I’m not going on hiatus, I’m just resting my eyes
Enough is enough. Being half-assed about fixing my eyes hasn’t worked so far and clearly isn’t going to. I need to start taking things seriously if I’m going to have any hope of recovering. To this end, I’m neither writing any more posts nor watching any more anime until my eyes get better. In addition, I’m banning and/or restricting all other activities that strain my eyes.
Driving: Restricted to school/work/food.
Reading: Restricted to schoolwork, real work, and the following manga: Claymore, Naruto, Bleach, and Gantz.
Watching Sports: Severely Restricted. I’ll only watch highlights, only of playoff games, and only if the team I like wins.
Blogging: Severely Restricted. I’ll still approve comments and occasionally change polls.
Anime: Severely Restricted until FMA: Brotherhood ends, then Banned.
Movies: Banned, and they have been for a while. I’ve seen exactly two movies in the past 14 months: Death Note II (~~) and Ponyo (++). No, I haven’t seen Avatar in 3D. That would blind me.
Video Gaming: Banned. Just beat Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (+). Having satisfied my annual three game quota, I can take the rest of the year off without regrets.
Pornography: Banned.
Sword Juggling: Banned.
That about covers it. For the record, this is not a hiatus, as only pussies go on hiatus. I’m not done with writing, and I’m certainly not done with anime. While I’m out, I’ll still be working on posts in my head, if for no other reason than to maintain my sanity while I have nothing to do. I have several other ideas for how to spend my time off, but it wouldn’t be fun to disclose any of them just yet. Just know this: when I’ll be back, I’ll be better than ever.
Tags: April Fools, or is it?
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April 1st, 2010 at 12:09 am
Do it. Make sure that the next time we read “it made my eyes bleed” we don’t immediately think “damn, Raptor really needs to get his eyes fixed”.
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Baka-Raptor Reply:
April 6th, 2010 at 10:06 am
In the meantime I’ll shift the metaphor to other parts of my body. K-ON made my pancreas bleed.
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April 1st, 2010 at 1:00 am
Luckily you left in Knife Juggling.
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Baka-Raptor Reply:
April 6th, 2010 at 10:09 am
Knife juggling is for amateurs.
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April 1st, 2010 at 1:06 am
You should learn how to sword juggle with your eyes closed.
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Baka-Raptor Reply:
April 6th, 2010 at 10:10 am
You should learn how to sword juggle with your eyes closed.
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April 1st, 2010 at 1:07 am
Using the color red that strain my eyes against the black background: Obviously not banned.
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Baka-Raptor Reply:
April 6th, 2010 at 10:20 am
Of course red isn’t banned. Red light is used to preserve night vision in low-light or night-time situations, as the rod cells in the human eye aren’t sensitive to red.
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April 1st, 2010 at 1:16 am
So does the porn ban
Extend to ShizNat doujins?
Or are those exempt?
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Baka-Raptor Reply:
April 6th, 2010 at 10:22 am
No, but the ban does
extend to haiku, unless
it’s ShizNat haiku
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halfadeckshort Reply:
April 6th, 2010 at 7:14 pm
That being the case
Consider your gauntlet thrown:
Don’t think I’m playin’.
Behind the HiMEs ep 4 -
Orphan theft a ruse
By Shizuru, who prefers
Natsuki sans pantsu.
(Damn it all, I hoped
You were kidding, hurry up
And get yourself well).
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April 1st, 2010 at 2:04 am
Haha millions of years have worn your eyes ruined. The meteor didn’t get you, but media did? What a dork of a dinosaur. Your parents must be turning in their crater of a mass grave.
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Baka-Raptor Reply:
April 7th, 2010 at 3:20 am
Get thee to a nunnery.
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April 1st, 2010 at 2:46 am
Pornography: Banned? Man you were being serious.
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Baka-Raptor Reply:
April 7th, 2010 at 3:24 am
Well, I accidentally broke this resolution by visiting animeblogger antenna, the trashiest site on the net, and following one of its million links to Sankaku Complex, the second trashiest site on the net. But after that I’ve been clean for 6 days. It’s killing me.
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April 1st, 2010 at 5:20 am
kinda of sad since i always looking forward you post.
rest well and i hope your eyes will last another million years
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Baka-Raptor Reply:
April 7th, 2010 at 3:31 am
I don’t need another million years, just enough time until bionic eyes are perfected. Ghost in the Shell says 2030.
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April 1st, 2010 at 7:03 am
April Fools?
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Baka-Raptor Reply:
April 7th, 2010 at 3:25 am
or is it?
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April 1st, 2010 at 7:20 am
You should get a sharingan in your butt while you are at it
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Baka-Raptor Reply:
April 7th, 2010 at 3:25 am
You should get a sharingan in your butt while you are at it
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April 1st, 2010 at 10:47 am
Haaaapy Aaaaaapril Fooooooools !
Baka Raptor, why don’t you go back in time to the prehistory and rest your eyes in a few milion years hiatos so when you come back we’ll not even notice that you left ?
Real work should also be banned, because it is the MAIN reason behind all types of problems that appear on us like backpain, eyestrain, CTD (Cumulative Trauma Disorder),musculoskeletal disorders, discomfort, headaches et cetera…
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Baka-Raptor Reply:
April 8th, 2010 at 2:41 am
You know the story: I swore never to time travel for personal gain.
Maybe once I start writing again, I’ll backdate all my posts so it’ll look like I never left…
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April 1st, 2010 at 11:22 am
I see a future chainsaw ballet enthusiast.
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Baka-Raptor Reply:
April 8th, 2010 at 2:42 am
Sure, maybe if it’s available in audiobook format.
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April 1st, 2010 at 2:55 pm
I like how you wrote a post about how you aren’t going to write any posts.
Rest up and get better. Or is it?
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Baka-Raptor Reply:
April 8th, 2010 at 2:55 am
I will. Or is it?
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April 1st, 2010 at 3:34 pm
It’s obviously a joke since you said you’ll be reading Bleach. Who’d risk his eyes for such a shitty manga?
Still, I hope you get better
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Baka-Raptor Reply:
April 8th, 2010 at 3:03 am
I have no comeback.
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April 1st, 2010 at 4:24 pm
It only seems like an April Fool’s joke but it also sounds completely sensible…
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Baka-Raptor Reply:
April 8th, 2010 at 3:09 am
Isn’t that what makes it a great April Fool’s joke?
Or is it…
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April 1st, 2010 at 6:28 pm
This is definitely an April Fools joke…..you would never give up sword juggling.
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Baka-Raptor Reply:
April 9th, 2010 at 12:23 am
It’s true, I cannot give up sword juggling, not even for a few seconds. I’m even juggling swords in my sleep, since I cannot give it up no matter what.
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April 1st, 2010 at 7:18 pm
Good luck. Hope you get better.
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Baka-Raptor Reply:
April 9th, 2010 at 12:26 am
“All human wisdom is summed up in two words – wait and hope.” – Alexandre Dumas
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April 2nd, 2010 at 12:44 am
Get better, Baka, we need your humor to lighten anime fandom worldwide! Also, I want to hear your comments on FMA: Brotherhood once it ends. Oh yes.
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Baka-Raptor Reply:
April 9th, 2010 at 12:36 am
That’s not true. While I’m out, you could always read the blog of…hmmm…I guess you’re right, the world does need me.
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April 2nd, 2010 at 1:48 am
The rest of us should pick up the slack on the porn while you are fixing those eyes.
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Baka-Raptor Reply:
April 9th, 2010 at 12:41 am
Well, you can try.
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April 2nd, 2010 at 6:18 am
Forgetting april’s joke or whatever aside, I wonder if you’ve also seen doctors other than an optimist. Often it’s not the eye that makes one’s eye look tired, it’s more to do with the amount of fat in your face, poor blood circulation, or poor liver etc.
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Baka-Raptor Reply:
April 9th, 2010 at 12:49 am
The doctors were all optimists. Or at least they acted like they were.
The optometrists/ophthalmologists can’t find anything significantly wrong. I’ve seen a neurologist to make sure it wasn’t a tumor or anything. Got an MRI done to confirm it. I’ll continue to explore other possibilities, but first I need to eliminate the possibility that this is all a case of computer-overuse-induced eye strain.
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April 2nd, 2010 at 10:16 am
hope next time we hear from you your eyes are those of a fearsome predator once again. and that you can resume sword juggling.
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Baka-Raptor Reply:
April 10th, 2010 at 1:22 am
Next time you hear from me, it’s more likely that I’ll be showing off my Zatoichi skills—for sword juggling and for blogging.
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April 2nd, 2010 at 1:43 pm
> Pornography: Banned.
I have my doubts.
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Baka-Raptor Reply:
April 10th, 2010 at 1:22 am
So do I.
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April 2nd, 2010 at 8:26 pm
Hey, a blog of a blind man would be fun to read, you know?
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Baka-Raptor Reply:
April 10th, 2010 at 1:23 am
You’re right. I should start learning Braille.
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April 3rd, 2010 at 2:09 am
Get better soon!
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Baka-Raptor Reply:
April 10th, 2010 at 1:23 am
Make me.
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April 3rd, 2010 at 2:30 am
“Anime: Severely Restricted until FMA: Brotherhood ends, then Banned.”
Wise choice.
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Baka-Raptor Reply:
April 10th, 2010 at 1:27 am
Not even sure what else I’d want to watch. Heard Durarara is pretty good. Other than that, no clue.
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April 3rd, 2010 at 9:36 am
Driving: Restricted to school/work/food.
those are the only reasons I’m driving these days! (So, I’ve been restricting myself all this time?!)
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Baka-Raptor Reply:
April 11th, 2010 at 2:15 am
Same here. We’re both losers.
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April 4th, 2010 at 2:20 am
Considering the oft repeated mantra that masturbation makes one go blind, I’m surprised you didn’t list that…
I can’t see why this would not be an April Fool’s. Physiologically, what your eyes look at won’t hurt your eyes at all. There’s no difference between reading/watching anime and opening your eyes to look at every day stuff (i.e. going to washroom, going outside). That and you can write posts with your eyes closed if you know how to type :p
Nice try though!
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Baka-Raptor Reply:
April 11th, 2010 at 2:22 am
The problem seems to be not so much what I’m looking at but how hard I’m focusing. If my eyes are irritated yet I’m forcing them to stay open to watch anime/read/drive/etc., I’m going to pay for it.
The ban on pornography is effectively a ban on masturbation. I lack the imagination to jerk off without it.
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April 4th, 2010 at 8:09 am
While you wait in isolation, let me prepare a fanart sacrifice for your re-arrival.
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Baka-Raptor Reply:
April 11th, 2010 at 2:23 am
Only one?
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April 5th, 2010 at 10:20 pm
The fact pornography has been banned proves to me that you’re not fucking around.
And yes, hiatuses are for pussies. I merely updated in invisible text for half a year, yeah. That’s what I did.
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Baka-Raptor Reply:
April 11th, 2010 at 2:36 am
That’s a relief. For a while I thought you abandoned me in the fight against moeshit, leaving my eyes to burn out as you secretly indulged in K-ON doujinshi.
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April 7th, 2010 at 4:52 am
>Restricted to schoolwork, real work
Now THAT is good life, brother.
>No, I haven’t seen Avatar in 3D. That would blind me.
Not to mention that it’ll make you nauseous! If you know what I mean.
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Baka-Raptor Reply:
April 11th, 2010 at 2:37 am
I know exactly what you mean.
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April 7th, 2010 at 8:36 am
Well, you survived the meteor 65 million years ago, I’m sure you’ll survive this too.
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Baka-Raptor Reply:
April 12th, 2010 at 12:43 am
But life without anime…can you call that living?
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April 7th, 2010 at 9:44 pm
GOOD LUCK BAKA-RAPTOR
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Baka-Raptor Reply:
April 12th, 2010 at 12:44 am
No need to yell, I can hear you just fine in standard caps.
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April 9th, 2010 at 6:20 am
Of all the things, you ban pornography… I have lost my faith in you as the manliest man alive. J/K
Good luck! ^ ^
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Baka-Raptor Reply:
April 12th, 2010 at 12:50 am
You don’t need to believe in me. Believe in me who believes in me.
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April 10th, 2010 at 3:58 am
Maybe it’s like the manga Emerging and you have some weirdass virus that people think is Ebola but isn’t.
Needs some Ebola x Marburg slash.
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Baka-Raptor Reply:
April 12th, 2010 at 12:53 am
My life has never been anything like a manga. Why would it start now?
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Robert Weizer Reply:
April 12th, 2010 at 4:41 am
because ebola is forever
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April 11th, 2010 at 4:53 am
http://hakasen.wordpress.com/2010/04/10/literary-devices-and-the-internet-two-men/
you pseudo-inspired me to write about the downfall of yuri and yaoi that should exist
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Baka-Raptor Reply:
April 12th, 2010 at 12:55 am
As Thomas Edison once said, pseudo-genius is 1% pseudo-inspiration, 99% pseudo-perspiration.
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April 11th, 2010 at 3:07 pm
Let me know if limiting reading and the amount of time spent staring at glowing screens helps any. Anecdotal information: When I transitioned from my old mammoth CRT to an LCD I noticed my eyes became more easily strained. Perhaps it’s time to dust off the old behemoth.
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Baka-Raptor Reply:
April 13th, 2010 at 6:23 pm
Oh, I’ll let you know all right. If I do get better, I’ll write a whole book about it.
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April 13th, 2010 at 8:47 pm
I thought this was an April Fool’s joke since it is a tradition of maddox but damn this raptor’s serious huh
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Baka-Raptor Reply:
April 14th, 2010 at 10:06 pm
I haven’t broken with tradition at all. Maddox hasn’t posted on April Fool’s Day in years. It would’ve been a true Maddox-style April Fool’s post if I posted sometime next week and backdated it to 4/1.
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June 20th, 2010 at 1:57 pm
Are you confident your eyes *can* recover?
The regression my eyes have undergone is completely irreversible.
Anywayz, lately there has been a strange new development. My entire vision in getting clouded with floaters (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floater). I like to believe its the result of intense sugar consumption, studying and reclusion…
that or I’m dying and this is my dying message.
Anyway, a friend of mine has that Ray Charles-like disease. He’s inevitably going blind. Now that sucks. He’s a bit fatalistic I suppose. Drinking and smoking makes the disease progress faster…and it’s all he does.
Meh.
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