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Things change…Part II

Thursday, August 23rd, 2012 at 1:40 am

I’ve been watching this Persona anime and I’m finding it’s been really bad/boring. Actually, I found X-Men Anime bad and boring to. I thought it was because they were simply bad shows but…I think my standards just got higher.

Some of the first animes I ever watched were Initial D, Get Backers, Hikaru no Go, Gate Keepers, S-cry-ed.
Initial D and Hikaru no Go hold up, I could watch any episode now and still love it.
Get Backers and Gate Keepers, I must have watched over and over and over and over again. I loved them so much. But…I don’t really watch them anymore. I still think parts of Get Backers is good (the first 25 eps), but not all of it is great (actually, it starts to get bad as soon as it starts deviating from the manga, so that’s probably why). And Gate Keepers was one of my favourite animes before but I’m finding now that it’s pretty generic.

Actually, I’m realizing that Persona is almost exactly like Gate Keepers in terms of storyline flow. 2-3 characters introduced in the first 3 episodes. A new character joins each episode afterwards, joining the ensemble. The final team is realized. A few episodes of character development and/or filler. The climax / epic battle. Is Persona really awful because I’ve seen it before (as Gate Keepers)? Is it awful because it’s like Gate Keepers but worse? Or is it simply awful because I’m no longer 20 and I simply don’t like the same stuff anymore. What, the highschool anime kids aren’t as relate-able to me anymore? Probably. And that makes me feel sad. And old.

But I’m also not the same person who’s so….crazy anime fan anymore. The person that, if I met now, would probably be like ‘umm, ur weird, i’m gonna go stand over here now’ *walks away*. I sometimes cringe at the eager, ultra enthusiastic person I used to be but I don’t regret it. That was me then and this is me now.

I mean, look at this list of things I bought at FanExpo ONLY TWO YEARS AGO

….actually, that’s a bad example because the only things I bought there, that I wouldn’t buy now are 2 DC Ame-comi figures. I’d probably have purchased everything else.
Damn, I thought I would have been like “I would only buy 10% of this stuff”. Okay, maybe things haven’t changed that much in 2 years.

….but in 10, definitely :)

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The problem with getting older is a lack of time. You have a full time job now. You come home and many days, you’re exhausted. You have family and friends to be with. And you have your own projects. You simply don’t have the time to waste on bad shows. You have to use your time effectively. So maybe the reason these shows bother me so much is that I know there’s better stuff out there. I’m just not watching it….and I’m too OCD to leave it unfinished.

Honestly, I want kids. I’ve always wanted kids. But right now, I don’t want kids. Because kids eat up your time. You’re no longer just you. You have a priority that takes far more precedence than yourself. You learn to be more selfless. Less selfish. And that scares the personal side of me. Because I love things as they are now. I want kids. Eventually. I just want to still live the loving couple life. Not the loving family life. Not yet at least.

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Ugh, more freelance?

Thursday, August 23rd, 2012 at 1:18 am

I’ve been approached to do a bit more freelance.

I really don’t want to do it because
1. I already have my own projects to work on
2. I barely have enough time in my life for everything as it is
3. I really don’t want to do it

But I kinda wanna do it because
1. Last time, I made around $4000 in a month. That money really helped with the car I purchased.
I could really use another $4000.

But I don’t really need the money. I could use it, sure. But I don’t really NEED it.

I’m not a person who works on projects for money or power, I do it simply for the experience. Not the work experience (well, that’s part of it), but just for the fun of it. I have so many projects on the go because I’m always looking towards doing and learning new things.

Anyways, I’ll hear what this guy has to say…but…I still don’t know….

I love my life as is. I don’t want to put it on hold, even for $4000. $6000 tho… :P

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FanExpo Wish List

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012 at 1:40 am

So I’m planning to go to FanExpo Friday.

I’ll probably do a few runs through all the isles but I’m not looking for much this time around. I don’t wanna spend much either.

To Buy List
Comics:
Batman & Robin 12
Justice League 11
Spider-Man 689, 690, 691,692
Spider-Men 4
AVX 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
AVX VS 4-6
Avenging Spider-â€‹Man #10
Batman, Incorporated #3

Statues:
Kotobukiya Bishoujo Black Widow Variant: Yelena
Kotobukiya Bishoujo Rogue Variant: Rogue Long Coat
Kotobukiya Bishoujo Phoenix Variant: White Phoenix

That’s my list. That’s it. I don’t plan on buying anything else. Maybe some art prints :)

I’ll continue adding to this until Thursday night if needed but I think I’m set with my above list.

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Fan Expo

Monday, August 20th, 2012 at 2:09 am

To go or not to go. A question I ask myself every year.

Honestly, I’ve been leaning towards no. While there are some new comics I want to get, I really only want to buy 3 things – 3 hard to find Kotobuiya Bishoujo statues. But I think the odds that they’re even at this Con are very slim.

But looking at the times and cost, if I went, I’d most likely go only:
Thursday: 4:00am â€“ 8:30pm . Cost – 25.00 !! (so much $$ for 4.5 hours!)
Friday: 10:00am â€“ 6:30pm . Cost – 30.00 (this seems a lot better).

I think I’m heavily considering going only on Friday. I don’t want to go Thursday out of fear that they’ll be setting up still and risk losing the opportunity to buy these items simply cuz they’re not unpacked yet.

Anyways, we’ll see…

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KB update

Monday, August 20th, 2012 at 1:57 am

I’m going to have to, at some point, erase all instances of kotobishoujo.com from my site. As I said before, I want the site to be anonymous and have no trace of me. So I’ll have to take this stuff off the Google Search and cache. Ah well, plenty of time for that.

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I had built a “statue platform” off a Lazy Susan (a kitchen item which turns) and my plan was to take 31 shots at equal angle distances. 31 because the 32nd shot would be equal to the 1st shot, coming to a full 360° coverage. Basically you have 31 different camera shots. Then build an image rotator on my webpage so you could see all angles of the statue.

I was all ready to take photographs of my models, except unfortunately, I couldn’t reach both the camera and the lazy susan at the same time. This meant I could either:
1. Take pictures without turning the Lazy Susan (not an option).
2. Turn the Lazy Susan without taking pictures (obviously not an option).
So I had nothing to do until I could turn the Lazy Susan AND take pictures. To do this, I needed a camera remote (which allows me to turn the Lazy Susan whilst taking pictures at a distance from the camera).

2 weeks of waiting for a remote to ship (cuz I got it for $5 off eBay, as opposed to $30-$40 in the store), and I didn’t do any KB work but I ended up getting the remote last Friday so I was ready to resume progress. I woke up early on Saturday (8:30am on a Saturday!) to take pictures. I took a lot and with the remote and the Lazy Susan, I was able to take 6 statues. Not bad! It’ll take me a while before I can color correct them all and put them on my website.

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I spent Saturday night working on this “Rotator” code which I got from a site. The problem was that 1/2 the code was obfuscated…so I had to un-obfuscate (I don’t know if that’s a word). That was pretty tricky but I ended up getting it to work (pretty proud of myself for that actually).

You can see one of my most complete pages (at this point), here.
The rotator’s looking really good :)
(Note: if I used the Lazy Susan and used the camera’s 10s timer, pushing the button would cause the camera to move very slightly in angle – but small differences in angle lead to large distances at where the shot is…so without the remote, the background wouldn’t stay as consistent as it is now…it would move and thus, be unusable)

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Here’s my current status for the site.

As you can see, I still have a long, loooong way to go. But I’m getting there :)

I can’t believe I’ve been working on this project for 2.5 months. Part of me thinks it’s so little time and that I’ve accomplished a lot during that time. Another part of me thinks I shoulda had this site done by now…but there’s a lot of work and the camera stuff has taken me a really long time to get comfortable with.

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