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Jul. 18th, 2016 07:57 amRob took us and Grandpa paid to eat breakfast at this place called Red Oak Diner & Lounge. I had a stack of three chocolate chip pancakes and a side of corned beef hash and bacon.
Showed Rob when we got back how to navigate between pages on Fanfiction.net, and took the time to favorite my userpage and clean up his bookmarks bar, creating a new folder with that page (named "Eric's fanfiction") listed above everything he already had marked individually. He also commented on my userpic, which I specified as Minami from Lucky Star; today, I might email him the full-sized image and a link to her debut scenes (episode 14, 2:34 and 3:38).
Aunt Allison and Uncle Blas came over to take Grandpa home with them, and left just moments before me and Brian.
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Soon as Brian and I headed home, I brought up my old plans for Retro Savior, after recently stumbling upon this game series called Gussun Oyoyo. I've already talked with Jake a year ago about how much dingier anime* tends to look the older it is (especially compared to video game graphics and box art even from the same time), and how slightly jarring this becomes for me when I'm used to newer, more readily available stuff. I actually started a thread on AnimeSuki to ask for well-dubbed retro anime (on which three different people suggested Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water, Golden Boy, and Cowboy Bebop; will probably try out the first of those, along with Slayers, which Chelle likes) and browsed Wikipedia for stuff by the decade and year.
(*Okay, so there was no anime series that I saw anything about, but it would still be easy enough for many to picture stuff looking cleaner and crisper by default in a commercial or full-motion cutscene than how they would've actually looked back in the mid-'90s.)
Anyway, I went on to describe what I really wanted (for myself, mainly) out of Retro Savior and how I might simplify my plans from a company to a simple website similar to ROMhacking.net. Brian in turn explained that such ambitions would take years of dedication, be it to learn how to dub, how to build a website, or learn Japanese, and how lots of people come up with ideas but fail to foresee how much work would really be involved (my experiences with Japanese and how they all ended a few years ago is a perfect example).
Given all my experience to date, I'm probably better off sticking to writing and seeing Parasitic Trio through, and he commends me for having changed direction instead of giving up altogether following all my frustration this past year with Starbound and the Cibus project. He also mentioned how much it would help to take Japanese classes again, where I might learn better than by teaching myself again, especially since I have more free time than most people due to government insurance and still lacking a job.
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Had to stop in Port Jefferson to pick someone named Bonnie up somewhere in town. Brian brought her to the beach shortly after bringing me home.
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Earlier on, first thing in the morning, I continued to rehash everything wrong with my experiences at Dowling in my head, came to recognize everything much more objectively, and proceeded to write it all down in my notebook. I only planned on telling Mom about it if the subject came up, but she instead walked in on me re-reading it for myself and asked if it was yet more negativity or if I had written anything positive down. I showed her then, and she expressed relief about how well I'm finally coming to terms with everything that happened, and how glad Marie would be to read such a thing.
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Showed Rob when we got back how to navigate between pages on Fanfiction.net, and took the time to favorite my userpage and clean up his bookmarks bar, creating a new folder with that page (named "Eric's fanfiction") listed above everything he already had marked individually. He also commented on my userpic, which I specified as Minami from Lucky Star; today, I might email him the full-sized image and a link to her debut scenes (episode 14, 2:34 and 3:38).
Aunt Allison and Uncle Blas came over to take Grandpa home with them, and left just moments before me and Brian.
-----
Soon as Brian and I headed home, I brought up my old plans for Retro Savior, after recently stumbling upon this game series called Gussun Oyoyo. I've already talked with Jake a year ago about how much dingier anime* tends to look the older it is (especially compared to video game graphics and box art even from the same time), and how slightly jarring this becomes for me when I'm used to newer, more readily available stuff. I actually started a thread on AnimeSuki to ask for well-dubbed retro anime (on which three different people suggested Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water, Golden Boy, and Cowboy Bebop; will probably try out the first of those, along with Slayers, which Chelle likes) and browsed Wikipedia for stuff by the decade and year.
(*Okay, so there was no anime series that I saw anything about, but it would still be easy enough for many to picture stuff looking cleaner and crisper by default in a commercial or full-motion cutscene than how they would've actually looked back in the mid-'90s.)
Anyway, I went on to describe what I really wanted (for myself, mainly) out of Retro Savior and how I might simplify my plans from a company to a simple website similar to ROMhacking.net. Brian in turn explained that such ambitions would take years of dedication, be it to learn how to dub, how to build a website, or learn Japanese, and how lots of people come up with ideas but fail to foresee how much work would really be involved (my experiences with Japanese and how they all ended a few years ago is a perfect example).
Given all my experience to date, I'm probably better off sticking to writing and seeing Parasitic Trio through, and he commends me for having changed direction instead of giving up altogether following all my frustration this past year with Starbound and the Cibus project. He also mentioned how much it would help to take Japanese classes again, where I might learn better than by teaching myself again, especially since I have more free time than most people due to government insurance and still lacking a job.
-----
Had to stop in Port Jefferson to pick someone named Bonnie up somewhere in town. Brian brought her to the beach shortly after bringing me home.
-----
Earlier on, first thing in the morning, I continued to rehash everything wrong with my experiences at Dowling in my head, came to recognize everything much more objectively, and proceeded to write it all down in my notebook. I only planned on telling Mom about it if the subject came up, but she instead walked in on me re-reading it for myself and asked if it was yet more negativity or if I had written anything positive down. I showed her then, and she expressed relief about how well I'm finally coming to terms with everything that happened, and how glad Marie would be to read such a thing.
( Read more... )