Nevindria

Alright, I've been out of the whole art thing for a long time. I haven't used DeviantArt in years. Back when I stopped using this DA profile I removed everyone I was watching from my list, so if any of my old college friends or internet buds are still around, throw me a comment and I'll rewatch you. There are some people I would love to catch up with.

I'll probably be changing my username too now that I see that you can do that.

A lot has changed over the years. I graduated from college years ago of course...yet I'm still working a shitty retail job. I can't take it anymore, so my goal is to have SOME sort of an art job, or in the very least to be able to make enough money off freelance work or something to support myself, by the beginning of the new year.

I'll be posting new work soon. I put what old work I had left on here into storage so the gallery is empty for the time being. I also read all my old journal entries from the past 8 years omg... it makes me nostalgic. T_T

Anyway...haaaay is anyone still alive out there?

I had been debating doing it for a while, but I finally decided to go through with it tonight. I wiped out a great deal of my gallery. Why? Because I wanted to. xD I have ALL of my old art on my computer, stuff even older then what's been posted on here. And I always get a tad bit annoyed when people will critique a 3+ year old piece of mine, because apparently they don't look at dates. x3 But it's okay, that's not that big of a deal.

But everything pretty much comes down to just...people seeing me for what I'm becoming and not what I was. I'm also so over the "marissastarr" name. Seems like everyone uses Starr as a faux last name and I wish I never would have signed up with such silliness to begin with. My gallery stats are also so screwed up now because I've probably deleted over 100 things over the years. I think I deleted around 80 or so today.

Would everyone be annoyed if I switched accounts? ^_^;

I know it is annoying...but I don't plan to do this regularly. I plan on setting up a website and Etsy shop in the near future and would like everything to be under one name: Rogue of B3K. I've been using that name for nearly everything since forever and have no desire to lose it.

Gah, I'm ranting a bit. Sorry. I'll rewatch everyone that I know is still active if I switch over. I'd love you all to follow me as well. =3 *bows and apologizes for being annoying* ;;; I'll be making my mind up within the next few days. We'll see.

I'll post another journal when/if I do. Most likely, I'll probably do it this weekend. xD

I love you all, you sexy beasts, you! <3

Getting that loooong journal off of my front page...

backloggery.com/main.php?user=… It's the Backloggery! It's a place to put all the video games you've played over the years and what status you left them in (unfinished, beaten, completed.) It's hard trying to rack my brain trying to remember all the games I've played. xD I still keep remembering more at random points during the day.

And lol to mudkips on April 1st.

Does anyone know anything about monitors...and if so could you tell me what the hell happened to mine? D:

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It just happened out of nowhere. My monitor has not experienced any trauma or anything. so I don't know what happened. I just sat down my computer and woke it up from sleep mode and BAM it's messed up. If you can't tell clearly from the picture...there are streaks going across the entire screen corresponding with the lightness/darkness of colors and it's making a lot of colors really bright and intense. It's still usable but this sucks...I can't afford a new monitor! And this is giving me a headache. I REALLY wish that it was something that I can fix myself (a weird setting took place?) but I really doubt it's not.

But on the plus side I started spring break today! And I've been playing Brawl and it's wonderfully fun and pretty! =3 Shaina and I finished story mode a few days ago and it was really neat. But please NO SPOILERS. I've managed to avoid getting spoiled on most unlockable characters (the only characters I got spoiled on I already unlocked through the story mode so everyone else will be a surprise.) And I know that everyone thinks I'm silly for considering the unlockable stuff as spoilers but the unlockable stuff is a big part of the game so I think all of you are silly for spoiling yourselves ahead of time. o.O So there *shakes fists*

Oh and in random Rockband news, Flirting with Disaster and Green Grass and High Tides are friggin' stupid on Hard and I can't pass them and I hate them. *stab* We have 70 songs on my xbox and those are the only 2 I haven't passed. DD::: BUUT I am very happy (and amused xD) that they put my favorite Nine Inch Nails song on Rockband. Yaaay Perfect Drug!

Okay I think I've ranted enough. >_> The moral of the story is, monitor help please?

This journal could contain possible spoilers if you consider someones reaction to the end of a game as a spoiler. There is no explicit details, though.

So today, I decided to sit down and play some more Eternal Sonata. I loaded up my file and remembered that I was towards the end of a dungeon. Settling in for a nice long play period, got a drink, and 10 minutes later it was all:


akfdj;akdjfcrazyshit END OF GAME.

... D: WHAT THE FUCK? It was totally unexpected, and hell, it was downright disappointingly. I only had 31 hours clocked in on this game. I didn't know it was going to be that short! Now, I did obviously miss some things since I don't have all the achievements unlocked, so I guess that's replay value there.

But honestly, it felt like whoever was making the game was all "Yeah the story is getting so good! ...You know what, fuck it. I'm bored. Just end it here." I heard that the PS3 release of ES is going to have a "fixed storyline" so now I understand what they mean. It does, indeed, need fixed. I was sitting there as the first credits rolled by, pissed, crying, and yelling "What the fuck?!" There was more stuff after the first set of credits and even a random short-film at the end of the second credits, which sort of made it better, but it wasn't enough.

I'm SO disappointed. Gaaah I need to have a spoilerific rant with someone but no one else that I know has beat it! ;^;