https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YP0zRvy6gBw#t=246

Yes, I know, song's getting old and everyone's tired of hearing it, but I do love me a good cosplay video.

I haven't done a very official cosplay before (aside from a quickly-put together Cid Highwind and the occasional Turk from Final Fantasy VII) but one of these days, I hope to change that. I don't know anyone that really does it locally, and I haven't been to a convention in two years, but that I still like to relish the idea of one day making a really decent one. My problem is that I'm sort of a perfectionist in that I want to at least remotely resemble the character...but all my favorite characters are usually slender or enormous white-fleshed males. Or male-like monster things (yes, I know, and I usually end up choosing male characters in games - so sue me). I'm pretty sure the only ones I can pull off well are Integra from Hellsing, and any kind of full-masked characters, like Chaos Space Marines, Yoshimitsu, Q from Street Fighter, or something like that. I am well-aware that the only way I would be able to successfully pull off some of those macho-type cosplays would be to wear stilts, bleach my skin, and get pec implants, but I gotta work with what I have, to a point. Thank the devil for ace bandages, breast binding, and full-cover costumes, though.

In other news, finally getting organized here. New bookshelves means less goddamn boxes on the floor.

In other other news...I don't have a good story-enriched game to play (aside from Mass Effect and Skyrim, which I jump back and forth from) at the moment, and it's making me nuts. I don't always feel like playing those two...and I need another RPG to fall back on. I got my sandbox games, my action types, and my "I've got to kill some time before I do something else" types....

Any suggestions for new RPGs to play?

--MURPH--