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Hold on, I think my hold switch is broken!

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

So, I just got off work. While picking up some mulch for my rose bush (more on that in the future, maybe?) I was listening to my Zune, as normal, to give people an obvious sign that I was off (or at least, wishing to get fired if I was not ^^; ). Welp, my mom was up their, so I stopped to talk to her. Naturally, I took the earbuds out, and went thru the normal ritual of sliding the hold switch to hold.. and nothing happened.. it stayed active.

I was like “WTF? it broke? I have to buy a new Zune now, finally? Bullshit.” My 80 gig has been with me since December of 2007. It is named after a very close friend of mine, who died early that year. It is beat up to all hell (survived falls onto every kind of hard surface imaginable) and still works perfectly! well, untill this event.

I got home, and checked online.. saw a basic toutorial on taking the switch off.. ok, cool, but I do not have any needlenose plyers. I do have a paint can opener, so I used that to pop the switch off.

I noticed it had one little plastic bit missing. I took a chance, turned the whole thing around, and put it back into the unit, over the switch part on the inside. Gave it a flick, and boom. Working perfectly!

Seems like those things refuse to die… unlike its namesake. >_>

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Birthday!

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

So, this is it. Today is the day. It is now January 31st, 2010. I am now 25 years old. A quarter of a century. Wow… just… wow.

I really do not have much to say. I just wish my personal life was going better, but eh, that is not what World Revolution is about.

I’ll let you know what goes on today, though. Maybe something awesome.

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12 years later…

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

So, there is an old project of mine that I am thinking about getting back to.

See, back in middle and high school, all I ever did was conceptualize games, anime, and other things I would love to one day have a hand in creating. I wrote out basic plot mechanics, devised systems, and sketched character designs; I basically taught myself the art of pre-prodouction, to a degree.

However, due to events in my life, by the time of summer 2003 I had, well, not to say abandoned these projects, but simply stopped working on most of them. I came up with some new ones, and evolved another project into what it is today, but soon devoted all my efforts into music games and such. The result of that is KuriMix, but that is another long story…

Well, the project in question was inspired by Final Fantasy 7, 8, and several other random games and anime I enjoyed at the time. It was intended to be an RPG spread over 4 or 5 games, and I, very seriously, wrote out over an hour of just back story (literally, I once told a friend the entire back story, and it took us one solid hour out in her driveway.) Well, I still have some of the notebooks, and some of the images drawn way back when, including the precious world map I had sketched out freshman year of high school. Seem the last time I really worked on the story was May of 2003, based on some old data stored on a long-dead hard drive.

Well, 2003-2010 is a long time.. and I have changed some concepts, and found many errors in my old plot ideas. I still remember most of the story, as well, which is great, because I can work on it “mentally” without having to write or type anything down with urgency: it is unlikely for me to forget a new idea, or an edit I made to something so embedded into my memory.

The question is, what to do with the project now? What to turn it into? Just what do you do with a 12 year old video game idea? :\

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U;nee

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

So, it is January 20th.. which means, sometime this afternoon here in the states, it will be sometime between 7 and 9 AM in South Korea.

It was at that time on January 21st, 2007, that Korean singer and actress Heo Yoon, better known as U;nee (Pronounced “Yuni”) killed herself.

I mention this publicly every year, because I feel it is something that should pe payed attention to, not just with her, but with the heavy suicide rate in Korean pop culture. The pressures can be so high, that when compounded with the common soft nature that seems to be so common in many people in east Asia, the stress can just be too much.

As for Unee herself, I love her music, and think she was incredibly pretty naturally. I own 2 of her 3 albums: U;nee Code, and Habit. I sadly do not own her second album, Call Call Call. It seems to be impossible to find. If anyone happens to want to sell a sealed copy, or any copy honestly, that is complete, I would pay quite a nice sum.

That is besides the point though. I would like to think I know how she felt towards the end, as it seems she and I share a similar depression type, one that just seems to be unable to be cured or controlled in any way.

So, combined with Michelle, and a few other situations in my life, I wonder just what all is going thru their minds in those last moments… and how could someone actually help?

Eh, I need to stay happy. I think I will spend the day enjoying her music and trying to have a really good day. Now, sleep.

Today will be a good day.

-additional reading-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U;Nee

Also of note, her first single, “Go” was a featured track in the game “Pump it Up: Exceed” and if memory serves, every single one of its sequals. In Pump it Up NX2 and NX Absolute, there is a mission called “Memorial Service” which features the song, as a tribute to her.

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…and I will be here for another year.

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

Well, I just recieved, and payed, the 2010 bill for Xadara.

What does this mean?

Simple: I will be here for another year, to slowly but surely spread what I honestly feel, think, know, and speculate.

Fear me. =^.^=

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Boxes upon boxes…

Monday, January 18th, 2010

So, if you were to look around my habitat cubicle (my room, in normal speek) you would find box after box of old electronic equipment. Plastic storage bins of Atari cartridges, shipping boxes filled with consoles of various origins, power strips out of nearly every outlet, supplying controlled power to various generations of power adaptors. Coaxial cable strung around the room in an attempt to allow almost instantanious transition between various 30 year old game consoles. Boxes lay around my bed filled with various game carts, ready at a moments notice for play.

Beside my turntable sit 2 Playstation 2 consoles. Beside that a book containing all my Playstation series software. That all setting beside my TV, on top of a DVD-VCR combination unit, which at times may or may not have a DVD recorder plugged in, for recording of either game footage, or any old thing I need to digitally archive.

Atop my scanner sits a stack of boxed Atari games, and on top of those is my sole PS3 game, Bayonetta (I plan on getting the PS3 at the end of January, for my birthday.) Said scanner and games, oddly, sit beside my computer desk, on their own shelf, which contains the majority of my record collection, organized by where I got them, what I listen to, and what is valuable.

This all surrounds my bed, which is my little relaxation spot: my place to lay back and relax and play some good old games. Just a hop from my bed is my computer, where I sit and type these very words. Surrounding that is actually not much of anything. Considering this is right at the entryway to my room, it would make sense, I would guess, to not have anything stored their.

Ah, surrounded by old electronics. A laser disc player waiting to play movies again. Various old computers that I really need to get around to selling. Games of all kinds (I need to procure more systems, again, however. Anyone want to sell me an old NES? ^_^ ), and entertainment abound.

My room may be stuffed, but at least there is stuff to do. Tell me, what do you have in your room?

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