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Saturday, August 29, 2009

This. Is. YOGURRRTTTT!!!

Om nom.

In an attempt to get mal to write a blog, I am writing one ! yay!

Last week was the first days of school. I'm pleased with my classes because really its just shit I do every day (art art English; so drawing and writing :] ) I am somewhat frustrated with not having lunch with people; this happened last year and gives me far too much time to think, hell, I even READ BOOKS D: And drawing won't do me any good, I already do that for about 3 hours a day. So I think I'm gonna see if I can find some interesting books. Maybe I'll read pendragon again or try lightning thief. I get off pretty early; so I'm hoping to do running at the park; the one mom showed me is AWESOMETASTIC OMG I punch myself for waiting this long and not going all the times they went. Hopefully this Lax year will give me ideas, but sometimes I need difficulties to thrive.

Next up, I got dissidia this week yay! I am making this part (hopefully) transparent as to not spoil mal.

Dissidias gameplay is very different than what many of us experience. To put it into words, its like Smash bros brawl + Soulcalibur with bits of fire emblem, final fantasy (of course) and sonic thrown in. tiem to justify all that. Smash bros uses different A and B attacks depending on which direction; and is the same with Dissidia, but one letter is attacks that give you bravery(or how much you can attack) and the other HP (or how much damage you take off.) To harm the enemy more, one must have more bravery, if its at 0 (reset after every contacting hit), then someone can break you, and get a major boost of bravery, and lead to a higher attack. For something that has you sort of smash square and circle, fighting those stronger than you becomes a difficult task of seizing the moment. It is a lot like Soulcalibur based off its epicness, how they must gain a crystal for cosmos or chaos; and the narrators all soulcaliburness "TALES OF SWORDS AND SOULS, ETERNALLY RETOLLD." XD oh and some of the menu music is like it as well. The map system is a board, you move and you lose a point and bigger bonuses, and obstacles stand in your way; so the fire emblemness is knowing who to fight (usually for treasure or experience) and to do it swiftly. FINAL FANTASY IS AN OBVIOUS POINT. D: cant get more cloud than "what are we fighting forrr" and tidus "daaaaaddd I HATE YOU." And lastly. Its like sonic in that you sort of take care of chaos, but really you win battles and this chocobo, based on your performance, gets you treasure and heightened exp bases. My favorite part I think is the calendar system, I don't know if tehres anything like it. You are asked which day is your favorite to play, and on that day your given bonuses like 2X exp and such. Rewarding for your favorite day is so cool : D So far I've played out Tidus, Zidane, Cloud, Squall, and most of Cecil; and I have to say I still like tidus, zidanes sort of annoying, cecil is very hit and miss much like squall, but squalls WAY more powerful D: and cloud is…default.


 

So that's pretty much it. Maybe one day I'll do a post about some random files I found on my monsters; its exceptional writing for me :]

Friday, August 21, 2009

YIPPIE KIYAY MOTHER*******!

Despite the clearly misleading title, this is a time capsule post. Yeah i don't believe either! Its not gonna include me hating people! That's great! Allright where do we start.

Going into the last year of regular schooling, I wanted to reflect on things that made me me. No, not people today. Well. Not real people anyhow. The wonderful world of fiction that I don't believe many children have these days. Bet you thought I was gonna start with DBZ DIDNTCHA?! Well, it was gonna be; till I watched something today that made me very happy and I thought I should talk about it a bit first. The shows that I watched after my morning kindergarden :D Blues Clues!!! I had forgotten how much I adored that, and to think, KINDERGARDEN! Its been 12 years! I don't know if drawing was what I thought about all the time like I do now, but maybe hints like me asking how steve was so darn good with his crayon and I wasn't probably meant I was interested at least. Most shows back then were my time. Its ironic. I always see "childhood" reflection arts on like…he-man. I don't even know what channel that was on? No way man. Tom and Jerry, Bugs Bunny, Blues Clues :D I watch stuff with Stevie now, and as much as I li—no I don't really like it. That's not to say he shouldn't like it, I just wish there were more enthralling early learning shows than the stuff currently. I mean jeez im old like crap and im yelling at steve "TWO BLUE DOLLARSSSS."

I only recently have been seeing steven doing what I thought he would have a long time ago; reacting, really reacting, to whats on the screen. Jeez the girls cant ask me enough questions (no holley I DON'T KNOW that much about Anastasia but I'll try! ) and steven, well he's always been stolic. Even in pokemon, he saw them, knew their names, but it was like a o____ *watches* and doesn't really get it. Lately though, ive been giving him more Disney and Sandys been working with him, definitely paying off. Why the other day he learned about croquet from his grandmother, and I had him come over to watch A Bug's Life, and in the opening shot you see the zoomed in look of all the tall blades of grass; to which Stevie promptly replies "oh wow I wouldn't want to play croquet in THAT grass!" (to which I LOLED my butt off and tried to not let him see how awesomely cute and observant of him that was) I just wish there were better computer games than they have now for kids. What do small PC gamers play? I played jumpstart….does this gen play the sims?

YEAH NOW ITS TIEM FOR THE DBZ. Despite my constant roaring of pokemon, I'm probably as much if not more into dbz than pkmn. The difference is dbz is over. Dragon ball Z happened to me in early first onto second grade. It was my first real Toonami show, one even my mom and I watched together; she knew Goku and Gohan just as I. However, the major Pokemon thing hit in second grade, and popularity pushed dbz out of the limelight. It was all about pikachus. Not to say I didn't watch it of course, there was just two different crowds back then, the group I'd learn with, and the group I played with. Schooltime you told everybody your favorite Pokemon and drew and traced in the how to books, at 4:30 during daycare you glued yourself to dbz watching trunks beat the crap outta frieza. I have fond memories of both, but sometimes I wonder which actually got me into drawing; it might've been both :\ In second grade I got a series of comic books, you might of heard of them; the electric tale of Pikachu. :D on the back covers though they had advertisements for the Dragonball manga. Guess what I did? Yup. I copied pictures in and out of those books. I still have the paper where I did my first real kid goku. Dunno where the comic books went though; that makes me somewhat sad. You know what that means of course? Its been about 10 years since I drew that picture; so I drew up some dbz stuff the other day to compare. Its……different. XD why wouldn't it not be. It proves how much ive grown in some ways; and how much I haven't.

That whole series was somewhat of a growing up thing. Dbz was a BOY show. I was sposed to watch sailor moon. But…my notions of anything (we shall call it shoujo; I call it phobia of anything romantic) shoujo just didn't let it happen. My way of proving myself was to draw better than the guys. Watching dragonball in itself, behind the things that went around it; made me probably a little like how I am now. Gohan (before he fought cell, it put him at like 12 or 13…which happened to be my age at the time) was always my favorite character; the first character that really stood out as a calm but powerful rationalist as he grew; we all love our narutos and ichigos and EDWARDS (not cullens >.> ), but sometimes we forget about people like Alphonse and Gohan. I myself always wanted to be as strong and yet levelheaded as they were; I built characters with that sort of mentality; IF you've known me long enough, long before a Kayton or a Xetak there was a Kale. Kale was the weirdest in all my entities as I never drew him in the image of me. The physical form of "kale" was actually just me with ONE of my sleeves pushed up and the other one left down. To me now, that was a little silly; but in some ways it was my figurative super saiyan form, one that I believed was really better than me and could do so much more (in paper drawing terms kale became a character I draw ever so often, in lots of different entities, but theyre just usually me. How mary sue. )

When I look back, see all these problems people are having now, I see that my earlier times were so easy compared to parental issues of others. The scariest part of my life has been hoping mom didn't throw diet coke at the wall in fury, or meet an ADHD kid. GOD its like those people are out to get me. The only two I ever met were at my daycare, and I had horrible experiences with both kids. Now people are trying to deal with selfish brothers, job aspire-ments, and fathers. :\ Always remember tho. To be super saiyan; one must train to be the best they can be, or choose the easier and less favorable route, death. Take what life has to offer and fight to win, or your weakness will end in tragedy. Both roads get you there, but the tragic road is never the one to take.

…oh and its filled with steroids. :D

-Kayton-saan.

Saturday, August 8, 2009

Deserves its own post.

I found this the other day. its not very nice.
I think it had to do with so many people asking me to do original stuff, and mom said something like that too. Its a hard blow when even your mom isnt behind you, as all of you might know depending on your lifestyles. but my mom is usually a "well im for it but dont screw up" sort of person. I remember coming over to the computer angry, and just started typing. Its VERY rantful. And if it offends you? I don't care :| Because ive read it over 3-4 times now and it says exactly how I want to say it.
6/17/09
">:[ fucking original from me. nothing in this STUPID world is original.
why are my ideas any different. thats right, because i already found this factor out in SEVENTH FKING GRADE.WHEN MY GREAT
IDEA OF A MAN WITH METAL LIMBS WAS TAKEN FROM ME. FMA? hah.
i cant do original because it doesnt exist. so what if its cartoony.
cartoons are the basis of a childhood, and if there arent good cartoons, such as the crap we have now, what do you
think will happen to kids? you say anime is stupid. and least pokemon has the basis of a good cartoon. learning, but
its not in front of ones eyes, and isnt shoved into ones face. fighting? internally or externally its bound to happen.
I shouldnt have to be limited on whats in front of me. or the racial or ideas that must be created for one to MAKE a good
realistic piece. realism is there, and is in video games. but the IDEAS have to be fantastical for the realism
and the surrealism to mesh.
what is there and whats not there is what makes games so compelling
Live in your world, play in theirs.
save the world
kill your father
destroy what doesnt need to be.
prove your existence.
and like the heroes of games to come, proving your existence as a person is what relates you to the hero.
to draw is like that.
to draw what you want is to prove your existence
i guess that since everyone else does realism and no fanart it means that im clearly just not a good artist as they copped
out of something so, immature, years ago.
but you know what i think?
i think theyre afraid.
afraid to love what they do.
afraid it will make them lesser than what they are.
to be embarrassed that i like hannah montana and pokemon at 17? pish posh. i know it, my friends know it, and they
arent any less friends to me than ones who wouldnt know it.
if other people want to base their judgements on my hobbies and not my personality, let them. they arent my friends.
what would the world be like without disney?
without those to show us how to be when a father dies?
without those to show us what to do when they are separated from all they know.
how to become stronger when everyone else thinks lowly of you.
these things are REAL LIFE. and they can be conveyed through cartoons.
cartoons?
no.
Art."

*goes to sleep*