S'up, nerds?

I think the day I officially change my alias from "Pharaoh Leap" is the day I stop living in fear under the constant threat of me relapsing back into my Yu-Gi-Oh! phase, and -

Lemme tell you, kids, that today is most certainly not that day.

Gonzo, I blame you.

I dunno if someone's already mentioned this - there are a lot of pages - but what irks me is when people obviously, like, post the application into the preview tab and it's visibly spaced terribly, but they never bother, like... asking for help before moving it through notification? Like, do you not see how broken this app is. I can't. I can't accept it like this, you must know.

Honestly, though, just little things like visibly broken apps (you can SEE what it's supposed to look like in the app thread/through other applications) or incorrect aspect ratio avatars irritate me... probably a little too much. Like, I get that not everyone is code savvy or has great graphics skills - but you can ask other people for help! I always encourage people to let me know about broken code or graphics troubles because I want to help them. I can't help you if you won't let me help you.

Every time I see broken posting templates or really poorly stretched images, I wish I could just sneak in and edit everything for them without telling them, but that's probably not acceptable. OTL

Oct 1, 2018 2:32:22 GMT pharaoh leap said:

September was whack, but tomorrow is Spooktober, and it better be heckin' good.

Spooktober, this isn't an improvement.

September was whack, but tomorrow is Spooktober, and it better be heckin' good.

Fair warning: I have poo taste. This list may also be, like, totally not accurate because I don't even know what I like and in what order sometimes. Not counting films for this, since I've only seen very few, and I'm pretty sure someone would stone me if I put Appleseed on here???

01. PUELLA MAGI MADOKA MAGICA is on, and number one for the sole sake that it made me cry. A lot. A fictional work eliciting the "single manly tear that strolls down the side of my face" award is actually high praise, so the fact that basically throughout the entirety of the last three episodes I was bawling my eyes out like a baby is... even higher praise! I love the writer's works in general, but perhaps because I grew up on and fell out of love with magical girl anime, or maybe just because I could find myself related really well to almost every character on screen, this one just. Hit me extra hard. I own every volume of the manga + every spin-off manga. For as much as I like the original, though, I think I like The Different Story better. *strokes chin*

02. MOB PSYCHO 100 was one I was hesitant to get into because of art style, but one episode in and I was hooked. Granted, 90% of that was because I fell for Reigen instantly, BUT. I've been a huge fan of One-Punch Man since it came out - and am also current on that manga (albeit not the webcomic, sorry) - but I think everything that I liked about OPM was taken an amplified two fold for Mob100. The characters are all very charming, but more than that, there are a lot of lessons and takeaways from this that you just... don't... get from other anime. Or many works of fiction at all, I guess. And when there is a "theme" that's maybe been done before, it's just done so much better. The ending didn't make me cry, but I did yell a lot. I have one complaint with the manga, which even then's kinda minor, but it's also a Big Spoiler for two arcs, so I won't mention it here. ;o

03. SUPER DIMENSIONAL FORTRESS MACROSS, or Robotech as you'll hear me call it, is easily the first anime I watched, before, even, the likes of Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, et cetera. It was my dad's favorite, so of course he wanted his two daughters to watch it with him. In a lot of ways, it... hasn't aged well, both in animation style (although I do love the character designer's work - they did the character designs from Kabanari, for reference) and voice acting, but I love, love, love the story, just, like... to bits. If they did a remaster with more polish, I genuinely think it would be amazing. This is partly here out of nostalgia, since this series has been with me for longer than I can remember, but as far as mech anime go, I just haven't been able to find one that I love this much.

04. DARKER THAN BLACK - I've rewatched this sucker so many times, aaaaah. This is probably the only, like, "episodic" anime (excluding humor anime???) that I've ever really been able to get into, but each of those episodic plots were able to grip me more than most anime's entire storylines. Exploring humanity through a cast of characters who've supposedly lost theirs is really neat to me. The powers in this anime are also really neat - alongside their "payment" - and all in all, it was just... good times (or bad times, in the case of the characters) had by all. The OVAs were spot on, that spin-off manga by the character designer was also spot on, but we don't talk about season two.

05. FATE/ZERO was the first, and still by far my favorite Fate/ anime I've seen. Admittedly, 90% of the reason why I watched it was because my best friend was drawing parallels between the main character from it and the main character from Mindcrime (which were all true, although the characters are far from copies of the other, sdkljfhsdkjfhds), but BOY, AM I GLAD I DID, BECAUSE HECK, MAN. My single gripe with the series is part of one of the character's backstories, which is probably, like, established lore or whatever in the greater Nasuverse, but just seems so dumb and out of left field within the context of this particular story. I wanted to root for so many characters here, though. Watching everyone suffer was Painful (tm). But hey - I loved every second.

*number of online members in the last twenty-four hours drops by ten*

That's it, pack up, folks, the site's dead, goodb-

Bap.

Sometimes I wonder what, like, sixteen-year-old me would think about twenty-year-old me, just in the context of roleplaying. Honestly, I don't think my writing quality has increased that drastically much - there's been improvement, yeah, but not nearly as much as, like, me going from age thirteen to fourteen. It's mostly just that most of the characters that I carry over are all really old, and would have been established by then... except the one character who I've been playing like a madman on every site I can afford to.

Sixteen-year-old me wondering who the heck this idiot boy is. Sixteen-year-old me reading, horrified, all of the curse words in all of his posts, unaware that I've been copy-pasting in swears for years. Sixteen-year-old me begging to know where everything went downhill. When did I trade in my super dramatic threads for memes?

Sept 24, 2018 19:17:15 GMT mele said:

When u wanna talk in the discord chat but ur bad at talking to people and even WORSE in large groups so u just sit in ur loneliness and contemplate life.

Protip: just say the first thing that comes to mind, and the chat will usually roll with it, whatever it was.

... Or just post a meme in the general chat, people tend to get a kick out of those, sdkjflhsdkfjsdh.