tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44605313383604935112024-02-19T03:05:59.900-08:00Dollow's BlogThe Official home blog for Dollow RlanceDollow Rlancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10289701478731769025noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4460531338360493511.post-79119101534276451862023-01-09T01:54:00.003-08:002023-01-10T02:11:39.008-08:00Revival of a Blog<p>Its been a really long time since I made a post of this blog, but here I am to post something.</p><p>So the question of why have I returned to this blog is complicated, but in the interest of keeping it simple, I just wanted to make sure I had a personal space, in case something happened to my <a href="https://twitter.com/DollowR" target="_blank">Twitter</a>, which is my main place of interacting or blogging. I highly doubt I would leave Twitter, unless something really bad came about, because of that freakshow known as Elon Musk, in which case I would need somewhere to post my thoughts. One might wonder, why Blogspot? Why not some other SMS (Social Media Site) like Facebook, Instagram or something like that? Well I have profiles on those sites too, but they have very particular reasons for existing and none are for posting my thoughts really. Instagram is most for pictures, so I am not always in the mood to post pictures, Facebook is there for business and things of that nature, so it just seemed like the right time to bring back my blog, which even though I have lightly maintain the blog, I haven't really done anything of note for it since 2018. <span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p>My goal with my blog, like all things is to post my thoughts, on what I was thinking at that moment. I want to try and post on my blog once every week before I move to a twice a week for the blog, just to ease my way back into posting here and considering I will still be posting on Twitter my thought from my phone, blog will be more building of something more long formed with pictures. I won't be using Photobucket anymore, I kind of used that site because it was a really old tie to my high school years, but something happened to the pictures on my account and so most of the links that I used to my blog pictures are gone. Which meant in the background I had to update the blog to use photos that where directly uploaded to the blog itself, which will be the standard going forward, so if the blog goes down so do the pictures, it will be easier rather than having to manage a whole other site; to direct link a picture just to display on here. </p><p>So I hope to post more in the future and all that. I am not going to link my blog posts to other sites, and there will be times where I will post something, that will be on the blog but only I can see it, an entry that I can write for myself, to just get it out but not share with anyone, but even then I will still make sure to post two public entries on this blog, no matter what, when we get to that point. </p><p>A lot has happen in the time since 2018 when my last post was made, 2019 was my biggest year in YuGiOh since 2006 and getting two new cats of Alex and Blair, 2020 was when the world disaster of COVID-19 happens and enduring a lot of personal loneliness which never went away, 2021 was trying to return to some since of normal but watching United States trying to tear itself apart from traitors, and 2022 was the year of gaming and family stuff that I will not share here. But those are topics for another post, right now I am going to leave at that and say that was a nice return for now to this blog and a good night. </p><p>Dollow Rlance</p>Dollow Rlancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10289701478731769025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4460531338360493511.post-46341459280294279912018-06-30T03:46:00.000-07:002018-07-01T14:42:22.901-07:00Yugioh and my stories in competitive tournaments.I am getting that feeling again like I did in 2006 and again in 2008 and 2009; where I am asking myself if I still like playing Yugioh. Tonight, was an awful night, I know that it is me and not my deck.<br />
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In 2006, I went to GenCon 2006 which I think to this day is the biggest tournament I been to playing Yugioh, where I was playing my old Horus deck, it was fun because in hindsight, I lived and saw a lot of legendary things. I held a UDE Seal of Orichalcos, I played against Cyber-Stein format, met a lot of overseas players from Brazil. This was the end of my most competitive year of Yugioh where in one year I went to no less then 4 regionals, 1 Shonen Jump and a point based summer long tournament. What made it worse was I found out that I missed out on the chance of winning a legendary card at the time because I left GenCon early (lost my phone the week before so no one could call me), it was the SJC Shrink and after coming back I really felt defeated. Plus I had a lot of personal baggage that I had to sort out after coming back, all I will say on that is that there is somethings you cannot force with people.<br />
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In 2008 and 2009, this was my second most competitive time for me, I didn't go to many regionals but I went to enough in the timeline to try and go to nationals. This was the era of the infamous Dark Armed Dragon and later what would be called Tele-DAD, in which I really question myself because I was hit with what we called the "$5000 Combo", which was Gold Sarcophagus into Crush Card Virus. Why was it a "$5000 Combo"? Because when I was first hit with that combo those 2 cards were championship level cards, meaning you were only able to get the cards if you won a Shonen Jump Championship, which was a combo that would let you search 1 card and add it to your hand in 2 turns, so you would add Crush Card Virus which would almost always destroy most of your hand and for 3 turns if you drew a monster with a particular amount of attack you would have to discard them, effectively deadlocking your draws. This was first and ONLY time, where I truly hated playing Yugioh as a card game. Needless to say, I think everyone anyone who went through that, would give up competitive play, and I did.<br />
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Now in 2018, here I am once again, questioning myself about my skill level. I know what the problem is, in a tournament moment I get a stressed because I am trying to play very carefully, and then I forget a important play, and when I am on my game I am trying to move as fast as I can because the new time rules can make or break your wins, which happened tonight, I lost because the new time rule locked me out of the win, one more turn and I would have won. I am in that point where, I am reevaluating myself in the context of this game, the deck I am playing, and my personality.<br />
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I felt like talking about myself and how I feel, I wanted to get a lot of that off my heart and just talk in detail, about something that is dear to my heart and kinda where I came from in card games. Because I think it does influence personality, can put you in a place where you might not realize that was a part of yourself, and don't want to feel but you have to let wash over you, because feelings are a part of you and define your dreams. I guess that is all I have to say.<br />
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"Believe in yourself and you shall always prevail"Dollow Rlancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10289701478731769025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4460531338360493511.post-36313992649056306322014-01-14T17:53:00.001-08:002014-01-28T02:02:16.941-08:00Anime ConventionsI will be up front on convention for anime and comic books, I really don't like going to conventions really all that much. It's not really one of those cases of the fans are very annoying, it is just huge pain in the butt. I remember when I went to Anime Expo 2009, it was very fun but the one thing that always remember (Besides the cosplayers) is the pain that was all across my legs, arms and neck, and I get that same pain every year, one time this past year I got very sick because of being so tired and the pain put me out of commission for two days.<br />
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Anime conventions can be fun, but never like going to more than one than a year, it's annoying to me and as much as I like anime, my fandom only goes so far and really one is really all I need. I am not a cosplayer, I am not a voice actor, I am not even a panel host or anything, I am just someone who likes going to Anime Expo for one day and that is it.</div>
Dollow Rlancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10289701478731769025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4460531338360493511.post-74879383757221045312013-08-10T20:26:00.001-07:002013-08-10T20:45:59.169-07:00August FeelingsIt is August again and with it comes the smell of "New Air", or just the felling of cooler days.<br />
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August tends to be a very nice month for me as I like to take more walks and do more cleaning outside and the feeling that there is something different on the horizon feels nice.<br />
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August to me is the month of change, more so than any other month in the year or anything, I wish that the feeling I get from this month could last the whole year. but it never does, and it lasts from the beginning of the August to the middle of September, when we start to move to fall, which never really feels or smells as good as August here in California, which I guess might sound weird coming from someone who lived in California their whole life.<br />
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August is a month that I feel something very nice, not too hot, cool air, and light winds to help clear the skies for a wonderful feeling inside.<br />
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I will say this about Facebook, it makes my job for mahq.net, gundamn and CTCast a lot easier, but I am a very private person by nature, so when people ask for requests from me and I don't respond, it is because I am not comfortable sharing information anymore.<br />
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Since I started working for Gundamn in October of 2012, I made it my mission to do the best I can, and since I know I am the guy behind the veil, I would be able to work silently.<br />
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I guess what I am getting at is, when I joined Facebook I was trying to get out of my comfort zone, but this stuff never worked for me, and the only reason I really ever Facebook is for MAHQ.net, Gundamn and CTCast work because that is very imporant to me.<br />
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I got a lot of requests from fans of Gundamn and CTCast for VAs and actors they want to see on the shows, which I understand, I mean everyone wants to hear who they want.<br />
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But Please understand this, this stuff really is not easy for me or anyone as I have to time things out, between VAs and the shows, and getting them to yes takes time from weeks to months. So when you say nasty things to me that I am not requesting the right people, please note that does not make anyone feel good, let alone me. So Please, I ask you to please stop sending requests to me about which VAs or actors you want to hear, as I am trying to get the best in the business, and if I do not say thing about it, I have good reasons for it.<br />
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Dollow RlanceDollow Rlancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10289701478731769025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4460531338360493511.post-80000199680248975762013-03-22T10:41:00.000-07:002013-03-22T11:11:56.069-07:00Solar Radio Wave Tribute Podcast: EP1 Generation PastEP1 Generation Past<br />
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This is a return of Solar Radio Wave, but not to the same level as before, I wanted to do a podcast again to keep my skills sharp as possible, plus I want to do something about gaming. The whole thing with SRWT is that it will be an irregular release podcast, and episode will come out when ever, as I am doing things for <a href="http://gundamn.net/">gundamn.net</a> and <a href="http://mahq.net/">mahq.net</a> I don't want to over extend myself on a whole lot of projects. It was nice to work with Chloe and Sam again on a podcast, like the old days.<br />
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Description: The Return of Solar Radio Wave Podcast, in this ep Dollow, Chloe, Sam talk about 7th gaming console generation. Recorded on March 16th, 2013<br />
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Finding a good manga that you enjoy reading can be a very
difficult task some times, but there are times when you come across one that is
a simple joy to read, and Iris Zero is a good manga that gives you a story that
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Starting with the premise of Iris Zero, 27 years before
the main plot, children around the world were being born with an enhance vision
called "Iris", which range from unique powers such as; to see if
someone is lying or being able to see incoming danger. Before long, a whole
generation of children are born with an Iris, to the point it is normal for
every child to have one (99% of Children as said in the manga), but there are a
few who are born without an Iris and are labeled as an "Iris Zero" by
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The main story starts with the main character named <a href="http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t4/Dollow/Dollow%20Blog/Iris%20Zero%20pics/Toru2_zps8b96d91b.png" target="_blank">Toru Mizushima</a>,
while riding a train to school he explains a little bit about his "Low Exposure" policy that is explained in more detail later, that he lives a
life to not stand out or draw attention to himself as a Iris Zero; as it causes
him a lot of trouble in his life. One day in class, his life becomes very
complicated when the school idol, Koyuki Sasamori asks Toru to <a href="http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t4/Dollow/Dollow%20Blog/Iris%20Zero%20pics/Pleasegooutwithme_zps90ca75a0.png" target="_blank">"Please go out with me"</a> in front of his whole class, breaking his "Low Exposure" life. After a few amusing moments, it turns out that Koyuki
needs help in finding the next student council president; as her Iris power
allows her to see "who are the most qualified" for the task which
displays over the heads of people with "O"s for qualify and “X"s
for those who are not, but she cannot find the next president so she uses her
Iris to find the one who can help her, and thus why it lead her to Toru.
Hesitant at first to help someone so popular and endanger his privacy, Toru
helps by pointing out that maybe the reason she could not find the right person
for school council president, <a href="http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t4/Dollow/Dollow%20Blog/Iris%20Zero%20pics/AnOoverherhead_zps5c3fdc35.png" target="_blank">is because she cannot see above her own head</a>,
which it turns out that the circle "O" she was looking for to find
the qualified person was really her. As the student body gushes about Koyuki
being student council president, Toru walks away back to his unseen life, <a href="http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t4/Dollow/Dollow%20Blog/Iris%20Zero%20pics/Hello_zps53992594.png" target="_blank">until he finds Koyuki waiting for him outside the school gates to greet him.</a></div>
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- <a href="http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t4/Dollow/Dollow%20Blog/Iris%20Zero%20pics/Yuki2_zpsa920022f.png" target="_blank">Asahi Yuki</a>: A hot headed girl from Toru's childhood,
who ratted out Toru as an Iris Zero because he revealed her
Iris; that allows her to tell if someone is lying or not if they have a tail, and was only able to
gain Toru's forgiveness when Koyuki asked him; to help Asahi
from being suspended after she slaps her homeroom teacher <a href="http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t4/Dollow/Dollow%20Blog/Iris%20Zero%20pics/Fujimura_zpsdfe81b44.png" target="_blank">Fujimura</a> (Age
25) for lying to her about her job choice (a Police Officer), not
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best friend from middle school, they first met when Hijiri's Iris, which lets
him see butterflies that gather around living things that are about to die,
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the power to see everyone's feeling, that are displayed on their
backs as wings in different colors based on emotions. She met Toru on a school
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The Cultural Festival comes to school, much to Toru’s
annoyance, and as Koyuki, Asahi & Hijiri are holding a "Japanese Style
Café"; everyone is excited (mostly boys) for the rare chance to see Koyuki
in hakama, but when the time comes for her to wear it goes missing and the
class blames it on the maid café nearby, but no one can prove that they did it,
when someone mentions they could have hide the hakama under their maid outfit,
but Nanase points out that the hakama wouldn’t fit under the maid outfits. Toru
steps out with Hijiri for a moment and he mentions it might be Nanase, as she
was only one who knew that Koyuki was even meant to wear a hakama; but says it
only speculation as he has no proof. Koyuki hearing Toru & Hijiri goes to
ask not about her costume; but her feelings about someone she likes, because
she feels that the reasons for that are the same reasons for Nanase, and her
Iris told her she was the best person to help her understand why. Nanase apologizes
for stealing her costume as she saw the
boy she liked was in line for Koyuki’s class to see another girl in Japanese clothes,
and she believe if he saw her in Koyuki’s costume he would notice her but to no
success, she apologizes again because she was going to give it back but was
scared, <a href="https://i.imgur.com/7u1i16S.png" target="_blank">the two understand each other’s feelings</a> and Nanase mentions she wasn’t
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After that <a href="http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t4/Dollow/Dollow%20Blog/Iris%20Zero%20pics/What_zpsfa131b44.png" target="_blank">Nanase</a> gets a confession from Houjou, the same
boy she likes, with the others watching the event play out, but <a href="http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t4/Dollow/Dollow%20Blog/Iris%20Zero%20pics/Xtailbutterfly_zps708eb500.png" target="_blank">Koyuki, Asahi & Hijiri see with their Irises an “X”, a tail on Houjou and later on Hijiri tells Toru he saw a butterfly</a> on Nanase. Toru tries to keep Koyuki out of the problem by saying
it’s not their problem to mess with Nanase’s affairs, but she ends up doing so
by talking to Nanase’s childhood friend Harumi Tokita; and asking for his help
as she says he is the most qualified person to help Nanase but secretly pretends
to not care as he has his own plans. The others confront Houjou about lying to
Nanase, but denied everything they say and walks away not realizing that Nanase
was listening to their conversation. Houjou invites Nanase to his house and
despite her better judgment with him, and the ends up in bed with little clothes
on and kissing each other. But Nanase notices that Houjou’s has colorless wings
on his back, meaning no emotions, and quickly learns he only likes her because
she looks like Koyuki, and becomes a <a href="http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t4/Dollow/Dollow%20Blog/Iris%20Zero%20pics/yikes_zps494c9506.png" target="_blank">different person</a> at this moment scaring Houjou.
After that Nanase becomes an “Iris Hunter” stealing the student’s irises, and making
Toru think Koyuki she is scared of him and leaving the school so he would not
get in the way of her plans. But with Koyuki’s help after learning
what Toru has to go through as an Iris Zero on a daily bases, she gets him to
come back to school to help Nanase for her pain, which turns out that because
of her Iris she was abused by her father and the reason her parents divorced.
She is driven by her guilt over everything she had done, she tries to commit suicide
first by jumping off the roof before being stopped by <a href="http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t4/Dollow/Dollow%20Blog/Iris%20Zero%20pics/Ouch_zps352e6f85.png" target="_blank">Hijiri as he tossed the knife he had with him</a>, and then by the same knife tried again before <a href="http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t4/Dollow/Dollow%20Blog/Iris%20Zero%20pics/Saved_zps6692a677.png" target="_blank">Tokita stops her</a>. Tokita was the reason Houjou asked Nanase out and for her happiness,
and when it backfires and she became a Iris Hunter he took the blame and tried
to make himself the bad guy. He talks her out of it, and <a href="http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t4/Dollow/Dollow%20Blog/Iris%20Zero%20pics/Haircut_zps69a6f557.png" target="_blank">she cuts hair off to note she is a different person</a>, a better person, to which Hijiri says he going
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That’s the bulk of the story, after this point we get
some background story on how Nanase, Tokita & Houjou became friends when he
was a rebel student, an adventure on getting Koyuki a good birthday gift, and a
very endearing fake date between Hijiri and Nanase. But the biggest story point
is when the whole group debates the relationship between Koyuki and Toru and if
he notices her feelings for him, Asahi has a one way discussion with him when
they are alone when she realizes that he is only pretending to not notice because
he is scared of losing not only Koyuki but everyone as a friend, Asahi leaves
him to think about it and tells him it’s not nice to hurt a girls feelings when he
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The story is good, it has a very moe art-style to it; but
tells a story about these characters’ emotions, and each getting their own story
arcs, and even then the art is nice; especially when it comes to everyone’s
smiles. One of the few problems is that it falls into the trap of manga in
Japan of just stopping and not having an ending, grated one of the story writers got
really sick and had to stop but the story leaves off on a lot of things that
need to be explained, and chances are when the writer gets better they will not continue the story. Another good thing is the little
side stories that characters get sometimes, like Toru’s love for sweets when
he cannot get a piece of cake because he is a guy and goes against his “Minimal
Exposure” policy to get some by calling Koyuki, or the notes about how the series
came to be by the characters explaining the back story. Toru Mizushima as a character
is fun as he is a complete anti-social, but despite that still makes friends before
he realizes what happens, and to see his view on the world; when the characters
need an outside opinion on not only the world, but for themselves as people
because their Iris sometimes tell them less than they may think about other
people. Overall a good manga to check out if only for the characters and the emotional
adventures the story takes them on.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I knew this day would come, I just didn't think it would come so soon, this was hard to do as my laptop had blown out on me and so Solar Radio Wave The Second Flare has to be canceled at this point sadly. I tried my best to reach that ten ep goal but its not to be. I did this because I love this movie, and its also has many themes that I want to send everyone out on to think about, this was something I wanted to do for a long time. I don't want to type many things here, I will say, thank you for listening and take care, and I will let the podcast and movie speak my feelings.<br />
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This was really hard one to do, as I worked all night on it, got sick, and pushed myself to make my deadline for Monday. This was the most epic podcast that I have ever done, if only because I was working on a E3 podcast with member from <a href="http://gamingunion.net/">gamingunion.net</a>, and we were Skype-ing all across the world. This was one show I will never forget, it was fun, the opening was just stuff I grouped together from other E3 shows of the pass with Kevin Butler to lead us. I am happy with how this came out.<br />
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There really isn't much to this podcast, I was with some <a href="http://gamingunion.net/">gamingunion.net</a> friends, and we (or at least me) just could not stop talking about Ubisoft's Watch Dogs, this was recorded while E3 2012 was going, and just chatting on Skype, I was thinking it would be could to get this sound while I can.<br />
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This was a funny one to work on, if only because this has a very short turn around time. Working with Chloe and Colin from <a href="http://gamingunion.net/">gamingunion.net</a>, was a fun and weird feeling as when I started this podcast, I had no idea that I would be doing a E3 podcast with them, how far have I come since Flare 1. I used the song called "<a href="http://youtu.be/SA0LbKipmRs" target="_blank">Nameless Heroes</a>" from Valkyria Chronicles 3, because I wanted something really epic to bring us in, hope was what I was going for. I was really nervous going into this podcast, until we did the podcast and I got in character and I was my podcast self. I really hope this came out well for everyone, I did work really hard on this podcast.<br />
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Well here is the one I say I would do for Hunter. This one is a new one on all fronts, it is the second part to Flare 2, but at the same time its not. This is where Hunter, the guy who could not join us for EP2, gets to put out his RPG picks, this was a simple ep to do as it was all about Hunter. The only different thing about this podcast, is that it's not a "Flare" ep, in other words, a numbered episode, I didn't want to number it "Flare 5" as that would have cut into my episode limit, so I wanted a special ep for things not part of my Flare numbers. So went with Dawn as it relates to the sun, solar theme, we have with this podcast.<br />
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Here is Episode 4 of the Solar Radio Wave The Second Flare, Flare 4 Shipping Ideas. This was a fun one to do as it was about shipping, and I never thought I would do a podcast about shipping, it was one thing I always try to avoid in the old podcast. With <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/ceschiii" target="_blank">Ceschiii</a> and <a href="http://animepantry.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Melissa</a> as special guests for the show it was nice to work with them, Melissa sadly had to leave early in our podcast, that was a loss, but overall I like how this podcast came out. Thank you to Sam who helped with the outline.<br />
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Description: Discussion of Shipping in Video Games and Anime, Guest Hosts Ceschiii (Francesca) and Melissa (Fataleflare). Do you need to know anything more than that? Recorded on Sat. May 19, 2012<br />
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The IRL Podcast<br />
The IRL Podcast EP1<br />
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<u>Melissa's Links</u><br />
Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/Fataleflare">https://twitter.com/#!/Fataleflare</a><br />
<a href="http://animepantry.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">The Anime Pantry Review Site</a><br />
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Link to Main Site: <a href="http://www.zreomusic.com/">http://www.zreomusic.com/</a>Dollow Rlancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10289701478731769025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4460531338360493511.post-26141105410255722322012-05-22T19:44:00.000-07:002016-08-05T03:28:02.551-07:00TSF: Flare 3 Anime Shuffle<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here is episode 3 of Solar Radio Wave The Second Flare<br />
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This took longer as when I first started to edit it, I got a weird sound in the first edit that I can only call some Type of "Ringing". I edited the whole podcast, and it was finished, but I wanted to hear the raw, and when I did, the "ringing" was not there. So I started all over again and I got rid of the "ringing" sound and this came out well. Talking about the anime Shuffle was nice as that was some leftovers from the old Solar Radio Wave podcast, and me and Sam do like it, glad that we were able to finally do it.<br />
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Description: Anime Review of the TV show Shuffle, Recorded Thursday, May 17, 2012. dollowrlance.blogspot.com<br />
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Link to Main Site: <a href="http://www.zreomusic.com/">http://www.zreomusic.com/</a>Dollow Rlancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10289701478731769025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4460531338360493511.post-84627542793248969032012-05-11T20:14:00.002-07:002016-08-05T03:28:43.481-07:00TSF: Flare 2 Top 5 RPGSHere is episode 2 in Solar Radio Wave The Second Flare<br />
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This where me, Sam and <a href="http://gamingunion.net/">gamingunion.net</a> friends <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/Varnis290" target="_blank">Varnis</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/n1fffan" target="_blank">Zero</a> talk about our top 5 rgps that we love, its more or less a general topic, but is was fun as I got to do this with a group.<br />
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EP 1 The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya<br />
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This is where Me and Sam talk about the movie of The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya as we are big fans of the Haruhi series, we look into the movie's plot and compare to the book. Its something I can say that was fun, but hard to do as making the video was pain, I can never do anything simple.<br />
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Kid Icarus 'MegaloKidMarch'<br />
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First ep was about the Haruhi Movie and the second was with my friends on <a href="http://gamingunion.net/">gamingunion.net</a> on our top 5 RPGs, and some stuff came out of that. I don't know if I will upload the older Solar Radio Wave, but when I find a cloud site I might.<br />
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Either way I am back as a podcaster.Dollow Rlancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10289701478731769025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4460531338360493511.post-18988191906235838702012-03-25T17:33:00.003-07:002013-01-06T20:06:58.246-08:00Manga Review: Yu-Gi-Oh GX Vol. 1 Ch. 1 “A New Hero”<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
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Jaden Yuki is attacking a Ra Yellow student with Bubbleman for a win; as Syrus Truesdale cheers for him. Jaden is laying down on his back in the school courtyard, until Alexis Rhodes comes to say hello to him and he looks up at her and greets her, she says he is normally not alone and asks where Syrus is and Jaden tells her he is dueling a new trainee teacher. Alexis remembers that the trainee teacher is named Mr. Ryuga and mentions she heard a bad rumor about him, with Jaden’s attention she tells him that Mr. Ryuga is trying to finish the final test to become a full time teacher of the academy; by winning against 50 different students, Jaden asks was Syrus pick as one of the students, and Alexis says that Mr. Ryuga is on a 45-game winning streak, Jaden wonders what is wrong as he sounds like a good duelist, and she tells him that she has heard; that Ryuga takes cards from the decks of the duelists who lose to him afterward. Jaden is then shocked, and remembers hearing something about a student who had to skip class; because he did not have his cards, Jaden then dismisses; it saying that it’s only a rumor. Syrus is being attacked by Ryuga’s Cyber Dinosaur during the duel for Ryuga’s teacher entry, and Syrus wonders why his duel disk is not activating his spell cards; while it still responds to his monster and traps cards. Later Syrus is walking down a hallway when Jaden finds him slaps his back and asks how the duel went; and he gets worry when Syrus falls down and does not respond, Syrus looks up at Jaden crying and says that Ryuga stole his cards. </div>
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Mr. Ryuga is having a meeting with Doctor Vellian Crowler, who says he is impressed by Ryuga 49 winning streak, Ryuga asks he that only needs another to become a teacher for next year, Dr. Crowler confirms and responds; that academy teachers should not have trouble completing the entry test. Ryuga smiles and thinks to himself, that once he becomes a Duel Academy teacher; Dr. Crowler will be history and he will rise in the academy ranks, where his voice will be taken seriously finally, and his students who studied under him will spread across the world and he will control the dueling world, so he will do anything to make that happen, even if he has to take orders for a while.</div>
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Realizing the rumor about Ryuga stealing cards is true, Jaden furiously marches towards Dr. Crowler’s office aimed on getting back all the cards that Ryuga has stolen, while not listening to Syrus; who is trying to convince him not to confront Ryuga, but Jaden just says he did not care and Ryuga doesn't deserve to be a duelist. Finding Ryuga just coming out of Crowler’s office, Jaden moves right in front of him and demands that Syrus’ cards be return to his friend, Ryuga wonders who Jaden is before Jaden introduces himself. Ryuga is intrigue that this was the famous Silfer Red, <a href="http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t4/Dollow/Dollow%20Blog/Yugioh%20GX%20manga%20Review/gx11-.png" target="_blank">as Jaden continues to angrily question Ryuga what gives him the right to steal cards from students at the school</a>, Ryuga just says that he a is a card collector and Syrus had cards he wanted and claims that Syrus gave them to him, and then asks Jaden if he has any cards to give to him. Jaden tells him that the cards of a duelist are their soul, and asks Ryuga that does he honestly believe he is just going to hand over his deck for which he says is his soul. Ryuga tells them they are going to want to stay on his good side, <a href="http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t4/Dollow/Dollow%20Blog/Yugioh%20GX%20manga%20Review/gx12.png" target="_blank">and by handing over their cards, their grades are guaranteed once he becomes a teacher next year, and that the cards would be happier with him rather than with a bunch of Silfers</a>. Jaden coldly tells Ryuga he refuses to see him as a duelist and that he is a disgrace, annoyed, Ryuga stares down at Jaden and says once he becomes a teacher Jaden is going right to the top of his expulsion list, but Jaden retorts back that Ryuga is not a teacher yet, Ryuga counters saying he may as well be one for he needs only one more win.</div>
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Five turns in their game, Jaden attacks with Elemental Hero Wildheart (Atk: 1500) Ryuga’s monster for 750 Life Point damage leaving him with 3250 against Jaden’s 4000 LP. Ryuga thinks to himself that Jaden is stronger than he expected realizes that his victory against Dr. Crowler may have not been a fluke, but Ryuga says he knows the tricks to Jaden’s deck; by relying on his spell cards to create stronger monsters by fusion, and once he gets rid of the spells Jaden will be easy to deal with, and then starts his turn by summoning Don Turtle and then plays the spell Ultra Evolution Pill to tribute Don Turtle and special summons Cyber Dinosaur (Atk: 2500), to attack Wildheart for 1000 LP damage putting Jaden at 3000 LP and ends his turn by placing a card face down. Drawing a card Jaden smiles at his hand; seeing he has all the cards he needs to finish the match, but Ryuga notices Jaden’s face and fiddles with his ring, pointing it at Jaden’s duel disk as he is trying to use polymerization but finds it does not work, Ryuga says to himself that his ring gives off a special signal that prevents players from using spell cards on their duel disks, all the while Jaden asking why his spell is not working.<br />
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Syrus wonders why Jaden is not using the fusion card in his hand, Alexis wonders why too and Syrus for first time notices both her and Obelisk Blue Chazz Princeton, Syrus thinks that maybe Jaden’s duel disk won’t activate the spell like his, Dr. Crowler says that it is his own fault for not maintaining his disk, but Syrus say it was the same way with him; but when he checked the his own disk there was nothing wrong with it. Jaden summons E-Hero Ocean defense mode and changes E-Hero Sparkman to defense as well and ends his turn, he worries about not using his spells and that he should have check his duel disk earlier, Ryuga summons Hyper Hammer (Atk: 1500) in attack position, and uses the spell Smashing Ground, since his duel disk is protected against his ring, to destroy Sparkman and attacks Ocean with Hyper Hammer only for the attack to be stop by Jaden’s Hero Barrier trap, Jaden believes he is safe until <a href="http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t4/Dollow/Dollow%20Blog/Yugioh%20GX%20manga%20Review/gx24.png" target="_blank">Cyber Dinosaur attacks directly for 2500 leaving Jaden with only 500 LP</a>, he is shocked that Ryuga can attack directly by sacrificing a monster when he has only defense position monsters. Jaden keeps wondering why his duel disk is not working right, <a href="http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t4/Dollow/Dollow%20Blog/Yugioh%20GX%20manga%20Review/gx25.png" target="_blank">until he remembers that he used it to played Frisbee with Syrus the other day</a>, and believes that was the reason why it is not reading his spell cards. </div>
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This first chapter starts as a very normal day for a Yu-Gi-Oh GX story, as the manga story starts Jaden using his older cards from the anime, such as Bubbleman and Sparkman; and later we never see them again, guess that was done so that new readers; who were coming from the anime to manga, can be ease into the newer heroes better.<br />
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Speaking of the new, the manga story writer and artist Naoyuki Kageyama, adds some things to the GX manga that was not the GX anime, Heroes aside Kageyama artwork of GX retains the look of GX from the anime, but in small ways improves on it, such as getting down the Duel Academy look of both the island and buildings prefect, a lot of the characters from the anime still look the same; but also look slightly aged and have a more refined look, such as Jaden looks to have bigger hair and his trademark “jellyfish” hair and back spikes are almost always shown, <a href="http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t4/Dollow/Dollow%20Blog/Yugioh%20GX%20manga%20Review/gx21.png" target="_blank">Syrus who has more fierce looks when frowning</a>, and then we have Alexis Rhodes who compared to her anime counterpart, got a breast upgrade from a C-cup in the anime to an E-cup in the manga; as shown when she first appears and Jaden’s POV shows us, I have to say, Kageyama does make her look very attractive.<br />
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The new heroes are great, with Woodsman and Ocean; Kageyama was going more for a “Nature” look for them, as opposed to Bubbleman and Sparkman from the anime who are more “City” heroes. The big one of the heroes is Terra Firma, who does not look like the others and looks more like Frieza of Dragon Ball Z fame, and it’s kind of symbolic that Ocean and Woodsman are needed for fusion, in that you need water and ground to form Terra Firma which is Latin for “Solid Earth”; or the Japanese verison he is called simply “The Earth”.<br />
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The story was very good, being very early in the manga you cannot really expect much, since at this point it's about setting up the characters. Overall a nice normal start to the manga, the only thing that does not make sense is Mr. Ryuga, who is honestly very stupid and as throw away villain thankfully is just that, giving yourself stature in the GX duel world is one thing, but the why did he think teaching students at Duel Academy; would give him the power to control the world’s duel community as whole?</div>
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- Fun start to the first chapter a story</div>
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- Heroes done very well, old and new</div>
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- Good artwork for both Duel Academy and characters</div>
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- Alexis’ Adaptational Attractiveness</div>
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- Mr. Ryuga's plan not making any sense<br />
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Dollow Rlancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10289701478731769025noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4460531338360493511.post-42611057513449801672012-01-26T22:08:00.000-08:002012-01-26T22:09:40.525-08:00Another Walk with more Memories.I took another walk to find myself, it was a six hour walk really. I was thinking about my friends again, and I was writing about my book again (yes the one I given up on) listening to the <a href="http://www.gamingunion.net/podcasts/ff-union-episode-50--148.html" target="_blank">50th ep of Final Fantasy Union</a> at the park, after it got dark, I looked at the moon and watched it for what seem like forever. I have this habit of trying to grasp it in my hand, as if it will give me wish, funny as I also saw shooting star and may a wish on it.<br />
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Today it was warm and it was slightly windy (very slight) it remind of the time that I would go north to see my family, it was a calming memory really.<br />
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As the days go by, I feel my fear and loneliness growing. I think the reasons I like walking is to relive past, it's like walking to the past to find path again. Thing about memories is that no matter how much you try, you lose them, it's a sad feeling as I want to try and remember the past, to honor my life, to keep it my heart as it will help to affirm I am alive.<br />
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Mood: Confused<br />
Music: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq_er-fsV9o" target="_blank">Final Fantasy Type-0 - ZERO / BUMP OF CHICKEN</a><br />
Phrase of the day: "Don't Stop, Carry On!" - Victory Gundam<br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/#!/DollowR" target="_blank">Dollow Rlance</a>Dollow Rlancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10289701478731769025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4460531338360493511.post-12604681853239067052012-01-24T22:15:00.000-08:002012-01-26T20:58:27.505-08:00The friends I missI was thinking about the friends from my past, and I was taking a good look at myself.<br />
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I will be very upfront, I am the worst person to my friends, I am a person believed that I could be alone all my life, I need the friends that I left behind and I would say "Who needs them, I am strong". I told myself that they did not care, and I hated them so much. But then I realized that it was just life, and some times we lose friends as we move on in life.<br />
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Today I was watching <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Disappearance_of_Haruhi_Suzumiya" target="_blank">The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya</a> and I was thinking about one of my friends from high school, and I found that I miss them, I went the down stairs to my kitchen to get somethings to eat, and I began to think about my friend again, their smile; and I lost it, I cried, I cried because I miss them so much, I am so lonely and I wanted some one talk to; and to listen their ideas and wanted them to hear mine. I stepped outside into the cold air and cried, I was sorry for treating my friends likes crap, for trying to play the strong loner type and being silent about myself.<br />
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I am sorry, I want to go back in time and tell them I am sorry, and tell them so much stuff, to not ignore them and always believe that they abandoned me. It was I who abandon them, I want to say I love you guys, I want you to know I want us to be together again even for just a little while, I want to say "I Love you, you mean the world to me, and I want you to know that I will remember you."<br />
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I love my friends so much<br />
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Mood: Broken up<br />
Music: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iQDdsteSr0" target="_blank">The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya - Gymnopedies Dai 1-3 ban</a><br />
Phrase of the day: "There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy" - Dante<br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/#!/DollowR">Dollow Rlance</a>Dollow Rlancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10289701478731769025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4460531338360493511.post-64041529888484522492012-01-11T20:01:00.000-08:002012-01-11T20:26:06.070-08:00Walking and the feelings that I haveAgain a long time since I last posted<br />
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I love to take walks for many reasons, I always see it as a way to run away from my problems that could never be solved very easily. Walk across the street and pass house that stand, and I as I move to the park, I will go the baseball benches and sit for a little while, then I walk again and wonder around. I always look at the sky too, that's something everyone does I know, but when I look to it would sometimes put my hand towards it as if I was trying to reach something there, to grab it, to take it with me, but I never to get it, when the moon is out in the day I would enclosed my hand around it too, but I would not be able to get that as well. I wish I could run away forever and enjoy the wind against my face. I love to walk, and the path is always in front of me, and will try reach the end.<br />
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Mood: Hopeful but sad<br />
Music: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n0pE06t4d0" target="_blank">Spiral: Suiri no Kizuna</a><br />
Phrase of the day: "...As long as you never give up; there will as be hope, so I'm sure fate can be changed"<br />
Madoka Narumi from Spiral: The Bond of Reasoning<br />
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"I'm sure it can Madoka , I'm sure it can."Dollow Rlancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10289701478731769025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4460531338360493511.post-67077757916377170822011-12-24T15:37:00.000-08:002011-12-24T15:39:51.477-08:00Gundamn Special Ep 15 workFor the past month and a half, I have been working on the special clips show episode for <a href="http://gundamn.net/">Gundamn.net</a> podcast, taking all their best moments of 2011, and editing them together; and I can say this time, outside of my laptop crashing, there was no real problems doing it.<br />
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This will be my third time doing a clip show, and my forth special for Gundamn, all I need at this point is for episode 92 to come out so I can get clips from it and add them, and I just went though like 4-5 reworks of the opening for the ep and now that's done. So all in all really good stuff just waiting to be put out.<br />
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If you want some of the clips that I took from Gundamn's eps here is a link, you could use these as ringtones or something.<br />
Note: they are all in WAV. format.<br />
<a href="http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1FCEAT5S">Gundamn Clips</a>Dollow Rlancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10289701478731769025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4460531338360493511.post-22371075766419592512011-10-31T00:00:00.000-07:002011-10-31T00:06:14.646-07:00The Future you dream, and The Dream the that comesLong time no post, I will be honest, I have been think a lot lately and for a person like me, who is a worrisome person, that is never a good thing.<br />
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When I get up in the morning, and look at myself in the mirror, I wonder if I am happy, it might be because when I was younger, I would always dream of the home that I would have, filled with books, the room were I would work on my book and finish with great pride and love. As well as the place where I could just fill with my hope for the future.<br />
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But as a kid, I always had big dreams, I think the one that always sticks with me was the one where I would write my story that started in middle school, and came back to me when found the "origin papers" I wrote, and wondered what would the story be at the end? So I would work so hard on my "Book" for months that turned into years, believing that it would be finish when my final year of high school comes to able to share with my friends and the world.<br />
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That was four years ago.<br />
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I was never able to finish it as a book, because I never was happy with what I wrote after school, and when I wrote it I did not feel happy or love, and the life treats you, I would say to myself "Why am I writing this? I have more important things to do right now." and "I have a life to manage!". Now as it stands, and I am asking again myself "When did I stop believing I could write my story?".<br />
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When my world was smaller from the view of a school kid, I have things that made me happy, like everyone else, for me my dearest wish was to write this story, I believe was because I thought it would save me from being afraid of the future, wondering if I would be okay at the end of the day.<br />
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Now to the point.<br />
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I got older, and now I still have this idea, but that is all it is, an idea and nothing more. I have tried, and I am still trying to write it, even just the first one, but one side of me keeps telling me that I have to stop dreaming. What has this series done, it's not going anywhere.<br />
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Dreams are something I always held very close to my heart, just like hope, it was something that told that life is not bleak. By believing in my own fantasy, it always gave me a place I could be where I was welcome, had wonderful friends, places that had many mysteries, and endless possibilities.<br />
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A fantasy, indeed.<br />
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Sometimes dreams come true, and sometimes they do not workout the way you want. I have tried to keep believing that I would have the strength to finish my story, and to see it when it ends and where it would go after that. I wondered what would the old high school kid that I once would say? If I told him that his dream was not going to come true, because his life just would not allow the work to go forward, nor was his passion still there.<br />
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"Why?"<br />
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The future has come, and it is time to grow up, and stop dreaming.<br />
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"There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy"Dollow Rlancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10289701478731769025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4460531338360493511.post-78274920817319107462011-09-26T20:54:00.000-07:002011-09-26T21:14:50.953-07:00Amazon and Shipping<div class="MsoNormal">Amazon and Shipping</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">I just bought a book from Amazon, and the thing was bad in terms of how it looked. What I got was the<br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1926778162">Valkyria Chronicles: Design Archive</a>, it is basically an artbook with commentary on how the game was made and the look of the game itself, I got this because I was really happy to get Valkyria Chronicles as my very first PS3 game, so much that I refused to own any other game before it; including Uncharted, and I wanted the book to find out how the game was made. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span">So when it finally came to my home, I was so excited that I took great care in opening it, but when I did as happy as I was to have it, was also equally as disappointed to find that the book damaged. The book was bent; the front cover in the upper right corner was bent as well as a few pages, and scratches along the spine on the back, overall the book the feels like it was very roughly treated in its life. I flipped over the book and it was very nice, the content look awesome and a fun to read, but because the book as a whole was bent up, it was hard to enjoy, for being a new copy you think Amazon treat their books with better care. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span">I don’t often buy stuff for myself, so I don’t know if I am being very ungrateful or something, or if I have a right to complain about it. If it wasn’t so bent I could deal with it but… eh. I have never return something online let alone to Amazon, but for some reason I think this is going to be a major pain. I just want a nice new undamaged book.</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">Dollow</span></div>Dollow Rlancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10289701478731769025noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4460531338360493511.post-85626710742202871572011-09-11T20:28:00.000-07:002011-09-11T21:43:51.838-07:00A Fun fact about September 11<div class="MsoNormal">The Fun fact about September 11. We all know about the September 11 2001 attacks. But September 11 was also the same day as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Brandywine">The Battle of Brandywine</a> <span class="apple-style-span">which was a major win for the British Troops that lead to the capture of <span style="color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia,_Pennsylvania" title="Philadelphia, Pennsylvania">Philadelphia</a> </span>in the American Revolution. Something to think about.</span></div>Dollow Rlancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10289701478731769025noreply@blogger.com0