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I'd post these to wtf_burando  if I was sure they hadn't been posted already. Seriously, Meta, these are OOGLY jsks! I know you were going for a Christmas theme, but I wouldn't even buy wrapping paper that looks like this.

 I think I proved my devotion to the art of RiffTrax last night. Went to the encore presentation for RiffTrax Live in absolute ass weather. That alone was awful. Having to walk through three feet of water to get to my car afterwards was even worse. Much of South Florida is flooded at the moment and it's still raining now. I've got nothing else, so enjoy Gaylord the dog. He comes with a bone of his own.

EDIT: Holy shit, LJ's new search is WEIRD.

In other news, got another article published. I'm always paranoid every time I get something published though. I'm so paranoid of making a mistake. I usually can't bring myself to read my own articles, which I guess can be likened to how a lot of authors don't read their own books or a lot of actors don't see their own movies. I know if I do I'll start to knitpick and freak out.

To whom it may concern,

I've started a community, jrpgs_and_wrpgs, dedicated to the discussion of computer and console role-playing games, both of Japanese and Western origin. This is a really niche genre, and a lot of people who play these games prefer to play mainly these games exclusively. Due to the nature of these games, they can be quite addictive, engrossing, and the object of much obsession. Furthermore, there is no community on LiveJournal dedicated strictly to them. Almost all "RPG communities" on LiveJournal are fan fiction exercises, 'RPing,' collections of Final Fantasy icons, or general fangirl/boyism around a single franchise. There is no real discussion about these games going on, and there very well could and should be. This community is yet a seed, but if you like the idea, I encourage you to join, to encourage all your friends who would like it to join, and for all of us to contribute RPG related reading and discussion. That there is nothing like this currently on LJ is good reason that it could be successful, and it will be if we want it to be. I've been on LJ consistently since 2002, so your moderator will be here to stay, as will this community with your help. Furthermore, I can promise you that I am no control freak, will only mandate enough to keep order and productivity in the community, and will otherwise not be a tight ass, anal retentive fascist with a bunch of silly rules and a god complex. So, if you play JRPGs or WRPGs, please come on over, join, and start posting immediately about whatever RPG-related business your heart desires. I'm eager to find my peers in this.

xoxo,
Shane

(to be cross posted)

Winter Break is here! I'm so happy to have finals over with. All of them were a little harder than I was expecting, but I'm still hoping for all A's. Humanities was so annoying; seriously, two essays on Heart of Darkness? Urgh. Physics went well, except I could not solve the very last problem, and because I'm far too stubborn, I spend about 40 minutes algebraically manipulating equations to try and eliminate a variable. That problem is going to haunt me until next semester.

I managed to get my computer set up at home, after half a dozen small problems. It's still very inconvenient, though, because the computer is set about 2 1/2 feet off the ground and I don't have any short chairs. I'll probably be on LJ less, but I'll still be checking my f-list a couple times a day.

So, I went to the mall, and even though I couldn't find any clothes worth buying in half a dozen stores, I spent like thirty bucks at the bookstore. -_- I bought an Enderverse novel and a volume of DNAngel that I didn't know had already come out. Reading DNAngel is kind of weird now, since the series went on hiatus for three years. I still love the series; it's just that at 19 I don't care about dating drama at 14 as much, and super powered evil sides aren't as super awesome cool as they used to be.

The newest Wheel of Time has been out awhile, but I'm not reading it until the last volume is out. I'm fairly confidant in the new author - the depth of Jordan's story makes the series worth reading, not the writing - but the cliffhanger of the last book killed me. I'm really tired of waiting multiple years between series books. And in Malazan's case, I'm waiting until the guidebook that should explain who the hell all 295738 characters are. I'd wait for A Song of Ice and Fire, too, but I'm afraid I might be waiting until my early 30's. >.<

I'll likely be getting RPGs for Christmas, so... I'll probably procrastinate from writing and play a lot of my dad's RTS games until then. I love breaks, but they don't leave so much to write about, haha.

Anime Club picnic tomorrow. Not honestly sure if I'm going to go.

I doubt I'm very well liked around the group due to having been friends with the former officers, who are pretty much seen by the rest of the club as having been totally evil, soul-smashing totalitarians. Probably even more looked down upon for being the annoying voice of skepticism during the regime change. But even before the former vice-president, treasurer and secretary were declared to be villainous rapscallions I was never quite fully accepted. I've never been invited to the parties outside of club or to join along on convention trips. I wasn't even invited to the former president's wedding.

It probably says a lot that even among a group of people who've been labeled nerds and outcasts that I still manage to be an outcast. That's like being the stinkiest turd in the toilet or something.

It probably doesn't help that I'm still skeptical about whether or not the final outcome will be the best thing in the end. I guess we won't know until we start planning for our convention, but there's no denying that everything that's happened has put us at something of a disadvantage. A lot of the people who were most active in planning for it are gone now and we're left with a group of people who are going to be feeling around in the dark. And if they think other people who've been involved in planning in the past are going to step in and show them the ropes, well, I think they might be mistaken. Even if that does happen, it might just explode into diverging opinions on how the event should be run. But only time will tell, and I do think it's possible to overcome. After all, it had to have started at some point with people who had little to no experience with running a convention before.

I agree with the sentiments that maybe we've grown too big for the university, being that the majority of the most active members aren't students, but the sad truth is that without the club probably wouldn't exist and the convention wouldn't even be a possibility without any other source of funding.