Music for the post -
KISS - Im A Legend Tonight
Hello everyone :)
It's been a good while since i last posted, so i knew that i needed to post today lol. I just woke up and i had plenty of time and nothing to do , so i thought id give it a go :)
Im going to start today's post by talking a little bit about the anime magazine called Anime Insider. I noticed yesterday on the front page of TheOtaku News section that Wizrd had ceased publication of the Anime Insider magazine, and i really couldnt believe it. It was really hard to believe because the Anime Insider magazines were always really good and they always managed to weather the storm, especially when other anime magazines would come and go - Anime Insider would always be there. It's pretty sad to see it go, especially so suddenly. What makes it all ironic is that i talked in my last post about waiting for the next issue to come out and how good of a magazine it was. I guess all good things come to an end at some point, Now i have a collection of obsolete anime magazines
Newtype USA
Raijin Comics (books very similar to Shonen Jump)
Toyfare (another Wizard publication)
Anime Insider
Hopefully eventually another magazine will rise and find a way to take the leading spot of anime publications the way Newtype USA and Anime Insider did, because i really believe fans enjoy and need things like that these days, especially in places that may not sell anime such as small towns , etc. All i can say is that These magazines gave alot of people alot of good times and it is certainly a travesty that we had to see them go.
Now onto the main part of the post i suppose lol.
Since I last posted, i havent really been up to much. 2 weeks ago i bought a new computer desk and spent most of the day putting it together (im not sure if i said anything about it in my last post lol) and i also bought a few movies as well. Most of them are a bit older, but really good lol.
Last Friday i got a little spending happy and ended up buying an Xbox360 while i was at Gamestop lol.
When i bought mine, i ended up being really lucky lol. I planned on buying a used Arcade version, which would be about $159.99 (comes with a wired controller) and it doesnt have a hard drive, but the guy at Gamestop brought a box from the backroom and said "This is the one you want" lol. He said that a guy had came in the store a week before and bought an Xbox360 ELITE, took the system home and removed the hardrive, then brought the system back up there and sold it back to them not even an hour later. So since it didnt have a hard drive, they were then able to sell it for the same price as a normal Arcade version, which is waay cheaper. Plus, my luck kept rolling when he showed me that the guy brought back the Rechargebale wireless controller with the system (sold alone they are $64.00). So in all, i got a brand new ELITE 360 model and a rechargeble controller for the price of a normal Arcade model w/wireless controller. Pretty Lucky lol.
I still dont have a hard drive, but ill still save alot of money in the long run by buying a smaller hard drive seperately, since i certainly wont need a large one like the one that normally comes with the Elite model. Oh yea, i also got the service Plan too, so if they system dies on me, ill be able to take it back and get it fixed or get a new one :)
I also bought 2 games for my 360
Gears of War
Legends of WrestleMania
I bought Gears of War the same day i bought the system, so i spent all week playing it until a couple of days ago when Legends of WrestleMania came out, then i bought that game too lol. Im sure most of you know that im a big fan of wrestling, and also a big fan of Wrestling videogames, and this game didnt dissapoint lol. The visuals on the Xbox360 are just really good, especially for this Legends of Wrestling game. Watching the wrestler's entrances for all of the older wrestlers that i grew up watching is pretty awesome because they are all done so well. Ive found myself falling in love with the Ultimate Warrior, and Rick Rude's entrances lol. Ill most likely see if i can find some videos of them on youtube to share with you all lol. That game just takes me back to when i was younger i guess and the good feeling i always got while watching wrestling as a kid lol.I know Xaos know what im talking about :)
Other than playing games, going to the chats, and sleeping/working, i havent really been up to much lol. A couple weeks ago i got a message that informed me of my Upgrade to Senior Otaku+, which was a shock to me because i hadnt really been active on here lately - besides making a few wallpapers and posting occasionally. I did notice that the subscriptions to my profile had jumped from 17 to 29 in the past month, so im sure that has something to do with it. Im expecting to break 3000 visits by the end of the day, so that is pretty exciting, I never thought id get that many visits, thats for sure LOL.
A few days ago i managed to make some new wallpapers, here are some thumbnail/links to them :)
If you are a fan of fighting games, im sure you will enjoy them. Im hoping to make some more SNK/Fatal Fury/ King of Fighters wallpapers in the future, thats for sure :)
Well, I think im going to get back to watching the live-action Street Fighter movie lol, so i better let you all go :) It was fun to post today and i certainly hope you all enjoyed visiting. I thank you all for visiting and i hope to chat with you all soon :)
stay strong,
Yamcha
