su-per-la-tive
adj.

1. Of the highest order, quality, or degree; surpassing or superior to all others.
2. Excessive or exaggerated.

Am I the only one that finds such a definition hilarious? Probably, but still...

I am finding it impossible to simply watch anime anymore - I must critically examine it and, indeed, revel in its assumed glory. The latest such foray was even more crazy than usual seeing as how it involved FLCL. Needless to say, the resulting product is, how shall I say... yes, superlative in its quality. FLCL: Never Knows Best, now playing in a feature near you!

Other notable updates come in the form of an additional question and subsequent answer to the Evangelion feature, and revised reviews for Azumanga Daioh, End of Evangelion, and FLCL. The remaining four reviews which need a good revision will have to wait until after I watch them again, as I am having difficulty embellishing them in as much agonizing detail as the other reviews when I cannot even remember what the main characters' names are. New reviews, you ask? I have never heard of such things.

On that note, I feel the need to mention how I believe I am coming down with something. Fall Flu? SARS? College begins again in three weeks... figures.

*UPDATE*
8/20 - 4:00 pm
Due to a sudden, asinine shift in Angelfire's banner ads policy, Razor Witt has been moved to Geocities. I am currently in the process of loading the hundreds of individual files to the new server, but it will take some time before I get them all moved over. Since I am being forced to reconfigure all of my reviews anyway, I've decided to go ahead an organize them differently in a sub-directory sense of the word - meaning they going to be offline for the time being. Sorry for any inconvience.
*END UPDATE*

As you may or may not have noticed, things have changed around here.

While losing the version number and gaining a subtitle may not seem all that significant, I can assure you that it is. I've been going over the site a lot in the week(s) since the I last updated, and have come to the realization that I enjoy working on it - coding it, writing reviews for it, crafting features to host, and so on; that much should be pretty much obvious from the existence of the site itself. However, what you don't know is how close I was coming to taking it down entirely. The reasons are my own, but I will say part of it was that I felt like Razor Witt was a waste of time. Why bother, especially when college starts so soon (six days, in fact)? Why spend time revising reviews on things you have already seen or played when there is literally a mountain of new material you haven't? Where's the payoff for all my time, energy and effort?

I have been watching the anime Full Metal Panic! here recently, and the answer to those questions came to me at the end of a several-hour viewing session. As I sat in my computer chair, did I think about the hilarity that had just ensued? Was I pondering on how much Sosuke looks like Kamui from X? Did I theorize on the odds on whether it would have a clich� ending?

No. All I could think about was how I planned on writing the review. And if Sosuke would make a good Avatar.

In short, I realized that I very much enjoy spending time working on Razor Witt, regardless of whether said time is "wasted" or not. To go along with this realization, I figured I'd go ahead and redesign the logo and all of the buttons for the various sections - things I had been meaning to do for months. I also finished the review for Wind Waker and crafted a brand new feature: Shades of Greyhound. And there are many more things that need to be done. The most important thing to realize here is that I may not update regularly. I may not have the revised reviews up when I promise to. I may not ever finish that Bio.

But I want to.

And where there is a will, there usually is a way.

It has been a crazy week, let me tell you.

I am officially updating Razor Witt from Wittenberg's campus, through their blazingly fast T3 network - pumping a staggering 0.1 kbps, currently - whilst saut�ing in my own natural juices inside my air-conditioned room - a chilly 82°, with an arid 107% general humidity - on the seventh floor in Tower Hall. My computer has been upgraded by the fantastic Witt Tech Team, who was so kind as to disable my modem lest I be tempted to tap into some of its 5.6 kbps speed. To improve my studies, I made sure to forget all of my other computer games and CDs, only bringing those games I have beaten several hundred times and a nonexistent internet connection to keep me company. I did just sign up for the same job I had last year, which conveniently fills up all those empty hours of the morning I had pretty much every day of the week. To cap off my good fortune, I spent the better part of today entirely wet from the seasonal, central Ohioan monsoon which woke me at 5:00 am with lightning and sheets of rain, then abated long enough to allow me to get the furthest distance away from shelter at the exact moment I needed to get to class before resuming.

So, yeah, I almost feel jubilant enough to affix several thumbtacks to both of my eyes.

Other de-prioritized notes on the action item list have been the conversion of every single last one of the 48 RPG reviews I host to the new format. This means, among other things, that each and every review has at least two pictures with captions, scoring changes, correct links, and so on and so forth. I had been meaning to do this since forever, but you know how those sorts of things go. Also of some importance is the uploading of the Lost Kingdoms review, which seemed to have emerged intact from the darkest realms of the abyss. I actually completed it some time ago but forgot to load it up - for the one person who cares, there you go.

It appears as though Angelfire was merely experiencing a crisis of conscious or something, as now the pages hosted there look like they are supposed to. Be that as it may, I have absolutely zero desire to have the 579 individual uploads I made to Geocities - twenty at a time - to have been for nothing. So if you have some sort of deep religious conviction against the side banners versus an embedded top banner, then you're just going to have to cry a river, build a bridge, and then get over it.

What's next? More changes and I mean it this time. Since Monday is the start of a new month and coincidently happens to be joyous 20th year since I was drug kicking and screaming into this world, I figure I may as well mark the occasion. Of course, this is entirely dependant on whether or not I will actually have internet access at said time, so we'll just have to see what happens.