Unfortunately, this was also one of my biggest problems in the "job market", in that any good job requires job experience or higher education. It isn't an easy thing to overcome, and very few people I know of have gotten away with getting a good job and not having to go to/complete college. In fact the only person that I can think of that has come out well by not completing college is darkain, though I believe there was some disappointment on his end for his choice of actions.

Pretty much this is how the system works as of right now, you aren't going to get a good job unless you know somebody who has some power. This is particularly true in Tacoma, but even more true with the coming wave of unemployment. It's not fair, believe me I know (at least your white which helps), but the market is so competitive that as you are now, there isn't much you can do unless you get lucky with a temp agency.

My advice is college. If you are in college for 4 years getting a bachelors degree, that greatly increases the chances of not getting a shit job, but also... With the recession getting worse, school could work as a "shelter" for you while things get better here in the US (assuming they improve). Even if it means taking students loans like a lot of students do, in my opinion, school is your best option right now. Many people who are losing their jobs because of the recession have the same opinion, and are choosing now to apply for grad school to get a masters / phd.

Hope that helps.

I am a little hesitant to make the post, but I'm doing it for a good reason. Recent news events have shown me that regardless of a persons individual life experience, the media will spin a tale of how the activities such as Television Shows and RPG Hobbies manipulated the individual into performing anti-social behavior.

I want it to be publicly known that if I am to engage in any similar anti-social behavior in my future, be it an extreme news media worthy act or something more discreet, I am doing it of my own personal will and not because of any games, tv shows, hobbies, school, or any other activities I engage in. While I can safely say that my days of "dreams of grandeur" are over and those who know me should realize that any major deviant actions on my part are unlikely, in the event that something drastic occurs in my life, it could be true that a act of this caliber may be warranted. Again this is not because of the activities I engage in, and so if that type of event ever occurs, again it is because of my personal choice.

If the media wants to point blame at something, they should look at the cause of the action and not point fingers at the activies of the deviant individual in a attempt to milk money off of public outcry. Having said all this, I am leaving this entry public so that if this very unlikely situation does occur, the agents of the media will have no excuse for their ignorance on this matter.

That will be all.

( Maple Story Ad for Free Maple Points )

Interesting stuff

( LJ Cutted, cus I like you guys )

Chapter 4 is up of my Revelation story. Next chapter is the climax followed by the ending.

After I finish this one, I'll be up to working on the Captain Planet fanfic more, something I am looking forward to ^_^.

I updated my "Alter Ego" from last post since crashghost pointed out a few errors in it. Regardless, a far SEXY version is up. Try comparing it to my icons, I think it looks pretty accurate.

Just a reminder, I'm am now trading opening. In my last post I arranged a lot of trades. Now would be the time to trade.

I've just posted my latest story up on FictionPress, and I have to say it is coming along quite nicely. I encourage you all to read it as I have placed quite a bit of imagination into it, and for those of you who have already read the previous stuff I posted, there is a new chapter up. When this story concludes, I'll pick back up on my Captain Planet story.

My latest icon. I finally got around to creating my Pokemon icon for the various communities. I put a bit of work into this, and I think it came out pretty good. To my surprise, it is only (Only!) 19k O.O, I was afraid it would it would break the 40k mark. I really think that my icon making skills are getting a lot better, as well as my skills with Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, and Animation shop.

Okay, I admit it. I've been a bit preoccupied by class and my writing class to make the new chapters of my Captain Planet fanfic... However, things are a little different now. Because of this class I've been able to give life to my old defunct Hero character ^_^. I present to you the first three parts of this.

Note: these will be up on FictionPress.com in a few days, but it seems I have to wait through their lame trial period to make sure I'm not a spam bot >_>.

Prologue
Chapter 1: Investigation
Chapter 2: Violent Acts

I made this, but sadly the contrast of the colors seems to make it impossible for it to be dropped down to 40k, and thus it is not usable as a LJ Icon. However at the request of lefteyepni, I have posted it.

Happy George Washington Inauguration Day!!!!

First we have:

Chase Young and Wooya. They totally hate each other yet they stick together for the sake of Evil. That show was pretty amusing, though it was one of the most childish shows I've ever watched. Series finale was pretty good though.

Next we have:

Batman saving a child at the cost of his own life. This was one of my favorite scenes in Justice League because it show that even with Bruce is out of his league he is still willing to give himself for a noble cause.

And finally:

Goliath after he returned to Castle Wyvern to find his clan destroyed. This was the start of the downward slope of all of Goliaths misery and angst.

I would also like to thank darkain for indirectly showing/teaching me how to use photoshop to brighten images as well as enhance the contrast of them when I was watching him tweak his Sakura-Con photos sometime last week. These three icons are like 10 times better because of that.

This video is really silly, and yet really cool.

This entry was made possible by genechildmewtwo's credit card ^_^. Thanks

Man, I really REALLY hate My Space >_

Dear genechildmewtwo

I'm sorry that you have been a actual victim in this whole messy account. I never intended all this to happen... I am a fool who doesn't deserve what I have. I'm a failure; and because of my inability to do things properly you may be hurt in the process. I'm so incredibly sorry that I have ruined this trip, and above all else I am sorry that you have had to take so much because of this. Despite my deepest wish to make everything better; that is out of my hands and so all I am left with is broken apologies.

Last night I learned of a overflow glitch in Maple. I was skeptical of it at first but I decided to try it out and... it worked. I'll be playing around with this a bit in the next few days, but since I'll be jumping onto my New laptop, it might take sometime to adapt. I only briefly tried out maple on my new laptop, but since it is a wide screen monitor, it got the fuck stretched out of it... and it was also running pretty crappy. darkain said that vista has a lot of "power save" bullshit built into it, and that it is a memory hog, and so it is possible that the crappyness I was experiancing was because I was running on the battery instead of being plugged in.

Either way... if maple runs this crappy on it due to stretching, I may end up using DXWnd... I'll ramble more about this when I'm not so tired.

Man, Dick Grayson is totally Hawtt Awesome. I just watched "Robin's Reconing" and was reminded of how great of a character he was even though he started off as kind of a lame side kick. Man, they really need to make a Nightwing show ^_^.

Chapter 3 is up and ready for reading. The story is starting to get more interesting as this chapter actually has action in it. I also worked out a offical timeline of events for referencing, that will be uploaded after the story is complete.

Also, I was a little concerned that I was perhaps taking things a little too far, well after I watched this episode I realized I am not taking it that far beyond what the show already did. This pleases me, and to a lesser extent shocks me that they put out such episodes that pushed and or broke the censor rating in the 90s for a children's TV show.

Edit: I also decided to lower the rating to Teen seeing as though the story has some dark and serious elements to it, I don't think it is really really M rated. Esspecially after watching this episode, I don't think I'll be pressing a limit anytime soon.

This conversation happened earlier tonight.

Neliomobile: A man clad in black robes with a black cloak steps out of the shadows, face completely concealed in darkness, "I have something to show you." He reaches into clock and produces an adamantine knife about 2 inches long. "This is an adamantine knife, as you are aware, it is very sharp and can pierce through most substances without any effort. Observe." The man drops the knife point first into the ground; the knife penetrates the stone floor with ease and sticks in it standing straight up. "Do you understand?"

Magus of Rilian: "That knife would be very dangerous if it didn't have a hilt."

Neliomobile: "You are correct good sir, now watch." The man then points to a guard down the street equipped with mythril full plate and a tower shield. The man holds out his hand and through some supernatural force the knife flies up into his hand. "As you can see that guard is fully armored, but watch what happens when I do this." The man then throws the knife at the man with average speed, it is obvious the cloaked man was holding back some.

Neliomobile: (The knife has a range increment of 10 feet, and the guard is 30 feet away, after rolling a 10 on the dice and taking into account the modifiers, the man hits armor class 18. 18 exceeds the guard's touch AC by 7 points, but not his standard AC of 25)

Neliomobile: The knife then gets thrown at the guard and strikes his armor in the chest, however the knife flies off without leaving the a single mark on the armor. "Do you see a problem with this?"

Magus of Rilian: "Hmm. That's rather bizarre. I was expecting the knife to penetrate his armour and slay him."

Neliomobile: "So would I, however it seems that something prevents it from happening. That is all I have to share with you today." The man then disappears back into the darkness from which he came.


Neliomobile: I guess I could have just come out and said what I was getting at, but that seemed more interesting

Magus of Rilian: That's interesting. I never thought about that particular logical hole in the rules.

Neliomobile: I think that one of three things should happen with adamantine weapons;
A: they are treated as touch attack unless the armor has an hardness greater than 20, B: the damage dealt to the person is also done to the armor, or C: both.

Magus of Rilian: I would just make them armour-piercing. That's only, like, a +1/2 advantage.

Neliomobile: Yeah, that would be the more sensible thing to do.

( Wild Arms 4 )

( Silly Meme )

What the hell is up with whatever I have? Last night I was feeling pretty good, until I laid down to go to sleep. At that point I start coughing endlessly until after a bunch of medicine and 3 hours later, it finally subsides. Now I wake up in the morning and I feel perfectly fine? This is the weirdest bug I've ever gotten, especially since it doesn't seem to be a cold and lacks over half the symptoms of any other illness I've had before. I hate being biological -_-.

Not much to talk about lately. Nothing too interesting has been going on, I continue to move through school while at the same time balancing my financial obligations and free time. I have been playing a lot of video games lately, nothing to interesting to talk about there. Phoenix Wright 2 was a good game, but I was disappointed in the lack of a fifth case for that game.

As some of you know due to me talking about it in real life, I have been considering moving to New Zealand in the future. I think it is my growing hate of the world that is leading me in this direction, and hopefully I can find salvation through some place that isn't the United States. Still, as I think about it I don't think it is any one nation that is the problem, but people all together. Taking it one step further, I think the problems I have are directly linked to Free Will itself, in that people can do what they want and some people uses this freedom to harm others. Even then some people who don't intend to harm others do inadvertently, I know I have. Unfortunately free will, if I am correct that is, is not something I can solve, and so Isolation from the problem seems to be the more efficient course of action.

New Zealand seems like it will solve a lot of problems for a verity of reasons. The most important is a drastically lower population count. I've talked with some of my friends who live there and read up on it in Wiki and a few other places and it seems that it could very well be the relief I need. It might very well be that in the United States I am suffocating on the social morals that they have placed on each person, while being abused by the various subcultures that exist. I also wonder how many of these subcultures have migrated out of the United States to other places. shiguma has been talking about Japan on his journal for a while now, and I believe that what I once thought of that place is completely different. Who is to say New Zealand, or anyplace is any different?

Tonight I looked at New Zealand on Google Maps, the place looks pretty low on population until you reach the few major cities. At that point it looks like the residential areas are packed pretty close together, and close to the industrial areas. The rural lands seem to be mainly farming communities or something. Also, just so there is no confusions, if I do move to New Zealand, I'll be on the north island. I think after I've recovered from my upcoming trip to Japan in a month in a half, I'll look into a trip to New Zealand before coming to any conclusions.

I agree with the author of VGCats, this is a load of bullshit.

I think they finally got me.... CURSE YOU SONY! Seems I will finally be forced to buy a PSP, luckily I probably have a year or more to prepare for this masterpiece and recover from my upcoming trip to Japan.

Edit: *sigh* The PSP is a fucking expensive piece of shit... -_-

Chapter 2 of my Captain Planet Fanfic is up for those of you wish to read it. If you do read it, please leave a review about it, I am interested in peoples opinions on it.

As some of you may have know, as of a few days ago I have started to write a fanfic. I finished the first chapter of it a little bit ago, and here it is. The story is based on Captain Planet (Yes I know, I'm a dork), but I have fond memmories of the show. Unfortuantly, Youtube lately has been showing me that the show wasn't quite what I remembered... and now I see the show as a lot of failed potential. This fanfic is intended to make stronger bonds of the characters, and introduce a generally darker enviorment.

For those of you who actually read it, enjoy. My Mozenrath fanfic is pretty good too if you want (or have yet to) read it.

Edit: It seems there is something wrong with Fanficiton.net right now, so I am linking to my story directly. Hopefully this problem will get cleared up.

We all know it is true, but there it is anways; the truth of Wikipedia.

I would like to publicly thank all the people involved in my annual step closer to death. Normally my birthday is more "grim" (No pun intended), but this year it was rather enjoyable and almost overwhelming to a degree.

Friday night there was a party for somebody else’s Birthday, and that went over well. Saturday I celebrated my birthday with genechildmewtwo and paratime (whom I haven't seen in about two years in real life). Anyhow, we had dinner at the old speghetti factory downtown, and it was a rather enjoyable evening. Unfortunately darkain wasn't feeling well and did not accompany us, but his health is more important I think, so no hard feelings.

Sunday I helped shaygod move to his new location in the international district in Seattle. It was physically strenuous at times, but overall a good time with Pizza and cake for me afterwards.

The most annoying thing about all this is that all my friends I've consider myself close to I had a great time this weekend with. However in regards to my mother... she appears to have not even noticed it was my birthday at all. She called me on Sunday (the actual date of my B-day) and asked me where something at home was, never saying anything that would be expected such as "Happy Birthday". This is just further proof that I need to distance myself from my family even more than I already have.

In regards to the future... Well, I'll make a more detailed update about that tomorrow (Monday) when I get "home".

Edit: I forgot to mention that darkain's mother made a really big/nice cake for me. I really apperciate it.

Another Interview. I've decided to make this a tag, since they happen frequently enough, and this meme likes to roll around from time to time. Anyhow...

( This time from Lefteyepni )

More Interviews.

( This time from Pairatime. )

Captain Planet Episodes

This person seems to be uploading them to youtube, I can only hope they are dedicated long enough for me to see the episode "Mission to Save Earth". Ahh, I have fond memories of this show, and it is a shame I have been unable to find a torrent or anything on Emule about it.

1 - Reply to this post!
2 - I will tell you which of *YOUR* icons I like the most.
3 - Then post this to your own journal using YOUR favorite icon.
4 - That's it! :D

I don't want to go over all the details right now, but I am really considering switching over to University of Washington this spring. I can't help to wonder if this entire situation is my fault of my optimisim yet again, or if it is the result our oh so wonderful society.

For those of you confused about My last post, I fixed it. It now links to the actual video it was meant to.

Cry Emo Kid, Cry!

O.O

Happy Solar Cycle + 1.

See you next year!

First, some Mario humor.
Followed by a DBZ Christmas

So, for the last while (couple days) I have been in the El Nath area hunting the boss monster Lycanthrope, mainly out of boredom. The other day, I got a "The Gold Dragon" which is a level 70 pole-arm from one of them; pretty good ^_^. Well today I found this:



This is totally HAWTT, and currently the best drop I have ever gotten in the game. Sadly it is below average by one, but it is one of the best looking swords (if not the best) in the game, and something that I was afraid I would get raped over once I hit level 80. So yeah, I feel teh awesome right now.

So yeah, this game is really Really awesome. It is like; if they took Dawn of Sorrow, give more flashy attacks, a much better story, American voice acting, and actual cool Villains. This game might be the best thing next to downloadable porn Castlevania Aria of Sorrow. The game is a little stale in that they keep on repeating the same map/exploration "Metroidvania" style of game; not a bad thing, but it has been the theme for six games now. It also incorporates "mini-dungeons" through the castle that take the form of "portraits" you enter.

Overall, this game is pretty cool. I dare say it almost makes for Castlevania: Vaudevillian of Chair Fetish Curse of Darkness. Konami will not be forgiven so easily though, if they put out another great Castlevania game in the near future that I greatly enjoy, I might overlook the folly of that game.

Edit: I've also noticed this game seems to drain battery power at a accelerated rate than most DS games.

For those of you who are interested, I give you St. Germain.

I just cleared a 800 meg download in 18 minutes. That is a new record ^_^

Today I was reminded of why I have discarded my heritage. Yesterday, a e-friend of mine who I know through Maplestory was mugged. He explained all the details on our guild website, and though I am glad that he wasn't serious injured (well, nothing that requires surgery), the report of how he was mugged distrubed me.

He was mugged by 5 young hispanic males persumably in a gang. This happened in Texas by the way, so it dosen't suprise me as much that they were of that nationality. However, it is this type of activity that has earned a sterotype of the hispainic people, and frankly I am quite disgusted. I hope that these five people are found and have charges pressed against them. Unfortunantly all I can do is hope, and hope that someday something will be done about all of this.

I was thinking about it on the way to school today, and came to the conclusion that Christmas gifts (and arguable and tradition with a exchange of gifts) is a waste of finances. Allow me to give a example to help explain.

Person A on Christmas gives Person B a gift that equals lets say $50 in value. Person B gives person A a gift of about the same value. In the end, each person is about even in value with the only person "making" money being the cooperation that the gifts were purchased from. Though it could be said that one of the two could have come out "ahead" in the gift exchange that seems to suggest and possibly promote a game of being stingy with gift giving in hopes that a person will come out ahead.

Now, I do also realize that gifts that are manufactured by one of the people can causes complications with my statement; that is until you start assigning monetary value to the resources, time, and effort of the manufactured gift. As a example, a person might decided to make a piece of jewelry for a friend, however the task of making jewelry is not instantaneous, and thus time is required as well as the resources to make the item. The crafter is still expending resources into the project, and so given that our market places loose rules on money = time/resources spent, a value can be assigned to homemade gifts.

The two exceptions I can see to this that breaks my conclusion is the situation of children. Due to their position in society and general lack of funds, they receive gifts essentially for free or at least a "reduced" expense of resources. This means that the parents and other people giving these children gifts are directly losing money with little or no return on their part. Given this outlook, no wonder children look forward to Christmas because they are literally getting free stuff.

The other situation in which my logic might break is in the rare situation of a person giving a gift to another with no expectation of anything in return. In other words; an act of kindness cannot occur without the existence of an ulterior motive. I find such a situation completely ridiculous to even consider, due to the belief that all actions are taken out of the desire to gain something. Of course this concept requires people to be open minded, and it seems that all most people have a lot of trouble even beginning to understand how this logic works, thus I shall explain more.

The reasoning behind this idea, is that unless their is a desire for a action, the action will not come to be. So any action that occurs has a reason behind it, and that reason is inevitably in some way selfish in nature.
*A boy might buy a girl a flower in hopes of having a relationship.
*A dog will act in a obedient manner in hopes of getting a treat.
*A person might join the military out of the financial advantage of working for the government.

This can be taken to a bit more of a extreme such as;
*A person might save another’s life knowing that by doing so they will have strong leverage over the saved person.
*A person giving blood so that you can say to others that they gave blood so other will look up to them.

More or less, you can take any situation and show that there could be a selfish motive behind it no matter how sincere the act might seem. And so it should be seen that the act of giving a gift is really just a meaningless act of giving to another out of tradition.

What I feel
I feel that if traditions are meaningless, they should not exist and be replaced with something that is more useful. In the situation of gift exchange on such occasions like Christmas, nobody is really gaining anything from the gifts accept for perhaps children. Why do the parents do these activities then? Perhaps to have leverage over their children, thus threats through out the year of "Behave or no presents" can come into existence. Need I argue my point anymore?

And so in conclusion, Christmas is a waste of money in which only the cooperations truly gain from the gift exchange activity. So when you all go shopping this holiday season, I hope you remember this (assuming you read it all) and realize you are bound by the chains of tradition.