| | Man, according to my LJ calendar, I haven't posted here since June/July. It's still the first link on my bookmarks bar, right next to my Facebook link that I click on all the time, so I can't really forget that I still have this LJ. I went back and read my first couple of entries. My first Fanime, my Dilandau skit, getting various people pissed at me. God, I was such as annoying asshole back then. Nowadays, I'm an annoying cynical asshole. Ha ha. Oh well, I'm just posting this here because it's really just a very long Facebook post. I'm not very good at distilling my thoughts into a one sentence Facebook entry. | comments: Leave a comment   |
| Making an LJ entry because I honestly dislike writing a paragraph for just a Facebook update.
For some reason that I can't remember, I got a subscription to Electronic Gaming Monthly. I swear it must've been one of those free for a year deals. Anyway, EGM's dead for a while now. Last week, Kotaku said that EGM subscriptions would be transferred to Maxim. Lo and behold! An issue of Maxim for me arrived today. Too bad it's the boring American one and not the amazingly awesome British Maxim. Time for a refund! | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | Should I Take Revenge? - Detroit Metal City | | Subject: | Fanime 2009 Report | | Time: | 11:27 pm | | Current Mood: | ![[mood icon]](http://www.court-records.net/dusk/mila1.gif) tired |
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| This was an unusual Fanime for me. Having to work through most of the weekend, I only had Friday afternoon and all of Saturday, and finally Sunday afternoon to actually be there.
Friday
I rushed through packing Thursday night, pack some old cosplays and clothes for both Fanime and work for the whole weekend. Then after work, I dealt with rush hour to get to Fanime and tried to call Jen on my way there. Since I couldn't get my hotel card, I just parked my car in the garage behind the Fairmont, then when to the reg line. Jen was still busy with shoots, so I browsed the arcade, waiting for the swap meet to start. I played ITG with Sean, and cramped up doing my Touch Me on Stomp. I am WAY out of shape now... The swap meet started up, but the offerings are less than last year, so all I got as a promo Star Trek shirt before joining Jen, Alyssa and their gang, and then we went to Pizza My Heart for dinner.
Saturday
I wanted to start the day off early to make the most of the day, so of course I waited an hour or so for Jen to get her cosplay ready. We circled the dealers room for a bit. Sadly a lot of dealers that I'm used to seeing weren't there this year, so a lot of things I was looking for weren't available. I ended up with a Yamato VMF Mtoko Kusinagi, an MMS SOL Swat Lady, and an Alternity Optimus Prime in silver,. I just can't see myself getting an Optimus Prime in red and blue that isn't a truck of some sort.
After dumping the rewards of our dealer swag hunt to our room, Jen and I ate up some McDonalds, then went back to the room to rest up. We went back to the dealers room til it closed, then we rested up before heading to Alyssa's room to watch the new Haruhi and more anime. Dante kept spamming our phones about his party, so Jen and I went there around 2am for drinks and fun and shit before we retired back to the hotel. I intended to make Saturday as awesome as possible and it certainly was awesome indeed. I think this shirt I wore for half the day was also partially responsible for the awesomeness. It got more people talking to me since I wore Dilandau.
Sunday
Driving to work after 3 hours of sleep and two cups of Baccardi 151 from the party was an interesting experience. On one hand, it felt like I couldn't handle as much alcohol as in my younger years, but on the the other hand, the 151 didn't kill my throat, so maybe I actually can handle it better.
We had a 90 minute lunch break at work, so I actually drove back to Fanime and spent a whole 25 minutes with Jen before having to drive back.
After work, I went straight to the dealer's room with Jen and Alyssa for last second buying, then had some Philly cheesesteak at Johnny Rockets before Jen and I went to the arcade. From the meager offerings of the arcade, and still trying to digest the cheesesteak, I went and tortured myself by trying to figure out all the changes to my mains in Tekken 6, Julia and Xiaoyu. Sadly, as I discovered before, WAY, WAY too many changes were made to them that they are essentially totally different characters to me. I played some DDR and ITG later on and I finally beat Touch Me on Stomp as my last song of the night. Then we packed up for the next day and then went back to Alyssa's room to watch teh most awesome Detroit Metal City live action movie.
Well, that's pretty much all of my Fanime. The post-midnight shenanigans each night were crazy fun, as always. Actually I think things were more fun this year than last year. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| ...but just for Saturday. And Friday night. And probably Sunday night too.
I've been hesitant to post anything about Fanime because I didn't want to jinx my chances of going, even though I prereg'd for all 4 days a long time ago and paid off my share of the hotel room all in advance. The chances of me going to Fanime are constantly in flux and there were times when I thought I couldn't go to Fanime at all. The reason is because there is a major deadline at work and we have to work for the entire weekend to make it. So far, I've been able to bargain my way to get Saturday free, and I can now guarantee that I'll be at Fanime Friday night and all day Saturday. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| The gathering I set up to watch Star Trek on IMAX was an awesome success. For one, everyone got there before the movie actually started, ha ha.
My not-so-spoilery thoughts on the Star Trek movie in bullet points:
Before the movie started I was like:
- Oh God, this so called "Star Trek" is trying to be so mainstream and "cool".
( And then the movie started and I was like: ) | | comments: 5 comments or Leave a comment |
| I just finished watching the series finale of ER on Hulu. Yes, it amazed me that ER was still going on until the finale aired on Thursday. I stopped watching ER around the time that the character Dr. Greene died and most of the original cast already had left. The finale was one of those homage episodes that recreated scenes and storylines from the pilot episode. I can't believe I still remember those scenes and especially the storylines from the first season. Heck, all the same nurses and clerks from the pilot, secondary and background characters basically, were still in the finale!
I watched that pilot when it first aired WAY back in 1994, and the recording is on one of my old decaying VHS tapes. As I watched the finale, I was amazed by the concept that I have lived long enough to have seen the beginning and end of a TV show that lasted more than 10 seasons. Sure, I've seen Star Trek DS9, Voyager, Babylon 5, Stargate SG-1, and a whole bunch of shows from beginning to end, but for ER, that one was a long, long time ago.
I just started by first year in high school when ER began in 1994. I had just started getting into X-Men through the cartoon. I hadn't gotten on the internet yet. Pagers were rampant and cell phones were nonexistent. I barely knew what anime was. I was a hardcore Trekkie.
Well, I didn't actually start recollecting all those other 1994 things in the preceding paragraph until I started writing this post. As I was watching the ER finale, I was really just entranced by the fact that I still vividly remembered the pilot enough to be hit by all the nostalgia bombs. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Lots of Resident Evil news this morning, warranting more than a mere one line status update on Facebook.
Yes indeed, we are mere hours away from the US release of RESIDENT EVIL 5, but before that, a super awesome launch party is happening right here at Union Square. I was only informed of this last weekend and made sure to preorder the game at the Powell Gamestop.
In related news, there was to be a super secret announcement at the previously mentioned launch event of a new RE game for the Wii. Well, Famitsu made sure to spoil all that by revealing Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles yesterday, the RE2 based sequel to RE: Umbrella Chronicles. And hey, let's have a trailer of it to boot:
For the sake of completion, two other bits of RE news to be filed in the bullshit folder:
- Rumored Paid DLC has been officially announced for RE5: Online Versus Modes (which sounds brain numbingly silly as you still cannot shoot and move simultaneously.)
- Resident Evil 0 and REmake are being ported to the Wii (which is incredibly stupid as those Gamecube games are already playable on the Wii.)
And finally, it seems AVON, those makers of facial care products, made a commercial that suspiciously looks very familiar to the trailer of the first Resident Evil movie. Click here to compare for yourself. And remember, some side effects may occur.... | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| I saw Watchmen with Jen today, my second time and her first. During the previews there was a slide saying that Mickey Rourke was once a boxer and had to get surgery because of facial injury. Then the guy sitting right next to me says to his friend, "Oh, did you know that Micky Rourke became a boxer, and the reason he had to get surgery to his face was because of his injuries?"
It went almost exactly like this:
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| Went to the midnight screening of Watchmen on IMAX. Jim texted me at 1pm, saying people were already in line, that I should get there by 4. I slept through the afternoon, woke up again at 5, the dinner, and left for Metreon. Waited for Jim for tickets, then met with Cristal in line, then Jim's coworker, and finally Bob. We played a game of Mario Party DS.
Most of the movie felt like I was having the comic dictated to me like a radio drama. Literal translation, with much of the supplemental things like metaphors and allegories missing. Comic was a great story, so the movie was the same. Need to watch Black Freighter when it's on DVD. Sometimes things are bluntly stated in the movie where the reader of the comic has to figure it out on their own. Didn't care much for that. Loved Rorschach in the prison. I knew about the changes in the ending long ago, glad that they built up to it in the plot. Not much other thoughts, must watch again. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | So, I'm reading an ongoing internet argument involving gay people, who are intolerant of a straight person, who doesn't like gay people yet tolerates them. Retards, the lot of 'em, I say of course. Arguing on the internet... Though it does make an amusing and disturbing thought that gay people would be so quick to harass and attack a straight person who doesn't wholly accept their way of life. Bigotry works both ways. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | Conan doesn't start hosting the Tonight Show until June, but I just found out that this is the last week of new Late Night with Conan O'Brien episodes. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | Yes, I'm no longer interested in watching the new season of Lost. I totally forgot the new season even started and now, three episodes in, I read that the people still on the island are, wait for it, TIME TRAVELING. And when to? Back to Lost Season One! Well, that's just shit. I really don't want to watch them either A. show what occurred in the past from their point of view, or B. totally change what happened. That, and the fact that eight people already got home TWO SEASONS AGO. So basically for me, the show is done and over. | | comments: Leave a comment |
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