"Aww, Seymour can do 2 things at once: Swim and eat! Oh-- three things!"
Status report:
Its been a long while since I used my account here. It was taking a lot of time to post journal entries of real journal quality, like a lot of my old ones. I've been playing a lot of FFXI still, too much in fact, so I figured I could take time away from it and put that time in here again. And so it has been done.
That's one thing I've been up to a bunch: FFXI, and my love of the Puppetmaster job! It's almost fully merited, so my automaton Serenade can dish out fantastic damage. I think I need to get away from FFXI a bit, though. Playing an hour most nights, with some real life friends, is definitely enough.
Me and the floor have had a passing relationship for a long time. I'd sit on it, step along it, etc. I avoided too close of contact with it, rather gracefully, for years. Even roller blading or skating, I simply do not fall or only fall lightly without injury. It was only inevitable that me and the floor would air our pent up hostilities to each other directly. A rug slid under my foot and I fell face-first, gracelessly onto hardwood floor. I think my hands were sufficiently occupied, or they also slid along the floor providing no relief from the impact. I punched the floor in retaliation! Seriously.. the floor is such a dink! It didn't help that I was starting to get low in blood-sugar (I was on my way to get food), but my nose was bleeding and face was roughed up good. It was a blood-bath that I was perhaps semi-conscious for! Take THAT floor! BLOOD.. ALL OVER! If I didn't have to clean it up, I would have been laughing! It was like a supreme disrespectful act, except it only rhymes with mud!
I'm better now. My nose is still a bit sore, and the scab from a gash on my chest is slowly peeling off. I'm not certain where the gash came from, I was preoccupied with face. Possibly from Floor's ally, Table? Next time I take good spill I'll bring my friends too! What're you gonna do then, huh?
I got into Naruto a little while ago; the whole story arc where Sasuke ditched the leaf village to train under Orochimaru... that was straight awesome! The bad news.. the following 150 episodes just leeched off that great arc's lack of closure (100 Naruto, 50 Shippuuden). I couldn't watch most of them, they were pointless. Shippuuden was alright, I didn't mind it even though I was still just waiting for something to do with Sasuke to happen (he shows up at episode 52 or something). I don't care much about him specifically, but it was the closure to such a great story that I wanted. Naruto is one of the worst shows I've ever watched. I say that because its really hard to defend a show that destroys itself by taking so damn long to get to the point. I can't ignore 150 episodes so easily.. that's half the series. The show clearly has moments.. awesome, awesome, moments.. but that doesn't save it. I think he fights Tony the tiger in a fuller arc.
I really got into Ben10 just recently. What a great American cartoon it is! The dialog is written pretty well, despite the occasional hero cheesy one-liners! Ben's watch times out at crucial moments, and he's gotta save the day as an ordinary kid half the time; I love resourcefulness over "power level" fights. When a character is resourceful in Naruto, it spans multiple episodes and requires people going into long-winded explanations... Ben10 does it several times an episode, and doesn't waste everyone's time describing it. Characters constantly repeating the name of another character, to increase the drama, is just crap; I'm glad to find a good cartoon that isn't anime sometimes.
I need to draw. I've been slacking in the drawingness. My pencil just sighs and shakes its head now, I need to restore the relationship. I came up with a good short-story comic idea, inspired a bit from Ben10, and a bit from Lucas (from Smash Bros: Brawl, and Earthbound2). It's sorta about a boy discovering he has psionic powers, and that his closet-psionic parents are bad guys in some dark secret organization. When he finds out something, they brainwash him so he remembers differently. The only link he has to the truth is a neighbour girl who was there with him, even though they really don't get along. She was caught, and spliced with her own puppy in an experiment (she got the worst of the mix, not more agile, nor better senses.. but colorblind and dog-anthro-looking). She wasn't supposed to survive, but she got out and the story goes on. It sounds exceptionally dark.. in fact it kinda sounds like crap, but a short overview misses all the stuff that makes it otherwise. The chemistry behind the two characters is that they drive each other on with their rivalry, and make fun of each other's quirks. The one with psi powers doesn't use 'em in a deadly situation as to win a bet that he doesn't need them to be useful, and the girl is floored by how dumb someone with mind powers can be. I'm pretty sure writing about it here isn't doing it any justice.. I've got good plans for the method in how its told though. It'd be interesting. What can possiblaye go wrong?
Wow, long post. I'm a firm believer in time efficiency, and how I lack in my time efficiency.
"Good news everyone, I'm a horses butt." "That's not good news at all, you little-"
-Professor Farnsworth and son
Its been a long while since I used my account here. It was taking a lot of time to post journal entries of real journal quality, like a lot of my old ones. I've been playing a lot of FFXI still, too much in fact, so I figured I could take time away from it and put that time in here again. And so it has been done.
That's one thing I've been up to a bunch: FFXI, and my love of the Puppetmaster job! It's almost fully merited, so my automaton Serenade can dish out fantastic damage. I think I need to get away from FFXI a bit, though. Playing an hour most nights, with some real life friends, is definitely enough.
Me and the floor have had a passing relationship for a long time. I'd sit on it, step along it, etc. I avoided too close of contact with it, rather gracefully, for years. Even roller blading or skating, I simply do not fall or only fall lightly without injury. It was only inevitable that me and the floor would air our pent up hostilities to each other directly. A rug slid under my foot and I fell face-first, gracelessly onto hardwood floor. I think my hands were sufficiently occupied, or they also slid along the floor providing no relief from the impact. I punched the floor in retaliation! Seriously.. the floor is such a dink! It didn't help that I was starting to get low in blood-sugar (I was on my way to get food), but my nose was bleeding and face was roughed up good. It was a blood-bath that I was perhaps semi-conscious for! Take THAT floor! BLOOD.. ALL OVER! If I didn't have to clean it up, I would have been laughing! It was like a supreme disrespectful act, except it only rhymes with mud!
I'm better now. My nose is still a bit sore, and the scab from a gash on my chest is slowly peeling off. I'm not certain where the gash came from, I was preoccupied with face. Possibly from Floor's ally, Table? Next time I take good spill I'll bring my friends too! What're you gonna do then, huh?
I got into Naruto a little while ago; the whole story arc where Sasuke ditched the leaf village to train under Orochimaru... that was straight awesome! The bad news.. the following 150 episodes just leeched off that great arc's lack of closure (100 Naruto, 50 Shippuuden). I couldn't watch most of them, they were pointless. Shippuuden was alright, I didn't mind it even though I was still just waiting for something to do with Sasuke to happen (he shows up at episode 52 or something). I don't care much about him specifically, but it was the closure to such a great story that I wanted. Naruto is one of the worst shows I've ever watched. I say that because its really hard to defend a show that destroys itself by taking so damn long to get to the point. I can't ignore 150 episodes so easily.. that's half the series. The show clearly has moments.. awesome, awesome, moments.. but that doesn't save it. I think he fights Tony the tiger in a fuller arc.
I really got into Ben10 just recently. What a great American cartoon it is! The dialog is written pretty well, despite the occasional hero cheesy one-liners! Ben's watch times out at crucial moments, and he's gotta save the day as an ordinary kid half the time; I love resourcefulness over "power level" fights. When a character is resourceful in Naruto, it spans multiple episodes and requires people going into long-winded explanations... Ben10 does it several times an episode, and doesn't waste everyone's time describing it. Characters constantly repeating the name of another character, to increase the drama, is just crap; I'm glad to find a good cartoon that isn't anime sometimes.
I need to draw. I've been slacking in the drawingness. My pencil just sighs and shakes its head now, I need to restore the relationship. I came up with a good short-story comic idea, inspired a bit from Ben10, and a bit from Lucas (from Smash Bros: Brawl, and Earthbound2). It's sorta about a boy discovering he has psionic powers, and that his closet-psionic parents are bad guys in some dark secret organization. When he finds out something, they brainwash him so he remembers differently. The only link he has to the truth is a neighbour girl who was there with him, even though they really don't get along. She was caught, and spliced with her own puppy in an experiment (she got the worst of the mix, not more agile, nor better senses.. but colorblind and dog-anthro-looking). She wasn't supposed to survive, but she got out and the story goes on. It sounds exceptionally dark.. in fact it kinda sounds like crap, but a short overview misses all the stuff that makes it otherwise. The chemistry behind the two characters is that they drive each other on with their rivalry, and make fun of each other's quirks. The one with psi powers doesn't use 'em in a deadly situation as to win a bet that he doesn't need them to be useful, and the girl is floored by how dumb someone with mind powers can be. I'm pretty sure writing about it here isn't doing it any justice.. I've got good plans for the method in how its told though. It'd be interesting. What can possiblaye go wrong?
Wow, long post. I'm a firm believer in time efficiency, and how I lack in my time efficiency.
"Good news everyone, I'm a horses butt." "That's not good news at all, you little-"
-Professor Farnsworth and son