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The Andromeda Strain was good. That was technically his first book, as he had written some other lesser known books under a pen name. My favorite book by him (and perhaps just my favorite book in general) is Jurassic Park. Of course, it's also one of my favorite movies by my favorite director (Steven Spielberg) and music composer (John Williams) but I suppose that's a discussion for another time. It's the only book I've read twice. One of my other favorites, Sphere, is the only book I've finished in less than three days. I love Stephen King, but I actually haven't read many of his books. Probably only a handful. One surprising thing about the way he writes is that he can get very poetic in his descriptions. His stereotype is that he just writes horror and gore, but that's so far off from what he is as a writer. Lisey's Story is a perfect example of his talent with words. And his books Rita Hayworth and The Body (better known by their movie adaptations: Shawshank Redemption and Stand By Me) are essentially all one needs to know King is much more than a horror writer. I'm aware of how good Khaled Hosseini is. I haven't read his books because I just simply don't read novels anymore. However, I'm certainly familiar with his reputation... after all, I did give my mom The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns for Mother's Day a few years ago. XD As for manhwa and webtoons... I had to google them, so that admittance probably gives you some insight to my time spent reading them. You know the phase you mentioned you're in? Where you're spending more time on video games than reading? Well, that happened to me looooong ago, thus comicbooks, novels, prose, poetry, manga, and anything related were left in the back seat, and I never can find the time anymore to check the rear view mirror.

Oh, it's good you're feeling better =/ Oh, you can transfer files? That's pretty cool. Once I go get my GC or get my own Wii, I'll be playing PoR again. Started Shadow Dragon this past week. Got through the prologue stuff, and I'm at chapter 5 now. Have you played any of the Metal Gear games? I actually barely ever have, although I got Metal Gear Solid awhile back for super cheap and plan to play it eventually. Do you already have a PS4? Haha... no judgement. Do you have certain setups for passing down specific skills to children? Or do you play it differently each time? I feel like Galeforce would be really necessary for anything past hard mode.

So I could kinda refer to you as a practitioner of bibliophilia? I hope you take that as a sentiment of endearment, because that's my intention. I read comic books as a kid, then went through a phase of reading novels, which essentially consisted of just Michael Crichton and Stephen King. Then I got into prose and poetry, primarily Poe (of course) and Charles Baudelaire. Then basically dropped all that in favor of anime on a consistant basis. Btw, I had finished GTO a little while ago, but I kept forgetting to mention that to you. So, uh, I finished GTO. I'd give it an 8/10. It was different from what I thought it would be like. I imagined it was based more in the classroom, and the impact that Onizuka made on his students was more along traditional teacher/student methods. I certainly did not expect it to have a more... extracurricular... tone to it. I mean, certain "lessons" actually put student's lives in danger, such as driving his motorcycle off the bridge. The last two episodes were a little "out there." Once I got to those episodes, I remembered you mentioning that they weren't that good, or something similar. It was entertaining overall, but fell short of the praise I always heard about it.

Sorry for the late response... just finished moving last week, and I started going back to school full-time this week. Oh nice. I wanna do another play-through, but I'm still playing my original save file for now. haha. I'm also Gamecube-less/Wii-less for awhile, so I can't play Path Of Radiance right now, but I'll be getting back to it soon (I was borrowing a Wii from a friend, and once I get around to buying my own, I won't need my GC anymore which is back at my old place still). How far are you in Lunatic? And yeah, for the first half, I felt the story was kinda run-of-the-mill, but I liked the characters, and the gameplay is what really kept me going. I'm really looking forward to Fates...

I actually didn't like vocaloid music at first, but I eventually came across a vocaloid song I loved, and then another, and then another. The great thing about vocaloid music is like you said, it can be about pretty much anything. I can tell you are a little voca-curious, so if you want I can make a good song suggestion or two to convert you :P As far as the type of games I make, they are all story based. I posted a play-through of one of the games I made in college so you kind of know my writing style: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NjnmMkeDXk I'm just happy that hundreds of people played my game :) As far as the girl in my new project, yeah, I'm doing her in live 2D. She will be 2D animated when she is interacting with the player. I also want to use a new function of live 2D and translate that same image into a 3D model I can have run around in the Unity game engine. My ultimate goal in game design is to make a game where an AI character can interact with a human and truly grow and develop in a way that an actual human would, in a way that even I couldn't predict. Maybe something that can pass the Turing test. What about you? Do you have some ultimate goal that you would like to reach after getting your degree?

Embrace the 96 episodes! (ಠ⌣ಠ) We all gotta unwind after a day of filling our minds and having stress build up. For me, sometimes the silence that accompanies reading causes my mind to wander, and I start thinking about what happened that day. Then I get sidetracked. Then I realize an hour has passed, and I've made no progress with what I was intending to read. However, anime, with its colored imagery, sounds, and music, tends to occupy the vacancy more efficiently. Of course, it takes the right anime series though. Maison Ikkoku was able to do that for me. It was a way to make the transition from a day of movement to a nighttime of sleep. I thought the last shot with Nakai showed him hitting the road with a bag of his belongings, hobo-sytle. That's why I get the impression he's soul searching somewhere. Perhaps I'm thinking of a different anime... It's been a long time since I've seen Bakuman, so it's certainly possible that I'm confusing Nakai's "finale" with something else. I would have liked to see an epilogue, even just some simple montage. Thinking about some of my favorite series in that genre, I have the same feelings with them all. I guess it's just the nature of slice of life. It's difficult to say where the end should be. After all, life goes on. #deep

I was kinda trying to do the masuda method when I was raising my perfect IV Vulpix. It took me weeks, but I finally got a perfect IV vulpix. I could one shot most of the elite 4 pokemon with it. I must have had at least 400 eggs too, but no shiny either :( Oh wow, all your figures are in an organized list. I didn't know you were into vocaloids. Miku is one of my favorites, but I think I like Gumi the best. Do you like vocaloid music? I also see you have a Vaporeon plush. I actually have an espeon plush by the same manufacturer :D Did you buy it at one of the conventions here? That's where I got mine. For me in college I was lucky because I only had to stay one extra semester to wrap things up. I have a friend in LA that I help screenwrite for. He's a film graduate. I might be working with him editing a screenplay for a feature length film which is exciting. As far as my game, I'm trying to do something unique. You know in pokemon black/white where you can feed your pokemon poffins? I am going to take that and mix it with dialogue choices that you would get in Mass Effect. In my game you have this android girl that you are working with and you have to interact with her and you fight battles. It will be such a pain to program for but I can play it in my head and it is so amazing and unique. Can't wait to get some more work on it done. I'd show you a picture of the android girl now, but I have to draw her in pieces so it wouldn't look right until I assemble them in the program :P

You're watching Maison Ikkoku?? http://www.quickmeme.com/img/80/801cb73befef531a9a8cd0dd754913cf0ff06ab3acdec97731a94259ad1d980e.jpg The first handful of episodes is just laying down the foundation between Godai and one of the very few anime characters I'd refer to in the otaku affection "waifu," Kyouko. Around episode 10 when things start to get interesting, because Godai's competition, Mitaka is introduced. Of course, as expected from a 96 episode series that's as succinctly crafted as Maison Ikkoku, there are numerous other factors that complicate the romance between Godai and my waifu, but the infancy of the beauty of Maison Ikkoku is planted in episode 9. Obviously, Godai's admiration is identified the moment Kyouko walks through the door of the rundown confines of the Maison Ikkoku building, but leading up to the introduction of Mikata, you start to see that Kyouko has an affection towards Godai, even if it's only the "motherly instinct" at that point. However, the "I may have feelings for you but I won't show them" begins turning, and it's a perpetual motion contraption throughout the series, hindered AND progressed from time to time by the complications of life. I thought Nakai was handled realistically. His love towards Aoki was out of his reach. He was a desperate artist who had a desperate love interest, so falling short of your two passions in life would have a detrimental affect on how you carry yourself in life. If I recall correctly, he kind of went on a journey of soul searching by the end of the series. I'd say kudos and I hope you find what you're looking for to anyone that made that decision.

I used Sukamon in combat once, and he sucked. His stats sucked. He was a useless pile of poo, lol. He actually digivolves into some powerful monkey thing but I just couldn't stand having a piece of crap follow me around all day. Oh man, that sucks that you don't have a shiny yet. Ugh, garbador is probably one of the worst shinys... My cousin was a big pokemon fan and to this day he has never caught a shiny. He told me that he only ever saw one, and it was a shiny bellsprout he encountered at the very start of the game! He only had a starter pokeball and a squirtle. It was intense, he whittled it down and his squirtle was barely living after getting hit multiple times with his weakness. He had two pokeballs left, and as long as he didn't get crit the next turn he could use em both. The pokeball failed, and he was crit, and he died in that first patch of grass! He was so pissed XD Ironically enough, I caught my first shiny in literally the first patch of grass I walked in pokemon black/white. http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Msw79Y1-4tg/hqdefault.jpg It was a shiny fletchling, and I only caught it because I remembered the horror that happened to my cousin and loaded up on pokeballs :P As far as college goes, I majored in game design and minored in creative writing. I'd love to write for games or an animated series someday. I'm actually working on my own game right now. It's going to be so awesome~ Since I am taking a break from kendo I go to the gym when I don't game. I just got another part time job so I can finally get around and do stuff again soon. I see that collecting is a big hobby of yours :) What figures have you collected so far?