DEMOCENSORED

Microsoft you bunch of fuckign wimps.
These words are forbidden speech?
Fuck you sirs, fuck you.

"The pirate captain behaves like the president of a small company that makes and packages Sytrofoam peanuts."

Tim Rogers scores again with ANOTHER "Game Review."
I love this guy, I wonder if he'd have such creative energy if he wasn't constantly an endangered species.
Brennan just might enter the voice acting contest he has on his site.

You found 1 Job!

Starcraft link spam.
Really nicely done Starcraft clan video
SCLegacy's 2004 Pimpest plays

Battlefield 2

I think I'm going to have to play the single player first before I figure out how this game works.
It's not intuitive, or even semi intuitive like BF1942.
First off...shooting seems...really screwy.
I have a reticle, but damned if I know I'm hitting them or not.
Second, VEHICLES are scary as shit.
They are hard to control, harder to aim and shoot, and HARDEST to fucking kill.
Grenade launcher point blank range at a tank?
No damage.
Hell, the jet planes (f-15s? SOMETHING) and the helicopters make it scarier.
How are you suppoesd to kill those without finding AA guns/bazookas/or going anti tank.
I suck at grenades...
But c still changes points of view, just there are like 4 points of view per vehicle, and hell if I can drive while in first person mode in a tank, I have to switch out to 3rd person mode, but then aiming is RIDICULOUSLY hard, so I have to hit c 3 more times to get back into first person to shoot...
Craziness...
Too weird right now, I need to learn some basic ability first.

BIG BEN?!

Yakitate is too ridiculous.
I fear if the anime mirrors the manga that the episodes would explode out of sheer ridiculousness.
TIME TRAVELING BREAD.
That and the fact they accepted ANOTHER challenge from a guy who tried to kill them no less than three times.
25 bread battles?
They're going to lose some aren't they...probably going to get sandwiched by some dirty trick othello play (I have Othello skills!)
And the latest reaction with the DBZ hair parodies...
Too many puns, too many horrible references (Conan detective boy?)
It was insane...I fear my brain might explode if the author keeps at it.

The Yakitate translators have a picture of a crying Tsukino. Sick bastards. -Allan

Bread Battle

Hm, well holy shit Yakitate manga is wayyyyy ahead of the anime.
But godamn the intrigue really is something.

Tsukino's family is fucking wacky.
Her little sister isn't so bad (I think she's cute), but the fucking older one is straight from hell.

Poor Mokoyama, if he ends up at the southern branch, their store will be unstoppable.

OMG, nice fatherly bread baking man has become evil St. Pierre cigar smoking with Yukino owning mogul.
Azuma must reclaim his soul!
At least that's what I think is going to happen.

New addition of Kanmuri, the scientist.
Hm, his character is interesting, Yukino probably knew more about his feelings then she let on, which is why she completely eradicated his research. (He's vindictive so I had to crush him completely.)
But he's FOCUSED, and he wants to kill Yukino (join the club!) so he's A-OK in my book.
It'll be interesting to see how it plays out.

Celestial Star!

Al Gore is a bitter man.
The prayer at the beginning of the graduation was off, as was Al Gore's speech on the environment.
He should stick to jokes.
Some kid wore a monkey face on stage.
Where did Andrea go, did she not graduate?
Back at home, and I pick up a Time magazine about twixters, young adults who live off their parents, bounce from job to job, etc, etc.
Hmmmm...

Finally finished all voice for Valkyrie Profile Japanese.
I think Freya's last hit sound (Ko kai sasete ageru wa!) did the trick.
Moved computer upstairs and installed wireless card, can't bother with games (the ping is crazy) unless I move modem and wires upstairs.

GRADUATION

Uh yeah, I forgot my digital camera.
Sucks =/
But my diploma ISN'T BLANK, and I'm FREE...till I find a job that is.
Have to move out too (I'm so weak heavy furniture argh).
But yeah, it's nice to be king.

USS...Anime?

Well, one of the political bloggers (USS Clueless) I read a lot (not as frequently as say, Instapundit, must I say his views are slightly conservative? As opposed to common sense? Then again, trying to tell people that Iraq without Saddam was better than Iraq with is an exercise in the lack of common sense), has hung up his political blogging shoes to blog about ANIME.
I know, it just strikes me too as wacky, and sort of cool at the same time.
Anyway, creepy entry from May 22nd.

His reviews seem pretty on the ball (Noir four stars? That's a bit TOO nice), and I'm seeing a COUGH tendency toward series people would consider "shoujo."
Which rocks.
I wouldn't have pegged Denbeste as a shoujo person.
However, I'm disappointed he didn't give Azumanga Daioh a chance.
First DVD blah, get in on the fansub community Denbeste!

He should watch Card Captor Sakura.

The duel savior title page has a picture of a crying woman. You sick bastard. - Allan

The Gamer's Manifesto

John Cheese strikes again!
Anyway my personal take:
1. In shooters, not really that important, bot intelligence honestly doesn't matter much if they can't aim. And then what, only a certain percentage of their shots hit as a difficulty meter?
2. See Japan.
3. Ha! FF8 was trash. But yes, if that tech demo of ff7 is bullshit, then SAY it will be bullshit.
4. See Japan again.
5. See...guess what, Japan, once again.
6. Well, I am a QUICKSAVE WHORE. As in give me an emulator, and you'll find I use 5 or so save states constantly. This promotes sort of laziness, but I do agree some games won't die from a quicksave function.
7. Do you know that on an emulated PSX for computer, you will still get "loading" times? It's like built in.
8. Madden sucks!
9. I LIKE THIS. However, the thing you have to remember is, for a console, everytime you put in jump, you use up a button. PC, no excuse.
10. We've just started on being able to do this (HL2). Immersion only depends on the game honestly. How the hell would you immerse yourself in a tactics game?
11. Hm...again, depends on the game genre for point a. For point b, well, if you have multiple angles, who cares if you can just choose the one you want. Sometimes you want to see the sunset around you (See WoW or Everquest or whatever). Point c is YES. Keep it Japanese, stupid.
12. Yes about RPG triggers. No about ammo starvation (Ammo does not pop out of zombie dogs, immersion wise, and neither is it infinite.) Yes about confusing floor plans with no maps. Yes about instafail stealth levels. Not sure about ending levels, as most of the one's I've seen are RPGS, and as such, aren't challenging at all. Ambivalent about speed cheating, there's not much you can do with racing car AI (see 1) besides corner perfectly and taking the most effecient route. Speed cheating just gives them a chance, or would you rather they drive like God.
13. Unlocking stuff is CRUCIAL to keeping a gamer occupied. So no.
14. Haha on the crates. They seem to show up in FPS the most. I really have no beef with crates.
15. YES ON PATENTS. YES ON EA. YES ON CRAP.
16. Anarchy online, anyone?
17. Reminds me of the sega fantasy VI flash. People WANT their consoles to do their taxes...really a pity with nintendo there.
18. This WILL HAPPEN. Sony's giving in was ALREADY THE FIRST SIGN. Game economies, especially mmorpg economies, will become linked to normal economies.
19. AHAHAHA. Can't see your feet. I like that. Yes jumping puzzles are hilariously bad.
20. Eh, careness factor zero, I always had lots of room =D.

DUEL SAVIOR JUSTICE

HOLY FUCK.
Leave it to Giga geez...
Duel Savior is coming out with an ADDITION DISK.
TOO FUCKING AWESOME.
HAREM ROUTE!
Ahahaha harem route, but screw that.
IM SEEING TEAM PLAY.
And they are adding in VG NEO Characters for kicks.

I can't wait.

Teaching in Japan

If you haven't headed over to I am a Japanese school teacher I suggest you do so now.
There's some scary shit that goes down there...but it's hilarious.

I remember when my roommate first saw the Naruto Kancho (1000 years of pain!)...his face turned into this mask of holywtf that's horrible.
Well it happens, and it hurts.
I think if I were to each English over there, I'd teach high school, cause holy shit 12-15 year olds ass-stabbing just isn't cool.
I don't think they'd dickgrab though...I can BLEND IN with my yellowface.
Plus well...uh...stereotypes...bah godamn just go read the stories on that webpage already.

The night before my plane left, I went to a baseball game. The regular season hadn't started yet, it was just exhibition (A's vs Giants), but it was still a bajillion zillion times better than Japanese baseball. In Japanese baseball, the strategy is to get a man on base...then bunt. They bunt with no outs, one out, two outs, runners on first, second, third, the bases loaded, it doesn't matter. The pitcher bunts, the power hitter bunts, the leadoff hitter bunts, they might as well call it Buntball and just be done with it. The funny thing is, the Japanese almost sort of think that they invented baseball. A friend of mine asked why do the Japanese always bunt, and I told him "Are you kidding?! Sacrificing yourself for the good of the team, really was there any other choice?"

Admiration is...a feeling furthest away from understanding.

WELL, been a fucking WHILE since I did this...but yeah with the shifting of powers it is worth mentioning.

Here it'll be really simple:

Bad guys:
Aizen, formerly "dead" captain of the 5th.
Gin, former captain of the 3rd.
Tousen, former captain of the 9th.

Good guys:
Everyone but those listed in neutral. Which is one guy.

Neutral/just bitter:
Mayuri, captain of the 12: The guy Quincy fucked up is back and doesn't really care about the axis of evil. Heh I bet he's just jealous that there were two researchers (Aizen and Uruhara) more fucked up then he was.

Dead?:
Momo, sub of the 5th
Hitsugaya, captain of the 10th
Byakuya, captain of the 6th
Renji, sub of the 6th

In short, holy shitness.
Aizen's alive, and even without hypnosis he has the power to fucking CATCH PEOPLES BANKAIS SUCH AS ICHIGOS AND RENJIS WITH HIS BARE HANDS.
WTFBBQ.
Hope for Momo to live seems to be fading faster and faster, and Hitsugaya's in really bad shape (but rather recent so I think he has a better chance than her.../cry for Momo)
Byakuya and Renji are tough, they probably won't die.
Gin...I honestly don't know what's up with him and Matsumoto...there was something, and he almost looks genuine sorry before he leaves.
Tousen is wtf.
Need an explanation soon on that guy, amazing how that one got pulled over us.

Rukia at least has been retrieved!
But at what cost -_-
I really hope Ichigo and her do spend a long while together...

And then there's the problem of Uruhara...he's not evil, but he still used them to try to fix his own mistake...and now it's too late.

Crisis

I wonder why the last semester had to go spectacurly bad.
It's like every one of my worst fears materialized and hit me in the face.
Now I'm in risk of failing not one, not two, but THREE courses.
The third one is completely my fault too, and in a lot more serious ways.
I'm surprised the professor didn't just completely write me off and leave me to die, cause that's what I deserve.

Suicide gets you no where but man I've been contemplating isolation in a box with a computer for these past two weeks.

Ground Zero

Well, here I am, four minutes before a modern complexity theory final, and I'm with four other guys PRINTING 100 pages out each of notes.

Hilariousness.

By the way, I hope the death the TA of programming languages is a nice soul who won't fail me.
Otherwise I'm not graduating, and that would suck.

Wow Linux is sexy.

Time to go pick up my share of the pages.

Random stuff I've read or heard

Some winners here:
The story made its rounds in the fall of 2001: a Filipino high school student created a Photoshop collage (Ok, turns out it was submitted to his site but he didn't post it out of respect...still other followers posted it anyway) of Sesame Street’s Bert interacting with terrorist leader Osama bin Laden as part of a series of “Bert Is Evil” images the student posted on his home page.
In the wake of September II, a Pakistan-based publisher scanned the Web for bin Laden images that could be printed on anti-American signs, posters, and T-shirts.
CNN reporters recorded the unlikely image of a mob of angry Pakistanis marching through the streets waving signs depicting Bert and Bin Laden.
American public television executives spotted the CNN footage and threatened to take legal action: “The people responsible for this should be ashamed of themselves.”
Coming full circle, other Sesame Street spoofs began to surface on the Web, linking various characters with the terrorists.

THERE ARE NO TIERS:

Originally posted by RoyPikachuMario
Look, I do NOT believe in tiers. It's like ordering people to be good with certain people and suck with others.

Originally posted by CORY
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST! NO IT ISN'T! ok, well it is, BUT ONLY IF YOU'RE A FUCKING SHEEP AND CAN'T THINK FOR YOU OWN GOD FUCKED SELF! can you NOT understand that you can play ANY GOD FUCKED CHARACTER you want to, regardless of tiers? do people understand this? do they also understand that CRAPPY characters will still be FUCKING CRAPPY CHARACTERS whether or not the Ffucked tier list existed or not? do people honestly think that if the tier list was fucked to all fucking hell, never to be seen EVER! that all characters would magically sing in three point harmony and be balanced? honestly? DO YOU? the tier list just says "statistically and in the current metagame this/these character(s) have more advantages than this/these character(s) in the overall scheme of things". it DOES NOT say "THESE CHARACTERS WILL ALWAYS WIN, NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO, SAY, OR TRY. DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT PLAYING ANY OTHER CHARACTER BECAUSE YOUR CHANCE OF WINNING IS ZEROOOOOOOOO!!!1"


AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH! I FUCKING HATE THE GOD FUCKED TIER LIST BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE FUCKING RETARDED! that's it, it's gotta go...

other mods, feel free to reopen it whenever you want and/or edit/delete this stupid fucked post i made. i just couldn't take it anymore...

Goal

Air ended.
Fuck me.
Massive spoiler crap.
I really can't say anything I guess.
But yeah Jeff Lawson was right, 10 was really weird and off (Stupid Yukito crow), 11 was right on and really touching, and 12 was sort of soul crushing.

I actually liked episode 8 and 9 a whole lot, even though they were in a completely different setting.
I really liked those three characters Kanna, Uraha and Ryuuya.
It sort of makes me wonder if Yukito had stayed alive and only Misuzu had died, would Yukito and Haruko have gotten together?

Misuzu's level 3 overdrive in Eternal Fighter Zero makes me feel a lot sadder now.
It's recreated so faithfully...when she gets out of the wheelchair and walks toward Haruko and falls into her arms she says, "Goal."
But yeah, why did BOTH of them die.
Both.
What the hell!
I thought at least one would live, but one died to save the other and even though he did he didn't.
The thing is they followed the original game storyline almost to the letter.
It makes me sort of prefer the arcs where Yukito's still alive, like Kano's and Minagi's.
I hate Sora crow, he sucks.

It sort of makes me wonder how Kanon would have been received if they kept the true endings for everyone, i.e. not only Makoto bites it, but Shiori dies from her sickness (OHNOES), Mai stabs herself and Sayuri doesn't stop her (OHNOES x 2), Ayu isn't in the hospital but already dead (UGUU), and the only one who makes it out alive is Nayuki.

I wonder...how Clannad is.
I hear it isn't that great comparitively to the other two.

Anyway, here is my picture commemorating the end of Air.

EAT LOV BISH!

Black Cat

More news on the downloading 1000 mangas sprees...
Downloaded Black Cat, Allan was sort of hinting on this one.
Hm, I don't know...there's some really weird off moments and such, then again I'm a pretty bad judge of manga, as I read it all.

Right, the girls, ESPECIALLY that pyro schoolgirl in particular, I just think what the hell...you've come straight out of FLCL.
And then you have a nanomachine chick who's basically Millia Rage cept with her entire body (the author changes her into a bloody mermaid and gives her wings...geez christ), and finally a thief who plays the damsel in distress role over and over.
Oh right, and don't forget Saya, the "most important friend" he lost.

I think the author really likes his girls, or something, cause there are lots of things that magically disappear or get overshadowed concerning the males when they show up.

One is pyro chick's former partner, who left on his own.
I mean where the hell did he go?
Also, even though Sven is the one who recruited/decided to save Eve, TRAIN AND EVE HAVE much more of a relationship than Sven and Eve, which isn't exactly what I thought it would be.
(Sven takes care of Eve, blah de blah, father figure or something, but it's become more centered on Eve wanting to own the crap out of Train)
In fact, what the hell they've ignored poor Sven and let him get kidnapped even.
Must be a tough break being the hero guy's partner (hey, wolfwood held up pretty well by himself)

Ok, time to list other cheesy points:
Railgun
Mermaid Form
Pyro chick chibi devil angel
CHIBI TRAIN

Inconsistencies:
Train kills two people in the first volume, and then, almost never kills again.
I honestly think Eve is much closer to Train than Sven at this point.

Hope to see:
Sven as a bad ass, come on where did your coolness go.
Maybe something with Rinslet, maybe not.
If you kill Creed I think the entire manga ends, as you've covered Eve's background, Sven's background, and the only one with anything tying him down is Train.
If and when Creed dies, alls that's left is Chronos, and I think I and II don't really care to forcibly tie him down again.
Something more with Sheldon or Kyoko.
Now.
They were like the most interesting of the apostles, and now, since they're not apostles, they get forgotten.

Food fight

Well, crazy Allan has insisted I watched something called Yakitate Japan.
Normally I don't really question Allan's tastes too much, but this anime is about bread.
Baking and making bread.
Yes you read that right.
Now, sit back and think for a minute here...what he's trying to do is convince me that 13+ episodes of an anime about BAKING FUCKING BREAD ARE WORTHWHILE TO DOWNLOAD AND WATCH.
And for that I applaud him for his audactiy.
Then, I found this link of over 1200 or so manga volumes on a 200k/second line.
If you scroll from the top, you'll see a manga called Addicted to Curry.
The name was absolutely ridiculous, so naturally, on a 200k/sec line with lots of bandwidth but shitty ass gaming speeds, I do what anyone would do, I download it, cause hell I can't do much else.
And then I download more.
And more.
And now I need chapter 37 badly.
It seems I will read almost any manga, no matter HOW niche or shoujo or ridiculously silly in the premise if it has tolerable art and minimals hooks in the storyline.
Anyway, this incident with Addicted to Curry scared me, because it implied that...yes, maybe I could get excited watching 13 plus episodes of bread.
Of course, there'd have to be bread duels and bread fights and lots of burning enthusiasm for baking bread all over the place, but hell, if I can get interested in a manga on curry...what's to stop getting interested in an anime on bread?

Lack of Interest

Anyway, so I'm currently being held on a leash for my application to Windriders, most notably my current "lack of enthusiasm" in Wow and other things, so I have no sponsors at all.
Meh whatever, they may be right; it's funny how I know so many of them too...perhaps I should have joined earlier.

Not sick anymore (that thing lasted a week, probably most miserable week of my life amongst my last couple of years of existence), now it's spring break, post failed midterms and post failed papers.

My sleep schedule is a 7am to 4pm deal (yes that's when I sleep), that's not good, nor is the fact that I'm just playing games every day during break.

Finally got Allan to fucking read Amber, I hope he's enjoying it, but he's taking it slow and in fact only IMs me to tell me when he has time to read Amber but DOESNT because of something like Rocky 4 on TV.
Yes, Allan is a bastard.

I'll have to resume my torrents of Air, played Majokko a la Mode, found it pretty indecipherable and lacking, what else...oh right, replaying Tales of Symphonia, this time going for Sheena.
Wahaha, I beat the fucking sylphs at level 21, IN YOUR EYE GODAMN SYLPHS, WHO IS SAD NOW! (Yes I have all my old techs, fuck you though, it's the godamn Sylphs!)
And I beat Sword Dancer 2 at level 31 (Everyone did 1 damage, cept Raine...so I basically chose Zelos, Colette, Sheena, and Raine and pinned him down with infinites (or block chains) while she RAYed/healed away...if Zelos died I'd switch to one of the other two to continue the pressure while Raine ressed.
I beat him twice really sloppily, and I was pretty unhappy with my performance there (-7 to -10 grade or so, massive use of life bottoles)
Final time went near perfect, I think I only lost two characters (I think Zelos once and Colette once), must have hit him with over 1000 worth of 1 damage combo hits, 15 grade or so woo!
Regretably that jumped everyone's levels by like 3-4, so there went my keep low level strategy to get to Rodyle with only level 36-37 (Yes I could kill off the people I want to use and use the others until then to gain exp, but that's just too much work...)

Oh right, more stupid links
Why did the chicken cross the road?
Trust me fools, NO ONE ON MY BUDDY LIST YET (Roommate doesn't count) TRULY understood the chicken joke until I sent them this link.