A Canadian view of Anime, Busou Shinki, VR Games, and more
Author: ArcticuKitsu
A 31 year old Canadian currently living within Ottawa who enjoys expressing his interests. My interests are those to do with Anime, Games, Ferrari, VR games (Vrchat), and photography. I attempt to create music using Fruityloops 8.
I have traveled to Europe - Mostly Eastern half - and plan to visit Japan sometimes within the future.
A 31 year old Canadian currently living within Ottawa who enjoys expressing his interests. My interests are those to do with Anime, Games, Ferrari, VR games (Vrchat), and photography. I attempt to create music using Fruityloops 8.
I have traveled to Europe - Mostly Eastern half - and plan to visit Japan sometimes within the future.
After fighting with my computer to allow USB connection with my PSP, I can now view my pictures and show them off.
Since I noticed it was another great day I called my friend and asked him if he wanted to join me in a bike ride somewhere. He agreed to join me so we headed off to Andrew Haydon Park to enjoy the nice day out, but we could not go farther then that because of his breaks on his bike being messed up. We met up and went past Britania Beach, and noticed this nice view. I didn’t do any previous bike rides since I fell off my bike the a few weeks back making me afraid of riding it, well until the Ferrari Festival which I couldn’t miss.
(Since my blog doesn’t want to upload pictures I linked them to my deviantart account instead. You will find the links under pictures to view full size.)
As of Monday, May 26, 2008 I aquired Gundam Kyrios for $71. Well I feel that the price was a rip even before I bought it but since I wanted a new Gundam model I paid for it. At first I thought it was going to be as small as my Stargazer Gundam, however, it ended up as big as my other big Gundam models I got. Well I was hoping to get a big one so my mind kept shifting and getting paranoid I was going to get a small one again sine the effort for the smaller figure sized are half a wasted effort.
My last Gundam model was the Zaku II so having Kyrios in my collection gives my collection back to the modern times. While building the Gundam I noticed it has a slight reference to “Super Gundam” and “Wing Gundam” because of how it transforms and how the legs are shaped. Next time when you look at Kyrios think of the “Super Gundam” and the “Wing Gundam” and you’ll probably see where I’m coming from.
Going to show the box art and then images of when I was building it. The pictures were taken by a Sony Cyber-shot DSC-P41
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Well since it was nice out I thought I should go out and see where I could go. I looked up at my desk thinking if I should take a figure to take pictures of during bike stop breaks. I saw that Mini-Saber and the new Revoltech Saber so I brought her along. Got on my bike, went on the bike path, headed towards Mud Lake to find people looking at the Canadian Geese with their baby Geese. I stopped, got off my bike and got sidetracked for a good 10-15 minutes while I saw another guy trying to go fishing with a fishing net.
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I went to my local Anime Stop (20 minutes bike) to look at what they had. I came across this Saber which I got here and accidentally mistook it for a Figma Saber. She was acquired on Sunday, May 18th, 2008 just for those curious on the date.
I added the Tulip Festival Gallery onto the site so if your visiting my blog all the pictures are above in that link ^. I stayed mostly in the Japanese area where I saw people playing the fishy game, making origami, trying out headbands and such. The Tulip Festival has are as follows: Russia, Romania, Japan, Canada, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Indonesia, China, European Union, Thailand, Holland, Germany, Peru, and Mexico. I bet I forgot about 1-3 nations that were at the Tulip Festival in Major’s Hill Park in downtown Ottawa. I volunteered at the Tulip Festival as a Security guy so I get posted to various areas of the park. Today I got posted in the Mexico area for three hours in the sun with a one hour break to tour around and back to beer duty at the German boarder. The smells being put off by the international Pavilions drove me mad since I wanted to eat but had no cash.
Well was listening to my friends jam below and was recording the sound from above (better sound above then below) when I saw Star Wars playing on CNN. I took the camera and put it on the new Star Wars commercial before my friends would start playing another tune and when they did it fit the gun clik sound playing exactly to beat. I still can’t get over how perfectly timed this unintentional music playing over the commercial played out.
You probably might not be interested as you weren’t there but if you were you would understand why I’m so up-beat about this.
Like I did with the three Sabers I took out both my Gundams outsides but to a quieter part (and closer near me) where nobody would give me odd faces or see me. I took Gundam RX-79[G] Gundam (being my favourite Feddie mobile suit) and the Zaku 2 to do some simple fight scenes in a quiet corner near water. I find that grass and water give the pictures a more unique look then simple backyard shots (unless you have a great garden). This was a quicker photo shoot then the previous one so I took being some simple and rushed shots which made me label this Part 1 where I’m going to do it in a park this time so look forward to that.
Sorry for the delayed message but I finally managed to get on a new server with bigger space and same with the blog. To get back on track I have Saber which I acquired on Thursday, April 17, 2008. She holds two swords in both hands which are removable and she has a black stand without the command symbol. On the packaging and on websites I seen pictures with Emiya’s hand command symbol but it is not on this. Well I got Saber because I thought she could pose but she can’t but that is not a problem since she still looks as good posing for the people and the camera. Since the posting was delayed I can also show you pictures of when I took my Saber figures out to take nature pictures of them to blend into reality.
Part 1 below shows me taking a picture of her in the store if I did not acquire her and the second picture is of her on my desk just looking towards my door. Part one is basically what my original post would of looked like but it has more added towards it. The second part is just my outing with the figures doing a photo shoot. The second part is the more ackward one where people looked at me if I’m hiding my stolen loot, doing porn, or just plain old crazy since I was just moving around behind some trees. I wanted a nice quiet area just to take good nature pictures all the while making the figures stand out beautifuly in the image. Part three is anything I forgot previously like the mini Saber and the Saber keychain. So I like Fate/Stay Night, its a great series.
Well compared to Dannychoo’s blog mine is like an ant compared to a Death Star. However I’ll try and work on my site as much as I can but in the meanwhile just updating my blog from a long long absent of not touching the site.
I’ve been having trouble keeping track and finding out whats what so been keeping track in a notepad I have but that ended up getting very very messy. I also used wikipedia and other anim sources to find out what an anime was all about but myanimelist.net does the job well. Its like facebook (the script), notepad (the list), and wikipedia (for the information) put together with more features. Not tryin to advertise but pointing out to other anime watchers that if they have troubles keeping track of what they watched this site should help you.
I’ve been with a fan of Petroglyph since I heard of Star War Empire at Warfor PC. I then moderated then Admined a forum called Petroglyph Fan Forums. Now I’m a moderator on Petroglyph’s Official Forums. They also made a expansion pack for Empire at War called “Star Wars: Empire at war Forces of Corruption“. Now they’re on their Universe at War: Earth Assault for PC with Sega and Microsoft. As a token of appreciation/respect I got this card and game below with even my name in the moderator section of the credits. Pictures below:
Its been awhile since I made a post about PS3 so I’ll update everybody on my PS3 and the games I got to date. Heck I’ll even say what I got for my PSP.
PS3 Games:
– Gundam Crossfire (IGN Link)
– Formula 1 Championship (IGN Link)
– Marvel Ultimate Alliance (IGN Link, I say this game is shitty)
– Gundam Dynasty Warriors (IGN Link)
– Folklore (IGN Link)
– Warhawk (IGN Link)
– Gran Turismo 5 Prologue
– Grand Theft Auto 4
PSP Games:
– Grand Theft Auto Liberty City Stories (IGN Link)
– Monster Hunter Freedom Portable (IGN Link)
– Metal Gear Solid Portible Ops (IGN Link)
– Puzzle Quest (IGN Link)
– Jeanne D’arc (IGN Link)
Best Game in Collection: – Folklore
Worst Game in Collection:
– Marvel Ultimate Alliance
Well awhile back I managed to get a figurine but when I got home it turned into a doll. This one was an urbanized clothing of Lain with movable parts which articulates decently well but not properly.
Late update also. Anyway I got Stargazer Gundam, Zaku II and Doga mobile suit from a Gundam model building hype I had. I got these kits around June 8th and took almost forever to build. I tried to find paint to put on the Zaku II but found no proper ones when I went out. Not many model shops around here so I just gave up. Anyways here are the pictures (lots).
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Well I haven’t updated this blog in awhile because I didn’t know what the hell to put into it. Oh I know Metal Gear Portable Ops which is now an old game is a fun stealth game. You go around the map recruiting other people to join your team to defeat your enemies. You can have up to 4 people (including Snake) to go around the maps during the Snake Eater Period (Metal Gear Solid 3). I own the 2nd game “Substance” with extra features. Anyways in this game you put troops to sleep then you put them in a truck to me interigated then they will help your team out. After that you can use them in your squad or keep them in your base to specialize in a task. If your bored of the single player you can go online and send your squads out against other squads risking losing or gaining others. Its a fun game however its more for the go kind of game. If I had the PSP slim I would just hook it up to the TV and play it that way or on the go.
Secondly I tried out the Remote Play feature of the PS3 and it kicks ass. I can just turn on my PS3 and PSP clicking clicking remote play on both (with the Ad-hoc switched on) and go around the house instead of sitting in the room. However it does have its limits since you can’t play the games nor can you go far but you can display the Folding@Home (Scientific cell crunching application). I can go on the internet with the PSP while in Remote play and also having access to the media such as Pictures, music and videos. Hope theres more PS3 and PSP co-operation down the road.
