Well-Oiled Machine

Ok, I may have lied earier

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Well, somewhat. I’m still not putting up the entire recordings up on my blog. However, I recalled a fun part in our streams. So, I felt that it deserved a nice bit of highlighting.

Torchlight II has really been a delightful breath of fresh air. It has a simple charm that only has one element that bothers both Meez and I. We both dislike that we have to use our mouse to move around. In our conversations, we both agreed that we preferred wasd for movement. However, it’s a minor factor for me.

Also, that element has nothing to do with the video that I’m about to put up.

Anyway, Meez and Ryen were wandering about as we were preparing to fight a boss. So, Seferia got bored. In the process of getting bored, Seferia decided to entertain herself by typing “/dance” just to see if something would happen.

You see, back in her WOW days, Seferia used to /dance all the time for no good reason. /Dance is a way of life for Seferia. Hence, she wanted to /dance, thus she was delighted to find that she could.

/Dance for the win!

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When a stash is too large

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One tends to forget the little tidbits and trinkets that are hidden away in that stash.

I have been gathering and building a huge music collection over the years.  I don’t tend to get rid of the music that I’ve gathered, I just add more and more onto that stash.  So, I have a large chance of encountering songs while my devices are playing on random and going “what is that?”

Having raided OCremix back in the day doesn’t help with that.  Not in the least bit.

This was one that I did exactly that to this morning.  It caught my attention because it is rather fun and entertaining.  So, I feel like putting it up and sharing it.  Enjoy.

In other news, I’ve been streaming quite frequently from my various computer games, but I don’t feel like putting up the recordings in a post. Still, the streams keep on coming.

I may or may not stream more Saints Row: The Third tonight.

Fanfiction Chronicles

Ready for that promised rage?

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Well, it’s almost here.  Sadly, this piece of junk that I just came by isn’t quite worthy of rage.   No, not rage at all.  Only the pathetically perturbed feeling of knowing that I found a winner of bad-fanfiction terms by only reading a single word.

Seriously, I didn’t need to read more than a single word in order to know that I had stumbled upon a disaster.  That single word was “i”.  Seriously, this person didn’t have a spell check or was too lazy to actually capitalize that word?  How…  I don’t even want to know what has to exist in order to produce a person that would “publish” a piece in such a deplorable state.

Just no.  Absolutely no.  I don’t even care if this story may have wound up funny if it had good grammar or spelling.

On further thought, how do stories this bad wind up with a lot of reviews?  “Reviews: 1,163″…  Seriously, does this story deserve that much attention?  Sometimes, I feel completely scared for the future of humanity.

I’m even more scared when I stop to consider that despite the fact that I was able to proclaim this story trash within seconds, this is not the worst that I’ve seen.  By far,. it’s not the worst that I’ve seen.

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I can’t make this up even if I tried

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Well, today I logged into my youtube account to respond to a friend who put up comments to a few of my videos. While I was there, I decided to poke at the new options that have popped up on YouTube. Thus, I noticed this thing called “transcript”.

Apparently, YouTube can automatically make subtitles for your videos. I think… I mean, this is what I got:

Seriously, I can't even imagine faking that

… I am speechless. And humored. And speechless. Mostly speechless.

I don’t think even my best attempts at faking bad ideas on translations could have possibly ever come up with something like that. It’s just… priceless.

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Blowing up stuff and getting blown up is fun

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Last night, there was a plan.  That plan wasn’t too extravagent, but it was still a plan.  That plan failed because someone lost their game disk!  So, instead, we wound up with a next to pro-level Brawler going up against a woman who hadn’t played Brawl since…  around the time it first came out.  At least we laughed about it.

Continue reading Blowing up stuff and getting blown up is fun →

Well-Oiled Machine

The WOM delivers

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Give the members of the WOM a challenge that is absolutely absurd and should have no purpose being accepted?  No problem!  We’ll take it on and we’ll laugh in the face of impending doom!

Last night, the WOM got together on Tri and conducted a semi-planned stream of battling streams.  Meez and Seferia both streamed the events of that night.  Meez had music, Seferia had game sounds.  Seferia fought with TME and Xsplit.  Meez was Meez.  Overall, we all had fun.

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At least I’m not this bad

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Seferia may spend a lot of her time reading fanfiction, but she doesn’t usually stay up all night reading it.  She usually only reads it until she drops dead and falls asleep.  She also rarely reads slashfiction for it’s usually just horridly written.  Half the time, it’s “we have two handsome men!  Let’s stick them together even though they have no good reason to care about each other!”  Yea…   Not my cup of tea..

And David Willis… if this is based off any real events, how did you find enough comic book fanfiction?  I’ve strayed into that territory, the pickings are slim….

 

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Proof of the demented state of the populus

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Everyone, know first and foremost that Malek is to blame for this post.  I would have rather saved this material for another day.  However, he is insisting that I use one of the various trinkets that I had encountered through  my years of going through fanfiction.

Well, now that you know who to blame, let us start with the how this story was even located.  For, this is not the type that I would have searched out on a normal day.  First of all, this story isn’t even a thousand words long.  Hrmph, if I tired, I could probably make this very entry longer than the story.  No, I do not generally read such short stories.  So, it normally would not have come up in my searches.

In fact, this story was located on purpose.  My friend, Kat_Aclysm, and I had once had a conversation on how people are strange putting characters together that should have no right or purpose being together.  During this discussion, we theorized the various sorts of wrongs that one could possibly come up with.  In general, while we knew that there was a high chance that there would be someone who would put the various characters that we were discussing together, we had hoped that we wouldn’t find the situation to be real.

Well, out of sheer desire to humor myself for a few moments back then, I looked up this story.  Actually, I just put in Cait Sith and Sephiroth in the character filters and spun the wheel.  I fully expected to find absolutely no hits.  Who would even think of such a pairing other than a laugh for a post or something like that?  Well, someone did and someone actually wrote a story on it.

So, Malek, are you happy?  Here is that story.  A villain as villain as can be and a stuffed toy as side-kick foolish as can be.  They by no means should have a fic where they do things together in the least.

Fanfiction Chronicles

Why do I always find these ones?

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In my quest for hidden gems amongst the grime, I regularly come across stories that are ancient, good, and have no hopes of ever being updated again.  They have a charm to them that pulls me in.  However, the fact that they were last updated over four years ago always is there, tormenting me.

This story is one of them.  I took a chance on it when I bumped into it, figuring that it would be horrendously full of banal one-shot moments that would lead no where.  However, it did keep my attention enough for me to devour it.  Unfortunately, the sad truth is that it has no hopes of ever being revived.

I know the way the game is played.  No fanfic writer returns to a story after years of decay.  This story was last updated on 06-15-07, so yea, not a chance that it’ll ever be returned to.

However, if you happen to be at least vaguely interested in InuYasha and want a few good laughs, I do recommend it.  The author did manage to capture an entertainment that did not depend on awfully out of character moments or banal senses of “this must be cute”.  Overall, I found it rather fun for what it was.

Now, I’m certain those that know me are going “where’s the Seferia raging at bad fanfiction?”  It’ll come.  I just haven’t found something that is actually worthy of rage yet.  However, it will come.  Bad fanfiction is a part of life for a fangirl.  Fanfic writers never fail me on this matter!

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So very wrong, and yet so very fun

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Well, I had two requests to review this fic and present it up here. I know that I have mentioned it at times to various people, but it’s not really that high on my list. It’s only a fanfic that is unquestionably wrong and funny at the same time. By all means, the very concept of this story should put it under the “automatically horrible” column. Yet, somehow, the author managed to pull it out.

So, I shall go ahead and speak of it today. My Little Wesker is definitely not the pile of sludge that I was expecting when I first read the name and saw the categorization of “My Little Pony/Resident Evil crossover”.  I will be honest, the first time that I read the title, I had images of a terribly written story with raging out of character interactions.  I couldn’t even comprehend how such a story could possibly work.  I’m certain the same thoughts are going through the heads of those reading those right now.  They all lead to “NO!”, I’m sure.

Well, I’m definitely no MLP fan, I watched the original series as a child and have watched the Friendship is Magic series out of sheer boredom and because my friend insisted that I check it out.  I have no strange fascination with the series.  It exists.  Is it bad?  Not completely…  The dialogue is noticeably horrible if you hear it through another’s speakers.  But it has some quirks that make it reasonable as a product.  So, I can understand why some people enjoy the show.  However, it isn’t something that, for lack of better terms, I find magical.  It exists.  That’s it.

Resident Evil and Wesker, in particular, should be no means be able to mesh with the MLP ideas.  Sure, they came close to having an actual villain worth notice at the end of the 2nd season with the shape-shifter.  However, there is definitely nothing that I would classify as an actual threat in MLP.  Thus, the interactions should by no means work.

Yet, somehow, this author has managed to make it work.  Even Malek commented that the humor in the fic was actually charming.  I think the thing that makes this story work is the fact that it is aware of itself being something that should not work.  It doesn’t take itself too seriously.  However, it is written maturely, so it doesn’t look like a complete mess.

I have found many flaws in the story though, such as it using the show/video games as a strong clutch.  Scenes from Umbrella Chronicles and the show have both been presented and reformatted for purposes of this story.  Like the other story that I presented the other day, the story does rework these scenes to make them fresh.  So, it is a minor point in some ways.

Also, it is noticeable that Wesker is a bit not quite spot-on with characterization.  At times, the internal dialogue and dream sequences indicate that the author does understand his characterization.  However, there is just a bit off in general with how he interacts with others.  Still, overall, it’s not too strongly out of character.  So, this story does not stray into the “bad” category.

This story is still in progress, and I do read new chapters as they come up.  Hopefully the humor and odd quirks will continue to intrigue me.

Well, I hope you guys enjoy the fact that I presented this story to you.  Check it out if you want your mind blown with absolutely bizarre humor that should not work.

I also think I have an idea for my next target fanfic.  However, I shall hold off on it until tomorrow.