Feb. 6th, 2013

lliira: (Quistis)
My (pink!) Nintendo 3DS XL arrived in the mail today, along with Harvest Moon. And it is awesome, because the screen is huge. I think it would have been too big for me when I was a little kid, and it's quite heavy for a portable system, but it's perfect for my hands now. But I have a problem, which I was afraid I'd have: the 3D starts to give me a headache after a short time. Turning it to the lowest setting that still shows up as 3D helps, but does not eliminate the problem. I'd like to play 3D games in 3D, because it looks nifty, but I'm not sure I can :(. I wonder if a new contact prescription would help. 
lliira: Fang from FF13 (Default)
I'm reading a Battlefield Earth spork, and wow. Just wow. The racism is worse than in any fiction book I can remember, and I'm a history major and the book was published in the 1980s! It is worse than H.P. Lovecraft. Or maybe I just think that because the writing style is so much worse. The sexism: also worse than in any other book I've ever seen. The hero spares about five thoughts for his love interest through the 1000+ page tome, and the women are all sex objects to be abused and reviled, sex objects to be protected, or objects which cook. Jenkins and LaHaye treat Chloe and Amanda so much better than Hubbard treats Chrissy and Pattie. Jonnie Goodboy Tyler is the biggest Gary Stu I have ever seen in any media format whatsoever. Compared to him, Rayford and Buck are caring, well-fleshed out characters who earn every accolade they're given. And the less said about the writing style, the better. Thinking about it hurts my thinky parts.

My next question is: can published fiction (not published by a vanity press) get worse than L. Ron Hubbard's bloviations? I don't think it can. I didn't think it could get worse than Jerry Jenkins, though, and I have been proven wrong.

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