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Saturday, September 11th, 2004
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4:49 am - [Rant] I just figured ppl deserved an explanation for...
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...the reason why I've not really made any efforts to complete the remodeling/updating of Forgiver Sign amongst things. The things that come to me at.....what...4am or so. Do forgive me if it makes no sense. Or is redundant.
Sure, there was a lot of procastination involved initially, but afterwards, it was more of a fandom problem. I mean, before Gensui 3 came out, I probably would have provided the slightest bit of effort in completing the dreaded site (had enough people bothered me about it). Now however, The Reason I have for having left the site entirely to ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) lucienlariviere's very sporadic (and quite non-existant) care is the fandom. A lot of people out there where I can't see them (I dare say I'm a hermit now) are only fans of the series through Suikoden 3....which, as a long-standing fan, I dare call a total and utter mess.
I will admit that it is a good enough game, but there is no replay value for me whatsoever. I've played through the game once, in a very rushed fashion, with the help of Japanese strategy guides, only so I could properly be a GM for Suikoden 3 RPG. Well, the unfortunate thing about the RPG was that the game itself, its plot especially, killed any desire to moderate the RPG (which is very dead right now).
...Where was I... ...ah, yes, utter mess. Well, Newly-Introduced fans of Suikoden -- in particular, you FIERCE yaoi fangirls out there -- you've thoroughly killed any desire to have anything to do with the fandom. I don't know where the fuck you pull out all those couplings, but I daresay you write it so terribly it makes me retch. I will agree to the game-canon pairings, but don't come at me with a pairing you believe is so OTP (one true pairing) that EVERYONE should obviously see it. Now if you'd written it in a more... oh, I don't know... IN-CHARACTER manner, I'd have probably adhered to it.
And you, yaoi fangirls? There was no yaoi whatsoever in Suikoden 3. I appreciate yaoi, wrote some shounen-ai fics (please refer to FF.net and run a search for Shinju Hoh) and participated in yaoi/smutty rps in the past. I have a passionate stand on a few particular couplings such as Gremio/botchan, Ted/botchan, Jowy/Kuwan(H2) and yes.....the dreaded now-twincestual-masturbating Sasarai/Luc. And now, I shall tell you a great truth of my views about Suikoden 3 yaoi... I. Don't. See. The. Yaoi. Any of my acquaintances -- all better yaoi fans than myself, as I also like perfectly heterosexual pairings while they see other stuff -- Do. Not. See. It.
Indeed, we are probably hypocrites as some have taken a liking to Yuber/Albert (as long as people consider the LACK of LOVE in their relationship) and I've had some thoughts of how to re-work Sas/Luc in light of Sui 3's events. Heck, I enjoy a good Caesar/Hugo fanart when I can find one. But it's mostly just from enjoying the visual effect and not from throwing characters onto each other into the most disgustingly out-of-character fashion in a fanfic. Percival isn't lusting for Borus behind his playboy facade. Geddoe and Jacques don't have this secret relationship, nor Geddoe and Luc have this great understanding of each other that'll make them miraculously fall into each other's arms.
I'll let you in onto something again.... Percival loves woman. He has no desire to bed Borus at all. Geddoe is quite very distant of people in his own quiet ways and the only person who cares for him in any romantic fashion is Queen (which I will approve of as long as they don't end up in bed). Luc...dear me, has a better appreciation of Sarah (I shall whimper here *does so*) and has better chances at getting together with her than with anyone else, had he lived another day. [I will say right here and now that I don't want to think of Luc as ROMANTICALLY involved with Sarah as he's been her surrogate brother/father figure for at least eleven years of her life and I can only ever see a platonic relationship. I dare think Sarah has an Elektra complex. (the opposite of the Oedipus complex for you ignoramuses)]
So....let's see... the point of my rant... Dear Fans of Suikoden, idiots, fangirls and whatnot. I will not actively seek out and destroy whatever you produce, be it from me to dare stand between you and what you like considering my own liking of Sasarai/Luc. But if you MUST write such UTTER CRAP, I would APPRECIATE, as many long-standing fans would, if you did NOT go and flood us with them (I have abandoned the very first Yaoi Suikoden ml [still on yahoo groups] due to that). Keep it in your own sites, in your own circles. Make a clique for it if you must! But PLEASE try to make it even the SLIGHTEST FUCKING DAMNED BIT IC! And if IC doesn't work, then at LEAST try to give us a friggen GOOD explanation for the OOCness. And no, angsty not-mentioned-by-Konami pasts that conflict with canon do not work.
And now that I've lost ideal command of caps, italics and bolds, I shall now retire to bed and return to my isolation from the net and website administrating. Thank you.
Edit: Oh and... People are welcome to use/refer to this should they ever feel the need.
current mood:  irate
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| Wednesday, February 25th, 2004
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11:21 am - Since everyone's doing it and I'm bored today.
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Haven't enough HDD space to unzip all my zipped mp3s, but 188 hrs of music/radio show/drama is kinda plenty, right?
Step 1: Open your MP3 player.
Step 2: Put all of your music on random.
Step 3: Write down the first fifteen songs it plays, no matter how embarrassing.
1) Kilie Minogue - Can't get you out of my head
2) Toshihiko Sato (Composer) - Senkyou Houkoku (BGM from...dunno where *didn't label*) [Edit: .....Gundam Seed? Huh.... don't even watch that.]
3) Katou Juri - Sayonara dake ga Shitteta
4) L'Arc-en-Ciel - get out from the shell -asian version-
5) Indigo Girls - Let It Be Me
6) L'Arc-en-Ciel - The Ghost In My Room
7) Matantei Loki Ragnarok - OST 1 - Spu Daisakusen
8) Aniplex-Hour #12 (03.12.22) - Hagaren Housoukyoku 30-mins Special - Paku Romi, Kugimiya Rie, Mizushima Seiji (director)
9) Aniplex-Hour #19 (04.02.08) - Oh! Naruto Nippon & Hagaren Housoukyoku - Takeuchi Junko, Seki Toshihiko, Paku Romi, Kugimiya Rie
10) Digimon Tamers (The Digimons...) - Digimon Christmas Medley
11) Ragnarok Online - Treasure Hunter
12) Matantei Loki Ragnarok - Mythical Channel 328 - 13 - Radio Short Story [shitamachi junbou monogatari - Simples Tales of Downtown] Part 2
13) Sylvain Cossette - J'veux t'taimer
14) Prince of Tennis - Atobe Keigo (Suwabe Junichi) - Rondo to Destruction (And special disc) - 11 - Stage
15) Matantei Loki Ragnarok - Narugami pension e youkoso (Welcome to Narugami's Boarding House) - 09 - Playboy Loki
current mood:  bored
current music: Matantei Loki Ragnarok Narugami pension e youkoso 09 - playboy loki.mp3
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| Sunday, February 22nd, 2004
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8:24 pm - And a strange thought occurs to me..
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Considering Cloud, Aeris, Cid, Yuffie and Sephiroth already showed up in Kingdom Hearts 1.... what's Square gonna do about the second game?
Will they do this?
Square staff: OMG! We've used up our FF7 cameo quota in the first game! What shall we dooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111111111oneoneoneoneone
Hmm.... much mulling to do.
current mood:  contemplative
current music: get backers - kaku-core (makubex)
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| Friday, February 20th, 2004
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12:08 pm - Yoinked from the_indy
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shinjuhoh
Siamese Fighting Fish
Agility
9 | | | Strength
8 | | | Stamina
5 |
| Battle Rating
22Origins
shinjuhoh was created by a scientific experiment gone wrong |  |
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....Fishy?
current mood:  okay
current music: Francois Pérusse - Hey Que C'Est Donc Belle Une Fille
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| Wednesday, February 4th, 2004
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11:14 pm - Hmm....
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So that's what happens when you sit down and read some news articles..... You land on pretty interesting stuff such as this article.
...Granted, I don't live anywhere in Massachusetts.....but I'll support anyone who decides to move to Massachusetts or just go there for however long they need to be for a wedding.
Shinju out.
current mood:  impressed
current music: Kakusei Loki - Day Break
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| Saturday, November 1st, 2003
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4:14 am - Unfortunately, no success at disguising myself as a box this year.
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But, on that random note, I realize that the Yaoi Pocky Box at Anime North this past year was quite successful. It's scary how many people wanted some of that stuff.
current mood: contemplative
current music: .Hack Gift.avi ('cuz it's hilarious and MT-san knows exactly why and there should be more Balmung + Apron action)
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| Wednesday, October 29th, 2003
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1:07 pm - Hm.
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| Monday, August 25th, 2003
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1:06 am - 'Cuz I was bored.
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| Friday, June 13th, 2003
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1:55 am - Randomly...
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Someday, I swear, I'm gonna be able to read all them shosetsu [short stories] that I find laying around in Japanese sites! .......someday.
*returns to studying w/ his kanji cards*
current mood:  dorky
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| Wednesday, June 11th, 2003
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12:56 am - And while I'm still on the issue of translations and official stuff and all...
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(it's really just spurned by my reading the forums and being mildly entertained by them. There's a mixture of amusement and exasperation at all those people)
No single translations are perfect. (I love my University teachers... This is one sentence I will /never/ forget. [Edit: I may, however, botch on the real quote and the possible grammar... I'm not too clear on this one yet. *should check his books*]) Honestly, some (some, not all) fan-translations /are/ better than so-called professional ones...... but the reason might be that professional ones have to be edited/adapted for an audience that won't necessarily understand what is being discussed. And it'd take way too long to explain every single little foreign cultural concepts that don't quite come with the target audience's cultural background. That or the so-called professional is a recent graduate and doesn't have as much cultural baggage (French/English-mixed term borrowed from on of my favorite teachers) as fans who have watched a truck-load of anime that the graduate hasn't.
.....And I'll get back to something I have /already/ mentioned before...... but I'd really rather just listen to the raws. There are things I don't like translating or finding equivalence for because it's just unique to the originating culture it was made from. I also like learning new things/terms/traditions/customs that I can only really learn if I look it up and then assimilate. It's a method that hasn't proved me wrong so far (except if I find false/inadequate informations) and I like it just fine.
On a different note, animes such as Rose of Versailles and Card Captor Sakura (Yes, yes. I like those shows. They're serious enough for me to like watching them.), I really wanna get in French dubs. Call it growing fond of certain voice actors the way many fanpeople become of this or that voice actor/seiyuu. That and in the case of RoV (which I used to know as Lady Oscar), it's a matter of sweet childhood memories. Of course, I also find that the translations (or rather adaptations in these cases) are closest to the real Japanese scripts than what the American community has brought out. .....Yes, I'm sorry, I am more leniant towards French dubs than English dubs... but I'm not getting in a discussion about dubs just yet. Too many kinks to work out.
.......When I think about it, this was mostly targetted towards anime discussion..... ......where's my manga discussion in this? *sweatdrops*
current mood: pensive
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| Tuesday, June 10th, 2003
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11:01 pm - Something to think about...
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Currently, I'm reading this one article about AnimeJunkies VS Urban Vision... It's most interesting and I tend to believe that I agree w/ most of it... The one thing I can't do though is buy licensed DVDs that are being released here in North America (I'm mostly broke). That aside, I'd really rather buy the raw dvds directly from Japan when I get some dough... Even if I get LESS eps. (Also I can do w/o the option of having subtitles/english track. It's a good way to practice Japanese and I appreciate it most. [Translation: I won't start bitching about inaccurate/inadequate translations and such.])
There's just one thing I haven't seen mentioned anywhere in any of the discussion threads (AAN forum and AnimeSuki forum) that I'm wondering about... what of plain txt translations available online?
[Edit]
And what of Digimon, btw? I haven't heard a single thing about any licensing companies being willing to release it SUBBED for those that want the real thing instead of the dubbed version that is seen on tv (and is also available to purchase in Walmart and other popular stores). It's this one thing that bothers me mostly... Although...yes... Ronin Warriors was only available on TV before and is (after too many years) now available in both dub and subbed version on dvd. They even have the OAVs... ok, that I'm tempted to buy (mostly because I actually enjoyed the dub and I haven't checked to see if the Japanese DVD is available.)
current mood: thoughtful
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| Sunday, June 8th, 2003
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2:39 am - This time...
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For all of you knowledgeful anime fans, the shop I noticed tonight was one called "White Cross".
Shinju out.
current mood: nerdy
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| Sunday, May 11th, 2003
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11:41 pm - There is something so terribly amusing in the neighbourhood...
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Fine, so it was actually in downtown Ottawa instead of Hull, but... I noticed an interesting shop while some friends and I went out for a bit of fresh air.
There's this place called Blue Moon Videos...... and they sell, or is it rent out, pn0n movies.
That is all.
current mood: amused
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| Thursday, May 8th, 2003
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5:16 am - Also...
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I have no clue why I set out to download Taleweaver off the korean server.. It's friggen 413megs long!
...how they're willing to pay for the server and letting ppl download their bigass files is beyond me.
current mood: blank
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4:53 am - Because
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surprisingly (or not) I'm still awake at this hour... (then again, I'm suffering from a bit of insomnia anyway), a quiz:
The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Sixth Level of Hell - The City of Dis!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
Take the Dante's Inferno Hell Test
...I don't get it, I don't wanna get it and I am not Christian. Does it apply to a Buddhist?
current mood: tired
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| Wednesday, April 16th, 2003
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1:35 am - Because it's fun to yoink things from others....
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I'll... say it right now, I'm biased. ^^; So......yeah. Genso Suikoden pops up often and I'll be mentioning it as Genso Suikoden, GS or Gensui. If I have to talk about Granstream Saga, I'll just mention it by its name ^^;
( So.. taken from Tasha )
...That took a while to fill.
current mood:  awake
current music: Okiayu Ryoutarou - EstE (Crawford)
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12:01 am - Musical moment
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Yes, I felt like translating another song. I should really find where I could download the mp3s of it... This one's got a very nice melody and the song itself is nice to listen to.
So, without further ado: ( the translation. )
current mood:  artistic
current music: Sylvain Cossette - Tu reviendras
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| Tuesday, April 8th, 2003
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3:50 am - On a sudden spur of the moment thing...
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I changed my lj icon! It's now... Thomas from Suikoden 3... *nods* Though he's decidedly more decisive than I am for a good number of things. ...Sorta are alike, him and I... just kinda... maybe... I don't know...
...Suddenly, I miss my old icon. >.<; *won't change back out of stubbornness*
...and I'm wondering generally why I barely listen to music at all, even on my computer. ...Something is amiss.
current mood: aggravated
current music: Silence is golden. *nods*
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| Friday, April 4th, 2003
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2:52 pm - Nostalgia...
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For some reason, I felt like translating this song. It's old.... very old... but it's a nice song... The melody is nice.... the song's subject... um.. I blame it on the fact that I was a child when I heard this song, because it's really only today (yes, April 4th) that I caught on what Joe Dassin was singing. o_O;;;; .....>_>;; It's still good... I could probably imagine a few fics with this, but I don't really wanna?
Artist: Joe Dassin
Title: Il était une fois nous deux (Once upon a time, us two)
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Remember, it was a thursday
Remember, we had taken
The path of lovers
It was once upon a time, us two
Remember, it was the big day
The big step toward a great love
It was better than that
It was us two once upon a time
A motel by the dock's road
A normal night
Two customers, a sleepy guard
With his newspaper
He handed us each a key
Told us: "good evening"
That morning we had reserved separate rooms
Unwilling to display our love
At barely eighteen
Remember, it was a thursday
Remember, we had taken
The path of lovers
It was once upon a time, us two
Remember, it was the big day
The big step toward a great love
It was better than that
It was us two once upon a time
We'd randomly chosen the 14th
A bit shy
And your dress slipped in the dark
We loved each other
Later when the garçon came
Bringing us
Two coffee with a knowing smile
You hid yourself
He didn't see that you were crying
For the childhood that left
Remember, it was a thursday
Remember, we had taken
The path of lovers
It was once upon a time, us two
Remember, it was the big day
The big step toward a great love
It was better than that
It was us two once upon a time
current mood: artistic
current music: Joe Dassin - Il était une fois nous deux
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2:10 am - A little break from studying...
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