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Posted by: Master Chief 719
why is EB evil?

well i hate liars, i really hate them though because every game i bought from them is broken * they were junkey ps2 games though* except for a glitchy gta vice city, and plus i just don't like them, and if my divine retardedness says it's evil then it is evil
and goalie master if clark said he wasn't interested don't worry about it, they are probly looking for a expierienced 30 year old man that has years of expierience

  • 01.22.2006 7:19 AM PDT
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Yes yes, that is indeed true. I am a young 19 years old, and my writing experience is limited to fanfiction, and making up stories in my Junior High Newsletter for the entertainment of the one person that read it.

When I say, "making up stories" I mean random insane crap with the school, not actual fiction writing. I'd just take a rumor, and multiply it by 256. So, say a friend informed me that a brawl was supposed to take place between our school and another Junior High, I'd do my daily report, and inform people that the entire Province of Saskatchwan was planning on attack our school. Then I'd intersperce some random insults about Regina, and how the Province is so flat, that luckily we'd be able to see their fighting force 18 days before they actually arrived.

Yeah....

But thinking about Junior High is making me nostalgic, about a lot of the really weird stuff I did back then. For some reason I was obsessed with doing sociological experiments on the public by performing odd tests

I recall one time, Cooper and I stood on the curb beside a busy street, for 3 and a half hours. Just standing, and talking. People in cars would stop and wait, thinking we were crossing, then when they saw we had no intention, there was a varying degree in their responses.

Some would flash us angry looks, or give us the finger, while others would stare confusingly at us as they drove by. A rare response usually came from younger drivers, who would roll down their windows and ask us what the hell we were doing. I'd prepared several responses ahead of time, and they varied.

One response would be, "We are waiting for the Sun to cast a 5 o'clock shadow off the tip of the sign signifying the stores that are present in the strip mall opposite our location."

My personal favorite, and the only other one I can recall was: "We are staging a protest over the indoctrination of the present government in their affairs with foreign nations that uphold grevious laws towards the well-being of circus animals."

....fun times...

  • 01.22.2006 8:44 AM PDT
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clarkman: go read my wonderful soliloquy about my junior high days
clarkman: its a real good yarn
konoka: very interesting, but I though you said you'd talk about saikano?
clarkman: ....
clarkman: wench!
clarkman: you've foiled me
clarkman: go post something so i don't have to double post
konoka: what should i post exhalted one?
clarkman: anything. say you like the new stairmaster thing my mother bought and installed in the basement along with the other dangerous exercize equipment
konoka: anything huh?


Anything.....

  • 01.22.2006 8:55 AM PDT
Subject: Halo Fanfic: The End of a War
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That was awsome! Hey, if you like writing fanfics, join the halo fanfic writers group. It was started by my friend masterchief108. I could put in good word for you. Keep writing!!!

  • 01.22.2006 8:56 AM PDT
Subject: Halo Fanfic: The End of a War (Finally a NEW CHAPTER! Page 163!)
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Right, okay, thanks Konoka, you're like soooooo helpful.

Erhm. All right then.

Anybody here ever read the manga series Saikano?

No..? Well I just finished it awhile ago, and I have only one line that can direct my true feelings about it.

"If anyone ever calls Japanese Manga a lower art form, I will slit open their throat and tear their jugular apart with my teeth."

Harsh? I don't think so. In my entire life, I've never been so moved by a series before. Its only 7 volumes long, but its made more of an impact on me than series that can run for over 50.

Its poignant, beautiful, harsh, merciless, depressing, hopeful....

Words can't describe it I suppose. I think what made me love Saikano the most, was because I'd written it off as another simple cliche'd story based on the first few pages on Viz's site where they gave a preview from the second chapter. It left me with an uninspired outlook, and I forgot about the series for almost a year, until Konoka all but slapped me across the face with the first 6 volumes and demanded I read them.

I did so....in one night....in one sitting. My eyes were sore, not because of the length that I spent reading the books, but because I wept so many times.

Yes, I freely admit, I cried like a little girl at specific parts, particularly Volume Three. It should be noted that I don't think I've let tears escape my eyes since I left my adolescence behind, so many years ago.

The books also depressed me, to a low I don't think I've ever been in before. I'm not sure if anyone would consider that a selling point, but for a simple book to evoke that deep of an emotion from me, its gotta be good.

There are, I'd say, several attributes a person must possess to fully appreciate the beauty that is this series. First things first, they must understand and like the art style. I've tried for a while to think of ways to describe it, but I just can't seem to grasp the right phrase. The closest I could think up was to call the art, "evanescent".

Secondly, the person needs to be mature. The story is quite soundly rated for reader's over 16 years of age, but to me even that seems a bit low. Of course, I'm generalizing on the basis that most people I've met and spoken with in that age frame are typically not the type that would be the most receptive audience of Saikano. Personal maturity and physical maturity do both play a role in understanding this series, and if you lack one that you may not get everything out of it that you might otherwise.

Lastly, and probably the biggest variable, would be the understanding of physical entanglement. The intricacies of love, not the adolescent and juvenile love that is simply lust masked in hormonic complexity, but the real form of love. Whether you have experienced it, or simply come to yearn the experience, this series will reach down and beat the living hell out you.

All seven volumes have been released, in their translated glory (Viz actually did a good job on them, much to my satisfaction). They'd likely be in whatever local comic book store that happens to inhabit your whereabouts, should that comic book store house a Manga section. So go! Snatch them up and devour them like the wonderful creation that they are. Should you read a synopsis of the story beforehand, so be it, but understand that the simplified idiocy spouted on the back of the book, or on the official site, are all meant to entice the flamboyant manga reader who lathers up blither and corny storylines. Inside though, you'll discover a story that is so deep and wonderful that you will never again wish to go back to whatever drivel you may have been reading before hand. (I was reading Moby Dick for the third time when I first read 'em, so that's not an easy statement for me to make, cause Moby Dick is like euphoria in literary form).

This series has influenced my storytelling style greatly, and you all saw it in the side story with Johnson.

I cannot recommend it enough for those that might think they'd know how to understand and take in this series. No matter how tough your emotional barriers, I assure you that at some point during the series, they'll be pulled down and you'll find yourself naked as you read.

It was made into a somewhat above average Anime, and I received news not too long ago that a live-action version is being created (absolutely unheard of in Japan, tells you how amazing the series is right?). Go for the manga before anything else.

[Edited on 1/22/2006]

  • 01.22.2006 9:27 AM PDT
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jeez clark why not just write the whole story after such a large post, it must of been a really good book but i've been sticking to the fanfics for a while, i should go back to reading the professionals though, before i take them for fact

  • 01.22.2006 11:19 AM PDT

Look for the back

OMG that thing.........................the sharioe or what ever.........gave me the chills....

[Edited on 1/22/2006]

  • 01.22.2006 1:25 PM PDT
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at first i thought it was a large brute, but when he spoke of the lack of hair, i knew
dirty brutes

  • 01.23.2006 5:26 PM PDT

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or. maybe it was an albino brute.

Maybe albino brutes have no hair.

  • 01.23.2006 6:22 PM PDT
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with a eating disorder

  • 01.23.2006 6:26 PM PDT

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and... umm.. cancer.

  • 01.23.2006 6:26 PM PDT

Phoenix is dead, long live Phoenix!
Is it?

and that giantus disorder making him big

  • 01.24.2006 2:03 AM PDT

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also halo mania.

  • 01.24.2006 3:38 PM PDT
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Dont forget influenza

  • 01.24.2006 3:43 PM PDT

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yes lets not forget that

  • 01.24.2006 4:45 PM PDT
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this is starting to sound like clark minus the cancer part, wow that's weird, also any news on the next chap

[Edited on 1/24/2006]

  • 01.24.2006 4:55 PM PDT

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Lol, yes it does sound like clark cept for the cancer part.

but no new on the next chapter as of yet.

be patient young padawan.

  • 01.24.2006 4:57 PM PDT
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...and a bad brain too...

I said something weird in a reply to someone's question the other day, but I can't remember who it was so I gotta apologize here.

They asked what part of Canada I lived in, and I only replied with, "The Left".

I was kinda out of it, so sorry if you thought that it was a sarcastic, cause in my frame of mind at the time, I probably thought that explained everything perfectly.

Chapter Newness of News will be given on Friday.

  • 01.24.2006 5:39 PM PDT
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which means in july the new chap will come out, oh well we can just rave of the new games and maby just maby get some of those funny aim post's by konoka, as long as it has no weird links

  • 01.24.2006 5:42 PM PDT

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lol yes, so true, I hopng June though.

neways.

The left side of canada isn't so bad, I should know i live there.. well more of leftish. Not completely left, almost though, like Alberta left for all of you who know where that is. Southern Alberta too. Brooks actually. Close to Calgary. pretty good spot to live, if ya like football, get to every CFL game in western canada within a day, i like it. Formerly from saskatchewan though. moved here when my dad got a job. But Canadian all the way.

Also, i predicted that the conservatives would win. And i was right. I am psycic. O ya go me.

  • 01.24.2006 6:26 PM PDT
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I voted NDP, just because given the chance I would slug Harper across the face, and the Liberal party needed a hit in the ego department.

50 Cent: Bulletproof hit the 1 million sales mark....

.....

I almost screamed when I saw the headline.

What the HELL is wrong with people!?

  • 01.25.2006 4:29 AM PDT
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AAAUUUUGGGHHH!

My 360 is BROKEN!

Caput, dead. It was shot!

No not shot, there's no bullet wounds. Its gotta be something else.

Every time I turn it on, the opening 360 thing starts, then there's this loud noise from my television, and the image freezes! I can't do a thing!

Why me!? Why me!? WHY ME!!!!!!!??

Wait a sec, this all happened after I installed that Goddamn FFXI beta and the PlayOnline thing! Sonofa-blam!-! I knew Square was up to no good.

uuuuughguhguhg...

This is officially stupid! Down with the 360! Long live the Phantom! Steve Jobs is sexier than Bill Gates any day!

Now I gotta call that stupid help line, and listen to 12 hours of drivel while trying to get them to send me a box or something...

Wait what day is it?

The 25th? Of January? Okay, all right. The warranty should still be good. If I have to pay any goddamn money on this thing after wasting a grand on launch day, I'll finally give up gaming altogether.

*sob*

What's this world coming to?

Way to kick me when I'm down!

  • 01.25.2006 6:32 AM PDT

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Bulletproof hit 1 million??

Guns, violence and Rap... apparently, are profitable. *sigh* I have to admit, there is no way I'd play San Andreas.. I mean Bulletproof. I mean, surely True Crime... I mean Bulletproof can't be all that fun. But then again 25 to life... I mean Bulletproof, does have a somewhat enjoyment factor that screams, "buy me, and you'll be cool with all the neighborhood kids". lol

Ah.. to relive my glory days of the Dreamcast.. Skies of Arcadia is still my second all time favorite RPG.
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PS: Whoa! MR_C... give up gaming for good?? That's like a crack-head trying to quit cold turkey. If you have to ship it back, they have a 3 business day guarantee. My friend had to send his back last month. Mostly, they just give you a new one. good luck.

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  • 01.25.2006 6:44 AM PDT

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yes, to give up gaming like that would be horrible, wht would you waste countless hours doing when your bored?

i for one would have troubles quitting gaming unless there was something better to do. Which theres not. here neway.

  • 01.25.2006 7:26 AM PDT

Phoenix is dead, long live Phoenix!
Is it?

At least your not in NZ where everyone is trying to be a gangsta, Irr it irratates me even more the fact the their not unwell-off.

Giving up Gaming (maniatical laugh) I'd like to see that, you'd be living at the nearest friends house with a 360.

  • 01.25.2006 12:48 PM PDT