Junpei's Krazy Kids Korner!

Foolish Fools who Foolishly think Foolish thoughts that foolish fools will fall for foolishly foolish jokes are foolish.

That said, today sucks. I want nothing to do with it. I've had nothing but bad experiences with it in the past.

I can't take this any more

Spoiler: Rant

Gotchu!

http://www.livestream.com/misadventureman

Yep, you heard that right. I'm livestreaming all night (Or day, depending on where you are). Anywhere from Tales of Vesperia to some other stuff.

Join in on the parteh! Woo!


EDIT: Due to some technical (AND PERSONAL) difficulties, it has been rescheduled to tomorrow morning.
Woop woop go go gadget stalling

I just figured out today that I fail terribly at Tales of Vesperia's unknown mode.

Anyone want to see? I recorded my utter failure of footage and was thinking of uploading it for you guys, hahaha

Why haven't I done this sooner? I guess I've been a bit lazy with everything lately. Schoolwork and such has kept me super busy.

However, that ain't why I'm posting! The reason is, obviously, that I have some unspoken praise for a -lot- of ponies.

So you can listen to this while you're reading this stupidly long wall of text! 8D

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Section 1: From Beginning to Now, and Hopefully the End, too (Right?)

These people have been here from the very beginning and have always been a source of inspiration to keep going; quite likely, without the users in this section, the site wouldn't be as enjoyable as it is today.

Beginning as in withing 2 months of my joining okay thanks. Also in no particular order.​

1. Echoax: I've known you ever since you went by Pixel Hope. You've always been here through hell and high water almost, and while you have changed significantly, I can say without a doubt that you've been a great help in everything in regards to me and the site.

2. DoDo: You're pretty much the swagginest, awesome...est... uh... what's another word for incredibly awesome? I dunno, and I don't care, you get the point. Of my time here, you've been the one who I've always laughed from. Somehow, you've always managed to make a bad day go better without even trying. And I love your avatars. Don't change that. The ballerina slippers, however, gotta go.

3. Brosuke Brosemura B-Dog: Okay, I'm twisting the rules here, but I -have- to address you. You're the bro of all bros. The ROOT of all bros. Like... you're the Bro Jesus. You've been here for such a long time and, like DoDo, always managed to make me smile. Your sense of humour is great and I -love- your monthly signatures.
LOVE. THEM.

4. Lyon: Lyon, mi amigo, you've always added a bit of a fine spice into the community. Your demeanour on the forums makes you a great guy in my eyes. Keep up the good work.

5. ​Dilly Star: Intelligent, kind, and persistent, you've been a great help in keeping me focused, whether you know it or not. You've been somewhat of a voice of reason throughout the forums, and I respect that greatly.

6. Tempest Wind: You're in the same boat as Echo... even though you two don't get along very well sometimes. You two are very much alike. Both of you have given me insight as to what's important, but when I was first here, while you and I didn't really speak very much, I respected your intelligent and well thought out posts when they appeared.

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SECTION 2: Overall Awesomeness!

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These people are awesome. So awesome in fact that the list was too long for me to make a description of everyone for the blogs. (And some were just so praiseworthy I just don't even know what or how to say it.) So I'll just list them individually, again, in no particular order.

rexhyuga
Winter-Snow
Zephyr Wind
Zephyr
Zephyr Haste
Harley (I MISS YOU ;A; )
Foxytail
mike406
Yamiookami
Dragonbait
Rarit E
Radaboy (Especially you. You're a huge bro.)
Calvin
Flutteryshy
Fluttershy
Lightning Mustang
SolarFlame
Yetione
Gabachi
Simon
redmon

And many more, both come and gone.

All of you have been a great influence on this site, and most have you have been a great influence on my life as well. I haven't been active nearly as much as I was earlier this year, but the stresses of life are hitting me pretty hard right now.
But nevermind that! All of you deserve some sort of praise. Hence most of the things I've done in my freetime to make homage to you guys.

I just wanted to thank all of you for everything you guys have done for the site... and myself as well.

For now, I'm tired.
So whee! See you guys tomorrow!

So I was talking to Grey Knightmare today... and he said something truly motivational to me.


[6:11:12 PM] CJW Grey: Despite the deactivation of the awards system
[6:11:16 PM] CJW Grey: You still got one
[6:11:22 PM] CJW Grey: A very special one
[6:11:34 PM] CJW Grey: That was given to you not by the staff, but by the site as a whole
[6:11:41 PM] CJW Grey: No one can take that away from you
[6:12:22 PM] CJW Grey: Whatever you've done, whatever you do - at one point in time, you were voted pony of the year on Everypony.com - Maybe it doesn't mean much to you, but it would to me, were I in your shoes (hooves?).
[6:12:30 PM] CJW Grey: Just don't forget it, when you're down.

And... I think it took that much to make me realize what I actually stayed here for.
To be honest, I don't know why I've been here for the past 3 months. I felt obligated to, even though I didn't have any real driving force.

And... it took this little tidbit to make me realize why I've stayed even after so long.

People appreciate me for who I am. People like me for what I do for other people. It isn't some obligation or self-righteous cause. It's... just me, being me.

And over the year and a half (just about) a lot of things about me have changed. Overall I've become a better person. I came here under a lie, and I'm going to leave here holding the truth, happy that I told it.

Some would say I haven't changed one bit. Some would say that I like to manipulate people still and that I only seek sympathy and attention when I want it.

And you know what? Some part of that is right. I'm not afraid to admit that back when I was first staff, I was desperate for attention, just for someone to tell me that they cared about me so I didn't have to feel so alone. And then I thought about it for months. Months and months and months. And I finally reached my answer. It doesn't matter if people think I'm a bad person, because I know to myself that I've changed from that. And everyone who knows me knows that as well.
For this, I'm grateful.

My answer is... It isn't about me or the site. It's about the people who helped change my life for the better. I've stayed because I feel happy that people accepted me even after I had lied to them for so long.

For some, again... they don't see it that way. And that's fine. There is nothing I can do to change that, as much as I wish I could.

Everyone makes some mistakes in life. Some people like to go out and capitalize on these mistakes and try to demonize people they are jealous of and hate.

I've made a lot of mistakes, and a few people see this and exploit it. And yet, I still carried on. Why?

Partially, pride. I didn't want to resign because it'd be giving up. It'd be letting those people who constantly harassed me and the staff and members who are supporting me 'win'. But I realize now it isn't about 'winning.'

I have nothing to prove to these people, because I've already proved myself to the people who care to ask.

The other reason, was my search for an answer. It was stressful, and my work ethic tarnished as a result. I'm one of the reasons Poetic left. I caused a lot of fighting in the staff. Lately I've been doing better at managing my urge to argue my point to no end, but my stubborn nature prevents me from doing that sometimes.

I admit my own faults and I embrace them. Without my flaws I wouldn't have the friends I have today. I went to other people seeking help and I got it. I finally feel useful and I finally feel relieved that people can care about others.

Could I have done some things better? Yes. Yes, of course. There are a lot of things I regret doing. A lot of things I know for sure I could have done better.

Even as a staff member, however, I feel at ease with myself. I've made some of the best friends I've ever known on this site. They are my main reasons for staying.

The people of this site deserve a chance that I never was able to give them. Now I want to be able to give people that chance again like I did as an ordinary user.

I want people to realize that now more than ever, we need each other if we want this place to survive and flourish.

We won't get back to the way things were in November. No. I hope it goes farther and better than that.

With the departure of all of our admins, Derpy, Grey, and Foxy, things have really changed. Most have seen this as negative change. Even I, myself, felt that the three originals leaving the administratorship was negative.

However... I know that this is an opportunity for growth. Our new admins, Zephyr, Berry and Mike are all great people with good heads on their shoulders. We don't need to think back and say 'things were better when Derpy was around'.

Things will always get better. We just have to make them get better.


I just wanted to personally thank you all for the year and a half (almost) of a good time. I hope you have all experienced some form of good time while you were here as well.

This is Ramza, signing off.

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Yes, I finally have this game! Combo video coming soon!

So I finally got a new capture card today.

This is my problem though... my hard drive space is KILLING me. Literally a 3 minute video takes up 4 gigs of space! It's so high quality that it kills my hard drive.
So I think I gotta improvise. I'll figure something out. In the meantime, when I get home today, I have a neat little thing to show you all. A nice thing. Yes.

Teehee...

So I've been receiving a lot of questions as to what really happened that day on April 1st. The day where two people lost their jobs because of the will of other people. Because of my actions in the community post last weekend, I am obligated to explain. And, forthright, lay this all to rest so we may all live and forget.

This shall be the last time I open this book, and it will be here for all to see.

This is what happened that day.

On March 31st, 2012, everything was going as usual. Things were nice, and everything was going rather well. It all started when Insane Lugia was making multiple threads...
Lugia was making personal help threads (That actually helped with some of my sleep problems, thanks for that.) that were being posted within hours of each other.
In the wake of his third (Fourth?) thread, I suggested to Lugia that he make a universal thread for help. It was at this point where things started to get pretty nasty.
ePONY snapped at me rather aggressively, stating that it wasn't against the rules to post threads that had different topics. I responded that I very well knew that it wasn't against the rules.

Months prior, we had an argument. It was about me becoming staff, and if I had the transcripts, I'd post them.
I had told ePONY, one day, that Foxy was considering me for a community moderator position. And he, upfront, said to me 'I'll be brutally honest, Saikyo. You don't have what it takes to be a moderator. Your actions are too immature.'
At the time, I took that at great offense, and we argued for hours over the subject of my immaturity. I already knew that I was immature, my baseless pride, however, didn't want anyone telling me that I was.
To this day, I wonder if things would have been different if we hadn't had argued. But it became clear that ePONY harboured a certain dislike towards me to the point of bias. And I thought to myself, if he had bias against me, he had a bias towards his boyfriend(s), Lugia and Cyberpony.

And I called him out on that. I said to him to 'Keep your bias against me away from the forums.' I didn't want to call him out on his bias to his boyfriend(s) in public, because that would get me banned instantly. He simply gave a rather professional 'Don't question my motives' post, which angered me a bit. So, in good esscence, I made a thread saying that I was going to leave for a while to cool down.
Here is where things get interesting. I basically called ePONY out on his bias against me in a thread I created entitled 'Taking a Break', in which he banned me temporarily for 3 days, under the reasoning that ' I needed to cool off'.
That was his downfall. By refusing to admit his bias and rid himself of it, I took it upon myself to take action against him.

I immediately went to work on organizing something that would rid the site of his bias, but not in the form of firing him. I wanted to put him on temporary suspension, and make his relationship with Cyber known with the staff (Surprisingly, people didn't know that it was an actual relationship.) and possibly make them remove all eCYBERmous content from the site and to force them to make unbiased decisions from now on.
Things went over my head.
After this, I went to Foxytail. I asked what it would take to do anything against ePONY. I needed names. And I needed a decent number of them.
EDIT: I also made a video detailing how ePONY was doing wrong to people. Sorry for getting you involved, Dan.
Conveniently, a forum by the name of Friendship is Magic: United was created to get past Staff Corruption. I saw this oppurtunity to question some of the founders and frequenting members of the site about their relations and thoughts on ePONY.
A majority of them said the same thing: ePONY was a problem that made them leave.
It was at this point where it wasn't just about bias. ePONY made the environment uncomfortable for other people, something I found to be unacceptable. So I took action.
I gathered names and opinions from a variety of users, and I showed these names to the moderators on April 1st. The only people I continually talked to about this situation was Cloudy Bounce (We miss you <3) and most of the moderators of the forum.
The mods asked me what I wanted done with ePONY. I honestly don't remember if I wanted him full-on fired, or if I wanted the bias to stop and for him to be put on suspension for a while. That was Foxy's idea, and mine as well. So I went with the latter.

Things didn't go as planned.

When confronted with this, ePONY basically just up and packed his bags immediately, saying, and I do quote '**** you guys.' Cyber followed suit, turning in his badge.
The one thing I regret was not emphasizing the fact that I only wanted ePONY to be punished for his offenses toward the people of the site, not just me. People claim what I did was selfish, and at first, it -was- selfish. It was a selfish need for revenge that I was being hated.
But then I saw that other people felt wronged. They felt threatened and violated by how ePONY acted. And it turned from a selfish act to a duty of mine to rid the site of his bias.
Part of me wanted him gone. The other part wanted to put him in his place, but have him stay all the same.
Would I go back and change a few things that I did to accomplish said goal? Yes, I would.
Do I regret having him leave?
Not in the slightest.


There was no 'manipulation' involved. There was no malicious intent, nor was there any reason to lie about it. This is the cold, hard truth of the matter. Yes, I did overreact, but the end result was positive, in the end. People came back to the site, content that a problem they felt was big was rid of. People thanked me. And most of all, I felt at peace with myself for ending that conflict.
These claims that I'm hiding something, or that I manipulated people into thinking that they were my 'followers' is wrong. I have nothing to hide and nothing to gain.

A month and some days later, I became staff. And it has been my goal to rid it of bias, and I've accomplished this goal. But what else have I done? I've caused infighting and stress with everyone.
I've decided that, After Christmas is overwith, I'll be resigning. But I'll be here, and I'll still love this place and it's people, and I'll do my damned best to protect you guys from oppressive personalities.

What I did was both wrong, and right. And I have no regrets.

This chapter... is over.

So I made a new intro for my videos in Sony Vegas today. I'd like to gather your opinions.

Is this decent?

*The font is a placeholder; a more fitting font will be added to accomodate the nature of the intro


[video=youtube;hQc1mWw2plg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQc1mWw2plg&amp;feature=youtu.be[/video]

Please, let me know in the blog comments. I'm open to criticism!

We all know what happened in the latest Community Post. We all know what went down and how it happened.

I am quite frankly disgusted with myself for letting myself get caught up with it, and disgusted at everyone else involved.

For my immaturity and unreliability, I apologize to everyone here. I'm to blame for that whole event and I'll take full responsibility.

I'm sorry. I'm losing my touch with everything again.

Hello everyone. I'm back, and I know which order to do my RE6 playthrough in. I will be doing Jake's first, Chris's second, and Leon's last.

Each campaign is about 5 or so hours long. These uploads will be uploaded by chapter. So each upload will be (Give or take) 1 hour long. I will not edit out the deaths. They'll show how terrible I am.

Also, for Leon's campaign I'll be doing a 'Fear Meter'.

Depending on my 'fear' when playing Leon's Campaign, I'll determine whether or not it's worthy of it's good name. If it ever reaches 'Panic!!' then it has achieved it's goal outright and without question.

A fully worded, recorded review will be done afterwards.

So I have a rather interesting idea.

I have two choices: get Resident Evil 6, or waste more time doing other things.

Would you want me to play (And possibly review) Resident Evil 6 for you guys? Everyone loves some Zombie Huntin' action. I hope.


If I do RE6, I'll be recording it. And if someone else wants to join in, there's in-game co-op there. I'll be doing a whole run-through of this ~20 hour long game. Maybe even a longplay!

Each campaign is about 5 hours long, there are 4 campaigns. I may just do a 5 hour upload depending on Hard Drive space and how lazy I am.

So, do you want me to do some Zombie Huntin'? Or would you rather I stick to my fighting game roots?

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(WARNING: VIDEO CONTAINS MILD LANGUAGE)

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Let's give a round of applause.