Saturday, April 17, 2004

A rant of epic proportions..
...Alright, the computer didn’t crash this time.



Yes, it’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for. It has been days since part one went up, and due to various problems you haven’t been able to get to the grand finale. Until now. I’m writing this post in Microsoft Works, and saving every time I finish a sentence, so even if my computer does bug out on me again it won’t be long until I’m back working on this post.

*prays one more time to the anti-spyware gods* Let us begin.

Kazaa was a very wonderful program at first. I was constantly downloading songs, mostly from .hack//SIGN and DanceDance Revolution, and I made a few friends through the system as well. Eventually, I started burning CDs, which seemed to only work on one CD player in my entire house. Luckily, that stereo is the one in my room. I spent a lot of time sitting in my room rocking back and forth eating potato chips and staring at magazines while listening to that first CD... And it was good.

The computer certainly got slow, and things got miserable after a while. I could barely get online to do anything, and if I did anything more than AIM and one window of Yahoo’s browser the entire thing would come crashing down. We took the computer to the shop, it got cleared out, and everything was fine. I vowed never to use Kazaa again.

By this point, my various websites were getting dull. I had played all the Cartoon Network games, and GameTalk was getting repetitive, so I embarked upon a new waste of time- Geocities. What I set out to create right off the bat was a bit too large, I think. It was meant to be an anime/video games/J-pop site, but that was a little bit too much for a little n00b like me. I had a bit of help from a friend of mine (He did a review of TimeSplitters 2) and later on, Kazuko assisted with the FLCL section, but it was way too big of a vision.

One day, I was looking for pictures for the .hack//SIGN Character Bios page, on Google, and came across TheOtaku.com. I enjoyed the anime shrines vastly, along with the image galleries, and I spent two or three months just browsing through everything. I took a quick peek at OtakuBoards once, but I was still partially devoted to GameTalk, so I didn’t
give it much thought.

Eventually, however, I noticed that they had a .hack//SIGN forum. This is what dragged me into OB, actually. I was very spammy for a while, as seen in my earliest posts. There was one in a .hack//SIGN thread that was nothing but “’k”, but I was so ashamed that I just deleted that one a couple of months ago.

My first post/thread/appearance on OtakuBoards was in the Otaku Lounge, in my very own introduction thread. Interestingly enough, Shinmaru’s sister was the first OB Member to come into contact with me. The next few friends of mine were KKC, Japan_86 and DragonWarrior, followed by Syk. Kazuko followed, and then I met a slew of others in AIM Chats.

Around the same time back in.. November, I think, we ended up getting Paint Shop Pro, along with an Eva boxset. (Azure, I just let myself up too obviously in that, so don’t even bother.) This is about the time when I became more of a non-spammy member of OtakuBoards, I suppose. And, with this non-spamminess came a fear of posting too much. I didn’t want to make any replies that were too short or too irrelevant, which has led to a decline in my post count daily average. Oh well.

So.. Yeah. Now I’m all done ranting. Good night.
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