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Amar'uk DeRiften / 33 / Male / Riften, Skyrim

May Time, ever fleeting, forgive us. We who have forsaken our song, and buried our future.
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Slow week, slower weekend

Monday: Kept playing Final Fantasy XIII and reached the good part of the game, Chapter 11 out of 13. That's where the 30 hours long tutorial ends and you start getting your first side quests and non-linear map... yeah, takes a while for the game to pick up but surprisingly enough, even though it's…

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New roommate, new restaurant, new semester, new games

Tuesday: Team presentation went well enough but the AI project wasn't finished so we bit the bullet and took the 20% penalty to have two extra days, in vain. We then used the rest of the class to finish the UI project and rid it of bugs, so I headed home with the freshly transferred version on my U…

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Busy Thanksgiving, busier aftermath, sudden respite

It's no use going by a day-to-day format since all week was spent either making the animation project better or not doing anything productive. After getting sick of my crazy teammate not doing anything but undoing my work, we got in a fight and she's been ignoring me since then. I complained about…

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Sick for you, ArcheAge

Will do a quick resume instead of the now-usual weekly resume. Getting more and more sick of my teammate, to the point where I literally got sick Friday and spent all weekend half dead but still managed to finish everything in my animation project that doesn't have to do with the UI team project so…

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Game of get to work, you lazy bums

Monday: Worked on my Animation project's gameplay as planned and it's advancing pretty well; especially compared to the rest of the class who still haven't done basic animations. Tuesday: Teacher saw nobody was advancing well with the ants so he gave us an extra two weeks to finish it, the catch be…

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Posting this journal early to follow the weekly trend

Monday: When the animation teacher went around class to see the progress of everyone on their semester project, he was disappointed when literally no-one but me had even started it. These people aren't gonna make it far in life if they don't take anything seriously. I mean I know they were busy wit…

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Galactic Scumbags

Monday: Made the command line demo and sent it to my teammate, but that's all I did because of the heat. Animation was pretty uneventful. Tuesday: Teammate was sick so she didn't come. It's a shame 'cause the AI class was super important and extremely useful since we spent the entire class watching…

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The Sims 4 is good, you guise

Tuesday: A whopping zero students in class managed to make the command lines work, so the teacher said it wouldn't count. We then started the next part of the project and this is where the team part starts. After the class, we had a meeting in my teammate's car since it was too freaking hot even wi…

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Half a decade old antface

Monday: Day off last week because of Zynga, day off this week because of Labor's Day. Even if it wasn't Labor's Day, I couldn't have done the groceries 'cause my money is late. I think I remember them telling me I'd need to do something in August but I don't remember what; I'll have to call them if…

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Weekly council report

Didn't have class Monday or Wednesday since my animation teacher was on a business trip in Halifax, and now he's on yet another business trip helping Zynga today so I didn't have class either. Tuesday in AI we learned about state machines and started the second project. It sounded huge and complica…

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Forum Staff Tycoon 1080p

Got around to recording again today but of course, I'm having audio issues again. Plus After Effects still won't work so I'm now convinced that it's literally impossible to edit 720p/1080p videos without paying hundreds for professional software... though After Effects is supposed to be the best an…

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Eh

Worked on my ant game yesterday to try and make my ants move randomly but for some reason they move randomly... but in random intervals, in random directions, until they change their mind. Plus all ants act the opposite of its predecessor. Tried debugging and after looking for a while, I think sinc…

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Guardians of the Dragon Conqueror 2

Oh man was it hot as fuck today. Went to do the groceries and I sweated so much I changed shirts when I came back (though the main reason I changed shirts was to look fancier for my date because I'm shallow like that (was looking for another word but I'm having a blank and it's too late for it to c…

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Resume of the week

Alright, enough laziness, I'm writing a journal. Every time I mean to write one, something happens and I get distracted and when I mean to do it again, it's suddenly past bed time or I don't know what to write so screw that but now it's the weekend so sleep isn't an excuse. T'was a pretty long but…

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Dates & salmons

Started recording again today, and this time I didn't slack. Ends up the thing that was giving me audio sync issues is Movie Maker, whose codecs aren't fully compatible with 720p, so I tried some more video editing software. Tried YouTube Movie Maker, t'was simple to use and had effective edits, bu…

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Internet sweet Internet

Alright, enough diddly dawdling. I keep meaning to write a journal these past few days but something always happens and it ends up being too late to write one. I finally arrived back in Montreal yesterday around 11:40pm, after a long and terrible trip. We were five people in the four places car I h…

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Foxcrest

I'd start the journal with "Whew, am I tired", but I realized I use that one way too often. We left before noon this morning, but I still had time to watch some old sci-fi movie from 1956 and it was hilariously bad. The sound effects, aww man. We started by looking for yard sales since there was su…

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Chronicles of a potato, part 1

Writing this now so I don't forget again later. I love my vacations so far and it's only (or already, depending if you're a pessimist) half over. The past few days have been pretty simple: watch TV all day while playing Final Fantasy Tactics and Tactics A2, alternating when one handheld's battery d…

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Wine, ouzo and more wine

Went to town with my grandma 'cause she paid me a massage with the family's masseuse whom I missed since I hadn't seen her in over a year. t'was fun, then I met her latest boyfriend (she's the typical horny grandma so she hops boyfriends pretty often) and I came back only in the evening, where we d…

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The return of the hairy sausage

Home sweet home! I've got the shitty Internet back, my clothes are full of fur, I keep getting bit by giant mosquitoes, Wesley's sleeping on me and I'm watching TV. I missed it (minus the clothes full of fur part... and the giant mosquitoes... and the shitty Internet). I had a nice trip, ate tacos…

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Ring ring ring, vacations!

AI exam ended up going from 2nd easiest to 2nd hardest, but not for the right reasons. The theory part was free points and technically, the practical part should have been as well since it was basically a copy/paste of the final project with a few minor changes, but the code he gave us was so terri…

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Kill me

Nothing I studied was in the exam. Teacher said he'd give the formulas we needed so I didn't study them, and he didn't. 20% I couldn't answer, 20% I couldn't get the equations right. 50% of the practical part I couldn't get to work and the other 50% seems to work but I don't think it's supposed to…

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I got distracted and I'm out of time, bye!

My final audio exam was easier than I expected. I mean sure the theoretical part was tough enough, but the practical part was pretty much free points. Remember my first audio project, on which I worked for over 30 hours and still couldn't get it to work? We had to redo it, except on Unity with Wwis…

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Truman's bottle & glass o' fuzz

Rendering exam today went well. It was easy as I expected, but surprisingly fun. We basically redid what we did at the beginning of the semester, except it really shows how much I've improved just by experimenting with random shit while the teacher taught absolutely nothing. I mean, my bottle and g…

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Le Privilege Des Morts

Today wasn't as productive as I'd hoped, but more than I expected, if that makes sense. I wanted to work on my AI project all day but ends up it was too freaking hot so I could only work on it this evening when it started cooling down a little. When I started working on it though, I realized that i…

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As usual

Aww man am I tired. Celebrated my audio project's completion with pizza and wine yesterday, only to realize today I had some oddly specific bug I need to fix, so I've been in communication with the teacher as usual but as usual, he doesn't know what's wrong with my shit so as usual, I'll deliver an…

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Doooone

I finally finished my audio project! Well, I still need to put the finishing touches and write the report, but I still consider it finished so I'm gonna celebrate with wine and pizza Friday. I worked so hard my headphones broke, so I fixed 'em with scotch tape. I won't let my 10$ headphones die aft…

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I need to stop getting distracted

Writing a journal before I forget or get distracted again. Whew, I can't be bothered to resume the entire week I've missed so I'm just gonna resume the past couple of days. I played Last Remnant some more, finished my rendering project, finished getting the sounds and setting up the Wwise project f…

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Alright, NOW I'm going back to videos

Writing my journal right now so I don't get distracted by videos and end up not having time to write one, like it happened yesterday :P. Today wasn't such a productive day. During my rendering class we were supposed to add features to something we did way back at the beginning of the semester, but…

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Productive heatwave, trial version

I wasn't as productive as I wished this weekend. Sure, I worked on stuff quite a bit but I couldn't focus much because of the sudden heatwave that's popped up a few days ago. I mean ffs, it's 34C/93F right now, and it's freaking night. Ended up playing The Last Remnant all of Saturday and Sunday, b…

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I've no titles to copy-paste, bah

Copy-pasting a bunch of Skype messages since I just spent way too much time on one fight in The Last Remnant and I'm too tired to bother organizing it, so beware for a confusing bunch of text! Whew, didn't receive a new AI project and the analysis spoken presentation's taken care off, I'm all good…

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Productive, active and guilt...ive?

This week's been pretty productive so far. Finally beat that damn boss in The Last Remnant, got the slot for an icon, finished literally everything except the sounds in my audio project, finished my physics project and it works perfectly... and we're finalizing the analysis semester project tomorro…

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The Last Dominator

Took it pretty easy the past two days, so today I started working. I'm almost finished on my physics project but I'm stuck (as usual), so I kept working on my audio project instead. I'm already about 63% done and I haven't even started the actual audio, I reckon I'll incorporate the menus tomorrow,…

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RIP wallet

Whew, Steam summer sales. I spent 44.87$ on the first day and cleared a good chunk of my wishlist, so I won't be bored for a while. Well, even if there weren't any sales around, I still wouldn't be bored this weekend since I have plenty of work to do but I don't expect to have much trouble with any…

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Analysing wwisely

Man, today was also very productive, and hella fun! In analysis we almost finished the semester project; we only have the machine state diagrams to do before we start on the final sprint analysis and retrospective meeting... and then we start working on the 30 minutes spoken presentation we'll be d…

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Bad Internet and good habits

Sorry I haven't uploaded a journal in the past few days, my Internet's was barely existent for two days and I literally couldn't browse any site or play online games... those were pretty long days. I told my landlord and she said she'd call a technician so I hope they'll be able to find something e…

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Free time boredom

Still had a headache and fever today but other than that, I'm pretty healed up. Still, flu remains contagious for two or three days after you start feeling fine so I didn't take chances and stayed home. It's not like I missed much, anyway, since it's not only AI class where we see almost literally…

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Naruto's stomach flu

Well, I've worked on the audio project till I got sick (easily over 30 hours on it), and only finished about 85% of it. Didn't sleep last night because I caught a pretty intense stomach flu, probably due to stress. So I've been camping in the bathroom part of the day instead of going to class. I fe…

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RIP Cindy

Whew, I'm tired but today was a (relatively) productive day. Apparently I was more tired than I thought because yesterday, I got up at 10:30am so I decided not to take risks and I took the day off to relax. Today, though, I worked full-time on my projects. Finished my rendering homework (it looks t…

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Age of Wolves 3D

Whoo boy am I busy, I'm thankful I have the day off on Tuesday since that will be one extra day to work on projects. What's that, why do I have a day off? Because my Physics teacher is a lucky bastard and he gets to hold a panel at E3 next week as a business trip, that's why! Handed over the first…

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Burn teacher burn, summer inferno

Today was grocery day, but hot dang was it hot. It's been really hot literally all week (all two days of it), with temperatures going over 35C with the humidity. We're only in June, too, I'm REALLY not eager to seeing over 50C in July. Ah well, I decided to really test just how far those free meals…

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Incompetent staff and competent programmers

The weather was pretty awesome this morning, so I went to take a walk and recharge my bus card at the same time. I then stopped by McDonalds again and they messed up my order again. I ordered a third-pound beef burger with bacon & cheese, but what I got was a simple cheeseburger. Plus they made the…

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Overworked and overfed

When I woke up even more sore than I was yesterday, I knew it was time to take a day off and rest, so I did. It's like the soreness just keeps spreading and it's sapping my energy, I really need to take it easy this weekend so I'm only gonna work on projects on Sunday. Tomorrow's completely dedicat…

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Exhaustion

I didn't write a journal yesterday because by the time I got home, I was so sore and exhausted that I just collapsed on the bed and fell asleep with my clothes on. Downside is that since I fell asleep in an awkward position, today I was even more sore so today was pretty miserable. Or at least it w…

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Bad Disappointment *hint hint*

Since it was raining today, I read manhwa with no music instead of sitting outside to wait for the FedEx guy and literally right after I finished the very last chapter of the manhwa I had started, I heard a distant ringbell so without thinking I dashed to the door before he got a chance to run away…

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Trouble in Teamwork Town

Today's rendering class went well enough, we got an unannounced quiz and a project that I've already almost finished (I only didn't finish it in class because the teacher said he'd give extra work if he found out the assignment was too simple), then managed to teach proper teamwork to one of my tea…

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The weather is pretty Tropico right now

I got Tropico on Steam yesterday when it was 75% off and... well I have 18 hours on it already. It's a pretty dang fun game, kind of like SimCity, except you're a dictator in the Carribeans. I think the best part of the game for me is the music, I just have a weakness for Spanish stuff. Couldn't pl…

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Analysing custom hot-dog physics

The semester is over for regular students so today they were celebrating outside all day (despite the rain) with music, games and 0.50$ hotdogs. Figured I couldn't pass up almost-free hotdogs so I got in line and checked in my wallet for any spare change. I had four quarters so I got lucky and got…

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The most reliable shipping service in the world, huh?

Well, today was pretty bad, with a few good bits. Remember how I said I'd take the afternoon off today to wait for the retarded FedEx guy to arrive? Well, I knew he'd arrive between noon and 5:00pm so before then, I played Battleblock Theater with Orkekum for a while and we had a blast, but then I…

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Hilarious frustration

I finished Battleblock Theater's single player mode today, and it was freaking awesome. Now I need to find someone to play the coop with looks at Orkekum. Other than that, I went to class as usual but hot dang, I had trouble sleeping last night so by the end of the first class I was so tired that I…

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Past the rabbit hole and down the shit hole

Today was pretty all over the place. I played Battleblock Theater for a while since it came out on Steam not long ago, then played some more Dragon Age Origins, then watched a Dark Souls 2 stream and naturally, I played Dark Souls 2 after that before resuming Battleblock Theater. Somewhere in there…

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Wakka wakka wakka

Oh boy am I tired. Today's class was pretty simple, we did a recap on the theory we saw last class before the Golem gave us a practical assignment to see how advanced we were with Unity. Suffice it to say, he was expecting us to work on it for the reminder of the class but I ended up leaving an hou…

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The Holy Bible of Programmers

Today in analysis, we learned more about the agile scrum method (basically a philosophy of work for programmers) and how to apply it on a daily basis, so that oughta increase my efficiency some more. We then started the first major team project of the program: simulating the conception phase of a g…

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DragonX 12

Nothing much happened during the weekend. I did a little homework and started a new game of Dragon Age Origins with over 60 mods, as well as watch a lot of streams and videos. Today though, I've had my first rendering class and it's pretty neat. We started learning how to use Maya, a 3D drawing sof…

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Nostalgic distractions

Finally, I can write a journal again! It's been a week so I won't even bother giving reasons for each day but I was either sick, too tired or busy. I also won't bother describing each day because frankly, I don't remember most of 'em so I'll run a quick resume since even now, I still have stuff to…

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Wanna build a mesh lab?

So on the 28th I was too pissed to write a journal, the day after I was too tired and yesterday, my Internet went out and wouldn't come back so I went to bed early. Meaning I have a lot of things to write about... but I don't have the time 'cause I got busy working on my final maths project and did…

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Do I even need to put a title in here? You know it's about Dark Souls 2

As I expected, more Dark Souls 2 and videos today, as well as an awesome stream. What I love about Dark Souls 2 is that there seems to always be two ways you can go. One that's hard and another that's much harder and requires special equipment, but yields better rewards. Like, in the beginning, you…

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Monster Talk 2

I was too exhausted to post a journal yesterday, thanks to six hours of studying for my final programming exam, followed by three hours of said exam; only allowed myself a 10 minutes break mid-studies to eat and drink a much needed coffee. The theory part of the exam was really disappointing, 3/4 o…

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First impressions about Dark Souls 2

Played the time for an hour or so and I've gotta say. The graphics are terrible, they could have been decent half a decade ago but now? Simply dreadful. The character customization is easily the worst I've ever seen; every option turns your character into more of a monster so if you want something…

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Initiation to video game theft

Today I continued my maths project before starting a new game of Dark Souls since Sorcerer is apparently hard mode in early game ('cause Dark Souls isn't hard enough already). I'm now playing as a Thief and I actually know about stat scaling on weapons and armor now, so it's pretty awesome. Played…

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Saints Row IV review and holy fuck that's long

I still need to try and post a journal each day, blarg. The day before yesterday was, again, spent playing Saints Row IV and I completed it 100% (well, 100% of the missions done, anyway; collectibles hunting isn't so fun) yesterday morning and hot dang the game was AMAZING.. ly short. I mean, it to…

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Christmas dubstep, easter velociraptors and submissive furries

Today was pretty productive. I threw some furries in a cage, rode a velociraptor and saved Christmas with the power of dubstep, amongst other things. Saints Row IV is just so goddamn awesome, I lost track of time. I mean, I wanted to write a journal yesterday about it but my Internet was dead and i…

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Quadriplegic superkidney works a lot

I woke up feeling better than when I did yesterday, but my back was actually worse. On the bright side, I found out what's been causing these heat flashes: it's the back pills. Yeah, pretty weird side effect huh? I can see that being useful in winter, but really annoying at summer. Oh well, I wante…

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Bad day for religion

When I woke up this morning, I already knew this was gonna be a bad day. Woke up tired, apparently slept wrong 'cause I had no strength in my right arm, my jaw was hurting and sending sparks to my eyes whenever I chewed something, woke up thirsty so I could have drank two oceans and I'd still be th…

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Sticky Chinese testicles

I was planning to spend the day doing maths exercises once I was done with my homework, but after looking at my schedule I found out that I have a maths class tomorrow and it's dedicated to doing exercises and stuff so I might as well keep the exercises for then. After I was done with the homework,…

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Marriage and menopause... am I that old?

I did the groceries today since I won't have time to do it Monday because of the fucked up end-of-semester schedule that changes every week and has last minute changes all the time. Oh and remember those heat flashes I mentioned in the last journal? Yeah, I started having those again today. I was p…

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Practical Chinese pharmacists

I want weekend to be here already, lol. I know I've had a three days long weekend that made me more than fully rested but I'm already feeling exhausted and it's all because of my neck; something's been fucked about it for I think a week now and it's causing me way more pain than what I usually get.…

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Technical jargon and unnecessary prettying up

Whew, I'm tired and satisfied of my day. I got a new homework and finished it, then had time to resume my Unity3D project and I'm ridiculously close to finishing it; I just have a few audio bugs with collision timing and life expectancy to fix before I can pass on to other experiments, such as addi…

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Reaper of Khenarthi's grocery store

Man, this weekend was pretty fun. I spent most of it playing Diablo III, to the point where I finally finished the new expansion. That thing was looooong. The maps are absurdly huge so if you have limited time and can't afford to spend 2-3 hours on the same map, you'll literally never finish it and…

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Politics, snakes and lots of rest

Weekend at last! And a three-days weekend, too, thanks to Elections Day on Monday! Plus I've finished all of my homework, even including the Snake game I've been stuck on for a week, so all three of those days will be fully dedicated to relaxing, watching videos and play games; it's gonna be awesom…

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Shawarma, coordinate spaces and depth maps

Whew, I'm tired and my neck hurts. Yeah, so much for the pharmacist calling me today or yesterday; I guess if he doesn't call me tomorrow either I'll just go check myself Monday because now that my headaches are gone, I kinda want my other pains to be gone as well. Oh well, I remembered only yester…

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Good omens are real

While eating my cereals this morning, I saw this one cereal that was shaped like an heart so I went "Ohey, good omen!", which was good since I had a few things planned today... such as finally getting my new glasses. After I got 'em, I had to go to the pharmacy to renew my bus card and I shit you n…

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Chinese blarg

Blarg. This one word sums up my day pretty well. It started normal enough, I ate at that one Chinese restaurant I go to every week before then doing the groceries and coming back home to play games till it was time to leave for school, and then... oh wait, that's what normally happens. See, what ha…

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Malaises, sleep issues and first-person shooters

I had trouble sleeping last night; kept getting heat flashes and just couldn't get comfortable so let's say I was pretty tired this morning. I finished my practical maths project and setup the headers and external libraries right for my Snake game but once I actually tried to start coding the class…

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Hype, Chinese food, spanking and good grades

Now that all the exams and quizzes are over, today was pretty relaxing despite being maths for eight hours and waking up with my butt hurting as if I had been spanked repeatedly with a paddle in my sleep. I also had a huge craving for Chinese food today, so I got some for lunch... and for supper. T…

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Unity3D experiments, jello, water mattresses and exams

Today for three hours and a half, I streamed the amazing thing I mentioned yesterday and... it was freaking amazing as a predicted! I mean sure, I didn't get the results I wanted, but what I got was so much more awesome and hilarious it was worth it. But I had to stop somewhere since I had to study…

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Special aids, exclusive dungeons and game engines

Today was a good day! First I had an appointment with the special aids chick since she got all the papers she needed to open my dossier here, so it was done, I selected the goodies I might need, such as more time for exams and the right to do written exams on the computer because I'm a lazy bum who…

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Pills, incompetence and free-to-plays

Okay so I figured I have to try doing journals daily again, since otherwise I forget to include a lot of things (and forget things in general) in my weekly updates. First of, I give up. I ran outta pills for my back last week so I figured I'd take an appointment at the emergency clinic to get a new…

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The different phases of a video game's development

I know I said I wouldn't post journals during the week but I wrote this on a forum thread so I figured I might as well copy/paste it before going to sleep so enjoy! Today I learned about the different phases of a video game's development. First, the game bible (concepts, scenarios, universe, lore,…

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Frozen Fantasy

I spent most of the day watching streams while playing Final Fantasy I on PSP, so I've had a pretty awesome day. But around 9:30pm after dying three times in a row due to terrible luck, I got the message and figured it was time to do something else so I thought for a few minutes and figured I might…

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The downfall of PC games and uprising of retro games

Hey, I'm not dead! It's just that with my classes, I'm too tired when I come back home to write journals so from now on, I'll probably post a weekly update instead of daily, unless something really important happens. So far, I really love my classes, though as I said, I come back home exhausted. I…

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The Mighty Quest for Natural Logarithms

Oh boy, was I right when I mentioned yesterday that my practical vectorial algebra class would be the hardest. I go there this morning, arrive 20 minutes earlier as usual and sit down to watch TPP and play Pokemon till someone mentions that the schedules had been changed and the evening class cance…

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Didn't write much, too tired

Whew, I'm stumped but pretty satisfied of my day. See, today was my first "full" day, AKA classes started at 12:30pm and ended at 10:00pm. Today, the derp algorithms (yeah, I said arithmetic in my previous journal but I messed up, it's really algorithms) and data structures teacher really got his a…

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Arithmetics and DOTA 2

I'm... not tired, actually :P. I got out of my first arithmetic and data structures class much, much, much earlier than expected, and for pretty unique reasons. Well, first this morning at 10:00am I had an appointment at the bank to open a new account since I don't really want to travel two hours t…

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Lost in the City, Computer Edition

If I thought I was tired yesterday, I must be dead today. Got up at 7:30am since I was planning to leave aroumd 10:30am for my appointment, so I arrived there at 10:40am, announced myself and waited. At 11:30am, I got up and was walking to the counter to ask why the guy was so late, when he opened…

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Almost 1400 words of STUFF!

Fuck I'm tired. I'm back from college earlier than expected since changes happened as usual and there weren't classes this evening after all, but hot dang I'm tired. First off, not all classes are evening-only. Monday evenings I have algorithmic and databases. Tuesday evenings I have initiation to…

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Tiropitas and American Eevees

Went to the grocery store since I won't have time to go there tomorrow because of college (I missed not having the time to do something, somehow), took my time exploring it since I'm not used to IGA (I usually go to Loblaws). I swear, I entered around 2:00pm and came out at 3:30pm because I either…

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DOWN DOWN START DOWN DOWN

Today was pretty simple, but at the same time pretty tiring. I spent most of it playing Civilization V... while watching the Twitch Plays Pokemon stream. At first they were doing way better than I thought them possible of, what's with getting three badges in two days, but today they spent literally…

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Twitch sez Happy Penicillin Day!

Happy Penicillin Day, you guise! Yes, today is the day when penicillin was invented and made available to the world, isn't that awesome? Oh yes, it's also Valentine's Day but that's pretty minor. These past few days, I've been mostly watching streams and playing random GBA games, nothing too notewo…

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Missing things, present smoke and clean neighborhoods

Overslept again this morning, that felt awesome but hot dang it was hot again (ha, pun). The heater is really finicky, if it's juuuuust a millimeter below 15C, you die of heat, juuuuuust a millilemeter below that and you're fine but go juuuuuuuuuuust a millimeter below THAT and it suddenly gets col…

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Keyboard boosters and open broadcasting interface

Overslept a bit this morning but not as much as I wanted since I knew my mom was gonna come to get me so we could do the groceries and stuff. Once the groceries were done, went went to FutureShop so I could get the wifi booster and keyboard I needed. Got a nice lil' 20$ mechanical keyboard that sho…

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My moving out to the Big City

Man am I exhausted. Got up at 6:00am, got everything that was left in the car and left around 7:15am. Trip went well (much better than the last one, that's for sure) and we arrived at my new home around 3:00pm, so half an hour earlier than planned. Thing is, the landlord wasn't there so we went str…

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Last-minute annoyances

My plans almost went awry today. I finally managed to reach the guy responsible for Programme Réussir, only for him to tell me that since I was moving out to Montreal, it wasn't his job to follow me anymore so I needed to get in contact with the Programme Réussir guys there and restart from the beg…

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Studies, apartments and symbolism (expert on the latter needed)

Ohey, I'm still alive! I would have posted a journal earlier but I would have only gotten a few lines in since nothing particularly interesting and noteworthy happened, but today? Ohohohohoho, today is different, my dear! I've finally received the dreaded phone call from the college and... I'm acce…

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Screw titles, I woke up at 6:00am so I'm tired and going to sleep

The tests this morning were interesting enough. French and English tests I turned in in not even 5 minutes so I got interviewed in English right away and the teacher corrected my exam right there; 98% and instant Advanced status (as usual). Programming tests and the real interview, on the other han…

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Terrible trip, terrible hotel, terrible food... awesome day tomorrow?

Whew, I'm at the hotel. Mom was working this morning so we departed around 12:30pm. I ate saute'd vegetables and noodles with a spicy coconut seasoning for lunch before we left but once I got in the car I started having the worst cramps I've ever had since my kidney exploded. I had these cramps for…

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Markdown doesn't work, boo. Also, C++!

Other than the usual Skyrim and Final Fantasy XIV, today I've studied for the last time before my entrance exams the day after tomorrow. I've studied two semesters worth of material in a single week and programmed a lil' something that uses everything I've learned and I've gotta say... even if it l…

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No credits for credit cards

Eyy, I'm not dead yet! But since I pulled something in my shoulder two weeks ago while helping my mom take down the Christmas decorations, I've been taking pills everyday and my left arm's been permanently numb for four days now; musta pulled something in that shoulder too. When I was 16 (yes I kno…

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The Elder Scrolls: Skyfall

I've finally finished Golden Sun Dark Dawn, and it was pretty awesome. The last boss was the only hard part of the game, excluding the post-game optional bosses, and it was a disappointingly short game (25 hours), but it ends with a cliffhanger that suggest they might make a fourth game, which woul…

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The Dark Dawn Shop

I just finished watching what might be my new favorite movie. It's called The Suicide Shop and it's a French/Belgian/Quebecois collaboration. The description said "A world where everybody has lost the will to live", so I was expecting some kind of post-apocalyptic or futuristic drama, but it was ac…

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Hunger Accidents++

My studies are going well and chapter-wise, I'm getting into the fun stuff that I'll actually learn this semester, so technically the layer of rust is gone and I could stop studying but hey, practice makes perfect, right? The day before yesterday, I started working on recursive functions and made a…

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Craft Hard: The Technovores

We have water again! We found the pipe that was frozen and heated it up with boiling water (which, ironically, was freezing snow just a short while before). Also, my grandma managed to fix her car; ends up it was the block heater that was broken, not the car battery. This explains why the car would…

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Happy New Clothes, Grandma's Centipede!

Whew, I've had the last Holidays supper of the year today. First I played a bit of Final Fantasy XIV but couldn't do everything I do in a day because we left around 2:30pm so we'd have time to shop a little since I got my monies. I was planning to buy me some new clothes so I wouldn't look like a p…

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The Hobbit: Desolation of Family Parties

Ha, right on midnight! I've had a pretty busy day; left at 11:00am. Or rather, we were supposed to leave at 11:00am but we couldn't get off 'cause it had snowed too much and the hill was so slippery, so we had to call my grandpa so he could come pull us to the road, so we left around 11:45am instea…

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Elysium Cyr

I spent most of the day playing catching up with Final Fantasy XIV and watching movies. My mom worked all day and we were planning to eat a fancy supper while watching the movie about Louis Cyr, the strongest man to have ever lived and, of course, a pure-blooded Quebecois (even a century after he d…

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Couch: a new adventure!

Merry Christmas, people! I'd end it here but I guess that'd be too short and cliched, so I'll just describe the past few uneventful days. My throat infection's gone but since my mom's Internet is so shitty. I won't be able to record anything till I move out. Plus TTT lags too much so I won't be abl…

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Merry Christmas and happy stuffed stomach!

Whew, t'was a long day. Since the last journal (at least on Weasyl since FA was down for the longest time), I played a lot of Final Fantasy XIV and tested most of the 2.1 features. It's really taken a huge step forward and is now even more awesome than it was before, so I won't be bored nearly as e…

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Baldur's power outage 64

This morning I got up at 10:15am, and it felt gooood. Especially since I had to get up at 5:30am yesterday; I was pretty exhausted. So, fully rested I celebrated my new GPU by playing Baldur's Gate, a '98 game, most of the day. At 4:45pm I was planning to watch a movie but shortly before, the power…

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Radeon R9 270X

We were planning to leave around 8:00am but the big storm that we avoided by leaving a day earlier apparently caught up with us so we left at 6:00am instead. It's a shame since the expensive breakfast restaurant my uncle wanted to treat us to was closed at this hour, so we got Tim Horton instead an…

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Early travels and pizza

So since I got everything packed up yesterday, today I did a final cleanup and removed all the dust and spiderwebs and stuff around the apartment while the laundry machine was washing everything so I wouldn't have to mix dirty clothes with clean ones, and right as I sat down after finishing everyth…

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Packing up some rusty stitches

Yesterday morning, my uncle was supposed to go get some boxes at the liquor store but he never did, so he told me he'd go get some somewhere and bring 'em to me in the evening but he never did, so he told he'd go get some somewhere and bring 'em to me today but he never did, so he told me he'd go g…

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RPing toddler armpits

Today I'm felling much better than yesterday, even though I didn't sleep that well. The superstrong pills took two hours to take effect, and they didn't help me sleep since I couldn't find a comfortable position to sleep in, so I guess it was a good decision to go to bed two hours earlier. When I w…

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Hot dang

Today was a pretty busy day. I got up at 7:00am since I had an appointment at 10:30am to get my wisdom teeth removed (I've had that appointment since May). When I got there, the secretary told me today was just an exam to see how the procedure should be... proceeded. I was pretty discouraged but go…

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Lord of Confrontation: Dead Cry 2

I finished Lord of the Rings: War in the North today. It was a pretty fun game but hot dang it was way too short. At first I took a look at the map and thought "heck yeah I'll be exploring this world for dozens of hours!", but ends up the game only takes place in a ridiculously small part of it. Wh…

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ERROR: Journal too long for punny TL;DR

And now for the weekly Ibby update! Since the last journal, the issue with Square Enix got fixed. I got a reply to my trouble ticket saying that they couldn't resolve my issue via trouble tickets, that I needed to open a trouble ticket. The resulting headdesk made dead skin flakes snow down from my…

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Square Arts

Today I got a message saying that my free trial for Final Fantasy XIV was gonna end on December 3rd, so I figured I'd set up a subscription (and also peruse Square Enix's Black Friday sale to get an upgrade to the Collector's Edition and get that awesome Coeurl mount), but apparently when I registe…

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120 hours of fishing in the Bowl of Embers

It's done! After over 120 hours, I finally beat Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn's storyline. Whew, now I'm in the endgame and enjoying the break from all the fighting. I mean, before my days would consist of running all around the world killing stuff while being in queue for various dungeons, tri…

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Doctor financial goldfish

Welcome to the weekly journal! Since I went outside today, I guess I actually have stuff to talk about. Did the groceries and there were plenty of discounts so I came back home with some cheese, a few cans of sour cream & onion pringles and a shitload of fudge-stripped oatmeal cookies. After the ap…

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Fullmetal Radeon

And now for the resume of Ibby's past few days! Mostly Final Fantasy XIV with about half-and-half Toriko and TTT, followed by a whole lot of sickness and boredom! See, I finished reading Toriko so I thought I could focus back on FF XIV, but I've been feeling terrible these past two days. Fever, mig…

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Edible tanks

Nothing much's been happening lately. I mostly spend my days playing Final Fantasy XIV and my evenings playing TTT, though sometimes I get bored and watch YouTube videos. Today though, I was doing a certain mid-level dungeon in Final Fantasy XIV and stumbled across my like 100th terrible tank. You…

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Limited-mobility salmon snot

Oh boy, was today an eventful day. I unlocked my first advanced class in Final Fantasy XIV, the Summoner (which I nicknamed Salmon), then I ate me some noodles and went to post yet another game I sold. When I came back, the guy for Programme Réussir finally called me back after a week of me trying…

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Limbo wafers

I've now been trying to contact the guy for Programme Réussir for a whole week now. I'm close to filing a complaint or something so he actually starts to do his job instead of being absent all the time. Oh well, after that was grocery time but since the snow's permanent now, I wiped off the dust an…

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Ephemeral bone crunching

Nothing much happened today. In fact, everything that happened today happened this morning. I had trouble sleeping and when I woke up and got up, I had to sit back down for a few minutes because my heart was racing and I was feeling nauseous. When I managed to get back up, I went to the shower but…

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I can't come up with a title tonight

I didn't get to do much gaming today, unless you count flash games. See, Feudalism III came out today so I ended up playing it all morning till noon and so, then I ate, recorded today's SOTD and went to play Final Fantasy XIV but at the end of my first dungeon run of the day, I heard a knock on the…

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Final Voicemail XIV

I've been playing Final Fantasy XIV pretty much nonstop in the last few days since the more I learn about it, the more I like it. But earlier today I felt like taking a break and watching some videos and stuff so I made popcorn with the last bit of the bag I had and sat down in front of Youtube, bu…

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Waste of time and time to waste

Man I'm tired. Today was the day where I was supposed to meet the Programme Réussir guy to talk about the information meeting and who'd fund the optional classes and stuff, so I was expecting to spend an hour or two in town. Started by going to the bank for the monthly stuff but half of the staff w…

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Tales of MMOs

Did you guys have a happy Halloween? I did absolutely nothing special; had planned to watch movies but since I don't have TV anymore I didn't really watch anything. Today and yesterday, though, is another story. A week without being able to watch anything equals an entire day of watching random stu…

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Path of I should stop making puns about Exile

After stabilizing, I think my psoriasis is finally starting to go away. Fun times! Today I've finally gotten a reply from Square Enix for an issue I've been bothering them about for almost two months (the FF XIV one I may have mentioned before), only to be told "we can't help you here, please phone…

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Tales of butt riddles

Earlier today I did the groceries. It was extremely windy outside and the wind was in my face the entire time, plus my groceries were super heavy and my bicycle's tires are getting flat. Lemme tell you, it was VERY good exercise, whew! But if there's a downside to losing weight and getting fit, it'…

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Octopussy's GALIL

Today was pretty simple: Path of Exile most of the day :P. Played it till supper, then sat down with some hot dogs and fries to watch a James Bond movie, before then resuming Path of Exile till 10:30pm where I figured I'd spend the last hour playing TTT. They finished updating the server so it's go…

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Path of Rejected Calls

Other than some easily fixed shit happening today, I did what I otherwise said I would yesterday; I played Path of Exile all day. Tried calling the guy for Programme Reussir but he didn't answer so I left a message and went to give the game another try since the last time I played was at the beginn…

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I'm too tired for punny titles

No, I'm not dead yet (though I sometimes wish I was because of this goddamn psoriasis which just keeps getting worse), it's just that nothing interesting's happened till today. See, today was the information meeting for my course so I left home around 10:30am to go to Montreal with my uncle. He so…

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Tight woman in her 40s looking for rich Pokemon

Well, I'm tight on money again and will be for a while thanks to my friendly ISP raising their prices once again without telling anyone, as usual; plus the GPU upgrade will have to wait... indefinitely. To counter this I phoned 'em to downgrade my Internet back to what it was last month and I've re…

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Broccoli cancer

Yesterday and today were pretty simple. Spent the morning and part of the afternoon playing FlyFF (yeah, even though I said it's dead and stale; I just have nothing better to do till next month), and the other part of the afternoon and evening playing TTT (made three new Steam friends so far!). Tod…

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Potato candies aren't weird, guise.

Yesterday was awesome! My grandma arrived around 5:00pm so before then, I was mostly watching videos and doing almost no gaming whatsoever because I didn't want her to interrupt anything so when she arrived, she gave me the desserts she promised; two plates of apple crust (one of which is already h…

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ching chang chong magic something

Good uhh, night? Yeah, I stayed up late to watch all that Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica anime some people have been bugging me to watch for the longest time and well, it was pretty "interesting". The art style is easily the most original I've seen and while the story can be a bit cliched at first, it…

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Mount & Moneyshot: The Conquerors

My throat's been hurting for two days now, but my nose is also getting better (it's been extremely dry for a week and there's white patches of dead skin just flaking off like crazy, but if I scratch 'em out it hurts like a bitch so I just let 'em be and the result is that I always look like someone…

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Voldemort's trip to the terrodentist.

Ahh, nothing better than an entire evening playing TTT to complete such a fine day. After getting the thousandth "forgive me" post from my ex, I've decided to give her a second chance (friends-only, though. I'm not so desperate as to get back with her right away so it'll be months before I give her…

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Garry's Heart of Gold

Today I spent most of the day watching videos again, but I've already completed another campaign of AoE II. Only one more to go! But after watching enough TTT video, I wanted to play the game real bad but the servers just wouldn't work so I decided to fuck this and try to fix it again. Figured it m…

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Trouble in Blue Moon Town

Nothing noteworthy happened, sorry to disappoint :P. Didn't do so much yesterday; streamed for a bit but Livecaster was really laggy and uncooperative so I had to stop it short around 2:20pm and I ended up spending most of the day watching videos of Nova playing Trouble on Terrorist Town. It sounde…

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Age of high-definition rendering II: The Conquerors of the Moon

Today also went well, despite my legs still hurting (why do I work out again?) and a few other things. Tried out new settings for today's stream because I still wasn't satisfied with the quality. I mean dammit I want 1080p and the day I manage to get it, I swear I'll stream freaking Pong but what I…

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Dirty 9'' onion rings (and co)

Hey, today was a good day! Woke up fine, saw some activity on the Weasyl forums, sang the SOTD as usual and even streamed for the first time in the longest time! Then came supper and I ate me some fish & chips while finishing watching the serie I've been watching for a while: Nova's playthrough of…

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El Cid Campeador's transforming lion fursuit

I didn't write a journal yesterday despite enough stuff happening 'cause it wasn't really such a good day for me. See, I didn't sleep well that night because of a weird dream that kept repeating itself in an endless loop like that one Hellraiser movie so by the fourth time, I got in a half-asleep d…

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Bear Gryll's warm and comfy Jynx

I went to get my heel elevation thing and my new slippers today, so now my feet are warm, comfy and ready for the long and cold winter! It was the right time too, the floor is starting to get colder and Wesley actually wraps himself in his blanket to sleep. Speaking of Wesley, since the day before…

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A wild girlfriend appeared! (oh, and gaming stuff)

Someone tried to call me yesterday evening but my cellphone ran outta minutes so it seems my plan to upgrade my GPU next month will be delayed to December. Oh well, it's no big deal unless they release GunZ 2 or Dragon Age 3 or ESO or anything I'm hyped for before I get my new card; I've gotten qui…

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Breaking point

My right arm's been hurting for five days now so I've been on pills since then. I was planning on spending another day at the hospital on the 2nd or something if it hadn't stopped but today it's finally getting better. Only slightly better, granted, but better nonetheless, though now it's migraines…

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Away with ye, social welfare's mod!

No bad news! Went to my appointment without any incident or delay and my agent and I talked about the program. Ends up since I have severe constraints, they can't help me BUT! There's a program called Réussir that consists of exactly the same thing as cooperations, except only for people with sever…

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Sid Meier's classic controls!

Since I finished Dragon Age 2 and Age of Empires III Complete, I've downloaded a few games today since I can't be bothered to resume Skyrim. Sooooo I ended up spending most of the day playing Sid Meier's Pirates. Hot dang that game is awesome. It's old and shouldn't be that good but it's just so ad…

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Busy busy busy (video mode)

Today I've finished both my Dragon Age 2 cold bitch run and Age of Empires III. Two games down, countless to go! I still need to finish My blunt weapons expert run of Dead Island, finish Pokemon HeartGold, Tales of Legendia and maybe someday resume Age of Empires II since there's gonna be a new exp…

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A year of Dragon Ball Z

Exactly a year ago, I started singing. Over the months I got better and better and now I like to think I've gotten pretty good, especially since over a hundred people follow me on different sites and say they like my stuff. So today I did a special SOTD where I actually filmed myself singing and I…

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America's Got Minty Singers!

Yesterday, Age of Empires III Complete Edition went on sale on Steam so that's why you haven't seen me since :P. Well, outside of the SOTDs anyhoo, and talking about those, today's been a record breaker with three favorites and two new watchers! And it's even more awesome since tomorrow will mark m…

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Paul Mitchell devours cold spinach & provolone pizza

Today was pretty simple, yet still overall pretty awesome. First off not only did the newest heat wave finally end after two weeks of annoyance, but it actually reached below freezing temperatures last night and weather says it might snow tonight. And the weather's gonna stay for at least a week, s…

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Grand Theft ASIO

Today I tried out a new audio driver for recording and it made the quality noticeably better, but just a few minutes ago I finally managed to make ASIO work on REAPER so tomorrow I'm expecting an even better quality. The best quality possible by software alone, in fact. If I want to make my recordi…

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Al'marra Irsuuthin's Attack on Titan IV

Yesterday, I decided to finally watch Attack on Titan to see what the fuss was all about and well... seven hours later at 3:00am I had run outta episodes and I was in a daze like "huh, what happened to my evening?". This is exactly the reason why I don't watch much anime (or read books), I complete…

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Of Crows and Potatoes

I bit my tongue yesterday so of course today it hurts like fuck, plus headache, plus the newest heat wave, plus my heel hurting like a bitch. Fuuuuuck. So I changed my mind by continuing (or rather, starting since I didn't post a journal yesterday and I started yesterday) my Dragon Age cold bitch..…

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Uncle's bitch and perfect breeze.

I've just finished my cold bitch run of Dragon Age Origins, Awakening + DLCs so I figured I'd do a journal before starting Dragon Age 2. Totally forgot to post a journal yesterday since I was so tired, so here's what happened. I went to the grocery store and awesome stuff was 50% off. So for supper…

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Is ignorance bliss... or backwards?

Ohey, I finished Dead Island yesterday so I've been continuing my cold bitch Dragon Age run since then, but nothing really noteworthy's happened except that one thread on the forums to which I replied with the following. The guy in the thread asked for our opinions on whether technology was going t…

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My mom's stress test.

I've received news from my mom; the surgery went well and she's expected to recover within three weeks, not three months as they first expected! Other than that, Dead Island most of the day again (I'm addicted) and from 8:00pm to 9:30pm, The Elder Scrolls Online's first stress test. The first hour…

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Drink & roll, baby

This morning, my social welfare agent called me to tell me that she wouldn't be able to come to our appointment today so we've rescheduled it to Tuesday next week at 10:30am. Looks like my high heels will wait a lil while longer :P. So instead I spent most of the day playing Dead Island and watchin…

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9 to 5, eh? What is this, work?

Yesterday I went to bed at 9:30pm so I could wake this morning at 6:00am because I was planning to leave for the hospital around 8:00am. Of course I had trouble sleeping so I ended up being tired most of the day (and when I'm tired, everything hurts even more). Uncle ended up having a setback and w…

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Busy busy busy

Today I went to the social welfare headquarter to get an appointment with my agent so that we can talk about the class in February, got the appointment for the day after tomorrow. Then I went to the bank to get a blank check so I could update my Amazon account (I went to the pawn shop before but th…

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Grocery workers' dance of victory

Today I went to the grocery store all ready to fill up my empty fridge when of course, there was a Holiday today. Labor Day, a day where you're supposed to appreciate having a job. And what did the workers do to celebrate having a job today? Be lazy bums and not go to work, of course! They always H…

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Nelson Mandela's gallstone bandwidth

Just finished watching Invictus, Nelson Mandela is quite the inspiring guy; I need to read his biography someday. Though that's not the only reason why I wrote this journal. See, I got some bad news today. My mom got hospitalized 'cause she's got gallstones and jaundice (which is a peculiar symptom…

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My 4th furday, please read!

Today is creepy day! I'll explain that later but first I'll describe yesterday since I basically fell asleep before remembering to write a journal. See, yesterday I had an epic blast with :iconOrkekum: playing Saints Row 3 and laughing our asses off are all the grunts, moans and snarls that zombie…

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Awake, tired, happy, sad?

I had trouble sleeping last night because of a pretty peculiar dream I had. When I woke up after having said dream, it felt uncomfortable when I closed my eyes so I ended up staring at the ceiling for a few hours. At first I felt normal but after a while I had to cut the stream short because I had…

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Gimps, and not the musical kind.

Yeah, nothing noteworthy lately, hence the lack of journals :P. But lately I've been taking a mini-break from Dragon Age to replay Saints Row 3 but since you can 100% the game in under 20 hours, I'm done already. But today I spent a few hours playing coop with :iconOrkekum: and had lots of fun so w…

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Sooouuund @_@

Woot, I finally received my speakers' new cords! I was trying to make Procaster work since it was being a stubborn asshole with Mass Effect 2 in fullscreen and when it fucked up the game for the first time, I figured I'd go check the mail while Steam validated the game cache. Well there it was, a p…

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Jesus wept

As some of you may know, today and tomorrow I'm doing a Hellraiser marathon. I've already eaten my pizza, half a bag of chips and watched the first two movies. Only seven more to go! Also something that I forgot to mention yesterday is that I finished Age of Mythology and its expansion, so I figure…

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SQUIRREL!

Today I streamed till I started feeling bad again. It isn't my throat that's fucked up but part of my nose. Like, the end where it connects to the back of the mouth is swollen so it feels like I have something stuck all the time, which is annoying. After eating, I did the pretty much annual cleanup…

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Plenty to do!

This morning I woke up ten minutes before my alarm, fully rested. Good omen, I thought... lol. Well to be fair, first part of the day went well; I had fun streaming Mass Effect and one part killed me (whoops). Then around 3:30pm I was starting to get tired, my eyes were drying up and my throat beca…

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Of Engaments and Speaker Cords

My speakers' cords should arrive any day now, I can't wait. I mean you kind of get used to hearing only from one ear after a while but it still just doesn't feel the same, though I can say it's been quite an interesting and enlightening experience; I feel even sadder for deaf-or-hearing-impaired pe…

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Doctor Who's depression certificate broke down after 48km.

I think my post-trilogy depression (AKA chronic boredom) has passed; I've found a few things to do. Today I was planning to go to the social welfare headquarters to get a new copy of my birth certificate since the one I was is falling apart and I'll need it to register for my class in February. Plu…

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Minecraft Effect 2: Brave New World

I wouldn't have wrote a journal today either if a particular event hadn't happened since nothing really noteworthy happened other than me streaming Mass Effect and playing Civ V and TF2. That event is that you may remember I used to play on a Minecraft server called CowPi from November 2010 till a…

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Final Fantasy's level 9 and gets 443 gold per turn.

I finally finished streaming Final Fantasy X-2 today after over a month of in-and-outs, hiatuses and all kinds of delays and shit. I ended up skipping two quests and not getting the perfect ending, but I didn't even care at that point 'cause I was kind of getting sick of that game. Plus these two q…

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My review of Mass Effect 3

I've just finished Mass Effect 3 and you know what that means... review! (and post-trilogy depression for a few days) Graphics-wise, the game is really modern and up-to-date. Nothing to complain about other than some characters' eyes being a tad bulgy and weird-looking, and also 1/3 of the male NPC…

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French horror movies smell like vinegar after oversleeping on purpose

11:33pm Ahhh, Mondays. I like Mondays and I'm probably the only one who does. To me, Monday means grocery day, cleaning up day, laundry day, an overall day off from everything. You know, because I don't have enough days off as it is doing nothing productive of my life. At the grocery store I looked…

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Beep... beep.. beep. beep

I spent the whole day playing Mass Effect 3, nothing noteworthy happened other than going to the bank to get my rent money and buying food & litter for my ferret. If that's high entertainment for you, your life is boring and you need a hobby :P. Other than that, I had trouble sleeping last night. W…

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Feels like vidyas deepthroated me.

Today's the first day of the month and you know what that means! I played Mass Effect 3 most of the day with a few hours of Minecraft somewhere in there, followed by Star Wars: The Old Republic in the evening. Pretty awesome day. Mass Effect 3 is awesome, Minecraft is awesome and even TOR is surpri…

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My armpit's yearly maintenance will occupy me till the day after tomorrow

Since this morning I've been wanting to play Diablo III but when I hopped on around 9:00am, the server was under its almost yearly maintenance. Of course. It was supposed to end around 2:00pm so I just went and played Torchlight II instead for a while then kept watching Nova's Happy Wheels videos a…

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To sell the bastard or not to sell the bastard, hmmmmm

Oh man, my lungs exploded. I've been watching Nova's Happy Wheels playthroughs most of the day (when I wasn't streaming Happy Wheels myself) and dying of laughter nonstop. Other than that, my left speaker decided to die, as well as my subwoofer and headphone jack. Only the right speaker still works…

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Next artist?

Yesterday I didn't post a journal 'cause nothing noteworthy happened. Since I finished Mass Effect 2 I've mostly been watching Youtube videos and playing random games outta boredom while next month arrives and I can buy the final game. But now I got all ready to record today's SOTD and stuff but wh…

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My review of Mass Effect 2

I've just finished Mass Effect 2 and daaaamn. They literally took everything good from the first game, made it 10x better, then literally took everything bad and incinerated it. The game is a damn masterpiece, kinda like the opposite of what happened to Dragon Age and its sequel. The storyline is b…

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Fuck titles, I'm just copypasting this so I can go to sleep

Aww man, I almost forgot to write a journal today. And yesterday I planned to write one but I was so tired I just went dead on the bed so yeah, journal didn't happen. Not that there was anything worthy of note though; I just played Mass Effect 2 nonstop today and yesterday. Orkekum was on vacation…

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So a Jew farts on an autistic child...

I had the brilliant idea to eat delicious hummus and now I can't stop farting, blarg I'm dying. Since I woke up I knew I had the urge to watch a movie about Jews so I figured I'd go buy hummus at the grocery store. Well, the God of Groceries favored me once again. What's the results of 50% heaven t…

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Dem dreams, man!

The heat wave's finally gone, holy shit! Today I once again spent most of the day playing Mass Effect 2 since Orkekum didn't log in, meaning I didn't stream. Then for supper I did my specialty, turn an otherwise bland and common dish into a fancy & delicious one. In this case, I transformed mac & c…

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My review of Mass Effect

I've just finished Mass Effect so here's my review. The writing is fantastic, really worthy of those who wrote Dragon Age Origins. The choices you make are almost all universe-changing (and since it's a trilogy, they affect the sequels too). Most of the game is just driving around in a vehicles who…

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Dat sunset, man

It rained and winded most of the day so I took it easy and played Mass Effect all day but around 2:20pm the power went out for a split second. Oh well, I still love the rain so it's worth losing five minutes of gameplay or so. Also since yesterday, the neighbors have been partying and BBQing outsid…

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I... adapt?

I think I'm getting used to the heat. I mean I'm still sweating but I can actually function and do something other than staring at the screen watching YouTube videos and trying to survive while chugging down juice and ice cream. I played Mass Effect for a while, streamed for a bit and played Mass E…

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Hot, hotter, too hot, hottest, heaven

Today I spent most of the day melting on my computer chair trying to survive and stay semi-solid. I took two cold showers when I was more sweat than skin and around 20 mins ago it miraculously started raining and breezing so I went to take a walk and mother of God this was the best thing to happen…

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Does anyone knows how to summon autumn?

Yesterday I went to bed hot and sweaty, I woke up this morning at 6:00am for no reason, still hot and sweaty and my pillow was soaking wet. Seriously nature, bring autumn already. Everyone I know agrees that one month of summer is more than enough this year because of the fucked up weather who can'…

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I'm HOT! (literally)

God fucking dammit it's hot. It's been way too freakin' hot ever since I came back from AC. I dunno if it's because I grew too used to super cold AC or what but it feels even hotter than AC when I was OUTSIDE, and I'm INSIDE. At least Pittsburgh wasn't nearly as humid as here, which is why it feels…

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Question to my followers

Only a few of my followers are actually friends of mine so I figured the rest of you are following you because of my music so I've been wondering. What do you think of my stuff? I know I'm getting better slowly but surely but do you think I'm actually good? And months ago quite a few of my follower…

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Home sweet home!

Home sweet home! Just took the mother of all showers, started the laundries and now I'm all fresh and stuff. Plus my shampoo leaked in my luggage so everything smells awesome. I never thought I'd miss pajama pants so much, now watch me not wear that goddamn belt for ages (AKA till tomorrow). Last p…

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My trip back, Day 1

G' morning people! I am now on the bus to New-York on my way back home and already I have interesting stuff to say! This morning itself wasn't so eventful. When I woke up everybody was sleeping and by the time it was time to leave, they were still snoring away so instead of giving 'em a goodbye hug…

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Anthrocon Journal, Final Day

AC is over, people. It's... over. I'm already feeling sad but maybe describing my day will make me feel better. This morning a knock on the door by housecleaning woke me up at 9:37am; my arm was prolly buried so deep in the sea of squishy pillows that I didn't hear my alarm so when I left for the c…

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Anthrocon Journal, Day 3

G' evening people! Today was much more awesome than I thought it would be. There was infinite food at the supersponsor luncheon (including cheesecake and lemonade) and after that, I went to sit at the bridge till the parade which went on for like 20 mins or something. After that I stayed a while to…

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Anthrocon Journal, Day 2

G' evening people! I'm writing this before going to sleep so I don't forget details were I to write it tomorrow morning instead. I had a pretty awesome day. After the opening ceremonies this morning, I went to the dealer's den, looked around, bought a book I've been wanting for a while but didn't w…

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Anthrocon Journal, Day 1

Hello people and welcome to Anthrocon! After over 11 hours of sleep, I felt fine and ready to rock! So around 10:00am I left and went to the registration area only to find out that they opened at 10:00am instead of 2:00pm as planned. Filled the yearly survey to get the fancy ribbon and went to grab…

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Anthrocon Journal, Day -1

It's 3:30am, I just took my transfer at New York and am now heading towards Pittsburgh. As you can guess, my bus from Montreal to New-York didn't have working WiFi so this is gonna be a long update. First, there was 23 people in the bus at first and only me and some old lady weren't black. Once we…

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Anthrocon Journal, Day -2

Hello people! I'm typing this from the bus to Montreal on my way to AC and I'm surprised the Internet works since the last three buses I took had no working Internet even though they advertised otherwise. I've just started my journey and I've already seen a few funny things. As I was waiting for my…

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So... what's up doc?

Got up at 6:00am this morning and left for the hospital at 8:30am (was supposed to leave at 8:00am but my ride was late). Arrived there around 9:00am and by 11:00am I was already done. This has GOT to be a speed record. Here I was all ready to stay over 10 hours but nope, I got Priority 4 instead o…

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The universe hates me... but my mom loves me

So I've told a couple of you about how I had this red sensitive spot on my nose and how I found out my glasses had gotten mold and I've been wearing my spare pair since then. Then I told some of you about the fungus infection I got on my hair and how I started treating it with Palmolive. Well, that…

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Weirdass dream

This morning I got up tired because I had this weirdass dream that left me disturbed and unable to go back to sleep. I was on the bus on my to Anthrocon and the guy next to me was having trouble reading his newspaper so I asked him what was wrong and he showed it to me. It was all in French and he…

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I'm tired and my legs are sore

Wesley broke his favorite ball yesterday. That one was his religion; he was obssessed with it and would bring it everywhere with him and I had to throw it out. At first he looked around the apartment a thousand times to find it and then he looked at me and SIGHED. Then he went in his corner where h…

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About my roommate

You know, I've been living with the same roommate for months and I must say he's by far the best roommate I've ever had! I mean sure we don't really talk since he's active at night while I'm active at day but like half an hour before I go to sleep, he wakes up and starts walking around the apartmen…

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OKAY FINE DAMMIT

I give up I give up I give up. I've seen like HALF A DOZEN TMI Tuesday journal notifications today, that shit's everywhere so FINE I give up. Ask me anything, geesh.

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I give up

I give up, I can't sing in German for shit. I try to sing but I read the lyrics and it doesn't sound like the song.. You just skip like half of most words and change the rest, it doesn't make any sense in my head. If I knew what the words meant it'd be much, much easier but trying to sing these son…

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I'm back in action, baby!

I've received my mic's new cords today so I sang two albums as a warm-up (and drank a bottle of wine) before trying the German album but the rust is still too strong to allow me to sing those properly so I'll do another album before retrying and hoping for the best! Still hot damn, I'm in love with…

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Competition is tiring!

I've been nolifing all day on Runescape to compete against this friend of mine who passed me in the hiscores. I reckon it should take two more days to catch up with him, and that's if he doesn't train. I'm sorry Kumkie and Zoey but can I take a couple more days off? Lol I can't let him beat me. Or…

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Finished Skyrim + Ibuuyk the Movie coming soon!

So yay after over 150 hours of Skyrim I've finally finished everything, Dawnguard and Dragonborn (buggy piece of shit) included! So now the question is, what will I stream next? I'm thinking either Pokemon Platinum or Oblivion but I also accept requests :o! Other than that something weird happened…

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Lil update on the mic

Oh yeah, I just now noticed that I didn't really say anything about my new mic. Yeah, I've received it a long time ago (like, I February or something) but it didn't come with cords. Being the newb I am, I underestimated that beast and thought it'd be some USB mic or something but nay, it's actually…

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My streaming schedule!

So, as a few of you (two, actually) know, I'm back home and I resumed streaming! Well I've thought about it and since I've gotten addicted to Runescape again and MMOs aren't prime streaming material, I've made a streaming schedule! No specific hours or anything like that, it's really pretty simple.…

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New toys!

I've finally received my new monitor that I was supposed to receive BEFORE my desktop but who ended up having a thousand delays! That thing is 23'', which is a boost from the 16'' I had. Went from 1280x1024 to 1920x1080. It's even 1080p, full HD and everything! Only downside is that I had to change…

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FML, again

Throat ache came back. I shouldn't have sung yesterday right after recovering. I'll stop for good till I come back from vacation, just in case. Other than that, I'm not feeling as down today. My friends did a good job at cheering me up. But yeah, I'm just kinda bored right now. Tried downloading He…

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Hey, I'm alive. Sorta

Throat ache's finally gone after more than two long and painful weeks. Then the water pump broke because of the cold wave we've had last week but that got fixed today as well. Buuuuut I've made my vacation a month longer in order to keep helping my mom recover from her surgery so I won't sing befor…

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Mentlegen

I'm typing this from my new desktop. Yes, I am back at long last but with a cold because hey, there's no such thing as a perfect day!

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Merry Christmas!

Every single one of my debts are paid, my new computer should arrive by January 11th, my credit card's limit has been augmented to 800$ since my credit has been rated Excellent for more than two years straight, my rent's paid and I still have over 400$ left, plus I'll receive my taxes this month wh…

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I'M DONE, WHOA

Omagawd omagawd omagawd, I finally won on Deity @_@. I'm now technically one of the best players according to 2K, even though Deity is 100% luck based. Now I can start playing on Normal again and just have fun. Ironically, Prince (Normal) is the only difficulty that requires skill. Easier than that…

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Mini-review...ish... thing?

You know what's oh-so-fun with the "harder" difficulty levels in Civilization V? Starting at King, the AI doesn't get any smarter. No, the good idea the devs had to make the game harder was to give them more and more bonuses as you set it harder, making it less and less skilled-based and more and m…

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Fuck this shit

I went to get the motherboard replaced on my desktop last week and I got it back earlier. Turned it on, first thing I see is that the guy forgot to do a backup meaning I lost fucking everything. Steam games, saves, videos, pictures, old school work, everything. My life was deleted. Second thing I s…

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I haz a sad

I didn't get the Ferret position :c. I'm pretty sure it's because of that one infraction-that-was-supposed-to-be-a-warning-but-turned-into-an-infraction-because-warnings-didn't-exist-back-then I got when I told Kazekai to stop being a rude fuck. Warnings, y u no exist sooner. Poop.

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German album delayed

So I've decided to postpone the rest of the German album to when I get my desktop back since I'm so hype about it and I don't want my shitty laptop's shitty recording quality to fuck everything up (seriously, the first recording sounds terrible). It should only take a few days (read either tomorrow…

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Singer's block, extreme boredom

I haven't uploaded anything yesterday because right as I sat down to start singing, that hugeass headache came outta nowhere. As for today, everything's just so boring. Nobody's around to talk to, all the games I play make me BSOD, uTorrent decided to be slow and not download these DBZ movies I sta…

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Attention everybody

No, I am not dead. I haven't uploaded songs in ages because my dry throat I've got all weekend got worse, it started hurting when I swallowed then it got worse again, moved to my nose and nuked my voice for a while. Now I'm getting better and I should be all good tomorrow or the day after but today…