NintendoMan07
Smash Journeyman
Link to original post: [drupal=3053]This was going to be about anime/manga...[/drupal]
...but a bunch of other things made me realize how I generally have problems keeping up with other stuff.
Seriously though, let's start with the anime/manga part for a bit:
HOW DO YOU GUYS KEEP UP WITH'EM?
My two friends are kind of big into the anime/manga stuff. More like one of them is into manga, the other... can only get his dosage in anime form. And yes, you can read that as me only having two friends.
One of them (the manga reader) started me on Naruto for a bit. After a year or so, I got more caught up in school/videogames that I couldn't keep up with that, and my friend kinda quit trying to discuss Naruto with me even though he's still reading it.
But then I managed to stick the two of them in the same room and... well, they started talking about every other anime/manga (I'm sorry, but is there a universal word for this?) they knew of. And had I not been so casual about it, I probably would've fallen out of my chair. So yeah, I can't keep up with all that. And I have sadness at it.
The funny thing is, I consider myself a Final Fantasy fan. Yet there's a catch (or five) to this:
1. I haven't played everything, not even in the main series. Only 1 through 7, and even then I'm not sure I've played the "definitive" versions of those. Most of my experience has been through GBA/DS ports. My manga-reading friend, also an FF fan, has/had been willing to expose me to 7-12, so that's where 7 comes in.
2. If you asked me ANYTHING about what I HAVE played, there's probably a 90% chance I won't be able to give you an answer. Nothing really sticks. It doesn't help my confidence that through playing 7 and part of 8 I noticed several times that I got lost on their plot details.
So... now I'm worrying about how easily I forget things. Even people's names. If you introduced yourself to me and came back a week later, I most likely wouldn't remember your name. And's not that I'm even TRYING to forget, honestly.
I feel like I'm going nuts. It's like I perfectly fit that whole "some people are like slinkies; totally useless but fun to push off the stairs" thing. Er... however that quote goes. I don't really have anything going for me.
...
Except for maybe the fact that I'll be alive to see people call the waaaaaaaaaaaahmbulance on this blog.
...but a bunch of other things made me realize how I generally have problems keeping up with other stuff.
Seriously though, let's start with the anime/manga part for a bit:
HOW DO YOU GUYS KEEP UP WITH'EM?
My two friends are kind of big into the anime/manga stuff. More like one of them is into manga, the other... can only get his dosage in anime form. And yes, you can read that as me only having two friends.
One of them (the manga reader) started me on Naruto for a bit. After a year or so, I got more caught up in school/videogames that I couldn't keep up with that, and my friend kinda quit trying to discuss Naruto with me even though he's still reading it.
But then I managed to stick the two of them in the same room and... well, they started talking about every other anime/manga (I'm sorry, but is there a universal word for this?) they knew of. And had I not been so casual about it, I probably would've fallen out of my chair. So yeah, I can't keep up with all that. And I have sadness at it.
The funny thing is, I consider myself a Final Fantasy fan. Yet there's a catch (or five) to this:
1. I haven't played everything, not even in the main series. Only 1 through 7, and even then I'm not sure I've played the "definitive" versions of those. Most of my experience has been through GBA/DS ports. My manga-reading friend, also an FF fan, has/had been willing to expose me to 7-12, so that's where 7 comes in.
2. If you asked me ANYTHING about what I HAVE played, there's probably a 90% chance I won't be able to give you an answer. Nothing really sticks. It doesn't help my confidence that through playing 7 and part of 8 I noticed several times that I got lost on their plot details.
So... now I'm worrying about how easily I forget things. Even people's names. If you introduced yourself to me and came back a week later, I most likely wouldn't remember your name. And's not that I'm even TRYING to forget, honestly.
I feel like I'm going nuts. It's like I perfectly fit that whole "some people are like slinkies; totally useless but fun to push off the stairs" thing. Er... however that quote goes. I don't really have anything going for me.
...
Except for maybe the fact that I'll be alive to see people call the waaaaaaaaaaaahmbulance on this blog.