Friday, March 18, 2005

Counterclockwise

Just a short notice to everyone that I will be away for the start of my Spring Break on a school organized trip. I will be leaving at five in the morning tomorrow. The location is confidential. (I think Godel knows where it is.) Godel knows everything. I bid you adieu, all my readers. Godel, please draw mucho WN stuff in my absence. (I will give more details on Jono, however.) Feel free to design Tetsuya to your hearts content. To those in the States, be prepared for a foreign visit from way north (pun very intended). Bejinhos para toda a gente. I will see you in a week. Senpai is still alive, spread the word. It is now 10:23, and I must go to bed.

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Saturday, March 5, 2005

And the mind deteriorates...now.

Well, I finally decided that the first step to quit whining and start writing again is to start trying to talk here again. I suppose that I realized that there are some things you can do anytime, but it's not really nice when you have something that you work hard on but don't finish. I'm going to do my best not to go anywhere until, at the very least, Absolute is finished. I think you guys will like the direction the story goes in later. Or, it will make no sense and be stupid, you guys judge. Speaking of which, I just watched Final Destination on TV a couple of hours ago. It did make me tense at some points, but I was just laughing by the end of it. Gotta love unrealistic probability theory. By the end of the movie, we had noticed the infringement of several home ownership regulations, as well as a few laws of physics. I mean, if you live in a house that doesn't even have a circuit breaker or anything, you deserve to die by unlikely probability. Ok, enough spoiling the movie. This week, I was ill, missed a Curling game, a deadline for an important letter, and probably a couple of pre-spring break exams. Oh, and I couldn't even do much as 90% of the time was spent in the sleep position. Previous to that, I came very, very close to buying the Arcade Fire's album "Funeral", as several people seemed to be talking about it, and I liked the sample that I heard in the store. I was infringed by the fact that I had no money, however. Pevious to that, I bought Massive Attack's "Mezzanine", and still have not regretted it. Furthermore, I am back in the Armored Core game, having nothing else to do, and Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne is getting a little bland, surprisingly. I hate the Obelisk. I really do. I would think of more to say, but I think you've caught enough flak for today. To everyone else's good health, as we hope to see some actual writing from me this week.

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Sunday, February 6, 2005

CoTh - G

I can't believe this. Between schoolwork and sleep and food and trying to rest somewhat in the day, my writing is getting to be more and more of a chore. I deeply apologize to all of you out there whom I am wroking with on RPGs and other projects, and to whoever reads Absolute. I am truly sorry to all of you for letting you down lately, but something just doesn't seem right about this lately. I feel like I'm wasting so much time in the day and struggling through whatever the week may throw at me, and I feel less and less certain of myself all the time. The ideas are just slowing down these days, and I really don't think that I can post any good material. Even here. MyO seems to be growing extremely bland lately, and I'm lacking inclination to keep writing in it. Nothing really happens anymore, and I can't really express myself lately because everything seems to be flattening out in my life lately. Maybe this is a good thing, that I'm starting to fall into a certain groove with the way I choose to live, but there are still a few things to deal with until then. I'm going to have to start working on college applications this week, and, to be honest, I've been having major issues trying to choose what to do in life. I know that I would love to study film in Canada, but the question becomes whether I should stay in Quebec and risk having to go to a college I might not be too happy with so that I can to to a film school in Montreal, or if I should board at a school in Toronto to continue post-secondary. The educational system in QC is incredibly stupid as it does not follow the same lines as the rest of the country, so if you go to a college anywhere else in Canada, you can't go to a QC university. Well, I suppose I could be a little happier, as there will be a long weekend this week for our annual winter carnival. It rules, as each house usually puts on a short play and out house, being the most awesome, usually builds a giant contraption to improve our play. Maybe I'll send pictures sometime. Plus, after the carnival, a friend of mine will be staying at my place over break. Life can be cool, but confusing more often than not. Oh, and I also saw a cool movie this weekend. Ask Shinmaru what it was. If he doesn't know, tell him to read the title of this post then try again. The music contest (see below post) will stay up until some people can get more answers. I hope some of you out there have wider taste in international music. Again, I apologize deeply to those whom I write for. Hopefully, there will be a turnaround in the future, but until then, my best wishes to all of you, as I am grateful that you read what I have to offer.

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Saturday, January 29, 2005

Soft Cookies

Man, what a week. You'll forgive me if it sounds like I'm grossly overracting to really nothing at all, but this week seemed to be a little more taxing on me than in the past. We start the journey with French class, where I have a five-minute French oral to give on Thursday, and, consequently, about a hundred pages of a book to read for Tuesday and notes to write immediately afterwards. There was also quite a bit of Chem to do, and I had a rather difficult Math test to do as well, which, sadly, did not go so well for the reasons stated above. I'm a little worried that I'm starting to sink a little in my work effort lately. It's just that I tend to get a little afraid of the challeneges ahead and start wavering in my resolve to get everything done. It just seems to me that I worked hard at getting all of my work done for my 85% last term that I'm starting to bend under my own expectations. Then again, I could be just getting lazy and need someone out there in internet land to bitchslap me back to consciousness so I can get my work done like always. Anyway, suffice to say, I am glad it's the weekend, and I celebrated by cracking open a bottle of a rare Portuguese soft drink, "Kima De Maracuja" and a few soft fruit cookies to enjoy myself with. I shot some of my movie Saturday, and my Sunday feels like it'll be restful so far. Furthermore, this is the first time I'm listening to Rammstein's newest CD "Reise, Reise". I got the CD as a Christmas present from a cousin, and I didn't listen to it right off because I haven't been into metal for a while and thought Rammstein was always too overplayed and I wouldn't like it. However, surprises of surprises, it is actually a pretty good CD and I am pausing between lines of this post to bang my head to some of the better beats in the songs. On that note, Shinmaru did his own "Nifty Fifty" version of the lyric game (c) Arcadia. On that note, I thought I'd do my own version, only with my own twist. 1: In the name of, and by the power of, the Holy Spirit. May we invoke your intercession for the Children of England 2: It's good to know tomorrow you are coming home. I won't be so alone. I feel heaven in you. 3: Don't be afraid, I want to be your friend I want you to ride in my back and say: "This is my real life." 4: Part of me wont agree, cause I don't know if it's for sure. Suddenly, suddenly, I don't feel so insecure. 5: Feel heavy, Once Felt it... Hard Question an answer For a thousand days. Give birth to the Earth Then let it drift away. 6: Please, could you stay a while and share my greif? It's such a lovely day to have to always feel this way. 7: Tiny Tiny, a little faith I bet he played a little, bend the norm. Sit still, stand up straight. You know, you've got to concentrate. 8: You tell me I can't slow down, you tell me where I've got to be. I spin into the the darkness, and I swear I can't see a thing in front of me. 9: I can't invest my time I've tried it all and I'm tired of trying You think you've got it all figured out And everything you think it's about When you found yourself finally released You hit the ground and kept running east And now it's all catching up to you As these things usually do 10: Pero es mejor que matar Buscarte en el buró Brincar en el colchón y hacerte una canción Es un ambiente de revista un sentimiento de novela Es amor The catch with these songs? None of them are made by U.S. bands. Go sift through your foreign albums in search of these lyrics, and I trust you not to use the power of the internet for these answers. (if you can get #10, I will react something like panel 3 here (replace "Greg Dean" with "the person who got #10")) I also look forward to updating Absolute tomorrow, so that all it's readers (read: Alan) can enjoy the end of "Room 2" Be warned, it does get rather strange.

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Sunday, January 16, 2005

Visualizing the big bubble.

You know, I just love how any school administration can pile homework back on their students at their normal copious rate within two days of return from break. It makes me want to sing and dance down the halls before promptly running up to the third floor and throwing myself out the window. Maybe the sight of their crushed student on the front stairs might make the teachers reconsider the current homework load. ...Bah, I'm being irrational. school life really isn't that bad these days, it's just that during the week I seem to blow things out of proportion way too often. Stress over nothing, disbelief at the current homework level, etc. Hence the reason we have weekends, methinks. I decided to take some of my weekend to write, do a little background artwork for fun, and play Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne. The writing consists of Reanimatrix stuff, Maverick Hunters B-Spec, and a little photography and writing for Absolute. Between eating all of my meals at school this weekend and the copious levels of SMTN, the writing stuff took a little pause. I really should get it done, though. All work and no Godel to talk to makes me go something something. Man, I'm tired, but I intend to finish some writing work before I pass out. Ate mais tarde, people. Apologies for the pointlessness, something cool should happen one of these days.

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Sunday, January 9, 2005

Playing around.

Well, just thought I'd give the site one more once-over. Do not doubt my Plastilina Mosh fandom, though, as I am still a devout listener, only fandom on myO usually changes quite quickly. And speaking of fandom, I think I'm going to take an indefinite break from my posting of OCRemixes here for a little while. I have not listened to anything on OCR for quite a while now, and it seemed like a bit of a chore to go and find something everytime I wanted to post. Plus I'm not sure anyone was really interested in it anyway, so it's sort of leberating to be able to write more fairly normal posts on a more regular basis. Of course, if anyone did really like the OCR system I will gladly try and put it back in the future, but I need a little break now. Otherwise, I thought I would look back into the Armored Core uber-fan in me for my new look, and, lo and behold, I came up with the lovely dark new look from the hotly-anticipated "Armored Core Nine Breaker" game coming out in...well...I don't really know when it'll be out. I do know however, that there is nothing quite so cool as a new AC game when it comes out, so I look forward to it with great anticipation. Hopefully, it will not go through quite so many delays as Nexus did, though. Oh, and the new avatar is a Chibi-ified version of Stinger from "Armored Core Project Phantasma". The image is courtesy of an AC fanart site called "Tokage Heavy Industries", and features the terrifying antagonist Stinger in a much cuter looking unit. Fighting a chibi Stinger would end with a statement like: "Oh look, it's trying to poke me with it's little beam sword. Isn't it so adorable?" Anyway, I am about to doze off in anticipation for my third school day post-break, and hopefully I will be able to survive the four long and short-term assignments our teachers have given us after two short days of school upon return. Sometimes, it can really blow being older.

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Thursday, December 30, 2004

Both completely broke and extremely happy.

No OCR plug today, kiddies, I've been doing too much and will probably just weakly compensate with two next time... ...or not. First of all, though, I might as well start off with a shameless plug. One of my "on the side" works of fiction while I figure out what to do with Senpai sans Godel online. I hope they find the remains of her computer sometime, they deserve a decent burial. Regardless, I hope you like my first attempt at a psychological horror story (if that describes it aptly). Otherwise, tell me why it sucks, and I'll see what I can do to fix it. I don't watch horror films or anything of the like, so I'm on alien territory, so to speak. Today was...well...I know of at least two people who already know how today went, but I'll probably try giving a less abridged version here instead of confronting all of myO's readers and talking about it with them one on one. Today was good, I got up at 8 a.m. for the first time an almost two weeks so that my dad and I could go to Montreal to pick up a passport for my mom, the newest Canadian in the family. We went early because of the ungodly waiting lines normally at the government bureaus (some aged misanthropist came up with the concept of a waiting room, I just know it.). It turned out to be worth it, as our wait for the passport lasted all of five minutes. Subsequently, it took even less time for my dad and I to figure out what was coming next: A) We were in Montreal B) We had time C) We had money D) And ample amounts of both With these variables in check, we prepared our minds and our wallets for a spendthrift tour the likies of which we had never imagined before. Long story short, I went to the bookstore and bought two volumes of Megatokyo and a Zits collection (read Zits if you haven't, best observation of teenage life ever). Ran me 60$ CDN. However, I was not quite ready to admit defeat at that point, so we went to the music store across the street and I bought The Flaming Lips' "Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots" plus the greatest album in the world. Not bad, considering it took us 45 minutes. Finally, our master plan involved me going to the arcade for an hour or so of DDR to top off the day, but the plan was wrecked when we discovered the arcade had closed down permanently ("indefinetely", so says the sign on the door). Man, everytime I go to an arcade, a month or so later it closes. If you love your local arcade, don't ever let me go there. Tomorrow is New Year's Eve, as though that is hard to remember, but I hope all you guys out there have cool things to do, and that you can all look back at 2004 with laughs and/or tears in your eyes and/or slaps of the forehead with a cry of "what the hell was that?". It was just that cool. Oh, Finally: This is the best album in the world. Buy it sometime, if you can put up with me on a regular basis, you might just like it too.

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Friday, December 24, 2004

I don't know if I should dance, cry, or vomit.

Today's OCRemix: "Little Mac's Confession" Punch Out! Remix by Game Over. This mix nearly gave me heart failure the first time I saw, and heard it. I don't know too much about the world, but I now realize that some people can be just dedicated to what they do. Take Game Over, our featured artist, for example. Apaprently, Game Over is a Swedish heavy metal band that only plays music from video games, and, on occasion, submits their work to OCR. There is no word, phrase, or hyperbole in any of the three and a half languages I am familliar with accurate enough to describe how awe-inspiring that is. Who ever heard of a heavy metal band so dedicated to their video game style? Well, now you do. As for the mix itself, features light reverb guitar at the beginning (with some very odd EQ) and eventually turns into a veritable slugfest, so to speak, of vocals from one of the more impressive OCR voices I've ever heard, and then goes from solo to solo at breakneck pace. Enjoy. Well, life sure can make you feel weird sometimes, huh? You can work for a while at something you love, and sometimes it just doesn't pay back qhite the way you hoped, but when you think you did terribly, that's when it can surprise you with how things end up turning out. Bad use of language aside, I was more than a little shocked at some of the results I got back from my exams. All of the following events may not make much sense to you, as I have not mentioned it much recently, but my goal going into my final exams was to leave with a total combined average of 85% for each of my six classes, so that I may earn an academics tie for my efforts. First of all, Chem went a little worse than I had claimed to some people. I only got an 82% on my final theory exam, despite the fact that I understood nearly everything on it. Furthermore, having been convinced that Economics should have gone smoothly, I was told that I got a 77 on my final. 77...when I get 85s on regular exams without studying and I studied for hours the night before to get stuff right. Go figure. The real kicker came with Math, however, as I was told that my final average, even with extra homework papers completed and everything, turned out to be 80%, so I had to get something in the 85 range if I hoped to stay in the race for the tie. Despite the fact that I was convinced that my test was abysmal, I got back a result of 83. Not bad at all... Well, as I said, once all the reports came in the other day, I wasn't too sure how to react, everything I thought went well went...rather poorly, and everything I should have done a little worse on turned out quite well. I was sort of numb when all my results finally came in, few of them expected, most of them unexpected. I was feeling a bit conflicted, but, I now know what I can do better next time. Oh, and my final average... 85%

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Tuesday, December 21, 2004

Tasty

Today's OCRemix: "Aftershock" Soukaigi Remix by Ziwtra. This is quite something to me, to hear music from a PSX RPG that was never U.S. released (or at least specifically mentioned that it never was), and feeling a strange impulse to try the game sometime. Youngjin (Ziwtra) does that to me often, it's how I got into Terranigma for the first time. Anyway, this, not unlike Ziwtra's other work, is a trance piece that uses effects that I doubt few people have seen in conventional techno or house pieces. It's has the same allure and power of an instrumental piece, but has none of the instruments. You must listen to believe. I got bored of the "Aka to Ao" layout a little faster than I thought, and figured that a photoedited image of me probably wouldn't quite cut it. For this reason, I decided to go all out with a Plastilina Mosh style layout complete with an image of one of my favourite albums, "Juan Manuel". I hope you enjoy the new myO in all it's salmon/electric pink glory. First of all, I would like to apologise to all those in Senpai for being somewhat vague with my first post. The thing is that your signups weren't really a way of getting Senpai (or anyone else for that matter) to know you really well right off. The signups were a way of letting me, the RPG creator, understand just how your character sees the world so that I don't mess up too badly with their personalities right off. However, Senpai is not necessarily omnipotent, and would like to know a a few more details about your characters, such as why they are interested in film, and maybe explain a little bit about themselves, in their own way. Furthermore, I know some people still need a little info on writing in script form, so I'll be sending them a PM today. As for what the hell was happening yesterday, I was in Montreal, living it up outside the house for the first time in a while. We did some Christmas and non-Christmas shopping (non-Christmas meaning that I got to wear the new shirt I bought right away, hee hee), and our eventual plan was for me to take a break at the arcade once all the important stuff was out of the way, but, lo and behold, the arcade was closed because a water pipe had ruptured in the building. So much for DDR in public. Oh, but the most impartant detail of yesterday was that after almost 25 years of living in this country, my mom finally passed a government exam and earned her Canadian citizenship. We were in Montreal because she was going to get her passport. I'd say it's been a faily big week in the family, so you'll excuse me if this is more or less all the news I have for today. See you all in Adventure Square, actores jovenes. (current temperature, -20 degrees C, -36 with windchill)

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Sunday, December 19, 2004

1! 2! 3! 4! 5! 6! 7! 8!...10!

Today's OCRemix: "Dazed and Destroyed" Dance Dance Revolution Remix by Beatdrop feat. MC Mouse the Mighty. This one was just one desperate attempt to find a Remix in time for my next update, but I am happy to have heard it at least once. This one is a remake of DDR's "Hysteria" rap by Konami sound designer Naoki Maeda. The lyrics are actually done by Beatdrop's roomate, and, although his voice isn't one of he best I've heard, I have to admit it was kind of cool that he sung for both the male and female parts. (I dare you to guess which ones are which). Anyway, no thanks to endless exams and slow times, I could not tell you guys that last Monday was my 16th b-day and I could not even have much of a party on the weekend because it was devoted entirely to studying for Math (which paid off, as I got an 84% on my final). However, I had a good party today, and had some friends over to play some DDR and we all had fun trying to fix up my computer with better games with Plastilina Mosh's "Juan Manuel" pounding in the background. I have to say though, It was a good time, and I look forward to my Christmas break with high hopes (least of which that I managed my 85% average). My Christmas list is actually not so much games as it is perisherals. I plan on getting some cables for hoooking my PS2 up to my PC for recording video and audio, and I'm going to try and order a metal DDR pad from Cobalt Flux. Should be a challenge, as my family has had almost zero sucess ordering items from the Net in the past. In other news, the first post to Senpai is finally up and, if anyone is still hesitant, I should warn you that Katana has already joined and that I can only accept one other person at this point in the story. If anyone else is interested *glares in Solo's general direction* It's down to the wire, here. If two people sign up at more or less the same time, now, I will have to decide who continues. Anyway, thanks for your support, everyone, and I'll try and make this a cool RPG for everyone. Otherwise, I'll have to cut off the post for tonight and go to bed. My apologies to anyone who needed the information about script form, It'll have to wait just a little longer. Gracias, actores jovenes.

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