Today, the first step in the 55 week journey towards joining my first unit station was complete. I walked with my fellow 1,100 or so soldiers from the 1st Batallion, 61 Infantry Regiment across the graduation field at Fort Jackson and completed Army Basic Combat Training. It was an amazing moment for me. Who would have thought that I could have come so far so quickly. I've lost close to 30 lbs while I've been here and am feeling absolutely great.
Today my dad and granddad (mom's dad) drove 10 hours or so from the Philadelphia area to Fort Jackson, South Carolina to see me graduate. They both had about 3 hours of sleep due to driving through the night to come see me and rushed to get here because of the three hurricanes/tropical storms that are projected to hit the Carolinas on Friday/Sunday that moved up graduation one day. Tomorrow I leave the barracks reaaaaaaaaaaaly early in the morning and head to my AIT (Advanced Individual Training) at Fort Huachuca, Arizona where I'll spend the next 46 weeks learning how to do my job. What is it? If I told you exactly what I was doing I'd have to kill you.... nah... just kidding... at least until I get done that is.
Anyway, Thanks for all your support by leaving comments and such. Its much appreciated. I'll try and keep you guys more updated as to how I'm doing once I get regular access to the internet. For now, I gotta get going but keep it real you little punks.
Its me... yes... I'm still alive. I haven't shot myself... yet. Fort Jackson is pretty cool. I don't have much time to write (on a 3 hour pass and I got to an internet terminal ASAP.. yes I am still an internet junkie) but just letting you all know im doing well. Thanks for the Alert Rape... you punks.
So, some of you guys know about this already but as of this evening in a few hours I will no longer be with you guys here at Yu-Gi-Oh: The Abridged Series website. Some of you are asking "How can you leave this extremely kick ass and incredibly awesome website?" Well, the reason I will no longer be active on this site is that I enlisted in the US Army and I am shipping out for Basic Training in South Carolina tomorrow morning.
And yes, some of you may be saying "Well shouldn't this be in your journal?" Maybe... but none of you read it anyway....
However, I want to wish LK, Kroze, and the rest of the kick ass staff here all the best in the coming months as well as you users. You have made this site possible by your continued support. I hope to see this site alive and kicking when I get back and stop by from time to time. Thank you all for making these past months being your moderator/admin enjoyable.
Kroze Super Secret Edit (TM):
Just for old time's sake....
Yeah yeah... It may be an counterintuitive but we do have rules here.
Zee Rulez
-If you have any problems with a thread or a user, don't start shit, come see Dix (ie me).
-Treat all fellow forum goers with respect. If you are too much of an ass, you may face a ban. Granted, expect a mild level of assholeishness. (Yes that is a word. Deal with it)
-That said, the Off-Topic section is not for the weak of heart. Expect ridicule, torment, and enough items of an off-color nature to make Stephen Hawking blush.
-This forum is the ONLY place for 'Official Fanclub' threads. Don't make them anywhere else but here.
-If you wish to make a forum game thread, please get send me, dixonij, your game idea, any rules, and what you hope to do with the game and I'll most likely approve it. If you do not get approval first, your game WILL BE LOCKED. There are no exceptions. (Threads can be unlocked after approval is received).
-If I lock a thread. Don't make a new one exactly like it. You will get a ban for making another duplicate of a locked thread. I am holding YOU responsible for searching threads to see if your thread idea has been done already.
-NO, I repeat, NO "Last Person To Post" OR "Most to Post Wins" threads. If you make one You. Will. Be. BANNED.
-If you post any NSFW (re: Not Safe For Work) material, Link to it. Do not post any NSFW pictures. And if you do link to any NSFW materials, be sure to label them. We DO have little kids frequenting this site.
... with tons of rants. (Note: apologies to those who don't understand my rants...)
Anyway, I, Dix, was given the chance by Kroze to get up on my little soapbox and make a news post (and to those of you who don't like it... DEAL WITH IT and blame him!). Sadly, I won't have this powah for much longer. Oh and btw, LK should be back real soon... now... since I have this post, I'm gonna clear some stuff off my chest... please fasten all seat belts and put all trays in their upright and locked positions... its gonna be a bumpy ride!
Anyway, as you may have gathered from the title, I've been wasting my time with Halo 3. I was gonna make a post regarding the awesomeness that is Portal, but that annoying little brit, Ben beat me to it. Anyway, Halo 3 has been dominating my 360's playtime. I've been playing the game for almost a month now due to Kroze getting it early and me bumming off of him. So, we beat the campaign in a marathon (heh) session before the game even came out in like 6 hours. Halo 3 Gripe #1: Only 6 hours? Please son... I'd have loved to have a much longer campaign mode. Oh well.
But as any self respecting gamer should know, Halo has been all about multiplayer game action. I don't think I've ever had as much fun playing multiplayer than I have playing Halo... however... Halo 3 Gripe #2: The multiplayer Matchmaker sucks arse! How many games of Shotty snipers or Big Team Battle VIP can you play? Oh well... (again). Oh and the damned matchmaker always seems to match me up with crappy teammates. I've played about 200+ matchmaker games and i've won less than half of em. At this rate, it will take me forever to reach anything past lieutenant or captain in the officer rankings. Meanwhile, some pathetic loser has reached the rank of General and played close to 2000 (thats right... THOUSAND) multiplayer matches. God person, get a frickin life already.
Oh and interesting tidbit, according to this article, in the first week of its release, people spent a combined 4,500 YEARS worth of time playing Halo 3. Imagine what good could have been accomplished in the world with that time spent... Oh and Halo 3 is now the new scapegoat for the film industry, which is currently suffering from one of its worst October box offices in years. No, it has nothing to do with the absolutely shitty movies currently out, its ALL Halo 3's fault. Excuse me while I go roll my eyes.
But enough about my griping... I'm sure all you little minions wanna know about who won the caption contest? Amirite?
WELL TOUGH!
First, some shameless plugging.
As Ben mentioned in his last news post, YGO:TAS will have a presence (ie a booth... or boof for you crazy spellers out there) at Nekocon on November 2-4. Kroze tells me that we WILL have the new shirts available at the con, so for all of you in, near, or even far from Hampton, Virginia... GET YO ARSE TO IT! Plus, you can take pics with Kroze and I as the two of us will be manning the booth (note: YGO:TAS is not responsible for any cameras breaking due to Kroze's ugly mug).
And speaking of anime conventions, I hope to GOD that its better than the time Kroze and I had when we went to Otakon in 2006. Oh and I'm not a huge anime fan... so me going to an anime convention would be like most of you going to like the Super Bowl... (ie. you'd be a fish out of water). Now, I'm sure you all know about how cosplayers run rampant at these things... well, I still have nightmares from somebody that made a pretty accurate E. Honda (the fat dude from Street Fighter) cosplay. Oh and theres always 30 million Kindom Hearts/Final Fantasy cosplayers at these damned things... I swear, if I see another Sora or Kairi, I'm gonna freak. Oh and what the hell is up with these Yaoi paddles and crap? Oh and if ANYONE tries to glomp me, they are gonna get punched in the baby maker. Anime people scare me. And yet... I am a mod at a site that exists because of an anime show... Ironic? I think so. /rants
So... wanna know who won the last caption contest? Well, we all know it was up to Kroze to judge it but he was a little wuss and didn't feel like doing it so he pawned it off on me to judge. Thats right... all you people who tried bribing Kroze... yeah... sorry but it didn't work. He'll be doing it (or LK will... since he'll probably be back by then) for next week's caption contest so, sadly, no sucking up to me. Anyway, zee winnah of zis weeks contest eez: Ddevil!
Surprisingly enough, this week's picture isn't as totally off topic as you think...
Dan Green who is the voice of Yugi in the 4Kids dub also provides a voice for a character in Viva Pinata, which a sound from that game was stolen by Halo 3 for the special easter egg skull "Grunt Birthday Party" and since a certain Super Special Awesome Site Admin (Kroze) had a birthday this past Wednesday, makes the picture perfect to make captions for!
Until next time, keep on rockin' those suburbs people!
And because we've had so many 'complaints' about this news post, I have made a video response to all of them:
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I will make announcements on the forums prior to any downtime, and i promise to make them as short as possible. The new server is sexah, ya'll will love it :-p
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