| Snake Vs Mantis |
[Sep. 25th, 2008|01:51 pm] |
so i was just on youtube watching some videos of kung fu fights, choreographed or tournaments or from movies or whatever, just watching and clicking related video links and stuff. i went from watching some drunken fist stuff to some shaolin and karate, whatever.
then i watch a couple of videos of snake style vs. mantis style kung fu and it was pretty cool. one of the related videos was "Snake Vs. Mantis" so you know, naturally i just i clicked the link.
brings me to the part in Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes when Solid Snake fights Psycho Mantis. |
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[Sep. 19th, 2008|02:22 am] |
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three more piano arrangements tonight after the ( Cut! ) |
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[Sep. 17th, 2008|09:36 am] |
Since the first time I rented it from Blockbuster like ten years ago, I have loved Earthbound for the SNES. It's this indescribable feeling, a story about a boy who leaves home because it's his destiny to save the world. The idea of "leaving home" really pulls at my heart a certain way. It's a reality most everyone has to face sooner or later in our lives. But it's knowing you have a home to come back to that makes a person happy regardless of how bad things get. That's the feeling it gives me. Being homesick. It's the reason that despite its weirdness, despite the fact that everything in the game is completely random, it still chokes me up a little. This is a flash animation someone in Japan made, altered into English, that sums up the way this game makes me feel.
It's a little funny. The Super Nintendo probably has the most games that really moved me emotionally growing up. To this day I don't really get that feeling as much anymore. |
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| (no subject) |
[Mar. 20th, 2008|04:29 pm] |
so today's writer's block thing says, i quote
"If one day you meet your favorite super star, what questions you would like to do to him/her?"
WHAT?! |
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[Mar. 1st, 2008|10:19 pm] |
here's how this is going to work.
give me a song that i need to hear. it could be your favorite song, but it doesn't have to be. just tell me the name, who it's by, and why you think i need to hear it. and i'll try to find it, listen to it, and tell you what i think.
then i'll give you a song it reminds me of along with why i was reminded of it. maybe this sort of thing will let me know a little more about you all and vice versa.
let's get to it! |
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[Feb. 22nd, 2008|02:26 am] |
i just got finished at an inventory. the first i've ever worked over my handful of years with this company. it wasn't that bad, but i did feel like the store could have prepped better than it did. not that i have any basis for comparison, but it just felt as though inventories should have been able to move much faster than the one i just did. actually by the time i left, a handful of the others were still there (i was the last payroll employee to leave, the rest were salaried so it didn't matter how long they stayed).
i don't know. all in all it wasn't a bad night at all. plus i got to have the rest of the day off to enjoy doing nothing but play music, talk to my girl on the phone, and play dynasty warriors 6.
there have been far worse days, i'll say that for sure.
take it easy for now everyone.
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oh and morning breaks
the sunshine's almost more than i can take
despite my efforts dear i start to wake
and i open up my eyes
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| "Is" Is Optional |
[Dec. 13th, 2007|10:20 am] |
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oh my god, there's no more "is" in facebook status. |
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[Nov. 13th, 2007|12:53 pm] |
Fire Emblem, companions walk
The endless path together.
In the wavering shadow of spite,
Our home is faced by the oncoming spear,
Engulfed in flames.
I keep that unforgettable day in my heart
And now rise up together with my companions.
Fire Emblem, our bond shall be never broken.
We hold fast to protect tomorrow
And the one who awaits our return.
Fire Emblem, light gathers on the flag we unfurl.
Fire Emblem, we gaze upon the multitude of stars,
Gripping our blades.
If we do not bring light to the darkness in these lands,
The shooting stars will soar over a wasteland.
Fire Emblem, on whom does the morning sun shine
As she climbs over the edge of battle?
GREAT lyrics. i love it. with such a grand song, the lyrics do it justice.
...in latin, though.
http://www.smashbros.com/en_us/music/music13.html |
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| TF2 |
[Oct. 23rd, 2007|10:28 am] |
i may have come up with a possible 10th class for team fortress 2: "The Scientist". if the creators added physics objects to the world, say things like heavy wash basins or radiators, or toilets and cinder blocks, the team could implement him as a Grav-Gun wielding class so he could pick up and hurl items at his enemies. he could also come equipped with a Fortress-Forever-Scout style laser that can target enemies, putting a little symbol on all of the scientist's teammates' screens (similar to the medic seeing the little red-cross logo) that indicates the targeted enemy's position until the enemy is killed. his melee weapon could just be like, a screwdriver or something. in lieu of any throwable items, they may also want to give the scientist some sort of damaging laser device with a medium range, just as a means of doing damage without having to find stuff to throw (though a good item blast would probably be an instant kill to most classes aside from maybe the heavy).
the grav-gun mechanic could also come into play if the TF team were to implement moveable shields into the game. a scientist could grav-gun a big portable shield around that would effectively stop bullets (though explosives would probably still cause a bit of splash damage) for themselves and teammates to take cover behind. maybe even mount a big push behind a shield. the shields could disappear and respawn in spawn rooms after a few seconds of inactivity, so if you want a shield to sit in one place, you'd need to keep it held with the grav-gun or risk the shield despawning altogether.
i don't know, i think it may add an interesting mechanic into the game while taking advantage of both the grav gun mechanic and Havok physics. |
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[Oct. 4th, 2007|11:59 am] |
i think, despite my tendency to not seem excited or particularly emotional about things, that i am pretty in touch with my own feelings. hearing songs that remind me of youth or the more innocent days in particular always make me well up a little inside. seeing elderly people being sad, like in movies or something, always gets to me too. and when i play my piano, well. that's something else. maybe i reserve all my emotion for expressing on the piano. it's like being on such a good date that it's like nothing else exists except you and her/him. only it's just me and the piano. i wouldn't be lying if i said i've experienced it with my girlfriend as well. or even just having such a good time with any person in particular that nothing else matters anymore. that's some of the best parts of life for me. and when i'm playing one of those old melodies, or humming to myself, it's like i'm bringing myself back again. i'm seven or eight, lying stomach-down on my bed playing legend of zelda on a lazy summer day, having to scoot my cords around and off the floor when my mom comes by with the vacuum. it's the innocence i miss, i think. and the music takes me there. and it's just me, and the black and the white, and the memories. the sharps and the flats that punctuate the paragraphs of my life. i could play a song i wrote for her, and it's like she's sitting next to me again. i could play the song i wrote when i was full of sadness, or rage, or happiness, and it's like i'm looking at myself again, back when i was first writing them - seeing from the outside exactly how i felt at that time, and it's almost like a fast-forward from then to now, and i see how everything's changed (or hasn't changed). and fuck run on sentences because somehow i feel like i need to be writing this, and if i don't, i'm never gonna get it out and i'll explode from all the damn feelings i don't express sometimes. people can be so innocent. the music i play can be like a reflection sometimes - a mirror into myself, whether it be the self of the present or past. some pretty strange things have happened to me over the past couple years, and now i find myself in this very subdued, passive, and satisfied state. sure, there are places i want to go and things i'd like to do. but for now, it's me and the music and whatever else life has to throw my way. be it relationship related, friends coming and going, crises in the family, work woes or accomplishments, i'm just kind of moving through it - me and my music. and i feel a little guilty that i'm making it sound like my girlfriend is just something that's currently happening to me, but that's far from the truth. if anyone's been moving through everything alongside me, it's her. but sometimes it's like i just see myself as a person moving forward through all sorts of issues and problems and people and places, carried along and protected on all sides at all times by the music i play. and as it takes me along, i experience so much that the music changes as i do. and my heart has ached, and fluttered, and pounded there alongside everyone else's, but my heart is always in time with my piano.
always.
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innocence is far too easy to lose.
so please, for me, hold onto yours. |
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[Sep. 11th, 2007|10:35 pm] |
haha. look at this thing.
look at it go. haha. |
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[Jul. 17th, 2007|12:24 am] |
there are some pretty fantastic forza 2 car designs out there. if you look it up you'll find dozens of ridiculous ones. anyway i can't quite own up, but here's my take on the renault clio.
( Cut for Size )
i think it looks pretty cool, anyway. |
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[Jun. 6th, 2007|08:56 pm] |
i just found this thing. it's probably one of those internet viral video things i've missed out on and everyone who calls it the "intarwebz" probably knows about it by now, but i have no idea what it is. and i don't think i care to know. it's got something to do with disturbing baby figurine doll things and dr-suess-headed japanese girls. i... well, "like" would be a bad word for how i feel about the song, because it's got a whole "psychotic-clown-living-in-an-abandoned-funhouse-in-the-old-run-down-carnival" feel to it, but i keep listening for some reason. and something about the girls is just creepy. maybe it's the whole The Shining thing, with the twin girls or whatever.
come play with us.........
then i found a CHRISTMAS version. complete with an intro that sounds like it was probably supposed to be christmas-y, but comes off as a little satanic. the body of the song sounds like some kind of "rockin'" cover of the original, but yeah, it exists.
anyways, as weird as it all is, i think the song would sound awesome if it were either A) a little more epic speed-metal, or B) a little more Super-Nintendo-era Kirby. and i'm probably going to learn it on the piano. so there. |
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[Jun. 2nd, 2007|07:50 am] |
so, seriously, i'm having way too much fun with the paint options in Forza 2.
( Honda Civic Wings West )
i'm not even the biggest fan of civics (or hondas as a whole) but this is probably my most detailed paint job in the game so far. i just unlocked a nice e-type jag though so i've gotta think about what i want to do to it paint-wise. |
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[Jun. 1st, 2007|09:17 am] |
god forza 2 is fun. too bad MY 360 JUST GAVE ME THE RED RING. i'm pretty sure it's still under warrantee.
but hey, check out the awesome TT design. simple and effective.
( Audi TT )
i spend more time on logo and decal design than racing. |
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