Asandir's interviews with Newgrounds forum users

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Seems like you watch the anime (and read the manga) Naruto. What do you like about the show? Who are your favourite characters? Which story arc is your favourite? Which other anime do you like?

Idiot-Finder:

"I used to.

I still like some characters, especially Hinata but the problem I have with the series is how they would beat you in the head with the same stupid message several times over until you wind up with brain damage worse than Carlos Rivera's.

Villain WAH, my life sucks and people treat me like crap so therefore, I should become and evil jackass by making the whole world suffer!

cue several episodes or chapters of flashbacks

Hero Wow, you're right but I once I become the Hokage, I will make sure the world will be better, believe it!

Villain Yes and being that I have a sad past, this should make people feel sorry for me despite all the shit I did, including killing countless innocents! FEEL SORRY FOR ME!

Stupid fan I instantly bought it because...cycle of revenge, lol!

I'm sorry, but had Pein did killed Hinata (which he pretended to do but still...), no sob story would stop me from wanting him to die horribly. Having a sucky past isn't going to excuse that actions you have performed, I mean why should people who has nothing to do with your suffering deserve to suffer

While Hokuto no Ken may have helped inspired this crap (flashback and villains' past and all), at least they made it clear that it doesn't necessarily excuse the villains' actions and by the end of the day, they still deserves to die, no cycle of violence bullshit!

I don't really have a favorite arc but if there is one, maybe the Sasuke Retrieval Arc.

With that said, while I grew up with DBZ, it's not the first anime series I was introduced to. I have no idea what was the first I have seen but the earliest I remembered was Tenku Senki Shurato, a somewhat obscure Saint Seiya ripoff where two friends were transported into a Hindu religion to fight evil bent on trying to kill a woman whom I later learn shared the same VA with Konata's mom. One of them was brainwashed while the other who is the main character have to find a way to save him.

I didn't like the series at first when I was watching the Canto-dubbed video as a kid because it kinda scared me a bit, such as when a ambiguously homosexual dropped Shurato from a large height after telling him to let him go (turns out it was a comedic scene), then there's one episode where a man was electrocuted to a crisp. It took a while for me to actually enjoy the series and while it is a ripoff, it still have a special place in my heart as it's probably the first anime series I have seen.

Another early anime series I have seen was from tape that my friend has. She was into some magical girl genre so naturally, there would be some weird ones.

This one happens to be Super Pig which is a magical girl parody where a heroine transform into a flying female pig. yeah, it's that weird.

Then there's Doraemon...just Doraemon.

That series may have been the first one I enjoyed watching from the start. Gotta love how a stupid kid would try to find an easy solution to a problem he runs into, then a robotic cat pulls out a device that can help him, only for the kid to misuse it and you know what happens.

Didn't know the series was that old, I mean the author have been dead for nearly two decades and it's still going on. To be fair, even if he had lived for centuries, it still would have been ongoing. I think he ran out of ideas on how to end it, as well as the fact that the series is still a hit in Asia so the money is indeed a good motivator.

Other series I liked are, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, City Hunter, GTO (prefer the manga as it is finished), FMAB, Hokuto no Ken, DB in general except GT, Azumanga Daioh, Lucky Star (not sure if one would consider it a guilty pleasure but whatever), Saint Seiya, TTGL, and some others I may have forgotten.

Now and then I would look back to the earlier era to find the series to watch.

For the anime movie, My Neighbor Totoro."

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You are an avid watcher of american football and basketball. When did you become a fan of those sports and which teams are you rooting for?

Idiot-Finder:

"1998 was the year I became into sports in general, starting with the Bulls because of Michael Jordan. After MJ's second retirement, the Bulls stunk and I stopped caring for a while (I wasn't really ready to be a true fan that time). I eventually did return to being a Bulls fan and that's before they drafted Derrick Rose so HA!

The injuries to Rose have been painful as I want the Bulls to become champions again. Their best shot ended when Rose got hurt in the first game of the playoffs in 2012, allowing the 76ers to win the series in a fluky fashion (TheKlown actually thinks the 76ers would have won regardless but the only people he's fooling are himself and the team's fan base). I know the Bulls wouldn't have gotten past the Heat but they would have been the one to face them later on.

Still waiting for this day and when will it finally happen

Right now the 76ers are paying for the repercussion of a fluky win...then again they made that disasterous trade for Andrew Bynum that blew up on their face.

With that said, I would love to punch a certain idiot in the face for making this thread. Then again he never really made a worthwhile post, reminds me of TheKlown...coincidence

Just hope Rose leads the Bulls to the promise land one day to prove the doubters wrong, especially the sports article that happens to be dissing him (Then again you know Yahoo! Sports, always full of crap). Articles like this gets picked apart in this site which I'm thankful for (also have some good stuff on Lupica's garbage as well).

With that said, 1998 is when I became interested in the Yankees when they won 114 regular season games and unlike most record setting regular season champs, they actually won the whole thing that year. The 2001 Mariners couldn't even make it to the World Series despite their 116-46 record.

It was 2000 when I fully became a fan and stuck with them since then despite their lean years from 2001 to 2008. I know some teams would like to have those lean years but a year without a title means nothing. Do you want to be proud of winning second place when knowing full well that you could have gotten first That's how it is, with huge expectations, any year short of a title is a failure.

The Mets would be my second favorite team by default because they're from New York as well and I also live in the same borough they reside in. I don't care about the Mets as much as I do for the Yankees but if they do well, that's good but if they stunk, meh.

Just hope Harvey recovers, the Mets' future is depended on him.

Then on football, my team are the New York Giants (although their stadium is in New Jersey due to the city's unwillingness to provide their own stadium for them and the Jokes-I mean the Jests-no, the Jets).

While the Giants may not have the same success the Yankees has, they have a rich history and as I said before, they're a NY team. To be fair, in 1998, I became a fan on a whim when the preseason game started and I wasn't aware that they're not exactly good (well, defensively they are but their offense sucked). My favorite player was Tiki Barber even though he was a back up running back that time. The reason why I liked him is because of his name, I mean come on, Tiki Barber!

The name sticks out the most when the commentator mentions his name, Tiki Barber this, Tiki Barber that!

Tiki Barber did go on to become a good player with a fumbling issues and later, a great player before his abrupt retirement where he later starts throwing his team mate and head coach under the bus. 2000-2001 was a magical season for the Giants as they made it to the playoffs that year and made it to the Super Bowl. But the Super Bowl game itself on the other hand was a nightmare.

It's hardly a game, it's a snuff film where Kerry Collins was a victim getting cut apart screaming. I could still see Ray Lewis laughing as he begins to saw off Collins' limb. The Gianbts' defense actually performed well for the most part but Kerry Collins would throw picks after picks, leading the defense to try to defend from a horrible position.

I would loved to forget about the game but I can't because I saw much of it and the trauma remains, plus, halftime show with N'SYNC was disappointing as I'm a fan of theirs.

Then came 2001 where I was hoping the Giants would make it back to the Super Bowl to redeem themselves but there's a problem...in the late 1990s to early 2000s, the Giants offense would ranked top 10 in yards racked up and yet somehow they would rank in the bottom half on scoring, how was that possible

Not only that, the current Saints coach, Sean Payton was the Giants offensive coordinator that time. Now there are people whining on why the Giants let him go but there's a reason why, is this a great offense to you Even Payton himself admit that after he was let go, he would learn from his mistakes during his time with the Vowboys with a help from Bill Parcells.

Also, Kerry Collins and Tiki Barber fumbles the ball way too much.

I know in 2001, Strahan would have a memorable run where he would get the official sack record. I wasn't paying attention to that so I didn't notice as it was the standing I happen to be more focused on.

They didn't make it to the playoffs that years so it was really disappointing.

They did in the 2002-2003 season but what happened sucked, I mean a defensive collapse and a blown call by the blind refs at the end of the game cost them, setting the stage for the true disaster where the team became unwatchable. I considered that season as a true test for my fanhood.

I mean after an okay start, the Giants went on to lose 12 games that year. I barely hung on as a fan and realize that if I can survive this, then you can pretty much guess.

2004 was disappointing but unlike 2003, there was hope (although there are people who wanted Eli Manning to fail because of the crap he pulled in the draft that year, in hindsight his decision was justified as the Chargers are snakebitten as hell, especially in the playoffs, talk about a massive waste of talent). They made it back in 2005-06 regular season and after a promise they had, we expected them to compete for the title in 2006-07 season, but the series of injuries they had ruined it.

Tiki announcing his retirement in the middle of the season was a stupid move that caused a huge distraction but truth to be told, I really doubt he caused the players to get hurt. The Giants somehow made the playoffs despite finishing with a .500 record and lose in the first round (seeing this, they kinda overperformed as their best player, Strahan was out of the season and yet they managed to kept the game close).

2007-08 season is the year where I find fulfilling, why Just look up 18-1 and the Patriots together and you'll know, heh, heh, heh.

To sum up the next few years of disappointments before stopping at a really good year

2008-09 Plaxico shoots himself, screws up the Giants' offense and their momentum in the playoffs.

2009-10 Defense sucked, key players hurt, and Eli gets blamed for it.

2010-11 Defense falls apart down the stretch, Poozy unwittingly jinxed the Giants in that Eagles game, and receivers treating the ball thrown to them as a volleyball.

2011-12 Giants becomes the first team with a 9-7 record to win the Super Bowl, beating the Patriots in a rematch.

When looking back, it was a huge rollercoaster.

I hope the change of offensive system will help Eli Manning but the pass protection will ahve to be the main priority as no system will help with the QB has no time to throw."

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I know that you played Yu-Gi-Oh! In the past. Tell me when you started (and possibly stopped) playing. What kind of deck did you have? Which other trading card games did you play?

Idiot-Finder:

"Somewhere around 2002 or 2003.

I thought it was stupid at first, I mean a show about card games The card game itself turns out to be fun although it was mainly my brother who plays it, just that I couldn't bring myself to admit that I liked it so he's the only one in my family knew.

We did eventually like the show and became more interested after hearing about the original season aka Season 0. I didn't have an official deck for myself, it's basically made up of random cards from my brother's collection so basically it's more or less a custom deck.

We never serious dueled so basically we just mess around to pass the time. I did start collecting card myself later on and as time goes by, I more in favor of collecting OCG cards. TCG cards are generally censored and that time, the holofoil effects are barely seen while the OCG happens to be much shinier.

There are those promotional packs known as Premium Packs and that time they're only available in OCG. Being that they're not exactly easy to find in the U.S., we're lucky enough to find a couple.

That ranges from volume 4 to 6.

The fourth volume is pretty much out of print as far as I know but outside of that, my brother generally has a much better luck in finding a rare card in OCG packs. You can say that's the one advantage that TCG packs have, at least you're guaranteed a rare card in a pack while in the case of OCG, when it's rare, they meant it.

I think he's still collecting card now and then as some of them came out in 2011, overall he goes for both while I go for OCG.

I was lucky enough to stumble into PP volume 4 when I was purchasing another pack and it caught my eye. I remember it's seven dollars but it has six ultra rare cards, including the Red Dark Magician.

As of now I stopped collecting the cards, only because after purchasing that OCG anniversity Dark Magician Girl, I actually felt satisfied and no longer want to acquire another cards. I will resume collecting one day but right now, I don't feel the need.

That card is in my drawer.

When it comes to other card games I played, there's Uno!

With that said, I liked the early manga volumes of Yu-Gi-Oh! better than the ones it became famous for, too bad they never receive a proper adaptation.

Season 0 wasn't that good aside from the fact that Yugi and Atem were essentially voiced by Sailor Uranus. Death T arc would have been an epic story arc for the anime series...in fact, Kaiba has a much better reason for tearing Yugi's grandpa's BEWD in half and why the old man was severely injuried from playing a card game.

To think that mind crush was supposed to be the last time we see Kaiba and that the card game itself was originally the in universe of Magic the Gathering which the author has a hard on for."

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You are a Pokémon fan. Which is your favourite Pokémon and why is it Charizard? Which games of the series do you like the most?

Idiot-Finder:

"Charizard is actually my favorite out of the starting Pokemon in its final form. The reason is that of the three, Charizard resembles a dragon and looks much cooler than Blastoise (though still badass) and Venusaur. With that said, my favorite generation series is generally the second (Gold, Silver, and Crystal) as it opens the door for the later games to come, not to mention you get to do much more after the fun wears out in the first generation (with Missingno. being the only reason to keep on playing Red and Blue).

The anime series on the other hand, I no longer like the series seeing that the writers will insist on lowering Ash's IQ and have him lose in every important match since Orange League. I mean the guy with a roster of legendaries coming out of nowhere to win the whole damn thing Really Because of this bullcrap, I even wrote a two-shot fanfiction about it and mainly it's the second chapter that hits it.

Also, I finally caught a shiny Pokemon last fall, you have no diea how much it meant to me. I'll still never forgive that shiny Lairon for running out on me."

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Every person has secrets. Can you tell one of yours or something else that we didn't know about you yet?

Idiot-Finder:

"I have tons of secrets and many of them I would rather keep to myself. But there are few I wouldn't mind sharing and one particular may have led to one thing after another, well that's what my parents told me.

They said that I was supposed to be born a day earlier but there was a problem. When it comes to a problem that would occur at birth, a C-section was supposed to be performed. That operation never happened because for an unexplained reason, there was a delay so with that, the whole thing was put on hold until a day later when I finally came out, all naturally.

In a way I was lucky, but at the same time, sometimes I wonder if I used up most of my luck that day considering the horrible luck I have for much of my life like the scene in that movie where things seems to go your way until it smacks you right in the face in the end.

To be fair, Stephen Chow's character had it coming however.

Not sure if that count as a post-birth since it's just one day but yeah.

Then there's the fact that preschool is in fact the peak of my school life...I know. Truth is I was starting to come around toward the end of first grade and started out well at the second when for an unexplicit reaso, they had me skipped the grade to third and things went downhill from there.

They did it only because I happened to be a bit older than most of the kids. Then you know the story, homework troubles, personal life turns into a personal hell throughout 1995 (my darkest days) with a back scratcher repeatedly making several contacts with my ass nearly every single day, and being forced to stay up all night to finish my homework that I could barely even understand (pretty ironic considering that I'm a night owl since 2002 and even pulled an all nighter to finish a project in few occasions).

I mean, how can I understand division that time I still think bumping me up to third grade is one of the worst things ever happened to me as they have done so with a wrong reason.

It was a tough time and around that same year I was enrolled to Kumon. To sum it up, for first couple of years I was behind on reading, even got stuck in A level because I was goofing off but in the end, my math skills deteriorated after H level while I was able to complete Reading, amazing isn't it I was ahead on Math but turns out finishing G level was the beginning of the end for me, partly due to my demotion to special ed at school itself because during 4th and 5th grade, I would make jokes with my social worker about how I would kill my brother and feed his body to the cannibals. Then there's the time when I drew a picture of a character from Old Master Q comic holding a gun shooting a small figure that she figured to be my brother.

I thought it was funny and didn't know that she thinks I was serious.

You can guess what happens after that.

Also I had trouble fitting in at school and was an even bigger crybaby than Leviathan from Umineko. I actually do have few friends but ever since I got expelled from school, I lost contact with them since that time. I was send to Orchard School where I enjoyed it for the first three years because it was fun, I mean the special ed. school works are easy and there's a reason why...it's made for retards.

In the fourth year, let's just say it sucked but still better than 1995. I won't get into that much details but in all fairness, I didn't exactly help myself either (calling names and avoiding a school scrappy, pretty messed up).

Still doesn't change the fact that some of the staff members of the school can be considered as useless adults.

I would remain in retarded education until after high school.

Funny thing is that when I enter high school, because of the kind of education I received at Orchard School, they had to left me back so I end up retaking 9th grade.

In a way things did return to normal...just some of it anyway.

Also, my account is running on a dead e-mail address. The reason is that back then AOL has a tendency to disconnect dozen of times a day so that can be really frustrating. After switching back to MSN for a brief period, my family finally decided to go back to AOL once again (sounds like what Al Davis did in the 1980s and the early 1990s) and did so with another e-mail address.

The old e-mail address was cancelled so basically, my account is a zombie account.

Still alive and kicking at the same time."

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What can we expect from you in the future, Idiot-Finder?

Idiot-Finder:

"What one can expect from me is that I'll probably fight against Jose Mendoza and go through 15 rounds. In the end I will lose and die from exhaustion with a smile on my face while Jose Mendoza, the defending champion will be forced to retire after the damage he took from by hits caused him to age 40 years."

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Now you are filled with more knowledge about Idiot-Finder, dear reader. You can read Part 1 here. Feel free to leave a comment here, saying what you think about the interview, requesting users to get interviews is also appreciated. Tune in next week :3

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