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ericthemoogle / 33 / M / Colorado

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For my birthday I want you to harangue Capcom

At no expense to you, and at Capcom's own behest: https://captown.capcom.com/en/super_elections Tell them it's high time to bring back the Breath of Fire games after more than two decades. Cite the popularity of stuff like Persona or Xenoblade or that new Granblue game. Please and thanks! (also I a…

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Turning 33 on the 6th

Always catches me off guard, I always forget how early in the year February is. anyway my mental health is still in shambles* and im lonely and miserable because of it, lol, lmao *And trying to rectify this is Herculean; whoever thought multiple long, dense, agonizing forms were something reasonabl…

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Fuck You It's January

I spent a huge chunk of 2023 suffering an existential crisis over 2003 being 20 years ago and man, this year's gonna be so much worse. 2004 being 20 years ago is already bad enough (World of Warcraft and the Nintendo DS are turning 20 among other things) but also there's 2014 being 10 years ago (th…

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Vipers, Torgals, and Vana'diels

holy moly is fanfast hard to follow when it's both on a weekend where i have work and in an overseas time zone ANYWAY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ISoqghadkE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-t3tj_lJWg I think this is the first time Meteor has spent the entirety of the trailer as the new job? I…

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10 years of a realm's rebirth

So the other week I mentioned that I was having an existential crisis about 2003 being 20 years ago, yeah? Well the actual reason is this: https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/special/2023/The_Rising/eykg76bc2d https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/special/mogmog-collection/202308/1ny0ji96di…

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Existential crisis about 2003 being 20 years ago, still

I thought I'd stopped lowkey freaking out about this in February. I regret to inform you I have not; the unreasonably visceral nostalgia pangs are back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFEfpjOdN_M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXRc8JeXk9U (this one hits extra hard because this game is 1/2 of my f…

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Margaritaville Urianger

That's all I've got in terms of Dawntrail right now, I am neither at nor able to watch fanfest so all I've seen is the teaser. (Okay one more thing: Erenville is immensely smoochable in fancypants FMV, tho)

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Intrusive Thought Month

Surely I'm not the only one who spends a disproportionate amount of Pride thinking - against my own will - about childhood traumas, right? Right!? (seriously why does the human brain gotta suck so bad) (once again feel free to ignore me being whiny btw)

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Everything is exhausting

all the time forever make it stop (Ignore me being whiny if you want, things have just been rough lately and I needed some sort of outlet somewhere)

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Turned 32 on the 6th

Still having that existential crisis over 2003 being 20 years ago, not sure why 2003 prompted it of all years but that's where I am right now. More generally, I'm not exactly doing fine (especially mental health wise) but I'm managing surviving.

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Twenty Years Later Redux

hey kid got some more of them unreasonably visceral nostalgia pangs for ya https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EypGdptd19M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ud-q7NwvGc different flavor this time; this strain ain't gonna be at its best until it hits 2005 nostalgia but it's still tasty stuff (yes i know S…

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*incoherent screaming*

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/f1f2a66f48a3bd7b247178e8e6eeedbcd2deaeb2 (Scroll down to "the following items can now be equipped regardless of gender") This is all stuff I'd written off as unlikely to get this treatment! I thought we'd run out of ways for me to get excited t…

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Twenty Years Later

hey hey kid you wanna buy some unreasonably visceral nostalgia pangs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6OAUTt7n2c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIGMzr7Yj1k (yes I know the former only came out in 2003 in Japan don't you get pedantic with me)

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2023

You know that one WikiHow guy-threatening-other-guy-with-knife meme where the attacker gets labeled with the current year and the victim gets labeled "me struggling to process [however much time]"? That's me since like 2014 or 2012 or so (or maybe just my entire adulthood, I dunno); really not ment…

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Decemberween

I hope everyone's entertainment was sufficiently death-defying.

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The best Pokemon game for the Switch

It's World of Final Fantasy, it turns out. Four years running! (Six if you count the PS4 release! (Which means it was the best Pokemon game for the Switch before there was even the Switch!))

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How do you prefer to calm your nerves?

Trying not to be as much of a perpetual nervous wreck as I am. Dunno how much it'll help considering the cause is, like, real life and current events and junk but still.

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Tomorrow!! :D

https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformers:_EarthSpark_(cartoon) Still excited even if nobody who follows me is going to care! ...except I'm going to be at work all day. (Also I have to get my Paramount Plus situation sorted.)

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Just a week to go!

On the 11th of November: https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformers:_EarthSpark_(cartoon) I know nobody who follows me cares but I'm excited anyway!

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All my OCs are self-inserts

One fursona and two player characters from a video game (whomst are technically the same guy but I don't really see them that way). I should try to figure out how to make one that's not but I don't really have the energy. :B

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EarthSpark in a month!

https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformers:_EarthSpark_(cartoon) (technically a month from a few days ago but who's counting) I know that nobody who follows me is going to care but I'm still excited! (Anyone who grouses at me about this for whatever reason will be ignored BTW.)

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COCK.

coooooooooooock...... |3

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Love how good I am at alienating people

I love how my exact combination of mental health crap turns me into a distant, reclusive little shit and in turn I just sort of naturally put off people. And how it's never active hostility and never anyone I know super well so it really shouldn't bother me but it always, always bothers me way too…

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Not so much incoherent screaming as a mildly approving grunt

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/27bd3bc448b9208f4bd67a94f37d9ee6a81f96e0 (Scroll down to "The following items can now be equipped regardless of gender") We're running out of things to give this treatment at this point! On the one hand it's all cash shop stuff, on the other I…

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Anyway it's June

Happy intrusive thought month, everyone! ...what, just me? I dunno, pride always kinda gets me down cuz I end up involuntarily thinking about, weird irrelevant bullshit that makes me unhappy (most commonly some variant of "how shitty a person I'd be had I been straight and internalized my crappy ho…

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So both Final Fantasy XI and Morrowind turned 20 in May

I spend like the entire month trying to come up with something smart to say either anniversary but I don't know if I really got much so here's something kinda dumb one day too late instead. Both games were a substantial part of my formative years but also both games have varying degrees of not hold…

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*incoherent screaming, the sequel*

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/4ef995518bea6aaa2fd0b5efbe7adf24b20f7a6f (scroll down to "The following items can now be equipped regardless of gender") AFTER TEN THOUSAND YEARS I'M FREE AGAIN BUT EVEN MORESO THIS TIME BECAUSE THE QUAINTRELLE'S STUFF IS SOME OF WHAT I'VE BEEN…

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Cool and good and not at all a wide awake nightmare

I love how the biggest prerequisite to getting my mental health bullshit under control is... already having my mental health bullshit under control*. Vicious cycles are so much fun! I wanted to bump that downer journal but all I could think of is another downer. 😀 *okay there's actually a lot more…

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Turned 31 on the 6th

Unfortunately I've been in a particularly foul mood since like Christmas (one of those broad "everything was supposed to be better than this by now" ones) and Getting Older Day just kind of made the whole things worse so I've been finding myself on the verge of just breaking into tears on-and-off a…

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2022

Imagine that wikihow "guy attacks other guy with knife" image meme where the knife guy is labeled "being a whole-ass 1/5 of the way through the 2020s" and the victim is labeled "me still struggling to process most of the 2010s" or something to that effect, I can't be assed to actually make such a t…

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*incoherent screaming*

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/53184de7b5a08dad4e53c7b5080ecf7bb2c87e45 (scroll down to "The following items can now be equipped regardless of gender") AFTER TEN THOUSAND YEARS I'M FREE

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fcuking bnuny twikns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NxPJ_BPSwU I am simultaneously making grabby hands at this and getting protective - against my own dang self - of my Lalaboy I've been using since I first took up the game ~5 years ago and I don't think I've ever been more at war with myself. (Maybe I'll pop a fanta…

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Turning 30 tomorrow

All I have to show for it is an ever-steady increase in exhaustion and internal screaming :| (Still love how we're a whole-ass year into the 2020s and I'm still struggling to process most of the '10s.)

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Avoidant Personality Disorder

...is something I really wish I'd learned about at least a decade before I did, cos mine's kicking my ass real bad lately.

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Turned 29 on the 6th

Didn't say anything cuz I was exhausted that day but I'm still exhausted so here we are.

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The end of the 2010s is coming and it's fucking with my head

I've been thinking about it for the past few months or so and my brain just isn't having it. I don't know if it's because of all my baggage I'd hoped to have sorted out by now but don't, or reconciling my cautious optimism in the first half of the decade with the exhausting bullcrap of the second (…

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not improving [vent]

I still feel like crap after multiple years and I'm still deathly afraid of incredibly mundane human interactions and I fucking hate it. Therapy didn't help shit because changes to my insurance meant I could barely even get any time in. Not sure why I'm upset enough to ramble about this today as op…

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Post-birthday update; therapy and graduation

I turned 27 on the 6th; I've been getting therapy for various things the past few months so it was somewhat better than last year's but I still don't feel very nice. Also, I finally got my 4 year degree, and it only took 8.5 years. Hurrah!

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o yeah i turned 26 back on the 6th i guess

Didn't even think to mention anything about it until now; I think it's because I've been all nihilistic and shit lately. (Free will doesn't exist and we're all just bags of self-perpetuating chemical reacitons)

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fuck oyu

its 2017 now so here's some new years advice: human capacity for kindness will always be limited while human capacity for cruelty will always be limitless society rarely improves but is excellent at pretending it has so people will fool themselves into thinking things get better faith in humanity i…

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Presented for Your Consideration

A timeline: http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Vileplume_(Pok%C3%A9mon) http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Bellossom_(Pok%C3%A9mon) http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Roselia_(Pok%C3%A9mon) http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Roserade_(Pok%C3%A9mon) http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/…

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So I live in a city that's defined by hating gay people

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Focus_on_the_Family these jackasses are almost certainly going to get jacassier and I'm dependent on people who are wild cards with regards to coming out and my weird anxiety/reflex to avoid being sociable makes it difficult to maintain a support network and my ADD make…

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Mine heart was torn betwixt Pretty Seal and Edgeworth Owl

But then Pretty Seal made the logical choice to become Prettier whilst Owl decided that logic was for other people and gave up on everything that actually made it interesting. My heart is no longer torn. (Meanwhile Fire Cat started out kind of boring and merely stayed that way.)

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On the Subject of Stormblood and Ala Mhigo

I'm not gonna lie, I was hoping that the next expansion would take place anywhere but Ala Mhigo, just because the idea of all the heavy handed foreshadowing in 3.3 and 3.4 being a massive red herring is hilarious to me.

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everything is awful everyone is awful

sure do wish I could get back into an unambiguously good mental place sure do wish everything on the planet wasn't apparently conspiring to prevent it sure do wish things haven't been going on like this for at least a year

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In light of a new Fire Emblem game...

... I think we should all take some time to remind ourselves of the most important parts of Fire Embelms past: http://serenesforest.net/blazing-sword/scripts/supports/raven-lucius/ http://serenesforest.net/blazing-sword/scripts/supports/lyn-florina/ http://serenesforest.net/blazing-sword/scripts/su…

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TFW...

...you're up until 3 AM because you can't stop crying. And then you're up the rest of the night because you have to get up at 6 the next day and trying to get those last few hours of sleep is more trouble than it's worth. why the fuck is everything so fucking lousy

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Turned 25 today

Spend most of the day feeling like crap. Birthday mostly served to remind me that I'm wasting everyone's time just by existing and I hate it. I haven't been feeling great lately, in case you couldn't tell.

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Final Fantasy XIV impressions from a veteran of that other FF MMORPG

I more-or-less got FFXIV for the holidays this year (strictly speaking, what I got was a machine that can actually run FFXIV and got the game cheap from Humble Bundle, but whatever) so I've been going through it seeing how it compares to what I'm used to and now I'm babbling about it in a journal b…

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Rhapsodies of Final Fantasy XI

After all these years I have finally completed all the (main) stories Final Fantasy XI has to offer. Ergo, it's time for another FFXI ramble! Whoo! Seekers of Adoulin left a bad first impression but the central characters were likable enough that it grew on me by the end so I'd say it was a net pos…

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Jolly Decemberween, everyone!

May your gluttony and consumerism bring you great joy this [insert fictional Christmas analogue of your choice]! For example, I'm greatly enjoying New Computer Day! Huzzah! I mean it's not really anything special, honestly, but compared to what I've been using since 2012 I still feel like I was an…

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Finals week this semester

Went something like this: me: hey brain how you doin' brain: feelin' moody me: wait what brain: yeah this seems like a good week to spend moping around me: brain it's finals week me: we have to get work done brain: oh brain: well them's the breaks And then finals were even more miserable than they…

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Cons and pros and pros and cons

http://store.steampowered.com/app/382900/ Con: A port of a port is not necessarily a bad thing... but for whatever reason it's a port of the mobile port, which means it resembles a Flash game. Pro: Maybe someone will release a mod to make it easier on the eyes? I mean someone modded the mobile-to-S…

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The funny thing about this is

No matter how disgruntled I am that they used Cloud in Smash instead of a Final Fantasy character who's actually been on a Nintendo system I'm still probably going to end up using him the most anyway, once I can be assed to pick up Smash again.

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Planned Parenthood shooting going on in my town right now

Like right this second: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/planned-parenthood-colorado-springs-gunman-1.3340467 http://thinkprogress.org/health/2015/11/27/3726056/colorado-planned-parenthood-shooting/ http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/11/27/police-hunt-for-planned-parenthood-shooter.html

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Can anyone who plays FFXIV do me a favor?

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/special/2015/The_Maidens_Rhapsody/ Wow, what a crossover, Square-Enix. :| I mean, holy dang, ONE WHOLE NPC from FFXI is making an appearance in FFXIV! For all of a single quest! While nothing related to XIV happens in XI whatsoever! I don't know why, but ther…

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Final Fantasy XI: The Revenge

Been meaning to do some more babbling about my return to FFXI for like a month now, so I'm gonna. (Also, sorry in advance for just dumping links into the journal instead of properly formatting them; I'm posting this across multiple sites with multiple different formats and I can't be assed to do it…

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I wanted all this stuff years ago, Square

http://ffxiclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Trust http://ffxiclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Alter_Egos I know it's weird to say it's an improvement to an MMORPG to give you bots you can use in place of actual other players (and I know the Adventuring Fellow has been around for years, but I always found that partic…

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Final Fantasy XI: the return

Decided to try picking it up again after all so I decided to ramble about it. As I said before, I don't know if this is really a good idea, and just taking up Final Fantasy XIV is probably a better move anyway (although I'd have to borrow my brother's PS4 for that since my PC sure can't run it and…

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Contemplating a return to Final Fantasy XI

Like the title says. Yeah, I know there's that other, new Final Fantasy MMO that doesn't have like 13 years of age and pre-WoW lack of conveniences dragging it down, but screw that noise. Good ideas are for OTHER people. Anyway, Final Fantasy XI was my jam for an enormous chunk of my life. I was ne…

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So, uh, hey there, watchers and commenters

I just want to apologize for not really being great at replying to comments and stuff people leave me, both in advance and past. I'm a reclusive shit of epic proportions and I'm rubbish at conversation. Figured I'd bring it up since some folks are a fair bit more friendly to me than I really deserv…

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Sometimes it feels like this fandom wants me to hate it

It still baffles me the extent to which certain furries are prone to crank magnetism: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Crank_magnetism I mean, you wouldn't really think that an enthusiasm for anthropomorphic animals is all it takes to be more prone to, like, bizarre conspiracy theories and the like, bu…

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Jon Stewart's been gone a whole week already :/

Still emotional as fuck, man. I've re-watched the last episode AND the "Thank You For Being A Friend" Arby's commercial like 8 times already. Trevor Noah has hella shoes to fill and it's somewhat questionable whether or not he's actually gonna; I guess we can only hope at this point. (Not helped by…

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Get to know me meme journal thing

It calls itself "Get to know the artist" but doesn't ask any questions about art. Weird. Which means I'm cheating a bit since I haven't done any arting of my own in a while but whatever. Name: Eric Nickname: N/A Location: Colorado Springs, AKA Focus-on-the-Family-ville Age: 24 Height: Just under 6…

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Final Fantasy games sure like Massacring furries

(Don't mind me, just spouting off stuff I noticed after going back and replaying a few FF games.) Not to the extent of, say, Cid being in every game, but it sure does happen a lot: Final Fantasy V has Exdeath kill everyone in the world with the void near the end (albeit temporarily), but said world…

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Sick of how hating gay people is this town's defining trait

http://www.krdo.com/news/focus-on-the-family-reacts-to-scotus-gay-marriage-ruling/33791628 These Focus on the Family fuckwits are one of the major draws of Colorado Springs and of course they're up in arms about what happened last week. Funny how they're trying to frame the hating they're gonna be…

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I guess not EVERYTHING is terrible

http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2015/06/26/3672344/supreme-court-brings-marriage-equality-entire-country/ I mean a lotta things out there are pretty terrible. Like this: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc1413064 The stuff that's talking about are still pretty terrible. But not everything is t…

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More homosex than this, Fire Emblem Fates

http://www.polygon.com/2015/6/23/8836513/fire-emblem-fates-same-sex-relationships-nintendo Try harder than this, Nintendo. Like, way harder. Like, let-me-kiss-any-anime-boy-I-want-in-either-version harder. Seriously, ever since they were introduced there's been more homoeroticism in Fire Emblem sup…

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Final Fantasy VII remake? Yawn.

http://www.polygon.com/2015/6/15/8785689/final-fantasy-7-remake-ps4-square-enix (AKA Final Fantasy VII: Please-Shut-Up-Already-Fanboys-Jeez Edition) I guess since I have the whole Moogle fursona thing going on I should probably talk about this? Bah. Wake me when they do V or VI. If I were to rank a…

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*long sigh*

From the first game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCa17qVOTNM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiXfl0EIvxw Respective equivalents from the second game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEuXtIDlP94 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5N7erM45Fk There's just... something about this that fills me with a…

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Ivalice is a world filled with furries...

...yet Ashe only chooses to associate with one. What's up with that? Maybe if she'd worked to rectify that then maybe she could have prevented their brutal death-by-vague-backstory. (Playing Final Fantasy XII and the original Tactics concurrently is an interesting experience if you remember that th…

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Let Cartoon Network be merciful this time also robot furries

So this cartoon here: http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformers:_Robots_in_Disguise_(2015_cartoon) It aired its first actual (i.e. non-pilot) episode today*. It is the return of the franchise to Cartoon Network (seeing how The Hub was apparently the shortest-lived network ever) after they totally totally…

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Final Fantasy VI turned old enough to drink in the US today

Kinda makes you think, doesn't it? (It probably doesn't.) I'd kinda hoped to have finished the playthrough I started a week ago by today but an exam got in the way. At least I've passed the floating continent, though, so there's that. Either way it's still an excellent excuse to play/re-play the ga…

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I already won April Fools Day

A few years back I told people that the Syfy Channel would go back to spelling it "Scifi." Since this is obviously the pinnacle of April Fools I see no reason to even bother anymore.

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Final Fantasy VI Day 2015

On the second of April, 1994, Final Fantasy VI first came out in Japan. The 21st annivarsary of this date is one week from today; it is a tradition of mine to start a new playthrough of the game that same day each year. I bring this up a week early because I have decided to begin a week early since…

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Updated my profile

Because "I'm here now!" isn't particularly informative. Not that the new one is much better, really - of all the things I'm crap at writing profiles is one of them - but still.

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Yo you should check out the Humble Transformers Bundle

Yo, let me bug ya'll with my dopey personal interests for a second: https://www.humblebundle.com/books This is an absolutely fantastic deal, I spent 25 bucks on the complete package and it would have been worth it if I'd gotten just half. I suppose I should explain some stuff. Transformers More Tha…

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Fucking Furries

Stop making shitty people popular. Stop making shitty people popular. Stop making shitty people popular. Stop making shitty people popular. (I'm not naming any names or incidents out of being an easily scared coward who doesn't want to be eaten alive by these people's adoring fans but seriously sto…

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Belated birthday follow-up

Thanks to the folks what gave me birthday wishes, I appreciate them! Anyways, I went out to eat yesterday, and got a fortune cookie at the place. I bring this up because the fortune cookie said something to the effect of "You should increase your feminine side at this time." JOKES ON YOU FORTUNE CO…

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Happy birthday to me

I'm 24 now! halfheartedly blows party noisemaker Hooray for me getting sick today too!

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Marth's Amiibo is apparently really rare?

I got mine by walking into the store, taking it off the Amiibo shelf, and buying it at the counter; apparently this is not a typical experience in obtaining one, as Nintendo announcing another shipment of the things a few days ago caused everyone to lose their shit. Christ, I hope this isn't going…

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New Fire Emblem better have more gayness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz2LJ-4DDWU Maybe this could be the one where all that homoerotic subtext the series has can be the actual text for once, eh IntSys? Please? I mean, me and Yarne/Chrom/Gaius/Gerome/Laurent/Libra/Inigo* not being able to bang in Awakening was possibly its greatest fla…

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Resolution 2015: Be Less of a Doormat

So, originally, my planned resolution for 2014 was to tell my folks that I'm not exactly what you'd call the heterosexual. However, there is also a realization I came to last week: https://www.weasyl.com/journal/73838/vent-turns-out-i-m-a-fucking-doormat This is basically why it hasn't happened alr…

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(vent) Turns out I'm a fucking doormat

(something I probably should have saved for tomorrow but oh well) So... over the past few weeks I write a couple of "go fuck yourself"s for a few dudes who are, quite frankly, in desperate need of being told to go fuck themselves. I then promptly saved them to text files and just sat on them, rende…

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All is lost

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/12/new-lost-ayn-rand-novel-will-bring-her-crimes-against-literature-to-new-generation-of-jerks/ Everybody get to the bunkers! It's a catastrophe! All is lost! ALL IS LOST! (Yes, I know this is inane. I've been in a funk for months now, just let me have this one cheap…

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See what I mean about straight white male atheists?

Remember a few weeks ago when I said that I was glad that I wasn't heterosexual because then I would be a straight white male atheist, and that straight white male atheists are the worst? Well, check out this Daily Show clip from the other day: http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/3v7epb/discriminator…

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Semi-important PSA

First of all, please familiarize yourself with the concept of "mansplaining": http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Mansplaining Don't get defensive, I'm not accusing anyone of anything, just try to understand the idea. Now keep in mind that the "Man" part can be replaced with any privileged party talking t…

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Morale still in the shitter

This is how I feel about everything right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIWHMb3JxmE I... I don't even have anything to add this time, there's just so much that's just so goddamn awful right now. Every day for the past few months I've been fighting back tears. Why do straight white dudes have…

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This year I'm thankful that I'm not heterosexual (late Thanksgiving thing)

(This is the thing I'd thought up for Thanksgiving, I thought that I'd posted it yesterday but apparently I forgot so here it is now, albeit somewhat modified from what I had planned; the atheism stuff is new, specifically.) This year, I'm thankful that I'm not heterosexual, because then I would be…

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Disheartening lesson I've learned about the furry fandom :/

Apparently, having enough enthusiasm for anthropomorphized animals tends to make one more susceptible to adopting... questionable or problematic ideas into one's worldview. That is, apparently being a furry makes one more vulnerable to Crank Magnetism: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Crank_magnetism I…

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I've been feeling really vulnerable lately (please read)

If you've noticed I've been writing a whole lot more journals lately than normal and that most of them are downers, this is why. There are a few reasons for this, actually, some of which I'm not particularly comfortable discussing. The biggest, however, is something I'm comfortable discussing becau…

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Apparently today is "International Men's Day." Seriously?

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/19/international-mens-day-what-celebrating What, are we going to be seeing White History Month or Straight Pride Parades next? Maybe I'm off base here; unlike racism or homophobia there are a few disadvantages men have that women don't - issues with…

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GAY. SEX.

So how you guys doin'? I had to listen to a street preacher scream at me about how TEH GHEYS AM TEH EVIL AND COMIN 4 OUR CHILDRENS AND OUR MARRIAGES AND MAEKIN US GET ABORSHUNS AND TEH GUBMINT IS COMMIN FOR ALL THE STRAIGHT WHITE MEN (see here and here) in sub-zero weather for a half hour straight…

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Was my last journal too personal? I kinda feels like it was.

This one: https://www.weasyl.com/journal/68433/so-i-grew-up-in-a-town-with-a-major-anti-lgbt-organization-2 I was apprehensive about originally posting it - you can tell by that last line where I mention that I maybe should have opted to talk about that stuff somewhere away from the furry community…

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So I grew up in a town with a major anti-LGBT organization 2

This is a follow-up to this journal here; I strongly suggest you read that first. I've been feeling like expanding on the subject lately. Why? Reasons. (I should also mention a more accurate title would be "So I grew up listening to a lot of anti-LGBT talk radio" but I'm not doing that for continui…

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Mid-term elections~ There's really no need for 'em~

Mid-term elections~ The voters just ignore 'em~ So just remember this November that your vote will count~ A very, very, very, very, very small amount! I love that song. It's how I feel being... well, see this.

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Important plastic robot milestones (Transformers SJWs OMG)

So recently I got my hands on these: http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Windblade#Generations http://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Transformers:_Windblade Why do I bring this up? I bring this up because of the origins of the Windblade character: http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Windblade#Notes For those who hate links or wikis, W…

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So I grew up in a town with a major anti-LGBT organization

This one, to be precise. Why am I bringing this up now, you ask? Well, I'm sure you're aware of a recent Supreme Court decision that struck down same-sex marriage bans in several states, including mine. Well, let me show you a little thing I saw on my local news: http://www.9news.com/story/news/pol…

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Near and dear to my heart

I know the gratuitous sharing of Youtube links that one likes is kind of an obnoxious old people thing, but I saw this the other day on Raw Story and it really struck a chord with me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9mJpVf4dkc Ayn Rand is very... ahem, "near and dear" to my heart. Oh, Ayn Rand, yo…

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Happy thoughts, Eric, happy thoughts. (bump journal)

Just want to wash my hands of a rough week. I shall do so with gratuitous links to nice things so as to remind myself that not everything is terrible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0Dg226G2Z8 (Ripped from the headlines, I know, but I still think she deserves like a million awards.) https://www.y…

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Followup to the angry journal of anger

So, uh, that journal I wrote a few days ago was certainly a thing, wasn't it? I guess I should explain why someone who's generally pretty quiet about most things just started raging at some guy out of nowhere. (Kinda long, sorry.) First of all, this was not some dumb dick on the internet. I wish th…

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Do me a favor, eh dickweed? (Vent of sorts)

DISCLAIMER: This journal is aimed at a very specific individual who knows damn well who he is. There's like a one in five chance he'll actually see this at all, even less that he'll actually read it, less still that he'll reply, and next to none he'll actually take my advice, as such this is mostly…

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The final Transformers Prime purchase ever?

Gots me the Abominus gift set super cheap on clearance. 'S a pity Bay is still making movies but it gives me a break from buying plastic robots* so I guess that's something. *I am probably going to eat these words considering what's going down at Botcon.

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Happy 20th Final Fantasy VI day!

On April 2, 1994, Final Fantasy VI first saw release in Japan. If you ask me, it's a good time to give it a little appreciation. Just remember to avoid iOS and Android when doing so, eh?

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TMI Tufriday

Because I meant to on Tuesday but didn't get around to it.

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So that Transformers MMO that became a MOBA... :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty8KkaqDpqE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcYXecE5n5c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNMGrWsf6Po https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5hWZNZdptM Not sure what I think of this. It looks cool from these videos, but MOBAs are probably my second-least favorite genre of vi…

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guys srsly HALP

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-j08wSix-Q http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl363Wh4ghU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1ClcFbMk0o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rknv9C_Ibvs it won't leave my brain WHY CAN'T I MAKE IT LEAVE MY BRAIN

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guys help

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiXfl0EIvxw why won't it leave my brain WHY WON'T IT LEAVE MY BRAIN

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Bravely Default: Square RPG Untouched by Nomura

That alone makes it more interesting than Kingdom Hearts: Word Salad of the Week (despite admittedly being its own word salad). The demo didn't do this game justice, cripes, and I liked the demo. Reminds me of Final Fantasy V in all the right ways. I don't know what exactly to say, I just wanted to…

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Kind of a rubbish birthday

Essays and doctor visits, how about that, huh? Also the whole "I just turned 23 and I'm barely removed from where I was at 20," but that's something else altogether.