#gopher rant

[gophersaurus]

Merry Christmas!

It's just passed midnight on the 25th on this part of the planet I call home so... Merry Christmas! And to all my followers, whether Christmas is something you celebrate or not, I wish you all happiness, good health, safety and peace of mind. Thank you each and every one of you for being a part of my 2015. Here's to an excellent 2016 for us all!

[gophersaurus]

Oh right

So I'm going to be going away for two weeks from tomorrow. Initially my partner and I are driving to Melbourne for PAXAUS this weekend, then afterwards we'll be driving up to Queensland to visit family and friends. Because my mobile data cap sucks and because I'll actually be doing things, I won't be on Tumblr much if at all for the next couple of weeks. I'll still be checking my email frequently (if I've only checked my email three times in a day I was probably asleep for the whole day) so feel free to tag me in anything or send me asks if something comes up or if you just feel like it. That would be really cool. I hope you all stay safe and well while I'm gone and I'll look forward to catching up with you upon my return!

[frozenfossils]

Tumblr actually seems to do a fairly decent job with recommended posts in my experience. Like, even when it’s something completely random and I have no idea why it was suggested to me it’s at least something inoffensive.

... and then there are the times when it comes up with Jelsa artwork.

[gophersaurus]

Bloody murphy's law... After being stuck on the Onix level of Pokemon Shuffle for over a week I finally broke down and paid the 800 coins for +5 turns... only to beat it with 5 turns remaining *headdesk*

[gophersaurus]

That weird feeling when you see a post reblogged from a prominent webcomic creator who has you blocked on Tumblr* and you’re like ‘I was sure I followed them’ so you check and ‘oh yes I am still following them but now I remember that they apparently blocked me’.

*They seem to have blocked me after I sent them an ask saying they should apologise after they were rude to another webcomic creator I’m a fan of. Their rudeness was in response to the other creator drawing something (justifiably) parodying something they, although hardly exclusively, had said/done. I took it upon myself as a fan of both to throw my five cents into the ring; probably dumb but it was a heat of the moment thing and if I got blocked for what I said I’m sure I wasn’t the only one...

[gophersaurus]

Ask My Top 3s: 2, 14, 18!

Alrighty!

2) Top 3 villains/antagonists

Already answered here!

14) Top 3 fictional gadgets/devices

1. Lightsabers from Star Wars (Films/basically every form of media ever) - One of the coolest devices/weapons ever created - it’s a sword but it’s made of light! So cool! I have a light-up replica one of the saber Obi-Wan gives to Luke in A New Hope and it is my Precious.

2. Widget from Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies (Video Game) - With each of the protagonists having their own unique ability to get to the truth, Athena Cykes’ is pretty cool. Widget, a small device she wears around her neck, lets her interpret the emotions underlying witness testimony (when it isn’t blurting out her own feelings)

3. The Portal Gun from Portal - Seriously it’s so nifty, there’s so many cool things you could do with it in real life in addition to all the fun you get to have with it in game.

18) Top 3 fictional worlds/universes

1. Planet Zi from Zoids (Anime) - I just want to be a Zoid pilot dang it, I don’t care when in history, if I have to be a tournament fighter or a courier or a mercenary or a rebel soldier I just want a Zoid.

2. The Avatar world from Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra (Cartoon) - Particularly around the time of Legend of Korra, it would be cool to live in such a dynamic period of time with technology and society evolving rapidly (plus y’know, I’d hopefully be a bender).

3. The Pokemon world from Pokemon (Video Games/Anime)  - Can’t believe I didn’t think of this one sooner, I want to have a Mawile as a buddy almost as much as I want to pilot a Konig Wolf DSR.

Thanks for the ask!

[gophersaurus]

savingeuridice replied to your post:The first three :p

THIS IS SUCH A GOOD LIST?????? YES.

Aww thanks Charlie! I tried to put a fair bit of thought into it and choose from a range of different stories near to my heart. Glad you liked it ^^

[gophersaurus]

15 and 33 for the Top 3 Meme.

Oki dokie what do we have here...?

15) Top 3 character backstories

1. The Avatar from Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra (Cartoon) - I loved learning about the Avatar’s past lives in A:TLA like Roku and Kyoshi and the story of Avatar Wan in LoK was one of the coolest parts of that series.

2. Frog/Glenn from Chrono Trigger (Video Game) - Frog, the valiant amphibian knight sworn to defend his queen, is a wonderful character in a game with a cast of great characters. Learning about his earlier life later on in the game is a feels-laden experience.

3. The Doctor from Doctor Who (TV Series) - As much as I’m leery of what the outcome of ‘The Day of the Doctor’ suggests in terms of the retroactive impact on the Ninth Doctor (aka my favourite Doctor), I did enjoy getting to meet the War Doctor and see this oft mentioned but never seen chapter of the character’s life.

33) Top 3 awesome moments in fiction

Oh my god how am I supposed to choose this...?

1. The destruction of the first Death Star in Star Wars: A New Hope (Film) - “Great shot kid, that was one in a million!” The Battle of Yavin, culminating in Luke Skywalker’s destruction of the first Death Star, is (IMO) one of the greatest climaxes ever in film.

2. Pug creating a rift in space to drop a chunk of a planet’s moon onto a malevolent extra-dimensional entity in Wrath of a Mad God by Raymond E. Feist (Novel) - There are plenty of awesome moments across the 30-ish books of the Riftwar Saga but this one takes the cake for invoking the biggest ‘holy crap!’ reaction out of me.

3. The destruction of the Death Saurer in Zoids Guardian Force (anime) - How can we take down this overwhelmingly powerful Zoid? I know! Let’s fire the protagonist’s Zoid at it out of a giant cannon mounted on another Zoid! How could that possibly go wrong? (It doesn’t though, the day is saved and the music is awesome)

Thanks for the ask!