Symfonik

Hello pplz, I'm here to update my blogzorz again. Been a strange week for me, pretty strange. Strangest part was Friday at school. A good 85% of the high school was gone so I had the whole day to just screw around. In three of my hours, we watched AFV and in one we watched Mythbusters. In the rest of them I listened to music, read fanfiction, and drank soda. Awesome times...awesome awesome times.

So...for gaming, I recently shelled out $20.00 for the Wii reinstallment of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. It feels a little strange on the Wii, but it's alright, I'm getting in the groove of it pretty well. When I picked up the game at Gamestop, he asked me if I wanted to reserve a Wii U. I laughed and told him that I wasn't putting any money down on that thing until Nintendo can prove to me that they can do something creative with it, cause so far, from what I've seen from the Wii, it's just 80% shovelware, maybe more.

As far as anime and manga go, I still need to finish watching Murder Princess. My friends have been wanting me to read the manga for Atelia, and so far, I've been tempted to see if Mangafox has it. If they do, what the hell, I'll give it a shot.

That's all as far as my personal otaku stuff goes. Now for a tidbit of personal struggles. Lately I've been trying to turn a freshman in my highschool into a fellow otaku. He's picking up well on manga and getting interested in both JRPGs and anime, but here's the problem. The dude is annoying AS HELL. Very obnoxious, follows me around everywhere, and never stops talking. I know it's likely futile, but I'll still ask, is there anyone to tone down the hyperactivity of a freshman? I know, I just asked an impossible to answer question, but I figured that I'd at least try.

Oh, and for those of you that read my last blog, that friend I was talking about that was generally rude to me, well, funniest thing happened with her. She's now bugging my next door neighbor and is, for the most part, out of my hair. Hehe, my neighbor isn't exactly happy 'bout it, kinda blames me for revealing that the girl had a crush on him, but hey, not my problem anymore, far be it for me to say who she can and can't like.


Well, that's pretty much it for now, see ya'll later.

Gamereaper

Heya everybody, after a long week of delay, I finally have time to update my blog. So what goes on? A LOT of gaming, and I mean alot, in fact, I will be talking mainly about that. You have been warned, this will be a long blog. So let's begin:

First off, using my Rewards program with Gamestop, I managed to rack up enough points to get 1600 Microsoft Points for free! And with those points, I picked up Hearthfire for Skyrim and picked up the XBLA game, Quantum Conundrum. I'll start my nerd-rant at Hearthfire, for 400 points, it's not a bad pickup at all. They let you customize alot of stuff in the houses. You can have a house, extend off of that and get a Main Hall, and then three individual unique wings from there. You can also add in a grain wheel, armor bench, smelter, and other miscellaneous things of use around your house. There's also the addition of the unique clay bars that are needed for some things in the house. All in all, I find it a great way to make the house feel like your own, and on top of that, your smithing level will head way up there in no time.

As for Quantum Conundrum, it being a sort of spiritual successor to Portal, is right up my alley. Puzzles abound in this unique dimension-warping game. The idea is creatively used and the some of the puzzles are real head-scratchers. This game was very well designed and some of the humor was even reminiscent of Portal, one of the main characters being VERY much like Cave Johnson. If you like puzzle games, this one's well worth the money. I say, for 1600 MSP, I was highly satisfied with the combonation of QC and Hearthfire, a perfect 1600 points.

Oh and to continue my gaming rant (yes there's more!), I went to the Borderlands 2 Midnight Release with my buddy Cody. It was outright freezing out that night compared to the warm morning, but it was totally worth the wait. You'll meet some interesting people going to those things. I even found one of my old friends there that I rarely talk to.

Also, speaking of Gamestop, recently picked up the Special Edition of Blazblue: Calamity Trigger, for just $12.00! Honestly, for all the stuff I got out of it, I seriously considered this to be one of the best PS3 buys I've ever come across. It's a 2D fighting game with some seriously unique characters. The fighting styles all have some unique twist to them, for example, Hakumen fights using his own personal army of bugs, Rachel Alucard doesn't even fight for herself at all but rather uses her shapeshifting umbrella, and V-13 is a freakin' fighting computer virus with a mastery over altering space, time, and physics. The game is good fun if you want to put down Soulcaliber for a while. I thought, for 12 bucks, that's a deal.

We're nearing the end of my rant on games now. I recently obtained the Xbox Live Dashboard Beta. It's...strange to say the least, but I kinda like it. If you want to try something new, that's the way to do it. My only real complaint is when I saw the new Xbox Music app. At first, looking through it, I was kinda impressed by the large selection they had, they even had one of my favorite DJs on there. My complaint spawned when I saw that they were charging over $100.00 for a year membership on there. Seriously...that's twice than what you'd pay just to be a gold member!! I'm not paying that kind of money to listen to music that I can easily rip off Youtube for free. Though I seriously don't like doing this kind of thing, I like my music and I can't buy off the internet really, so I'm kinda screwed as far as legally purchasing the music. Last time I used iTunes, it basically stole $30.00 from me...

Well, now I will talk about something NON game related. Actually it's a kind of a problem I'm facing right now. Recently I made a new friend at my school, one that's a fellow otaku like me. She's talked to me for about a week now and she doesn't have many friends, so I try to hang out with her when I can, text her occasionally. The problem lies in her mannerisms.

She's said herself that the reason she doesn't have many friends is because she's rude to everyone, and at first, I didn't really believe her, but she QUICKLY proved me wrong. She keeps stealing my drinks and food and even snatched the manga I was reading from me. Then, one morning, she stole my phone from me and used it to listen to music off of it. Then she handed it back and said my music sucks. She called my girlfriend ugly, wants me to date her (which I probably wont, considering that for one: I have a girlfriend, for two: This new friend already has a freakin' child even though she's just a sophomore, and for three, she is indeed rude as can be).

I stopped texting her as much, but then she sent me a few texts saying she was worried that I was mad at her. She thought that I didn't like her at all cause she was being terrible to me, and then after not texting her for a while, I kinda felt like the jerk for being whiney about her mannerisms. I seriously have no clue how to approach this, she's either playing me as a fool or she just has a personality quirk that not many people can look past. If I applied myself, I think I'd be able to look past it, but still, DAMN she's got herself a bad frame of mind. I dunno, she's out of school right now cause she's sick, so that's giving me time to think about what to do...

Anyways, that marks the end of this seriously long blog, hope I didn't bore too many people to sleep. I'll catch ya'll in the next update.

Slaughter Symphony

Hello everyone, 'bout time for me to update my blog again. So, I'mma hop right into it. For games, I've been playing Darksiders 2 recently, having loaned it from a gamer friend o' mine. I was a bit skeptical bout it at first, just really couldn't get into the first one, part of that being because I wasn't yet capable of thinking outside of the box for it's more puzzling gameplay segments. Now, I'm back in the game and loving it. The graphics are smooth and wonderful, the new abilities rock, the weapons kick ass, I love it. Just another great game for me to play.

For manga, I've been reading .hack//Legend of the Twilight
Great series, I still want to watch the anime adaptation and get a better look at The World. Oh, and I'm trying to convert some freshmen to the wonderful world of otaku. Got them gaming here and there, one of them going so far as to hack his consoles to play games he normally wouldn't be able to, and alot of them now read manga on a regular basis. Converting the masses, one n00b at a time!

Oh, and I'm still doing my gaming radio. It doesn't get hardly any views, but oh well. It's still fun to do.

I actually haven't been watching hardly any anime lately. I know, it's against my nature, but I've been drowned in homework and gaming that I haven't got around to it. That and my internet's still crappy as ever. Oh, and just to mention this, I'm still working on the Dragon Realm Minecraft server. It's streneous, part of that being because I'm usually the only person working on it. In the meantime, on my own single-player world, I've been working on a sort of pet project. I"m recreating another world from my novel series. This one's coming along absolutely wonderfully. It's gonna be hard, balancing my project, the server, gaming, and homework, but I'm still hanging in there! Well, catch ya'll later!

Hi everyone, sorry for the absence. I've been (still) swamped with homework and occasional friends coming over for something. To start things off, things HAVE been getting better finally. Homework's at last at tolerable levels, girlfriend's finally listening to me for once, and I'm doing better with managing my money (that means not spending it as soon as I get it).

Otaku Time! I recently downloaded another visual novel onto my PC called Muv-Luv. It's strange, wacky, out-right perverted, but at the same time, somehow charming and interesting. I figured, I've gone through Narcissu twice and Clannad three times, I might switch it up for once. I'm not regretting my decision either. Too bad it's just a tad bit memory-costly. Now, officially 25% of my hard-drive is occupied by Japanese content. Thinking about getting a skin for my laptop that has the Japanese flag on it. Either that, or Imma buy this awesome poster to go in my otaku kingdom (for those who don't know what that is, that is my living room.)

http://www.amazon.com/Hyperdimension-Neptunia-Fabric-Scroll-Poster/dp/B007XKPGZ4/ref=pd_sbs_op_1


Also, while I'm thinking of Hyperdimension, I recently saw something that literally made my day a million times better: http://www.siliconera.com/2012/08/28/hyperdimension-neptunia-anime-in-the-works/

When i saw this, I'm pretty sure I shat bricks on the spot. I freakin' love this game, it's the only game that resonates with my inner gamer (and inner otaku as well). So, now that I'm moving onto the talk of anime, I've been watching xxxholic again and have found it's sequel series and will likely pick that up sometime in the future. It's a great series, it's like a perfect blend of every emotional genre I can think of. I love how it mixes Japanese mythology with an interesting plot and setting that somehow keeps me attracted to it constantly.

Not much to say about games, I've been working with some friends on the Dragon Realm Minecraft server, and when I'm not on that, I'm either on Hyperdimension Neptunia MK2 or Splatterhouse. I don't know why I haven't finished Splatterhouse, I do think it's worth my time to finish cause the soundtrack kicks ass and the gameplay is fun and, while demented, satisfying. Nothing like a bloodbath to get the mind going!

Well, that'll do me for today, catch ya'll later.