Below are the 18 most recent journal entries recorded in barachem's LiveJournal:

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
12:57 pm	Just mentioning... I've had a trip to Japan in August of 2007. It was really nice and i did enjoy it, but at that time i was quite pre-occupied with an imagined case of fractured skull and buying Lycee and Magic: the Gathering cards. I visited Akihabara quite often. I was @ Comiket 72 and it was nice. I will post more, but it's good that i picked blogging up again. Here are a few photos: (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
1:04 pm	It was a regular mod after all... Nuriko posted on Cats on Mars Pink that it wasn't Chiriko's girlfriend but a mod with hundreds of posts and that the team is well acquainted. Which makes what happened much worse than if it really was Chiriko's girlfriend. There's just a lame excuse for an epxlanation, no apology, no mod saying he/she is sorry, no nothing. That makes me more resolute to leave Cats on Mars for good. I'm sorry to have insulted a fictive mod girlfriend on Chiriko's behalf and linking her to kapranoony, who hasn't posted for over a year now. But i'm now even more pissed that Chiriko still protects that mod, that that mod does not dare to face the public and that the rest of the mod team knows about this and haven't taken appropriate action yet. This is to all of you Chiriko and the mod team: FUCK FUKU AND ALL OF YOU, I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF THIS BULLSHIT, I'M GOING ELSEWHERE!!! (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
10:09 pm	Chiriko, i'm pissed, no really...!!! To make things short: Apparently some still anonymous mod searched Cats on Mars subforum F*ckin' Otaku for racial slurs and suspended several members, including me, without informing anyone what happened or explaining the situation. This happened after Nuriko posted a warning that the ViolentAJ thread went out of hand and that people had to pipe down and suspended KinFreon after he mockingly posted a racial slur. After some time andv debate we got this response from Chiriko, the admin of the Cats on Mars forums: Speedy Cerviche, I was referring to AJ, since his coming led to the devolution of the thread. Granted, you really should've used better judgment in starting a topic, but no, that's not the main issue. You didn't make Kin or AJ start firing off their sociopathic spew. As far as I can tell, the affected members, with the exception of Kin and AJ (both of whom have earned permanent bans), are no longer without posting privileges. Inform me if this is not the case. Below is the justification offered to me for the dragnet and suspensions by the mod in question: QUOTE I searched the entire FuKu board subsystem for as many slurs as I could think of. I tried my best to make sure it was done by the actual poster and not just quoted by them. If they were using them in an insulting or flippiant way, that was a ban. People starting posts out with "I'm not a racist/bigot but..." is no excuse to allow such verbal crap. I've had former posters complain to me that they left the board because such an atmosphere developed and was never properly dealt with. The main error being that this, as Nuriko said, should have applied to posts made *after* we posted this rule to clarify. However, to a certain extent, this should be common sense. There is no reason for discussions like that or ethnic slurs. I have made very clear our policy on this on several other occasions; sadly, it isn't the hapless noobs posting ethnic slurs, but our longtime community members. If anything the wide span of people temporarily suspended proves that the climate here has devolved poisonously. Point being, we are going to be taking this sort of shit very seriously from now on. This is Fuku; leave your issues at the door, please. That's nice isn't it. Not only does Chiriko keep ninja mod anonymous anounymous, he also defends the actions taken by this ass-hole, which go against the former policy wielded by the admin & mods team. I have one condensation of what i want to say to Chiriko: FUCK YOU CHIRIKO, YOU'RE LETTING FUKU BECOME AN EVIL POLICE STATE INSTEAD OF A GOOD RUNNING DICTATORSHIP LIKE IT USED TO BE!!! Uncondensed: Damn it Chiriko, why, why do you let fear and hate let it take over from logical and rational decision making? I mean, if racial slurs and racist remarks are becoming a problem in your eyes, warn us, then suspend us and then ban us publicly, instead of letting an anonymous mod take out his/her issues with us in a sneaky way. The damn thread which was the basis of these suspensions was even deleted by this mod and we cannot even defend ourselves against the incriminations of this mod by pointing to and quoting parts of the posts that allegedly incriminate us. Why wasn't this thread put into the Hall of Shame like previous ones, which were as hideous as this one, so that we might learn from what went wrong?! I think this mod is your girlfriend, who somehow got offended by racial slurs she supposedly found and then she used her modding power you gave her to do her bidding, thus undoing the power structure you and the other mods upheld all these years. This is the only logical conclusion i can come to, because anything else is illogical. I believe the mod's name is kapranoony and you're hiding her name because you want to protect her from the flack she deserves by abusing her power as a mod. But in all your folly you forget that there has to be a good power structure and that giving exceptions to girlfriends is foolish, because it sets a bad example. I have had it, i'm turning my back on FuKu, i don't need this shit because some girlfriend of yours suspended us because she supposed i and others used racial slurs, while not showing her face, then deleting a thread full of evidence and facts and used you to explain and defend her behaviour. Let me say this: When i get unsuspended, i will choose a thread of my liking and spam it up real good, so i also get a perm-ban, like KinFreon. And believe me, i'm not gonna use any racial slurs, like she would expect, because i'm gonna spam it up the old-fashioned way, definitely posting meganekko pics, maybe some many desus and some other stupid 4chan memes. Let me say it this way: I don't need this shit from you or your girlfriend, get it. CoM was a nice dictatorship until you let your girlfriend fuck it up in this manner. You made a damn huge error in judgment and let her steer a significantly big wheel in the wrong direction. The only way to redeem yourself, her and FuKu is to at least publicly tell who she is, if she is or is not kapranoony, publicly reprimand her for her atrocious behaviour as a mod and unsuspend us all. Then i'll be satisfied for being ninja-suspended. Because you know that she wrongly suspended me and most of the other people, yet you're too proud and weary to admit her fault in stepping over moderator boundaries set up by yourself by ninja-deleting that thread, which is evidence of our behaviour, and ninja-suspending us, which has never been done before, lest ye forget the red reminders of text when warnings/suspensions/bannings were previously given by you and the real mod team. Thank you for reading... 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Monday, December 17th, 2007
11:48 pm	Seems i did something wrong @ the Catsonmars forum... And with me several other people. As of the latest, KinFreon got an official suspension for using too much racial slurs. Then some people commented on what happened, together with the closing of the ViolentAJ thread and after a few hours, suddenly, other people with accounts couldn't log in, including me. There is no explanation yet. It could be a glitch of the software, some sloppiness on behalf of a mod, or a malicious display of power. Only time will tell. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, December 7th, 2006
1:20 am	Ach, leckt mich doch... I decided to post again, to fulfill my promise to someone. Lookie, i can colour my drawings, i van do what most 3 year olds can do too. [Sethimothy, i don't mean you with this, i just feel generally unappreciated] Heary, my best produced trance is on the level of a 7 year old retarded toddler smashing keys on a piano. I've had it with people critizing my works and not giving advise how to improve on it, i have totally had it. I'm pissed off by those people on Tastyfresh of course. Yeah, yeah, christian this, Jesus that, but any more comment on my latest unfinished track than "Too much reverb." and a misunderstanding that i was supposedly arrogant wasn't in it. No more replies and Imhotep never gave any other advice on how to improve my track or if it was any good. Yeah thanks, that's what i really need, no knowledge whether i finally rock more with this track than with the previous one. I'm pissed and i'm letting off some steam here. Honestly, i love Jesus, but this is absurd that i didn't get more feedback from Imhotep. Meganekko Time: Until next time, folks. (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, October 26th, 2006
8:52 pm	Some general news and info First to kick off, i banned tweedeikpersoon for making a ivejournal account just to troll and flame me without having a working journal. I tried to reason with them, making clear demands, but they made their own demands, clearly choosing the option of being banned. New rule: Don't make accounts just to flame and troll me, it's a sign of desperate Loseritis and i'll ban you after your first post. Troll me, flame me because i'm a regualr as-hat, but at least have a working journal dedicated to something else than hating/disliking me. Secondly, i posted my edited pic from the last entry in 4chan's /d, but it seems that those people there are dick-girl loving losers, which is their loss. Thirdly, tommorow i'm going to Abunai 2006 and i look forward to it. Lastly, my track is coming round now, but it still needs work. (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, October 23rd, 2006
7:09 pm	I gave a presentation today. It went reasonably well, with some comments and criticism. But it went way better than i thought while giving it, thank God for subjectivism. I still need to do some more research into different subjects besides my own and some measurements are also quite handy. I'm currently working on a trance track called "Bert de Boer", it's quite interesting and nice. While it's already good, i need more time to really finish it and polish it up. Friday to Sunday 27 - 29 of October i'll be at the Abunaicon 2006: Domo Robotto, that has a mecha theme, but is a regular smaller animecon. It'll be fun meeting old and new people and i'll do some stuff like drawing, DDR, dancing, playing games, taking workshops, buying stuff i like but don't need, watching anime, doing karaoke, eating, sleeping, answering Nature's calls, etc. Yeah, it'll be great. Oh yeah, i disabled anonymous posting, anonymous are like hyena's, strong themselves, ravenous in packs. I've used MSPaint to shop a meganekko pic with and added a goatee. I'm quite satisfied with the result, i find the shopped pic even more appealing than the original. I'll show both for comparison and comment. What does one think? It's weird that i like the pic with goatee more, i think it's another fetish of mine. Oh dear. Anyway, i'm calling quits now, see ya next time. (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, October 21st, 2006
12:45 am	Yes, i'm still banned, i accept it, now shoo Just to state it again: I spammed on a thread on Cats on Mars while several warnings were given not to derail the thread. So i was temp-banned. I agree with the sentence, i was neglecting orders, i brought it over myself. What happened, happened, i'm fine with it, now stop beating a dead horse. I had some dispute with an admin over related, but different stuff. That got resolved, i'm fine with it, so stop beating that freshly dead horse's body. Things are resolved now, kthxby. (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, October 20th, 2006
2:05 am	Whatever I've been temp-banned on Cats on Mars because i was taunting the mods and admins. While they are reasonable people, i think some of them are power-trippers and banning me just for regular spamming doesn't help their cause. It's 2:05 in the morning here, gotta go to sleep. Anyway, try to keep in touch. Update: I've been officially banned for 30 days by the Fuku staff. Here's the thread: http://forums.catsonmars.com/index.php?showtopic=3166&st=0 My last post there: Can't get from us what you want? Puhlease, i'm only gona troll a bit, then spam around, just to taunt and anger all you mods and admins. Hey, afreak, you're a losertaku, you ain't a REAL anime fan and any con you organize is an otaku's nightmare. Time to spam: MOD EDIT: 30 day suspension GET -Ikari Here's Chiriko's reply: Boy, this thread is just getting regulars banned left and right, isn't it? QUOTE(Barachem @ Oct 19 2006, 12:25 PM) * Be my guest, i'd like to see it and yet another member banned. OH IRONY. Guys. Don't fucking textflood. That one's a no-brainer. By the way, Barachem, you don't get to decide who gets "accepted" as a member of FuKu. You're not our enforcer, you're not our anti-troll savior, and you're not a mod. You are not exempt from the rules of conduct and you are not exempt from prohibitions or warnings a mod may make. And it is us, not you, who decides when someone is or isn't a troll and what action needs to be taken in dealing with them. See you in 30 days! Time for a reply here: Oh Chiriko, you get me wrong on this, i don't decide who gets accepted by Fuku, i only decide who i troll or not, there's a difference. Of course i'm not Fuku's enforcer, merely it's troll-detector, i'm not Fuku's anti-troll saviour, as i'm a troll myself and if i were a mod, i wouldn't troll people, i'd ban them instead. Well, i crossed a fine line there, being a bit too serious in my role as Fuku's friendly local troll, behaving a bit more angry than i should have. Ikari's reply: If I have to put on my mod hat (RED TEXT) it means I'm not screwing around and I will bring the pain. Barachem didn't listen, and they get a lovely parting gift of a 30 day suspension. Their posting privileges after 30 days will be reinstated only upon Mod Squad review and approval. I don't want to have to put on my mod hat goddamnit, so *please* straighten up and fly right when a mod asks something of the thread! My reply: Mod Hat? Aha, i'll remember for next time, but i just like playing with modular fire. Mod squad review and approval? OK, the ban does diminish the chances of me disobeying order again, but i won't guarantee anything. Honestly, most of you mods and admins annoy me. It's not the mod or admin status, it's the subtle abuse of power that has been ever-present and i don't like it. You do your jobs well, but encouraging people to insult each other is abuse of power, be it subtle. But thanks for banning me, i can hopefully focus more on work. And KinFreon, we're nearly mateys now, wana be a pirate with me, arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr? Oh yeah people, i'm laffing my arse off, looking at the fact posted that i'm banned, it's funny, seriously. (18 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, August 30th, 2006
12:25 pm	Hi, i'm back for another entry. Things are going quite good as i quit with Magic the Gathering. It was taking over my life and through it my opinions changes toward many things, in a way that i could not accept as a christian. The occult connections the game has actually work without one believing in them and they cursed my life in a way i never fashioned. So i'm glad i got rid of all of my cards. Anyway, i'm doing other stuff now and i'm currently contemplating what to do with my life now. Not that i'm depressed or stuff like that, more like "Hhhmmmmm.... , what shall i do now...". I'm picking up more and more prayer and i'll see how things go. As long as i hold on to Jesus everything's gonna work out in the long run and currently things are getting better. I'm gonna do a yonkoma[4 panel comic] in dutch in a fan comic magazine a friend is gonna publish. But currently i've got artist block, i can't think of anything cool to start with. Maybe one of you readers might help me. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 6th, 2006
4:24 pm	The story GrantM wanted to hide from the world. The next story was originally posted by Penfy, who luckily posted it as a reply to a reaction i made on grantm1's livejournal. Because GrantM deleted the original entry and all the copies i did, i finally decided to post it in my livejournal, where no retard will delete it for no reason. Grant, honey, please stop deleting offensive stuff without warning people first, first one warns and after the warning one deletes, it's an unwritten rule and i know it's difficult to learn those for you, but you better read and learn it now, it'll save you so much trouble later. Now to the story. [Penfy wrote]: Joanne had been looking forward to the party all week. She knew Josh, the high school hunk and man of her dreams would be there and she had heard many exciting stories about a game the other teenagers played that involved being locked in a dark closet for 5 minutes with a random partner although she was confident that her friends would set it up so that she would be alone with Josh. Her knees trembled as she entered the house. She barely even had time to enjoy the Linkin Park greatest hits album blaring on the stereo because shortly after she spied Josh smiling at her in the corner. She also happened to notice a greasy, overweight boy, with an American accent that sounded really fake, walking around asking everyone 'Am I bishie?' but she paid no notice as she only had one person on her mind. Several watered down, cheap alcoholic drinks later and the time she had been waiting so long for finally arrived. The game had begun... It wasn't too long before it was Joanne's turn to play and she could feel her heart pounding heavily and could not stop smiling. Her friends Alicia and Mandy blindfolded her and then led her to the closet before closing the door. 'Are you ready for your 'mystery' boy Jo?' they shouted through the closed door. She could hear them sniggering and as she thought of finally getting to be alone with Josh she couldn't help but giggle to herself as well. For all curious about GrantM: http://grantm1.livejournal.com (18 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, March 24th, 2006
10:53 am	Entry Time.... Ah, i just love the refurbished trance i listen to on ETN.fm, it's so great. Yeah, screw you, i like trance, not rock, not EMO, not gothic, not pop, not hip hop, not hardcore house, not gabber, not Beatles, not 60/70 hippy music, not any other shite music. I just love trance, psychedelic trance, goa, j-beat, some japanese pop, jungle, drum&bass and some other styles. I've had it with all those rock/metal/EOM/goth numbnuts with their stupid blogs always reminding everyyone how great some shite rock/metal/EMO/goth band and their newest deplorable album is. But no, no ranting more. Just take a listen to the ETN trance channel several times and see if you like it, it could be that you tune in when there's "trance" on it that isn't trance and that i don't like either. No, i don't glorify DJs nor do i worship them, however, i've found some who do their job well and spin to my liking. They are Galen Behr, Menno de Jong, Jonas Steur, Paul Moelands, Kyau vs. Albert and Armin van Buuren. I sometimes even download DJ sets. So take that, you rock/metal/EMO/goth lovers! The Cats On Mars forums are back online, hurray!!! Oh yeah, here's a chop of mine: (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, March 23rd, 2006
1:19 am	Time for another entry. The Cats On Mars forums are down, i'm bored and am harassing GrantM on his livewhinejournal. Meh, i need to get things done seriously. Time for another meganekko She's Nori Sakurada from Rozen Maiden. I don't know much about her, except that she either looks dreamy or high, but definitively gorgeous. Here's another pic. Anyway, time to bugger off, go home, eat something, go to sleep and work hard tomorrow. (Comment on this)
Thursday, March 9th, 2006
3:17 pm	Photobucket This is a test post from Photobucket.com (Comment on this)
3:05 pm	Whatever, another entry here. Let's go EMO and post depressing shit here. Nah, i'm just gonna whine about being ganged up on in Magic the Gathering(a trading card game, the first, original and best one). Somehow people can't have it that i have good decks, have a good chance of winning and then decide to gang up on me because otherwise i'll win. Sore losers, WHAT about me you gangbangers, i wanna win too, or AT LEAST 70% of the time. Is THAT TOO MUCH to ask?! Anyway, pseudo-rant's over, time for image fun, yay! That's Minami Makimura from the series Comic Party. I like the series and also her. She's the older sister type with a dash of authoritan in her. Oh, this entry's random because i feel like it. So i fart my feelings here! Anyway, until next time. (Comment on this)
Monday, February 20th, 2006
2:12 pm	I need to get to active in many things, but somehow my own mind distracts me to much. I could shoot myself, punching myself doesn't help somehow. And yes, i need more meganekko! (Comment on this)
Thursday, December 8th, 2005
11:19 am	I went to Sethimothy's livejournal and found this nice piece of software making me this lovely haiku. LiveJournal Haiku! Your name: Barachem Your haiku: searching and also knowing what meganekko is and what it means Username: Created by Grahame Yeah, meaganekko. To be brief, meganekko is japanese for girl/woman with glasses. Search it on google with japanese language enabled and you'll get several ways to write it in japanese, because there's not enough consensus yet on how to write it. But i generally use 眼鏡っ娘, consisting of the characters megane(glasses) and musume(daughter) coupled by the doubling character っ to get the kk instead of k. It was initially thought up by an erotic comic artist in 1992, she still draws much meganekko. In japan there are some in the fan community who are totally dedicated to meganekko, but more because of the esthetic appeal and not necessarily for sexual arousal, but in many cases the former is accompanied by the latter. In the west, Europe, North America and Australia there are also people who like girls/women with glasses, but with those it's more a fetish and less of esthetic appeal. For me as an european, it's more an esthetic appeal than a fetish, because for me it's about the right frame for the right face and me liking nerdishness more than it's about a woman having strong prescriptions and maybe even weirder things. I must admit that i like minus lenses and do like the optical effects of glasses, i'm more into plane to moderately strong prescriptions and am more concerned with how glasses and face relate to each other. And while i like to take pictures of meganekko, i rather like drawing them in japanese comic-style, i find that safer and less disturbing to others. I also wear glasses myself and even i needn't any prescription, i'd wear glasses with plain lenses. I mentioned i draw in japanese comic-style, i really do. I also like reading japanese comics, called manga, and watching japanese cartoons, called anime. Well, that's it for now, until the next time of Barachem's exiting LiveJournal. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005
11:36 am	Dramafest - Let the rant ensue... Well, honestly, i don't like this world, not because of the pains i experience, that's only natural. Nah, i don't like this world because most people, including me, are either egocentric or in some cases evil arseholes. People don't care for each other anymore, i even sense that in my own behaviour, sad, but so true. Gotta do something about my short-comings. Now off to some intro, i'm a 28 year old christian with the alter-ego of Barachem. I'm a physics phd student and am modelling solar cells. I love listening and making trance, i like playing Magic: The Gathering, i read manga, i watch anime, i draw in a manga-esque style, i walk nearly every day from home to work and back, about 30 minutes for each trip. Yeah, i'm a hobbyous man, being quite creative and innovative. I have more remarkable things, that'll follow soon. I'll leave you with guessing, searching and also knowing what meganekko is and what it means to me. Till next time. (2 Comments |Comment on this)