Below are the 15 most recent journal entries recorded in Nugar's LiveJournal:

Friday, September 5th, 2003
10:20 am	Aurora of Rainbow Fire was just nominated for a Kiyo award! Woot! Oh, and, er, yeah, it's been a while. Well, I'm out of college now. I'm also married. I'm working at Sears almost full time, but today is my day off. I'm also seriously hoping I get this job I've applied for, interviewed for, and am going soon to take the physical and psychological tests for. It'd be a hell of a career. Plus, it's shift based, so I work several days, am off several days, on again, off again, and once a month, I get off for a solid WEEK! I'd have time not only for the day to day mechanics of living, which take up all of my free time now, but also for writing, building, and whatever other of my hobbies I could choose to do in that time. AWESOME! In writing news, I've got a 70% complete side story to AoRF chapter four that I'll be putting up as soon as I finish the draft, and I'm still idlely pecking away at six, on occasion. I'm terribly excited about getting nominated for another award. I know I'm going to miss the ceremony again, I'll be working that day, then leaving to spend Sunday with my in-laws, but I'm also aware that even if I was still here, there's no way I could attend. I'd be so jittery I'd never be able to stay in the chat room. I'm worried, I have to admit. The link to AoRF on the nominations page only goes to the first three chapters because of the funky way I grouped them on the TMFFA, and the first three chapters are CRAP compared to the later ones, 'cause I got better while I was writing them. Am I being judged by the first three? All of them together? Hell, the damned story isn't even finished yet, there's this huge glaring hole where chapter six should be, even if seven is finished and is the end. That's gotta be a strike against me. Not to mention I'm up against some pretty heavy hitters, too, with damned good fics. In a completely different category, it's good to see Negative Z get nominated. He's getting pretty good. Anyway, ta ta for now. I'm off to wash dishes and cut the grass. Current Mood: excited Current Music: Audioslave - Show me how to live (Comment on this)
Saturday, January 18th, 2003
4:42 pm	After a long interlude... I'm back. Well, actually, I never went away, I just quit saying much. No more commenting on the FFML, no more writing, no more web page updating... Lots of flash, though. As I've mentioned before, and am now devoting most of my free time and energy to, I'm writing a flash hentai game. It's a genre I want to see return to the net. Eyecats and I spent a considerable amount of time these past few months reading through my stories and tweaking them, and we also played several h-games. So, I'm here with a couple of reviews for you. Amy's Fantasies 5/10, but it goes to a 7/10 simply because it's so easy to find, play, and it never crashes. A fairly old h-game which I seriously hope was made in America, because it's in english and the plot and dialogue are corny as hell. If that's really the kind of stuff they were saying in those old h-games I used to play back in 94-97, I was better off not knowing what they were saying. Heh. Anyway, the game isn't THAT bad. It's funny, although it's really more parody-funny than haha-funny. Art isn't bad, animations are nearly non-existant except for a few blinking eyes and such, and it takes the time it takes to get to the good stuff. This is a LONG game. We've got about 12 hours in it and haven't finished it yet, we still have story 3 (the last one) to go through. Amy's Fantasies, though, isn't really a game. There are no puzzles to speak of. You don't have an inventory. There are no stats to keep track of. The character you 'control' is the main character, a really confused girl name Emi. 'Gameplay' consists of clicking on all the options in a little choice box until there are no more, and clicking to advance through the lengthy narrative and dialogue. Oh, well. I don't really miss it. As far as the 'H' part of the game goes, heh. There's something for everyone. The down side? There's something for _everyone_. Amy's Fantasies doesn't actually suck, nor is it the kind of awesome hentai experience the Viper series of games was. It is, however, easy to find, just do a quick search on Kazaa and wait for the 80 mb monster to download. And, if you've never played an H-game before, I highly recommend this one. It's an excellent example of the genre. Amy's Fantasies is also really close to the format I'm using in the H-game I'm making. It's the classic dating-sim interface, although mine isn't a dating sim. Cobra Mission 3/10, but goes to a 4/10 because it is, at least, english. The first rpg/h-game I've ever played. Cute little sprites running around just like something out of an early Final Fantasy, until you get to the cut scenes. I hate the gameplay. It's annoying. I want something more along the lines of the traditional dating sim, not Final Fantasy three on viagra. However, that's more a matter of taste than anything else. Other people might like that kind of gameplay better. I, for one, am stuck on one of the puzzles. -_- Art sucks, and it really kills the H. It's not the worst I've ever scene, but it comes close. Has more animations than Amy's Fantasies, though. The story is ho-hum, been there, done that. But at least it's in english, and you can still find it if you look. Yan 2. 9/10 Hentai uno? Holy crap! Mind bogglingly addictive, this. I couldn't stop playing this when I first found it. It's four way uno! Except after a game, you get to play with one of your partners on a one to one basis. If you win the round, you get to pick your partner, if you don't win, it seems to be at random. Playing with your partner brings up the only real drawback to the game. There are two possibilities to this second stage, depending on the character. The first, and most likely possibility is you clicking all over the screen more or less at random, sometime for many, many minutes, until the scene changes to the next picture. Annoying. The second and rarer option is a scene nearly covered by a grey layer, which you erase with your cursor. But who cares about that! It's UNO! The game isn't translated, but the few bits of dialogue are easily translated by anyone with a japanese/english dictionary. 'Round one, start!' Etc. The kanji on the cards indicating the number or type of card are nearly impossible to decipher, except it doesn't matter in the case of the number, just match the kanji, and the rest can be figured out with a little practice. The rules are a little different from standard uno, but I like them, and we've now adopted them for our own games. Basically, so long as you still have a draw x card of the appropriate color, or at all if you've got a wild draw four, you can play it onto the draw x that was sent to you and pass it on. The same with reverses, skips, and whatnot. The number of cards to be draw just keeps growing! It's really, REALLY fun to nail someone with a draw 42. Sucks when they reverse it back at you and you're out of face cards, though. Terribly fun game. Ganguro Girl 6/10 http://www.hentaisocialclub.com/ganguro/ Flash h-game? Aww... I was going to do that. Seriously. I was just finishing up a draft of the actionscript code I've been writing when a friend walked in, asked what I was doing, I explained it, and he sent me to this. Naively, I'd assumed I was the first person to come up with this idea. Right after I thought of it, I ran several web searches and searched through flash game archives for other games of the type and never found any. Well, I missed one. Probably more. *sigh* Oh, well. Ganguro Girl is NOTHING like the game I'm making, so I guess my idea is still good. Ganguro Girl is a fairly fun dating sim, although it's a little too much like a resource-management game for my tastes. There's also very very little dialogue and no story. Still, from the standpoint of a plotless resource-management dating sim which will give you nice hentai content if you'll splurge and buy acess to the 'Delux' version, it's not a bad game. Kinda fun to play. These people who made it, though, are funny as hell. Hentai social club? Their claim to fame is a flash game where you can 'really talk' to the girls, who are agreeable to any request. *shakes head* Man, and I though _I_ needed to get out more. You know what really drove me nuts, though? Especially given how much time I spend correcting spelling and grammar mistakes on the FFML. Every one of these h-games is rife with spelling mistakes, especially Ganguro Girl. Learn to spell you bastards! Current Mood: busy Current Music: Audioslave - Hypnotize (Comment on this)
Monday, October 14th, 2002
10:23 pm	Hmph. The future of chapter six could well be in doubt. In reply to... Icats's comments on the post below, _I_ thought you sounded interested. You certainly liked Needful Things 3, and you sounded disappointed when I told you there was little more like it. I told you that 6b would certainly be along similar lines, and you liked that idea. I said that, unless you were to help with it, it wouldn't be written. You wanted it written. That, to me, sounds like interest. A thousand pardons if it's not. So how about it, folks? Is there ANYONE out there that thinks Icats should loosen up and help me write Aurora of Rainbow Fire 6b? I'm serious, without her, my drive to finish it is pretty low compared to my drive to work on another project. It probably won't happen without your, and Icats's, support. So why don't you tell her what YOU think about it? Email her at icatsthebarbarian@yahoo.com and tell her you want her to provide the personal, _feminine_ voice that it's been lacking. No, seriously. Go into detail. Don't be shy. Heh heh heh... She's gonna kill me when she finds out I wrote this. Either way, its worth it. Flood her inbox! Bug her until she agrees! Current Mood: naughty Current Music: Korn - Make Me Bad (Comment on this)
Thursday, October 10th, 2002
10:26 pm	Whoop! There it is... IN deed. We have one finished chapter. It's been quite a journey, and I've learned all kinds of things about writing. But enough about the past, lets talk about the future. Sorta. I finally sat down and read Needful Things to Icats. Now, that story is complete. She inspired it, you know, but I never read it to her for fear of what she would think. It's cool now, though. I also caught five spelling and grammar mistakes, revisions which I'll post later. I had REALLY thought I had found all of those. I found one, though, that I left alone. There's no point in being anal about spelling, anyway. Anyway, about the future. I'm taking a short break. I've got a hell of a backlog of stories to C&C. I'm going to finish those. I'm going to edit chapter seven, and finish a final revision to the rest of AoRF. Then I'm going to post the new stuff, 6a and 7, to the FFML, and when I get back whatever C&C I get offa them I'm going to post everything to the new TMFFA. THEN I'm going to write some more. Some short, fun stuff. I've got one thing planned I'll announce later, and I really am going to go back and add more to AoRF6b. I've got some naughty, funny stuff planned, and I think I'm going to have a coauthor this time. No, not you, Dave. Although I'd be delighted and honored to coauthor something with you, you've got your own projects and demands on your time. I can't ask for any more of your time and energy than you've already generously given when you made those pictures. THANK YOU THANK YOU for the new one, too! You rock! Icats has expressed an interest in co-writing part of six. Said AoRF is too tame. You know, this should be very interesting. Well, I'm off to await the post-completion depression. Enjoy the end of the story. I've got the omake planned, and I'll be throwing in a few final notes, but that won't be until next week at best. Don't be shy with your comments, now. I kin take it. Thanks for reading! Current Mood: jubilant Current Music: Foo Fighters - Learning to Fly (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, September 30th, 2002
9:36 pm	You know, I hope to god I can remember all the movies, books, video games, and music videos I reference or adapt. I'm actually a little worried about that. At what point did I cross the line? Is it okay? Is it not okay, even if I give everyone and thing due credit? Am I novel, or am I a cheap hack? Case in point. Chapter seven's main influences are 1: Eight heads in a Duffle Bag; 2: Airplane!; 3: The Foo Fighter's Music Video -Learning to Fly; 4: something I'll mention later. There are references to Heavy Metal, Monty Python, Seinfeild, and... Doubtlessly others I can't remember at the moment. It's been a long chapter. The main plot, though, is a bastardised mix of 8heads and airplane. Why? Because I wanted to use the 'The salmon mousse!' line from Monty Python as a tie in to the line from airplane 'Is there anyone who can fly this thing? Someone who didn't have the fish for dinner?' and the cheazy 'lets mix up duffle bags full of drugs' of 8heads and the 'lets hide them somewhere and inadvertantly get them mixed in with the food' of the foo fighters video seemed like an easy way of doing it. I just kind of shmooze from one one line joke reference of some movie or another to another, taking as long as I need to make sure there's a semi-plausible reason for them to SAY that line. That's the corniest, crappiest way of doing a story I've ever inflicted on myself. I am a moron. I do not feel guilty of using corny puns and one liners as a way of advancing the plot. I do feel guilty, however, of borrowing other peoples corny puns and one liners, cause I did. *sigh* Lots of chapter seven is mine. Hell, I wrote it. I came up with the way of putting everything together. I'm really really proud of parts. I just wish I had tried something else, something original. I don't have many original ideas, but when I do, I love them. Needful Things was good (I'm referring to mine, obviously, not that King's wasn't good.) Inspired by others, but I can't remove all influences, nor should I try. At least all the jokes were MINE, good a lame. Chapter four was good. Again, reminiscent of others, most monster movies, in fact, but I wasn't trying to capture a particular feel or tone. I was just writing. Five, same deal. Six... Eh. It was my idea, but I still don't like it. Hell, even three was only vaguely prompted by everyday events, and one and two, crappy and boring as they were, didn't rely on joke references. (Although perhaps they should have.) Seven... I should delete it. Whole freaking thing. ...Nah, too drastic. I should delete everything but the first 60 or 70 kay. That was, by and large, good. But the thing is, I'm tired of AoRF. I want to move on. I want to finish chapter seven, even if it is shit. I will finish it, of course, because I said I would, but it's going to leave a sour taste in my mouth. Why this sudden artistic self loathing? I reread my post on the main fanservice page. I seem so upbeat then. I dunno, it's kinda been sitting around in the back of my mind. I guess I've been trying to avoid thinking about it. Good thing, too, cause I'd never have gotten this far if I had thought of it half way through. Or, hell. I don't know. Maybe this is my typical post-completion depression, just a few days early. In my mind 7 is complete. I've gone through the last few scenes in great detail in my mind. I know how things are worded and what happens. Maybe this is just my typical fear that, now that I've finished it, it's crap. I do have a history of having self doubt right before the completion of a major project. Last time it took me a month to write a 20kb end. Let's hope that doesn't happen this time, because one way or another, I'm finishing this freaking chapter this week. Maybe I can do a thumbs down/up icon to put beside the links indicating whether or not I'm satisfied with the results. Either way, I know what I won't be doing next time I write a story. </whine> Current Mood: discontent Current Music: Static X - Cold (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, September 27th, 2002
6:16 pm	I have a new pleasure. I'm currently drinking a double chocolate latte, heavy on the chocolate. In terms of stuff I love, it's right up there with choclate chip cookies and provacative behavior. It's good. The first ones I tried were so good, in fact, I had to figure out how to make them myself. Mine are better. I put more chocolate in. The funny thing is, I hate coffee. I guess chocolate is so good it can even make that nasty, bitter stuff taste good. This chocolate latte, which really doesn't have THAT much coffee in it, is even better than tea, my old favorite drink. I need to write comments for other people. Current Mood: thirsty Current Music: Type O Negative - Be my Druidess (Comment on this)
Tuesday, September 24th, 2002
7:51 pm	Whoop! Yeah, I been writing. Finished the scene with Sasami and the videogame, something I hadn't actually finished even when my computer was down. Added, changed, and added some more here and there. I've got one long scene left, one medium scene, one short scene, one medium long scene, and a short epilogue thingy. Five scenes, I'm guessing 30k, and it's done. I GOT FANART! And it looks good! Dave Menard, you da man. Bow down before him, yall, he has brightened otherwise dull text with his visio-creative skillz. ...Yeah. Anyway, it looks good. Takes a little while to load, but it's worth it. I'm gonna go wash dishes. Been putting it off all evening. Share and enjoy. Tell me what you think. Current Mood: impressed Current Music: Don Felder - All of You (Comment on this)
Thursday, September 5th, 2002
5:42 pm	Webpage finished! Yup, title says it all. Finally, the new design is done. I doubt I mess with it again for a few years, other than to delete or add links. No, no new material up yet. Sorry. I've got new material, but it's on other computers and in a notebook. I'll transfer it tomorrow. I'll write some more, too. I have NOTHING PLANNED for this weekend other than write. Yay! Would have had more written if the bloody laptop hadn't fried to a crisp...grumblegrumble. Current Mood: accomplished Current Music: Sneaker Pimps - Wasted Early Sunday Morning (Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 20th, 2002
9:38 am	Hey, cool, I won! Needful Things won best lemon of the year for 2002. Yeah, I know this is all over my web page, but I felt like saying it again. ^_^ Of course, I am well aware that if it had been up for an award last year, there's no way in hell it would have won. Aikan Muyo is one of the best stories in many, many categories of all time, in my opinion, and NT was no where near that good, fact. Anyway. I've been writing as much as I have time for, but I'm also dealing with the hectic mess that comes just before school starts, so I only get about an hour at a time. The rest of the story is outlined, detailed, and just waiting for the words in between. It's fairly easy to write, but as I said, time is at a premium. I just KNOW I could finish it in one solid day of writing. Maybe I can get that this weekend. I know I don't have anything else planned, unlike last weekend. I really wanted to go to the awards ceremony held online, but something came up and we had to stay gone all weekend. ;_; I'm just now getting the chance to send out thank you's and apologies. Current Mood: cheerful Current Music: Joi - Lick (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, August 14th, 2002
4:42 pm	No new material up yet. But there will be soon, especially now that the redirect page is up and people can actually find the site. Current Mood: groggy Current Music: Eagles - Hotel California (Comment on this)
1:32 pm	Webpage is up! Don't know how long it's going to be until I finish the fireworks navigation bar, but the page is up. Various minor updates will be forthcoming as I finish adding pics and stuff in the body of the story. Minor stuff. As I only have fireworks on the computer at work, I have to wait until I get free time at work to work on it. All I have on the home computer is flash. Although, as soon as I can, I'm going to pirate the copy from work. ^_^ Don't get me wrong, I'd be happy to buy, but I just don't have the money. That little jewel is expesive. Current Mood: cheerful Current Music: Garbage - I think I?m Paranoid (Comment on this)
Monday, August 12th, 2002
9:46 pm	Well, crap. I just uploaded the new webpage. It's at a different address than the old one. I'd be happy to post the address everywhere, but.... Nothing works. Crap, crap, crap. The index page comes up fine, looks fair, and I even got the shared borders to work right, but none of my flash button links work. Oh, sure, the backup text links work fine, but the flash don't. Ah, well, I'll fix it tomorrow. Current Mood: aggravated Current Music: Nothing (Comment on this)
9:37 am	I've just been nominated for an award! Needful Things is a finalist for an award in two categories at the TMFF Awards! Best Lemon Fic and Best TV1/Universe fic. Would have been nice to have gotten in for best comedy, but ah, well. I'm happy it was considered one of the best of the year in those two categories. It's quite an honor, even if I don't win. Current Mood: hopeful Current Music: Tool - Lateralis (Comment on this)
Sunday, August 11th, 2002
8:08 pm	We just had lemon sauteed octopus for supper. And I got a real kick out of watching my fiancee slurp down a tentacle. ^_- Current Mood: naughty Current Music: Cherry Poppin' Daddies - Zoot Suit Riot (Comment on this)
7:41 pm	I know the webpage is down now, but that's a temporary problem. Smee again! Formerly known as Kichigai, formerly known as my real name, now back with a new pen name. Yes, I know, it's a different livejournal account. You don't worry your little head about that and just keep track. The new webpage WILL BE UP WITHIN THE WEEK! And I'll be linking back and forth so you can find it. Actually, I'm planning on changing to either a different free webhost, or making a new account. Major, MAJOR transition phase right here. I'll be launching ANOTHER web site for my personal stuff reasonably soon, completely seperate from the naughty fics. And I know, I friggin know, that the page is going to have a half-finished look to it because I'm changing so much stuff at the last minute. Arg. Ah, well. I'll make do. I've got free time coming up, and lots to do with it. Current Mood: rushed Current Music: Moody Blues - Knights In White Satin (Comment on this)