NintenDan's NARA Article 3
Welcome to the NARA Article Issue Three. Now, for newcomer readers to the series, they will not know how long it's been since I uploaded Issue Two on the DS Ultimate Forums. The reason for such a long inactivity? Well, the culprit to blame would be school. Full on. All my classes just seemed to have the strange urge to hand me out assignments at the same time. So I've been spending my time keeping school under control whilst playing the occasional Animal Crossing: Let's go to the City or Super Smash Bros. Brawl. It has been jolly good fun. Jolly good. But onto something much more important.
The main topic for Issue Three is going to be Drug Abuse. Heh, only kidding. I'm not some stupid ad-campaign/whatever, I'm a NintenDan/Chicken Nugget Addict. And speaking of nuggets, I may or may not have a confession regarding those juicy, fun-filled little snacks of every vitamin and mineral ever known to man. I think my eternal love for Chicken Nuggets is dying. Losing its eternal flame. Losing its once arousing smell. Wait, scratch that last one. Or keep it. Just don't think about it in the wrong way. But why is my feel for nuggets slowing ebbing away? I do believe it is either that fact I've bought some FAULTY NUGGETS, or the brand of nuggets I decided to try this time just stink. I think some testing is in urgent need. But enough about that dilemma, I'll have to keep you updated on the outcome as time moves on.
Now to the main topic. My computer has been taken away (or at least the big ol' box part of it) for some upgradements. I know, upgradement isn't a word. But it sounds mega-cool, does it not? Still, the computer will be getting some updated Anti-Virus Programs as some have passed their day. The DVD Burner Drives we have (two of them) are also getting repaired due to some fault that my sister continually complains about. The cooling fan at the back is hitting a cable, so the guy will seek out and hopefully prevent what is making that gawd darn annoying sound whenever the computer is turned on. Lastly, the guy is going to hopefully try and get me a program that I have been longing for. It's called Autodesk Inventor Professional 11 and it's used in an Industrial Graphics class I am in at school. Getting the program will make me ahead of the class. WAY ahead of the class. It will also allow me to test and muck around with different features to hopefully teach the teacher about. I wouldn't mind doing that. But wait. How ever is our dear NintenDan even typing this as we speak if he lacks that box? Well, with my sly skills I found the VERY OLD laptop. It takes around 5 minutes to boot up, and cannot go 30 seconds with it's battery life alone it is that old. Still, Microsoft Word still works on it so that's a plus. There's some nostalgic stuff on this though. As in, old DS Ultimate work and some of my older than DSU work. There was a smilie sheet I found. But considering I had updated that smilie sheet with 100 more smilies I deleted it. That was about it for the DS Ultimate stuff, excluding a few editions of TSS and Enemy of the Year comics. I saved them on my USB, so I deleted them off the laptop to make for more free space. Inside my older than DSU content was a few older comics. But they were saved as Untitled1 and only went for three issues at the most. I probably should've kept ‘em, but eh. I was too lazy, and wanted more space. Besides, they STUNK. You wouldn't want to see them. But I can explain them. The longest running comic, with an astonishing three issues was the comic called "Super Smash Karts" or something. It was all the greatness of Super Smash Bros. mixed together with the fun of Mario Kart to create a ridiculously stupid Mario spin-off comic. Mario and company used their karts to bash up other karts and their drivers. Essentially, it was like those Monster Truck Derbies where the Monster Truck obliterates those teeny little cars. The first issue introduced the… uh, "sport". The second issue delved into the fun, with Mario and Toad being the first competitors. Both took some hefty hits. In the last issue we see Mario get what looked like a Final Smash (take note SSBB wasn't even announced at this time, so how creepy is that? Not very, because it was more of a take on the special items you acquired in MKDD) and was powering up, before turning into a ball of fire and charging at Toad. Toad was quickly signing his will and death certificate at the time, obviously. And that's how it ended. Mario charging at Toad, with Toad facing certain death. How fun.
Reminds me of how my stories ended when I was a wee little NintenDan. Back in the days at school we were forced to write stories. I wrote one about a Reindeer called Riannha or some crap. She was searching for a new place to live to avoid freezing whilst, at the same time, trying to seek out her family who had gotten separated from her at an early age. Quite good for a little kid, I must say. But the wording was woeful, mind you. She walked into a cave, avoided a cave-in, saw a squirrel, saw some Reindeer hunters, avoided some Reindeer hunters, came to a road, decided to jump on the cars, got to the other side, and then the bombshell/bad ending was there. She saw some reindeers who looked like her family. But they ended up only looking like her family. She turned her head to see a block of ice, with her family snuggle encased inside. Simply put, her family froze to death. I think I ended it with her committing suicide by jumping of a cliff. I decided to just kill everybody off so there was no chance of a sequel.
I was then told to write another story in class a year later. This time it was about Mario. He locked Bowser in space, but he got out and wanted to fight. Mario and Luigi went off (dunno where Luigi popped into it, but he did). They saw Yoshi, went to Ice Mountain, forgot about the man-eating plants, saw King Boo and tried to help him find his son. Yoshi had tagged along, by the way, and came up with a plan to find King Boo's son with a plane and some garlic. Chapter Three was entitled "Garlic Bombs Away" and this is, no-joke, exactly how it was written:
"Everybody died. The end."
I do believe I got a bit lazy and just stopped writing. Thankfully we weren't getting marked on the story, and boy was the teacher impressed to see how my story ended. It was hilarious.
Well, I think that what's above this sentence more than enough caters for a good NARA Article, don't you?
This has been NintenDan in Another Random Article.
