Confidential to the Order

That's what he'd ride to school today.

( Anger under the cut - I hate bootlegs!! )

UPDATED 8/25/09

This is the only time you'll see me admit to my own insanity/craziness. I cannot believe I acquired this much stuff. Apparently I hoard more than just bias tape. So I cleaned up my bookshelves and found a lot of extra stuff I do not need and most doujinshi I have not had a chance to read. Here is the next batch of anime/game plunder. I want things gone as quickly as possible. If you have any questions about items, post a comment or send an email. If you want a bunch of stuff, make an offer. Seriously.


Warning: Text and picture heavy. Non-warning: Free gift with purchase! Booyeah!
But for now, you can just... ( Get yer nerdage on... )

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noirrac, is this you in days gone by?



This child sure is channeling some of Noirizzle's amazing shouting ability. I bet she's screaming "TOKUUUUNNAAAAAAGGGGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" at that poor pony too.

So basically I had a wig I kind of messed up when I was doing my Mithos costume last spring. It ended up much too short. I got so excited and carried away I forgot that wig heads are considerably smaller than the human noggin. Oops.. So I ended up with a hella short blonde bob haircut.

( Can't touch this )

Anyone up for a Zelda group at all? If no one is game, I'll just have to crash someone else's Zelda pow wow on my own.

WTF LUKE!!!!

Sorry had to share the horror, now we can all use this as a forum icon.

I believe this is the 3rd release for this fantabulous game, Chrono Trigger. If you've never played it... you should. This is basically what got me out of my Sonic obsession. But hey back in the day when Sonic was introduced he was pretty damn cool with his nifty comic books and tv show.

But back to Chrono Trigger... Apparently it's going to be re-re-released for DS. Assuming I can find my SNES or unearth the emulator on my computer, I can play it. This game made me the total nerd that I am. Believe it or not, this is what got me into Japanese culture, video games, and animation (aside from countless cartoons that were animated in Japan then imported over here like Voltron... again another story.) In fact, I made my first costumes from this game back in 95' BOOOYEAAA. I made some nifty Marle clothes and Crono pants lolol fun pants. (and how many of you were born in frigging 95'?! AUUUUGH) Plans to make a Schala costume... are.... um... in place, the fabric and wig are already in my possession. I want to do a Chrono Trigger cosplay group!!! Again another story....



Official Site

But yea, I'm kind of unsure how to feel about a re-re-release. They added a dungeon and wireless play mode. The added pretty anime cut scenes in their firs re-release for the PS1 in Final Fantasy Chronicles... but it was painfully slow to play on PS1. At least in Chrono Trigger you can see enemies in the field and run to avoid them if need be. On the new version If they revamped graphics and left the story alone, that'd be amazing. I don't know what the DS is capable of in terms of handling heavy graphics but the PSP could do it. God... please get some decent games going for the PSP.

But then again the argument from the purists would be that the graphics must be untouched because hell, for 95' the graphics were BANGIN'... Seriously, that was one of the first games to be 32 bit graphics, have multiple endings, sidequests that promote character development, and a unique battle system.

I'm going to admit something nerd-tastic too, this is probably one of the few games where I maxed characters levels out (no Game Genie/ Game Shark). I just played it that much. Herein lies the main question, will they leave it as the Japanese version or the Diet Coke American version where some scenes, dialogue, and music was left out. hmmm.... Since it's pre-orderable in Japan, I'm going with the idea that it's a re-release of the Japanese version.

Good news for CT fans who happen to be DS owners. Bad news for people like me stuck in a time rut where the GRAY BRICK O'DOOMY DOOM is your gameboy. Wtf evs. maaaaaaaan.

So we have a snow day here because it's only October and the skies seemed to have pooped out about half a foot of snow etc. I have time to waste but I might do something useful, you never know.

Now you get a happy poll to vote for your favorite prank to pull on trick-or-treaters. If I lived where kids came for Halloween I'd probably pull them all.

Poll #1287327 Halloween poll
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 9

What's the best prank to pull on trick-or-treaters?

And I almost forgot your FREE TUNE DU JOUR!
Playahitty - 123 Train With Me

I take requests too.

List yoinked from HERE. Some of these are kind of funny, some lame, might be worth a few laughs the first time. Read through this post and I have a treat for you - free music from my crack collection!!! I think music is freeing, therefore needs to be free. Now with every post I'll be uploading a free tune from my collection so you too can be free.

1. Give away something other than candy. (Toothpicks, golf balls, bags of sand)

2. Wait behind the door until some people come. When they get near the door, jump out, wearing a costume, and holding a bag, and yell, "Trick or Treat!" Look at them, scratch your head, and act confused.

3. Fill a briefcase with marbles and crackers. Write on it, "Top Secret" in big letters. When Trick or Treaters come, look around suspiciously, say, "It's about time you got here," give them the briefcase, and quickly shut the door.

4. Get about 30 people to wait in your living room. When Trick or Treaters come to the door, say, "Come in." When they do, have everyone yell, "Surprise!!!" Act like it's a surprise party.

5. Get everyone who comes to the door to come in and see if they can figure out what's wrong with your dishwasher. Insist that it makes an unnatural "whirring" sound.

6. After you give them candy, hand the Trick or Treaters a bill.

7. Open the door dressed as a giant fish. Immediately collapse, and don't move or say anything until the Trick or Treaters go away.

8. When you answer the door, look at the Trick or Treaters, act shocked and scared, and start screaming your head off. Slam the door and run around the house, screaming until they go away.

10. Insist that the Trick or Treaters each do ten push-ups before you give them any candy.

11. Hand out menus to the Trick or Treaters and let them order their own candy. Keep asking if anyone wants to see the wine list.

12. Get a catapult. Sit on your porch and catapult pumpkins at anyone who comes within 50 yards of your house.

13. When people come to the door, jump out a nearby window, crashing through the glass, and run as far away from your house as you can.

14. Answer the door dressed in a pilgrim costume. Stare at the Trick or Treaters for a moment, pretend to be confused, and start flipping through a calendar.

15. Instead of candy, give away colored Easter eggs. If anyone protests, explain that the eggs are the only thing you had left over from Easter. (LMAOOOOO)

16. Answer the door dressed in a dentist costume. Angrily give the Trick or Treaters a two-hour lecture on tooth decay.

17. Answer the door with a mouthful of M & M's and several half-eaten candy bars in your hands. Act surprised, and close the door. Open it again in a few seconds, and insist that you don't have any candy.

18. Answer the door wearing a Santa Suit and wish Trick or Treaters a Merry Christmas instead of Happy Halloween!

19. Put a crown on a pumpkin and put the pumpkin on a throne on your porch. Insist that all of the Trick or Treaters bow before the pumpkin.

20. Dress up like the Easter Bunny and see if Trick or Treaters want to sit on your lap!

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ONE COSTUME YOU MIGHT WANT TO CONSIDER NOT CHOOSING FOR YOUR TINY TOT


But wts.... why is baby Hitler so damn adorable?! Did I just say that?!

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FREEBEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!
I PUT A SPELL ON YOU This is Bette Midler's version, it's so very me according to noirrac. Whatever that means LOL.

Enjoy... and watch Hocus Pocus for a laugh. Bette is frigging insane, which is why I love her.




Crikey, my ADHD is kind of getting out of hand, BYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE (That was a Retardid policeman-style "Bye")

Got this one from a friend - this one is HAWT and will provide many good lulz.

YA DIG IT?

Hey guys, found 2 coupons that might be of interest to all you cosplayers, crafters, or general..... uh...... creators...

40% off Joann Fabrics coupon that's printable and good until the 4th of October
COUPON OF LOVE

and ironically enough, a coupon with the same percentage off from Michaels
SECOND COUPON OF LOVE

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Next costume up... Jareth from Labyrinth, his sequin frocks and makeup are so fab. LOL It's late and I don't know what I'm talking about anymore wheeee!!!!!!!

Only Dennis Leary can write something like this.... and only a cracky Tales fan would put this together. This made me LOL... like a lot. A LOT



Life's gonna suck when you grow up,
When you grow up, when you grow up
Life's gonna suck when you grow up,
It sucks pretty bad right now.

You're gonna end up smoking crack, on your back, face the fact.
You're gonna end up hooked on smack, and then you're gonna die.

So I decided to push myself and see if I can get Judgment Kratos done for Otakon. Hell, I have 2 weeks! "DO IT TO IT, C'MON."
Sorta a retarded idea but whatever, if it sucks, I can always remake it - should I have necessary funds. Lol

( Photos and such )

OTAKON PIMPAGE
Scheduled Tales Series gatherings/photoshoots:
Friday 4pm - Fountains
Saturday 4pm - 4th Floor

TALES PANEL Back for its second year
Friday 6-7 - Panel 2
Same folks who put the show on last year, back in action so check it out.

HONORARY RENEGADE BADGE GET
Find shishio9 (Yuan), kyoushiro, or wind21 (Judas)
Say You're:
A: Trying To Stop Martel's Resurrection (by trying to kill the Chosen)
B: That You're Plotting The Downfall of Cruxis
C: Prepared to be quizzed on Symphonia trivia.

COSPLAY
FRIDAY Mithos Tales of Symphonia. I'm probably the only Mithos
SATURDAY Fon Master Ion Tales of the Abyss I've got Mieu and a tuning fork staff of awesomeness.

Might try and squeeze in Judgment Kratos because I am insane and have a beautiful love/hate relationship with stress and working under pressure... But I love procrastination as well.

TALES OF THE ABYSS ANTHOLOGY
I'm doing some translation into German for this gig. If you'd be interested in contributing please read this site and contact :devcherden: for further details. It's about time the rest of the world got together and did an anthology.

SELLAGE
EPIC MANGA, DOUJINSHI, ETC SALE !! UPDATED 7.22.08
Jade Costume!!! Worn twice, just like new! Too big for me now. Check it out!!

I'm selling off my worldly possessions so I can actually afford things at Otakon and make next month's student loan payment. I'm listing my Gorillaz RED Edition vinyl figures on eBay. I hate to part with them but I need money and am not 100% sure I'm getting the remainder of the balance on the last 2 commissioned costumes in a timely manner. fuk...

<a href="http://funk-mastah-ion.livejournal.com/32207.html">UP TO DATE LISTINGS</a>

1. Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak. 

2. Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.

3. Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.

4. Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.

5. The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.

6. If you lined up all the cars in the world end to end, someone would be stupid enough to try to pass them, five or six at a time, on a hill, in the fog.

7 The things that come to those who wait will be the scraggly junk left by those who got there first.

8. The shin bone is a device for finding furniture in a dark room.
 
9. A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.

10. When you go into court, you are putting yourself into the hands of 12 people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.





Amen to that.

So like a week after AnimeNEXT I decided to check out what was in the bag I got as part of the prize from the Hall Cosplay Contest.

( Loot to boot )
RECAP:

SOMEONE TELL ME HOW TO USE THOSE TOOLS AND HOW TO BE PHOTOGENIC!!! Akdwfbhoqwer~!

No really. Which Tales of the Abyss character are you? created with QuizFarm.com

You scored as Original!Ion You're the Original!Ion. You really like to make others see the pain. When they complain, kill them. When they even lay a hand on Arietta, kill them. It takes but a swing and they're gone... Original!Ion 95% Jade Curtiss 90% Tear Grants 85% Natalia Luzu Kimlasca-Lanvaldear 80% Ion 80% Legretta 75% Largo 75% Florian 65% Arietta 60% Van 60% Anise Tatlin 60% Mieu 60% Guy 50% Asch 45% Sync 40% Luke Fon Fabre 40% Dist 25% Peony 20%

Maybe it's a squatter!!!

My coworker told me this news story - conveniently after we discovered the lights at the store were left on, even though we knew they were shut off completely the previous night. Ghosts? Perhaps. Squatters? Perhaps LOL.

"TOKYO — A homeless woman who sneaked into a man's house and lived undetected in his closet for a year was arrested in Japan after he became suspicious when food mysteriously began disappearing.

Police found the 58-year-old woman Thursday hiding in the top compartment of the man's closet and arrested her for trespassing, police spokesman Hiroki Itakura from southern Kasuya town said Friday.

The resident of the home installed security cameras that transmitted images to his mobile phone after becoming puzzled by food disappearing from his kitchen over the past several months.

One of the cameras captured someone moving inside his home Thursday after he had left, and he called police believing it was a burglar. However, when they arrived they found the door locked and all windows closed.

"We searched the house ... checking everywhere someone could possibly hide," Itakura said. "When we slid open the shelf closet, there she was, nervously curled up on her side."

The woman told police she had no place to live and first sneaked into the man's house about a year ago when he left it unlocked.

She had moved a mattress into the small closet space and even took showers, Itakura said, calling the woman "neat and clean."
LINK: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2004449378_closet31.html



Maybe we have a squatter living in the basement of the store. It'd be very possible, there are so many rooms and shelving units downstairs that someone can hide in. We always joked about ghosts being in the store because weird things always happen, but maybe it's just a squatter.

Anyhow, I figured if I ever babysit, I'll tell the children there aren't monsters in the closet or under the bed... just squatters LOL. Creepy and hilarious at the same time.

In 2000 the United States Census Bureau began asking residents questions about dragon shirt ownership. This is what they learned:

65% of dragon shirt wearers have ponytails.
49% have terminal neckbeards.
67% have been to an anime convention.
67% reported experiencing true happiness for the first time at an anime convention.
26% believe that they actually are a dragon on the inside.
12% own motorcycles and are over 50.
87% of people that own a dragon shirt own another dragon shirt.
100% of dragon shirt wearers are lame.

Truth...

True story, there was this little dude acting suspicious the other night at Borders so my manager asked us to keep an eye out for him. We were all like, "Sure, except there are a bajillion other hooligans in here too."

I finally caught up with said hooligan and watched as he ducked behind a bookcase. He popped up a few seconds later wearing the most tried, tested, and true disguise: a jet black fake mustache, not even close to his real hair color.

Anyone who knows me also knows that I have a hard time not laughing at pretty much anything. I had to look away to keep from bursting out with laughter!

Alas, he set off across the store toward the magazines and was trying to be all sneaky and such. Little did he know I am Stealthy. At this point my manager had spotted the kid as well and was watching.

Well, now we knew what he was up to. With his awesome fake mustache he confidently strode over to the nudie magazines and began pawing through them!! Much to his dismay, the nudie magazines are plastic wrapped and knowing he was not of age to buy one even with the fake mustache, he hung his head low and slumped out of the store without a word.

LOOOOOOOOOOL I almost wanted to sell the kid a nudie magazine just for putting on the fake mustache! It was so awesomely bad, I could tell he had spend some time planning this mission; sorry lil dude, you failed ;__;