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[17 Dec 2009|03:58pm] |
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3153093
My latest super secret project has finally been unveiled!
Based (very loosely--I played with a lot of stuff to make it a better story) on a dream I had, I am proud to introduce DLY, an eight (!) part story series about a tribe of outcasts afflicted with a deadly plague. With disagreements among the tribe's members hindering them from within at the same time death stalks them from without, can they coexist and stay strong as they travel on an ambitious migration?
As stated before, this series will have eight parts, one for each character. Each chapter is simultaneously a story about a particular character and a continuation of the main overall story. Each chapter will get to know a certain character better through flashbacks and personal narrative while examining the latest events from his or her eyes. Chapter 1 sets the stage, and is also the story of Keeper Edward.
With less of a focus on sexuality (in that it's the first thing I've ever posted here that's not porn) and a much stronger focus on plot and character development, paired with the length of the series (chapter 1 turned out to be over 12,000 words, and if the others decompress in a similar manner...) then it is very possible that I am actually writing a novel.
Yes, this means for someone who's used to working in such utter secrecy (I just sort of dropped chapter 1 on you without warning like I've done with absolutely everything else I've ever made,) I have just openly committed myself to seven more stories. Sigh. Wish me luck.
I realize the the fact that I just said it wasn't porn will deter a lot of attention here, but let me just say that I worked really hard on this, so please read it. :(
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[13 Dec 2009|04:44pm] |
I think I just had the gamer equivalent of an existential crisis.
By this point, I'm fairly used to the fact that I can expect to be exposed to others playing Modern Warfare 2 pretty much all day, every day. The incessant MW2 sounds may as well be white noise at this point--blam blam blam, Enemy UAV Is Airborne, blam blam, that ringing noise from when you get hit with a flash-bang grenade, slowly fading back into more blam blam blam and also stab...and so it goes.
Normally, I just say, like I've always said, that I clearly like different games from the entire rest of the world and just let them do their thing while I do mine. Of course, then I made the mistake of watching about five Zero Punctuation reviews in a row to get caught up after having missed it for a while, and Yahtzee is apparently even more curmudgeonly and "this game is proof that gaming is dead" than usual these days, so that was...depressing.
That's when I started to worry. With my weaving obligations, I barely have time to play games anymore, and when I do I'd usually rather work on personal projects or do something productive like that. Even if I did have time to game all day, I can't remember the last time I enjoyed a game of which anyone else on the planet has ever heard. What if my obsession with retro and retro-feeling games, and all those old games, and all those semi-enhanced ports I want for Christmas, is all simply because that era was the last time I felt as deeply in love with video games as the MW2 people seem to be now? What if the reason I'm not as mad at Nintendo for abandoning real gamers in favor of whatever casual market they're after now is because I'm actually in the casual market? Oh God, what if I'm actually not a gamer anymore?
Then Atlus came along and grabbed me by the collar, told me to pull myself together with a hard slap, and gave me the exact three words I needed to hear to make it all better:
Etrian Odyssey III.
Yes.
Does this restore order to the universe? Well, no--I'm still falling madly in love with an obscure retro-feeling title while still being mystified by you kids today and your UAVs and whatnot, and the question of whether my retro fixation is me clinging to the past because it was the last time I liked games is still unanswered. However, the EO series has just enough of a deliberate old-timey feel to it to indulge my retro fetish while still being new, it's incredibly awesome, and it's sort of a nice affirmation to have a game to look forward to this strongly again (not counting the obvious one that's another enhanced port.) Maybe I still like games after all....
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[12 Dec 2009|05:47pm] |
I went to go do my regular thrice-weekly jogging/sprinting exercise excursions. Since it was cold outside, I opted to go to the weight room and use their treadmill instead.
The entire communal building was unnaturally packed. Like, normally when I'm in there, there are maybe a combined total of three to five other people in the building (a couple are on the couch watching television, one or two are messing with their laundry in the laundromat, maybe one other person is with me in the weight room,) but today...good lord. Must have been a convention or something, I thought. Then I noticed that there were at least ten screens in creative and unnatural places (two TVs in the wallball room, three laptops on the table in the room with the actual television...) and all of them were running Super Smash Bros. Brawl.
A Brawl tournament! Right here in our communal building!
I didn't join in, because attendance was ridiculous enough as it was, and because I am nowhere near tournament-level in Smash Bros. I see that as something as an oxymoron anyway--I'm there for the Nintendo fanservice, not for any deluded pretense that Smash Bros. can be a balanced and legitimate test of fighting game skill even after tournament neutering. (Smash Bros. is fun in a party game sort of way and I'd be up for playing it more, don't get me wrong, but if I actually wanted to compete with someone then I'd go back to playing Guilty Gear.)
So I hit the treadmill and got to spend a good twenty minutes as the only person in the entire building working out while a good 50+ were sitting around one screen or another either playing or watching others play Smash Bros. Now I'm home again, and still feeling vaguely superior.
(Although, to cut myself back down to size a bit, I did ultimately cave and sticker up my PSP, despite the fact that it really didn't need any help being any gayer. See this? This is what happens if you get carried away with all the included stickers and is not what I did to mine, at all, though I did put those purple vine-looking ones on either side of the UMD door on the back like that. Mine are aligned the other way, though, with the stems on the bottom.)
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[29 Nov 2009|03:29am] |
Christmas list time! Dumping this here so I have one single convenient link for everyone who wanted me to send them my lists.
As usual, I'm going for the "ask for way way way too much stuff" approach and only expecting to actually get a tiny fraction of it, because I traditionally don't do as well with off-list surprises (if it's not something I particularly wanted, I still take it anyway because I'm not going to be ungracious about a Christmas present or anything, but then I don't really have anything to do with it, so I just put it somewhere in my apartment where I'm already pretty much out of space, and...well... :() and providing options on which tiny fraction of my list I actually receive preserves the element of surprise while still guaranteeing that whatever you pick out will be perfect. Everyone wins!
So, my lists:
Also, a list of things I would rather not have:
- Edible gifts -- Candy, chocolates, etc. (They would more than likely go uneaten since I've changed my diet and all.)
- Non-Eneloop rechargeable batteries. (I ask for Eneloops by name because they're the only ones of which I know that can hold a charge for long periods of time when not in use. If there's something I only use like once a year or something, like my camera, then non-Eneloop rechargeables are useless, since they invariably drain over time and are dead again anyway by the time I actually go to use them again.)
- Shirts. (Last Christmas, I said I mostly stopped wearing the wolf/dragon/etc. The Mountain-style T-shirts and switched to more respectable polo shirts. I got a bunch of polo shirts since then, so I think I'm pretty much good now.)
- Wolf/dragon clocks, sculptures, posters, knickknacks, etc. (While a fine gift in the past, I have reached the limit of what would fit in this apartment and really don't need any more.)
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| Thanksgiving |
[25 Nov 2009|06:03am] |
Some minor arguments leading up to the Thanksgiving holiday have gotten me thinking about Thanksgiving itself and the true meaning thereof, so I wrote an essay.
( Read more... )
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[20 Nov 2009|03:29pm] |
I still have my Voyage 200, and since it has a keyboard and a text editor, it serves as a close-enough PDA or at least digital notepad. I now keep it by my bed at night, so if I have an awesome story idea or something and don't want to forget it, I can feed it to that. (Also great for shopping lists, keeping track of where I'm at weightlifting-wise, and basically any situation in which I would ever need to write anything down! But the bedside idea dump is the part that's important to this story.)
Good: This has helped me to capture a lot of inconveniently-timed inspiration that might have otherwise been lost, and whatever projects I may or may not be working on will undoubtedly benefit greatly from having this system now.
Bad: Oh my God, brain, that's the fourth idea I've had to write down tonight, it's been 50 minutes, can I please sleep now.
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| Music post |
[19 Nov 2009|07:53pm] |
Been a while since I've done one of these! I was inspired to make another one because this song is pretty.
( Read more... )
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[17 Nov 2009|11:32pm] |
Guess who just paid his credit card company $700 in one shot? THE ANSWER IS ME
Since all my major utilities/phone/etc. have this habit of letting me know what my bill is going to be literally a month in advance, my one credit card balance is roughly $630-ish right now and will be $830-ish in early December if I don't spend any more money by then (which is somewhat unlikely,) and the other card is currently fully paid off.
The truly sad thing is that this is actually the closest I have been to not having credit card debt in well over a year. Four throws a week is freaking killing me, but the invoices I'm getting from them (especially after just coming off of the slowdown which, if not directly causing this situation in the first place, at least certainly didn't help) are like rain after a drought. If I consistently get this kind of pace for the rest of the year, the fact that December = I get to pay another quarterly estimated tax voucher and Christmas shopping for everyone might not suck.
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[13 Nov 2009|09:17pm] |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_Loopy
It appeals to my retro gaming fanaticism and my not-exactly-heterosexual obsession with anything that comes in lilac or lavender. I must have it.
(Thanks to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) terryn for pointing this out, even if he did it mostly to make fun of me in a "yeah, I bet you want one of these, too" sort of way. Turns out HE'S RIGHT)
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[06 Nov 2009|01:24pm] |
http://www.pspworld.com/sony-psp/images/lilac_psp.jpg
Now there's a color choice that just screams "ATTENTION WORLD: THE BEARER OF THIS PSP LIKES COCKS."
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I want one. ^;.;^
(Considering that my first thought when I saw this was "hey, that shade almost matches my toenail polish," it's entirely possible that I have nothing left to lose at this point anyway.)
The only problem is that Sony only lets you have different-colored PSPs as part of bundle deals with certain pack-in games (want a blue PSP? You'll be getting it in the form of the Madden Entertainment Pack) and this awesome lilac one is saddled with... well... I can hardly even bring myself to say it.... :(
The truly sad part about this is how much I still want it anyway, despite it being $30 more than standard for the privilege of a game I will obviously never play. And if I do get it and slither finds out, I will never hear the end of it. But...still.
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[01 Nov 2009|01:15am] |
Some time ago, I commissioned AbsintheTheGreedy for some concept sketches of the cast of a story idea I randomly had. I may or may not ever actually do something with it. We'll see. In the mean time, I figured it'd be cool to have concept sketches, especially because they were so cheap for how amazing they are. (Seriously, this artist is a steal, you all should be in on this.)
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2889113
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2889144
Of course, I only realized after the fact that I had not one, but two characters belonging to one of those species where you have a couple species that are all similar, and ( now I get to do a bunch of character species brainstorming. )
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[30 Oct 2009|01:23pm] |
I had some story ideas while in bed last night. I didn't want to forget them, but both computers were already off. I guess I could be writing things down with an actual notebook and pencil, but I don't know, I just wanted a cooler electronic solution, like a PDA or something. Then I remembered that I still have my old Voyage 200, which I bought way back in the day for my college Calculus class (and it is actually a bit overkill even for that) and since then has more or less just been used for basic arithmetic when I'm figuring out invoices for work and such. (Geez, Teo. Having a V200 to figure out $70.58 times three is almost as ridiculous as getting a Toshiba Satelite X205 SLi4 for AIM, Firefox, and Tapestries.)
Anyway, something that's back-lit so I could use it at night and maybe had stylus support would still be cool, but for now, the V200 does have a text editor and can at least perform the task at hand. I guess I'm set until I find a way to cheaply turn my DS into a PDA, though the only ways I've seen to do that so far are either homebrew (which I absolutely do not want to do) or... well....
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[23 Oct 2009|01:42pm] |
So I just rediscovered an old PC kids' game involving solving mysteries. It's divided into a stupidly high number of miniature cases in which you gather clues and then figure out who did it. Being a kids' game, it's stupidly easy now, but fun to replay for the sheer nostalgia. I'll probably do a ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) videogame_tales post about it at some point.
ANYWAY
SELECT THE SUSPECT YOU THINK IS BEHIND THIS DASTARDLY CAPER
YOU'LL NEVER GUESS
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[19 Oct 2009|11:54pm] |
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As a power metal fan (my experience with Jørn Lande in particular is limited to Allen/Lande's The Battle, Avantasia's The Scarecrow, and Masterplan's Aeronautics, but I absolutely love all of those) and a hardcore furry, I think I might actually be required by law to get this album at some point.
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[14 Oct 2009|11:31pm] |
I was randomly thinking about this and thought it'd be fun to turn the question back to you guys. Maybe it'll turn into a meme of some sort :D Or not, you could just, you know, tell me directly instead of reposting. That works too I GUESS.
So, try to recall pretty much every user/screen name you've ever had since first discovering this whole "internet" thing. List them all (even the old ancient embarrassing ones from way back in the day when you were MyLittlePonyLuvr11871 or something) and explain the thought process behind all of them. I'll start, as I've had quite a few!
( Won't this be exciting? )
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[05 Oct 2009|02:44pm] |
Oh yeah, I completely forgot to mention that I'm in Santa Fe housesitting for my parents again. Last time was because they were out for my grandfather's (father's father) funeral. This time they're out for my other grandfather's (mother's father) surprise party for his 80th birthday. There's a bit of mood whiplash for you, there.
Regarding my lack of update, though, I think it's because it's getting harder to notice a difference in my daily routine based on location changes. I brought Quicksilver (my laptop) with me, so I'm still online and everything. My sleep status page technically has an option for an "on vacation, will update when I get back" template and screenshot to match, but I never have any need for it, because hey, Quicksilver can update TeoSleep, so I may as well just keep up with the regular standard updates. I'm even still weaving on my mom's loom, so not even the work situation is different. I do have to include feeding the dogs and medicating the cat in the daily routine now, and the lack of a dedicated weight room with machines and stuff like my apartment complex has is throwing my exercise routine off a bit, but eh.
My parents, of course, are going through full-fledged hectic vacation mode and will undoubtedly have a "thank God we're finally home" reaction when they get back. I, on the other hand, pretty much feel like I've been home this whole time. Especially because this house is huge, gorgeous, and I really and truly love it here. I think the only thing keeping me in Albuquerque at this point is that I'd miss the friends and such I have there, but I have to admit that it's hard not to get contemplative about my living situation when I'm here, because man this place is awesome.
Anyway, I just finished tending to the dogs/cat and having breakfast while doing my usual FA/LJ checks and such, so now it's off to work out and then probably weave all day...which is pretty much my life anyway, except adding the dogs/cat to the routine in exchange for getting to have the house instead of my apartment. <3
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[16 Sep 2009|02:08pm] |
And if you don't win that,
Someone explain to me why I haven't played this game yet.
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