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• Becoming a Moderator on OtakuBoards, starting up my own production company with my best friend Dan.
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• I liked the Mysterious Cities of Gold before I did Pokemon, but Pokemon was the first Japanese Anime I really liked.
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• Digimon, Wolf's Rain, Mysterious Cities of Gold, Outlaw Star, RahXephon, Zoids, Princess Mononoke, Trigun, Howl's Moving Castle, Bleach, Naruto, Fullmetal Alchemist, One Piece, Fruits Basket
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• To write my series of stories, and to act in cool stuff.
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Sunday, August 29, 2004

D.I.Y
Or, as I like to call it: Y.D.I- You Do It.

We've had a cable network put in and it is so much better than the wireless, heh. Faster, the connection's stable... and we can play on the network properly now ^___^ More time spent wasting away in front of the screen for us, then.

It took a fair emount of work- drilling holes, tieing cables to other cables, filling in holes, plugging things in... quite fun, actually.

It reminded me of when I used to be in technology class making all these different bits and pieces. The first thing I made was a fuse tester from a plastic bow, some wire, a tiny LED and a couple of drawing pins. That worked alright. Then came a balancing man, a clock and a rather ornate wooden box. I needed help with them all, but I enjoyed making them. It's fun putting somehting together, but it's more interesting putting something together from scratch, even if the effort is more than tripled.

I'd love to be able to make my own armour, but that requires a lot of practice, time and above all else equipment. So for the moment I'm happy making Zoids.

The odd thing is that I never usually liked painting things I made. I'll ink in the occasional toy or two when I feel it needs something added (and I made my Transmetal II Tigerhawk look really pretty cool with a lot of silver pen), but I never got into Warhammer stuff simply because the painting looked so bloody tricky. And you needed so many coats... it just didn't seem worth the effort.

I had a model plane once. Dad pretty much put it together for me. I liked Harrier Jump Jets, but I got no satisfaction from the finished product. I couldn't play with it, because it was too fragile. It didn't have stickers- it had decals, which I think are possibly the most stupid thing in the world. It wasn't even painted, so it didn't even look like a finished product. It wasn't even as if I got to build the damn thing- I was... seven or so and you needed to use plastic glue. So what was the point?

Now I don't mind using glue to put stuff together, but when i was seven I was far happier with Lego, which you could completely destroy and recreate at your own will with pretty coloured pieces. And then you had the utmost satisfaction of knowing you've created something (usually) prettey decent almost completely from the raw material you have in front of you (as far as I'm concerned, Lego is a raw material).

Creating stuff on computer isn't too bad, but then you can't really interact with it. It's fantastic to look at, but not incredibly tangible. I'm dying to be able to create my own 3-D characters and animate them, but the software's bloody expensive and I seem to always miss the first thirteen issues of magazines that take you through these sorts of things step by step. Sigh...

Still, I've plenty of time to bugger around with things like that. Right now I'm stil behind on my writing. All of it. letters tonight, stories and RPGs tomorrow.

And Ben... I'm still confused as to Yu-Gi-Oh: Worlds Collide got to where it was. i know what's happening now, but how we got there completely threw me. Me dense.

Worms Armageddon rocks, by the way.
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