As the final days of the summer arc reach it's finale, it's time to recap the events that led it's crowning moments and disastrous bombs that make up this arc. I'm doing this because not only are these events unlockable far and between, it's nice to reminence about what you did and what transpired.
The start of the arc was not shall we say in good spirits as I was still recovering from GUILT, though I've not seen that vampyr who contracted me to it. Plus as a ghost lingering the hallowed tiny corners of the radio station, I had no place to go. My classes for the semester were fubared, my wallet still on life support was barely hanging on due to the previous event where my favorite store overcharged me by accident. Simply put, I was screwed. However, in one glimpse of hope I had one request that would either make or break me. It broke me, and I lost any trust with anyone who don't take me seriously.
Looking to return to normal after struggling financially, I decided to take up a chance to see a movie. It was good, but quite a long arduous journey in bad shoes there and back. Then curious to see what the hubbub was about with Toy Story 3, I saw what people saw and was satisfied with it, but not so much as to cry to it like everyone else. Still fun. It was then that my respect for American movies faltered and crumbled with The Last Airbender and Twilight "Saga" Eclipse. Mostly because the quality of both movies made me uncomfortable and irritated. For the former, I simply was fooled in the deceison by the person who I took. The later was more of deceit and torture as I regret escaping the movie by the 15 minute mark. In the attempt to barter for a return from the person who took me, I wasn't able to convince her. Maybe it was because of the fact that my arguments for blatant manservice is invalid for a twilight neophyte would believe the magnificent 2 faced whore Bella and her "love triangle" is romantic. A human girl obsessed with immortality and I presume furry or necrophilia is pretending to be in love with 2 badly wooden actors was spooning with a werewolf in front of her vampire fiance. The whole battle between the fictional monster people was because of her. If there's a chance that the person who dragged me there would miraculously repay me, the better.
Meanwhile to take the taste of bad movies out of my mouth, I participated in a sequel to Music from Final Fantasy. It was different than last year as not only did I get a closer seat, I got a chance to sit next to 2 ladies rather than myself on the top tier. What caught me by surprise was that one of the ladies who acted like a libby, was quite nice. She was at the concert to give her, I'm not making it up, her heterosexual life friend. She brought her to Final Fantasy as a birthday present by taking her out to a night at a concert. She said it not me. And as much as I overheard her conversation about her other boyfriends and how she would just plow through them, she was quite pleasant to engage in a conversation during the intermission before the second act. As the finale came in the form of Terra's Theme, I hightailed it to the meet & greet to be behind 2 people. A few of them in line recognized me on facebook as I kept, as an FF fan boy in secret, squeed at the concert itself. As soon as I said my peace I traversed all the way home. However, as I learned through my own experience, I should never get in a cab in Fremont. Not only did I end up paying for the other passenger's extra mileage, I had to pay for the more extra mileage to reach the bank as the cab driver did not accept credit cards. Just my luck. So remember kids: Don't ride cab in Fremont. Rips you off and tears your wallet a new one, but for me it was more like tear my wallet another new one. Bastards!
After recovering from that devastating blow from the aforementioned cab incident, I regained my composure and pursued my side business to find rare games and it filled up exponentially as I received requests from many people. Sean Fausz, the epicfailguy, Machinimist which I am working on, and Guru Larry of ScrewAttackEurope. What also lifted my spirits was that I found Misadventures of Tron Bonne for 70 bucks. That's the lowest I've gotten for a rare game such as that. Something like Tron Bonne goes for maybe 200+. That may seem like chump change for most collectors, but for a rare game hunter like myself who is also a college student, it's pretty good. If I continue this business even after I move out, I will be able to work more with people on Thatguywiththeglasses.com
In between all the cool and suck stuff happening, I've delved into cleaning my studio as I've kept it unorganized for quite some time. That's got nothing to do with the plot, but considering I was under the influence of GUILT, it's a freakin godsend. It almost looked bad as a hikikomori's (shut in), but not so much as it would be a disaster. I also bought some new furniture as most of my stuff was increasing. Which gets to a minor subplot where I had to encounter a thing with Sears. Normally I'm cool with ordering stuff online. However, when a clerical error screws it up, stuff hits the fan pretty quick. As soon as I did some rustic negotiating and soul searching through the confines of Sear's customer service, I encountered them one more time and got my money back. Ironically what I was looking for was actually at another store all along. With that and a new shelf, I'm now at peace with myself.
Just recently there was a small mini con at this store I now go to called Anime V. Hugo, the owner of the place has been a new neighbor for a year now and decided to run a end of summer showdown as a bidding farewell to summer. This included a gundam building contest, a quickie cosplay stroll, a game of capture the flag, and raffle. I just coincidentally happened to have been in the neighborhood as I was on my way to deliver Tron Bonne to a client. A rather fun experience for anyone who is into anime. Even if your not, a con is a con and a con is a great way to meet new people. In fact, one of the people at Anime V on that pleasant saturday used to work for Geneon and he and I got into a very heated debate over what Geneon's legacy, and licensing as I am curious to know how to license a series such as Zoids Genesis rather than make a dvd fake for not sell. Turns out it's alot tougher than I thought. To keep my hopes up I'm continuing with the project. As the day continued, I met quite a few people there. Including Finn impersonator Finn, the ambitious seller Preston, Stanford student Jared, and Shawnie for some reason. Whence capture the flag commenced, I realized that I'm the worst guy to be playing sports. Willing to admit it, I gave it my all as it soon became a game of taunt the ostrich and psych out. With nary an ounce of strength left after relieving myself of my incomplete shadow gear, I admitted my freeze tag and gave up. Preston was not pleased with my attributes.
What I regret out of this heartfelt event, the con not the capture the flag, was that I did not participate in the costume contest. My reason is no excuse either as I demanded ninja agents to fight to participate, but really it was stage fright. Yes, I admit to my shyness as I've been shy most of my life and breaking the ice is not exactly easy. Keeping up with conversation with Jared, the Geneon guy, Preston and the others was a miracle in what I can pull off without drying up my content. But overall, Hugo pulls some amazing parties with just a small budget. Wish I knew how he let others work for him and mind the store. Hope he has one for fall. If Hugo has one for Halloween like last year, I will seriously go. Go fences make good neighbors eh?
I guess your probably not really not wondering why I keep mentioning GUILT. Yes I'm referencing to Trauma Center which by the way is a great series, but it goes deeper than that. Last year as I continued on in my studies at the KJCC radio station, I met a girl who represented the pacific islander club. I was repping the radio club at the time since Maveric, the wingman to the iceman (bad analogy) was in charge and couldn't rep, she and I started talking more to each other. At first I thought she wanted me to join her in endeavors that involved crossover promotion like what I did for Thatguywiththeglasses and the station. What turned out however was a game of cat and mouse for some reason. I didn't know that she, V as I will call her to represent vampyr, was a manipulator. During the summer while I was working at the time at a crappy safeway, miserable as I already was, got a phone call from V as she was having car trouble. I told her that I was busy working and had to go to my monthly union meeting to beat the man and stop Walmart. As soon as I couldn't take it no more, I ended up missing the meeting. Little did I know was when the creature bared her fangs and targeted what was dear to me.
At first I was confused at her actions, the way V takes her time, but then thats all women. I missed an opportunity to see the third Death Note movie. Ok I was chill knowing I missed a perfectly good time to see it. Then it came to the choices of movies that she dragged me to. Up, was my choice to go by myself as it was OK. V's choice was to see Night at the Museum 2 which was lame and Dance Flick beyond the borderline of retarded. Sure take offense to me, but a pregnant girl breaking dancing and unleashing a crappy ass CG fetus with umbilical cord attached doing the same thing is not offensive, then you probably haven't seen this feces smearing flick. Soon V dragged on to see Ghost of Girlfriend's past as I was not a fan of it, Hangover which was funny, and The Ugly Truth which was plain sexiest. Not once did V have any interest in me as I didn't realized that my wallet which was fine before I met her soon tapped into my monetary life support.
When I soon lost my job, due to poor management and location (place sucked anyway), V called me up to ask for help with her car. I thought sure 20 bucks is OK, she can pay me back, but instead I ended up losing 42 dollars for gas. And the gas station was only a few blocks away! The Ugly Truth was also the contender for worst movie of 2009 and when I found out V was playing with me. I was mentally aware, but my physical stand couldn't stop. So the Ugly Truth came out at the same time The Ugly Truth came out. I asked V if she could pay me back and she did as what wrestling would call a face heel. I had Maveric stand next to me as I encountered V in a fight where I couldn't win to the succubus of my sanity. She deceived me right from the start as I soon contracted GUILT.
Now this GUILT I'm talking about is not only related to the Gangliated Utrophin Immuno Latency Toxin that affected the people of Angeles Bay, but the GUILT I contracted was when my money was soon down to 5 dollars in my savings. I was devastated to the point when I lost all the will to live. With my wallet on a feeding tube to receive monthly help, I held onto dear life as my nakama from the station kept me from losing my wallet's life, and my own. Oh did I mention she slept with me just to get my money? Normally the average guy would say, "score!", but if it's meaningless you'll end up more depressed than when I became more depressed. As I lingered on with GUILT above me, I tried to continue on the Limit Break, but without any support from the TGWTG or anyone else, I dropped ship and lost contact with who I once thought of as my nakama.
During the time I was with GUILT, I lost 200 from Micro Center, 104 from a client, and quite frankly I'm losing consoles cause I'm getting heeled by friends who have 2 kids and no degree! (Long story) So all that: V's saga, my ghostly lingering at the station and my not mentioned filler time with school politics, my encounter with 2 crappy movies, I was in GUILT. My wallet still has it's scars, but there will be a time when I will rise of out GUILT and reign victorious over it. And that's what I did when I found Tron Bonne! What a doozy.
My next event will be a short and sweet get together with Okage Sama De, a cosplay group as they once a season throw a themed shin-dig. In the spring with Ouran High School Host Club where I met Ino, the leader of the troupe, and now they will do an Avatar the Last Airbender themed get together. Not the live action one, thank god! But the animated series. I'm doubtful about them having food this time, but maybe, I'll scope it out and end up going home early. Hopefully, it won't be like last time when I had to ride my bike to get a new tire just to rush to the Amtrak for spring break like last season. After that, Power Morphicon! That will vary though as I still haven't thought of a plan with Linkara. He said he'll just be there and that's it. I'll talk to him when I get the chance.
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