Title screen music = Super Smash Bros Melee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXs4-M-ZiOg Opening level music = Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire - Route 101 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrQKJGP6PGI 8-bit music = Mega Man 2 - Dr. Wily's Castle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTbfpkByIM8 Music from a conso…
Having recently a shitton of downtime, I chewed into my fat stack of unplayed Pokemon games. I completed Black (Gen V) and then played X (Gen VI) and Sun (Gen VII). All told, since first playing Ruby (Gen III) as an adult, I have played Gen III - VII, and know of Gen I-II by way of SoulSilver. Sinc…
2022 was a shit year though. No, I haven't been around here the last 6 months. What did I miss?
One year of not-technically-a-lockdown but, living in isolation anyway. It was in the last week of February just before March started, that COVID hit and the place where I live shut down all nonessential jobs, restaurants, mandated wearing masks. I know other countries around the world had to deal…
That's how it is, nowadays. Everything changing, and never for the better. Bah! Tokk, from Ori and the Will of the Wisps Today I replaced my mask. The day it became mandatory to wear masks when going outdoors into public places, of course people hoarded masks. I wore a dust mask, the kind used for…
When creating my fursona, I thought I'd just research some animals and their behavior and see which one most resembled my personality. I had narrowed my search to canids, which included Wolf, Coyote, Fox, wild and domestic Dog. We're familiar with Dogs. General information is available on Foxes. Th…
If you have no regrets, you didn't learn from your mistakes!
In my FA watchlist was some intelligent discussion on the election. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLG9g7BcjKs http://imgur.com/a/qkwaN http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-reasons-trumps-rise-that-no-one-talks-about/ I have my own thoughts but they would be a wall of text, I'll just say that as an inhab…
Too many haunted shows on TV right now. I have a theory that involves forensics, the biology of decay, microbiology, and pherimones It's validating, but also myth-busting. It goes like this: someone is murdered in a house. Microscopic traces of blood spatter have been found to still be visible unde…
Dream 2 nights ago. From around the left edge of the Moon, a rogue moon suddenly appeared on a collision course with Earth! This was in cinematic close up TrueColor HD. I was running some kind of big corporation and had some stuff to launch at it, but it wasn't enough. On a small built-into-the-wal…
I was in the bathroom when a caterpillar crawled out of the houseplant and spun a cocoon. It supported the cocoon with 3 strands diagonally up to the ceiling, crossing the space in the room. Mom's gonna kill me when she sees that. I told the caterpillar as gently as Fluttershy, "Oh, no, you can't m…
How Paradox tricked me into wasting a month fighting an unwinnable war. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KanCiSGxSKM First game, built a small civ, was boxed-in by hostile nighbors, gaps between galaxy arms, and limited wormhole range. Finally through working what I had to advance drive tech, and ca…
I was in a city investigating strange occurrences in run-down buildings. Seemed to be set several decades of technology ago. Eventually my PI work converged with a massive official police investigation, which led us to work together and check out a hide-out in an abandoned factory on the opposite e…
I dunno any goddamned title to get your attention y'all weasylites kicking back thinking what happens on Fa stays on FA. Trouble is, this place is just a stepping stone on the way to FN. The day FA finally implodes for good FN will come out of beta, and you'll see no exodus here, you'll see people…
School Exam Haunted House Tour Pagan Ritual Dream last night I played the full version of Civ V for the first time, including its bewildering design-your-own religion system. (I created a version of Christianity out of a Sky God for historical purposes, but, really loved it seemed to encourage paga…
Maze of the Minotaur 2 weeks ago Saw Korra for the first time late at night, now, for those of you who don't know, the bad guys have these masks with glowing eyes. As I was heading off to bed, saw something following me, a (waking dream?) large black feral beast with those same eyes. I told it to g…
you live in a desert.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHhOpifFmPLzGo9ltINNH8A http://zerahypt.net/ One man is making this game as a hobby, and it's quite impressive. Clocked in a lot of hours there the past week, and have only -just- visited every location. I won't spoil it, but I'd categorize it as mostly off-roading…
The crickets are chirping tonight. Why does this even matter? Atmospheric conditions were bad this Summer. Stepping outside was like walking into a brick wall some days, I just had to turn around and head inside or get sick. Nature agreed. The cicadas did not chirp. The crickets did not sing. Comin…
Alright, now I'm pretty much caught up with the "backlog" of art. From now on, I'll just post things as I draw them.
I have a confession to make: I've been holding back on you all. I've had a Shadowrun RP going with a friend, which has inspired some of my best art yet, but, since it's just between me and him, I've kept the art as private as the RP itself. We've changed our minds about that now, and now I'm going…
Finally something worth journalling about. I have gotten into a rhythm of a sketch-a-day, and within just two weeks, reached a level of talent that, while I won't say it puts all my previous stuff to shame (at least, I'm not so good at art as to be so jaded as to be embarassed by my old art, yet) I…
Eh. Probably everybody and their dog knows about this, but I feel I should talk about it anyway. Information straight from the sources: http://www.imvu.com/catalog/modules.php?op=modload&name=phpbb2&file=viewtopic.php&t=531598 https://forums.furaffinity.net/threads/1353961-FA-IMVU-Discussion http:/…
Watching Star Wars again, seeing Episodes I and II back-to-back for the first time, II was no longer a confusing mess. It all fits together. I feel a case can be made that technological progress destroyed the Republic and things were already past the point-of-no-return even before the start of Epis…
http://www.dragonflycave.com/favorite.html My results http://www.dragonflycave.com/favoritelist.aspx?favorites=264,405,359,197,229,263,510,262,053,310,215,571,678,311,309,134,300,403,666,162,330,404,196,200,052,136,471,026,135,093,312,019,470,448,037,335,253,447,600,001 Things Learned: I love dark…
Dream last night I was cyborg (think shadowrun) in the bowels of a city made of heavy metal with more heavy metal pipes and machines on everything. I distinctly remember my left arm was a gun arm, and I was swapping out different weapons on it, most of them were these squared, sci-fi things that lo…
...busy playing Fantasy Life is the answer. Described by someone in one of canidaeookami's streams as "a cross between Zelda and Animal Crossing" that was enough to intrigue me, drop a hint to my mom when the pre-Christmas sale papers came in, and voila, got it for Christmas. http://www.nintendo.co…
Merry 2015! This new year feels fresh and new and... I've been thinking. Does this profile and identity suit me anymore? If I joined Furry Fandom today, would I pick this same fursona? would I present myself the same way? Probably not. At this point, I'm pretty much runewuff the black tribal wolf s…
*I've read the rules but not had a chance to play yet, so I can't honestly consider this a full review. BUT information about this game was very scarce when I was trying to find about it, so I'm going to do you all a favor: ...Every now and then, someone will bust into some forum, raving about this…
Ok, was watching "Man vs. The Universe" on Science Channel last night. Subject was a mission to Mars. A company called "Mars One" came up. The guy's premise? Missions to Mars are hard because getting over there with a fully-fuelled return vehicle is a bitch. So let's just leave that part out. We'll…
EVERYONE I know who doesn't live in this area had no idea this just happened, (media is apparently acting like a major US city waterlogged just shy of a disaster is just local news) so, I might as well make a post of it. Yesterday it rained all day and was unusually gloomy. Instead of daylight, the…
Took some weeks, but I got all my allergy medication readjusted, and as of today, at full dose of all them for the first time. Just in a nick of time, nipped an allergy attack in the bud that had me feeling like I was going to get a heart attack and asthma at the same time... ick. Beyond not just f…
In my review of After Earth, I mentioned it wasn't the first time I loved a movie nobody else seemed to care about. Which begged the question, what are the other movies I think are good but got unfairly passed up on? The ones I love that seem to have no fan base, never get aired on TV, or discussed…
I have all the Star Fox games, I just never finished Adventures or played anything after that. But that copy of Command sitting in my stack of games looks nice and apparently Assault is good so I've decided to play them all to get the full experience. Beat the original Star Fox just now. On course…
This is the thing I've wanted to really talk about for... years, but it's hard trying to figure out how to go about it, though I was able to work my way through it in casual conversation recently so let's give it a whirl in writing. We seem to live in an age of absolutes, of increasingly polarized…
Dream this morning a computer avatar was being designed to take over a menial desk job. The system quickly broke down, not because of any technical problem. No, every system they tried broke down because the job was so menial no computer(would be willing to put up with it. Instead the avatar got in…
sometime during the last month, the voice of my conscience stopped sounding like Will Smith "No, don't do nothin' stupid!" and now sounds like Rainbow Dash "This is gonna be SO AWESOME!"
My own journals are starting to remind me of this https://xkcd.com/774/ and I don't like it. I don't want to be that guy. But I'm not sure what to believe anymore.
Was there last Saturday. I don't know the details of the retirement of the staff of Furry Connection North and the reorganization into Motor City Fur Con, but it seems to have gone off well - most of the programming from last year's FCN was there at this year's MCFC, including Uncle Kage's Story Ho…
Ok finishing off my series on... the kind of atheists that make me not want to be part of Atheism. Uber-skeptics, the more I think about it, are an ill-defined concept I dreamt up, and yet... from time to time you'll meet people who fit the bill, online at least. How to put this... Now there is not…
Though since I made this journal, https://www.weasyl.com/journal/38082/why-i-m-not-an-atheist and that one https://www.weasyl.com/journal/38083/atheist-zealots I've lost the burning desire to continue, I don't feel right not finishing. I've kind of gotten through my "R.E.M.-style crisis of faith" a…
I never threw away my old consoles, or my old games. And there are some games, much loved, that I could never win. From time to time, I still trot them out, give them another try. In the past year, my gamer skills have reached a point where, one-by-one, they were all beaten. The dream goals of chil…
Nothing Was Ever Lost My old pc hadn't died, the screen is just... goes black at the highest brightness setting. For a time, I used it, poking through lost files that I had been working on or pulled from the net and forgot the source... or even if I know the source, like FA I'm not going to remembe…
Winter has never been a good time for me. Well, that's not exactly true, once, when I was a kid, it meant "SNOW DAYS!" and running outside to completely trash the front and back yards with footprints, snow angels, snowmen, snow forts, snow castles, igloos, and knocking down every icicle in arm's re…
I know I am. While the new computer is a welcome improvement, its new computer smell is particularly bad for my allergies. I have to limit my exposure to it for these first few months, which is painful... I miss you guys, and so much stuff is piling up. Out of desperation, I tried the old one and f…
OMG read this book! here's why... Maybe some would consider it a classic sci-fi novel. All I know is it gets talked about a lot: they say it started the Cyberpunk genre. They say its lost relevance because Cyberpunk came and went. It's brilliant, but not worth reading because the technology is too…
This is relevant to my interest in Inari http://www.furaffinity.net/view/12777828/ http://www.furaffinity.net/view/12778021/ According to Wikipedia, Star Fox was inspired by a trip Miyamoto took to a shrine to this deity. "He decided to use a fox as a main character since it reminded him of Fushimi…
It's much the same as when I left Christianity behind, there were a number of problems that had nothing to do with the religion per se, but the community around it (homophobia, pedophile priests, being preachy to you). Atheists have a similar problem for me, and a lot of it is well, Christian Cultu…
(Where I was going with this before my PC died.) Struggling to find a way to make this short and not some long rant. These are new ideas for me, so I've not had time to organize them into neat little soundbites, and it doesn't help they're not simple. I've explained my mixed feelings in the previou…
My old lappytop died, and long story short, I got a new one from my uncle as a birthday present, and it's taken a couple weeks to figure out the new machine's quirks, this newfangled Windows 8, buy compatable printer, scanner, and so on. Very frustrating, but I'm glad to have it - it beats having a…
I remember an atheist once describing a near-death experience in great detail, and I paid attention because hey, they're the least likely to shade it with expectations. (I thought it was 2 when he had that extreme medical test in Ann Arbor, Michigan a few years back, but I've spent a couple hours s…
My biggest misgiving about whether magic is really real comes from the unlikeliest of sources - a magazine article on product marketing (which sadly isn't online, so I'll just have to sum up the basics in my own words.) In the 1950s, when psychology was a new and exciting science, some basic resear…
It's something that well, causes me to doubt 90% of my spiritual experiences. And yet I never wrote about it. First off, I never wanted to write too much about atheism and skeptical beliefs, because there's tons of people doing a good job of that already. Whereas my pagan stuff is things nobody els…
Since I posted my last journal, I've felt great. Nothing in my life changed, (it still sucks) but the energy I had in my 20s when I was in college, or even just before I burned myself out on the last semester... it's back. My spark is back. I feel like I'm myself again for the first time. I realize…
The last 6 months or so have been filled with inner conflict, the likes of which I haven't felt since I was 19 (my Goth phase my Mom nipped in the bud) or 26 (The Great Illness of 2007). I now describe myself as "Atheist, but when things get too weird, I burn sage and pray to the Gods." It's a rift…
Spiritual Year In Review This has been a year of learning. In addition to what I wrote about in the previous journal, there was a prayer for knowledge that seems to have been answered (though finding information about things that interest me isn't necessarily supernatural, I am looking for them aft…
This is a long one, but there's really no way around that except to bite the bullet and post the whole thing... My spiritual path has come full circle, from the sense that burning inscence, especially sage, is the one thing that really works against evil spirits and negative energies (but would pro…
had meant to write an unbroken string of journals about spiritual/philosophical stuff, then be free to write about whatever I was doing currently, and I'd be done with that by now, but then a couple weeks ago, life* happened. Barely managed to turn what was about to be a non-Christmas into one of t…
Basic info about magic I probably should have talked about a long time ago but... just didn't. In Wicca and other Pagan magic, there's a lot of talk about "raising power" and "grounding energy". The basic idea is that through ritual, such as dancing, chanting, drawing magic circles, arranging cryst…
It should come as no surprise I've overthought the implications of what it would mean if my vision of God as a Playful Little Girl were the truth. It gives answers to some questions, but at the price of them not being the answers many people want. Divine Plan? What Plan? Well, that's just the sort…
If you ask someone to draw a picture of God, they'd probably draw an old bearded man. It's the traditional image of God. When I was a boy, I found this image comforting. A father figure, protecting me, watching over me. Later as a teenager, when I lost faith, the image of God came to symbolize ever…
At some point, I made a distinction between the two, which I've never stopped to explain to anyone. Yes, I'm one of those people who might say "I'm spiritual, not religious." Here's how it happened: My parents generation uses the word religious, to describe a church-going person with Christian beli…
Typically, when people really get into Middle Earth, after reading the novels, they move to Tolkein's other writings... the Simillarion, the huge mythology he created about where elves and dwarves came from and who Sauron and Gandalf and Elrond really are. What I've seen a glimmer of is Tolkien was…
With the movie fast approaching, I finally had the motivation to finish the book. I'll try not to spoil the plot here, but I'll say this - what happens next in the story (and will probably be in the movie) is cooler than I expected. All the while, a quote was on my mind... which I thought I saved b…
Dream yesterday. I was in a huge furnature store, the size of 4 Art Vans with 50-foot vaulted ceilings connected by corridors so large you could drive a car through. Somehow I worked there or something, and the owner was showing me how to shut the place down for the night... for some reason, gravit…
(I blame Silverone's new journal for sparking thoughts of the Afterlife.) The first time it was introduced, I was 6. It was a place where we continued to exist with those we love. I can dig that. There was a weekly church paper, kind of like the word searches and stuff you find on the kid's placema…
Planning on eventually bringing an Absol forward from Pokemon Ruby into the current gen. At the bottom of that page, turns out it's a inspired by a rare creature from Japanese and Chinese mythology. To be sure, the Pokemon is a very sexed-up version of that thing, but Wikipedia says the sources don…
...and I got my budding knowledge of Japanese trashed in 0.2 seconds o_O "In shamanic cultures, synchronicities are recognized as signs that you are on the right path." Daniel Pinchbeck I just noticed that at the same time I was immersed in enough J-Pop to make a non-otaku ill, one of my favorite (…
For days and nights, I've been living in this Japanese music playlist. It is awesome, and like all things good on youtube, enjoy it before it's gone. (Yes, I'm an odd one who likes the theme songs of Animes I've never watched, and enjoys the sound of songs I can't understand.) http://www.youtube.co…
Just had an INTENSE rainfall here. The roof was rumbling with the sheer volume of water, like a bucket was being dumped on it, and there was a sustained 50mph-ish wind whipping the rain sideways. I'm inclined to believe it might have been a patch that could form a tornado... or was one. THAT woke m…
It was suggested I reinstall a fresh copy of skype. ... problem solved. The ads are gone.
Is anyone else seeing this? http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e211/khan_in_space/skype_ad_zpsf9bdaec9.jpg As of some random time yesterday afternoon, I see this ad on top of every Skype conversation. (Why adverstise Skype on Skype? WTF) ...but so far none of my friends are seeing this, so I wonder…
After spiritual purification, after talking with my friend Canid I've realized I need to just go and do more. Create, go to events, meet people, live. I can never make up for the time lost, but I can make the most of the time I have left. Today, unexpectedly, that intuitive feeling took form in the…
Saw it a week or two ago and didn't get around to writing a review. I read reviews of the plot and science, and didn't seem to have anything to add. It was good, very good, and is one of those rare times Hollywood goes out of its way to try to make the science accurate. It's obviously aimed at Spac…
My Mom rented this movie, and it was surprisingly good. Put it this way: there are two sci-fi movies where I don't have to switch my brain off and watch the pretty action sequences. Ones that if I think to myself "... but that doesn't make any damn sense!" the film comes right back with "That's rig…
http://www.furryconnectionnorth.com/ This hit me hard. I used to be in tears because people were having "life changing" experiences at furcons. I never learned to deal with that, instead FCN came to my town and I was happy. Now it's gone. And I'm in tears again. I have nothing but regret for every…
obligatory *SPOILER* warning because *SPOILERS* . . . . . My gods the more i think about it the more i realize this plot dropped the ball. The door opens every 30 moons - that's nearly 3 years. What happened 30 moons ago? Celestia suddenly sent Twilight to Ponyville to learn the Magic of Friendship…
*SPOILERS* and all that. like we care, it's just Ponies and every True Fan ™ has seen it by now anyway *OBLIGATORY SPOILERS WARNING* . . . . . The meat of the problem is the plot was as carefully watered down as the character designs. The thing that always "sold" MLP to me was the humor. Even in it…
It finally aired on Hub, and I caught this beast - girls think it's funny, Bronies think they don't know any better and its an abomination. Now that I can make my own judgement calls, it was just - bland. I see just a lot of opportunities wasted due to whatever fearful mentality was behind it. I do…
I had a dream there was a new series of novels popular with teenage girls, basically think Harry Potter crossed with a high school romance anime. At a magic school strongly segregated between boys and girls, where romance was forbidden, the mind control spells were thrown left and right - girls who…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqtNSdDFGBM Adventure Time always gave me this feeling it's quietly subverting social norms... I suspect this is just one little example.
I dreamed I was inside two episodes of SG-1 that never happened. I was part of SG-1, working with Jack O'Neil, Major Carter and Daniel Jackson. In Episode 1 there was a new Russian President who was mobilizing troops and were were sent as "ambassadors" to find out what he was up to, since he was ho…
This morning, something white flashed across my yard. It seemed to be a white rabbit, but curious if it really was or a bird, I ran out after it. Nothing. Like it was never there. Either I need more sleep or I'm in Wonderland now.
I've never had that instinctive horror from them, or even the sense that they're creepy killers. I think they're misunderstood. They're fishermen. Of the sky. Weave elaborate nets, sit with infinite patience. (well, except for hunting spiders, but I just see them as miniature versions of the wolves…
In a scene perhaps inspired by the opening of the Devil Wears Prada I was sent to interview for a position I wasn't really qualified for - IT work when my degree is in mechanical engineering. A year later, I was suprised to be called back to interview again. the boss lady liked something about my a…
Dream last night I was on the staff (maybe the commander) of a large spherical space station full of people slowly going mad. What I saw was mostly the view on a computer screen, like a video game, with colorful blips, and windows opening on data, or just things in the station's local media/interne…
was my guilty pleasure. Watched 5/6 of its episodes (guess they couldn't find that many people crazy enough to do it) and it just had the aftershow. Comedy gold. Favorite episode was the one in Africa where the guy was so macho "I don't need anyone! I'd be better off on my own!" and after stepping…
Looking in the mirror and thinking to myself. Would I still want to have sex with me? Do I still got it? Yes. (Apparently this is a sign of clinical narcissism, but I had to work up to this point out of a pit of teenage self-loathing and unrealistic expectations so fuck that noise.) Would I want to…
The spell I never knew I cast. Ok. This goes back. When I was a teen, at the beach I once found a pretty little shell with a convenient hole in it. Put a string through it and instant necklace. Cool. I liked to wonder if perhaps it was a stone age relic, just not as obvious as an arrowhead, and wha…
Some time ago I read this Which linked to this And this It's one of those things after you see it, it's a good read, you go about your life again... but a seed is planted. A month or so ago that seed sprouted, and now it's leaves cast a shadow over everything I do. I'm in an atheist swing lately, w…
Wow. This is really accurate for me. This is every party/con I've been to ever. My ending, however, isn't happy. I'm not comfortable living this way. Sure, I appreciate calm, silent moments, but I don't want my whole life to be one. I communicate through the internet because it removes the obstacle…
Just a couple days ago, I was watching Adventure Time episodes I'd seen before and thought this pony game was awesome. Because I'd skipped sleep the night before. It reminded me, whenever I've done an all-nighter, my personality changes. I learned this in college - after 24+ hours without sleep, my…
Dream this morning. I was back at my first day of college, only this time I drove into campus late at night, in Winter. I was confused and bounced around from office to office, barely able to talk because I was shy those days. Slowly but surely was getting the paperwork filled out so I could move i…
[grumpy old man] When did every moon become a "supermoon"? We used to just call them full moons. [/grumpy old man]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUHlVdqRlPA
http://xkcd.com/1223/ the only thing that ever got me excited about crop rotation schemes. o_O
http://xkcd.com/856/ OMG guys, My Little Pony, Friendship is Magic is just a string of trochees. I've been infected. brony is a trochee! aaah!
Had a good dream this morning. Two guys attacked and one of them bit me - turns out they were werejaguars, and I soon transformed into a feral jaguar. Below me were big beautiful paws, large pads to spread my weight so I could move silent. There was soon an effort in the city to capture the wild an…
I've been thinking, a lot of problems in our society could be explained as 90% of the population following the dysfunctional mythic journeys Christianity lays out for us. I can think of 3 variants off the top of my head. The Jesus Myth Every good Christian aspires to be like Jesus, but the story of…
