New Job

I just got out of working in the kitchen and I have to say it feels pretty good to not be a full time dishwasher anymore (I still work sundays for 2 more weeks). I started to hate my boss when he put me on sundays where he used to have two people working dishes and then it was just me, but I wouldn’t leave just because of that; I got another job!

I got a new internship position at a local volunteer facility for $10 an hour with pretty damn good hours. Basically, the facility is government funded and is aimed towards “connecting the community”. The project I’m working on with another guy is a local ebay listing section for the community. My job right now is to list the items that people bring in the facility. The process consists of: Guessing how much the item would go for, photographing, uploading pictures and resizing, then creating the html page and posting on ebay.

I think the best part is being unsupervised (writing this post at work). I also enjoy testing all the stuff that comes in (Commodore 64!!). Anyways here’s a link to our listings if could ever possibly be interested in buying something.

Comox Valleylinks Ebay Listings

There appears to be a limit on the number of items that can show on the front page at a time. If you wanna see more items, click on one first and go to the bottom of it’s page for different items.

VGR: Tales of the Abyss (PS2)

Before I write anything, VGR = Video Game Review for those slightly slower then others (just kidding!).

I was interested in renting this game to try ever since I heard about it. This was mostly due to the fact that I’ve played tales of destiny 2 and greatly enjoyed it. I still have mixed feelings about the game itself but I’m mostly leaning towards positive.

So starting up the game for the first time, I was introduced with a fairly appealing anime cutscene. Although the anime part of it was well done, the 3D seemed like it was lacking in frames per second. Really really choppy 3D animation for a PS2; looked pretty much like PS1 fps. Based on experience from playing many other role playing games, I prevented myself from getting too excited about a cutscene because I knew I would be let down for the most part. I was getting the general, “I wish the rest of the game was like this” kind of feel, even though I hadn’t played the game yet. Anyways moving on…

Game starts off with some fairly old kid looking out of a fancy house window, nothing too special, though you do get the imediate feel of confinement which is good for the story. Honestly, the opening is pretty lack luster, I prefer more epic openings. Good thing the battle system makes up for it.

Many improvements have been made to the combat system including the default “straight line” fighting combat, aswell was a free range 3D plane fighting style. Both of which are grealy utilized during combat. This game depends greatly on how you control your character in combat aswell as where you stand during certian attacks. This addition greatly reduces the number of players just mashing the X button in previous “Tales” games. I don’t know if this was included in previous games but you can also team up with a friend and have him control another one of your allies, very very fun. Even though I never buy games, I’m thinking about buying this due to the multiplayer gameplay.

The graphics are colourful and the environments are well detailed. The only thing that really bothers me is the character animations. Although there is a wide variety of animations, alot of them seem really jaged and poorly constructed. The character models themselves recreate the anime feel very well.

The real winner for this game is the voice overs. They have been done many times before and failed horribly, but this game seems to have an appealing taste. Also, an enormous amount of dialogue is voice overed, and the great part is that it doesn’t seem to shorten the length of the game. I’m sure the game has many other additions which I have not reached or unlocked due to only renting the game, but I may fix that in the near future.

Average Score [8]

Blog Stats

So apparently people like to read drama because there has been an increase in my blog stats due to the following post “Master Plan Initiate”. On average so far I get about 30 views per day, sometimes 50 at most. Well, I’d like to make a complaint that you guys viewing my site totally ruined the scale of my blog stat chart. See the results below.

I think you can guess where “Master Plan Initiate” falls on the scale.

Wow, links from particle, karasu, and vertigos. You guys really love this stuff don’t you? I guess I should post more titan related shit, I mean drama.

Edit: According to a recent update, my blog has made it on the top 100 blogs of the day on wordpress due to the single article recieving over 900 views. You can view it as #46 by the end of today by clicking top 100 blogs of the day on the wordpress.com website. Second Edit: Apparently the top 100 is constantly changing so I was pushed to #51, but it should be around that area.

White Flour! White Flour!

Master Plan Initiate!

Today the master of all drama was initiated on Titan Server. The plan was to merge two endgame linkshells: Jollyrogers and Relentless. Jollyrogers wanted to include all there linkshell members in the merger, but Relentless did not. Relentless only wanted to include specific people to a number of 25. This would mean more then half of Relentless would not be included in this merger. Jollyrogers had mixed opinions about this idea because many people believed this would just be a way to get relentless members into Jollyrogers as opposed to making a new shell. Relentless leaders insisted this was not the case and Jollyrogers went forward with the plan, but not until later this week. This ment that it would be kept secret aslong as possible.

It appeared that everyone in Relentless found about this plan when Jollyrogers made a post on there forum about it, leading to this linkshell conversation screenshot, and this post on Killing Ifrit. Oh boy are the leaders of Relentless in for a good ride. I don’t actually think the linkshell will be named PrettyPrettyPrincess although that name is pretty awesome. Looks like Jollyrogers are gonna get the easy half of this rollercoaster this time Post a comment on what you think the new linkshell should be named. Jollyrogers + Relentless = ?

The Black Mages

In correspondence to my previous post, I’ll reveal another one of my favorite bands. Because of my huge obession with video games (especially roleplaying), I’ve taken a liking to a band named “The Black Mages”.

All the music they have covered were songs from various Final Fantasy games. All of which are brilliantly well done. I greatly recommend checking out this band if you have any interest in the Final Fantasy series as I’m sure you will reminisce of old events while listening to this music.

Currently they have two cd’s released: “The Black Mages” and “From the skies above: The Black Mages”. Both are extreamly well done, though I prefer the music from the second cd more. Below is a torrent for both cds.

• Black Mages I and II

If you already have the cd’s and you’re looking for something else of enjoyment you can check this out:

• The Black Mages Live – Divx (.avi) Torrent
• From the skies above: The Black Mages Live – Divx (.avi) Torrent

Well I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. Well the music….The actual people playing are pretty goofy looking as my friend pointed out to me, but atleast the music is good….

Sounds of Muse’ic

Everyone has there own favorite music so I figured I should post my own. I listen to alot of music, and by alot I can tell you that my older computers hard disk drive has about 20 gigs of random music stored on it. To me, one particular band always stood out from that big 20 gig music folder. Although I would listen to alot of music, I always drift back to one band named “Muse“.

This was never the ordinary band. I’ve followed along all there albums and each one has been completely different, aswell as every song ranging in style. It seems that every song has a unique feel aswell as a catchy undertone. This is what I love about them so much. The key songs that I like the most tend to fall more towards the heavy genre: Suppermassive Black Hole, Citizen Erased, Time is running out, and Muscle Museum. If you like any heavy music with a more poetic feel, you’ll definitely enjoy Muse.

Below is a link to a torrent where you can download the music collection.

• Muse Collection

Deviant Art

I started a Deviant Art because I generally couldn’t find any better place to get proper exposure for my wallpapers aswell as my blog. So if you want to check it out just click this link http://avanarius.deviantart.com.
Below is the first deviant I’ve submitted to Deviant Art.

1280×1024 Wallpaper

Anterior Monitor Problem

So alot of people coming from final fantasy ask me computer related questions because I’m supposidly jesus or something (I don’t blame them, I really am). But I’ve never quite had a computer question like this one. It was later at night so all I could do is laugh and not think of a logical solution.

The Daryl: question,,, what do i do if an ant is walking inside my monitor?
Avanarius: what the fuck
The Daryl: like inside the screen
Avanarius: crt monitor?
The Daryl: crt?
The Daryl: idk it’s a flat screen
Avanarius: aka big box monitor
The Daryl: nah it’s flat
The Daryl: plasma or lcd idk which two its hd though
The Daryl: so one or the other i guess
Avanarius: hmmm thats a dilly of a pickle
The Daryl: it’s like inside the actual screen but i can see it on the image
Avanarius: thats like the oddest computer question anyones asked me lol
The Daryl: walking all over my itunes lol
The Daryl: lmao
Avanarius: surprized it hasnt got electricuted
The Daryl: i try to squish it but no result
Avanarius: lmao
Avanarius: thats so awesome
Avanarius: well from my point of view
The Daryl: fuckin bullet ant
Avanarius: how the hell did it get in there?
The Daryl: no idea
The Daryl: i noticed it a while ago
The Daryl: but i thought it was like dust or some shit
The Daryl: but now it’s walking around
Avanarius: lmao
Avanarius: might have to take monitor apart….but I’ve never done that before
Avanarius: I dont even know if its possible, I’d assume it is
The Daryl: i wouldn’t be able to do that
The Daryl: i don’t think it’s that serious
The Daryl: hopefully it dies on a corner or something so i don’t have to look at it
Avanarius: try some of that ant lure poison stuff at any openings and tip the monitor on its front side at night or something
The Daryl: i’ll have to buy some

I formally apologize for the joke in the title.

Pwned

So yesterday I got bored and decided to take a look at the razor-gator website after reading over my last post. Apparently I could get a free razor-gator if I linked my site to there’s. Well, look I already did. So I figured I could just do what they say and they would send me a free razor.

After filling out the email and sending it in, I got a reply this morning saying that the terms used to describe the razor on my site were not accurate, so needless to say I was quite dissapointed. I wrote them back saying I would correct the terms and email them back, but not before posting this link:

Man Killed Over Razor-Gator

Pwned bitches, now time to write that email.