The Great Rio's Blog

Crystalline Hope

2012-01-22T19:17:00.001+01:00

Hello.

So, what to say? You must be getting sick of my excuses as to why I haven't written something in a long time. Basically, out of laziness. As always.

I guess I've gotten into life a bit more? Like, I actually stand a chance to find a job sometime soon again, I started doing my driver's license and I'm generally more active in life. Do I feel more happy? Not really.

My entire life feels even worse than usually, of course that might also come from certain other things happening in my life. I've deleted Lena, for like, the second time. It hurts, a lot, but I'm sure it's the best for us. I hurt her, and she hurts me, and in the long run it's better for us to stay away from each other, I think. She's still really important to me, aside from everyone bashing on her. She's not a bad person, despite what some people might think about her, and I'm still happy for the time I was able to spend with her. But aside from that? I feel like I've lost everything online. I still talk to people, it's not that, but I can't connect with Miro like I used to. We had a big fight, and recently he just bought me a Christmas Present which I wasn't expecting, so we kind of talked again. I still think it's best if everyone just stays far, far away from me. So far I've hurt EVERY person I've had contact with sooner or later. I'm not kidding. I am also not trying to sound like some impossible alien life form, I'm merely stating a true fact. I'm an asshole, I'm selfish, I'm a pessimist, I'm depressed like 24/7. I'm not special, I don't have any talents, I can't draw, I can't sing, I don't look very good, decent if anything. I guess you can say I write well, and I write a lot, and I have a lot of imagination when writing things and I could quite possibly write you thousands of stories if I would get the actual motivation to put things into motion, but that's exactly what isn't happening. I've started writing a story, but that's it. I don't actually finish it, and I suppose I will never do that, all these ideas in my head, all these possibilities, possible outcomes, anything really that's just racing and stirring inside my head every ever lasting second of my miserable yet incredibly enduring existence on this very planet you're all right now, this very moment, spending your lives upon. Did you read the last sentence? Were you able to fully comprehend the capacity of my rambling? Things like that just pop out of my mind like fireworks at New Year's. And I can't write it down, I can't, I try, but I don't have the power nor the will to actually do it.

But all this moaning aside, it's not the worst thing that's troubling my mind as of late. I'm speaking about the birthday of my mother, which was this week. She celebrated today, was all quite jolly and great, but I was just so depressed about everything that's happened in my life that I started getting severe headaches when we were at our neighbor's. They've asked, yeah, I told them my head was in pain. Of course I did not mention it was of all the sadness that's been streaming through my thoughts the last couple of weeks. So after a while they suggest to maybe relocate some dislocated bones or some shit to make it stop. A very clever tactic, and I suppose it would've worked, if my head wasn't in pain because of something else. So I said: "No, it's fine." and a friend of my mother said "Oh come on, just let me do it." - "No, leave me alone." - "It will only take like a second." - "JUST LEAVE ME ALONE." And then I left.

I don't want to think about what their impression was, they're all still somewhat strangers, and I've probably left the worst kind of impression I could've possibly left. I went home and, yeah, I wasn't exactly feeling good about it either. I'm not sure how I will face them again. Actually, I just want to be alone. Not really, but yeah. I am lonely, but this is good, right? No it's not, but it's the best. Ugh.

I've watched a lot of Doctor Who, which is probably the best series I've ever watched in my entire human life. It gets a lot of extra points because I can relate to the Doctor and his pain. You should all really give it a try. I haven't watched any anime, although I plan on finishing Bakemonogatari once I'm up to date with Doctor Who.

In all my misery, I've got to say, though, I met quite a lot of nice people again. Some old friends, some just some strangers I've finally gotten closer to. I don't know what I should make of it, but I'll try to spend more time with them and perhaps live a little again. Probably won't do me any good, but what can I do.

I haven't stopped caring, I wish I would, it takes away the pain, but it's hard to stop caring. So I just bid you adieu again, hope you're all alive and kicking and hopefully not as disgusted at life as I currently am. You take care of yourselves.

Just so nobody can say my music is what makes me depressive, this is what I listen to:

Merry New Christmas Year!

2012-01-02T23:57:00.002+01:00

Just so much fucking to tell, so little time. I'm so terribly sorry, but it just seems like I'm getting more and more lazy the longer I'm owning this blog. Maybe it's also the fact that the design is slowly but steadily getting lame, and I'm oh so craving to open up another blog. But if I did, what would happen to all of this? Would anybody ever still bother reading my past? I doubt it.

So yeah Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year or something, I don't really care for any of it, my Christmas I spent with Lena (Which I visited, yeah) and New Year's eve was basically just me and Miro (Yes we're pals or something again, not sure if I mentioned this) farming cooking recipes for a World of Warcraft achievement (Yes I picked up playing that again).

Oh, and yeah, Lena and I broke up. It may not be the happiest thing to talk about, but we did it in good ways, in person and are still being very friendly towards each other, so no harm done. Nonetheless I still cry sometimes, and I do miss her and the old times, but this is probably the best course of action.

I'm being perfectly honest guys I have no fucking idea what I did during the time I did not talk to you. I think I played the same games as usual, maybe a bit of Telltale's Jurassic Park, and generally showed Lena a lot of games while I was at her place. And yeah, I played a lot of World of Warcraft. I don't think there's anything really to go into detail with, I'm sure you know the usual games I play, League of Legends and shit, and WoW is not really a very unknown game (Although it's being judged quite harsh by most people). When I was at her place we did lots of shit, but nothing important, mainly I really just sat at her laptop and played, you'd think we are a weird couple, we even played an eroge together, but spending time with her was really fun in general. We did visit the winter market once, met up with a friend of her who's also sort of an Otaku, it was fun talking and she also knew about Touhou and Homestuck, and apparently is a lolicon as well! It was cool and all, but I didn't really talk to her after that again, even to this day, I mean I have her on MSN, I haven't spoken a word to her at all. The neighborhood Lena's grandparents live in had a really Tranquility Lane like feeling from Fallout 3. Everything was peachy, everything even looked the same. She made a few pictures, maybe I'll post them sometime on Twitter.

Animes, well, as a matter of fact I did watch a few episodes of Higurashi no Naku Koro ni at Lena's place, she didn't watch it yet, and it seemed like a fun idea to do. Other than that, a big no go, but I've gotten more determined to finally work down my endless of animes I still have to watch, and the one I'll probably watch the most is Mirai Nikki. But for now I'm still way too preoccupied with watching all new seasons of Doctor Who (Which, in case I haven't mentioned it yet, is probably one of the most amazing series I have ever watched in my entire life), and since each episode features 40(!) minutes, and it has, I think 5 or 6 seasons, each featuring 14 episodes, that makes about 2800 minutes, meaning 46 hours, meaning almost two days of playtime. A long series.

Yeah, I don't know what else happened, talked a bit to Shade again, which I'm glad for, made a new streaming group Steam, which looks pretty cool, started playing some weird eroge I found, it was in English, and yeah that's all there is to say so far, folks.

Here's a random video of something I like:

I hope you've all really enjoyed your holidays, see you next time.

That wretched life of mine

2011-11-18T17:16:00.001+01:00

Hey, y'all.

It's been a long time since my last post. How have you all been? I sure hope you've been alright.

I haven't.

There's actually happened so much stuff between that I'm having a very hard time thinking back. I'll have to reread my last post to see what I've already said and what I haven't, but later.

I'm close to actually getting a job soon, but that still stands in the stars, I haven't heard anything new and at "work" it's also just been a constant sitting around, doing nothing. I've had really bad headaches today, tension headaches, which lead to the fact that I have now an appointment at a neurologist. Well at least my constant cold seems to have neutralized itself.

I've played quite some games, I guess. I can't remember. I think Sequence, Sonic Generations and L.A. Noire. Aside from Skyrim of course. Sequence is a pretty cool, very original role playing rythm game, you should check it out, costs less than 5 Dollars as far as I know. Sonic Generations is probably as of now the most hyped Sonic game ever, and with good reason. Not only is it incredibly fun like any other Sonic game up until now, it even features the reworked older 2D Sonic maps which many have been missing. I really liked it. And for L.A. Noire I have waited almost half a year, since it wasn't released on PC. But now that it is, it's great, amazing, and fun, but I haven't finished it because Skyrim got in the way. Skyrim is probably the longest role-playing game I have ever played in my entire life. I think it's safe to say I have spent more than 72 hours (!) into it and I haven't finished all side- nor the main quests. It's incredibly addicting and but it isn't repetitive at all since there's so much quests, and not just "Be a dear and go fetch me 20 wolf pelts", no, actual fully scripted side quests that feel more fulfilling than the main quest at some points. But not to get too much into it, I'm sure it's hyped enough already, and I'm just saying you all should check it out.

I've finally finished Nichijou a few hours ago. It feels good to finally have that behind me, but now I'll have a problem deciding which anime to start and finish again. Also I've finally finished Homestuck, but that was also weeks ago. I'm still in love with it as I've always been, it's simply the greatest story I have ever experienced, nothing that I've read or seen was quite like it. I don't mean to convert anyone of you, since I've already tried that, but you should, and by that I really mean should, at least read Act 1 of it before you even dare to judge it. Act 6 has just started a while ago and the hype just doesn't stop. Everyday I feel myself thrilled in awaiting of the next page.

Since I'm such a big fan, though, I'll let you have a shorter trailer, and not 13 minutes like the last one.

Now, to my life I guess. I've recently had a bad fight with Shade and after that with Sam, which lead to the fact that both of them deleted and blocked me for good now. Why? Well it's a little awkward discussing that in the open, especially since it might very well be misunderstood by a great many of you, but let's get down to business. Mirodir has a girlfriend, or has had one, I'm not sure if they are together anymore, but let's start there. Mirodir has always been my best friend, and by that, I mean that we both care for each other. Now, his girlfriend is no good for him, I think I've told him that, and I think he may know that, but yet he stays like a loyal dog out of the sewers and worships her. In the past, she's already broken his trust, I think more than once but I'm a little vague on that, however it was clear that this can not be a lasting relationship. So when I had the chance to talk to her, I became to know her. Let's just say I wasn't exactly overwhelmed by her intellect, but aside from that, I guess she was nice to talk to. It was that time when I had the idea of testing her faith by flirting with her, of course I had no real interest since I have a loving girlfriend already, but she of course did not know that, and didn't exactly say no right off the bat. One thing came to the other, we talked some more, she said she'd think about it and the night ended. Now, I would've told my girlfriend as well as Mirodir about the plan of this, but both were already offline. So the next say, I'd say shit exploded. She told Mirodir about this, of course Mirodir didn't believe me when I said I was just testing her (Although he did say he believes me but he didn't act the part), and my girlfriend was utterly shattered about the fact that I didn't tell her about this (But as I've said I would've, but was unable to). So we had a big fight, all of us, Sam talked to me when I flipped out and went offline, she was curious so she asked my girlfriend, girlfriend tells Sam the story, Sam tells the story Shade. I'm but all too sure that during this happy mail delivery a few details may have gone missing, which also explained why Shade flipped her shit at me when I made a joke at her (That joke being "You sure have a lot of money" when she played Skyrim right at the release). So we fought, and I guess I bitched back when she bitched at me about this whole situation, and since the past between me and Shade wasn't all too rosy, she said "Fuck this" and blocked me (Later stating I do not deserve another chance when I talked to friends to ask her how she's faring) but alright, continuing. So I was mad, and went ahead and bitched at Sam for telling Shade, which led to Sam being pissed off and blocking me as well. So I went to another friend of them, which I actually got to know more than I had, namely Dale, out of confusion I may have accidently stirred shit up some more, and Dale blocked me as well. Later on, Miro still couldn't shut the fuck up about the matter with his girlfriend towards my girlfriend saying things like (Hurr hurr Rio is such a bad friend don't you want to see the log) when I've already pasted her the entire log of Skype (The log he had was of Chatango, which quite honestly, didn't exactly change the whole thing) so me and my girlfriend fought because I said that I hate how Miro can't shut up, so out of anger at Mirodir for yet again causing fights between me and my girlfriend (Yes we'll all remember the posts I have made about this with my past relationship, it's all in this blog), I went ahead and got rid off Miro, in all messengers I could think of. Now that I think about it I may have forgotten about Skype, I'll check on it later.

So there you have it, that's the story that's happened, that's what's been driving me insane the last week, because as you all know, Shade was a very important friend of mine, and it really hurt losing her. Sam was a pretty good friend as well, but with her I can at least understand it because I wasn't nice to her as of late.

I'm not sure what I'll do exactly, I'm still left to wait. I haven't given up on them, but I understand it'll take time more than anything. I'll have to rework the banners on the side as well, but that can wait. Kumiko has a blog now, and I'd like Dale to get more attention once we've resolved the issue, so a complete list of links will probably be Shade, Dale, Kumiko, Sam and my girlfriend. But, again, that requires us all to hang out again, as well as a little thought on the matter.

Suppose that's all I have for now, I'll let you know if anything urgent comes up. Until then, stay sharp.

The improbability of the probable.

2011-10-31T15:27:00.001+01:00

I oughta learn to make titles. I swear everytime I go and write a blog post I sit at least 10 minutes in front of the white box, thinking "What the fuck do I name this thing?"

So, hello everyone. It has been a long time since we last had the chance to talk. How have you guys been holding up? Everything going alright? I sure as hell hope so!

My life's been a constant up and down as always, now that I'm in a relationship even more so since we constantly fight about the smallest of things, it's so silly! But we always make up in the end and as long as I know that I can make her smile, I don't care about any other detail. So Lena was here two weeks ago (Heck, has it been that long ago already? What was I doing last week?!), and we had tons of fun. We also had just as much drama, that be said, but it was totally worth it. With her arrival, Dungeon Defenders came out as well, so when we bought it, we played it. And when I say played it I mean we appropriately played the fuck out of this game and no blood nor sweat could bring up apart from leveling like we didn't know any other task in life.
It was really fun.

I'm not about to go into detail as to what Dungeon Defenders is about, just check out this here game trailer I found while browsing the internet and check it out. I love it, she loves it, and I've been playing it for weeks now!

Moving on, a bunch of stuff has happened. I wrote countless applications during my stay at "work", looking for mostly restaurant and hotel related jobs as the people who know me on Twitter already know. Now, it's not exactly what I was dreaming about, but it looked okay, I guess. The problem was, there's constant pressure from where I go to "work", and they, obviously, want me to get a move on regarding this issue. I feel like I'm constantly changing choices where and as what I want to work as. Just now recently, after doing one of those job tests I found out that mechatronic technician is a job which doesn't look bad either. Lucky for me, my mom knows a guy who works for probably the most advanced and well known company which is looking for apprentices. And they're even looking for chemical lab assistants, which was, as most of you know, the job I was first looking for. This might be the end of my long quest to find a job. Or, as always, just another dead end in the path I call life.

Oh well! I wasn't quite as active on Twitter and Tumblr these past weeks, as well as Blogger, and I'd like to apologize to all of those who have been more than eagerly awaiting my next post. I cannot promise it won't happen again, since it's always a motivational thing that's going on. It depends on my mood entirely. So even if I have nothing to say and am in the mood, I'll blog.

Uh, animes, right. Been watching some more Conan and Nichijou. Kind of have been neglecting Naruto since it's just filler after filler, and it's pissing me off. Hopefully that ends soon. I have been reading hundreds of pages of Homestuck and I am loving it so much. I have become one with the fandom, yet I have not fully reached its capacity. (And with that I mean I still haven't caught up with the newest pages.) To show off my fandome (and more importantly, convince more people to watch this series) I have a video here which I'd like all of you to see.

With that, I'm out. See y'all.

Celebrate Cerebration

2011-09-24T14:15:00.003+02:00

I'm sick.

Or at least I was sick the entire last week, acute bronchitis the doctor said. I was pretty happy when he told me to stay home for a week, although I did NOT expect me to be seriously sick like I was. It's over, or at least mostly over now. Monday I'll probably go to work again, as long as nothing unforseen happens.

So anyhow, greetings my fellow followers. I've been thinking much about this blog, and the layout of the blog. I've been thinking about moving, as in, moving somewhere completely different, making a new blog, or rent a homepage to make a new name for myself. The Great Rio has died down, a long time ago, actually. What's I'm treating upon are the remains of a past that I can no longer call my actual life, and thus, no longer my actual blog. It feels weird, but it's true. When I started this, I WAS The Great Rio, I was overconfident to hide the fact that I was actually drowning in self-pity. Now, I'm Ryou Takeshi, a different person, much more mature, yet still childish, that side will probably always remain. I've talked to some sort of psychologist not too long ago, talked about my life, where I want to go with it. Talked about myself, talked about pressure, talked about how childish I often am. She said it's good though. She said it's a good thing to still have this inner child. I've never thought of it like that. I've always thought of it like a burden, like something I don't want to have, something that makes me less of what I want to be. But I guess I've come to accept it. I've come to accept who I am, come to terms with myself about a lot of things that have been troubling my mind for eternity.

Recently, Miro showed me an old post of mine, it was a year ago, or so, I've talked about people in my life, gave a general outlook for newcomers what I'm actually talking about, and what my life really is like. Unless you guys mind it, I'll just do that again right now.

Off goes, I guess. I'm Pascal Kammer, usually called Ryou Takeshi by almost everyone now, still nicknamed Rio, or Glam occasionally since the name "Ryou" isn't available everywhere. I'm currently 18 years old and I'm happily... can I say engaged? I don't know. I have a girlfriend I guess, with whom I'm really happy with. She's kind, good-hearted, a little clumsy here and there, we get in lots of fights and she doesn't appreciate herself. But she loves me more than anything else in this world, and that's why I treasure her more than anything else myself. Her name's Lena Feldmann, I'm just taking the liberty to tell her real name, she's nicknamed Panda, and mostly called this way online. She's 17 right now, beautiful in my eyes, although she never thinks so herself. She has a hard life, it's easy for me to relate to her since, I, too, have had a rough life myself. But moving on.

Miro, always the second one in the list, for this exception, of course. I don't know where to start here, and I've said this probably a million times already, but yeah. He's my best friend, that's what he'll always be. We sure do fight a lot, too, and some days, heck, even weeks sometimes, we don't spend much time at all anymore. But we do have time to sit down and talk eventually. Reflect about our lives. I'm an egocentric bitch, I'll tell you that, but one thing's for sure, I'm proud of him. He walked literally the same path, but unlike me, he got a hold of himself and is living a pretty damn good life. He's got a sure job, something that's fun for him, he makes tons of money and still finds time to hang out in the internet. I envy him a lot, and I feel like sometimes I do him wrong with that, since he worked hard for what he has, and, well I can't say I haven't worked hard either, but I probably haven't worked hard enough. Or I've just had bad luck, let the fates decide that. He knows how much of a jackass I can be, but he's also changed and can be pretty much an asshole, too. What's actually funny here is that I'm thinking that might be due to my influence, so I guess I can't complain there. You just do your thing, I'll be rooting for you or something. Just don't... mention this post alright?

Down the list, Slein. Well buddy, what do I say? We share a common bond, he's a good friend and we have great times together, although they're mostly in games rather than outside. But we've gotten closer the past months so I guess that's a start. He's still an awesome friend as always, I appreciate his existance, and I'm glad he's around. Life would be a lot more boring without him, and I'd say aside from Mirodir, and obviously my girlfriend, he's one of the key figures in my life.

I guess... it's your turn now, Shade. Heck, what do I even say there. I'm glad you found your love, and I deeply apologize again for all the trouble I've caused you about it, it's just been kind of rough for me there, too. Again, we've known each other for a long time and still keep contact, and that's an amazing thing since usually the people I treasure most, I kind of lose contact with. That doesn't mean I stop caring, just, yeah, it's sad. But for you, wow, look at you go. You've grown so much, you've changed a lot. When we first met you were, and I'm not joking there, an emotionless blob. And now? Man, you're so tsundere I can't even describe it. You're so full of life, so full of emotion. I'm still sorry what happened between us, I screwed up, you know me. But it's helped you a lot, at least the time before and after that, and maybe the good things that have happened between us. I hope you and Sam are happy together.

Now, here's where my list, actually, kind of ends. I know... hundreds of other people I could name here, and would end up forgetting someone. I'll still just faintly name some of the people I enjoy my everyday life as for now.

Timmy, heck, I don't even know the rest of your name right now. You get me so mad sometimes, and I just hate you then, but in all actuality, you're a fine guy, you're fun, cool to talk to, and yeah, that's pretty much all I can say about that. You probably don't even read this blog.

Next on the list, again, this list is no ranking, it's just how they come to mind, is Albi. Yeah, girl. I don't know what to say here. We've kind of, sadly enough, outgrown each other a bit, and that makes me really sad. Maybe it's because you're not Steam, maybe it's because you're not Teamspeak, I can't tell, but I don't really talk to you at all anymore... I'll never forget our meeting, it sounds pretty weird and shit, but that day was magical. I had so much fun, and I've had deep feelings for you the most of my lifetime, but I can't change a person, nor can I change its thoughts. You didn't want more, and so it was. It was sad, I guess, I cried about it, too. But I've moved on, but I'm glad I've shared this experience with you. We should definitely get in touch again, someday. I won't forget you that easily.

I am so making this blogpost longer than I wanted to, sigh. I guess this one goes out for all my Twitter and Tumblr friends, who are not really friends, but more or less colleagues and acquaintances. Just a quick shout out for Füschlatz, who's a really cool guy and shares the love for Touhou just as I do. Also Hiroto Sumi, which is a really good friend whom I can trust and share interests with. As well as TsunTaiga, or for that fact, Jakka-Jon, who really got me into a great group of people in Skype and is generally a really cool person to hang out with. Paul, of course, who's an amazingly fun guy I really love to chat and talk to. And Myrhh, who I got to know and love playing League with, you're cool, too. And most importantly, Dreamcrytsall, who, frankly, I got to know years ago, but rebonded more or less in Twitter with. She's also the main person when it comes to retweeting the crap I say. And of course, a thanks to all my 91 followers as of now, you guys are awesome, I love that you like what I have to say. And as for Tumblr, I don't even know half of you guys, I just see that I reblog your stuff, and you reblog mine, so we're all cool. A big thanks to you, too.

I suppose that's that. That is one hell of a big text wall. I've been thinking of remaking my blog on Tumblr, and just linking everyone here to there, but then again, is that a good idea? I mean, I don't know. I'd love to hear your thoughts on this one, as I think it's really a big thing for me. Should I keep this blog? Should I rent a homepage and start a new? Or should I make a Tumblr account for my new blog appearance? Leave your thoughts in the shout, in the comments, or contact me privately.

So, just to finish this off because I've recently got really hooked into Touhou (On that note, I'm uploading my favorite Touhou themes to Tumblr almost daily), I guess I'll link another video, but this time not Touhou related, but the opening to my currently favorite anime of all time.

As well as one of the funniest scenes in the entire anime, it doesn't take long either.

Well, that's all from me, Nichijou is the best shit I've watched in a long time, hope you guys try it out. We'll see each other... I don't know, soon? No idea!

A generic scramble of life

2011-09-13T20:27:00.003+02:00

Let me just make a quick list about the things I'll say before I forget them.

Minecraft, League of Legends, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Twitter, Tumblr, Real life.

Or something.

So anywho, greetings, it's been a long time and I still don't feel like typing a post, but when I think about how long it's been it just makes me sort of sad because I do want to keep you updated but on the other hand I think "Oh what's the point." That is also my general outlook on life.
But more on that later.

So I played Minecraft 1.8 Pre-release just the last few days, pretty neat, new features, cool, looks as awesome as ever and still gets boring as fast as always. I'm looking forward to 1.9, though, where they actually add NPCs.

LoL has always been a topic on my blog, I guess, well that's little to no surprise considering it's the game I play most. Riven is coming out tomorrow and Dominion was delayed YET ANOTHER TIME. Riot sure did its job crushing the hopes and dreams of their entire playerbase. Again.

On the note on games, I can't even list what I played. Did I mention Deus Ex: Human Revolution? Fuck, I think I didn't, man how long has it been already. It's an awesome game, very stealthy, yet allows you to decide if you're more of a friendly or more of an aggressive war-machine. The boss fights are plain stupid and ridiculous, except for the last one, which was, with all due respect, a fucking joke.

I feel like I should go into more detail about the games I play and the things I do because I personally think it's making my blog look really uninteresting. I mean I give no reviews, I don't talk much about the things, just casually mention them. I don't know, personally I find that sort of lame.

I also played Dead Island, you know, that new Zombie Survival game on a beach. Yeah it's cool, had some trouble getting the Multiplayer to work with some friends, will try to fix that to actually get into it, since all I've been doing is playing Singleplayer and that is sure to bore out after a while.

Twitter is also one of the best things ever happening to me, I've gotten so much into it, met so many new and nice people, I can discuss things, tell news, or just spout complete nonsense and at least someone is sure to read it and like it. I have amassed 85 followers by now, for me, that's a big leap that I was definetely not expecting to happen, or at least to happen this soon. I'm aiming for 100 this month, and the more I get, the easier it should be to gather more. I always was a very egocentric person as most of you already know, so it's a good feeling to see people being interested in me, I mean, literally seeing it. Here it's just "Yeah, uh, there were 40 people on your blog today" and I'm like "lolk" because I can't really control if those 40 gave a shit about what they saw here. With Twitter, they reply, they answer, they give their opinion, they hear my opinion, it's just a whole new level. I'm having a very similar experience with Tumblr, I've amassed a lot more followers, mainly through Twitter, and it's a good feeling to see people reblog stuff you've blogged, because it shows interest.

People may have noticed I have added a Twitter box and I have removed the Box.net playlist. Well the reason for Twitter is mighty obvious, as for Box.net, I became a tad scared about the legal rights, and about the problem with blogspot shutting this thing here down if they get a hold of it. So I'd rather just try to find something else instead of risking my entire blog.

So yeah, that "work" I go to everyday is as unfulfilling as always. I mean at least it helps me have a rythm in life, it helps me to become less lazy, helps me to hopefully find an interesting job for me. I've accepted my position in life, or at least I'm a lot more comfortable than I used to be now. I guess that's good or something. Met a bunch of new people, too. As in, real life people (Although I also met many online people, too), but what's more is, that those real life people actually are, at least partly, like me! I mean, they watch anime, some play games (Other than Counter Strike and World of Warcraft hurr durr, in actuality, League of Legends), and they understand and respect my general idea of life! Or at least they try!

I guess it's okay, for now. My life that is. Although we're still having money issues, the money I get from going to "work" really helps out as a backup safe. And I can actually buy stuff without having bad feelings about it! Although, still, I have to limit myself most of the time and pass.

Suddenly I also feel like I have so much to do and so less time. I mean there's Twitter, Tumblr, games, girlfriend, Skype, the internet, my story (which, admittedly, I haven't written on for ages, but I still think about it) and yeah, it's sort of hard to decide what I should do. I mean, spending time with Lena is a must, Twitter is very addicting and time-consuming, so I have to be careful when to use it, Tumblr is only useable when people posted stuff, Skype is literally just as time-consuming as Twitter as I'm in a chat which spams messages every now and then, and the internet is still a place I tend to enjoy lots. So usually what happens is that I play less. A lot less. Apparently, though. I don't know, life is still very dull, however not as dull as it used to be.

Hah! See! I just wanted to finish talking, so when I scrolled up to check the picture, I saw I still haven't mentioned Puella Magi Madoka Magica. Or Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica, which... essentially means the very same. So I've watched it, yeah, and I have to say it's just as awesome as I always expected, moreso, it's one of the best animes I watched in a very long time. It's very brutal and the storyline is amazing, I'm currently stuck at episode 10 because I have this syndrome where I rarely watch once I near the end of an anime. It's so painful!

Also I have Katalasticism. Not diagnosed, however, pretty obvious for everyone to see. It mixes right in with my high amount of childish behaviour despite my age. Which, kind of makes me a little sad when I think about it. It's funny how you guys never experience any of that, unless you know me outside of this blog!

Also, a random music video because I feel like it.

Those are my two favorite themes of the new Touhou game, right after Mamizou, obviously. I also like Toyosatomimi's appearance, and I can't help but to imagine her as the nemesis of Youmu. (You know, both wield swords of all characters)

Oh well!

I guess that's all I have for today, I will really, really try to post more! Keep it up everyone, and I'll see you next time.

P.S. : The picture I used for this blog is from an amazing artist I found, which name I already forgot, but which I credited on Tumblr so you can scroll through my posts there to see more of him, that aside, expect to see more of him on this very blog! Or her, I don't know!

It's over 90000!

2011-08-20T11:31:00.003+02:00

Alright! It's finally happened! Maybe due to me being derpy I haven't noticed earlier, but I've recently just hit 100000 views on my blog! That's amazing!

When I started out with my blog, I was pretty sure I'd be damn happy if a few 1000 were going to read this, but now look at all the way I've gone. Sure, I know that 50% of those opened this page for a second and closed it, and 25% haven't stayed longer than 5 minutes. Maybe another 15% scrolled down a few pages, but that leaves us with at least 10% of people who at least casually sometimes check my blog for updates and like to read it. And I like that.

I would give you a price, but theoretically you are just a number, and I wouldn't know what sort of price to give to such an occasion. A game? Music? Reviews? I don't know.

So anyways, Gamescom happened and my girlfriend went there, hope she's having a great time, I'd love to tag along but it's way too far for me, and I don't have the money to go there. She said she's bring me a souvenir, I found that cute. Riot Games is there currently, they gave out Nasus Riot K-9 skins on Twitter, and now here's the good part. Have I told you I won a Fullmetal Pantheon skin on Twitter recently? Twice? Yeah I gave one to Mirodir because he hasn't won any. Now guess what, I didn't get no Nasus skin, but Miro got two. Coincidence much?

Naturally I played Games, too. Namely Bastion and From Dust. Bastion is an amazing 2D hack 'n slay with a brilliant, breath-taking storyline. Let me just post you my absolute favorite track from the game.

When I heard that song ingame, I stopped moving and was blown away by the beauty of this game. Her voice is so amazing, and the moment when it played ingame... I have nothing to say to that. Listen, be amazed.

As for From Dust, it's a lot like Black and White, you play "God" but instead of manipulating objects, you manipulate the earth itself, you take sand, water and lava to form ground and solve different level puzzles to help your tribe survive and populate this world. It's pretty beautiful and unique, but the controls are a pain in the ass.

Other than that, I wouldn't know right. Hope you guys are doing fine. We'll see each other!

Demise, Disorder, Delight

2011-08-15T13:35:00.004+02:00

Yo.

So, as I expected the money project was a stupid idea. It probably made me look bad and needy, AND I didn't get anything out of it. But whatever.

So I was playing... what was I playing? Frankly nothing out of the ordinary, or at least nothing I can remember right now. Well except for the new Touhou: Ten Desires. It's the 13th game out of the series and I'm really glad ZUN still keeps up with the Touhous. I guess the popularity has now reached a level that within days there's fanart of all new characters, and some of it looks really neat.

So I've been having a cold since about Friday. And a bad one, I've been constantly reaching for tissues, my eyes sometimes started to tear, and I kept taking all different sorts of medicine, which didn't really help I think. I have basically not been able to play at all, since the shit is driving me crazy, it's gotten a lot better by now but tomorrow I need to go to the provision again.

I am not good at Touhou, but as I've mentioned, I played it. I really love the ideology and the music is beautiful. I apparently only managed to reach Stage 6... on Easy. It's a shame since that way I did not unlock the music for my favourite Touhou, Mamizou Futatsuiwa, the Extra Stage boss. Good thing we have YouTube for these kinds of problems.

Mamizou's Theme

In other news, I traded lots of items in Team Fortress 2 because it seemed to be the easiest thing to do besides doing nothing. And on my journey, I met a certain someone which name is Crucifox. Now originally he would be just one of the many traders I trade with, but he just happened to be the one to trade my Bill's Hat (very valuable hat in the game) against keys (some sort of currency in the game). So I was like "Hey, I don't want to lie to you, this hat might be my way up to the trading empire so I want to make profit out of it." Funny story, he is a very dedicated and skilled trader, and my enthusiasm made him take an interest in me, so we talked a lot about trading, he eventually made me trade with him, he actually overpayed me as a nice gesture. We keep in contact, yesterday we talked a lot on Skype as he wanted to explain to me how to easily and properly sell the items he sold me. As we were talking he talked to his friend in the background, and they were mumbling something about "Ever looked up to a Yordle?", so I was "Hey, wait, Yordle, you play League?", "Yeah I play League", and basically that is how we both found out we play League of Legends, which we happily celebrated in a game ~~which we lost so we played another one~~ that we won.

Speaking of League of Legends, the guys from G4TV made a Fullmetal Pantheon skin giveaway, and I won, technically one in a million, one of the skins they were giving away. Technically because in actuality they had multiple events and I just happened to be in an event which was very early, so I did not have many enemies who participated alongside. Just wanted to give a shoutout to them for being so awesome as to give me a skin.

I have made a meme about League of Legends, it's called the "Bad LoL Player Meme" and is featured by a bad picture of Twitch and an image background. The images feature various facepalm situations in League of Legends. It's rapidly gaining fame, and is now even on KnowYourMeme.com. Whether or not it will be accepted there remains unknown. The original League of Legends thread can be found... I think it's here.

Also I just wanted to drink some tea to improve my physical condition, but writing this blogpost made it cold now so I'm genuinely pissed off. But I guess I'll manage.

Aaaand I want more people to follow me on Twitter! I have started to do a lot more there, even changing appearance and background for that purpose. Check it out, yo!

I guess that is it for today again, folks. I don't have much else to say, make sure you check out the blogs of my friends on the side, also Panda's blog is currently down as she's having problems with her Laptop and the site seems to be screwing around, she can't change it right now, doesn't mean it's gone forever, though.

Alrighty, farewell.

Money, Money, Money

2011-08-07T03:51:00.003+02:00

So, as you guys know, I'm a little short on cash.

Well, basically, we're not that low on cash, but we do have trouble managing every now and then, especially my close friends know that. Before you're going to judge my decision I'd ask of you to firstly read this blog post and think about the entire situation me and my mother are in.

My mother makes roughly 400 Dollar in her job, we get a little assistance by my father, mainly because he is forced to, the FEO pays us a little money as well, but that's about it, I don't have the exact values right now, but our rent alone is roughly 500 Dollar. Then there's all the other stuff, phone, internet, food, things around the house here and there. And then there's the cost of bus and gas we're using to get me to locations far, far away in order to find me a job.

Honestly, if it weren't for the money my uncle (Best uncle ever by the way, he's priest and all but he's really awesome) sends us about every few months we'd have to move out.

So as I was helping a friend of mine with the correction of a rather long-to-come story of his, or well, helping is a wrong word, I was correcting it, you see, he isn't all too good at English grammar and the sort, so he asked me to look over it and offered payment. Now I'd gladly do it for fun to help him out, but I do need the money so I said, why not. So as we were talking he mentioned I could make a Donate button for my website. So I thought about it, and actually, that does not seem like a bad idea at all. The thing I'm most concerned about, though, is, that it might make me look bad for expecting people to drop their money here. I don't wish to use people, but it's not like we wouldn't need it. And nobody's forced, right? For all it's worth, they can still decide. All my friends know this is not a bad act, and the ones who don't think so probably don't like me too much anyways.

So here we are, donate as much as you want, but don't overdo it. Small donations are fine, but I'll feel bad if you guys donate too much, I'll probably remove the button then. I could not live with the guilt seeing someone dump all their money because they are worried.

Also, I will thoroughly mention EVERYONE who donates money to me, as long as they leave a message and their name along with the donation. I'm by no means just using anyone, so I will really, really thank you if you do support me.

And fuck you guys wouldn't believe how much perverted pictures you find while searching for tags like "money" or "treasure". Oh my god.

Well, that is it so far. Again, thank you for your time, just reading my blog is all the support I need. I love you guys. See you around!

Something Nifty

2011-07-30T07:38:00.002+02:00

So Lena was finally here.

I'm not entirely sure what to say, I'm a little mixed with emotions and all. It was awesome and amazing and all that, but I'm also really sad that she left again. We originally planned for her to stay two weeks, but it all turned out a little different, her laptop broke and my leg was cankerous on the side so we couldn't really go outside either, we still did somewhat and the weather outside was shitty, too, but I had to show around at least a bit. And did I mention cankerous sounds like kangaroos in my head?

So, what did we do, well. We, of course, did couple-stuff. Do this, do that, saying sweet stuff, making out, the usual, I won't go any more private than that because, you guessed it, it's sorta private. While I'm really open minded and wouldn't mind sharing everything with the world, I do not know her views and I'm thinking she wouldn't approve of it. So, we also played League of Legends, mostly me, sometimes her, showed her pretty much all of my games, which wasn't too much because I just recently formated my external, but still a bunch. Spore, Gleam of Force, The Last Remnant, Serious Sam, Swords and Soldiers, Street Fighter IV, Poker Night at the Inventory, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, you know, "games". Really anything.

So aside from that, I showed her a little around the city, and she told me she has a fascination with churches, how they're built, the structure, the desingn. Can't blame her, they are usually pretty impressive and a lot of money flows into the building itself. But we both happily agreed that god is non-existant.

So she was as amazing as I've thought, we spent a lot of time together, had a lot of fun, and really love each other just as much as we expected. She was cuter in reality than I had expected, which is of course a big plus, and I don't know what else to say, really. I might be making another blogpost when I feel like it. Or maybe not.

Thanks for reading! See you soon. Or not.

Friendship is blasphemy!

2011-07-14T15:20:00.004+02:00

Friends come and go, I suppose.

To commemorate this epic event, I felt like putting up new pictures for some of my closest friends' blogs.
If you're not listed in those three, because one of them is me, that doesn't mean you're not important, it means you have a blog that I either do not know of, or do not read often enough. If you do write in a blog and know about this here, feel free to chat me about it and I'll make sure I mention it!

I just thought the characters fitted too well to not use this opportunity, and the good thing is we actually do know all each other. I like it, and I hope everyone out there likes it as well. You can check out the pictures on the sidebar to the right.

Other than that, yeah, check them guys out, they write awesome stuff and the kind. Life's still pretty meh-ish, looking forward to seeing Lena next week and stuffs. League of Legends finally released Leona, after a week delay, geez. But she's fun to play and has really awesome mechanics.

I really need to start watching anime again. I've watched a little Mahō Shōjo Madoka Magika, as in, 2 or 3 episodes, as well as some random anime I've seen on Nami's Tumblr which was really fun, but I forgot its name already.

Enough talk, have a good one.

Antanaclasis

2011-07-12T15:31:00.002+02:00

Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.

I feel bad about the fact that I write less and less on this blog. Maybe the magic is just out of it? I've blogged some pictures on Tumblr and used a lot of Twitter. It's just so much easier and faster to use, especially when I'm up there in that damn FEO thingie and have to spend 7 1/2 hours looking for "work" which is not available because lab assistants aren't really needed around these parts. So, the result is that I spend about 7 hours posting stupid stuff on the League of Legends forums, tweeting crap around Twitter and of course surf around the internet, memebase and the kind.

I was sick last week. Meaning I could've basically posted everyday last week, but yet I didn't. Wonder why that is, though. I went to the doctor because of some stomache issues and the kinds. Turns out I don't have any harmful viruses, though. And fun fact? Seems like I have hemorrhoids. Not big 'a deal, though. So yeah, my stomache still acts up every now and then, but it's usually like that, and unless it gets really bad again, I'm staying away from the doctor.

Me and Lena are doing great. Sure, we fight every now and then, but we're in love and easily forgive each other again. We talk daily, obviously, usually 1 to 2 hours. I'm glad I have her and her support. She'll try to visit me about next week or so, if there's no further complications. It's not entirely sure how long she'll stay, but probably 2 or 3 weeks. We don't have much planned what to do, then, I guess the usual couple stuff. Oh and we'll probably play some games, too.

Yeah, about games... and since I've mentioned the last week, too, I've been busy playing a certain game. And by busy I mean I literally played it 24/7. With Riot delaying the Leona release, I had nothing much to do, so I decided to download and play one of my favourite RPGs which I never really got the chance to actually play through. I apparently can't tell you the amount of time I've spent in this game by now, since the ingame time isn't really accurate, for some reason it keeps resetting, but I'll judge my time about 50 or 60 hours of gameplay. I haven't finished yet, and dumb me kind of skipped one or two small side quests because the game won't let you do them after you've reached a certain point in the story line.

Here's some gameplay:

I think the gameplay pretty much explains itself. There's a lot of depth in the game, as to how classes change, and how abilities are learned, for these kinds of things you'd be good to check out the official inofficial wikia.

I guess that is so far all I can say? I'm glad I'm still alive and kicking, things could be a lot better but what can I say, I've always expected me to kind of fail at live, and so far I'm still right. But hey, I have a girlfriend, life is still reasonably okay and I'm not starving either.

We'll be seeing each other in the next post, I guess. Farewell!

One Nybble is half a Byte.

2011-06-21T21:20:00.004+02:00

Hard work. I don't like it, nobody does.

I've found a job, more or less, they're willing to take me if I can prove that I'm worth taking etc. the usual stuff people do before they're willing to hire someone or so.

Well, I went there. Since yesterday, actually. Well, it's a pet shop, so I have a lot to do with them animals there. Not that I'd mind, not at all. Plus there's a really cute apprentice as well, she looks cute and she's so much fun to talk with, she told me alot about my "boss", so to make it easier for me to actually get an apprenticeship as well. I can't say I dislike the whole situation as such... but there's always a catch.

I've been thinking alot lately, and really, the only thing I do there is clean the cages, clean the floor, and clean shelves. I've been wondering if it's like that in any job offer as a retailer, and if it's really the job I'm looking for...
I don't like being yelled at after cleaning the whole shop, just to be told to simply clean it again. Do you know how much work it is to unload a whole shelf full of dogfood, about as big as the wall of my room, cleaning it, and loading it again? It took me ages, I was on the edge of flipping out, I swear. If she would've come over and told me I am supposed to do it all over I would've probably just took my bag and left.

There's so many jobs out there, I hear people talking about how much fun their job is all the time... it can't be too hard to find something like that for me, can it? I think I should just throw this one.

Well. After this last sentence I basically stood up and cried. Yeah, it's embarassing, and I don't really know why, but I went to my mother and cried, explained her the situation and whatnot. She understood it quite well, to my surprise. I've decided to ditch this "opportunity." I mean, what for? If I get the job, what then? I'm not happy with it, I'm not happy working in this job. I need another job... I'll try to get a chance to test other jobs, perhaps one I've originally planned to but was too afraid and too lazy to actually ever test... labotary assistant.

Thought about a lot of things. Maybe I'm just lazy? Maybe I'm just not willing to work? What if I'm just a crybaby and the job is easy? Things like that went constantly through my head as I was crying. I don't know if I'm dumb, but honestly, if a job makes you worry so much about life, it tends to be a bad choice to continue on that path, right?

As you might judge by that, I've felt very miserable. It hurts me to give up on the job, it feels like those two days were just wasted like that... I've grown to like that girl in particular, too, I even thought I might hang out with her outside of the job, she might be a very cool friend, but I'm supposing I'll pass out on that, too. I think I actually had a mental breakdown, I can't tell... are you supposed to know when you had that?

I don't even want to talk about games or anything right now... I've played some, sure, but I'm so out of my mind right now I... I just don't know.

I've started writing a story a while back, it's about a boy and a girl, a somewhat tragic story but I really don't want to spoiler anything if I really intend to finish it someday... Maybe I'll do just that tomorrow... or maybe not...

My head hurts, but it's no headache, I feel sick, but I don't feel like throwing up, and I feel miserable and relieved at the same time, my emotions are somewhat spinning crazy right now and frankly, I don't know what to say. I'll just call it a day.

Good Bye.

Frankly, Good Sir, I do not know.

2011-06-15T00:06:00.006+02:00

Life is so confusing.

I mean, somehow it's easy, and somehow it's not. How is that even possible? Quite some stuff happened, and I don't know where to start. I'll probably forget half of it again

So first off, sorry that I haven't written in such a long time. I can't say that I don't have any time, but then again, I can. I certainly have more to do than I've had before, but less than when I was working. So I'm in this activity of the FEO again, and it's fine so far. Next week or so I'll change activities again. They said I'm supposed to get more money as support then, too. We'll see about that. As for my free time, a lot of League of Legends. Like, a lot. Oh and I spent a lot of time with my girlfriend. Her name's Lena. Yeah. I know. Where do I start...

We've met a few weeks ago, due to Slein, she was more or less a friend of him. She was really in love with him, like, a lot. And yeah, I knew Slein, he's not certainly the best with most females, I've heard and experienced a lot of stories about him and girls. So eventually, I got to talk to her. She cried, a lot, because of the way he treated her. He made it clear that he has no interest, and that really broke her heart. Being as chivalrous as I am, I was there for her, let her cry and told her things will be fine again. Eventually we got closer that way, talked more, spent more time together. It was cool. And yeah, one day we sort of, kinda started a relationship. Just this time it was different from my first relationship. I made it very clear, thoroughly reminded her of the fact that there might be times that we're not talking for a long time, that I am not always going to spend time with her, since, yeah, I'm a gamer, I play a lot of games, and I just need a lot of Ryou-time. Against all odds, she agreed to these terms, saying she's fine with it and can live with it, as long as I'm not gone for weeks and spend a little time with her on every other occasion. We decided we keep our relationship secret for now, don't tell people about it, see for ourselves how it goes. If it goes well, we can stay like this, if it doesn't, we know what to do.
Judging by this, I'm sure you guys can guess how it went. We decided that things look pretty fine so far, and we'd like to continue this path.

At this point I can also mention it to you, Albi. Yeah, I sort of gave up on you. You know I loved you for a long time, sure, there were times when I've put that aside, but I've really tried to get closer to you regarding that. All my efforts failed, spending time with you did no good, talking about it with you was more or less a nuisance since you felt more annoyed by it that pleased, and even meeting you in real life didn't do us no favors. You simply couldn't handle love, not that I blame you, but it was just really... hurtful. Now I can never say I will truely ever give up on you, I will always keep you in my heart, I don't know why. I love Lena, and I've already talked to her about it, but I just want you to know as well that even if you'd decide for me now, it's too late.
Just to clear things up, I don't want any more lies in my life.

Eh, enough about that. I've played Dungeon Siege III, waited years for it to finally come out, and I can't say it was worth the wait, but the game was so amazing, I really loved it. Could've sticked to the old ways more, but it still rocked. I think I also finished Fable III, I just noticed I haven't even mentioned that, boy, is it really that long ago since I made my last post? Geez, that's an eternity.

I've rediscovered my love for the artist Shirogane Usagi, boy that guy draws some great stuff. Or girl, I don't know his gender. But they rock! The picture above is one of his works again. I found it appealing, somehow. I've also uploaded about 20 pictures of his to gelbooru from his pixiv. Or her pixiv. And I've edited a lot of tags on gelbooru. I kind of think it was a waste of time. But it was sort of fun...

I guess that's all I can say so far. Oh, and one thing, my darling has a blog of her own, make sure you check it out right about here.

I have also decided to put up a Twitter, just for the sake of it. You might wanna check that out, too.

I will also rework the links on my blog, I don't think Jenny still needs to get linked to her blog, I don't talk to Ichirin anymore, and now that my girlfriend has a blog she'll needs to be mentioned on this blog, too. I'll work on it, I promise!

Until then, you guys just keep doing whatever you do. Keep it tight!

Hydrogenetic Suction Cups of Chaos

2011-05-16T23:02:00.002+02:00

This blows.

I'm terribly sorry that I haven't written in days, but I haven't really been in the mood for my usual bliggety bloggan'. It's just become so incredibly dull since I lost my job. Oh, you didn't know? My bad.

Yeah, the end of the month my job ended because, well, I've run into some troubles there. I wouldn't entirely say it's my fault, though, even my parents and friends agree that their reasoning was somewhat bland, but it's not like I can do anything against it. So here I am again, at the start, I've already visited the Federal Employment Office like I was supposed to, have already looked for other job opportunities around, and still haven't received any rejections or acceptions.

I've... well, I've sulked a lot, let me tell you. But I guess I'm over it by now. It's not half bad, I like not doing anything and wasting my time with no precious future right up ahead. I'm an Otaku and a gamer, I can live my life again. That's the good side. The bad side is that we now have even less money, the internet is screwed up as fuck because of some unknown reasons, the router just keeps resetting itself randomly, we're guessing it has something to do with the changing of our telephone numbers, and my parents pressure me even more now to finally get a job. It's perfect, really.

Of course I have friends that support me, that always feels a little better. Even though I sometimes think they don't even mean it but just say it so I cheer up. But whatever's fine, I guess. I've got no choice in the matter.

I've been watching a lot of American Dad, and some Boondocks. I've realized the sole reason I was watching anime was because I just needed something to do while I eat, so I might as well watch different shows. I still watch Naruto every Thursday, and I still have a lot of other animes I want to watch... I just can't bring up the motivation for them, though.

I have played so much League of Legends recently, it's not even funny anymore. It's like the only game that's remotely fun recently. Of course I've picked up Brink, too. That was pretty neat, nice customization, fun gameplay. But I guess I just can't get too hyped for anything because of all that's happened. I even bought the game from my own money this time, yay. But yeah, what can I say. Not much happened gaming-wise, just the usual random crap.

I... don't really know what else to say. I feel sort of bad because it's been such a long time, but I really don't know anything right now. I'll make up for it, someday, I promise. Maybe when something actually happens again and, yeah. Something like that. You guys just stay tuned. Love y'all.

Oh life, thou art a heartless bitch

2011-04-27T21:46:00.002+02:00

But we keep fighting, do we not? As long as we strive to stay alive that means we're fighting, fighting against the surge of waves in this ocean we call life.

Well, my life isn't as bad as it could be, I mean it is a little shitty that I have less money than I expected, and it is a little hard going to work and working for countless hours for a considerably meagre wage, but it's okay. It's not like life is full of bad things. I mean it mostly contains bad things, but as a human being even 25% good compared to 75% bad is "worth living for".

My colleagues aren't so bad, it's mostly somewhat fun to work there so I'm not all too angry about it. Sometimes things get a little annoying, but I think it all goes in a healthy balance. Helping out customers really is the best, it's amazingly fun and I usually feel great about myself when I've really helped out someone. Working inside the storage can get really tiring and eventually hurts your entire body, but it's a great feeling to have a challenge like that and you know that you've accomplished something today at the end of the day. I'm looking forward to the money I'll get for working a month there now, it's going to be my first wage so I guess it's just as special as your first kiss or something. Just a little thrilled is all.

So of course I am still an otaku and a gamer. That means I still watch anime and I still play games, or I play anime games and hit two birds with one stone. I haven't really watched any anime except for Naruto, but I did happen to watch a lot of cartoon, namely the Boondocks for any of you who might know it, and for any who don't, here's the intro.

It's an amazingly well made cartoon made by not a company, but people like you and me, it's about many things, usually involves black people and dark humor (Oh, that one was good) and it's pretty fun to watch. You'd think a series like this has about 10 episodes, but you're wrong, it features 3 seasons starring about 45 episodes in total, that is one heck of an amount for a free series.

Then, other than that, I played lots of different games, yet only two are really worth mentioning, Portal 2 and Ghost Trick. I enjoyed Portal 2 to the very last and it's an amazing game, the ending was just so awesome and the gameplay was as thrilling as I had hoped. But that's not too great because that was what I was expecting. It's much more amazing if a small DS game named Ghost Trick seems neat and turns out to be so incredibly fun and twisted that it's not even funny anymore. But I'm not really in the mood to talk about these games right now, I'm more in the mood for trailers, so I'll post trailers. Be warned, the Portal 2 video might contain spoilers, but it's just too epic to not show.

Portal 2 Ending Song

Ghost Trick Trailer

That's all you'll be getting from me today. I'm sorry that I don't update as often as I used to, but I'm pretty busy, and when I'm not, I'm taking my free time to get around to actually play a game for once. I'm thankful for anyone who's still really checking in. Keep it tight!

Gotta move that gear up!

2011-04-09T13:04:00.006+02:00

Bleh.

Life is so damn hard, it's not even funny anymore. My loan is meagre, my working times are ridiculous and the job itself isn't exactly what you call easy. I'd like to watch some animes, but when I come home it's around 9 PM, when I get to actually do stuff at the computer it's about 10 PM, and then there's about 10 people who want something from me so my actual free time starts at 11 PM, and I want to go offline at around midnight. Sigh.

There's people all around who I really like to spend time with, but my current situation barely leaves me time to do the latter. Of course there's always Mirodir, but there's many, many more, and I'm just going through with them all because I think that's something I haven't done in a long time, and some of you might cheer up when I mention you. Let's start with the person I just mentioned, Miro.
Well, sir. I've known you for around 4 years now and you've always been a key part of my life, something I cannot abandon, a friend for all the time I'd say. It's often that I don't exactly know what to do when you're not around. Games are less fun when they aren't played with you and life seems sorta boring. That doesn't mean all my other friends are worth less, not at all, but it sure as hell means that a life without you would be something I wouldn't dare think about. I sure hope this doesn't sound gay, because you are totally not my type, but I thank you for being there all these years.

Next on the list is, well, Albi. I would call you by your real name but you know, it's on the blog and I still don't know if you like that or not. You're someone I know almost as long as Mirodir, and amazingly enough, without spending as much time with me as he did, are undoubtedly just as important as he is. You are a key person in my life and without you life would certainly take a roll downhill. We never spend much time, and we don't get around to talk much, but when we do we surely talk for hours. Literally. About anything. I enjoy that. Being with you is so much fun, I can't actually describe it. During all these years, without us really talking, you've been secretly, more or less, reading this very blog without any obligation whatsoever. I really thank you for existing.

From here, I can't exactly say who's next, because Albi and Miro make about my only "real real life friends", so they are no doubt on top of the list. But let's start from the bottom. I've had many friends, but only a few are still regularly chatting with me. One of these is Kumiko. You know who you are. We rarely get the chance to talk, but I hope your life will get better again. You're a very good friend, and it's always been fun doing stuff with you, I'm really glad we can still talk the way we could back then, and I don't ever want that fact to change. I'm also taking this chance to tell people about your blog. It's great, and a shame I don't have much time to check it out, from time to time I skip through the endless pages, I like the humour you put up there, and it's always awesome to read through your blog entries.

Aya, I'm not sure how you want me to call you, it doesn't matter anyways. We've been through much, and after all that happens, I'm so glad you are still here. You've really helped me out a lot of times, and I wouldn't ever want you to just disappear. You're a close person to me, and maybe even a tad more important than all my other friends. I know there were times it wasn't like this, but with the situation we're currently in, I'm thinking things are fine just how they are right now, and it's probably for the best. Thanks.

Crimson. It's funny to call you like this around here when I was so used to call you by your other names. But that's the name that is most fitting and it's also the name you had when we first met. We've had a lot of fun in the past, and even though we had some pretty bad fights I still like you as much as ever. We're not exactly friends right now, I know that, but it meant a lot to me to hear you're still reading my blog. I'm not sure if you'll read this, too. But I sure hope so. You're a part of my life like everyone else. I really don't want to completely lose you.

Face, Facey, Facelord. I don't like calling you like that because it sounds awkward, but you never left me a choice, did you? Boy, I don't even know you that long, but I think it's almost been about half a year, hasn't it? We used to chat more, sure, but I still like our occasional conversations. It's awesome to hear your account has been unbanned again. Don't mind all the haters, they just don't know shit about you. I'm really glad to have you around, even though you're sometimes an asshole. But that's how you are. I'm also an asshole sometimes, so we're even. Peace.

Arzi, good lord. I don't know, we've known each other for quite a long time indeed. We never chatted much, and when we did it was usually because of a third person, right? Fun times, why yes. But you're a good person, a really good one. I'm glad to know you, and it's fun to ramble about things with you from time to time. It's also neat to play LoL with you. We should totally do that sometime again.

God, I actually wanted to eat, by now my foods already cold, oh well. James, I still have a hard time believing that's your name, but so be it. God, we haven't really ever talked much, but you've really earned yourself a place in my heart. I've never seen such a kindhearted person in my life, you're the sort of person who'd take a bullet for a complete stranger. And the weirdest part is that you're into guro. God. You're really awesome. Come online more often, I'd need you around again.

Sooner or later it had to come down to this. I'm officially declaring it. Nishi, you're a good friend of me, too. I never admitted it, really, and I'm always being an asshole around you, but that's just because I love how mad you get when I am. You're an awesome person, and I really played so many games with you. Actually, when it comes to games, you're the person I spend most time in games with right after Miro. That's a little something. Oh, and of course you're my soulmate. The only real lolicon I know besides me. Little girls are just something different, aren't they?

Elizabeth, my. I'd wish you read this blog, because it's really something I want you to know. Even though I probably told you, I have the feeling you never really understood. It's a shame we never really talk, but you're a really important friend to me. I've talked about many different things with you, and you're always fun to hang out with. I know just someday you'll be gone, I really don't want that day to happen.

Ichrin, my friend. I wonder how've you been? I really do apologize that I can never get around to read your blog, it's just really not in my time. But I'm glad you still check out this shit! You're a great person, and have been a great friend in the past. We never talk anymore, but occasionally chat which is just fine! You stay safe, thanks for everything.

You probably wouldn't think I mention you, but here we go, Paru. You're a very good friend of mine, believe it or not. I really do apologize for not often chatting you, but look around, everyone's experiencing just that. I sure hope you're alright, you never tell me much, and it's been a while. I wish we can chat again, you're a really cool person.

Next one is probably, well, Slein. Or Niels, depending how you call him. Well, bud, you don't read my blog at all, but that doesn't matter since I still feel like talking about you. We've known each other for long, almost too long. I never really get to talk to you about private stuff, but you're very often around when me and Miro are playing something. No doubt, you're a friend of mine, and you're really dumb for buying so many games, knowing that I probably can't ever really pay you back. Thank you for, well, being there.

Ronrinesu, don't think I'd forget mentioning you. Still sitting in your corner all alone? I hope you're doing well. No matter how you put it, you'll always be a friend of mine. I sure hope these other two are treating you well, because you could use a little cheering up. Everything will be fine, remember. You're a great person. I really enjoyed the time with you, as short as it was.

I would also thank every single person in my group on Steam. There's some of you I especially like, you're the heart of the group and usually around when I do events. I know we don't chat and it's usually group-intern, but I thank you guys, you've made me happy and I had a lot of fun with you. Stay the way you are!

There's also a bunch of new people I've gotten to know, some of which are more important to me than others, but don't you feel left out when I did not mention you today. I just don't know you long enough to have an opinion about you, but I'm sure someday I will. Thanks for sticking with me.

I guess that's all I have to say, but before I go I still feel like posting some videos of songs and shit I often listen to, especially on my MP3 player (which is really crappy, but eventually does its job) when I go to work.

I don't like this so called "Real Life"

2011-03-25T17:27:00.004+01:00

Fuck.

My feet hurt, my head is about to explode, I feel like I don't want to live on anymore. Funnily enough this is just the first day of my work.

So I got a job now, awesome, it's actually an okay work, you do the usual stuff you do in a shop and yeah, no big deal. But there's a catch. There's always a catch. I have to drive there by train and bus, which doesn't (or shouldn't) really take longer than 30 minutes, but it's still a pain to pay the train. (Sorry, that had to be.) I'm working 163 Hours a month, that's about 37,5 Hours a week, and all that for 400 Euro currently, which is incredibly less but that's about to change once I'm out of the trainee phase, since I don't have the job just yet (remember, always a catch). If I don't do anything stupid in 3 months I'll have the job. If I can last that long. As I've said, 400 Euros, I'd say half of that are wasted for actually REACHING my work and getting home in a month, so we have 200 Euros left. That's a little less but at least something, OR SO YOU'D SAY. The ~~fucking~~ Federal Employment Office stopped giving us the money it kept giving us up until now because I have a job now. So basically, EVEN THOUGH I'M WORKING, we have even less money than we already had, so fuck you life. Of course I'll need to look into this matter, things just can't be right this way. I'ma have to make clear that I want the way I'm driving to what they call "work" paid and just because I'm earning money doesn't mean that money can instantly just taken away again.

Even my eyes hurt for no apparent reason. I don't think I have much else to write, it's great that I have a future now, but if you ask me it's not looking any brighter than before.

As for the rest, I played Sims Medieval which came out a while ago, seems like a pretty neat game and it's fun, but it's way too limited and definetely not worth the price as a standalone game. Would've made a neat clever add-on, but like this it's a big no-no. I also watched one 1 hour episode of Conan and Naruto, I didn't get the chance to do much of that because I played a lot of games and when I didn't do that I was outside doing stuff in real life. Mostly because I'm forced to.

I guess that's all for now, uh, yeah. You guys just stay safe or something.

If you wish upon a star

2011-03-12T11:40:00.006+01:00

Well holy moly everyone. So many things happening. Good and bad things, I might add.

So first. Shit. Youtube deleted my account because ~~they're being complete assholes~~ my account has violated the terms of use for the third time by uploading content which is copyrighted and does not belong to me onto YouTube. Sucks. Know what sucks more? Right. My Youtube Google account is linked to this very blog.

Now I suppose most of you have already figured the possible reasoning behind my sentence. Exactly. This blog was blocked for the last days. Heh. Blog. Blocked. Funny.

Anyway, I had to "verify my account" via a code that's being sent to my mobile phone. How fortunate that I do not own one. So I took the one of my mother which ended up not working, for weird reasons. So since I couldn't go to sleep like this, I tried and tried different solutions to do this, and I ended up telling Jenny about this issue and she was friendly enough as to let me borrow her mobile phone so I could send her the code and enter it. The day was saved. So everyone who likes reading the blog, drop by her blogs to read through them a bit or drop a thank you somewhere! She's got a blog which is linked here however she rarely updates that one, so you might be off better reading her livejournal.

Hooray. So Thomas visited me yesterday and gave me my broken DS back and we ended up ~~doing manly things~~ playing games and stuff. As a side note, a friend of a friend of my mother repairs DSs...ss (what's the plural of DS...?) for free, so it might get fixed again. UNLESS IT EXPLODES. RANDOMLY. So as we were chilling and stuff we came to talk about whether or not I found a job yet and shit. And just as I was saying "Nope, nobody really said yes yet" I got a call from these guys asking me if I'm still interested in the job. No, really, it literally sounded like begging. I liked it. So of course I said yes and now I have to go there at Monday 11 AM. Hum.

Other than that I started watching Shaman King and I've got to say I'm impressed. It's a whole lot better than I imagined and the drawing style isn't too bad, even though it could be better. It's tense and interesting, keeps me entertained when I watch through it. Conan had to wait this week and Naruto, well, one episode a week as always.

So I played and finished Dragon Age II and it's a very awesome game, albeit I have to say a few things about it that I did not like. For one, the races. You're bound to be human. That is not cool. Second, I didn't feel like the other party members gave a shit what you did with a certain party member, or not that I have noticed. Third, you don't "get around" as much as in the previous game, or I did not have the feeling you did. You have around 5 or 6 locations in the town and 3 or 4 outside, most of the caves, houses and shacks are repetitive and look exactly the same whenever you go inside of them. The quests were all well made and had a nice catch, the gameplay was fun and interesting and the graphics were splendid, really, but every corner looked like the same. Of all the bad things, of course, there are good things. I really liked the new "talent tree", it was much easier to use, you had so many options with each class and it never felt boring. The new combat system is... hard to use, I find. It's nice that everything goes so fast, I like that, but it's hard to right click and enemy if your "attack" button is the same button as to move the camera, and your enemies jump like they have an audience with the president.

And yet more gaming news, sorry for those who're not interested in this kind of stuff, I'm still going to do it. Darkspore. Who knows it? Not many I suppose. I came into the Beta which also ends this weekend, Slein was friendly enough to bring me, Miro and him keys out of some sort of magazine, so we ended up playing and it's the best thing humanity ever made. Well, not quite, but you get the point. It's like Spore and Diablo II. Or III, graphic-wise. You can literally create everything at your creature except the actual body and figure, meaning you can add spikes, weapons, horns, shields, shoulderpads, you can change the size of each one of these things, making almost every player with the same hero unique because they all look different. On top of that, you can even change the colour and pattern of your hero. ISN'T THAT AWESOME?!
The game costs quite some money, so I'm not entirely sure if I'll be able to get it. But it's definetely worth the price.

God, I am so sure I forgot to write something but I think I forgot what it was... when I read through it, it sounds like I mentioned everything... Hm. Oh well.

Oh, and a side note, Japan has had a Tsunami attack shit. If you've got too much money on your hands, drop some of that here so these guys aren't having too much of a hard time. After all, they're making the precious animes. What would we do without them? Bleh, just kidding. Support if you can.

That's it again, my, I wrote this much. Also, what do you guys think of the picture? God, I love it. It's so awesome.

See y'all!

Tanjoubi Omedetou!

2011-03-04T12:44:00.003+01:00

Yo! How's everyone doing? Great? That's so nice! So am I.

... is what I'd like to say, but I've been feeling miserable these past days. Stuff's happened, as always, I still don't have a job, and well, I'm the still the useless unloved Otaku I always was. The fact that I have birthday today isn't going to change that fact.

I visited the Federal Employment Office today and they gave me some sort of work I will have to do for the next 4 months so I get approved for further assistance regarding money. Meaning if I don't do it I get no money at all, and if I do it I have the chance to get my money as well as a chance to find a job. It's annoying, since it's early and lasts long, and as far as I know we're not going to do anything up there other than, well, talking about stuff. It's going to be extraordinary boring, but it's probably good to get used to my future work, if there will be any.

As for my birthday, well, Slein gave me Assassin's Creed Brotherhood and Miro will probably buy me something, too. Even though I haven't even asked either one of them for anything. Plus I probably won't have the money to ever get them something. So, yeah, from my family so far I've gotten 200 Euro, while 100 are supposed to be for clothes, and I guess I could use new ones, but I doubt I'll buy those. I'll see into it. Though I must say I've never gotten this much money from my family. Must be because I'm getting 18 or something. Other than that it's a very regular day, nothing special.

I've played a lot of Getamped 2, the gameplay is great and it doesn't lag as bad as the first one. Plus the customization with skins in this game is simply genius. It's finally March, too. That means a lot of games are going to get released. Pokémon Black and White for one, as also Dragon Age II, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood and Total War: Shogun 2. Many more, of course. It's like THE release month. It's great because we were lacking games for quite a time now. I'm really looking forward into playing most of them, it's going to be a little tricky now that I have to "work" starting from the 14th, but it'll work out.

I watched more Conan and am thinking about whether to or not to watch Shaman King. I've watched it in TV ages ago and liked it, and the general genre is Shounen plus it has 64 episodes or so. It'd be pretty neat, but yeah. So much animes, so less time.

I honestly don't know what to say else. I guess since I'm at it, might as well thank you guys for continously reading this crappy blog of a crappy person like me. I'm also sorry that I'm not writing as much as I used to be. Sigh. Life goes on.

Catch you later, guys.

Game Over, man! Game Over!

2011-02-16T01:07:00.002+01:00

'Sup, everyone!? Hope you all are doing just fine, because I'm so going to roll out another blog post right now. Hope y'all ready.

So! Stuff's been tight these last days, yo. My mom was in hospital for about 1 or almost 2 weeks and she's coming home tomorrow again. I'm not entirely sure what exactly was wrong with her, all I know is that it's got something to do with her pancreas. When I visited her this weekend she seemed very alright, though. We conversed about what's happened and well, I brought her new clothes and spare money because at that time we both didn't know how long she'll be there. Basically I've been living on my own, I didn't really cook much stuff or rather, at all. All I ate was basically made of dough. Pizza, Bread, Noodles. Well, and soup. It usually tasted all just fine, so I can't complain. I also managed to finally get another meeting with REWE, and now I'm eagerly awaiting their response, again. Wish me luck!

I've been broadcasting a lot of games these weeks, too. Why? Well when you're alone and nobody will come over and complain about how loud you are talking it sure makes up for a good broadcasting chance. "But wait", you will say now, "when you're broadcasting you're not talking. When I last saw your broadcast I only heard ingame sound.". Well, my dear friend, that is stuff for the past, because from now on my streams will contain 100% delicious Rio voice, 24/7. You better tune in next time.

Ah, broadcasting, that sure brings up memories. When I think back, the possibility to stream what you play live was one of the sole reasons I've started using Xfire so frequently. And, well, the stat tracking. Over the course of months I've found about many different methods to show people what you play right now. Some are easy, some are more difficult. But they all seem to work. Just not for me.

Xfire was always one of the best, it barely lags when you choose a reasonable quality, and even if you choose low, it's not as low as other hosts broadcast the video. The less cool part about Xfire was that you had to have the game supported by Xfire, so livestreaming individual releases, let alone your Desktop, was basically impossible. Eventually I figured out how to manually add games to Xfire to be able to stream them, but you still could not broadcast anything which didn't have Direct X support. Back then, Xfire was using the Dyyno broadcasting software, a software which was also able to be used without Xfire, and worked a lot better that way. You could drag the Icon anywhere and broadcast it without any problems, even your Desktop. By now, it still is about the second best, and that's only because I'm not able to configure the quality and thus lag while broadcasting. And there's a lot of ads for people watching.

Right now, Xfire is using the Livestream broadcasting software, this software is a lot more common and rather well-known, however it's not exactly as good. You can configure the quality and all, but it still lags way too much for me. There's, of course, plenty of other softwares I've encountered, XSplit, Justin.tv and Own3d for example. But after all my travels I am still using Xfire, just because it does exactly what I want it to do. Well, most of the time.

Enough of the reviewing! You're here for some hot Rio action after all, right? Right. Well, I've played games, as always. Mostly the usual stuff, but also Dead Space 2 and Roller Coaster Tycoon 3. Weird choice of games, hah. I'm not a big fan of horror games, but playing Dead Space 2 during day or broadcasting it was a lot of fun for me. I'm still not finished. And I've always loved RCT 1 and 2, but I've never come around to play the 3rd part, but I'm glad I did, it's great.
As for animes, Detective Conan sure is long, but I also haven't watched too many episodes, thus I'm still not finished with Lucky Star either. So much to watch, so less time.

Oh, and before I forget, Happy Valentine everyone! Do you have someone who loves you? If not, a shame, if yes, that's great! I myself seem to have some people cheering for me, it's almost scary again. But a great thanks to Crimson for this awesome present! And for all the others who feel for me but I'm not able to feel back, I'm sorry. I love you all, just not exactly the same. <3

I guess that's it, folks. Did you like it? I loved it. I love scrolling up and seeing how much I wrote. It's one of my secret fetishes. See you around, guys, keep it cool!

First Post in 2011!

2011-01-20T20:32:00.005+01:00

Anyone feeling any special already? I'm still feeling all the same. I would've posted a lot sooner but I just couldn't get myself to do it. Not all too much happened and I feel like I'm getting a little bit repeative.

I played games, yeah. Recently have gotten hooked up with Bloodline Champions again, but I guess I won't play it anymore since I've gotten sick of it already again. Funny how much stuff happens if you don't post for a while. Huh. Well a good friend, Ronrinesu to named, recently bought me some neat stuff, I guess you could call it a Christmas present. It was totally nuts, but he bought me Red Faction: Guerilla, Plants vs. Zombies, Plain Sight and Call of Duty: Black Ops. Guy must've been really drunk or something. I love you, thanks for the games!

Obviously I have been playing those a lot. Black Ops is just so addicting, I never thought I'd be playing it this much. So much customization, leveling system, and the gameplay is just always fun. I totally love it. Plain Sight was... neat? He played it with me and the gameplay is pretty well and original, apparently the game is so unknown that even on Steam nobody owns or plays it, so you have a really hard time getting into a server with actual people on it. Plants vs. Zombies, I love this game. I, of course, finished it already and am aiming for 100% Completion on it. It's nothing I can play all day but it sure is fun from time to time! Spent a lot of time in it. And, at the very last, Red Faction. Now I don't know what the fuck is going on but I was expecting people to actually play this shit online. The Singleplayer is fun, sure, but that wasn't the reason I wished for this game. Literally NOBODY is playing this game online and I must say that's pissing me off, because multiplayer in this game is just pure fun. Oh well.

As for animes, yeah. Conan. Still watching. Yup. Also I've started watching Lucky Star, oh bother. The anime is great, it's more of a Japanese sitcom. Totally not what I was expecting but some moments are priceless, really. Also, I've been told to watch Baka to Test Shoukanjuu, I actually wanted to watch that someday anyhow, but forgot about it. Thanks to Tharatriel for reminding me! Other than that, yeah, well. Not much I suppose. Naruto, I guess. OH FUCK TODAY IS THURSDAY. Lmao, I still have to watch the new episode! Talking about being random in his own blog post.

Uh, yeah. About real life, hm. I've been looking around, REWE told me they'll be inviting me so I can introduce myself. I guess that's a good thing, even though last time I didn't make it, I'll make this time count. Other than that, a friend told me that I shouldn't think so much about this. I mean I'm still young, 17 years old, so I should have a good time, whether I have a job or not. I guess she's right. I mean I can still get a job in 3 years, but if I was depressed that long I sure will miss out. I have to make the best out of it, I'm not the only one without a job and fate will sooner or later smile upon me. It just takes a while.

Well, sorry I don't have any more to talk about! You've been waiting so long and all you get is a lousy little text like this. I'm so sorry! I've also been broadcasting a lot recently in my Steam group, so make sure you check that out! I'd love to chat with some of you in Steam! See you around everyone!

Akemashite Omedetou Gozaimasu!

2011-01-01T16:18:00.002+01:00

That is indeed Japanese for Happy New Year! I thought doing the English title seems boring, also, I've had it last year. So why not go for Japanese?

Well, there's not much to tell you, I suppose. Not much happened, a new year began and I hope you guys all had a great time yesterday. Or today, depending on how you look at it. I also noticed that the anime Panty and Stocking might not have ended. Many streaming sites said that the 14th episode will air at Friday, like all the others, but it's already Saturday and it's not released. I'll see into that, dunno.

As for games, a friend bought me "The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom", an amazingly cheap and surprisingly fun game, I have to admit. 0,39€ for 3 hours of gameplay does sound neat, doesn't it? Other than that, no new games, played Global Agenda with Mirodir and some other stuff here and there.

I guess that's it again. I really don't have to say too much, and I'll inform you guys in some time soon again!

Meri Kurisumasu!

2010-12-29T14:58:00.003+01:00

Merry Christmas, everyone!

I know I'm too late, but let's just forget about that fact for a second. I can't exactly say I've had much to do, but it was a bit confusing at some points. First off, I actually wanted to visit my dad at the first Christmas day, but then he said he won't be coming because of the snow. I actually planned this post on the second day, so I didn't do it on the first day when I actually now had the time to. So at the second day I visited my dad, we went to some relatives and stuff, visited them for Christmas, the stuff you do every year, basically. He has a cracked X-Box, so when we got home, I played a bit of Tekken 6 there. The game is pretty fun, I especially like that they keep the customization part of the game. The only dumb thing is, the bosses are still fake difficulty. They aren't especially good, they're not skilled. No, they are stupid as fuck, you can hit them all the time with the same attack and they won't dodge it a single time. The only thing that prevented me from killing him, is that his attacks hit the whole screen, they do massive damage, and he actually blocks if you try to interrupt him in his attack. Clearly, what the developers wanted to achieve here is that you combo him to death. I'm no big fan of "Play a game once, learn thousands of combos", but the only combos I had are for the Kangaroo, and those weren't working properly for him.

Back to Christmas. I've got a bit of money from everyone, no big amount, but it's at least something to live with. I'm usually not getting much for Christmas, so it's no big surprise. The one thing that was totally different is, that so some people on my friend list suddenly decided to buy me a game. I'm just gonna take this chance to mention them for the sake of charity. Kumiko bought me Super Meat Boy, and Mirodir suddenly decided to get me Monday Night Combat, an awesome game, if you haven't heard about it, check it out. Yesterday he also bought me Global Agenda, because it was only 6 Euros. Pretty neat stuff.

So, I didn't want to write too much since I was in a hurry, but now I'm at it so I can at least finish what I'm writing. I finished watching Panty and Stocking. Surprising end, gotta say. A bit unexpected, but there'll probably be a second season. They also released their totally awesome OST, which I have to get at some point today. Played a lot of games, so much to do, so less time. Been still watching Conan, will still continue.

Anyway, dinner's ready right now, so I'll put an end to it. See you all around!

The time! Where did it go?!

2010-12-21T16:19:00.003+01:00

So, yeah. I haven't really noticed that time was passing by THIS fast. I just wanted to do a quick update before the christmas post I'll be doing. I also just noticed that I have a limited space regarding uploaded pictures. I am currently using 5% of my 1000 MB I can upload. Considering all the hundreds of pictures I already am hosting here, I guess that's a pretty good deal.

What's happened, let's see... I've watched some more Detective Conan and Panty and Stocking, and I apparently have to tell you that P&S will stop airing soon, at episode 13. A sad thing, because I really liked the style of the anime, but if it sold well enough I am pretty damn sure we'll see a Season 2.

As for games, well. It's Christmas, what do you expect, everyone goes nuts about Christmas changes and updates. TF2 released the Medieval Mode and more weapons and hats, Killing Floor added a new skin to the monsters, new achievements and a map, but only during the festives. Minecraft went out of alpha and is now beta, that means the prize has changed and you won't get all following expansions for free, just the updates. Well, that is, of course, only if you haven't bought the game during alpha. And Pirates, Vikings and Knights II will soon release the new mode and the new class voices, and soon after that the new classes Sharpshooter and Man-at-Arms.
Elsword will also release a big update at the 5th of January, adding 5 dungeons and a new town.
League of Legends added skins for some heroes which you can only buy in a certain time.
I guess that's really all I could keep in mind for updates. Miro recently bought me (yet again) a new game, called Swords and Soldiers, and it's so sick and awesome. Of course, it's not a game for everyone, but if you like sidescrolling RTS you should look into it. Not getting too much into it now.

I've been having headaches two days straight, and I can't seem to get rid of them. It's annoying, but I guess I'll have to deal with it.
We'll see each other next time when I'm back with the Christmas update, I don't know if I'll have much to say then, and I'm not sure when I'll be posting, since I'll spend a day at my dad's house. See you around!

Stupid DLLs, how do they work?

2010-12-02T03:28:00.006+01:00

So I apparently had to reinstall Windows because of some shitty DLLs not working.

You probably want to know why so I'll get right on with it. It all started with League of Legends not working, it crashed whenever it was supposed to start, so I did some research. So I've been informed that you can fix this issue with reinstalling Direct X. Seems like an easy enough task, wouldn't you say? Well fuck that. Direct X wouldn't install because of some nasty bug where it kept saying it wouldn't be able to install. So yeah, so much for that. So I googled about that issue and eventually found out that many have that problem, but nobody found a solution. The only workaround was to remove Direct X, install Direct X 9 b, and then copy paste the older DLLs from 9 b into an older version of Direct X 9 c. That did the trick. So I finally had 9 c on my computer again, even though an older version. Back to League of Legends. Still didn't work, still crashed. Fuck. So I eventually figured out I had to download a d3x9_39.dll and copy it into the System32 folder of Windows. And there, League of Legends worked again. Great, right? NO.

After I restarted my computer the next day, it didn't even boot and just freezed on a screen saying my loading process needs DLLs for Kernel. Kernel my ass, I said. Apparently that didn't do anything, so I spent 5 FUCKING HOURS searching for a solution, and ended up just reinstalling Windows. Luckily, I haven't lost any of my files, but I don't have a registry so I have to pretty much reinstall everything anyway, except for music and pictures. I'm just glad I've got a working computer again. Also, Elsword.

Elsword is a korean game, similar to Grand Chase, where you beat up shit and level up, and do quests in the dungeons where you are beating up shit. It's like Grand Chase 2, just better. And more awesome. "But wait!", you'll be saying, "isn't it korean?". HECK NO. Germany recently released a Closed Beta, and today they're switching to Open Beta. I've been waiting for this game for years, obviously I've played CB already and am more than happy with what I experienced. Even though the game is German, most of you might still understand what to do, and like all the people ingame are talking English, so it won't hurt to ask. And if the German Version is doing good, you'll get your English Version, soon, too. Here's a link.

So, besides doing the stuff I just told you about, I, of course, played some more League of Legends and watched more anime, namely Detective Conan and Panty & Stocking.
Oh, and I totally watched a movie yesterday, called Megamind. Albi told me about it while we were walking backt hen, you should remember her from my previous post. Movie was pretty awesome, nice animation, funny, and had that little something. So yar.

I guess that is, again, all I have to say about myself as for now. If anything happens, you're the first to know. See y'all!

Gotta keep walkin'

2010-11-23T23:59:00.005+01:00

Just imagine it WOULD be Saturday today. This was supposed to be written at saturday but I was too tired to write a whole Blog Post by then, so I simply delayed it.

SO, yeah, main reason for me to write this post was to tell you that I actually had real life this saturday. YES UNBELIEVABLE I KNOW. No, it wasn't because there was an Otaku meeting right in my town (though that would be reason enough, too), no, I met a girl I've known for... 3 years? I mentioned her before, no idea how, though. I may have said "Albi", which is a nickname she had because of her name "Albtraum", German for "Nightmare". I'm not sure if she's fine with the fact that I say her real name, so I better don't, she'll be embarassed enough that I do a whole post because of her. And she'll probably punch me next time we meet.

So anyways, we met. I pretty much spent all my spare money on that meeting, too. I thought it would be worth it. Well, we live pretty close to each other, so we figured it might not hurt to actually meet once. And so we did. Oh, and just so you know, we're not together or anything. We spent the whole day walking in that city, it was fun, really. Usually I hate walking, and my feet hurt after a few hours because I'm not used to it, but just talking with her totally made up for it. I really like talking to her, I think she's one of the few people out there who can really appreciate me, and she actually laughs about the nonsense I talk about (Well, she talks nonsense herself that I laugh about, so I guess we're even). We went into a few stores here and there and browsed through various shops, one being a certain bookstore which she knows from her own town, which is where we spent at least 1 hour. She likes to read, so it's probably obvious that she likes these kind of things. It's not like it was boring, they had a lot of Mangas, too. I know, I said I don't like Mangas, but it's the closest thing to Anime an Otaku can find in this cold, cold world (Aside from DVDs, but I haven't seen those anywhere.) The day was much fun, and I loved spending time with her. And I know you're reading this, I hope it was just as much fun for you.

Other than that, Poker Night at the Inventory came out, and I love it. And since I'm such a lazy person, I'll just summarize it. It's Poker with 4 people out of different games and series. Epic. I wrote a full recommendation on Steam, if you want to read more about it. To read it, you need to have an account, though. You can see it here.

Long story short, that's all I have for now. I'll do my best to keep you guys up to date regarding my life. Stay tuned!

The playlist has returneth!

2010-11-18T05:12:00.005+01:00

OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS I DON'T EVEN...

Yes! I know! It's totally insane, because it WORKS! Now you can listen to all music I listen to, anytime! You can even download it, but I'm not too sure if that's legal! Anyways, I found this neat site called box.net which lets you share your applications, including music, which is so insane! It's like what I've been looking for so long! But it's white! MY EYES. THEY HURT.

Right now, I only completely uploaded my K-ON Album, I'll continue to get more stuff up there that you can eventually listen to. It's easy to navigate, just choose the Album and pick a song you like.

This is just a quick update to introduce the new and amazing EXTRAORDINARILY WHITE Playlist. I hope you all have a good time, and enjoy it. That's all for now, dewa mata!

I tried to think of something catchy, but nothing came to mind.

2010-11-15T13:52:00.003+01:00

Yo, how's everyone doing? I hope you're all fine, otherwise you can't read my blog.
Just kidding, I'm really worried about you! Or am I...?

Nah, kidding again. Well, where to start this time... Oh, right, the artist. Do you see the picture above? If not, I'll explain it to you, it's uh... a black haired, fox lady with a purple at her hands and eyes, wielding a slightly unusual weapon which resembles some sort of mix between mace and scythe. Half her face is covered in a black scaled substance. Weird stuff when you come to think of it. I found this artist, Shirogane Usagi recently on gelbooru when I was staring at almost every picture in there. I was so amazed, I downloaded half of them at the first sight. He does great stuff, and I'm sure there's more coming. Above picture is also my current desktop background, in case you've been wondering about that.

Why am I posting today? Because I've got to visit the dentist in an hour and got nothing else to do right now. Also I've been reading through comments in my blog. You know, it's neat if friends comment on your profile, but somewhere, somehow, their minds have already been tainted with an opinion of you, meaning, they like you, they'll post a nice comment. Usually, 'course there's always exceptions, but usually it's like that. I think you should value you those comments and treasure them. But what really catches your attention, and what really makes you smile out of nowhere, is when there's a stranger commenting on your blog and telling you to keep up the good work. It was so out of nowhere, and so unexpected, I just don't know. You can tell they really mean it, because they've got no other opinion of you. They don't know you, basically, and still say that. Of course I'm just that sort of stranger. I found a blog while, while back and started reading it randomly, commenting and hoping for a sign, because as it seemed, the blogger stopped blogging. Well about a month ago I noticed that there's been new posts and I read them eagerly. I don't know why, I don't know that person, but I wish I did. I somehow like the way he blogs. Oh, and to quickly show you what I mean, you might want to click here.

So, that aside, I've played EVEN MORE League of Legends recently. I still enjoy that game and won't give up so easily. But also, I've played the Tales of Monkey Island. No, not the old games (I already played some of them, though), I mean the new one. It's pretty neat, made my TellTale Games (Which I've come to admire, somewhat). The graphics are fancy, the humor is genius, and it's got everything what a good adventure game would need. If you like those kind of games OR the Monkey Island Storyline, you really want to check that shit out. Also, that game Two Worlds II came out. Yeah, well I've been getting so many stories about how awesome it is, I've really decided to test it myself. And... I'm not impressed. Sure, it has an almost open world like Fallout games, and the graphics don't look too bad. But the fighting system isn't really what you can call good. Remember Fable? A game that came out... I don't know, 2004? That game had a better fighting system than Two Worlds II. Seriously. And the game, IT HAS NO AUTOLOCK. Meaning, you have to face the opponent, your character doesn't actually lock the target to hit properly. Remember Zelda: The Wind Waker? That game had a better autolock system than this shit. Such small mistakes make you want to rage. The game has potential, but I seem to obviously fail to grasp it. Did I mention that there's literally NO EMOTION in the faces while they talk? Especially the main character. I should stop talking about this, bleh.

So yeah, Anime. Hm. Detective Conan, currently episode 205. And obviously Naruto Shippuuden, episode 185. Conan's as entertaining as always, can't wait to continue it, and Naruto's just been meh the past few weeks. Filler after filler, it's like they want us to drop the whole shit. Oh, and I've looked into Panty & Stocking. Yeah, uh, I'm not usually the person that follows hyped shit, but...

Anyway, that's it from me! I need to get ready for the dentist. We'll see each other next time. Well, seeing as in, reading. Catch you later!

Horrible Harrowing, everyone.

2010-11-02T22:01:00.004+01:00

I figured it was about time I posted something again, since some of my friends worried too much about my after they heard I actually cried. Also, I hated that it gave my blog such a depressive look. Not like it's usually any different, but, you know.

So, yeah. What happened, let me think. It's been weeks, hasn't it? There's no way I can say not much happened, but I somehow feel like that's exactly the case. Let's see if I can't somehow summarize the things I've done.

About the work, I looked together with my mother through the newspaper, but there was nothing really fitting, most of the stuff required that you already knew what you're going to do. Such as a Call Center Agent, I applied for that. Or at least tried to. I called them, asked if it were okay if I'd apply even if I have no knowledge in such a job, and they said no. Their loss, I guess, probably would've been good at it. Hm, so yeah, still nothing new. I do intend to get things going though, so I'll tell the Job Center that I have no job to receive some extra support money to get along with my mother (something which I should've done moths ago already, but I was sometimes to lazy and everytime I tried, nobody replied there).

Anyways. I've been asked what I'll watch next, as for animes. I wonder. I definetely had something in mind a while ago, but I just can't seem to remember. For now, I'm still busy enough with Detective Conan, since it has about 500 Episodes and I usually just watch when I eat. Oh, and I just remembered what I was going to watch afterwards. Panty & Stocking, I think that's how it's called. Everybody I know seems to be talking about that now, it's rather famous, yet many people haven't heard about it. From what I've been told it seems like an anime I could grow to like, so I'll see into that.

Hm, about games. I've played much. Like, really much. Team Fortress 2 had a Halloween event going on, you were playing on a new map and there was a Boss Map spawning every now and then. Of course new Halloween achievements, too. Then, I played Fallout: New Vegas. I've been waiting so long for it, and by now I've already played and finished it twice and am not fully done. It was obvious that this was going to be just as genius as Fallout 3. You really should look into it. I love it. Another game I played, while still waiting for FNV release was Black and White 2. By now it's almost old again, but the graphics aren't too bad and the possibilities are still as amazing as they were when I first played it. Almost at the same time, Sims 3 released a new add-on, called "Late Night". For those who've played Sims 2 it's pretty much the same as Sims 2 "Night Life". Bunch of new features and stuff, and a new map, which was pretty neat. Also, a rather unknown game, but unbelievable epic nonetheless and just released recently, Shank. Now Shank is a game like any other Beat 'em Up with storyline, but it still didn't fail to amaze me. It's pretty much what you'd expect, and it was quite fun to play. I'd say the boss battles are a bit weird. They are usually incredibly hard and take you ages unless you figure out the trick to it, then they're too easy. The Blood Bowl Legendary Edition came out, too, and is just as awesome as the previous one. I think they doubled the amount of races available, and added some neat new stages to play on. Not something for anyone, but definetely something for me. And last but not least, League of Legends. Now I've been playing that a while now, and they just released the new champion LeBlanc. I guess that game never gets boring.

Phew, I didn't know I had to tell you that much about games, but I'm finally finished. Oh, and since I'm at it, Happy Halloween, I'm a bit late for that but I did not have the time (or patience) earlier on to do so. Don't hate me for it. Unless you already do. I guess then that's fine.

Oh, and just to quickly mention it, I haven't met many fun people this time, but at least someone, called Ronrinesu, which I recently started spending more time with. He's a weird sort, somehow really sympathetic, and he thinks my profile text in Steam is "wondrous". I felt a little honored so I chatted him up and that's how we met.

So, that's it for today. I hope I get around to write more, it looks so abandoned if the last post is weeks back. Farewell!

What a sad world we live in...

2010-10-17T05:42:00.003+02:00

I'm actually rather teary the second I'm writing this...

I feel terrible. All around me, people are having trouble with their life, some even wish they'd be dead rather than to continue living. They seem to have an even worse life than I do. I don't even know what to type, my head feels completely empty... It's really dragging me down.

I usually really want to cheer them up. Of course I want them to be happy. I'm trying to talk to them, help them, give tips, whatever comes to my mind, but it's usually all useless, they won't listen and stay as sad as they are... Sometimes I don't even have any tips and it makes it even more depressing. I just wish my friends could be happy.

I'm starting to cry the more I type... I feel horrible. Life might not be great for me, but if my friends are having worse problems and I'm not even able to help them, I just don't know anymore... Some of those mentioned people don't even read my blog. Those who read it... you know what I'm referring to. Maybe it's a special thing, maybe it's a person. Something in your life isn't going to way you'd want it to go, and it's eating you up from inside. I can imagine you spend countless nights crying your heart out, until finally falling to sleep from exhaustion, just to wake up the next day, knowing nothing will change.

Just so you know, it really gets me sad, too. To some I don't even mention it at all, to some I talk about it all the time. Whenever you're feeling bad, talk to me. Because if there's one thing that I hate more than my life, than it's the fact that others are having it worse.

I would really wish all of those mentioned friends would read this, each and every one of them. I think this is so far the only post I've been writing while crying, and frankly, it gets a bit annoying to rub your eyes every 20 seconds. This is going to be so embarrassing.

And to just round this thing up, nothing really happened. I looked for work, but there's nothing really good. I will try to get a job at REWE next year, for sure. The earlier I am, the better chances I have. Other than that, I finished Mitsudomoe and have no anime I really want to watch right now, except for Naruto which takes one week to release a new episode. Luckily, Mirodir mentioned Case Closed, or rather Meitantei Conan, today, so I'll watch this 300+ episodes anime for now, even though I'll not watch ALL episodes. Have been trying to get people to play League of Legends more. Without any success.

I guess that's it for me, my eyes seem to have calmed down and I can think clearly again.
See you, everyone.

50000 Views!

2010-10-09T20:05:00.007+02:00

Hooray! I was so busy thinking of what to write in my new post that I almost did not notice that I've achieved 50000 views today! This is amazing, I've never ever expected my blog to be so famous, but obviously, I simply rock -that- hard.

It took me quite a while to look for a fitting picture. I kept looking around, surely browsed about 30 pages of pictures, and then went back and looked through all of them again just to find a picture that works well with my post. Of course it had to be something I have a relation to. Something that is funny to me, because I know it. But on the other side, it had to be something which is also funny for anyone who sees it. After I noticed that I spent 1 hour searching for a picture, I just said "Fuck this." and took a cute one I had. Hope you like it.

Anyways! It's great you guys still hang around here. Not much's happened except for the fact that I met a bunch of great new people. Also, guess what, I have still no job. Maybe I'm just a failure? Thinking about it won't help either. I'm getting sick of the fact that I mention that in every goddamn post in the last weeks. And I'm pretty sure it's starting to annoy you, too.
So, yeah, played bunch of games, L4D2 DLC "The Sacrifice" is out, and it brought some new stuff to that game, so I played that, too. This weekend League of Legends offers every hero to play because they won an award.

Oh, before I forget it. To celebrate this awesome event, I've thought of something. Nothing big, really, I'll just show you guys some music I usually listen to. One thing at the start, if you do not like J-Rock you probably shouldn't even bother listening to it.

Death Devil - Genom

Houkago TeaTime - Girls in Wonderland

And, because that's also one track I listen to, I'll just give you the opening of Mitsudomoe, even if it's the full version. It's apparently the only good one on YouTube.

Yes, I watch that kind of stuff. Deal with it.
See you next time!

Living on.

2010-10-02T20:03:00.002+02:00

I guess there's always hope. Not that I'd find life worth living for again, but I guess all I can do is to hope for things to get better.

Some people do not seem to like the fact that I feel so bad, and at least for their sake I can try to cheer up a bit. Life was okay for now, I mean it's not like I'm suffering because of the fact that I get no job, I mean I have a perfect life for now, but still I won't have an easy life if I don't have any job in the future.

Pokémon Black and White is out in Japan, and I've played the Japanese version a bit. It's pretty awesome and just as fun as every other Pokémon RPG. Especially the fights make the whole game a alot more lively, since the sprites are all animated, constantly. I've seen, but of course, all of the new Pokémon, and there are quite a few pretty amazing ones. But enough about Pocket Monsters.

I've played a lot of League of Legends with Mirodir and the others recently, I've really grown to like that game again. I also played some Sims 3 while I was bored, and a whole bunch of Team Fortress 2. Especially because of the new Mann-conomy update, where they added the long awaited trading system, new items, and a shop where you can buy items. The good thing is, all items you can buy are not craftable, and you can find them all the usual way, with the same stats. I think that's a very good decision.

I... haven't really found a job, yet again. I'm still looking, but there's so much stuff which is no-good, and if I find something cool, something just doesn't work out for me to get that job.
My parents don't really like that fact, as you can probably imagine. My father is just really pissed off at me, and my mother is too worried about the fact that I'll ruin my life. Or so she thinks. Well, I can't do more than to just keep trying.

Anyways, yeah. Haven't made a blogpost in a while so I figured I might as well do that again. I really somewhat stopped caring for my blog since I lost a lot of motivation for obvious reasons. Oh, yeah, I've read a lot of stuff on TVTropes, a very interesting site with a very addicting impact. I really like it, but once you start reading you'll stick around for at least 30 minutes. I can't really think of much else that's happened. Oh, yeah. I recently visited the orthodontist again. Why? As I've recently noticed many of you do not know the fact that I indeed have braces. Nothing too new or interesting, except for the fact that they fucking screw my whole mouth, and I since a few days ago constantly bleed at least a tiny bit in my mouth. That thing's scratching my tongue open again and again, and I can't even stop it, I "have to get used to it".

Well, no idea what else to say. Have a new avatar in Steam. Traded alot of shit in TF2. Bought some heroes in LoL. Created new Sims in Sims 3. Started watching Mitsudomoe. Still suck at life.

Good luck in your life, see you around.

Shattered Pieces

2010-09-17T13:47:00.005+02:00

It's not like I haven't been saying all along that it's just a matter of time unless this whole stuff collapses.

It's a lot less worse due to the fact that I've seen it coming, though. It was obvious that my life was going too good, something just had to happen yet again and ruing fucking everything. It's like a total waste that I try to get a good life going, over and over, and it's getting constantly ruined by some fucking overpowered unknown force.

"We're afraid we have to tell you that your mathematical abilities are insufficient for this job", my ass. I've seen what they do in that job, no calculating at all. All they do is just listen to people, configure their hearing devices and send them home again. It's easy, and I knew how to do it just by looking at her screen while she did it. I have to admit that it was a little more tricky to actually build those little devices, but it was my first time, and that's why I fucking go to school there, to learn how to. But no, it'd too easy to not take maths. Fuck it, honestly.

I've been talking with Elizabeth about the meaning of life, and why we actually live. Back then, I was seriously trying to convince her that life is somewhat worth living for, but oh irony, now I'm definetely on her side. I don't why I'm doing this, I don't know what's stopping me from just suiciding. I'd be done with everything, it's not like I'd actually miss stuff. Yeah, I'd lose a few friends here and there, and yes, gaming sometimes is worth living for, but really, I don't even have a girlfriend, I have nothing to basically live for. But yet again, I'm not going to suicide just yet, I know that I'm dumb enough to just try again, being the stupid human I am.

Sigh... Moving on. I've uploaded the orginal soundtrack of Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale to YouTube, and yes, I know that there's still more than enough Game Facts to be posted, but as you can probably imagine I'm not really in the mood for that right now. I've also basically completed the game, even though there's an endless mode which is just as much fun as the game itself. I've also completed Amnesia: The Dark Descent, and I must say that the ending of the game is not like I'd expected it. It was brilliant to the very last minute, and I'm glad I've played the game. And ever since Mirodir bought me Blood Bowl, I've been playing that with him all the time, too.

Of course I watched some anime, too. Namely being K-ON!!, Rainbow, Highschool of the Dead and Naruto: Shippuuden. While I am writing, there's currently the German Dubbed Naruto: Shippuuden running in the TV, and I must say, the censorship is a bitch. It's not even logical what they do there, but whatever. K-ON!! is as random as always. As for Rainbow and Highschool of the Dead, the last episode of both animes is coming out, soon. So I'll finish those two. I don't know if I'll watch many more animes after that. Maybe finishing Clannad. And also Shangri-La. But then, I really got nothing more on my list. Not feeling up for Katekyo Hitman Reborn since 50% of the anime (being I think 200 episodes so far), is annoying filler and not worth watching.

My head is so full of fuck right now. I haven't put so much hatred in one blog post ever. Sadness, too, but my sadness is getting a little overwhelmed by the insane amount of anger. I could just smash everything in this very room, and still wouldn't be satisfied. I just really hate life right now. I'm honestly trying to give my best, but if everybody just keeps rejecting me, I don't know if it's all for nought.

Eh, I think that about sums it up. Good bye, and stuff.

About Cicadas and Sofas

2010-09-15T15:46:00.002+02:00

If things keep going like this I might be enjoying myself just like the precious lady in the picture.

Just without the cicada... Anyhow! I've finished Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale and I've continued playing Amnesia: The Dark Descent. Once I feel like it, I'll review both of them, but yeah, that might actually take a while.

So, I was at that store yesterday. Work there was fun, much like I expected. You simply sit there, manage stuff, once some customer comes you listen to him and help him with his needs, then you eventually fix some hearing devices here and there (which is by the way much harder than it looks like), and he's free to go. So I'd work from 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM and 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM my time, if things go out like I hope they will. The only real problem is that the only school that teaches this kind of job is... about 6 hours away. Or more. Meaning I'd be in some other town at the other end of Germany for about 1 month. No computer, no internet, no blogspot, no friends. Nothing, just that job. But I suppose that is a sacrifice I have to make if I'm going to take that job... Those are going to be hard. Really hard.

Parsee's bitching around in Steam, ever since a certain incident happened which I'm not going to mention. He's like literally searching for a reason to ban me. Since he's not going to listen to me when I speak to him, I'll write to him here, and maybe he'll read it sooner or later. Parsee, I'm sorry for what's happened and I actually were fine with the fact that we weren't fighting about this 24/7, so could we please stop with this? I don't personally hate you, and I'm sure you don't particularly hate me either, which leaves us to the point that this whole fight is pointless. I'm just saying.

So I've met even more people here and there and things are going just fine. Also, I've been playing a lot more Leage of Legends and I've started playing Blood Bowl. As for LoL, it always was a fun game, but it's hard to get a friends-only game going. And Blood Bowl is genius, it's basically football in a fantasy world, with orcs and elves and shit. Going into detail later.
All you need to know is that I've been playing these games with a certain person yet again. And I'm sure some of you know who that is. Yup. Another thanks right to my best friend of all time, Mirodir. Did I ever mention Miro and I have the same real life name? It's funny, in a weird way, since we've known each other for so long. I guess we'll forever call each other Rio and Miro.

That's it from me, so far! Don't sulk, guys, I love you all equally, Miro just has an early start! I'll be seeing you guys around. Dewa mata!

Realism, ho!

2010-09-11T15:52:00.003+02:00

Greetings, everyone! Life's been okay for a while now, I can't wait for the next time when everything's ruined again!

Just kidding. I think things might work out as they are now. Currently, I've been asked if I would happen to want to test that new job I'll be working as, so I'll go introduce myself next week tuesday. Other than that, much stuff has happened. I've met quite some new people, some more, some less interesting. Also, I've chatted quite much with Patty recently, and he and I, well, mostly he, set up a Team Fortress 2 Melee Only server, so in case you're interested, my Steam Group should hold all the info you need.

So yes, Amnesia: The Dark Descent finally came out recently, and it's certainly the most fucking scary game I've ever played in my entire life. I'm sometimes scared to continue playing, because my heart just can't take anymore. Maybe I'm overdoing this, but even F.E.A.R wasn't as scary as this is. In F.E.A.R you could shoot if you're scared. Here? All you can do is run. Run and hide, and hope to survive, hope they lose interest and move on. Sometimes it's just plain scary, dark places, that kind of stuff. Not much happens and you just move on, just knowing that something might happen any fucking second. And then? You hear some kind of monster, then you see something coming around the corner, and all you can fucking do is run. You hear the screams behind you, your character starts to breathe heavily, because his sanity drowns slowly. That's the kind of game it is. Enjoy with caution.
So, on the exact other site, Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale came out two days after. I'll make it short. Basically, you have an item shop, gather items with your adventurer, and then sell them in your shop. You can customise your shop and all, and the story is pretty cool. It's anime-styled, of course. I've been playing it quite much recently, too, mostly to calm myself down from the creepy situations in Amnesia before. I have yet to complete both games, however.

I've watched a lot more of K-ON!!, too, most of the time when I'm eating or not doing anything else. I sometimes really do not know what to do, and that is when I start chatting, watching animes, or just stare at the screen for an unknown amount of time. I wonder if that's a bad thing, that I have nothing that really interests me in life. I mean I do have things that interest me, and things I enjoy, but I don't know. I really just don't know.

Ah, whatever, I guess. Life's good so far, might as well make the best out of it. See you later!

Ritsu's the name!

2010-09-06T01:06:00.005+02:00

Yo, how's it going, everyone?

I've been doing surprisingly good. I don't know why, but I somehow feel that I still have enough time to make things right, it's a weird, overwhelming feeling I haven't really felt before. I wonder if that has something to do with the fact that my mother made my favorite food today.

So anyways, yeah, I've been doing really good so I have decided to make yet another blog post. Some stuff happened, so I have a little bit to talk about, too. First off, I've watched more K-ON! recently, I have totally forgotten how amazing and adorable this anime is. I've almost completed season one now and after that, I might as well start the second season. I have also talked with Albi (or Lara, how I should call her from now on) and we got along really well. It's great to see that even your old friends are still as awesome as they were when you met them. Talking about old friends, I've had a fight with Eliz about how my advices make things worse for her. I can't blame her, since that actually was the fact for her once, but the whole argument was somewhat pointless, and I'm glad we're over it by now.

I have been downloading Final Fantasy XIV the past days, since the Open Beta just got released. Rather, I have been trying to. First off, you have to open ports in order to get a decent download speed, otherwise you'll be stuck at 20kB/s with a 3GB patch. Good luck with that. Secondly, I have been installing this very game since yesterday. Yes. By now, it is almost finished with the first 5GB, I think about 4 GB are left. I don't think I'll grow to like the game very much, and the sole, and only reason I actually went through all this effort is because you can create a race which is called Lalafell. In anime terms, that would mean you're able to create lolis.

Now, where most of my friends already know the fact that I'm Lolicon, it might sound strange for everyone else. It's happened that I've been called a weirdo, or a pervert for thinking so. But I can't help that I really do admire the way lolis are drawn and the way they usually act like. It's similar to any other fetish. Masochism and sadism included. Of course many people are like "But they're little girls! That's wrong! You're pedophile!" Truely, despite the fact that I like to think of myself as a pedophile (that is something where you can call me weird), I am not pedophile. When I think of Lolicon, I don't think of real life girls at all. I don't relate it. Lolis act different than children in the real world. That is where the difference lies.

Enough with that, I'm getting off-topic. Someone chatted me today and showed me something interesting. Not interesting because of its content, rather because of its name. You can witness this very something, here. Don't ask me what it is, as far as I know it's supposed to be an anime. I like their name idea, naturally, even if it does sound somewhat... gay. No offence. Also, Mikun has asked me to create a subbing team with him. I told him that I'd think about it, I'd be a leader after all, but I'm really not sure if I'm to all the time wasting, really. I'll think about it.

When I woke up today, my mom was looking at me, I'm assuming that she was the reason I suddenly couldn't sleep anymore, I don't know how long she's been staring at me while I was asleep, but I don't want to know. Anyhow, she told me my dad was here, and he quickly looked for more work around, since I failed at finding anything that could possibly interest me. Well, he found something in my area. Yup, if things work out fine, I'll be a hearing aid acoustician soon. That are those people who... well, help people hear? They produce hearing aid of all sorts. Not the best job I could've wished for, but its worth the money, I suppose.

Oh, in case anyone wondered about the name, Ritsu is a character of K-ON!, my favorite to be precise, and currently my avatar and appearance in Steam. Do you think I overdid it with the wallpaper? Well, at least you can understand why I love her so much, now!

Geez, I guess that was about all I had to say for this time. I hope I find the time to write some more reviews, soon, because I will have a load of information, waiting to be posted. See you around!

Plasmatic cheese from another universe.

2010-08-30T03:46:00.003+02:00

I'm beginning to doubt the reason for my very existence. That, and I'm running out of names for my blogposts.

I don't know where exactly I am trying to get with my current situation. I have no job, I do not visit any kind of school. I have no income of my own, and by now, I am 17 years old. If this goes on, I'll be ending on the street, soon. Don't be fooled by the nice looks of my parents, my dad clearly told me "As long as you don't have a job, you don't even need to think about living here."
As my mother clearly does not get enough money anymore to take care of both of us, even that possibility fails.

Now don't you all come here and say "Yeah, then go get a job."
If it were that easy, I'd have one already. It's not like I didn't try. I admit I didn't even try that hard, but I put a lot of effort in it, and all for nothing. I am unable to find any of the jobs I would like to do around here, since they're either taken, too far away or non-existing. And everybody tells me that I must not ever do some kind of job which I won't like. The heck am I supposed to do, then? I still haven't gotten a reply on the application I've send out regarding the newspaper. I might be able to get that part time job, but still, it'll be just a part time job.

Come to think of it, I wrote this post because I felt lonely. I'm not saying I don't have any friends. I do have quite a few, and I'm proud to have those. But still, you guys aren't always there when I need you. Right now, the only people around are Kumiko and Crimson, because it's in their timezone, and even they are busy being away or playing. I usually stay up this late, which means I don't really share the same sleeping times as you other guys. It's a shame, really. Also, pretty much people deleted me for various reasons. I don't know why, but it was probably because of a lacking conversation. Even though I tried to chat with most of them, they were mostly away or did not reply. It's not my fault, so, whatever.

On my adventureous quest to find a fitting picture for today's blog I found out that you find just as much pictures about Nazrin when searching for the keyword "cheese" as when you search for her actual name. A funny coincidence. Well, she is a Mouse-Youkai after all, so I can't blame anyone. I've been watching Naruto on and on and have finally reached the newest episode. Now, I'm eagerly awaiting the next episode, a new arc will start, and that also means there will be a new opening! I can't wait! I've also played Pokémon, since I don't do much other things nowadays, but I've played less than usual because even that gets boring if there's nobody to play with.

I think I still wanted to say something just now, but I forgot it the moment I wanted to type it. I wonder what it was... Was it important? I can't tell anymore. I'm sure I'll let you guys now once I remember it. Anyway, see you around.

Fiddlesticks.

2010-08-24T15:30:00.004+02:00

Greetings everyone, how've you been? I've been doing good!

Or so I'd like to believe. Things've gotten quite... unpleasant. The reason for my absence was because of some unwanted mail last week. I was currently phoning with Cheo at that time, and we were just talking about how I'll get that job for sure, when I received their answer that they're not taking me in for it. I was pretty sad, and I really didn't really know what to do now. It was basically my last chance, and there it slipped just away. Naturally, I didn't feel like blogging at all at that moment. Recently many people were asking me "What's with your blog? You should post something!".
There you have it.

However I must say, no matter how depressing the last week was, it's fine again. My very last chance is to get at least a part-time job as soon as possible, so I'll be at least doing something. We'll see about that. Again, I've realized that they're some pretty awesome people around me, which I totally forgot about when I was sulking. I don't know if some of them are fine with me mentioning them here, but I'd like to at least mention some of the people who helped me to cheer up again, especially when I wasn't feeling so good. Some of those might even read this very blog.
Thanks goes to Mirodir, Kumiko, Eliz, CrimsonEcho(I will find out your real name, believe me!), Katie, Steve, Cheo, and alot more people who've just helped out a tiny bit. That doesn't mean all my other friends are less important, though, so don't you sulk now!

Even if, at some point, those guys really annoyed the heck out of me, I'm glad to have them around. Furthermore, I have continued watching Naruto: Shippuuden and I must say I'm loving this anime more and more! The storyline is unbelievable! Also, I've watched a bit of Highschool of the Dead, more about that in a later blogpost I suppose. Ah! Dustin, one of my old childhood friends is back again! He wasn't online for months and I was wondering where he left off, but it seems he was simply on vacation. Maybe I'll tag up with him, Vuur and Mechta for some more rounds of L4D2 in the future days.

At this point I'd also like to thank all my friends for still reading my blog. It's great to have you all around, and I'd like to keep you all as close as you are now! Maybe that will not happen, but remember, I won't forget any of you, ever! That's so far all I had to say, farewell!

Boredom reigns~ Part 5

2010-08-07T15:19:00.002+02:00

Did any of you guys every notice how often I say "It's been a while, I know!" at the start of those freaking blog posts? Kind of scared me when I noticed. Anyways, back to topic.

If there were any topic. Once again, your Emperor feels a little too bored and thought it might be nice to write another post around here. Since I don't particularly have any idea on my mind, I'll just give you a short review of the past week.

As I've told you, I played Sengoku Rance quite a lot, but I think after the 3rd time I completed the game, it's gotten boring. Not to say it's gotten less exciting, but I just lack the motivation to actually play it. I'm always like "What for?". Speaking of motivation, I've been watching Naruto more and more lately! By now, I'm at Episode 65. It's alot more interesting than I thought it would be. But that's a good thing after all, right? Oh, I also played a lot of Pokémon SoulSilver in the past days. I've had so much trouble with the Steelix being Level 35 and only getting scratches from my full force fire attacks. After some annoying training I managed to OHKO it, and I got really happy. While I was on my training, I suddenly encountered Entei. I was pretty surprised, but I kind of got the idea that capturing Entei would be my chance to finish off that freaking Steelbeast. So I spend 1 hour, I repeat, 1 goddamn hour in catching this Pokémon. Why? Because I'm stubborn as fuck. The Entei was Level 40 and had full HP, after round 1 it would instantly run away, meaning I had to catch that thing in the first round. You know how low the chance is to catch a Level 40 legendary Entei with full HP without any status changes? 1.59%.
I must've been nuts to try and catch it. But well, after 1 hour I eventually gave up on that idea.

Since I didn't have any further troubles in the game I kept playing until, of course, the emulator had to freeze and I wasn't able to save shit. Which made me angry. Really angry. So I gave up on playing Pokémon for the time being. However, I've played a lot more Warcraft 3 again, with all the funmaps it offers it always is a good choice if you want to have a game which you can play to pass time with your friends.

Also, I'd like to mention two more important people in my life, who recently (re)appeared. First one would be Cheo. She's unbelievable shy and that's also what makes her cute. She's been a friend of me for quite a long time, until she didn't come online anymore, which made me pretty sad back then. However, she came online again the last week and I was able to chat and phone a whole bunch with her. I'm really happy to have her back since I really consider her a true friend.
The second one would be Kumiko. Heh. I met Kumiko on Steam, we talked, and we liked each other. Kumiko's a lot different than me or many other of my friends, since he's pretty much "into real life". Meaning he's not online often and even if, we do not share the same time zone. However, I enjoy spending time with him despite that he can be a real asshole once in a while, but I'm not any different.

Look how much I wrote again! Geez, how come whenever I want to make something short, it turns out to be so much... Anyway! Have a nice weekend, everyone!

Game Facts - Sengoku Rance

2010-07-30T15:16:00.008+02:00

Hey everyone! It's been a while, I know!

Well, that's because I was playing Sengoku Rance all along, non-stop. This game has had something which really forced me to play, and still somehow does. Since most of you don't know this very game, it's my duty to introduce this game to you.

Sengoku Rance isn't the first part of the "Rance" series, but by far the best one. I know, I did not want to talk about Hentai games, but Sengoku Rance is a game where you ignore the fact that there's nude women scattered all around the place because the actual gameplay is way more fun than looking at the naked bodies of all those beauties. Not like it'd be any bad to add sex to a game, if it weren't for the 18+ tag. I have to be pretty careful about what I show to you regarding this game, so I decided to show the Opening and a simple gameplay action.

It takes place in the medieval Japan, you are Rance and you've basically come to Japan to fuck all women there. Sounds cool, yeah. Since I don't want to go into detail, I'll make it short. You have a province in Japan, you have an army, and you want to conquer Japan. Easier said than done, since there's quite some harsh enemies, but with such an amazing fighting system, which is actually just as simply as genius, it's even fun to lose sometimes! The game surely features about 50 characters, about almost all coming with their own little storyline, and you're able to recruit and fuck all of them. Well, at least the girls. Almost every commander you fight against can be recruited, some have really nice and unique abilities and some just look awesome.

I think I can't really say much more to the game than this if I want to make it short. Have some!

And here some gameplay!

And before all of you go like "That's Japanese! I can't read that!". There is an english patch available, which can be found here.

Rio's Randomness~ Part 6

2010-07-24T15:22:00.003+02:00

Yo! It's been a while, I know, I know. I just don't always feel like blogging, but you should know about that. It's not like I don't want to, it's more like that, especially recently, there's always a lot of stuff going on and after all that, I just don't feel like writing about my day anymore.

I've basically reunited myself with all those old friends I had back then, you know, that streaming site, Randaris-Anime. Did I tell you about it? Not like many of you are going to visit it, anyway, but still, most people are somewhat okay there. Some are really weird, though...
Also! It's german, so you won't understand a single bit of it unless you manage to read that language. Which is kind of obvious... isn't it?

As for the games, I've played a lot of Warcraft 3 again, fan maps of course, and mostly with those I hang out in Teamspeak all day. It's pretty funny, yet sometimes utterly boring. Also, like everyone else I know, I've played Alien Swarm. Yeah, that new free Alien Shooter thing on Steam. I like it. It's gotten boring again, though. After finishing the campaign about 5 times and maximizing my level, I just don't feel like playing it all over again. Say... do you guys like Pokémon? You do? Well, so do I! Of course not the crappy animes they created, because those are far away from being any good. I'm talking about the games! And, of course, the fighting system! The variety of creatures, the amount of attacks, and possibilities in the games... that always gets me! I'm already looking forward to the next one. However, that was not why I mentioned it! Recently, Mirodir showed me some kind of Battle Simulator software, called Shoddy Battle. It's a JavaScript which lets you create your own Team out of almost all Pokémon and fight against other folk! It's pretty fun, since it comes with a very descriptive database, containing many strategies and builds you can use to improve your Team.

Talking about Pokémon and its anime, I've also watched anime recently again. Yes, I have! I'm proud of it, too, since it's been a time I last watched an anime. This time, it was Clannad, and I'm very impressed of how good the characters are, you just have to love them all! I didn't quite finish it, I think I'm at half of it, but while watching Clannad, I suddenly felt like watching Naruto, too. I started with watching Naruto, since I'm basically up-to-date when it comes to the normal one. I'm so far at episode 5 of Shippuuden, I'll see how it goes on and'll let you know!

I guess that's about all I had to say, I think I'll talk some more about the people I play all day with, and describe them a bit here, since by now, they surely are somehow a part of my life. Anyway, farewell friends, see you next time!

Miro's Comeback!

2010-07-18T01:43:00.005+02:00

What are you saying? You don't know him? I'll show you!

I am talking about my probably best friend, Mirodir! He went to France last week, yes, just one week, and I missed that bastard more than anything else. Even though I had lots of fun when I played games and watched videos with all sorts of people, nothing can replace him. I never really missed him, because he actually was always there, everyday you just saw him coming online and were like "Oh, it's just Miro." But I really realized how much he meant to me, and even if it sounds unbelievable gay to say so, and I will kill him if he thanks me for writing about him like that, I just have to say that.

Now that he's back, I can finally tell him all the stuff I wanted to tell him, can play all the games I wanted to play with him, and am finally not feeling all too bad anymore. Of course, without Ichirin, life's a bit more boring by now, but Mirodir has never let me down in the past years, and I've known him for I think about 4 years by now.

Come to speak of him! You have to check out his blog. I know he's not updating it, and I know he's not as awesome as I am, but he's a friend of me and thus an important part of my life, and I demand that you respect him just as much as me! Also, I'm doing this to force him to be more active. With more viewers he just has to do something. And he will. Watch and learn.

Anyway, folks! Have a nice day, and see you next time!

Life ain't that bad

2010-07-13T21:01:00.006+02:00

I know. I should be depressed and sad by now, but recently I've realized a few things which kept me alive.

First, there's a lot of stuff which is fun and worth living for, even if it's just that tiny amount of joy it sure makes up for all the sadness in my life. Second, there's plenty of people who have it worse than I do, I'm crying about being lonely and having a shitty life, but really? I don't think I deserve the right to cry about that. And last, well, I know that this will end someday soon. I don't know how long this'll last, but it won't last forever. Which I cannot say to all the other people who have worse lives. Who knows when their pain will end?

Anyhow, even if I'm often lonely, bored to the extreme, and feel like crying constantly, I'll get over it. Maybe the girl I had a crush on suddenly has a boyfriend, maybe the people I spend most time with are unavailable, and maybe I have nothing else to do than to waste all my time sitting in front of a screen, but guess what? It could be worse!

Imagine if I were like, really poor, like even more than I already am, and we'd have no internet. Boy, would I be screwed. Or if I'd live in some bullshit country, where there's no actual system like you know it. Like living in Vietnam or something. People there really have it hard.
I should stop complaining so much about my life and try to find happy parts in it.

Anybody there...?

2010-07-10T17:20:00.003+02:00

Recently, I've been very lonely. Ever since me and Tasha broke up I've been having this feeling. But about the time I met Ichirin, things started to get fun again. I actually started playing games again. I started playing games again I usually don't play. And the reason for that was Ichirin. It was so fun playing with him, but I never noticed that he was the fact it was so much fun. Usually I thought it's because of the game, and Ichirin is an extra. But I was wrong.

When Ichirin and I had that fight, things started to change and life became really boring again. I suddenly didn't know what to do with all that free time I have now. I mean, I still had Mirodir, I started spending more time with him again, since we always were friends and all. And from that moment on, everything kind of started making fun again. But Miro had to work everyday and he was always online pretty late which means I had no idea what to do in the time where he wasn't around. And well, right now Mirodir's on holiday in France, which means I have basically nobody to do anything with me. Red and Vuur are constantly not there, wondering what the heck they're doing so long, but then again I know that they're often working pretty hard and long. Lukas, my cousin, is currently the only one spending time with me. He's the only one who talks to me when he comes online and plays a game or two with me. But he isn't so much into game so that's just about 2 hours of my day.

You can't imagine how many hours I sit in front of my screen, waiting for someone to chat me. Yeah, it's easy to start conversations, but I once want people to think of me first when they chat me, I want them to think "I wonder what Rio is doing...". It's a silly thing to desire, but yet that's really all I want and I only want it because I feel so lonely.

Since my mother is currently in hospital for whatever reasons, I'm all alone at home, too. Sometimes I feel like crying, and I'm just walking around in my house, doing nothing. Whenever I want to call someone, I get rejected, not the evil way, just a kind "I currently have no time, I'm sorry, we talk later!". It's not that I'm angry for that. It just hurts.

When times are hard like this you usually see who's really your friend and sticks to you, and the currently only "person" doing that is Sandy. Yes, Sandy. Sandy is the name of my cat, and for some reason she really wants to be close to me now. Whenever I leave the room she instantly follows me, she always tries to couch around me, and when I sleep she even sleeps on or next to the bed. At least someone is worrying about me. That's a good thing. That made me feel much better.

Touhou Time! Poll Review

2010-07-07T21:10:00.003+02:00

Yeah. To make it short, the poll was fucked up. I knew not many would vote in there, but I didn't know out of 100 people daily, only 7 persons care about my posts. And also, those are friends, so no freaking random person did ever bother looking into this kind of shit. That makes me rage. Actually, it just makes me angry and sad, but that's as worse.

Well, 5 said they want the post, 2 said they don't. Or something like that. But you know what? I'm dissapointed. Really. I didn't ask for the opinion of my friends, I asked for the opinion of everyone. And if only my friends vote, it was so obvious most wouldn't want me to stop posting. Could've just decided by myself from the start. So for now, I won't be posting anymore reviews of Touhou Characters any time soon. I'll think about it, and I'll think about how I make people actually care for this blog.

Also, today's weather was a total bitch again. I was playing Sims 3 again with that new add-on, and played for about 4 hours and saved somewhere between. Well, somewhere after 4 hours my computer suddenly crashed because it was too hot, again. That's some bullshit, because now I even lost the mood in playing that game. Because I would need to do it all over again. This game seriously needs an autosave.

Nothing lasts forever

2010-07-06T20:21:00.003+02:00

Indeed, this title seems to fit my whole live-style for some reason. But of course, like always, there was a recent event that triggered the decision to post something.

Yesterday was the first day I didn't tell Ichirin a common "Good night!". Well, that is, if you do not count the times he wasn't available, since he was available this time. Short version, me and Ichirin had a fight about some things concerning me, some things I already knew and I still need to change otherwise this won't be the last friend I lose. We basically broke up our friendship, which is sad, since it was great spending time with him. But I guess that's how things are. There's no point crying about it too much, since it's my fault. Oh well.

Also, since we're at it, the heat also doesn't seem to be lasting forever, since it got a lot colder the past days, which rocks since I'm able to play Prince of Persia and all other games as long as I want. Too bad those games ALSO do not last forever, Prince of Persia is glitching around and freezes at certain times and Dead Space has an unbelievable annoying camera bug which makes the game unplayable.

Also, Engineer Update is coming soon! I'm really looking forward to it, also it's more motivation to play TF2 in the following days! More than usual, that is!

Wind?!

2010-07-03T23:57:00.003+02:00

Greetings, again! Today, it's a bit of a useless and senseless post, and I actually wanted to post it right after I woke up, but there was so much happening today, so I just went with the flow. Right after I woke up, I felt a breeze. Wind. Cold, refreshing wind. The past days it's been incredible hot outside, making my room to something similar to a cooking pot. I swear, there's surely 30°C or more in here.

So sleeping also is kind of... Well, you get the point. But this morning, my mom seemed to have opened the window while I slept, and I felt a breeze I haven't felt the past weeks. Everytime you opened the window, there was just hot air coming inside, so it felt amazingly good this time.

Due to the hot tempatures, well, it was very hot in here, causing my computer to get really hot, too. And some know what happens if a computer gets 100°C. Yeah, it shuts off. So, everytime I played Singularity, it crashed after 30 minutes. And recently that has happened with Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands, too. Usually I have a fan here to cool me down, but I'm afraid that doesn't help my computer so much. I'll just hope it gets a bit colder in the next days, because I'm sick of this heat.

Transformice

2010-07-03T00:08:00.004+02:00

Transformice. A title which doesn't make too much sense when you know what the game is about. You basically are a mouse and need to get some cheese and bring it to your hole. Sounds easy? There are a lot of obstacles to hinder you doing so, also, sometimes you can't get to the hole. If it weren't for the shaman. The shaman is a special sort of mouse which can spawn all sorts of planks, boxes and anvils in order to help his fellow mice achieve their goals. However, being shaman is not always as easy as it sounds, not just that the controls are something you really have to get used to, the other mice won't make it easy for you to build, because sometimes they just don't go where you want them to, so you can't help them.

I better get you guys a gameplay video, there's a lot I can't describe and is easier to show.

Touhou Time! Review

2010-06-30T01:57:00.003+02:00

Hey there! It's Rio again! You see, I've been thinking about Touhou Time recently. As you may have noticed, I haven't posted one this sunday. Well, to be honest, the actual reason is that I forgot it and I wanted to find an excuse now, but then I started thinking about this seriously. Why do I do this? I love Touhou, yes. Many like it, too. But all those who do like it say "We already know it so we don't read it." Everyone else I asked about this topic who don't know much about Touhou are like "Yeah, well, it doesn't really interest me." So now I'm at this point where I'm thinking about even stopping to make those posts. Basically, I know I've gathered quite some amazing amount of people who constantly check my blog, but will it be enough to fulfill my plan?

I wanted to make a poll. A simple poll about wether I should keep those posts or not. But in order to get good results out of, I need votes. And for that, I need people. So basically I need a bunch of people voting about what I should do. Sounds easy, right? Last time I did this I had like 11 Votes. That's not what I'm making polls for. Or posts.

Very well! Everyone, you've got your quest! Now go ahead and tell me what you think is best for the sake of this very blog!

The End of the Line

2010-06-26T14:55:00.004+02:00

Yup, yesterday was "the Day".

I finished school yesterday, we had to go to this big event there, where there were thousands of people sitting around, and you kinda felt like "God, please let this end." We had a lot of stuff going on there, also, the classes said "Goodbye" to the teachers in a special way, also all classes had prepared a little video or something to also make it a bit funny. For example our class had a video full of interviews of us and the teachers. When they were going through the interviews, I was so glad they didn't show me how I flipped out about that the "microphone" they were using was just a rattle. But no, they just had to. In the end they showed the "Outtakes", and boy, they sure all laughed a lot about me, and I was never so embarrassed in my life. But it worked out. The only real embarrassing thing was that my mother came, too. And she drank alcohol. Like, alot. And well, she could barely stand, I told her to just get home already, because she wanted to prepare food that we can eat when I get home.

Anyways, our class also has a band. They're called "The All Stars" and they're pretty awesome to be honest. They really rocked the house, and Frederic was completely insane with this awesome guitar solo he made, everyone was like "Omg!", you could literally see it in their faces.

After the event ended, we all still wanted to go into a pub or something, to celebrate. Since I lived right next to the pub I quickly went up to check for my mom, and she wasn't home. Great, I know. Now this is totally not my style, but I went with them anyways and drank a cola. It's not much but at least something. After half an hour or something I went home, since it was utterly boring down there. Well, when I came home this time, she was already waiting for me at the door, wondering where I was. She said she was so worried. It was about 11:00 Pm. I stopped argueing about that and went right to my room. Of course she didn't make food, how can you if you can't even walk straight. Well, the rest of the day I spent time with Miro. We played some games here and there and discussed a few things. I also mentioned he should finally buy Team Fortress 2, what he wanted to do a while ago.

In the end, an old song video of "The All Stars" playing live. I did not find any newer ones, and apparently those are still some of the old band members, but that doesn't matter so much. And usually they sing "softer" songs.

Game Facts - CosmicBreak

2010-06-25T18:09:00.006+02:00

I guess this is one of the only cases I can say "Title says it all."

The game is called CosmicBreak, and as I have mentioned before, I've played it recently. The Open Beta just started and it's a Japanese Shooting MMO where you have your own little squad of robots which you can fully customize, be it by buying new parts or colouring them completely like you want it. The wallpapers are amazingly awesome but apparently they don't make up for what the game lacks in graphic. But, however, what the game lacks in graphic, it makes up in gameplay! The fights are incredibly fun and there's 3 Unions you can join, you can then compete against the others in Arena fights for the honor of your Union. You can still play with your friends in other game modes if they are in a different Union, so no worries!

I can't say if it's just me, since I live in Germany, or if it is their servers, but every minute in the game I get a huge 10-second lagspike which makes me unable to see what's going on right now, but still, the game is very fun and maybe they'll even fix that issue someday.

Maybe you want the trailer?

Shocking

2010-06-24T19:14:00.004+02:00

Ever since that thunderstorm stormed around Ichirin's place, he's been having problems with some games. I mean, yeah, that's bad, but we could still play sometimes, and chat. Now? Now it's completely fucked up. He wanted to upgrade his computer, and as it turned out that wasn't such a good idea, in short, he won't be able to come online for some while, which is pretty awful, since I spent much time with him, and I almost have no idea what to do when I have free time now.

Well, I also changed my name a while back in Steam to Luna Child. That's the fairy you saw in my "It's me, again" post picture. Isn't she just so adorable? Well, that's what I thought! Now she's part of my name list, one more identity to identify me, I suppose.

I also played some "CosmicBreak" the past days, if it wouldn't lag so hard I'd love the game so much. I'll write more about it later on, in a seperate post.

Other than that, not much happened, besides that I am utterly happy since yesterday. I don't know why that is, but hell, I'm not gonna complain about it!

Touhou Time! - Alice Margatroid

2010-06-20T16:53:00.005+02:00

Name: Alice Margatroid アリス・マーガトロイド

Nickname: Alice

Species: Magician

Abilities: Magic, Puppetry

Age: Unknown

Location: Forest of Magic

Relationships: Marisa Kirisame (Neighbour)
| Shanghai (Doll)
| Hourai (Doll)

Her ability allows her to use magic. Puppetry is a part of magic too. She rarely goes out by herself, but she had no other choice this time. She has many similarities to Marisa, namely living in the Forest of Magic, being a magician and a collectomaniac. However, they have an absolute difference in that Alice is a magician as a species while Marisa is a human magician. Other than that, they're also different in using forest's mushroom as preference or not. Of course, Alice is the one who doesn't like using them. Because of that and other things, they're on bad terms. Magic is her weapon. A magician's magic is always originally developed by the magician. The greatest difference between Alice and Marisa is that Marisa is a human of magician occupation whereas Alice is a magician as a species.You might imagine magicians as being indoor-type people; in Alice's case, you'd be right. She spends most of her time alone, and the forest is a good place for that. The forest is quite humid, however, and her dolls will become damaged without her constant care. Because of this, she's currently planning to make a doll that will automatically take care of other dolls.

Alice's Theme

It's me, again

2010-06-19T15:30:00.004+02:00

Hey everyone! How are you? I'm fine. It's been some time since my last post, but you're used to that, I suppose. Today, or rather, this week, I decided to make an unordinary post. I mean, it's not that unordinary since I write it the same way I do others, but at least I write more in it, or, at least, planned it that way. Basically, I was thinking about my life, about everything, about future, about how I will manage to make it through. This is, of course, not the first time I've been thinking about these kind of things, but I do believe that is normal.

Let's start then, shall we? Since many of your newcomers who now read my blog have yet to read my introduction post, I guess you should do that, first. Read me!

Yes, that's me. My name is not Rio, but Pascal Kammer. By now, my age is 17 and I am about to finish school. I am German, and do live in Germany. As some of your may have guessed, I'm not too fond of my real name, that's why I chose to be Rio. No, that's wrong. Not I chose to be Rio, Mirodir did. My online name was Glamurio, and everyone called me "Glam" or "Glamu". Someday, Mirodir said something like "I'll not call you like your last three letters, "Rio". At first I was like... well, a little unhappy about that fact. I mean, it's not easy having someone calling you completely different after such a long time. But then, I began to like the name, many more started to call me this way, and there we go, Rio was born. Or rather reborn. Whatever floats your boat.

So, since I just mentioned Mirodir, I guess I can talk about him too, right? Mirodir is a good friend, and certainly my best one. I've known Mirodir for, I think 3 or 4 years, if not longer by now, and we still talk together, do things together. We don't do it as often as we did it back then, but it's amazing we still keep contact. Mirodir is a very sensitive person, he can be very empathetic and understands when you have problems, but yet he's also a very strong person who's able to deal with his own troubles and rather solves it himself than with the help of others. Back then, I was really different. I was much more childish, raged much, I was a terrible person. I've apologized several times to him because he was always the one suffering from it, even though it never bothered him. I am proud of having him as a friend, and I really look forward to the day we will meet in real-life.

About the fact that I changed, well. The person who made me change was no other than my previous girlfriend, "Tasha". Actually, her full name is Natascha, and I call her Tascha, but since I wasn't sure many english people can pronounce it right I just wrote "Tasha", wihout an "s". She made me change myself. I think I even mentioned that several times now, but she was the one to tell me "Hey, change yourself, you're an asshole.". Actually, many did that every once and then, but I didn't listen. Why would I? But with her, she was my girlfriend, someone close to my, someone I would've done everything for, why would she try to trick me? So I figured she must be right, and I really am an asshole. That's where I realized a lot of things and became the Rio you know now. She still is a person I treasure as noone else, and we're still trying to be friends, because both of us wouldn't like losing each other forever.

Now, about my past in the internet. Of course, I didn't meet people right at the start, befriended them and that's it, it was a lot more complicated. There's about 50 people I can remember which I apparently stopped having contact with for whatever reason. One I still have contact with, is "Albi". That's just how am used to call her, and for privacy reasons I will not post her full name. "Albi" is the shortcut for "Albtraum", which means "Nightmare" in english. I've known her even longer than Mirodir, or I think about as long. The two of them never really met, though I do believe they had contact. Albi was one of my closest friends back then, but due to some "not-nice" events our friendship kind of ended for a while, meaning we stopped talking and lost interest in each other. Every now and then we chatted each other in MSN, but that did not happen too often. Anyways, recently I've started calling her a bit more often, and we talk with each other, often for a long time and often about completely unlogical topics, but it's fun to have her around.

I just looked how much I wrote already. Boy, who would've thought it would be THAT much. Besides, since we're just talking about past, I've decided to try to get in contact again with a lot more people than just Albi and Jenny, since they were good friends, and it makes no sense not having them around anymore.

Rio's Randomness~ Part 5

2010-06-13T14:12:00.004+02:00

Greetings, everyone! I recently was thinking about making an actual life-post again, since I really want to attract people, and the only way to do so is to actually write something interesting here, so, here we go!

Basically, school's almost finished, so I really need to think about what to do in my life. I need a job, of course. But well, I simply started searching for jobs too late, and now everything almost is taken so I do not have much choices left. I still wait for an answer from one job, and all the rest said I'm too late. So fact's, if I don't get a job I can either continue school or I'll sit at home for one year. Of course I prefer the second solution, but I'm afraid my mother does not want that. So all that's left is to wait, and hope.

Besides, I've been thinking about what new stuff I should post, and also have been thinking about whether I should also post Hentai suggestions, since I do watch quite much. However then again, it would be a 18+ topic, even without pictures and just the information. I do not know, I'll think about it again and wait for feedback to this from friends and such. Maybe they know better.

Also, I've recently uploaded a new YouTube video of an full anime opening since nobody else did it before me, might wanna watch it, I'll post it here.

Touhou Time! - Suika Ibuki

2010-06-13T14:00:00.003+02:00

Name: Suika Ibuki いぶき　すいか

Nickname: Suika

Species: Oni

Abilities: Manipulation of density

Age: Unknown

Location: Youkai Mountain, Heaven, Hakurei Shrine

Relationships: Yukari Yakumo (Friend)
| Tenshi Hinanai (Neighbor in Heaven)
| Yuugi Hoshiguma (Fellow "Deva of the Mountain")
| Reimu Hakurei (Friend)

There are supposedly no oni in Gensokyo, but this girl insists that she is an oni. Oni are generally jolly and love to drink, feast, and compete with humans in any kind of contest, from simple melee to drinking games. When they find a human that they like, they tempt that human into challenging them in any way the human desires. Should the human lose, they are abducted. The oni find these games to be great fun, but humans don't appreciate the nature of that fun. Put simply, humans cannot compare to an oni's level of ability. Humans could enjoy themselves as much as the oni if they tried to reach the power level of their opponents, but they don't. Worse still, humans attempt to destroy the oni with underhanded tactics. Abduction by oni used to be a symbol of human fear, which was the oni's reason for being. In a way, that fear was necessary to the human race... Yet, the humans selfishly put an end to it. The oni, growing weary of being duped and killed repeatedly, abandoned humans for all time and moved to a place beyond human reach, or so the legend says. In any case, the oni have not been seen since. This girl insists that she is an oni.

Suika's Theme

Team Fortress 2 goes Mac!

2010-06-11T12:38:00.004+02:00

Today Valve finally announced the Mac support for the game Team Fortress 2. Now we all know how awesome this game is, but now we get even more people to play it, and that is just more than only awesome! To celebrate this fantastic event, Valve offers everyone to play Team Fortress 2 this weekend for free! Yeah, that's right! Just go get Steam, download the game and play it as long as you still can!

As a little extra, every Mac-User who plays the game this weekend will receive earbuds like those you see in the picture as a special limited hat-accessory!

Also, coming with the new updates, Valve has made a new interface for Team Fotress 2, as well as added a Training Modus for all new players and finally added Bots to the game! You can check out the new features once you are in the game!

Here's the Mac-Release video, in case you want to see it:

Visual Changes

2010-06-08T10:25:00.002+02:00

Hey everyone! This is me, again. Like always. Who else'd you expect? Anyways, I've decided to come up with some minor visual changes on the blog. I changed the color of the text, as well as also the color of the links and everything else. I also, as you see, have new link-pictures to the sites of my friends, and as you see I removed two and added a new one, I did not stay in contact with Syn and I don't I really need a picture for myself. The new one is for Wriggle, or Ichirin, however he'd like you to call him, he's familar with both. He's gotten a really good friend as I've mentioned before, so of course I will also support his blog, too. The other two stay the same, Jenny and Miro. Although I haven't really talked with Jenny in a while and she gave up her blog for the time being, I am sure she will have her comeback and if not, her blog is really worth checking out, after all she still has a link picture of me in there. And Miro, well. He probably will always be one of my friends, even though I barely chat with him nowadays, it is a weird bond which connects us. I guess that's pretty much the bond you make with your first internet friend. We've known each other for so many years now that I stopped counting. Of course he also doesn't blog too often, but he's sometimes in this very shoutbox so you might want to try and help me convince him to write more stuff.

So, that's pretty much it. I hope you like the new design and changes, if you have any suggestions about how this blog should look like, feel free to post it in the comments.

Touhou Time! - Byakuren Hijiri

2010-06-06T19:03:00.004+02:00

Name: Byakuren Hijiri ひじり　びゃくれん

Nickname: Byakuren

Species: Magician

Abilities: Magic

Age: Unknown

Location: Temple of Myouren

Relationships: Ichirin Kumoi (Follower)
| Minamitsu Murasa (Saved youkai)
| Shou Toramaru (Follower)
| Myouren Hijiri (Younger brother)
| Nue Houjuu (Living at her temple)

Byakuren's sibling Myouren was a famous monk. Myouren's days were spent easily tossing around enormous pots that contained great storehouses and curing sick people's illnesses in remote places. Byakuren, getting along in years, learned Buddhist magic from Myouren. She normally lived on Tobikura, which was packed with Myouren's Buddhist power, and so naturally Byakuren gained power of her own. However, Myouren died before Byakuren. The bereaved Byakuren started to fear death greatly. She obtained the power to regain her youth, but rather than a Buddhist art, it was something more like black magic. After having mastered the power of youth and left behind a normal creature's lifespan, the next thing she came to fear was someday losing her power. The only way to lose that black art was for Humanity to reject it entirely.
In other words, if youkai ceased to exist, she wouldn't be able to sustain her own power. And so, she honored youkai. She pretended to be a great youkai exterminator, but actually saved the youkai behind the scenes. She had great respect for youkai, but not because she disliked humans. In the beginning, it was born from her own greed, but as she learned of the difficult past the youkai had borne, she began to think she needed to do something to help them.

Byakuren's Theme

Boredom reigns~ Part 4

2010-06-03T23:41:00.004+02:00

Actually, it's not even boredom, I just don't have anything better to do. And I don't want to always look totally emo when I'm making posts, so I decided to tell you something less depressing. I could've named it "Rio's Happiness", but I noticed my last "Boredom reigns~" post is miles back, so rather do that. First off, I know my life sucks and can be very hard at times, but would I still keep on living if it would be like that all the time? Hell, no. So here I go telling you a bit about the good things that happened in my life, once.

With the thing about my girlfriend, excuse me, ex-girlfriend, she called and we had a talk, she read what I wrote, something I did not expect, and now it's kind of settled. I mean we might be no longer together, however we still care for each other and that is what matters most, I suppose. So I'm feeling a bit better than usual. I've actually managed to not cry this day, maybe it'll stay like that! That'd be awesome.

Also, this will be the first time I'll introduce you to a rather new person in my life. Wriggle. That is atleast how most people call him. I will not tell his real name since he might not want it. Anyways, Wriggle. Since I suppose you'll be reading this, I can also talk to you. We might not know each other for a long time, but at least you cheered me up like nobody else did in the past few weeks, you also were the one I spend the most time with in the past weeks, we played a lot together, you introduced me to some very nice friends of you, too, and we even talked via phone. I just wanted to thank you for all the time you've been there for me, even if it's not much and our friendship may not last forever, at least you'll always have a place in this very post.

I have also been thinking about changing my link boxes you see on the right. However I seriously do not want to go through all the effort with searching matching pictures and put some letters on them. So I'll just leave it for now. Maybe if someone of you guys find 4 matching pictures, then please tell me, I'll take a look at them! 3 should do, too!

For now, farewell everyone, I hope you enjoyed this post since it will be one of the few posts where you see me happy! Or at least I think so. Maybe I'll make these kind of posts more often now! Who knows?

I hate my life! :D (Part 4)

2010-06-02T20:48:00.005+02:00

Did you really think Part 3 was the last one? I can assure you, even this will not be the last time you see me hating my awful life...

Anyways, maybe I should tell you what actually happened. Did I tell you about my precious girlfriend? Hell, I think I did. She's the most amazing girl I've ever met in my entire life, and I would give up everything to keep it that way. Well, to make it short, we broke up. Yes. And now my whole life seems to be a mess, I'm crying constantly without even wanting to, I'm feeling almost all the time depressed and I cannot even sleep well anymore...

I think of her all the time and I can't concentrate on any other thing in life, this is really the most painful time ever, I don't even wish my greatest any such suffering. It's not like it is anyone's fault that we broke up, it was for the greater good. We fought often and someday it was just too much to take for her, I'm not really the perfect person so I cannot blame her for her decision...

And well, I've tried to avoid contact with her, since I cry everytime when we talk, and not just some tears, it's really showering out of my eyes and I try hard to stop it but it keeps coming. Guess what? Even right now my eyes are wet again, but it's better than usual...
Recently we started talking more again, but that's now even worse because often it feels like she's got better stuff to do, or is unavailable because she's talking to someone.
Like, she knows this very guy which is probably a very good friend to her, and she calls him "Honey" or at least did once, and talks to him so often, that it just rips my heart out and lets it explode to pieces...

I cannot say how close he is but I can imagine that there soon will be something going on between them, if not already...

Well, folks, thank you for listening, let's just hope I won't wake up tomorrow anymore...

Tarboy

2010-05-31T12:34:00.004+02:00

That's right. Tarboy. Recently I've seen this really amazing animation once again, since I've seen it quite a while ago, and by far, the storyline included in this 6 minute video is really one of the most touching ones I've experienced in a long time. It's about Tarboy, a creature created out of the memory-chips of thousand enslaved robots, fused in the tarpit where the rest of their bodies melted away. And all he wants, is revenge.

Watch this masterpiece and convince yourself that you can create awesomeness even without an actual budget!

Touhou Time! - Cirno

2010-05-30T15:34:00.005+02:00

Name: Cirno チルノ

Nickname: Cirno

Species: Fairy

Abilities: Manipulation of cold

Age: Implied to be over 60

Location: Misty Lake

Relationships: Daiyousei (Unknown)
| Letty Whiterock (Unknown)
| Sunny Milk (Friend)
| Luna Child (Friend)
| Star Sapphire (Friend)

Cirno is an ice fairy. While she is described as a weak boss in the Touhou series, if we consider the power of average fairies - who appear often as regular enemies - we can certainly say she is exceptionally strong for her kind. Her personality is childish, as you might expect from her appearance, and she is sometimes considered stupid. The small fairy was as agitated as usual. Because today, she had seen something bigger than the mountain. Of course, in reality, it was much smaller than the mountain, but from her impression, there wasn't that big of a difference. It was soon hidden in mist and disappeared from sight, but she was certain. It was definitely the great youkai "Daidarabocchi". She didn't know where it normally lived, but a moment after she became excited by seeing a rare youkai, the shrine maiden descended from the Youkai Mountain. "Have you seen any giant robo... anything big moving around here?" Asking that, the shrine maiden started searching in the mist. The small fairy found itself driven on by an odd irritation, thinking that she saw it first, so it was her thing. "I didn't see any Daidarabocchi." Saying that, she diverted the shrine maiden. From nothing more than simple curiosity, she decided to search for the great youkai here.

Cirno's Theme

Introducing: Blade Fanatics

2010-05-26T23:27:00.005+02:00

Ohaio everyone! It's been a time, I know, but except for the Touhou posts I sometimes do not know what in the world I actually should post. Basically I can just make way more posts about useless stuff which shouldn't be too interesting for you to read. For example, I'll tell you what I had for breakfast, if it was something unusual. "Today I've had pizza for breakfast". Sounds incredibly interesting, doesn't it? I can say that, yes, but I want a little bit more in my posts than just that.

Anyways, recently I've become quite addicted to Steam again, and thus am chatting there more than usual. I never expected Steam to be such fun, especially with chatting and roleplaying. I know the gaming community was awesome, but I had no idea. I have always been thinking about making my own group. A group with only people I want to be there, a group where everyone is nice and friendly, and of course, where everyone likes the same things. For example, Blades.

Yes, recently I have created such a group on Steam, called "Blade Fanatics". You can search for it and join it if you fancy sharp objects as much as I do. Yes, this includes scythes, daggers, swords, nodachi, katana and spears.

Here's a link to the main page.

Touhou Time! - Suwako Moriya

2010-05-23T19:26:00.008+02:00

Name: Suwako Moriya 洩矢　諏訪子（もりや　すわこ）

Nickname: Suwako

Species: Goddess of mountains

Abilities: The ability to create earth, ability to summon Mishaguji

Age: Unknown

Location: Moriya Shrine

Relationships: Kanako Yasaka (Fellow goddess)
| Sanae Kochiya (Wind priestress, descendant)
| Utsuho Reiuji (???)
| Mishaguji (Underlings)

The true god of the Shrine of Moriya. She is the God of Mountains, and was once the leader of the many gods that lived in the Mountains. During ancient times, she was a god in control of "Mishaguji". Mishaguji were curse gods who had obtained enormous amounts of faith, cursing birth, harvest, military, and many other things. Making light of these fearsome gods would lead to divine punishment. The only one able to tame these gods was Suwako. Because of this, she gained an extraordinary amount of faith, and cultivated a kingdom as its ruler while still being a god. However, many other gods of Yamato (ancient Japan) invaded her kingdom. One of those gods was Kanako. The many gods of Yamato continually conquered the small kingdom for themselves. They said that ultimately, they would unify all countries and create a single country called Japan. Naturally, Suwako resisted and fought with the finest steel weapons of the time. However, Kanako held out a thin vine, and Suwako's large steel arsenal instantly rusted. Suwako realized the difference in their divine powers and her defeat. She valiantly forfeited and relinquished her kingdom. And so, Kanako attained the kingdom of Moriya.

Suwako's Theme

Game Facts - Muramasa: The Demon Blade

2010-05-17T16:26:00.003+02:00

As you may have noticed, I changed the introduction name for games to "Game Facts". It just sounds better that way. Anyways, here comes the game information.

In Muramasa, you fight with your character through thousands of enemies, in realtime fights which are full of action, use 100 different Swords with all unique abilities to slash your enemies with ease! The storyline is brilliant, you have two adventures with their own stories and characters included, Kisuke is a Ninja who lost his memory, and now he's on his way to get to know his past. Momohime is a young princess who is possessed by the soul of an evil swordsman, and is forced to do whatever he wants her to. Tons of regions to explore, forge your own new weapons, cook your own meals, and equip yourself to defeat all the awesome bosses this game offers! This game surely amazed me.

Touhou Time! - Shou Toramaru

2010-05-16T21:04:00.004+02:00

Name: Shou Toramaru 寅丸星　（とらまる　しょう）

Nickname: Shou

Species: Youkai, Tiger

Abilities: Power to attract treasures

Age: At least 1000 years

Location: Temple of Myouren

Relationships: Nazrin (Underling)
| Byakuren Hijiri (Helper)
| Minamitsu Murasa (Captain)
| Ichirin Kumoi (Ally)
| Bishamonten (God)

A youkai representing good fortune. Byakuren had long been a devotee of Bishamonten. So, she thought she'd summon Bishamonten to her temple. But Bishamonten was very busy, and so was practically never there. Byakuren realized that the youkai around the temple had always been afraid. They must be afraid of Bishamonten. They must think that they're going to be exterminated. Bishamonten was too busy to hang around the temple much, and the youkai were too scared to come around. So, Byakuren came up with a cunning plan. She introduced the most honest and straightforward youkai on the mountain to Bishamonten and had the youkai gather faith in exchange. That chosen youkai was Shou. A youkai in the form of a tiger, she was also the youkai that other youkai on the mountain trusted the most. The busy Bishamonten quietly took her on as a disciple. However, she hadn't yet earned Bishamonten's full confidence. So, the mouse that acted as Bishamonten's helper, Nazrin, was selected to keep watch. But, in spite of Bishamonten's worries, she didn't cause any problems at all. She was an excellent assistant. Still, she was perhaps too excellent. When Byakuren was sealed away, she was completely focused on carrying out her duties as Bishamonten. She kept the fact that she was a youkai a secret from humans. She had her regrets about this, but it would have been self-destructive to reveal her true identity.

Shou's Theme

Rio's Randomness~ Part 4

2010-05-15T14:50:00.005+02:00

Yo! It's been almost a week since my last post, but I had seriously no idea at all what to write in my next post after I've posted the Touhou Time post. I thought I'd come up with something, but seriously, nothing. Now, since it's almost time for our next Touhou post, I though I'd better make a new post since it doesn't look too good if there are two Touhou posts after another.
For me, I didn't do much, had a free week, played some games, well, did the things you do when you don't need to go to school. I've met some nice new people around this week whom I'm often playing L4D2 with. Speaking of L4D2, my other friends who went to London for a week are back, too, I'm looking forward to play some rounds with them!

Well, except for the usual bullshit I've been up to, I also played Portal again, since it is now free to play until the 24th of May, so better download Steam and grab a free version on your account as long as it's possible! Remember, anything free is good!

That's it for this time, I don't have anything else to tell you, you guys stay safe and see you again!

Touhou Time! - Utsuho Reiuji

2010-05-09T02:57:00.000+02:00

Name: Utsuho Reiju 霊烏路空（れいうじ　うつほ）（通称：おくう

Nickname: Okuu

Species: Hell raven, Yatagarasu

Abilities: Manipulation of Nuclear Fusion

Age: Unknown

Location: Hell of Blazing Fires

Relationships: Satori Komeiji (Master)
| Rin Kaenbyou (Best Friend)
| Koishi Komeji (Master's younger sister)
| Kanako Yasaka (Giver of nuclear powers)
| Suwako Moriya (???)

Utsuho is one of Satori's pets, a Hell raven who has lived in the underground world since before it was separated from Hell. Her job is to regulate the flames of the Hell of Blazing Fires. Before the events of Subterranean Animism, she was told by a voice (presumably Kanako Yasaka's) that she could swallow the god, Yatagarasu, that was hidden in the flames to gain a power that would fulfill the wishes of both the worlds below and above the surface. This power was nuclear fusion. Utsuho misunderstood what the voice had told her, and decided that, using these powers, she would take over Gensokyo. Her friend, Rin Kaenbyou, became worried about Utsuho, and drove evil spirits to the surface to cause an incident among the strong youkai above ground, in hope that they would come down to do something about it and, when they got there, defeat Utsuho and bring her back to her former self. What came, however, was not a strong youkai, but a strong human.

Utsuho's Theme

This times Anime: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

2010-04-28T09:25:00.000+02:00

Fullmetal Alchemist has ever been my most favorite anime, I really loved every single part in the faszinating story. Now, a while ago, they've made a "Fullmetal Alchemist 2", which is basically the same story, just closer to the manga.
The were making the first one when the manga wasn't yet finished, so they caught up on it and had to make up their own story. However, the story of the manga, and therefore also the story of the second FMA, is way better, it has new characters, new places and even a whole new storyline!
It is a world pretty similar to ours, however they have skills similar to "magic", the Alchemistry and Alkahestry, ways to change shape and design equal from any source given. Now, Edward and Alphonse Elric tried to revive their mom with alchemistry, which is forbidden, since you have to offer a human life. Since they were kids doing so, Alphonse lost his whole body and Edward his left leg, then, while still in the struggle to survive, Edward quickly bound the soul of his brother to an armor next by, and had to lose his right arm in order to do so. Now both of them are looking for something called the "Philosopher's Stone", since with this very stone they are able to get their original bodies back.

This is a fanmade trailer, which really well shows off what FMA is made of.

Now, it's up to you to watch it, there's plenty of free sites where you can watch Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood legal, so go ahead, watch this masterpiece!

10000 Blog Views!

2010-04-22T19:13:00.001+02:00

Yes! I have finally reached the point where I start to feel glad I began to make this blog. It sure was a load of work, of course just writing and all of that, but as well a bit of picture-editing for the links to my friends' sites.

I basically didn't think of a big speech for this event, but this post is the least I can do. I feel really honored so many people actually saw this, even though many didn't read through it, it still feels good that it wasn't all for nothing. It really is a great feeling my blog became so famous. I mean, it's not really THAT famous, but it still is known by certain people without me telling them.

I have also thought about how to bring more life in this blog, and there my girlfriend went with the idea, I could make a second author who posts different kind of stuff whenever I am not in the mood, or I could plan on making "events", like, posting certain information at certain dates, for example she said I could introduce a Touhou character every sunday, with much information about it. That way, I get more viewers and my blog doesn't look all that empty.

I shall give this thought a chance, probably looking up some stuff and maybe I will introduce something new next time you see this blog. Until then, farewell!

Rio wants fame!

2010-04-14T17:01:00.000+02:00

Yus! Rio time! I got exactly 10 minutes to write this blog, so let's finish this quickly.
I just noticed many, many other blog sites write so much more in their posts, and update their posts more recently than I'm doing it, so I thought I should somehow change that.
Now again, I'm not all that much of someone who likes to type endless stories, however if I wouldn't somehow enjoy writing, I wouldn't do a blog.

Now actually, I'd need some motivation. Something to keep this blog alive. It's not like I'm gonna stop blogging, nono, but I was much more motivated when I started doing this than I am now. I mean, yeah, of course I get viewers and stuff, but 10 of those viewers are on my friend list and the rest probably just clicks away the site on sight! I want fame! I want my site to be more popular, you know? I want to raise the minimum viewer count per day, for now there are 70 viewers a day, and 20 of them are new to my site. That's just not enough for me! Nobody even leaves a damn comment!

By the way, 5 minutes left. I don't care if this blog gets ignored just like the rest, but if there are people who enjoy reading this darned blog, then please, do me a favor and tell your friends! Just run around in town, tell your neighbours, your dog, spam it where you want to, I don't care! Just help me get this blog more popular!

So much for that. Just... I know it's hard to convince people, but I'm really trying my best here, okay? So let's hope you guys will help me.

Grand Chase Update Stop

2010-04-08T06:18:00.000+02:00

Yo, guys! Been a long time since my last post, I know, but I didn't have much to tell you. I'm having Spring Break, it's almost over to be precice, and well, I actually played all day long, well not all day long, I also ate and talked to my girlfriend. And during the night, well, I slept.

I've gotten more into L4D2 again, and also some Team Fortress 2 and maybe a bit Pirates, Viking and Knights II, and of course I was playing Heroes of Newerth all over. Oh and even a bit of Gleam of Force recently, was a fun bunch of time I had, really. Too bad it's almost over, but it was worth it. Anyways, the main reason for posting this is, I am kind of sick to post the Grand Chase Updates. Why? Because for that small changed you can really check the side yourself. No offense.

So, yeah, that's it. Was about all I had to say, so see you next time, guys!

Dragon Adopters!

2010-04-03T13:04:00.001+02:00

Dragonadopters is designed to be a game and community for dragon and fantasy lovers.

The adoption feature allows you to adopt and care for your own cutie. To start you off you will receive your own personal dragonpage with one dragon egg. You will have the possibility of adopting more dragons later on once you have proved you are a responsible dragon owner by raising it. You’ll have a choice between 7 different dragon species: Western, Eastern, Furdragon or maybe you feel like adopting a Wyvern, Lizardus or Dino? You may even wish to adopt one of our newest additions, the Pterodragon or Felidragon.

Each species can be combined with one of the different types of elements: Fire Furdragon, Water Wyvern, Water Raptor... all combinations are possible, it’s your choice. You can choose the element of your dragon once it hatches. Watch your dragon grow over time from Level 1 - 110, from Egg all the way to Ancient Dragon. Every stage and species features its own little animation!

You can keep your dragon happy by visiting and letting other people visit him, also you’ll need to remember to feed him by going to your dragonpage. The more people that visit him, the faster your dragon will grow (daily cap). In addition, you can link your dragon to forums or your own personal pages. Your work and care will be paid off with the resources your dragon will give you. You’ll be able to create items which you can use to progress in the game, trade with others, or customize your dragon. Each species has got its own items. The items can have special effects on your dragon, so start collecting!

You can visit my own dragons here, so make sure to check them all out!

Rio's Randomness~ Part 3

2010-03-29T23:51:00.001+02:00

Yo! So, I've decided to tell you guys, once again, a bit about my life and all that. Especially about the most important part of my life, my girlfriend. Oh well, where should I start...

Well, I knew her quite a long time already before our relationship even started, everything still online. When I asked her out she still had a boyfriend, which I actually didn't really know. Anyways, she broke up most likely, since their relationship wasn't the best you know, and after all that we finally were together. From that day on, I kinda like was happy every day, even if I was pissed the whole day due to some unknown reason, I still was utterly happy for this very reason. Of course, we obviously aren't the best pairing, we fight every day and discuss many things over and over, but still, our love keeps us together, none of us could live without the other one.

So yeah, basically, I'm raging every day about her, because we have the attitude to piss each other off, but we always, really always forgive each other, no matter what's the issue. Personally, I think that is true love. Well, so much for that part of my life, I really couldn't live without her, and hopefully she couldn't without me.

Love you, honey!

Mari 1st (Rune Caster) Release!

2010-03-25T14:00:00.001+01:00

Grand Chase Patch Notes

[General]
Mari has been added to the game as a playable character and can be acquired with a cash or GP mission!
Mari posters will be in the Park until April 6th to get acquainted with the Chase!
Log on and get a Mari Signboard (14 days).
Acquiring Mari through either Cash or GP missions will award a Queen's Jewel (3 days).
Upon reaching certain "milestone" levels during the event as Mari, you will automatically receive Mari's Brave Rune Chest, Holy Rune Chest, or Honor Rune Chest.
The Rainbow Event is back!
Until March 30th, a random event will be started each day of the event.
There are seven events in total.
At three times daily for 30 minutes each, a rainbow will appear on your screen.
The Grand Chase Maniac Event is back!
Log a total of 35+ hours in-game to get a Grand Chase Maniac Signboard (7 days).
Check out the Attendance Check Event!
Simply check attendance every day for a Seal Breaker Scroll (1).

[Cash]
Mari Mission is available for cash purchase at Level 0 to acquire the Mari character.
New Cash items have been added to the shop in support of Mari.
Regal Cloaks for all characters have been added to the Shop until April 6th to commemorate Mari's release.
A limited Fortress of Ascension Package has been added to the Shop until March 30th to help Knights clear the toughest level of all: Fortress of Ascension in Champion Mode!
The package contains Natal Rings (10 Time), 10 Mystery Potions (L), Orb of Cycles (15), Orb of Destruction (5), Orb of Life (15), and Champion Mode Tickets (3).

[Item]
Worn-Out Mari Mission is available for GP purchase at Level 0 to acquire the Mari character.
New GP items have been added to the Shop in support of Mari.

Katawa Shoujo!

2010-03-22T20:56:00.001+01:00

Katawa Shoujo is a bishoujo-style visual novel set in the fictional Yamaku High School for disabled children, located somewhere in modern Japan. Hisao Nakai, a normal boy living a normal life, has his life turned upside down when a congenital heart defect forces him to move to a new school after a long hospitalization. Despite his difficulties, Hisao is able to find friends—and perhaps love, if he plays his cards right. There are five main paths corresponding to the 5 main female characters, each path following the storyline pertaining to that character.

The story is told through the perspective of the main character, using a first person narrative. This game uses a traditional text and sprite-based visual novel model with an ADV text box.

Katawa Shoujo contains adult content, and is created using the Ren'Py scripting system.Katawa Shoujo is under development by an international team of amateur developers, and will be released free of charge under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND License. There is currently no release date set. However, Act 1 is offered as a free download on their page, and Act 2 is following soon. This is one epic game, so make sure to pay it a visit!

This times Game: Heroes of Newerth

2010-03-21T23:33:00.000+01:00

Heroes of Newerth is a generally new type of game, which is really hard to explain in just one sentence, so I'll make it as quick as I can, but don't expect much out of it.

In Heroes of Newerth, Heroes are primarily organized by their main attribute - either strength, intelligence, or agility. A main attribute, along with the set of abilities that is provided for a hero, loosely assigns the role that they will fill in the game - such as an "initiator" who is geared towards being the first hero into a fight, a "carry" who scales very well the longer the game moves on and deals massive damage and "support" - heroes which have a range of abilities from healing and buffing to damage and disables.

While the three primary attributes help categorize heroes, what truly distinguishes each hero from others is their set of abilities. Each hero in the game has four unique skills or spells that can be learned and improved as the hero gains levels. These abilities accomplish vastly different things, such as dealing damage, healing, stunning, immobilizing or silencing, teleportation, summoning, and life and mana draining. While the skills themselves are unique, the skills of each hero usually have some sort of synergy with each other. For example, a hero might have one skill that reduces an enemy's defenses against magic, and another skill that deals magic damage. Using these skills one after the other increases the hero's effectiveness by allowing them to do more damage. Each hero's skill-set defines their role in the game. These roles can vary according to the compositions of each team as well as the overall strategy that the team decides to follow. Heroes can belong to multiple categories. In addition, item selection is an important factor that determines a hero's role.

To summarize all of this, it's pretty much just like Defend of the Ancients (DotA) for Warcraft 3, just a newer version with newer characters and better graphics.

New Updates!

2010-03-20T02:22:00.000+01:00

Listen up, folks! I, as some of you may have noticed, changed the link pictures on the right side. It's not much to talk about, but it took me quite a while to create and embed them, and they sure fit each other well, don't they? The only thing which will cause problems is when a 5th person asks to be linked as well. I would need to get another picture and redo all of the pictures, that'll be way too much stress for me, so I'm happy I changed them and I certainly will keep them for at least some months!

This times Game: Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth

2010-03-17T15:21:00.000+01:00

That's right! It's been a while since my last post, but that's because I rarely find the time to tell you anything because nothing actually happens! Nothing, except for the daily crap, but there's not much to tell. Playing Heroes of Newerth almost all day and maybe doing some other stuff. Oh and of course I'm often phoning with my precious girlfriend.

So much for that, I've already told you guys about Ace Attorney: Apollo Justice, well, here's the newcomer, which is at least as awesome as any game of the Ace Attorney series. Again, it's a prosecutor game, where, who would've known, you get to be a prosecutor. Not just "some" prosecutor, no, you'll be Miles Edgeworth, and of course you will help him fight his way through the game with law and justice! The basic game rules are pretty simple: Investigate, Combine logical thoughts, find contradictions and find the criminal! Here, the launch trailer with japanese voice included.

Happy Birthday Rio!

2010-03-04T16:20:00.000+01:00

That is right! Your king celebrates his birthday! I didn't do much, really. Got a few calls from my family, some people congratulated me as well. Well, what should I say, I'm no big party guy. I barely have "friends", and even if I had, gaming still is more fun.

Hm, I was thinking what to do on this post, I actually still don't know it, maybe I'll just show you some video I found a while ago which actually is kinda cool because of how it's made. Have fun!

This times Game: Aliens vs. Predator

2010-02-28T15:38:00.001+01:00

The game sure rocks. I have to admit, I never really was a fan of the series, but this game's gotten awesome. The graphics are amazing, and the gameplay is just so much win I can't describe. All the stealth kills or finishing moves, the possibilities, and the greatest point you have to mention, the multiplayer.

I'm often playing this with my friends, and it really rocks. Would you like a Trailer? Yes? Well, here you go.

Amy Skill Tree Release!

2010-02-24T22:41:00.000+01:00

Grand Chase Patch Notes

[General]
Amy's Skill Tree is here!
Until March 9th, Amy activates a special emblem that gives a 10% buff to stats to everyone running dungeons with her.
Everyone will receive a Superstar Amy signboard (7 days) at first login.
A Victor's Fortress mission will be distributed for all characters upon first login during the event.
The Grand Chase Maniac Event will reward users who accumulate the most number of hours online by March 2nd!
The top 10 users will be awarded a permanent Grand Chase Maniac Crest.
Players who log 35+ hours will be awarded a 7-day Grand Chase Maniac signboard.
Both crest and signboard give a 5% EXP boost.
The Champion Box PvP Event will award a Champion Box when victorious in PvP until March 2nd.

[Cash]
The Superstar Amy Package is available until March 9th.
Amy's Lovely Heart Armor Set, Chakrani, and Headphones are available until March 9th.
Packages of consumable Skill Tree items have been added to the Shop until March 9th.
Skill Key 1+1 Package.
Skill Key Super Pack.
Skill Tree Power Package 1.
Skill Tree Power Package 2.
Skill Tree Power Package 3.
Skill Tree All-In-One Package 1.
Skill Tree All-In-One Package 2.
Skill Tree All-In-One Package 3.

[Dungeon]
Victor's Fortress dungeon added to Silver Land Continent, completion of King Fang's Lair is required to unlock this dungeon.
Victor's armor pieces will drop as timed rares from mobs.

Completion of King Fang's Lair Champion Crest is required to acquire the Victor's Fortress Champion Crest.

Yes, I know, no announce. You see, I was pretty busy and didn't have the time to do much, also, I didn't have the time to actually test the Skill Tree, so if you want to know it, test it yourself.

Your Emperor is back!

2010-02-21T00:23:00.000+01:00

I know, I know! I had no time to tell you I am going away, but yet, here I am again!

Of course, you missed me, you don't have to tell me, it's obvious. Anyways, now you surely all want to know where I was, well in Freiberg. Of course you won't know it, it's german.

Why I was there? Well, to visit my girlfriend! I already mentioned her a few times, so you know who I mean. And how it was? It was awesome. We did all the stuff couples do, and of course more. We went to the cinema, chilled around and even played some PlayStation 3. Surely was one epic week over there.

Well, all good things come to an end someday, so I'm not all that sad that I'm back, I still have you guys! And of course I shall visit her again, soon!

Jin 4th (Rama) Release!

2010-02-10T19:50:00.000+01:00

Grand Chase Patch Notes

[General]
Fourth Job for Jin has been added! Now Jin can wield the Vajras of the Rama!
Fourth Job change requires level 40 to begin
Receive a 20% EXP bonus while playing as Jin until February 23rd
The Rama mission is completed in three parts, your job is not changed until completion of a THIRD mission. When you complete the first mission, the next will be given automatically
Players who unlock Rama by February 23rd will receive a Soul of the Fighter Doll (15 Days) automatically
Receive a Protector of the Gods mission scroll when Rama is unlocked to acquire Jin's 4th job crest
Valentine's Day event has begun!
Valentine's Day Chocolate Rings are now available for forming couples, look for the Valentine's Day Couples Package to get yours today!
Run a dungeon with your coupled partner to receive a 5% attack/defense buff
Collect Valentine's Day chocolates (either Choco'brick Bars or Boxes of Valentine's Day Chocolates) during the event through various means
The more chocolates you collect, the longer you will receive Popular Guy's Wings for with the February 23rd maintenance
Collect 150 chocolates to keep the wings forever!
Receive 1 Choco'brick Bar for the first login each day during the event
Receive 3 Boxes of Valentine's Day Chocolates for each hour of login time up to 5 hours per day (for a total of 15!)
Chocolates may also be purchased in the Academy or as part of Valentine's Day Couple and Rose Necklace Packages
NOTE: Since Choco'brick Bars may be used in reinforcing, only *unused* bars will be counted towards your chocolates total. Both Choco'brick Bars and Boxes of Valentine's Day Chocolates are added together for the purpose of determining your total
Receive both the Lonely Wolf and Lonesome Fox missions when you first login
Although both missions are distributed, only one may be completed. Once one mission is complete, the other cannot be completed
The prize for completing the mission is a Lover Boy/Dream Girl Signboard (depending on the mission completed)
Check the shop for Rose Necklaces, Choco'brick Bars and various packages!
Choco'brick Bars have an increased chance of success when reinforcing the Rose Necklace, and may only be used to reinforce the Rose Necklace
Reinforce Rose Necklaces to a high level for prizes!
For every Grade 7 Rose Necklace: GC Club (3 Days), Wings of Love (5 Days)
For every Grade 8 Rose Necklace: GC Club (5 Days), Wings of Love (7 Days), Gacha Coins (3), Reinforcement Booster (10% Up) Item (5)
For every Grade 7 Rose Necklace: GC Club (7 Days), Wings of Love (10 Days), Gacha Coins (5), Reinforcement Booster (15% Up) Item (5)
Prizes will be distributed with the February 23rd maintenance

[Cash]
Takeda Rama's Armor Set, Cloak and Vajras for Jin characters level 40 or higher is available for cash purchase until February 23rd
Rose Necklace accessory for all characters has been added to the Accessories Shop until February 23rd
Single or 5-Packs of Choco'brick Bars are available in the Academy until February 23rd
Rose Necklace Packages and Valentine's Day Couple Packages are available in the Academy until February 23rd
The Rama Mission for Jin characters level 40 or higher is available for cash purchase
Vajras have been added for cash purchase in support of Rama

[Item]
The Worn-Out Rama Mission for Jin characters level 40 or higher is available for GP purchase
Vajras have been added for GP purchase in support of Rama

--Grand Chase Team

Jin 4th (Rama) Announce!

2010-02-03T22:57:00.000+01:00

Grand Chase Patch Notes

[General]
Rama is coming!
Get a 20% EXP boost in PvP/dungeons when playing as Jin until February 16.

[Cash]
Until February 9th, the Black Fighter Package, Shisa Power-Up Package, and Asura Power-Up Package will be sold in the Academy.
Black Fighter's Armor Set and Knuckles have been added for cash purchase in support of Jin.

[Adjustments]
The Competitor's Quest PvP mission will no longer distribute at first logon.
Incomplete missions were also removed.

--Grand Chase Team

Oh, and yes, Emperor instead of Rama would've sound much cooler, but Ntreev ruined it.

Rio's Randomness ~ Part 2

2010-01-28T13:18:00.000+01:00

You got it right! It's time for Rio's Randomness once again!

Well. This time's special will be, once again, a video, an Anime Opening to be precisely. It's the High Definition Quality Opening of the Anime Maria Holic!

Many many people say that the anime is omfgwtfshit, and I belive in that from what I heard, nevertheless the intro is just pure win, and I really mean it. It's unique in some way.

Okay! Let us enjoy this little piece of epicness for at least 1:30 minutes!

This times Anime: Umineko no Naku Koro ni

2010-01-25T22:08:00.000+01:00

Oh yes. This anime rocks. And with rock I don't mean that stony thing which you find outside when you're thirsty and drank up all the lemonade you got, I mean like, this anime is pure win.

It's at least as awesome as Higurashi no Naku Koro ni. And we all know how awesome that one was, don't we? If not, you're missing a huge part of human history.

Well, what to say, the anime is about a mansion, and those family members are invited for some family union on that island where the mansion is located. Of course this place has to be haunted by witches and stuff and they won't be able to leave the island. So, for the sake of the golden witch Beatrice, each twilight some people get sacrificed, for the greater good of course. And well, figures that this anime is one hell of a bloody mess, and it surely isn't something you watch for dinner.

How about some anime opening, sir?

Sieghart 2nd (Warlord) Release!

2010-01-20T14:13:00.000+01:00

Grand Chase Patch Notes

[General]
Second Job for Sieghart has been added! Now Sieghart can become a Warlord with the completion of a Cash or GP mission!
Playing as Sieghart will give a 20% EXP/GP bonus.
Sieghart's unlocking mission (cash) will be discounted by 15% until January 26.
All players who unlock Warlord will receive Gladiator's Dark Wings (15 Days) immediately.
Level Cap has been increased to 70! Enjoy the following bonuses until February 9th.
Upon first login during the event, receive a Queen's Jewel (1 Day) to help you advance your level
Starting at level 25, players will receive a Queen's Jewel (1 Day) and 10,000 GP Coupon for every 5 levels gained
Starting at level 65, players will receive a Level Cap Gift Box containing timed Guardian Knight's weapons for every level gained
Players who have accumulated enough exp prior to the update to advance beyond level 65 will find the appropriate amount of Level Cap Gift Boxes already in their inventories.

[Dungeon]
Forest of Life dungeon added to Xenia Continent, completion of Temple of Destruction is required to unlock this dungeon.
Completion of Temple of Destruction Champion Crest is required to acquire the Forest of Life Champion Crest.

[Cash]
The Warlord Mission for Sieghart characters level 20 or higher is available for cash purchase.
Sleaghgrim have been added for cash purchase in support of Warlord.
Sieghart's Warlord Armor Set and Sleaghgrim for level 20 has been added.
Ellian Masks have been added to the shop for one week only!
500-use packs of the skill for pet Helper Bot have been added to the pet shop.

[Item]
The Worn-Out Warlord Mission for Sieghart characters level 20 or higher is available for GP purchase.
Sleaghgrim have been added for GP purchase in support of Warlord.
100-use packs of the skill for pet Helper Bot have been added to the pet shop.

[Adjustments]
Level cap has been permanently increased from 65 to 70.
Bingo Quiz Cards have been removed as the event has ended.

--Grand Chase Team

Sieghart 2nd (Warlord) Announce!

2010-01-14T18:53:00.000+01:00

Yes, I know. One day too late AND not even the official loading screen. Wanna know why? Because Ntreev didn't fucking update their page! Hell! I thought "Leave them be, they will post the patch log later", but Fiddlesticks they did! They didn't even said there WAS a patch!

Anyways... since they didn't really say anything about it I don't feel like telling you much about it as well, he's gonna be using a Spear and Sword as once, a weapon called "Changgeom", probably taken from the korean name.

Well, I will post an update once they will, so see you then.

5000 Blogviews!

2010-01-07T23:30:00.000+01:00

Finally! I've been waiting so long for this day to arrive, I actually can't believe it!

Today, my blog reached the magical 5000, that means at least 1000 people have seen my blog and more than 3000 have looked on it twice! Or something among those numbers.

Anyways! To celebrate this awesome event, I have already found a video you guys can watch. It's an AMV, a really nice one, and I especially love how it's done, so here we go!

New Dungeon: Temple of Destruction Release!

2010-01-06T18:49:00.000+01:00

Grand Chase Patch Notes

[General]
Play Bingo!
Your Bingo quiz board will be distributed upon first login
One Bingo Coin and Quiz Lifeline will be distributed for your first login each day during the event
Two Bingo Coins will be given for each hour of gameplay, to a maximum of five hours per day (10 Coins)
Additional Bingo Coins and Quiz Lifelines may be purchased in the shop
Prizes will be given immediately for each bingo line you complete during the event
Finish all 22 bingo lines to receive a special prize after the event ends on January 19th!
Happy New Year!
2010 Glasses will be distributed for 14 days upon first login
Play in Dungeons and PvP for a chance to win a 2010 Gift Box
Gift boxes contain 2010 Glasses and a variety of Big Heads
It is possible, although very rare, to win 2010 Glasses permanently from a 2010 Gift Box!
Squire Gaikoz and Kaze'doggeh pets have been added to the game!
Both pets are created from their respective Pet Creation Manual
Pet Creation Manuals are only found in certain Champion Mode dungeons, and only rarely
Combine an assortment of Chaos Orbs and Precious Pearls from that continent to make the pet
Precious Pearls drop from their respective continents in Champion Mode, 1 from each boss with a small chance from each mob.
A new dungeon in Xenia Continent has opened, the Temple of Destruction!

[Dungeon]
Temple of Destruction dungeon added to Xenia Continent, completion of Altar of Judgment is required to unlock this dungeon.
Completion of Altar of Judgment Champion Crest is required to acquire the Temple of Destruction Champion Crest.

[Cash]
Quiz Lifelines and Bingo Coins have been added to the Academy tab during the bingo event
Karapis Armor Sets have been added to the shop for all characters level 45 and up until January 19th
Tian Long Armor and Weapons have been added to the VIP Shop for Elesis, Lire, Arme, Lass, Ryan and Ronan
500-use packs of the skill for Squire Gaikoz and Kaze'doggeh have been added to the Pet Shop

[Item]
100-use packs of the skill for Squire Gaikoz and Kaze'doggeh have been added to the Pet Shop

[Adjustments]
The backgrounds in the Park and Elven Forest have returned to normal
Gift Bundle NPCs have been removed from the Park
Relay Dungeons have been removed from Bermesiah and Ellia continents, who knows when they might return?

--Grand Chase Team

Happy New Year!

2010-01-01T13:50:00.000+01:00

Happy New Year everyone! Another year passes and I am still as awesome as ever before! If not even more!

I don't really know what to tell you, other than wishing you a happy year, have fun and stuff, live happily, and don't die!

Oh, many many awesome games will arrive, also many awesome movies, whatever, just do what you want and stuff, cya!

Merry Christmas!

2009-12-26T01:15:00.000+01:00

Yo! As I said, Merry Christmas to all of you!

Hope you got lots of presents, because I did not. Well, that's common, we don't really have much money so we never really give ourselves anything. It's like a usual day, we didn't celebrate anything at all. But hey, not like I'm angry about it. That way I have more time for myself.

Anyways, I'm sure you all had a great time with your families and friends, and maybe some awesome present which you can't wait to test out, so make sure to do so!

I don't really know what else to say. Don't die and stuff, lol.

Jin 3rd (Asura) Release!

2009-12-23T15:50:00.000+01:00

Grand Chase Patch Notes

[General]
Third Job for Jin has been added! Now Jin can train as an Asura with the completion of a Cash or GP mission!
If you complete an Asura mission (Cash or GP) by January 5th, you will receive Guardian Knight's Chamma (7 Days) and Fighter's New Cont. Amulet (7 Days).
These prizes will be distributed on the January 5th maintenance.
Relay Dungeons have been added to Bermesiah and Ellia continents until January 5th!
In a relay dungeon, each boss found on that continent is fought sequentially.
There is no difficulty setting; all bosses are fought in the same condition.
When a boss is defeated, a chest is left behind for your team to collect loot from and continue.
While Aging Cores are guaranteed, chests in relay mode may rarely contain Golem Rings (3 Days), Guardian Knight's Armor Sets (3 Days) or even some cash items!
One Die for the Treasure Hunt game will be distributed each day at login, five dice will be distributed for daily attendance checks.
Part 3 of the Missing Santa mission may now be found in dungeons.
Part 3 of the Path of Honor mission may now be won from PvP.
Special Gacha Dungeon - Gaikoz's Castle has been updated with a fearsome new creature
This special dungeon features the North American Grand Chase world premiere of the Tian Long pet and Tian Long Guard's armor for Amy, Jin and Sieghart!
All rare items from this dungeon have a required level of 35, the rare weapons in this dungeon are designed for first job.
Please note that Special Gacha Dungeons carry different "common" items and award 2 VIP Badges for completion, but also require 2 Gacha Coins per egg!

[Cash]
The Asura Mission for Jin characters level 30 or higher is available for cash purchase.
Chamma have been added for cash purchase in support of Asura.
Asura Armor Set has been added to the shop.
500-packs of the skill for Tian Long have been added to the shop.

[Item]
The Worn-Out Asura Mission for Jin characters level 30 or higher is available for GP purchase.
Chamma have been added for GP purchase in support of Asura.
100-packs of the skill for Tian Long have been added to the shop.

--Grand Chase Team

I hate my life! :D (Part 3)

2009-12-23T06:32:00.000+01:00

Meh, it's somewhat settled. I'm over it, and I did not really get in too much trouble. I somewhat tried to befriend that "guy", and I'm fine with my "girlfriend" as well, we both are pretty much best friends now since we actually can't forget each other, after all what happened.

Anyways, it still sucks the way it is, and my marks won't get any better due to that, so meh. I still will keep the lifestyle I do, and I probably will see how it works out in the future, hopefully well.

Btw! I just have to say that the matchmaking in League of Legends is bullshit! I mean, I lost the past 10 games and keep getting way higher enemies! That is so not fair, and why me? Why not them? It used to rock, the matchmaking, heck knows why they changed it...

I hate my life! :D (Part 2)

2009-12-20T16:32:00.000+01:00

See. I told you. Of course there will be a Part 2. There always will be more parts than necessary. I hate my life, I really do. Why? Where should I start...

Let's start with the fact that my girlfriend broke up. Yup. That wonderful girl I would've been happy with in all eternity. The reason? I don't wanna say it's because of some other boy. But it has to do with it. We had much trouble besides that, too. We discussed things pretty often and since she's pretty emotional she took it harder than usual girls. Anyway, it's pretty ironic because I didn't notice the "thing" going on between her and him. Nothing is for sure, but what the heck am I supposed to believe? She broke up with me, we're barely phoning, they probably talk somewhat much, and she said that he's more than just a friend. Geez.

Anyways, so I'm pretty desperate at this moment, I lost my love, I fail at school, and I fail at everything else as well. I'm down. If I wouldn't be so fucking cowardish I'd probably suicide, but still do not. Things will work out somehow... again. Like always.

Jin 3rd (Asura) Announce!

2009-12-16T14:43:00.000+01:00

Grand Chase Patch Notes

[General]
Asura is coming!
Additional rewards will be given for players who unlock Jin and Shisa
These rewards will be given to players who have already unlocked Jin/Shisa
We're hosting a Pep Rally for the Grand Chase World Championship (GWC)!
2009 GWC Team Spirit Badges may be won randomly by completing dungeons.
Click "OK" on the badge(s) in your inventory to automatically donate to our team!
Check the scoreboard in the Park to see which team is getting more support.
Players who donate 500 badges will receive a 2009 GWC Team Spirit Sign.
A new dungeon in Silver Land has opened, King Fang's Lair!
Part 2 of the Missing Santa mission may now be found in dungeons.
Part 2 of the Path of Honor mission may now be won from PvP.

[Dungeon]
King Fang's Lair dungeon added to Silver Land, completion of Primeval Island is required to unlock this dungeon.
Completion of Primeval Island Champion Crest is required to acquire the King Fang's Lair Champion Crest.
Completion of Silver Land dungeon Champion Crests is *NOT* required to acquire the Gorgos Dungeon Champion Crest or beyond.

[Cash]
Grand Chase World Championship (GWC) Pep Rally Uniforms are on sale for all characters until January 5th.
Until December 22nd, the Shisa Power-Up Package will be sold in the Academy.
Ellian Wings are on sale until December 22nd!

[Adjustments]
Sealed Gems have been removed from dungeons and Seal Breaker Scrolls have been removed from the shop.
Unopened gems may be used with unused scrolls to contribute to the current set until the next set is released.

--Grand Chase Team

ChiruMiru Cirno!

2009-12-14T15:03:00.000+01:00

That's right! Kneel down to Cirno! The most epic Touhou person, and at least as awesome as I am! You don't believe me? How dare you! To prove how amazing she is, I have quickly looked up a video of her, showing off her coolness, so prepare for awesome!

Side note, maybe it's just me but this song is for Touhou fans or anime fans rather addiciting, so watch it on your own risk, I will not pay for any harm done during playtime.