Please see "A Mother's Goodbye" (also on my blog) for context.
Melinda awoke with a groan and stirred under the sheet, trying to clear the fog from her head. Her thoughts were still scattered and she wasn’t sure where exactly she was or how long she had been out. She only knew that the cold metal against her back meant something had gone horribly wrong and she likely needed to make herself scarce.
Not wanting to make a scene, she listened intently for signs of life in the room around h
I'm sure some of you are wondering why I was MIA for a while, and that would be why. She unexpectedly passed due to lung cancer related complications Sunday night and it happened to fast that it kind of put everyone around here in shock. A part of me still can't believe it even though I was in the ICU the night before crying over her bed and saying goodbye.
The one thing pulling me through is that everything I believe and feel tells me she's in a better place, and that she's finally up there
I'm sitting here not knowing what to think because I've been doing research on things to finally gain peace of mind about everything and so many of the people I would have respected to some level before have been revealed to me as massive hypocrites and assholes with no excuse or much to be defended for.
I'm at some sort of peace now because I see where I stand clearly, but I don't know if I like it because these people claimed to stand for all the things I love about this fandom and turned
You know, I love Lauren Faust and all. She did a great job of giving the show it's first breath of life and creating the world and characters, but one thing grinds my gears:
I can't stand the people that kiss up to her to the extent of disrespecting the show's current staff and make it seem like everything without her direct hand in it is automatically garbage.
So cold.
Her body was almost numb from the cold rain that soaked her clothing and pelt by the time she reached the old warehouse. She rubbed her hands and cracked her knuckles, trying to restore the feeling back to them as her thin leather gloves had done little to keep them warm.
The echo of her own boots on the concrete and the sound of the rain on the metal roof we’re the only sounds warding off the deafening silence as she made her way to the back of the building in search of what sh
I finally found the perfect analogy on how I feel about the fandom and why I'm torn:
Picture a beautiful city, Sunny and full of life and people doing awesome things and street performers showing off all of their trades along the sidewalks and just brightening up everyone's day. A place where even the sunset brings beautiful night and lively night life full of good music and people nursing a solemn mood under the comfort of shadow.
Now, picture this place is surrounded by horrible slums
It's bee a long time since I watched a new anime, so I figured I ask for suggestion. Here's some of what I've enjoyed in the past:
Saber Marionette J
Rouroni Kenshin
Yu Yu Hakusho
Yu-Gi-Oh(first generation)
Gatekeepers 21(I think this one might be kind of obscure because it's only six episodes long and I found it in a Dollar Store bargain bin)
Cowboy Bebop
Heavy Rain seems good so far, like someone gave one of those really art and story focused indie titles a huge budget. Although, I can tell it's going be a emotional trip because I've only played for about an hour and it's almost broken me a couple times already.
I like how it's trying be kind of like one of the old FMV adventure games, but actually good. This is also the first time I've extensively used the six-axis controls on the PS3 and they seem to work well.
I've been thinking about my place in the fandom and community and come to realize something. I did watch the show when I got up the courage, and I did legitimately enjoy it, and still do. I legitimately enjoyed the awesome fan-work and still do.
I feel like I came into this in an academic back in 2011 though. I feel like I was more enthralled with the strangeness and newness of all this and more interesting in learning about the community than being a part of it, and lead me to wear a bit o
Dear Indie Horror game makers, I'm getting really sick of you remaking "I Can't See Shit: The Game.", I feel as though you were going for "nothing is scarier" but I feel like I could have gotten the same experience by merely turning off the lights in my bathroom and sitting in there until my eyes lose focus and I begin to hallucinate.
I know you probably put tons of work into the designing the game world, and I would very much like to see it and admire that hard work for myself.
I just had a thought.
Conspiracy theories(or rather, the community around them) are the ultimate echo-chambers:
Someone disagrees? They must be a shill(I've actually been called this by a couple really crazy theorists just because I could tear their theories apart)
Information goes against you're view of reality? It must be planted.
The evidence on hand challenges your theory? It must be falsified in some way.
Someone doesn't believe you or doesn't share your delusions? They
Last chapter and the setup for some real plot in the next story.
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“I’ve done some snooping around in sealed government records, stuff that they didn’t seem to want to find a public explanation for. I found some cases identical to what you say happened with this women, the kid’s mother,” The image on the monitor was cloaked in shadow and it’s voice was distorted by a voice modulator.
“Well? What did you find, my little mole,” Eggman said.
“It lead me t
This is a relatively cheap wallhanger, but I've always loved Duncan's Katana so I had to have this for $17 even if it's a cheap knock-off instead of anything officially licensed. This is probably the silliest nerd thing I've ever paid money for.
http://gizmodo.com/5973730/grab-photoshop-and-cs2-for-absolutely-free-right-here
Long story short, they don't want to run the activation severs for it anymore, so it's free right now. You just have to sign up for a free Adobe account. It is legit, I've downloaded Photoshop and Illustrator already(link goes to an article about it, which links to the right place on the Adobe site)
Update: it works, even on Win8
This is the kind of boost I got just going from a single 4GB chip, to two of them(which also enabled dual-channel mode)
Specs:
Lenovo C540
Intel Pentium G2020(Dual Core, 2.9Ghz)
Intel HD Graphics(650Mhz-1GHz)
8GB RAM(2x4GB, 1600MHz)
Windows 8
I live in a old 4-bedroom house built in the 1920s, I just realized one of the bedrooms(the one I use for storage/entry to attic now because we only need two) came with a lock on the OUTSIDE of the door.
I'm somewhere between scared shitless and intrigued...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2826252/Parents-horror-Evil-Stick-toddlers-reveals-picture-young-girl-slitting-wrists-knife.html
Also, I want a couple because of the "WTH" and creepy value those things have.
I LOVED as a kid and watched it everyday I could on IPTV(the local public TV channel), I just downloaded Season 1 an watched the first episode tonight. It was enjoyable and the story and writing seem to have held up fine. I will admit the animation hasn't aged well though. It's that weird of kind of "just okay" where I wouldn't call it bad, but I'd also hesitate to call it good.
I make a plea to the entire fandom from this little blog, We all like different things, we all create different things, that's what makes us so diverse and wonderful. Same goes for disliking something, you think Snow Drop is a horrible sue, I think she's wonderful, those are are opinions that we are both entitled to. Wonderful things they are, opinions, and it feels wonderful to voice them, positive or negative.
I know it's a human need to vent, I do it all the time. We just need to all reme
It kind has this country-pop thing going on, it reminds me of Gloriana a little(or maybe Lady Antebellum). I really like the the songs like this with that little poppy twang to them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlOAqG_NBjo
