The Life and Times vol. 3

It's been a while, hello there!

NOT THAT KIND OF HELLO!

Augh, I haven't been updating my main blog in a while because I really don't have much time to. So you'd have to pardon the slow updates. Anyways, hello once again! I kinda missed writing here, so this might be one of those very loooooong blog posts. I have much to talk about anyway, so without further ado, let us begin!

So you might be wondering what I've been up to for the past 2 or 3 months since my last update (or, you know, you're not...). Well, I've been slaving over my Master's thesis for quite awhile now, and truth be told, I don't really think it's going anywhere! To those of you who are interested, my thesis is about extending the CDT plug-in for Eclipse.

NOT THAT KIND OF ECLIPSE!

CDT basically is the C Development plug-in for Eclipse. It allows you to convert your Eclipse IDE into a development platform for the C language (ordinarily, Eclipse is a Java compiler). It also adds some other tools that will help you in C programming, like DOM Trees and such. And no, before the picspam gets ahead of me, IT'S NOT THAT KIND OF DOM! Seriously, these developers should give the stuff they develop less promiscuous sounding names.

Anyway, apart from thesis, I've also begun collecting small scale pose-able figures. Currently my collection consists of one FIGMA Koizumi, one Revoltech Fraulein Asuka and one S.H.Figuarts Kamen Rider Black RX (which, now that I realize it, makes my collection more multicultural than the Justice Friends). I'm saving up to get either a FIGMA Yuki Nagato (non witch version) or an S.H.Figuarts W, Kabuto or Decade. I currently am borrowing a friend's SHF Kabuto and Revo Fraulein Pocco, for use in another project I'd talk about in awhile, but I really really want to get a hold of my own SHF Kabuto, for collection purposes.

For the uninitiated, FIGMA is a line of pose-able figures from Max Factory featuring well known (some not so much) anime characters from a variety of series, most notably the Haruhi Suzumiya no Yuutsu series (their first FIGMA came from that series, correct me if I'm wrong). Revoltech Fraulein is also a line of pose-able figures this time from Kaiyodo, comprised entirely of female anime or game characters (I think, I don't really know where Pocco came from).

YEAH THAT POCCO!

S.H.Figuarts on the other hand is a line of pose-able action figures from Bandai, mainly of Kamen Riders (but I think they also feature some other "heroic" characters). They're the evolution of sorts of the former Souchaku Henshin line of Kamen Rider figures, featuring better joints, more points of articulation and better detailing. I still argue that the S.H. in S.H.Figuarts stands for Souchaku Henshin, or at least meant to be an allusion of sorts to their predecessor line, but someone would kill me, so I just won't (although secretly I still do! Fight fight!)

So, what do I do with these figures? Why, make a comic out of them of course! (What? It's the most logical course of action right? No?)

PILOT CHAPTER: HUNTER HUNTED

If you want to read them, visit this link. Apart from the main continuity, I've also been making side comics for the lulz. To read them, visit this link. It would link you to my other blog where I would house the comics temporarily. Just click on the Read more link, or the full view links on each. A friend of mine also agreed to give my comics a home in his blog, which hopefully gets them to more interested audiences, since he has friends that are really into Kamen Riders and anime and figures. You can visit his blog here.

So for a short introduction of what these comics are, well, Ad Continuum is basically my re-imagining of the Kamen Rider concept. In this world, Riders are spirits, and instead of bikes, they ride on the bodies of hosts, appropriately termed Ride. These hosts or Rides must be of strong magic potential, as this is a requirement to contain the powers of the Rider spirits in physical form. Of Pertaining to Comedy on the other hand is, well, you don't really describe it. It's really just for the lulz, and a place for comic rants. I don't have a fixed schedule of publishing yet for these comics, but hopefully in a week or two the schedules would have stabilized.

I've also started a new line of short stories called Alternatives, which basically are fanfictions of sorts, a re-imagining of the stories of anime series or any sort of series really. So far I've made the first chapter of Alternative DeathNote, featuring Light as a software hacker (of all things, but hey, my college course is about software development and stuff, so what better alternate world right? Right? Ugh).

Anyway, that should be it for now. I apologize for the Hello Kitty brief at the beginning of the blog post. Really, that was uncalled for. Unless you want them. Which officially makes you the most creepy brief-wearer in the world.

Seriously. Don't get near those. They're probably haunted with the ghosts of people killed by shame while wearing one.