More epic Episode 45 fan-art

I have fans that are way more awesome than me!

Three more days till the Open Web Awards are done.



Just sayin'.

Also, an update.

I believe this is what is technically termed as a "doozy".

Easily my longest episode yet. I couldn't bear to trim it. Maybe it's partially ego, or maybe I was just that happy with the episode. My original concept was ridiculously ambitious and would have taken me... probably ten times as long to finish. So I just took all the best ideas I had from that and made a fairly simple version, and I honestly think it works better this way. Special thanks to Linkara of Atop The 4th Wall fame for cameoing as the merchant.

So yes, this is the penultimate episode of season two of YGOTAS. The finale will be premiered live at MAGFest 8 in Alexandria, VA. Come on down if you wanna watch the episode with me and a ton of other crazed fans. There may even be one or two surprises in store.

Let me address that a man cannot work 5 departments in 6 hours.

And be able to do all of them 100% good. So don't expect it.

I literally had the idea for this video about five hours ago. Wrote a script in ten minutes. Asked some of my voice actor buddies to join in. And voila.

I think it turned out pretty darn awesome.

Well I never thought a computer game would affect me to this kind of level...maybe I'm just sort of emotional retard but...damn!

Let me back up a little. About a month back or so Viper sent me the files for a game called Ever 17: The Out of Infinity. Its a Japanese storybook game, you know making choices as you progress that change the eventual outcome. As a synopsis in this game you play as one of two guys and follow the romantic involvement they have with the various females in the game. Simply no? Wrong! It would be simply but your group is stuck at the bottom of the ocean in a massive underwater theme park and time is running out. The facility is flooding and only has several days left before it collapses...plus theres a virus running around that is virtually 100% lethal.

Sounds like a laugh no? Well it is and it isn't. The game was a tad slow to get going when I finally decided to boot it up but it quickly sunk in a hook and never let go. I can't exactly put into words what drew me in so hard. Maybe its the fact I've never actually played one before and it was a new experience. I can't really say but the game is simply geneous.

The characters are well varied and the choices presented aren't always as simply as you think they are. The music is simply briliiant; dramatic and totally suited to the given situation. The opening theme "LeMu - Haruka na Lemuira Tairiku" deserves a special mention, one of the best game openings I've ever heard!

If I have one niggle about the game its the way it ends. Now I've not played through it completely, I've only completed 3 out of 11 possible endings...but each one has left me gaping for air. The first time through I didn't know what I was really doing and ended up getting a bad ending (go me! woo!). Everyone died...quite horrifically really. >_> But then I unlocked two good endings on my next playthroughs....my god! I'm not gonna go into detail as I don't want to give spoilers but they wrenched on my heart more than the events of the bad endings. Seeing all the work I'd put in getting things to go smoothly suddenly go to hell in a handbasket was just a weird feeling. Actually the first 'good' ending I unlocked I actually screamed "No way! Totally totally not happening dammit!" at my computer. Thankfully noone was in the house to witness my loss of sanity.

Even so the game has me hooked really well. I know I'm in for yet more heartaches as I unlock the other endings but I can't put it down. I probably sound like a whining sissy but I don't care, this is good stuff and I really do recommend it. £20 I burst into tears before I've unlocked everything...I nearly did on the previous run throughts.

*cough* Well I'm going to bed...if I can sleep.

Infinite Headache works
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I should just tell work. 6pm on Tue/Thursdays. I really need to stop kissing their ass so hard at work.

I've gotten 8 tardiess now. because of busses, I ought to man up and learn how to drive. Though in their defense, i got to Glenmont at 4:45. I'd probably still be late unless i powerdrove into the store.

1am, 1 am,

I'll make a real post sometime later i guess.

Hey, if anyone has been wondering about Nisamerica's progress in dealing with the DLC's for Disgaea 2: Dark Hero Days for the PSP, I was just on the PSN store and there downloads weren't there, so it looks like they're working on them now. No idea when they're putting them back up though.

So this is a fairly significant event for me, as it's my first ever video with an actual honest-to-god professional voice actor performing in it. That's right, Jon St. John, AKA the voice of Big The Cat and Duke Nukem, offered to provide a voice for any promotional stuff we did for MAGFest 8 (January 1st to the 4th in Alexandria, VA) and I jumped at the chance to do a YGOTAS video that involved his character.

Regarding MAGFest, I will indeed be showing up there as a guest, alongside the people mentioned in the video - and, as it turns out, MasakoX! Yep, I'll be celebrating the new year by partying with my fellow British homeboy. Really quite excited for that. And then a little over a month later, I'll be heading down to London for another event where I'll be bumping into Masako again. I feel extremely lucky to get to hang out with the guy so much these days.

Anyway, hope you all enjoy the video! New episode is just around the corner. Give it a week or so.

Abridged Yami makes a cameo in this week's Atop The 4th Wall

Just sharing the drama cd for Phantom / Makai Kingdom. Maybe someone can do some faithful translation for these. Cough... Anyways, enjoy.

CD 1

CD 2

There is something soothing about Fairouz. Her voice seems to lully calmness and peace in my heart.

I think i like that. I am free of MD's debt til i finish schooling. At last.
Fuck damn.

This is an idea I had a few weeks ago that wouldn't leave me alone. The Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged cast singing Come Sail Away by Styx. It was originally just going to be Yami singing, but I expanded it and it kinda got out of control. Hell, most of the latter section is completely ad-libbed while I was recording.



Word of warning - it gets pretty loud around halfway through.

Maybe now my mind will allow me to concentrate on new episodes?

Never been quite so sure about something for a while. I know its gonna be hard as nails but its something I can do and will give me massive job satisfaction. Nursing that is. Three year course butI've found that what I can do at the moment isn't what I want to do in the future you know. Only course of action is retraining and this is a good shot. Completely funded with a bursary and travel costs? Can't go amiss there.

As for my trip in the summer. I think I've more or less decided to trim it down a lot. I only get 4 weeks holiday during the summer on this course and I'll have to spend a bit of that studying no doubt. Plus my bank account is getting lower by the month and I can't justify spending a grand on travelling, the flights alone will likely set me back half a grand. I'm sorry if this disappoints people but that's life. Still I'm definitely gonna go see you Yols, and if I can manage it I'll swing by your place Viper if you wanna say hi. ^^

As for other things, its just busy but going well. I'm quite happy right now. See what happens.

2nd best Rotten Blotch song...

hi mr. above here
you see nice dreams, on a nice cheat
now the dust will fly around me
how nice for me

hi mr. below here
you see more dreams with nice scabs they are
bleeding on the ground

NO WAY
NO WAY

Hi why are we hiding?
Benaeath this nest, where its painful
Break the cycle always downward
How nice... for me

Hi I know the burning
my throat is dry
feels as if my tounge is
fixed by rusty nails

NO WAY
NO WAY

standing in the rain
call to the skies, to the lies
nothing for the pain
my nest is lost

ah i'll lay down on myself cracked
the nest trampled on
over an ice age


i see the sky falling down now

A memory
crowned with broken laughter.
I'll never replace.

So think and shaky
a withering old tree
so very fragile

my time

Damaged state of
a mind in tatters

I wish for the time here
and for the space
To make my place
in the rain...

(Hope is so small)

ah i'll lay down on myself cracked
the nest trampled on
over an ice age
(Life is all gone)

i see the sky falling down now

A memory
crowned with broken laughter.
I'll never replace.

A damaged state
All torn to shreds (torn to shreds)
all torn to shreds (torn to shreds)
tear it up

(hope is so small)
Alive or dead what you said
with your blood
(On the flow, In the Dust, In the air into the space)
a face so bruised al back and so blue
bears no soul,
just skin and just bones.

So hi mr above here
you see my nice dreams

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sat 5-9

Evil Council 3!