Well

Hi there! I'm moving my blog again.

I decided that I'd like to be on WordPress 'cos I find it easier to use - and it looks nicer.

So here's the link. See you over there.

Assassin's Creed 3?

So, Ubisoft revealed that the new Assassin's Creed (I think it's Assassin's Creed Revelations?) is another Ezio title.

They still left some bits hanging there - so I guess it makes sense. It's just that it's three games with Ezio now - I want to see something new - all fans of the series do.

We want a new Assassin, and a new location. We want Assassin's Creed 3.

Thing is - I remember somebody from Ubisoft saying that there will only be three main titles - which leads me to think that Assassin's Creed 3 will feature Desmond as the Assassin - and the location could be anywhere.

Actually - maybe a mix - Have Desmond in the Animus to recover more memories from a new ancestor, in a new location -  and then have Desmond missions done in the same style as Assassin's Creed 1 - You know: Go in, climb things, get information, save citizens, perform assassination, get out.

By doing it like that, not only do you get more actual game-play out of it (rather then padding for more Desmond-plot like in Assassin's Creed 1 and 2 - Brotherhood had more to it), but you have potentially double the story - both parts of the game are equally enjoyable in both game-play AND in storytelling.

Just my opinion - but I think Assassin's Creed 3 has potential to be the BEST GAME EVER (in my brain) if it works like that. Assassin's Creed 2 is my favourite game in the current generation, but if Assassin's Creed 3 was like that, not only would it be my new favourite in this generation, but it could potentially topple Donkey Kong 64 as my favourite game of all time.

The game's made in Canada (Ubisoft Montréal)  too - so that's a bonus.

Deleted my Tumblr

Not really as good a user interface as people say - I couldn't follow anybody, I couldn't reblog, and I couldn't comment.

KINDA REQUIRED OPTIONS FOR A SOCIAL MEDIA SERVICE!

So fuck it.

So I couldn't complete BEDA

If it wasn't unreliable internet, it was forgetting my computer when I went back to Peterborough to do my last exam.

Oh well.

Anyways, I'm going to talk about Lady Gaga
Or, more specifically, the song Born This Way.

Now - this isn't really about the song, or Lady Gaga, it's more about an experience involving the song.

See, a while back, I met this girl, who shall remain nameless, but let's call her "The Turk", because she was Turkish.
Now, because of the nature of my relationship with (name removed - let's call her "Gamer Girl"), what with her living in a different country, we have a sort of open relationship thingy, since I'll never move to America, even if my life depended on it, and she's waaaaay too busy to drop what she's doing and move here.

But anyways - back to The Turk.

I met her through the Changling story I was in - and almost right away we sorta clicked - I won't go into details, but you can probably infer from this that it ended up with us sleeping together - to Born this Way, among other Gaga songs.

Now, here's where it gets complicated - she liked to get into people's heads - which I did not like - and I had to be clear with her, not because of her grasp of the English language, but because she either doesn't get sarcasm, or she doesn't approve of it, or both.

And, as anybody who has spoken to me for 1 minute can tell you, it's my first, and primary language.
That ill-fated relationship was a rollercoaster of mixed feelings, confusion, irritation, and GAHWTF? - it's not hard to guess that it ended badly.

Normally, I'd be all "EH! No Regrets!" and move on - just like the relationship with SheWhoMustNotBeNamed - but in her case, I can't. I fucked up. I gave her the cold shoulder, and it ended with a ruined, and most likely unsalvagable relationship.

To make things worse, she went back to Turkey, so I can't even man up and apologise to her in person.

It is, without question, the one regret that I'll always have.

Now that I think about it - there've been a lot of relationship problems with my life lately - maybe spending summer in SF, rather then Peterborough will help me sort my brain out.

Anyways - it's possible that The Turk may be reading this - but it's also possible that she's blocked me from everything - but on the off chance that she didn't, and she's reading this...

Rouge - I am so sorry. What I've done was terrible. If you're willing to try again, then so am I.

GAH!

Unreliable internet is unreliable.

GRAAAAAAAAAAAH! :(

But I will pull through! I will complete BEDA! FOR PONY!

Cake went over great

Have to alter it to make sure it works every time. Then I'll post it here.

I'll tell you that it was nice, fluffy, and the sweetness of the chocolate cake was evenly matched by the bitterness of the stout.

Gah! Almost missed a day!

Almost missed a day! (The other day I missed doesn't technically count since I posted something on Wordpress, but I digress)

I was travelling.
In travelling, I have resolved to never, ever drive a Toyota Yaris ever again.
It may be a good car, but it is not a car that was designed for me.

Also, I'm baking a cake. It's a chocolate cake. With stout.

This could either be delicious, or a disaster. Either way, it'll be interesting.

Hmm

I'm noticing that I don't exactly have much to say. It's probably a good thing I couldn't do VEDA. I'd just be floundering on camera for most of the time.

It's not that I don't have opinions, it's just that I never feel like writing them down, or writing anything down for that matter.
Of course, with video I could just jump cut like every other vlogger - with text it just takes time to write things...

And I get very easily distract-SQUIRREL!

Also - you know that meme where you photoshop hipster glasses on cartoons/whatever? Somebody should do that for Batman "My parents were dead when it was still cool"

GAH!

I just wrote two exams back-to-back.

My brain is fried. Copme back later.

EXAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMS!

They steal my life.

They also prevent me from wanting to do anything. Like play games, or re-organize my room.

So I used to be in a pipe band

I played drums.
I miss that pipeband.

Not because of the mad drumming skills - I've still got that from doing my own thing
Not because of the people in it - most of them were assholes.
Not because of the music - it came from bagpipes, if you thought they were loud as the passed by in a parade, they're even louder when you're surrounded by them.

 No - what I miss about that pipeband was the kilt. 'Cause DAMN I looked good in that kilt.

I'll get a picture up when I find one.

Really, Harper?

I would rather have tax & spend then Harpernomics - because at least Tax & Spend has an income for the spending. Harpernomics is spend money we're not getting back in taxes on things we don't need, and then lieing about the cost.

Forget voting him out, can we lynch him?

Grah

Sometimes, I wonder if I should just not open my mouth on the internet.

It seems that almost every time I do, an out-of-proportion argument starts. Even on the SPOTM forums - one person essentially agrees with me - but we're still arguing because he thinks we should go Solar energy NOW, rather then wait to develop it so that we can efficiently use it.

Grah - at least I kept quiet about abortion.

Also - I plan to start the 30 Day Song Challenge on Tumblr at some point - when I do I'll link to the blog post that'll help you keep track

Things I'll be doing over the summer

So this summer, in between working and money make, I'm schedualed to be bored.

So - to combat boredom, I plan to play games.

To make it more interesting - I'm going to do LPs
I'm also going to play as many Pokemons as I can - and write fanfiction based on the story (I'll make up my own personalities, because yeah...)

So far the LPs I'll be doing (I'll do three) are Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, Pokemon Crystal, and Pokemon Emerald

In between that, Animé North, and movies, my summer is set to be entertaining

Grah

Know what I hate?

When you have a job interview, and they say they'll contact you with their decision - AND THEY NEVER DO!

Makes me rage.

GRAH!

Well so much for EVERY day

Dammit - I missed a day, didn't I?

Oh well.

Today I will hand in my last assignment of the year - and then I won't have to go back to Trent until my exams.
I never though I could hate a protein as much as I hate the one I was researching for this assignment.
If you happen to be an SND1 protein: I hate you. I hate you so frigging much.

I also hate how the piece of paper with my protein on it said "Tudor-Staphyloccol Nuclease"
THAT'S NOT WHAT THE PROTEIN IS CALLED YOU MORONIC ASSIGNMENT MAKER PERSON! Of course, I didn't know that at the time, so I was kinda stuck on an ice flow, wasn't I?

Today's blog brought to you by the letter omega and the number pi

And now - a brief explanation of how taxes work

In Canada, if your paychecque is taxed, you never notice it. You just go along with your life, and ignore it.

When February comes around, you file your return, and you get money back from the government.

Taxes are not you giving the government money - it's the Government borrowing money so it can FUND things.

The goverment takes the tax money, puts it in the National Bank, and collects the interest - in February, they give the money back, and the economy continues, with better funded schools, roads, hospitals et cetera.

In short - taxes make money for the country, and TAXES CREATE jobs. But it seems the Citizens of Canada don't realize that this is how it works, and so Harper appeases to them by lieing about how taxes work.

In short - we as citizens of Canada are STUPID and Harper is taking advantage of this.

Steven Harper: Just say "Sieg Heil!" and be done with it

GRAH!

No blog today. I'm too angry.

Fuck you Steven Harper. FUCK! YOU!

Roll Up the Rim to Win!

So, being Canadian - I'm, like, required to love and enjoy Tim Horton's. So, I, like every Canadian, flock to Timmy's every March, because March is "Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrroll up the Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrim to Win!" month.

For the uninitiated - Roll up the Rim to Win is a contest where Timmy's make special cups as the contest coupons - sorta like scratch'n'win - but instead, you un-curl the rim and the result is printed underneath it.

I constantly lose - I can count on one hand the number of times I won - and it's always, always been a fucking doughnut, but I digress.

The contest officially ends April 1st - but the reality of it is that the contest is over when they run out of contest cups. Every cup produced must be distributed - and they accept claims until mid-May.

The first to run out is always the extra larges - usually because when people win a coffee, it's any size - so they'll take 'em XL.

Now, the genius of the planners is that the best prize - the car (this year it was a Toyota Matrix) is always in a large-size cup - and when people figure this out (the information is available somewhere - my Dad knows where to find it) they'll only order the large size.
Thing is - for a lot of these people, Large isn't enough coffee - so they'll order 2. Tim Horton's just made a bigger profit off of one of their regular XL coffee drinkers.

So, not only are they netting a bigger profit because of the contest itself - they're netting more because people who normally have one XL Coffee (about $2) have two large coffees instead (around $3) - it's only a $1 increase - but given the amount of coffee they sell (they have to grow their own coffee beans because they can't afford to buy it from coffee farmers in the bean belt they use THAT MUCH - especially when you consider their policy of  "Fresh Pot every 10 minutes") they probably make a fortune every March - hell of a way to start the Fiscal year, no?

Toradora!

So there's this anime called Toradora!

It's your typical romcom anime - it's actually a pretty compelling story, and you're honestly unsure as to how it's going to end actually - it's fairly obvious - even more so if you know limited Japanese and know the mythology behind Tigers and Dragons.

As a whole, looking back, it was actually kinda stupid - but still pretty awesome, in a My Litte Pony: Friendship is Magic kind of way.

The Light Novels were better

But anyways

The 1st OP was pretty kick-ass. I mean, the anime's about the love between an OCD, deliquent-looking honours student, and a slobish, mean-spirited sociopath - but the OP is fast-paced, catchy, and dare I say epic.

That's all I wanted to say.

VEDA... I mean - BEDA! There we go.

I wanted to do VEDA - but I'd honestly forgotten about it, and now that it's April, it's kinda late to make one up.

Besides - I don't have a good camera.

Oh - VEDA stands for Vlog Every Day in April.

ANYways - I decided to do the written version - so I will Blog Every Day this April

Should be fun.

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So anyways - I live in Canada.

I've recently decided to re-classify the seasons in certain areas.
Now, of course there's the obvious joke: "Canada has 2 seasons - Winter and Construction" - of course, it's not the only joke, there's also:
"Canada has 4 seasons: Winter, More Winter, Still Winter, and Repairs"
"Canada has 6 seasons: Hockey, Hockey Pre-Season, Hockey Regular Season, Hockey Playoff Season, Hocky Post-Playoff Season, and Good God, Isn't Hockey Over Aready?"
"Vancouver has 2 seasons: Wet and Dry"
Et Cetera

I live in Eastern Ontario - we have four seasons - they ain't The Usual, nor any of the Jokes.
We have 8 seasons!
Eastern Ontario's 8 seasons are: "Wind, Snow, Rain, Repairs, Thunderstorm, Oh look - the Birds are Back, Tornado, Construction"

>_>

I don't really have anything else to add now. See you tomorrow.

And now, anger

You know what day I really hate?

St. Patrick's Day.

The reason why I hate it? Because I'm part Irish.
Yes, I hate the day of Éire's Patron Saint because I have Gaelic blood.

Lemme explain.

St Patrick's day is a very important holiday to Irish Catholic people, because St Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland.

Only, instead of "snakes" it's "pagans" and instead of "drove them out" it's "killed them all"
But that's just arguing semantics.

Anyways - that's what St Paddy's Day is SUPPOSED to be about - you know, Church, feast in the Saint's name (remember, it's Lent, so no breaking your sacrifices) and all that.
Shamrocks are very important because St Patrick used the three leaves as an example of the Holy Trinity

HOWEVER, what St Patrick's Day has become is "International Drink Until You Pass Out" Day
All over the place you'll see people just drinking, and fighting and generally being as un-Irish as possible. People with shirts or banners that say "Irish for a Day", or calling out "Keith's Me! I'm Irish!" (Pro tip - Keith's is as Scottish as a CANADIAN beer can get). It's also generally the only time of the year they'll drink Guinness, they'll never drink a proper Irish whiskey, or even Scotch - they'll instead drink Canadian or American stuff, which, while good (Canadian stuff anyways - and only when mixed) is crap compared with the real thing.

And what the FUCK is with Green Beer? Wanna know how to make Green Beer? Drop green food colouring into a pint of Budweiser. Gotta be bud, 'cos it's the only one light enough in colour.
Talk about non-Irish.

There's the Green obsession - which is fine, the obsession with four leaf clovers on the other hand, is not.
Another Pro tip - four leaf clovers are as Irish as the Queen.

All of this isn't to say that true Irish people can't don't drink on St Patrick's day - most do. But, the usual celebration is to go to the pub, have a Pint of Guinness, and a glass of either Jameson's or Bushmills. In addition to a family dinner, and going to church - it is, after all, a Catholic holiday.

Mid March would be a much nicer time if people stopped ruining Ireland's good name.

Éire go Brách

30 Days of Video Games/Disney/Music/Anime

So, I've decided that I'm bored, and need little pointless things to keep me sane - hopefully I'll still be able to do silly things like my homework - but in the mean time - this stuff.

So, I have a Tumblr account, and have decided to do the 30 Days of challenges, specifically Video Games, Disney, Music, and Anime

I've already started on Video Games, but on Facebook - and haven't gotten around to doing it on Tumblr yet - but when I DO get around to it, I'll probably do all four at the same time. Just. Fucking. BECAUSE.

Also, I'll post the four lists here - for the sake of finding the lists on Google.

Also - as I do the challenges, I'll edit the list to provide links to tumblr.

Day 1 – Very First Video Game
Day 2 – Your favorite character.
Day 3 – A game that is underrated.
Day 4 – Your guilty pleasure game.
Day 5 – Game character you feel you are most like (or wish you were).
Day 6 – Most annoying character.
Day 7 – Favorite game couple.
Day 8 – Best soundtrack.
Day 9 – Saddest game scene.
Day 10 – Best gameplay.
Day 11 – Gaming system of choice.
Day 12 – A game everyone should play.
Day 13 – A game you’ve played more than five times.
Day 14 – Current (or most recent) gaming wallpaper.
Day 15 – Post a screenshot from the game you’re playing right now.
Day 16 – Game with the best cut scenes.
Day 17 – Favorite antagonist.
Day 18 – Favorite protagonist.
Day 19 – Picture of a game setting you wish you lived in.
Day 20 – Favorite genre.
Day 21 – Game with the best story.
Day 22 – A game sequel which disappointed you.
Day 23 – Game you think had the best graphics or art style.
Day 24 – Favorite classic game.
Day 25 – A game you plan on playing.
Day 26 – Best voice acting.
Day 27 – Most epic scene ever.
Day 28 – Favorite game developer.
Day 29 – A game you thought you wouldn’t like, but ended up loving.
Day 30 – Your favorite game of all time.

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The 30 Day Song Challenge

Day 01 – Your favorite song
Day 02 – Your least favorite song
Day 03 – A song that makes you happy
Day 04 – A song that makes you sad
Day 05 – A song that reminds you of someone
Day 06 – A song that reminds of you of somewhere
Day 07 – A song that reminds you of a certain event
Day 08 – A song that you know all the words to
Day 09 – A song that you can dance to
Day 10 – A song that makes you fall asleep
Day 11 – A song from your favorite band
Day 12 – A song from a band you hate
Day 13 – A song that is a guilty pleasure
Day 14 – A song that no one would expect you to love
Day 15 – A song that describes you
Day 16 – A song that you used to love but now hate
Day 17 – A song that you hear often on the radio
Day 18 – A song that you wish you heard on the radio
Day 19 – A song from your favorite album
Day 20 – A song that you listen to when you’re angry
Day 21 – A song that you listen to when you’re happy
Day 22 – A song that you listen to when you’re sad
Day 23 – A song that you want to play at your wedding
Day 24 – A song that you want to play at your funeral
Day 25 – A song that makes you laugh<
Day 26 – A song that you can play on an instrument
Day 27 – A song that you wish you could play
Day 28 – A song that makes you feel guilty
Day 29 – A song from your childhood
Day 30 – Your favorite song at this time last year

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30 Days of Disney (including Pixar)

DAY 1: Favorite movie
DAY 2: Favorite princess
DAY 3: Favorite prince
DAY 4: Favorite song
DAY 5: Favorite kiss
DAY 6: Prettiest princess
DAY 7: Favorite castle
DAY 8: Saddest moment
DAY 9: Favorite couple
DAY 10: Best hair
DAY 11: Favorite animal sidekick
DAY 12: Favorite non-animal sidekick
DAY 13: Favorite outfit
DAY 14: Favorite villain
DAY 15: Favorite romantic moment
DAY 16: Favorite singing voice
DAY 17: Best eyes
DAY 18: Favorite name
DAY 19: Favorite soundtrack
DAY 20: Funniest moment
DAY 21: Favorite quote
DAY 22: Bravest princess
DAY 23: Favorite dance scene
DAY 24: Favorite parent
DAY 25: Favorite lyrics
DAY 26: Most magical moment
DAY 27: Best wardrobe
DAY 28: Favorite sequel
DAY 29: Favorite overall moment
DAY 30: Favorite happy ending

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30 Days of Anime

Day 1 - Very first anime
Day 2 - Favorite anime You’ve watched so far
Day 3 - Your first anime crush
Day 4 - Anime you’re ashamed you enjoyed
Day 5 - Anime character you feel you are most like (or wish you were)
Day 6 - Most annoying anime character
Day 7 - Favorite anime couple
Day 8 - Most epic scene ever
Day 9 - Saddest anime scene
Day 10 - Favorite slice of life anime
Day 11 - Favorite mecha series
Day 12 - An ecchi picture from your favorite series
Day 13 - Cosplay of your ‘waifu’ or Husbando’
Day 14 - current (or most recent) anime wallpaper
Day 15 - Post a cute Neko-girl
Day 16 - post a kigurumi cosplay of your favorite anime character
Day 17 - Favorite tsundere
Day 18 - Something moe
Day 19 - Mandatory swimsuit post
Day 20 - Favorite shoujo anime
Day 21 - Best yandere character
Day 22 - Favorite BL/yuri couple
Day 23 - Anime you think had the best, or most intriguing art
Day 24 - Favorite anime hero or heroine
Day 25 - Best anime villian
Day 26 - Your favorite harem anime
Day 27 - Favorite anime opening theme song (Bonus - Favourite Ending too!)
Day 28 - Favorite pokemon
Day 29 - Favorite school uniform
Day 30 - Anime Character you want to Cosplay

El Cazador de la Bruja, and other anime things

I've gotten way too much of a backlog of anime to watch, so I decided to just sit down, strap in, and watch something.

I borrowed Last Exile from my friend, but NO! Apparently DVDs are not what I should be watching, so I watched El Cazador de la Bruja instead.

First impressions: Totally awesome. Will Buy.

So far, near as I can tell, it's Trigun, but with more of a Science-Fiction spin to it, with a girl instead. And Yuri. OH GAWDS THE YURI!
There's also a very Fireflyesque sense of the series, as a whole, being character driven, with plot as a side thing. And that suits me just fine.

Regardless, there's an adventure theme, and that will probably inspire me to watch Last Exile... and maybe get around to reading more of The Name of the Wind.

Other things I plan to buy include Evangelion 2.22, Spice&Wolf season 1, Spice&Wolf Light Novel vol 3, Spice&Wolf Manga vol 3, Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood, FMA Manga vols 4-, Black Lagoon vol 7-, Black Lagoon season 2, and another plushy - also, maybe a Gundam model, or a VN, or an art book.

Oh, and food, can't forget food - it's a good thing I'm staying with my friend who lives, like, RIGHT THERE, and has a car, rather than hotel-ing it

Though, I may have prefered hotel - we'll see how things go.

Also - I wish that the nearest Timmies wasn't a half hour walk away - I miss that about Rez - where Tim Horton's was only 10 minutes away.

I also miss the Nerf Wars.

But off rez is cheaper, so I accept my sad existance.

And that's all he wrote.

Arg! I did it again!

Stupid! STUPID AUST!

Anyways - I've ended up with a WordPress account, which is for the SPOTM blog, which is also hardly updated lately (I need to get on that ball too) so I decided that this will be my general bloggy thing, WordPress will be my creative outlet, and Tumblr will be my wasteland created by StumbleUpon, the internet and Shareaholic add-on for Firefox.

Oh, by the way, I'm using Firefox again.


Anyways - that's all I've got for now. See ya!

Oops!

Shit! Shitshitshit! Forgot all about this!

>_> Forgot all about the SPOTM blog too, but priorities people! GRAH!

Lessee... what have I done lately?

Erm... I read a book!

Nah - that's not interesting. RE DO!

I've been reading the Bioterrorism Sourcebook - not actually a how-to guide to committing bio-terrorism, but a bank of information on the history and science behind it.
Also been reading Viruses, Plagues, & History, The Patient as Victim and Vector: Ethics and Infectious Disease, The History of Diseases, and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Dangerous Diseases and Epidemics


What else have I done?

Beaten QWOP

Beaten Perfect Cherry Blossom


Finally found a manga site similar to OneManga, and started catching up. I've still got a few left, but I caught up on Soul Eater, Rosario+Vampire Season II, and Omamori Himari

Increased my backlog of anime, while not watching anything.

And took over an RPG on the SPOTM forum.

Also, became very depressed, but I got better.

That's about all I've got for now. Aust awaaaaaaay!