What are you playing?

Seeing as it's been a couple weeks, I'm gonna double post here.

Finished Rhapsody, Ratchet: Deadlocked and somehow got my hands on a copy of Suikoden II. Most likely going to throw that in very soon.

 Synopsis of Rhapsody

Well, let me start by saying I'm glad I'll never watch that OP song again. This game made me think to all the Japanese songs I've ever listened to and realize how stupid or outright embarrassing many of them sound if I were to hear them in English. I suppose that even though I understand bits and pieces without subs, it isn't a primary language for me so I don't get embarrassed by words that should do so. Regardless, once I got past the fact that in the game's title, it was called a "musical adventure" I looked at it as a middle-school play instead and found myself able to tolerate it more; since I've played a main role in a musical way back when too.

Another thing. Atlus really seemed irritable and egotistical when translating this game. All those bookcase remarks, references to other games Atlus translated and hinting them to be "too dirty", even breaking down the 4th wall and saying "well that's what happens when you make a direct translation". I'm not sure if that's how the content was initially portrayed but it just seemed to add too much of a modified touch. It didn't really affect the main storyline or any dialog, so it wasn't too big of a deal.

My last little gripe is about the difficulty. The game was way too easy. You can beat 75% of the game's bosses+spawn with a technique you know from the start and costs 0MP (after certain conditions are met) in one turn.

Other than those issues, I think it was a decent game. Nothing award winning, but playing it once, I wouldn't go back and call it a waste of my time. Oh and the pause anytime glitch after seeing the credits was fun.

By the way, this thread seems dead. Does that have anything to do with the implementation of blogs here?

 A few questions regarding blogs

Well, I've been around on the internet for a little over 14 years now, but I've never really gotten into social networking stuff like Blogs or whatnot so I was wondering what their premise is. I noticed earlier that self-oriented topics should be placed there and beyond that I'm not certain what should go there. I've had a few ideas for discussions for a while a long with a few short personal rants that I don't expect responses from and I've had trouble figuring out where they would be most appropriate. I've heard that the Funhouse has become degenerate cesspool so I'd rather not place topics for discussion there, but at the same time some of them aren't really overly intelligent or rants. For example, "What's one thing about yourself you don't think anyone else has experienced?". I'd wager that the first response I get will be to just look up the textbook definition of a blog before asking questions, but I'd prefer to know the appropriate place to bring up certain things. Especially if this thread is dead, I'd like to know whether or not Blogs would be the appropriate stomping grounds.

^Since that was unrelated to the thread, if you want to answer me, just do it in a PM.