You know youve been playing too much Zelda (again) when...

[amethyst73]

... you're standing in a mostly-empty parking lot at night.  You see a moth fluttering about in the light of a streetlight, and your first thought is, "Ooo!  I wonder if it's a dark insect, or maybe a golden bug!"

I'm just about done freeing the final district of Hyrule from the twilight.  I'll be a bit sorry to see the end of the Hunt The Dark Insects mini-games.  When Twilight invades a district, the local guardian spirit's light gets stolen and distributed about the district in the form of little insects that you then hunt.  Local guardian spirit kindly marks your map with the locations of all these insects.  It's got the same pleasure of finding treasure from a map.  I like the specificity of the task you have to perform, and the puzzle-solving aspect of "There's a bug in this building.  What route is available to me as a wolf?" is pretty cool. 

One minor quibble I had with this most recent hunt: I got too near a bug in Castle Town (before I'd found the local spirit), and got the little yellow arrow telling me there was something to interact with.  ..I hope that if I killed it (I don't think I did, 'cuz I didn't hear the 'Yay, you killed a bug!' chime), the resulting bit o' light is still around.  I do wish the programmers had remembered to turn the Interactive feature of the bugs off  until after the player talks to the district spirit!  There's *got* to be an easy toggle option with that, associated with having the Vessel of Light or something.

And a quick graphical discontinuity that I noticed over the weekend. When the player first starts crossing the Great Bridge over Lake Hylia, the player is essentially the only object on it.  Okay, there's a stray wagon wheel, but that's a non-interactive part of the scenery.  Then stuff happens which starts a puzzle.  When Midna converses with you at the start of the puzzle, if you look behind her, all of a sudden there's things on the bridge that weren't there before.  (I had to try the puzzle twice - I checked the second time!)

In other news, the US government is rolling back clean water protections.  I am disgusted and frightened by this action, enough so that I'm thinking of looking up the email addresses of my various representatives before the League of Conservation Voters bugs me about it.

....Hmmm.  I'm getting an idea for an advertisement about this issue.  Wonder if any of these environmental organizations would be interested?

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[shoutingboy.livejournal.com]

Constitutionally, does the federal government have the authority to regulate non-navigable waters that aren't on state boundaries? It seems to me that's the issue here.