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	2011.08.18  14.14 You know when you have that dream where you're back in school taking an exam, but it's one you haven't studied for? I had that dream last night. Except the school I was in was Hogwarts, and the exam was for Potions. I think I might be crazy.

	2011.05.21  21.54 So lunch was rad. New York is weird.

	2011.05.06  02.37 I try not to be too mushy about my relationship with commiesharefest. At least, not publicly. Which most of you have noticed, since I regularly refer to her as a hateful bitch. (Hi, honey!) But today, I'm gonna be a little bit of a girl. My girlfriend is literally the best girlfriend. Today she shows up at work for lunch. Which is nice, you know? Like, "Here, I'm going to be a good girlfriend and buy you lunch, woo." So that happened. And she brought me cookies. Doesn't that sound like something you'd make up? If you wanted to make up an unrealistically wonderful girlfriend, some magical being that could never exist in a real universe, you'd start with a girl who showed up at your place of business to bring you cookies. Well, I'm dating her. So there.

	2011.05.03  20.49 Ask me questions and I will answer them in a video! Fair warning: I am horribly horrible at impressions, accents and singing -- but may do them anyway if you ask nicely. Secondary fair warning: I do not own a camera or a microphone, so I will have to steal Krys' lovely little MacBook probably around eleven thirty, and then I may not post any other video shit until next week. Ask away, ladies and handful-of-gentlemen. EDIT: Krys is gone for the week, but I'll try to get some answers up on Saturday or Sunday. As soon as I can, anyway.

	2011.04.03  22.07 ( Baby Meme Baby: Zdenka/Helga/Mercedes )

	2011.03.31  14.23 Unemployment sucks, yo. I'm sending out applications pretty much at random now. Got one in at Adecco, at a gym, a few at a hospital, at the ASPCA, at a burger place, at Best Buy again, and the lady commiesharefest has suggested Midtown Comics as a potential place of employment, so I'll drop a resume off there sometime next week. I don't suppose any of my New York friends know of any potential leads? In other news, I feel like an underachiever only having one nebular character, but if you guys want to take a look at her, she's showgoeson. I need to get some more icons, yes, I know.

	2011.03.22  15.51 Further Nebularing So this happened. As you may recall, I made a post recently about Padma and how she would end up in the cowboy lifestyle. And I wasn't sure about how it happened, so I bounced some ideas off of neruda, who was very helpful in idea bouncing. And I ended up with about three thousand words of prequel to Padma as she will exist in nebular. Keep in mind that I don't know what her last name will be. I may be crazy. EDIT: Her last name is Chandrasekhar. It's a sci-fi game, so it would pretty much have to be. Anyway: WHO: Padma Chandrasekhar WHEN: An as-yet unknown number of years before the start of the game. WHAT: Padma rubs her lovely personality up against white trash. This results in friction. No one could have seen that coming. For nebular. WARNINGS: Some violence. Probably PG-13-ish. ( You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here. )

	2011.03.21  12.01 Nebular Concept One nebular. So how 'bout that shit. Am I right? ( Nebular Concept Below )

	2011.03.16  23.40 Give me one of my characters and one of yours, and I'll tell you how they end up together and what their first-born is like, even if they are unqualified to have children. I will totally hopefully also give you a PB. Maybe. If I feel like it. If that's the particular method I choose to exercise in rolling.

	2011.03.07  00.19 From the date of Friday, the eleventh of March, in the year of our Lord two thousand and eleven, until Monday, the fourteenth of March, in the year of our Lord two thousand and eleven, the lady commiesharefest and I will be in Boston, celebrating PAX East and having Good Times. Any Bostonians who will demand attention, and/or people going to PAX, should make a note here, that we be aware of your desire to hang out with awesome people.

	2011.03.03  03.17 If you're not in battlers, this post may not be relevant to your interests. Who: John Collins (gargouille) and Mercedes Torres (greenmeansgo) Where: Alpha House When: April, 2036. Warning: References to (alleged) sexual assault, violence. Summary: It began with a teary confession from a frightened friend. That was what made her do it. That was what made Mercedes decide to kill John Collins. ( Rage is a hell of an anesthetic. )

	2011.02.25  03.56 You give me a pairing and a color, and I'll give you a sentence. Still have no computer, but I can manage a sentence from my DS. Hit me with your best shot, wown-nown, fire away. In other news, the Dragon Age 2 demo awakened a hunger in me. I love it. It feels a lot more like Mass Effect than Dragon Age, in a good way. A lot of the stuff I hated seems to be gone. I'm looking forward to the whole game a lot more than I was before, is all.

	2011.01.22  16.00 Second hold in battlers. Yes, I know I'm far behind on the "omg battlers concepts u guys srsly" thing, but haters should turn to face the north, then proceed in a western direction. I think my Photoshop skills are slowly improving. The concept I had in mind is basically Poison Ivy meets She-Hulk: a plant girl who gets super strength in sunlight. Even if that picture looks more like Elphaba and Glinda from Wicked. Only less gay. Unless she turns out to be the requisite lesbian character I play in every goddamn game. Least I had a straight girl first this time. Next hold's gonna have to be a dude. Yeah, a scientist. A chemist who mixes up concoctions on the fly to approximate superpowers, but his real goal is to be a food scientist and have his own TV show where he teaches people all about how to cook things and why certain culinary techniques work the way they do. His name shall be Alton... Blue! Anyway, back to the green bitch. She's green. Which is well documented as being rad. Additionally, I think she's going to have a small business on the side selling pot, which is probably downright boring compared to most of the drugs available. I do know that she's Mexican, and she's only competing because she's basically undertaking community service following an arrest. I think I may be the first person to hold someone from Mexico, which gives me dibs on the future of the country, if I understand correctly. So that'll be fun.

	2011.01.19  17.58 Just finished my first app for battlers. I kind of got the feeling that I fucked it up somehow, but that could just be the sleepiness and/or cold talking, I'm not sure. How are you guys?

	2010.12.02  13.46 State of the Jack Union Been in New York a little more than two months now. I'm still not used to it. Being from Ohio, it's a bit of a trek if I want to do anything fun. I sometimes forget that I can actually do things now. I'm currently working at the Best Buy in Union Square, which is a step down from my intended career of Professional Awesome Guy. But it's right near the Strand, which has absorbed a sizable fraction of my time and money. I saw Megamind. I get the feeling that if it had come out while Neopolis was still a thing, it would have been treated as something based on a true story, dismissed by League-sympathetic students as Band propaganda. Websites would have sprung up detailing the difference between the real story and the one in the film. I wrote about half of a review about Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part One which I either lost or deleted, because I can't find it. The summary was basically "As good as one could expect, given how shitty the previous six movies were." Having to build on the continuity established by the previous films hampered it a bit, since most of the previous movies deleted foreshadowing and character development that weren't relevant to that particular story, but were important to this one. As such, the movie has to scramble to put together enough of a backstory to make sense without crowding out the actual narrative. I'm not sure if it succeeds. commiesharefest and I met omnomnom. She is rad.

	2010.09.30  19.00 We interrupt your regularly scheduled whatever to discuss how Amy Andreatta is topless. As you were.

	2010.09.11  12.52 So if they remade Back to the Future today, Marty would be a hipster. That's got to be our generation's embarrassing fashion trend. Marty will drop into 1980 wearing girl jeans, a fedora, and a bright t-shirt that just has the word "irony" written on it. Also, in a culture of internet porn, how far is Lorraine going to have to go to shock modern audiences? I mean, seriously, Marty will wake up in 1980 with his cock in her mouth.

	2010.09.10  02.54 Has there ever been a good fifth movie in a series? I was thinking about this (instead of sleeping, obviously). Consider the following: Star Trek V: The Final Frontier: The Ur Example of a bad fifth movie. I can find someone to stand up for Nemesis,, for Generations, even for The Motion Picture, but I have never heard one good thing said about The Final Frontier. The plot was ridiculous (Spock's brother steals the Enterprise to find God, because God wants a spaceship... and it took a whole movie for Sybok to realize how retarded that was,) the characterization was completely off, and the jokes weren't funny. Then there's the nitpicking opportunities: Sybok was exiled from Vulcan because he was attempting to convince other Vulcans that the way of logic was not necessarily the correct path. No Federation planet is going to tolerate that kind of censorship. And don't try to claim that the original series didn't quite have the Federation hammered out yet, it was released in 1989. The Next Generation was well into its groove of making Patrick Stewart tell us how to be better people in his soothing but firm voice, every word chosen as carefully as a poet constructs a verse. Ahem. Anyway, Star Trek V sucks. Rocky V: Well. Rocky V. I mean... Rocky V. Okay, for those of you who don't know, in the previous (not very good) movie, Rocky beat a Russian super soldier who'd been repurposed for boxing. That's not a joke. That's the plot of Rocky IV. Do you know how bad a movie has to be to be stupider than that? So anyway, Rocky got brain damage from the fight, and has to retire. Meanwhile his brother in law has inadvertently given away all Rocky's money to his accountant, who subsequently never paid Rocky's taxes, and the Balboa family is broke and has to return to the slums. Whoops? Then he's thinking about returning to boxing anyway, damn the consequences, and then he doesn't. He gets a job training boxers and meets this one kid who's completely awesome, and he takes him under his wing while neglecting his own family and the kid gets full of himself and blah blah blah, you know this story. At the end, the new boxer is the champion, but no one thinks he's earned it because the old champ never beat Rocky. So the kid and Rocky square off, Rocky almost loses, but then he wins, and he and his family come together and everyone's happy. Except they're still broke because of the plot. I mean, it's a bad movie for a lot of reasons, but things in the movie just happen because that's what the plot expects of them. Rocky needs to become a trainer? Why, have him lose his fortune, of course! Rocky needs to have a climactic fight? Make the kid get seduced by the Dark Side. We need a villain? Hey, here's this motherfucker that looks like Don King. Make it happen. This movie sucks. Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones: I know what you're thinking. "Episode II? It's the second one, not the fifth!" Fuck you, smartass. It's the fifth movie. The fact that George Lucas thinks that numbers go 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3, doesn't change the fact that they don't. So Star Wars 5: Send in the Clones is all about Anakin and Padme falling in love. You have but to remove that suffocating, stupid, long-winded, poorly acted subplot for the rest of the movie to get good. It basically features Obi-Wan as a private detective. Consider the following: a wise warrior is assigned to track down an assassin. His adventure takes him to an informant on the street, more learned than the sages of his most learned monastic order. Dismissing the skepticism of his peers, he takes off for parts unknown, discovering a galactic conspiracy to overthrow the government and instill a new order dedicated to the strong ruling over the weak. How do you fuck that up? By focusing on a teenage boy telling his would-be girlfriend how little he enjoys sand. Fuck this movie. The Land Before Time V: It's a The Land Before Time sequel. Moving on. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: I'm probably going to get some flak for this one, but it was just not good. It wasn't the worst movie, as far as I can remember. That's just it, though. I don't really remember it. I mean, I saw it at least as many times as I did the others, and definitely more than I did Half-Blood Prince. It just... happened. It was poorly paced, had a bad script (from the lines I do remember) and had cheesy effects. The only scene that stands out is the fight in the Ministry, which is good, since it takes up half the damn movie. White balls of light with heads smack into black balls of light with heads, and then... it's gone. Say what you will about Prisoner of Azkaban, and I've said more than most (I hated that movie so much), but at least it's memorable. Things happen in it. This? They took the longest book and made the shortest movie and threw their hands up and went, "DONE! Bring on the whores." Fifth movies suck. I don't know why, they just do.

	2010.09.03  22.37 September's here, moving to New York at the end of the month, my birthday's on Sunday, blah blah blah I don't care. Let's talk about what's really important: Mass Effect. The new DLC, Lair of the Shadowbroker, has me super psyched. You get to continue a relationship with Liara (provided you had one, and, presumably, provided you didn't cheat on her with Garrus/Thane/Jacob/Miranda/Jack/Tali), you get to shoot dudes, it's all very exciting. In other news, having seen the Scott Pilgrim movie and read a few volumes of the Scott Pilgrim comic, I want to get gay married to Wallace Wells.

	2010.08.10  11.46 Much like kikithepirate, I have acquired the Netflix, and much like kikithepirate, I have been abusing its television section. I devoured Pushing Daisies completely, and have now turned my dark appetite on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. With which I am having significant problems. To whit: Why do they keep performing plot-important spells and ceremonies in the library when it's basically the only building they have available to them that vampires can get into? How exactly do the Watchers, a group of old non-powered English people, keep the Slayers in check? How was Buffy the only Slayer in history forceful enough to have a personal life despite her Watcher's objection? Why are there so few black people in Sunnydale? There's only been one black vampire so far (Mr. Trick) even though one of the best known vampires in media is black (Count Chocula). Other than that, not bad. Once that's finished, probably Babylon Five will be up on the chopping block. I need to get my nerd cred up. I would put up the Sorting Hat meme, but I probably don't have to bother.

	2010.08.08  21.02 Remember when I did memes? I remember when I did memes. Pick one or more of my characters and one or more of yours, and I'll tell you something they've always wanted to say to your character but could never bring themselves to say out loud. I'd like to say it's because this one spoke to me or something. It's not. It's just easy, and I'm lazy.

	2010.07.22  16.44 Avatar: Legend of Korra makes me as excited about a thing as I ever have been. God, I can't wait until they make it into a movie so they can cast a white person as Korra and then make the entire movie about her most hated rival!

	2010.07.01  12.27 So I went to see The Last Airbender. Don't look at me like that. My niece and nephew wanted to see it, they needed a grown up. Honestly, I didn't have high hopes going into it, what with the racefail that has been better documented everywhere else on the internet, but I expected... I don't know, something. Anything. Do you know how bad a movie has to be when all it has to deliver on is "anything"? The Last Airbender sucks and you shouldn't watch it. "Well, yes," you say, "you supported institutionalized racism by going to see it, and I will cut you from out of my heart." I will say this: you stop noticing the race fail not very long into the movie. This is not a compliment. ( Why The Last Airbender Is a Terrible Movie That No One Should See. With Spoilers. )

	2010.06.07  22.26 Joining the party for newknights concepts. Apps are underway, but I'm also working on another app for an AU Commander Shepard for projectpapillon, so, you know. Lot on the table. Woo, RP. ( New Knights, Featuring Paladin the Peaceful Superhero and the New Knights Incarnation of Xover's Sarah James )

	2010.05.21  14.19 Snowpack Forever Here's a philosophical question: Who the fuck is this, and why is she calling herself Snowpack? She is biting our style and I do not approve.