Star Ocean 3

Oh, did I offend you, princess? Ruin your neat and tidy thread older in the folder? Suck it, toolshed. Nothing stops Max talk.

Max Kellerman has a podcast on the ESPN page now! Finally! =)

good guy, he

Ah, the beer. Alchohol flows like water here. There are many vending machines with beer in them, and anybody can purchase from them. Apparently they reduced the number of beer vending machines because of drunkeness, but they're still not hard to find. In general, alchohol is easy to get. I've gone to izakayas, the Japanese style bar/restaurants with my classmates, most of whom are under the legal drinking age, but nobody checks ID. I've never seen it. The all-you-can-drink deals are pretty common, and just stupid cheap, too, but I'll save that for another time.

I'm in Kyoto, the city with a thousand temples and shrines, but only one place to hang out at during night. Unless you're fine with neighboorhood bars or things like that, Shijo, past the downtown area is the only area in the city that will actually have people in it at night. Most people rely on the trains to get home. There are a lot of cars, and tons of bicycles, but the usual method of transportation seems to be the trains. But since they all end at around midnight, if you miss it, then you either take a taxi, which is ridiculously expensive, or wander the streets. But you can also pick my favorite, which is staying overnight at an internet cafe or karaoke. Unless you're really anal about being about to shower or something, those are really great places to stay. Actually, the internet cafes have showers-not enticing ones, but at least they're there. It's also really cheap. You could stay overnight in karaoke for 15-20 bucks, and the cafe could be less than that. And then there's always McDonald's. The ones with 24 dining areas are pretty safe to sleep in. Especially if you're a foreigner, they're actually less likely to make you leave. I actually haven't seen the panty vending machines yet. I've seen ones with ramen, and other soup, but nothing too weird...maybe Kyoto isn't the best place for that stuff. Oh, and speaking of trains, it's nice to live in a city that actually has competent public transportation. When I first got here, I could hardly understand how to use these things: not because of the language barrier, there's plenty of English signs, anyway, but because the concept of this public transportation is so strange. I just wanted to drive everywhere, like in LA. All they had was a subway that went in one direction, and that crazy Orange Line bus that nobody understood, and had like 3 accidents in the first week it opened. Here I can get to Osaka and back for 6 dollars or so. I guess that's about the same distance from LA to Anaheim.

Nothing was really disappointing, certainly not Angle/Yuji. Both that and the main event were worth it by themselves. Now I'm debating if Angle/Nakamura is worth going back to Tokyo for.

Oh, it was, I just prefered Angle/Nagata, mostly for the great ending sequence when they kept reversing each other's holds. For some reason a lot of people left after that match... Not every match was great, though. Abyss had a very mini brawl, with a mini thumbtack spot in which he basically just slammed his hand on them. Then he lost to a back suplex. Also, Bubba tried to ham it up by yelling random crap in Japanese, which the crowd actually did like.

Anyway, the Tokyo Dome show, Angle easily had the best match of the night with Yuji Nagata.　Angle retained　his title, then confronted the new champion after the main event. Yeah

I got tickets for the Tokyo Dome show today. Yea.

Only 4 days until the Star Ocean remake, aka reason to buy a PSP comes out. That's the Japanese release, but it seems somewhat certain that they'll announce a US release, as well

OK, so I've been here since September, but I never really made myself bring my thoughts together on this until now. Having to send Christmas emails to everyone back home did that for me. I've seen one, maybe two houses with actual Christmas lights up. I know that it really has no meaning to most people here besides presents and having parties, but they still blast the same Christmas music throughout supermarkets and malls. I think the Japanese people that work in these places either become immune to it, or have long ago been driven to the brink of insanity, and just tolerate it until they finally explode. I dread going to the frozen section of the grocery store, because the same chirpy song is played over it incessantly. They do enjoy lighting up various parts of the cities during winter, though. Even the downtown area of Kobe was shut down for a walking tour, with tons of booths of food set up. The food, though...the actual Japanese food is fine, but the things that they do to Western food is very strange. Just basically take a dish, put some corn, mayo, and a fried egg on it, and you turned it Japanese. Maize does not belong on pizza, and I only said maize because I didn't want to use the word corn twice. And I know, I'm cheating the Food Folder by not posting this juicy information there, but it can wait. But yeah, I'll post more later. I do have to say that I think studying abroad is a good reccomendation for most anybody in college. I never even thought I could actually do it until I got a flyer from school.

How many times will the Ducks and Sharks play each other this month. That was crazy.

And another Ducks-Sharks game passes me by. I've gotten over the withdrawl, but still, the bitter taste of the memories of games past is embedded in my taste buds. It's almost as if these games aren't even happening without my previews.

christmas season started weeks ago

Just before he passed on, my grandpappy gave me one last bit of advice - "You can't ignore the cactus when it's stuck up your behind." Now, this was not random deathbed rambling. If you’ve got that thorn in your side, there’re two ways to go about business. You can be a little pony, and let it be, hopin’ it’ll disappear. It may, eventually, but you’ll always be the little saddlesore that couldn’t muster it up to take care of it yourself. The cowpoke’s way is to reach in there, pinch that thing with your mighty digits, and rip it out with all the force of the desert wind. What I’m saying, and I’ll put this in a way you city folk can understand, is face them slickers you don’t like, and bring ‘em down. You herd ‘em in, and make your own thoughts felt. That’s what this here bulletin board is for.

Pizza with a fried egg cooked into the middle of it is a surprisingly good idea, I found out.

Jurassic Park for Genesis scared the crap out of me when I played it at night as a kid.

Ill'n Pro

They never stopped doing that last season, either. Whatever happened to those two kinda retiring guys, anyway?

yeah PWG fans are much better.

Didn't Woody Paige call the Rockies sometime early in the season? I think he did. Yes.

Atmey wasn't very interesting either...I think the previous games had much better characters. By this point the new characters' wackiness is actually getting kind of stale. Meh.

New prosecutor is kinda disappointing so far; he's got the usual quirks but is kinda bland. Other than that, the new game is more of the same, which is good.

I don't get internet anymore, either, but I can just go to school to use it. Maybe you can find a college campus and use their lab. Most just let you walk right in.

Ugh. I already can't stand the never-ending season. You play for ten months out of the year, in 300 games lasting 5 hours each to make the playoffs, and then you're gone after a week. Everything about baseball needs to be more compact. The playoffs don't have to be longer, but I won't put up with meaningless teams playing longer than they have to. Simple solution: You don't have to watch. Well, I don't really have to do anything. But, I like to watch meaningful games, that's why I don't like the season being so long.