That was a pretty good valentine’s day.
Nick came over; we slouched in the living room and watched “Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf”. Which is about a really complicated relationship; there’s a lot of embittered hatred in the dialogue, but there’s also a ton of chemistry between Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton that kind of turns it into something I see as a relationship I’d like to be in.
We MST3K’d it, since we’d both seen it before. We constructed an alternate version of it in which Martha and George get a lot of their aggression out by sublinating it through her hyena fursona and his WoW Death Knight character. I am tempted to draw caricatures of them as just that.
The next morning, we sprawled in the living room playing some video games – Sony was having a valentine’s day sale on couch multiplayer games, and I’d picked up Geometry Wars, Rayman, and Guilty Gear Xrd Sign. We played a chunk of Geometry Wars and had a great time once he started to get a decent grasp of the basics; it was a lot of fun helping him learn that.
Now he is gone and I am going to do my homework: after a quick attempt at one round of GGXrdS, I need to go through its very extensive tutorials to actually learn how to play a modern fighting game. Wish me luck…