Fuck, just for fun

For anyone who's ever played Final Fantasy 10, here is the work of some of the voice actors.

Tidus - James Arnold Taylor
-Powerpuff Girls (various voices)
-Johnny Bravo (various voices)
-Ratchet and Clank series (Ratchet)
-The Animatrix (Kid's Story, The Second Renaissance, Detective's Story, Matriculated, various voices)
-Lord of the Rings (video game) (Pippen)

Yuna - Hedy Burress
-The Animatrix (Program, Beyond)
-Valentine (Ruthie Walker)

Wakka/Kimahri - John DiMaggio
-Xmen Legends (VG) (Juggernaut)
-SPiderman 2 (VG) (Rhino)
-Futurama (Bender)
-Animatrix (Final Flight of the Osiris, Program)
-Dr. Dolittle 2 (Seeing eye dog, mouse, wassup fish)

Lulu - Paula Tiso
-Dexter's Laboratory (Agent Honeydew)

Auron - Matt Mackenzie
-Animatrix (World Record, Beyond, A Detective Story)

Rikku - Tara Strong (born in Toronto)
-Animatrix (Beyond, World Record, Final Flight of the Osiris)
-Powerpuff Girls (Bubbles)
-Rugrats (Dil Pickles)
-Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 and 4 (additional voices)
-Captain N and the adventures of super mario 3 (Hop Koopa)

Jecht - Gregg Berger
-Viewtiful Joe (Captain Blue)
-Spyro the Dragon series (Ripto)
-Aaaahh!!! Real Monsters (the Gromble)
-Duckman (Cornfed Pig)

Damn I'm bored. Almost everyone on the cast of Final Fantasy 10 had a part in the Animatrix. That's cool.

Listening to... Misfits - Walk Among us
Link of the moment... God, what a tool

My bad

Jeezum crow, I can't beleive it's taken me another six days to post. I don't know what it is, I've had things to post abut (which I now forget), I just haven't had the urge to go post anything.

According to my guessing, this is my second last post from Thunder Bay this summer. It's damned hard to beleive that it's already almost time to leave. We're leaving on Friday morning, meaning packing all day Thursday. I've already had my last weekend here, and it feels like I still have at least another full week before I have to leave, but I don't.

Adm makes smells come from his netherregions like no human should be able to concoct. I swear that there is not a human alive that could bear that smell without crunching their face into one of pure disgust. Phil and I were both seriously nauseus because of it.

I figure I've played about 12 hours of Diablo 2 in the last week. All this has only made me want to play Final Fantasy 11 all that much more. Of course it's very enjoyable since I'm playing with Vicky (that is, we know each other, and play on just about the same schedule). I still think it would be damn fun to roleplay a female human white mage/summoner. But, alas, Diablo 2 is free and therefore much preferred to all other online RPG's.

Damn, she still has to give me back Kill Bill. I dropped off some stuff today before I forgot, like Sheena's Jet Moto 2, the extra swap discs for Sandy, and I lent Diablo 2 to Nathan so he could install it and play with me and Vic.

I made a slide card out of my old student price card, and it makes the whole disc swapping sooooo much easier. Much better than the lid of a potato salad container. Mind you, I found my other style of slide card, which may trounce this new one. Always good to have as a backup though.

Ok, time to waste what small bit of summer I have left.

Listening to... Incubus - Battlestar Scralatchtica
Link of the moment... Oh, I forgot to mention that I fucked up more shirts. Too dark.

Depressed, like in a G sort of way

I saw her tonight. I saw her for the first time since I realized that she was the best thing that ever could have happened to me. And you know what? She was as beautiful as the day I walked away from her, with tears in both of our eyes.

I think I really never wanted to see her again. That way, she could be the girl that was out of my life forever, and I wouldn't have to think about her cause she'd be gone. I guess it doesn't make sense, but what does nowadays when it comes to me?

Eventually he showed up too, and that I could have done without. Whenever he looked at me, I had to look down, or away because I know he's the better man. I was hoping I could live my life without fear or shame form now on, but I guess it's just not in the books for me. I'm going to live the rest of my life as a small man who deserves less than he's given.

I don't know what else to say. It seems I've spent my summer doing things to avoid them, and I wish I could have just lived with denial for another two weeks, then I'd be home free. Sometimes I just want to leave this life behind, and everything with it, but it's all I have. There's so much I want to just forget, but there's so much I can't let go.

So go ahead and try to cheer me up if you want, but I doubt anyone will try. Who does the shoulder turn to when he needs to cry? I'm sick of being the compassionate ear, the voice of reason, and the one who points out the silver lining on the cloud. It's who I am, but I hate myself right now. I'm nothing.

Listening to... Sick of it All - Jungle
Link of the moment... Fuck

Sore like a whore after a day's work

Grant and I went golfing, without any near death experiences this time. Went to centennial, hit a car in the parking lot, played til it was too dark to see our balls. Grant gave me some tips that WORKED and I was smacking the ball around like I wanted to for a change.

Between Satyrday and Sunday, Vicky and I played about 5 hours of Diablo online. I'm a werebear druid, and she's an ice sorceress. It works well. On Sunday, I started up an amazon as well, but I died after playing solo for a while. They're quite hard to play solo until you get the Valkyrie or the decoy. You need a good tank like a barbarian.

I've got Megaman 8 burned to disc now. Goddam that's a hard game. I mean, considering it seems to be very cartoony and child-oriented. I've got way too many games to play now, I was worried this would happen. Becuase of my addiction to Diablo 2, though, I've stayed away from my console lately. Once I go back to it, I think I'm going to want to play (read: master) FFX first. Getting Kimahri's Spirit Lance is what made me quit.

Oddly enough, I can't think of much to say in this post...mostly video game oriented. Only four days of work left! Then a week of vacation, then I get to pack up, drive, unpack, and yay! I get to see my other set of friends, have a cinnabon, and snow crab.

I had a dream that I was moving in to my new residence, and it was terrible there. My room was right next to the lobby so they could hear if I'm being too loud, and I had two beds in my L-shaped room. Oh, and it was already snowing in Waterloo! I hope I like it better when I actually get there.

Listening to... AFI - Smile
Link of the moment... That's a cute girl...she really only looks good in a few prime pictures

Abrupt post

A few things that are cool and/or hella sweet:
-bit-torrent: my god these downloads go fast
-Mozilla: Opening in tabs is handy
-"Fly By Night" by Rush: what a good song
-Sevendust: good heavy music
-my tshirt designs that I haven't printed yet
-Slowpokes, the generic ripoff of Turtles
-a guarunteed hug when I get back to Waterloo
-owning my own Diablo 2 cd key

Listening to... Sevendust - Bitch
Link of the moment... This is the link I couldn't remember! HILARIOUS!

ATTENTION

THERE ARE LOTS OF POSTS!

My post from the 15th was in the system, but I never republished the blog. So, you should read my last three posts (discluding this one) cause they're new.

What an ugly clock

For some unkown reason, the clocks in my house have switched themselves around. Now I have some small, ugly clock with a duck on it down here.

Vic says I've been half assing my posts lately, and judging by the last post (the 11th), it would seem I have. I swear I posted something the day after Sheena's birthday (14th) but I remember getting an error and it never made it to print. I said quite a bit about the LAN party in there, it's a shame it's lost forever.

I put a decal on the side of my computer (the symbol for radioactive material) in yellow. It turned out quite awesome, thanks be to Phil and the Pizza Pizza box. Now all I've got to do is print those tshirts...I've got the design ready to go, I just have to find a printer in my house that doesn't SUCK to print it on.

Right now I'm typing this up in notepad since my internet is down. Shame.

I was really hoping to fly a kite after work today, since it's so damn windy. You know it's windy when the wind picks up a drop of water form a puddle on the ground and whips it hard enough at you to hurt.

Vic installed Diablo 2 just for me. That girl would do anything for me...right. I've started up a summoning/elemental Druid, kind of like the best from the sorceress and the Necromancer. The spells aren't quite as good as those of a sorceress, there's a lot more randomness involved. So far, though, my inferno can take out an entire group of rakanishu dudes which is good enough for now.

I really haven't played much guitar lately. Maybe that's why I suck. Nah, one's artistic ability isn't really increased through practice. Either you got it or you don't, and that artsy farsty stuff just doesn't come naturally to me.

Aparently unplugging and replugging the router was the solution to our internet problems. Odd. Time to post!

Listening to... AFI - Death of Seasons
Link of the moment... I gotta memorize this

Non-personal post

Let's think about what all animals (re: mammals) have in common. They all need to:
-eat
-sleep
-fuck
In addition to this, many of them have to kill. However, do animals have an instinct to play? Often you'll see cubs of some sort tossing to and fro, but in my opinion, this is just another branch of an animal's need to kill. I can't say I've ever seen adult lions 'playing'.

I suppose an exception must be made for household pets (well, at least dogs and some cats). They certainly like to 'play'. Is this still an extension of the fact that they were intended for killing? I've seen my dog handle some of his toys quite visciously.

On to my point. We, as humans, do not follow a pattern of simply eating, sleeping and fucking. We deny our purpose. No, this isn't one of those hippie 'we should live with nature' type of points. My point is, where did everything else come from? The pursuit of wealth, the thrill for rollercoasters, the longing for culinary masterpieces. Well, it certainly doesn't seem like all this is an extension of eating, I don't get full when I play a video game. It's not sleep, since I'm fully conscious when I watch a scary movie. Well if you ask me, a lot of what we do is simulated orgasm.

When riding a rollercoaster, watching a scary movie, or playing a suspenseful game, your heart is pumping, your hair stands on end, and you're in a heightened state of anxiety.

Note to self and audience: even I haven't convinced myself from this post. It's very bleh, I was just sick of doing 'normal' personal posts, one of which I'll do later.

Listening to... Refused - Refused are Fucking Dead
Link of the moment... Shit, gotta go to work! Quick link.

Linux is sounding less crazy...

Happy belated birthday to my honey Sheena Wood. You still gotta get your gift girl.

Let's look at the problems my computer's given me lately:
-static from audio channels when typing
-error loading bridge.dll upon restart
-checking E: partition upon startup
-two spyware apps that won't leave
-CD-RW giving power calibration error
-CloneCD locking up during test burn

I hate computers. I wonder what life would be like without a computer....*shudder*

Buffy season 1 kicks ass. I like how it's not all vampires, most episodes are random supernatural things, like being possessed by a hyena. They play a lot of metal/rock music in the episodes too.

The LAN party was good, albeit slightly underpopulated. Nathan wound up going to camp, but Adam, Phil, Chris, Turner and I all had a real hoot playing Diablo and counterstrike. My necro was absolutely useless to the rest of the party. If I ever play a necro again, I'll go summons and curses, instead of summons and bone spells. I'll still likely choose a sorceress over a necro though, and I still haven't played much of the other classes (other than the amazon). It would have likely been a lot more fun with 8 people, with 4v4 CS and a full room in diablo. I suppose it just gets hard to track everyone though.

We all stayed up until about 4, then Phil, Turner and Adam went out for coffee since adam had to work at 5. Turner and Phil came back here and the four of us slept til 8 AM, then we played some more games. I was pretty tired all day, but I had a nap at about 1 PM which gave me a little boost. I'm still very ready for bed right now though, I'll be out like a light.

The cd swapping and slide card technique works, but it's irritating. Often the load times during the game seem longer, and it froze once when accessing the memory card, which I hope is an unrelated matter. Well, once I get a few good games, it will be worth the $100 I pumped into it, assuming I don't fuck up my laser or disc tray anytime soon, since I have no warranty and I'm betting I can't get one anymore.

Drakengard sucks, it's too repetitive. And on that note, I'm going to bed.

Note: I know I had some link that stuck out in my head as important, something I really wanted to show everyone, but I honestly cannot remember what it was. If you remember what it was, bring it to my attention.

Listening to... AFI - Soap Box Derby
Link of the moment... If you've never used this before, you should. It's effective and simple.

DONE

THERE! I beat Final Fantasy 4! Even after leveling up 15+ levels to an average of about 75 (which is HIGH for most FF games), I was still killed by some hard bosses. But at least I finished it!

Happy early birthday (tomorrow) to Victoria Otto.

Listening to... Snapcase - Incarnation
Link of the moment... I base decisions on this.

Lunchtime post

I'm home for lunch, but not much of anyone is online right now, and I don't want to fire up any episodes of anything right now.

I went to bed at about 9:15 last night, I think it did me some good. I was dead out by 9:30, but I still didn't want to get out of bed when my alarm went off at 7, so I stayed in my comfy bed until 8:15 then decided it was about time to seize the day by doing nothing productive at work.

I'm having a LAN party on Friday, and I really hope everyone can make it. I have an invite list of about 7 people, so that would perfectly fill a Diablo 2 game, and make for 4v4 in counterstrike.

On Saturday, I had a lot of personl problem talks with a few people (you of course know who you all are...well, one of you doesn't visit my blog, but my statement still stands). G, your posts on SoD depress me. Cheer up man!

"The old Gee would have told me to shut up and get over it. But I think if he knew how I felt, he'd understand."

I'm gonna take it upon myself to be the old Gee and say shut up and get over it! I know how you feel, and I understand, but you've gotta realize that even if all the cards on are on the table, it's just a game, or possibly a tarot reading. Either way, the cards are meaningless! You tell those cards to go kiss your ass.

Sorry man, I didn't wanna center you out in my post, but I thought all of that was quite clever and had to write it before I forgot.

In the mail today, I got my paycheck ($543.22 after deductions), my visa activity (I always keep on top of it online), and my three sets of swap discs! Say, what's the difference between disc and disk? Anything?

After work I'm going to go to the Superstore and buy Kill Bill V2. And possibly some soft tacos.

Listening to... Millencolin - Softworld
Link of the moment... I think it was G who gave me this link

Maybe I could get lipo...

Stupid newly formed gut.

I think Lakehead is a cooler name than Thunder Bay. I just like how it sounds. One work and such, starts with an L, it's a good name.

I just wrote my Econ exam at Lakehead. Turns out that Monica was writing an english exam and Jessica was writing Econ 102. It was nice to see them. The exam itself was a 2 hour exam that took me about an hour and 55 minutes to finish. There seemed to be a lot of asshole multiple choice questions, but I'm anticipating an 88ish in the course overall.

Stacey's working with me again for the time being, which means that I have to show up at work on time again. We did absolutely nothing at Ignatius on Friday, and it's a damn good thing that the internet was working otherwise we'd have no choice but to make passionate love to release the sexual tension.

I'm big into Rainbow Six 3 again, this time around I'm attempting the planning portion of the game. I made one plan for the first map that's not bad for a first try. The first time I tried it, my teams got completely wiped out, whereas I only had one injury the second time around. A few times my characters would get stuck in a doorway.

For the second map, I'm going to try three teams of two, where one team is specifically a sniping unit. Having smaller teams means less clutter for the terrorists to hit, but less firepower as well.

Looks like no one is available for LANing tonight. Adam's gone to camp, Nathan has plans, and Turner's gone swimming. Phil might come over, and Grant might still come, but other than that, I'm out of friends.

Listening to... Iron Maiden - RIme of the Ancient Mariner
Link of the moment... Sivji, where do you find this shit?

Not talking to me? Preposterous!

I don't know where she's gone...I guess she works evenings and I just haven't seen her on...

I want to get a LAN party going this Saturday night, but it doesn't look like I'm gonna get more of a turnout than Grant and myself. If I can even get three, I'll make it official. I need more friends, or just new friends with no schedules.

This time it's gonna be counterstrike and Diablo 2, perhaps with some Starcraft. That way, everyone's computer won't be choking on dick like with UT2K4 or WC3.

I went golfing with Grant and his friend Josh. I hate golf. I played a game that may very well rival my last game in shittiness. I can't believe that time and time again, I pay upwards of $30 to get pissed off, bitten, dissed, sore, and stinky. I'm hoping to not go golfing the rest of the summer, I have better things to do with my $30 and five hours.

I posted a comment on some girl's blog, she's on a UW blogring. Oh, and Sivji, I joined the ring at blogrings.com.

Oh right, Grant almost smoked me in the side of the head at the golf course. And by that, I mean that it was no more than a foot from my head going at a speed that surely would have cracked the side of my skull. I hate golf.

Listening to... The Offspring - Nitro
Link of the moment... Almost time...

Just slipped out of a coma...

Wow, I don't know how I just slept til 1 PM. That happens once in a blue moon for me (I hope everyone gets that reference, there was a blue moon last night). Phil said he'd phone between 11 and 12, but we all know that didn't happen.

Last night I hung out with Vicky and Grant, we watched Hellboy, part of Freddy vs. Jason and Total Recall, among a few other scattered shows. Well, Grant went home earlier in the night, but Vic stuck around til the very end. We had more chili dogs, but they weren't quite as delicious as I was hoping. Chili is good, hot dogs are good, but there's something about the varying consistencies of the beef that turns my crank the wrong way.

I've ordered three boot disks for the price break, for a total of about $85. One for me, one for Chris, and one for future pirate friends.

I managed to hurt my heel the other day. See, I was in this big fight at my motorcycle club, and I did a backwards roundhouse too fast and wound up hurting my heel on the guy's face.

I have more to say, I'm sure, but I've forgotten most of it.

Listening to... Sick of it All - The Bland Within
Link of the moment... Read this, and understand this. You can then laugh at uneducated reporters, political analysts, and newsanchors when they use it improperly.