Yay! I'm an uncle (again)

Now that I've had a couple of hours to nap, I may as well blog my 16 hours with my sister-in-law at my local hospital during her childbirth. Actually had to leave work 2 hours early to run back there. I can never ever remove the sense of awe when I see a newborn come into the world (I've been witness to my niece and nephew born in person) But it's still a painful thing to watch a woman almost rip apart in half when you have twins coming out at the same time. Yet she persevered through the pain and both her and her twin boys are doing fine, and in 3 weeks she can go home and the rest of my family can welcome Alex and David into the family.

Wonder how I'll feel when the time comes when I meet my future significant other and share this experience with her.

2000 views. Much thanks!

Considering I've been busy with work, playing labor coach to my expectant sister-in-law, people still keep visiting. I guess once real life responsibilities settle down I'll start blogging again.

A public apology

To a representative of Aeria. To GMTaz in particular. After waiting on the results of the blog contest for 2 months already, me being a grizzled old fart that I am, decided to pursue GMTaz on the matter. What was very uncharacteristic of me was not displaying my usual patient self when dealing with people (guess that comes with getting close to my looming 40's *Yeah I know I'm 32-so sue me-I'm getting there!* )

This is merely my way of apologizing to GMTaz in general. And I look forward to seeing the reults of this contest.

You don't deserve to play any MMO if you ask for a PAUSE function...

SMT Imagine has the the slight notoriety to have demons that have unpredictable aggro. And if you have the misfortune of answering nature's call and leave your character unattended and end up seeing a dead one after returning, that's clearly your fault. But asking for a PAUSE function is very ludicrous, and this small gem of silliness stands out, considering it's a GAMEFaqs board (since I do go there to chat up old clannies)

http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/genmessage.php?board=921999&topic=49272829

Have a good laugh.

And I added an extra JP link to another Megaten wiki courtesy of Finella.

Lilith. What's the big deal?

So I may be jumping back and forth again between the JP and NA servers and hopefully reach lvl 92 and acquire the plug-ins for Lilith. But I was recently asked why do I like this particular demon so much?

Apart from being freaky sexy, she was an interesting tragic character in SMT. Since most of us know of Lilith's Biblical origins I'll spare the info, y'all can just look it up yourselves later.

But in the game depending on what alignment choice you took, you get a slightly deeper insight into Lilith's motives. In Law and Neutral you just simply fight and kill her, but in Chaos route after you kill her, she dies in your arms asking for forgiveness and regrets attacking you and joining up with the Chaos Hero and other transgressions she did. All she wanted was to be close to the main protagonist and become your new Eve in the world you will help re-create. May seem such a selfish character flaw, but it added a level of empathy for the character.

Being pretty alone and displaced by God and Adam due to her forceful actions during the Time of Creation which brought about the downfall of Mankind, I really don't blame Lilith for being such a spiteful bitch, but she displays that human quality of acceptance but fails due to the fact that she went about using the wrong methods to be accepted and loved.

Anyways, just as with all mythos you fellow readers may have a different take on it, but this viewpoint is from a Megaten perspective, thus this is no in-depth study of Lilith but merely a reason why I love the character and looking forward to fusing her in the Jakyou Manor. (If I still can considering it was an anniversary event *crosses fingers to see if he still can*)

Been slow lately

Other than the current Fortune Card update and static events on certain days, I've found myself being less motivated to play lately. Especially after hearing that they implemented Lilith and the Beelzebub boss fights on the JP servers. Oh well, I'll just have to wait till Aeria catches up...

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Thanks to all my followers, non-followers and anonymous viewers who have been reading my blog currently so far. But as appreciative I am in regards to such endearing devotion (and occasional flaming and trolling of my online personae in game) it'd be nice if some of you my cherished viewers actually leave some comments/criticisms. A blog like this cannot improve/evolve without some sort of feedback. But again I give thanks to you all for following this blog so far.