Cash card acquired! *Zelda music*
2009-Jul-22, Wednesday 14:52![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dorchadas
After the saga of getting my bank account (chronicled by schoolpsychnerd in this post), I expected to have a bit more difficulty getting my cash card. But nope--it was essentially painless. I took my form in, added an extra number where I needed to, stamped it, picked a PIN number ("secureeto nunbaa") and then off I went. It should be here in 2 to 5 days, and then I can finally get paid for my job.
We went to Softbank to resolve the phone thing, and it did turn out to be a mistake. For whatever reason, Visa stopped accepting the charges from Softbank, which meant that my bill hadn't been paid in two months. So we went to the store, paid the bill, confirmed that it was fine to pay with cash from now on (which is no problem for me, since that way I can avoid being mugged by the exchange rate anyway), and then 20 minutes later it was working again. Simple. I also need to stop downloading $0.99 games on my iPhone. Some of them are okay, some of them are good, but with most of them it's obvious why they're only $0.99. What I really want is an iPhone port of Final Fantasy 1. That'd be amazing.
I'm currently on vacation from school. Normally, Japanese school teachers have to go in year round, even when the students are gone, despite not having anything to do. However, in some respects I'm treated more like a part-time teacher, so I get the time off. It'll be a nice break, I think.
I've been playing a heavily-modded Morrowind lately. To give you an idea of what I've done to this game, the base game is maybe 1.2 gigs with both expansions installed. My installation is 4 gigs with all the extra content, files, textures, etc. I've added into it. I've probably put another ~80 hours of gameplay into it on top of what it already had. And all this without having tried Oblivion. Of course, I have a backlog of games to play, but I just beat Final Fantasy IV on the DS so I'm at least working on them slowly. Now to beat Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney and start up Phantom Hourglass...
Is Oblivion worth playing? Or, I guess a better question is, how is Oblivion compared to Morrowind? I know about some things (Daggerfall-style fast travel, no levitation/teleporting, Radiant AI, bandits in full daedric), and I know about mods to fix some of the problems I'd have with it, but I'm curious about the opinion of anyone who has played it.
My parents are coming at the end of the week, then off to Kyoto (again) and Nara. That'll be fun, I hope. ^_^
schoolpsychnerd in this post), I expected to have a bit more difficulty getting my cash card. But nope--it was essentially painless. I took my form in, added an extra number where I needed to, stamped it, picked a PIN number ("secureeto nunbaa") and then off I went. It should be here in 2 to 5 days, and then I can finally get paid for my job. We went to Softbank to resolve the phone thing, and it did turn out to be a mistake. For whatever reason, Visa stopped accepting the charges from Softbank, which meant that my bill hadn't been paid in two months. So we went to the store, paid the bill, confirmed that it was fine to pay with cash from now on (which is no problem for me, since that way I can avoid being mugged by the exchange rate anyway), and then 20 minutes later it was working again. Simple. I also need to stop downloading $0.99 games on my iPhone. Some of them are okay, some of them are good, but with most of them it's obvious why they're only $0.99. What I really want is an iPhone port of Final Fantasy 1. That'd be amazing.
I'm currently on vacation from school. Normally, Japanese school teachers have to go in year round, even when the students are gone, despite not having anything to do. However, in some respects I'm treated more like a part-time teacher, so I get the time off. It'll be a nice break, I think.
I've been playing a heavily-modded Morrowind lately. To give you an idea of what I've done to this game, the base game is maybe 1.2 gigs with both expansions installed. My installation is 4 gigs with all the extra content, files, textures, etc. I've added into it. I've probably put another ~80 hours of gameplay into it on top of what it already had. And all this without having tried Oblivion. Of course, I have a backlog of games to play, but I just beat Final Fantasy IV on the DS so I'm at least working on them slowly. Now to beat Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney and start up Phantom Hourglass...
Is Oblivion worth playing? Or, I guess a better question is, how is Oblivion compared to Morrowind? I know about some things (Daggerfall-style fast travel, no levitation/teleporting, Radiant AI, bandits in full daedric), and I know about mods to fix some of the problems I'd have with it, but I'm curious about the opinion of anyone who has played it.
My parents are coming at the end of the week, then off to Kyoto (again) and Nara. That'll be fun, I hope. ^_^
