Friend: Hey Waku!
Me: Hey.
Friend: Check out the PM I sent.


In the PM window:
Friend: I had an awesome dream last night.
Friend: I'm not going to tell you about it.
Me: ...'k.

I don't know what's more pathetic: The fact that I've been waiting over 2 weeks for a computer that was scheduled to be done in less than one, or the fact that after it finally got here, it died in less time than it took to set up.

I can verify this, as it died before I could hook it up to the router.

Ahaha... So, I thought the PC would be ready by Tuesday, but... It seems the suppliers are behind schedule. The parts were supposed to have arrived on Thursday, but as of Saturday there's still no sign of them. I don't know whether to be frustrated or just sad. Lapis has been a part of my life so long I often wind up walking to the monitor only to realize there's no computer to go with it.

Another story idea's come to me as well, and I'm at a loss as to how to put it down... I could write it on paper, but I probably wouldn't be able to read my own writing later on. I could write it here on LJ via the power of Strength, my PS3, but... It's kind of frustrating having to go one letter, one word at a time. I can't fault it, as I know it's trying hard in spite of everything, but...

It's kind of like... I'm not part of the world any more, as though I've faded out of existence even though I'm still here. Ah well, sorry for troubling anyone that actually reads this.

Ok, so, Lapis has finally died after a fatal power outage. I'm not sure what exactly happened, but apparently a capacitor's been blown. Now, Lapis was getting kind of old anyways, so I figured I might as well get her a new body. Just as well it seems, as the technician said she's going to need a data transfer. Everything seems to be in order but it'll still be Tuesday before I have a computer again. How am I posting this you ask? Strength, my PS3 has limited internet capabilities. I am doing this one letter at a time, and it's really troublesome. I suppose I should write less, but no way am I doing that. So instead, you get to share my suffering: Line breaks? Who needs those?

Edit: Wouldn't you know it, Mabinogi ads galore now that I can't play it.

...So, I should be working on RPing, but instead I am offering you all a glimpse of one of my more bizarre hobbies: H-Game Summary reading! For your reading pleasure, I offer you random H-Game summaries off of an import website that sells the stuff. Why? Because the summaries in particular are amusing. Of course, as you might not want to see these, I'll just end this post hers:

( Probably NWS )


...And that's all for now! Those were the ones that stood out for me, at least.

...So, I can't think of a title for this entry for the time being, but I'm sure I'll figure one out eventually. Stay tuned for when I think of a decent title!

...On to the actual purpose of the entry though... Apparently my dad died a few hours ago. I actually found this out about 3 hours ago now, but I got a preemptive message from a fortune cookie, which is probably a story that should wait until at least a week after he's dead... Not that that hasn't already stopped me from telling it.

Ok, I know it might make me seem like a bad person to be cracking jokes about a death in the family, but one thing stands out in my head. There's a story in one of the Taoist texts about how one of the big Taoist philosophers had his wife die. Everyone that knew him was going over there to offer their condolences, but when they got there, the guy was having a party. Pretty much everyone asked him what was wrong with him, and he said this in response:

"Should I be mourning the fact that my wife is no longer a part of this world, or celebrating the fact that she's moved on to the next level of existence?"

My father's definitely in Heaven now, and that's something to celebrate in a way. Dad, if you're reading this (and I kind of hope you aren't reading this because this blog isn't something I want my parents to read), have a great time in the Catholic variant of Heaven. We probably won't see each other again unless you decide to reincarnate, as I don't intend to go there myself (I'll most likely be hanging out with the animal spirits), but I'm proud I could call you my father, and I'm sorry for being such a leech while you were alive.

Anyways, that sort of thing aside, I'm actually kind of worried about mom now. She's pretty much all alone in Thailand now, and I'm not sure how long the money will last with me leeching off of her like that. I really need to see about finding a job, and probably start looking for a cheaper place to live. The last thing she needs to deal with is more expenses.

...Oh, and for those I haven't spoken to lately, I'm now in charge of a Chess website, such as it is. I'm trying to see about turning a profit there too, but no idea how it'll go. We're supposed to be making around $1000 a month, but... it's not even cutting $100 a month. I'm thinking of looking up some advertising methods in the local area, and see if I can get recruits that way...

...I'm tired right now. It's been a while since I've had a nightmare... Most of it was nonsense, but someone hurt my Lapis. I couldn't sleep because I was worried about it... I should probably head back to sleep now that I know Lapis is ok, but I'm worried I'll have the dream again...

...I suck. While I'm up though, I'll respond to the previous post...

...I am writing YaOI.

Or rather, I will tomorrow.

...I just felt that I had to note this.

I'm going to bed now.

So, uhh... the active temperature in the house has utterly annihilated my thermostat, which places the temperature at somewhere between 35-45 degrees Celsius in here (that's 95-113 for Farenheit). It is currently 11:00 PM, it ain't gettin' any colder.

I am awake right now only because I sweat so much that my body woke me up to avoid dehydration.
I had slept for an hour.
That is all.

You know you've hit rock bottom when...

D) You find yourself reading some guy's rant about how his nine year old cousin won't have sex with him, because you have nothing better to do.

I have this feeling that I should call the police or the feds or someone, but I have no idea where the guy lives in the first place, so it'd be pointless in the end.

Haa... maybe it's time to cut my ties to life again...

So, today I wound up waking up, and realizing something about Tsukihime. It's a big one too, so I ask that if you don't want to read spoilers, don't read this rant.

( Spoiling the game, yay~ )

...So yeah, done ranting. It doesn't make any sense at all to me.

First off, I would like to say... The German has no relevance to absolutely anything, I just felt it appropriate to continue the Xenosaga parody. Why? You shall understand in time, I assure you.

You see, AQS is closing in on finishing Otoboku, which has been a blast all the way through. As such, we're taking some time to look at the stuff for spring, and lo and behold, something really odd came up, something that defies all explanation and logic.

Before I tell what it is, I'd like to speak about a freakish Japanese phenomenon which is steadily eating away at human souls throughout Japan, and somehow managing to consume souls from abroad as well, despite the fact that it doesn't exist outside of Japan. It is... The IdolM@ster.

What is The IdolM@ster? It's a Japanese touch screen-arcade-visual novel-Idol raising sim which has been shooting up in popularity in an inexplicable way. It's even gotten so far as to become one of the X-Box 360's "big titles" in Japan, and is managing to get people from abroad to buy Japanese X-Box 360's solely to play it. Put simply, it is a plague upon society, but one that I will readily admit I would probably be perfectly happy getting infected by.

What does this have to do with the topic of a Xenosaga parody and AQS? Well, an anime for IdolM@ster's apparently in the Spring lineup.

I present to everyone, the following link:

http://www.sunrise-inc.co.jp/idolmaster/

Behold, Idol Master... Xenoglossia? If that's not a Xenosaga reference... but back on track, it seems to have all the characters of IdolM@ster, and now contains... Giant Mecha? What?

I have seen The Future, and it is the Ultimate Anime in terms of Fanservice. People will learn to fear the name of Idolsaga: Episode 1: Die Fische Die Lache!

...And ASOS never ceases to impress me. They're going a step further now, by having... The Internet decide the English dub voices for Haruhi. Of course, it appears that Japanese sub options will always be available, but I still find it really really cool to be able to choose your own dub.

Meanwhilst, I'm listening to someone tell me online that "If they really wanted to, they could get the perfect voice for every anime character ever", ignoring my argument about them having to have time to go through all the "actresses looking for work" in general to find the right voice, then verify that said person is willing and capable to take the job, etc. etc. Apparently, they have infinite time and workforce to pick out their workforce. You have to admit that that belief is love.

Now then, time to pick out a good seiyuu for Mikuru.

...I am such a geek.

*Ahem*

http://asosbrigade.com/index.html

I'm now a member of the ASOS Brigade.

And for some reason, while I was a little tired at 10 PM, I am now energized with energy and stuff!

Also, I got an email asking me if I'm psychic. Is this a sign?

You know, in my usual IRC channel, I recently wound up in a discussion about Japanese culture... In particular, some guy was bragging about how he definately, unquestionably, had a better collection than I did. His evidence? He knows Japanese, and I don't. He then went on to say that the only reason why even gathers the games is because they're Japanese - he doesn't like anime, he doesn't like games, he's just playing them for the language, and therefore I, who don't know the language, but play them for the games and can vaguely catch what's going on and make appropriate decisions based purely on instinct and putting together previous observations and voice tones... am not "properly" playing the games, and he's thus superior to me.

All this leads me to is the odd conclusion of him as follows: He doesn't like anime and games, but he plays them anyways. Why? So that he can lord his superiority over others by saying that he knows exactly what's going on, as he speaks Japanese and you don't. Essentially, he's learning a language for... what, exactly? To lord it over others? That actually disgusted me. Using games and anime solely for the purpose raising your own standing? For some reason, I was revolted by this. I really don't know what to think about that...

I don't understand why the concept of learning a language for the sake of the language bothers me so much, and some part of me makes me want to know why that bothers me so much. This really winds up coming back to why I personally managed to become a "Japanese fanboy"... So here we are, down a road of meaningless memories that probably won't appeal to many of you...

( Lengthy ramble goes here )


...I don't know if this really answered what I was wondering about, but it was good to remember old times again.

So, people who've gone through the trouble of reading this, what are your opinions on what the article was originally about? What do you think? Is it disrespect to play through games that are in a foreign language despite not knowing the language? Is it disrespect to learn a language just for the sake of learning a language? Is it disrespect to play something simply because it's in a certain language? I'd like to see what other people think. ^_^;

My Personality

Neuroticism	73
Extraversion	2
Openness To Experience	65
Agreeableness	88
Conscientiousness	5

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Now, I would have liked to link the comparison between me and haunt, one of my best friends, that I produced via that server, but I can't figure out how the coding is, so if I send a link, you'd have access to my "account information"... But to summarize, he's better than me at everything, except Extraversion, and who wants that?

Also, despite the fact that I'm more emo, he still beat me at neuroticness. ^_^;

So, I've managed to get my PC back up and running to some extent, though there are some major weaknesses due to the fact that I effectively lost all the .dlls and install information when the System Recovery did its thing. While I've managed to get the graphics and sound cards up and working again, this has had some other effects as well... The biggest one being that my anti-virus program doesn't work at this point in time, so I'm going to have to get together a new one.

I'll probably have to reinstall most of my games too, but eh.

I fail at life.

Sincerely,
Wakuseino

PS: System Recovery is not System Restore.

So, I've been keeping up to date with a lot of the new anime this season, and there's quite a few good ones to note: Brighter than Dawning Blue (AKA: Yoake), Lovely Idol, and Tokimeki Memorial, Galaxy Ange-Rune AKA: GALAXY ANGEL II... Lots of stuff to watch, I'll be really entertained this season, right?

Wrong. The grand total of fansub groups between those three is at most 6 fansub groups: 2 to 3 on Yoake, 1 on Lovely Idol, 1 or 2 on Tokimeki Memorial. At this point, there is not a single fansub group doing Galaxy Angel II.

Where are all the fansub groups? Just a moment, and you'll see. Currently working on the anime Kanon are the following groups:
AQS
AnimeU
TWH
A.f.k
SS-Eclipse (That's 2 groups right there)
Shinsen

That's a grand total of 7 groups working on Kanon. Now, I can't blame AQS, as I'm a member of it, but that's downright ridiculous. It's a little excessive if you have more than 4 groups in my opinion... but everyone and their pet dog is doing Kanon. It's not much better on the other side of the fence, with Death Note:
Animanda
TW
Live-evil
C-1
Desuno
SOY

That's six groups right there, and these are just the ones in English. Now, I know Death Note's good and all... but am I the only one that saw that the anime managed to contradict itself in the first episode alone? This is a series where things depend upon following logic to put together, contradicting yourself is akin to annihilating the plotline. But of course, that won't stop fansubbers...

Maybe I'm just a little bitter, but it seems like these days fansubbing's all about popularity: Lots of people jumping onto the most likely anime to get you recognition, whilst the other anime just kind of wind up ignored. Honestly, six groups on one anime whilst other ones go with only one subber (said subber, by the way, is the group that first did Higurashi - and I applaud wind for going and subbing something good that everyone else was ignoring once more. It happened with Higurashi too: They were the first ones to do it because everyone else was ignoring it... and look at how good that was) seems just a little strange to me.

Don't mind me, I'm just stewing in a corner wishing for Galaxy Ange-Rune fansubs.

So. I dreamt that Doctor Phil resulted in me bleeding profusely from the palm of my left hand.

I was given a dream stigmata by a wannabe relationship therapist!

That is all.