My Random Thoughts

Hello there. Welcome to my world of Random Thoughts. In this world I’ll be posting stuff about anime and manga. Not to mention various other topics. I may post the occasional music video every now and than. And from time to time, I’ll just talk about my life in general. But first, here are a few things about me.

I was born an only child, for one thing. Originally I was planning to go into art professionally, but recently I’ve been more inclined towards writing. I still do the occasional wallpaper every now and then though, and I also still draw a little. But much of my energy these days goes into writing fan fiction. I’ve also recently become interested in archive and library work, which is something I’ve discovered I’m good at. Finally, like most people on the Internet, I like cats.

Favorite Anime/Manga

Yu-Gi-Oh!, Sailor Moon, Tokyo Mew Mew, Card Captor Sakura, Vampire Princess Miyu, Dragon Ball Z, Code Geass, Digimon (Adventure and Tamers), Pokemon (Misty era), Gundam SEED, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Strawberry Panic, Rideback, Full Metal Panic, Slayers, Psyren, El Cazador de la Bruja, Sword Art Online, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Yurikuma Arashi, Kill la Kill, Parasyte: The Maxim, One Punch Man, and Mob Psycho 100.

Other Anime/Manga I Like

Buso Renkin, Gurren Lagann, InuYasha, Kannazuki no Miko, Shattered Angels, Bleach, Naruto, Durarara!!, Spice and Wolf, This Ugly Yet Beautiful World, Dragonaut: The Resonance, Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood, Trinity Blood, Blue Gender, Eden of the East, Last Exile, Soul Eater, Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040, Space Dandy, Black Lagoon, Citrus, Riddle Story of Devil, and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.

Favorite TV Shows

Original Star Trek, Star Trek the Next Generation, Star Trek Deep Space 9, Star Trek Voyager, Magnum P.I., Numbers, Shark, The Simpsons, The West Wing, ~~Hawaii Five-O (Remake)~~, NCIS, NCIS Los Angeles, NCIS New Orleans, Blue Bloods, Doctor Who, Red Dwarf, Leverage, The Mentalist, Elementary, MASH, Bones, The Red Green Show, Almost Human, Rizzoli & Isles, Supergirl, and Sherlock.

Other TV Shows I Like

Murder She Wrote, Simon & Simon, Adventure Time, Regular Show, Steven Universe, Powerpuff Girls, The Closer, Major Crimes, Columbo, Matlock, Futurama, JAG, The Rockford Files, Unforgettable, Emergency, Mysteries at the Museum, ~~Castle~~, Covert Affairs, ~~Alias~~, Due South, Nash Bridges, Body of Proof, ~~Longmire~~, ~~The Flash~~, ~~Arrow~~, DC's Legends of Tomorrow, ~~It Takes a Thief~~, Frasier, Home Improvement, and Last Man Standing.

Favorite Movies

Summer Wars, Short Circuit, The Abyss, The Karate Kid, The Karate Kid Part II, Tron, Tron: Legacy, Highlander, The Ghost and the Darkness, Dark Shadows, Ghostbusters, Twister, Apollo 13, Alien, Aliens, Predator, Predator 2, The Martian, Rocky (1-3), Creed, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises, Iron Man (1-3), Original Star Wars Trilogy, Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens, Star Trek (The Wrath of Khan, The Search for Spock, The Voyage Home, The Undiscovered Country), Star Trek Next Generation (First Contact, Insurrection, Nemesis), and the Star Trek Reboot Films (Star Trek, Into Darkness).

Favorite Musical Groups/Artists

Phil Collins (and Genesis), Journey, Styx, Boston, Queen, Heart, Meat Loaf, Billy Joel, John Denver, Survivor, Chicago (and Peter Cetera), and Josh Groban.

In addition to being a fairly good wallpaper artist, I'm also a fan fiction writer who's written quite a few stories on FanFiction.Net. To check those stories out, CLICK HERE

That’s pretty much all you need to know about me. I'm not sure how often I'll post something here, but I'll try to as often as I can. In the meantime, I hope you all enjoy visiting.

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Bent Package

Today was a nice, 60 degree day in the little Nebraska town where I live, so I decided to walk to the only store in town that sells Yu-Gi-Oh! cards. To my surprise, the store had restocked their supply of Storm of Raganrok booster packs. That store is usually terrible at restocking their merchandise. Anyway, I usually buy only two packs at a time, but as I took the first two packs off the rack, I noticed that the upper left-hand cardboard package of the fourth pack on the rack was bent. Now I'm a little superstitious when it comes to buying booster packs, and I thought that perhaps that bent corner meant something. So I took that fourth pack off the rack, bought all three packs, and went home. When I opened the pack that was in the bent package, the I discovered that the first card in the pack was damaged. The bottom was crimped. It probably happened when the wrapper was sealed. That was the only damaged card. Unfortunately it was also a card that I could have used to power up my Six Samurai/Obelisk the Tormentor deck. Still, the card was a common one, so I'll probably find another copy of it sooner or later. I put it aside and looked at what the other cards in the pack were. To my surprise, the rarest card in the pack was Odin, Father of the Aesir. It turned out that my feeling about that booster pack was right. I'll need to find the Nordic Ascendant Tuners before I can use Odin in a deck, but this was quite a find. Now my familiarity with Norse mythology is a bit lacking, so after I tried taking my cat out side for a walk (that's right, I walk my cat on a leash), I got on Wikipedia to find out more about the myth of Odin. I know Wikipedia isn't the most reliable source of information, but it's a good way to find out general information about something. Just don't use it to write your school papers. Anyway, her are some interesting fact I found out about Odin.

He had two ravens named Huginn and Muninn who'd fly around the Earth daily to report information about world events.
Odin road an eight-legged horse.
Odin also had a severed head that foretold the future.
He commanded a pair of wolves named Geri and Freki.
Odin consumed nothing but mead or wine.
He tore out his left eye to gain knowledge of the past, present, and future.
Santa Clause is apparently based on both Odin and Saint Nicholas of Myra.

Quite the interesting mythological god, huh? Anyway, that covers the most interesting highlight of my day. Now for no reason, here is the full version of the song, Clear Mind, by Masaaki Endoh. Enjoy.

Birth of the Cosmic Synchro Deck

For those of you who may be interested, I was finally able to build a deck based around Shooting Star Dragon and Red Nova Dragon, which I'm calling my Cosmic Synchro deck. It's not perfect yet though. I there might be too many Tuner monsters in the deck. I'll try and smooth out the deck this weekend. Thanks for reading.

Promotions

Today I was promoted to the Otaku ++ rank here at TheO. Now I can finally issue wallpaper challenges. I have one going on right now. Anyway, it seems that I'm not the only one who got promoted today. It seems that a couple other people I know here at TheO got promoted as well. I guess today is just a day for promotions. Well, congrats to the friends of mine who got promoted today.

Digimon: World Crossing

Before I begin this tale, I want to make it clear that the title of this story has in no way, shape, or form, have anything to do with the new series, Digimon Xros Wars. The reason that the title of this story is called, World Crossi...

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The Future of Dueling

This post is for all the Yu-Gi-Oh! fans. Specifically those who play the card game. There is a new type of monster card coming to the card game. These monsters are called Exceed monsters. Here are the details I know so far. The Exceed monster cards are black in color, opposite the white Synchro monsters, and have their level stars extending from the right-hand side of the card instead of the left-hand side. Sort of like how they appeared on the Dark Synchro monsters in the 5D's anime. The stars on an Exceed monster don't represent a level though, they represent a rank. Also, the Exceed monsters go into the Extra Deck with the Fusion and Synchro monsters. Here is how an Exceed Summon works, at least as far as I can tell. To start with, you need two monsters with matching levels face-up on the field, let's say two level fours. You take those two monsters and stack them on top of each other. Than you take the Exceed monster who's rank matches the level of the stacked monsters, and place the Exceed monster on top of the stack. So if you're using two level fours, than you're trying to summon a rank four Exceed monster. In the future, there will probably require more than just two monsters to summon. I should also point out that the only known rank four Exceed so far has 2500 attack points, so summoning one of these Exceed monsters is no waste of time. I should also point out that an Exceed Summon counts as a Special Summon. There will also be cards that exploit the material monsters stacked under an Exceed monster, and many of them will probably be the Exceed monsters themselves. There are still a few details about Exceed monsters that are unknown, and once they are known I'll go into the more mechanical details of using Exceed monsters in my Yu-Gi-Oh! Workshop world. Right now though, I'm only talking about my opinion about Exceed monsters, and right now I think these new monsters are going to completely change the card game. It's just like when Synchro monsters came out back in 2008. I'm not saying that the Exceed monsters are a bad thing. Quite the opposite actually. I'm looking forward to tinkering with these new cards. All I'm saying is that this is a major game change. Never before has there been anything involving stacking cards on top of each other in this game. It certainly makes things more interesting. I remember back when Synchro monsters came, a few of duelists retired from the game. The same thing happen again. Well, whatever happens, these new Exceed monsters will be available in the 2011 Starter Deck, which will be available in North America on May 31st, so mark your calendars. In the meantime, I would like to hear what those of you reading think of these new Exceed monsters. Those of you who play the card game that is. Thanks for reading.