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Weird stigmas

This is more like a random thought/observation but

Every single gaming journalist ever makes smartass comments like "God Sonic's stupid friends who are they!!"

do you think they ever
like
take a look at the cast of Mario Kart Wii
realise that half the characters have practically exactly the same character designs
and there are like 6 baby versions of characters
and think

"hmm where did they come from
why are they even characters they've never even been in mainseries games
maybe Mario's cast isn't as fabulous as pop-culture-reference-#23820 after all"

I'm not saying "waah Mario's cast is awful"
I'm not even saying you're not allowed to make characters for the sake of party games

I'm saying where did this stigma come from
that Sonic Team can pull dumb characters out of their ass and get leapt on by every journalist in the history of the universe (even the journalist version of Socrates) for being so inherently evil for doing such an unheard of thing!!

and never stop to think for one second that Nintendo pull dumb Mario characters out of their ass and get away with it. Especially when the Mario series has a lot more characters in its party games than Sonic does... and some of those are yes kind of unimaginative believe it or not.

At least Sonic characters look different
(for the most part, red/black hedgehog and white marijuana hedgehog outstanding)
But you can give Sonic a couple of Hedgehog counterparts surely if Mario's got

- Luigi
- Wario
- Baby Luigi
- Baby Mario
- Baby Wario
- Waluigi
- Baby Waluigi
- Baby Goku in a plumber outfit

as his counterparts, right???

Especially if it's a party game come on
why do people complain about party games having characters in them.

Gaming journalism baffles me.
Stop complaining about stupid things hOLY SHIT.
(yes I realise the possible hilarious irony in saying that and I maintain it enjoy your laffs while they last.)

- A Novella By Joshua Jeffery (◡‿◡✿)
PS. This article is pretty good
http://kotaku.com/5905159/the-sorry-state-of-mario--sonic-gamings-worst-team+up
Apart from the "who the hell is ___" comments actually. But I almost didn't notice them since they're about as redundant as when articles mention how many ~casual games~ the Wii has as a criticism of the console.
PPS. this isn't really aimed at anyone on the C of 3 just putting that out there.
(but if you have consciously made comments like that then shame on you )

Long distance relationships

Blog rather than thread because it's a bit word-vomity.

Ok so obviously there's nothing outrightly wrong with long distance relationships, they've happened since forever, just now it's generally over the blagosphere, email, webcam, etc rather than snail mail- surely the improved communication aspect should make them more acceptable? Which is why it bugs me when people say they aren't "real", regardless of your own personal view on the subject.

And yeah, I used to think I could never work in a long-distance relationship, not having that contact, and the often unrealistic possibility of ever meeting your significant other.

But even though my first relationship didn't go so brilliantly (mostly due to my own naivety rather than the long distance aspect, never confuse flattery for romantic feelings again.) I've completely warmed up to the idea.

I'll be honest, it's really hard finding like-minded people when your tastes are 'socially questionable', let alone one who you'll actually share chemistry with (yep I shared tons tastes with my ex, but I didn't feel very strongly for her even though she's a really wonderful person, see it's hard!). I've never been desperate for a girlfriend, so why would I go out of my way to 'look' when I've always been a 'good things come to those who wait' person? I can't say most of the girls I meet irl would be hunky dorey or reciprocating with the fact that video games are my passion, or that I read yuri manga and look at hentai from time to time. It's really easy to find like-minded people on the internet- that's why I love it. I've made tons of friends, many of whom I share a real emotional attachment to, platonic or sometimes otherwise, and yep, largely or on some level they share the same interests as me.

It's really nice to be able to be yourself, on the internet people like you for you, not for what you look like or how good you are at certain things, and while I'm no longer completely insecure of my looks and skill (yes, thanks to the internet) it's still much easier to relax online than it is in an environment where no one even plays video games?

Realistically, there should be no reason to be ashamed of being a gamer, it's becoming more acceptable but it's still got ways to go it seems.

I digress though, LIKE MINDED PEOPLE. Maybe it's just me, but entering a relationship from friendship having built up feelings over time is really sweet, I could probably never be someone who says "she's cute, I'll ask her out". It.. doesn't make much sense to me, maybe because I'm a sensitive or empathetic person, I don't know if I could date someone I don't already genuinely care for, or that I know doesn't care for me back. It's nice - and as I come into my own in the world, living by myself, going to University and etc, meeting a long-distance partner isn't an impossibility at all. If you want something to work enough, it can work. And if you don't? Then maybe they're not the right person.

PS. My ex is still one of my best friends and she considers me her best friend too (even though she was really hurt at first). I was scared to break up with her because I thought I'd lose her as a friend too, but now I'm confident I can always fight to keep the people who mean a lot to me.

tl;dr Long distance relationships = yay from me.
Do you guys have any thoughts on them?

H I - me again

What's crackalackin' ladies.
I've been 'back again again' for a few days now but.. I'm kind of worried that once again I'll only be around for a week or something before I disappear again. Who knows?

Some of you probably remember I was kind of depressed last time I popped up- I can't say I'm depressed at all anymore. Buut I'm still a worrywart and I still procrastinate too much, but what else is new?

I've been playing games a lot more lately, and also watching a lot more anime. Hopefully once I get this week over and done with I can do even more of those things.. I have a presentation and an essay to do how fab.

Long story short I'm really happy with my life at the moment for various reasons, I feel like I've finally reached some level of calm. Probably not long before that gets thrown off again but oh well idrc. ~sparklesparkledesu~

I'm currently procrastinating that's pretty much the main reason I'm writing this.
So C3 how are you.

new laptop

I've had this laptop for yonks now and I'm hoping to get a new one before this year's Uni term begins.

So really I'd like some simple advice or maybe some suggestions from you guys because I'm hopeless with this stuff.

- I don't want to build it myself or anything
- PC not mac
- I'd like it to run smoothly and have an efficient fan
- I'd like to say it'll mostly be used to University work but aha nope it'll mostly be used for saving tons of anime and fanart and doujin games
- Yeah I don't want a ~gaming laptop~ or anything but I want something that runs simple games like Touhou really well/without exploding (because god when I try to play Grief Syndrome or Minecraft I can hear my laptop struggling for air).

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hi josh

hi

ok well obviously I haven't been active on C3 for a while/ages, in fact I believe it's been around a year since I was really active here. There are a number of extremely lame reasons for my absence.

- University, yep of course that's not a real reason so moving right along.
- Tumblr, extremely addictive website where I can post yuri all day and no one will judge me :'D
- C3 being full of negativity. Since I'm a bit more tolerant now (I hope) I'm going to try and spread positiveness. And that doesn't mean be a Nintendo fanboy, that means I'm going to be positive towards every "faction".



So I'm back. (I guess? - inb4 I forget all about this tomorrow and never come back again) Stuff has changed including myself, I'm a lot more into anime, I'm about to start my second year at Uni - I'm moving into a house in Falmouth with my brother Cam (who's about to start his first year) and two friends, one of which was a flatmate at the beginning of my first year. It's probably going to be awesome, the fact I'll be with Cam also means I won't be as shy because we're practically two halves of the same person by this point.

Since the ~last episode~ I've really gotten into the Madoka Magica series which my life seriously revolves around, so ah if no one on C3 has watched it I'll be REALLY SAD. I've also gotten into the Touhou Project in a big way it's so weird.

Oh yeah and I actually got a phone! Holy shit.

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