A few days ago some ideas I've had for stories spontaneously connected, and now it's like a growing singularity I can't stop adding to or focusing on. I don't think my second story is even the tip of the iceberg. I feel more like an oracle or something as the only one who kind of knows where this is going, but It's probably more predictable than I think. Parts of it anyway. Hmm (turns back to typing third story).

Finally submitted a story that's what.

I never really expected my first submission to be adult, but it is. Pieces just snapped together while I was enjoying the peace and quiet of a hidden corner of my university's music building. So instead of messing around online I wrote my first submission in its entirety and now have the urge to write a continuation now that I'm done picking at it.

Hopefully I'll get some suggestions on how to write better, but I imagine it's easier for anyone who is kind enough to do that if there are a few stories to look at in order to catch recurring problems that I myself might miss. So hopefully my first submission won't be alone for long.

Anyways, I hope the story is enjoyed as much by others as I enjoyed writing it.

I don't really get why many people were so irritated by this thing. It's easy to find them, you only need to carry about 5 on any adventure of moderate length that doesn't contain crates, and armor and weapon degradation adds a bit of realism. And it's not like you can never fix broken items. It seems pretty realistic that you check your inventory and the condition of you armor and weapons between skirmishes if you were a lone adventurer exploring vast stretches of land and a variety of ruins and caves and so on. You wouldn't ignore a crack in your sword, and you'd probably have a backup weapon or two. But, in case you do, there's always running or using you bare hands for options. And your bare hands can do some damage if you practice with them in Oblivion.

Something people apparently hated Security too. Skyrim's equivalent (Lockpicking) has you forced to do a VERY tedious little mini game. Oblivion let you skip it with the rapid press of a button. This works perfectly with duplication glitches. And if you have any sense you'll be carrying more lockpicks than you'll ever use fairly quickly if you keep buying them up from merchants in either game. They just won't spare you the minigame that sometimes feels like it's from hell when you're dealing with Master level locks.

It may just be that I've played a lot of Skyrim recently and the music just got old, but I think I very much prefer Oblivion's music. Perhaps it's because it's more whimsical or something like that, but it also just seems more sweeping and energetic. Skyrim's music conveys less energy, and that's not what I feel like it needs. The music is still nice, but I think it should counterbalance the tone of much of the game. Oblivion was full of sad stories too, but the music was optimistic and conveyed a sense of the vast world waiting for the player to explore. Skyrim's visuals do most of the talking in that regard, with some very nice small music tracks triggered on the discovery of some of the more epic sights. Part if it may be that the woodwinds are more prominent in the pieces you usually hear while exploring the wilderness of Oblivion. Still the music in Skyrim seems more...subdued. I think I'll try adjusting the audio sliders to see if that helps.

To anyone who bothers to look at this: hello!

Anyways, I've been busy between between college and playing Skyrim, Minecraft (tekkit style), and a few other games. And I've been looking at Zero Punctuation and a few other game review/critique sources lately, and I think I might try doing some game reviewing. I've also gotten into Dominion, which I may start a group here for. Beyond that there isn't much to say at the moment I guess, save that I finally have an English professor who is a hardcore nitpicker, so I have a paper that badly needs revising. I hope to post a journal at least monthly from now on, but we'll see.

Saw this on Nightline a little bit ago:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz8HUx4Wwx4

Awesome cat.

I saw two movies this afternoon. Both were good.

Madagascar 3 is a fitting possible ending to the series, though I didn't feel it declared itself the outright conclusion. I don't mind. It combined the possibly deeper story of the first one with the profuse amount of humor I found in the second very well. I very much enjoyed the circus performances in London and NYC, and these are one of the reasons this is one of the only movies I kind of wished I had opted to see in 3D. I won't give spoilers, but if you liked the first two you'll almost definitely enjoy this. Oh, and there a second and couple in the group now, although it involves someone outside the original four. I don't count Julian and the circus bear, as neither is technically a main character. The animation was good in my opinion, and the effects were excellent. I'd happily see a real life circus owned by the King of Versailles.

Prometheus was very adventurous. The landscape and music in the beginning made my hands itch for my conroller and a few more hours with and expansive adventure like Skyrim. The movie had some horror elements, but I didn't find it quite as scary the trailers make it out to be. More of a mystery dripping with irony (as the audience learns quite a few things before several of the characters do), and hints of a possible sequel centered on the humanities creators and potential destroyers. I enjoyed both movies pretty much equally. The first was funny and kind of uplifting. The second delved into the biggest unanswered questions of all time.

I got a speeding ticket 29 days ago at 8 in the morning on my way through the hour-long drive to class at my college. I finally worked up the courage to confess it to my parents and get it dealt with (I have applied at at least a dozen places including ones that were supposed to be currently hiring since spring break and I have yet to get one job offer. Why does everyone else looking for a starting job at a grocery store of fast food place in my area have to have previous experience?). I got the same important lecture I got 2 weeks ago. But the last my dad said bothers me to the core: "you took the easy way out." He meant as in telling him about the ticket, but I find his declaration wrong.

Is it really that easy to have something like that in the back of your mind for a couple of weeks? Always looking for the moment you feel best to get it off you chest, knowing you shouldn't wait and you'll just make your parents more angry? That was not easy. I felt guilty even as my mom praised me for being there to help her put new mulch down outside and finally sort through that room in the basement full of toys and stuff from days long past as well as spiders and the leftovers of their prey. I was so frustrated when I vowed to confess the next day only to have it got entirely differently than planned. I was NOT the easy way out. The easy way out would be using the credit card to go ahead and pay it and then telling them when they finally saw the charge. Or even telling them immediately. I never imagined for a second that postponing telling them would make it go away. It was virtually always floating at the back of my mind; an ominous cloud to add to the rest of the storm.

And do you know why I post stuff like this here instead of telling my parents off. I'm not sure they'd listen. They ask rhetorical questions of me and somehow expect answers. The declare that I have no discipline even when I display it clearly by courteously obeying most of their demands. And the video games are evil? They beat around the bush saying basically that in more roundabout ways, but they don't know anything about how much discipline, planning, logic, and so on is involved in getting through Skyrim in a way that maximizes enjoyment and minimizes frustration while contributing what little I can to my favorite wiki on the game. I could be lounging in a chair upstairs snacking and reading or watching tv. I almost never snack when playing games. Who needs food besides mealtimes when you have a good game that engages both the mind and the fingers to occupy your time while you wait to hear from the places you applied at? What am I supposed to do? Sit there and sulk instead of enjoying life?

I've lost my favorite hypothetically young adult/children's series to minor details and a sell-out author. For anyone who might have read my last journal, I was not insane to my knowledge at the time or making a vain attemt at seeking attention. I merely needed somewhere no one who knows me in person (at least yet) possibly knows about to rant.

Moving on, I just started the last book in the Alex Rider series (Scorpia Rising) finally, and I liked the first part a lot. There were minor annoyances, but I was able to overlook them. Then I got to the first part that focuses on the main protagonist of the whole series. Naturally, the author had the appropriate he's gotten older, blah blah blah part that makes sense in there. Then it got to Alex's strengths in school and extracurricular activities. Anthony Horowitz lost me at the part where Alex is leading a soccer team and has a fairly important part in his school's production of Grease. Why? WHY?!

For one what Alex was good at in school is never mentioned before and doesn't quite seem congruent with what I recall of the other books. The only things that had bearing in those were his involuntarily given 'spy skills'. His physics teacher's praise has no bearing on the feats performed up to that point in the series. And why does he have to have the 'ideal' school life? He seemed to be at least a partial outcast in most of the other books. Come on! Inconsistent and uncreative to say the least.

I slammed the book shut and immediately went online to see if there was anyway to comment about this on the book's web site. There was not, but it was full of cheesy ads for an Iphone app, printable 'activities', and other sell-out bull. I am most displeased with you, Anthony Horowitz.

If anyone bothers to read this, please post your stories of disillusionment with favorite series, or if you're lucky enough not to have any, please tell me what you read so I can try it and hopefully have the same experience.

Two hostile conversations with my parents in one holiday weekend. The first was no surprise. I did just as badly this spring semester as I did last spring semester. This would have not been quite true if the two classes I did put an almost sensible amount of effort into had cooperated grade-wise. Would you expect an F if two of your exams in a class were A's (including the final) and the only other exam was a C? There were no projects, my quiz grades were fairly bad, and I didn't do 4 of the 5 small homework assignments. Beyond that I went into a vicious cycle of regretting how little effort I put into classes that posed no challenge to me during the end of last year's spring and fall semesters. I even commuted this spring after perpetuating my bad habit of not getting up for classes. I got up fine then with only the occasional need for a wake-up call for some reason.

But I went to my dorm room after my first class and sulked through much of the rest of the day instead of attending my classes a surprising number of times. Some of it was frustration at my parents and possibly a subtle childish desire to do the opposite of what they wanted. Some of it was the afore-mentioned regret and self-loathing for needing any help from my parents on simple things like getting up and so on. That all led to episodes of what must be what people with true chronic depression feel frequently. Much that should have been important seemed pointless and meaningless during those episodes and thoughts of how much trouble I was causing and how much simpler it would be for me to end my deteriorating life save my concerned parents the trouble of trying to help me figure out my life. I never resorted to drugs or acohol or anything, though you could say video games replaced them as I looked through wikis on Skyrim and played whenever my parents would let me (usually on the weekends). But at the same time I was considerate with them, and didn't play when we had company. I only played heavily when nothing of importance was going on that day and there were no chores to disturb me from the basement.

I still don't blame the games, because for me they are the only thing that has never gone wrong. When I'm playing (even when doing tedious, post dungeon, loot management) I never pause and become lost in thoughts of how I don't know where I want to go with college. I never think about how much so many things appeal to me, and how I know from past experience that if I can find a strong positive reason that I can accept to follow a career course above all others it won't be hard for me to do so. But nothing truly did stick out until computer science after actually taking a computer programming course. Still, that was an introductory course and with any college major things will probably get more challenging as I progress through the major. Will I enjoy it when all is said and done? I'm fatally attracted to the idea of finding something I will relish doing pretty much every day for the rest of my life. But how will I tell that one thing from all my other interests? The reason I hate it so much when my parents accuse me of only liking the video games must be because they are the one thing I know without doubt that I like to do, and I will play them during my spare time for quite possibly the rest of my life. Doesn't anyone else at least have a powerful urge to seek comfort in what they know they greatly enjoy when faced with a difficult puzzle of life? It doesn't matter if that thing doesn't solve the problem; it can at least clear your head for a while and maybe help you find a solution.

My parents and my old roommate have decided that I've lost my sense of self-discipline. I doubt that, because otherwise I would do some pretty odd things sometimes because the random ideas my ADHD gives me are often rather appealing. There's also the afore-mentioned self-restraint that I show even when I'm not interested in what my visiting siblings are discussing while everyone sits in the living room or when my sisters want to play a board game that I have no real interest in playing again. Even when I'm playing games I show restraint when I pause to search a wiki for info on whether the cave I want to enter is important to a quest and needs to be left alone until that time or if a quest I want to do has a leveled reward that's worth waiting for. It also shows when I take the time to arrange wanted loost in separate containers based on what it is so I can find it again when I need it. I even spent hours using the wait function in two day intervals until someone had a staff I wanted to power up a weapon that actually wasn't too remarkable after I'd leveled up some and that I'll probably dump as soon as I can play again. But I still became determined to do it and wasted several hours of time I could have been doing far more entertaining things in the game.

The same can be said of this journal. I wasted over an hour on this total I suspect when I could have been sulking on my bed or rifling through Skyrim pages on UESP. So what's the real issue? I don't know, and I'm getting tired of thinking about it. But I fear I may also doom myself to repeating my mistakes if I don't. Regardless, what's the point of self-discipline when you have no distinct end goal to aim for? It looks nice? Ha! I've always been self-concious, but it looks nice is an excuse. And excuses are unacceptable as most responsible dads and a variety of other people say. That's another thing. I can spend hours thinking and end up focusing objectively on the flaws of things like that. I'm not an oracle, so how am I supposed to know something outside my control or at least unanticipated is going to make me late for, say, church? Declaring an explanation an excuse doesn't make it false!

http://www.youtube.com/show/gamerpoop?s=1

Go there. Watch the videos. Laugh your ass off.

"If you've had chickenpox, then the shingles virus is already inside you."

No offense to people who've had shingles and know how miserable it probably is, but that is terrible wording.

I just tried some straight up espresso with sips from a separate cup containing Mountain Dew rinse between sips. I'm rarely significantly effected by energy drinks or coffee, even though I don't drink them very much. Of course, who knows what a little pure espresso with a little cold water to cool it a little will do. I already feel some manic energy coming on, but how long will it last and how high will it go?

Anyways what are your opinions on coffee drinks. I think Elliot from Open Season describes coffee quite well in this scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S5ethZhgqs

To start, if anyone has noticed that what stuff I did have in my gallery has been removed, then here is the explanation for why. I misinterepreted the rules for Screenshots. I felt that since the images were of coaster designs I made, it would be ok. It's not really that different from Minecraft screenshots. You use 'building blocks' created by the game developers and make your own creation out of them. The background can't really be changed in either game, and I thought I made it clear that I did not make any part of the game besides the coaster design, which was the only thing clearly visible in most pictures besides the simulated sky. In fact, arguably this 'building blocks' concept extends to stories too. Most are written in programs not created in any way by the author. They merely use the text styles created by someone else to write their stories.

But, I will put this to rest and not attract undue attention. I'll just have to pic another site I can upload them too and post a link on my page here. Any suggestions? I would like to upload videos too, but I need to find a program to compress them first, probably. Any suggestions for this would also be helpful.

Anyways, the title of this journal refers to Georgia O'Keeffe's famous painting. More particularly I have the piece it inspired: "Blue and Green Music" by Samuel Hazo stuck in my head from symphonic band practice. A lovely piece to have stuck there, but it is just a bit depressing along with being rich with a gentle, sweeping feel. It helped cured my upset stomach from lunch too, I think. I felt much better after that rehearsal. Good evening to all.

These are some of my favorite clips from Robot Chicken:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jupGy_v7VE8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-eZ.....creen&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2z5.....eature=related

The first one is nice and short. The other two are excellent jabs at Harry Potter. Enjoy.

I've seen a few other people do this, so I finally copied this from someone;  ora to be precise.

[ ] you meow/bark to get attention
[ ] you find pets toys amusing
[ ] you get hyper by the smell of catnip
[x] you growl/hiss when someone gets too close to your food (sometimes)
[x] you growl/hiss when someone you dislike is too close to you (if I'm annoyed with someone)
[ ] you purr/shake your leg when someone shows you affection
[ ] if someone tosses a ball, you chase it and bring it back
Total: 2

[ ] you love to be scratched behind the ear
[x] you love fish/meat
[ ] you like to stick your head out through the window of a moving car.
[ ] you like when people pet your head
[ ] people can make you stop doing stuff by hitting you on the nose with a newspaper
[ ] you think feathers are fun to play with
Total: 1

[x] you sleep a lot during daytime (I shouldn't, but I so sometimes)
[x] you enjoy scaring birds (squirrels)
[ ] you lick peoples faces to show you like them
[ ] you bite people if they annoy you
[x] you tend to steal food from your friends/family's plate when you have eaten all of yours
[x] milk or water is your favorite drink
Total: 4

[ ] you own a collar and you enjoy wearing it
[ ] you own a leash and enjoy wearing it
[ ] you own animal ears/tail/paws or a fursuit
[ ] you enjoy long walks in the park
[ ] you meow/bark when you see something you want
Total: 0

[ ] you call your hands and feet "paws"
[x] you tilt your head when you do not understand what someone is talking about
[ ] you run to the door when someone mentions a walk
[ ] you really enjoy cuddling
[x] you stretch your body and whimper a bit every morning when you wake up
[x] you can wake up and go back to sleep right away after looking around (bad habit really)
Total: 3

[ ] you have your favorite spot besides your bed where you like to sleep
[ ] you meow or bark very often
[ ] you hide when you get scared
[x] you run to the door to see who it is every time someone comes in to the house (maybe not run, but yes)
[x] you like to chase flying insects and try to catch them with your bare hand (if it doesn't bite or have a stinger, yes)
[x] you tend to chew on stuff a lot (I chew my tongue and pick at stuff)
[ ] you like to do tricks to get a treat
Total: 3

[ ] you own a wearable item/tag with your name on it
[ ] you refer to yourself as an animal
[x] your username has something to do with animals
[x] your e-mail has something to do with animals (it used to)
[x] if you get a bleeding wound, you lick it to make it feel better
[x] you look for edible stuff often (I like food)
Total: 4

[x] you often find yourself looking through the window for a long time
[x] you like to say hi to strangers (ocassionally)
[x] you like to be petted when you have done something good (I've never been petted litterally, but with compliments yes)
[ ] people think you act like a pet
[x] you growl/hiss at stuff you do not like (kind of)
[ ] you like to eat grass
[ ] if you get wet, you shake to get rid of the water
Total: 4

Final total: 21

Take your score and multiply it by 2
Put your title as "I'm _% Furry"

And there you go: I'm 42% furry. The result is a little higher than I thought; considering no one I've met in real life knows I'm a furry. I need to find people nearby that share my interests: video games, reading, looking at furry art and stuff, and watching anime and South Park.

There has been a rise in the numbers of the undead horde lately. People disappear from the site and then return weeks later with journals saying "I'm back!". I should know; I'm one of the much less known ones! I don't know if anyone's tried this before, but I think a furry HvZ game would be a great idea! Whether or not you have a fursuit shouldn't necessarily matter. Smart zombies will find ways to make sure the horde is well balanced between the terrifying full-suit monsters and the potentiatially quicker and harder to spot humans. Same for the humans and non-zombie fursuiters.

I'm personally interested in contributing to the horde. I want to charge into a group of humans while fearlessly taking a barrage of darts and balled-up socks so that those who are more fit and agile following behind can takedown some prey to be nomed and made into glorious invincible zombies!

BRAINS!! BRAINS!! BRAINS!!

Why?

Why is everyone so fascinated with Spring and Summer and Fall? What happened to Winter? That period of months where some climes are covered in beautiful, yet deadly blankets of snow and sheet of ice? How can anyone say they're sick of winter when we haven't even had any bad weather? It infuriates me that people don't appreciate the most peaceful time of the year. Nature stops harrasing us all with curious flying insects and prowling spiders and centipedes and almost no one is grateful. The sun and humidity stop combing to make life hell on some days, or everyday depending on where you live, but everyone just says "It's cold" and walks on.

I, for one, at least fully appreciate one season instead of cursing what's wrong with each one as they change. Or you could say I see the beauty and peace that the temporary death of the vast majority of nature brings to people who live where winter can embrace the land fully, but I resent the abscence of winter when it's gone. I am not totally opposed to other seasons, and I most prefer the moderate temperatures that come with spring and fall.

The scenery at other times of the year is nice, but summer is when I get most lost in thought. Staring at blue skies with sun blocked effectively by something leaves me with impossible thoughts of wanting to fly and l end up wasting hours sitting in my room and daydreaming. Getting lost in thought is pleasant at times, but it's also the most unproductive. Even playing video games can easily be more productive than staring out the window for hours. I'm also usually in a decidedly good mood after playing games; whereas being lost in thought is more often to leave me feeling blank or even depressed. Both occur in winter for me, but I'm more likely to play games than sit there, which is a personal reason why I like winter.

I have a friend who likes guns. He has a small collection and one of his favorite things is to take them to the firing range for a few hours. He's very responsible with them and has an excellent background check. Yet, he can't own certain guns because of federal and state laws? Any criminal can go to the black market and get the guns he's not allowed to own, but the US government still thinks it's effective to outlaw a weapon to get it off the streets?

I can buy handheld lasers than can permanently blind people at 150 meters and cause skin damage and set thing on fire at even closer ranges legally without a background check. I can even buy one that can flash-blind pilots and drivers from several miles away.

Of course, it's illegal and irresponsible to aim even a laster pointer at planes and other vehicles, but so is shooting someone with a weapon. Why should guns be treated any differently from other dangerous objects? You can kill and/or injure people with a well-timed flash of a Class II laser (the typical laser pointer) just as easily as you can with a gun. Or you can never harm a single living thing with either, if you're a responsible owner.

There's a cat named Oscar who lives in Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Providence, R.I. that predicts the deaths of elderly patients. According to a news article on msnbc.com about animals who predict the future, if Oscar goes and curls up with a patient, they soon die. The staff even calls the patients relatives as soon as the cat is seen doing this, and the staff says that he has correctly predicted 50 deaths.
This is amazing, but I would also like to note that whoever wrote the article was an idiot if they though that sports are more important than death. Few things are as terrifying and morbidly fascinating as death, and sports are NOT one of those things.
Anyways, I wonder how the more aware patients feel about having something nearby that can tell when their end is near. I've always liked cats, so I suppose I would find it kind of comforting for my favorite animal to visit me before the end. It would also be a little disturbing though, having a cat walk up and basically say: "You're going to die soon, but I will comfort you for a while before you do."

This is the first journal I've posted in over 6 months! Little as that matters to anyone besides me personally, I think I'll try to be less of a phantom in the sense that I only get on once a month and I rarely type a word to any on this this site. Other than that, I'm delighted that a decent snow has finally come to stay in the Midwest! Last it was bitter cold at the begginning of January and the snow was so deep I really need the waterproof boots I didn't get until this fall. Then, early winter was pathetically dissapointing and I feared I would never have reason to use them instead of my sneakers. Thankfully the weather has proven me wrong as the snow continues to rise a little each day and the stupid janitors at my college turn the sidewalks into icy deathtraps in their attempts to keep them clean.

Merry rather belated Christmas to everyone and Happy somewhat belated New Years too!

I watched the entirety of the dubbed Claymore anime over the past few days just for the hell of it. A friend of mine recommended it a while ago, and I finally got to watching it. It seemed pretty awesome; giant swords, psychotic monsters that like to pretend to be little girls, plenty of blood, and tons of crazy fights. It also had its share "wtf" moments, and I think they could have extended it to follow the manga. After all, neither one is at a conclusive end right now, and there were a ton of hints from the wiki that plenty of intense fights and the deaths of some twisted people were skipped when the anime stopped short. Although, I can see why Priscilla isn't dead yet even in the manga, because that would pretty much mean end of story.

Does anyone know some fairly interesting anime that's been dubbed and would be an excellent waste of time to watch this summer? I've already caught up on the Bleach dubs, but other than that I haven't seen very much anime (at least in terms of the entirety of a series so far).

I have spent a few hours now arguing with one person in particular and posting an occasional comment to others about who SHOULD get credit for Bin Laden's demise.

I now realize that a much bigger problem needs to resurface after coming for air so many times before. Everyone tends to like leaders that good things happened under. This shows false belief that one person (even if that person is the leader of a government) is responsible for all the good things that happened. The same applies when leaders are blamed for all the bad stuff that happened during their tenure. I would like to remind everyone that the a leader of a sizeable entity only give that entity direction and monitors progress as they take care of overall decisions for portions of that entity.
The US government is an entity with three legs and many people in charge of keeping it on its feet. The direction it attempts to move in is decided indirectly by the people through the Congress and the President. But in order to keep it together, there are parts of it that the people have less control over through lengthy tenures and merit-based positions. This is good as it keep things stable while still allowing a giant behemoth to move where it's people want it to without causing armaggedon. It also reflects the fact that people change their minds a LOT, and if you don't want the same thing 10 years after advocating a major change in government, then why should the government run in resource-wasting circles?
How the President plays into this is that they are 'figurehead' of the US government and try to make the changes they and their supporters think need to happen happen. But, if a well-oiled machine that has little to do with politics is already in place, then why should they go out of their way to mess with it? They leave the said machine in place and simply give it applicable goals. The secret special operations and CIA groups that killed Bin Laden are some of these well-oiled machines. They were already learning and improving constantly in order to keep running, and when they advanced enough to be able to beat the terrorists thoroughly in a deadly game of hide and seek, they found Bin Laden and made a plan. This plan was then presented to the general overseer, or the President. Obama (being the current President) was smart enough to sign off on the plan leave the rest to the secret special operations and CIA groups. They carried out their plan, and succeeded in doing what all their efforts to advance made them capable of. Where in this does it say the President had anything to do with the success other than leaving the group to its own devices and not terminating it? This is one of many ways a President can ride on the excellent work of his underlings or the sheer luck of factors like the economy with little effort.

It would be cool if a good game studio made a game where you chose from a large variety of anthro-furs and customize just about everything from the patterns on their fur/scales to their clothes and what weapons they were carrying; then went through the game doing quests and stuff and even interacting with other players online in a free roam mode. I know there are plenty that do this stuff with humans and select other species, but if there's already a very good one that does it with anthro-furs please let me know.

I actually made these comments in another person's journal post as well, but I feel strongly enough about them to put this rant here too:

I think Gamefreak is throwing away a few very important things that they could have improved on, or avoided making worse! In Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum; burying orbs in the underground was a simple, FREE way to get as many sun, moon, thunder, fire, and water stones as your bag could handle. I also recently realized that if I had pushed a pokemon whose only redeemable quality (in my opinion) was having the ability PickUp to at least level 71, then it would have been able to pick up Dusk, Shiny, and Dawn stones frequently while I ran around training pokemon or even playing the story again! The Vs. Seeker also meant INFINITE pokedollars QUICKLY if you knew who to go battle.

With Black and White, there is no easy way to get the evolutionary stones, and no Vs. Seeker to encourage fighting trainers to grow faster and earn all the money you could possibly need. They should also have cut the stupid battle subway crap and had the TMs only available through that tedious method in a store for very high prices.

I also don't like all this Wi-fi junk that they've made up. What if your DS can't use your router? What if you and your friends aren't the happy let's-play- pokemon-all-day club and thus can't use entralink to keep the stupid tenants in Black City and White Forest?

It's ridiculous that they pull this stuff when they should know that RPGs are played ALONE; not with constant visits from friends when the only thing that will change is what pokemon are in your party and how strong they are; not in pokemon dreams via a compatible wifi hotspot; and certainly not with complete strangers who fill out surveys for you. They're thinking only of the little children and flashy Wi-fi in the way gameplay goes, yet there are older kids and adults that play the games too! It's the experienced players who can fully appreciate the skill of breeding and raising pokemon according to their base stats, and the tactics of planning move sets for them.

When will they realize that a few slight changes could make the perfect game for both novices (there for the story and appearance) and experts (who want to be able to use their knowledge in convenient ways to craft unstoppable pokemon without limits to the number of evolutionary items and easily obtained TMs at their disposal).