to split into more and more stones... which, would make people happy and joyous if they were near these floating stones. So people began to encourage everyone else to join in, and come rejoice at the rapture or some shit like that, but weirdly, it applied to ALL religions, which was an immediate warning sign to me. People began to try and push me to join this crowd, which was getting massive (millions) and people were just singing, celebrating with no cause. I observed this for a long time, before they began to get violent toward people that didn;t join them (I was the only one, apparently) and I tried to explain to them I didn;t believe in false gods, as I knew a true god personally and didn;t want to get trapped again. (Raesir) So, they began to mob me, this black guy and this older mexican lady were trying to fight me to force me to go near the circle, and THAT's when things began to go south... for some odd reason, the sky formed that ubiquitous spiraling dark cloud phenomenon, and out of it descended this ginormous lion form, that basically had no physical presence but provided a logical, known symbol to that idiot group of humans, at least before engulfing them all somehow. I didn;t care, I knew this was bogus, so they left as I got to the top of this cliff, which, it was weird, there was this very sharp non-rocky cliff, like a glaciar hole, that looked down into a nice forested area, it was at least a mile drop, and it had some lakes, and was a beutiful sight, but no safety rails or nothing, but it did have a road near it. It looked like colorado, actually, when I went there to see a real cliff like this. Either way! The beast turned toward me, having no power over me, and began to try and argue with me about why I would not join it. Some generic points like "I will provide all your needs, and wants, making you happy and joyous for eternity" and some shit like that, I didn't need much of a reply, more like "If you weren't as young as you were, you might be smart enough to know that is not the way things go. Go back to your idealized world" And so on. It's a pretty basic argument, going back to the "Alien Slug Problem" that goathouse immortalized. If a entity will provide you eternal ease of life and happiness, at no cost or detriment to you, then, what is the point of living? Turns out, there IS none, because then you just become a simple, happy animal, and are no longer part of a sentient race. Which, knowing what I know about some of my favorite alien's politics, that means that they can execute a sweeping order, and harvest you for food/resources without any guilt on the concious. Sounds about right. So anyways, after arguing the way the world works with a infantile false god, it relented, and put everyone back in the circle and left, leaving those purple rocks to be nothing but obsidian stones. People were real confused, and immediately got upset at being so close together with race, religion, and ideals. Pretty sick to observe, I know life isn;t that simple, but goddamn people; Grow up. then, I just smile to myself, knowing all these motherfuckers are going to die in the next round anyway. Worthless mortals.


The second, will, me and reed went back to the arcade, and he showed us a game he had made, "Mega Man X 4 - Zero Hour" or something like that, and it had basically boiled down to a extremely violent megaman game. It looked normal at first, but megaman had a slew of new abilities that were really fluid and fun to use, like ninja spikes to cling to anything, a knife in the spirit of the Z-sabre, the Z-sabre itself, specialized automatic aiming guns, and he could actually FIGHT for once, with kicks, punches and suplexes. So, runing around, stabbing the little yellow dudes, oild goes everywhere, he get's shot, lots of blood splatters and sound effects, it was really pretty damn funny. Another weird point was knockback was important, if you rolled, you could smash your face onto things, blood again went all over the place. So we watch him play to this frog monster boss thing, and he starts doing the dash jumps, and knfie's the thing in the face, but, well, it was a frog monster, so it bi him, and he mashed buttons to stab it's mouth to pieces to make it let go... he rolled back, hit his face on the wall, blood went everywhere, will was like, "oh that's it" and then dash kicked, shoryukened, and then did this mugen style punch kick punch punch combo on the dam thing, followed by stratigic Z-sabre use and THEN actually shooting it to finish it. Controls were real intuitive, it seemed to rely on context sensetive controls more than anything else. But yeah. Super violent Megaman is a BAD idea, but improving the mechanics makes it not megaman. Don't forget it.

As prelude to all of this, I had this resident evil dream again! It was nice, but, got more difficult, as the virus had been discovered in this office/mall complex building, so, we were coptered into the top (Wasn't this an arcade game?) and worked our way to the bottom, fighting these nwere, smaller and quicker deadly enemies, like 4 legged bity things, two leggeded winged death bombers, large generator enemies, and some nemesisis (nemii? nemisis's?). there were complications once we got to floor 1 though, as we had Chris and Jill with us, all STARS'd up like normal, and we encountered some newer bidpedal monster, with nothing for weapons but the environment, throwing whole desks and crap at us, making the rocket launcher and aiming pointless. We chased it into the basement via fire, and found a giant generic-gross slimy alien/mutant egg factory thing coating the hallways. So, we burned that, moved forward. Apparently, this led to the truck depot, so the dude got away by just going through an open door... who planned this?!? We chased, blew up the building, and then things just got fuzzy. there was probably a lot more too this, but I don't remember most of it.


But, so far as RL goes, well, I own a house? And it's slowly getting put together? Not much to say, asides from that indexvector is useful, as well as igtl_GLAppWrap being the next replacement for SDL, HOWEVER, the joystick support sucks nutz, so, I'll probably have to beat some children to fix it. Game company is going along well, as usual, they want demos, whiny bastards.

Peace ya'll! Maybe I'll have this pimpmobile ready when Oct 15-19 rolls around.