Changes

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No More Hentai
A colleague online likened this to 40 days in the desert, but I would hardly compare giving up all sexual activities for the next month with the feats accomplished by the Bible's biggest giants. Nonetheless, giving it up I shall do. My inspiration is the largely-celibate Zhuge Liang.

No More Anime
Yesterday or two days ago, I came to a depressing realization. It bears a lot of similarities with my realization in the 10th grade that I no longer cared to watch the Pokémon television show anymore. This one's the realization that I am pretty much done with acquiring new anime for now. It's not because I'm tired of anime as a medium, but rather because I have a huge backlog of promising stories in other media which I have for far too long been placing on perpetual hold so that I might watch the newest fluff piece from Japan's cartoon studios. So it's with a sad, gentle letting go of my hand from its that I part ways with anime for now. Maybe we'll meet again soon. (Very, very probably if you ever make Rozen Maiden season 3 or Haruhi season 2. lol)

No More Weblog (Like This One)
I read somewhere one to two weeks ago that the way to get the most out of your blogging is to blog about a specific topic. (Actually, I think the advice was for Twitter ;p , but the same logic applies here as well.) The writer suggested that if you want to teach and learn from a community of readers about a common interest, you've got to blog about that -- and that personal "diary-style" blogs will never cut it because the only people who will bother to read those will be your friends, and even they will dwindle in numbers as they axe off your blog for specialized haunts of their own. (Too true! :( ) So I'm considering letting Mujou slide for a bit -- not shutting it down, but probably not updating it much at all either -- as I consider what it is that I would like to blog about and how I intend to get the word out that my blog exists. Do I want to blog about something controversial? Do I want to blog about something practical? Do I want mine to be about a biased platform? Things to think about.

Redesigning Pokémon
I've got to look into this one more closely, but I've shared some ideas for proposed changes to the Pokémon games and all of the suggestions have met with overwhelming approval. When I ask myself, "Wouldn't it just be easier to ask the Pokémon Company to implement these changes themselves?", I come to the disappointing conclusion that they can no longer implement many of these proposed changes -- or have shown us through four generations' worth of releases that they would be loath to do so -- because a great many of them propose to change elements of the game which have their origins with the original two titles. So I've decided that since the changes are so core and so numerous, it almost becomes a question of creating a completely different video game franchise -- and therefore the only way I'm ever going to see this game in the light of day is if I make it with my own two hands.

Obviously, this is not something I can afford much time to during my busy weekly schedule, but it's something that's been on my mind a lot lately and I've asked myself, "If BioWare can do it, why can't I?" Furthermore, I have zero interest in learning how to code to make this game. My role in production of such a title would be that of "planner." I don't know what you call a video game project's lead planner -- lead designer? producer? No clue. Anyway, this one's a bit of a stretch, I'll give you that. ;p

Shadow of the Colossus
I won this on eBay recently and it arrived on my doorstep a few days ago. All I'll say is, this is without a doubt one of the coolest, most awesome cinematic experiences I've had with a game in years. That stated, the plot is paper-thin and oh-so-predictable (or at least I think it is; still haven't beaten the game yet) and while the film game is exquisite stylistically it's atrocious graphically, i.e. the design is sweet but everything is way too jagged and poorly-rendered.

Pokémon Diamond
True to my word, I'm going to be modding a copy of Pokémon Diamond so I can get back into the swing of playing these games without selling my soul to Satan. Translation: what takes Joe Average 1600 hours to accomplish shall take me 16 minutes. >D Bwa ha ha ha! To those who cry "FOUL! >(", my solitary defenses are: (1) I wouldn't play if I couldn't play like this so cut me a break, and (2) I'm hoping that this'll let me still be a "gamer doctor" who can relate with the kids at Riley's. And by "relate," I mean that while the other doctors spend 5 hours trying to learn how to cure Timmy's leukemia, I'll spend 4 hours doing that and 1 hour by his bedside playing Super Mario Kart Xtreme Turbo Edition 2. Seriously: too few students realize that medicine is more than scientific healing. You've got to earn the patient's trust, and you've got to make them want to live and cherish life. Religious or not, life's just not worth living anymore when you've got no friends, when you're a burden on your family, and when you're in chronic pain. It's up to the physician to not just manage the pain in your body, but to brush away the cobwebs in your heart, too. Kids need friends in the hospital as much as they need physicians: and I want to be both.

That stated, I still hate pediatrics. XD SCREAMING BABIES EVERYWHERE! lol

Oh, I got side-tracked: so yeah, I got Pokémon Diamond, but the funny thing is ... none of my modding stuff's shown up yet. (Wuh-oh!) So I've actually been playing through Diamond legitimately. lol I've got a Level 42 Infernape (with shitty effort), a Level 43 Haunter (ditto), three HM whores, and an untrained Cranidos just because I don't like having a five-person team. lol

Apartment
Fairly clean.

Philosophical quandry for the day:
What is your gut instinct reaction towards the saying "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all"? And what is your reaction to it after I let you think about it for as long as you'd like?

Personally, I think I speak for most of us that we've had it ingrained into us that this is a sage saying; but when I chewed it over along with my nachos for lunch this afternoon, I couldn't help but wonder that the saying has got to be like poison to half the planet, since it seems like the planet is split right down the middle as to whether people should mind their own business or whether people should right others' wrongdoings. Indeed, this saying seems to be very, very pacifistic -- to the point that it would not allow you to say something "not nice" to a genocidal maniac.