Who are you who wonders who I, who wonders who wonders who I am, am? One should introduce oneself to who one wants to know who one is before one asks one who one is.
Music: Nightwish, Sabrepulse, S.S.H., ALiCE'S EMOTION, Alstroemeria Records Games: Touhou Project, BlazBlue, Sin and Punishment 2, Advance Wars, Mario Kart Food: Seafood and barbecue... but not both at once Websites: Wikipedia, NyaaTorrents, xkcd, ThinkGeek Stuff to do: Walk, think, eat, travel, wander Things: Night, the moon, music, sharp things
To quote myself...
"I'm a lost puppy otherwise."
"Catgirls in kimonos."
"These ethical dilemmas always end up making me hate myself."
"[Chopsticks] are the worlds most versatile eating utensil, rivaled only by the spork."
"Yay for hunter-gatherer societies!"
"I weep for humanity."
"Law has no power here!"
"I love me some Bawls."
"I could have been an A student if I felt like it, but it was much easier just being a C student."
"Point is, blue moons are awesome."
"Want another random story? I'd be happy to oblige."
"You know, no matter what I put here, it's a quote from myself, even if I never said it before now."
"A giant mirror... in space..."
"Kuudere? Yes."
"You just feel awesome in a suit, it's a fact."
"Despite being a bloodthirsty maniac with an unhealthy obsession with murder, she's actually very sweet."
"I have an odd definition of 'cute,' is the point I'm making here."
"It's like an acid trip... on crack."
"A desire to search but never to find."
"I can't just ignore it, it's in my mouth!"
"I'm beginning to hate the word 'desu.'"
"Is it like a muffin?"
"High atmosphere nukes. ^_^"
"A delightful mix of comedy, action, and general over-the-top ridiculousness that had me laughing tears of awesome."
"Informed judgments are good judgments!"
"GM time machine, ACTIVATE!"
"A man heading for death has no reason to hold back."
"He's like an evil version of James Bond."
"Random, physics violating, fourth wall breaking, logic obliterating win."
"That just seems fated to happen. A duel of the fates, if you will."
"A key point on swords I'd like to point out to everyone: they're not heavy."
"Remember that next time you read one of my posts -- it's the result of my boredom."
"Of course a gun is better in every conceivable way, but I still like swords!"
"That's it! Give everyone in the world dunkaroos and oreos! No one can be mad when they have dunkaroos and oreos!"
"And I mean that in a completely non-sexual way!"
"I thought it seemed appropriate."
"Whether or not the dog understands it is irrelevant."
"You can have your sweets and candies, I want eel!"
"I be a pirate, and I be steelin' yer booty! Arr!"
"I got into it because of the OP, desperately wanting it to be good, but it just... it killed me a little on the inside."
"This requires investigation!"
"The results of my investigation have confirmed that I was in fact wrong!"
"My memory has been known to be faulty at times."
"Things get much more interesting when we include Touhou."
"If I go too long without new music, I could implode, you know!"
"YEEEEAAAAHHH!!"
"Yours is a single perspective, in a world filled with billions of others."
"Sure, I don't mind sharing a little pirate love."
"[...] If I ever become an evil villain [...]"
"If you want somebody dead, shoot 'em in the head."
"You know it's Japanese because it's filled with lolis and schoolgirls."
"I can't give you dunkaroos and oreos, but I can give you an adorable singing Kirby."
"[...] The beauty of the mundane [...]"
"Take it easy [...] It's not just an internet meme, its a way of life."
"If it's not on Wikipedia, it doesn't exist."
"This post, by the way, since it's hard to tell on the internet, is mostly a joke."
"This is Touhou, the manliest game of all time"
"[...] MAL's famous lag."
"I don't care whose morally right, I like torrenting, and anybody who defends my capability to do so I support."
"Pirate Bay legitimate retailer, here I come!"
"Anime is like anything other form of entertainment, really. The vast majority is crap."
"Never, never, never mix cute things and gore."
"The wicked shall be judged, and the righteous shall have a place in Round 2!"
"Etiquette, man, etiquette!"
"Not even tactical canned bacon can last that long."
"No thoughts, no consideration, no rage, no abuse, no mercy. Just winning."
"It's justified hypocrisy."
"I've eaten bone."
"Don't ever think you've just up and solved a puzzle that has confounded our most brilliant minds for millennia."
"Actually learning something from [...] the internet and not just blindly asserting you're right? What is this nonsense?!"
"It doesn't matter whether this wall truly exists or is just a figment of my mind, running into it hurts. "
"As much as we like to think otherwise, [reality] really is a flimsy concept."
"If we are all part of a dream, would that not make the dreamer God?"
"I don't believe in regret."
"We have exactly as much free will as the universe itself."
"Psst... I think that was a joke [...] See, it's funny because.... you know what, never mind."
"Let the tasteless masses have their fun, and sit back in the background laughing at them as you listen to good music."
"Kittens > anything."
"If there's no chance of a serious relationship, what's the point? Sensual gratification? I can get that elsewhere."
"And for ye of small vocabularies [...]"
"And no, I don't have anything useful to say. I just thought I'd share a laugh."
"Yeah, that's a childhood killer. But it's also a wrongness killer! And would you rather be happy or right?!"
"One of my greater fails."
"Let's not argue semantics."
"Losslessness."
"Really this entire debate is moot."
"My interest can't be grabbed by actual content for some reason."
"Part of being a proper gentleman is to be a gentleman to everyone, no matter how low and undeserving they may be."
"Jumping to that conclusion is what we call bad psychology."
"I guess I'm easily hooked."
"Sweeteners are a crime against tea."
"You're speaking to a man who is simply too classy for a single top hat."
"Need... moar... Madoka Magica... !!"
"I should really strive to be more evil."
"Once the initial 'wtf?' wears off, it's pretty catchy."
"Clannad and Angel Beats got nothing on Air."
"And somehow, I care about it exactly as much as before I knew about it."
"Gurren Lagann is the ultimate in un-seriousness."
"If I ever open a coffee shop, Quantum Tea will be an item on the menu."
"I don't have an evil twin, I have a good twin."
"I'd rather put my hand through a meat grinder."
"Day: made."
"This is relevant."
"To say nothing of the atrocious grammar."
"As long as you're not harming others, you're free to do whatever you want."
"Bingo."
"Sadly, I prefer the internet."
"Water is not as dangerous to electronics as Saturday morning cartoons would have us believe."
"Dark chocolate is the only chocolate. Everything else is garbage."
"Seems the Touhou fanclub just got... CAVED!"
"Suffice to say it involves a lot of Touhou."
"It's a never-ending war between copyright and free speech."
"The pirate's last stand will be on IRC."
"I wouldn't know a tango from a mango, to be honest."
"I'm saying that a man who wears body paint and a multi-colored kimono is manlier than any shounen protagonist."
"Now you've just got me weeping for humanity."
"The level of obsession society has over all of these actors and singers is disgusting."
"If you're going to idolize someone, at least make it someone who contributes to the progression of society."
"The internet is a breeding ground for topics that shouldn't be discussed."
"People are illogical morons."
"Quit hating."
"Did you just take this seriously?"
"Introverts UNITE! ... but not too much."
"I wear that hat proudly."
"Dubstep! Yeah!"
"Bam, instant fake Youtube."
"It doesn't have to be necessary. It just has to be ridiculous."
"Why, Chavez? Why?"
"Parental licensing? What Orwellian nightmare have I stumbled across now?"
"After death is just like before birth."
"What time is 'lunch?'"
"I approve of this."
"The thought alone has slackened my jaw."
"Face, meet palm."
"4%? That's an arbitrary percentage... And not even the usual kind of arbitrary that uses round numbers."
"I'm sad to admit it, but I am actually quite sane."
"I hail from Prussia!"
"But then a hero shall rise up, and some work of fiction will be born."
"I guess I should pretend I care, then."
"I'm too cool for demos."
"It does its job well enough to accept it for silly, unserious purposes like this one."
"tl;dr: People are stubborn. Bacon is somehow relevant."
"Why do I care about one more hole in an already sinking ship?"
"Real men show their face to their foes as they die at their feet."
"Your personal information is already a commodity."
"Life is like an old school arcade game."
"You can't win, but you can see how high of a score you can get before you run out of quarters."
"Wait... there was a topic here to be discussed? We weren't just trolling and raging? What?"
"It's like somebody took a cheese grater to my eardrums."
"Liquid toast."
"You know you're an audiophile when you fervently argue on internet forums that FLAC is the holy grail of audio codecs."
"Basically anything made of cardboard and fat that can be heated up in a microwave."
"And of course, Touhou."
"Mildly disturbed and disturbingly interested."
"Is it considered offensive to insult the Amish on the internet? I mean, who exactly will be offended?"
"In many ways, I am a socialist."
Things that have left me in despair...
Politics
The law
Job hunting
Reality TV
Not being able to enter any store barefoot
Radicalism
Intolerance
Narrow-mindedness
Not being able to find new music
Marketing
The overabundance of fanservice/ecchi/hentai
The cell phone industry
Christmas
Children
The lack of support for ogg and FLAC in portable music players This thread
I was seeking information on how MAL differentiated between hentai and ecchi and one of the Google results was a thread entitled "Anime and the general people views." Saw your insight and looked at your profile. ^,^'
One of your blog posts caught my eye because it was made on my birthday this year. Haha! That frustration reminded of when my RioVolt mp3 cd player (bought in 2001) conked, the company had already gone out of business. My uncle was questioning why I didn't go for the flash memory types (which became more prevalent later), but back then the capacities of those were only around 64 meg to 256 meg (with the price becoming steeper exponentially). Compared to the 650 meg of a CDR (and the ability to play regular CD music), I thought I had gone for the better deal. Three years later (when my machine had died months earlier), a workmate buys a CD mp3 player that only uses one AA battery for 24 hours of playtime. That was neat! (My intermittent technopilia was showing.) My retired musical digital player could only run for 12 to 16 hours on two AA batteries. >,< My younger sibling gifted me with an ipod shuffle in late 2008. (A 2nd gen, colored blue one.) I've been moderating my usage since the battery lifespan is directly proportional to number of recharges.
On "Parental licensing." There was a tv series before called Dinosaurs (1991-1994). One episode was about taking an examination to renew a marriage license. Although that was a comedy, it was also somewhat reflective. Anyway, I've often wondered why some people think of feasible or impractical solutions to symptoms instead of identifying the root causes. ~,~
Ever heard of Irresponsible Captain Tylor? It's an old anime where the occasional "throwback" was mentioned as being necessary. Hmm, there's also that movie Gattaca (1997).
On the subject of controlled societies, the ongoing anime that I'm following that directly touches on this are Shinsenkai yori and Psycho-Pass. The concept can be stretched to include K, Zetsuen no Tempest, Btooom!, Code:Breaker, and probably a few more (like maybe Robotics;Notes), but those first two are the most prominent.
Ahem. I apologize for my semi-random musings. :)
If I had time, I might have rewatched (or at least skimmed through) the first two seasons of Shakugan no Shana before watching the finale. That was a satisfying enough closure to the series. ^o^
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Ah, so you're just not tired...do you have a nap in the afternoons? o.0
Hm. I could almost say the same thing about myself, but I never have difficulty waking up in the morning, I like mornings. xD But I do go to bed late. Either way, your sleep habits don't sound extremely healthy...
How are you despite sleeping issues..?
I probably should have posted this somewhere on my profile, but I'm actually a Canadian. But it's not like our society has really been doing too well with the current conservative government. I occasionally follow American politics just to get a sense of what is going on in the world, and largely would have to agree with your criticisms of the inner workings of most modern societies. I feel that a lot of the problems have to do with the system itself and the people who are in power. Even if there are a few decent individuals who desire change, they are often overshadowed by people who want power and an uneven distribution of wealth (lower taxes for big corporations, cut funding to social programs). It kind of makes me sick just thinking about how some governments operate, so I'll just end my rant here.
I had a similar experience with anime, although I skipped the entire Naruto/Bleach phase entirely. I started out in high school with Chobits and then slowly discovered the world of anime. Got bored after a while and started up again only in November of last year. I've been trying to experiment with some different titles from time to time.
Cool, good to see another Touhou player out there! I started playing Touhou games about 2 years ago and have continued to play them on a fairly regular basis. I've 1CC'd all the games on normal and extra (and a few on hard as well). My greatest accomplishment would have to be 1CC'ing EoSD on lunatic though (took a long time to get to this level though). Unfortunately I'm terrible at all the fighting games and can barely beat the CPU on easy, lol. I also really like a lot of the music in the Touhou games and have found quite a few great remixes/arranges on youtube. Anyway, are there any other video games that you play? I'm kind of curious now.
