OH GOD WHAT THE FUCK KILL IT KILL IT
Settling well at The Null Point. Mostly it's been kids during the day, kids at night, sleeping too much, watching kids again, going on walks when I have the time.

I picked up Silent Hill: Origins for the PSP on the cheap a few days ago and finally got around to playing it. Before the game even starts, there's a message that tells you that the game is best enjoyed while wearing headphones, and with the lights off. That was how I was intending to play anyway (Skittle was lying next to me taking a nap), so I figured whatever.

First couple of cut scenes didn't impress me. Ooh, fog, ooh, burnt little girl. Then I get to wandering around in the hospital and proceed to get the shit scared out of me by Staggering Nurses of Doom, who just happen to make the same low-throated growling sound that a zombie does. Even after I finally figure out how to hit things (wheee let's smack the nurse with a television!), I'm still tiptoeing around the hospital terrified that the next door I open is going to lead to another blood-spattered room (it usually does) containing another Staggering Nurse of Doom (usually not).

Eventually I get used to the fact that unless there's static, there won't be any monsters. The second I think I'm just doing a harmless puzzle, another fucking Nurse leaps out at me, I drop the PSP while screaming, pick it up hurriedly and bash the hell out of the nurse with whatever's handy, then go and save and go downstairs to try not to have a heart attack.

...I think I'm going back to playing Final Fantasy Tactics. Outside. In the sun. While listening to Disney music.

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