Ammunition > Heroics

Yeah, I felt like making the title follow the form "blah - blah - blah - blah - And MORE!" You know, like marketing sorts do sometimes.
...I've done that before, haven't I? Oh well.

So these aren't really going to be in that order; I'm starting with the "Something I Don't Get."
See, this has been bothering me for probably my entire life, so even though at this particular moment I may be thinking of a very few specific people, this has happened a ton before.
I don't get how I offend people. It's a serious personality flaw, probably, but I just don't get it. I mean, sometimes I say things that I know will offend people, specifically, for instance, talking about my religion. So you say it's offensive to say there's only one way to get to heaven. Well, to be honest, too bad. I'm not going to lie just to make you happy. Still, other times I'll be doing or saying something totally normally, or even trying to be nice and encouraging, but it ends up making people mad. This really bothers me, because this is often past the point when they'll listen to me, and then they pretty much have a negative opinion of me for the rest of their life. The worst part is how I'm not exactly sure on how to fix this, although I certainly am trying. There are people... OK, at this point it's where I'm only thinking of two, but these people I really wish I could go back and explain, and apologize, but I can't. It's really discouraging to me, but I'm fairly sure these people just wouldn't listen to me, which is too bad, because I'd really like to explain, and maybe they'd understand.
As a result of this, I've decided I need to be a lot more forgiving. I don't know if I've had a problem with that before, but one can always be better at things. I think I need to start looking at things from other people's points of view more often; it's entirely possible that something may have been a total accident, or wasn't meant the way I thought it was.

Now, concerning gossip. As I've mentioned before, I really, really, really hate gossip. Of course, I should specify what I mean by gossip here; I don't mean "I heard that there's going to be no CG in the next Indiana Jones movie" or even "Someone said that Larry is Jimmy's cousin or something, I didn't know that; that's pretty weird." What I mean is gossip as in "Eddy is really annoying, and he looks funny too." I can't stand that. No good can ever come of it, and it's just mean. Plus, "Eddy" is quite likely to hear what you're saying about him eventually, and that's probably going to hurt him a lot. I honestly think that if you're going to say something mean about someone, the nicest way to do it (I say "nicest", but I of course do not mean it's nice, I just mean "least mean") is to say it to their face. It's almost always way worse to overhear it or get it from someone else who overheard it. You know what? You probably have weird traits too, and you wouldn't like it if people talked about you that way, would you? When it comes right down to it, you're treating them like they're not people; like they're just some kind of object or something. I think a very large majority of problems can be solved by putting yourself in their shoes. Every person has a heart and a soul, and is sentient, and, I believe, was created in the image of God. You can't treat them like they're anything less than that. Am I guilty of this? Certainly; I'm not perfect. But one thing I try to never, ever do is gossip.
Another thing that is sort of a similar concept is solving problems by going to a neutral party, before even confronting the person you have a problem with. Usually this is simple, like "This person needs to look where he's going, he runs into people a lot." It's not very often something huge. But then people just go to someone, like a friend or relative of that person, and tell them. That's silly. If you have a problem with someone, politely tell them that's how you feel. Again, it would be more embarrassing to hear about it from someone else. I mean, maybe this person has no idea that this is going on, or at least it never occurred to them. I know that sort of thing has happened to me a lot.

OK, on to my projects. So I bet you're wondering what I'm up to, and how my stuff is going. No? Ah, well, I'll tell you anyway.
Firstly, I've not gotten much work done on Ring of Eshara in a while. It's sort of on hold until I'm in a mood to to it; if I'm not in the right mood it's not going to turn out right. See, a lot of times I'm this happy, lighthearted sort of person, and that's not this book at all. To write it, I need to be in a very serious mood.
I haven't done anything on Fafnir-Cola in probably even longer. I've officially decided its status is "ongoing project" because I want the main storyline to be pretty long. The game is going to be pretty big, although I'm already fighting load times as it is, but my computer is pretty slow, so I dunno.
Egoboo is still alive and kicking. It doesn't need me to continue, obviously, but nonetheless I've been churning out a good amount of stuff. My most recent thing was a new set of sounds for the Hobgoblin I made; I recorded this on the day-when-it-was-actually-quiet that I mentioned earlier. I'm not sure what I'm doing next, but I have a checklist thingy going of all the stuff I want to wrap up. After that, I have a TON of new ideas for stuff to start.
The last few days, I've been working on 1999. I'm tying together the many loose unfinished concepts right now; I just got the plane-unlock system working pretty much completely. Next I'm going to make multiple backgrounds / places in which to fight, and then make some powerups (better weapons and such). I've got other stuff after that, but those are the things I'll be working on in the immediate future (hopefully).

On to Smash Bros.... again. I know I've been talking about this a lot lately, but trust me, if John (one of my many younger brothers) had a blog, he would mention SSBB in every single post. Which would be like a hundred per day (the key to reassuring yourself of anything is to compare yourself to the right people).
So how this all started, I guess, was when people at my house were like "It'd be cool if so-and-so was in Brawl" and then I said "Hey... you know who would be really cool? Batman." And, yeah, Batman would actually be awesome, if Smash Bros. did characters that weren't from video games. But you know what, I almost see this happening. Imagine, if you will, not the next Smash Bros. installment, but the one after that. What if they did characters from, for example, popular anime that also have pretty big video games, like Naruto or Fullmetal Alchemist. Having characters from those wouldn't be all that weird. Then a few games after that, Batman wouldn't be totally out of the question. Then, imagine, say, in the twelfth Smash Bros. game, them including characters from famous works of literature. I can picture it now... "Robinson Crusoe versus Tom Sawyer!" Okay, so I know this really is getting totally nuts. I really doubt any of this would ever happen, but it's really funny to think about. I mean, imagine Captian Nemo and Queequeg facing off against Darth Vader and Captian Kirk. How about Rip Van Winkle and Mr. Hyde against Cyclops and Superman? Abraham Lincoln against Optimus Prime! It'd be like that whole Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny thing, in an actual game. It'd be AWESOME!
Some day, when nobody cares about copyright stuff anymore (like that'll ever happen), it'd be sweet to see that game. Just having everyone imaginable in the biggest fight ever, in all sorts of crazy places, with all sorts of awesome weapons, tools, and vehicles. That'd be one sw33t game.... Actually, through the wonders of Flash and the rising YoYo Games, we could see this happening on a someone lower-quality level, because in that sort of community, nobody is ever stopped from infringing copyright, because nobody is crazy enough to try and stop everyone.

Speaking of copyright, it's starting to annoy me. I mean, it's great how people can be protected, so other people don't steal their stuff, but it often just ends up being a bother. Sometimes it's like, "Hey, everyone knows where that came from, so what's the big deal?" For instance, my fanart is total copyright infringement. I didn't have the permission of Square Enix or Nintendo (well, Metanet too, but I doubt they'd care) to post that stuff, so it was basically illegal. I know I sound like a hypocrite, since I've said how much I hate it when people break the law and think it's OK, but it's just ridiculous to say I can't even draw a picture of my favorite fictional characters.
I hope someday people just stop caring, because then things like that ultimate battle thing I was just talking about could be a reality.

I guess this post is done. It's got a lot of subjects and is pretty long, which is relieving. I think I may be getting back into this blog thing.

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