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Wrestle Kingdom 2

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It's a wrestling themed sequel to my Mario Maker 1 level!

I had a dream last night that the ResetEra secret code was "Steam Fog."

...unfortunately that is not the code. Pretty weird that I'm dreaming about signing up for an Internet forum. I also dreamt that I was playing Mario Kart with a Nintendo rep at the bottom of an empty pool.

I like the idea of the first big gaming discussion on the new forum will be a new Animal Crossing game :D

I'm honestly kinda surprised there's so much hate for NeoGAF everywhere. Maybe I was just so insulated by restricting my gaming discussion to that forum.

Sure, sometimes threads would get derailed, but it was really easy for me to skim over a post and skip it if it wasn't doing anything for me.

I never had a big problem with the mods, but I didn't post that much. I was irritated when a thread that looked interesting was all of a sudden locked with a snarky, unhelpful reason for the lock posted by "modbot." Banning ANY type of discussion on games like Hatred also sounded really stupid to me.

But other than that stuff, NeoGAF was a pretty pleasant place for gaming news and discussion. And I guess that shielded me from all this hate that I'm seeing now. Oh well.

Had this happen to me today. The Predator skill continues to be awesome, lol.

Many years ago, I moved from GameFAQs to NeoGAF for my gaming discussion. I think it was finding out through the NeoGAF Giant Bomb thread that Jeff gave my Deadly Premonition playing cards to Swery that made me an active NeoGAF visitor in the first place, lol.

I know it was notoriously difficult to get a NeoGAF account in the first place, and I'm sure a lot of outsiders are bitter about that, but it really was a nice place to talk about games without having to worry too much about trolling and such. It's a bummer that it looks like it's gone.

But here I am posting on the GB forums again! I'll probably stick around. I don't wanna go back to GameFAQs or try to navigate the meme swamp that is Reddit.

Tokyo Drift

I also named my character after Dom and Brian: "Torreto O'Conner," lol

As soon as I heard the news, I made this:

Good luck, Austin, and thanks for everything!

I also went to the Miku Expo concert in Dallas!

I was wearing my "Dean Ambrose x Hatsune Miku" cosplay, complete with custom "Vocaloid World Heavyweight Championship."

I also went to the "Let's Draw" event that they held at a local Barnes & Noble. They gave away a free pin and stickers in exchange for contributing to an animated music video. They would hand you a drawing of Miku and you could do whatever you wanted to it. Each drawing had Miku at a different angle, and presumably each drawing will be a frame of animation for the video. I, of course, had to draw something wrestling related.

Other fun tidbits about the concert/tour:

Each city of the tour gets an exclusive poster that you can buy. Unfortunately, they pulled sale of the Dallas poster at the last minute when it was discovered that the artist of the poster had plagiarized an existing fan art. Vocaloid fans are apparently very vigilant about this sort of thing (considering the whole Vocaloid phenomenon revolving around fan works, it's not surprising), and people notice immediately once the poster design was revealed on Twitter. Bummer all around.

The special light sticks that changed colors were available for pre-order in a crowdfunding campaign for the American Miku Expo tour. They apparently only made enough to fulfill pre-orders and sold out of the extra stock during the first couple of stops of the tour. Surprisingly, NO ONE has sold their special Miku light sticks on eBay, yet much to my disappointment (I really wanted them, but missed out on the pre-orders because I thought I'd be able to pick them up at the concert and avoid paying for shipping).

I had general admission tickets, and bought them pretty much as soon as they went on sale. So far, the Dallas show is the only concert that has sold out (though they had released a few more tickets the day before the show started). I dunno if that's because the venue is smaller, or if the Dallas Vocaloid community is huge. VIP tickets sold out soon after going on sale, and I sort of wish I had gotten them. I had an okay view in the standing area, but I somehow slowly began to get pushed away from my group as the concert went on. One of my friends (who I had only met a day before the concert) actually got elbowed in the face during the concert, and had to leave because he started bleeding profusely. They wouldn't let him back into the venue after he left either :( ...Though he has a blood-soaked Miku t-shirt now, which is kinda hardcore.

My view would become occasionally obstructed whenever people took out their phones to record the concert. I missed out on the entire Vocaloid cast intro, and could only barely make it out by staring at someone's phone screen. That was kind of annoying. When I COULD actually get a good view of Miku, man, it was freakin' amazing. Some songs were better choreographed than others, but she was so well-animated for the most part, and whenever it was dark, and you couldn't see the glass screen she was being projected on, it almost felt like she was actually there...

I wasn't really into Vocaloid or Miku prior to the announcement of this tour, either. I was only vaguely aware of her, thanks to stuff like that Dominos App and some of my friends were Vocaloid fans. I only started actually looking into the culture and listening to the music as research for this concert. I'm really impressed with how creative Vocaloid fans are. It's really like the next level of fan art. You can write a song about Miku killing cops or something, it blows up online, people start drawing fan art, someone makes a video of it, and suddenly Sega puts it in a Project Diva game, and then a Miku hologram is singing about killing cops all over the world. (Seriously though, the subject matter of some Vocaloid songs is freakin' weird. At this concert, Miku was literally telling us that she's from the government and your friends and family are all out to get you.)

Yeah, so, it was a very fun experience, and I hope Miku comes back to Dallas again soon!

Final Fantasy VII

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