Second year of University, one year down on my trek towards a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. Still unsure of my goals for post-college, but then again, I wasn't sure of my college goals at the start of sophomore year in High School, so I've still got time to search.

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3259374/

Done by  aden for  ikodomoonstrife lineart done by  susanvancamp

doing my part to spread this one around.

I have resolved a problem that has been holding me back for years in my writing.

I am a transformation author. I write what is commonly known as TF stories. They're typically short and don't have much in the way of a plot. I've been trying all this time to improve upon the TF story by adding a massive backstory and a whole lot of stuff post-TF sequence in my stories. I just didn't feel comfortable with leaving the reader (and my character, for that matter) hanging after the TF sequence.

Turns out, I'm doing it wrong. Not even J.K. Rowling wrote the complete life of Harry Potter. There's a much easier way to do this: by way of a "universe" concept. The best example I have is here, Brian Erik Coe's "The Visionary's Saga":

http://transform.to/~tsa-faq/TSA_FA.....html#Visionary

The Universe provides a sort of macro-wrapper for all the stories under its umbrella. It provides a framework, a world, and details about the world. What this does for the reader is give the story a larger context.

So now, after the transformation, I no longer have to include a massive backstory. This universe, this umbrella solves the life story problem, because it provides the reader with, well, not a complete idea, but a sense of what the character's life will be like post-TF. This, of course, assumes the reader is familiar with the universe. And it saves me the trouble of writing all that extra plot.

What makes this revelation even better is that I already have a universe going- I wrote it long ago, but haven't had much of use for it until now. Need to go back, edit it to include my newer concepts and for publication, and I'll have it up here.

This will make writing so much easier.

Never thought I'd see this day. I wonder if this is what it's like to be released from prison...

Still alive. Alive and kickin. Well, not so much kickin', but anyhow...

Senior Year just ended last Friday. Have plenty of time to put out writings now. Expect more in the next few weeks.

Got a new laptop. Walmart sold me a $900 Acer for $600. I succeeded in f*cking up the Vista partition within the first hour, so I wiped the partition table and put Windows 7 on it. I've been quite satisfied with it.

Stolen from  ikodomoonstrife who stole it from someone else, who stole it from someone else, God knows where this thing started, but it's my turn to give this thing a spin.

If you can't tell, I fudged some of these so that they made some sense. For instance, I orginally had Iron Maiden- "Two Minutes To Midnight" under "Birth of a Child," which DOES NOT WORK. If you know the song, then you know that one of the lines is "Two minutes to midnight, to kill the unborn in the womb," which gets into issues of abortion and such >.<

I have a number of different playlists for my moods, so what I did is I chose the playlist that closest fit each category, then picked a song from that playlist to put down. Clearly against the outlined rules, but what the hell.


1. Open your music library.
2. Put it on shuffle.
3. Press play.
4. For every question, type the song that's playing.
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button.
6. Don't lie and try to pretend you're cool.
7. ???
8. PROFIT!

Songs:

Opening Credits:
Audix- Chrono Trigger Aqueous Transgression
-got this off ocremix.org

Waking Up:
Avenged Sevenfold- Seize The Day

First Day At School:
Flobots- Handlebars

Falling In love:
Guns N' Roses- Sweet Child of Mine

Fight Song:
Ravicious- Run'n'Gun
-found on newgrounds.com

Breaking Up:
Rise Against- Ready to Fall

Dream Sequence: (I added this one)
JD Harding- To Far Away Times
-a.k.a. this dude:  kendri
...who had now disappeared, dammit.

Prom:
Fox Amoore- The Big One
-this is my kind of Prom!

Life's OK:
Rise Against- Survive

Mental Breakdown:
Avenged Sevenfold- Brompton Cocktail

Driving:
Ikodo Moonstrife- Temporal

Flashback:
Three Days Grace- Get Out Alive

Getting Back Together:
Guns N' Roses- November Rain

Wedding:
Coldplay- Lovers in Japan- Reign In Love

Birth of Child:
Yoko Shimomura- Dearly Beloved

Final Battle:
Kidd Cabbage- Final Fantasy VII Yet Even More Fighting
-from ocremix.org

Death Scene:
AmIEvil- Final Fantasy VI Death on the Snowfield
-another from ocremix.org

Funeral Song:
Red- Already Over

End Credits:
Pearl Jam- Alive

Before I go back to what I was doing, I want to thank the sysadmins- you guys work so damn hard to keep this awesome place going.

It was Sysadmin day a few weeks ago- sorry I couldn't wish you a happy sysadmin day then, but here's my repayment. And at the bottom of this page, it says it was generated in .014 seconds from 3 queries- that's awesome. For a summer job, I'm building webpages, and it utilizes PHP and MSSQL, and .014 seconds seems incredibly fast to me. That can be traced back to: 1. Sweet new hardware and 2. Awesome coding on your part.

So thanks again guys, I don't mind the wait- I'm happy to see the place up again.

I am an author by trade, but I am limited by time constraints. They restrict me from working on my passion... but that's for a later debate.

I normally have no problems with ideas, so this evening I'm publishing some of my better ideas as scraps, so that other writers can hopefully gain some inspiration.

Message me if you are going to go somewhere with these, because I'd like to see how it turns out.

Definitely did NOT steal this idea and text from  dwarf_ninjas

Basics:

-Name: Matthew
-Nickname: Matt
-Fursona: not currently associated with any species
-Date of Birth: May 14th
-Birthplace: Dayton, Ohio
-Current Location: Tipp City, Ohio
-Eye Color: Green
-Hair Color: Brown/Red
-Height: 5' 9.5"
-Heritage: Irish, German
-Piercings: None
-Tattoos: None


Favorite:

-Animal: Foxes
-Band/Singer: Nobuo Uematsu (did the music for Final Fantasy series)
-Song: Terra's Theme (Final Fantasy VI)
-Movie: 007 Casino Royale
-Disney Movie: The Incredibles
-Disney Show: Don't have Disney Channel
-Disney Character: Jack Sparrow
-TV show: the news...
Color: Green
-Food: Chicken
-Snack Food: Pretzels
-Pizza topping: Pepperoni
-Ice-Cream Flavor: Cookie Dough
-Drink (alcoholic): I don't drink
-Soda: Dr. Pepper
-Cookie: Chocolate Chip
-Store: ...Wal-Mart?
-Clothing Brand: I don't care, whatever looks durable and is cheap
-Shoe Brand: ...Nike?
-Season: Summer... no school.
-Month: June... when we get off school
-Convention/Holiday/Festival: Thanksgiving... lots of food.
-Flower: ...roses?
-Board game: Go

This or That:

-Sunny or rainy: Sunny
-Chocolate or vanilla: Vanilla
-Fruit or veggie: Fruit
-Night or day: Night
-Sour or sweet: Sweet
-Love or money: Love
-Phone or in person: Phone... confrontation is not my thing
-Looks or personality: Personality
-Coffee or tea: Tea
-Hot or cold: Cool

Your:

-Goal for this year: Keep my grades up
-Most missed memory: youthful innocence
-Best physical feature: Eyes
-First thought waking up:
on weekdays: dammit
on weekends: I'm staying in bed.
-Hypothetical personality disorder: Multiple Personality Disorder
-Preferred type of surgery: Neural
-Sesame street alter ego: ...
-Fairytale alter ego: ...
-Most stupid remark: Bloody Hell! (its especially fun to use when you're not British)
-Worst crime: software pirating
-Greatest ambition: To die knowing I lived a full life
-Greatest fear: That I will arrive at death and discover I have not lived (misquoted from Thoreau)
-Darkest secret: you don't want to know
-Favorite subject: Science, esp. Computers
-Strangest received gift: A box of tissues

Do You:

-Smoke: No
-Drink: No, and the wine given during Mass doesn't count
-Curse: Yes
-Shower daily: Normally
-Like thunderstorms: No, cuz my dog doesn't shut the hell up.
-Dance in the rain: I've never had the opportunity.
-Sing: Sometimes, but not well.
-Play an instrument: Trumpet
-Get along with your parents: Not when it comes to schoolwork...
-Wish on stars: Often
-Believe in fate: Yes
-Believe in love at first sight: No

Can You:

-Drive: Yes
-Sew: ...I know the basics
-Cook: Yeah
-Speak another language: Some spanish, interested in learning German or Japanese
-Dance: Not well
-Sing: Not well
-Touch your nose with your tongue: almost
-Whistle: Yes
-Curl your tongue: Yup

Have You Ever:

-Been Drunk: Nope
-Been Stoned/High: No
-Eaten Sushi: No, one of these days I want to try it.
-Been in Love: No
-Skipped school: No
-Made prank calls: Ooohhh yeah.
-Sent someone a love letter: No
-Stolen something: Food...
-Cried yourself to sleep: No, I'm pretty easygoing

Other Questions:

-What annoys you most in a person? Narrow-mindedness, Pompousness, Indifference
-Are you right or left handed? Right
-What is your bedtime? Normally b/w 10 and 12
-Name three things you can't live without: Outside the basics, my laptop, my watch, and pretzels
-What is the color of your room? White, with various gaming posters
-Do you have any siblings? Younger bro and younger sister
-Do you have any pets? One dog, one cat

-Would you kill someone you hate for a million dollars? Yes, given the proper tools (sniper rifle & some hollow-point rounds)

-What is you middle name? David
-What are you nicknames? See above
-Are you for or against gay marriage? I don't give a damn, never met an openly gay person in my life
-What are your thoughts on abortion? Ambiguous
-Do you have a crush on anyone? No
-Are you afraid of the dark? No, provided I've got my Maglite with me

-How do you want to die? Knowing my life was a success

-What is the largest amount of Popsicles that you have eaten in one day? maybe two.

-Would you take a bullet for the one you love? No, because I would have shot the gunman before he got anywhere close.

-What is the last law you’ve broken? Installed pirated copy of Flash 8 on mah desktop PC

Dammit, someone's watching me now, namely this guy:  dwarf-ninjas

So now I feel obligated to upload something. I can't be a lurker much longer.

But I can't figure out what I should do. All's I have is a bunch of unfinished TF stories that I've thought up but never really developed...

But I could just post them as scraps. That'd probably be the way to go.

About the whole Twilight Princess sound thing, I just read the Acceptable Submission Policy and that prohibits submission of the 'original rendition' of the copyrighted work. Ah well, so much for that...

UPDATE!

I discovered this cool adapter in a Radioshack that would let me convert phono plug audio to a 1/8" headphone plug. I bought it as well as like... a 15' extension cord for 1/8" headphone jack.

SO WHAT THIS ALL MEANS IS... I can record directly from any audio source with phono plug outputs. SUCH AS:

1. My Nintendo Wii
2. My other game consoles
3. DVD players

Yup. So this afternoon I decided to record some stuff from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. I literally hooked the Wii audio ports into my laptop and recorded the audio from the game. I wanted to get the music from this awesome game, but it wasn't online anywhere, and Nintendo hasn't released a comprehensive soundtrack yet, so I decided to do it meself. I recorded the Hyrule Field theme as well as the Hidden Villiage Showdown (at least, that's what I call the part where you snipe all the orcs in the villiage).

Sorry, a bit long, but I'll be uploading those soon, just as soon as I edit them for time and compress them into workable file sizes.

Whoa, it's late, time for bed...



UPDATE to an update: 6/18/07

yeah, I just figured out this evening as I was working on editing the sound files that I had my Wii set to Mono when I recorded them 0.o

so now I've gotta re-record them.

D'OH!

Hey, this place has a Journal function?

SWEET!

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