Hello, and welcome to my world of random thoughts. This world is where I'm going to talk about stuff related to anime and manga, and maybe a few other things. First, a few things about me.

I like cats, my favorite food is french fries, and I was born an only child.

Favorite Anime/Manga: Yu-Gi-Oh!, Sailor Moon, Tokyo Mew Mew, Card Captor Sakura, Vampire Princess Miyu, Code Geass, Digimon: Seasons 1 through 3, Pokemon (before they got rid of Misty), Gundam SEED, Strawberry Panic, Rideback, Full Metal Panic, and Slayers.

Other Anime/Manga that I like: Buso Renkin, Gurren Lagann, InuYasha, Kannazuki no Miko, Shattered Angels, Bleach, Dragon Ball Z, Durarara!!, Spice and Wolf, This Ugly Yet Beautiful World, Dragonaut: The Resonance, Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood, Trinity Blood, Blue Gender, Eden of the East, Last Exile, and Soul Eater.

TV Shows that I like: Star Trek (Original, Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager), Magnum P.I., Numbers, The Simpsons, The West Wing, Hawaii Five-O (Remake), NCIS, NCIS Los Angeles, Doctor Who, Leverage, The Mentalist, Elementary, and The Red Green Show.

Favorite Musical Groups/Artists: Phil Collins, Genesis (the band that Phil Collins was with originally), Journey, Styx, Boston, Queen, Billy Joel, John Denver, Survivor, and Josh Groban.

So now that's all you need to know about me. In this world I'll be talking about notable anime news stories, maybe stuff about the Yu-Gi-Oh! card game for anyone who's interested, stuff about me that relates to anime and manga in some way, and I'll probably rant about a certain series or a bunch of anime and manga. Or I may just talk about my life in general, if I feel like it. I'm not sure how often I'll post something here, but I'll try to as often as I can. In the meantime, I hope you all enjoy visiting.

~Darkarax

Merry 80's X-mas!

Just some random Christmas music I thought I'd post. Though perhaps many people won't consider this to be "real" Christmas music. Enjoy.

Should I Get a DS?

Okay, so I have something that I could use a little advice on. As most of you who've been following my wallpapers probably know, I recently saw one of the new Pokemon movies on TV, and like a day or so after that learned that one of my friends had recently started playing Pokemon Black. All that has made me start to consider getting one of these newer Pokemon games. There is a problem though, I don't even have a Nintendo DS. So my question to all of you is, should I get one of those?

Now I haven't gone over all of the pros and cons. One of the majors pros is that I would be able to play newer video games (for the DS). I mean the only video games systems I have are an old gameboy advance and a gameboy color that unfortunately died years ago. One of the major cons though is the financial cost. I went out to the store where I get Yu-Gi-Oh! cards yesterday, and while I was there I looked at the price of a DS (or whatever the new version is called). The thing cost about $170. 0_0 Plus the game itself cost about $35.00, so that would be a little over 200 bucks right there. I mean, sure I could afford that. I have a good chunk of change stashed away, but I don't think I want to go that nuts.

The other thing to consider is that I'm not sure if I could use all the functions of these new Pokemon games, my main concern being the Wi-Fi stuff. Of course I don't even know what Wi-Fi is. That's right, I'm probably the only person in my age group that doesn't know that, so go ahead and laugh if you want. My other concern is time, by which I mean I'm not sure if I have the time to play one of these new Pokemon games. I mean sure, I could spare two or three hours each day on it, plus a whole bunch of time on Sunday (because nothing usually happens on a Sunday). Still, these new games somehow seem a little more "involved" than the games of the past. So I'm not sure if I'd have the time to make the most of them. Of course there are other games out there too I guess.

So that's my dilemma. Should I get a DS or not? I would greatly appreciate any advice that the good people of TheO, i.e. all of you reading, could give. Although before anyone suggests that I just ask for a DS for Christmas, I should mention that I've already given my finished Christmas list and given it to my dad, so it's set in stone. But I guess I could still ask for a DS for my birthday, or just get one after a few months of working on a part-time job. So like I said, any advice would be appreciated, or you could all just ignore this post. It wouldn't be the first time that people had done that. Thanks for reading.

~Darkarax

Typo Corrected

I fixed the typo on one of the wallpapers I submitted tonight if anyone cares. The word "their" is now spelled correctly. Just thought I should let everyone know.

Another Small Apology

Well, I kinda screwed up tonight. I submitted four new wallpapers, and as it turned out one of them was a wallpaper that I had submitted before and forgot about. So I went ahead and deleted the one I submitted tonight. Here's the wallpaper I'm talking about. I ran across it in my own computer when I was reorganizing stuff and forgot that I had submitted it before. So sorry for spamming everyone's backroom like that. I also discovered a typo in another wallpaper that I submitted tonight, which I will fix later tonight. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Slowing Down

I'm going to slow down a little in making wallpapers. No this is not because of the recent wallpaper deletion that occurred. Yeah, I'm a little bummed about that, who wouldn't be if their wallpaper was deleted. But I used an image that I apparently shouldn't have used, and thus the wallpaper got deleted. It's my own fault, and I'm going to try not to make that mistake again.

The reason why I'm slowing down is because I seems like the past few days that I've been forcing myself to make and finish wallpapers, and as a result have come out with wallpapers that I think are of low quality. I think one of the reasons for this is because I prefer to make four wallpapers at a time so I can submit them all at once. I don't have to make and submit four wallpapers at a time, but that's what I've grown accustomed to doing. It's like an obsessive compulsive thing, which I think I may get from my mother's side of the family. But it's something that's causing me to try and whip up four wallpapers in one afternoon, and what I either come up with are these filler wallpapers that each take like five minutes to make, or wallpapers that seem like I rushed to finish and have like a less than satisfactory look to them. And sometimes I guess that's fine. Some of the filler wallpapers that I've made seem fairly popular. Still, it feels to me like I'm trying too hard. So I'm going to take a little more time in making wallpapers.

This probably means that you'll all be seeing new wallpapers from me a little less frequently. Partly because I prefer to submit four wallpapers at a time, and so it'll take me a little more time to make a set of four. I hope not to be too slow though. I've got a few new ideas, I'm just going to take a little more time to make them work. Just thought I'd let you all know.

~Darkarax