*does ninja poof*
Can't get on the PS3 online again 'till I can buy my own internets. :[ so I'll be ninja poofing away from online for some time. Maybe forever until I graduate (i graduate in about a year...it's not THAT long...).

in other news: design for the Jazz costume is going well...but it's not practical yet...waiting on the human it's going on.

YAY. in two days i start a 3d modeling and animation class where i have to use 3ds Max (everything came in the mail fine), so while I continue practicing in Maya on my transformers, I'll be learning max too. and i'm hoping to practice in mudbox too (its like zbrush, but has the added disability of still working with polygons; came with max/maya and all the other stuff)

im still uploading videos to youtube because I never have all my video online at any given time. I proably have another good ten videos that can go up of playing on transformers. i don't think i have any of my uncharted 2 video on my computer, so that likely won't debut. been debating whether or not to do a walkthrough of Mirror's edge.

So, while i can't complete Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen The Game The Movie, if I can somehow contact djekmiami and get his Prime voice on my computer somehow then i can at least finish the first episode....

finished concepts of wyvern and hinder...blah blah blah.

Have fun everyone.

oh, and i determined, based on cam's design and proportions right now (like in his turnaround sheet) he's 19 feet and three and a quarter inches tall.

I don't know where to start...

Well, I suppose y'all read what happened Sunday the 25th at the Library's Halloween thing, so I'll skip forward to Friday the 30th.

That day I went to a POA office and dressed up there for several hours. I pretty much hung out in their entryway/waiting room for the customers and freaked out a lot of people that way, . It all started when I was just sitting down, taking a break (I can sit in costume picture in my gallery!) and some people came in to do their business. I didn't move 'cause I was sort of tired, then when they were leaving I guess they felt the need then to check me out, and I heard one lady ask, "Is it real?" and so I turned to look at her and she freaked out! XD And so for pretty much every person after that I stood still until the people alked past, then I would start moving and scared so many people because they thought I was a prop or a statue or something! HAHA!!!!!

One of the workers later got their nephew to come in at one point before I had to leave (I had to go to work like right as kids were gettting out of school and would have come in more, I'm a little sad about that), and he was a little dinosaur, and, poor thing, he was araid of me, D'aww. but his dad got him to stand next to me and we took pictures, because his older brother apparently loves Transformers.

Around that time I was also invited to go to an elementary school thing, but, because I couldn't get work off on such short notice, I couldn't make it!


That was all the dressing up I did on Friday.
On Saturday, All Hallows Eve, the 31st, I got to dress up again and we went to the mall!
My parents were awesome spotters as we were out and about there for app. and hour, and there were A LOT of people.
I saw about 5 Bumblebee's, 3 Megatron's, and one Prime, all movieverse, then one Animated Prime.
Almost everyone knew I was a Transformer, but I was also called: 1. Megatron 2. Starscream 3. Bumblebee 4. Optimus Prime, and about three people actually called me "Blackout," at least one was an adult (I heard him say it as he was walking past; his poor kids would't come near me), and another was a cool kid who I wish I would've talked to, but just listened to while waiting for the contest. I can't remember the ID of the third....
A lot of people took pictures of or with me, mostly kids since the adults usually took the photos, ha ha. But there were a few couples who took pics with me too. :3

Most of the kids stood in front of me when taking pictures, but I had one little girl hug me (AWWWWWW ), and one little boy who just wanted to hold my hand (double D'AWWWW). They were so cute!!!!

Then after walking around we headed over to Borders for the costume contest. Basically the contestants went on the top floor, and they had 5 or so peeps line up so everyone could see, then a worker would announce the person, and the amount of applause determined the winner. I ran into a Sorcerer (he had a really cool scythe, but was called a sorcerer) there whom I had seen while walking around, and him and my family proceded to talk. I went against him in the first round, and though the guy had an awesome costume, nobody cheered for him D: not even the polite applause everyone else got! so i yelled even though I was standing next to him...LOL.

well, i won the first round sort of hands down (i hadn't heard the crowd get that loud for anyone else, XD), then came back for the second and final round, which pit each of the first round winners against each other. Since I cheered for the Sorcerer dude last round, I figured I'd cheer for someone this round too. I really liked this little girl in a turquoise kimono, so I cheered for her! She had a really loud family member in the crowd too though, so I doubt I made much of a difference, well, when it came down to me, I just got the usual polite applause, not like my first round I think everyone left after that, actually) looking back, i think i should have started talking to the crowd in grindor's voice... well, apparently the lady who had the final say in judging who won based on the crowd's reaction was actually having a hard time deciding who won! and i was like, dude, the little geisha girl got it! and so they settled on her winning.
all of the finalists got candy (i had a hard time grabbing a single piece from the mass, so the lady pulled one out and gave it to my mom since I couldn't stick it in my pockets [yes I had pockets it's just hard to stick my hand/glove in it]), and on my way down, the geisha apparently ran off somewhere and they had to go find here to give her her prize! XD lol aww, she was probably shy.

then once we reached the bottom, i met more peeps for photos; one guy in particular actually looked like a photographer since he had a real good sized camera and not just a little dinky one or a camera phone. he said he liked my costume and he took a few pictures of me.

aaaaaaaaaand then we went somewhere else for dinner & karaoke!

I sang "Field of Daggers" by House of Heroes:
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(The crowd really seemed to like this one)

and "Deathbed" by Reliant K:
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That one was just to make fun of Blackout/Grindor dying in both his appearances
I was also going to make a video for it in which Megatron would have been the father who was a preacher teaching the words of the Teacher (whom would have been the fallen), and my wife would have been Skorponok, and maybe my kids at the same time if I didn't make the hatchlings that. but since i knew no one there would get it, i didn't go through with it. it's still funny to me when I think about it though... haha.

and then we went home, and i was beat.

one lady at the mall said she would've expected to see me at a convention cosplaying. . . | ...maybe one day, ma'am. maybe one day.

until then, I have a few more costumes to make
I had the extreme pleasure of killing Blackout/Grindor for the third time, when I got home.
Why destroy it, you ask?
because it has been gnawing at me that i can do better, and instead of spending money on this project wich i did not want to spend money one in the first place (again, spent less than $10 on it), i would destroy it so that I can finally move on to my new ones.

first off, I want to make a Jazz costume for if at all possible. Then, I'm hoping next years halloween costume for me will be a g1esque Prime.
"But everyone's done Prime." you say.
and my goal is: TO DO HIM JUSTICE.

yea. so lets think outside the box shall we? I wanna own any Prime's I find next year.

i am keeping some bits of my costume - i kept the back piece, which I have always called "Skorponok" because I believe it's him folded up on Blackout's back - I want to hang him on my wall, though currently it's resting on my TV until I find out how... i also kept it because it was a really interesting shape, and looks really good even though it was the second to last piece I built, on the last day, and made extremely quickly. It just looks cool. I'm also keeping the head because it's AWESOME. It scared many children. and the gloves I'm keeping not only because they are excellent gloves, but because thats most of the $10 I spent and don't want to just throw away the awesome things. I have a few other tiny things that were neat.

and despite all the picture taking that's gone on in the past week, I still can't find myself anywhere, XD!!! Oh, the irony!

Well, I'm taking a break from that humongous weekend now and am plotting for everything that's to come - next week i start a class where we're working in 3D! and ITS MY ONLY CLASS UNTIL CHRISTMAS. YES.

so, 3DsMax should be in the mail sometime soon (nailed out the issues today, thankfully), and until then, i have lots of stuff i could be working on...but probably won't for a little while, lol.

oh yes. and logic is actually getting to a point where HARD SOLID yes or no type stuff is going on, thankfully. the irony is that the rest of class, which seemed to do fine before, is now having issues while i, excuse the rhyming, soar.

and so we praise God again! He's doin' some funky stuff, I tell ya!

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after Prime i want to do The Fallen !

three days.

woop.

ok, gotta finish bunches of homework before then - man! it seems like i subconsciously set TONs of deadlines for this month! but i can see the light at the end of the tunnel! Next session I only have one class! woop. and its in 3D! now if only i could get the school Software store to work! D: i need 3dsMAX!

yey!
very busy. :3

i got more types of foam ! and enough of it that i hope to either pad my G1 Seeker/Starscream helm (last year on that outfit i had a helmet but never took any pictures of it/of me in it), or use it on a costume for ... I have lots of costume ideas, plus i got around to carving a pumpkin, finally, this year (normally by now I'd have done 3 or 4), that I hope to post pics of after the deadline for everything has passed and I'll stick all the pumpkin pictures together.

TF:RoTF TG TM is almost done...I got a new voice actor for Prime and hope to record his lines for the first episode tonight, then Ratchet's voice actor we had to work an FTP for the files for since somehow he cant send me emails (he gets mine, i don't get his - its not in spam folder) even replies to mine? Ironhide and Seeker's voice's haven't come in yet, so it looks like I'm doing at least one of them, as originally planned. I'll practice at work tonight... OK!


ON THE GO!~

To the many folks whom I watch: Yes! I'm still watching you! I look and read everything even if I don't comment. And many thanks to the folks who faved stuff lately too.

Have a great holiday everyone!~

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OH! And I'm looking for a new beta reader/editor for Transformers: Generation Earth (my fanfic), since both of mine are permenantly AWOL,

Grabbed from
/'s are things I've seen parts of/didn't finish. probably indicates I didn't like it or covered my eyes when forced to attend watching it....

( ) Rocky Horror Picture Show
(x) Grease -- Saw it in High school (HS from now on since I saw a lot at school ) Wasn't very interested
(x) Pirates of the Caribbean -- Yup, own it... and saw it in HS a few times, I think...if only by others reenacting it XD
(x) Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest -- yup, own it too, though we don't own the third PotC I found pretty funny
( ) Boondock Saints
( ) Fight Club
( ) Starsky and Hutch
(x) Neverending Story -- Yup, and mom bought the soundtrack...i always found it a little freaky...
( ) Blazing Saddles
( ) Airplane

Total so far: 4

( ) The Princess Bride -- I think I've seen it, but wasn't interested...
( ) AnchorMan
(x) Napoleon Dynamite -- weird. not worth my time, frankly...
( ) Labyrinth
(/) Saw -- D: unfortunately.
(/)Saw II -- see former DX
(x) White Noise -- lame. not really scary...
( ) White Oleander
(x) Anger Management
(x) 50 First Dates a movie I actually remember parts of...probably because of the repetition, LOL. Makes me think of "The First Time" by Family Force 5.
( ) Failure to Launch
(x) The Princess Diaries -- I thought I was weird. LOL.
(/) The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement -- i think i was at some party and wasn't paying much attention to it..i remember a few scenes though...

Total so far: 11.5

(x) Scream
( ) Scream 2
( ) Scream 3
(x) Scary Movie
(x) Scary Movie 2
(x) Scary Movie 3
( ) Scary Movie 4 (I honestly don't know...which movies did they parody in that one?)
( ) American Pie (And one time, at band camp...)
( ) American Pie 2
( ) American Wedding
( ) American Pie Band Camp

Total so far: 15.5

(x) Harry Potter 1 -- used to know every word of it...
(x) Harry Potter 2 -- my favourite of the films, and was originally one of my least favourite of the novels never thought they did the baselisk justice though...
(x) Harry Potter 3 -- favourite of the books, one of my least favourite of the films o.o
(x) Harry Potter 4 -- yay! dragons! (saw the 6th as well, and own all up to the fifth...)
( ) Resident Evil 1
( ) Resident Evil 2 -- no, i saw the third. is this meme that old?
( ) The Wedding Singer -- parts of it...
( ) Little Black Book
(x) The Village -- not impressed, XD
(x) Lilo & Stitch

Total so far: 21.5

(x) Finding Nemo -- saw it a million times in HS...
(x) Finding Neverland -- meh.
(x) Signs -- meh.
(x) The Grinch -- yeah...one of those movies you see every year around december...
( ) Texas Chainsaw Massacre (parts of it..)
( ) Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
(X) White Chicks LAWL XD
( ) Butterfly Effect (parts of it while at Dumont. wasn't interested.)
(x) 13 Going on 30 -- nice movie.
(x) I, Robot -- YAY!
(x) Robots -- meh.

Total so far: 29.5

(x) Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story -- meh.
( ) Universal Soldier
(x) Lemony Snicket: A Series Of Unfortunate Events -- >:/
( ) Along Came Polly (parts of it...not interested again...)
( ) Deep Impact (pretty sure ive seen it, but all the save the world stories clash together...this was a "save the world" movie wasn't it?)
( ) KingPin
( ) Never Been Kissed
(x) Meet The Parents
(x) Meet the Fockers -- not the same as the first...had it's moments.
( ) Eight Crazy Nights
(/) Joe Dirt (parts of it, seen the ending about a million times)
(/) KING KONG (parts of it; it was really long and didn't really hold my attention)

Total so far: 34.5

( ) A Cinderella Story (remind me which this is? the live action one?)
( ) The Terminal
( ) The Lizzie McGuire Movie
( ) Passport to Paris
(x) Dumb & Dumber -- many many years ago. just remember that truck...
(/ ) Dumber & Dumberer -- parts of it. not impressed.
(x) Final Destination liked it the first time around, and then, every other time, i keep seeing all the ways they could have easily avoided death. no longer impressed, but parodied...lol.
(x) Final Destination 2
( ) Final Destination 3 (is this the one with the roller coaster?)
( ) Halloween
(x) The Ring
(x) The Ring 2 (isn't there a third?)
( ) Surviving X-MAS
(x) Flubber -- used to own it (on VHS! ), never really watched it at home though.

Total so far: 41

( ) Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
( ) Practical Magic
( ) Chicago
(x) Ghost Ship -- a'ight.
( ) From Hell
(x) Hellboy -- yay!
(x) Secret Window -- mom collects Stephen King...and I tend to watch what she watches...(thus the many "not-interested" in movies)
( ) I Am Sam
( ) The Whole Nine Yards
( ) The Whole Ten Yards

Total so far: 44

(x) The Day After Tomorrow -- loved the cg wolves! ha ha! I wanted to see this again actually...
(x) Child's Play -- D:
( ) Seed of Chucky
( ) Bride of Chucky (thankfully, none of these, just the original...)
( ) Ten Things I Hate About You
( ) Just Married
(/) Gothika -- parts of it - uninterested.
( ) Nightmare on Elm Street -- probably just one of the sequels...
( ) Sixteen Candles
(x) Remember the Titans -- HS. don't remember much.
( ) Coach Carter
(x) The Grudge -- oh yea. remember that. it helped me learn to do old people voices (keep doing the throaty noise while you talk )
(x) The Grudge 2 -- meh.
(x) The Mask -- ha ha.
(x) Son Of The Mask -- D:

Total so far: 51.5

(x) Bad Boys -- buahahaha. that's right, I've seen Michael bay films BEFORE he worked on TF...
(x) Bad Boys 2 -- loved it!
( ) Joy Ride
( ) Lucky Number Seven
( ) Ocean's Eleven
( ) Ocean's Twelve
( ) Bourne Identity - parts of it, uninterested.
( ) Bourne Supremecy
( ) Lone Star
( ) Bedazzled
( ) Predator I
( ) Predator II (no, just AVP)
(x) The Fog -- wait it's coming back to me...no too hazy. Wasn't scary, as long as I'm thinking of the right film.
(x) Ice Age --
(x) Ice Age 2: The Meltdown -- meh.
( ) Curious George -- wanted to. haven't gotten my hands on it. saw parts of it in Sam's Club, XD

Total so far: 56.5

(x) Independence Day -- this movie's on TV all the time...
(x) Cujo -- i told you mom's into Stephen King. Rose Red was my fav, though, and I don't think it's on this list...I wanted to watch it again.
( ) A Bronx Tale
( ) Darkness Falls (?? what's it about? never heard of it)
(/) Christine (ahh, I can only remember one part of it, and I don't think I stuck around for the whole film)
(x) ET -- I was so afraid as a child. (A lot of movies scared me as a child actually... )
( ) Children of the Corn (saw an ad for it last week but didn't bother to watch it when it was on.)
( ) My Bosses Daughter
( ) Maid in Manhattan (parts of it)
(x) War of the Worlds (own both old and new...)
(x) Rush Hour --
(x) Rush Hour 2 --

Total so far: 63

( ) Best Bet
(/) How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days -- parts of it. wasn't interested...
( ) She's All That
( ) Calendar Girls
( ) Sideways
(x) Mars Attacks -- LAWL!
( ) Event Horizon
( ) Ever After (been looking for it...)
(x) Wizard of Oz -- my HS graduation was based on it...we only own it on VHS
(x) Forrest Gump -- "M-O-N"
( ) Big Trouble in Little China (think I have)
(x) The Terminator
(x) The Terminator 2 (owned it)
(x) The Terminator 3

Total so far: 69.5

(x) X-Men -- (loved it but couldn't find it to buy it)
(x) X2 -- (owned it...I don't know where it went..)
(x) X-3 -- (saw it again on July fourth on TV)
(x) Spider-Man -- YAY!
(x) Spider-Man 2 -- yup! (don't own either, unfortunately. )
(x) Sky High -- saw it in HS. meh.
(x) Jeepers Creepers -- you're gonna get that song stuck in my head now.
(x) Jeepers Creepers 2 -- eh.. we all knew the sequel was coming.
( ) Catch Me If You Can
(x) The Little Mermaid -- I don't know how I would've grown up without seeing it...
(x) Freaky Friday -- never was fond of it...
(X) Reign of Fire -- AHADJSFDGHANKDN!!!!!! LOVED IT! STILL DO! Game was awesome too, btw! Saw it at Neonopolis very late at night. Probably one of the films I stayed up latest to see in a theater. Always wished I owned it. D: but i haven't had the money whenever I see it. I think it's on bluRay too now.
( ) The Skulls
( ) Cruel Intentions
( ) Cruel Intentions 2
(x) The Hot Chick -- eww.
(x) Shrek -- a classic. own it.
(x) Shrek 2 -- loved saunders' songs!

Total so far: 83.5

( ) Swimfan
( ) Miracle on 34th street -- parts of it.
( ) Old School
(x) The Notebook -- HS. not interested.
( ) K-Pax
( ) Krippendorf's Tribe
( ) A Walk to Remember
( ) Ice Castles
( ) Boogeyman
( ) The 40-year-old-virgin

Total so far: 84.5

(x) Lord of the Rings Fellowship of the Ring
(x) Lord of the Rings The Two Towers
(x) Lord of the Rings Return Of the King -- love them all. wish to see the director's cut someday though. wanted to borrow it from but he forgot about it... (i saw part of the directors cut at a halloween party)
(/) Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark -- various parts. maybe one day ill sit down and pay attention to it.
( ) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
(/) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade -- parts of it. (saw the crystal skull...)

Total so far: 88.5

( ) Baseketball
( ) Hostel -- no thank you...parts of it.
( ) Waiting for Guffman
( ) House of 1000 Corpses -- i probably have...not interested...
( ) Devils Rejects
(x) Elf -- seen a million times, mostly in HS.
( ) Highlander
( ) Mothman Prophecies -- parts of it, i think.
( ) American History X
( ) Three (??)

Total so Far: 89.5

( ) The Jacket
( ) Kung Fu Hustle
( ) Shaolin Soccer
( ) Night Watch
(x) Monsters Inc. -- seen a lot in HS
(x) Titanic -- always liked Dion's song for it.
( ) Monty Python and the Holy Grail - parts of it XD most clearly with the black knight (i had a classmate who always quoted or referred back to it)
( ) Shaun Of the Dead (o.O)
( ) Willard

Total so far: 91.5

( ) High Tension
( ) Club Dread
( ) Hulk
( ) Dawn Of the Dead
(x) Hook -- meh.
(x) Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe -- yup, loved it...haven't seen all of "caspian" though...
(x) 28 days later -- wanted to see 28 weeks later...
( ) Orgazmo
( ) Phantasm
(x) Waterworld -- (it used to be on tv a lot) i have seen parts of it over and over again, and I love it, but can never find it from the very beginning. seen most of it though, I'm sure.

Total so far: 95.5

(x) Kill Bill vol 1 -- not interested...
( ) Kill Bill vol 2
( ) Mortal Kombat (parts of it, I'm sure)
( ) Wolf Creek (sounds familiar...)
( ) Kingdom of Heaven
(/) the Hills Have Eyes -- (ugh, not interested.)
( ) I Spit on Your Grave aka the Day of the Woman
( ) The Last House on the Left
( ) Re-Animator
( ) Army of Darkness

Total so far: 97

(x) Star Wars Ep. I The Phantom Menace
(x) Star Wars Ep. II Attack of the Clones
(x) Star Wars Ep. III Revenge of the Sith
(x) Star Wars Ep. IV A New Hope
(x) Star Wars Ep. V The Empire Strikes Back
(x) Star Wars Ep. VI Return of the Jedi
( ) Ewoks Caravan Of Courage -- i didn't know they got their own movie[s]?
( ) Ewoks The Battle For Endor -- O_O; ??


Total so far: 104

(x) The Matrix -- not interested...
( ) The Matrix Reloaded -- parts of it. still not interested.
( ) The Matrix Revolutions
( ) Animatrix
( ) Evil Dead
( ) Evil Dead 2
( ) Team America: World Police
( ) Red Dragon
(x) Silence of the Lambs -- eh.
( ) Hannibal -- dunno...

total: 106
There are a lot of films not on this list...( Transformers, Fifth Element, Cars, Passion of the Christ, etc. etc. ooh, Hocus Pocus should show up on TV soon...)

My family used to rent two or three movies every week, so I've seen a lot at home. movies were sort of how we did our family time. unfortunately, mom likesloves horror flicks so i was sort of obligated to sit through a lot of films i wouldn't otherwise. im sort of growing a thick skin to it though, ironically since we've stopped renting. and a lot of movies have become blurry and mix into others. I saw a lot of movies as a kid (like E.T.; which I can't remember any of except what I've seen in recent years), and most of them scared me apparently, XD (like Nightmare Before Christmas, which I really like, now... and E.T...)

yeeeeah. I'm gonna go edit film some more now

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Logic = boo!


The classes I'm in now are Logic and a layout class (thinking of composition of scenes and the shots used in them).

and let me tell you, logic was not at all what I was expecting.
When I hear "logic" I think of logical characters - the first words that come to mind are "cold" and "hard." Like science (which has enough issues of its own with fake science trotting about D: )

Anyway, all I've found logic to be is a bunch of smoke so far, no better off than definitions. sure there are some clear cut forms used in arguments, but NO BODY USES THEM IN ALL PRACTICALITY. logic completely ignores and is considered seperate from reality, though it's supposed to be used to evaluate reality. Now, I generally love irony. I don't like this.

I was very much looking forward to this class - and now I can hardly bring myself to do the work for it (which is what I would be doing if I weren't ranting ). I'm so sad humans are so incapable of nailing down anything absolute AND practical in this field. But we had to go and make language vague and amorphous. And then the fools of logic go and readily USE it, perfectly aware that they arn't going to get very far, and forgo working on making the practical part of logic more practical in choice of working with the less accurate form of language. I don't know, maybe it's just the English language Logic hates (doubt it, but then again most of the old logicians we must think of spoke latin or greek).

and im disturbed that we have no issues or clear boundary with philosophy (a major part of the above rant that went unmentioned till now). if we aren't given even a false philosophy for everyone to work with in mind, then how are we supposed to come to the same conclusions? i would gladly trade out my philosophy for a class just for the sake of learning logic in a more logical way. (then I can apply it to whatever worldview I have) but noooooooo, we're content to simply say, 'we can't prove it or disprove it, so we'll just all frolic about in our own way and hope we all learn and come to similar (GAH! VAGUE!) conclusions!' :3

Oh, look at that. Logic made me break out the HTML !



Feel free to ignore this illogical and fallicious rant.

Maybe this type of logic just frustrates me. (I'm certain if I can figure a clearer logic out, then I'll be fine. but I think I'm going to implement this smoke-and-mirrors deal logic into one or two of my characters somehow [Graphe was supposed to be logical, but depressed; Grill appears logical, but isn't.])
Btw, I really like that rant emote. it looks angry, unfortunately, but the motions look about typical for a rant... that and the big mouth...

Oh, and one slot's open for commissions again.
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Now, I'm gonna try an cool down with some nice, illogical transforming robots, and them come back to those assignments...

The type of logic I want to learn is the kind like science - you can do this; you can't do that, because logic dictates it. . .

God, keep working on me...

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