Hooray,

A fairly successful day in terms of spending loads of money on things I normally wouldn't buy if they weren't so ridiculously cheap as to be absolutely necessary!

I picked up a grand total of 32 manga books, 1 novel and 2 travel guides from the booksale all for £1 each!

Taking into account that the manga books over here cost £6.99 at retail, that's a saving of (6.99*32) - 32 = £191.68! blimey.

On the other hand, you could consider it a £32 loss, since I wouldn't have bought any of these books had they been at rrp, but I prefer to look at it in the other light :)

That's now 32 days' worth of lunchtime reading at work, woohoo!

As a bit of a task, I shall now list every volume I purchased, and you can see that very few of them are in order or anything, but that's just the way it works there.

Here's the list:

Steady Beat - 2
Battle Club - 1
Get Backers - 2,7,
I Luv Halloween - 2
Initial D - 11 (with free trading card, woo!)
Battle Vixens - 1
D.N. Angel - 1
École du Ciel - 2
The Candidate Goddess - 4
Priest - 12
Jing: King of Bandits - 2
Card Captor Sakura: Master of the Clow - 4,5
Fruits Basket - 1,2,7
Rave Master - 1,2,3
Tokyo Mew Mew - 1,2
Sgt. Frog - 2
Battle Royale - 1
Final Last Fantasy - 1
Saiyuki - 2,3,6
Maho Romantic Automatic Maiden - 1
The Rising Stars of Manga: United Kingdom and Ireland - 1
Shutterbox - 1
Love Hina - 7

I also got Guitar Hero 3 on Wii, despite the bad reviews etc. It's still my first and only chance at the moment to play a game I've wanted to try for ages, so there we go :D

1) Cheap things

I love getting bargains! If I find something I want, I'll end up checking every single online retailer I can think of to try and find somewhere that has it even a few pounds cheaper. I have an annoying habit of giving in just too soon, and then getting annoyed from the inevitable price cut which follows the day after I buy it.

In a recent post I mentioned I'd bought 14 Studio Ghibli DVDs, in what I believed was a good deal. However, today when checking my emails I noticed that I had been sent one saying that I could only proceed with my 'high value' order if I processed it over the phone with the customer services department.

They call this added security, I call it dogshit. £80 is not a high-value order, I've placed far larger orders and never once had to call anyone to get the payment verified. I showed my gratitude at this service by promptly cancelling the entire order, which also gives me a bit more money to spend on my holiday, yay! (Leaving tomorrow morning if you're interested.)


2) Cryptozoology

The study of animals which are believed (or not) to exist, but no physical proof has been found.
I'm sure everyone has heard of the Yeti, Bigfoot, Nessie and possibly the Bunyip, but there are also a few other rather cool ones, such as the North American Thunderbird, the Chupacabra and possibly Megalodon (which is a bit shit-your-pants scary). Here's a link to some basic information http://www.cryptozoology.com/cryptids.php

And whilst I'm here, may as well show you the cover of the Megalodon film that was released.
http://www.pic.cover-d-base.com/dvd/zahranicne/M/Megalodon.jpg ...Wait, what does that say on the back cover? ;_;


3) Mortal Kombat (( Fucking LOVE this fandom! *latches to Sonya and Raiden ))

MORRTAAALL KOMBATTTT! *ding ding ding ding, dingding*

I remember first getting this back in year 2, and everyone would walk around saying the 'blood code' for the megadrive version (A,B,A,C,A,B,B - I still remember it to this day). Pretty groundbreaking stuff at the time, just don't go back and play it now. Likewise, don't watch the 'story begins' "animated" "movie". I paid 25p for it from a car-boot sale, and I actually feel kind of dead inside having watched it.

This series has had a new lease of life injected into it after re-discovering how good Mortal Kombat 2 on the SNES is. It is now one of my most-played games of the moment. =D


4) Paranormal

I love anything like this. Ghosts, UFOs, Aliens, Demons, Cryptozoology, it's all tied in together. I must have hundreds of books on the subject, and I always make a point of picking a new one up whenever we visit a seaside town (as they always seem to have the kind of warehouse-style bookstores that carry this kind of material).
To this day I am still adamant that I've seen at least 1 UFO and possibly a ghost, or alien at one point. To be honest it makes me a bit goosebumpy to think about it, so I shan't at the moment.

5) UFOs

See above!
I'm terribly sure in my mind that I've seen at least 1 UFO (as in some kind of extra-terrestrial craft), but I find it quite hard to recount these sightings to myself now.
I'd defintiely like to see another one at some point, even if it was just an experimental aircraft and not something inter-planetary.


6) Zsnes

Forget DS wi-fi, this here is the ultimate in online Nintendo hi-jinks.
Being able to play people all over the world across an Internet connection at any SNES game you may care to is quite obviously one of the greatest things ever invented.

Mario Kart Wii may be coming out in 2008 boasting the ability to play anyone around the world, but this program right here did it many years ago, and it does it with the best game in the series as well.

Ultimate Mortal Kombat for the DS? Give me Mortal Kombat 2 on Zsnes any day!

Oh, and non-online stuff is fairly smashing as well. Built in Game-Genie, save states, high quality filters, super scope support, it has everything the original SNES had to offer, and simply adds in the tremendous online play option as well.


Well, I think that's those done.

I thought I'd let everyone (and I use that word in its loosest possible term) see this delightful news story!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6932801.stm

I don't really see how this is a punishment, I'd be glad to wear one, or possibly a few of them. =D

10 things beginning with 'P' that mean something to me.

1. Pokémon - A game, cartoon, trading card, and cuddly toy franchise I enjoy thoroughly.
2. Penis - I have one.
3. Pencils - Pencils are good for drawing with, nothing beats a good pencil drawing.
4. Penicillin - Grows on bread when you don't eat it in time.
5. Pants - Essential daily wear.
6. Plimsolls - Created solely to make junior school children feel terribly embarassed.
7. Pirates - Both the bucaneering and copyright-infringing kind.
8. Porker Lewis - Useless former-Badnik-battery who ends up inventing a few useful things.
9. Psychic - The infallible type from the RBY era.
10. Predators - From the film of the same name, I'm a rather large fan of these beings.

OK,

The reason I don't update this very often is because my life is so terribly boring that nobody would want to hear about it.

But, I'm going to use this space to now make a list of all the games which either are available now and I don't yet own, or those that have been announced and I wish to own.

DS:

Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time
New Super Mario Bros.
Elite Beat Agents
Lunar Knights
Metroid Prime: Hunters
Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow
SONIC RPG
Phoenix Wright 3
The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass

Wii:

Super Paper Mario
Elebits
New Zelda
New Mortal Kombat (or Armageddon)
Super Mario Galaxy
Trauma Centre
Beautiful Katamari
WWE: Smackdown vs RAW 2008
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers
Manhunt 2 (If it gets released)
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
Super Smash Brothers Brawl
Guitar Hero 3
Geometry Wars: Galaxies
Soul Calibur Legends
Mario Kart
Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3
Tales of Symphonia: Knight of Ratatosk
Boogie
Dance Dance Revolution
A good golf game
A good baseball game
A good tennis game
Pro Evolution Soccer


A few to get me through the long, lonely nights then =D

Yar, all this helping with arranging cosplay costumes has got me in a creative mood, so here's a special thingy I just thought up.

It may have limited appeal, but maybe someone will like it.

Basically, you choose any character you like from a tv show, cartoon, comic, manga, anime, novel or any other medium, and then assign them a Pokémon nature, ability and 4-move moveset (I guess you could also assign a gender and shininess if you desired) and then give your reason for choosing.

A list of natures can be found here http://www.pokemonelite2000.com/rsnatures.html
A list of abilities is available from here http://www.psypokes.com/lab/abilities.php
And a list of all moves from here http://www.pokemonelite2000.com/rsmoves.html
(These are only up to 3rd generation, if you know any new Diamond/Pearl moves that could work, feel free to use those ^-^)

Right, time for an example.

Since I'm the first one, I get to do a nice easy one =D

Uchiha Sasuke - Naruto.

Gender: Male
Nature: Bold
Ability: Guts - Attack is increased by 50% when inflicted with a status ailment.
(for when the magic seal thingy starts working when he loses his will to control its effects, kinda like a status ailment, at least that's my opinion =))

Moves:

Foresight - After use, opponent's raised evasion will be ignored.
(Using the Sharingan to detect the opponent's moves with Chakra)

Sketch - Permanently copies opponent's last move.
(Sharingan again, this time using it to copy the techniques of others)

Spike Cannon - Attacks 2-5 times. Has a 37.5% chance each of hitting 2 or 3 times
and a 12.5% chance each of hitting 4 or 5 times.
(About as close as I could find to a multiple shuriken attack =/)

Flamethrower - May induce opponent with BURN status.
(Magical fire breath attack =D)

Alrighty, that's mine done, now it's time for anyone who may be reading this (all one of you) to copy this into your own journal and come up with your own one =).

Have fun <3.

Tags: game thingy
Current Mood: sleepy

Questions asked to me.

1. Least favorite Pokémon?
2. Goal you would like to achieve this year?
3. Who have you known for the longest? (excluding family members)
4. Last time you cried?
5. When was the best day of your life?

Answers:

1. To fight against, it would be Milotic. In terms of general crappiness, probably Mr. Mime.

2. Probably just pass this management course I'm doing, and keep the friends I have currently.

3. I remember knowing a guy called Kevin since nursery school (about 3 years old).

4. I honestly don't remember properly bawling since I was a kid and falling over. In terms of like, tears in the eyes kinda thing, it was probably when watching the 'Bye Bye Butterfree' episode of Pokémon a few years ago ;_;

5. Since nothing is coming immediately to mind, I'm gonna say I haven't experienced anything super special enough on any single day to be able to claim it as my best day.

That's about it.

Current Location: Chair
Current Mood: Sweaty
Current Music: TV

I'm old ;_;

Current Mood: Old