brb, moving to massachusetts.

NOTHING. NOTHING AT ALL.

Oh jesus I seriously can't afford Christmas this year, I hope it's cancelled

See, if everyone just carried a gun, then everyone could defend themselves from shoo-- oh wait.

I absolutely love how the newest Ratchet & Clank game is one of the most highly anticipated and widely hyped titles of this year, whereas the latest Jak & Daxter game is relegated to a quiet PS2/PSP release.

So people should doubt my tastes why, again?

(Yes, I did get A Crack In Time, and yes, I will give my thoughts at a later time.)

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I would just like to get it out here and now that I fucking despise people who are anti-vaccination: not only are they anti-science idiots who base their views on bad and/or faked studies, they're willing to deny their existant/potential children what is possibly the single most beneficial medical advantage created yet and turn them into plague vessels which will compromise herd immunity and infect people who can't get vaccinated. I believe that parents who don't vaccinate their kids are deny their children essential medical care and should have them removed from their parent's custody ASAP.

You know, I used to really be into anime. When I was like 14, it was probably my primary interest. Nowadays, though, beyond from rewatching old shows from time to time and watching the occasional new art house/Ghibli movie, I pretty much can't stand anime and am reluctant to even admit that I used to like it.

Sometimes I wonder why that is.

Then I remember how nowadays studios look to things like pachinko games as inspiration for new shows.

And my views make sense again.

OMG this is the cutest kid ever~

Now I wanna watch David After Dentist again, lol.

http://www.fabulation.net

I...I have a site now I guess?

I'm not 100% sure that I've finalized everything. I think there might be some other plugins or sections I'd like to implement, but everything cosmetically is done and I feel satisfied with the way it looks.

Will keeping a blog drag me out of the creative rut I've been in for the past year or two? Probably not! But maybe by paying for hosting and keeping it public I'll be guilted in to writing something substantial for it. I hope.

Anyway, tell me what you think, and if you got a site gimme the address and I'll add you to a link/blogroll.

My entire life was a lie until I saw this picture.

I restarted FFX today. For all its faults, I like the battle and customization system. I named Tidus "durf", which is possibly the most appropriate name ever.

I think I'm done with Shadow Hearts: From The New World. Everything I said about it before still applies, but this is probably the first RPG I've ever played where I thought the enemy encounter rate was too low. As an example, there was one guy who wrote an extensive FAQ for it, and between one boss and the next he'd usually gain one level at best. I honestly don't mind grinding, but considering that it could take like 30 seconds or so for an encounter, it's a chore.

I'm still interested in the previous two entries in the series. Supposedly SH and SH: Covenant (the latter which I have) are completely different in tone. Whether this makes them better or worse than FTNW is to be seen.

How are you?

And what if I die before I live long enough to regret it?

I'm rather perplexed by this.

I'm messing around and trying to create a theme for a Word Press powered blog. The problem is, while the sidebar and main sections are aligned in Firefox and Chrome, the sidebar is a few pixels underneath the main section in IE8. I've tried fiddling around with the margins and such, but I can't seem to find the root of this problem.

It seems to be related to IE, since the same thing happens in IE7 and IE6. (Look here to see what I'm talking about.)

I'm kind of pissed that I can't figure this out, and since the majority of people still use IE (including my BF and a few good friends of mine), I kind of can't ignore it.

I'm getting flashbacks back to the late '90s where there would be huge pissfests about Netscape vs IE, with sites displaying buttons like "IE Sucks! Use Netscape!" and "This site is designed for IE. If you use Netscape, tough shit."

EDIT: nvm I figured it out :D

If I could fucking get away with throwing a goddamn molotov cocktail into every single apartment into this complex, I would.

Tonight my boyfriend and go out so we can get food, and he takes the trash bag to the dumpster along the way. There's this retarded woman (I don't mean this as a slur, I honestly believe she is seriously mentally impaired) with her bratty kids outside, as well. One is a particular bastard who apparently has no hobbies aside from aggravating the living hell out of everyone else here, and tonight he was in top form. He takes a big chunk of cracked concrete and THROWS IT AT MY BOYFRIEND. Of course mommy dearest does nothing. He stops and says "So you're going to let him get away with it and say nothing?", she says to the boy "Tell him you're sorry!" and the boy screams "NO!" Holy shit, if I had tried to sass my mom like that at that age, especially after doing something like that, I'd be in SHITLOADS of trouble but this woman just does nothing, says nothing. BF says "I guess you're not going to do anything" and walks away. Hellbrat picks up the chunk and THROWS IT AT HIM AGAIN. BF just angrily retorts "Oh, nice!" since it's obvious nothing would be done.

He gets in the car and I pull out to leave. As I'm driving by, I see the kid with the chunk in his hand again, ready to toss it, and I'm thinking "You better not even think it or you'll be fucking roadkill", and the kid THROWS IT AT MY CAR. He misses, but regardless I'm pissed off so I slam on my car horn for a good 10 seconds, causing the little shit to run clinging to his mom. I hope you're scared shitless the next time you see us, you little asswipe.

I hate everyone here. I hate that moronic twat and her hellspawn, I hate that fat bitch next door who sits on the steps and smokes and blocks everyone's way and drops her ashes on the fucking steps, I hate those assholes in the building across the yard who tried to harass me and Titus to the point where now I don't feel safe taking him outside or going near that area when it's dark, I hate all these wannabe thugs who have nothing better to do but sit around in cars and block the driveway and leer at anyone who has the SHEER AUDACITY to want to fucking pass. I hope everyone here except for me and boyfriend dies. I want them all to DIE in GUT-ROILING AGONY.

So in an effort to get through the kajillion games I own that I haven't even played (and the bajillion I own that I have played but haven't beaten) and to discourage me from buying new games too much, I've been picking random shit to play. Recently I started up Shadow Hearts: From the New World. It's fun! It reminds me a lot of Tengai Makyo IV: The Apocalypse in that both games are set in the Americas and both just completely fuck around with historical characters and add in dumb random shit of their own. It isn't as funny as TM4, it's much harder than TM4, but TM4 will never, ever be translated into English, so this is a good substitute for those who can't understand Japanese. You should get it if you ever find a copy.

My boyfriend, on the other hand, doesn't quite share the same opinion (although it's mostly because of the ridiculous shit in the game, and to an extent I can't blame him; having a fat talking cat and a mariachi in your party is teetering on the boundary of "amusing" and "stupid"), but it doesn't matter because he agrees with the bulk of my Very Important Very Unpopular Opinions. (examples include Sonic Unleashed is a Fun if Sometimes Frustrating Game, and Street Fighter 4 Sucks A Million Dicks)

Where's the "Why the fuck would I even know that?" option?

I forgot to mention it here, but we're putting off the move until the spring at least. Even with the help his family has offered and the possible help I could get from my family, we won't have enough money to do it, not to mention that the whole thing would probably be easier if we do it after winter rather than before.

I've been incredibly worried and stressed over everything that's hanging over my head right now, but I just keep reminding myself that it'll get better.

I hope.

Probably old news to those who would care, but a few days ago the jpopsuki tracker has moved to http://jpopsuki.eu and is now jpopsuki 2.0.

Registrations are open for now but eventually they'll become invite-only, so unless you want to try to haggle someone for an invite go sign up now.

If I happen to get my copy of Daichi's new album and rip it before anyone else does (I tend to be the first to leak his singles, I wasn't the first to leak D-ROCK with U way back when) I'll post it there first.

(lol, lj has an ad for Xbox 360 on its front page today.)

"After Tripp was born, Sarah would pay more attention to our son than she would to her own baby, Trig. Sarah has a weird sense of humor. When she came home from work, Bristol and I would be holding Trig and Tripp. Sarah would call Trig--who was born with Down syndrome--"my little Down's baby." But I couldn't believe it when she would come over and sometimes say, playing around, "No, I don't want the retarded baby--I want the other one," and pick up Tripp. That was just her--even her kids were used to it."

OK, now I'm thinking that I want to get this book when it comes out, it seems like it's going to be just as nuts as that Tom Cruise biography

edit: haha I'm an idiot, it's just an article. At least I know I'll soon be buying an issue of Vanity Fair for once in my life.