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I miss drawing. Something is keeping me from it. I don't know what. I have a whole bunch of pictures in my head, but I can't seem to form any of them up. I think Moonie use to speak of this, but I haven't had this kind of drawers block before or for so long. It's not that I can't think of anything to draw. I can. I can even picture it... but whenever I sit down to draw these things, something stops me... saps the will to do it form me.

I miss my 360... I can't get people to play the Wii with me, and my PS3 is too often a hassle. I know the Wii's excuse, but you'd think that Sony would have figured out a way to give you notifications of friends, be able to compare Trophies without having to load anything to the internet, and have a more obvious message system. I miss being able to just hit a button and see how many friends I have online and who's playing what.

Lokimun is around a lot, and I'm glad he's here. I am getting to see a whole lot of TV shows and such on DVD that I have again after so long... because I hate watching them alone and now he's always here. I hate doing just about anything alone. I'll even do things I hate if I get to do them with other people. And with Maiden and Crunchy hanging out in the basement almost constantly, I rarely get to see either of them.

I think my faults among myself and my friends have to do with my LARP Game that I've been running for just this side of two years. I am not the Storyteller I set out to be. I initially started my Game because no one else would do it... no one would run a Chronicle... and it occurred to me that I do enjoy a good story and can manage to tell one most of the time... and so if no one else would run a Game, then I would. My point was not to be in charge or to do things differently... it was to run a Game that at worst was average and at best was epic... so that other people could have fun.

I succeeded and I failed in a lot of different ways over these two years. My Game is the longest running of any LARP I've ever been a part of at 56 Games, and the first weekend of November 2009 will start my Third Year. I've managed to keep the story straight and to keep moving forward with it... but in the grand scheme of things, I don't think anyone cares about it. I don't think it's interesting to other people, and I'm not sure how to make it so... so on that level, I have largely failed.

You can't please everyone all of the time, but I still thought I could manage a better average after all this time. It's been in a rut and I've given serious thought to making a plot to end it all. Maybe I will... The disagreements stack up... liberties with the universe, changing of the rules, adding to the rules, allowances of certain types of characters... I seem to have upset someone at each and every turn, and I am running out of ideas of how to deal with it.

I need new blood, but I can't get it. Oh, what I would give to have the input of an AST again as I'm now running things alone... but more enjoyable would be if I could manage to talk someone into taking over the story at some point so that they could bring new ideas into the Chronicle... and that perhaps I could play.

I want to ST because I think I'm good at it and because I don't think anyone else will. If I stop, who runs Game? But is it better to have any Game at all than to have no Game? The Vampire Game here in Greenville is shit, but it's a Cam Game so it just keeps going on and on. Do I want to be that Game? The running gag, the joke... the 'Oh yeah, Tyler's Game' Chronicle? No. I don't. If people aren't having fun, I should stop. It's the logic that got me into this whole mess...

I started being ST for people to have fun... but if people aren't having fun, then I'm just a failure. If people aren't having fun, I should just stop. It's not like I haven't tried to renew interest... I have. But it's been about half a year of people being disinterested in my Game... of my Players talking to each other without including me about all that's wrong and leaving me out of things. I want to know what's wrong so I can fix it, and no one's been telling me.

I did my bi-yearly questionnaire at this past Game. I asked everyone all their problems and they all told me... Now I have a list of what to keep track of and what's expected of me, and I have a goal to aim for to fix everything... ]]> ~neo-no1Uknow http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/23777361/ http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/23777361/ Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:45:53 PDT
I am looking to produce artwork with a motivation, and doing it for money seems like the way to go. I have been in a dry spot as of late, but I can feel the artwork coming back to me. The only problem? I'm still stuck with my same-old ideas and most of what I want to do is a large image.

Now, I may not always finish or upload my best artwork, but money can be a real motivation for me. I'm great with funds, and I know how to pinch a penny until it bleeds. Thusly, I am offering up my services both as an artist and as a web designer. I have been unemployed since January 2008, and all my savings and stored-up good will are beginning to tighen around me.

I may be moving soon to try and lessen the burden... but I tell you now that I would rather do something for someone else that's something I enjoy to make a few bucks here and there than sit behind the computer wondering when this work-study job I'm supposed to have is supposed to kick in.

Glad I don't count someone having a job until the first paycheck comes in, but still. It's annoying to think I'm supposed to have some kind of income and it's still not happened yet... but I digress.

I've looked around and double-checked my costs and long ago decided on the following pricing structure. I believe it is reasonable for the level of detail that I can output, but things are always negotiable. Hell, at this point, I'd love just doing some traded artwork with people if that's not to much to ask. There's a community somewhere here, right?

Black & White Character Image: $10 (Grayscale Detail can apply with limited background doodlage. Examples: Black and White & Grayscale)

Color Character Image: $20 (Something like this or this. A full character shot with coloring and all. Different styles are, of course, negotiable.)

Full Black & White Scene of decent Size and Detail: $15 (Don't do a lot of these because I prefer to color if I'm going to do a whole scene. I believe this and that apply as examples, however.)

Full Color Scene of decent Size and Detail, in Color: $30 (My personal favorites, but also the ones that take me hours of work to complete. I think that Guyver X Vs Guyver47 and Guyver47 riding Huntermun [as a Dragon] are my two best examples of this [as is this].)

You don't have to pay until the image gets finished, of course (through PayPal, hopefully). Keep in mind that, as a commission, I will put more effort into cleaning up the image than I usually do myself (I prefer the organic appearance of having my sketch lines in a picture most of the time) and that my big scene images are often twice or four times as large as I tend to upload them as because I want people to be able to see the image on a single glance. That's the Web Designer in me affecting the artist in me.

I specialize in Anthro Wolves, Guyvers, Reploids, and have a thing for Science Fiction. I'm not beyond drawing normal humans or characters from World of Warcraft. I have a mindset for LARP and RP in general and have a lot of Video Game Experience behind me. I'm looking to work with you to get you the image you're looking for.

As a side-note, I also do graphics for websites. I offer up simple graphics (or a similar set of graphics as a small package) for $5 a pop. If you want to see examples, I can link you to a couple of places or display for you some things I've tried. For now, I will leave that as an option.

I hope some of you will take me up on my offer. It seems like I'm the only artist I know who never gets asked to do commissions. Heck, I seem to be the only one that doesn't even get asked for artwork from my friends anymore... hm.

See you in the Future,
—Huntermun

]]> ~neo-no1Uknow http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/23714206/ http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/23714206/ Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:55:59 PDT
I'm here. I don't know how many people read my Journal (as I tend to be long-winded), but I just figured I would say that I'm here. I'm uploading (mostly Scraps), and I'm around. If anyone wants to drop me a note to talk to me, go ahead. Also, I'm still taking commissions if you don't feel strange about paying through PayPal.

See you in the Future,
--Huntermun

]]> ~neo-no1Uknow http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/23534506/ http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/23534506/ Thu, 05 Mar 2009 02:42:39 PST
As it is, it seems silly to keep up, so now I'm just writing a journal to replace it. I'm drawing a picture and listening to a MacBreak Weekly... I'm hoping to replace my DeviID soon. Either way, I wanted to let people that I'm alive and that I'm forcing myself to draw more things. Even if they're Doodles, I'm trying to upload.

See you in the Future...

]]> ~neo-no1Uknow http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/23508390/ http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/23508390/ Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:14:22 PST
Screw you. You know what you are? You're a little fucker who couldn't figure out how to make it through life on his or her own, and now you're undead. Hell, depending on the universe, you may not even have a soul anymore. How does that feel? You're a memory of your previous self, not even the real you. Your unlife is a farce.

Let me say this as clearly as possible: I will end your unlife. No, really. I know the rules, and though they may differ slightly from dimension to dimension, I've got the basics down-pat. Some day, you just wont wake... or you'll cook in the morning sun, having been staked down in your own front yard.

Why do I hate you Vampires? Easy: Your life is a cheat. You got embraced one of a few ways, and I've heard them all:

Someone saw something in that they wanted to keep forever. Maybe you're an artist, maybe you're a sculptured body, or perhaps there's some science that you understand with a genius the world has never seen before... in any of these cases, you may have been an awesome human being... but this means also that you're going by original World of Darkness rules, and in that case, you'll never get any better.

Your art will still have the same strokes, but be soulless (for lack of a better term), your body, however beautiful it was, will never be more so... you'll be like a porcelain doll... that way for ever... and on the genius front, not sure. I think perhaps you can continue to think, but your methods and procedures will never change... forced, in your unchanging undeath, to do what you've always done, the same way you've always done it.

That's the best case, really. What else is there? Anita Blake universe? Well, congrats... you owe your life to your sire and or the Prince of your city. You are at their beck and call. The same above situations for embrace apply, but perhaps you can improve? Your goals, inherently, do not get fulfilled. You do the bidding of others for eternity or until you get the guts to try and take control yourself... and if you were a pathetic human, you're probably a pathetic vampire. Good luck convincing people to follow you in an effort to overthrow the Prince who's been running your town for one or two hundred years. They probably just want the seat themselves and are just using you.

Lastly (in my list, not in possibilities), there's the Buffverse. These are fun vampires because they're some of the weakest there are. On top of not really getting powerful, their prerequisites for embrace are usually one of a few categories: fodder for their plan (way to go), spiting one of the goodguys (your friends now have to stake you), or being someone that those vampires wanted to keep around. Maybe there's something awesome about you as per above. Maybe you just know how to use a computer or fly a plane, and you didn't cooperate... either way, they vamp you just to keep you around... now you're life is the same, you just can't go out during the day.

On the upside (if there is one), vampires of the Buffyverse aren't the same people who got embraced. What happens is your soul flies off to the afterlife, and a demon possess your body (they just happen to keep your memories and experiences). Why is this an upside? It means that even your family and friends can feel good about getting rid of you since you've already moved on. What's a better motivator for killing a vamp than knowing they're imitating and mocking the life and existence of one of your closest friends? Not much else.

So how do I kill you? Firstly, I don't let you the hell in my God damn house. I don't care how you phrase it, you don't get an invite. I know about your dream tricks, too. Go into my dreams and get me to invite you in? Yeah, I know that counts. Screw you, not happening. I have amazing control over my dreams. I also know about the "open invitation"... how leaving your door unlocked can be an invitation, or even leaving it unlocked... I both close and lock my doors, so that means I have me a safe haven. Assuming I am being chased, you can't get me in my home.

Garlic? Check. Holy Water? Know where to get it, and a super-soaker. Sure, it sounds silly, but you'll burn all the same. Crosses? I can get them. Many of them. I may not have all this stuff around me right now, but who does? They only thing I'm missing is faith, and if I find out their are vampires, I've got a good chance to start believing in religion...

I know some of you don't die by stake, you just get paralyzed. Sometimes you can get someone to take it out... but if you don't turn to dust in three s... ]]> ~neo-no1Uknow http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/22407852/ http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/22407852/ Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:05:41 PST
We all do.

No one is perfect.

When you or I, or anyone makes them... you have to own up to your fault, suck it up, and do your best not to make that mistake again. You can't beat yourself up over it (at least not for long) and expect to improve on your life.

If you hurt a friend when you didn't mean to (and if you did, why are you hurting your friends on purpose of all people?), then you need to apologize for the situation and do your best not to repeat your mistake.

By the same token, your friend shouldn't hold your mistake over you. If they do, what kind of friend are they anyway? Not very good ones, I'd wager.

However, I find myself having trouble with my own advice this time. It's only been about four hours, but it's creating a horrible pain in my chest, and I legitimately feel sick to my stomach.

I hurt a friend so bad she cried (though she did so without my knowing it at the time... she cried "off screen"). I hurt my friend so bad that I knew at the time I'd snapped at her and I didn't care... and later because I didn't care, I got the "boyfriend, but your friend" talk... that talk you get where the boyfriend of your friend is also your friend, but you hurt things between them...

I'm sure most of you guys out there know the "boyfriend, but your friend" talk... it goes a little bit something like this: "I want you to know... that even though you apologized, and I'm glad for that... if you ever hurt her like that again... you and I are going to have a problem."

Ah, fun times...

(That last line was sarcasm.)

The problem here is really the not initially caring part. That's my problem here. I am wrong for snapping at my friend, and I am deeply sorry about it. Deeply like I've got that 'worry if things will ever be the same again' kind of deeply (even though I know I have very little to reason worry on that front)...

My problem is that... I snapped at my friend because she can't stop taking things too seriously... and always badly. I'm honestly sick and tired of it. I don't know what to do. She'll get home from work today and read these words, and I wont know what to reply with...

She thinks the negative version of anything you might say... that bad connotation... worst case scenario... everything's her fault kind of way... And it bugs the ever-lovin' shit out of me. I can't stand it any more.

Friend (as I am not typing her name, though she and everyone I know already has every idea who I'm talking to here)... Friend, what you have to understand is that... if you always take the negative to everything, you're doing worse that just misunderstanding. You thinking the things I'm not saying, hearing words that aren't coming out of my mouth, or even expecting that I will react badly to something you haven't even said yet... it's more than just a reflection on your negative outlook on life... it's a message to me that you expect those reactions from me... that you don't think much of me as a friend.

I don't care if it's not true. I can't. By now you should know me better than to think I will think little of you, bite your head off, talk down to you, or burst out at you on purpose. If you can't see that I'm your friend... if I'm not "allowed" to make negative critiques of you as a friend... then what does that say about our relationship?

This is not a plea to anyone for anything. This is not a request for an apology or a declaration of blame. This is an outlet for me... so that you might see things from my side.

I was the badguy here. I snapped, and I shouldn't have. For that, I am sorry. The reason I snapped, however, was the build-up of anguish over your negativity towards myself and others. I can't stand it anymore.

My feelings upon lashing out at someone, regardless of situation, is a culmination of the pressure of living with something for far too long. In this instance, I snapped not because I was angry, but because I was frustrated... immensely so. I shouldn't have snapped... I should have let it out slowly over a long period of time... should have taken my own advice.

To all you who are still reading this lengthy Blog, let me say this: If you let anything build-up over time... having problems at school, work, friends, or play... if you do not air it out your grievances a little over time then they will all burst out of you at a most inopportune moment as they have this morning with me.

I should have taken her aside... I should have refused to be denied the conversation for as long as I had been. It's my fault I snapped, not hers, and I am sorry. I could have prevented it, but I didn't want all the hassle of trying to work out s... ]]> ~neo-no1Uknow http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/20994240/ http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/20994240/ Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:20:08 PDT
1:03AM; One whole minute has passed... thinking going to bed will make everything happen faster.

4:16AM; Failed to fall asleep earlier... also discovered I'm having Intermittent Sync with my DSL. Called DSL and they'll send a tech out... didn't even try anything over the phone, the bugger. Reading IGN.

10:00AM; Unable to get money just yet for MacBook... hopefully by afternoon.

2:03PM; DSL Tech just left. Turns out it was my mistake. I've been cleaning the apartment and I put my old speakers to close to the security system... magnet inside them might have made funny signal from the system across the phone line.

3:30PM; Confirmed money to happy for MacBook... maybe today, even.

5:05PM; Not today. Tomorrow morning.

7:22PM; Decided it's on my Visa SCSCU Card, might do like Credit. Proceeding to order.

7:48PM; After making the order online and saving the Cart, called up Apple to finalize. I love that you can prep the whole thing on their website, then finish by talking with a person. Confirmed future discount of Adobe Creative Suite 4 in two months as Educational discount and such with the Mac I'm getting right now.

7:50PM; Mac ordered. No problems apparent just yet.

10:08PM; Checked Website to track order and turns out problem with Credit Card. Been told by Mom that loan should go into account tomorrow, so will just check again then.

11:34PM; Headlights go out while driving to pick up Moonie from work. Cop spots me, and even though I have my Caution Lights on, he pulls me over. Ticket is $235 and I cannot drive the car home.

9:01AM; Confirm loan will go in this afternoon.

12:30PM; Slept less than an hour tonight for some reason. Almost forgot I don't have my car. Shroud gets me and Bludder to car and we barely make 12:45 on time.

4:43PM; Order is gone through on site now. No Credit Card troubles anymore.

10:18PM; Realized I hadn't been updating the Journal and backlogged everything for today. Also wondered who hasn't seen new MacBooks and decided to add a link.

http://www.apple.com/macbookpro

Updates as they Happen.

]]> ~neo-no1Uknow http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/20787066/ http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/20787066/ Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:59:13 PDT
In most states, including my own (SC), you've got to register 30 or more days in advance to be able to vote in the Presidential Election. In that case, you've got the register before night on Friday. Please, everyone, go out of your way and Register to vote... I don't even care who you vote for (though I do hope it's Obama, in this case), just do it.

Sitting on our asses and complaining about gas, the economy, war, health care, or whatever else, isn't going to make a difference. Only throwing down your vote and saying what it is you want or believe in will get you heard.

If you're one of those people who says their vote doesn't matter, you just haven't been paying attention. Both the last two presidential elections were lost by the slimmest margins in US History (whether you think they were rigged, stolen, or whatever). If everyone of my pageviews were to vote, that could turn the tides.

Red State, Blue State, whatever. Please register to vote, and do so. Today, Tomorrow, but not next week. By then, it will be too late.

See you in the Future,
—Huntermun

]]> ~neo-no1Uknow http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/19803696/ http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/19803696/ Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:00:17 PDT
Still, I figure if this is supposed to be a Journal, then let me go ahead and put something up... random as it may be. First thing on my mind, then? LARP. I run the Greenville LARP (Live Action Role-Play) for Werewolf: The Apocalypse out of the back parking lot of Up In Smoke just off 385, on North Pleasentburg Drive, the First, Third, and Fifth Saturdays of the month at 7PM (Come join us!).

The Game has been going since the First Saturday of November last year, and I think it's done well. There have been some bumps in the road along the way, but that can happen when you're new to something. Man, I do love the setting, but the only reason I am Storyteller is because I got sick of other people screwing it up... from having work come first to showing favorites to a girlfriend and having a lack of vision about story... sometimes even just taking the stance of 'it's my story, and you all are just in it'... whatever. I got sick of it.

Role-Play should be about that, you know? Not the J-RPG Video Game nonsense that calls itself a Role-Playing Game. Stories in Final Fantasy and others are just about the most stupid an contrived that you can get in gaming. You aren't really playing a Role so much as you are using Levels and Skills to make your way through an existing story.

Really... Mass Effect and Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines are the only two true RPG's that I can name off the top of my head. Still, that's not quite the point I'm trying to make here. The point was that we'd just had one ST (Storyteller) put work first, one ST put himself and his friends above the other Players, and one ST who just wanted to go forward with the story that was his, and none of them were doing a great job...

And when I mean we just had them do this, I mean from the beginning of January to the end of October of last year, we had three ST's... two of them running Games back and forth during the same time, giving us One Game a Month per story. It was pain, as an RPer, let me tell you.

I said, OK... here's what I'm going to do: I'm going to run a Game on the Saturdays that the one remaining ST isn't, and not on the same weekend as the local Vampire Game (run by friends... and that I would play in if I had more money for gas). I'm going to pick up the First and Third and the Fifth... because I miss the days of Role-Play every single week, but I'd never have the gas for it week after week. Fifth Saturdays are "Rare", you know?

Werewolf has it's flaws. Ask anyone who hates it, and they'll tell you everything. Ask someone who likes it, and they'll tell you slightly less. The setting is good, but there's a couple of things that just outright go wrong. One is Gifts (special, spiritual abilities that characters can get) that just aren't worth it, so no one snags them up.

Overall, though, I like the setting... and I think LARP has the chance to do things that other settings do not. For one, it's kind of like a web comic in that it can just go on and on and on. This leads to some Chronicles having no point other than what the character's decide. That can work, but it can also be too random.

Another method is for an ST to come up with a story or plot that the random group of characters will all end up together to continue forward with. We'll call this "Final Fantasy"-ism for the same idea... that a random group of "cool" characters are thrust together by enough plot to make them being together seem reasonable. Though, in LARP, the excuses aren't usually even as good as they are in FF, as horrible as that sounds.

I respect a good story. I know how to weave a good story, if I might make such a bold statement. Sometimes I will leave a movie and think to myself... man, they should have hired me to pen that one. But, basically, I wanted to bring the best to the table that I could. There's flaws in the way that things happen in LARP, and I wanted to see beyond them.

Problem #1: You will always start the Chronicle with Random Characters. Solution #1: Give the character creation a focus. Come up with a plot that can work with a certain kind of characters to make sure that (at first) the story comes first. If your game is going to have an on-going story, it's best to start with it rather than "figure it out later".

For my Game, I wanted mostly random characters... but not too random. I choose a Glass Walker experiment to seemingly make clones of existing characters and have them be rescued from a facility. They all had to have a certain amount of Pure Breed, all... ]]> ~neo-no1Uknow http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/17825128/ http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/17825128/ Sun, 13 Apr 2008 03:30:25 PDT
I am Huntermun, a starving artist (sometimes literally). I am currently between jobs, and ineligible for Unemployment and I depend on Food Stamps to be able to eat anything at all.

Basically, I am very very poor.

It is with this motivation in mind that I am going to begin taking Commissions. I have no idea how interested anyone is in having me do a bit of artwork for them, but I am certainly willing to find out. I need the cash, and I know some of you would really like the art.

I have looked around at other people's requirements for both their art and for how much to charge. I have used their pricing as an example, and will currently not be negotiating any of my prices.

Black & White Character Image: $10
Color Character Image: $20

Full Black & White Scene of decent Size and Detail: $15
Full Color Scene of decent Size and Detail, in Color: $30

The only way I know to be paid for Artwork over the Internet is PayPal. Please have an Account with them.

To do a bit of work, I will probably ask you a lot of questions about the details of your character or scene. I perfer to get art right on the first try and not have to go back and change something when new information arrives later. References in your DeviantArt Gallery or Scraps will certainly help the process.

Deviant Art Notes, Replies to this Journal, IM's to my AIM Name (Hunter Vileson), and E-Mails to me (Huntermun at G-Mail) are the best ways to get a hold of me. The more information I can get from you, the quicker I can begin to work on the artwork for you.

I promise to put my best foot forward in an attempt please you in any way possible. If I can turn this into a source of revinue for myself, that would be quite awesome. As it is, I am merely hoping to be able to offset the cost of gas money needed to get around the state.

See you in the Future
—Huntermun

P.S.: This Journal will be Updated as new information, price changes, or other events happen.

Last Edit: April 13, 2008

]]> ~neo-no1Uknow http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/17644222/ http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/17644222/ Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:22:49 PDT
He's my roommate...

I live in poverty. I never really have money for myself. I get enough from unemployment to be able to pay for my gas to and from LARP, because I'm the Storyteller, and I can't really miss game. Other than that, I get enough money for food and such from Food Stamps and what not...

Now, life itself isn't so bad... it's just... I don't feel I can do anything about it at this moment in time. No one's hiring... or no one's hiring me... but I can just barely make ends meet... by myself.

Which, as it stands, is part of the problem...

Back in November, I helped someone out. We kind'a knew each other through Gamestop, and his mom was tossing him the hell out of the house. She's a crazy bitch, you see, and it was one of those times where he'd have to find a new place to live or he'd have to do whatever the fuck she said. It was not a happy place.

Now, I've been there. When I was in trouble the most, when I was mentally loosing it and such, due to an oppressive step-father. I also have lived with this nice girl that some of you may know (and she knows who she is), and her family isn't all happy either. Her problem was that she'd thought most people got two parents, a happy marriage between them, and maybe a older or younger brother or sister or two... and this false belief (that everyone gets that) was the root of most of her unhappiness... the thought that everyone around her had it better than she did.

See, I have experience getting over myself, and making myself out to be a happy person. I gave up a lot of caring along the way (which was good for me since I didn't socialize verywell anyway), and that made things easier. I still care about stuff, but just the things I deem I care about... and I've gotten to the point where if there's nothing I think I can do about something, or something that I can't have any control over... I just stop worrying about it.

That works for me.

So, back to the point of the post: My roommate. His mom is a crazy bitch, and he's escaped her. I let him escape her. I was happy to help...

The problem is that he has no idea how to work life. I know, I use to be like that, and I figured it out sometime between 18 and 23, and he's only 19... but I remember being able to take care of myself. I might not have really done the laundry during that time, but I could figure it out, ya know?

Here's a couple of things:

• Leaving Plates on the floor leads to food on the floor... and possible breaking of plates.
• Leaving Drink on the floor (cans or glasses) will have basically the same result.
• Lift the toilet seat when you go to the bathroom standing, no matter how good you think your aim is.
• Do not use the toilet as a trash receptical.
• Do not try and get rid of hair down the sink or drain of a tub
• Do not leave on electronic devices when you are not using them (ie: The fan, the AC/Heat, the TV, Game Consoles, etc.). Wastes power, and raises the bill.
• Put yours and other people DVD, CD's, and Games back in the fucking cases, I swear.
• If you get the apartment clean, do not re-dirty it almost completely the very next day.

And those are just off the top of my head.

Dishonorable Mentions:

• Games do cheat... but not all of them, all the time.
• Not all Final Fantasy games are awesome. Actually... almost none are.
• Be sorry and/or apologize when you break someone else's stuff.
• Roommates should hang out just a bit and do a few things together. Movies, Games, and other things all apply. You are not there to do your own thing now that you have your own place. You don't have your own place. You and another person share a place.
• Metal is not the only good music... not even to you.
• 2D games are just as good, if not better than 3D ones.
• If a game that I recommend shows up on XBLA or in a Gamestop, do not buy it. I probably already own it, save your money.
• Spontaneous shopping trips, or important things that need to get done right now will probably have to wait. I prefer at least 24 hour warnings for driving anywhere with gas prices today.
• On that note, try to do all your shopping at once. I don't like going to Wal-Mart every day. I don't even like going every week.
• Less Trips, Less Gas. Period.
• If you are going to listen to music I do not like, wear headphones.
• Ask me before using my headphones.
• Nevermind!... Buy your own headphones, since you can't keep mine off the floor.
• Put your aluminum cans in the predetermined aluminum can location...
• Same for Carboard.
• This is not as funny as you think it is. ~neo-no1Uknow http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/17618528/ http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/17618528/ Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:24:36 PDT
  Just pointing it out, and mentioning that I haven't changed my DeviIcon... Some dumbass (either in concept, or Scriptkitty) has.
  
  See you in the Future,
  —Huntermun
  
  ]]> ~neo-no1Uknow http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/16427771/ http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/16427771/ Wed, 16 Jan 2008 06:34:39 PST
  If I include all the web-page work I've had to do, then I've had 13 jobs in 7 years. I've been let go, not required the services of, be made to quit for school, ran out of funding on, bumped out for someone closer, fired over getting sick and having my points high, leaving for having a job in a bad part of the state, and now for ringing myself up.
  
  I have, quite likely, the worst track-record for jobs of any one person I've ever known. I don't even get it anymore. I give up. Obviously, this will never work out... I just want to know why.
  
  As of last Friday, I no-longer work at my most recent favorite job... Gamestop. It didn't pay jack, but I got to talk about games all day and help customers make informed decisions. I was not a salesman, but a Games Associate, as my title described.
  
  It was more important to have you trusting my opinion than it was for me to sell to you. If I sold you a piece of shit, you would know, and then you wouldn't buy anything else, right? Might as well make sure you'll get something you'll like so you'll come back.
  
  Why was I fired this time? (And, I should note, it's only my second "fired" out of 13)... hm? I rang myself up for a transaction. Yup. That's it. It's against policy to ring yourself up, and I knew that... I just didn't know it was a big deal. I'd done it before, or so I thought. I guess not, or I would have already been fired.
  
  I'm really sick of this. Do I only get fired because I tell the truth? I must try otherwise next time... but this time it was all pretty obvious. Did you ring yourself up? Did you know it was wrong? Were you on camera?
  
  Yes, Yes, and Yes again.
  
  "I'm also on camera not stealing a fucking thing you dickhead," is what I wanted to say. I mean, seriously, we're the only store (3363... Columbia, SC) that has cameras in our district (as I'm to understand it)... so we get watched. Us. Not the customers. Me, William, Justin, Dave, Ethan, and the rest... We get watched to see if we're sitting, to see if the Gamestop TV is running, and to make sure we don't steal. It's supposed to be there for the customers, but it's really just for Joey to watch us.
  
  "I don't think of it as firing someone as much as I think of it like filing paperwork."
  
  You know what, Joey (District Manager, and instrument of my untimely termination)? It's firing. Get the fuck over yourself. I know you're all serious and business-like, but I don't need to hear the excuse as to how you can sleep at night, or whatever. "I'm an uncaring prick, and thus you admitting to your wrong-doing has taken all the fun out of actually canning you," is what he should have said.
  
  Gah. I'm not even mad. I'm not mad because it's expected. I can't have a job. It's against the laws of reality. I can't get comfy... I can't do my job the best I can and keep doing it. I can't be honest when I make a mistake. What the fuck is going on?
  
  So... let me understand this: I'm supposed to lie, cheat, and steal... like "everyone" does... and just make sure I never get caught. Do you know what my IQ is? I've watched enough Monk and fucking Columbo to never ever get caught. I'm too good at lying, which is why I never do it. It sickens me. I'm too good a person to do that crap... but boy could I.
  
  Seriously, what's the point? I'm a good person. I want to stay that way... but if the only way to keep a job is to be as underhanded as what I envision the worst of all employees to be, then maybe I should be. Is that all that works? Someone help me, please... I don't get it.
  
  Thirteen jobs in seven F'n years? This is madness.
  
  I want to work at a job I can do... and be happy doing... and enjoy doing... helping people... and should I make a mistake, I would like to be treated better than a theft, like the guy who lost his job so that I could have mine. I want someone to say "Hey, this guy could have lied to us, but he told the truth. He's an honest kid who made a mistake, and he's owned up to that. Let's let this one slide." Is that too much to ask?
  
  Guess so.
  
  ]]> ~neo-no1Uknow http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/16412358/ http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/16412358/ Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:46:34 PST You can't deny
  
  And hate it though
  You try and try
  
  The ups and downs
  Can be quite strong
  
  And so you try
  To play along
  
  It doesn't work
  And so you cry
  
  Just don't give up
  Or else you'll die
  
  ]]> ~neo-no1Uknow http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/16116057/ http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/16116057/ Wed, 26 Dec 2007 21:44:47 PST
  First Box
  R.I.P.
  December 26, 2007
  
  Remember that in death a member of Project Mayhem has a name... His name is First Box.
  
  Well, on the one hand, the Microsoft guy didn't even need my receipt, my proof of purchase, or anything. All he wanted was some basic information from me... like my address, name, and my Serial Number on my box.
  
  Guess the real first owner of my box never registered. Lucky me.
  
  I'll get the coffin in 3-5 days. I send the Box back with no faceplate, no cords, and no harddrive... and in return, I get a new X-Box within 3 weeks, a year of X-Box Live, and a new Three Year Warranty.
  
  So... well... it could be worse. It could have gone during the time I had been playing Assassin's Creed and Mass Effect, or waited until GTA4 or Too Human. If there was a time... I guess being done with my current games was that time.
  
  See you in the Future,
  —Huntermun
  
  ]]> ~neo-no1Uknow http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/15872042/ http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/15872042/ Mon, 10 Dec 2007 04:22:04 PST
  ]]> ~neo-no1Uknow http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/14472306/ http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/14472306/ Mon, 03 Sep 2007 13:11:35 PDT
  ]]> ~neo-no1Uknow http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/14039944/ http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/14039944/ Mon, 06 Aug 2007 07:43:09 PDT neo-no1Uknow), IGN (Earthsaver), and (for the sake of completion) my own Personal Page on The Earthsaver Database. I figure if game companies can make shoddy ports to get more people to see their stuff and to make a bigger profit overall, why can't I?
  
  My Journal here is called 'What Are Video Games Worth?' for a reason: I'm curious as to how much any of you might 'ay to Play' a video game. It's something I've been thinking a lot about since I started working at GameStop a few months back, and find myself pondering all the more at this particular moment.
  
  At this particular moment, I'm thinking "Man, I really liked playing City of Heroes". This is because, 1) I do enjoy playing City of Heroes and 2) I was playing it all this weekend... oh, and 3) I don't actually pay for it.
  
  You see, a few times a year, Cryptic Studios (the company that makes City of Heroes) reactivates your account so you can play it for a whole weekend. Usually, they do this right after a new Issue (read: Free Expansion for those of you who've never played) so that those who have been wondering if the stuff that's been added is worth reactivating their account for. I mean, I did play for CoH at one point (obviously) and I enjoyed the hell out of myself. But, really, the problem is I have played other newer-feeling games that don't charge me each month.
  
  There are people paying $15 every month to keep playing World of Warcraft, for example. I've played WoW. I've played the Burning Crusade. It's fun. It's good. There are things about it I like better than CoH, and things I like better in CoH. Oh, for MMO's sake, I also have played The Matrix Online, RF Online, EverQuest (quite briefly, unlike some), Star Wars Galaxies, and... does Adventure Quest count?
  
  The point being, I don't pay for it (CoH) now... or WoW... or any of those others (though Adventure Quest is Free). Would I play CoH/CoV (City of Villains, CoH's connected counter-part) and WoW more often if I didn't have to pay for them? Heck yes. I could run with friends (online and off) all the time in CoH... and for WoW, I was part of the nicest Guild I've ever had in any MMO (or any game) ever. Those guys rocked... and I'd probably still be hanging out with them if it weren't for the cost. Actually, I know I would be. But, once again, I'd also still be playing CoH.
  
  I wouldn't, probably, still be playing Galaxies, Matrix, RF or EQ, though, for the record.
  
  But this isn't just about MMO's, ya know. It's about games in general. It now costs way more than I want to spend to pick up an X-Box 360, though I'd like to get one. Similar for the PS3, I can think of two games I'd like to play (MGS4 and Ratchet and Clank Future) that I'd like to play for it... but besides Blue-Ray, I see no reason to play $600 for a freakin' system. And, even for Blue-Ray, I'd have to pick up a whole new TV just to see the new pretty.
  
  However, on the other side of things, there's the Nintendo Wii. It only cost me $250, and it came with a game (unlike X-Box 360 and PS3 [for the moment]). However, Wii's problem are two-fold... Crappy Ports, and it not being as powerful as the other two. Oh, wait, there's also those people who absolutely hate the idea of moving around to play a video game. After working in GameStop for a while, I hear that one way too often.
  
  Seriously, I've gained muscle since I've gotten a Wii because I two-handed Wii Sports Tennis... that is to say, I have two Mii's... one Right Handed, one Left Handed, and I hold a controller in each hand. You get up to Pro with those, and you really start to get challenge... and a work-out for that matter.
  
  However, would I pay $50 for Wii Sports? Hell no. If it came packaged with a Controller like Wii Play? OK, yeah... probably. Wii Play, however, not so much.
  
  Would I pay $50 for Pokémon Battle Revolution for a game that did less than the last one I played (on N64)? No. Glad I didn't, but people did. How about a less-than-steller Mario Party 8? Nope. Prince of Persia: Rival Swords? Already own the Cube Copy... and it costs less now, and you get an M rating.
  
  But this is trouble all over the place. Each time I look to the 360 and think "Hm, I could get that, sure", I always end up reminding myself that games cost $60 fucking dollars (uh... is profanity allowed on IGN? I might need to go T fo... ]]> ~neo-no1Uknow http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/13883759/ http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/13883759/ Thu, 26 Jul 2007 06:05:31 PDT
  See you in the Future
  
  ]]> ~neo-no1Uknow http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/13395711/ http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/13395711/ Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:14:52 PDT
  Now, I can hardly remember.
  
  I tried so hard to be happy. I tried to do everything in my power to become happy. But it felt like every thing I did... nothing mattered. When the results of something I'd spent so long working on would come to nothing... when my attempts to pull myself out of a hole would not come to fruition... that was normal. That was every moment for nearly 20 years of my life, starting from the second I was born.
  
  I'm not like that anymore... not by a long shot. Now I really have trouble being sad (at least constantly, that is). During my High School years, I changed something about myself and I started to get away from all the unhappiness that had followed my existence from day one. I'm really glad to be in this place I am now. I can look back on that point in my life and realize that I was a completely different person back then than I am now.
  
  The reason I ponder this so deeply at this time is because I have this friend. She is unhappy. She has days or hours of being happy, but they don't last. She goes back to being unhappy. She has reasons to be happy, much like I once did, and I realize that this tells me once again that she is like I once was.
  
  I hated that person... that old version of me.
  
  The thing is, I did so many changes to my life, so many things to get myself out of that rut... that I find it difficult now to explain how I did it. I want her to be happy, but I have trouble putting into words what it took for me (which might not even be the same thing), so that I could tell her what she might do.
  
  Realizing I have three female friends (four if I saw Krista more to count her), I might as well clarify that it's not =guyver47, nor is it Cissie... For everyone who knows me (including this nice lady who I am speaking of), you'll know who I'm talking about. I just want her (or you, as I know you read my Journal) to be happy.
  
  An Example: At one point in my life, I wrote a story. It was a classic werewolf story. That means the main character gets messed up by a werewolf, lives, finds that he's begun to kill people, and has the only option left for that kind of character: Accept the life that has been dealt to you, and be destroyed by those who kill your kind... or, not wanting to hurt anyone, kill yourself.
  
  The main character was me. And no matter how much I think venting and having the main character go off and start killing more of the people that I didn't like in real life... because I couldn't bring myself to think like that for real, I just couldn't do it. The story ends just after the character makes it to the seventy-second floor of a building in the nearby city... I think you get what happens...
  
  The character, though ready to jump, could not bring himself to do it. I wrote a page or two with him thinking introspectively about the things that had happened... and the twist ending is that his friend shows up to supposedly talk him down. That's when his friend reveals that he was actually the one killing those people all along, framing me. He ends up shoving me off the roof and I die.
  
  What does it say, I wonder? Well, I would put others before myself, for one. I couldn't end my own life... I refuse to give up... and yet, it also says, that I think that any one person could betray me, even my best friend... now thinking my best friend could kill me... ah... what did that say about me?
  
  What changed? What changed?
  
  I think, as it happened this weekend, that the change perhaps began with ES. What's ES? ES stands for End of School. Back in middle school, I thought to myself: People always talk about going to parties and such, but I never get invited. Wait, do I want to? I don't really want to dance and hang out with those people, you know? So, wait, if I threw a party, what would it be? I guess I would do one about video games...
  
  Ah-Hah! Video Games, of course...
  
  ES: End of School Party, launched 13 years ago this month. If I did my math right, that means it was 1994, and I was 12. I got a bunch of people (friends, but also just people who liked to play video games) and we all ended up at my room at home and we played games all night long. It was fun. It showed me I could have some kind of social outing just for myself and it be good.
  
  The next year, ES2: Night of the 64, we rented out a Japanese N64 and played lots of Mario 64, and a whole lot of Super Bomberman 2. I think we only had my TV... but... ]]> ~neo-no1Uknow http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/13088142/ http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/13088142/ Fri, 25 May 2007 11:59:17 PDT
  I am ashamed of what we appear to stand for.
  
  But, recently, I've come across some good quotes that have made me rethink what it is that I stand for. I stand for the difference of opinion... the acknowledgment that you and anyone else can be wrong... or that you can just think different than others, and not be chastised for it. I believe in Free Speech, and Freedom of Religion (even if I don't practice it)... Freedom to pick your own sexuality, and whether to have of have not of that unborn child. These are just things that I believe. You have a high chance to believe different... and if you're a US Citizen, then I at least know for certain that you, of all nationalities, are entitled to your opinion.
  
  Our government, as it stands, is no longer For The People, By The People... It's For the Corporations, By The Corporations... or For Those In Charge, Ignoring Those Who Are Not... For The Rich, Screw The Poor. These beliefs and these "people" all shame me. For U.S., they shame us... amongst ourselves, as well is in the presence of other nations.
  
  Blame Republicans if you want (I know I do), but I also reserve the right to blame the Democrats too, or the Independents, or whoever else, on the whole. There might be any one person out there who stands for something different in our government, or anyone person out there who speaks up to be heard... but on the whole, our Republicans are Greedy people, and our Democrats are Spineless. Yes, I like John Edwards... yes, he's a Democrat... but even he cannot combat the spinelessness of his party. He alone, or I alone, or you alone, cannot make a difference the way the system is now...
  
  We (that's the majority of US citizens), think the War in Iraq should come to an end. Most of the government agrees with that assessment as well. They voted as such. The President—who's either seeing himself as a dictator and running the government as such... or is just a puppet for the corporations that run the government (depending on your view)—is a jackass. He's an idiot. He doesn't care about you and me (unless, of course, you're of a wealthy class of citizen). He doesn't listen to us. He doesn't listen to U.S.
  
  The man has about a 20% approval rating here in the U.S., and still he defies us. We The People are supposed to be in charge. Yes, the president is there to make the big calls, see the big picture... keep the U.S. on the right track... but that's not happening. He's hiring and keeping in power Yesmen, who usually don't even know how to do the job they've been assigned... he cares more about loyalty than competence.
  
  It sickens me.
  
  Bush got us hit on 9/11. Don't fool yourself into thinking otherwise. Some could say that none could have seen that coming. Some will say that Bushes' reaction of taking it to the "Axis of Evil" was a good idea, bad execution. Those people, in my humble opinion, are fooling themselves.
  
  Clinton, for the last years (plural) of his term, got new briefings every single day. New Warnings. When he didn't know something, he asked questions. When someone handed him a memo of urgency, he took it as such. This is not, once again, me (being a Democrat, I guess, given the two choices) saying Dems are the better choice. No. This is just me saying that, as a president, Bush has screwed up royally. He got a memo that basically said, in it's header... that we were going to get attacked, and soon... before 9/11. He basically just shrugged and went on his marry way... a few days later, we lost two Zip Codes.
  
  Each Tower was a Zip Code.
  
  Then, of course, he attacks the wrong country, screws up Katrina, makes more terrorist, spends money we don't have, looses all our jobs to other countries... etc. etc. He's a Fuckup, and my Right to Free Speech let me say so.
  
  ...
  
  The point of this Journal? This is me, in my everyday life. This is why this is a journal. Every day, I hear about us fighting this war that cannot be won. I heard about our government not listening to us. I hear (and see, since I live in S.C.) about us getting dumber and dumber kids coming out of our schools. I heard about how New Orleans is still fucked up (as I have a friend who lives there)... and I hear this shit about how we passed a Bill to End the war, and it got Vetoed. It was already said... ]]> ~neo-no1Uknow http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/12694394/ http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/12694394/ Sun, 22 Apr 2007 16:26:05 PDT
  That last one, though, leads to a different problem. I write these journals, and a scant few people reply... most of the people who do reply are people I know offline. I write things about video games, politics, and reviews of games and companies... but all my information is all strewn about.
  
  I'm really into video games... and I've been thinking about this question for a long time... should I try and move all my video game comments from DeviantArt to the free Blog that IGN gives you for being a member? I mean, only a few of you comment on the topics I put up, about Porting, about EA, about the one Game Review I managed to put up... Do you all not care, or am I just not that popular?... and If I'm not popular, should I try my luck on IGN only because it's actually video game-centric as opposed to DA which is mostly about the Art?
  
  Honest question, guys... I would still be putting my journal entries up here, and I could still link out to my IGN posts... and I really really hate the thought of splitting my thoughts between two different places. Unlike some people, I don't like to divide myself up like that... but I don't like the thought that my words are falling on deaf ears. I'd love for you guys to care, but I don't expect you to. I barely get pageviews, I'm no Guyver47, or even Major Moonie... and I accept that... but at the same time... am I saying my video game words to the right audience here?
  
  As a side note... please look at and comment on my Rough Drafts of my webcomic I'm making... here (#1) and here (#2).
  
  See you in the Future,
  —Huntermun
  
  ]]> ~neo-no1Uknow http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/12157049/ http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/12157049/ Mon, 12 Mar 2007 13:59:02 PDT
  I mean, let's say you don't share his views (which I think would be easy enough to assume in a political reace). Look at him from an appearance point of view alone for a second: He's got a family and three kids. He goes to church and is active in his community and communities around the states. His way of speaking where he treats you like a human being and discusses his views and opinions with you, never saying your ways are stupid, but that what he thinks is "what he believes". I mean, on appearance alone, he's got what needs to be there: Upstanding American and decent human being.
  
  And, before I speak briefly about his views, let me say that John Edwards has one thing I find to be very important in a candidate... and funnily enough, it's that he's got a kickass website. Kickass in that it's very effective. You can go there and not just read his views, but also watch YouTube video of when he's actually been speaking. Instead of just reading quotes that may or may not have been taken out of context, you can watch videos (edited only in transitions) of what he's actually saying. You can see that he's not just rattling off what sounds good, but that he believes what he's saying... and to that, I say "fuck-all". If a man can stand up for what he believes in, even if I don't agree with him, I can respect him for that.
  
  Unless whoever it is sounds like an idiot when they're talking. Believe what you will, but if you sound like a Sony Fanboy (or any Fanboy, to be fair) while you're talking, I could care less what you think. Back shit up with facts and fucking graphs if you have to. Make some sense.
  
  The point being, I think John Edwards is—at the very least—a good and decent person. At best, I think he's a good and decent person with views that are similar to my own, and that when you ask him what he thinks about something, he's ready with a reply... because he's not reading things off a teleprompter or note cards... he's speaking what's truly on his mind, and truly in his heart. He's not saying what he thinks you want to hear so that you'll vote for him... he's saying what he believes and hoping that if you at least know where he's coming from, you'll be better informed about your choice.
  
  I mean, he goes for Universal Health care and then tells you he'll have to raise taxes to do it! No, really? That's awesome... yes, I will pay more for Universal Health Care. I'm sick of politicians promising the sun and moon and claiming that we won't need any more money out of my pocket. It's insulting, at least to me. Telling me you're going to do something that costs money, my money, and telling me that... I can respect. I say bring it.
  
  And, let me finish with Faux News, shall I? John Edwards taking a stand I wish other Democrats had long ago is sweet. Looking to Fox and saying, effectively, that he's not going to be part of their negative Democrat propaganda is awesome. All Fox does is spout of nonsense the majority of the time, not bothering to check their facts before they report anything... and let's be honest, if you're not going to fact-check, or even try to... if you're just going to feed propaganda to the masses, then you aren't really a news organization, are you? You're just another single-faced cable channel with opinions you're trying to push upon your viewers.
  
  I think I've said my part. If you want to know more, just head to his website and check it out. Even if you don't agree with him, you can at least see where he's coming from, ya know? Me, personally, I know who I'm voting for in '08, unless something drastic changes.
  
  See you in the Future
  —Huntermun
  
  P.S.: The amount of hate that Republicans can throw Edward's way is, to me, a sign of fear. They'll go out and attack any Democrat from time to time, but for Edwards... the most hateful things must be spouted. It's fun to watch them squirm.
  
  
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  ]]> ~neo-no1Uknow http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/11998857/ http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/11998857/ Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:33:53 PST
  I have just taken a census of my apartment. I made a list of every single little thing that uses power here to calculate into my total, minus a few things: My TV, My PStwo, My Stereo, Our Fridge, Our Oven, and Our Dishwasher. Everything else is listed as below:
  
  ~VelvetMaiden's Alarm Clock: 5Watts
  ~VelvetMaiden's Lamp: 40Watts
  ~VelvetMaiden's Computer: Guesstimated 90Watts
  
  My Nintendo Wii: 13Watts running, 10Watts WiiConnect24
  My Alarm Clock: 6Watts
  My Unconquered Lamp: 75Watts
  My Computer: Guesstimated 110Watts
  My DVD Player: 20Watts
  My Toaster Oven: 130Watts
  
  Our Bathroom Lights: (60Watts x4 Lights x2 Bathrooms = 480Watts)
  Our Closet Lights and Pantry: (100Watts x3 = 300Watts)
  Kitchen Overhead Lights: (60Watts x3 = 180Watts)
  
  For a Grand Total of 1449Watts
  
  Now, for the purposes of this guesstimate, I'm going to do a couple of things. If I take into account all the devices who's Wattage I could not calculate and then also take into account I'm counting some devices that wont be in constant use... I can at least acknowledge some semblance of incongruity. I know I wont be using my Toaster Oven constantly, and that my Wii wont be in WiiConnect24 Mode all the time... but I also don't know how much the Fridge, Oven, Washer, or those things use, nor do I know how much they might be doing just sitting running (the Fridge Mainly)
  
  After looking through this, I am shocked to discover that the things most likely to ever be on (the Lights) use the most power. In fact, if I estimate only one bathroom and do not count our lamps (of which, mine is used almost constantly for a living room light) the estimate still comes up to about half of my total. If I take into account I also don't know how much the Heat/AC uses, then I am thinking this is also a fair estimate.
  
  So... I know a new power saving, 5-Year Bulb for a 60Watt bulb replacement uses 13Watts. For a 75Watt it's only 17Watts... and I think for a 40Watt is 10Watts. If I take those into account (and assume that a 100Watt may be only 20Watts when replaced), I can drop my total Wattage for all my lights (lamps and all) to about 230Watts. From the total estimate of 1000something from counting them all in the first place, that's roughly a fifth of what I was using before.
  
  If I then take my Power Bill of about $60 and divide that into my 1450Watt rough total, that comes out to about 24Watts per Dollar. So, if I can use my new total for Lights alone, and add that in with the rest, that comes up to about 600Watts total. That's less than half my first estimate... and since Lights are more likely to be used than anything else I have here in the Apartment, and I didn't include major appliances or Heat/AC... I think that's a fair estimate, more or less.
  
  If I take the 24Watts per Dollar, and use it on my new estimate, then I get a Power Bill of about $25. Yeah, I give myself an error plus or minus $10-$20, but even then, if I was off by $20, my total would be $45 and so I'm saving at least $15 a month, in the worst case scenario... and since replacing all the Bulbs isn't actually too much money, I will probably save back the cost to have replaced them during the first three months of use.
  
  So, here's the question... doing the rough, somewhat guessing math: "If you did this same kind of experiment... how much might you save?" Please Reply with your answer. I'd really like to know.
  
  See you in the Future,
  —Huntermun
  
  
  P.S.: I didn't check my TV because I didn't feel like moving it around and my PStwo, surprisingly, does not have it's Wattage listed on the bottom.
  
  P.P.S.: Remember that this is supposed to be a fun, somewhat guesstimation of total usage and savings. It's not meant to be overly scientific or accurate. Maybe, someday, I'll come up with a better way to gauge that. For now, I'll just do the best I can, and I'd ask you to do the same.
  
  ]]> ~neo-no1Uknow http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/11930569/ http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/11930569/ Fri, 23 Feb 2007 05:14:59 PST
  Well... it will be, but I wont.
  
  The Lease runs up on March 30 (so long as we give our notice 30 days beforehand). Since my roommate, ~VelvetMaiden, is going off to do things in a state far far away (things that I think will be a bad and induce sadness), I will be "forced" to move back in with ~MajorMoonie and his brother.
  
  I use the term "forced" very, very lightly... as I do like both of them, and just being around them... but their apartment is... uh... ::knows ~MajorMoonie reads his Journals:: ...bad. It's really bad. That and, I know it's trouble on them to take me under their roof (as this will be the third time doing so)... and also, his brother isn't a big fan of mine. He doesn't hate me, per say, but...
  
  If I could narrow down the one thing John and anyone else doesn't like about me, it's this: I talk to much. Either, I'm expressing an opinion that is disagreed with, or I feel the need to explain myself when I fear others will misunderstand me... or it's not even a need at this point, more like habit and reflex.
  
  Shit, I'm doing it right now, aren't I?
  
  Ah, well... the point of this post (or, at least the title) is supposed to be this: I have too much free time. I hate it. I'm bored... and while I would normally crawl up with a good game right now by the TV, the ones I'd like to play are all borrowed. San Andreas is at Moonie's and Disgeae 2 is at Draco's... There's Prince of Persia, but my Cube copy of Sands of Time is also borrowed out, and I'd like to start the Sands Trilogy from the beginning if I could (using my PS2 copy of Warrior Within, and you know why!)
  
  Right now, I'm reinstalling The Sims 2, which I never did after I reinstalled my computer last month. My soon-to-be new roommates will likely be happy that I only have one log-on to my machine now (preemptively setting up this PC to be taken by ~MajorMoonie at some point in the "near" future), so they wont have to do anything special to play in our Neighborhoods (like use a password to log into the computer).
  
  I think The Sims 2 and World of Warcraft might be the same size now...
  
  I reserved Vice City Stories and SSX Blur last night... but I promise you that I will drop that reserve of SSX if I read a review that says it's "as good as On Tour" or otherwise not even meeting that bar. I enjoyed Tricky, and loved 3, but On Tour was a huge let-down... so I am not going right out to get Blur... I'm gunna wait a day or so to see what IGN thinks... which is still dangerous considering that they thought On Tour was good... so even then, I must be careful.
  
  Luckily, Rockstar is in a different category (the category that Burnout used to be in). Each of their games has been progressively better... the ones I have played, anyway. I didn't play Manhunt, State of Emergency (1 or 2), or that Pong game... but the GTA's (and Bully too) have been progressively better... though I do count Liberty City Stories as a special case because it was Handheld first, and thus not going to hit the heights of San Andreas. I thought it was kickass for what it was... and I'm expecting better results from the Stories of Vice City.
  
  OK... I'm up to Nightlife now, and I have more Journal to fill as I go for Open for Business and Pets too. Oh, hey, there we go... The Sims 2:
  
  Pets was a let-down. I liked the Pets, but the werewolves sucked. I mean, my reaction to the expansion was "Pets, neat. Hope that means the next new Sim is a werewolf" followed shortly by "Wait, werewolves!? Score!" and it was reserved. Good as done.
  
  Then I played it. Ugh. If you must have Pets, get it... otherwise it's the only expansion I would say (with little doubt) that you are free to skip. I mean, I may not like Vampires, but they had a mechanic to them, gameplay-wise, you know? Robots? Same deal, they played different. Aliens? It was a whole deal just to "unlock" them, and they expressed neat genetic coding and stuff. Zombies? Dead Sims come back to life. Very nice.
  
  But Werewolves? Werewolves, my favorite of all supernatural critters? They'... ]]> ~neo-no1Uknow http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/11388883/ http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/11388883/ Wed, 10 Jan 2007 16:25:41 PST The Following Journal has been rated M for Mature, for strong language, pessimism, self-loathing, contradicting thoughts, and lashing out at those I care about.
  
  Thought #1: I Hate My Life
  I understand that this statement is going a bit over the top, but to say any less than this would be to not get my full meaning across. I'm not in High School, and I would prefer to think I'm not always jumping to the worst possible version of events, but there comes a point where all the weight coming down upon you cannot come to any other knee-jerk reaction that to say that your entire life sucks.
  
  I know my entire life has not sucked. It's had it's ups and it's downs... arguably more downs than ups, but that's realism, not pessimism. While other people's lives have most assuredly been worse than my own, mine has been pretty shitty, at least to me, overall. Everything must be taken in perspective, and with a grain of salt, but overall, there you are.
  
  I cannot escape the feelings that my friends think less and less of me as days go by... that my roommate, a friend I've only made in recent years, thinks of me like a freeloader. I don't even always sleep at home now because of the possibility that we'll have to interact and I'll hear something like "Well, I pay the powerbill, so that's really what the problem is" when I'm talking about her boyfriend leaving the television on for 12+ hours straight with GAM (Games Screen Setting) burning into it when they left to go to Greenville this weekend. It was a total Jeff moment.
  
  Thought #2: I Need My Damn Car
  Though my previous Journal Entry took all the blame of what's gone on in my life and left it squarely on my shoulders, this one is not nearly as happy, nor as logical. This is me venting and attempting to feel better or worse by the time this Journal is over. So, for the moment, let's assume that things going wrong in my life haven't been entirely my fault.
  
  Last year, at my annual party (ES11) in June, my Car stopped working. It's been that long. Throughout that time, my Step-Dad Jeff (you'll see his name in the previous thought) has decided to try and use his own time to fix my car. This has happened before, and I should have gone with my first instinct and ignored his words on the matter. Instead, I sit here typing a depressing journal entry for no one to care about.
  
  Basic idea goes like this: My Car breaks. It will cost such and such amount for the mechanic to fix it. Sometimes I have a job for this part. I did when it happened this time. Jeff insists that him and his brother Doug can fix my car and save me hundreds of dollars. This is true, and I know it, so I end up agreeing. Fast forward, and they have to do it all in their spare time. Who knows when that might be? And, most importantly, my car does not like to work. It's not called the Kobayashi Maru for nothing (Wiki it if you don't know).
  
  So, months pass, and instead of saving me hundreds of dollars, it has (in a way) cost me my job. I had to rely on others to get me to and from work, and while I'm appreciative of that, it also meant getting there and back was not entirely up to me and my need to get to work. It is, partially, the reason I no longer have a job. However, having taken all the blame unto myself already, I'm mostly past that point by now. Now, I'm sick of myself and my life, and my joblessness, and I need my fucking car if I'm going to be able to find a new job. It's been running for about a week plus now, and I'm supposed to pick it up this weekend...
  
  Now, I get an E-Mail telling me Jeff would like to get a new Muffler for it. What? It runs, I'll get one later. I don't give a shit if it makes noise, it moves the hell around doesn't it? Fuck all, I'll figure it out later. I need to be able to get a job, Holy Shit...
  
  Thought #3: I'm Going to be Homeless, One Way or Another
  Recently engaged Sarah Short, my roomie, is not happy with me. I know this. I also can't make her happy with me. She wont watch movies with me, she doesn't talk to me, or when she does, she makes references to how I'm not contributing any money... the same girl who—a month ago—said that things would be OK... even when I warned her about my innability to get a job, and how it was Christmas and all that... that she could expect that I wouldn't have an income until sometime in February. This, at the time, came from the all-caring Sarah as being A-OK.
  
  Supposedly, I'd done so much for her, and she was repaying me. I didn't think that I'd done so much I'd done for her, and I was shocked that she was cool with paying the rent for two people for that long... and I felt really horrible anyway... but she'd made me feel better, and now that's all gone. Now, it's like she hates me... as much as Sarah could act... ]]> ~neo-no1Uknow http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/11015981/ http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/11015981/ Sun, 10 Dec 2006 10:44:05 PST
  Still, at this point, sitting to write something down is doing something. It's admitting fault, is what it's doing. I feel that how I've acted over the past months about myself and my job has not been the best. I set myself up to take a fall, and now I've fallen... what do I do now?
  
  But, let me take a step back for those who don't know or don't follow my journals. After all, no one's commented on my front page since September... no one's sent a Note asking me where I am, where's the art I owe them, or anything like that. Hell, no one's claimed a pic for my 3,000, 3,500, or 4,000th hits on my Deviant Art front page. It's an ongoing thing, you know? Hell, I let anyone from the x500 to x500+50 grab a pic from my front page... so far, no one's called 4,000, and there's still lots of time. Heck, you reading this page right this very second could be that "lucky" person...
  
  In any event, the story goes a little something like this: There's a system at Telepreformance (formerly CallTech) where I used to work which is a Points System. Basically, you want to keep yourself below Six Points (or preferably below Four) to be able to keep your job. There are special allowances made for, say, people having been sick, but otherwise, you best keep your points down.
  
  Overall, unless you're just bad at the job, it's actually difficult to get your points high enough to get Fired. Most people either just Quit or screw up so badly they're let go pretty quick. I myself worked there for 13 months and a day, so if you keep showing up for work, you're prettymuch golden.
  
  There in lies the key, however. I missed a lot of work from August to September due to various sicknesses and other things cropping up. I got my points as high as 11.75 at one point, and that's just not healthy. Luckily, they understood... at the time. You see, the easiest way for someone such as myself to get points is to miss work. A day missed gets you Two Points if you don't call in (No Call, No Show), and One Point if you do. Futhermore, if you do call in, you can also call in the next two days for only .25 each, instead of 1. This means only 1.5 points for three days... see? Hard to get points.
  
  Furthermore, you work points off by doing Overtime. There's almost always Overtime Available... and 4 Hours works off .25 Points... and here in lies the kicker. I missed enough days to get myself from around 2 points already to upwards of 11.75... that's a lot of days, yes? Small Paychecks, right there... and even then, I still paid for my roommate's rent at her old place for a month (or two, I forget). Top that off with not coming in for Overtime so much, and you'll see the beginning of my problem.
  
  The final stages of my problem is that I was doing well enough that I didn't really fear loosing my job. I was getting good scores, my points were rolling off over time (which they do... .25 after two months, .5 after three, etc...) and I was down to about 8.75 two weeks ago. It was then I was effectively given a warning. I had until the end of December or I would be let go. I had to get my points down, or else.
  
  Luckily, if I didn't work any Overtime, I'd be below Six Points before the end of the month... I still planned to, but having that safety net was still nice... until it broke, that is. Apparently, I mentioned something like this within earshot of my Supervisor and someone higher up. They took from my comments to mean that I had no intention of performing Overtime, and that it didn't matter to me how many points I had at the moment.
  
  I'm not sure what exactly I said, but I made the mistake of saying that I absolutely did not say it... and if there were a single thing to learn (and I mean you, not me... I knew this and screwed it up anyway), it's to never work in absolutes. Because the Supervisor and the other higher-up lady both heard me say whatever it is I said, and I said I didn't say it... I'm pretty sure that's why they let me go.
  
  The most painful part was that I had respect for Cory, doing what needed to be done and such... and then I got to see it first hand, and I have to say... WtF. I mean, he calls up my Sup because she's not there right then. Him and her have a conversation while I'm standing there... and the last 5+ minutes, I knew I was going to be let go. He even said so... and I'm thinking to myself I might as well just walk off. I mean, it was very rude...... ]]> ~neo-no1Uknow http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/10845208/ http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/10845208/ Sat, 25 Nov 2006 12:31:09 PST
  However, it could be time for new friends, heh. Here's the deal: Nintendo's WiFi Connection only works if two people give their Friend Codes to each other. You can't just go around randomly adding people or being Spammed... It's Consensual. Therefore, I'm going to give you mine, and you can reply with yours. I need more Mii's.
  
  Wii Friend Code: 0961 6522 1726 1937
  
  Wii Nickname: Earthsaver
  
  That's it. Take that number, and use it wisely. Reply with yours and we'll hook up and share Mii's... and as soon as we have an Online Game ::coughSmashBroscough:: we'll be able to hook up and duke it out. Otherwise, I'll be playing with my Wii...
  
  See you in the Future,
  —The One True Huntermun
  
  ]]> ~neo-no1Uknow http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/9898206/ http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/9898206/ Tue, 29 Aug 2006 16:04:00 PDT
  More to the point, my current DeviID (and I'm so happy to finally have a new one) brings up something I'm greatly looking forward to... Nintendo's next console, the Wii. Some of you might hate the name, and some of you might not know what it is... but I'm greatly looking forward to [finally] having new video games.
  
  For years now, Video Games have become this... Thing... They've become something that you either are into and get, are someone who buys them up due to Hype, hates video games, or doesn't know anything about them at all. People who don't know anything about them at all are mostly in government, from what I can tell.
  
  The thing is, and I've been saying this for years... this isn't some Nintendo Fanboy thing coming through... Video Games are, in a way, too complicated. I can play myself a game like Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones, or Disgaea: Hour of Darkness, or City of Heroes, Tony Hawk, Super Smash Bros., or any other game and say to myself that I know what I'm doing. I'm enjoying myself and having some fun...
  
  Then, I try and get someone else into it...
  
  Like any hobby a person enjoys, you'll often want to get your friends involved. The trick here is, at this point, when I try and tell a friend how to play any of the games mentioned above... fun as they might be... they have to many functions... to many buttons.
  
  Control Schemes seem easy to me because I've been playing Video Games for almost all of my life... 20 years or so, starting with my very first Nintendo. But even a game like the new Prince of Persia ones (which, in my head, require three buttons), takes to long for me explain to a friend how to do. And, hell, let's not mention games like Smackdown Vs RAW, OMG.
  
  I like games that, regardless of their depth, have easy control schemes to understand. One of my reasons for enjoying my GameCube so much was because the controller fit my hand, was comfortable to hold... and Nintendo encouraged companies to make controls with what they had. It allowed for buttons to do more than one function, and that's the way I like it.
  
  Smash Bros. is, basically, two buttons. Perfect Dark, though and FPS, had a Quick Select menu for the guns if you held down reload... Prince of Persia, like I said, has Wall-Run, Jump, Attack, and Throw... and all those can be done in combinations of each other. These games, and ones that are on the DS, are easier to control because you can do more with less. I can't tell you the number of PS2 games that threw me off because Reverse was a different button than Break in a Racing Game.
  
  But, beyond controls, there's the games themselves. Games, really, have lowered in overall quality. You can't even enjoy a certain series before it caves in on itself. Look and SSX: On Tour, and Burnout Revenge (both happen to be handled by EA), and... for the sake of EA-Bashing, Sim City 4. Each one of these games had good points, but were not nearly as good as they could have been.
  
  Take EA out, and you're left with games like the Smackdown series, which I can now compare to Def Jam: Fight for NY (which rocks, so hard). Or, how about Dynasty Warriors... I thought the games were fun, but they never got any better and the rezz distance always stayed bad. It wouldn't be hard to make that game even better... memorable, even. And, on top of that, what about all these half-finished MMO's that get released (like Star Wars Galaxies, The Matrix Online, etc.)? Why do we have these games come out that could be better and are not? Are my standards to high?
  
  No. They aren't to high, and Nintendo is about to prove it to me. Sink or Swim, style. Their next System will give us all a new way to play, to actually interact. They aren't pimping frame-rate dropping 16:9 or how big their harddrive is, or that you can surf the web or play HD-DVD's or BlueRay, or any of that other shit. Once again, Nintendo is in it for the games. Less expensive system, higher quality games... and finally, after so many years of people copying the original NES controller and on down the line... a new way to play with the Wii-mote.
  
  There are so many little features of the system, but the one I'll mention before I stop typing is the Virtual Console. You'll be able to play Downloaded NES, SNES, Sega Genesis, Turbo Graphics 16, and N64 games... not to mention the console itself will take GameCube disks too. Now, I can go back and start getting older games I'm missing even to this day... like River City Ransom or Mighty Final Fight (both I missed), or the SNES Star Wars games I didn't get to fi... ]]> ~neo-no1Uknow http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/9855387/ http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/9855387/ Fri, 25 Aug 2006 20:44:37 PDT I been? Where have you been, huh?
  
  No, seriously... I was typing the Journal to warn everyone I'd be off the Internet for about a month when I lost my connection... You just can't make this shit up, really. That's Irony at it's finest.
  
  So, here I am. I've been off of the Internet for about a month so far, and I'm still catching up. Burnout 5 is coming out in about a month, and I know nothing about it. That has me worried. I've been through one and a half NIS America games, and Disgaea 2 comes out next week. I've been drawing, and planning my Chronicle and a whole lot of other small things, and now I'm back online.
  
  Now what? I dunno... I wanted to at least submit a Journal for all the people who follow me or actually watch my work... to say I'm sorry for not being around for a month in any form. I've got 305 Deviations to look at, so some people may be getting a flood of back-logged comments.
  
  Ether way, I'm back up and running... no one Noted me to call my 3,500th Hit either, so I guess I can just keep doing that contest, heh. I'll update again in a week or so because I'm moving into my own place partway through September (if all goes well).
  
  Otherwise, for the moment... I'll See you in the Future.
  
  —The One True Huntermun ]]> ~neo-no1Uknow http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/8760284/ http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/8760284/ Sat, 13 May 2006 15:15:47 PDT Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) was this passed week. It was a time for all of the big hardware and software designers to come together into one place show off what they had coming in the next few months to next few years. It was place to learn genuine information and also to hear companies hype their consumers into buying their products (for good or ill).
  
  Now, before I go on, I'll state that I've always been a Nintendo Fan. And, every time I've ever doubted Nintendo in a big way, they've always shown me the error of my ways... and Nintendo has always had a bit of a correlation to Apple for me. They're perceived as a smaller company, not for everyone, and they're always doing something different. Furthermore, someone's always stealing their ideas, you know? In fact, the only thing Nintendo and Apple have never shared in common has been price tags.
  
  So, I "walked" into E3 this year, thinking to myself that I wanted to know about the Nintendo Wii (pronounced We, and formerly Codenamed: Nintendo Revolution), but already willing to accept it. I knew that Nintendo was going to try with a console what they did with the handhelds... Do something different, and something better than their competitors. More people (and new people) are playing Nintendo DS instead of Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP)... and new people, new Gameplay, I think, is what's important.
  
  When all was said and done, the controller/s, the games, the ideas, and all the other things about Nintendo (and their excellent Press Conference) proved my faith was well-placed. I had not worries that I would enjoy what came from Nintendo, though I didn't expect them to steal the show like they did. I didn't expect Wii-Exclusive Announcements left and right, and I didn't expect there to be a GameCube and Wii copy of Zelda to come out this year. I didn't expect the "Controller Shell" for the Virtual Console to look so spiffy, nor did I think that Nintendo would bring out a "Light-Gun Shell" and show it off. BtW: Next-Gen Duck Hunt has been confirmed.
  
  Beyond that, I liked what I saw for Mario and for Zelda, and I'm hopeful for everything else. I saw Super Smash Bros. Brawl, and the fact that we've got Solid Snake battling it out with us gives me hope for Sonic and Tails, Sora, Master Higgins, and whoever else to join the party. And, well, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption may look cool, but I want to play that new Excitetruck, or Wario Ware: Smooth Moves.
  
  All in all, I got from Nintendo a bit more than I expected...
  
  But, regardless of how much I like Nintendo, I didn't (by any stretch) walk into E3 this year thinking "Man, Sony is going to blow," even though that's what happened. Being a Nintendo Fan first (mostly because I end up having to defend them), I was still ready to give Sony a chance. More than a chance, really, since every game that's been badly Ported to my GameCube for the past few years, ran originally (and well) on the PlayStation 2 (adding in a lot more load time, of course). I'm not really a fan of that controller (but more so than the X-Box), but I've gotten used to it as the accepted "Industry Standard"... After all, it's just the PSX Dual Shock again, which was copied from Sony's original (and the N64, with the Rumble and the Analog sticks), which were both copied up from the Super NES (which the also Sega Genesis copied), which was copied up from the NES... but, besides that, it (the PS2) always had the games... and that whole year head start they got on Microsoft and Nintendo really paid off.
  
  This year, I "walked" away from E3 a bit depressed about Sony. Put frankly, the main thing that Nintendo has going for them (getting new gamers, and making a different and better controller), Sony has going against them. Sony didn't have a single new or innovative idea under their belt... ]]> ~neo-no1Uknow http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/8521492/ http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/8521492/ Sat, 13 May 2006 13:50:35 PDT Scraps
  You may not know it, but I've got a lot of images in my Scraps for you to look at. There are some Artist who don't put anything at all into their Scraps, and others who put very little in there. I, myself, put art I don't finish in to my Scraps, or just general Sketch Book stuff. I don't really think that any of my art is "bad", but lots of it is just not complete. In that sense, I'd like you all to go look at my Scraps and comment on it just as you would for the rest of my art. The only difference between my Scraps and my Deviations is that anything in Scraps is not finished... it doesn't mean it's really of any less quality.
  
  Older Art (TNS'88 to TNS2k3)
  I do have a place that I've put up art older than the time I've been at DeviantArt (which is everything before September 2003) that you can find over here. Please look back to this older art and comment on it if you have the time. The whole reason I use Deviant Art is so that I can become a better artist... either by getting critique from all of you, or seeing things other artist do that might allow me to improve my ability. This art under this name may be older, but it's still my art, and it shows how I've improve (or grown stagnant) over the years. Please take a look at ~Huntermun.
  
  A Note About Favorites
  As many artist will tell you... I'd prefer that when you think about Favoriting one of my pieces, that you comment on it and give me an idea why. Even if it's only to say "I don't know, I just liked the emotion behind it" or something... if you Favorite it, obviously you liked it... I'd just like to understand why so that I can make an effort to continue to do that as well as I did. Remember that critiquing isn't just to make mention of what's wrong or can be improved on, but also what was done right and what was liked.
  
  This was a Test. This was only a Test.
  
  See you in the Future,
  —The One True Huntermun
  
  
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  Sketch Book 1996-1997: AA AB AC AD AE AF AG AH AI AJ AK AL AM AN AO AP AQ AR AS AT AU http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/7777724/ Thu, 02 Feb 2006 05:07:04 PST Rise and Shine, Boys and Girls!
  
  Yes, I've decided to type something else for my front page, rather than those 20 things about me that no one gives a shit about, heh. Now, I just have to figure out what to put here in it's place.
  
  Well, let's see, it's been nearly three months since I last wrote a new Journal. At the time I was just starting training for a new job that I eventually got. I'm still working there, and I'm enjoying it very much. I get to sit in front of a computer all afternoon (or morning) and help people. Sure, it might sound boring to some, but I'm rather enjoying it.
  
  I've been trying to make progress on my "The Werewolf" series. I've done a couple of doodles and worked out the plots of the original four stories, as well as "The Werewolf: Truth and Other Stories", followed by the sixth and currently final story in the series. Yeah, I should probably have finished writing each of them already, but I didn't. So sue me. I know how they go, I just don't have them all typed up yet. Besides, I started writing them back in 1997, so I'm sure they'll be much better when I finally finish them a decade later.
  
  Speaking of a Decade later, I'll need to pay for my Domain Name again in upcoming 2010, now that I think about it... Hm.
  
  I got Mega Man X Collection recently. This has inspired me by it's very nature and caused me to create my first Maverick Hunter in several years. His name is Tonfa Mao (or, well, that's his stage name). He's an Reploid and Actor who's played a Maverick in several movies. He's got interesting motivations for being a Maverick Hunter, and I think he's going to be one of my new favorites.
  
  My Shadow Lord, Thomas Micheal Ivanov, recently hit Fostern Rank in LARP. That's the highest, still, that I've ever gotten a character legitimately in LARP. I hope he gets to hit Rank Three, but I feel things are going to go badly this coming game, one way or the other. I told some things (IC), last game, that I really shouldn't have.
  
  What else have I not spoke of? Hm... Nothing really coming to mind. I just thought I would drop a line to say I'm still out here. I'm also bored as all hell and couldn't think of anything else to do.
  
  See you in the Future,
  —Huntermun
  
  
  Open Discussions
  Which Port Is It?
  
  Things About Me
  20 Things About Huntermun
  
  Game Reviews
  Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
  
  People I Officially Owe
  =guyver47 (1) - An image for being my 2,000th Hit (Restarted).
  ~VelvetMaiden (1) - An image of her character Nemo for being my 2,509th Hit (Que).
  *Kumitekey (1) - My First Art Trade... do a pic of his Fursona (59%).
  Possibly You (1) - Some picture for being my 3,000th Hit (Coming).
  
  Obligatory Friend Icons of the Whenever!
  
  
  http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/6944861/ Fri, 04 Nov 2005 11:25:16 PST The Journal is Rated T for Teen
  
  Well, let me see. Guyver47 recently "Tagged" me, so I have to tell 20 things about myself. I guess that shouldn't be to hard, 'cept she knows most of the odd stuff about me as it is. Oh well, here goes anyway:
  
  20 Things You May or May Not Know about Huntermun
  
  Number 20: I've got almost no sense of smell. I'd say I have no sense of smell at all 'cept I can pick up some strong scents when they're in close proximity to me. Examples: Passing the Sewage Plant, a Skunk on the Road, or Rotten Food... no effect. Scented Bath Soap, Burning Rubber, or a roommate who hasn't bathed recently enough... I can smell. Otherwise, the sense is completely useless.
  
  Number 19: The Arch of my feet is near-non-existent. Sitting in place, you can see it, and it can be measured and everything... but my feet are such that when I stand up, the arch goes away completely. The real-world aspects of this are that I cannot stand for periods of time without it hurting... and periods of time can start at ten minutes and (at best) eight hours. It just kind of depends. From that point, the pain usually builds up and then starts escalating in pain factor exponentially.
  
  Number 18: I "like" Furry as an idea and mentality. Given the opportunity to play something non-human that resembles an animal in some form or another in a video game or RPG, I will. I suppose I prefer wolfies, but I'm cool with just about any animal.
  
  Number 17: This came about because I have a big interest in the Supernatural, mostly werewolves. I'm not one of those people who goes out looking for them, but I'd be hard pressed to deny the possibility of them existing. Do I think I've ever seen one? No... but that doesn't mean they aren't there.
  
  Number 16: When push comes to shove, though, my big turn-on would most certainly be Transformations. If it weren't for that, I don't think Guyver47 would be as into it as she use to be, nor would I have a DeviantArt Account. I actually opened this account under the name of David Stalton (at least, that's who I posted as). David's a wolftaur, and I was seeing how well I could play him online in art, IM's, and stories, basically pretending to be him instead of myself. The truth is that I did it too well. I don't like to lie... and apparently I'm so good at it, it disturbs me... so I took the leap, and slapped on my own name to this account... and here we are. As a side-note, David's Screen Name in his stories is Neo no1Uknow or Neo Wolftaur (the second of which actually exists as an AIM name)... and so [link] is where you'll find my old art because I went and got that name later, and decided to make it a good place to archive.
  
  Number 15: Hm... OK, I got five no problem. Let's see... I'm a Storyteller for an online Role-Play Group called The Crossover Chronicle. Originally it was called The HOWL Chronicle and run by a girl named Jacklyne Cole. She... could have done a better job, but it wasn't to bad. We played by Werewolf: The Apocalypse (Table Top) rules, and we had fun. At some point, she went off to College and never returned, so I took over. I was MST... Second in Command or whatever, so I took over when January 1st, 2003 came around (four months after she went off to college). Sometime last year I turned everything over from White Wolf rules to my own, mostly Free-Form style, and took our band of Garou and thrust them into a Sliders-like scenario which is The Crossover... and whenever I get it's section done on my website, I'll let you know. For now, we RP in AIM Chat Rooms, and if anyone's interested, send me a Note or an E-Mail.
  
  Number 14: The Website, yup: The Earthsaver Database is my homepage away from home. I keep (or will keep, when I'm done with it) art and information there about myself, my stories, my gaming, and other things. Eventually I'll have up a listing of short Guides for how to do things in certain games like making a good city in Sim City 4, or how to survive playing a character in City of Heroes without a Travel Power. For now, it's just a nice looking little website with tons of AIM Icons and a listing of all my Comics, up to date.
  
  Number 13: I am Webmaster for The Greenville LARP as well as Administrator for their Message Board. The LARP Website is housed on The Earthsaver Database, the Boards are on EZ Board. I need to update it, but the basic information is there, and we use the Boards for Community stuff and all that jazz. I make sure... ]]> ~neo-no1Uknow http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/6807216/ http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/6807216/ Wed, 19 Oct 2005 07:25:30 PDT This Journal is Rated M for Mature
  
  Ladies and Gentlemen... some knowledge:
  
  Global Warming is real. Don't believe it? ...Then pay attention in class or go back to school, you freaking moron. I get really serious about this shit, and it's not going to stop. You best pay attention to the Earth or it wont be here anymore. Forget your fucking grand-kids or your children, I'm talking your lifetime, and my own.
  
  You want to hear me talk about an issue that's current and that I feel strongly about? Well, here you are. I don't want the world to die... and by similar meaning, I don't want us all to end up dead too just because a select few in this world need to make some extra cash.
  
  Let's speak of the current and immediate danger, hm? There's yet another Category 5 Hurricane out there folks, and this wench hasn't even hit the Gulf of Mexico yet. Wilma's her name, and she's already a force to be reckoned with. How much of a force? Let's review:
  
  Now, I don't know a whole lot about weather systems and all that (and I'll freely admit if I've made mistakes in my following judgements), but I know enough to be fearful. Firstly, warm water/aether breeds these demons, and the Gulf's full of it. It happens to get warm this time of year. And, Thirdly, the smaller the mb (That's millibars) of a Hurricane is it's pressure. The less pressure, the more damage. Most hurricanes hit around 1000-900. The lower the number, the more devastating the overall hurricane.
  
  Rita, and Katrina before her (Or, "September" as I call them, collectively) both hit the list of the top five of the most dangerous hurricanes in recorded history. They were both Category 5 bitches, and they fucked us up something hard. Rita, I believe, made it down to 894mb... and that's some pretty bad shit, right there. Luckily, it didn't hit land with that kind of force, but you get the idea.
  
  Another important factor, I believe, is how wide the eye of the storm is. The smaller the eye of the storm, the quicker the sucker spins. Katrina's eye was a fairly small 80-90 miles, I'm pretty sure... and she hit New Orleans like we're all never going to forget.
  
  Needless to say, Category 5 Hurricanes are the big ones, the bad ones, and we should all know by now (after one month's time) how true that can be.
  
  But, Huntermun, how's Wilma doing? Surely she can't be as bad... Woe are US...
  
  Wilma's down around 884mb right now... Lowest mb ever. Do you follow? Ever! There has never before been a hurricane with this much destructive potential before. Oh, but you know what else? It's eye is down around 2 fucking miles wide! Two miles! Can you even image? I can, but I wish I didn't have to... because she's real, and she's on her way.
  
  I'm lucky (I think) that I don't live on the coast... but with a storm that big, shit... I remember when little ol' Hugo hit the coast. When it's eye made landfall, we were feeling the rain in the upstate. Right now, Wilma's probably going to hit Florida... but Hugo (or Andrew, or both, I forget) went across Florida and then came back at the East Coast... so who's to say who is safe and who isn't.
  
  So, these are some natural disasters that are pretty bad, right? We're just having a bad year, right? Wrong.
  
  Humans don't make hurricanes, but we can sure make them bigger and stronger. We aren't even creating Global Warming anymore or "Climitia" as Bill Marr named it (to make it sound more like the bad thing it is), it's already here. It's upon us. We're in it. We're just making it worse and worse.
  
  God damnit, get outraged, seriously. If you listen to that bullshit about how no one can really accomplish anything or make a difference... shit. Look at the world. Global Warming was, effectively, created by very few people. People in the oil business... the people who sell us the gas for our cars... Yes, every person on the planet contributed... but the average person is stupid... or, rather, the average group of people is.
  
  A person is smart. People are stupid... panicky... easy to spook, and easier still to control. If this wasn't true, there wouldn't be people buying X-Box's
  
  We have the capacity to drive non-gasoline cars, people... and I'm not even talking the Honda Incite, or all those bullshit American hybrids. I'm talking about running cars off of soy beans or whatever... the tech is here, but you don't hear about it. It's not Sci-Fi... hell, I'll probably get me one of those cars, or get an engine put into mine the first chance... ]]> ~neo-no1Uknow http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/6774857/ http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/6774857/ Sun, 16 Oct 2005 14:41:21 PDT This Journal is Rated M for Mature
  
  Well, it's been a busy... uh... how long has it been since my last entry? Oh, whatever... not like people read this thing anyway, heh.
  
  No, no... it's OK. I'm in a good mood... I just also know I'm not one of those Deviants that people watch. My art isn't ultra-super-cool, and I don't update regularly. By all usual Deviant judgments, if I haven't made it now, I never will. I'm not sure I care much about Pageviews... but when my website (incomplete as it may be) has gotten over 20,000 hits in five years, and my DeviantArt page (up for two years now) is still working on 3,000... I know I'm small time game, you know?
  
  In any event, stuff's been happening. I've lined myself up a job, so a big "Fuck You!" goes out to Bush and how he's screwed the economy. I beat you, you little shit. I start training on the 31st... Yeah, Halloween, and at night... but it could be worse, right? I could still be without a job, yes?
  
  I'll be working as Tech Support for a company called CallTech... they watch over and help out people with BellSouth DSL in the Columbia, South Carolina area. I'll be back with my old roommates for at least a little while, and general quality of life should improve for me once again... getting out of this damn house [again].
  
  Actually, that's unfair to the house. The house isn't so bad... not like some I've seen... I'm actually getting away from my step-dad and all the conflict he causes in my life and the lives of my mom and little sister.
  
  This reminds me, actually. Jeff's newest annoyance is that he got me a new Cell Phone. This might not sound like a big thing—and with Jeff, few things are—but it's just the latest of ways for him to inconvenience me and disrupt my life. I have this old Nokia phone, one of those dark gray, non-flip models circa 1998. I really like my phone. It's a phone, you know? It has contacts by up and down arrows, I can set a little alarm on it if I want, it has simple games, stuff like that.
  
  So, Jeff decides that since my phone is old, he'll get me a new one. This is partially because Jeff likes to control aspects of my life, and partially because he's a frickin' Gadget Whore. He gets me this phone while I'm away in Columbia looking for a job, right? What this means is that I 1) had no input on what kind of phone that I wanted and 2) the service goes over to my new phone, thus cutting the service to my now "old" phone while I still have it in Columbia.
  
  I asked for one thing from a new phone... one simple thing. As many features as it might have, and as much as I'd have to get use to a new phone, I asked for only one thing in a new phone (several times)... I wanted a non-flip phone. So what does Jeff get me? A flip phone, obviously.
  
  Maybe there are those of you out there that love your Cells and all the little useless shit they can do, but this new miniscule piece of crap pisses me off. It's totally inconvenient in it's design and presentation. Something about it having so many features has cluttered the fuck out of the little things and made it difficult to use, or at least inconvenient and annoying... which counts towards being difficult to use, if I did my math right.
  
  Cell Phones should be nothing if not easy to use.
  
  On my current phone, I press the up and down arrows to cycle through the contacts and/or the most recent calls list. On this new, little, silver, flip-phone, I have to 1) open the phone 2) press the right-side button on the face... not the right-direction button around the center button, but another button to the right of that... 3) Then I have to cycle up and down using the up and down buttons around center "OK" button.
  
  These numbers aren't listed by number or Contact, but something like a "Contact Cluster" or some shit... I don't know what they call it, but it's the difference between having headings for "Draco's House" and "Draco's Cell" and just having a listing for "Draco" with both numbers on it. I mean, I use to have my Contacts as a way to dial numbers... but the default way would have me have a single heading of "Best Buy" for Greenville, Anderson, Ithaca, and Columbia, rather than one for each. If you could make a major heading and have the other's show up under it... that would be helpful... but they don't. In fact, if I bring up "Draco" in my Contact List and hit "Send"... I don't even know which number it'll dial... or even if it dials, now that I think about it.
  
  Yes, I could make different headings for each item (like in my old phone), but the way you enter in Contacts is also a pain. They want the number and name, and that's the usual... but they also ask you for the extra numbers, notes, E-Mail (what the fuck do I need to put E... ]]> ~neo-no1Uknow http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/6589919/ http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/6589919/ Sat, 24 Sep 2005 12:20:02 PDT This Journal is rated M for Mature
  
  It took him a little while to finally blow up, but he finally did. Mom believed that he'd grown up a bit, become a bit more mature during the two and a half years I'd escaped him, and I suppose he did. I mean, my little sister isn't as bad off as I was... she almost seems a little pampered... but that's not really it. She started with Jeff with a clean slate and Jeff treated her like a child of his own.. I started with Jeff as a child who misguidedly wondered why he should be getting a new father, and Jeff treated me like the little brat who was just part of the deal...
  
  I'm 24, and I'm trapped at home. I'm trapped at home because I can't get a job. The reasons I can't get a job are many, but it doesn't even come down to gas prices at this point. It comes down to my parents being unable (or, rather, unwilling) to spot me money for my car insurance. Sure, I could, drive my car, but that wouldn't be that great of an idea now would it?
  
  So, even though I can fill out applications online, it doesn't matter to Jeff. When he sees me, I'm at the computer, probably on AIM, or drawing, or maybe playing a game... or I'm watching TV, a DVD, or playing a game on the Television. Forget for a moment that looking for a job involves a lot of "The Waiting Game"... I'm not about to lounge around the house doing absolutely nothing, punishing myself, just because I don't have a job. I'm going to do things to fill my free time because sitting around just wouldn't cut it... and I'd go insane.
  
  And, for those of you who haven't looked for a job in a while (which shouldn't be many of you with Bush as President), The Waiting Game goes something like this... You go in to a place and get an Application. Maybe you fill it in there, maybe fill it out elsewhere and bring it back, but then you go into waiting. Most Applications hang around in circulation at a business for two months to three months. This means that you can call about your Application for all of that time, and then you have to fill out a new one so that you're still on file. I usually call bad on Monday, Wednesday, or Friday myself.
  
  Jeff went so far as to call me a freeloader today, and preach about how he knows me, and how he's right, and all of that other shit. If I could leave [again] I would. I've been trying to get away and stay away for many years, but it just hasn't worked out. I went to [William's cousin] Jeff's for a weekend, Ben's house for fourteen days, and Robert and John's for two and a half years. At every location I tried not to be a burden, and I think I mostly succeeded.
  
  I was also happy.
  
  I miss living with Robert and John... though they're having troubles of their own, I wish I could still be in that kind of environment. They want it to be just them, and I can respect that. They're brothers, and I'm just a friend, and that's just how it is... I do wish I could journey down to Columbia and try and find a job there, but they don't seem to keen on the idea of someone else being in that little Apartment, and I don't blame them. It doesn't seem as big as the old one (though I never went to the second floor during my only visit). If I went down there and found a job, I wouldn't be able to live on my own... You just can't do much with little more than minimum wage, you know?
  
  Even if you get hired Full Time, that's 40 hours a week of flipping burgers or some such, multiplied by about 5 dollars an hour (after taxes), which comes out to $200 a week. That's a grand total of $800 a month, and a lot of time of your day, your week, doing a shitty job, getting paid shitty. I've always been a fan of free-time, you see, but that's not really the problem. Forgetting for a moment no one hires me for jack shit, even if they did, I'd hate working there. I have no skills, and I've been in those conditions before... it's not really worth it... I don't think I could live doing a McJob like John or [William's] Jeff seem to be able to do.
  
  Assuming my math is right (and I'm not), that leaves me with about $300 spending money for food and drink and everything else. Add to that I'd be living alone... and while I'm not fond of living at home, I don't like the idea of living in an empty place with no one else. Even if I hooked up with one of those little shits from school who used to pick on me, it'd be someone to talk to...
  
  I wish Robert and John could reconsider... but they're not in a position too, nor does it particularly sound like they're up for having me around again. I don't think they really believe I could get a job either... and in their current location, I guess they don't really have any place to put me. Like I said, the old Apartment was bigger.
  
  Oh well... I guess I'm done for now. I understand that things can always b... ]]> ~neo-no1Uknow http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/6455441/ http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/6455441/ Fri, 09 Sep 2005 02:33:08 PDT
  I had a freakin' B-Day Blast, let me tell you. No friends over, and no party, but I made up for it in shear material belongings. I got a Graphire 3 Tablet (which, while not the current high-end, is better than what I had), a PStwo (that's the slim one), and six games. Four of those game from the money my grandparents sent me (True Crime: Streets of LA [Cube], Tony Hawk's Underground [Cube], Fight Night: Round Two [PS2], and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas [PS2]). The other two came from friends... ~VelvetMaiden got me the PStwo and N.H.L. Hitz Pro (because if you're looking for a fun, arcady hockey game with a fun one-player, that's your answer), and Swanky got me N.F.L. Street 2 (which, unfortunately, I haven't openeded yet).
  
  I played Fight Night after I got home from LARP until sometime late into the next morning, and I came to discover (once again) how badly uncomfortable the PS2 Controller is. I've already begun to rub off the edges of the analog sticks, and I gave myself blisters... regular ones on my left thumb, and a blood blister on my right... and anyone who's done that knows that the only way to keep playing is to keep playing... because if you come back to it later, your fingers are gunna hurt.
  
  I've been playing San Andreas since I had it replaced on Tuesday. The original [Used] copy I picked up on Friday didn't work, so I went and had it replaced. This one doesn't have that replacement AO sticker on it, so I don't know if I got an older game with an M on it or a new game with an M on it... and frankly, I don't care. Either way, I wouldn't be playing that Hot Coffee stuff. The game has so much more to offer, and a sex minigame just doesn't do it for me anyway.
  
  So, what's up? Hm. I drew two pictures alread (here and here), and I'm working on a massive group image in my head that's going to be quite the bitch to draw. I also set up my first Art Trade and made a quick list of all the things I kind'a owe people. Other than that, I'm about to suggest the idea for a One Shot for Halloween at LARP to the group at large on our Message Board. If you'd like to join the Greenville (South Carolina) LARP, then you can find said Message Board over here titled The Barking Chain. We play Werewolf: The Apocalypse, and you'd probably enjoy it. If you think so too, then post something on our boards in the Post-It Notes section or E-Mail the ST's at GreenvilleLARP@Gmail.com.
  
  Thats all I can think of for now... I guess I'll be back sometime later to add more or something, heh. n\_/n
  
  See you in the Future,
  —Huntermun
  
  
  Open Discussions:
  
  Which Port Is It? - Thoughts on Video Game Ports and their impact on the Video Game playing world.
  
  
  Stuff I Owe People
  
  =guyver47 (2) - An image for her Birthday. An image for being my 2,000th Hit.
  ~LesserZ (1) - An image of Lesser Z Versus Huntermun.
  =ankishinzoutu (1) - Trying to get into his Tournament (I think).
  ~MajorMoonie (1) - A picture of Huntermun in his Annoucer cloths, to help with his Tournament.
  ~Kumitekey (1) - An Art Trade... do a pic of his Fursona and he does some action pic of Huntermun.
  
  Hope I didn't miss anyone...
  
  Obligatory Friend Icons of the Day!
  
  ... ]]> ~neo-no1Uknow http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/6354532/ http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/6354532/ Sun, 28 Aug 2005 20:31:21 PDT
  I miss my Tablet, let me tell you. Sure, I could draw something on paper (and I have, a lot), but it just doesn't come out as good. I don't know... something about me has always had a mindset for the logical and the digital.
  
  I've been using computers since the Mac Lab at Clemson University back in 1984 or so. I do miss having simple programs with which to make nice 2D art like buttons and logos and stuff. I just can't seem to find one to do that anymore.
  
  I'd always wanted a Tablet, and then I got one. I had no idea I'd been missing out on such an important piece of my existance. It was so easy to use, and it made me able to draw better... not just drawing lines and making a picture, but plotting how to do this and do the background last, or first, or put glow effects, or color within the lines, and all this simple stuff. I mean, even more than art... you set me in front of an RTS like Star Craft or Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds and I'm mad fast. Just click what I want, what I want to do, go here, grab this, mine that, build here, etc...
  
  So, I've been lonely, and I've been unable to contribute much art up on my DeviantArt account... a few things here or there, but not much. So, what I want to do is offer up an Art Trade (or trades. Anyone who will draw a picture of me or my characters, I will draw a picture of you or your characters. I'm posing this question here, rather than to someone specifically because... I want someone who looks at my page or my journal to ask me... I don't want to have to go begging again like I did a year ago, heh.
  
  So, also, every 500 Hits, if someone takes a screenshot of my front page and puts it in their Scraps... then sends me a link to it in a DeviNote, you'll get a picture from me of whatever you want [within reason]. Right now I owe =guyver47 one for 2,000... and I also owe her a Birthday Picture.
  
  Oh, yeah... my B-Day's this Saturday... and if anyone wants to wish me a happy one, this is the only warning you get, heh.
  
  See you in the Future,
  —Huntermun
  
  
  Open Discussions
  
  Which Port is It? [link] - A question of video game ports and how good or horribly sloppy they can be.
  
  
  Pictures Owed
  
  =guyver47 - 2,000 Pageviews and Birthday Picture. ]]> ~neo-no1Uknow http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/5226502/ http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/5226502/ Sat, 30 Apr 2005 01:34:25 PDT Internet or DeviantArt itself, but I'd been trying to post two or three pictures up for a few days with no-go. Further, I was trying to enjoy my free week of DeviantArt, but the last three days of it, the Search feature was down... which is what I was really using it for. I mean, how can I see new Artists and Comment on their work (both to see cool new pictures like ~samusmmx and to "get my name out there" so people will come look at my art) if I can't even use the darn Search thing to find them?
  
  Oh, well. My DeviantArt Account is back to normal until I can get funds to pay for it. I got to see a lot of cool features I would in fact pay for if I had money. Oh, well... back to Phantom Brave [link] .
  
  See you in the Future,
  —Huntermun
  
  
  ---------------------------------------- -
  Open Discussions:
  
  Which Port Is It? [link] - A Question of video game ports... the positives and negatives. ]]> ~neo-no1Uknow http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/5147225/ http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/5147225/ Thu, 21 Apr 2005 10:16:24 PDT
  I've just been given a Free Week of Paid DeviantArt-ness... one suspects if they've done this because I get, like, no Pageviews, heh. I mean, I've gotten about 10 since yesterday, which I attribute entirely to =guyver47 doing a picture for me and then putting my icon in the description. Yeah, no one's fooling me, heh...
  
  But anyway... this all looks pretty spiffy. Makes me sad I don't have the money to pay for DeviantArt or I'd learn how to work all these things... have the cool headers and footers in my Journal and all that... it'd be a blast, ya know?
  
  Awe, snap... I bet the Search works now. I'm there! BBL!
  
  See you in the Future,
  —Huntermun
  
  P.S.: Regardless of where the Pageviews are coming from, my 2,000th Pageviews still gets a free picture (within reason). You'll need proof, like these: [link] [link]
  
  P.S.2: Uh, actually... anyone want to do a Trade? I'm up for it... never done a Trade before.
  
  P.S.3: How about a Commission? $10 for a Commission?
  
  Open Discussions:
  
  Which Port Is It? [link] - A question of Ports in the area of Video Games. ]]> ~neo-no1Uknow http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/5130167/ http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/5130167/ Tue, 19 Apr 2005 16:17:40 PDT Ports... Video Game Ports, that is.
  
  Ports can, in some respects, be a good thing. A game that shows up on more than one system means that you don't have to own any one system to play it... you can just play it on whatever system you own. In that way, a port can be a good thing...
  
  Another way a Port can be a good thing is if the game is improved before it reaches another system (if there is a Release Date gap of time). For example... Burnout originally released for PlayStation 2... the PS2 copy had analog buttons (which were bad, in an Arcade Racer without a way to turn them off). Also, it didn't have the analog sensitivity of the GameCube. Overall, the decrease in loading time, prettiness, and (mostly) the analog sensitivity made the game better overall on the GameCube.
  
  Now, a final way that Ports can be good is when a game comes out for a simplier system at the same time as the system it was designed for. This can cause the designers to push the technology further than you might think it would be able to go. Examples of this that pop right into my head are NBA Showtime and San Fransico Rush 2049. Both games were designed for the Dreamcast... but they were Ported to the Nintendo 64... in so doing, you were able to experience a game of good quality, only lacking a few things.
  
  Showtime, for example, was missing numbers on the Jerseys and big pan-around 3D replays for some dunks. Rush, on the other hand, was intact except that some of the levels woud have massive framerate issues... the game still went as fast as it did on the Dreamcast, but on Track 6 (I beleive), you couldn't always judge how to take a corner due to your speed.
  
  But here also begins some of the downsides to Porting games. One such problem is outright leaving things out. Rush 2049 is a quick example of this because the Arcade version of it had Alcatraz in kickass future-sweetness. The console versions did not.
  
  Also along these lines is another powerful example of leaving things out. Played the SSX series? I hope so... but I've got news for you... if you play the GameCube versions of the games... all the tricks that would be on the PlayStation 2's L1 Button just are not there. Sure, there's not a button there on GameCube, but the X-Box only has L and R itself... it uses face buttons for the other shoulder buttons... the same could be done on the GameCube... and it wouldn't be so excessive if Tricking wasn't such a major part of the game... but since all the shoulder buttons are used for different combination of moves... and the GameCube version has a whole "multiplier" of tricks completely left off... the game is inferrior on that alone.
  
  Oh, but there's more (of course)... let's look at a game I really and truely enjoy... Prince of Persia: Warrior Within... I've played (and own) Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, and this game is a good sequel, even if I perhaps didn't agree with them trying to make it more mature...
  
  Now, I played The Sands of Time on PS2 and X-Box, and they were nearly identical ('cept for the Box having occationally horrid framerate)... and I'm told the same is true for the Cube version... but this is not the case for Warrior Within... far from it. The game is plagued from beginning to end with ungodly amounts of shitty porting... where do I start?
  
  Let's start with the main problem... the Audio throughout the whole game is FUBAR... sometimes fight music wont go away (even Boss music) after the fight... and nearly everytime that the Dahaka gives chase to you, the music (either game-specific or I Stand Alone) will play for about five seconds and then cut out... leaving entire chase scenes with only your sounds and the Dahaka's voice...
  
  Ah, the Dahaka... the PS2 copy, once or twice, caused your vision to go Dahaka -amber at times when he wasn't around or was no longer around, but it was rather rare... on the Cube version, this happens more often than not... and futhermore, the Dahaka (a scarey presence on the PS2 copy), isn't nearly as creepy on the Cube version because his eyes don't glow white!... they don't glow at all, and in fact they're just black and hardly noticable for the entire game, 'cept the cinema-scenes...
  
  ...also, when you rewind time, usually the Dahaka doesn't speak foreward. Originally, I though this was l... ]]> ~neo-no1Uknow http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/5119215/ http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/5119215/ Mon, 18 Apr 2005 11:32:37 PDT The Greenville LARP [link] and The Earthsaver Database [link] .
  
  The Earthsaver Database, for those of you not in the know, is my main website. I've been working on it since June 6, 2000, and it's been slowly expanding it's interests all this time. I've got up a few Video Game Trailers, and a couple Mega Man Zero images, as well as all of my Comic I currently have done.
  
  The thing about it is, though, that the current edition never really got completed or finalized... I mean, luckily, I put a lot of good "technologies" into use. It will be easy to upgrade it to Version 7 this year, and hopefully give the side more usefulness.
  
  You see, I've decided to learn XHTML for use on my site and many others, and I'm going to start that use with these two sites... one of which is housed in the other. That's been my art before, and it shall be my art again.
  
  I'll be posting screen shots to keep you all updated and to show that the drawings, spirtework, paintings, pottery, and photography don't make up the majority of the art on the web. Sometimes a website can look pretty nice too... I hope to show that off.
  
  The funny thing is, this is a challenge because I'm doing it without Javascript or Flash. The websites are going to be XHTML only, and that's going to be the trick. Lots of people think you need all kinds of specialties and degrees to be able to make a nice website, and I'm going to prove those people wrong.
  
  Maybe I'll even do a Tutorial or two...
  
  See you in the Future,
  —Huntermun
  
  P.S.: The Earthsaver Database also houses the [incomplete] website for my Online Role-Playing Game (ORPG) The Crossover Chronicle. We'll be starting Chapter One soon (we're at the end of the Prologue) so if anyone is interested, please E-mail me at Huntermun@gmail.com. I'll be pleased to answer any and all questions. You can also IM me at Undescriptive SN.
  
  P.P.S.: A free image of your choice (within reason) to whoever is my 2,000th Pageview and can back it up with a Screen Shot like so: [link] and like so: [link] . ]]> ~neo-no1Uknow http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/5115598/ http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/5115598/ Sun, 17 Apr 2005 21:42:00 PDT
  Now, I was really young, but when you're young, ending your life doesn't always seem like such a bad idea or such a big thing. You don't really know the meaning of your life or what you can do with yours at that point. You kind of take your existance for granted.
  
  I know this more now at this age than I ever did when I was younger.
  
  Sometime around late-middle school I realized that suicide was the coward's way out. Sounds a little odd, but when kids are making fun of you and such, and pushing you around, treating you like crap, one of the only ways to defy that and get past it is to make something out of your own life... start making your own set of rules to live by because everyone else's rules just aren't for you.
  
  I've come up with a few rules and a few variations over my lifetime. As I've grown older, newer rules have taken the place of previous ones.
  
  Need an example? How about this... I use to have a rule where for all the good or bad that happened in your life, an equal amount of it would occur to balance everything out. Law of Equilibrium, basically. Cause and Effect... for a few days worth of crap you go through in a week, you may have a really great Saturday. For a few good, lucky things that might happen to you one afternoon, you'll wake up having a bad dream the next morning which will ruin your whole day... things like that.
  
  Keep in mind, things are always in relevance to how much importance you put on them, not nessisarily how much importance others put on them... or even how much importance you think you should be putting on them. This law only works for certain when you have your own ways of measuring how important things are to you in your own life.
  
  The thing about this (and other rules) that I've learned about during my life is that one rule the trumps all the others. Force of Will. You can Will things to happen... anything.
  
  Somethings you may do by accident... like you expect something to happen and it does (wether you really wanted it to or not). Otherthings you do yourself... like wanting a passing grade for example. Your want to simply pass a class might be enough to allow other things to fall into place for it to happen. Perhaps you teacher assigns you something to research, and it's actually something you would like to know more about... something simple like that.
  
  But in the end, here, this Journal ended up not being about what I wanted it to be about. I was going to talk about Ports... Video Game Ports (like Prince of Persia: Warrior Within) and go on this whole thing about how games are sometimes designed to work on other systems better than the system you're playing it for.
  
  Instead, this is what I wrote about... hm...
  
  Basically, I desided (during the time I was writing my opening), that I wanted to do something constructive with my journals... have a message, tell a story, something... rather than just say that I'm having to move back in with my parents and my life is going to suck and all that. From now on... I'm going to try and have a bright side... something to learn or something to think about later.
  
  However, having come to this kind of feeling, I'm going to end this right here. I'll check you all out in the Future, as per usual.
  
  —Huntermun ]]> ~neo-no1Uknow http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/5056522/ http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/5056522/ Mon, 11 Apr 2005 00:27:50 PDT Crunch Month turned into a bust. I lacked motivation to finish my art because, well, my "freedom" has been taken away.
  
  Within the next 20 days I will no longer be living at The Appartment... I will be forced to move back home with my parents and little sister. It wouldn't be so bad except for my step-dad, Jeff. He's a jerk and an asshole and he generally always made my life a living hell. My mom would try to say that I was imagining the things he did, or that I was just taking things the wrong way... but I know the truth.
  
  I know the truth as I see it anyway... and isn't that what matters?
  
  So, I'll be mostly packing, and finishing this Semester at school. I dropped a single class out of the four I signed up for, and I am probably going to fail one other... at least it feels that way. My current average in Unix is 40... so, theoretically, if I took the exam, I might be able to pass.
  
  I'm not sure why the teacher isn't requiring the exam... though he said that by the end of the semester you had probably either failed or passed already and the exam wasn't going to make a difference. Since I need a 60 to pass, I'll probably be the only one of the last seven students at the exam.
  
  Criminology? I'd like to think I'm doing OK. I've faired alright on the tests and I've contributed to class... but I've... not done any of my homework, so... man... I would hate to fail that class. I really enjoy it.
  
  Lastly there's Operating Systems... and it's taught my my Unix teacher. For some reason he's been a real ass to me these past few weeks... citing my errors and mistakes to the whole class without indicating it was me who made the mistakes.
  
  I'm not sure how to explain, but I'm sure some of you know. The teacher says something kind of in general, but since you know that no one else in the class made that mistake, you know he's talking right to you... even if the rest of the class doesn't realize... Calling you out, as it were, without naming names.
  
  It still makes you feel like shit, though...
  
  But, besides all that, I'll be packing... to move home, and not into my own room... but the room my little sister use to live in. My bed will take up more than half the room, and I'm not sure where I'll put the entertainment center for my TV... not to mention my little Sis has had my desk while I've been gone, too, so I'll have to get a new desk.
  
  Anyway... I'm just posting this to keep any who care informed...
  
  See you in the Future,
  —Huntermun ]]> ~neo-no1Uknow http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/4927798/ http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/4927798/ Thu, 31 Mar 2005 07:24:58 PST really want to do. I don't know.
  
  Hopefully, this will pass as I head into Crunch Month... only time will tell. ]]> ~neo-no1Uknow http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/4878366/ http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/4878366/ Tue, 22 Mar 2005 03:28:46 PST Comic. I've managed to make up a plot up, and I hope to go with it... see where it goes. It's going to be me, some characters and some people I know slapped together to make something resembling a story.
  
  Eventually, it will tell a story [of some kind], as I have a general idea for six more pages past these first four. I hope to start working on the rest of those later today... and I would really like to have at least one full page done by midnight tonight.
  
  Full Detail.
  
  Full Color.
  
  Think about it.
  
  In any event, I just thought I'd drop you all this like... keeping you updated. I would have liked to have a comic to show you all right now, but instead I desided to go to sleep to wake up for school in the afternoon. Go figure.
  
  See you in the Future,
  —Huntermun
  
  P.S.: Remember, all... April is Crunch Month. ]]> ~neo-no1Uknow http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/4809114/ http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/4809114/ Mon, 14 Mar 2005 09:04:44 PST
  I had my Wisdom Teeth taken out of my head this past Friday... all of them. It's had a rather unpleasent after-effects which still linger on to this day. There's a constant pain in my mouth (more or less), and a horrible headach which seems to come and go.
  
  I can't focus on anything... wether it's getting my Cape at Level 20 on Champion (City of Heroes), or drawing anything new for my Deviant Art (though I did do a picture of Speaks, and a picture of Maiden's LARP Character Jeremy). Right now, I'm just thinking of laying back down before I have school at 4:05 P.M.
  
  On the plus side of events this weekend, my LARP ST basically phoned me and told me that my Role Play was Mighty . Not in those exact words, but basically, he's got a character all lined up that he wants me to play should my current character die at this coming game... and he predicts that because of the bad things going down this weeked, lots of characters will die, and my current character could be one of them.
  
  I just figured I'd let you all know that I am not dead (again), and I am still around. I still check my DA stuff even if I don't post. I plan to do some pictures really soon, and, if nothing else, April is going to be a Crunch Month, so look for it.
  
  Remember last month I tried to destroy my DA stats by posting more art in that month than in my previous high-number month? Well, I made a good effort, but I started late. So, starting next month, I will be trying for it again. From Apirl First (hopefully), straight through until the end of the month. No, I will not be saving art to put up next month. I'm talking all-original peices, every single day next month, possibly more than one a day.
  
  Hey, maybe I can get other Deviants in on this idea. What do you think? Can we nominate April as "Crunch Month" ? If you're not sure what I mean, go to your main page (or anyone's main page) and click "View Full Gallery Stats"... it's in the block at the top of the screen, under number of Favorites, and it's above the listings for General, Gallary, and all that jazz.
  
  Click it and you will see something like "His busiest month was September 2003 with 20 (17%) of his deviations." What is displayed there is what you have to beat next month. Get it? I have to upload more than 20 images next month. That's my goal for Crunch Month . Check and see what yours is... Can you do it?
  
  In any event, for now, I'm going to go lay back down. I'll See you all in the Future. Promise.
  
  —Huntermun ]]> ~neo-no1Uknow http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/4669828/ http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/4669828/ Fri, 25 Feb 2005 12:23:22 PST
  Is there anything strange about looking at one of your own Deviantions and smiling? I seem to be doing it a lot recently. Whenever I look at the Guyver47 on Huntermun Dragon's Back picture... I grin. When I see my new DeviID, I smile... when I look at the doodle/pic I did for Zamf's B-Day, I get a kind'a grin/smirk thing going on.
  
  The Versus picture... the different Ism 's of Huntermun... actually putting stuff in my Scraps... the list goes on...
  
  I don't know. I don't care if I do or do not hit my Art Quota for this month. I've been enjoying just looking back on some of the things I've created, and I'm rather enjoying it. I did a very decent dragon... I've improved on Background Details immensely... and I look good just about any way I can draw myself...
  
  So... here's to the new me, and a new journal. What the hell, you know? Might as well keep updating them. Maybe more people are reading them? Time to Will shit to happen, you know? Positive thinking. I'm ready. Let's do this.
  
  Check out ~MajorMoonie because it's his B-Day, will ya? And for that matter, say happy B-Day for me on his front page. I refuse to let him have a bad one... not after the goodness/decentness of his last year.
  
  Oh, and my old work is still at ~ Huntermun. Still haven't updated it, but I will. Promise. Just give me some time.
  
  Laterz, all... and See you in the Future,
  —Huntermun
  
  City of Heroes Global Chat Handle: @Huntermun ]]> ~neo-no1Uknow http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/4642220/ http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/4642220/ Tue, 22 Feb 2005 00:56:22 PST DeviantArt for the past few nights... first there was LARP, then there was ~ VelvetMaiden's computer sending static electricity through my whole body... This past night I was playing NBA Street V3... And I was getting so close to my Devi-Goal too.
  
  For any of those who didn't know, I'm a big stat-tracker in video games and such. When it comes down to Win/Lose, number of Dunks, number of Gamebreakers, number of tricks in one combo from Peak 3 to Summit (268), Accuracy, number of Head Shots, or number of monkey's capped... I'm a big stat-tracker.
  
  This month, as I came back to my DeviantArt after finally getting my computer working... I saw in the detailed information that my month for most number of Deviantions is September 2003 with 27. That was the month I joined, and I just uploaded a bunch of art I already had... so.. that's not fair or accurate.
  
  This month, I tried to get in 28, just so I could change that stat. At first I thougth I would make it, but at this point, I don't think so. I think I've gotten in 13... so I have 15 left to go... and I don't think it counts Scraps. I'm still trying, but... oh well. Right now, I'm going to go work on ~VelvetMaiden's energy-mad box, and play some City of Heroes... I'm Global Chat Handle @Huntermun if anyone wishes to speak with me.
  
  I hope to have more old work up under ~ Huntermun soon enough, so check that out if you haven't.
  
  Until then, I shall see you in the Future...
  —Huntermun ]]> ~neo-no1Uknow http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/4564736/ http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/4564736/ Sat, 12 Feb 2005 19:17:15 PST
  I have created a new DeviantArt account.
  
  If you want to see some of my old, old work, then I am uploading it a little bit at a time over on ~Huntermun. I've been wanting to put up all my old work so I could get comments on it... and so that you wouldn't all think of me as so much of a one-trick poney... since I am drawing almost the same thing over and over again at this point in my life.
  
  So, over at ~Huntermun you will currently find a Drawing Notebook's worth of Crossover 2: Vortex images. Those aren't the only Vortex pictures, nor are they the only images in that Notebook... but for now, it's a start. I just thought I would let you all know.
  
  May the jaunt down Memory Lane begin.
  
  
  
  See you in the Future... ]]> ~neo-no1Uknow http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/4559647/ http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/4559647/ Sat, 12 Feb 2005 05:03:15 PST
  I am considering moving my art to a new account... one that sounds more like a real name than "Neo no1Uknow". Something like "Huntermun", basically. I was wondering... are any of you against such an idea? It would take me a while to reupload my art, but it would give me an oppertunity to upload some old stuff in with the new.
  
  I dunno... I probably wont do it... it would require lots of effort... and I would loose the fact I've been a Deviant for longer than this year...
  
  Hm... well, just an idea. What do you think? ]]> ~neo-no1Uknow http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/4462315/ http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/4462315/ Mon, 31 Jan 2005 13:27:08 PST
  In case it needed to be said (and I forgot that it probably does)... I have been without a computer for about a month now. Helping people with theirs is helping me with mine, and I was all ready to finish my "upgrades" about two weeks ago when my new motherboard tells me in no simple terms that my harddrive is dieing...
  
  How does a motherboard know a HD is dieing? Good question. I was confused by that myself...
  
  There's this stuff in the computer-board portion of a harddrive that keeps track of various things. It's abbriviated SMART... but I can't tell you what it stands for offhand... and I don't feel like looking it up. However, I can tell you what it does. What it does is keeps track of little variables... how long the HD has been in use total, how much power it takes, how fast it spins, and so on an so on. Lots of things that aren't vital to the device, and a couple that are...
  
  One such peice of knowledge is the speed the HD spins at. This is where my problem comes in. I plugged it into my Gram's computer (I was working on it), and all my stuff is there. I install a trail version of a program that can read all this SMART stuff and right after I'm done installing it, it basically says "Yer HD is FUBAR... you should back up all your stuff and get a new one" I start doing that, to my Gram's HD, and while it's doing that I go and see what's wrong...
  
  I watched as ever twenty minutes or so, my HD lost about 2 points in speed. Basically... my HD is slowly spinning down over time. Worst part is... while I could back up my stuff and just hope it lasts until I get a new HD... my new motherboard is all like "Whoa, that's bad. That thing can run in me." ... so I can't use the computer while I get a new HD.
  
  Now... on the plus side, I should have the two new HD's tomorrow. Yeah, two. Sure I could spend $80 on a 120Gig HD at 7200RPM's, but why bother? I don't need that much space. I was fine with a 60Gig. So, instead, I'm getting 2 40Gig HD's that run at 10,000RPM's. Faster HD speed means faster overall computing and gaming. Add that to my new motherboard... an Athlon XP 2800+ with 333 Bus Speed, and my new 2 Half-Gig sticks of DDR3200 (1Gig Total)... ...4 USB 2.0 onboard, and my pre-existing ATI Radeon 9600 XT... and you have a badass machine that I will probably never use all the power of... and will likely hurt Moonie's head just to know that I have such a powerful machine and will likely be playing Sim City 4 and The Sims 2 on it just as much as City of Heroes...
  
  So, yeah... a month of downtime means I end up improving my machine from kickass (does everything I want or need it to) to badass (does way more than I need it to, and will likely not have to upgrade for some time).
  
  I still have my headachs, and I'm back at school... but damn if I wont have a fine machine soon enough.
  
  See you in the Future,
  —Huntermun ]]> ~neo-no1Uknow http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/4267726/ http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/4267726/ Sat, 08 Jan 2005 07:22:30 PST
  I am having serious problems with my wisdom teeth. They're all in wrong, and two are impacted... but more importantly, they're causing me constant pain. It's not a bad, sharp, eye-watering pain (well, sometimes), but more like a constant annoyance.
  
  I have trouble sleeping correctly due to sleep apnea. I thought that being woken up "wrong" was causing me headachs. However, I now know that [since the end of November] I haven't been waking up with a headach that would last me all day... I've been living with a headach that's never gone away... it was waking me up.
  
  Imagine it like... I don't know... someone always talking to you, all day long. It's a distraction. It's a slighly painful, but constant distraction. I can't focus on anything. I often say or type words in the wrong place or out of order. I mean, I can proofread text, but when you're talking to your friends and you say a word at the start of a sentence that should be at the end... it's really messed up.
  
  Anyway, I basically can't draw because I can't focus on what I'm doing... on paper or on the computer, I can't manage to think through a picture long enough. So... I'll be back, and hopefully soon. I just thought I needed to put up some kind of message.
  
  See you in the Future,
  Huntermun ]]> ~neo-no1Uknow http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/3887125/ http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/3887125/ Sun, 21 Nov 2004 17:46:22 PST
  I wanted to drop a new Journal at you as kind of an Ad for a recent work I have done. You see, I recently (like, two weeks ago), found an old story I had written back in 2000-2001, and begun the long process of turning it into text. I read through the whole thing one time, and realized I did—in fact—have something good on my hands. I took a week to translate it over into digital text, and then I spent a few more days, reading it once more, checking it for spelling and grammer mistakes, and making a couple edits here and there.
  
  What I've ended up with is a story that's hit Chapter XXI (21), and a want to continue it past that point. I've got lots of ideas in my head, and I'm trying to progress the story further. Right now, I'm over in Chapter XXIII (23) and it's going kind of slow.
  
  The reason it is going slow is because... I want to know that some people are interested in it. I plan to continue it, but the more days that go by that no one's even looked at it... it becomes harder to proceed. Right now, on Deviant Art, I can tell people have only looked at the first page of my story... Deviant Art cut me off as it uploaded, so I went back and had to chop the story into (basically) five-chapter segments.
  
  I just am putting this note up, asking, pleading, for anyone of you out there to please take a look at my story and tell me what you think. Good or Bad, I'd like some real input on it if possible. It starts kind'a slow for the first three or four chapters, and then begins to pick up... so if you read that first section and didn't think you were that interested... please try and continue on. I'm really beginning to worry that no one is looking at my stuff at all...
  
  But, for now, I will end this rant, and see if I can finally get those little image links to friend's art to work. Here goes:
  
  Known Friends
  
  
  Think We Could Become Friends:
  
  
  See you in the Future,
  Huntermun ]]> ~neo-no1Uknow http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/3801402/ http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/3801402/ Wed, 10 Nov 2004 12:46:09 PST
  Well, I'm back, and I have 146 Messages, and about 8 Sketches to upload. I've also taken time to begin typing up a story that I started writing back in 2000 that I might end up posting up here. It's been a boring set of weeks without the internet, and I'm once again informing all of you that I am indeed alive and mostly well.
  
  I'll be back soon with more stuff. Right now I need to catch up and scan the few things I've done in the meantime. All those people I'm watching... I'm getting to your stuff right this very moment.
  
  See you in the Future,
  Huntermun ]]> ~neo-no1Uknow http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/3525444/ http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/3525444/ Wed, 06 Oct 2004 09:35:54 PDT
  My art, well, I think of it as above average. Some people either like what I put into some of the images or no, but on average, my art hasn't been a big enough thing to warrent people seeing it and talking about it to others, I guess.
  
  That's one of the plots behind doing a Comic, I guess. It gives some people a reason to come back, while at the same time giving me excuses to draw characters in more poses than the usual. Now, if I could only get myself away from the computer for longer than getting a Pepsi from the fridge, maybe I could do something more with the comic.
  
  All in all, I'm more or less just saying hello back to everyone who's been watching me over the past year. Hope you all are doing better than I am, and I hope you've at least thought some of my pictures were "neat".
  
  Stay tuned. The best is yet to come.
  
  Huntermun ]]> ~neo-no1Uknow http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/3129585/ http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/3129585/ Sun, 15 Aug 2004 05:40:57 PDT
  Anywho, thanks to Average Dog and Ratfink Lightshadow for their FanArts. I try to remember that *at least* you two (and Robert, Sarah, and Alicia) are watching the things I do. I just wish I hadn't been slapped in the face by Drawer's Block a week ago. I hope I'm getting over it.
  
  I'm hoping to do more of my comic soon. Unfortunately, I planned ahead, and that's where I went wrong. Maybe I'll just do some random OOC things or something, I dunno. I need to get back to it soon... real soon.
  
  I was wondering if anyone listening out there is interested at all in any of the stories I have started. I plan on starting more of them, but I just don't know if I have gotten any of you interested thus far. If so, do tell. I'd like to know where I should maybe focus my efforts.
  
  Anywho, I'm thinking of doodling something else, or maybe sleeping right now. Later today I will get to see AvP, so I am ready for that... I feel strange now that I've learned it's PG-13, though. Oh well.
  
  See you in the Future...
  
  ...But you knew that already. ]]> ~neo-no1Uknow http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/2789709/ http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/2789709/ Fri, 02 Jul 2004 17:39:40 PDT
  I am in this strange position of not really thinking low of my artwork... just... I don't have any way of proving that. I don't feel like many really look at my art, and the few that do aren't impressed enough to say anything about it. Furthermore, I only have three freinds really into drawing or other kinds of art, and only two of them have a Deviant Art account... so, since they know me, they don't comment either... I don't expect them to... I don't really comment on their work either, really... but still I don't get hits, even though my icon is shown at all their journal entries.
  
  I really dunno what to think about this. I don't know how to put friend's icons into my comments here (though, I suspect it's some code like :neo-no1Uknow or something). I have a fair amount of artwork... I keep thinking perhaps I should make another DeviArt name and put up all my old drawings. At least that way, they'd be somewhere, and maybe someone would comment on my old stuff.
  
  But, here's the long and short of it. I have a request to make to anyone reading this. I'm not sure if anyone will comment or anything, but I'll give it at least this try...
  
  Could some one, anyone, please draw me (Huntermun) or any of my characters? Please? I feel so many people out there draw better than me... and I get such a kick out of it when someone draws one of my characters. It makes me feel good to know that someone thought enough of me or one of my characters to do a picture.
  
  I've become accustomed to lack of input on my artwork, though. I generally draw at about the same level now as I did at the end of high school... as much as my work used to improve, I think I hit a level cap. The only way for me to improve from here is to slap on more enhancements, and I don't see that happening very quickly. I'm gunna have to plus something.
  
  Oh well. Maybe you took time to read this, maybe you didn't. In any and all events, I will See you in the Future. Laterz, all. ]]> ~neo-no1Uknow http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/2384130/ http://neo-no1Uknow.deviantart.com/journal/2384130/ Sat, 08 May 2004 08:02:02 PDT
  So, Huntermun, me, is here. I'm here to stay, to draw, and so on and so on. This Deviant Art account began as a place for me to show off David's Artwork... He is no1Uknow. He's also a character of mine. He's a furry kind'a character, loves transformations, and is generally a pervert of sorts. He's not me.
  
  Yet, I guess he's at least partially me, right? I made him. But I guess not. As far as I am concerned, all my characters are off doing their own thing. They really exist... I mearly get to speak about them... talk to them... They're people I know. I don't talk to them every day, but they're always out there, doing whatever.
  
  Oh well, I'm rambling. I just felt I needed a new Journal up here. I'm doing a new kind of series of pictures... me getting into my Characters. I think it's going well.
  
  Laterz all, and See you in the Future ]]> ~neo-no1Uknow