Welcome to my world.

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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Just Plugging A Buddy

. . . that title can be taken so wrong . . . anyway . . . . .

If there's one guy on this site who's the most hardcore obsessed about Halloween, it's Enin. Man goes leagues every year to make it awesome.

This year is no exception: Mr. Grinn has returned.

The man is super creepy and awesome. I expect this string of letters and stuff will culminate nicely at the end of the month. Go read it.

Nao.

And in OTHER News . . . . .

The official month of hot-seat house-finding begins . . .

. . . just gave my one-month notice to upstairs. He has apparently seen this coming for a couple months now. Same amount of time as since the little one's moved off to school. Not surprising, really.

Also, Saw 6?! Seriously?! Sheesh . . . whatever . . .

So Adam, is Emilie Jerard nice?

In Other News . . .

. . . privacy does not exist on the internet.

Also, the Uncharted 2 multiplayer demo/beta came out yesterday. 'Tis great fun.

Two more weeks . . . . .

Two Weeks Away!!!

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves is only two weeks away from release, and I'm pretty much salivating. Reviews are starting to come out now that the embargo (or whatever) came down . . . and as one guy put it, everyone knew it was going to be good, but no one expected it to be this good!

Playstation Magazine gave it 10/10.
IGN gave it 9.5/10.
Games Radar gave it a 10/10.

Even more ridiculous, some French PS3 magazine gave it a 21 out of 20!

It's hard to imagine that any game could live up this kind of hype. At the same time, though, the more I see of it, the more I'm willing to believe.

There are two main things that I absolutely love about this game. The first is the characters, how brilliantly they're acted, how well-developed they are, and how they interact with each other. For example:

The other thing I love, is that even during the gameplay, you get such a sense of Drake as a character... and if that's not enough to turn heads, the insanely cinematic gameplay will. Example:

"Don't you assholes see the helicopter?!" indeed . . .

. . . . . holy crap, this game is gonna be the greatest game in the history of ever . . .

. . . which reminds me, I need to hurry up and find that darker grey shirt before Halloween . . . . .

Love At First Episode . . .

I've officially decided that Nathan Fillion is a performer who I would watch in anything.

Case in point, I bought season one of Castle on Wednesday after I sold a set to a woman on Tuesday. I had never seen an episode of it in my life, and of the half I did see, I was on the computer so I wasn't really paying attention.

One episode later, I can already say I love this show. I guess I'll add Castle to my regular television this year.

Shiny.

EDIT: Episode 9, about a child kidnapper . . . and I see Detective Kate Beckett holding the exact same big green Ikea coffee mug that I have.

I think I have a new favourite show for 2010. Fuck yeah.