Doing a quick favour for a friend who's no longer active on FA. Remember Rumzrumz, aka Rum-locker? He's auctioning this sheep character https://twitter.com/RumLockerArt/st.....38738798157825 for €200. Please help him in this time of need, he has many bastard children that need food. Or he wants a PS4, it's the same really.

So, a friend is curious about one thing with my characters, and is somewhat insisting I share this poll so he can see if he's right or not.

http://strawpoll.me/1376896

Sadly, I can't say WHAT he's curious about without biasing it, so have at it if you're exceptionally bored. Shouldn't take more than a few seconds, just a single question.

Well, since I did a tiny bit to kick off last year's Snake Week, I may as well do it again.

Snake Week 2013: Monday, October 7th- Sunday October 13th

It's that most wonderful time of the year! A week-long excuse to doodle up some slithering serpentine studs and studettes. A chance to try out the new naga-lower body Top Viper's been talking about. An opportunity to write that long-awaited magnum opus, The Girl Who Really, Really Liked Snakes. I hear they're adapting it into Hissing Them Softly.

Basically, this is just a small week to celebrate all things serpent. This isn't some exclusive, you-must-have-this-few-legs-to-participate thing. It's just a bit of fun. And yes, feel free to complain this is just people trying to make something out of nothing. We can't all have the rich cultural heritage of Fat Bunny Week.

So there we go. Have fun, even if it's just getting drunk and doing live-commentary on Anaconda.

I just want you all to know that if you get abusive messages from me like 'Get lost' or 'shut up', or get blocked, it's probably, definitely not a hacker.

All me, baby.

Also, this thing so didn't start as someone's excuse for posting a massive bitch-fit at their friends and trying to undo the damage. "Oh man, I was totally hacked and stuff, bro, I love you. Please unblock me in return."

That's right, I'm doing a Your Journal Here auction. Samples of my work can be seen on my page. Winner shall get their own personal views inserted within the framework of the journal text that follows:

"I [Your Personal Preference Here] all the recent spate of [Your Practice/Item Here]. They often seem to display a lack/lot of [Your Quality Here]. And no, I'm not bitter. I just don't get them because [Your Excuse Here]. In fact, I believe there's room for [Your Quantity Here] of them. It's probably just a passing fad and will be done and dusted within a [Your Time Span Here], and normal service will resume. This will make me [Your Future Emotional State Here]. But enough of this, who wants to {Their Appendage Here] me in [Your Orifice Here]? [Your Emoticon Here]

And remember, [Your Funny, Throwaway Remark That Makes You Feel Super-Smug For Your Cleverness Here]!"

Bidding starts at 400 Quatloons. Good luck!

It's a sad day when a friend is unable to warn people of a fellow FA user impersonating them on various IM accounts and communities due to the ToC forbidding a much-needed callout. That is, when he's not claiming to be married to the guy. Which would surely come as a shock to the impersonatorhusband's own wife and kid. Unless his impersonation is so good he's convinced he's his own husband. Tch, 30 year-old, 3D modelling, death-and-thrash-metal loving Russians these days, eh?

I can understand why they don't allow it but you'd think there'd be some sort of leeway in cases of stalking and harassment. I mean, I could just tweet his FA username and that'd be fine? If the loopholes are that obvious and well-used, then the original rule needs changing.

On a related note: https://twitter.com/HutchenceD/stat.....36070457536512

Dear lord, you'd swear it was anything other than just another workday. That's right, I'm exerting my right to be a grump.

*crack of thunder, bearded figure with antlers appears blowing his nose*

BEHOLD! It is I, Mooses, down from Mt Sinus to bring to you these two desktop tablets bearing thine Furry Commandments! Learn them well, for this is what is expected of you all!

1. Thou shalt always claim 'first!' in thine comments. Where thou canst not, thou shall instead comment with an emoticon.

2. Thou shalt never read the submission info, and thereby load all of your preferred fetishes upon the picture in question.

3. Thou shalt own at least one clip-on tail, cat-ear headband or issue of Dog Fanciers Monthly.

4. Thou shalt think that Mufasa is, like, totally hot. HE shall also accept any of the Road Rovers and, inevitably, Smaug.

5. Thou shalt fap to old Sonic comics until thy balls are dry, thine wrist is powder and thine wallpaper is destroyed.

6. Thou shalt bear witness to at least one drama a day. Thou art truly a furry if thou are embroiled in one.

7. Thou shalt never contact a person again if they do not truly believe they are their character, for they are fairweather furs.

8. Thou shalt obsess over thine commissions, and harangue others for obtaining theirs. Subsequenty, thou shalt use the ellipsis of guilt-inducement when you say 'oh, guess I didn't get mine...'

9. Thou shalt put thine commission money above all else. Thine landlord shall understand or be damned to a life without knowing the pleasure of pendulous nads.

10. Thou shalt shun a life offline. When thou must venture into the world, thou shalt attempt to find the +Watch link when you see something you like.

11. Thou shalt be a social maladroit, shunning actual interaction with the Unblessed, for they feign happiness without knowing the joys of the yiff.

12. Thou shalt assume any gentle mockery of thine ways is an attack upon you all.

13. Thou shalt shun thine family. The only family thoust need are several furs to be your daddies, brothers and sons.

14. Thou shalt proclaim thine love for a fellow fur and your undying devotion...for a week before breaking up having never met in reality.

15. Thine pickiness in the fine details of a commission shall be inversely proportional to the value of said piece.

16. Thou shalt write painfully unfunny journals out of boredom.

Follow these commandment, my children, or face a lifetime of wailing cries, gnashing of teeth and downcasting of eyes!

Also, suggest your own.

Disclaimer: no, I'm not so arrogant as to be serious with this. Read on.

1. Choose your species. Find something that interests you, that you feel looks cool or interesting, something that you wouldn't mind being associated with or something you've always been interested in

2. Fuck that, choose what everyone else is choosing like a fox or a shark or a butt weevil. What, you think you're special or something, trying to stand out?

3. Personalise it. Tattoos, piercings, bright eye-scorching neon colours, all are good ways to say 'LOOK AT ME, LOOK AT ME, LOOK, LOOK, LOOOOOOK!' without having to type it every time.

4. Load it up with your fetish of choice. Hyperphile? Smack a dick on it so large that if it were ever to go limp, all the blood draining from it would make the main body explode in a shower of viscera and etcetera. Dick nipples? What the hey, I'll take five. Make sure two of them are inverted.

5. Now, time to give him a history. Of course he has a mysterious past and superpowers. What ones? Does an inexhaustible supply of inner turmoil count? No? Well, then, all of them. Weaknesses? Bah, he has no need for weaknesses or flaws, he's the son of a god who cavorted with a saucy butt weevil minx, fer pete's sake. Oh, and he's super-protective of all his friends and hates bullies. Tease his creator? Not enough showerings of unadulterated praise? Then he hates you.

6. Now time for a name. Use the following rule: if it's enough consonants to end a game of Scrabble immediately without using the triple word score, it's not enough. Never enough. Isn't that right, Kxnerokqu the Noogier of Bullies?

7. If your character is mystifyingly not winning you friends and conquering the internet, it must be because of him. You are blameless in this, I mean, why won't they like the guy you keep shoving about the place as the be-all and end-all of his kind?

8. To remedy this, remove all trace of him from your sight/site and then try again. After all, there's always more faves to earn. Faves are what makes the world go round and the most reliable validation of you as a human being.

9.When getting him drawn, always insist on retroactive alteration. After all, you paid for it, the artist is now your bitch until whatever arbitrarily-chosen date in the future you decide he is finally perfect...and then start again when the artist posts another pics of a superficially similar character. You can't have his horn be smaller than anyone else's, after all.

10. And finally:

Stop. This is not about popularity. This is not about creating characters that everyone loves, or winning the favour of influential people. This is about having an idea and giving it form, putting it from something you imagine to something you can see. On the way, you may make a few friends. You may make a few enemies. You will make no difference to more people than the former and latter combined. Your character is not a tool to make people love you. The problem is not your character (creation), the problem lies in your character (personality). Take a break. Relax. Have a nice cup of tea, then a walk. This is a niche little internet community. Is popularity in it really worth all the stress? Which leads me to my final, and most important rule:

11. None of this matters. Popularity in this group is like being the one-eyed man in the kingdom of the blind. It's not something that makes you better than anyone else anywhere but here, if you choose to view yourself as above others. So just have fun in this site, make your character however you like, chat a bit, doodle a bit and remember: computers have a power-off button for a reason.

Oh, and the Olympics opening was just batshit crazy. I'll have to live-tweet things more often.

I'm a sucker for any film which has at least one bit of excellent music in it, or at least some moments where the music syncs up astoundingly well with the action/editing. Not just licensed music, but proper scores too.
So I'm going to share some of my fabourite ones here, and probably add more later, Feel free to put suggestions in the comments too.

1. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World -Clash at Demonhead

The movie may be an acquired taste, but this is still my favourite moment from the film. Cheating a bit, this is the full version not heard in the film itself. And yes, that is the actress herself singing, possibly better than the original cover they have on the official soundtrack.

2. Drive- Kavinsky (feat. Loveboxx) 'Nightcall'

Opening credits are one of those things where you really have to hook an audience so why not use a neon cityscape, a fast car and this playing loud?

3. Drive- College & Electric Youth 'A Real Hero'

What, who says I can't have two from the same picture? Sounds incredibly retro Eighties in the best of ways, and used to score a montage of the main character on his first day out with his attractive neighbour. Trust me, it's a thing of beauty.

So, having woken up at the exact wrong moment last night (this being the moment where your body goes "No, you require no more sleep. Now enjoy the next five hours of circular thoughts and clock-staring."), I wound up thinking about several past interactions here.
Now this may come as a surprise, but I am, well, a bit of a prick. So I've oft-times been disinterested in others attempting to interact, or been a bit sharp-tongued to innocent questioning. Or worse, the slow, casual drift out of contact with a few people I would have considered friends.
So, basically, I apologise if anything I've said or done has insulted anyone on here. Except for that guy. Yeah, him. Yes, the one with the thing, exactly. No, I don't expect anything out of this journal, I just felt like saying it so I can say it was said. Of course, this being me, I'll likely carry on doing the same thing, and keep on alienating people

Ye dicks.

-Saw Prometheus this weekend. Very mixed. While a good film, tying it to the Alien universe as well as the months of hype and marketing ensured the only way to view the film is as a disappointment. And as much as I like muscles, the reveal of a certain creature just made me think they ran out of pre-production concept time. It would have worked better without pointless old-man makeup and more Fassbender. Hell, they should have made the entire film just him dicking about further with his crew-members, like an interstellar Josef Mengele.

- Work is taking up all my time these days. Plus with the bright summer mornings, I'm not sleeping well so constant tiredness is go.

-Currently playing Heavy Rain, where everyone sounds bored and inexplicably French.

-As you can probably tell from recent submissions, t-rex beat out griffin from the last journal. Woooo.

-Cautiously optimistic about the new Spider-Man film, cautiously pessimistic about the new Batman film. Mainly because Bane lacks the classy iconography of a Joker or Scarecrow.

- Have a bet going on with a friend about the women who watch/follow me: is it all about Ivan, ladies?

- Anyone interested in some of of  cooner's art folios? I have a few I'm trying to offload.

- quantumdot is a dick of such magnitude, his gravitational pull sucks smaller dicks into orbit around him.

- Sasuga won the semi-generous shortlist thing in my previous journal. However, I'm going to maybe do a pic for the other four runners-up, just of their main character.

-Sorta got a promotion at work. I'm now working 9-5, Mon-Fri and am now in charge of all stocking, ordering, returns and promotions. Now, to work up the balls to ask about a corresponding pay rise.

-Relevant to above, you'll excuse me for the huge delays in replying to notes and e-mails, and my lethargy in IM conversations.

-Also relevant, I now have a Skype....dear god, I look horrible on webcam. Well, that's that done with.

- T-rex or griffin? Those who know me will know what this is.

-Reeeeallly fed up of haring about certain dramas. Dear god, how do people not notice the pattern? And courtesy of  todex, here is what I'm talking about in semi-flowchart form:


1. I'm feeling much better now.
2. Anyway lets talk about my life
3. Look, I posted art
4. Some people unfaved some pics from me
5. SOMEONE DREW SOMETHING SIMILAR TO MINE, MUST CLAIM OWNERSHIP
6. DRAMA!!!
7. I stand above drama!
8. Whatever!
9. I am so sorry
10. I will leave FA for a while or forever...
11. I am sorry, I have to leave, really
12. 3 days silence
13. Anyway I'm back
14. See 1

- No more freaky-deeky IMs currently. But just because I like to include the odd friend in a pic does not mean I am rocking the casbah with them.

-And finally, if you see me acting casually abusive to people in streams and them being back, it's actually a long-running joke. Until it isn't. Fun.

Let's all have a public vote. I've chosen five of my preferred suggestions from the previous journal, so let's see who's got the best one.

1.  mainlion - "Benji and Rooney seem like they'd get along well. How about them playing some sport together and making the other team feel tiny?" I do like the idea of this. Probably humiliating Benji by using him as a stepladder to a basketball hoop, hah.

2.  sasuga - "Jeremy and my Augroth, at a book club together, intently discussing House of Leaves. " Because who doesn't love literary musclebound lumps?

3.  groenteman- "I was thinking my lion Yuri http://www.furaffinity.net/view/6683930/ and Carter having trouble sitting next to each other in a crowded bus because of the smaller seats." See above, only with huge guys in itty-bitty spaces.

4.  rembrant - "Hmm. Maybe my farmer dog, Freddy, climbing down from a tree, looking sheepishly at your thorny devil, a bushel of apples down at the tree's base, and on or two apples sticking to thorny devil's thorns. "Oops! Sorry 'bout that, didn't see ya passin' by." A rare use of the thorny devil in a non eye candy role.

5.  menacetrois - "uhhh ivan and aboh having a thumb war idk i just wanna see more ivan, hes cute xE" Because there's something odd about two cool-looking characters doing normal stuff like that.

...pick a guy of mine, and a guy of yours. What are they doing? Best idea/character combo gets drawn.

Oh and in other news:
-no, I have not played Mass Effect 3 yet, quit asking.
-no, I will not RP with you if you IM me for the first time in a year.
-yes, I am slowly getting back into writing.
-no, a science job hasn't presented itself yet.
-yes, current job could be seeing a pay and work hours raise soonish.
-no, Ivan is not available to, and I quote, 'sting my bottom swell so good'.
-no, I am not a shapeshifter, or any one of my guys. I'm a skinny, pale-faced pleb like many of ye.
-yes, Game of Thrones is TV crack cocaine.
-yes, my hairline is still making a strategic retreat.
-no, I'm not putting photos of myself online.
-no, this journal didn't really have a point other than getting the old one pushed back.

And by need, I mean you really don't.

1. Apologies to the friends I usually chat to on IMs for not being around much. Work tires me out, even on my days off.

2.
God damn you  penn, this has been stuck in my head for a week. And apologies to Amanda Palmer, but I honestly did think she was a male transvestite in this video.

3.  fizzotter does fancy glowing plasma con badges that I probably would get were I a con-goer. It'd be a giant raised middle-finger to keep the crowds at bay. Here endeth the plug.

4. Read Gail Simone's Secret Six comic. It has an anthro sharkman who at one stage goes into battle singing 'I'm a shark, I'm a shark, I'mma shaaaaaark!!!' What's not to like there?

5. My two-year long film and TV show backlog is almost complete! Huzzah! Then it'll be time to start on the games.

6. Related to number two, it's Gryphon Month. You know what must be done.

7. IF I ever were to attempt a stream, not being an artist, what the fudge sundae would I do? Write? Dramatic readings? Go all Cam4 on your asses?

8. I've been surprisingly free from weird IMs and notes of late. What gives, are they preparing for a DDoS of butt-numbing insanity?

9. I cannot make a decent custom character in Soul Calibur 5 for the life of me. And dangit, you can only change the scale and armour colours on Lizardman.

10. To weigh in on a certain brewing mini-drama that I predict will one day blow up into one of those FA-wide one-day FA drama wonders, anthro sharks: one dick or two, they're sharks! Ye're completely losing sight of the inherent awesomeness therein.

Greetings, peasants. I have descended from My lofty perch atop Mount Faplympus to deliver a message to you all.

1)My awesomeness is simply too much for Me to contain. So much so that it has split Me in three like a Premiership footballing team's latest conquest.

2) Alas, I have lost control of these divisions of Mineself, and they have been spotted amidst the streams of acolytes begging for free art upon which they may sustain themselves.

3) They have taken names, which is a blasphemy in Mine eyes. They call themselves Hutchence_d and Diarmaid_H, direst perversions of My one true Name, dhutchence.

4) Should these unholy abominations manifest themselves, unite in chanting 'I CAST THEE OUT!!!' and remove them from thy site, to gain my favour.

Do as I say, and I shall reward you with praise so effusive, you shall think Mine head has lodged up Thine arse.


TL.DR: people pretending to be me appearing in streams asking for free stuff. Be aware.

Rather than clog up the shoutboxes of everyone I know, I'll just use this journal to say merry Christmas to any who watch me, especially those of you I'd call friends. You know who you are. I think. Toodles.

So having commented on  dcrest13s journal (y'know, the kangaroo guy with the excellent goatee beard thingus), I am now compelled to follow it...also, it was time to boot the previous journal off the front page.

1. Tell you something I'll learn about you by looking at your FA page for 13 seconds.

2. Tell you which color you remind me of. You know what, let's switch this one up. Instead I'll tell you what SMELL you remind me of. Throw some synesthesia into the mix.

3. Tell you my first memory of you.

4. Tell you what Pokemon you remind me of.

5. Ask you something I've always wondered about you, and your answer has to be as vague as possible to keep the suspense.

6. Tell you my favorite thing about you.

7. Give you a weird nickname.

8. Challenge you to post this on your journal.

EDIT: GODDAMN YOU GUYS!!! I will get to these by the New Year, I promise....WHY DID I DO THIS?!

The inevitable threequel to http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/2328023/ and http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/2542229/ , only with too many villains and an ill-advised dance sequence.

Random17: Hey. ^_^
Me: Afternoon.
Random1: How're you? ^_^
Me: Goo7d, but work in a few minutes. Just logging out.
Random17: Nuuu, stay!
Me: Unless you're willing to pay by the hour, no.
Random17: You cheap popuwhore.
Random17: *signs out*

***

Random18: Hey wasp man.
Me: Evening.
Random18: You're a sexy bug.
Me: Actually, he's just a character of mine, but thanks, glad you like him.
Random18: I'd let him lay eggs in my belly any day.
Random18: Mmm, lay an egg mountain.
Me: There's an image I didn't need. And I'm done with my rice.
Random18: Ewwwww, rice is so disgusting.
Me: Weren't you just on about egg-laying? As a guy? Out the ass?
Random 18: You're mean.
Random18: *signs out*

***
Random19: Hey babe, u there?
Me: I surely am, sweet baby child o mine.
Random19: How r u?
Me: A good question. How are any of us, in this crazy world? Man, I remember the days when a guy could just be at one with everything.
Random19: Good, I have an idea.
Random19: Woah man, you can't HAVE an idea. Ideas belong to us all, not to be plucked out of the far-out consciousness of the collective ether. Conceptualise it, man!
Random19: I'm so bored. Want to see me on webcam?
Me: My Sharona, stop harshing my buzz. You can't tame a man's being by telling him what to do, what with your feminine ways, and tricks, and and, and boobs.
Random19: Ok, you just have to go to this site and sign up. It's free, k?
Me: Beautiful love child, what happened? You're not the same girl with flowers in her hair I started this committed conversation with. You've gone corporate. You've sold your soul to General Motors and got yourself a nice frying pan set. This isn't going to work. I'm gone.
Random 19:...
Random19:...
Random19: u there babe?
Me: I'm just back for the bong.
Me: *signs out*

***

Random 20:Hey.
Me: Hey there.
Random20: How're you?
Me: Good, you?
Random20: Not good. I think this buttplug's gone septic.
Me: Oh, I thought you'd just popped a haemerhoid or something. That or the firework-launch-from-butt trick in reverse.
Random20: Heh, well-played.
Random20: *signs out*

***

Random21: omg dhutch hi!!!
Me: Well, that's certainly an enthusiastic hello. Hey there.
Random21: YAY IT'S YOU
Random21: I've been wanting to chat to you for ages.
Random21: I LOVE YOUR NAGA
Random21: i just want to get hugged by him
Random21: hi?
Random21:: why aren't you replying
Me: Sorry, you're just typing waaay to fast to keep up with.
*computer disconnects here, and I come back five minutes later to this*
Random21: oh lawl right i talk too much
Random21: so i
Random21: oh
Random21: where'd you go
Random21: hey? helllllooooooooooo
Random21: awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwr
Random21: why'd you go???
Random21: i just wanted to chat
Random21: i feel lonely
Random21: hi?
Random21: hello?
Random21: *gets naked*
Random21:...
Random5: hello?
Random21: HELLO??!
Random21: *signs out*

***

Random22: Hey, can I ask you sumthin?
Me: Sure, but no guarantee I'll answer it.
Random22: What's it like, suckign artist cock?
Me: Hmm, like an unsharpened 2B pencil, I reckon. Really wouldn't know.
Random22: Yeah you do. Getting all their slots everytime. Cocksucker.
Me: If by cock you mean bank account and sucker you mean money-giving-to, then yes. Yes indeed.
Random22: I want commissions but I have no money and you always get them.
Me: Well, I have a job, and precious few other vices. If it's any consolation, I'm sure you're the life of the party while I have no social life.
Random22: I don't have a job, my mom won't give me one.
Me: How bloody dare she!
Random22: Stop getting pics, it makes me angry.
Me: Smelly-guy-in-the-cinema angry, Incredible Hulk angry or Christian Bale-angry?
Random22: I'll kill you.
Me: How?
Random22: Knife.
Me: Where?
Random22: Your house.
Me: You're going to stab my house? You monster!
Random22: *signs out*

***

Random23: Hey, you stole my character.
Me: Huh?
Random23: *shows link to a familiar snake, in a very familiar picture*
Random23: You stole him and used him. Stop it or I will sue you.
Me:...you DO realise you've IM'd the guy who commissoned this right? I mean...this is the sort of stupidity you dream about but never think you'll see in real life.
Random23: It is my snake. You took my snake.
Me: What's he called?
Randome23: George.
Me: Oh god, not only did you nick it, you gave him the name of the other character in the pic.
Random23: That is not my shark. I do not know who's.
Me: So you commissoned a pic...of your snake...and some shark magically jumped into it?
Random23: Take all your art down and apologise.
Me: Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Me: Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Me: To quote a great man, I wouldn't take it down and apologise if we were the last two people on earth, the earth was on fire, I was starving, and you had magical fire extinguisher breath and sleeves that shot out crisps.
Random23: Fuck you.
Random23: *signs out*

***

Random24: Hi.
Me: Hello.
Random24: I just wanted to say that I really like your characters. You get some great art, so thank you.
Me: ...it's a trap isn't it?
Random24: Huh?
Me: You're going to go either all murry-purry or start trolling.
Random24: Nope, just wanted to say thanks for some good pics (and not so good ones lol). Especially the wasp guy.
Random24: Ok, time to go work. Nice to chat to you, goodbye.
Random24: *signs out*

***

There we go, the epic trilogy is complete, and it even ended on a note of hope for sane IMs in the future. No more of these in future. Then again, there are always the deleted scenes...

Good day all.

I was wondering if anyone knew what, exactly, you have to do and need to transfer ALL PS3 data (gamesaves, installs etc.) from one HDD to a larger one. I know how to remove and replace them, but that's about it. From what I can tell, I'd need a large USB memory stick to copy the firmware upgrade separately to the rest. If anyone can help with the rest, I'd be grateful.


...yes, I am hopeless with technology, thanks.

Should I offer something for it....naaaaaaaaaaah, I'm no artist. So don't flood me with screenshots or shouts when it happens.

Now we can all move on and stop pointing and gawking. Or throw the usual comments in here rather than on the shoutboard.

Or this could be a massive exercise in broadcasting it to FA....well feck. Here, have some Kate Bush instead.

....be your mate, even though you asked in your very first contact to me ever.
....RP with you, even if you say everyone says you're quite fuckable.
....vore you, even if the character has a bit of a gut on him.
....buy you a commission, random stranger.
....see your nude photos. I've seen more attractive Picassos.
....introduce you to artists. Write your own damn introduction.
....spend all day talking to you. I may not have much of a life, but a sliver of it's offline.
....see your random art linked to in my shouts.
....slap a cock on everything.
....have to explain the concept of sentences to you.
....buy you a pony.
....read another damn emo journal.
....fart the duelling banjos.
....accept that it's not butter
....think up more semi-serious things for this.
....go to school, ma, the girls pull me hair.
....have nose hair, the most fucking annoying hair on anyone's body.
....be running up that hill, Ms. Bush.
....write anymore. Someone take over for me here.

Dark Souls is a game I'll definitely be getting. Hard as nails and some damn fine creature design. Namco are giving away five one-of-a-kind statues such as this beauty: http://images.eurogamer.net/2011/ar.....slideshow=true . It's one of these Facebook dealies though, where you make a link and get people to click it. I haven't got a hope in hell, but just thought I'd throw this up.

http://goo.gl/Snnqv

Feel free to completely ignore. As for everything else in life, working mostly. Having a thorough clear-out of films, games and assorted crud through eBay, and being slightly pressured by someone who won't be named to make a dino guy. They have good taste. And if you hear any rumours of an upcoming birthday, it's a damned dirty lie. I've fed incorrect dates to several people. Hooray for paranoia!

Also, anime Blu-rays for region B are a bitch. Series being dropped after one volume and the like. I'll have to import from Australia, it looks like. Ah well, lesson learned: always wait for the full-series boxset release.