Wednesday, November 24, 2004

Turkey + Mashed Potatoes / Car Ride = Thanksgiving

Tomorrow is the US Thanksgiving, and as you may have been able to tell from my incredibly brilliant equation, I'm travelling to some distant family member's house to eat all their food. That's right, all of it. So, I'll be stuck in the car for two to three hours with no Nintendo DS to keep me occupied, as I have to wait for Christmas to get that. *throws a shady glance at parents' closet* In other news, today I bought World of Warcraft, leaving me with a total of six cents. Yay me, indeed. Now I just have to get my dad to subscribe to the damn thing so I can get me fix of WoW goodness.

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Thursday, November 18, 2004

As a matter of fact, I WOULD like a cookie...

The World of Warcraft beta is almost done, and it was fun. I plan on getting it as soon as it comes out. Six days without it... I don't know if I'll survive. XD My favorite part of the game is the raid system -- you can't imagine how fun it is to run with literally fifty other allies to chase after the poor participants in an attempt to raid your own village. So anyway, that's why I've been a little inactive as of late. ^^;

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Thursday, November 4, 2004

Teh Quest

Okay, yes, MMORPGS rule. Period. Godel, any arguing will only get you in trouble with my ninjas. ^^ The problem is, many of them are either incredibly overrated, or justly rated as 'okay'. PSO was the only exception thus far. So, I've been looking forward to two online games that are being released in the near future: World of Warcraft and Guild Wars. I've decided to sign up for the Last Stress Test (assuming my dad will stop being paranoid with his credit card, and realize that IGN [Gamespy is distributing the client, for which you have to be a member to download] is not going to steal his credit card number.) So, if I enjoy playing the Last Stress Test and Open Beta in the next three weeks, I will be getting WOW. If not, I'll wait for Guild Wars, which I was made awar existed by James. I found out about it on the day after the World Preview even ended, which sucks because now I can't try it out unless someone decides to be incredibly nice and give me a code to use that'll let me get into the beta events coming up... *poke* I'm really not willing to buy the preorder package, since I'd be paying a lot extra just to get the codes for the beta and/or to buy a game I'm not sure I want. So, Bio is torn. I'll make up my mind eventually, I guess. Until then... Fencing was fun last night. I went up against on of my mom's friends, who is very good, at least to me. Keep in mind I just finished Foil I, people. I'm also not very comfortable with not being able to slash. I'll be taking saber ASAP. Me and my friend then 'freeform' fenced, in which I slashed anyway. It was fun. XD

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Monday, November 1, 2004

First you must know that I tend to be a rather nerdy person. Most of what I do consists of playing video games, reading books, and running around in a forest, twirling around a bo staff (which is really a broom handle, but shhh...) like a psychopath. As you can probably tell, my favorite genres are fantasy and sci-fi, or a combination of the two, and therefore am morally inclined (or at least think so) to obsess over MMORPGs. Which I do. To this day, my favorite online game of all time is the original Phantasy Star Online. Sure, the graphics were nothing special. The battle system consisted of pressing the A button three times to execute a combo. Levels were tedious. I only didn't think so because that was my first MMORPG (I'd actually played Diablo II before, but the interface really doesn't simulate a community as well). I have tons of hilarious (at least to those involved) stories about that game. I basically grew up on it. And hey, PKing was fun. XD But seriously, you have no idea how funny it is to cast Resta (the healing spell) on someone to kill them, or cast magic is the Ship (which is like a town, I guess). You could also use a hack to walk through stuff and into the backgrounds (or onto the closer planets and pretend to be squishing the continents XD). So, anyway, I'm going to start a recommended books/games/manga/anime/whatever in the introduction. Oh, and next time I'm going to rant about this incredibly tedious group-thing I decided to join, and why it is that way. It involves tyrranical mothers, burning peasants and assholes. What else is new?

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Wednesday, October 27, 2004

Shitness

I just recently realized how incredibly uncreative and unoriginal my post the The Reanimatrix was. Not to mention my writing style has improved greatly since then, but it still makes me uneasy that I'd dare write something so boring. XD I watched The Matrix again, and I'm going to write a different story using the same character, Flint.

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Monday, October 25, 2004

Jared's Theory of Relativity

Maturity. I've been dwelling on this 'concept' for some time, turning it over in my head. Little kids want to be mature. Drink beer, have sex, or even something so mundane as ride in the front seat. So, as I was thinking about it, it made more sense to me that this was the opposite of maturity. To me, maturity is more learning to be immature rather than not be. And, I realize, immature is a word commonly used by immature people to describe people around them that they percieve are acting so; the opposite in this case. This also falls into trying to be perfect. When you try to be perfect, nothing is fun. If you try to be a stereotype, you become just that, whether you wanted to or not. You'll be strangely aware that you're acting. I know the feeling, as it's happened to me (though not often, I assure you ^^;). My 'theory' of imperfect perfection comes into play with Guidance a class I had last year. There were all these principles introduced to us that were meant to make us more productive: paradigm shifts, sharpen the saw, synergy, etc. It occured to me that although these did make sense, what kind of person would put these things into use on a daily basis? Who would enthusiastically bind themselves to these principles? No one fun, I'd think. Before I go on, I first want to say that I greatly dislike talking about religion. It's a very sensetive subject, and breaks friendships incredibly easily. I've had a few intelligent discussions with my older brother, and one or two on Otakuboards, but that's about it. I wouldn't consider myself to be a very religious person, nor would I consider myself to necessarily be Christian, though I do attend a Protestant church, mostly without complaint. I generally like the church services, whether to percieve them as literature or as truth; sometimes it's difficult for me to decide. Actually, it's always difficult to decide. I don't know whether there is a diety(s) or not, and to tell you the truth, there's no way anyone can really prove or disprove it. A religious man could tell a purely scientific man about religion. The scientific man's rebuttle could consist of disproving facts. The religious man, however, can always either call such 'facts' deceptions of some malevolent spirit, or could simply say that a diety caused said events to occur scientifically. During the summer,when I was volunteering (more like slave-labor -_-), a friend approached me and said: "I don't know what to believe, the scientists that say the world was created with the Big Bang, or the church that says God created the earth in seven days." I replied, "You could always take the middle road and believe that God caused the Big Bang."(Not the exact words, but something along those lines) My friend seemed decently content with my answer, and walked away. I didn't word anything in a way that would persuade him to that train of thought; I'm not even sure the 'middle road' is what I believe. I was simply giving him a third option. So, is it mature to talk about religion? I suppose, if it's done civilly and with an open mind. To finish of this segment of my 'theory', or whatever you'd like to call it, I'll quote my social studies teacher for this year (he said this when we were learning about the desire for religious freedom during the Colonial period of American history): "If I wanted to, I could bring in a head of lettuce and worship it." He obviously couldn't bring in a head of lettuce and perform a religious ritual in a public building, but you get the idea. Obviously my 'theory' has made some sense if you're still reading. That, or you just want more material to flame me with. Whatever, I wrote this up in favor of doing my Spanish homework. Would you call that immature? I don't know. Expressing myself in this way seems more important than doing '25 Flashcards on Latin American Food'. (I'm actually still doing it, so don't think this has denied me the wonderful experience of drawing little tortillas and labeling them on the back of an index card. XD)

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Sunday, October 17, 2004

*explosion*

Meh. I'm too lazy to elaborate. I'll just say I hate projects and that Shakespeare is an abomination. Which is why it's good that he's dead. Can you believe some people (if you'd like to call them that) in my class didn't know he was dead? Yeah, only 400 years, give or take. Happy news time! Yesterday I bought the Samurai X package set-thingy. I watched everything. And it was good. The animation in the OVAs (Trust and Betrayal) was a far cry from spectacular, not to mention they're blending of real footage of various objects into the anime kind of irked me as well. It was bearable, however, as hard as it was to see at times due to how completely dull most of the colors were, but meh. Story made up for it, I guess. The last thing I watched was the movie (Samurai X: Relfection it was called, but I'm pretty sure it's real name is Requiem for the Ishin Shishi or something). The animation was amazing. The fighting was equally so, what with the fluid motion and impossible stunts they always do in Rurouni Kenshin. They also blended real footage into it, but not as much as in the OVAs and the animation in this one made that forgivable anyway. Other happy news: Finished the Dark Tower VII. The ending was kind of disappointing though. I had been suspecting it for a while, but meh. Sai King likes cliffhangers, do ye ken (and say thankya). (You kinda have to read the book to get that last part, I guess).

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Thursday, October 14, 2004

Damn you, cursed collage!

I hate school. I'll Elaborate later.

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Sunday, October 10, 2004

[insert catchy title]

I've been kinda inactive in the past week or two, and guilt has driven me back. I was never planning on leaving, of course, but I had some personal matters to attend to. Okay, I really can't say that, but I just needed a break from the internet. I continued to make sure everything was in order in my forum, of course. ^^; Anyway, I've been thinking of creating a roleplay for quite some time now, but I really don't know how to apply it. I definitely want it to be very open to ideas from participants, but I'm going to have some variation of the chapter system created by James. I've been kind of reluctant to let even a portion of what I've been picking away at for years go, but I've decided I could just have a roleplay in the same setting, but different story, different characters. I'm just paranoid like that. ^^

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Tuesday, October 5, 2004

Shortness

Meh. Samurai Champloo didn't work. All I got was sound and no visuals. And it's cold! My feet and hands are freezing... At least it means holidays are almost here.

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