My car died at a stop light on the way to work. Boo. I called AAA and waited over an hour and a half for a tow truck to drag me 5 miles up the road to my mechanic. Now I'm home with nothing to do. I tried to arrange a ride into work but no one was available to take me home again. Ah well. At least I have vacation days.
Now, what should I do with my free time? I'm thinking Super Mario Galaxy. I beat that game months ago and I'm trying to unlock a new galaxy. I have to collect 13 more stars to do it. I've been hammering away at the same level for 8 hours. I have to collect 100 purple coins to finish the level and collect a star but Mario? He no jumpy so good. Two areas are driving me batshit (crazy). On one I have to do a complicated crouch jump + spin on top of a very narrow rock in the middle of icy water. If I fall in the water I have about 3 seconds to get the heck out before dying. Nice. I have managed to grab the coin 3 times out of 100. The other area is another crouch jump + spin onto a ledge where a spinning star is waiting to shoot me towards the final 20 coins. There's a lot less danger involved but it takes a lot more work to get to that point and so far I have made the jump... never. Grrr.
Here's a video of someone else beating the same level. It looks like he's using a different technique. Hmm, I must try this....
Okay, I could also work on my resume since my job is at risk, but I prefer to ignore the things that scare me and hope they'll go away. There's a small chance I'll be kept on in the new company. I'm clinging to that hope. Besides, it allows me to pursue my purple coins guilt free. Almost.
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So? How did it go?
That looks so much tougher than the levels I attempted at your house last year. I think it could lead to carpal tunnel or something.
I beat the level. Yay! I never did manage to crouch jump & spin to get that coin, but I found a way to fall off the ice slide and grab it on my way down. And I tried the running three jump combination to get up to the ledge. It worked.
Oh, but I totally bombed the second long jump on the summit and missed the last coin. I fell off the planet into a black hole and had to do the entire level over again. GYAAARGH!
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