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I’m really, really sick. I’ve probably lost about a gallon and a half of water over the last 12 hours. And there hasn’t really been anyone around/awake to help me clean myself and the bathroom up so I’ve been doing the best I can on my lonesome. I can’t hold down any water, and my stomach cramps are absolutely unbearable. I got about 3 hours of fitful sleep last night.

I have homework to do before tomorrow, and I don’t think I can deal with that.

I’m ridiculously sad and depressed because of a lighter.

A lighter that I cannot own. Let me tell you a story

MANY years ago during the development of MOTHER2, Shigesato Itoi had personalized Zippo lighters made for a handful of game developers. Recently, one went up for auction on Yahoo Japan Auctions. It’s starting price was 900 yen, approximately $12, and I was among many who were prepared to go to war and bid on this item.

However….

Japan has strict shipping laws regarding the overseas sale of flammable items. The collectors began scrambling to find a way to have it shipped overseas, no bidding company would place a bid for any of us. We could only watch and weep as the timer ticked down, and the lighter sold for 910 yen.
At least four collectors, myself included, were prepared to throw down close to a grand for this piece of history and this is the first time a MOTHER related piece of merchandise has been illegal for us to purchase. If there had been more time, perhaps one of us could have found a way… but it isn’t so. Some lucky person in Japan has one of, if not THE rarest piece of MOTHER merchandise in existence. And he got it for $12.

I’m going to go cry into a pillow and cover myself in Mr. Saturn plushes.

I can no longer properly read any phrase containing “art thou” because konami will forever make me think of this.

Incidentally, most of my free time has been occupied playing Yugioh which I made a thread on three months ago that no one replied to. Play Yugioh with me you jerks.

Yeah, I’m sick, too. You should see the humongous pile of tissues next to me . . . nevermind, you shouldn’t, that would be disgusting. Almost as disgusting as Nyquil . . . I have to put in in a cup with water and sugar just so I don’t start puking.

Domenite:

Yeah, I’m sick, too. You should see the humongous pile of tissues next to me . . . nevermind, you shouldn’t, that would be disgusting. Almost as disgusting as Nyquil . . . I have to put in in a cup with water and sugar just so I don’t start puking.

You do know that Nyquil is available in pill form too, right? Yeah, it doesn’t have as much alcohol so it won’t knock you out like the bottled stuff does, but it’s still more bearable than drinking the stuff.

Aww man EmpoleMew me and a friend recently dug up a ton of old Yugioh cards and then started playing and it’s actually a lot more fun than I remember it being when I was in elementary school because I now understand tactics beyond ‘summon blue eyes and get it trap holed to death.’

Also bought a ton of booster packs because I needed something to waste my money on (though we did figure out the most cost efficient packs to buy) and oh god the power creep. Compare White Night Dragon to Blue Eyes. It’s entirely just a monstrously better Blue Eyes because apparently in the years since I’ve last played having a plain old blue eyes won’t cut it and everything’s an effect monster. Which actually makes things pretty interesting, but going up against a new starter deck with an old starter deck is hilariously one sided.

So, there’s a group I’m a member of called The Arthurian Order of Avalon — we perform at the local medieval fair, and do other stuff besides. Yesterday, we held our Whiteheart Tournament, a tournament open to the populace (we have another tournament, Greenbriar, that’s only open to the knighthood). We competed in fencing, archery, boffer fighting, backgammon, and a spear course.

Completely unexpectedly, I very nearly won. I came in first in the spear course (by half a second) and second in backgammon, giving me a total of five points and third place. Had I won backgammon instead, I would’ve been tied for first.

Yesterday evening, though, was kinda frustrating. We were going to be starting Tex Murphy: Overseer on Throne of Games (see sig), but for reasons not entirely known, the game began freezing every couple of minutes. Additionally, on reexamination of the footage, somehow XSplit was failing to capture a lot of what was going on in the game — cutscenes, item examination, etc. I guess that’s Windows 95 programming for you… It’s a shame, because we were so looking forward to it, we’d even gone so far as to devise a drinking game to enjoy.

So instead, to fill the time, we played VVVVVV. Everybody else tried to make a game to take a drink whenever I died…but that didn’t last very long. Wound up beating it in about an hour and a half, getting 16 trinkets and dying a little over 400 times.

Examining the situation later, I discovered that, with nothing else running, there were no problems playing Overseer. Playing with XSplit, I didn’t get freezing problems, either, but there were still some issues capturing everything that happened. Strangely, my IRC client caused the game to freeze a couple times, but not nearly as much as it seemed to be before. I still need to test if the wireless mouse and keyboard have any impact on that, as well, and try and find some way of successfully capturing everything that goes on in the game.

Nesskid:

I saw this on the front page and thought it said “How Art Thou Faping?”

I keep reading it as “farting” and was tempted to change it as thus.

Arfy:

I threw off my sleep schedule by accident about a week or 2 ago, I wish I could fix it easily, but it’ll probably revert in January. I’ve also been having bizarre dreams that don’t really make any sense

Write them down in a notebook. Crazy dreams are awesome. I have my own notebook that I use in case I’m bored with my art and I pull inspiration from some of the visuals or landscapes. I’ve gotten much better using a ukulele, if I get another birthday check in the mail I think I just might go ahead and get the concert uke at the local music store, or the one around 70 dollars. My guitar playing is also getting better but there are a lot of chords that are physically impossible for me to hold because of my tiny, tiny hands. I know a spanish guitar is smaller but I dunno how different it is from a classic guitar. I made the mistake of drinking a coke last night and I now have a severe case of heartburn. Funny how I can drink and drink whiskey, but one 12 oz can of coke will screw me up way more. Other than that, just in a creative mood.

We can talk about our days again? Yay! 8D

Okay, I happen to be one of several Starmen who has a cold right now, but I’ve been taking pills and drinking a ton of apple juice, and I’m recovering, but not fully recovered. I’m still barely able to smell or taste, still coughing, and still filling trash cans with my used tissues.

Also, I recently found out one of the kids in my 5th period Audio-Video production class at school is a fellow Mother fan! And I thought I was the only one in the crappy little Texas town I live in! (No seriously my town sucks, the high schools suck and there’s practically nothing worthwhile here in terms of food or stores except for Cotton Patch, Applebee’s, and GameStop. Can’t wait until I move to Dallas next year.) He doesn’t have a Starmen.net account though and doesn’t plan on getting one (I asked him).

Ow, my nose really hurts! But that’s what you get when you blow your nose every five seconds . . . Bleh. I’ve just been laying down all day today, and all day yesterday. I’m starting ti feel better, but I’m so tired I can’t do anything.

Old folks homes terrify me. When I was little, like 4-5, we’d go visit my great grandmother in a nursing home. One of the other tenants (the one in the room next to my grandma’s) was a little old man with dementia who was certain that he was being held hostage and was going to be tortured for information.

Every time we’d walk by his room, he’d jump out, single in on me, grab me by the forearms and yell “HELP ME! WHY WON’T YOU HELP ME!” into my face.

Left some lasting impressions.

I am currently suffering bad neighbours once again. Louder than a bar (and about as drunk) right above my head. And will anyone do anything about it? Nope, because it’s doesn’t appear to be anyone’s job, even places you would expect to deal with noise nuisances after a certain time.

Nope. Never mind that this is affecting my health, and causing me undue stress, nope, just gotta put up with it. At the very least now the University library should be open 24 hours again so I should be able to hole up there of a Sunday for as long as I have to stay in this flat.

^^I live in the ghetto, so there is loud music/parties every week and plenty of crime to accompany it. I really can’t wait to get out of here and into college. It’s been hard adjusting to this life style as my family has always been middle class and we’ve usually had nice houses. At least we have an air conditioner to protect us from the fierce desert heat.

Andronian:

I’m at work

Buck Fever:

I’m ridiculously sad and depressed because of a lighter.

this is probably one of the most hilarious things i’ve read on this forum, thank you for this

I’m finally in Japan, been here for a few days now. My host family is really nice, but I’m finding it hard to talk to them because 1) I’m bad at speaking Japanese and 2) I’m bad at conversations in general. Really really nervous that I won’t be able to become close to them. =(

Also oh my god you guys, it’s so hot here. And humid. I always heard that Japan was incredibly humid, but I figured I could handle it no problem since I’m from Georgia and people there do nothing but complain about the humidity, which generally doesn’t bother me. But it’s SO HUMID here. And also no central AC.

But the food is good.

@CrouchingMouse Weird, I wouldn’t have figured Japan to be that humid — never been myself, although I can’t imagine it would be worse than Guangzhou… Anyhow, best of luck at breaking the ice.

Every day I’m more and more depressed over a girl who’s been my friend longer than anyone else not coming online to talk anymore.

We met when we were kids, and we had a lot in common; love of Pokemon was a big thing, and even today she still acts like a cool person that likes these weird things, even though I’m two years younger. She’s also an artist, and the reason I can draw so well today is largely due to her. Around a month and change ago, I admitted that I loved her as to not be a hypocrite about true love anymore.

We talked for a bit after that admission and she was definitely not really interested in the idea of being somebody’s girlfriend. Not that she didn’t like me, she’s just too underconfident to believe she would be a good match for any person, and cannot see herself in the future marrying or anything like that. Of course, I totally understand, and am willing to wait for a point in her life where she might gain this confidence.

She’s been busy, I know. She’s drawing a huge comic for a Digimon Original Character Tournament (The Digital Core on deviantART), she’s sort of making a fresh start in college, not to mention issues with her parents and an aunt who has cancer. Despite this, she’d still make a regular effort to get on GTALK and chat with me. I really miss that. Extremely. I sent her a note on dA asking if she was deliberately ignoring me, but she assured me that she wasn’t. Since then, the only other words I’ve gotten from her to me are a response to a birthday drawing I did early August.

My life is progressing, and so is hers. I want to know about her life, and I feel like she might want to know about mine, too. I miss her so much, because I’ve never felt any attachment like this before. I don’t know if advice exists for this kind of situation, but… at least she’s posted the first part of her comic. I commented. Of course I did. But my life seems hollow and empty without chats with her and I feel like my involvement in other productive activities has ceased as a result, as well. I don’t know what to do.

Heh, that felt pretty nice to let out. Sorry in advance for any boredom in that. I know I don’t like reading any more than the average person, and it’s terribly egotistical to expect others to read what I write. There you go, in any case. Thank you in advance if you stuck through it.

I’m feeling mostly better today. Still have a general “sick” feeling and I’m still not really digesting anything up to snuff, but food and liquids are staying down and my fever has dropped to within normal temperature ranges. I figure that I’ll be better entirely come tomorrow.

Sith, as someone who recently had a grandfather in a similar position, I’m sorry. Cherish the time you have left, and I hope you’ll be alright.

As for the bank account locking, that’s an easy fix. No big worries there

Though I’m sure it is annoying.

Pick both, flip a coin, roll a die. I dunno. I was cleaning my backyard when I found a half smoked cigar and several cigarette butts littered around. I do not smoke. My roommate does not smoke. But we know for a fact our neighbors do, and they like parties and weed. This is an apartment complex so crappy neighbors are to be expected, but throwing that stuff in someone elses yard? What the heck! And they know we have a dog who is the main occupant of the backyard outside of my plants. I dunno if I wanna confront the neighbors or just file a complain to the office since I know they are part of a frat and bigger than me.