My name is Randy-Drew Zarley Strickland. I'm a Canadian resident and born. For the most part, I watch a great number of animes and play a great number of video games. I also read a lot of books and mangas. I adore philosophy and literature, I'm a huge fan of Nietzche, Wilde, and Lewis. I also have an interest in science and history as well.
I personally don't watch TV much. When I do, there's only a few shows I watch. I get most of the animes I watch through DVD's and the internet.
I'm fairly fond of martial arts too. I'm currently an orange belt in Karate.
As a person, I'm said to be a very intelligent man and to be full of wit. It's hard to offend me and I like to poke fun at numerous things. I'm also very outspoken and like to speak my mind. Though I'm said to be fairly insensitive and apathetic too. I hardly care what people think of me and I assert my own ambitions above all else.. Many people say that I'm very mature for my age. Many people whom are adults seem to enjoy talking to me because of it... Also because of my wit and outspokeness.
As far as random friend invites goes, I don't mind receiving any. But I'll just go through your profile first and decide if I want to add you or not.
Me am also bi-sexual. But me do not show femininism. Because me don't want to.
It's not the old-school aspects of the game that bother me so much... it's true that I have a harder time enjoying older games, but if I get into one then the visuals and such stop bothering me. It's really more Chrono Trigger's plot and characters that haven't impressed me as much as I was hoping... the time travel aspect (visiting some of the same locales in different time periods) is cool, but so far the characters are pretty forgettable (I don't really like Toriyama Akira's style that much either) and the plot seems rather generic minus the time traveling. I just wanted more substance there, I guess.
Not as impressed as I was hoping to be, unfortunately. It's a solid and reasonably fun RPG, but I think I would've had to play it when it was fairly new to really enjoy it.
This place has gotten too big for me too, actually. I like shooting the shit with friends I've made, but I don't venture much into the forums anymore. Xenolegacy is on the opposite end (i.e. nearly dead) - hopefully the influx of traffic from the official boards can keep it up for a while, at least.
Yeah, I'm not too interested in Namco either at this point. A fair few of the old members have migrated to Xenolegacy, I've found, and it seems to be a nice enough place. I've only been registered a day or two though, so I can't say much for the quality yet. Anyway, the only other site I spend much time on is the one I used to run, hitmanforum.com. But I can't really say I recommend it either. It was great 4-5 years ago - a close-knit community with plenty of interesting discussions - but now it's grown to the point that you can't really avoid useless trolls and retards ruining most any interesting thread. I really only drop in to talk video games these days. But do check it out if you like.
Re: F91, I didn't pay enough attention to the music to catch any similarities with Star Wars... I guess I'll have to listen closer if/when I watch it again. I do agree on the plot/characters though. That's been one of the weaker points in many of the Gundam series - even shows with pretty interesting characters didn't spend enough time developing them, for the most part. F91 strikes a great balance between the military and personal aspects, I think.
As for Star Wars music, there are actually a few themes from Macross Frontier that reminded me of the Star Wars movies. One called "The Target" from the first soundtrack in particular. And there's another called "Big Boys" on the same album that I could've sworn came right out of Pirates of the Caribbean. I'm forever impressed at what a wide range of musical styles Kanno Yoko can put to use, and at how well she integrates music with what's happening on-screen. Frontier wouldn't have been near as impressive without the soundtrack emphasizing all the most exciting and dramatic moments so well
See? I told you =D Glad you're enjoying it. Looks like you're almost to my favorite episode too (it's number 20, I think - it really blew me away).
Looks like you've been watching a fair bit of Gundam lately too. Have you seen F91 yet? It's pretty sweet - you definitely ought to watch it if you haven't already.
