My First Time

Weird Wide Web ・・・ Adventures in High School Procrastination

January 18, 2016 — Leave a comment

In 2002, I was in year 8 and had very few friends. After enrolling in my third high school in two years, I was pretty sick of having to make a good impression for a bunch of cruel thirteen year olds. I spent all my free time re-watching episodes of Toonami that I’d taped, drawing bad anime or downloading midi files off of a multitude of Sailor Moon webrings.

Just before the summer holidays, it suddenly became very cool to have your own Geocities webpage. My friends had jumped on board, and as I was in the height of peer pressure acceptance, I followed suit. Thanks to the wonderful Geocities WYSIWYG editor, I knocked up a Hello Kitty profile page full of Comic Sans and a baby pink text cursor trail that I’m pretty sure read ‘WeLcOmE 2 mY wEbSiTe ^_^’. It was really just another pointless page among the trash heap of post Y2K internet. But at least it was my pointless page. Oh, and I just found an archived version. It’s beautiful. Continue reading

Here’s to You ・・・ A Eulogy for Lost Save Data

August 30, 2015 — 1 Comment

I’ve had a weird couple of months – I wake up, go to work, come home, make dinner and then fall asleep while reading about Détente and classes of chemical weapons. Sometimes I hang out with friends. But otherwise I just read and sleep. This past month in particular, I’ve noticed that my days are slipping by me faster than usual. Which is alright I guess, I’ve got some pretty cool things on the horizon. Tomorrow I’ll busy myself getting Metal Gear Solid V ready for Tuesday. I’m excited for what might be the last big Konami console game. I won’t be able to pick my copy up for a couple of weeks, but I’ve been building the hype up for this for years.

See, I haven’t felt excited about video games in a really long time. I mean really excited. Sure, I enjoyed Splatoon, but it wasn’t something I hung onto every scrap of information for. It doesn’t mean as much, because it’s not a series I’ve held close for a number of years.

Something else happened about a month ago, my Playstation 3 died. More specifically, it’s on the sputtering, yellow light to death. I can’t bring myself to unplug it. I’m looking over at it right now. There’s a thin layer of dust on the glossy casing. I’ve had my PS3 since the 24th of December, 2008. I think I’ve spent more cumulative hours playing it than any of my other consoles. So while I could be playing other games on other systems, I’m refraining because a stupid sense of attachment to a shiny, over-sized George Foreman-grill of a console. Here’s to you, buddy. I remember pining away for you like it was yesterday. Continue reading