Ryoutarou Okiayu Zerg Rush

stop watching kamen rider decade and write your cover letter

2009-09-26T22:44:18Z

UPDATED FOR YUUSUKE MOTHERFUCKIN ONODERA

imbrium @ 2009-07-30T17:20:00

2009-07-30T21:20:58Z

O HAY EVERYBODY akatokuro IS AT MY APARTMENT AND I'M KEEPING HER FOR EIGHT DAYS

UNLESS SOMEONE PAYS ME RANSOM

A LOT

it's that time again for the first time... again

2009-07-23T03:55:29Z

http://mark-of-stars.livejournal.com/28000.html

festfolk

2009-07-21T03:54:16Z

Liu doesn't get the metal thing because he listens to trance.

july 4

2009-07-04T17:20:48Z

I prefer to think of it as "Sticking it to England" day.

journal archives

2009-06-22T20:48:16Z

http://www9.brinkster.com/miluda/journals/index.html

SO LIKE HEY akatokuro POSTED THIS ALREADY BUT WHATEVER

FEELS GOOD MAN

suffering pariah

2009-06-16T15:52:18Z

Stolen from militarypenguin: http://www.kaiji-movie.jp/

KAIJI TRAILER

how many anime can tatsuya fujiwara intrude upon. IT WAS FINE WHEN IT WAS DEATH NOTE, BUT KAIJI IS ACTUALLY GOOD FFFF

EVERYONE

2009-06-13T12:47:37Z

EMBARASS AND CONGRATULATE akatokuro FOR TODAY SHE GRADUATES FROM COLLEGE MWAHAHAHA

also the mars volta are time travellers

what

2009-06-03T23:44:08Z

http://mark-of-stars.livejournal.com/friends/

suikoden terrorists

2009-05-02T14:41:16Z

"Let's give our company a cool name", he says.

Oh I'll give you a cool name.

purgatory

2009-03-22T14:53:57Z

I still religiously check sagalicious@hotmail.com for bills, but endlessnine@gmail.com is um, you know.

That new one. ...I'm a dork

chinchira ni zetsubou shita

2009-02-24T06:36:02Z

I'm pretty sure the Golden Land is under my radiator because I can't think of any other reason my chinchillas are so desperate to spend so much time under there.

umineko ep. 3, finis

2009-02-20T18:11:43Z

DAMMIT, BATTLER

BEATRICE EDIT: instead of announcing my candidacy for re-election, i'm announcing that you're all morons

imbrium @ 2009-01-20T13:32:00

2009-01-20T18:33:41Z

And the day has finally come in which we can unironically say: AMERICA FUCK YEAH

imbrium @ 2009-01-12T01:08:00

2009-01-12T06:09:17Z

SO GUESS WHO WAS IN THE SLAYERS EVOLUTION-R OP

YOU GET ONE GUESS.

imbrium @ 2009-01-05T02:54:00

2009-01-05T07:55:13Z

I do not have a new year's resolution but if I did it would probably be, "don't replay Xenogears".

I clock 130 hours on it EVERY FUCKING TIME.

Needs more Luke

2008-11-27T03:59:27Z

Barely into Tales of Legendia, I am already skeptical of ~~Calvin~~ Senel Coolidge's status as a compelling main character since all he seems to do is protect his waif sister and ellipse at Old Men Sheriffs who are Actually Twenty Eight Years Old. Also he steals from hospitals.

EDIT: That is the third time I have mistaken the sword on the Weapon Shop sign for a cigarette. Graphics.

EDIT EDIT: I'd be pretty mad if Cam Clarke struck me with lightning

EDIT EDIT EDIT: wait why does he have a dungeon in his basement

slowpoke macross f

2008-11-12T22:59:15Z

Why are you wasting time on Alto, Ranka?

"The American people have spoken and they have spoken clearly. "

2008-11-05T16:45:23Z

The record turnouts to the polls were something I had the pleasure of seeing in person. To every person who touched their hand to the polls, whether they voted for John McCain, Barack Obama, Bob Barr, Ralph Nader (again, guys?), or another write-in, thank you.

I voted for Barack Obama not because he is a Democrat (I’m a Socialist), not because of the way his campaign was run (though I enjoyed volunteering), and not because he’s dreamy (which he is), but because I see in him the opportunity to change things.

My father, the highly conservative Catholic who will not cast a vote for any candidate on a pro-choice ticket, voted for John McCain but expressed his relief to me that younger people finally seem to care enough to determine the direction of the country. Two of my customers at Starbucks aggressively attacked my support of Obama but seemed a little taken aback and thoughtful, and even invited me to work at their company, when I replied that what I was looking for was a real change, not a Democratic Legislature and Presidency. People are opening their eyes.

His victory wasn’t a victory for Democrats, but for all Americans who have lived through turbulent times and waited and hoped for something better. Every single person who cared enough to turn up to vote can look forward to something new, even if it wasn’t in the form they had planned for. Everyone who was too young to vote can look forward to better jobs and opportunities. What I’m trying to say is we all won today – and we all participated in the struggle to get here. Now that the campaigns are done we can all fuck partisanship and stop adhering to silly, immature refrains about who’s a terrorist or what have you and finally make some progress.

The victory belongs you as much as it belongs to Obama.

note from the script writer

2008-10-23T17:35:55Z

—–”Still, isn’t it possible that defeating the wise ruler Schneizel, the person who was supposed to have brought order to the world, might lead to some [viewers] interpreting it as a Bad End?”

Okouchi: “That’s true. There are probably a lot of people who think of it as a Bad End, a tragedy, considering the protagonist’s, Lelouch’s end as well. However, Lelouch says in the first episode: “Only those prepared to be shot are allowed to pull the trigger themselves.” If you were to think of that as his pride, then I think his getting shot (killed) in the end was a logical end. Of course, I understand that not all of the viewers will accept this ending. There were people who wanted a happier ending, after all.”

Survival Terra?

2008-10-20T18:46:13Z

Toward the Terra is a pretty epic space drama, right? It's got enough elements to be appealing across various types of fans. Space geeks get their political opera, yaoi fangirls get their slash, serial killers get their Tony, and everybody loves Keith Anyan. Because it has so many facets it has the potential to have a lot of spinoff focuses (Keith of the Blue Light for one) that Terra probably didn't make enough money to exploit.

One genre not represented in Terra is horror. Yes, Manga Jomy is scary as hell, but they don't really go anywhere with it. I'm not talking American slasher film horror, I'm talking Silent Hill psychological horror. There's a plethora of content that can be adapted to that medium - game or film or manga (I frequently wonder about my fandoms crossing genres and this often involves crossing platforms as well). Lately I've been considering this two part video game series with a simultaneous release - Terra, Jomy Side and Keith Side. I haven't given Jomy Side much thought besides HOLY SHIT LEO JOINED YOUR PARTY AND HE'S FUCKING CUTE LIKE THE FIST OF THE NORTH STAR, but I've practically got a script in my head for Keith Side.

I've been thinking it over constantly, and as much as I want a Keith dating sim, it would be really interesting to have an almost survival horror take on the story. It's Terra, but it's Terra with an emphasis on the things the manga and anime take for granted as frightening. The plot is exactly the same, but you almost wouldn't recognize it.

Humans have colonized the far reaches of space without the threat of a foreign race appearing. There's tension with the SD system and quiet unrest concerning the methodology, so there's no surprise when people start disappearing after their adulthood exams (or even later). In the military there are bogeyman stories about creatures called M who have begun appearing in the guise of humans. At this point in Terra's plot there's so little information available to anyone but those in the upper echelons of science that nobody knows what M actually are, and rumours of course spread. Without the benefit of Jomy or Blue's perspective, the average human in the Terra universe would consider such a creature a monster. As the plot starts to unfold there's the main focus of the Mu being a threat to security and stability, but there's also the horror of what they can do to a person's heart and mind with only a thought.

Who wants to investigate into the reaches of space when there are monsters in human skin waiting to pry open your heart when you're alone, figuratively and maybe even literally? A survival horror game involving the investigation of various Mu related sites, like the abandoned derelict ships in Sylvester 7's orbit or the remains of the Nazca settlement or the tunnel leading to Terras 5 would scare the crap out of me, especially since the Mu have those scary ass LOOK YOU'RE DROWNING illusions. So much untapped potential I would love to develop had I any programming talent to speak of.

Anyway, if you managed to make a survival horror out of Keith's game, it would be fine to have sort of an action game counterpart in Jomy's. Either way the boss battle is layed out the same way.

Keith vs. Jomy, whether survival horror or action boss battle, would be scary as balls, especially for a first encounter when you don't "know" the enemy. The setting: almost completely dark room. If you're playing as Jomy this shouldn't be a problem since some kind of extra sense systems would be activated and available to the player at all times (lol Mu), except that Keith is awesome and can block out his heart. So Keith will show up at a faint blip on the 'radar'. And he's fucking immune to psychic attacks, motherfucker. So you'd have to do it the hard way and shave his life down gradually with physical attacks (including chucking objects at him with YOUR MIND). It doesn't sound hard until you factor in Keith's intense military training - if he can somehow get a hold of you you're fucked. Jomy would only be able to take a couple of hits from Keith before dying.

Now if you're playing as Keith you've got the opposite problem - can't see shit, captain, and there are knives flying at you. You can stay protected by moving quickly and quietly, but it's almost a matter of luck in finding Jomy - except the faint, faint blue lights the instant he uses his abilities. Good thing you can kill him in two hits because you're fucking Keith Anyan and you stab people in the throat.

Um, what was I talking about?

In summary, yes, I am excited about Dead Space.

lolouche

2008-10-07T07:34:11Z

http://trainwreck.ggkthx.org/2008/10/06/as-an-overanalyzer-i-would-have-to-say-that-lelouch-is-dead/

An excellent point by A VERY ANONYMOUS LITFAG

imbrium @ 2008-10-02T16:19:00

2008-10-02T20:33:22Z

Q: What does Julie do after a productive meeting with her author concerning editing details?

The Democratic ticket this year packs a heavily customized and very powerful punch, but how would the legendary Bad Paint Editor describe our front man Barack Obama? Why as the legendary messianic RahXephon, of course.

Almost like she has some mad crush on him or something ah ha ha ha!.

Next up is our vice presidential BURNING WITH AN AWESOME POWER candidate, who tonight in his debate against Sarah Palin may or may not utilize any of the following weaponry:

Yes, Joe Biden like the equally insane (sorry, "enthusiastic") Graham Aker pilots a Custom Flag. Is victory assured? If we gamble on how the machine faired against far more qualified opponents he just may incinerate her completely but then disintegrate from the acid in Sarah Palin's alligator tears.

To describe the Republican ticket I had to stretch back into the stone age from whence the candidate is, in fact, from, to a time before quality screenshots existed. Thus necessarily I will return you to one of the most irritating boss battles in history:

Don't lie to me and tell me you don't remember Shakkan's regenerating gear. No matter how dated his views, no matter how cheap his tactics, and no matter how many times he had to attach the tube coming out of his mech's back to a giant bacta tank to get his HP back, the man was practically immortal. Just like John McCain!

Thankfully, his running mate's mech doesn't quite match up.

IF YOUR SATIRE DETECTOR IS BORKED IT ISN'T MY FAULT.

imbrium @ 2008-09-28T15:51:00

2008-09-28T19:53:09Z

"Overall Geass arrived at its destination, even if the train was overturned and on fire."

I never shipped Suzaku/Lelouche UNTIL THIS DAY WHEN THE TROLL LORDS OF SUNRISE STRETCHED FOURTH THEIR POWERFUL AND WICKED HANDS AND SAID, "LET THERE BE CANON."

also who gave guilford a gun he's blind

the adventures of keef onion

2008-09-25T08:03:01Z

Since I refuse to bore you all by launching into a painfully socialist diatribe about the events of the last week, I will instead pose a question.

Ever notice how Joe Biden sounds kind of like the narrator from Diablo? Who is also Colonel Campbell?