Jeez. The End died of old age since I last wrote a dA journal. I've denied him his last wish, but at least I didn't have to chase that bastard all over Russia. And I've managed to not create any time paradoxes, somehow.

Sorry guys, been busy with work and college and a little bitty thing called Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

EPIC.

This is the part where normally I'd feel obligated to rant about how awesome Brawl is, but I think enough high praise has been offered up to the Nintendo gods already, so I'll settle for offering up some higher-than-average praise.

(begin Brawl spoilers)

Sonic and Snake are in it. Yay.

Sheik is in it, the snazzy Twilight Princess Sheik that wasn't. And they've made Zelda actually useful as a fighter now. One of her taunts is her cutely sinister and amazing fireball victory stance from Brawl.

Zero Suit Samus tries waaay too hard to be kinky for some reason, but she's fun to play. AND SHE SAYS WORDS. And the Zero Suit that corresponds to the Dark Suit has a Shinx/Luxio/Luxray color scheme for whatever reason. Lol awsm.

OMG WIND WAKER LINK IS HERE. Well, they call him "Toon Link" because he's also all three Links from the Four Swords series.... He comes in all the Four Swords flavors as well as OMG LttP/LA/Oracles colors and the token Shadow Link, complete with red glowy evil eyes. Toon Link is by far my favorite new character.

WTF an Electroplankton stage. The level is beautiful, but there's no stable ground, so it's more like hell. A beautiful musical hell.

Some previously unknown-to-me legendary Pokemon shows up on Spear Pillar instead of Dialga/Palkia. It has a moon for a head. Someone who is more Pokemon-savvy than me, please clue me in as to what this thing is and why it thought it was a good idea to kill me with some bizarre moon-blade attack.

Boss Battles mode will require patience of biblical proportions. You can die from so many random factors, and you only get ONE LIFE TO LIVE AND NO CONTINUES. Even with Toon Link's awesome down midair attack (which pwnz bosses for breakfast) you will always die from something completely random that you can't avoid. I've attempted this mode like a dozen times already jeez.

Must... complete... trophy... hoarde....



Aside from Brawl, there's another non-productive time snatcher snatching my time lately. It's called Flyff. My name is Kyre, I'm a Level 23 Mercenary on the Clockworks 8-2 server, but unless you tell me you're "so-and-so" from dA I'll probably NOT want to party with you or join your guild. I'm pretty weak and useless right now anyway.

I have my kindred ~SylvanFury to thank for hooking me on this crack. He's Raem, a Level 30-ish Assist on the same server.

Basically, it's one of those free Korean MMOs that only want you to buy in-game items so it's free to play. You point-and-click, hack-n-slash, and use a skill or two if you feel like it. I happen to have a good server that's not too crowded, so mostly it's pretty laid-back. But it actually feels like a real, legitimate MMO that could rival WoW.

And you get to fly. Fly for fun. On hoverboards and broomsticks and other personal flying thingamadoos. It's pretty awesome, so go play it. And support them by buying stuff if you have real-life currency, which I don't right now.

School and work and Whim still keep me busy. The mostly-pointless doodles continue to flow from my cheaply-bought notepads and mechanical pencils and I might upload a few. I also have a Digital Imaging class which is 50% Flash, and I have a final project coming up, so expect a Flash something OF EPIC GREATNESS to come from me in the weeks to come. I haven't even started, but I've already decided that it will be Zelda-related. w00t!

Ya'll keep it real, stay sharp and keep an eye on your six, cause you never know when rouge cannibal ninjas will attack and try to take your donuts and your Wii. I recommend joining an Elite Space Pirate platoon and getting a degree in reverse-engineering Samus' Morph Ball from the University of Phoenix online. I need scizzors!! Sixty-one!!

P3453!!