Posted 3 hours ago

My working on the FFXIII video made me nearly neglect one of the last two reminders for KotN voting!

Just one more mention of the evening, tonight and tomorrow night are pretty much all I have left if I have any hopes of at least making it into the top ten for King of the Nerds Season 2 voting.  If you liked what I had to say, or perhaps if you liked my FFXIII video that I just released, could you spare a click again today for a vote?  Thank you for your kindness!

Posted 4 hours ago
Video isn't working.
darkwizardjamesmason asked

If you’re still seeing that the video has only recently been uploaded so you can’t see it, you’ll just have to wait.  It may appear slowly across different regions.  I can guarantee that some people can already see it.

Posted 4 hours ago

MarzGurl Reviews Final Fantasy XIII - Episode 3

After a long hiatus, MarzGurl returns to continue where she left off. In this episode, we tackle many gameplay features, including the battle system, crystarium system, and shops and upgrades. Innovative, or convoluted?

Posted 1 day ago

Was trying to answer a Tumblr question when Tumblr ate my response. Mad about it, so now I'm writing about King of the Nerds again.

Again, I won’t take up your Tumblr feed with this much longer, hopefully.  There’s only 3 more days until KotN stops taking video submissions, and they’ll start compiling their top ten videos for further voting.  And again, for now, I’m just concerning myself with getting that far.  So I’ll only be getting in the way of your Ponies and weird and Pokemon mash-ups for a couple more days.  Until then, I’m only requesting and reminding that you can vote once a day until this whole thing is over.  Unless you don’t like either me or the show, then by all means, don’t vote.  Or you could try to sabotage me by voting for me too many times, that works, too (please don’t actually do that).

Thanks to everyone who has given their support thus far.

Posted 2 days ago

Daily Voting for King of the Nerds' "People's Nerd". Won't be asking much longer, don't worry.

For the time being, I’m really just concerned about making it into the top ten position of the King of the Nerds’ “People’s Nerd”.  If I get any farther, we’ll continue on from there.  But we only have until Friday to gather votes for it to make it that far.  At least you can vote once a day! Will you give me one more vote today, please?  Not if you don’t want to, of course. 

Posted 2 days ago
Do you have a favorite video you worked on?
tech097 asked

Um… I’m not really sure… there was a particularly old Anime News Editorial that was really fun to shoot.  It started with some news about The HUB, then it devolved into a crazy NERF war that had nothing to do with the news story.  It came out really well for the time, I think.  I don’t even remember the date of release of that video.

Posted 3 days ago
*Question that is too personal, somewhat creepy and projects personal wish fulfillment* There, do I fit in with the question-asking crowd yet?
Anonymous asked

No, not yet!  You have to get really lewd and fetish-y, only to have me end up deleting your question because it really isn’t suitable or tasteful to answer in the slightest.  And as you can see, I have responded to your question, so you’re not QUITE raunchy enough yet.

There.  Now you know the skills it takes to fit in with all the other people asking me questions. 

Posted 4 days ago

I'm actually doing this... I'm asking you to help me get onto the next season of King of the Nerds.

This is crazy, right?  Yeah… yeah, this is really crazy.  But I’m going to ask for your assistance nonetheless.  

I’m aware of the concerns that all viewers have in regards to reality programming and how nerds are portrayed on TV.  Believe me, they’re concerns I’ve always had, too.  So, if this just outright angers or sickens you, obviously, you don’t need to go out of your way to do anything.  But, you know what?  Why not?  I mean, really, why not?  What if it turned out to be a really cool experience to walk away from?  What if I learned something?  What if I walked away gaining something from it?  And I’m not even talking about prizes.  Though, believe me, as I state in the video, if voted in, I’m definitely in it to win it.  But not for me, necessarily.  For the sake of nerds all over the place.

So, here’s what I’m asking.  Those of you who follow me, you know me, you know what kind of a nerd I am.  Watch my video that I’ve submitted to these guys and see if it lines up with the kind of person you would want representing you on a show such as King of the Nerds.  If not, don’t vote for me.  Look through the videos and vote for somebody else.  

You can vote once a day, it seems.  And, seriously, don’t try to rig the system or anything, guys, it’s really only once a day and doing it more than once will cancel out votes, so that helps nobody.  Unless you’re trying to sink my battleship, in which case, go ahead and sink me, I totally understand.

There’s really not a lot of time left to do this, so whoever feels like they are willing to lend a click in the amount of time left, I’d greatly appreciate it.  

Whatever happens happens.  But, you know, let’s just see where this goes, okay?  You never know.  The experience for all of us together (and believe me, you guys in the community around me are in on this ride) could actually turn out to be pretty fun.

Posted 4 days ago
i was wondering, how did you get into anime and what was the one anime that pretty much hooked you into being an fan of anime?
princekurama asked

When I was in high school, I was struggling with the fact that I thought I actually HATED anime.  I really felt US animation was superior.  But I had a friend at the time who had been born in Japan and moved to the States a few years earlier.  He let me borrow just about all of his DVDs, and it gave me a far better cross-section of variety than what I had previously sought out on my own.  I specifically latched on to Satoshi Kon’s directorial debut movie Perfect Blue.  In watching it, I had entirely forgotten that it was animated.  I was completely hooked.  And it was from that moment that I realized that anime was simply another medium to be used as a wonderful story-telling tool.  It’s what got me thinking about other mediums as a means for storytelling, also.  As much as I loved video games, I didn’t much think about them, until that point in my life.  I realized that why I loved JRPGs was simple - their stories.  Games equally could be used to tell stories, just as well as a TV show or a movie.  I grew to realize that every medium has its merits, and if the creator does a good enough job, their intent and their story will be told just as intended.  I’m glad I finally ditched my narrow-minded mentality.

Posted 5 days ago
A tiny black kitten waddles into your ask box mewling and staring up at you with its big green eyes. What do you do?
Anonymous asked

Hug it, pet it, think it’s adorable, try and find it a nice home, keep it if nobody else will take it.