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Well, didn't get quite as much CC in as I would have liked - only 25 hours so far and I don't think I'm gonna get any more in tonight, because of all the stuff I meant to get out of the way this weekend (like unpacking) that's still left undone. Gonna be a short column too, in all likelihood, but Friday's was pretty long so don't get too worked up.

Onward.

The "non-athletically inclined"? Nice way to say couch potato, dude. (Not that I can look down on couch potatoes, after spending about 72 hours straight without leaving my apartment.

I did indeed attend UT, which does indeed rock. However, a friend of mine recently informed me that Austin hit a toasty 108 today, so I'm just as happy to be up here where it's windy, overcast, and 70.

Painful, amigo. Unless, of course, they're postponing the holiday for some sort of mid-semester break, in which case I envy you. Most of the schools I've gone to have had an unbroken stretch between Labor Day and Thanksgiving, and it gets real old sometime around late October. Either way, here's hoping you get some free time soon.

Heh. My dad used to say the same thing, and I'll tell you what I told him: only one of these shows ever used the phrase "Guatemalan insanity peppers" and had Johnny Cash as a talking Space Coyote. I rest my case.

Aw, come on, you know you don't really want another Chrono game just yet. The anticipation's gotta build up for years and years and years before it can be properly enjoyed - not to mention we've got to hold off until an entirely new type of game comes out, not unlike the transition from 2D to 3D. (Full-sensory VR, maybe?) That way, purists can bitch for months on end only to be most satisfactorily silenced when the game actually comes out.

So at this point, I'm thinking 2008 for Chrono 3. How does that work for you?

I dunno what's up with Play Online, except that a lot of the games it's trying to hype aren't exactly targeted towards the US yet - Final Fantasy 9 and The Bouncer, to be specific. Once the current crop of summer games has been fully digested by the US audience (I'm thinking mid to late-September) the US marketing machine should start up, and I wouldn't be surprised to see Play Online start updating in English.

Don't know much about the game, except that it's been getting good to excellent reviews and I'd probably be playing it if I didn't have a 5 game backlog already. Still, there's no reason we shouldn't start discussing it, so send in some info if you're so inclined.

Closing Comments:

Well, hope you all had a proper farewell to summer. (Note to those in the South: apparently, in the rest of the country it stops being hot right about now.) Let's hear about what you're gonna be playing for the rest of the year, or any thoughts you have on Valkyrie Profile. Catch you later.

-Chris Jones, a bit chilly