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.
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”.
In the meantime I’ll shift the metaphor to other parts of my body. K-ON made my pancreas bleed.
Luckily you left in Knife Juggling.
Knife juggling is for amateurs.
You should learn how to sword juggle with your eyes closed.
You should learn how to sword juggle with your eyes closed.
Using the color red that strain my eyes against the black background: Obviously not banned.
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.
So does the porn ban
Extend to ShizNat doujins?
Or are those exempt?
No, but the ban does
extend to haiku, unless
it’s ShizNat haiku
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).
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.
Get thee to a nunnery.
Pornography: Banned? Man you were being serious.
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.
kinda of sad since i always looking forward you post.
rest well and i hope your eyes will last another million years
I don’t need another million years, just enough time until bionic eyes are perfected. Ghost in the Shell says 2030.
April Fools?
or is it?
You should get a sharingan in your butt while you are at it
You should get a sharingan in your butt while you are at it
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…
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…
I see a future chainsaw ballet enthusiast.
Sure, maybe if it’s available in audiobook format.
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?
I will. Or is it?
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
I have no comeback.
It only seems like an April Fool’s joke but it also sounds completely sensible…
Isn’t that what makes it a great April Fool’s joke?
Or is it…
This is definitely an April Fools joke…..you would never give up sword juggling.
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.
Good luck. Hope you get better.
“All human wisdom is summed up in two words – wait and hope.” – Alexandre Dumas
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.
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.
The rest of us should pick up the slack on the porn while you are fixing those eyes.
Well, you can try.
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.
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.
hope next time we hear from you your eyes are those of a fearsome predator once again. and that you can resume sword juggling.
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.
> Pornography: Banned.
I have my doubts.
So do I.
Hey, a blog of a blind man would be fun to read, you know?
You’re right. I should start learning Braille.
Get better soon!
Make me.
“Anime: Severely Restricted until FMA: Brotherhood ends, then Banned.”
Wise choice.
Not even sure what else I’d want to watch. Heard Durarara is pretty good. Other than that, no clue.
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?!)
Same here. We’re both losers.
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!
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.
While you wait in isolation, let me prepare a fanart sacrifice for your re-arrival.
Only one?
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.
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.
>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.
I know exactly what you mean.
Well, you survived the meteor 65 million years ago, I’m sure you’ll survive this too.
But life without anime…can you call that living?
GOOD LUCK BAKA-RAPTOR
No need to yell, I can hear you just fine in standard caps.
Of all the things, you ban pornography… I have lost my faith in you as the manliest man alive. J/K
Good luck! ^ ^
You don’t need to believe in me. Believe in me who believes in me.
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.
My life has never been anything like a manga. Why would it start now?
because ebola is forever
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
As Thomas Edison once said, pseudo-genius is 1% pseudo-inspiration, 99% pseudo-perspiration.
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.
Oh, I’ll let you know all right. If I do get better, I’ll write a whole book about it.
I thought this was an April Fool’s joke since it is a tradition of maddox but damn this raptor’s serious huh
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.
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.
[…] Truth About ‘Raptors ep 1 He’s resting his eyes? A feint to draw you closer: SeaSlugs won’t trap […]