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You selected Star Man's stage!!! Hello, Chocolancer here and welcome to my rants page where (almost) everything I say or put here is a rant or a rant about my life in general. This was more or less inspired by TheSwordofDoubt but I was thinking of putting one anyway due to the fact that I haven't been editing a lot lately...

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• Archive 1 (April 8 to July 31, 2008)

Contents 1 March 5, 2009 2 January 20, 2009 3 January 15, 2009 4 January 14, 2008 2009 5 December 17, 2008 6 December 8, 2008 7 November 20, 2008 8 November 6, 2008 9 November 3, 2008 10 November 1, 2008 11 August 22, 2008

[edit] March 5, 2009

As of now I will not be editing the rants page much since I have created a deviantART account and put all my future random thoughts there. Maybe once in a while I'll say something here, but if you still wish to follow up on my current musings, go to my deviantART account ([1]) and enjoy =)

[edit] January 20, 2009

Look's like Obama's inauguration is today and is done and over with. Too bad I didn't get a chance to see it live...I heard it was on live at 9:00am in my time zone and I was in school doing stuff so that kinda sucks...In an unrelated note, my order for that trade paperback Atomic Robo Vol. 1 is taking really long (if you call a week too long). Ever since last week, I can't seem to get my mind off the guy. He always seems to pop up randomly in my imagination, replacing my usual fantasies...I really, really need to concentrate on my studies, but Robo's always there, carrying the Venus Gospel (my favourite spear on top of the Zodiac Spear), tagging along with Elecman in the land of Ivalice, kicking ass and at the same time trying to find his way back home....oh shit, did I just blurt that out?! Urrggg goddamnit I so must draw it out of my head or I'd go insane!!!

[edit] January 15, 2009

Kind of a shock if you ask me, but it turns out that a copy of Atomic Robo Vol. 1 was in my local bookstore all along! Too bad its not in stock, but I was able to order in one of the store's online kiosks. Who would've thought?!! Naturally, I can't wait to get it. Plus, if only they had released Vol. 2 at this time, I would've been able to kill two birds with one stone (i.e.: One visit, order both copies)! Still, I'm kinda disappointed that there is a lack of comic book shops here where I live, but the city of Vancouver nearby has, like 5 or 6 comic book shops all over the city! I've got to check one of those shops someday...It kinda sucks that I'm only starting to get into comic books/graphic novels now and not earlier...

[edit] January 14, 2008 2009

Guess I'm late updating another rant entry, but here goes anyway...Happy Super-Duper Late New Year's to everyone who still hasn't been greeted yet...Not that I'd bother making any New Year's resolutions anyway, they're always forgotten or put away so making one is kinda futile...

As of yesterday I've been down in the dumps cuz of my weakness...I envy anything and everything superior than me. Why I have this weakness I don't know, maybe it had something to do with those fucking overachievers in private school more than five years ago...always getting straight A's and perfect 100% percentages...ugh it makes me sick. Anyways, I've been browsing at the famous 8-Bit Theater site catching up when I noticed he turns out to be a REAL comic book artist! Looking around, I saw that he was part of a team that does Atomic Robo, a comic about a robot created in the 20's that does Indiana Jones-esqe adventures. Seeing the sample panels of the comic, I just got extremely envious of Brian Clevinger's ability to apply his humour in it plus the art style put in by his team members was just awesome. The robot himself appealed greatly to me (because of my extreme obsession with robots) and so I kinda felt like some talentless loser. I still kinda feel like one today, so I've been trying to find a way to cope with it. Maybe if I could get the first full volume and read it, that might just make me feel better...if only I could buy stuff online (which I am not allowed), or if only there was a comic book store in my city, or if this city (filled with Chinese immigrants who could barely speak a word of English) ever embraced old-school...<sigh>

[edit] December 17, 2008

The other day (actually, two months ago) I went to my local anime media store just for a little window shopping...I was peering about some Final Fantasy figurines before exchanging my defective Auron figure. When he did so the clerk asked me what FF games I played. Not thinking about it I said "All of them" and he was shocked. He thought I was a complete otaku cuz he said all he played was VII. Which gets me to this point that many people like to criticize Final Fantasy just because they only played the seventh one. I find that VII was overrated and so the general audience played it and had mixed reactions of it. Hence not many people liked Final Fantasy ever since in this region of the world. When I was back in the Phils. everyone loved the series! I mean, some guy even boasted he played all 12 of the main series (and this was in the year 2000, so he lied) so I was intrigued when I got my first FF game which was Anthology (V and VI). Hell when I played it I loved the storyline and the gameplay and everything else about it. Well, whatever it really sucks that many people here where I live now don't like the series. Instead they all love games such as Halo, Guitar Hero and Rockband (not that I'm saying its bad)...

[edit] December 8, 2008

Hmm...the holidays are coming and I don't have any plans whatsoever...man it really sucks when your own family doesn't celebrate Christmas just because they don't believe that Jesus Christ was born on that day. I do believe that Jesus was not born on that day...but that's still no excuse not to celebrate Christmas. In fact, if only I celebrated Christmas I would probably the happiest person on earth...if Santa Claus and over-abundance of consumerism was eliminated, everyone would celebrate the holidays more cheerfully. I love Christmas, but one of the many things I hate about it is Santa Claus. He doesn't exist, ok? Why do parents have to lie to their children that every Christmas Eve, some fat guy in a red suit riding a sleigh pulled by flying reindeer (reindeer exist, but they don't fly) comes down their chimney to put presents under their tree? Why do children every Chrsitmas Eve have to leave out cookies and milk so that Santa would "eat" them and think of the them as good children? Santa is a lie! In fact, the movie The Polar Express is a complete shit-covered lie that tells you that if you don't believe in Santa Claus, you won't be able to hear his "magical sleigh bells". Other than that, don't you just love it when every month of December you will see loads of people in stores every weekend fighting over who will get the best present while bratty children go around crying and wanting this or that? Don't you also just love seeing commercials with Santa or anything Christmas-themed on it telling you to buy this or buy that? That is consumerism, my friend. For me, consumerism in any other day besides the holidays is fine, because it's not as "in your face" as when Black Friday comes up (being Canadian, there's no Black Friday here, so HA!) to signal the beginning of the holiday season. I want to emphasize this again...I love Christmas, but I hate Santa Claus and consumerism. Fuck buying expensive gifts and just go spend time with your relatives eating Christmas dinner and having a good time!

On a final related note, Santa is an anagram for SATAN!!!

[edit] November 20, 2008

God I am sooo annoyed and insulted by my English teacher! I mean, I just feel so insulted by his marking ability that I look so stupid in his class....I mean, I'm supposed to have a high mark being adept at English and being able to make such good essays, but he marks all my essays as such mediocre bullshit I always have to re-do them to get a decent mark! Well, he's just new to this teaching business (being fresh out of a teaching institute; and being a graduate from the high school himself) so I shouldn't be too harsh on him...however, I hate my marks and they make me look stupid! Normally for English I would get A's, but in this class I get barely a B! The thing is, he's just so fucking nitpicky about tenses and grammar that it brings down the fact that I had a powerful thesis and supporting points. I also really hate how he took away my test without letting me finish it when time was up. If my mark ever ever goes down to a C, I am so fucked....This is another thing about my dad, he hates C's. He avoids them and hates them like ebola. If he ever sees one (whether its a major or a minor subject), he yells a fucking lot at me about it, tells me how worthless I am, and even goes as far as taunting me for having such a bad mark. This retarded behavior of his isn't even scaring me anymore, it just annoys me and pisses me off! He always attributes my "bad" marks to video game/computer/TV addiction (which I have NONE of) and would often take it away in desperation thinking it would increase my marks instantly. Somehow I think my dad isn't even sane anymore and should be thrown into an asylum for such bullshit behavior...My respect for him goes up and down and I am sick of it.

[edit] November 6, 2008

I have been thinking about this for a while...I was watching Criss Angel Mindfreak the other day. The show is about some guy who's a magician and illusionist and damn is he good at it! Anyways I was just carrying on watching whatever stunt he's pulling that day when my dad appeared. Being a devout Cristian as well as a paranoid "close-to-senility" person, he watched the show in disgust. He then said that I shouldn't be watching stuff like this cuz he thinks Criss Angel is the devil.

WHAT?!?!?

How can you say that? I mean, you just saw it, now you think he's the devil? Sure he passed through a glass wall and walked on water or even levitated on top of the Luxor Hotel, but that doesn't justify that he's the devil. For fuck's sake he's a magician, an illusionist who shocks and awes people with mind-blowing tricks like Houdini or that guy from the Illusionist movie! I'm a somewhat devoted Christian too but personally I wouldn't judge people to be Satanic just because they wear Gothic clothes and do "sacrilegious" things like walk on water. At least he's not saying bad things about God or burning the Bible like Marilyn Manson did in one of his concerts (I believe Manson was only doing it for show, but that was just...shocking!). I really don't like how people judge people's religion or lifestyle just because of outside appearance. What if some goth guy you knew that you "thought" was a devil-worshipper happens to be a confessed Chiristian and apparently he took saint's training and now he's part of the priesthood. What are you going say to him now? People who think like that are self-righteous dolts...

• heh...excuse all that Christian lingo...I couldn't really find a way to explain things properly without using some

[edit] November 3, 2008

Now that a huge project has been put aside, another "holiday" comes to feakin' haunt me...that "holiday" is Remembrance Day. It's an exclusive Canadian holiday starting in about a week from now. I believe the American counterpart for this holiday is Memorial Day. The reason I dislike this holiday is a long story...but to be short, I hate war. War is the most horrible thing ever known to man (and it definitely doesn't go well with my supressed anger complex). World War I was known as the bloodiest battle in modern history, with many Canadian lives thrown away to help its motherland Great Britain. November 11, 1918 was when this particular war ended and the people decided to remember the soldiers who "died for us" (that phrase just makes me retch) and decided that day be Remembrance Day. Every year, a week before that day, people donate to veteran homes and wear prickly plastic poppies on their chest to signify their remembrance for the dead soldiers. I also forgot to mention that Remembrance Day also remembers those who died in other wars including today's wars, <sarcasm>whoopee</sarcasm>...

I hate this holdiay because wars are best forgotten. The dead soldiers should remain remembered in people's hearts (and even mine's), but it shouldn't be shown proudly with poppies or with somber ceremonies (which happen ever year in my school, and this just disgusts me). With today's consumerist society, why should you give a shit about Remembrance Day? You'll probably just forget it and then go on with you self-indulgent life. See what I mean?

Look, I respect everything Canadian (being extremely patriotic sometimes), but must we give a damn about soldiers who died more than 90 years ago? I don't think so. I really hate how people think I'm being disrespectful just because I don't wear a poppy like everyone else, even my cancer victim vice principal tells me I'm a disgrace to Canada. Look you limping old shit, I respect this country I live in, but I don't believe in Remembrance Day. Remembrance Day is bullshit and shouldn't even be considered a holiday. Do you see Filipinos do somber ceremonies or wear some weird shit on thier chest for every war they participate in? No. In short, Remembrance Day is bullshit, its like saying you're atheist to a Christian or you're a meat-eater to a vegetarian. Why should I care about it? I don't because its bullshit...

[edit] November 1, 2008

Umm, wow its been almost two months since I put another rant...but I really have to say this:

IRON MAN IS THE EPITOMY OF BADASS!

I mean, its been a while since I've seen a great movie! Most of the ones I've seen are usually half-baked shit (and probably outdated as well...), but the recent Iron Man movie just blew me away! Robert Downey Jr. is the man...

I'm not gonna spoil it or anything like that, but one of the many things I love about movie or game characters is that they gotta be faceless (like a clone trooper or Master Chief). I believe that as long as a character is in cool armor (weather it be Mjolnir armor or a power suit) and a helmet to cover the face, that character looks badass to my expectations. Anyways, the Drew Struzan-style movie poster really got me hooked. It actually gave me that nostalgic feeling when movie posters used be hand-drawn by him. I really hate how nowadays these posters just had actors half-assedly splat on the center, it gives no feeling at all at how the storyline will look like...Well, whatever. If you've never watched the movie, you have to, you're not gonna be disappointed =)!

As of now, both walkthroughs are on hiatus until I can get Nestopia up and running and my current school stuff finished...

[edit] August 22, 2008

It's been awhile since I put up a rant...I've been busy as usual. School's starting up in about a week, nothing much to say about it except that now I'll have more time to take care of the walkthrough (and I'm not making excuses this time)...