Time Warps

Yeah my AB post is coming up. Pretty long but should be done.. whenever

Anyways since we are almost back from a long break, I thought it would be a good time to start talking about time warps and the lack of our sense of time.

I know this has happened to us at one point. Most common place this happens is at school, especially in the first week.

This has happened to us at one point. Just without the bullets...

It looks like we have been sitting in class for hours but in reality only a few minutes have passed by. Even when I sleep I cant escape it. Its some sort of spell the school has put on us. Very evil and unforgiving.

It also happens when we are enjoying something. You all know the saying "Time flies when you're having fun." Well it actually does. A few minutes of gaming whether it be Brawl, COD4, or PatchuCon: Defend the Library, you always feel that only a few minutes have passed by when in reality you have been playing for 5+ hours nonstop.

Why am I posting this? Actually its because I felt that I've experienced a time warp after AB. Even though I've only been basically playing games, making my AB post, eating, and sleeping, time has actually passed by pretty quickly. It only felt like yesterday I was there in The Pillows concert with Andre rocking [H]ard from the sounds of incomprehensible music.

This whole week after AB has is actually only a blur to me. Still finding ways to fill the void between graduation, cons, college, and more cons.

But enough rants for now. I want to know when you guys experience time warps.

I get it during:
School - real time slows down
Gaming - real time speeds up T_T
Daylight savings time - off by an hour for up to 3 days
Breaks/Summer vacation - completely loose my sense of time
Saimoe - I start to live 1 day ahead of you guys until Saimoe ends

Cons? - actually no. I have a pretty tight schedule during cons so I can't afford to loose time.

Dont worry. AB (Day 1) is coming soon followed by 2 and 3 quickly (I hope).

AMV continued with more links

Since TheGrape wants me to post up the actual links to the AMVs, Ill do one better and do a detailed explanation of the site and also have a link to some of my favorite AMVs and past AB winners. So now we do a rewind to my previous post about AMVs. Anime Music Videos or AMVs to be brief are fan made videos that combine anime video footage and music. So first of I must direct any fan of AMVs to the website

Animemusicvideos.org

This website can be summed up as a database were most AMV creators post their creations so that others can download them. It not only allows users to download and access AMVs that they have seen but also see the creator’s opinion. This website is also a community website where AMV lovers can come together and chat through the forums. Okay so now that I have got you interested you are wondering how to join and what it’s going to cost. Well good news for everyone its easy to join and its FREE. All you have to do is register with the website.

NOTE: The website is free but it does ask for donations to help it with the daily upkeep. This shows up as a web page that shows up about every six pages asking for donations. I’m guessing most of you will just ignore this and click proceed (Even I do it). Just thought you would like to know before you join.

So not that you have made an account you want to start downloading. This is I can help; next will be links to AB finalists and AMVs that I thought were good. First of will be links to the finalist lists for the past 4 AB and then I will highlight some of my favorites

AB2008

AB2007

AB2006

AB2005

Okay so here is a list of the previous 4 AB. In each link there will be a complete list of the videos that have won and those that are finalists. The names of the AMVs will also link to the download link from the AnimeMusicVideos.org website. Now for those who are interested I will provide links to some of my favorite AMVs (will not include the ones from AB 2008).

Unforgiven

Alchemic Sin

The Distance to Nagasaki

Sins of Alchemy v2.0

Team AEUG - Colony Police

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Genkaiten

No Reason

Hold Me Now

Lost Ones

Foxman Begins

Conter Les Heures

Gattsu's Promise

True Fiction

All The Cool Kids Are Doing It

Bells of Freedom

LABORS

ACROSS & NERV: Phallacies in the Experiments

Duel of Blades

Warrant - 6th Division of Death

Staring Down the Barrel

Heading For a New Century

As Thin As Paper

Skittles

Under Ice

Code Monkey

Hey hopefully that wasnt to many well i expect you will download them all and watch em. You can trash those that you don't like. Remember these are just my favorite AMVs they dont have to be yours ( but they should be)

(WOW this was way more help than TheGrape ever gave me. All I ever got was "e")

Anime Boston: AMVs and things

http://youtube.com/watch?v=m22Cq6MQymo&feature=related
Me, Adam and Gecko were captured here, but Antonia was on the defendants side I believe.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=7S9_L8TJZU0

LOL this one made us LOL HARD!!!!!!!!!! http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ku0hke_bvW4
http://youtube.com/watch?v=QqWHnd8q134&feature=related

I'll post more later although I am sure you could find them yourselves.

Anime Boston: Day 2.5/3

We woke up bright and early, at around 7 o clock, and headed straight for the convention center. After scouring around a bit, me John Joey and Adam had some dunkin donuts and went to the food court for the head count and Doc told us the next one would be I believe at 1 o clock. AFter that, if I remember correctly, me, Adam and ANtonia went to the AMV screenin again. Around the time half way through the ROmance portion had occured, we got bored so we went to the dealers room, were I bought an akatski hat (the mugiwara-esque, one, and for those who do not know, mugiwara means strawhat in japanese). we decided to head back to the Memorial room to see if we could make it to see the comedy portions. we got there around the time the single video compilation ( featuring the robot chick type skips between the endings of skits) was ending. we stayed till the end, and definitely enjoyed the Attack of the Otaku finale.

After, we went back to the dealers room I believe, where we scoured yet again, and eventually when it was 1 o clock and we did a head count at the food court, I bought super smash bros. brawl ( which in only 8 hours I have beaten subspace emissary and was at around 85% completion) from the gamestop along with a strategy guide for it, and had a good 35$ left. Bored, we went to the dealers room, and I went to the back , where the xxxHolicxxx stuff and the funimation stuff were at. I found 2 guys playing something called One Piece Unlimited adventure. I had not known how to play, but I quickly dominated everyone who came by for a good hour and a half. this was after me, Kevin HONG ( not hang), and Ryan went to Final Fantasy Philosophy, which was boring as hell. at around 2:45, i decided to walk around to find some more anime club members, and I found Adam, Antonia and Gecko ( DaGrossa's younger nephew) near the FF Philosophy. something called cosplay court was going to start at3:00 PM, so we decided to wait and go on. to see what happened, you can check out the youtube links at the end of this blog. after all that I got my luggage, put in on the bus, and teh bus ride back home was filled with much sleeping, and putting my metal on my psp full blast for the bus to enjoy, Tim saying we would ride home on a cardboard bus, and other stuff. and something about a wumbo ball, not important.

me, Gecko, and ADam were captured on camera YAY!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m22Cq6MQymo&feature=related

Anime Boston: Day 2

IMO if I count the rave from 12:00 AM to 2:00 AM on saturday morning as friday, day 2 was basically the best day. I woke up and cosplayed all day. This is where we got to see the best things. The AMV contest,Anime Unscripted, the game room ( Exhibition C), Dealer's room, and a bit more. I will post later today or tomorrow with links to some of the videos and tell more. I am looking foward to hear how Eric Lee, Paulo, Andre, and Murphy thought it was since they stayed an extra day ( till sunday, when the tourney finals for all the games was). As stated earlier, I started cosplaying alot on day 2 ( Friday, although we technically arrived on wednesday, the true part didn't start till thursday). We traveled a lot, and I played a bit of Halo 3 in the game room ( Exhibition C, floor 2 of the Heinz Convention Center I believe) before entering both the halo 3 singles and doubles tourney. While freeplaying, me and someone playing about 2 seats away from me dominated. I got 1st place for 2 rounds and he got 1st place for 2 rounds ( but he was 2nd when I was first and first when I was 2nd). I walked over and asked if he would be in the doubles as my partner (thought of asking Murphy but wasn't 100% sure of his skills and if he would show up), and he agreed. he also convinced me to sign up for singles, which I did badly on ( only 11 kills :(, for some reason I do better in freeplay than in official matches, and the battle rifles really f**ked me over).

But later me, Earl, Antonia and Adam went to the dealers room, where both me, Earl, and Adam bought some actual kunai ( hurray for non-plastic kunai :) ), which of course came in a small cylinder shaped container. a good 15$ spent on that. Later on, after traveling to the dealers room with TJ ( quite the Death Note Fanboy, even tho its a manga that already ended), I went around by myself ( OMFG BY MYSELF, I HAVE BALLS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!) and scouted a bit.

Eventually I met up with Kevin Hang ( I think, not totally sure) and we found Earl and his little gang. it was around 7:30 more or less. My doubles tourney was from 8:00 pm to 10:00pm, so I was only gonna stay for 30 minutes. we went to the anime unscripted for about the 40 minutes or so that was left of it. and it was absolutely HILARIOUS.

In one part, there was a game show called "change", where one of the contestants is granted the power of change, where he shouts the word change, and the other characters must change whatever they just said.
(one part). * a man is pretending to be a child being escorted by a man*.
child: your a nice guy.
CHANGE!!!!!
child: your an asshole!!!!!!!

(another part).
Girl: THIS IS AN ANIME CONVENTION!
CHANGE!!!!!!
Girl. This... ISSSSSSSSS.. * guy in the audience yells sparta*.... SPARTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

it was absolutely hilarious. and for those who went, didn't the skinny guy look and sound EXACTLY like Tim Wilcox??? holy crap I seriously thought it was him.

Afterwards we went to the food court I think, and went back to the convention center. Having been by myself, I found Joey Mcgown and John Becker in a tiny group, and convinced them to go to the AMV contest screening, when we got there, it was just finishing the first romance nominee, which was about gundam seed or something.

some of the more comedic ones included the whole "I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves" which ended with a RICK ROLL OF EPIC PROPORTIONS!!!!!!!

Another video was an assortment of things featuring different songs and such, and was set up a la Robot Chicken style, with the tv fuzz when jumping between skits. My favorite part of that video was the apocalypse pony's skit which used an actual skit from RObot Chicken with the actual animation of Sailor Moon.

However I also enjoyed Attack of the OTaku, which is now on my PSP :). Of course, the Dead Fantasy videos were after it ended, which by that time it was just around time to meet up at food court, but me and joey were the only ones there that I could see, so I gave him my phone to call doc and let him know we were too busy at the AMV contest. then dead fantasy started. and I heard someone whispering in front about how he made it and stuff. I thought it was BS until at the end ( right before DF2 ended) he said it was going to split off into 5 more parts ( possibly indicated also by the fact that i believe 5 beams of light were there at the end. so possibly 5 different or connected fights). and then he stood up and I was like OMFG. no way I just stood behind this guy the whole time O_O. and then I took his Picture. not the BEST, but its ok. Like Eric Lee ( or paulo, not sure which) suggested, the animemusic videos site is apparently good to find the videos. I think I saved the sheet which had the names of the videos/ who made them somewhere in my backpack, so I'll look later and see if its there somewhere. After hanging out in the lobby for a bit, me, Adam, Lisa, and Earl decided to go to the Race, which had a pretty huge line, but it moved really fast and in huge chunks. along the about 10-15 minute wait, we found a guy in a Jigglypuff costume, who bargained if Lisa "captured him with her master ball" if he could cut in front of us. we agreed of course for the lulz.

When we got inside, there was a significantly big mosh pit on the left side, where a guy was RUssian dancing really really low to the ground (think guys with furry hats sort of like kicking back and forth but pretty straight type). after some people came in and breakdanced, ma man Jigglypuff came in to show these beginners how its done. he came out of nowhere in his fruity costume and, in the nicest way I can put it, TORE THAT SHIT UP... for a good 18 seconds. Then we got bored and Adam starting tearing that shit up ( the dude can dance O_O). We went back to the lobby and saw avory and justin.

Earl and Lisa decided it was about time to go to bed, so me and Avory headed to the rave ( Avory basically has a techno fetish). WE got bored pretty fast ( although both times I went to the rave I danced a bit, much more so than Doc or Murphy as far as I know) but saw like either 9 year olds, or midgets that looked like little kids full fledged making out like 17 year olds while dancing to the techno. Sadly while dancing I did a kick ( don't ask why, but when i get involved with techno I do weird stuff) and kicked a girl really hard and knocked her down, but I tried to play it off by pretending nothing happened. apparently she got carried out on a stretcher because either her leg broke or she was in excessive pain. We saw Sonya in a corner too so yea. Avory is weird.. told me some weird things he would do to her * facepalms*... and yea... after that we went back to our rooms, sonya took a room check, we watched 30 minutes of Harvey Birdman... and went to sleep.

AMV for AB 2008

Hey This is just a quick Post. Hope you guys really enjoyed Anime Boston 2008, cause I know I definitely did. I see some tooke our advice and watched the AMV contest and had a great time especially with Dead Fantasy. Well anyways if you were interested in having these AMV's on your Hard Drive, well then proceed to

www.animemusicvideos.org

As I said before, this is just a quick post I am making just after returning home. I will follow with more details on AB 2008 and AMV's later.

Hey here is more stuff since I am no longer tired ( I slept more than 12 hrs after getting back from Boston). Seriously I did not sleep more than 5 hrs a day during the Convention. So I see that you enjoyed Dead Fantasy well I bet you will enjoy his other works especially :

HALOID

*Spoilers Halo V. Metroid Spoiler*.

So for those of you interested in seeing his other works you can go to:

http://montyoum.gametrailers.com/gamepad/index.php?action=fanmovs

(To lazy to make it a hyperlink, Just go copy and past)

On the website it includes his personal animation videos which are all amazing and his thoughts on each video. Well Dead Fantasy was amazing but this year he didnt give out free copies of the movie and that made me sad. So for those that did go to the AMV contest what did you think?

Anime Boston 08: An AMAZING anime convention

For those who went, let it be known that the AMV contest Rick Roll and Breakdancing Jigglypuff that me, Lisa, Adam Roman and Earl saw will live on in our hearts. and youtube for the Rick ROll

this is not the complete version, but the song continues like that basically:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=kAv2DW7-Iic

we saw this, and dead fantasy 1 and 2, both as far as I know available on youtube.

well I'm off to play SSBB for the wii, and prepare yourselves for a pretty lengthy post. somewhere around 3-6 times the length of my silkroad online post

Getting there:
This was a good 6 hours long to get to the hotel. But it was kinda of fun. most of it was me making "dirty" jokes, poking Jessica's mokono hat, bothering Justin, listening to Avory's techno, and making Avory listen to my metal songs :). Texting my cousin and watching Avory pretending to jack off to piss off Justin ( don't ask, we were REALLY bored). BTW, I was in the bus both times ( getting there and coming back home).

Arrival:
It looked extremely nice in the hotel. We thought it was just so nice and stuff ( it was much better than the somewhat cramped bus, and the lighting was nice. Joey, John, Earl and Zecca were sorta being stupid during the waiting time in the corner of the hotel when we entered. then we went to our rooms after our rooms had been assigned captains ( Adam Roman was ours). We got unpacked a bit, but I think we had to go back down or something really fast ( not totally sure since i only remember the awesome stuff). Anyway, since the convention center was closed, a good group of us just waltzed around for a couple of hours, watched some videos on youtube in the lobby, and slept.

Day 1:
This is when it started to get fun. Although I cosplayed only at around an hour after we gout our convention passes ( that Doc handed out), there was still a couple of other cosplayers lurking around ( mostly bleach cosplayers). I somewhat pretended to be drunk ( although I almost felt it even tho I drank Pepsi LOL) and a guy came up and asked where a Bleach get together was, I told him I didn't know and I was basically half drunk and he gave me a pound, saying the exact same thing. so yea. Manly talks :). Didn't really get to go into the convention.

Anime Boston!

Here's a good luck and safe trip to all you happy people who got to go to anime Boston. Yes I'm jealous. >.<>

Silkroad Online..

Seeing as Usagi already posted about a game, I thought I might take a shot.

This one is called Silkroad Online, a game which was made in Korea ( so obviously the korean version of the game is ahead of the International version), yet unlike many other asian games outside of China or Japan, it is very good. First to note is that like Gunz, its free, second note: you can download through torrents OR just download it direct ( great if you have a 300mbps connection like me). It is an MMORPG, and although many people might not have heard of it, it is certainly not a backwater or bad game.

Like many other games, the weapon and armor system can work on a + (plus) system. with the most recorded in the iSRO version being about +10. Seal of Star ( also known simply as SOS), is equivalent to a weapon being +5(APPROXIMATELY, since its still stronger than a +5 of the same thing). SO moon is most equivalent to +10, and so sun most equivalent to an Seal of Star PLUS Seal of moon, 2ndly most equivalent to +15. in addition to a weapon/armor piece being sealed( star, moon or sun, which CANNOT be made, only found in their sealed state), they can ALSO be PLUSED (+) normally as well, further increasing their power.

this image is a seal of sun weapon ( which also has a couple of +'s on it) on the highest degree ( degrees in the game are like ranks, each degree starts and ends at a certain level, like levels 1,8,16,24, and 32 for example). The weapon sprite itself resembles the tip of weapon seal of star status but is also combined with the swirling, snake like beam of light only on a seal of moon weapon.



PVP: This game is great for PVP, although many asses and noobkillers do their part to contribute to the misery of new players. TO prevent people from randomly coming up and killing you, it works on a cape system. wear a cape ( which you must be at least level 10 to wear), and you can pvp. the color of the cape represents which people you can attack, if you wear red, you can attack everyone with capes except those with red capes. however, if you wear an orange cape, you can attack everyone with capes, INCLUDING those with orange capes. In my honest opinion, its more efficient than the world of warcraft system or other systems where you can ONLY fight with people near your level, or just be a certain level JUST to even start pvping (Rappelz online for example) and those levels are like 32, which can take days to achieve.

The guild and friend system works near identical to others as well, basically in terms of number of people, starting from lowest to greatest: single player ( just you, noone else) parties ( which are temporary, and you are removed from the party either if everyone leaves, the party leader boots you, or if you disconnect)., Guilds ( standard, LARGE LARGE LARGE connection of people), and Unions ( a fairly new concept, where entire guilds make up a single union, and a lead Guild is in charge, specifically the guild master of the head guild, who adds and removes guilds from the union). friends can be added and removed as wished.

Overall, I think since its FREE with premium items ( which only include alchemy items to boost weapond and such) being the only thing that you can use money on and buying gold, fun, good graphics ( NOT INSANE, but not at all bad), good gameplay and great PVP, its worth a download. There, I made a post. I'll probably be making a lot tho so yea. hope you don't have "ADD" like Eric Lee suggests *facepalms*. laterz.

Yuu Watase

Yuu Watase is an excellent manga writer particularly in the gennre of shoujo which is basically like the chick-flick kind of genre. That is not to say that those of the male gender may not read it of course. I know men who love chick-flicks. Personally I think it's a good thing if they do. It doesn't mean they're gay as long as they don't act girlie. >.> That bothers me, but I'm not against gay people.

Anyway, I love Yuu Watase's style. Basically it includes romance, comedy, drama, suspense, action, and adventure. That can vary from time to time, but she always includes romance, comedy, and drama. I enjoy her art as well. It's very cute especially when she turns her characters into chibi form. xD If you're looking for a good manga to read, I would definitely look for some of her works. So far, I have enjoyed every one of them that I have read. That's about 6 different titles. Some of her mangas have been made into animes (i.e. Ceres, Fushigi Yuugi).

Some of her titles (all of which I have read):

Fushigi Yuugi
Fushigi Yuugi Genbu Kaiden
Ceres: Celestial Legend

Absolute Boyfriend

Imadoki

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