Category Archives: Announcements

Happy 8th Birthday!

Posted by Jeanne
02.17.10

It’s that time of year again! Now, I know I didn’t deliver on a lot of my promises from a year ago, and I apologize for that. I really wanted to get that site redesign done, but that just didn’t happen.

This year, I am making no promises and no goals for the site. I am still very invested in keeping the site going and creating as much new content as I can — rest assured that even though the updates are not as frequent as in the past, I am not bored with recapping. I still want to get caught up on my neglected recaps and I still want to redesign the site. If I get around to that, cool. If not, I won’t look like a huge jackass for making promises I didn’t keep.

So now that the bad stuff is out of the way, it’s time for the good stuff. Thanks again to everyone who is still around even though I’m slow with the updates. Thanks to the other recappers, even those of you who have unfortunately disappeared off the face of the internet (I miss you guys!). Thanks to everyone who has sent me supportive e-mails, who has commented on the site, and who has helped me out with Quick Quotes.

I have one recap for you today. It’s a short one, but size doesn’t matter, right? Not unless you’re in a gay fanfic, anyway. So enjoy Suikoden Part 11. Stay tuned for Part 12 in the near future.

Holy shit, I can’t believe this site is eight years old!

Scheduled Maintenance

Posted by Jeanne
01.23.10

I’m biting the bullet and upgrading WordPress tonight. So I apologize in advance for breaking anything. After I’m done with this, you’ll probably need to log in again. Sorry for any inconvenience!

Update: I, uh, think it’s done. Let me know if anything looks effed up.

Recapper Roleplay Returns! (soon)

Posted by Jeanne
01.15.10

Yeah, yeah, it’s been a while since the last Recapper Roleplay, even though I have a bunch of entries already written. Here’s the thing — I’ve been recapping from the PS3 version of Oblivion, which involves me setting up a camera on a tripod. That’s just too much damn work, I decided. I got the PC version of Oblivion in the meantime, but there’s no way to transfer a saved game from one system to the other. What a dilemma. Finally, this last week, I recreated my Jeanne Recapiere character on the PC and retraced all the steps from the entries I’d written. This was the most thrilling thing I’ve ever done. But oh, how much easier to take screenshots! Plus, I have some sweet-ass plug-ins for the PC version!

Since it’s pretty impossible to recreate character faces exactly — at least for someone as lazy as me — Jeanne Recapiere 2.0 is not identical to her PS3 counterpart. So now I get to replace any earlier screenshots so that Jeanne won’t have to face accusations of plastic surgery.

I have both Tales of Symphonia Part 4 and another Recapper Roleplay entry coming soon. Stay tuned!

Happy 7th Birthday!

Posted by Jeanne
02.17.09

Yay, the actual post is finally here! I apologize for the delay, but hopefully these birthday/anniversary goodies will make up for it.

First of all, there’s another Eternal Darkness recap, this one starring a lovelorn homosexual pageboy. In most games, the gay hero nonconsensually ends up paired with an icky girl, so you’ll be happy to know that this game only subjects the gay hero to a painful zombification spell. Baby steps.

Quartz Falcon has also provided us with another Recap Retrospective, this one a look back at Final Fantasy X and the “infamous” blitzball game. Good times, good times. And by “good” I’m referring to QF’s retrospective, and not the experience of recapping Tidus.

That brings us to the other announcements that I promised in my last post. I’d like to thank everyone who has continued to read the site in spite of the, er, less than regular updates over the past couple of years. As you may have noticed, I’ve been putting a lot of time and effort into updating all of my recaps recently. Well, I am happy to announce that this year, I am going forward with a much-needed site redesign. This will involve both an improvement to the look of the site and a reorganization of the site content.

Also, I have set a personal goal of updating all of my pending recaps in 2009. Already I have three down, with only six more to go. I’m not counting tag team recaps here — just my individual ones.

I can’t speak for the other recappers, but I’m hoping they will be willing to help support the site by providing even more delicious recapping goodness for all of us. I am so grateful for the time they put in, year after year, and they do it all for free. I’m not even blackmailing them or anything.

So stay tuned for a better-looking site, more frequent recaps and blog posts, and more penis jokes than you can handle! I mean it this time!

(Also, if you visited the site before this update, you might have noticed that I mentioned something about another Recapper Roleplay. I don’t have the new one ready yet, but rest assured that I have more than one in the pipeline. That is not a euphemism. Stay tuned (again)!)

I Hate Myself and I Want to Die

Posted by Jeanne
10.29.08

All right, enough fucking around. I’ve been procrastinating on posting this because, well, who likes to admit to being a huge, retarded Tidus?

I’ll just get to the point. You know how you’re supposed to back up the important shit on your computer so you don’t lose it if and when your hard drive crashes? Of course you do. Dogs fucking know this. I think you see where this is going. A month and a half ago, I lost my entire Mac hard drive, including my 100% complete Phoenix Wright recap. To make this even more idiotic — and I’m not sure why I’m sharing this part with you, since you’re just going to point and laugh — I had about four days’ notice that my hard drive was on the fritz. Instead of doing something smart like BACKING UP MY FUCKING DATA, I decided to play Spore instead. I think even Shion would be intelligent enough to do a data backup in this situation. Of course, since “data backup” in her case probably involves something dirty and penetrating with KOS-MOS, she probably has a little more incentive.

Anyway, what this means is that I have to rewrite the entire courtroom portion of my recap, which was painful enough the first time around. I don’t think anything can compare to Kelly’s agony during the writing of the Atlantica recap, but this one was pretty damn close. The thought of enduring it a second time makes suicide seem like an attractive option. I’ve been avoiding the rewrite like the plague, even as the interval between recaps becomes longer and longer and I feel guiltier and guiltier. Seriously, this fucking thing should have been done back in July. In September, as I was readying it to post (*sigh*), I felt shitty enough. Now it’s almost November.

The good news is that I’m finally feeling like working on it again. Don’t think that means I’ll tone down any of the anger and bitterness in the recap itself — there will still be plenty of rage and suffering for you to enjoy.

Thanks everyone for your patience, and I apologize for being such an epic dumbass. DURR!!!