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  1. Ka-Chan

    So... Hello Again.

    By Ka-Chan,

    Well, it's been a long time since I've been on here and I'm quite content to say I regret nothing.
     
    No, I'm not here to socialize, nor am I here to act like a harlequin. That doesn't mean I won't jot some stuff down here, but I'm not interested in being an entertainer- and no, I don't plan on being one of those passive agressive guys in the corner, mumbling and rolling their eyes either.
     
    Trimming the fat away, I'm here to sell off my Bionicle collection and I plan to provide information on that here if any of you would happen to be interested.
     
    But hey, hello again everyone!
     
     
     
    P.S: I plan on ignoring all the nonsense I've jibbered on here before, as nearly two years have passed and would serve as a poor example of who I am now, so I would be thankfull if you could give me the benefit of the doubt and do the same.
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    G Is For Groggy

    By Ka-Chan,

    In which case, I'd be the G-Man.
     
    Why do I keep coming back here? I'd have myself a witty statement prepared, but I'm done with the facade. One way or the other, I just gotta scribble down some reflections for my own sake and anyone else who happens to be listening.
     
    It's been the best and worst of times with college.
     
    On one hand, I'm up till 3 in the morning on a daily basis now grinding away at whatever algebraic towering pillar of crud my prof. has thrown at me that day. I rarely have the time to go out and do anything, and the same goes for my friends. Ironically, I thought leaving homeschooling behind and starting college would turn things around. Instead, thanks to things like Course Compass and all other sorts of college necessities being digitalized, it seems like I'm more dependent on computers then ever.
     
    And I hate that.
     
    But on the other hand, I've made a few new, odd friends along the way. I guess in an environment were the average walking corpse spends it's whole day mashing buttons on it's cell phone in the middle of class, I'd be much more attracted to befriend the noisome minority.
     
    I've also come to redefine my standards for "Hard work" and "stress" . Homeschooling made me soft, and whenever in retrospect I'm glad to be driven up the wall. It's rough, it's demanding, but it's good for you.
     
     
    But let's face it, after a weekend of partying and hanging out with long-time-no-see friends, I'm more then a little reluctant to get back into the meatgrinder.
     
    So I'll just savor this birthday weekend for what it is and keep it in mind whenever I feel like going Columbine or getting myself banned into the stone age on sites like these for the fun of it.
     
    The good's worth cannot be determined without the weight of the bad, after all.
     
     
    And now I'm off to spend 7 hours in a ceramics studio- toodles all!
     
  4. Ka-Chan

    Amensia: The Dark Descent

    By Ka-Chan,

    I had to post on the site.
     
    I needed to find a way to vent my excitement or I might explode.
     
    Amnesia: The Dark Descent is made by Frictional Games, and also gave us the Penumbra series; the one horror series in any form of media that has successfully made me scream and stopped taking part in it on several occasions. Not to mention a good extra hour or so of gametime simply spent frozen in place, telling yourself you got to do something but you refuse to actually do it. If you've ever hesitated about jumping into a pool you know is freezing while hovering over the edge, you'll know exactly what I mean.
     
    Most of you won't care, but this isn't about you.
     
    This is about me blogging about the ridiculous anticipation I have. This is gonna be the first game I've seriously played in forever. The weather is perfect out for a scary game: dark, cold, gusty and the sounds of rustling leaves and branches making you wonder if something is just outside your window.
     
    I can't wait to play, but I'm so tense too. I'm psyched and horrified at the same time.
     
    I'll be back with some stories and possibly a screen shot or two. Possibly. I might just be busy hitting the 'escape' button over and over again.
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    Parallel Parking

    By Ka-Chan,

    It is evil.
     
    The crusty old relics at the DMV who watch you from the passenger seat like bloated rats are evil.
     
    The fact that it's the first part of the test and bumping a cone means game over is especially evil.
     
    The fact that I did it perfectly every time I practiced it and then the one time I got it wrong was on the test is evil.
     
    The fact that I will probably parallel park once a month yet it being so ridiculously emphasized over everything else is evil.
     
    Insert any Mermaid Man references here if you grew up with that stuff.
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    The Joy Of College

    By Ka-Chan,

    After the first few days of your brain feeling like it's going to hemorrhage from non-stop work, it ceases to hurt and just feels kinda numb while you grind away at you several hundredth algebra problem for the day.
     
    You know I'm in need of a mental break if you see me on here.
  8. Ka-Chan
    Really, when will the can sucking site stop telling me the password I just used to log in earlier is "incorrect' and just let me change my stupid name already?
     
    Maybe it was cute the first year when I thought having an identity crisis online as some weaboo girl wasn't creepy, but seriously.
     
    HALP
  10. Ka-Chan

    Tiny Houses!

    By Ka-Chan,

    So this guy named Jay Schaefer decided he wanted to make a small house because he felt the regular sized house sucked away too much of his money away on things like heating bills and mortgage payments. So he built himself a tiny house from scratch. On his own and with no experience. The results?
     
     

     
     

     
     
    That thing is a mere 100 square feet. Note that that sounds bigger then it actually is. We're talking a tenth the size of the average house here. Oh and you can hook it up to your car and drive it around like a camper.
     
    So. Maybe I wouldn't mind it being a little bit bigger to have room for friends to hang out in. Regardless... Guess what your humbler blogger wants to do instead of pay rent for apartments or spend half his paycheck on mortgages for the rest of his life?
     
     
    >B}
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    Avatard

    By Ka-Chan,

    Avatar is one of those movies where the more and more I think about it, the less I like it. Kind of like every George Lucas film.
     
    And Unobtanium....Really?
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    Injury To Insult

    By Ka-Chan,

    Not only do those bums at Games workshop continue to promise a Necron update yet never even touch them, but I just checked their site for the first time in months and they jacked the prices up on them by at least 15 percent.
     
    14 bucks for a single metal Pariah. What a crock of nonsense!
     
    I definitely need to start selling this stuff off before I get used to the idea of spending that kind of money.
  15. Ka-Chan
    I figured I had matured more then this. Perhaps it's just that I have so much I can spend that I've begun contemplating things I never would have considered before. Maybe the resurfacing of the Toy Story franchise reawakened some inner kid in me?
     
    But man, I got a bizarre urge to get my hands on some Turaga. Maybe the Bohrok Va too.
     
    Why? I have no clue. I always knew I wanted Nuju, but this bad? Holy dooley.
     
    I own the green guy *yes, I forgot his name*, Nokama, Vakama and the black one... But I never managed to get a hold of Nuju or Onepu. That's where the dilemma comes into play.
     
     
    Unfortunately, people on Ebay think that six 4$ figures *which would add up to a mere 24$* apparently quadruples into 100$ worth. Seems they're trying to appeal to collectors, and I guess in this scenario I 'technically' fall into that group. The difference being I don't feel like spending a full blown Benjamin on 2 inch tall plastic robot men.
     
    So I guess my real question is this: Anyone on here got a more reasonable alternative? You wouldn't get a lot of money out of me, but I might be willing to trade off things.
  16. Ka-Chan

    Mass Elevator

    By Ka-Chan,

    "Lukas Shepard was trying his hardest to concentrate. Saren had gone rogue and effectively jeopardized his position on the council, as a Spectre and ultimately the entire human race... He and his allies would have to bring down the leviathan themselves. And yet despite this grave burden of responsibility now weighing down on his shoulders, he couldn't even begin to devise an approach. The annoyingly cheery elevator music softly prancing about in the background saw to this as he stared blankly across the elevator. The Quarian and Krogan seemed to have succumbed to the same audible assault as well, their minds reduced to bowls of intergalactic tapioca. Light rippled across blank, dilated pupils while the sickeningly upbeat techno diddied on in the background.
     
    The silence was shattered by a howl as Shepard snapped his head to the right to spot the source. The elevator next to their own was crossing paths during it's ascension. In it a man in bulky, worn armor adorned with gluing blue lights was fending off a mummified creature that was far more hideous then the husks Shepard himself had encountered on Eden. Meanwhile a heavily armored feminine with a cannon for an arm was blasting away at what Shepard could only describe as floating green jellyfish. Another clad in massive red armor adorned with golden eagles and skulls was engaged in hand to hand with a counterpart in black, gold trimmed armor wielding a chainsaw. Despite their independent struggles, they all glanced over simultaneously at Shepard and his party as the two elevators crossed one another. The whole group in the other elevator briefly forgot their conflict, long enough to laugh and point rudely at Shepard along with a variety of other colorful gestures. And just as soon as they appeared, they disappeared.
     
    'Man,' Shepard thought, 'I really should have just waited for that elevator' . He briefly glanced over his shoulder to try and get his comrades opinions on the encounter, only to see they were still patiently gawking at nothing while that wretched music carried on in the background. "
     
     
     
     
    ...Someone please tell me what is with every game made by the guys who gave us KOTOR and big cities filled with running around in circles running errands for people?
     
    AND THE ELEVATORS.
     
    I NEVER THOUGHT ANY DEVELOPER WOULD HAVE THE BRASS TO SERIOUSLY MAKE INTEGRATED SEQUENCES OF AWKWARD ELEVATOR WAITS
     
    BUT THEY DID
     
    I have no idea whether that is a good thing or a bad thing but the world of games will never be the same.
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    Mass Effect Uno

    By Ka-Chan,

    No, no photoshopped shenanigans involving the sci-fi game and the card game here. You may all leave now.
     
     
    Nah, just kidding.
     
    About the leaving part, not the Uno. There is no Mass Effect card game, much less Uno.
     
    Sorry to disappoint...
     
     
    Anyways, Steam had both Mass Effect games for steep sale. Originally I had no interest in the games, but I must admit the whole idea of your actions in the first game leading to consequences in the second sounded really cool. So naturally when I see the first going on sale for 5 bucks and the other for 20, it's fairly obvious I had to at least give them a spin.
     
    Of course, all I ever knew about the games in advance was that they were basically mass-budget dating sim games *CoughspoilerUglyBlueSpaceLesbianscough* , but hey. Can't knock it till you've tried it, I suppose.
     
    Not to mention I was getting bored with all these grimdark sci-fi games. So Mass Effect looked more then a little...Colorful. Who knew in the advanced future of humanity, all female military personnel would be issued pink and white armor? The camouflage worked great during the siege against the fortress of self-proclaimed dictator for life Willy Wonka, but it looks a little out of place here.
     
    Regardless, from what I have played of it it's actually pretty fun. Am I about to spend hours on end playing it? Not from the looks of it, but it got me off Team Fortress 2 and Killing Floor, so I won't complain.
     
     
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    I'm So Contradictory

    By Ka-Chan,

    "I wonder if I lost all my stuff when I uninstalled TF2?"
     
    After several minutes, I am relieved to see I have not after reinstalling it.
     
    An hour later...
     

     
     
     
    I'm so funny
  20. Ka-Chan

    A Most Childish Rant

    By Ka-Chan,

    I'm not particulary fond of online versus games- but I've always played Team Fortress 2. There is one thing I've found, though. The game's coordinator-and-teamwork attitude is spoiled by two things.
     
    The Demoman and Soldier.
     
    Now, I don't care so much about losing as long as I still have fun in the process, so that's not the issue here. I'm not one of those people who plays these games to win and feel awesome or something because it's just a game. But when I'm just trying to unwind and find I can't enjoy the game because we're getting steamrolled by a team with several dozen Soldiers and Demomen who just hammer M1 over and over again, praying their splash damage will kill everything in sight -and it usually does- then I have a problem.
     
    3.
     
    2.
     
    1.
     
    ...
     
    Where's the boom, you say? Where's Carl screaming and raving about how he wants to send all the Scottish cyclops back to Scotland in several dozen neatly arranged pieces? What about digging an Axetinguisher into the skull of a rocket-spewing neanderthal? Well, I've found that no matter how hard I try, I can't get that angry. It's a game. I don't get angry as much as I just get this bitter taste in my mouth because I'm slowly losing interest in a once-great game because it's getting spoiled over by FUBARed classes. If anything, I feel more like a winner walking away from defeat with a calm demeanor.
     
    The way I see it, I have no interest in playing something that only makes me angry and costs me time. I guess that's where I'm truly bothered- I know I'm just growing bored of online gaming.
     
    Don't get me wrong, though. In-game I still loathe those two cheap classes, but I find I just don't really care about it as soon as I turn away from the screen for a moment. Let them have their victories. Let them have their ego-boosts from being good at a game. I've got better ways to spend my time then them, and that's what matters to me.
     
  22. Ka-Chan
    Because I realized to stubbornly hold a grudge against a bunch of blue plastic space spartans at the age of 16 -Well, technically I'm 17 now but you get the point- would probably land me in a few Special Ed classes.
     
    Now, I'm still not into all that Emperor religious voodoo mumbo-jumbo they ramble on about, but it's part of their whole gimmick so yeah. Better an Emperor then some sort of goofy God. And no, the previous statement doesn't apply to the Chaos Gods. They are awesome. I'm refering to Gods in general, being an atheist and all. But I'm sidetracking.
     
    There are only two Space Marine groups I genuinely like as of now. The Salamanders and Blood Angels. I like the Blood Angels since they're a dying out group who is at the mercy of some sort of insanity-curse thing they have from their leader being killed by Warmaster Horus, the guy who gave birth to the Chaos Space Marines. Plus, I gotta defile convert some of those Sanguine Guard dudes for my Chaos force. They just look too cool. However, I've never been too fond of the color red -don't ask why, I don't know myself- and thus I wouldn't really enjoy painting these guys. So yeah, they're just a group with some interesting fluff.
     
    Next the Salamanders. Okay, these are the only Marine chapter I actually contemplated starting at one point. Between being actual heroes-of-the-people , being black guys with freakin' red eyes, having green armor and having a general pyromaniac obsession with fire, it's pretty hard not to like their gimmick.
     
    All the other Chapters are okay, but I'd still rather happily flatten them with Hammerheads, Monoliths or Demon Princes. Not to mention the Ultramarines will continue to make camos in my Death Guard army as general cadavers and victims getting blown to pieces/decapitated/vaporized/etc.
     
    Now, I'm off to do some schoolwork and then work on making Team THWOMP *Terminator Heroes With Ominous Manly Powerfists* for my Chaos army.
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    Dawn Of Wat

    By Ka-Chan,

    You do not need to be a Warhammer fan to see something is very wrong with this image.
     
    I dare not actually play a mission with that loadout for fear of my computer imploding. Yes, this is my screenshot from my game. It actually gave me "IMG" as a reward for one mission.
  25. Ka-Chan

    I Guess I Lied

    By Ka-Chan,

    I'm not leaving- yet at least. Or maybe I am and I'll just post consistently in my blog but do nothing anywhere else on the site. Who knows? Who cares? Where else am I to post my brain droppings? It's the 21rst century, dangit- keeping thoughts to yourself was several decades ago.
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