I'm SomeGuy, 29 years old, residing in Vancouver, BC, Canada. I've studied English Literature, Chinese Martial Arts, and am currently pursuing careers in writing - possibly even in the anime industry itself.
And I work for this site.
And you should be watching Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad.
Or watching Ranma 1/2.
Or learning about the Shinsengumi.
Or planning to visit Vancouver, The Best Place On Earth (actual marketing motto).
Here at the "Smallville" page, I have my personal blog where I'll post about anything and everything. If ya need me or otherwise need to know anything from/about me, here's where I'll be.
If you're really looking for my more professional, site-type stuff, you wanna head over my "Metropolis" world.
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I've been neglecting Fan Words again lately, so I'm slogging through them now. And now I've come upon an interesting situation . . .
There's a particular member who's posting a LOT of fanfics right now. That in itself isn't bad, and I assume they're all written from some time before and she found a new avenue to put them online here.
Here's the kicker . . .
She writes about half and half yaoi and not. Again, not bad in and of itself. However, the yaoi stories she writes are kinda rough to read, and are of a significantly lower quality than her other stories. It's very much the "yaoi fangirl" textbook example.
Her het-based stories will be decent enough, not too many issues, normal speech and characterization . . .
. . . her yaoi-based stories will instead be filled with random groping, other characters prying them off, and others going "I WUV YOUUUUUUUU!"
Ahem.
Practical quality standpoint, those just don't make the grade. Thus . . .
. . . I'll probably be seen as a stuffy, homophobic yaoi-hater or somethin'. Maybe. If I am, then that'd be the rub right there. Boo.
Other than that . . . doing well, watching a lot of Smallville, kinda sad the next new one won't be 'til next year (this season's gotten really good!). Otherwise, just playin' PS3, just doin' dishes . . . more of the same, y'know.
The gist being that Wii games hit the bargain bin faster, and that's part of the problem Nintendo needs to solve. What's better, though, is this one particular comment by one particular funny man:
HappyBB.
Nintendo will eventually drop out of the console market. But they will never leave the handheld market.
Nintendo's strong point is handhelds. They always reinvent when it comes to them. Nintendo is better off making new handheld consoles then game consoles and seems to put for more effort into them. DS 2 is Nintendo's new trump card, now. Rumor has it they're are entirely focused on getting it out on time and making it a even more cutting edge handheld then ever.
Both the Wii and PS3 are running out of gas. And interesting enough they bothed launched in 2006. It's clearly obvious that the value in these consoles is wearing thin and that the 360 is hanging on while PS2 is still managing to survive. It's about the games people and the Wii has lost that arugement with crappy last-gen ports and novelty games. PS3 meanwhile has lost with too much hype, very little software support, and the fall of Blu-Ray in which everyone assumed would be the next best thing(HD DVD will be back, I truely believe that.) While PS3 is still a good purchase it now lacks in the software department while Wii is sold to people that don't know or care about games.
This is honestly why I see Wii and PS3 both dying in this crash with Xbox 360 and PS2 living on and Sega re-entering the hardware market. The better library now rest on these two machines and once SEGA gets back into the console market they're going to have to come up with a way to sell games for cheaper and cut development costs of 3rd party titles to help rescue the collapsing software market.
This guy kinda reminded me of the Iraqi Information Minister. Funny times. I should news this story, though . . .
. . . also, thanks to everyone with insight to glass-cleaning. Nice to know my mom wasn't just sayin' stuff.
Is it true that when washing drinking glasses, one should never put one's hand inside the glass? Y'know, like to scrub the inside of it?
My mom said that was like, one of the major rules to basic whatever. I had never heard it before, so I wanted to hear your guys' thoughts on the matter.
I mean, it's a smart idea, totally, especially considering my poor pinky's bandaged up now after a triangular chip of a glass came off in my hand like a piece of tortilla chip . . . . . ahem . . . but yeah . . . . thoughts?
Ahem . . . so in other news . . .
Got Rock Band 2. It's godly. Other than that, I bet I've been neglecting the chat. Need to touch base with peoples more, especially since I always work Tuesday nights now (closing shifts . . . but hey, bill gotta be paid . . .).
Just workin' an assload like usual, getting ready to take full advantage of a no-tax thingy they're gonna give the staff (I shall have to grab the Rock Band 2 bundle, methinks).
Other than that, I flexed my independent brain powers the other night because the little one was hungry and we had little to no food. Chicken quesadillas were quite a success.
Anyway, I work early tomorrow. I'll, umm . . . I'll do captions tomorrow. I'll have a full evening at home for once.
Man . . . I probably need to start thinking about cleaning the bathroom and stuff . . . it's been a few weeks now . . .
. . . oh!
Also a message for Cat': we found a really rockin' Japanese place near our house!!!
