Semi-rant journal. I don't know if any of you guys have played and is a fan of the Max Payne series, but, what the shit is this?

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Okay, I don't know who the hell this overweight baldie is (no offence to overweights or baldies) but he's definitely not Max Payne. Seriously, what the hell is Rockstar thinking? The game is set in Brazil for the love of berrettas. What kind of idiot would set a film noir game in Brazil? Hell, are they even planning to make this game a film noir at all?

And what exactly is the reason for the huge character change anyhow. Because his girlfriend got killed? He didn't even undergo that much of a character change when his whole family was slaughtered and betrayed by his friends, why would one chick dying turn him into post-daughter-death Sam Fisher? (Don't even get me started on later Splinter Cell games.) To top it all off they even changed his voice actor. Ugh.

So, fuck you, Rockstar. Fuck you.

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Anyway, happier news, it was my birthday couple of days ago. Woo! Don't know why anyone needed to know that but I doubt anyone read this journal all the way down here anyway. XP Weird you have to keep updating you age in your profile every year even though dA actually asked for your birthday. Automation fail.

EDIT: Hey, sorry I haven't been replying to messages much but it seems I have had this weird bug recently with dA and my computer that I sometimes can't delete messages and reply to messages properly, which is annoying.

Anyway, if anyone hasn't already seen there is already a placeholder site up at hiranomoe.com. Nothings up yet but we're getting there. Saphire is having difficulties with putting the site back up since we're changing the forum software. I've suggested that putting up a temporary forum but I don't know if or when that might happen. Watch this space.

I'm still pretty busy lately thanks to college work. I've also been involved with helping a game translation project so that eats up quite a bit of spare time. Haven't done any proper art worth uploading lately. XP

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Hey guys. The more observant of you might have noticed that I haven't really logged on to dA since June. This is really due to me being rather busy IRL in general, so sorry about that. I noticed some people have been so kind as to leave messages to update me on Hirano's work on my last journal, so thanks a lot to those guys.

As for news about the HiranoMoe forum, I unfortunately have no news about that. I miss it as much as anybody else and if I have news about it I shall update my journal here so you guys will know.

Thanks for still giving a damn about us.

Because someone is probably wondering about this, so here's an update for the few of you who watch my page.

Yeah, the HM forum is down at the moment. Apparently the webhost thinks we are violating some rule about using the server as a file backup server and not as a website, which isn't really true since we have the forum (though it did have a crapload of scanlation and other files so they do somewhat have a point). But, anyway, that's what they think and it seems like they closed the account so now we have no host.

Saphire says he does have a backup of the forum so once we find a new host it should be back soon-ish. I don't know how much data will have been lost in process though, but we'll see.

I'm bored with my old journal. XP

I just realised today that "discrete" and "discreet" are different words. I always wondered what the hell discrete signals have to do with being discreet. Now it all makes sense.

I'm not sure if that has any implications on the fact that I have a Signals exam tomorrow. It's probably a sign that I haven't been paying attention this whole year. O____o

Woo! Totally random journal update again. What's up people.

Actually I'm just updating to tell everyone, regardless of their interest in my well-being, that my eyes are burning and my neck hurt since I've been colouring for 4 hours straight now. Been working on this for like 3 days. Yes, I know I'm a slow worker. XP This is probably the hardest thing I've coloured yet. Don't know why I agreed to this. Well, now that's out of my chest I think I'll get back on it. Joy!