Ok… so now that my blog is FINALLY moved (with all thanks going to Super Husband Terrence), I will start getting my blog back on. I have a couple posts planned from things we did during the weekend, but I took the photos with my crappy skills and my iphone (oh, and I got an iphone! My early birthday present from Terrence!). Oh and by the way, my birthday is in two and a half weeks. I’m turning 30 and feeling old. I’ll spend the day running around Toys R Us’ looking for the new CAM sets that just hit the wild, like, today.

So… I posted this to my tumblr, but it’s time I post it here to:

Not sure what posed me to draw this, but a couple people reposted it, which is awesome.  Not sure what more I should actually say… I’ve been out of the blogging loop for a while now, so I need to get back to it soon.

Sad Filia is sad.

So… I was going to write a blog post about a local pizza place last night, but Terrence got the prepaid card loaded on the PS3, which allowed us to purchase the full version of Skullgirls.

There was no hope for the rest of the night. We stayed up way too long playing the game.

It is a.maz.ing!

This isn’t really going to be a review of the game. There’s a perfectly good review of the game already over at Crunchy Roll which more or less captured my feelings about the game as well.

I will however gush and moan a little, because that’s how I do things.

Let’s get the moaning done with first: first off, the game play. It’s hella hard. I’m a confessed button masher, but thanks to the Capcom vs. series, I’ve gained a little bit of knowledge about how to do the different styles of punches and kicks. That’s about where my skills ended and my butt-kicking began.

This game is hard. I could never make enough dirty hard jokes about this game to show how difficult this game is for me.

The story mode (no spoilers, sorry. Find them on YouTube if you want, just not here).

The odd 20′s/30′s(I can never tell the difference) feeling to an otherwise awesome world. Maybe because I grew up in the “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” world of the 90′s where that era was used as a gimmick quite a bit when I was a kid on TV, but that kind of world doesn’t fit for me. Although this game definitely has the potential to change all that…Peacock, I’m looking at you, babe.

Ok… now for the gushing!

FEH… UGH… BUH… BEAUTIFUL! This is a dream game for me. I love the art style and how stunning the animation is. This is true <strike>love we’re making</strike> animation… it’s just… wow. So beautiful. We need more games like this. I don’t think I’ve loved a cartoon style game as much as this since Curse of Monkey Island. I could just watch Terrence play the game all day, but that would be unfair to him, and his blood pressure (although he was able to beat the game as Filia last night).

The characters are all so lush and detailed.. although we could use a little more of their stories *cough*Filia*cough* it’s still very well done and makes you feel for the characters.

There will be more characters as DLC and for free (I think for free…), which will hopefully mean more endings and storyline.

Best part: after easily a dozen retries at the same stage, the announcer dude’s beginning banter was changed to the phrase “this is true love we’re making”. Terrence and I laughed hysterically at the shear “buh” factor of it. It took me few seconds to place the line from Rick Astley’s “Together Forever”. O.M.G!!!! Best easter egg is best easter egg! (Although, re-listening to the song… the line’s not exactly the same… maybe it’s a reference to a song I don’t know, aka anything outside of the 80′s? You decide!)

Final verdict: If you have to PS3 or XBox 360, at least download the free demo and give it a try. And if you like it, it’s worth every penny.

Ok, I need to actually get work done today, so no more video games till tonight. Party on peoples, party on.

We were both feeling rather meh all weekend… honestly I’m shocked I got anything done outside of eating and breathing.

Found this weird video of our cat Frankie on my phone.

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He’s adorable when he’s not knocking everything I own to the ground.

So… the May issue of CoroCoro magazine was leaked the other day…

And let me say this now: wowzers.

Ok, first off, the good: New city, yay! I’ve heard some speculation that it’s where Jersey would be. That’s cool. Maybe we can see more tan (and hopefully not orange) characters. Next:Cute new characters, yay! I really love the new girl’s design, she’s cute, obviously older like Hilda was. But unlike Hilda… she actually has clothes on. I adore Hilda, but she looks a little… 2/3rds nakkers. She’s wearing short shorts (I think that’s shorts… they look kind of like a combination of a skirt and shorts) and she has leggings underneath. Cute and conservative!

Now for the things I’m a little indifferent over: New Gym Leaders, after only two years occurring after the first game? Really?…ok, maybe they’ll explain it in time. New Professor, which makes sense considering it’s a new town. Not in love with his design, but that’s ok.

I was disappointed with a couple things 1. Not a continuation of the first game like everyone thought it would be. I wanted to see our old characters, the same professors, the same friends (and the rival is back, which I see as a step backwards). If they were going to make new main characters, new rivals, new professor and gym leaders- just shake the map up and call it something else, like Northern Unova (come on, I’d LOVE to see the Pokemon version of Canada <3 <3). That would explain all the ice on the map.

Oh lord, all the ice on the map. In the last game animal cruelty was hinted at, now we’re going into global warming? I’d be more ok with the tons of ice encroaching over Unova if it was like 10 years after the first game instead of two, and even that would be pushing it hard. They live in a world filled with magic creatures that breathe fire, can make and kick down mountains with ease, and yet these elemental controlling animals can’t do anything? Of course this will involve Team Plasma (or whatever this team is called). I won’t touch the water draining from around the Entralink. I don’t know what to make of that other than perhaps more signs of oh-so fun global warming.

I really wanted to know what would happen to N and that douche bag Ghetsis (who I want to see set on fire), but now that no one is back from the first game… I really hope N DOESN’T come back. But Ghetsis can come back, as long as he’s on fire.

Pokemon Black and White was the first Pokemon game where I’ve ever cared about the characters in the game. I care about Hilda/Hilbert and all their friends… even the gym leaders were more human feeling than before. And then they undo all that in part 2? I don’t know… it’s a disappointment.

But you know I’m going to play it, if only just to find out if Hilda finally got on her dragon Pokemon and started to chase after N.  If I don’t fall in love with it the same way I feel in love with Black and White, I’m sure I’ll love it as much as every other Pokemon game.

What I wanted: fun and adventure. What hubby wanted: sleep. In the end we compromised. We ended up going to World Market today for some more Indian food in a bag (the naan is 2 or 3 bucks, which is insane, but worth it- but the naan at Target was a lot better and fresher- so now we know where to get it).

At World Market there was a big Korean display… only I didn’t know what any of the non sweet snacky items were (and thanks to diabetes I try and stay away from them, sad)

It’s still fun looking at all the interesting foods there. We picked up some wine salami but it was just too vinegar to me, but I ate enough of it for lunch (well, we know what hubby is taking for lunch tomorrow ><). It was still a lot of fun trying something new.

I spent the morning and afternoon working on something kind of special for .net… well, it’s something I’ve never tried before, but hopefully I’ll be able to bring down it’s file size in time for the Monday update.

Terrence and I are debating whether or not to hit Fanime 2012 this year. We’ve never been to it and for good reason, it’s a nine hour drive and for someone who gets easily car sick, It’s a pain in the butt to drive for an hour, let alone for nine. So that leaves us with a few options. 1. We fly there which would be very expensive (and we’re not talking about going there to sell. I’m a rotten sales person and as I’ve mentioned before, I’m socially awkward) and we’d probably only be going for one day.  Or we could 2.  I take some anti nausea medication that knocks me out the entire time (why not just take the ones that don’t knock me out? Because those don’t work as well for me and this is nine hours).

Either way there’s car rentals (because our car would die in the mountains), hotel rentals (even if we go for one day, chances are we’d be in a hotel for two of them), gas money, plus the tickets, plus money for anything we buy… oh and food. I haven’t priced it out, but that’ll probably be a lot of money, and I don’t think we really have money for it.

So… all the signs point to no, but *whiney voice* I wanna goooo *end whiney voice*. Oh well, not this year. At least we’re lucky to have AX so close and Comic Con less than two hours away. And since Comic Con is going to be taking most of our money… yeah, maybe not. ><

What I *really* want to go to is a cat show. You know, the type where they sell crazy cat things and have best in shows. Not that I would put my cats in, they are too grumpy/crazy. There was an animal show a few towns down from us last month, but it was aimed more at kids who like Air Bud and lizards. So we didn’t go.

I guess??

Ok, time to put the Pokemon into this blog… I’ve been a horrid, horrid fan girl for Hilda/N from Pokemon Black and White since when we first see them together in the game. Sure, N is a total creep stalker and all, but damn if the two of them don’t make for a cute pair.

Yes, that’s my only real reasoning for the couple, they look damn cute together. N needs someone to be there for him that isn’t trying to manipulate him and show him how the real world actually works- and that’s either Hilda or Hilbert.

And since I’m not into yaoi, Hilda it is. It’s a fandom, it doesn’t have to make sense.

Of course, I highly doubt N has any feelings for Hilda and Hilda probably thinks N is a creepy stalker, but oh well. I’m really, REALLY hoping part two has some sort of romance in it- after all Black and White really pushed boundaries that no other Pokemon game has ever pushed (the whole morality issue of putting little animals in balls to fight for our amusement and all), so let’s see a happily-ever-after for once.

I’m replaying through the game again, this time my goal was to not have any Pokemon in my storage box, and to have an all female team… but then that legendary event happened and suddenly I have a level 100 Zekrom to ignore me on my level 30 team. So not cool.

I want to use it just once against N… just to see if he pees his pants or anything. “Oh hai N, I has a Zekrom to. I has so many legendaries, how do I hold them all?” And then he cries.

EDIT- I do not condone the making of N cry on this or any other planet. Or the peeing of pants… but it was a funny visual, even if it makes me a butt. Sorry. ><

And yeah, didn’t add a water mark or my name to it… not like I can do anything with it other than the lulz.

Holly cow.

The other day I blogged about our World Market shenanigans and how I picked up some Korean Shin Ramyun. I actually ended up eating some that night, but was far too traumatized to write about it. My verdict: that’s some hot ramen. Like, “omg people eat this?!” hot. I’ve been told (and by that I mean heard on that there YouTube) by EatyourKimchi that Korean food is extra spicy hot, but I thought “pish, I’m part Mexican (well mostly Mexican but I digress), how bad could it be?”. It was bad, so, so bad… but enjoyable. Unfortunately I didn’t have any of the fixings Martina used in the how to video I mentioned in that previous post, I didn’t even have eggs because I was lazy and didn’t want to be attacked by people in Costco and having them steal my eggs (it was right before Easter… Costco is always a mess around Holidays).

Now that I think about it, I don’t recall Martina using the spice packet with the hot as hell spices. With experience comes wisdom. And not burning a hole in your stomach lining.

Despite what I just said, I actually quite liked it. But next time I’ll try to put some eggs in it and other things. And pair it with a nice cold beer. Or three.

So… Wonder Con happened… last month? And I’m barely writing up a blog posting about it now? Damn I’m a lazy.

We decided to go only one day because that was all the con we had in us (and we only got a one day pass). We went on Saturday because that was when the Adventure Time panel was happening. And that was the only day off Terrence had off that coincided with the convention.The day was really, really rainy, which made traffic in an already congested area worse (I mean come on, a convention center literally across the street from Disney Land?! but I digress). We got up early but still managed not to get parking in the main parking lot and ended up having to park over at Angel Stadium. Fortunately there was a shuttle because otherwise it would have been a long walk back (if it had not been raining we would have parked in the Disney Toy Story lot and walked to the con- our passes with the already paid for parking were still good at the time).

After we finally got to the con (and managed to find pre-registration despite the lack of signs on the outside of the building telling us where to go and the surly staffers) we settled in and waited an hour for the Adventure Time panel to start. It was a good panel, as panels go, but it all boiled down to “there’s a lot of stuff we want to talk about, but legal won’t let us”. I’m not sure it was worth waiting an hour for, but at least it was an hour sitting, so it could have been a lot worse.

I like Adventure Time, it’s just it… gets to me sometimes. Like I told Terrence (while at a Toys R Us), Adventure Time is like booze to me, I can only have a little at a time. Otherwise the next morning I’ll be hung over and vomiting.

Although I totally love Fionna and Cake. I could watch that forever. I totally bought the AT Fionna and Cake/ Finn and Jake shirt, but I’m not allowed to wear it till I’ve watched and memorized every episode… because otherwise I’ll be quizzed on the street and made to look like a poser.

From there we headed off to the main hall to buy things. We spent most of our time there… it was really crowded. I know Terrence wrote/ is writing a big blog post about WonderCon as well, so part of me is wondering why I’m even bothering. Ah well. We spent more money than we should have (or rather, we didn’t have all that much money budgeted for the con and we went over it ><). All in all we got a lot of awesome things, most of them signed and sketched… speaking of sketch books, Terrence has had a sketch book that he’s been taking around to conventions for over a decade now and it’s finally filled up. I honestly can’t recall who’s in it, but I know such greats as Bill Holbrook and Stan Sakai are in it, which is so awesome it hurts. The last page was drawn in by Ethan Nicolle (whos first two books we picked up) and the best part was he accidentally handed him the book wrong so the sketch was upside down. That just makes it more awesome. One of these days I think we’re going to have to scan that sketch book and put it online. I think that was the best part of the con, that and seeing Phil Foglio carrying his little one on his shoulders around the con.

Although next time Terrence gets a sketch book for this, I’ll make sure it’s a better quality sketch book with less tooth and more weight to the paper. I’ll cut him some slack because it’s not like he knew he would be carrying it along for this long.

Since I didn’t have that much money (and I spent most of my money on the AT shirt from We love Fine) I don’t have much swag to report, but I did get a kick ass HUGE Rainbow Dash bag:

It wouldn’t be a con posting if I didn’t complain, and while I think I have already done so enough, I will say this: I loved the shuttle service, it was a great idea and was free (well, you still had to pay for parking, but the shuttling itself was free), but they really, REALLY needed to post signs where the bus pick up would be. We waiting half an hour in the cold rain waiting where we were dropped off for the buss, only for it to have been on the other side of the building.

Ah well, all in all it was a good time. But next time we need to stay in a hotel in walking distance. And sorry about the lack of photos, the rain really threw me off, as did the lack of sleep (got up at 4am that day because I was OMGNERVOUSIH8CONSANDBEINGINCROWDS- I mean, I’m kind of people-shy).  I actually don’t do too well at conventions, but this one didn’t have my name on the badge, which made everything turn out a lot better than expected. I don’t know why, the chances of me meeting anyone who recognizes my name is insanely small and the chances of meeting someone I’ve pissed off a little bit smaller still. I’d like to think I haven’t pissed off everyone I’ve ever met. I hope.

Soo… that was my con report! I know it was kind of lacking… I’ll try and remember that for next time. I really did like this convention.

Oh! I just remembered something I wanted to mention about this con! It reminded me a lot of Anime Expo, only smaller. And something else I noticed about the artist alley: there were a lot more industry professionals there than at Anime Expo, and as such a lot less fan art for sale. The people with more anime styles didn’t seem to be as crowded (at least from my own accounts- I can be and probably am totally wrong about this) and the isles were a lot wider than AX, but just as crowded, which I think is a good thing. Less people standing in the middle of AA and blocking everyone in while they take a cosplay photo as well which I REALLY appreciated (if I was a more sinister person I’d photo bomb every cosplay photo taken in the middle of convention floor, but my alignment is more Lazy Evil than Chaotic Evil). I think AX could take a lesson or two from WC’s artist alley.

Progress!

So, after trying to install Instagram on my phone for the past few days (which involved a whole lot of trying to figure out Google Plus, then accidentally breaking my phone and having to have Terrence fix it which took a while because I broke my phone really good) I found out my phone was not compatible with the Android version, even though it should have been. So all that stress for nothing. NOTHING. D:

Oh well… at least my phone is no longer broken. Terrence found me a program that works like it for my phone, so now I’ll have lots of cheesy over-edited photos for both here AND tumblr. The above photo is a Matryoshka phone charm that I got today at World Market. I love that place… I even found the same Shin Ramyun Martina uses in the “How to Make Korean Ramen ” video. Does that make me a poser? Ah well, at least I’m in good company. XD

Proof!

We also got a ton of Indian food stuffs, which is good, because we eat dinner at like 2am and no good places are open that late around here. We also picked up a cute Japanese doll candle, some owl lip gloss (for me of course), some cheap soaps that were on sale and some green tea mochi (which is already gone).

So… that was my Saturday. I spent a lot of time out when I wasn’t breaking my phone, which I really needed. I’m thinking of watching a bit of Okami-san and Her Seven Companions once I get more work done on comics.

Hope everyone is having a good weekend, and happy Easter!