It's time that I should be more active on FurAffinity. My personal life has gotten quite busy the past few months, and not having a computer is one of the reasons why it is. Tomorrow I'm going to be mostly free with almost nothing to do, so if you'd like to help me satisfy my boredom, don't be afraid to message me. I'd actually like to talk to some of you on Skype, so if you'd like to do that, either add me (same screen name as FA) on Skype with your invitation telling me you are "insert your name here", or message me with your Skype name and wait for me to add you. If you already have me on Skype, great! Just call me whenever you'd like. I'd prefer to talk to someone who I haven't talked to in a long time. Anyway, I'll see you guys around.

This entire weekend, I've been busy by finally fulfilling my long-awaited promise to watch and finish Sword Art Online 2. And to be honest, it's really not as bad as people have been saying. I can see why people hate it by it being less action-packed, but this installment has a lot of emotional impact with it this time. I found myself crying a lot more this season than the last. The plots take a nice twist at times, and I found it refreshing to backtrack to a setting I was familiar with in the last season. I'm sorry if I start giving away clues or mini-spoilers if you haven't watched it yet, so read at your own risk. I'm not responsible for any plot spoiling.

Kirito-Asuna romance isn't as strong as the first season, but it shows up here and there nonetheless. They actually seem to be displaying unconditional love rather than limerance, which makes sense considering they've been together for a pretty long time now. If you don't understand, there's a wonderful tool called Google that will be more than happy to help you. lawl xD

The new characters all have their own charm to themselves, and I like the way each one of them is portrayed. And this time, all the characters are actually strong on their own, instead of Kirito being a one-man army badass. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy that quite a lot, but I always like to see the secondary characters have some meaning in being a part of the story. The first half of the season focuses a lot on Kirito and in his point of view and his conflicts, but later on the plot shifts more toward Asuna and the secondary characters. And that little change seemed to make me more absorbed and drawn in to the story.

Overall, my point still stands. Is it as good as the first season? Maybe not. But is it still enjoyable as an installment to the SAO universe? Definitely. Aside from a few honorable mentions, you usually can't live up to the legacy of the first installment. But you have to look away from the past and live in the present. It's not easy to continue a story with conflicts after it ended with a happy ending. But you have to give the writers some props for being able to come up with a plot to continue on the story. With that having been said, my opinion isn't yours to be copied and repeated. The only way to know if you'll like Season 2 is if you try it for yourself.

I'm alone for Valentine's Day. Anyone want to Skype or something?

Well, I totally forgot it was my birthday. Nothing significantly different, really.

I finally have a guitar in my possession! I'm so happy now :D

Hey guys. Unfortunately, I have some bad news. My computer finally burnt out on Friday night after 4 long years, and it looks like everything got fried. Nothing seems to work anymore; I tested the parts out with my friend's computer, and nothing worked. CPU, graphics card, RAM, motherboard, everything is dead. It will actually be a long time until I get a new computer, months even. Not having a job is going to be tough to get a new computer that is relatively "future-proof". I actually plan on getting the Lenovo Y50 laptop with a GTX 860M, and is around $850-$900. Unless someone is generous enough to spend $900 on a random internet friend for Christmas, I'm not going to be playing games on Steam for a while. You can still add me if you want, I will still get on Steam here and there. So don't worry if my profile says I've been offline for many days, I'm not dead. I just can't play any games for a while, until I get my hands on a new computer.

So... Not a really good thing to talk about for my first journal, but I feel it's a significant event in my life to talk about. So there's this person on my Steam that I've been good friends with for the latter part of about 2 years or so. Just recently, I got a message from her account that said this:

Monday, October 20, 2014
6:36 PM - dead: Hello. This is Katie's friend, who I share the account with but never go on. I have some unfortunate news. katie, the owner of this steam account, has commited suicide. It was believed to be an overdose, as a bottle of pills was found next to her body. Why she did it is an unanswered question. If you have any information on why, please pass it on to me so I can share it with the police. Thank you, and sorry for what happened.

So as you can imagine, I'm very shocked by this. I kept trying to tell myself that this isn't real, that this is a whole joke. But now that more of it starts to sink in, I'm starting to think that this could be real. We all have things along the way in our lives that are like huge cracks in the road. But, because time will always move on, we will have to move along with it. "Moving on is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard". And that is what I need help with. Don't think I'm doing this for attention. I just wanted to pour this out on words so the decaying of my heart can slow down. Please try and help me get through this if you can. I don't need another depression after breaking up with my girlfriend about a month ago.

*EDIT* (2 hours later)
I wish I could have talked to her more. We were pretty good friends, even if we didn't talk or do much with each other. She would basically message me about once a month, and we would have brief conversations... but that was it. Her friends talked to me more than we talked to each other. It was a really big surprise that I made it on her "besties" list a few months ago. We really started to talk alot the past month or 2, and I really thought we would start to develop an actual friendship. But that opportunity was cut short. Like I said before, "We all have things along the way in our lives that are like huge cracks in the road. But, because time will always move on, we will have to move along with it. 'Moving on is a simple thing, but what it leaves behind is hard'." Time is like an out-of-control beast that we have hold onto for the ride as it goes along to crush everything in its path. Our job, is to tame that beast. And together, I bet we can do that.