2009 Summer Over

I don’t think I’ve followed through with any of my plans. Though that was kind of expected. I lack the motivation. My otaku self is dying and I find myself wanting to do more real life stuff. I don’t dedicate enough time to watch anime and read manga.

Though with the amount of crap this and the coming season… it’s as if anime is dying. Quantity rather than quality. I took a look at what is coming out this fall and I can’t say that I’m eager to watch anything. The summer list has been pretty much fail. Producers has been pissing off Haruhi fans and I was actually looking forward to watching season two but the joke that is Endless Eight or whatever it is called and the new filler crap has made me kind of dread it. I like Haruhi but wow.. way to shit on the fans. FMA was also a joke. I think back to the first series and how it was decent. I had the first episode all ready to watch but I decided that I would rather waste my time doing nothing. I lacked the forward motivation to watch a rehashed series.

I was a little more busy (socially) during August.. Gaming nights with friends, BBQs, and drinking. I failed hard during the local tournament. I couldn’t clutch it out in BlazBlue, so I placed poorly. Lost to people I know I can beat. I don’t think I will be a tournament player but a more casual one. I can’t dedicate myself to practice it online due to poor latency. Moves don’t come out and it’s harder to punish high recovery moves. bawwww. I think I will learn SF4 a bit more. Not going to get up into the higher level of play like everyone else in the scene but I want to play against them so I will fuck around with El Fuerte and play a bit of C.Viper when I feel a bit more serious.

When I’m not outside pretending to have a life. I generally waste my time. I would grind a few combos and play some random gamess. C76 had a lot of doujin games for me to play such as Touhouvania and Mystical Chain. I waste a couple hours on those. And then there was Touhou 12 and 12.3. I can’t say that I’m excited about either of those but I gave it a shot. I totally suck a bullet hell games so I didn’t get very far. 12.3 has been kind of a miss for me. I don’t like the SWR card system so I didn’t find that much enjoyment out of it. I don’t have a specific character I like in the game so I can’t really enjoy it… it’s somewhat the same for SF4. Yesterday, I just started playing Mother 3. I should finish it before school starts. I got a couple of eroges backlogged to play later on. Family Project, Shuffle!, and one that just finished getting a fan translation, Cross Channel. I also borrowed a friend’s modded PS2 to play MBAA and I was thinking of getting Mana Khemia 2. I should probably finish the first one though. Not being able to get a certain item because of a ridiculous mana level requirement has been kind of turn off.

My guitar progress has been coming along. Although I didn’t make as much progress as I hoped but I see improvements to my technique. Finding new songs and seeing people play it flawlessly has been my motivation to push forward. Although I don’t grind for 4 hours a day like before. I would strum certain measures and chords so I do not lose the caluses on my hand and to keep my finger dexerity from decaying.

I use my twitter more often now. I’ve been lazy with real blog posts because I generally want to keep it anime related but that might have to change. I should have finished my theme but maybe I will just go out and look for a new theme to use. Then get a twitter feed on the side bar so I can look cool and be hip like the rest of the blogsphere. Time to get back into my daily university routine again. A lot of spare time between classes so I will end up tweeting about random stuff and reading some light novels. I can’t wait until I get my career and do science.

My life is so dull.