We’ve been busy, that’s all. I kinda ran out of videos to put up and getting together to make them just hasn’t happened as of late. We do have better sound equipment now and the tests are promising so hopefully we’ll be back on the weekly schedule as soon as possible.
Monthly Archive for September, 2009
It sure has been a while, and I’m not sure why.
Most of my gaming has still be with the Yugioh 2009 World Championship as my playing has also transitioned a good portion to the physical cards. It’s really nice to be back into that world of card gaming as an adult because I have the time to spend on it without much guilt of neglecting other responsibilities. The best part is how it is tying in with my Japanese studies. I spent yesterday playing the card game in some shops and the change to talk in Japanese and get explanations in Japanese was really good. I’ve always had trouble finding a social activity I can enjoy in Japan that didn’t involve drinking or sports but I think I finally found it.
Other than that it has been me poking at the Saga 2 remake which I really want to sit down and dig into one night but with everything going as it has lately I just haven’t the time. Real shame as the game is gorgeous and the music is outstandingly awesome.
Finally getting back into the swing of things this week so hopefully I’ll be more on schedule. Posting Sunday’s thing on Monday isn’t a good start but I’ll take what I can get.
In honor of the Dreamcast I will write about it today. Today being one day past the tenth anniversary but that is the kind of respect Sega deserves.1
Man, I remember the day the Dreamcast came out clearly. And it has already been ten years ago, wow. I sat heavy with anticipation all day during school. Hardly being able to pay attention during class my mind drifted into the wonders that I would soon be experiencing. The final bell of the day rang. I was lucky2 to be at the same school my father taught at. I ran down to the car and my father drove me up to the mall. I dashed to Electronics Boutique, paid for my copy of Final Fantasy 8 and ran back to the car.
Hey, I had no idea the Dreamcast was released, but hell if I don’t remember that day!
Continue reading ‘Happy Birthday, Dreamcast! (Plus, my DC top 8!)’
Give yourself a cookie if you have any idea what is going on in the title of this post.
So have you heard? Obama is giving some speeches to the kiddies in the States. Parents are pulling their kids because they don’t want their kids to be indoctrinated with socialism. Mind you this is all going to be happening at public schools so the irony tastes like taco day. I wonder if any of the pulled kids qualify for free lunch.
Anyway, I have no reason to rant on politics. It’s a dead discussion as far as I’m concerned. That’s not to say there is no valid in discussing politics, but really, are people changing their minds that much? I was walking in Osaka the other day and they had big rallies for getting people to vote. Now mind you that they want you to vote but of course only for the person they support. Vote for anyone else and you may as well not vote at all, right? I just see the whole shebang going on and I have to wonder, who is persuaded beyond what beliefs they made on their own or got from their childhood1? Is shouting out hard to understand words while waving cardboard cutouts of the person you want elected really changing that many minds is something I wondered. I mean, it’s great to have a cause, more power to you. I just question the efficiency. Those cardboard cutouts can’t be cheap.
That was a tangent.
Moving on, the inspiration this posted above aside there is the fact that I have been actually part of an education system for two years where I am on the other side of the classroom. Looking on Facebook and seeing people who have left this job and going back to the sitting and listening portion scares the ever living fuck out of me. Dudes with several degrees talking about going for another makes my blood run cold. Jesus fuck, is this where we have gotten in the world that we have to keep going again and again through the damn educational system just to get by in life? Wasn’t going to college about getting ahead2? With the way things are going it just frightens me.
Well, and I say this with no harshness to those of you going back to the educational system, it seems going back could be a safety mechanism for some. Sure, we go on about how much we hate school, but let’s face it. Up until at least eighteen years of age in the States3 you’re at school. Then you go to college. Why not keep going to keep sticking to the familiar? This is why I can’t let myself go back unless it is the only option for me. Even then I don’t know. After two years of studying Japanese much more vigorously on my own time I really have learned that the educational system only can carry you so far. It is our reliance on the ease of paperwork claiming to prove something rather than the time it takes to really determine if someone has the skills without the paperwork.
It’s frightening. Completely scary and makes the future seem bleaker than it really should. But the worst part about these educational systems that we are forcing ourselves through again and again post secondary education is that, at least for me, it has killed curiosity. The most powerful tool for learning has been stripped away from me and battered until I cannot recognize it anymore. Granted, it is my own fault for allowing this to happen but we never really know what we can lose until it is gone. I can only hope that I can learn how to restore what is once lost.
The only thing I know is no school is going to teach me how.
Whoopsies! To say I’ve been busy is a bit of a half lie.
I wish I could say I’ve booted up Dragon Quest 9 but I haven’t. I wanted to be finished with the main quest by next week1 but alas I have been drawn into the bosom of a harsh mistress who will not let me free. A grasp that is not entirely unfamiliar but one that brings much shame just as well.
I’m hooked on Yu-Gi-Oh, dude.
Continue reading ‘These Are The Weeks of Our Games – 09/06/2009′
- SaGa 2 remake, bay-bee! [↩]
