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2010-01-23T19:04:00.001-08:00

Aw, you know who your are--this is for you. ♫ http://blip.fm/~jnl6w

2010-01-20T10:36:00.001-08:00

How about some Black Kids, yeah? ♫ http://blip.fm/~jfvyw

2010-01-18T16:27:00.001-08:00

Brilliant, with a capital 's.' ♫ http://blip.fm/~jd70p

2010-01-17T20:13:00.001-08:00

Take a break. Get away. ♫ http://blip.fm/~jbt3p

2010-01-09T17:32:00.001-08:00

Bicycle repairs have been successful! Huzzah! ♫ http://blip.fm/~iyc30

2010-01-01T19:37:00.001-08:00

Your one of a kind ♫ http://blip.fm/~iln9d

2009-12-26T19:16:00.001-08:00

Pogo's gorgeous music-video of the film 'Up.' ♫ http://blip.fm/~ici0d

2009-12-17T21:01:00.001-08:00

Brilliant, Adriano Celentano! -- Prisencolinensinainciusol ♫ http://blip.fm/~hyv5f

2009-12-11T23:21:00.001-08:00

listening to "The Police - Can

2009-12-11T23:15:00.001-08:00

listening to "Hawkins - Jesus Christ Walks (Kanye West vs. Brand New)" ♫ http://blip.fm/~hod2x

2009-10-01T20:51:00.001-07:00

Test post of Ping.fm widget...

2009-05-08T13:01:00.001-07:00

Pardon the intrusion, I'm a test post. =D

2009-04-21T19:37:00.001-07:00

Ok. Let's try this again . . . Test post via blip.fm to ping.fm ♫ http://blip.fm/~4qea1

2009-04-16T18:52:00.001-07:00

Test post via Ping.fm

2009-02-16T16:33:00.000-08:00

I'm watching the game-play video of Tales of Vesperia and, while I feel that their in-game cut scenes are admirable, the acting cues are pretty stiff. For example one actor will preform during his cue, but as he's done all his energy just stops in mid-motion once the next actor starts her cue. It all makes the scene feel very stop-and-go, as if there's only one puppeteer controlling an entire cast.

Over all the in-game cut-scenes of the most resent Tales series are quality work; both excellent voice acting and motion capture for a Anime themed game, but if the action cues were tighter and more fluid it would be a stellar achievement for games in general.

That reminds me, I saw the intro cinema for Bad Company a while ago and thought this same thing. The motion capture was great, the voice acting delivered, and graphics and lighting excellent. And despite all this the cues were all stop and go. For example:

*The private makes a wise-ass comment to his Sargent*

*The Sargent yells at his insubordinate private*

In between those two lines is about a two to three second gap which is masked by idle action, like a breathing animation or shifting weight. That gap sucks the intensity right out of the moment despite the actors energy. That gap needs to be shortened in order to address this stop-go acting that I see plaguing games. Games want to be movies, it's a fact, and that translates to proper pacing.

2009-02-14T21:32:00.001-08:00

Argh! ARGH! This is the kinda simplicity in a blog I want. Center straight down the line. No ADD flashy.

Excuse me as I sulk.

2009-02-06T19:28:00.000-08:00

Oh Great! Using the newly elected president as a plot device to further your series, and then body swapping him into that of a young girl. You're shameful!

Yet as I've heard a similar occurrence has happened already, although Oh! great has provided him with a truly epic back-story, so all is forgiven.

"dot dot dot"

2009-02-05T13:46:00.001-08:00

I'll fill this out later . . . No, I won't. I'll just leave it here and claim it's artistic expression. I'll title it--

With Mike in Hand

--or how about--

Soapbox

Yeah, that'll do. I can never be labled uninventive because art is relative. Everything I do is art because it's done with passion, and ya can't tell me otherwise!

. . . yeah, this'll do.

2009-01-30T19:11:00.001-08:00

Ah! I wanna write here more. Flex my muscle! Get back in the game! It itches under my skin! Yet every time I hover over that publish button I stop myself, "I should say more profound things than what I'm about to."

Then all the haunting memories of livejournals come roaring back and then, "Fuck. What a waste this is," and I shovel back the gelatinous word salad where I found it.

I didn't own a livejournal. All my friends did. I was just too emo for coherency.

2009-01-24T11:25:00.001-08:00

Every-time I go to a confession website to pour out my deepest saddest most personal woes, the network times-out, or there's a server error, or a bad request, or some other technological blunder happens. My confession vanishes from the text-field presenting me a clean slate to start over.

"Goddamnit."

I'm lamenting my misfortune, not confessing a sin. Perhaps the quantum universe recognises this and saved the world from being subjected to my wailing? I seek no pity, I just want to relieve myself of my own self imposed torture. Just for a moment I want to feel love -- reciprocation.

2009-01-18T04:03:00.001-08:00

Yamcha: No, you don't mean--

Jack: Yamcha . . . We need serious serious money! And the only way to get that much fast cash is by bringing in an S-Class bandit.

Yamcha [collapses his arms into his chest]: . . . we have no choice I suppose.

* * *

(Jack and Yamcha are scanning the bandit bulletin board. Their gaze rises to the top of the board and focus on a poster that reads "Vash the Stampede. Wanted. Sixty billion dollars.")

Jack: No way. Not Vash. No bounty hunter has ever gone after him and come back to tell the tale!

Yamcha: No. We're not going after Vash. We're going after that one--

(Points to the wanted poster, framed and hanging right above the bulletin board)

Yamcha: Captain Harlock!

Jack [reads from the poster]: "Wanted Dead or Alive! Space Pirate Captain Harlock! For destruction and defiance of the system!" What the hell's "space?"

Yamcha: Don't know, but he's a pirate and pirates live in water.

Jack: So, 'space' must be a kind of water then.

Yamcha: Yup. That means he's gotta have a ship and we're gonna need a ship too if we're ever gonna catch him.

Jack: Yeah! A 'Space' ship!

2009-01-18T03:21:00.001-08:00

WHY . . . do American otaku prefer sub over dub? Simply because of the quality of voice acting. English anime voice actors have nearly zero inflection.

Like a slice of white bread with the crust cut off.

I mean there are quite a few accomplished English voice actors, but many have nowhere need the range of the Japanese. Even the so-high-and-squeaky-only-dogs-can-hear voice actor can offer up greater emotional range in a line than the typical English anime voice actor can.

This is the hidden reason why A-Otaku choose sub over dub. Not "I prefer listening to the authentic language as was intended by the creators." It's 'cause the English voices are painfully embarrassing to hear.

2009-01-16T16:55:00.001-08:00

I write these amusing plot outlines when they strike me. I get excited as I'm writing them down; once it's out on paper however my enthusiasm diminishes as I read'em back. I quietly whisk them away into a brown paper bag.

I never think what I write to be "funny." They're "amusing" as in "that made me smile . . . I hope no one saw me."

As you might have guessed I'm an atrocious speller. I wanted to flesh this out bit more actually. I had envisioned Jack Black as the final entertainment icon Jack had to find to destroy the evil, but I thought "no, it needs to be someone cooler -cooler than thou-. An obscure cult icon from a far gone era . . ."

2008-12-30T18:37:00.000-08:00

"Everything you read is false. Everything you learn is true."

This reasoning is the philosophy of the internet.

2007-07-12T00:45:00.000-07:00

One of my biggest irrational fear is to discover I'm actually retarded --that one day I'll take some simple test and . . .

Doctor: Well, we've got the test back.

Jack: Yeah? . . . was there something wrong?

Doctor: Well . . . what we've discovered is that your mental score was in fact a few points lower than the average participant.

Jack: Oh? How low did it come out to be?

Doctor: Quite low actually . . . quite, quite low.

Jack: What? What's wrong? How low is it?

Doctor: We've conferred with a few doctors around nation on these results and the nature what they mean and seems the consensus is that you've been masquerading as an intelligence person --for years in fact.

Jack: Excuse me?

Doctor: You're very very convincing. You had me and my entire staff perfectly fooled, but this test and these scores are inexplicable and undeniable evidence of retardation. As a precautionary safety measure we're gonna have to put some distance between you and society immediately.

Jack: Are you . . . you're gonna put me away cause I'm stupid?!

Doctor: What? No! Not at all like that. You're just now no longer allowed to associate with certain members of society. People like, you know, those of the normal intelligence.

2007-06-25T03:24:00.000-07:00

I'm too anti-social.

Way far too anti-social. Every person I meet I put up a barrier to handle each person. I don't know. Perhaps I'm too hurt by the world that I can't seem to find myself and my position in it. I lock everyone out, including myself. I should open and bare myself, but . . .

To be open is frightening. To be naked and exposed to just a single person is terrifying.

You put down your guard, and your walls, and your shields; and make yourself vulnerable to that one person.

The world then is no longer the sum of the earth or the stretch of universe, it is only the room of two people; scared, weak, and frightened.

It is in this moment they show the nature of themselves; the ugly and beautiful selves.

The flood gates open. The dam breaks.

and then . . .