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I will always comment in your blogs
You will never be cut from my contacts
You are never forced to comment in my blogs
---== I am your friend ==---

• 3Oct 08

  Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water...

  So here I am - my first blog in almost a month. Why don't I make like two blogs a week anymore? Possibly because I realized that making a new blog every time something petty happens is inefficient. Instead I shall accumulate my experiences to be unleashed at once.

  So it's October. Hoorah! October 21st here in North America is going to be awesome. Bioshock and Eternal Sonata is finally being ported to the PS3 - both of which I have played the demos for (now available on the PlayStation Store). To be honest, I'm actually going crazy over Eternal Sonata. I think the combat system is fantastic. They are both coming out on October 21st, along with LBP. Three new games in one day? Sweet!

  

  Other gaming news? Well, I pre-ordered Persona 4 a while ago. Also, I ordered a Pandora's Battery to make my PSP play games I can't get here, as well as compensate for my lack of a working UMD.

  

  My Gamers Brigade is going great. We will be hosting our first after-school event - Guitar Hero 3. My sponsor teachers have also pooled in their own money to get one of those old-fashioned stand-up arcade machines with 1200 games inside. That's crazy awesome. Not only that, my Anime Brigade should be up soon. Can't wait to go to my first anime expo this summer!

  

  Speaking of animes, I've been watching Cowboy Bebop, will then move onto Trigun, Elfin Lied, Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, Neon Genesis Evangelion, and then Code Geass (all in no particular order).

  

  I think I'm going to buy a scanner so that I can upload drawings in good quality. If it's okay with the gang, I'm going to actually draw my own comic, not make it on computers.

  

  So I started tutoring children again. Not a bad way to get some extra cash for my gaming/anime habits.

  

  I'm FINALLY buying Final Fantasy VII. On good ol' eBay of course Can't freaking wait. That, along with tons of games from now till the end of the year. Hundreds of dollars towards games! Yay!

  

  Oh, and the title of the blog has nothing to do with anything. I did make a story in English about Jill ruling the world in a giant T-Rex robot, set in 1950. The T-Rex turns into a flying newspaper and smites Jack along with a bunch of other people. She sends down Martians and rules the world in 10 years. She also throws her mother into a pit of fire, but it turns out that her mother was actually the real Jack. I ended it with a DUN DUN DUUUUUN!!! Now my teacher thinks there's something wrong with my head. Awesome.

  

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  SONG OF THE NOW:

  The Price of Freedom - Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII

  Beautiful song in beautiful parts of the game.

  • Posted Oct 3, 2008 5:20 pm PT
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• 6Sep 08

  Happy Anniversary!

  Today is September the 6th (well, it is in this time zone anyways).

  Exactly one year ago, I joined GameSpot. This decision is probably the best one I've made in my entire life.

  I have forged many friendships, and my friendship with some of you guys are better than the so called "friends" I have in real-life. You guys aren't my "internet friends". You guys are my best friends. For this, I thank you for an amazing year and hope to have another great one - filled with as much awesomeness as the last!

  What dees the future hold? I don't see any of this ending. More hijacking, more talks, more blogs, more friends, more random conversations, etc. I hope many of you will stay here with me for as long as possible.

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  Now on to some bad/good news. I got a sexy white PSP slim second-hand from a guy through craigslist. In case you don't know, craigslist is a local classified advertising website for second hand stuff.

  For $140 CAD, I got a white Darth Vader PSP slim, SOCOM Fireteam Bravo 2, GoW: Chains of Olympus,a 2GB memory card, charger, and USB cable.

  Here's where I got pwned.

  The kid who sold it to me scammed me. He advertised it as a working PSP and sold it. I phoned him through the advertisement and he told me to meet him at a movie theater. Went there, made the exchange, and headed back home. On the way, I tried playing GoW, but the disk didn't read. SOCOM didn't read. The disk reader doesn't work. Everything else is in tip-top condition and all of the buttons/features work except the reader. The disk reader is screwed up. So I try calling him, and all that happens is an answering machine blasts rap at me. The guy has a restricted number so he's untracable. Game over

  Fortunately, I'm an optimist.

  The disk reader should be easy to repair as there are many services around my area which provide such repairs. Currently, I can use it to play videos, music, and store pictures, so that's totally cool. Portable anime FTW!

  Plus, if I ever decide to do some *cough* adjustments *cough* to my PSP's potential library, then who needs disk readers

  That punk kid may think that he's won, but I'm enjoying the PSP a lot at the moment. I can't wait to fix it and start portable gaming after all of these years

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  Finally, school's pretty good. Easy as always.

  However, I'm doing something different this year. I've noticed that my school offers absolutely NO extracurricular clubs besides sports. I felt sorry for the freshmen grade coming in as most of them did not have a place in the school besides sports. I certainly remember my year as a freshman, and it sucked, mainly because I didn't have many activities or clubs to join.

  Influenced by watching too much of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, I decided to make my own. I went through all of the paperwork, talked to the office and the vice-principal, and even got a few sponsors. The administration was surpised as hell when I told them that I planned on making a club because no one had ever proposed such an idea before. However, they did manage to dig up all of the necessities for making a club. I eventually found two sponsor teachers and so the club is a go!

  The club called the Otaku Army (name pending) will be all about hanging out, playing video games, watching anime, and reading manga. So since these things are my passions in life, I plan on leading this club to victory (whatever that may be).

  We're going to have gaming tourneys, go to anime expos, have contests of different varieties, go on gaming/watching marathons, eat a ton of snacks, etc.

  I'm going to have a meeting with the club sponsors and the school administration on Monday, so wish me luck.

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  SONG OF THE NOW:

  Nico Nico Douga Medley - Nico Nico Douga?

  • Posted Sep 6, 2008 8:46 pm PT
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• 28Aug 08

  Summary of Summer

  This was by far the least eventful summer I have ever experienced. All I have done is stay home, read light novels, watch anime, and play video games.

  Strangely, I have a grand feeling of accomplishment for some reason. I guess I've surpassed my expectations of doing nothing, therefore doing something, therefore I've accomplished not accomplishing anything; hence the feeling of accomplishment.

  So here are my highlights:

  The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

  

  I don't think I need to explain any further. Favorite anime ever, influenced my life, etc. Basically one of my awesomest highlights. Don't know how I lived without it.

  Lucky ☆ Star

  

  It's one of those animes without any plots of any kind. Bunch of highschool girls talk to eachother, generate some laughs, tons of fanservice, etc. Yet, I enjoyed it and found it relaxing to watch. Plus I learned lots about Japan.

  Death Note

  

  Very sofisticated anime. Good to keep your brain running, smart plot, and pulls off a great, dark theme. Reccommended for even non-anime viewers. Sure to interest you. I'm enjoying it... JUST AS PLANNED.

  Giant Bomb

  

  I joined a pretty awesome community. I've strengthened friendships with the people I know and love here and it's a pretty cool experience.

  GameSpot

  

  You people are awesome. Made my summer enjoyable with your support and fun. I don't know how I would have survived without this place.

  
  Lots of Gaming

  

  No surprise, I played a ton of video games.

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  In conclusion - save for the camping trip and the one-week job I had - I basically sat home. I got lazier and started sleeping in until noon. It's a damn shame that it has to end now.

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  Any summer highlights for you?

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  SONG OF THE NOW:

  What's Up People? - Maximum the Hormone

  • Posted Aug 28, 2008 9:50 pm PT
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