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Entries for September, 2005

September 4th, 2005

hack-ish

My comp can't be having troubles because its brand spankin' new. As in, this is the first time I turned it on. Okay, third. A a couple of restarts to set up newly loaded programs and because said programs blared music and I couldn't find the speakers . . . well, those hardly count.

The protective plastic is still on the top of the casing. It's shiny blue and now that I'm wired again all seems well.

Except that I can't seem to log out of AI. Hope the troubles at the site and not on my end.

. . . but theres one player who never logs out of the World . . . Bleh.

But mostly? I'm here to gloat over my new toy.

rurounibug ; 12:32 AM|fine, ignore me

September 4th, 2005

scary stories

One of my favorite AI topics is the 'scary stories' thread. It creeps me out so bad. One of the things I really, really picked up growing up in Indonesia is the certainty that at any moment a face-less long-haired girl might step out of a bathroom stall. Or climb out of the well. Whatever.

My aunt has some creepy stories from when she was staying in Indonesia, the best one of which was the boarding house story . . . where she got a kos (rented room in a boarding house) and had nightmares and couldn't sleep. When she told the boarding house lady she couldn't sleep there . . . she discovered the room had been used as a torture/interrogation room by the japanese.

bart: O.o Ga mauuu~

Theres a story about gunung bromo, too, but just about a creepy somethings-here feeling. And I've been to bromo. I can't remember if there were crrepy something-here feelings or if it was just spooky on account of the the thick fog on the sand lake. (You ride across it on a horse . . . a little java-pony of a horse, but at 12 I felt very musketeer doing it.)

I know theres bromo stories, but what exactly are they? What is it thats supposed to be there? Is it just an 'angker' place? Or is there an actual story to go with it?

I'd also like to know about the UI ghost train that a freind of mine's professor claims he rode on. I thought that was a ride no one came back from, but whatever.

Java is thick with spirits but my close encounter came in New York at my gramma's house where I swear saw a shadow of a man in my room: sharply defined enough that I looked to see if my brother was up and casting it. Ewveryone was asleep. It was a man shape shadow, without a man attached to it. It moved across the wall, as if the shape casting it were walking, turned to face the room, then turned back to a side-view and walked until in reached the corner of the room where it dissapeared as if walking into the wall.

rurounibug ; 01:05 PM|fine, ignore me

September 4th, 2005

best quote to describe Weiss Kreuz:

[...] It all makes less sense if you try to explain it....

--from the green room

rurounibug ; 11:00 PM|fine, ignore me

September 5th, 2005

noisy when down

Reading this journal over I notice I'm low-key happy, but mope in hyperbole.

This is probably not a good charachter trait.

rurounibug ; 03:40 AM|fine, ignore me

September 6th, 2005

I should work on the . . . oh.

My old comp died and took everything with it. The HD was too shot to get any files off it. At all. You guys remember me crying about this, right?

I had four years of work on that machine.

And of course I didn't back up anything. Or mostly not.

Shaite.

Of course, I'd just finished most of my new shiny, original art web-pages when it happened. well. maybe they weren't shiny, but since they're gone now, I can lie and none of you will be the wiser, so--My awesomely cool webpages XP . . . .

I'd also just taken down the entire scattering save fics and I think a couple other pages--So you know that overhaul i as talking about? Yeah. Its going to take some time.

Worse, though, is that all my art, fics, buttons, banners . . . all gone. Some of them were pretty clever, too, even if I do say so myself.

Every once in a while a fic-line will drift into my head and I'l think "I should change that to--" or "The next line should be--" And then I'll remember that my hard drive ate it all.

Four years worth.

Of course, theres a decided persentage of that that was smut and debauchery, but still.

Four years.

rurounibug ; 09:59 PM|fine, ignore me

September 9th, 2005

nyah~

By the way, I don't care that one replies me.
So there.

I talk to myself in real life, too.

rurounibug ; 10:23 PM|fine, ignore me

September 10th, 2005

ZZZzzzz

Geez.

Masa gwe tidur dari jam dua pagi sampe jam lima sore sih? Melalukan sekalee! Lama amat. Biasa juga tidur cuma lma jam semalam. Pas bangun sampe kaget, kok cahayanya dah remang2 . . . . Hehe~ Blajar kebo mode nih.

Cuma . . . kalo dah jam segini mandi ngga ya? XP XP XP

Ah, ngantuu~k

rurounibug ; 04:34 PM|2 replies

September 10th, 2005

MASHI!

You link yourself back to the AI now? ^^;;; Padahal ga pernah nongol disitu.

The Yayu's very quiet without you. You call yourself a mod? XP Don't worry, though. I've got those kids under control. *pose gagah*

E-mail aja, pasti gw bales: redwandering@yahoo.com
Tapi kalo gwe check emailnya lama, lo tag disini, gwe bakal langsung buka inbox. Suer! XP XP

hahaha. Lama ga liat Mashi. Jadi kangen. Lo ga online2 ya?

Trus ini blog enty ko jadi kaya chatting? XD

rurounibug ; 11:16 PM|fine, ignore me

September 11th, 2005

because I haven't told you lot what to do in a while:

Read this:

Grind, a Peacemaker Kurogane fanfic. The title sonds like a PWP, but it isn't. it really isn't.

rurounibug ; 12:31 AM|fine, ignore me

September 11th, 2005

ch-ch-changes

I changed my title back. You all won't notice, because you all don't care.

By the way, anyone interested in possibly-yaoi-possibly-not original fiction?
No? Alright then.

rurounibug ; 02:54 PM|fine, ignore me

September 11th, 2005

grab your crayons and stay in the lines

Your Power Color Is Lime Green

At Your Highest: You are adventurous, witty, and a visionary. At Your Lowest: You feel misunderstood, like you don't fit in. In Love: You have a tough exterior, but can be very dedicated. How You're Attractive: Your self-awareness and confidence lights up a room. Your Eternal Question: "What else do I need in my life?"

rurounibug ; 03:22 PM|fine, ignore me

September 11th, 2005

Advent Children!!!

Is out, apparently.

Yay.

I <3 pretty animations.

rurounibug ; 07:48 PM|fine, ignore me

September 12th, 2005

Advent Children . . . again

I've been trying to download FFAC since I found a link to a subbed version on chal's blog. Its not going well. Ich kanst bittorent nich fastehen. Or something. Spelled vaguely like that.

The truth is; I don't want a rip-version. I want to open a case, and sigh over cover art and carefully click the dvd into the machine (right side up; you know, so the text/art is straight, not on angles or upside-down). Then I wanna leaf through any booklet or extras that may or may not come with it, and then, and only then . . . hit play. And bask in the beauty of Square's animagic. *siggggghh*

But since everyone else has it, and I swear to god, I bet every damn nerd in the CGAFak will have seen and will be talking about it and will probably tell me about it.

And I'd rather, in this case, watch a rip than hear it first from thinks-he's-a-jedi-for-real-guy or squeee-clouds-so-sexy-squee-girl.

But mostly, I'd like to wait for the official, shiny version--with official, shiny quality--to be clutched in my hot little hands. Ah. Bliss.

And also because it breaks my heart to steal from Square. Anyone else: Yeah, go for it. Square? I'll give Square my money. More than happy to.

Bliss.

EDIT~Came back to say: Fuck it. I'm not d/l-ing anymore programs to try to get this thing to work. Bittorrent and co. can kiss my mongrel butt. I'm waiting for the real release for afore-mentioned reasons. I'm sure it'll have a subs option, and if not I can always yoink it from some CGA later--I'm sure they're all buning multiple copies--or have someone pick it up in Jak.

Anyway. When you wait it's so much sweeter. XD XD

rurounibug ; 08:04 PM|fine, ignore me

September 12th, 2005

though I have to say . . .

. . . I'm glad the FFVII gang is back.

I remember when, searching for fics, I kept running across sites saying 'VII is old and I got bored. So I took down this site. But hey, Squall's pretty good, hey?'

No. No he wasn't.

XD

Now if only we could have a Xenogears movie . . . .

Wheeeeeeeee~






What FF7: Advent Children Character Are You?


Hosted by theOtaku.com: Anime. Done right.



Huh. And I clicked 'happy tipe', too. Go figure.

rurounibug ; 09:32 PM|fine, ignore me

September 13th, 2005

*bows to arc*

It's two AM. I'm trying to do/finish homework, but Arc won't throw in the towel. Damn you, Arc! I'm too OCD to walk away from freecell, you think I'm capable of giving up before you do?

Please.

Even though I've long since stooped to pathetic repetition:

Bart: no doubles. cheater
Bart: Balmung
bart: balmung
bart: balmung
bart: uh . . . ban?
bart: balmung? ban? no? how about, uh, balmung?

I'd explain, but it's like, two AM. And I still have to finish two whole fully penciled pages for Seq Art. I haven't even finished laying them out.

Ooop. Gotta go back and open a can of whup-ass on Arc.

It's sleep deprivation. Or I wouldn't be fixating.

I'm gonna feel soooo dumb when these pages aren't done. XP

rurounibug ; 02:03 AM|3 replies

September 13th, 2005

haiku for computers

A file that big?
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.

-- David J. Liszewski


Very appropriate, since today I'm starting the tedeous task of re-collecting buttons, banners, ans whatnot that I'd had for thescattering. After this I will hunt up my own fiction, edit everything all over again and html every damn page again.

And somewhere in there I'm going to have to re-scan the art I did for the background, dig up my photoshop cdrom, intall it, then do all the colors and image manipulation.

Maybe I'll just google some backgrouns. Heheheh~ Image search ownz me.

Help that would be appreciated: Geocities' new advertisement format bugs the bejezuz out of me. Anyone who can suggest a free host that maybe uses pop-ups instead of that ugly sidebar thing that can't be properly closed?

EDIT: ~came back to add: I'm checking out bravenet. Looks ok. Anyone? You likey?

rurounibug ; 10:12 PM|fine, ignore me

September 14th, 2005

got yaoi?

Remember when my comp needed fixing died, went to the shop, and I stressed about my dirty, dirty files? You know, the ones I didn't save, download or create?

Well, my new comps's HD was very empty.

I should have been working, but . . . .

*save image*
*save file*
*save image*
*save image*

What can I say? Boys are pretty.

*heheh*

*save image*

Ga kapok-kapok de ih. XD XD

I think I'll make dirty avatars to antagonize the AI. WHEEE~

rurounibug ; 10:18 PM|fine, ignore me

September 14th, 2005

*heart*

winmx no longer loves me.

ps: I'm not dl-ing anything I could even possibly have a chance of finding--and therefore buying--in the US. Just in case you were, you know, trolling.

I'm convinced just buying from napster is easier and safer, but napster has very, very little Asian music, and that just main-stream Jpop/rock.

Troll.

rurounibug ; 11:15 PM|fine, ignore me

September 15th, 2005

pearl jam--man of the hour (OST big fish)

Tidal waves don't beg forgiveness
Crashed and on their way
Father he enjoyed collisions; others walked away
A snowflake falls in may.
And the doors are open now as the bells are ringing out
Cause the man of the hour is taking his final bow
Goodbye for now.

Nature has its own religion; gospel from the land
Father ruled by long division, young men they pretend
Old men comprehend.

And the sky breaks at dawn; shedding light upon this town
They'll all come ‘round
Cause the man of the hour is taking his final bow
G'bye for now.

And the road
The old man paved
The broken seems along the way
The rusted signs, left just for me
He was guiding me, love, his own way
Now the man of the hour is taking his final bow
As the curtain comes down
I feel that this is just g'bye for now.

rurounibug ; 09:59 PM|fine, ignore me

September 15th, 2005

HAV--Hey Jimmy (Peacemaker Kurogane ED)

MAIKU wo nigirishime HITTO PARE-DO no ON PARE-DO
HEY! JIMMY Kibun wa dou dai?
SUTE-JI orireba Sasuga no JENTORUMAN
HEY! JIMMY Kokoro mo kandai!

Jimichi ga yue ni seikatsu sae mo chimi ni KOTSU KOTSU dzumi agemashou
Jimichi ni yume ga kanaimasu you ni Kyou mo JIMMY ikimashou

*
You got to fight for your money
How you feeling, JIMMY?
You got to fight for your dream
It's all too much
You got to fight for your money
How you feeling, JIMMY?
You got to fight for your dream
It's all too much

FUTOPPARA de ikouze Tenka no mawari mono HEY! JIMMY Ookura daijin
Toyakaku josei ni yasashiku Kimai yoku HEY! JIMMY Nippon danji!

Jimichi ni koi mo SUSUMEte ikimashou LOVE LOVE Taisetsu deshou
Haikei Ogenki desu ka? Fukuzawa Yukichi-sama Kyou mo JIMMY ganbarimasu

* repeat

Jimichi ga yue ni seikatsu sae mo chimi ni KOTSU KOTSU dzumi agemashou
Jimichi ni yume ga kanaimasu you ni Kyou mo JIMMY ikimashou

* repeat
* repeat

You got to fight for your money

You got to fight for your money

You got to fight for your money How you feeling, JIMMY?
You got to fight for your dream It's all too much


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I snagged this, so I have no idea why some words in caps. I figure they have good reason.

I did, however, turn every instance of "how you feeling? JIMMY" to "how you feeling, JIMMY?" It was bugging me.

btw: I *heart* this song

rurounibug ; 10:47 PM|1 replies

September 16th, 2005

pimping self . . .

. . . or please read my original fics. Then you can come back here and tell me all about how I suck as a writer, and can't spell to save my life. I don't mind. Any attention . . . XP

what lurks

Notes for now or later:

I write original fics as if they were fanfiction. By which I mean, I have a whole universe worked out and write small misadventures that occur/segway somewhere off that timeline. Sort of how fanfic segways into/off-of the timetable of canon. And whenever I finish one of these 'shorts' I post them and pretend they actually make sense on their own.

This is my personal, preferred way of writing. For all it's crakishness, its more fun. (Because its less work. What? Communicate? Whats that? Set-up? Why? Explanations? Huh?)

I'm never sure how much of anything makes sense, because it all makes sense to me.

So, go ahead. Have at. I'll put my tomato-proof hat on.

rurounibug ; 10:00 PM|fine, ignore me

September 18th, 2005

We call it sequential art

. . . to avoid sounding like nerds.

Our excuse is that it includes storyboards, but so far no one has so much as breathed a whisper about storyboards. Heh.

If I was going to drop a class--and I might, because I'm dying under this semester's workload--this would be it. For a couple of reasons. First being that I don't need it, while all the other classes are pre-reqs for other, more interesting things. My advisor put me down for it so I'd have an easy class to make up the last few credits I needed to be full-time. He said it would be an easy, book-based class.

My ass.

This class kills. It takes heaps of time because we have to invent stories and charachters and so forth.

It bothers me because by all rights I should love this class. And I don't. I dread it all week. I always thought of myself as a comic-book person, but I know none of the artists that come up for discussion.

I don't think a lot of the books brought in as 'cool examples' are really that impressive. I don't know who played Hellboy in the movie. I liked Constantine. I'm not too fond of Batman. And could certainly live without Superman. I don't agree with a lot of the opinions the rest of the class has on what makes a good charachter/story/movie.

And I keep wondering why there are no girls in this class. -_-;; Some female presence might result in a critique day that doesn't involve ten pencil boards about getting drunk and vomiting on passers-by.

I'm not sure if I'm more mature or just a fag.

Whichever, this class has me totally insecure about my charachters and stories. I hold my inventions very dear. Some of them have been in my head, in one form or another, for years. What if no one think they're as cool as I do? No one was terribly impressed with my first work, though I admit I didn't put nearly enough time into it and it was unfinished.

Argh.

My style is really more manga than how-to-marvel-style. Largely, I suspect, due to the rampant presence of manga in Indonesia. American comics are in color and therefore more expensive to print. The stories tend to be more shallow, and you only get about twenty, thirty pages an issue, as opposed to manga, which run at 100+ pages a volume. And, printed in black and white--and still very presentible on bound newsprint--its cheaper. More bang for your buck.

Then theres the fact that the japanese stories and humor translate very well into the Indonesian. (Manga is mainstream there--everybody reads it the way everyone in america reads, say, the sports page.)

Manga-style just looks right to my eye. I'm trying to do the more naturalistic US-style, but my hand refuses. Eyes get bigger, chins sharper. It took me two hours to pull off a close-up face shot, and it still looked manga.

And I wouldn't bother to try so hard, but its obvious the teacher knows next-to-nothing about manga, and doesn't think too highly of it anyway. As shown in his comment, "All these books drawn in the same style."

I hate this class.

I don't like most US comic heroes.

And Sephiroth is not girly.

Either my style and taste is just more asian, or I'm just a fag with thing for bishies, but not liking comic-book class is killing my self-image. This is what I do dammit. And I've never before felt like my idea of 'cool' wasn't cool enough. But manga-style, even manga-ish style drawings and humor don't hold a candle to tales of beer and vomit.

Apparently.

Did I mention I hated this class?

I should draw you guys some manga, because you would appreciate it. Or at least the effort. I <3 you folks.

rurounibug ; 01:26 AM|3 replies

September 18th, 2005

Kingdom Hearts entry--you *need* this AMV!

Maybe it's because I don't really follow AMV-dom, but to my eye . . . . Whoa. I wish t'were mine.

But then, I'm a slavering KH fan. For all that I love the rest of FFdom, 7 in particular, KH speaks to me.

Yeah, yeah. Me and about a hundred million other fanboys and girls. Stop pointing and mocking and go DL this.

Kingdom Hearts Tribute by Kawaii-Ash

Thanks to Angelics_d of AI fame for finding and sharing this link. Even if she probably spends way too much time on DeviantArt. XP

btw: I am now officially a Within Temptation fan. Yes, on that one song alone. I will now always see Kingdom Hearts in my head when I hear it.

rurounibug ; 06:24 PM|fine, ignore me

September 18th, 2005

Within Temptation--Jillian (I'd Give My Heart)

I've been dreaming for so long,
to find a meaning to understand.
The secret of life,
why am I here to try again?

Will I always, will you always
see the truth when it stares you in the face?
Will I ever, will I never free myself
by breaking these chains?

refrain:
I'd give my heart, I'd give my soul.
I'd turn it back, it's my fault.
Your destiny is forlorn,
have to live till it's undone.
I'd give my heart, I'd give my soul.
I'd turn it back and then at last I'll be on my way.

I've been living for so long,
many seasons have passed me by.
I've seen kingdoms through ages
rise and fall, I've seen it all.

I've seen the horror, I've seen the wonders
happening just in front of my eyes.
Will I ever, will I never free myself by making it right?

refrain

Jillian our dream ended long ago.
All our stories and all our glory I held so dear.
We won't be together
for ever and ever, no more tears.
I'll always be here until the end.

(Jillian, no more tears...
Jillian, no more tears...)

refrain


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~These are the lyrics that go with the KH AMV in the last entry. Check out the alternate title: "I'd Give My Heart"

Appropriate.

And yes, I'm a dork for noticing and pointing it out. But I'm also a dork who loves you lot enough to hunt you up the lyrics. ^^V

rurounibug ; 07:13 PM|fine, ignore me

September 20th, 2005

what I'm capable of . . . .

is totally irrelavant, seeing as I never see fit to actually do anything until up around midnight.

I'm up at 2:30 in the morning doing work I put off all weekend, and all monday evening, so I could watch KH AMVs over and over and . . . .

And for whats probably the hudredth time or more, I'm sitting here trying to do decent work for be-fucked comics class. And on serious sleep-deficit, it ain't happening.

I keep telling myself I won't do this anymore: "Yeah, Bart. Next time you'll start work before the clock says AM. Next time you won't put it off till the very last possible damn minute. Because now you know better."

Yeah. And maybe pigs'll sprout wings and fly. Maybe they'll sprout hands and do my homework.

{edit: did I say watch KH AMVs? I meant the same KH AMV. It hath broken my brain.}

rurounibug ; 02:38 AM|fine, ignore me

September 20th, 2005

*squeeks*

The mp3 player I ordered is supposed to come tommorow. Yay! It should be on my aunt's doorstep (Mine has no overhang, so I fear UPS boxes beign left in the rain, should it rain.) by the time I get off work.

Yay!

None of this is helping me get school work done.

But both Naruto and FMA have good OP/ED tracks. W00t!!

rurounibug ; 12:40 PM|fine, ignore me

September 20th, 2005

scientific progess goes 'boink'

But exorcism goes 'ZAP'.


--The Megatokyo Forums were humorously re-dubbing these. But this guy doesn't need help making a fool of himself.

rurounibug ; 10:56 PM|fine, ignore me

September 21st, 2005

Fannish Delight

Who is that short-haired kid in the KH2 videos? Thats two keyblades he's got. Two!

Bwah! I hope he's in the party. Maybe even playable? Just for a bit? Please?

I squeak a lot, but I'm more than happy to wait. It would be nice to thrown a few more tidbits, though. I sort of enjoy the periods where no one knows anything, because once the game comes out, I know everyone will just peal through it while I'm still struggling with the GBA interlude.

Suspence is half the fun.

Winamp skins are the other half.

rurounibug ; 01:33 AM|fine, ignore me

September 21st, 2005

jetBlue--*Applause*

Whoah!

0.o;;;;

I think thats enough tv for me, for like . . . a year.

rurounibug ; 06:25 PM|fine, ignore me

September 21st, 2005

site update--excuses and whining

Yes, I did say I was going home to work. And I will. In a minute. After Lost. And maybe after a snack . . . .

Certainly after I post this Site Update.

Judging by the amount of enthusiasm I'm mustering for digging up my scanner and tablet software and photoshop cdRom (New comp, must re-install everything. Tech implosion sucks.) the chances of my re-doing all the site page original-art backgrounds in pretty, shiny color, etc is pretty slim. And the chances of me doing it expediently, to return to webbage in a splash of glorious, overhauled, shinyness is next to nil. Maybe a bit less than nil.

Chances are, I'm going to slowly trickle my way back to the www. Page by shitacular page. Just to get the fics and such back up. Then I'll probably come back and overhaul each page, and do a slow re-vamp. Things will probably be mis-matched for a while.

And thats being optimistic. Things will probably stay in their current contidion for quite a while longer.

Also: We will be moving to bravenet for reasons of Geocities finally sucking so much I want to rip my eyeballs out.

And now I'm going to do some real work.

After wheel of fortune. And maybe some doodles. And Lost. XD Um . . . .

rurounibug ; 07:54 PM|5 replies

September 21st, 2005

AH HAH! or: finally a proper pic of that kid in Kingdom Hearts 2

He looks older than Sora and Kairi in this, but in this one he looks like he could almost be Sora with a different haircut.

He looks cool in the first pic, but his hair in the second one is a little too weird. Even for FF. He looks like a baby-punk Jrocker. XP And does this guy have a name yet?

I have to say, I never much cared for Riku's charachter design either, even if he is supposed to be the silver-haired bishou.


--Man. I was doing fine until Ange and her AMVs. Now I can't shake this KH kick.

rurounibug ; 11:18 PM|fine, ignore me

September 22nd, 2005

Yaoi-Con (meandering into off-topic annoyance)

I live a 20-minute train ride away from San Francisco. Add the ten minutes it takes me to walk down to the station and its still only a half-hour commute to the city.

A commute I take every day I have class, so its no big deal.

I could so totally go to Yaoi-Con.

Except its gotten kind of . . . . Well, in the words of people more literary than me: "myeh."

If one could just drop-by, I definitely would, but I'm unclear on whether one can just show up, or if theres tickets involved, or what. It doesn't seem worth the hassle of registering, etc. Just to see fangirls pimp their AMVs, and play 'omg-I-am-such-an-insider'.

And squee-ing. I can't frikkin' stand squee-ing.

Especially superior fan-girl squee-ing. Especially of the 'my AMVclips are so much more rare' variety and the 'I am more hentai' variety.

And dont' even get me started on the 'stick to the rules of physics in anime fanfic I teach English' variety. It's anime. Hammers appear out of itty-bitty pockets in anime, and you're upset that someone had stars visible in a city.

Give me a break.

Oh, I have so much hate. It's Low-blood-sugar, forgot-to-eat-since-lunch-yesterday hate, but damn, I could take you all out with it.

(Things ranted on, then deleted: PL Nunn's art work; Live Journal; Live Journal users; I-am-so-in-love highschool guys on my gay forum; Giant sig images on AI; High-schoolers in general; More-of-a-fan-than-you fangirls; I-had-it-before-you/saw-the-trailer-first fan mentality; the smut=kudos standard of yaoi fandom art appreciation; fandom superiority complex; cosplayers, etc) When the topics ran together into generalized irritation at every-damn-thing I realized I needed to eat something. XP

rurounibug ; 08:37 PM|1 replies

September 22nd, 2005

psychological profiling by pretty colors

Yoinked. I did this one before, I think. People say its impressively accurate. I'm not so sure.

baskerville took the free ColorQuiz.com personality test! "Seeks affectionate, satisfying and harmonious rela..." Click here to read the rest of the results.

rurounibug ; 09:18 PM|fine, ignore me

September 23rd, 2005

share the hate (canon/published work version)

Today I overheard someone say "I don't want to see it at all. It's like, the nightmare before christmas all over again."

Yes. Yes it is.

And like Nightmare before Christmas, pretentious I'm-so-dark folks will flock to it. I expect a lot of goth kids are just about wetting themselves. Yes, this is about the Corpse Bride. Or Nightmare redux. Even the dog looks the same, just bones this time instead of ghosty.

One trick horse, anyone?

Anyone else sick-to-death-of/despised-from-the-get-go any of the following?

-Harry Potter. (Brit style boarding school with classes given weird names. "Alchemy" instead of "chemistry", etc. A weird game involving posts and balls and rules no one really understands? Cricket or australian footie. call it, say, quiddicth. What is it with the English and incompehensible ball games? Throw in a lot of marketing and you have Harry Potter.)

-Storm Constantine. (starts out promising, quickly reveals itself as pretentious and fubar. The more she explains the less it makes sense. Everything she sets up thats new and Really Cool, she later destroys. Fangirl, btw, love her. But mostly because boys are fucking boys--and yes, wraethu are guys. Since theres an opposing gender of sorts in the Kamagrian--making the whole 'genderless wraethu' premise either pointless or a blatant lie--I feel justified saying this. The entire thing is really nothing more than a massive Mpreg, cleverly disguised.)

-Fake (Bad art. Unconvincing characters. Lame story driven by not by charachters, not by plot, but by the desire to write Dee and Ryo into bed together. Also: entire police force is gay. And wants Ryo. Add marketing and fannish girly squees. Sells like hotcakes because of the smut=quality rule of fandom.)

-Prince of tennis. (Stupid. Just stupid. Is all.)

-Utena. (Even stupider than PoT. I know. I didn't think it was possible either. If Utena wants to be a prince or boy or whatever, she should wear the guys' uniform. Not a totally different Utena-is-so-special version. A charachter's design should match the story. When it doesn't, it really, really bugs me, especially when its not justifiable by any explanation otehr than 'shitty'. Also Utena has long hair, which makes the bad design a double whammy. It makes it seem like Utena doesn't put her money where her mouth is. Either be a girl, commit to the guy-clothes, or shut the hell up. You want cross-dressing girls, who are still overly femmy but not as craptacular as Utena? Try Hana Kimi or Power--Painfully renamed "Girl Got Game" in the US for reasons of TokyoPop being run by dumb fucks. Both are painful for different reasons, but, unlike Utena, readable.)


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I'm sure I'll be back. I still have much rage. XP

rurounibug ; 09:14 PM|fine, ignore me

September 24th, 2005

mystery chocobo deaths

How do you know its a gold chocobo, if nobody's ever seen one?

Scientific testing. Thats how.

rurounibug ; 12:37 AM|1 replies

September 25th, 2005

must . . . do . . . work . . . ZZzzz

People can't be this tired and live.

I swear to god.

I spent the entire weekend sleeping and vowing to organise my time better so I don't end up staying up working all night and getting only 4-5 hours of sleep a night.

I know some people are fine with that much sleep, but I'm not one of them.

Seriously.

Also: I bought blue pencils for comic class and they suck. Non-photo blue sucks the most.

Gimme back my mechpencil, you bastards. Aaaahhhh HB-B. Beautiful.

To AI people I owe pics:
I am trying. But the CD I thought had my scanner software on it had Princess Maker instead. @_@ Why do I have this game?

rurounibug ; 11:19 PM|2 replies

September 25th, 2005

go figure

All this time the CidXVincent list was hiding under the name VincentXCid.

Gawddammit.

rurounibug ; 11:58 PM|fine, ignore me

September 26th, 2005

those bastards!

They killed Winmx!!

rurounibug ; 03:20 PM|fine, ignore me

September 26th, 2005

not a nerd entry . . . well, maybe

I can't stand my Indonesian family. With some exceptions, of course. but mostly, they make me wish I'd grown up way, way closer to the german sie of the family.

When I say anything, my folks scoff and point out that I've hardly spent time on the same continent as them in last few years, so what am I complaining about anyway?

My dad defends them. Apparently, their wandering through our house with sticky fingers is a sign of closeness and affection. My ass. I have cousins I'm close enough to to just take their things, but it doesn't play out like that. It plays out like this:

Me: I'm taking these comics. And these. And this PS game. Okay, see ya.
Cousin: &^%$#@@

as opposed to:

Mom: Are we missing wine glasses?
Mom: what the~
Mom: ^$@#@@$$

If you're entitled to take, you don't sneak it out. You announce and show off and gloat over the owner's lack of power to prevent you. Mwahahaha~

I'm so, so sure that the reason they just lift whatever the heck they want from our house is because of my Mom's not being Indonesian. Like they think we don't get that they think we're too foreign and dumb to know things are missing.

Sort of the way one of my uncles was telling stories that I was out of the country because I was deported. (I wasn't, I swear to you. XP I'm going to school.) But honestly? We get enough crap about being mongrels without the family pitching in.

To which my folks say: He was probably joking, and people misunderstood. He's got a weird sense of humor, you know.

Maybe. And I did get the story second hand from his daughter, my cousin, who isn't the brightest stone on the beach, when she asked me--while I was home for break--why I'd been kicked out of the country, and if I had Indo ID.

So sure, maybe it was a joke, but I no longer care. I don't think I should have to be tolerant. I think it would be much better if people could stop saying stupid things. And really, it's just a lot easier to dislike them.

Or hate them. Whichever.

And yes, I have Indo ID, and if I'd been deported, how could I have been home for break?

Fuckers.

When my abang was asked to be best man for a cousin's wedding the GirlCousins (Who are really the worst. What is it with girls?) made much snide commenting about how someone who knew 'adat' (traditonal custom and law) should have had that honor.

Because, obviously, a mongrel guy with light hair and eyes can't possibly know adat. And sure, I don't think my brothers that up on traditions, but quite possibly the groom didn't want someone who'd be pushing tradition the whole time. He probably wanted someone who'd remember to pick up his suit and hire the limo.

Which the girl cousins, even had they been eligible to be best man, probably wouldn't have. They're not exactly dependable. Quite the opposite, really.

Fuckers.

I don't get on with my abang too well, but for that sort of disrespect, I'd give those girls some what-for.

I'm very amused by the idiocies of the girlCousins when I'm home, but the further the distance, the more the family pisses me off. What pisses me off even more is the way our Mom expects us always 'rise above it' and my Dad seems to want us to be thrilled out of our boots at any bone the family throws us.

Oh yeah, such an honor for my brother to be best man. Sign of respect.

My flying butt.

It would be a lot more respectful if some tua-tua (elder: aunts, uncles, parents, etc. The members of the family's oldest generation.) had told those girls that their behaviour was rude, obnoxious and unseemly. But then, you just know it was some tua-tua they were echoing. Because those girls don't have the brains between them to form an independent opinion.

So no, I'm not thrilled, and I'm not humbly grateful for IndoFamily inclusion.

I think that--for the most part--they're a bunch of stupid fucks who talk shit about you, take stuff from your house, and think that white blood means you're too dumb to notice and too stupid to pick up on "subtle" slights.

/rant

rurounibug ; 04:29 PM|1 replies

September 27th, 2005

from ephi

Ephi YIMed this to me, but I was either already offline, or passed out at the keyboard. =)

harhar.

Um . . . is this a dig? ^^;;;

rurounibug ; 08:00 PM|fine, ignore me

September 27th, 2005

more about comics class

Me . . hate . . . Me . . . Smash!!!

But seriously.

I'm learning a lot about page layout, inking tricks, tone, and other must-knows. what i'm having trouble with is making up stuff that the rest of the class won't hate.

Or that I can tack up with out feeling like superDork.

The only other guy in the class with manga-artist tedencies is hardcore shonen style, where I tend towards being a Kyoko Tsuchiya wannabee. But you know what it is: pretty charachters, fine line, elegance, subtle charachter tags . . . Well, I try for it. Falling way short, but I try.

And yes, everyone does think my charachter is a girl.

bart: *mumbles*

Nobody gets my cat/shadow/bell refences.

bart: It's like when . . . nevermind *mumble*

They think I've got a soft background thing going.

My coolGuy character is a girl and my ink-wash backgrounds are 'soft'

bart: T^T *must . . . butch . . . up*

Fanficers have told me I write like a girl. Apparently I draw like one, too.

prof: To make female charachters, just make the neck narrower than the head. Thats a dead giveaway.

For what? Neanderthals? Muscle-bound=knuckle-head. You know, like the hulk? In asian comics, that strongbutdumb! line comes a lot sooner than it does in western books.

prof: so that lady you've got there is pretty well centered . . . .

bart: *sigh*

On the rare occasion I scan and upload, A! folks (Apparently it's not AI, but A! And you still read it AI. Got it? I'm not sure I do. *kicked by A!ers*) seem to get what I'm doing, or at least trying for.

Unless they're humoring me.

Classmate: Its better now that you've inked it. Last week none of us had a clue what you were doing there.

bart: *looks at very similar pencil originals. It's VERY similar* whut?

I'm like the class token girl. We don't have one, and I've taken her place. I draw pretty boys everyone mistakes for girls and spirit cats. Against a soft background.

Somebody teach me to be a real boy. T^T

rurounibug ; 11:15 PM|fine, ignore me

September 28th, 2005

late, but better than never

requisite nerd entry of the day:

This is just so I can find it back.

People who've freinds-ed me will soon realize why I'm quickly un-freinds-ed: Multiple, pointless entries about Final Fantasy and comic books.

I do apologise.

Please don't un-freinds me. I play well with others.

And I'm . . . uh . . . cute. Right.

rurounibug ; 12:05 AM|4 replies

September 28th, 2005

"oou" (or: death by empathy)

You know that sympathetic sound girls make? It's high-pitched like baby-talk, can only be written as 'oou' and is usually accompanied by a sort of knitted brow, pouty, scrunched-up fish face. And used kind of randomly.

Yeah.

You know the one.

Someone tell me what the accepted polite response to the girl-sympathy-noise/fish-face is. And while you're at it, tell me how you manage to stay freinds with people who use it.

Because it's got to be a sign of brain-damage. Or something.

Unless they actually think that a single syllable communicates anything, much less heartfelt sympathy and understanding. If they keep it up, I'm going to start communicating by color-code.

girl: So, my cat died and--
me: green!

Gray is probably a better color for sympathy, though. Maybe the tannish-gray color of my blog-text. I'm not sure what it's called, but I could just communicate in html color hexcode.

girl: my cat died
me: 808080

Or, you know, swatches.

girl: oou
me: *red card*

rurounibug ; 08:30 PM|3 replies

September 29th, 2005

vengence is like me and work

Or at least this version is.

rurounibug ; 11:10 PM|fine, ignore me

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