I've seen this in several other journals, so here goes. Here's a list of my favorite sites, and links will go here too. Added a list of favorite books, too, for those who think I only read online comics. :P

My ff.net account: Click!

List of Sakura Cards (for the story The Witch and The King.)

( Long list is long )

I'm downloading "Portal: Prelude" right now.

If you don't know what that is, and you liked Portal or Half-Life 2, then you should check it out. The name itself hints at what it deals with.

And I really want to see HL 2-3 already, since it would be awesome if any (or all) the rumors and speculations become true.

Freeman with a portal gun? Win. Freeman vs. GLaDOS? More win.

Freeman fighting GLaDOS with a portal gun? The stuff FPS should be made of.

http://atlantica.ndoorsgames.com/center/guide/game_intro02.asp

... Interesting little thing. I'll have to check it out later.

Despite my main project being Dark World right now, I'm also doing two different things with Genesis. First off, I'm putting it through revision, going to bug out all the grammar and spelling errors I can find on my own.

But also, I'm working on something different, a new Cyber Moon, this time around I may put the four 'eras' of the story (pre-SilMil, SilMil, Tokyo and Crystal Tokyo) into one single, long epic, instead of dividing it in 'books' like I did before. Chronicles and Crystal may look like 'books' on their own, but Genesis itself is more like the short, useless prologue at the end of any sci-fi novel. I'm going to expand on that era a lot, to make it worth reading, and adding some elements that will later on play a bigger role in the Tokyo era.

As things are right now, it will turn into a full rewrite, explaining a lot of the questions I left hanging in the last version of Cyber Moon.

What am I planning for this new version?

( Long list of changes is long. )

And now, some Sims 3 talk.

( Here there be Sims. )

Fics: Writing Dark World right now... ChibiChibi's already quite unnerving when you can't understand what she says, so imagine understanding her? Poor Mercury. And I finally reveal Galaxia as an Aeon Senshi. Things will get real messy, real fast.

I'm sure half the readers are still going WTF at me bringing Nova in. It'll be more of a WTF when the other Senshi get revived, and Terry sees both his girls around. "I come back from death for this love triangle shit?"

Games: Playing Sims 3. Using short lifespan for sims. Why, you ask? Babies. Toddlers. Enough said? Sadly, I've only found mods that enlarge the growth time for babies and toddlers. Bwuh? Freaking "Family Oriented" mod makers. -.- Eri made a "me" in that game. Computer Whiz, Flirty, Hates Children, Commitment Issues, Childish. Yep, that's Razor right there. :D

I think I'll go back to Dragonica tonight. Need to get that stupid warrior to level 20.

While fooling around and checking old e-mails and PMs, I found this little jewel:

http://razorknight.atspace.com/cmold/cmold.html

That's Cyber Moon's old version.

... I wrote like crap 'back then.' And I'll call that version's Terry Zephyr "dub Terry."

Unless I got something wrong in this last issue of Negima, then Negi Springfield is a martian. And heir to the throne of a country, at that.

Martian Sucessor Negi? :D

At least he doesn't have a tail and turn into a stupid giant monkey that burps raw magic energy.

If he keeps stacking up Pactios, I think he might be able to form a Yugioh-sized deck with them. *Kills the plot bunnies with a scythe.*

This Seth guy, the boss of Street Fighter IV... How to explain this. Take Goro and all the final bosses from SNK, mix them and the resulting loser will be harder to beat than Seth.

Oh well, at least Sakura's back (and kicking more ass. I'm not complaining about them making her stronger.)

One word is enough to describe Street Fighter IV.

"Meh."

That is all.

(Srsly? I was hoping for a new game, no pretty-fied SF2 with shitty new combos.)

Just bought Street Fighter 4. Installing it right now. If I'm not back in twelve hours, either the cool or the stupid killed me.

I take back what I said before. The Oceania servers of Dragonica's got some deadly lagging. Can't beat the first 4-stars Orc Brother stage, whereas I beat it on the first go in the EU servers.

I'll try killing the graphics a bit and see if that fixes the problem. (And the server status said "excellent" when I got lag-axed down.)

In other news: Writing, I should be. Inspiration, out of I am. Suck, anything I try writing does.

"New" Naruto episodes from today on. About time they got that out of the way (they're showing the first episode where Jiraiya shows up. That's "new" for them.")

However, the nice surprise was that they replaced the Naru-rap (as I call what they had put in the Spanish version as an intro/ending,) for the Japanese Naruto intro.

Jiraiya's Spanish VA is the same as Dragon Ball Z's Mr. Satan... lol whut? O.o

Erika was laughing while playing something in the other computer, so I got curious. Turns out our copy of Sims 3 got auto-updated, even though the update program recognizes it as an "Unathorized copy" and it still works without any CD/DVD.

EA: Pirate's choice, Arrr!

Guess you were right in your last comment, Aaron. I think I got a clue on how big combos are done in Dragonica:

( Big bad images behind the cut. You were warned. Also: Major ownage of mobs. )

Yep, it changes to "unbelievable" for a while there then back to godlike. I blame programmers.

I suppose there's a balance between time spent, hits taken and combos pulled, because that big one only got me an A rank (I had A ranks already, using the mallets,) since yes, the two damn wolves together are quite a nuissance. But it gets worse, the two axe orc bosses together make the two wolves look harmless and easy to dodge.

Normal combos for me, when I'm leveling outside mission maps, rake up to 60-70 with mallet (moving from spawn to spawn and rarely finding idiots KSing = exp win.) Though mission maps are a faster way to get gear than the chests, so you get soul faster, and you can upgrade your items earlier on, so I rarely go for a kill count anymore.

However, the one mission I was talking about in that last post? Is in a field area. But the monsters involved, at the level you first can take the mission (19) die in about 10 hits each, unless you have some damn godlike gear around, so I suppose it's not THAT hard to complete (however, if those monsters hit you, be ready to dish out some serious potions and food while you're trying for the combo. I know that, because I was leveling there before I moved from the EU version.)

Also, if anyone's wondering, I'm in the second (Elga) server of the list. Level 14 and wearing mostly green +1s (n00b gear, bah.)

... Just found out about the most fucked up quest ever. And there's apparently a few of them.

They involve getting a 100-hits combo in certain maps... I don't think I ever went past 60 hits. One tip I've found for those is "don't use hammer" (they take a big bunch of HP, and the more mobs live, the more hits you can get in...)

"Luckily" I won't have to worry about it until level 18+

Finally managed to download the Oceania version of Dragonica.

Other than name changes for some mobs and bosses, and a slight improvement in lag, I see nothing really new there. Name of my character's ChibiMoon, a warrior (because I just can see her bashing stuff to dust with a giant mallet.)

Dragonica: Got my warrior to level 19. One more level and I get class change.

I've tried downloading the asian version (Oceania, bah) since just looking at the info tells me it's got a lot more details than the European one (it's always like that with KorRPGs,) but the download servers love to get busy when I'm at 80% or above, hence cancelling the download (stupid servers with 'lines.' Lines are for Tetris.)

I've gathered enough greens to make my mage a supernewbie, too, so I'll level her up next.

In other news: Fics, I've written almost nothing of them lately. Gotta stop fooling around with Dragonica and get on with the writing.

More news on Troll McTrollstein (check a few posts back. Yeah, that one.

Here's the thing's last post thus far:

I'm not a troll! How many times do I have to tell you, Knight....?

Honestly...I've found only one particular user that I like to harass now...it's none of your business what I do either.

And no one's going to ban me...not for a long long time. XD

1- "I'm not the murderer!" said the evil-looking guy while holding a bloodied sword, as he stood besides the corpse of his worst enemy.

2- Finding one person to chase around forums, review boards and even e-mail isn't what trolls do? Damn, I was lied to!

3- "No one's going to ban me." That sounds a lot like... "Don't worry, the homicidal maniac can't possibly be hiding in this abandoned house." And we all know how that always ends.

All in all, I've had my fun kicking the thing around and putting them down wherever she post at. She earned some serious Troll Points by posting about how anyone doing a sixth season was doing it wrong, OCs were lame, crossovers were idiotic and male SM writers were gay. I'm now going to wait until someone Banhammers that idiot out of the galaxy. :D

Dragonica's second city's a bitch.

Built in a circle. With a central plaza hanging in mid-air (accessed through jump platforms) and NPCs all around the ring outside. It's the place where the Vault is (I'm going to test this when I get there with my mage, but I bet that's the way to pass stuff through characters.)

What's bad about it? the whole jumping around thing. Cammera shifting at top speed and giving weird angles as you jump, makes me remember the stupid Sonic game with the white Gary Stu hedgehog, time travelling, nausea-inducing automated cammera shifts and epic collision fail.

Still, the hammer->Ice->Fire combo's proven to be amazing thus far. Wonder if the Knight or Gladiator classes have something to top that? (They should.) Forums have quite shitty FAQs around, and the main site(s) are so "Oh My Korglish!" it hurts.

Dragonica takes the "Glass cannon" thing a little TOO literally.

As in, your mage can actually turn his/her head into a cannon and beat the shit out of stuff with cannonballs. And the first stat up spell turns you into a catperson.

And alas, warriors are rather slow at killing stuff at first, but mages? I was at the 300 kill mark before I even figured out where everything was in the mage starter town.

So here's where I'm playing:

Server: Fenrir.
1- ChibiMoon (level 14-some warrior.)
2- ReiHino (archer, not quite tried them yet.)
3- DarkNova (thief, read above.)
4- AeonHotaru (mage. Blasting shit dead with her right now.)

Again, this is for the European version. The US version DLing was shit slow for me (and didn't allow for restarts) so I torrent'ed one instead (in about 1 hour.)

After a while, Dragonica becomes the "same old" RPG.

( Good and bad points of Dragonica )

Good thing to spend a few days on, I think.

Dragonica isn't a bad game. It's not awesome, either, but it's got a few points that I like.

The game's the old 3D RPG thing, only it's got fixed cammera, and your character's combat is made with keyboard rather than mouse... You can forget about using mouse at all.

You can go get KSed all day in normal maps, or try the slightly more challenging Mission Maps (one per "training area" of the game,) where you go up alone against a horde of critters, and a boss in the end (Grand Chase, without pits, and with 3D movement.)

Also, you can upgrade your gear in two ways. One is the classic +1 +2 +3 ... +999 thing where you get a fixed upgrade for your items, and the other is "Soul Upgrade" where you gain certain bonuses by adding soul points to your gear. Bonuses are different for +1 and soul upgrade, and the failure rate for the two are also different (soul gives better bonuses IMO, but fails a damn lot.)

My character there is "Chibimoon" and I'm in the Fenrir server of the European version (bittorrent ftw?)

Installing something called "Dragonica" right now. Yep, another MMO. I'll drop a comment on how much it sucks later on, after I'm done suffering all the clichés.

Now reading: Rave. Aka "Rave Master." An anime I did want to finish watching, but Cartoon Asshole Network never bought the last ten episodes. It's a fun manga, and it's also completed, so there's no waiting for issue 349340239420342930 to come out, like with other manga I follow.

Playing: Still in Diablo 2. Got Eri to join up after some nagging, and found out she still plays a dangerous Amazon (My 10-levels-above-her skeleton/Iron Maiden Necro got his ass kicked.)

Writing: I gotta finish Dark World episode 5. If I can stop drooling at Ellie (Rave) I'll be able to finish it today, or maybe tomorrow.

Haha... Someone called out Ms. Troll on her account not having any fanfic and no profile at all. Answer was that she had stories written, but she didn't have time to post them up because she was arguing with us jerks.

I think I'll enjoy it when the forum's manager comes back and sees all that. She'll play Banhammer 40k with this troll.

In other news: I made it so to kill Neherenia, someone had to take her out of the mirror first. In the Dark World universe, I'm having it so Chie (the only one sharing Helios' powers) will go and drag Neherenia out of the mirror by her throat. And that'll be the nicer part of that scene.

Usual Cyber Moon bastardness, bah.

Troll's response on being called a troll?

"whats a troll?"

...

Fuck it, I can't really kick something that pitiful.

Wait. Actually, I can. >:D

Ya know, the troll thing I posted about yesterday? Tried to start some more shit. Doing that right now, when I'm not in a good mood (see last post) was the wrong move at the wrong time. Here's what I just posted over at that forum after she attacked one member for the nth time.

Italics is what she posted about someone else whose work needs improving but whose imagination and general story structures are better than the usual fangull drollfest I find when surfing for Sailor Moon fanfiction.

( Troll, Troll, Trooooll in the dungeon! )

Really now, I should have my writer's license 'provoked' too. It sounds sorta fun.

Two episodes of Dark World uploaded in two days. Considering the size of those things... I guess I should "write less." However, this last episode gave me a crapload of ideas for rewriting Chronicles' "Dead Moon Circus" arc. And writing bits and pieces of the "First Serenity" arc gives me a lot of ideas for a rewrite, too (like with tabletop RPGs, maybe I'll have to 'release' a new, improved set of those "rules of magic" my story uses.)

RL: Just heard the news about Jackson. It's not like he did anything worth remembering after Blood on the Dancefloor, but still, it sucks that he died so young. And I am still a fan of his music (because that's what matters with artists, I couldn't care less about whatever they do outside the recording studio or the scenario, unless that "whatever they do" is dying.)

Playing Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction right now. Unmodded vanilla game. Hardcore mode.

My Necromancer just got to level 34. Skeletons are the best plvlers ever.

I can has new game nao?

... Little kids antagonizing everyone the first day they get into a forum.

Been a while since I had a chance to kick some troll ass around. And it's going to be crude, after the thing went and implied male writers for Sailor Moon were gay, all crossover sucks, all divergences suck, and fan-made attacks suck.

Strike four, with you I wipe the floor.

Just done watching that "Benjamin Button" thing. OH THE HUMANITY. Last time I saw Brad Pitt, he was being cool in Mr. and Mrs. Smith. And now this? It's so wrong, an "Epic Movie" kind of spoof could only improve it. I swear, by the time the movie reached its fifty minutes, I was hoping for the moron to just die already so the movie could end.

Ugh.

In other news... Dumb reader pointed out I was giving Mercury-beta a lot of spotlight in Dark World. Wow, who would have tought the main character of a story would get a bit more glory than the rest of the group? In a magical girl story? BLASPHEMY! BURN THE WITCH! Whatever.

At least I'm giving Lilith-beta some spotlight next episode, what with Helios using her brain as toilet and all. I even managed to have her think about it being weird to have "a winged, horny horse" inside her mind. :D

Meh. What the f'k was that?

Yesterday, I said DMC 3 was quite entertaining. But fuck it, Capcom, why can't your action RPGs last for more than twelve hours? That was a waste of five bucks. Srsly. I could've eaten candy with that money, for more time than the game lasted.

Oh well, back to torturing poor Mercury-beta and Mars-beta by throwing wave after wave of enemies at them.

( I remember when I was a hobo with a computer... )

In other news: Finally cracked and bought Devil May Cry 3. DMC 1 was too boring for my liking, but DMC 3 is actually entertaining. Bad point: It needs multiplayer, I say!

Fanfics: Dark World's coming out nicely. I think I can get it finished by August. In the meantime, I've been tossing ideas around with my muse (aka Erika) on things to add and correct for Genesis/Chronicles. I've got two eras to add to Genesis, for starters (the real 'genesis' of Senshi and the 'exodus' to explain why there's Senshi everyfuckingwhere in the galaxy.)

Why can't I draw like that, damn it?

Watched the first two episodes of Ben 10 AF. Cool Ben, loser Kevin, same old... But OMGWTFBBQ Gwen. She kicks ass. And her beams are pink. Can't go wrong with pink.

Oh, and they got rid of the moronic and annoying intro theme, too. Points up for that.

Only bad thing is they seem to be raping the aliens' names, as usual.

Just done getting useless Goemon to level 99 in Warriors Orochi. That's the last one of them. And they all got 4th weapons and unique items. I think the only thing left for me to do is beat every stage in Chaos (still missing some of the 5-stars ones, they are actually a challenge,) but the game's pretty much done for.

Koei, you sons of bitches, release WO2 for PC now. Or at least the next Dynasty/Samurai Warriors games.

Today they finally start Ben 10: Alien Force around here. Here's hoping it's as good as I heard. Or better.

Fics: I know the crowd waiting for more CCS/YGO goodness is going to be sad, because I'm focusing in the screwed up version of my already screwed up version of Sailor Moon. Yeah, that's "Cyber Moon: Dark World."

Sure, go ahead Vadianne, give the two borderline psycho Senshi dreams where their friends are all alive, their city is in one piece, and nothing's wrong with the world. I'm sure it will be fun and games until they wake up and realize it was just a dream. And then go and send weak clones of these friends to fight them. I don't think I can really write Vadianne as having an ice cube's chance in hell to fight the infuriated Mars and Mercury.

Neherenia will be around too, of course, but hey, there's no ChibiUsa for the horsey to mindrape hide in. Helios will, instead, choose someone else. Someone he shouldn't hide in. And Galaxia, in Cyber Moon, did beat the crap out of everyone, but she's "just" at Holy level. Two Holy level Senshi are a different deal. However, the whole stealing the seeds and turning them evil will make things interesting.

As for the 'future' of that universe, I'm getting ready to twist the plot around itself so much it boomerangs around of not making sense, and ends up making sense again.

I started reading a little manga called "Lost+Brain."

Basic plot is... Well, it seems to follow the premise of "guy who's a know-it-all asshole plays god" Death Note has, but the 'hero'? Ren Hirama is what Light Yagami would be if he was a complete, worthless, obnoxious and unstandable asshole.

Damn it, this guy needs someone to kill him right away, no use waiting for 100+ issues like they did with Light.

H.A.W.X. is good, yes, but why does it have to be so damn linear? The only time in the whole game where I could see a duality coming, you're not even given a choice in the matter. Your wingmen go "OMG I IS NO FITING THE STATES!" and you have to smile, nod and beat the shit out of your employers' fleet. Never mind the fact I would've loved to switch sides and blow a few holes in one or five Brazilian cities.

This game's like Infamous, only you don't even get one choice on good/evil, and you have to stick to being "Lawful Greater Good." Pseh. Oh well, at least missions are finally getting challenging. Almost to the point where Hard skill is actually... You know... Hard?

I don't know if I should be happy or worried that I saw today's 8-Bits punchline coming from ten strips away.

Focus set in Dark World for now. Let's see how much I can get done of it before I switch to another one.

Though I have to admit it's interesting to write about an Earth that's not all shiny and peaceful... Specially when I go and still have most of the Chronicles villains show up.

OTOH, no ChibiUsa around in that one dimension. D: D: D:

Today I found one bad thing about Warriors Orochi. I can't find a way to make a screenshot out of it.

Why would I want to do that? Because 190% of the gallery pictures are full of awesome, that's why.

I don't usually do these, but hey... This one sounded fun to me.

RULES: Comment and I'll LJ stalk you to find THREE FANDOMS you apparently love. And then you answer these questions about them!

01: What got you into this fandom in the first place?
02: Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
03: Favorite episodes/books/movies/etc.?
04: Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
05: Do you think that more people should get into this fandom?

kristalla13 gave me Sailor Moon, Power Puff Girls Z, Shugo Chara.

( The truth is out there... Oh wait, it's actually inside the cut. )

Bet there's stuff in there I never mentioned before.

I'm all too tempted to just drop some of the projects I'm working on right now, and just stick to writing Cyber Moon side-stories and The Witch... And Cyber Moon's side-stories are evolving into something else (true, I only have one episode up for two of these stories, but looking at the whole picture...)

- Cyber Moon Genesis is getting a rewrite.
- Cyber Moon Chronicles may get rewritten in a way where chapters are either expanded or fused to become as long as those of Crystal.
- Digimon Legends is returning. This time it may even get a better name. Yay!
- Hearts, Shadow Hunters and other crap like that is being rewritten as well. I may just post'em up in a secondary LJ account.
- My old B't X and Zentrix fics may get a revamp and be re-posted over at ff.net.
- All three Pokemon fics are getting edited. I want to focus in Endgames and Bull's Eye, but Rising Chaos will also get a revamp.

And THAT is why I'm not getting episodes out as fast as I used to. I think I may be doing one too many things at a time. No, really?

This game's multiplayer campaign mode is full of win. Why stick to the useless AI wingmen when I can have a suicidal, trigger-happy girlfriend to help me? Now she can at least kill stuff by crashing her plane into tanks/planes/choppers, instead of just crashing down to the empty ground. That's an "improvement," she says. -_-;

My only complaint about the game thus far? It's just too easy to unlock new planes and weapons for them. The game could use a "cash" system instead of a leveling system, or at least a "Man Of Steel" leveling system, which required you to survive a mission to earn experience.

Maybe I'll check the other "Tom Clancy" games. These guys seem to know what they're doing. Hey, don't look at me like that. Nope, I haven't bothered playing any of the Splinter Cell games or any other saga created by TC, because they looked too Counterstrike-ish to me.

Okay, so H.A.W.X. is a good game, it's quite fun to bully tanks and helicopters with missiles or frag bombs, but there's one thing I didn't know, and something I'm quite happy to have found.

Erika is very bad at this kind of games. She's got an uncanny skill to crash her plane into anything she can find, she can't get out of stalling, and she's got the aiming of a blind Storm Trooper. So, I kicked her ass around in versus mode for a few hours before she finally admitted she just couldn't get me.

Right now, I'm teaching her how to play as she goes through the campaign (which I'm only six missions into, myself,) and it's actually fun to watch her improve. Feels like ten years ago, when I used to constantly beat her at any game she played, and it usually ended with me teaching her how to play. I remember she was one lousy Street Fighter 2 player back then, but nowadays she can walk over me in that game (or any other fighting game.)

I know if I teach her, she may possibly end up beating me at H.A.W.X. too, but hey... With my constant beating of n00bs and AI opponents in every game I play, I do need to have my ego kicked around every now and then. But for the time being, I'm going to enjoy being able to kick her around for a while. I don't even teach her all of the tricks I know, because if I did, then it would be no fun for her to beat me, either.

So... I went and bought H.A.W.X. today.

Now, keep in mind the last dogfight simulator I played was... After Burner*.

My opinion on H.A.W.X.?

O____O Win!

* Technically it was Star Fox, but Star Fox sucked majorly IMO bite me, fanbois so it doesn't count.

Okay. That's more than enough making fictional humans' lives miserable in Sims 3.

I'm now going back to writing, so I can make fictional humans lives miserable. Hey, some of them come with built-in aging off and fpreg cheats... And they can also blow their neighbours to tiny chunks when angry.

Definitely better than Sims 3. :D

8-Bits: Villains are even more awesome to kill when they're completely sure they'll win. Thing is, I'm still not sure who the villain is.

Life: Election year. Spam "OMG LIEK vote me!" ads. Fuck it all. "For the country you want!" one of them says. Yeah, right. The country I want is one devoid of any politicians. That's just not happening.

Somebody explain to me why kids nowadays call Hot Topic cars "tunning"? Tunning's about making your car pretty on the inside (that is, the mechanic bits,) not making it an empty shell of itself. I hate how most kids will go showing off their "tuned" cars around my city, cars that my shitty-looking Citroën AX can outrun easily. 2.0 engine, eats fuel like it's water, but I don't race around much with it, so it actually is a nice upgrade from the shitty 1.4 it had before. Yeah, so it doesn't have the lights and "blings" other cars have... Maybe because you don't need visuals when they can hear you coming from a mile away. :D

Boys and girls, if your car looks like gold but runs like shit, then tuning: you're doing it wrong!

... Or rather, another two.

See, I'm already not writing all that much recently, thanks to Sims 3 (damn you EA!) and real life, but I just had to go and click around a manga site or two. Now I'm hooked on Shugo Chara and Zero no Tsukaima. Shugo Chara is one weird thing. Like they mixed Digimon, Mirmo de Pon and Sailor Moon and somewhat the outcome wasn't all that bad. ZnT is... I don't know if it can be called a harem manga, since the guy's technically a slave, not a teacher, landlord, karate expert or any of the usual lame excuses they use in harem manga to get the party started.

Oh well, at least the manga seems quite 'recent' so I'll finish them both fast.

Oh come on. Venezuela plays football like they're playing cricket... And Uruguay can't win against that? Screw it, patriotism be damned, the team doesn't deserve to go to a world cup.

It's so bad, it's almost soccer. >_>

Edit: A draw. Against Venezuela. That's like getting killed by a level 1 Quillrat in Diablo 2. "n00bs!"

Uruguay definitely plays soccer, not football.