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New account!

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Going to put all my new stuff over there from now on.
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New account?

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I've been thinking about making a new account lately.

The reason behind this is that I kind of want to start over again. Right now old crap from years ago is sitting in my gallery along with newer and better pieces. Much as it serves to illustrate how I've evolved artistically, I'd like to do something new.

Also because recently I've been using one username for everything, while this account name is still from when I had a different name for every account I made.

So yeah.
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It is now 2012, at least where I live. Usually I do these kind of journal entries on the last day of the year, but this year I was working during the day and then went out at night and saw Tintin (spoiler: it was amazing). So I'm going to do my reflecting right now to get it out of the way.

I can pretty much divide 2011 into two parts based on what happened.

The first half of 2011 was a downward spiral for me, due entirely to a major crush on a friend of mine. I succeeded in making myself thoroughly miserable by trying to fit into his closer circle of friends when it was apparent that I was an unwelcome presence there. There was also the fact that I managed to blind myself to how my attempts at being friendly had degenerated into something thoroughly creepy. This all came to a head in May, when he finally confronted me about it after trying to ignore my existence (which only made me more annoying). So we broke off contact, which really helped in getting over him. We're still friends, but we don't see each other very often.

Even though that nasty business was over, I couldn't keep him out of my head because I was so ashamed of what I had done that I kept rehearsing apologies in my mind. Thankfully, this is where the second part of 2011 begins. While the nasty crush business had been going on, I'd been making good friends within two of the uni societies I was part of, namely the roleplaying society (MURPS) and the Museum Appreciation Society (MAS), because there was a fair amount of crossing over with their members. MAS planned a trip to Melbourne in July, and I went along with them. During the trip I made some of the best friends I've ever had. Even though they were fairly close with each other already, they didn't try to keep me out like the others had done. It was with these people that I spent the second half of the year hanging out with more, and this really helped me recover from how I was earlier in the year.

Aside from emotional turmoil, this year I attended a heap of conventions (and helped to organise and run one of them), visited Melbourne, Broome, and central Queensland, helped to prepare an actual dinosaur fossil, finally got to do Palaeontology at university level (getting a distinction for the unit overall), went out and saw live music (and went out more in general), acquired a new computer, failed a heap of driving tests, and FINALLY got a proper paying job.

In 2012, I will be 20. Since I won't be a teenager any more, I'm going to have to start being more of an adult. Therefore my resolutions for 2012 are:

* Get on top of financial stuff pronto-don't leave it around because then it can turn out badly. I also want to be more responsible with money, now that I have better prospects for obtaining a proper paying job with paydays.
* Stop being so damn shy, because people will not bite my head off just because I need to ask them about something.
* Stop being lazy, not that this is currently a big problem but you should work on it.
* I want to stop hating myself and grow a pair. Yes, I fuck up some things, but I'm not as big a failure as I think I am. I'm not as dumb and immature as I think I am, either.

Of course if the Mayan apocalypse does happen then this will all be kind of moot as I won't be an adult for very long owing to being DEAD. Still, I will work on improving myself throughout 2012.
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(or, Super Fossil Fighters megapost II)

Since my big-ass journal post on a sequel to an obscure dinosaur-themed mon game managed to get on the first page of Google hits for 'super fossil fighters', I felt that I had to make a new one with less speculation and more confirmed stuff. So here it is.

WHAT WE KNOW:

* It's for the DS, not the 3DS.
* It's not Super Fossil Fighters anymore, it's Fossil Fighters: Champions. I have no problems with this.
* The graphics are cel shaded. They look pretty neat.
* The graphics in general look more polished than the first game.
* ALL OLD VIVOSAURS ARE RETURNING.
* There are new kinds of fossils: Odd Fossils, which you need to flip over to clean, and Body Fossils, which contain all the parts of a vivosaur.
* There's an option called Super Evolver, which upgrades a vivosaur into a new form with stronger (and more expensive) abilities. It's not clear if this is reversible.
* There's a new location.
* Cutscenes will be used.
* You can play as a girl, an option that the first game inexplicably lacked.
* It's not certain if any characters from the first game will return, though new art of Igno, Frigi and the Dinaurians on the official site may indicate their return.
* The new villains are a trio of punks lead by a skeleton guy.
* There will be the option to battle over Wi-Fi. Good thing, too, as the original game lacked this option and so it got a bit boring after a while.
* IT WILL BE RELEASED SOMETIME LATER THIS YEAR. Probably around November/December so it can capitalise on the Christmas shopping season (because EVERYONE loves dinosaurs).

NEW VIVOSAURS

FIRE
*Albertosaurus
*Mamenchisaurus
*Dacentrurus
*Dsungaripterus
*Machairodus
*Pelorovis
*Dimetrodon
*Pachydiscus? (fire type ammonite)
*Mawsonia (a coelocanth)
*A trilobite
*A raptor of some kind (Pyroraptor? Would make sense given the typing)

WATER
*'Tobaryuu' (Japanese sauropod, probably an unpublished find)
*Thalassodromeus
*Gompotherium
*Tanystropheus
*Mapusaurus
*Parapuzosia? (water type ammonite, text indicates it's bigger than the fire ammonite)
*Sauroposeidon
*Olorotitan
*Unknown ornithopod dinosaur

EARTH
*Rajasaurus
*Nigersaurus
*Tsintaosaurus
*Hatzegopteryx
*Metridiochoerus
*Argentinosaurus (what I mistook for Ampelosaurus)
*Anancus
*Syntheceros
*Stupendemys
*Terataspis (a trilobite)
*Dunkleosteus

AIR
*Aerosteon (a friend of mine translated the first magazine scan, and the blue theropod is this)
*Camarasaurus
*Hypacrosaurus
*Nyctosaurus
*Anomalocaris
*Epidendropteryx
*Chasmosaurus
*Paraceratherium
*Megaloceros
*Edaphosaurus
*A trilobite

NEUTRAL
*Kryptops
*Nipponsaurus
*Titanoboa
*Eoraptor
*A trilobite
*Phorosrhacos
*An ammonite

Google the names if you want more info on the creatures themselves.
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A journal entry in bullet point form, since I wrote a huge one and then the browser crashed.

*I haven't done anything lately because I haven't felt like it.
*I felt like scanning and colouring something, but my PC is gone and being replaced with a new one sometime this week.
*So I'm using my parents computer. It isn't linked to the scanner and its best art software is MS Paint.
*I AM NOT SUBMITTING CRAP FROM MS PAINT.
*So new stuff is going to have to wait until everything is up and running.
*New PC will have the latest games hardware and also Windows 7.
*This means that some games of mine won't run.
*Namely ParaWorld and King Kong, which blows because I love those games.
*My parents computer probably could run KK, but not ParaWorld-it was the reason I got a new PC, anyway.
*But I'm getting 32-bit Windows 7, which apparently runs more things since 32-bit is what XP uses.
*But King Kong is apparently incompatible with that, too.
*Fuck.
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