Awwwwwright, I'm off another two-week suspension. I called a guy a loser because he exceeded his bandwidth on Photobucket. I should've caught that.

And these suspensions seem to last 24 hours longer than listed. I was banned at 9:48 AM on November 10, but I wasn't able to post on the night of November 24 or early-morning November 25. They should fix that.

When I read my previous blogs, they seem so stupid. I guess I'm just hard on myself.

Anyway, I've got some thangs I've done during my suspension, and some things I did prior to it.

I've been watching some anime.

I watched Cromartie Highschool right after getting suspended. It's a comedy series. It's got some pretty funny episodes and some terribly dry ones.

I watched the first three episodes of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. It's an anime adaptation of Part 3. I did not like it. The story is abridged, and worst of all, the fights are abridged. The fight with Strength is ****ing pathetic. And I don't care for the art. Everybody's got thin lips, which seems wrong when you look at how hueg they are in the original. The voices are also ass, in English and Japanese.

I watched the first episode of Strike Witches, and did not like it at all.

I've watched 16 episodes of Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei. I loved it at first, but not quite so much now. They hardly focus on the main character, and spend too much time focusing on boring plots and girls changing underwear and taking baths and stuff. I'll still probably watch the whole series.

I plan on trying Soul Eater sooner or later.

Uh, videogames.

I randomly started Mother 3 a few days ago. Fans hail it as, like, the most artful and moving game ever created. I'm two hours in and sort of indifferent. I'm excited, I guess, since I'm eager to see how it lives up to the hype, but that could ultimately lead to disappointment.

I played the first three Touhous. Well, the first three Windows ones, the first five don't matter.

So I started with The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil and liked it. It was pretty hard, though. I played it a lot and didn't manage to beat it on Easy, even though I had the first three levels down to a science.

Perfect Cherry Blossom was easy and forgettable. I thought Sakuya made things even easier.

Imperishable Night was even easier. It seemed they were being made easier and easier to accommodate those damned casual gamers.

So I went back to Scarlet Devil and went into the options to make sure everything was set the way I liked it. Then it hit me.

When I was originally setting the game up, I saw "Player- 5", and I said, "Player 5? *****, I'm Player ONE.", and didn't pay it a second thought.

I had set it to give me one ****ing life per continue. I had made the game five times harder than it needed to be.

I am stupid.

Anyway, I've also played Final Fantasy XII for 45 hours and hated it the whole way. I wanted to like it, but it's ****ing boring. I kept trying to push forward, hoping to reach some kind of "good part", but it was fruitless. I'm done.

I played Soul Calibur 3 for a while. That was okay.

I played Marvel vs. Capcom 2 for a while. That was okay. Unlocking characters is a chore though. And some of the moves don't make sense. Why does Jill Valentine have some kind of flaming tackle? And there are TOO MANY STREET FIGHTER CHARACTERS. Furthermore, why Ryu, Ken AND Akuma? All the different characters, and you choose clones?

I mean, off the top of my head, there's Ryu, Ken, Akuma, Guile, Charlie, Dhalsim, Bison, Cammy, Dan, Zangief, Sakura... and that might be it. But that's 11 characters in a roster of 56.

Oh, whatever.

Did I ever give closure to Disgaea? I was going through the endgame content until I saw a level 1000 zombie and said to myself, "**** this ****."

Uh, I ordered Street Fighter Anniversary Collection and Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus for PS2 through Amazon and I've been playing GG a lot for the past few days.

I like Zappa, ABA and Venom. Honorable mention to Justice and Robo-Ky.

So Zappa's a guy possessed by a ghost. He moves in a weird way. I like it.

Venom's a guy with a pool stick and... uh... he's got hair and I think he's gay I heard he's gay Whether he's gay or not, he's fabulous.

ABA's one of the two new characters that weren't in Reload. She's covered in blood, has a key fetish, and claims and a demonic axe as her husband.

Robo-Ky is annoying to play, but his personality rocks. He's this pissed off robot who's always yelling at people, including his commander, and generally acts like a pimp.

Justice is a big ****ing robot with a penis Her shape reminds me of Samus, with the shoulders and the waist and the knees.

Story Mode is stupid as hell. Especially people with stupid motivations, like Jam, who's goal is to improve the business of her restaurant, or Chipp, who's personally asking people for their vote in the upcoming presidential election.

I guess that's it. I've been walking a few miles every night for a while now. Not for excersize, I'm just sort of a complusive walker these days.

I dunno, this seems insubstantial or something somehow I don't know.

I hate it when people call other people "kid" over the internet.

I hate it when people use the phrase "Deal with it." like it's the ultimate tool to ending any argument.

I hate it when people sit down too hard. I know it might sound weird, but it bothers me when people stick their ass out and hit the chair like a goddamn comet.

And what's the deal with Daylight Savings? Expecially the "Fall Back" part. Nights are longer in Winter and we wake up later to make the night come even sooner. It reeks of vampires.

I had a lot more to say an hour ago, but I've forgotten half of what I had on my mind, and the other half just doesn't seem worth sharing anymore.

Also, I finished reading what's been translated of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. Things got freaky.

The First Lady (the President's wife) is a lesbian and wants a girl to sit on her face. The girl is 14 years old, married to a guy that looks like Doctor Octopus, and she's trying to get near the President so that she can steal Jesus' heart from him. I am not joking and I am not taking any of this out of context.

I was in the shower yesterday (It might have been a bath), and I remembered my first spelling test in first grade.

The first word was "ash". This stands out in my mind.

I spelled every word correctly. However, I recieved no credit for it because I capitalized the first letter in each word.

WELL EXCUUUUUSE ME.

It's a spelling test. I should be graded on my spelling. Capitalizing a word does not change its spelling. An upper-case A is still an A, dammit.

I should have gotten a perfect score.

I just tried playing Super Mario All Stars and it feels wierd as hell. You move differently than you do in Super Mario World.

You can't control yourself during jumps in the way you would expect. There's a greater sense of momentum, and it feels bad. You also slide when you land a jump at high speeds, meaning that you can land on a platform and slide right off. I don't like it.

It is now my intention to play Link to The Past.

Also, an anagram of "SpidersRMe" is "Prime Dress".

And, uh, that's it I guess. I just had to rant about the wacky physics in SMALLS. That's the new abbreviation of Super Mario All-Stars, remember it.

Oh, Gyro, you so crazy.

So I finished reading Stone Ocean, the 6th part of JoJo. It confused me.

I started reading part 7, Steel Ball Run, and it's fun so far. That's the main character. His teeth read, "GO!GO! ZEPELLI".

That's all I'll say on that.

So I've been listening to Daft Punk lately. And, uh, it's nice.

I'm nearing the end of Harmony of Disonnance. I suppose that's all I have to say on that.

Damn, I have nothing to say.

Uh, I played more of Yume Nikki and it's boring as hell. It's a game where you do nothing but walk around looking for useless powerups. It's pretty much an Easter egg hunt, one I am not motivated to complete.

I'm sorry, I'll try to have more to say next time.

Title is a reference to a video of a professional gamer spouting complete nonsense while kicking ass at Marvel vs. Capcom 2. It's kinda funny, and pretty short.

So I read a whole bunch of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure last night. I figure I may as well talk about it now.

I don't feel like going into detail, but there's one thing on my mind- superpowers.

So, JoJo is pretty much about superheroes. Good guys have superpowers, bad guys have superpowers and try to stop them, they fight using their superpowers.

One complaint you'll hear about superheroes- some of them have powers that are too similar. Between the different franchises, you'd be hard-pressed to find a character with a power unlike any other. But that's not a problem. So what if two different comic book companies have characters with ice superpowers? It's not like ice is an original concept.

It sort of annoys me when characters within a franchise have similar powers, though. Like in Marvel, there's The Thing, Colossus, Juggernaut and Hulk, and they all pretty much do the exact same thing- they're big, strong and hard to kill. JoJo also does this.

Part 3- The Emperor; A gun with the ability to change the trajectory of its bullets
Part 5- Sex Pistols; 6 small people who ride on the bullets shot out of a gun, kicking them to change their trajectory
Part 6- Manhattan Transfer; A small satellite with the ability to change the trajectory of bullets

THEY ALL DO THE SAME THING.

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This didn't turn out as good as I would've liked.

Anyway, I'm also going to try Yume Nikki tonight. It's some Japanese horror game that people seem to like.

I don't think I scare easy. The few horror games I've played didn't do much for me. We'll see how I feel after Yume Nikki.

Also, I thought this scene was funny for some reason.

I dunno, maybe because of how relaxed White Snake looks.

OKAY, so I played Yume Nikki for about an hour.

Was it scary? I don't know. I don't think so. I just wandered around for a while and learned how to make myself a witch and how to make myself fat. Neither seem to have any use.

So I was thinking about rape (shut up), and it lead me to the idea that in a world where strength is disproportionate to mass, a person's body weight loses its advantage.

Okay, so we've all seen characters who have the appearence of normal humans, but who posess decieving strength. Demons, superheroes and whatnot. With their immense strength and small size, one might assume that their bodies are far denser than a normal human's. However, it doesn't appear to be the case. Spider-Man and Dante, for instance, sit in wooden chairs that have no difficulty supporting their weight. And the ground isn't cracking beneath their feet or anything.

What this means is that their strength is not connected to their weight.

So, in a world where people treat 1000 pounds like it's nothing, a man's 250 pounds becomes insignificant. The impact this has is that a person's weight loses its advantages. Throwing your weight around is part of fighting, and when removed, it has impacts. The one that stands out most to me- you are unable to pin a person to the ground.

So you can no doubt see the impact that disproportional strength has on rape.

And that's it, I guess.

I passed the GED. Hooray.

I actually got perfect scores on the reading and, uh... science, I think. I didn't see that coming.

You know what's on my mind? Pizza.

I hate pizza. Not the taste, but... I hate pizza.

It just angers me when people eat pizza. There are some people who only ever seem to eat pizza, and I think, "Goddamn, do you eat anything else?", it upsets me to hear, "I'm hungry, I'm gonna make a pizza."

I cannot explain it, but I don't like it when people eat pizza. I even hate the word now. "Pizza" just sounds irritatingly stupid to me.

On a less crazy note, I beat Castlevania: CoTM (it was pretty good), and started on Harmony of Dissonance, and this game is not very good.

For starters, it's ugly. The animations look like crap, the main character has an unnatractive blue aura that follows him, and the sprites are just a lot less presentable than CoTM's.

Look at this garbage.

I admit, I chose a place with an especially offensive background, but look at that stupid bastard's legs. That's a terrible jumping animation. CoTM's sprites didn't have a great many frames, but they looked fine in motion, no ugly frames with poor anatomy or loss of perspective.

It's also really goddamn easy. The first boss hardly fights back, I don't even think it'll hit you if you stand still. The second has one attack that's completely easy to dodge, and he's wide open to attacks afterward. The third was a bit of a challenge, but nothing much.

I'd still say I'm enjoying it, though. I'm fond of Castlevania's gameplay, and even though this is a poor example of it, I'm still liking it.

I also saw a US Army poster with three soldiers on it. One of them was an Asian woman.

I sincerely wonder how many Asian women are actually in the US military. It just seems... weird.

So I did the GED exam today. It was 240 questions long with an essay. I got there at about 7:20, I left about 3:20. That's 8 hours. I brought a book.

I'd say I did pretty well. I was concerned about the essay, but mine turned out alright. I'll have the results within a week.

I went to Subway during the lunch break, and Supersticious came on as I sat down, and for some reason, I felt very badass. I don't know why.

Anyway, after you complete a part of the exam, you go to the lobby of the Adult Learning Center and wait for everyone to finish. You only move as fast as the slowest person.

I don't know why, but being around other young people gave me a weird sense of appreciation for our culture. Or something. I dunno, I just admired the scene around me, I guess.

In other news, I've made progress in Castlevania: Circle of The Moon. The boss fights feel good.

They seem to be getting easier, though. Adremelech and the Zombie Dragons gave me a greater sens of achievment than Death or Camilla. Camilla, escpecially. The latter two have very predictable and simple patterns that easier to develop a technique for.

I feel like I had a lot more to say a moment ago.

A thought I had on my mind that I forgot to mention yesterday- pockets.

So I had to wear khaki pants for some thing, and these things are really big. It's weird, it fit fine around the waist, but the legs are big as hell, like these pants were made for people with disproportionately huge legs.

That was an obvious simile, looking back on it.

Anyway, the pockets for these pants suck. The opening is vertical, and the pockets are pretty big. Now, because the pants are so loose around the legs, the pocket can move around. If it were to be positioned on my leg when I sat down, gravity would pull things out of my pocket, and they'd be free to fall right out since the opening is pointing straight down while sitting.

This is poor pocket design. Pockets should hold things, these pockets do not. And I think a thumb drive fell out of my pocket. It wasn't anything important, but that thumb drive cost money, money that these pants stole from me.

Another thought I had just a moment ago- smoke alarms.

The people in my house are heavy sleepers who have trouble getting up in the morning. I can hear their alarms from the other side of the house, and they'll sleep for a while with this thing next to their head.

If there was a fire, and they needed to be alerted by a smoke alarm to pack their **** up and run, they'd be ****ed. And I typed out those two words before forgetting that GameSpot censors ****.

And I played Castlevania: Circle of The Moon for a bit. It was an early title for the GameBoy Advance. It was a bit rougher around the edges than Symphony of The Night for the Playstation, the first Castlevania to incorporate RPG elements, such as stat growth and equipment. It wasn't the first to include a Metroid-styIe map, that could be said of Simon's Quest for the NES, the second Castlevania. But I'd sooner liken it to Zelda than an RPG. And I wouldn't call Zelda an RPG. Some people do, I don't.

So there is equipment, a slot for body armor and two more for arms. That's a lot less customization than, say, Portrait of Ruin, where you haave slots for the weapon, head, body, feet, two slots for accessories, and maybe another slot or two I'm forgetting. You can customize your weapons however, with the game's magic system, DDS.

DDS is acronym or abbreviation or something for a title I don't remember.

Pretty much, you have 20 cards (I think it's 20), 10 for each of the two types. You pick one card from one of each of the types, and their effects combine to give you a magical ability that you can activate. This includes turning your whip into a sword, a flaming sword, a flaming whip, a claw (?), a hammer, and some other bull****.

These cards are a pain in the ass to get, though. Each card drops from a specific monster, and these drop rates are cruel. And there aren't many ways to jack up your Luck stat, so you just have to deal with it, pretty much.

Anyway, CoTM is challenging and engaging and I'm enjoying it and I played it when it first came out and it's nice to play it again blah blah blah.

QUESTION: Are my long-winded talks on videogames boring or interesting?

Another thought I had, looking back over this- the term, "Role-playing game".

We pretty much use "RPG" to refer to game involving statistics influencing your character. But that's not really role-playing.

I guess that's all I have to say. I mean, I'm not opposed to people using the term "RPG". Sometimes a word's meaning changes. It's cool.

Also, check out the spelling suggestion I got for "videogames".

videogames: video games, video-games, Vietnamese, dogmas, Vietnam's, dogma's, boardgames, dodgems, Viacom's, Watergate'sGaemSpat

Some of those are just... interesting.

And I'm trying to fix my typos, but they aren't underlined and it's annoying. Just throwing that out there, since the window is still open.

Nevermind, just don't use the button lebeled, "Check Spelling" below the window. Durr.

I just played CoTM to get some DDS cards, and it went better than expected.

The weird part was this one enemy I hadn't even killed 5 of, and I say, "Gimme your card." and he drops it. I walk out, engage another card-carrying enemy and say, "Now gimme your card." and he drops it. This just seems odd after I had to kill, like, 50 of one kind of enemy to get their card.