The Answer

On July 29th, we shall commemorate the birth of Alex. However, Alex is not very sure what he will attain for his birthday. A new guitar? A new monitor? Or a new iPod?

I will probably end up getting a new monitor though. I'm getting sick of this 15" (1024x768) 20ms piece of crap. Can't watch my movies with enough clarity, my space for multitasking is very important to me and the ghosting on this thing is huuuuge.

But then again, that new shiny 24-fret Ibanez, with its pickups replaced by a Tone Zone/Air Norton set. Oh dear. It's so tempting to buy that instead.

And then my old iPod broke and I have to take my music everywhere, or else I'll probably die. Well, the dying part is an over-statement of course, but there's no denying I'll be extremely bored without an iPod most of the time. The 120 GB classic iPod calls out to me.

I'm pretty much torn between the three things, and no, I cannot get
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Already a good few hours into the visual novel Umineko no Naku Koro ni, I must say it's really amazing. Aside from my particular interest in murder mysteries, it really succeeded in creeping me out (and I'm still on the first chapter!) with it's brilliant music, the strong sense of atmosphere, and it's really well done narration (and I'd really like to give credit to the people who worked on its translation; that must have taken a while). I'm still kind of creeped out right now, but I will read a bit more before I go to bed. I gotta note that the character designs are a bit...amateur, which might throw a few people off, but I've quickly gotten used to it and it looks natural already. I really recommend it to any anime/manga/visual novel fan. It's definitely a must!



On another note, I've been closely following the re-a
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Well, the highly anticipated Comiket 75 finally arrived a few days ago and I managed to get my hands on the also highly anticipated Touhou non-official anime's first episode, entitled: A Summer Day's Dream. Much discussion formed in the pre-release period, concerning the (judging from the two previews leaked on the web) questionable animation quality and the ridiculous list of voice actors hired for the project, but I'll explain in detail later on.

Before I continue, for those of you who don't know what Touhou is, it's a series of games, developed by a one-man team, going by the name of ZUN. Most of the series' games fall into the category of bullet-hell vertical scrolling shooter. In the game, you must defeat the enemy all the while dodging a ridiculous amount of different bullets. The series has gained an immense amount of fans and has been subject to countless fan works.


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Well, seeing as I like to keep in touch with different stuff and whatnot and I feel the need to review random things, I decided to make a blog, which I shall update every now and then when something interesting happens. Hope you enjoy.

The image says "yukkuri shitteitte ne!" which is loosely translated to "TAKE IT EASY". I'm really fond of the meme as it seems to apply to the way I like to reflect upon life. Besides, the yukkuri are pretty freaking hilarious.

So yeah apparently "!"s at the end of URL link markup mess up the code. It took me a bit to get the above link right until Andy (Vermillion) pointed it out for me.
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