Kill the tweens.

I am turning into a cynic. Somebody shoot me with a paintball, quick!

I hate the 13-16 year olds that try to get in as Children to a PG13 movie. I hate the high schoolers that really think *I* am stupid enough to think THEY are kids. I hate the adults who look like 42-year-old truckers, and say they're students. Hey, some of them are, but they have IDs to prove it! And what person in their right mind does NOT have an ID of some sort? I mean, yeah, I have an excuse, I lost mine-- but the day I did, I immediately made an appointment to get a new one! And I have relatively accurate back-ups! Gawd.

And the ones online? Even worse. The ones on the RPG are slightly annoying in that *twitch twitch* "I won't say anything" way. And I mean the Darks. I think they're cute and funny, but they don't seem to understand how a lot of things work. That seems true for a lot of YGO community mods, which is sad. Why aren't there more adults into this? Where have all the people with a sense of respect for the English or Japanese languages and the canon characterization seen in a series?

YES, I get that Fanfiction is about exploring a part of a character, plot, or story aspect that isn't normally found in the canon series... but why bother calling it a fanfiction if you are going to MUTILATE the characters so much that they don't even seem like who you SAY they are? Fanfictions, while given a lot of leeway, still have to be RECOGNIZABLE!

And the bitchy tweens, the ones that are having Pre-PMS? (Or with some of them, it's like Menopause 40 years ahead of time.) One of them railed on me for asking people to report CYOAs on FFnet to Xing as abuse. Even though Xing himself emailed me to say that I was right, they were illegal, and could I help him hunt them down? I said sure, but obviously I need help. It's come to my attention that yes, report-abuse abuse is COMMON, and no, Xing doesn't investigate every report like he should (honestly, with most reports, it would take a few seconds to VERIFY that what is being reported as abuse is true)... but most abuse reports, I should think, are legit. People won't take the time to report abuse as a fic when they have NOTHING to base it off of.

So she got on my ass... and this is what was said:
( One more reason to hate the tweeny-boppers. )

Ranting made me feel a bit better.

I ranted at work too, which was nice. Ranted about the managers, the OCs, and the suspicious favoritism that seemed to be played for most of the awards given out this past Saturday at the S&S meeting. Siannan, Anthony, and Co seemed to be the only ones that deserved it... (people that didn't suck manager/OC-ass, I mean). Speaking of Siannan, she had a proposition for me that might make my summer a bit more interesting. Rather than a movie theater, how about Abercrombie and Bit-- I mean FITCH? Folding clothes for 4 hours, $11 an hour at night... and getting to do/wear/think whatever I want. Man, that sounds too good to be true.

Oh yes.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMBER!


*inhale, exhale* I don't have to work for the rest of the week. CELEBRATE! Good times are ahead... Payday is this week, Fanime is coming up, so is the SFSU Campus Invasion by AnimEigo... ^___^ Think happy thoughts. THINK. HAPPY. THOUGHTS.

kill the tweens!

Getting mad at your parents is actually beneficial

I was so pissed at Mom yesterday. I still am. Less so, since I can't seem to hold anger as much as I used to, but still irked at her. I went to bed pretty early because of my leg --which is busted, as I've been telling everyone all day. The wound on my left knee, especially, was gruesome this morning, but it looked better once I showered and Bactine-d it. I've been using sterile pads as a sort of comfort, but the pain has been getting worse all day.

Maybe I'm being schizoid, but what if I sprained it? It's really hard to walk-- and everyone knows I'm limping. Maybe I should go to the doctor... *doesn't want to pay $15 for a false alarm*

Anyway, so I went to bed early yesterday, and at 9pm (one hour after I got into bed), I hear voices. LOUD ONES. Mom and her friends came over and were chatting and ordering pizza... and Mom, being the DUNCE she is, talking about weed and how they were going to roll a few joints and smoke some. Now, in case you don't know, my mom is a pothead. Not a bad one, but one nonetheless. And I have NO RESPECT for anyone that does drugs. I don't care what it's for, if it's illegal, it's for good reason. Her memory is already bad enough as is, but smoking pot!? And she wonders why I give her 'tude all the time. It's her fault Michelle (my late sister) got so mad at her and RAN away, and I blame it at least partially on my mom's stupidity, dishonesty, and blindness that, if she had STOPPED smoking, TRIED explaining things, then maybe her relationship with Michelle wouldn't have deteriorated so badly, and HELL, maybe she'd still be alive today.

Well, I marched up to her bedroom door and told her to please shut up, I was trying to sleep, SHE KNEW that, and couldn't she go someplace else? She's always telling me to clean the living room, clean the dining room-- I ask her why a few pairs of shoes or a jacket bother her (I leave them on ONE chair in the dining room or hall; it's easier for me when I leave to go out)-- she says "Well, what if I want to invite friends over?" GRRR. She's totally rude to me in front of her friends, and I try to say plainly that if they want to smoke, fine, just don't do it in the sunroom, which is RIGHT NEXT TO MY BEDROOM. She goes back in and whines to her friends, and I can STILL hear them talking about me. They observed how odd it was that it was a Friday night and *I* (the teenager) was in bed early and complaining about noise, while she, the disgusting 50 year old, was chatting it up with her friends and getting stoned.

I couldn't sleep. I had spent SO MUCH F*IN time trying to get comfortable with my bum leg, and she just wouldn't shut up. And there was all this about PIZZA and crap, and she was saying things to her friends about how I was moving (the other day she was getting all teary with me over it; saying we needed to talk and stuff. Bull). Well, I woke up and decided to start tearing all my posters down in the little niche of hallway near my room. She wants me to get ready to move!? FINE. I'll bring a few with me if I can't have new wallpaper; otherwise, just my wallscrolls and YGO calendar.

I shoved my stuffed animals (as many as I could cram) into my toychest; the rest are still in the hammock above my room. And I'll start cleaning up in there soon. Hell, I should get boxes now. She wants to know why I'm leaving? Because of HER! Because of her stupid, intolerable attitude, because she hardly ACTS like a mother, let alone the one I *used* to know, and because I was never afforded any real opportunity in her eyes, just delusions and excuses. I WILL NOT MISS HER. What is there to miss?

On the bright side, I channeled all that anger into FFX-2, and I beat the Gunner's Gauntlet! After many, many tries, but I finally got 523 points and beat Beclem's High Score... and I'm already in Bevelle, hunting after Vegnagun! Whee. And today in box, I talked with video games almost the whole time I was down there with Zhuo. T'was fun. I'm going to play more FFX-2 now since I don't work tomorrow (and to make up for my idiocy at not recording Alias tonight... *whine* Someone tell me what happened!) ... and maybe get some sleep on the couch.

More quotes for the Memories

I love the baking analogy. It's perfect. Just because you don't sell your cookies in a shop is no reason to serve up crap. If you like to bake, you do it the best you can out of personal pride.

It's the same with fan fiction. Presumably a person is writing because they want to tell stories and entertain themselves or an audience. Either way, you want to make it enjoyable to read or the story doesn't come alive. If you don't have enough personal pride to want to write well, don't write at all.

One caution I would extend though...don't anyone wear themselves thin over their fan fiction. I know some people who will learn new things and feel the need to go back and rewrite all of their old fan fiction to match. Put your best effort into your work, but let your mistakes stand as a testament to developing skill. A cookie with a single burnt edge is still tasty and the next batch is always better. --vr2lbast, on how "It's just fanfiction" is not an excuse for quick, badfic.

... And if you always burn your cookies and don't care to try harder, don't serve them to anyone else! Isn't it adding insult to injury to eat a burnt cookie, and then be told, "I don't care if it tastes disgusting, because I didn't make it for you!" ^_^; -- calluna21, in reply to the above.

It's all so true!

You can't cheat with strategy guides

I'm not cheating by using the FFX-2 strategy guide. o_O I'm just being smarter than I would WITHOUT it. And in all honesty, it's not the best strategy guide ever. I don't think one really exists, unless the makers of the game themselves write and publish it. Such is not the case for the FFX-2 guide.

Anyway, so I got up to Bevelle, where you first look for Vegnagun-- I breezed through the Highroad then went about messing with the lifts to get to the basement. Which was a pain in the ass. And when I finally figured everything out and got my way around, I had to get perfect timing for that whole "piston" machine, so you could get these two whack accessories-- Bloodlust and Wring. ^_^ I got 'em after a few tries, which was great; I was about to give up.

o_O Thing was, I had spent HOURS last night with the security watchtowers in the upper basement, trying to get to the bottom corridor where you get this "stellar" Ribbon accessory. And no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't align the platforms properly. I ended up playing the two bosses OVER AND OVER again. I got up to Level 35 or something before I finally just said "Screw it" and I went to sleep... but I attempted to play again in the morning (I didn't shut the PS2 off, hehe)... to no avail. Why couldn't the damn guide just use the glyphs in front of the towers to mark them, rather than LETTERS!? >_< They could say "go from (glyph pic) to (glyph pic) and fight (boss)."

Anyway, because of all that accidental leveling up I did, I'm almost done mastering Paine's Warrior dressphere, and all the other girls have their special dresspheres ready and at 25%+ mastery! As for the others, Yuna is a fantastic Gun Mage and White Mage, and Rikku makes a decent Black Mage and Dark Knight. I killed Baralai and Bahamut so fast, I was like "O_O *blink* What did I do??"

I got stuck again at the beginning of Chapter 3; I have to win at Sphere Break, and you know what math does to my brain. Stupid quotas and echoes. >_<

Anyway, it looks I've started another flame war! Whee. I still hate tweens, by the way. The rage continues:
( Stupidity is contagious. )

Breathe Mer, breathe.

*wince* HOW CAN I, WHEN RYOU JUST POSTED SOMETHING THAT IMPLIES HIS YAMI BEAT HIM!?!?!?!?!? Gawd that is so... >_< MAKE IT STOP!

I need some goodfics!!!!!! *cries*

BEA has 98 members. 2 wallpapers, and one more special fanart from Thallein. Maybe the next layout should be fanart-based, kind of like how BEA's first/current layout was based off the one Mamono sent me? But I need a color scheme so I know what to look for-- and I'd prefer the fanart be something submitted to BEA, since stealing Japanese fanart isn't nice. :P A lot of the art on Janime is great, but it's either Seto alone or Anzu alone. :P Very few of them together... which is sad.

Plotting.

Okay, so I need to make new layouts, if not for Darkness Rising, then at least for BEA. And I had this inspiration last night/this morning-- KaibaCorp themed! Kind of like how the Power of Chaos Kaiba the Revenge game is all techy looking. Like that.

MAMONO I NEED YOUR HELP!!

Got new fanart for the 100 Member Mark from Thallein-- nice shot! Another new wallpaper from Mamono, too. I need to start working on WDKY10's Tea KiSS doll. And no, not kiss-- KiSS-- short for Kiskasae Ningyou. If you don't know what it is, go here: http://www.otakuworld.com

I posted as Anzu on the RP again. Well "evil!Anzu" anyway. I can't wait till Mamono sees. ^_____^ And Yugi, and Mokuba... *grin* And Shizuka! :DDDD

*yawn* I need a nap.