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In case anyone was wondering: I don't use dA anymore. I only ever come here to check on messages in case the one or two people I follow who are still active upload something. xD I still have my creative pursuits, but it's all in video making now. Search BusterTheFox on YouTube. 
I also write music, I don't recall if I ever really went out of my way to say that. But yeah, I'm a musician. I play a decent number of instruments and stuff. But as with video, dA is not built to accept sound files. Honestly, I think this site more or less fills the void for traditional art while other sites fill the rest. Like, YouTube for video, SoundCloud for music, FictionPress for literature. Granted dA allows lit., but it's not BUILT for it; you can't upload any popular file formats, you have to paste in plain text, and if you want to format it, you have to know some kind of HTML tags. Last I tried, anyway. Perhaps they've updated it since then. But I don't care to check, haha. I don't write as much anymore. But I have been thinking more lately about some of my stories that I really liked. All of them are unfinished. Barring my first ever short story that I wrote in high school that became the basis for one of my in-progress stories. Even had a whole world fleshed out for a Pokémon fanfic. Had half of a preliminary short story done set in that world. Hit writer's block, and never went back to it. It's a shame, but I feel like my other hobbies take more priority. Which may be translated to, "I'm having more fun with other things", I guess. Which, when it comes to hobbies, especially being creative, I guess it's better to stick with what you enjoy most. I dunno, writing just feels weird to me sometimes. Like, you have to follow these very specific grammatical rules, and some people will REALLY get on your case if you publish a slight mistake. And then it's not always easy to tell when your writing is just bland, even when your spelling and grammar is spot-on.
I guess it's the same with video, though. I read some of my old journals prior to writing this, and saw that I thought that episode 2 of Vietnamese Crystal was amazing. While I did enjoy making those videos, and I want to continue that series again someday when I have less stuff going on in my channel, I look back at those now and see a cringe-fest, really. The video AND audio qualities are bad, my jokes are really typical and unoriginal for the most part, and I hadn't even nailed down how to do a proper intro and outro back then. Point is, I guess everything takes time to learn, but perhaps I enjoyed learning how to make videos more. Or maybe it's because nobody come into my video's comments telling me about the base-level errors I was making. There was this one person long ago who commented on the first chapter of my old Pokémon fanfic that I scrapped on FictionPress, and it was three paragraphs highlighting all of my errors, in a very, "I'm way smarter than you" manner, and then to add insult to injury, they slipped in a line at the end judging one of my character's actions in the chapter. Made me feel really inadequate as a writer. Like, I don't have a grasp on proper grammar AND I'm terrible at writing realistic characters? Gimme a break. That's stuck with me throughout the years, and maybe I really let it get to me. I always hear about horror stories of people quitting YouTube due to unfounded comment trolling and hate, but I've always thought that only happened to weaker people who expected immediate success. Perhaps it happened to me with my writing, though. I remember a time when I had the thought in my head that I wanted to be a writer for a living once. I haven't so much as written a paragraph of fictional text in years, although I do write "scripts" for my videos and the like pretty often.
This is interesting; nowadays, I usually write journal entries in a personal journal that I store on my computer. I write them in OpenOffice, and then I save them with the date on them. Never really thought about it before, but I used to journal like that all the time here on dA. Like this, I guess. Just so happens that I'm rambling about art since I'm here, lol. But all this thinking about writing and what made me stop has made me want to start writing again. Perhaps I could even include it in my videos to make it more interesting to work on; do dramatic readings or the like. I always thought that might be a cool thing to do. I've done videos in the past where I play games that I've made, and I feel like that was a fun thing to do. Hmm... Maybe I'll give it a try. Doesn't really belong on my gameplay channel, though. Then again, the new one I'm making is going to be about game reviews, so it might not belong there, either. But I feel like such a thing would be more at home there...
Just to remind myself, I'm going to try and list all the stories I had and which ones I'd be interested in writing again.
Terra (Formerly "Terra the Ghost Girl", but I think just "Terra" sounds better, lol). I really enjoyed writing this one. It's both a romance and a supernatural story, and both of those were totally new to me as a writer at the time. I guess that must be why I enjoyed writing it so much. I had a lot of it planned out, but a huge chunk of it is a huge void in my mind, and I honestly kind of like it that way. I like surprising myself and seeing what happens as I write it. Sometimes that sort of thing just happens! Like, I know what the climax is, but I'm not sure what the road to that looks like, nor the aftermath, exactly. There are a lot of possibilities, too. Heck, I have a SEQUEL idea in mind for it, too! Surely not my most fleshed out story in terms of the world building, but one of my favorites for sure.
Selos Freedom Fighters. I think I had a different name for this at some point, but I can't remember what it is. this was my first story, and my first world. It takes place in, basically, an alternate dimension. It's like modern da America, except it's called Selos, and the landmasses are different and such. But they have very different technology, because Magic exists in this world. It's actually a lot like what Final Fantasy XV is doing actually, how it's "a fantasy based on reality". It's still pretty different, though. In Selos, magic is just a commonplace thing, but it's used as the power for pretty much everything. You power your car using your own magical energy, weapons are powered by magic, assuming they even exist in most cases, and public schools teach magic classes the same as they teach math and language classes. By far my most fleshed-out world that I've created. I don't quite understand why I don't just restart the whole thing (I have two and a half chapters of it that I feel ended up too boring) and just get it done. I feel like that would be super easy to do. I have a bit of a plot in mind, too. Yeah, that's how deep my stupid lore is for this series, most of it is just the world, and hey, there's a story in there somewhere, too! XDDD LOL.
Buster's Adventures. Funnily enough, I started this so that I could write something carefree, and not have to work so hard on a story. But I stopped writing it because I started adding a story. HA! I got greedy and wanted a battle scene, but I'm a respectable enough writer that I didn't want to make a battle occur out of nowhere. And so the ideas started flowing, and I EXACTLY where the battle happens, who it's against, and why. The problem that made me stop writing? In the last chapter, Buster learned that there was a documentary about him painting him as a criminal, and that he was wanted by the police. So, I couldn't think of any good reason to get him to go outside the house!!! XD Realistically, he'd be too scared that he would get recognized by someone, so I had no real way of getting him to the battle scene! And up until now, the story has been mostly carefree, other than learning said things I mentioned above. I don't want to jump to something drastic like suddenly having him be kidnapped or something. Y-Y'know?! But yeah. I sometimes feel bad that I still have yet to give my namesake character his proper story. Someday.
Electrode Short Story. I think I had a name for this... Actually, I have old text files with notes about all my stories, let me look up this one's and see if I had settled on one!
...Nope! The only tentative idea I had was "The Electrode Who Spoke His Heart", and it came complete with an, "(Eh, something like this, but better)" note beside it.
Anyway, I like this story, because it's actually based on one of the coolest dreams I've ever had. Most of the beginning part was literally a dream I had one night where I dreamed I was an Electrode in a department store, and then it got attacked by terrorists, and I had to flee, but then it turned out I was the only one who knew what had happened, but I couldn't tell anyone. But then the next day I woke up as a human, all reverse-PMD style, and I told these random homeless girls who I lived with all about it. I think I woke up at that point, and I had to change a few details from the dream (hunger Games characters were involved, dreams are weird), but I have the entire thing nailed down and ready to go. I'm just stuck on the scene where Electrode becomes a human, because in the dream, I never had to explain how that happened, they just believed me, but I doubt it would be that easy realistically. So the last line I wrote in that was of one of the girls punching the now-human Electrode character and demanding where they took their Pokémon. xD Similar to the reason I stopped writing Buster's Adventures, I can't think of a believable way to exit the current situation! Haha.
If I ever come back to writing, and I don't have a particular preference for what story to write more of, this takes priority. It's a personal favorite among my ideas.
State of Panic. My "novel-length" Pokémon fanfic. Takes place in my own fan-made region that I created. I've put a considerable amount of effort into building that world. I have an entire map of the region that I made in Paint right here on dA in fact. xD It's nothing special, but it shows where everything is. I know what all the towns look like, where all the gyms are, and have a bit of a story behind each of the landmarks, too. As for the story itself, it takes heavy inspiration from the Gamecube Pokemon games, as it involves Shadow Pokemon. At first, I had even brought back Cipher as the main bad guys, but decided that was a bit too much, so I changed the evil group. I think I ended up naming them Neo? Because their goal is to change the whole system of Gym Leaders and the Elite Four and such, because they believe it's corrupt and abusive or something. It's been years since I wrote the details. But I ended up coming up with a VERY good motivation for the Big Bad's actions. Once you hear his story, you might even think he's right. Maybe. A lot fo the characters are interconnected in this story I've built, and I really like that about it. They're also all very unique from each other. The main protagonist is a 15-year-old with a special power he doesn't know how to control yet, whose home and family is suddenly destroyed at the beginning. Then there's a young Interpol agent who gets stuck with Ian while investigating the actions of the Neo group. There's also an older small-town boy who debuts by swooping into a Pokemon Arena mid-battle on a Tropius. So yeah, there's a lot of variety there. This story has been a long time in the making, and a lot of ideas for characters that didn't fit elsewhere have occasionally ended up being included as part of this story. there are a LOT of characters, actually, now that I think about it.
An unnamed story about a young adult who comes back from the dead. A guy in his early 20's wakes up on the ground in a graveyard, and his last memory was of him dying. The story would revolve around him dealing with the aftermath, and trying to figure out what he's meant to do with his second chance. I started writing this completely on a whim one night as I sat around daydreaming this up, and thought it was really interesting, so I just started writing. Another one with a lot of potential. But might not ever go back to it, honestly. I mean, I totally would, though! But I didn't bother to think up new names for the characters, and I don't want to go out of my way to change all of that to avoid referencing real people. xD
Wow, gosh. Sorry. Look at all those words. Haven't typed this much in one sitting in years. Seriously! I know I'm prone to do this sort of thing. Did you actually read this far? You must either take a real fancy to the inner working of how a creative person thinks, or you're a true friend. I think I'll take the rest of my thoughts to that previously-mentioned locally-stored journal. I'm mostly out of stories to talk about now, anyway. I DO have one about a guy who was wrongfully convicted and spent years in prison, but then a huge prison break happens, and he's the only one who stayed. But I never wrote anything for that other than basic ideas for the plot and such. It could be good, though. The main antagonist is the only other prisoner who didn't escape, but only because he's the baddest one, and he was in solitary confinement at the time of the break. It's a very good contrast of characters, and has a lot of potential to stir up trouble.
Anyway, I'm done here! Imagine if I had spent all this time writing an actual story instead of what I would do if I were writing a story. But that would take a lot more thinking and effort. Ha!
Will likely never journal here again, though. I'll keep checking up now and then to see what new comic pages have been released and stuff!
I also write music, I don't recall if I ever really went out of my way to say that. But yeah, I'm a musician. I play a decent number of instruments and stuff. But as with video, dA is not built to accept sound files. Honestly, I think this site more or less fills the void for traditional art while other sites fill the rest. Like, YouTube for video, SoundCloud for music, FictionPress for literature. Granted dA allows lit., but it's not BUILT for it; you can't upload any popular file formats, you have to paste in plain text, and if you want to format it, you have to know some kind of HTML tags. Last I tried, anyway. Perhaps they've updated it since then. But I don't care to check, haha. I don't write as much anymore. But I have been thinking more lately about some of my stories that I really liked. All of them are unfinished. Barring my first ever short story that I wrote in high school that became the basis for one of my in-progress stories. Even had a whole world fleshed out for a Pokémon fanfic. Had half of a preliminary short story done set in that world. Hit writer's block, and never went back to it. It's a shame, but I feel like my other hobbies take more priority. Which may be translated to, "I'm having more fun with other things", I guess. Which, when it comes to hobbies, especially being creative, I guess it's better to stick with what you enjoy most. I dunno, writing just feels weird to me sometimes. Like, you have to follow these very specific grammatical rules, and some people will REALLY get on your case if you publish a slight mistake. And then it's not always easy to tell when your writing is just bland, even when your spelling and grammar is spot-on.
I guess it's the same with video, though. I read some of my old journals prior to writing this, and saw that I thought that episode 2 of Vietnamese Crystal was amazing. While I did enjoy making those videos, and I want to continue that series again someday when I have less stuff going on in my channel, I look back at those now and see a cringe-fest, really. The video AND audio qualities are bad, my jokes are really typical and unoriginal for the most part, and I hadn't even nailed down how to do a proper intro and outro back then. Point is, I guess everything takes time to learn, but perhaps I enjoyed learning how to make videos more. Or maybe it's because nobody come into my video's comments telling me about the base-level errors I was making. There was this one person long ago who commented on the first chapter of my old Pokémon fanfic that I scrapped on FictionPress, and it was three paragraphs highlighting all of my errors, in a very, "I'm way smarter than you" manner, and then to add insult to injury, they slipped in a line at the end judging one of my character's actions in the chapter. Made me feel really inadequate as a writer. Like, I don't have a grasp on proper grammar AND I'm terrible at writing realistic characters? Gimme a break. That's stuck with me throughout the years, and maybe I really let it get to me. I always hear about horror stories of people quitting YouTube due to unfounded comment trolling and hate, but I've always thought that only happened to weaker people who expected immediate success. Perhaps it happened to me with my writing, though. I remember a time when I had the thought in my head that I wanted to be a writer for a living once. I haven't so much as written a paragraph of fictional text in years, although I do write "scripts" for my videos and the like pretty often.
This is interesting; nowadays, I usually write journal entries in a personal journal that I store on my computer. I write them in OpenOffice, and then I save them with the date on them. Never really thought about it before, but I used to journal like that all the time here on dA. Like this, I guess. Just so happens that I'm rambling about art since I'm here, lol. But all this thinking about writing and what made me stop has made me want to start writing again. Perhaps I could even include it in my videos to make it more interesting to work on; do dramatic readings or the like. I always thought that might be a cool thing to do. I've done videos in the past where I play games that I've made, and I feel like that was a fun thing to do. Hmm... Maybe I'll give it a try. Doesn't really belong on my gameplay channel, though. Then again, the new one I'm making is going to be about game reviews, so it might not belong there, either. But I feel like such a thing would be more at home there...
Just to remind myself, I'm going to try and list all the stories I had and which ones I'd be interested in writing again.
Terra (Formerly "Terra the Ghost Girl", but I think just "Terra" sounds better, lol). I really enjoyed writing this one. It's both a romance and a supernatural story, and both of those were totally new to me as a writer at the time. I guess that must be why I enjoyed writing it so much. I had a lot of it planned out, but a huge chunk of it is a huge void in my mind, and I honestly kind of like it that way. I like surprising myself and seeing what happens as I write it. Sometimes that sort of thing just happens! Like, I know what the climax is, but I'm not sure what the road to that looks like, nor the aftermath, exactly. There are a lot of possibilities, too. Heck, I have a SEQUEL idea in mind for it, too! Surely not my most fleshed out story in terms of the world building, but one of my favorites for sure.
Selos Freedom Fighters. I think I had a different name for this at some point, but I can't remember what it is. this was my first story, and my first world. It takes place in, basically, an alternate dimension. It's like modern da America, except it's called Selos, and the landmasses are different and such. But they have very different technology, because Magic exists in this world. It's actually a lot like what Final Fantasy XV is doing actually, how it's "a fantasy based on reality". It's still pretty different, though. In Selos, magic is just a commonplace thing, but it's used as the power for pretty much everything. You power your car using your own magical energy, weapons are powered by magic, assuming they even exist in most cases, and public schools teach magic classes the same as they teach math and language classes. By far my most fleshed-out world that I've created. I don't quite understand why I don't just restart the whole thing (I have two and a half chapters of it that I feel ended up too boring) and just get it done. I feel like that would be super easy to do. I have a bit of a plot in mind, too. Yeah, that's how deep my stupid lore is for this series, most of it is just the world, and hey, there's a story in there somewhere, too! XDDD LOL.
Buster's Adventures. Funnily enough, I started this so that I could write something carefree, and not have to work so hard on a story. But I stopped writing it because I started adding a story. HA! I got greedy and wanted a battle scene, but I'm a respectable enough writer that I didn't want to make a battle occur out of nowhere. And so the ideas started flowing, and I EXACTLY where the battle happens, who it's against, and why. The problem that made me stop writing? In the last chapter, Buster learned that there was a documentary about him painting him as a criminal, and that he was wanted by the police. So, I couldn't think of any good reason to get him to go outside the house!!! XD Realistically, he'd be too scared that he would get recognized by someone, so I had no real way of getting him to the battle scene! And up until now, the story has been mostly carefree, other than learning said things I mentioned above. I don't want to jump to something drastic like suddenly having him be kidnapped or something. Y-Y'know?! But yeah. I sometimes feel bad that I still have yet to give my namesake character his proper story. Someday.
Electrode Short Story. I think I had a name for this... Actually, I have old text files with notes about all my stories, let me look up this one's and see if I had settled on one!
...Nope! The only tentative idea I had was "The Electrode Who Spoke His Heart", and it came complete with an, "(Eh, something like this, but better)" note beside it.
Anyway, I like this story, because it's actually based on one of the coolest dreams I've ever had. Most of the beginning part was literally a dream I had one night where I dreamed I was an Electrode in a department store, and then it got attacked by terrorists, and I had to flee, but then it turned out I was the only one who knew what had happened, but I couldn't tell anyone. But then the next day I woke up as a human, all reverse-PMD style, and I told these random homeless girls who I lived with all about it. I think I woke up at that point, and I had to change a few details from the dream (hunger Games characters were involved, dreams are weird), but I have the entire thing nailed down and ready to go. I'm just stuck on the scene where Electrode becomes a human, because in the dream, I never had to explain how that happened, they just believed me, but I doubt it would be that easy realistically. So the last line I wrote in that was of one of the girls punching the now-human Electrode character and demanding where they took their Pokémon. xD Similar to the reason I stopped writing Buster's Adventures, I can't think of a believable way to exit the current situation! Haha.
If I ever come back to writing, and I don't have a particular preference for what story to write more of, this takes priority. It's a personal favorite among my ideas.
State of Panic. My "novel-length" Pokémon fanfic. Takes place in my own fan-made region that I created. I've put a considerable amount of effort into building that world. I have an entire map of the region that I made in Paint right here on dA in fact. xD It's nothing special, but it shows where everything is. I know what all the towns look like, where all the gyms are, and have a bit of a story behind each of the landmarks, too. As for the story itself, it takes heavy inspiration from the Gamecube Pokemon games, as it involves Shadow Pokemon. At first, I had even brought back Cipher as the main bad guys, but decided that was a bit too much, so I changed the evil group. I think I ended up naming them Neo? Because their goal is to change the whole system of Gym Leaders and the Elite Four and such, because they believe it's corrupt and abusive or something. It's been years since I wrote the details. But I ended up coming up with a VERY good motivation for the Big Bad's actions. Once you hear his story, you might even think he's right.
Maybe. A lot fo the characters are interconnected in this story I've built, and I really like that about it. They're also all very unique from each other. The main protagonist is a 15-year-old with a special power he doesn't know how to control yet, whose home and family is suddenly destroyed at the beginning. Then there's a young Interpol agent who gets stuck with Ian while investigating the actions of the Neo group. There's also an older small-town boy who debuts by swooping into a Pokemon Arena mid-battle on a Tropius. So yeah, there's a lot of variety there. This story has been a long time in the making, and a lot of ideas for characters that didn't fit elsewhere have occasionally ended up being included as part of this story. there are a LOT of characters, actually, now that I think about it.An unnamed story about a young adult who comes back from the dead. A guy in his early 20's wakes up on the ground in a graveyard, and his last memory was of him dying. The story would revolve around him dealing with the aftermath, and trying to figure out what he's meant to do with his second chance. I started writing this completely on a whim one night as I sat around daydreaming this up, and thought it was really interesting, so I just started writing. Another one with a lot of potential. But might not ever go back to it, honestly. I mean, I totally would, though! But I didn't bother to think up new names for the characters, and I don't want to go out of my way to change all of that to avoid referencing real people. xD
Wow, gosh. Sorry. Look at all those words. Haven't typed this much in one sitting in years. Seriously! I know I'm prone to do this sort of thing. Did you actually read this far? You must either take a real fancy to the inner working of how a creative person thinks, or you're a true friend.
I think I'll take the rest of my thoughts to that previously-mentioned locally-stored journal. I'm mostly out of stories to talk about now, anyway. I DO have one about a guy who was wrongfully convicted and spent years in prison, but then a huge prison break happens, and he's the only one who stayed. But I never wrote anything for that other than basic ideas for the plot and such. It could be good, though. The main antagonist is the only other prisoner who didn't escape, but only because he's the baddest one, and he was in solitary confinement at the time of the break. It's a very good contrast of characters, and has a lot of potential to stir up trouble.Anyway, I'm done here! Imagine if I had spent all this time writing an actual story instead of what I would do if I were writing a story. But that would take a lot more thinking and effort. Ha!
Will likely never journal here again, though. I'll keep checking up now and then to see what new comic pages have been released and stuff!
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I know I've all but abandoned my dA account at this point, but I had to stop by today to get rid of some old stories... Namely, the first two chapters of "Selos Freedom Fighters" and the short story, "The Yielded".
I'm doing this because of a few reasons:
1. I'm going to re-write the story from scratch. In my mind, I see it sort of as a "reboot" of the series rather than just a slightly different sequel to the short story.
2. I never liked having the very first story I've ever seriously written be part of the canon. Since it's the first world and set of characters I've ever created, I hold this story pretty close to my heart. I want to give it the touch-ups it deserves (I originally wrote the short story in my second year of high school, and it had a lot of silly mistakes).
3. I'm finally going to hunker down and try to complete a novel-length story. When I finish it, I fully intend to get it published ASAP.
3a. That said, I'm not sure it would be a good idea to post the whole thing online for free... So I won't be uploading the new version here (Nor at FictionPress. Sorry! Hey, if I do get published, I'll try to send you a free copy! xD).
So that's about it. If and when I get Selos Freedom fighters published, I'll probably resume work on Terra the Ghost Girl. Unless the book becomes a megahit, and I'm practically forced to write the nest Selos novel immediately, but let's forget I said that, I need to keep my head out of the clouds. I'm not expecting to be the next Twilight or Hunger Games, I'd just like to make a living by doing something I love! :3
Thanks for reading. I've got myself scheduled to make sure I write some of the story daily, so I hope I can finish it quickly.
I'm doing this because of a few reasons:
1. I'm going to re-write the story from scratch. In my mind, I see it sort of as a "reboot" of the series rather than just a slightly different sequel to the short story.
2. I never liked having the very first story I've ever seriously written be part of the canon. Since it's the first world and set of characters I've ever created, I hold this story pretty close to my heart. I want to give it the touch-ups it deserves (I originally wrote the short story in my second year of high school, and it had a lot of silly mistakes).
3. I'm finally going to hunker down and try to complete a novel-length story. When I finish it, I fully intend to get it published ASAP.
3a. That said, I'm not sure it would be a good idea to post the whole thing online for free... So I won't be uploading the new version here (Nor at FictionPress. Sorry! Hey, if I do get published, I'll try to send you a free copy! xD).
So that's about it. If and when I get Selos Freedom fighters published, I'll probably resume work on Terra the Ghost Girl. Unless the book becomes a megahit, and I'm practically forced to write the nest Selos novel immediately, but let's forget I said that, I need to keep my head out of the clouds.
I'm not expecting to be the next Twilight or Hunger Games, I'd just like to make a living by doing something I love! :3Thanks for reading. I've got myself scheduled to make sure I write some of the story daily, so I hope I can finish it quickly.
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An update!? Weird!
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So I've been thinking, I haven't been too creative lately. Er, I guess I have, just not in ways that I can post here. I've recently been making progress on my video games that I'm making, and I'm making a lot of YouTube videos, too. However, my writing and such has not had such luck. I haven't been uploading the chapters of Buster's Adventures here, because I don't like how dA treats literature (Pretty much ignores all of your formatting unless you re-do it all in that HTML code stuff they have, which I don't know how to use. And they don't even accept any kind of text files... You have to just type/copy-pasta it in). I have it all posted at my FictionPress, though. (Link: www.fictionpress.com/u/897635/)
I wrote about half a chapter of Terra the other day, but I'm having a bit of a writer's block on that one. I figure I just need to keep going and I'll figure something out. Sooooo yeah. Also, I have a couple Pokemon fanfics in the works... still. I have a short story that I've been working on for a while now, but just haven't been able to write very much for some reason. And I don't know why, but I feel a strong need to finish that one before I begin on my full-length fic, State of Panic (Anybody remember the map image I uploaded, like, years ago? It's based on that). However, it's taking longer than expected, too... I think I might try and get more of that done after I finish here... But I have at least one YouTube video to watch... heheh. Story of our lives, am I right!?
Another little item I'd like to continue is my silly Stick Ninjas comic. I think I've said this before, but just to be safe, I'll tell you that I started doing those when I was bored at my old job. I would draw them on the backs of these little pieces of paper we used for doing price-adjustments and such. I didn't take them very seriously, and I think that's why I ended up with a charming little story, but at the same time, they weren't very legible, so I couldn't really just scan them onto my computer and upload. But it's a bit tough remaking them in Paint. I've been thinking I could try doing it in Gimp, though. I've been learning how to use that for making my YouTube thumbnails. I figure it should be just as good for creating images as it is for editing them... At least, for my purposes. So maybe that's another thing I'll try to get back to doing. Having something like that as a hobby for my free time makes people not think less of me as much as pulling out my 3DS. I guess some adults just don't appreciate the utility of handheld gaming. But yeah, I actually have a bunch of blank index cards that I originally bought for helping me sort out my trading cards that would be perfect for drawing more of those. I don't have those little slips I used to use, after all. ;3 Let me know if you want to see more Stick Ninjas... Haha!
One last thing: Should I start posting Buster's Adventures chapters here again? Or does everyone feel content to read them on FictionPress? 'Cause it would only take me a few minutes to upload them here. I refuse to re-format everything, though, just FYI. So some italicized words won't be italicized anymore, and possibly, paragraphing will be wrong. But if it's really more convenient here, I'll be happy to upload them. In just hate having to upload something subpar when the original was fine. You know what I mean?
Okay, I'm off to do whatever I end up doing! (Probably watching Youtube videos, but then I'll hopefully get on one of those stories!) Okay, see ya later!
I wrote about half a chapter of Terra the other day, but I'm having a bit of a writer's block on that one. I figure I just need to keep going and I'll figure something out. Sooooo yeah. Also, I have a couple Pokemon fanfics in the works... still. I have a short story that I've been working on for a while now, but just haven't been able to write very much for some reason. And I don't know why, but I feel a strong need to finish that one before I begin on my full-length fic, State of Panic (Anybody remember the map image I uploaded, like, years ago? It's based on that). However, it's taking longer than expected, too... I think I might try and get more of that done after I finish here... But I have at least one YouTube video to watch... heheh. Story of our lives, am I right!?
Another little item I'd like to continue is my silly Stick Ninjas comic. I think I've said this before, but just to be safe, I'll tell you that I started doing those when I was bored at my old job. I would draw them on the backs of these little pieces of paper we used for doing price-adjustments and such. I didn't take them very seriously, and I think that's why I ended up with a charming little story, but at the same time, they weren't very legible, so I couldn't really just scan them onto my computer and upload. But it's a bit tough remaking them in Paint. I've been thinking I could try doing it in Gimp, though. I've been learning how to use that for making my YouTube thumbnails. I figure it should be just as good for creating images as it is for editing them... At least, for my purposes. So maybe that's another thing I'll try to get back to doing. Having something like that as a hobby for my free time makes people not think less of me as much as pulling out my 3DS. I guess some adults just don't appreciate the utility of handheld gaming.
But yeah, I actually have a bunch of blank index cards that I originally bought for helping me sort out my trading cards that would be perfect for drawing more of those. I don't have those little slips I used to use, after all. ;3 Let me know if you want to see more Stick Ninjas... Haha!One last thing: Should I start posting Buster's Adventures chapters here again? Or does everyone feel content to read them on FictionPress? 'Cause it would only take me a few minutes to upload them here. I refuse to re-format everything, though, just FYI. So some italicized words won't be italicized anymore, and possibly, paragraphing will be wrong. But if it's really more convenient here, I'll be happy to upload them. In just hate having to upload something subpar when the original was fine. You know what I mean?
Okay, I'm off to do whatever I end up doing! (Probably watching Youtube videos, but then I'll hopefully get on one of those stories!) Okay, see ya later!
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(Thoughts)
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...I don't even use dA for anything anymore, do I? Only art I ever submit are stories, and these days they all go to FictionPress and FanFiction because they don't destroy my formatting. I barely even journal here anymore. Gah! What should I do with this account!? I used to check up here every day, but now I'm just sick of clicking the X on notices that appear in my messages. xD Seems like most of the people I follow have stopped posting new stuff (With the exception of Wave, though his can be far between sometimes). I remember the good ol days where everyone on my friends list was active, and we hung out. xD Well, all good things must come to an end, I guess.
For now, I think I'll stick to blogging on my actual site that I made for blogging... busterthefox.webs.com. (Sponser!)
I've been trying to do YouTube stuff, but literally everything new I've been trying has been giving me trouble. My face cams get unacceptably choppy when I import them to my editing software, and now Youtube keeps failing to process my most recent upload because it can't convert the video! None of this stuff has any obvious explanation for it. The original face cam videos are just fine when I watch them, but the get imported (and even render) as really choppy. I've been considering trying to use different software to see if that could possibly fix it (Vegas Pro seems to be infamous for breaking down all the time), but then I'd have to learn how to use it, and I've only just started to figure out how to do things in Vegas! ...I'm sure there's some kind of fix for it. I searched the internet and came up with nothing, and I posted a quesiton on Yahoo! Answers last night, with no answers so far. That site never seems to get me decent answers anyway, though. Not sure where else I could go to ask about this type of problem...
Um... I have Bravely Default and Tomodachi Life on 3DS now, and I recommend both, especially the former if you like RPGs at all. K bye
For now, I think I'll stick to blogging on my actual site that I made for blogging... busterthefox.webs.com. (Sponser!)
I've been trying to do YouTube stuff, but literally everything new I've been trying has been giving me trouble. My face cams get unacceptably choppy when I import them to my editing software, and now Youtube keeps failing to process my most recent upload because it can't convert the video! None of this stuff has any obvious explanation for it. The original face cam videos are just fine when I watch them, but the get imported (and even render) as really choppy. I've been considering trying to use different software to see if that could possibly fix it (Vegas Pro seems to be infamous for breaking down all the time), but then I'd have to learn how to use it, and I've only just started to figure out how to do things in Vegas! ...I'm sure there's some kind of fix for it. I searched the internet and came up with nothing, and I posted a quesiton on Yahoo! Answers last night, with no answers so far. That site never seems to get me decent answers anyway, though. Not sure where else I could go to ask about this type of problem...
Um... I have Bravely Default and Tomodachi Life on 3DS now, and I recommend both, especially the former if you like RPGs at all. K bye
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Fun Creative Projects
7 min read
I am unspeakably tired, and I plan to go to bed directly following this journal, so I'll try to keep it short this time. ;3
College is going very well so far. Today marks the end of week 2/6. As far as I can tell, everything is going down smoothly. I'm just happy to get my three-day weekend to catch up on sleep! X_X I've learned that even after two weeks of this, I guess I still get nervous. Sleeping pills to the rescue! Oh, and I need to switch out my blankets on my bed, because the one I had in winter is making me too hot in summer.
Creative projects; Well, I've been doing a lot lately. Yesterday I got up a new episode of Pokemon Vietnamese Crystal, which turned out beautifully. This game is hilarious, and it's really easy to play up everything it says for maximum entertainment value. I won't give spoilers, though. Go and watch it!:
(Apparently dA allows us to embed YouTube videos now??)
I was also able to setup Twitch.tv recently. My internet isn't best for this sort of thing, but I managed to get it to stop dropping frames while maintaining mostly acceptable quality. I've done a few streams, the most notable ones being one where I played osu!, and the other, more recent one, where I showed off games that I made/am making. Tomorrow, I hope to do a live-programming stream while I work on finishing the next demo of Stick Adventure 3: Stick RPG. I've needed to get that done for a while, and I figure if I stream it, I can motivate myself to actually do something with it! You can find my channel here, and make sure to follow so you know when I go live!: www.twitch.tv/busterthefox/
You can also watch all of my past broadcasts from here: www.twitch.tv/busterthefox/pro…
The third thing I had in mind was that I planned to finish the next Stick RPG demo soon, which I suppose is a testament to how tired I am right now. Heh.
The only other news I can think of is that I got rid of Mario Kart 7, Tales of the Abyss, Fire Emblem: Awakening and PMD: Gates to Infinity. In exchange, I was able to get Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon, Paper Mario Sticker Star and Star Fox 64 3D. A fair trade-off? Well, I have Mario Kart 8 now, and I hardly play 7 anymore since I basically 100%ed it already. I don't feel an addicted need to play MK8 when I'm out and about, so I just got rid of it. Tales of the Abyss I still have on PS2, and I never played it anyway since I got stuck on a boss (and in an area where level grinding was pretty tough, of course). Fire Emblem... I also never played it anymore. It got to the point where it had so much to do, there was TOO much to do. I would always get sidetracked, and go fight random Risen to level grind, and then I would wanna micromanage my characters' items, then I'll change my StreetPass settings... I'm happy just getting by that one really awesome chapter where you are fighting on a rainy field at night after you escape the enemy capital. I killed that mission. Super easy~. PMD... might be the one I regret most. I'll buy it back someday, maybe. Can't remember if that's one of the games that stores your save on-system instead of on the game card itself. If not, I can always re-download the demo and do some proper level grinding on it this time before I get the game again. But yeah, I never really could get really into the story. It became more interesting at the part where it turns out Munna and Hydreigon aren't what they seem, but even then I couldn't really... I dunno, it just wasn't as epic, you know? There's no beating time-travelling to a post-apocalyptic Pokemon future. :/
Luigi's Mansion is alright; they could've screwed up the controls a bit less, though! I don't like the way it deviates from the original, as nostalgia was the main factor in buying the game in the first place. BUT, when I look past that, it's alright so far. It's very fond of giving you tutorials, but I'm still on the first mansion, which is pretty clearly meant to teach you the basics. It's mission based, and with each mission I've been uncovering some new gadget or other sort of game mechanic, so it's forgivable. I'll let you know if I continue to get calls from E. Gadd every time I leave a room once I'm past the tutorials, though!
Star Fox 64 3D does a much better job of appealing to my nostalgia, although they screwed up big time on the title screen. As a kid, I used to spend hours just playing with the 64 sign, making the Star Fox Team look at it as it spun around in quick circles at my command. This new one, you can't do that, and it's just a 3D model of an arwing flying through space. Maybe they added some other secret thing you can do, I dunno, all I wanted to do was move the 64, so I didn't try anything but the circle pad and plus pad. xD But yeah, it's cool, because somehow they rallied together and got the new voice actors to sound EXACTLY like they did in the original! There are lots of times where you can tell it's ever-so-slightly off from the original, but that's a good thing, because it makes it obvious that there are new VAs on the job. And the fact they tried to recreate the original voice acting down to the inflection is just SO cool. I like it a lot.
Finally, Paper Mario. Another nostalgia appeal, I suppose. I'm doing my best not to compare it to Thousand Year Door. Because that game was much better. BUT, this is its own game, and it's very different. Although the turn-based strategy-style battles with action commands are back, it's actually NOT what most would consider an "RPG"; If you win a battle, you get... coins. There's no levels or character customization, and everything you do is completely dictated by what stickers you have, and they are all one-time uses. They are scattered about everywhere though, and they come back if you leave/re-enter an area, so you will probably never run out or anything. If you're like me and you would rather blast past the first few levels until the actual interesting part begins, you'll find yourself having to use those more rare stickers that you were saving on common enemies, but then, I tend to fight every enemy I see, and like I said, you can pretty much just stock up on stickers you find in the wild, so it's not such a big deal. Plus, you can buy stuff like Jump, Hammer and Mushroom stickers at the store for less than or equal to 10 coins, and I had literally hundreds of coins by the end of the second level. On that note, the areas ARE structured in a "level" format, kind of like Super Paper Mario. At the end of every stage is a shard of THE Sticker Star, and when you collect it, the level ends and you move on. But random cutscenes and other things happen when you get to certain points like they usually would. Basically, Sticker Star is a fusion between Super Paper Mario's action-adventure style with the older turn-based, action command battles of old. It's reasonably, fun. Like Luigi's Mansion though, I haven't gotten very far, so I can't really say whether or not it's bad at this point. So far, I'm enjoying it.
So, that ended up a bit longer than I wanted, but whatever. Hey, maybe I'll see some of y'all in the stream tomorrow. :3 I answer questions from chat.
Byeeeee
College is going very well so far. Today marks the end of week 2/6. As far as I can tell, everything is going down smoothly. I'm just happy to get my three-day weekend to catch up on sleep! X_X I've learned that even after two weeks of this, I guess I still get nervous. Sleeping pills to the rescue! Oh, and I need to switch out my blankets on my bed, because the one I had in winter is making me too hot in summer.
Creative projects; Well, I've been doing a lot lately. Yesterday I got up a new episode of Pokemon Vietnamese Crystal, which turned out beautifully. This game is hilarious, and it's really easy to play up everything it says for maximum entertainment value. I won't give spoilers, though. Go and watch it!:
(Apparently dA allows us to embed YouTube videos now??)
I was also able to setup Twitch.tv recently. My internet isn't best for this sort of thing, but I managed to get it to stop dropping frames while maintaining mostly acceptable quality. I've done a few streams, the most notable ones being one where I played osu!, and the other, more recent one, where I showed off games that I made/am making. Tomorrow, I hope to do a live-programming stream while I work on finishing the next demo of Stick Adventure 3: Stick RPG. I've needed to get that done for a while, and I figure if I stream it, I can motivate myself to actually do something with it! You can find my channel here, and make sure to follow so you know when I go live!: www.twitch.tv/busterthefox/
You can also watch all of my past broadcasts from here: www.twitch.tv/busterthefox/pro…
The third thing I had in mind was that I planned to finish the next Stick RPG demo soon, which I suppose is a testament to how tired I am right now. Heh.
The only other news I can think of is that I got rid of Mario Kart 7, Tales of the Abyss, Fire Emblem: Awakening and PMD: Gates to Infinity. In exchange, I was able to get Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon, Paper Mario Sticker Star and Star Fox 64 3D. A fair trade-off? Well, I have Mario Kart 8 now, and I hardly play 7 anymore since I basically 100%ed it already. I don't feel an addicted need to play MK8 when I'm out and about, so I just got rid of it. Tales of the Abyss I still have on PS2, and I never played it anyway since I got stuck on a boss (and in an area where level grinding was pretty tough, of course). Fire Emblem... I also never played it anymore. It got to the point where it had so much to do, there was TOO much to do. I would always get sidetracked, and go fight random Risen to level grind, and then I would wanna micromanage my characters' items, then I'll change my StreetPass settings... I'm happy just getting by that one really awesome chapter where you are fighting on a rainy field at night after you escape the enemy capital. I killed that mission. Super easy~. PMD... might be the one I regret most. I'll buy it back someday, maybe. Can't remember if that's one of the games that stores your save on-system instead of on the game card itself. If not, I can always re-download the demo and do some proper level grinding on it this time before I get the game again. But yeah, I never really could get really into the story. It became more interesting at the part where it turns out Munna and Hydreigon aren't what they seem, but even then I couldn't really... I dunno, it just wasn't as epic, you know? There's no beating time-travelling to a post-apocalyptic Pokemon future. :/
Luigi's Mansion is alright; they could've screwed up the controls a bit less, though! I don't like the way it deviates from the original, as nostalgia was the main factor in buying the game in the first place. BUT, when I look past that, it's alright so far. It's very fond of giving you tutorials, but I'm still on the first mansion, which is pretty clearly meant to teach you the basics. It's mission based, and with each mission I've been uncovering some new gadget or other sort of game mechanic, so it's forgivable. I'll let you know if I continue to get calls from E. Gadd every time I leave a room once I'm past the tutorials, though!
Star Fox 64 3D does a much better job of appealing to my nostalgia, although they screwed up big time on the title screen. As a kid, I used to spend hours just playing with the 64 sign, making the Star Fox Team look at it as it spun around in quick circles at my command. This new one, you can't do that, and it's just a 3D model of an arwing flying through space. Maybe they added some other secret thing you can do, I dunno, all I wanted to do was move the 64, so I didn't try anything but the circle pad and plus pad. xD But yeah, it's cool, because somehow they rallied together and got the new voice actors to sound EXACTLY like they did in the original! There are lots of times where you can tell it's ever-so-slightly off from the original, but that's a good thing, because it makes it obvious that there are new VAs on the job. And the fact they tried to recreate the original voice acting down to the inflection is just SO cool. I like it a lot.
Finally, Paper Mario. Another nostalgia appeal, I suppose. I'm doing my best not to compare it to Thousand Year Door. Because that game was much better. BUT, this is its own game, and it's very different. Although the turn-based strategy-style battles with action commands are back, it's actually NOT what most would consider an "RPG"; If you win a battle, you get... coins. There's no levels or character customization, and everything you do is completely dictated by what stickers you have, and they are all one-time uses. They are scattered about everywhere though, and they come back if you leave/re-enter an area, so you will probably never run out or anything. If you're like me and you would rather blast past the first few levels until the actual interesting part begins, you'll find yourself having to use those more rare stickers that you were saving on common enemies, but then, I tend to fight every enemy I see, and like I said, you can pretty much just stock up on stickers you find in the wild, so it's not such a big deal. Plus, you can buy stuff like Jump, Hammer and Mushroom stickers at the store for less than or equal to 10 coins, and I had literally hundreds of coins by the end of the second level. On that note, the areas ARE structured in a "level" format, kind of like Super Paper Mario. At the end of every stage is a shard of THE Sticker Star, and when you collect it, the level ends and you move on. But random cutscenes and other things happen when you get to certain points like they usually would. Basically, Sticker Star is a fusion between Super Paper Mario's action-adventure style with the older turn-based, action command battles of old. It's reasonably, fun. Like Luigi's Mansion though, I haven't gotten very far, so I can't really say whether or not it's bad at this point. So far, I'm enjoying it.
So, that ended up a bit longer than I wanted, but whatever. Hey, maybe I'll see some of y'all in the stream tomorrow. :3 I answer questions from chat.
Byeeeee
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