So Much For Regularity
A backward account of recent events follows.
I finished watching Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha and the A's season this morning. Sweet. You watch it expecting Card Captor Sakura, you end up feeling like you've sat through Super Robot Wars Original Generation or some other mecha series. It's a magical girl show that boys shouldn't feel ashamed to watch.
I changed my phone bling from Bleach's Grimmjow to Konata of Lucky Star Fame. I felt like a poseur, toting a character on my phone who I didn't no squat about, so I felt no remorse replacing the Arrancar with the blue haired 17-year old otaku.
I joined the Shadowmoor pre-release. I went 2-2, which was better than my Lorwyn and Morningtide finishes. Highlights if the day were my first Automatic Game Loss for suspected cheating and taking a foreign player to Philippine pre-release rule school. Remember kids, when using sleeves and sideboarding cards, don't make the same mistake I did of being lazy and placing the sideboard cards over the replaced ones. That will net you an AGL (see above), even if it's a casual environment like a pre-release. Also note that in a Philippine pre-release, the remaining cards you did not register as your main deck is your sideboard, and if you're lucky enough to be able to assemble a functional deck with the remnants, you are allowed to use that second deck during Games 2 and 3.
A few weeks back, I finished Rozen Maiden and its second season Traumend. For those not in the know, the show is about 7 living dolls who are actually Weapons of Mass Destruction fighting each other in a brawl called the Alice Game, with the last doll standing becoming Alice, dollmaker Rozen's ideal of the perfect girl. Somebody should point out to all the characters concerned that perfection is an illusion, or perhaps a delusion. The first season could be descrined as Hikikomori Rescue 101. The next season makes grown men cry when dolls are killed.
My gashapon collection really needs shelf space of their own. To date, I've got 8 SD Mobile Suits, an SD Eternal; 4 Capcom fighting females: Lilith and Morrigan (from Darkstalkers), Ingrid (from a Capcom title I'm sure I didn't play), and Claire (from Plasma Sword 2); and 6 more figures from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (2 Nagato Yuki in red and black bunny girl garb, Mikuru Asahina in Gothic Loli wear, Haruhi Suzumiya in beach wear, taking her top off, and 2 versions of Itsuki Koizumi, one holding a fireball in his hand, and the other one not).
Gaming Update: I'm pretty sure I'm at the last act of Hellgate London. The wonder of Dawn of War: Soulstorm has worn off for me, and it's now become a grind to acquire all the wargear for all 9 commanders. That's a lot of grinding. What I've recently picked up is the first three acts of Battle Moon Wars, and it was worth my time investment acquiring them. I can't read the Japanese conversations to get all the plot, but what I can decipher has be busting my gut laughing. A game that makes you fight a ninja cosplaying as a Gundam ZZ, who is actually the fusion of two psychotic killers with super powers? I didn't see this coming when I signed up for this, but it sure as hell was enjoyable.
That's all for now. I'd love to get back to work on my fanfiction - there's so much material to work with now.
A backward account of recent events follows.
I finished watching Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha and the A's season this morning. Sweet. You watch it expecting Card Captor Sakura, you end up feeling like you've sat through Super Robot Wars Original Generation or some other mecha series. It's a magical girl show that boys shouldn't feel ashamed to watch.
I changed my phone bling from Bleach's Grimmjow to Konata of Lucky Star Fame. I felt like a poseur, toting a character on my phone who I didn't no squat about, so I felt no remorse replacing the Arrancar with the blue haired 17-year old otaku.
I joined the Shadowmoor pre-release. I went 2-2, which was better than my Lorwyn and Morningtide finishes. Highlights if the day were my first Automatic Game Loss for suspected cheating and taking a foreign player to Philippine pre-release rule school. Remember kids, when using sleeves and sideboarding cards, don't make the same mistake I did of being lazy and placing the sideboard cards over the replaced ones. That will net you an AGL (see above), even if it's a casual environment like a pre-release. Also note that in a Philippine pre-release, the remaining cards you did not register as your main deck is your sideboard, and if you're lucky enough to be able to assemble a functional deck with the remnants, you are allowed to use that second deck during Games 2 and 3.
A few weeks back, I finished Rozen Maiden and its second season Traumend. For those not in the know, the show is about 7 living dolls who are actually Weapons of Mass Destruction fighting each other in a brawl called the Alice Game, with the last doll standing becoming Alice, dollmaker Rozen's ideal of the perfect girl. Somebody should point out to all the characters concerned that perfection is an illusion, or perhaps a delusion. The first season could be descrined as Hikikomori Rescue 101. The next season makes grown men cry when dolls are killed.
My gashapon collection really needs shelf space of their own. To date, I've got 8 SD Mobile Suits, an SD Eternal; 4 Capcom fighting females: Lilith and Morrigan (from Darkstalkers), Ingrid (from a Capcom title I'm sure I didn't play), and Claire (from Plasma Sword 2); and 6 more figures from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (2 Nagato Yuki in red and black bunny girl garb, Mikuru Asahina in Gothic Loli wear, Haruhi Suzumiya in beach wear, taking her top off, and 2 versions of Itsuki Koizumi, one holding a fireball in his hand, and the other one not).
Gaming Update: I'm pretty sure I'm at the last act of Hellgate London. The wonder of Dawn of War: Soulstorm has worn off for me, and it's now become a grind to acquire all the wargear for all 9 commanders. That's a lot of grinding. What I've recently picked up is the first three acts of Battle Moon Wars, and it was worth my time investment acquiring them. I can't read the Japanese conversations to get all the plot, but what I can decipher has be busting my gut laughing. A game that makes you fight a ninja cosplaying as a Gundam ZZ, who is actually the fusion of two psychotic killers with super powers? I didn't see this coming when I signed up for this, but it sure as hell was enjoyable.
That's all for now. I'd love to get back to work on my fanfiction - there's so much material to work with now.
