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Works Page Up!

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on August 14, 2008
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I’ve added my Works page just to keep you intact with the endeavors that I do for the sake of art. Not that you care anyways. So much for that shit, but hey, I can even put it up if Wong permits me to, doujin circle-wise. And with Another Dream Issue 4 just days away from completion, it will be another addition to the page, since I’m participating this time around for the literary portion of the doujin circle’s next release.

I’ll try to update more works as soon as I feel like it. I’ve added an available and finished work on the page itself, which is Another Dream Issue 2. However, like I said, no downloads yet. You’ll have to wait for a few more days for that. Boo for you.

The Truth Behind The “O” Word

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on August 9, 2008
in Anime, Games, General and Manga
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Justice for the word.

In response to a space bunny’s failpost (really, you lost me dude), I think it’s about time we clear things up according to more than just looking at the letters.

“Otakuism”. You know the word. And if you do, you know what you can call yourself. But hey, it’s more than what the perception of the word is. The word “Otaku” was first used to denote family, or house. However, further implications of the word were changed according to the people not only in the anime or manga business, but to ordinary people as well.

First would have been the lolicon community. Note the word. “Lolicon”. Who guessed this would pop up as soon as Macross came up? Add in some serial killers hell-bent for lolis, more Macross, MORE MACROSS, MORE FUCKING MACROSS, then some Gundam, and a horde of creative people who want to gratify their pitiful selves by using a term that generalizes them, and there you have it.

Sure, you’ll see a lot of anime and manga references thrown in there. But no, it still doesn’t justify calling someone who loves the stuff as an otaku. Maybe it was because of the repetitive usage and implcation. Maybe it was because the word inclined into something sort of an indoor hobby (though that’s a big shitty lie). Maybe because of Macross, and lolis, which amazingly go hand in hand on the latest season. All I know is that we need to give the moonpeople some credit for the word. Now a lot of retards call themselves by the namesake.

How does one label a person an otaku? Anime? Manga? Yeah, right. Those kind of people might’ve experienced some kind of jet lag since they’re living in some kind of screwed eon or something. True it may have been largely related to the anime and manga industry, but that’s not the case anymore. Any frequent obsession over something, anime, manga, or no, can be distinguished as an otaku nowadays. Geek over houses and architecture? You’re a house otaku. Ga-ga over figurines and nendroids? You’re a figumate otaku. Now, see the whole picture?

Unfortunately, some people still defend the term according to its most famous meaning, and the most likely of them are the people outside the moonland: the west, and some from the east. Since the rave of the word they already went out branding their stupid selves based on what’s the most typical meaning there is. I can’t argue. Moonpeople don’t, because they still see people who take anime and manga as a hobby as otakus in general. That’s that, and knowing the the word’s nature, it’s hard to reverse the meaning that’s so strongly etched to it.

I’m no exception to this ruling either, even though I don’t really brand myself as an otaku. It’s just that it’s going to be the most likely term they’d call me when they see how I do things. But I don’t care, really. It’s just the matter of perception, and that’s how this word goes in MY dictionary.

Change…

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on July 30, 2008
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… for the better…?

Now a lot of people have been telling me to change my style of writing? Why? I don’t even understand why I have to, so what’s with the persuasion? Is it really that “aggressive”? Is it really that “offensive”? What will people think if I change my way of writing? Or to generalize: Will this change be for the better?

Actually, I’m clueless to what the answer is. I don’t even know if I’m doing anything wrong with the way I write. More like the question is if I care if I’m doing it wrong, but that’s an understatement anyway, not a question. When the idea came into me, I asked myself: Change? For what? Why? Whom? When? Where? And when I tried to enumerate the answers on those, none came out useful or convincing enough. So if I were to change, will everything go according to that change?

That’s one indefinite question there. A single change does bring out other changes, if instances are applied. But one thing’s for sure: If I change, something will be gained, something will be lost. If I change the way I write into something more “amiable” and “mild” for the audience, it’s like shunning my true self out of the spotlight I myself have made. I don’t want that. It’s useless for that, and with that stated out, I decided to rule out the change.

We should remember that there may be changes, but change alone is not tied to only one thing. There may be good changes, there may be bad changes. There are lots of changes, and I know I’m not only tied to the change of my writing style. I can change something else, like elaboration, or emphasis, etc. It may change some of the semantics, but it’s still retains a style. That’s what my type of change should be.

Right now, I’m not changing anything, and that’s final. But I’m also glad that this was brought up, especially by Mike. It’s strange that you who differs way too much in my way of writing would boldly state how you feel on the style. An amount of self-reflection was done, and something meaningful was achieved, so this post ain’t half-bad after all.

Then again, it’s still the usual thingamajig, so what gives…

Writing And “Writing”

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on July 29, 2008
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I don’t even know why I’m writing this! Or am I even writing this?!

I’ve been told by many people on how I write. I write differently when it comes to my novels and short stories if they compare it to my blog entries. My way of talking to most people are, so they say, “spiked”, “spunky” or “aggressive”, but that doesn’t surface much when I write or talk seriously. And most people tend to confuse the two into my active and passive behaviors, mainly because I’m unstable and confusing myself. Confusing, no?

And that brings the question: How does one write? How does one “write”? What’s the difference between the two? What’s with the stupid quotation marks? Or more importantly, why do they even exist as diversified extensions of the word?

Look, I’m not trying to get smart here, nor am I one-upping you, or bitching at you, or something. I just want to state out and answer the questions, or the so-called “assumptions” by some people who comment on how I write, as well as the entirety of the ideas behind my way of writing. I hope I made that clear before I continue. No Grammar Nazis, no proofreading shit. We’re talking about my “way” of writing, and nothing else.

Now, welcome to my world, bitches… Wait, wrong iconic psychopath…

Just what is writing and “writing”? If you have such a clever wit on the play of words, you’d get my point: One is real, uniform and formal, one is not. If you look at it like you’re skimming a book, you can’t tell the difference. After all, what you write can be read, or spoken regardless of the two mentioned above. These are all pretty much similar in a way that you express yourself through words and such. But think: How does “writing” become uniform and formal? How does writing negate that by being the opposite of the definition?

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Declaration And Initialization Of A Comeback

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on July 25, 2008
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I’M BACK

I’m so such a sentimental for even bothering to post this kind of thing up…

It’s been a while. I’m finally back and kicking butt! I’m not going to talk about the previous RAEGFEST in the other side of the world since I’m in a good mood even though I don’t really have anything in mind to write. So yeah!

I think I lost some of my drive in writing. Like, I so predicted my internet would be fixed ASAP that I lost half my drivebar! But no matter. I’d rather that I take my time on this than rush things. Though the feeling of starting from scratch again kinda lets me down, it’s about time to leave that kind of self-implication and just walk the walk… AGAIN.

You might want to ask what did I do (aside from the RAEGFEST of course) while we’re down for the count. Well, otaku instincts told me to watch old anime, read old manga and novels, play old eroges, games, Touhou, and visual novels and such. Did I do any of those mentioned above? Too bad. I was too lazy to ready some posts, or draw, or write, or read, or play, or generally speaking, do anything. Unless the internet’s moving at my little castle of a room, everything halts to a standstill, and that’s that. 90% of the days passed by with R and R: Rest and Rest (those who thought of the word Recreation: you’re oh-so-predictable, hahaha).

So, what do start when everything’s set for some action again?  Well, here’s my list for now:

  1. Downloads - Utmost priority. Or rather, I’d say necessity. Backlog of my anime, doujin, games, manga, hentai (COMING SOON) and eroge needs to be reduced to some minimum at least. And of course, you guys get to be updated on some of the stuff.
  2. Bloghopping - Of course, news from other people from the blogosystem needs to be checked too. Updates from here and there that might take my interest, so this is second in command.
  3. Netplay - I get usually rusty if I don’t play for just around 2 days. What more for more than seven? Time to shake of the rust and kick butt!
  4. Works - Probably the last for now, since I’m too lazy. Can’t elaborate further. Been there, lazed that.

So basically, the regimen here looks good. Hopefully. Guess I should mosey on it now. Saturday’s going to be a day for of blast posts of yours truly aside from the things I might accomplish for today.

SO LET’S HIT IT!

BREAKDOWN!

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on July 21, 2008
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Seriously, this is made of shit and unfunny.

 I’m at the end of my rope here. I’ve yelled at four agents at the phone, two “representatives” at the company’s station nearest to me, a lost company tech who I thought was the one who’s going to fix my connection, and even at my landlord. The reason? NO NETS FOR FOUR FUCKING DAYS!

And yes, beat that RAEG record, I dare you. And since all I got for today is an hour of safe haven on some unchartered territory, I’ll try to use every ounce of it.

I’m almost immobile… wait, sorry, wrong word. More like CRIPPLED, I say. I can’t post up episodic entries since all my shit’s at home. Same goes for chapters. which I can only access and edit at home since not all shops around your oh-so-friendly neighborhood has Photoshop or Corel or anything else besides fucking Paint. Of course, I can try to improvise, like writing drafts and gettting images at home then going somewhere wired to post it up, but I’m not the kind of person who loves to save crap most of the time. I DON’T EVEN HAVE TIME, DAMMIT.

Hee hee hee… Time… It’s always against me, so I need the Cutemaid… Hee hee hee…

Okay, time out on the RAEG, Shance. Chill. As far as I know, everybody I know online needs their dose of the Internet for at least a day… or maybe not. I’m not like some of them who have their own little privvy life somewhere along this little planet made of 3Ds and all crap. I don’t. I prefer my life here. Someone copy-pasta my soul in a flash drive and upload me into the Intarwebs quick.

Tech’s coming by tomorrow. Hopefully he’ll fix it up in a jiffy, or else he’ll end up somewhere. This withdrawal’s starting to consume me by the minute, so I might eat him instead. YUMMY!

Batteries Not Included

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on July 18, 2008
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Seriously, I’m pooped, EVERY SINGLE DAY.

I’m quite here at the brink of wreaking havoc due to an intermittent internet connection. Strange enough, I don’t feel like it. Is the RAEG not enough? I dunno. All I do know is that the Internet provides me with an ample plethora of interesting things every single day, and I don’t want to miss. If I do, I’ll waste no time getting out of my little turtle shell and do some ninja turtle ass-whipping at the company’s office. Seriously, you don’t know what I can do since I’m not used to bitching on the phone. It feels more natural to do it when you know you can slap some account papers in an attendant’s face. Feels good too.

But anyways, I don’t like how this year’s going. I feel like shit everyday, I only get one day of rest which I also use for general cleaning and stuff so I don’t really rest, my backlogs of anime , eroge, games, and manga are increasing by the minute, I can’t write good stuff at a regular basis on the blog, and the dose of Internet doesn’t even give me a damn anymore since I’m so preoccupied there’s not a thing I can do but just sneak in for a surf when there’s time, EVEN FOR JUST TWO FUCKING MINUTES. If there’s a job where all you need to do is sit or lie down, surf, or draw, all day, all night, 24/7, I’D TAKE IT.

But there ain’t going to be such a thing. No, more like there might be such a thing, but it’s not always around for you to grab. But hey, it’s not bad to dream. I don’t care what others say, but I love being lazy. I’d happily spend a whole day playing console or PC games, or draw shit, or write shit,  or watch shit, or read shit, or critique other people’s shit. And no, I got no relation to that blue-haired ahoge tsurupettan girl who plays eroges on all-nighter sessions. I’m worse.

Alright, screw with this anger management post! Get me my Deathnote. I’ll kill the whole lot o’ you instead! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Wordpress 2.6 Released: I’M SO UNIMPRESSED

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on July 15, 2008
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WHY, OH WHY…

So, Rakkun immediately auto-installed Wordpress 2.6 into our systems since it’s released already. But hey, I don’t even see that much of a difference! Yeah, menus and all that blabla changed, but the same semantic applies, and all the tools work very much the same as the last version. I see no improvement at all! ISN’T THAT GREAT?

So yeah, it nearly alienated me with my old dashboard. And what’s more, IT FUCKING ERASED SOME OF MY HOMAGE LINKS (homage links are links that pay homage since they’re linking Your Greatness into a post or site). Now my current blog status is a mess, I feel alienated on my dashboard, I don’t know what else is screwed, and probably I’ll get to feel that brunt tomorrow.

If I ever need to dabble on FTP, I’m gonna sue.

OSHITOSHITOSHITOSHITOSHIT

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on July 14, 2008
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OSHITOSHITOSHITOSHITOSHITOSHITOSHITOSHITOSHITOSHIT.

Before I knew it, eons have passed before I realized the link I gave off for the track Stillness Dark on my Princess no Rondo post was broken. No wonder people are clicking on something that leads to a broken download link.

Grah, I hate this, bit time to reupload.

Done. Stillness Dark is now in HERE.

100th Post!

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on July 11, 2008
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YAY! Now that I’m done ranting on such a trivial matter, I’ll have to point this out:

YOUR iPhone IS NOT WORTH YOUR MONEY OR LIVES, PALS!

Seriously, guys. If you plan to sit all day long on downtown Tokyo just to line up two days before the launch of such an expensive phone like otaku going to Comiket, then you’re a martyr! HURRAY!

Seriously, cellphones aren’t really that innovative if you ask me. I only use it as a jukebox, or for textfest session with friends (which occurs once in a blue moon), or maybe some important calls (which take millenia to happen since I don’t really like being bugged all the time). But anything other than that is a bonus. If you plan to die for an iPhone, thank heavens you’re still alive and reading this on one (if you bought one already, that is).

Why the bitching on the phone, Shance? Basically, I don’t want to depend on another electronic gadget anymore. It’s already enough for me to pull my hairs on end if I’m not able to surf at least once a day. If it happens that I depended on mobile phones too much, I might just send all the people on my phonebook a suicide note before I jump off the nearest high-rise building.

Okay, so I’m not a good person of substance. I don’t talk to people through calls or text too much, nor laugh at jokes or graphics and MMS sent by peers. But hey, IT’S A FUCKING PHONE. That’s all it is to me, nothing else. Aside from text feature and mp4 playback, everything in it is just a bonus, which means I don’t even use them. Screw games, screw 3G, screw network shit. I don’t like them. I like simplicity on my phone, and that’s it.

Now, back to regular programming…