I've decided to stop playing Ragnarok Online. I've gotten a new online addiction: Gunbound. At wrst, it could be described as Worms or Scorched Earth online. The gameplay is the same, mostly. Your choice of "Mobile" (as your units are called), as well as the stuff your avatar is wearing affect the gameplay. Basically, you enter a waiting room, select your mobile, take some consumable items for the match and you're set. Outside of a game lobby, you can purchase stuff like helmets and armor to increase your stats. Sounds wonderful? It is. If you have the gold for them that is, which can be gotten by winning matches inside the rooms. Matches can be up to 4v4, with 3 fun common variants. Tag makes you choose a "spare" Mobile which you can switch to in the middle of a match, which come sinto play with only 50% of its total life. Still, better than dead the next enemy turn! Solo is single death elimination, and Score gives a team a limited number of respawns or lives. That is, say in a 5 score match, if you number of deaths a team receives equals five or more (I've seen double-kills happen) they lose, despite say they all have healthy Mobiles left. The quickest way to score a kill? Blow up the terrain below them to send them plummeting to death. You don't get a gold bonus for the kill, but in team games, it's better to set personal gains aside for a while.
Gameplay? Up and down raise and lower your angle of attack, left and right makes you move over the terrain, and holding down the spacebar makes a slider move, which corresponds to the force your projectile is thrown. Each Mobile has 2 normal shots and a Super shot. Given 15 Mobiles, plus a load of items make each opponent unique. At okey lang sumawsaw, in fact it's encouraged. Unless may mayabang na naghamon ng 1v1 sa gitna ng battlefield. And yes, buhay pa rin ang walang kamatayang trashtalking. Hay!

I need a computer of my own. Specs? Preferably Pentium 4, 1.6 GHz speed, 20 GB+ HD space, 16 MB video card, and running Windows 95. 48x CD drive, or maybe a DVD drive. Modem. Gotta have a modem, and the necessary etceteras for Internet surfing. And right now, a printer. What am I gonna use it for? Hentai, non-hentai, and maybe write up some fan fiction and print out my thesis. There. Not too much to ask for is it? Yet the gods do not answer my prayers.

There is a Nantuko teaching that says, "Unanswered prayers are answers themselves." The question I suppose, is what are you going to do about it, young grasshopper?

Back from the dead again. I'm glad I still remember my account details. I'm glad I'm still alive.
What do I tell you? I've recently been to an anime showing, where I saw Full Metal Panic 2 (Ep 1), Ai Yori Aoshi (Ep 1), an Inu-Yasha movie, and Meitantei Loki Ragnarok. Did I leave something out? Well, I got a peek at Last Exile, but I didn't like the art [translation: no stereotypical cute babes] so I skipped out on it. I know: I'll give you a few-liner about each one!

Full Metal Panic 2: I loved the first, and I think I'm gonna love the sequel, no matter what my friend James says. Not liking a show just because of one character is stupid and is a mark of narrow-mindedness, but I guess that 3-pt Flaw balances the 2-pt Merit Tinker and the 1-pt Merit Trained Memory. Back to the series. :) SPOILER WARNING!!! The story takes place after 17-y.o. Sousuke Sagara defeats the terrorrist Gaul in a climatic battle on the deck of the Mithril HQ /submarine amid a raging storm. He is now enrolled in the same school as Kaname Chidori, the girl he was assigned to protect while serving under Mithril. There are rumors of the school being bribed just to admit our teenage super soldier with no civilian skills except playing basketball. In FMP 2, no terrorist hunting for a while, just the crew being normal students for once. Kaname for the moment forgets that she's a Whispered, and resumes the life she had before Mithril. I expect the other cast members of season 1 to make an appearance soon, judging from the opening and closing clips. The 99% assured enrollment of Tessa Testarossa, Sousuke's CO who confessed love for him to Kaname back in season 1(!!) has made me and my friend call FMP2 as "Seasons of the Sagara," a play on a classic JAST dating/ecchi game. Incidentally, according to my friend Ian, GONZO's pool of artists had some former JAST people...

Ai Yori Aoshi: Known as AYA worldwide, this is, as my friend puts it, mush. Good mush. I like good mush. The set-up: childhood sweethearts living under the same roof, with a bunch of other women in the household who aren't relatives. Sounds like Love Hina? It sure does. I mean, what other series has the lead female taking her clothes off in front of the camera in just the first episode? No wonder I like it. :) Not as sexually overloaded as Love Hina, but as I've seen on some sites on the net, the sex is still there, just buried beneath the rather serious storyline.

Inu-Yasha movie: Has the gang fighting two powerful fiends, Naraku, the main villain of the series, and another demon named Kaguya, who is masquerading as a celestial princess. Basically, a three-part TV episode. You have the usual Kagome-Inuyasha fights, the usual Sango-Miroku groping scenes, the usual cowardly Shippo...

Meitantei Loki Ragnarok: think Card Captor Sakura with a boy instead. Instead of a key that turns into a staff, Loki just conjures his using the time that Sakura would spend morphing her key. Instead of cards, throw in Norse characters, like thunder-god Thor masquerading as a fastfood cook, his mighty hammer Mjolnir transformed into a bokken. And yes, Loki gets a cute sidekick/pet, which he summoned by himself, and this pet has already been under a girl's nightgown. Lucky little cute bugger... :) Judging from the ending sequence, Loki will pull of a Yukito/Yue in the future, growing tall and sprouting wings.

That's it for now. I'm going to gloat about having foud some interesting AYA pics on the net and some H-game images now. Until then...