I'm getting tired of my icons. So I'll just stick with this one for a while. I made it myself on MSPaint!

I'm running out of things to ask the Tarot. Reading it is strangely addictive. As I was pulling out cards to represent Homestar Runner characters because I was running out of things to ask, I got The Fool for Homestar. That was pretty funny.

Apparently you can only have 1000 images in a sub album on Photobucket? Who came up with that rule? And why didn't anyone tell me before I took 1400 screenshots of the Neverhood? Some of those are repeats, but still. Well, it's pretty easy to get around. Just have to make another sub album.

Applied for a job today. This shouldn't be as stressful as it is. And by stressful, I mean totally incapitating. ...My mum had to help me. I think I need help with my anxiety.

If you have both me and capslock_hsr friended, no I'm not listening to this song on repeat. Just the album it's on. But I wouldn't mind listening to this song on repeat. I really like it.

Preordered Super Smash Bros Brawl. Yay. Just a week and a month before I get to play it.

This xkcd comic makes me laugh every time I think of it, and it's been a while since I first saw it. It's exactly the kind of thing I'd come up with.

I just found out that, on a forum he frequents, my brother has the same quote in his sig as I used to. Freaked me out. The quote's from A Trekkie's Tale, the fanfic that originated the term Mary Sue.

I don't care what anyone else says, this icon is adorable.

In an attempt to stop myself from thinking only about the Homestar Runner point and click Wii game, the first episode of which will be released in June, I'm going to put up some more Neverhood screenshots b/w comments. I mean, with comments.

Hopefully then I'll be able to respond to the non-Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive People related comments that I've received. That would be nice.

OMG A POINT AND CLICK HOMESTAR RUNNER GAME FEATURING THE MAIN CHARACTERS COMING OUT FOR WII IN A COUPLE OF MONTHS! (HYPERVENTILATES)

Sorry. I'll get started with the screenshots now.

( Meet Bil )

...

Aww, it deliciously didn't work. I'm still too excited about the new Homestar Runner game that won't even be out for a while. Except now I'm also excited about the Neverhood movie all over again. Progress?

I got some feedback from my brother on these Neverhood things. He suggested I not criticise as much. Way to tell me not to breathe. But I'll not to be too critical this time.

Also, I'll try only to make comments when I have something to say. It probably makes it less annoying.

Person who uploaded YouTube videos = not me.

( Finishing up the first half )

Butter and Vegemite on Premium crackers is heavenly when you're barely eaten anything all day and just got back from the gym. Other times too. But especially when you really need food.

Okay, back to subtitling these Neverhood screenshots. This probably wouldn't have taken forever if I hadn't taken a break all day today. It would appear that I can only work when I'm supposed to be in bed.

And Klogg... start thinking... baaaaad things.

So, does this mean that there's a Homestar Runner Wii game in the works? It did say "actual gameplay footage" at the end.

And more importantly, why do Strong Bad and Strong Sad keep playing video games together if they hate each other so much? Not that I mind. I'm all for them getting along.

Okay, back to subtitling these Neverhood screenshots. This is taking forever.

I've realised that's what stopped me from viewing the endings to The Neverhood that scared me when I was little isn't fear. It's anxiety. I'm going to watch them right now, and face my vague worry. And talk about it. If that bores you, scroll down or something. I've been into this game since I was eight, leave me alone. I don't feel like embedding so I'll just link to the videos.

( Okay, I'll cut it. But only for spoilers. For a thirteen-year-old game. )

Well, that was... Very important to me, I think. I feel... better, now. I doubt watching those two videos magically fixed my timidness or anxiety, but... They're exactly what I expected them to be, but they don't scare me anymore. ELLIPSES WHAT WOULD I DO WITHOUT YOU?

Firefox's spellcheck, why are reminds and anymore not words? I'm beginning to regret figuring out how to turn you on.

More Neverhood screenshots! I'm using Fraps now, and that's stopped the corruption. :D

Sorry for taking so long over this. I think I had writer's block or something. I couldn't think of anything to say. The comments are still kind of dumb and crappy.

I love this game.

( Noom Noom Numeron, send us food to chew-mer-on! )

I'm going to make one of these for The Neverhood. Basically I'm playing through the game, taking screenshots, then putting them up and adding commentary. I've wanted to do one for a while, and The Neverhood is a game that means a lot to me. Hopefully my commentary isn't too excruciating.

First of all, I want to apologise for the quality of some of these pictures. I tried everything and I still couldn't get a better picture. It's not too bad. I've seen worse. Still, I wish I could get clean shots of the third person areas. And now that that's over with, I will, for the most part, pretend that the shots aren't corrupted at all, because otherwise I'd feel obligated to comment on every single one. "Yep... Still pixelated..." The pictures are also a little big, but I don't think it's too bad.

Okay. The Neverhood was created by Douglas TenNapel and released in 1996. It's an adventure game done entirely in claymation, and the first computer game I ever completed at the age of nine. You get no story at the start; instead it's revealed as you go through the game. So. Onto the screenshots. I'll link to a few videos too, but I'm not the one that put them up. Seems pointless to put mine up as well if there already is one.

( 200 images ahead )

Well, that's finally all done. Editing will have to wait for Monday— (looks at clock) I mean, tomorrow. It's getting a little late. (Willie Trombone voice) Byeeeee!

Well, I found The Neverhood. It was in my brother's room. I've been playing through it and taking screenshots, but unfortunately the third person portions are coming out looking like this. But I don't think it's too distracting, and the other parts are coming out okay, for the most part.

I have an appointment with this employment place in the morning, so I guess I can't stay up until 1am tonight. I like staying up until 1am. It amuses me to see the kind of stuff I come up with when I write that late. Though I'm kind of afraid to look at it in the warm hard light of day. Anyway, I don't really need to stay up that late anymore. It's not like I'm in a roleplay with someone in Europe or Africa and I'm waiting for them to come online.

I've been thinking about those roleplays a lot lately. I remember once, Nathalie, who lives in California, spent seemingly an entire sleepover roleplaying with me and Numbuh Double Zero, who lives in Slovenia. I had to go to bed before she did, and that was really weird. Sometimes I really miss roleplaying, and other times I remember how it totally sucked up my life. This is one of those second times, actually, but I still felt like talking about it.

When I was just getting into it, I used to read other people's roleplays, hate them, and yet be unable to stop thinking about them. Judging by more recent events, this seems to be a running theme with me. There was this endless parade of acronyms that didn't mean anything: Operation: CAPTURED, Operation: NOW, Operation: WEIRD, that kind of thing. Operation: REAL did have an acronym, and it was quite a bad one, so I won't explain what it was.

REAL was a self-insertion roleplay, but Operation: WARPED was a better one. It was in double first person, which is a awesome perspective really only available in roleplays.In the sequel to WARPED, Operation: DISTORTED, we self-inserted into the KND roleplay universe rather than just the KND universe. I was kind of annoyed that Nathalie wouldn't let Numbuh 239 yell at me for all the things I put her through. But later on, I had Numbuh 239 explain why she was so angry, and Nathalie's self-insertion said something like "I think I need to have a talk with Claire", or something to that effect. 'Cause I'm not going to go by my screen name in real life, even if it is just a roleplay in which I bamfed into a different universe.

I used rape (attempted in this case) as a plot device in DISTORTED, even though I'd vowed to stop doing it. I think I stopped after that, though. The worst time was in Operation: NOW, where Beckie and I played out a whole rape scene on a forum about a cartoon intended for ten-year-olds. I was really vague about it, but you could tell what was going on. It was 1am at the time. That's my explanation and I'm sticking to it. Beckie lives in Sweden so I don't know what her excuse was. I did ask her if it was okay beforehand.

And the mention of writing rape scenes at 1am brings me back to whatever I was talking about before. (EDIT: Uh, only in the sense that I was writing things that I'd regret in the morning) Those were good days. (sniffs) Good days. (Computer explodes)

I was going to do a screencap adventure of The Neverhood on screencappery, but I can't find it. This is really frustrating. I thought that I could complete the game tonight and sort through the screenshots to post afterwards, but the case isn't where I left it where I rearranged our games a few weeks ago.

My brother probably has it, but he's in bed so I can't go check. So I guess I'll play Adventures With Edison, an education game from around the same time, instead. I remember that being kind of fun. Hopefully I can get it to run on this computer.

If I've decided to play computer games for the next hour or so, I can't seem to just shrug and say "oh well". I need to play computer games.

So I just found this comm, fandom_memes, and there are so many memes I want to do, as I love fandom. But for now, I'll just do these two. When I could be outside doing something else. It's too hot for that.

( Fandoms as lovers )

( Fanfiction of 2006 meme )

And mwagen thinks I should go to ROFLCon, but for some reason my parents don't want me to spend all my money on plane tickets. I wonder why that is.

Now, allow me to tag this entry with every fandom I mentioned in the multifandom meme, that I already have a tag for.

OMGOMGOMG

(Confirmation)

The number meme below reminded me of another one I did a year ago with characters and pairings. I found it very amusing, so I'm going to put it here. I did it twice with the same characters, but different numbers, for some reason.

Meme the First:

1)The Tommy
2)Edd
3)Ironclaw
4)Numbuh 239
5)Loren
6)King Jingaling
7)Klaymen
8)Ron Stoppable
9)Hazel
10)Lemony Snicket
11)Rayman
12)Ben Plotz
( Le questions )

1)Lemony Snicket
2)Ironclaw
3)Loren
4)Klaymen
5)Hazel
6)Rayman
7)Numbuh 239
8)Edd
9)King Jingaling
10)Ron Stoppable
11)Ben Plotz
12)The Tommy

( questionora )

Well, I looked up the Hall of Records on the Internet. Fortunetly for me, there was an entire transcript of the thing. Even more fortunetly, it was at the top of the page! Ah, Neverhood. How I love thee...*Is happy*
Hmmm... Maybe I should say why I like that game so much. So I will.
It all start with... no, that doesn't work. I'll just write normally.
It all started when I was seven, or possibly eight. As I recall, I was having a bath. When I got out, I dryed off in front of the heater. (I could do that. I was a little kid). I discovered that my mother had downloaded a demo of a game off the Internet. The Neverhood, of course. Through a complete fluke, I figured out the first and only puzzle on my own, before anyone else. *Shakes head*. The flytrap would break his fall? What was I thinking? Anyway, since it was a demo, you could only go through two rooms before it went to a screen telling you to by the game.
My mother got the game for her birthday an indeterminate amount of time later. I played it too. The puzzles were hard, and I figured out few of them on my own. All in all, it was a great game. Any ending other than the "good" one scared me, and I refused to watch them. I know I was still like that when I was eleven, but I don't know about now. The fact that an ad on the radio where a guy gets buried alive made my sense of humour dry up, and that watching Spiderman 2 caused me serious emotional pain, sort of indicates that I still am.
The really important thing that happened probably happened when I was nine. I went on the Internet for myself for the first time. I was looking for hints for the Neverhood. The search engine I was using defied the laws of search engines, and came up with a fansite quite quickly. It was at http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Dungeon/7393
It was my first encounter with fandom. The site that really stuck in my mind, however, was another site, the content of which can now be found at http://doo.nomoretangerines.com/nevhood/index.htm .
I didn't know this until today, however. So... that's what I'm so happy about. That a site from my internet infancy is still out there somewhere. A site whose fanfiction inspired me to write my own. A site that made me really wish I could draw that well...

OK, this is my first entry, but anyway, I was bouncing on the trampoline, which I love to do, since it helps me daydream. At that moment, I was trying to make an Ed, Edd n Eddy/Fairly Odd Parents crossover. Lots of fun, really. I had Timmy moving to the cul-de-sac, and meeting all the kids... Anyway, I decided that Edd had met Timmy's babysitter, Vicky, before, which is plausible enough, but I had to have something for him to say while he panics. I'd rejected "It's the babysitter of the apocalypse!" as being too derative, when I thought of "Vicky beast! Vicky beast! We're doomed! Uh! (Knocks self out on a lamp post)"
This is from the Neverhood, when the lovable fool character, Willie Trombone (...yes), is scared of the Clockwork Beast, and accidentally knocks himself out. Bad for him, since he comes to while about to fall of the edge of the world... (Bil, hang ooooonnn!)
Anyway, I finally figured out who Edd reminded me of, other than Ponder Stibbons from Discworld. His voice, especially in the earlier episodes, reminded me very much of Willie. Then I started thinking. Never a good idea...
Willie had quite a few brothers, according the Hall of Records in the game. About seven or something. You find out what happens to all of them (Mostly death), except for one. Guess what his name was? Yes, Ed. All it says about him (after their world split apart) is "Ed's chunk just spun in space, forever".
Adding this to the fact that a) All of Willie's brothers had a hoop on their heads, and b) Edd has something to hide under his hat, probably shocking, from Ed and Eddy's reactions, this was all just too coinicidal for me to ignore.
Then my brother came out and made me even more hyper by talking about Super Smash Brothers Melee (Who are the Super Smash Brothers, anyway?) being crossed over with a few cartoons... I had to tell him to stop before I did myself an injury...
I may just write that as a fanfic. I can just see the title... The Ed-erhood! I'll have to reread the Hall of Records first, though, so that I have my information correct. Better stop typing now, or I'll miss Ed, Edd n Eddy.