My Summer Vacation in Neo-Ark ・・・ PARASITE EVE II (2000)

December 31, 2018 — Leave a comment

I’m currently on the longest ‘vacation’ I’ve ever taken from work (eight glorious days). I’ve only got a couple of days left, but I believe I’m slowly going stir crazy from being inside. Blame it on having to pay five weeks of rent this month, the heat rising above my tolerable 22°C or my genuine inability to make plans with my friends. I thought moving to the city would drown out the noise of cicadas, but instead it’s drowned out by the traffic and somehow taken all of my energy along with it.

So far, I’ve spent my time napping, flicking between streaming apps and replaying Parasite Eve II. It’s beginning to become a bit of a holiday tradition, since I finished it for the first time in the same stagnant heat during the January break earlier this year.

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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 Oh, and I just found an archived version.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