follow the warrens as they banish mayrlin manson from squatting at a local british hovel. Okay, out of the movie and in the real world, this shit happened. Not quo for quo the way the movie did, but it was based on it. Take that as you will.
I feel that the phrase 'based on' holds a bit more integrity then say 'authentic', but use either one and you still look like a moron.
The movie was fine. The attention it has been receiving is on par with the positive reaction of Jurassic World, another movie I felt deserved wayyyy too much limelight. However, looking back at the decade or so past horror movies, it's easier to look through that and relate it to the usual horror movie dribble we get every quarter of a year.
In fact, I would say that it's good.
Some parts of the movie, like the actual demon is genuinely spooky. In fact, I built an acute fear of the dark for a week because of this fucking movie. This to the point of looking over my shoulder while jogging in fear of some ghost nun with lots of make up spooks up behind me. I feel the movie did a very good job of keeping suspension high and the mystery shrouded, almost Alien-esque in the way they pulled it off. The very ending, everything comes together and you find out the involvement of all the set pieces.
The story however was subpar and actually really nonsensical and cheesy. The writing at times is just cliche and junky, the scenes were practically choreographed from years of horror movie influence, but I enjoyed it. The ending, remembering it now, had great build up although a bit abrupt, and was very intense. Bravo Wan.
Damn, watching the trailer now, and it is actually better than the movie.
Anywho, something else I've checked out is something I've been wanting to touch on for a while.
Old but gold. It's been about three years since it was released, but these thirty minutes were the best thirty minutes I've spent this year. No joke.
The short is about a young girl named Akko who enters a school for wizards, having been inspired by a wizard show from years ago. I realize the sentence I've just typed is a few words away from describing another franchise dealing with wizards, but I assure you although similar, Little Witch Academia has a charm of its own. Our Akko turns out to be the most inexperienced of the bunch, but she remains very earnest about her desire and beliefs even in the face of naysayers and her own rival.
The rest is coming of agey stuff, but it was still very fun. All the characters turn out to be likable especially Sucy, and the climax is very on par with Trigger's usual satisfying big bang endings. It's really nice to see a very good female lead in a shonen role.
What an interesting week. Finals are over with! Finally. Didn't get the grades I wanted, but at least they were satisfactory. Besides Finals, very eventful week.
Spent most of this week playing Osu! If you haven't heard already, it's a rhythm game for weeaboos and normies alike about clicking circles. Spending too much time on it honestly. At least it's paying off; I've jumped a few thousand ranks! Not actually paying me in monetary value but with pride points and stuff.. you know what I mean.
Besides that, I've also been playing Final Fantasy: Lightning Returns.
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Very interesting game. By now, you must've heard of the time limit when it comes to this title; really, it's just an illusion. There's a feature that lets you stop time by consuming one point of energy out of say 5 or 6, and these points can be easily gained by defeating enemies. Honestly, it is kind of a pointless feature. Playing so far, I extended the third day by fifteen extra hours until I finished the main quest in the area. It lightens the tension of having to do things, which is positive at least. The time restriction thing was basically the pancreas of this game. It is important to the plot, but honestly servers no other purpose than doing so.
The game plays nice. Plays like a pseudo third person action game, but moves will be limited to how much 'stamina' a certain garb has. It's just like having a party of heroes. I actually like this. I enjoy dressing up Lightning in the most ridiculous costumes, like cat eared moogle goddess, or train conductor formal wear gal. I know this is just fan service pandering, but I'm a fan and I enjoy being pandered. Especially since it's Lightning, my waifu of Final Fantasy. Oh, by the way, you don't level up. The only means of upping your stats is doing quests. I hate this; some quests are just awful grind quests to commit monster genocide, and all you get is a new set of threads and maybe +50 health points. This should be optional.
Otherwise, this game is okay. The game can get surprisingly grindy. For instance, in order to get new moves, you have to kill monsters. Everything is a random drop, so if you want to synthesize all your equipment, you have to get through a wall of monsters. The game is pretty. It does not in the slightest run fantastic on the PC, so keep that in mind.
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Ahhh what else have I done. Oh, the week of finals, I bid farewell to all my classmates who I hang out with at our student center. It was actually really sad and I miss them all already. I'll be seeing some of them again within a couple of days due to luck having me and there being a celebration of all the honor students at a hotel here. It's nice. The girl who invited me was nice. Everyone was really nice; apparently everyone's opinion of me is that I'm smart, which is not really the case. I'm actually really average when it comes to grades. A few days prior to getting invited, we celebrated my friend's birthday. He for some reason didn't want to tell anyone it was his birthday, so when he told me, of course I'm going to do the opposite and tell everyone. We even sang him happy birthday, I think much to his chagrin. Sorry man, but I can't help myself. I like to make people's business my business. I'm going to be really annoying. Unfortunately, it was also his last day here where I lived, and he moved away a bit, so I can't bug him anymore. :( I'm glad we got to celebrate your birthday bud, let us know when you wanna go out again.
A few nights ago, I also had the pleasure of going to my friend's house for the first time. It was cool. He has a really good collection that makes me very envy. Next time I'll take pictures, it was pretty neat to see. I let him borrow one of my arcade sticks so we can play an actual street fighter match next time.
Besides that, I'm also starting my first Final Fantasy VII run. Should be good, as my friends praise it to the sky. I hope.
Man, I should really learn a practical skill.
Ah! Also I found my friend on facebook finally. I met this artist at the anime convention from a couple of months ago, and he wanted to add me on facebook. I finally found him thanks to his friend and a lot of investigation. We're going to do sets on Street Fighter pretty soon as well, so it seems Street Fighter V will be my game of the summer.
Anywho, that's it for this week. I have a lot of business to take care of, and next week I'll be able to fill you in on what it is.
WHATS UP PEOPLE It's time once again to go about my crippling home stuck tendencies! Follow me!
I'm making a game. I'm not supposed to show it, but here's a saucy first look!
exclusive pre alpha footage
As you can see, development is really coming along! However, this project can't possibly be completed without some money being thrown at it, so please throw your hard earned money my way!
I don't have a kickstarter, if you could start that for me as well that would be swell.
This week I neglected social matters and went straight to vidja games; this is starting to be a habit of mine, and I fear that in the event I go missing from being captured in someone's rape dungeon, no one will actually inform any kind of law enforcement. I need to go outside every once in a while.
This week, I played and finished a couple of titles.
Final Fantasy Type-0 HD being one of them.
The whole point of my escapade is to mill over all the games that Steam has trapped me into buying. What's that? I'm just avoiding responsibility? Choke on this wet towel I found sitting in my toilet and rethink that statement! Steam has inadvertently and strategically timed their sales. It was in my moment of mental weakness, after hours of toiling over my report, I saw it. 25% percent off if you preorder now! Also here's a printable sucker sticker. HOW COULD I RESIST. No circle in hell had such a coy ploy, which objectively all but wallet Jesus would succumb to. I am merely human. Also sure yeah it's my fault, I admit it.
The game also starts in ruin. In the middle of war between neighboring countries, a misunderstood misanthropic character loses his only friend in the world. Unfortunately for him, he cannot remember it for some reason. Some kind of plot device is blocking the memory of dead ones from being remembered. I'mmm not entirely sure why. Suppose to be some meaning for it or something, I don't know. Anywho, the story is sort of poo so I don't care for it.
Type-0 is in my opinion one of the most fun Final Fantasies in terms of gameplay. Probably because it derives itself from the core gameplay the most? Honestly, besides names, it's hardly Final Fantasy. Call it anything else, and you wouldn't even notice. Jap Pop Sim 2016, Hair Gel Misfits, We're in School and Adults are Making Us Fight Their War. Anything. It would probably benefit from just being an entirely different IP altogether.
The HD part is nice, though. The PC version comes with the ability to stop time mid-anything and play with the camera. I'll leave that to your imagination, but upskirts.
Anywho, despite obscure, wierd storytelling (you have to go to main menu and watch/read History), rushed, weird pacing, and honestly lack of character development in all 8 of it's chapters, this game is still fun. Was it worth using 37 hours of my life to finish this? I'd rather not think about it. Was it worth the time and effort to write about it? I wish I this thought didn't pass me.
Try it out, it's on Steam. If you have lots of free time to enjoy a relatively shorter action JRPG, try it out. Oh, it also has one of my favorite tracks from a FF game.
I should start being a more optimistic human being I think. Or not.
Probs one of the neater games I finished.
If you're not into the whole pixel art everything i am indie scene thing, you might throw up. Voilently.
This game is very, very pretty. Although my FPS tanks sometimes (??), the pixel art is fluid and the color palette came straight out of a rave from the 80's. You've got your standard worlds, though. Ice world, water world, forest world, and desert hot world. However, in this rather large span of a mock country is lore. Stories, left to imagination. Pretty neato since it was all conjured with well placed item or skeleton or two. Bravo level design.
Oh! Level design. One of my favorite parts as well.
Not only pretty, but very fun to traverse. There are hidden nooks and crannies, invisible platforms, and passable barriers that make exploration a hoot. There are at least several times in the game where I felt like I finally found Wally wearing a camo suit in a sprawling jungle. Like one of those moments.
One of the only problems I had was probs explanation of some of the upgrades. I basically handicapped myself through out the entire game until I hap'd upon it before the final boss. In a way, the lack of instructions leaves the player to do the exploring once more, which is again neato. However, this kind of storytelling/information broking to the player is not good when explaining mechanics, especially important ones like HOW TO PLAY THE GAME. Other than that, bravo.
Anywho, that's it for games this week. I'll talk about the other one next week. I've decided to let it soak a bit more, let the seasonings really get in.
As for my life? I applied to another college. Supposedly guaranteed transfer, so make sure to throw me a hypothetical high five if you read this. Thinking a lot about applying for summer school, but I'm teetering on the decision because it could potentially hurt me and also be a big, fat waste of time.
This past week, I've been binge playing a lot of singleplayer games. Metroidvania seems to be the pattern, and the occasional horror game thrown in to lubricate things up. I've started watching the fourth part of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Diamond is Unbreakable. I gotta say, diamonds aren't the only thing unbreakable right now. But that's probs for later.
It's been a week since I finished Osomatsu-san. I haven't felt this much post show hangover in a long time. Actually, ever. I'm hoping a second season rolls around soon or I don't know what I'll do.
I tried messing with this gif/webm uploader to put some other things on this post, but unfortunately it's sort of a big mess so I can't do much with it at the moment, besides upload cute pictures of Ichimatsu.
I am going through withdrawal, and the only way to stem insanity is to rewatch a few episodes. I don't care what show it is, especially gag shows they tend to get stale after a while.
I bought SOMA(Soma?) this week, and I've been putting in some hours to try to finish it by this weekend. Mission failed, but at least it's fun and really interesting.
its cold right?
Besides this, I finished Steins;Gate as well. I wasn't too sure on how I got my ending, but I did some google research and it's apparently because I answered and texted back everyone with the Phone Trigger system. By the way, Steins;Gate is not your conventional visual novel; in fact, you'll find that as far as choices go, there are none to make besides how you interact with your fellow lab mems. Amazing game that is best to go into blind. If you ever decide on reading one visual novel in your life, you may or may not want to pick Steins;Gate. It's nuts.
dududuru
Besides that, it's hard choosing a favorite girl on here. Say what you will, but Mayuri's innocence is the light down the end of the tunnel. Kurisu and Suzuha are pretty good, too, but something about Mayuri's love for bananas and Juicy Chicken Number One really gets my fluids going.
And that's it. I'm getting ready for finals, and finishing up homework, so I'm going to make this one short.
Actually before that, I'd like to recap on my week.
It was an okay week.
Okay, back to the review.
Actually, before that, I want to talk about Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice. It was an okay movie. Just kidding.
This movie was poor. I can't believe it took me this long (a day) to decide on my own personal opinion on this, but my feelings were pretty negative. Honestly, I wanted to skip on this movie and just read rotten tomato reviews, but my friend dragged me along for the ride and boy was it a draaaaag. None of the scenes were cohesive at all. Transitions between one moment to another were a mess. Imagine shooting a movie, right? Cool, it's time to take it to post. Slap it in sony vegas tonight and call it a day, you've earned yourself a wank session. Come back the next moment and you find out that a toddler (Zack Snyder) has jumped on your computer and decided the movie's fate! And nothing makes sense! Too proud is he to let you change it up! You just smile and nod and post it on Youtube for the world to see, regardless of the impending harsh criticism of your peers and strangers on the internet!
And that's what happened to my home videos and career as a director.
But Zack Snyder then grew up to be an asshole! Who fucked up Batman vs. Superman! Wow man have some chill!
Scene to scene, nothing lasts more than a minute. Really. Check it out. This is the outcome of stuffing anything and everything you could into a movie. The 'impactful' moments of the trailer? Snuffed. They had NO impact in the movie at all. Lex Luthor's character is absolutely poor. Who tries to come off as crazy becoming more crazy is just plain awkward. Jesse Eisenberg :( Shame on you. BUT Ben Affleck? He destroys Batman's character. Stern, decisive, and thoughtful, Ben was the opposite. I'm not sure what he thought of as Batman's character, but he decided to act like a plank for most of the movie. Also what the fuck, just throw in more DC characters why don't you. I get that Marvel is ahead of the game, but you really don't need to play catch up to be a great franchise. Still, there were some really good scenes. Batman's parents being killed? I am not being facetious, it was very well shot and the trauma on the kid's face was pretty accurate to how a kid would go about that scene. The ending was really good, too, where the whole team finally gets together for a pretty rompous fight. The banter was playful, and the fight scene was very well made. The rest of the movie is just gloomy and broody, like the other DC movies. Honestly, this would be a terrific direction to take these movies, I would not mind it at all. Too bad the rest of the movie just blew. Introducing Wonder Woman and the rest of the League later would have been better for me, rather than sprinkling them through out the movie. Please, if for the sake of the movie, don't forshadow the fucking sequel for two hours. Focus on the actual plot and deliver something memorable you fucking twat.
WHATEVER
Oh yeah, the game.
The guest is cool.
The end.
Just kidding though.
The game is basically a first person point and click adventure. Think of one of those escape room games in real life, and put it into a game perspective. If you haven't been to an escape room, I recommend it. It's actually pretty fun, and sometimes you get matched with a group of randoms. Making friends has never been this awkward and suffocating before! Still prreeeetty cool.
Anywho, storywise, it's okay. Pretty neat things happen, and you wonder who you are the whole time. But you find out eventually. That's pretty much it.
Uh, soundwise, nothing really memorable.
Gameplay, holy shit some parts were absolutely frustrating. Fucking forest dream maze bullshit, and some of the puzzles will need a walkthrough. And then some are so blatant and trivial. The difference between the difficulty ramps is frustrating at times. BUT, for the puzzles that are really difficult, solving them yourself feels so damn satisfying. I'll give it that.
Score? uh 7/10 Despite my heavy bitching, I view the game in a positive light. Really, I do.
Goals (*)Got my testing done! Yay! (x)Uh, will do tonight I promise.
Next Week *Will get back to working out, work out with gym guys at least once, and go running at least once *Get college transcript electronically sent to UH *Release a new video
yayyyyyyyy
As always, thanks for reading. With much love, Bryan out.
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As of now, I am sitting on my computer with at least 200 pages of textbook to read due by next Monday. As of now, I have at least finished my Calculus homework and I have succumbed to deeply rooted feelings of not wanting to do shit. The forbidden word: Procrastination. College game strong. Remember kids, stay in school.
This week I did a lot of hullabaloo. As in work is going to start kicking up and now I'll have less free time.
:(
On the brightside, I did finish Beyond the Boundary. The ending(?) is a little odd, and I even read up fan speculation. SPOILERERERER Apparently Akihito willed Mirai back into existence. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA WHAT WILL PEOPLE THINK OF NEXT AHAHAHA What obviously happened was that, during his free time, Akihito actually consulted that of a higher being's advice. They they formed a contract and Akihito became a magical girl. Not actually sure why he did that, he begins questioning his existence while walking down the world's biggest spiral staircase when a girl fell from the sky. Many captions and solid backgrounds later, he is now sought after from a loli harem. And THEN Akihito willed Mirai back into existence. YOU NAIVE FOOLS AHAHHAHA SPOILER EN.... D
Other than that, show is full of 5 Centimeters Per Second level backgrounds. I'm tempted to make a wallpaper set after writing this. I know I talked a lot of shit about Mirai, but I now love her. She has a bonsai tree blog. Bloggers in arms. <3 What a great character tic. Hiroome is S tier, too. I am proud to say that a lot of the characters have grown on me. Not to mention the story is actually really bad ass. I love the misdirection through the whole plot, the ending got to me pretty well. I'm normally on point with predicting stories, but this one sorta came out of no where.
On the other side of the spectrum, I also managed to see Deadpool with my coworkers. I honestly did not expect to love it as much as I did, but holy shit was it great. Good job Ryan Reynolds. Good job writers. Good job guy at bar who I don't know. Might go see it a second time, possibly with the bestie. It's a fun movie for the whole family.
I made a visit to one of my friend's house, and I caught my other friend playing a game. It wasn't running on a fantastic framerate, as his laptop had the processing power of a hamster on a wheel, but the game was so PRETTY. Pretty enough to convince me to buy it as soon as I reached my humble abode. Everything, I believe, is hand drawn. The majority of it all is 2D sprites, but oh god its just done so well. Oh, yeah, and the game is Ori and the Blind Forest. Haven't gotten all that far (23%), but the platforming is done so well. It's a metroidvania kind of game; it controls a little wonky at first, but once you get some upgrades you will probably never stop moving. I say probably because who knows, you might have to stop to itch your nose or something. POINT BEING is that it really flows. I will most likely do a Let's Play of it.
Speaking of Let's Plays, I started a new one. Let me go fetch it. Just a sec. A moment more.
.. here it is.
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This week is really game heavy. I have a social life, no really.
I bought IMSCARED as well. It was $3.99, bite me. The game is really good. Well, I wouldn't know since I've only ever played the first 5 minutes of it before it crashes! What the hell! But now there's a folder on my desktop that says 'imscared'. This game is fucking malware! Beware! And check it out on gamejolt for free. The experience is really awesome; copy pasta in game format. It WORKS man.
I'm trying to make the most out of my free time, but it's been taken up lately by a lot of life events and flags. I'll be watching Your lie in April next and post about it next week.
I've been taking vocal lessons for the past uhhhhh two years? I feel like I've been really improving. On top of that, this semester I thought I'd try taking guitar lessons. My teacher is pretty rad. He seems like a stoner (please god do not let him stumble on to this), but he's taught me a lot in the four weeks I've been taking his class. I'm excited. He tells me I'm a really good student and I have a lot of potential to be 'damned good'. OoooOoOoooo He's much better than my last music teacher. Anyways, that's pretty much it.
I went to Seoul Garden as well. Just a quickie. Stopped by and found out a majority of their waitresses are asian pop stars. During the day at least. I'm crushing on one of them pretty hard.
HERE WE GO (weekly goal time) *Finished Beyond the Boundary
*Read the guide. I'm a bit more knowledgeable now.
*Looked into applying to an out of state university, University of Virginia. Reminds me of the times when my ex made fun of me for wanting to go to Virginia. You know, place of Virgins ahahahahahaha haha haha. Ha. Anyways I cheated I did this today lmao
*Finished the QUIZ BALLLIN now I have to do another one :(
*Recorded and released a video. I'm getting kind of hooked on doing Let's Plays. Would be nice for people to watch them.
(x)didnt run at all :( muh free time excuses etc etc
Next week:
*Finish Your Lie in April
*Renew my driver's license *Finish next lesson's quiz ;_; *Record and release another Let's Play
*Get started on forming a collab (post a thread)
*Go out for a run
*Eat healthier, possibly buy a scale
*Apply for University of Virginia
I'll add some more if I can think of some.
OH The week after next I might not be posting. On account of something secret. I'll show it to you all later. Huehuehuehuehue
As always, thanks for checking in. I hate to see you go, but I suppose it's that time, right? Love you, reader. Happy Valentine's Day.
Maybe one day I can replace those dashes with actual names. For now, lonely place holders. No more time wasted, it's time to get back to our weekly overtly, long winded reading event!
I went to a Philosophy Club meeting this week. I really enjoyed it, albeit a lot of the stuff going over my head. I felt that everyone was really well read on the subject, and I just happened to green horn my way into a meeting just to listen. It was really fun, though. Of course, thought provoking questions were asked.. and asked.. and asked. Which is the fun part of philosophy I suppose. Never really a definite answer, but a dimly lit light to seek out your own truth. You can quote me on that.
The meeting itself was about 'cultural relativity'. When the topic came up, nothing really came to mind. However, when the other club members started participating, my mind was slowly spinning faster from all the insights. I could get into the topic here, but that would be a whole post in of itself. I implore you to try going to a meet one day; the whole thing opens up a horizon of thought not normally ventured.
Something else I've been really into lately is Dagashi Kashi. I'm not sure what I like about it even; it's a show about various candies and how they play with them. On the surface anyways. Anything deeper, it'd be a pseudo romcom? The show so far hasn't show any kind of advancement with plot, though. I like it so much that I'm reading the manga now, what the hell is going on here. Get out your economical whips, for I am a slave to marketing.
Another show I've decided to try out is Beyond the Boundary. Kyoto Animation lend its distinct style, the show is actually coming to be one of my favorites I've seen this year. They could definitely chill on making Mirai super 'cute-sey', but the story is very well paced, although the separate arcs could be a tad longer. The characters fill a trope in almost satirical way, which really lends itself with the humor. I am half-way with this series, as of now writing this I am on episode eight. I may or may not finish this tonight, as I do have other things to do; but I feel that when I eventually finish it, I'll seek out this series in different forms of media. In other words, I really like it so far.
I love this so much.
Other than that, I've decided to pick up a new game. Picked it up a couple of weeks ago and finally got to trying it. Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you this three year old game! That's right, it's Final Fantasy XIV! Good guess reader. Only a few years late to the party, my love for this game has blossomed like a flower two or three years late for the season. Having played for about a week now, I'm sitting on a level 21 or 23 Marauder. I've never played a tank before, and I wish the game told me it was a tank class, but tanking is surprisingly fun. In dungeons, it's like you've chosen yourself to be leader, and I know I'm stating the obvious role here, but it's really exciting setting the pace for a dungeon. I've been invited to a Free Company called Sapphire Guard, and so far the community has been tops in this game. The only thing that annoys me is content locking through questing. Other than that, it's a blast. The two or three of you reading this, please join me.
And that was my week in a nutshell. Thank god, it was much shorter this time around, usually I'm burnt out by the time I reach.. eehhh.
I'll touch on something a bit more personal, too. Lately, stress has been a common topic in my head. Stress from school. Stress from work. Stress from living at home with the parentals. Stress stress stress. The way I cope with that stress is usually through hobbies like gaming and anime, or through my own creative freedom. Inserting myself into what I do is almost a form of escapism, I'm embarrassed to admit. I kind of hate putting that stuff on here, but I promised myself this thing, and anything else I choose to create, would be a sincere reflection of myself and the going-ons within my creative thought. With that said, I just wanted to type down what I think/feel for just a few lines, if you don't mind. I won't hold it against you(a lot) if you close the page and look at porn or something instead. Actually, I'd prefer it if you don't look haha.
I hate the way things are right now. My hate stems from anger, and anger usually stems from fear. What am I afraid of? A lot of things. But mostly losing control. I spelling will deter from here on out, so please try not to mind it. (wasn't that great in the first place) What scares me the most is the future. Lately, I've been shaken. My plans, I fear, might or might not come to fruition after all, and I'll end up at a dead end job. My boss and a lot of other people show me that going to school is sort of pointless. And I'm scared. Scared that I'm not getting the respect I deserve. I work too hard at my workplace, and at times when I feel like I'm being stepped on, I feel the victim mentality coming in and anger whelms me. I hate it. I'm scared. Scared of time passing by. There are scarier things than monsters, I've found out, and you can find it really close by. I'm doing the best I can, but things just never seem to go all that well. My trust lately has been trampled on. Friends, coworkers, family even, it's amazing. I'm finding it a little harder to trust people, and to face this is something that is truly depressing.
I'm sure many people feel this way. I'm not alone at all. On the bright side, I could be way worse off. I could be dead, but I'm alive. I'm alive to feel all these things, and this can only amplify this feeling. Being sad is how your body tells you you're alive. I've felt the dread of almost dying on a few occasions. It feels like absolute abandonment. Even so, we just have to buckle up for the ride and carry on. Smell a few bed of roses. You don't have a lot of time to do so.
And that's it. I'm sorry to be really depressing. I hope you look up cute, funny pet videos after this.
Actually, I owe it to you.
Goals:
*Applied for a scholarship. yay
*Looked into a few exchange programs. It costs to apply. Yippee.
*Practiced guitar at home. Reminds me, I should do that today as well.
(x)Did not get to do any vocal practices. I was a little busy, but shoot :(
*Looked up on starting a band. I have an idea on what I want to do.
(x) Did not go for any runs. I was super lazy, but damn.
Next week:
*Finish Beyond the Boundary
*Read the Growth Guide (for what? secret ;) )
*Look into applying for Virginia University, possibly apply
*Finish first quiz for my USHist2 class
*Record and release another video
*Go out for 2 runs
And there we have it. Might update my goals for this week if I remember something.
As always, with much love, thanks for reading.
Love ya.
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I don't mention this a lot, but I am a FGC monster. I worship everything fighting games, and while that does not entail that I am good, I am at least up to date on Fighting Game Community try-hard drama. That's not what this post is about, however.
In actuality, it will be about a different number of things, but I wanted to touch on February releases for people who are into punching stuff.
STREET FIGHTER V BABEEEEEEEYYYYYY!!!>?!?
I cannot be more excited for a video game release since Street Fighter IV seven years ago. I haven't been playing SFIV lately, but a couple of months ago I brushed up on my fundamentals through the godlike SFIII: 3rd Strike. Seriously, punching stuff has never been better since 3rd Strike, and probably never will be, but SFV looks promising. Supposedly, it's going to feel a lot like Street Fighter Alpha 3, which is good! I dabbled(played a few sets online never really learned the game), but if I learned anything from Alpha 3, is that guard crush will promote a more offensive play style in the game. Also Combofiend promises that fundamentals will really shine in this title. Let's hope so.
Preorder skin from Gamestop, "Hot Ryu" (not kidding its what its called)
I cannot be more excited for a DLC since Ryu's release than Bayonetta. I'm talking about the new Smash4 DLC coming out this Wednseday.
Bayonetta gameplay (and some other guy?)
I just noticed Blogger won't let me place videos from any other source other than YouTube. Fuck you Google. Seriously. (going to keep using you tho)
I digress. Bayonetta seems like a lot of fast, low damage moves, but a good focus on combos. Hopefully she has enough kill moves in her arsenal, didn't see a lot from the footage they showed. Her jab combo is straight out of her game, ending with a flurry of punches before sending you off. I'm in love with that counter(?), Witch Time is amazing. The way they implemented it, it seems like you can go off making your own combo, but they guy on the video apted to kill Corrin with a smash.
I can already tell that coming up with combos with Bayo will be the most fun I'll have with this game. I don't mean to hate on this game, but I'm not in the slightest competitive. My friends, however, are and I just happened to meet their level. I can't wait to find out new tech with Bayo, maybe I can start caring about this game again.
Oh yeah, Corrin is coming out, too. Uh, he's a sword character, rewards spacing, high damage single attacks, who cares.
This week I came around to watching the rest of Prison School. Even though I've already read past what they showed, I really enjoyed myself watching it all over again. The whole time I wondered why this show still kept me on the edge of my seat, even though I've read it all. There's something really neat about that, and I feel like that's something to commend it for.
There were some problems, though. The pacing of the show is a little fast, for my taste. Maybe it's from stuffing a lot of the manga's content into their, or the story just works better in a weekly manga publishing, but I feel like some scenes could have definitely been done better. The principal's scenes could have done with some overly dramatic still frames, and some scenes could just have been played with a bit more in the animating section. These small fallacies however aren't too distracting. The show overall is a good watch for heist lovers, or someone just looking for a really good comedy. Or fucbois, if you're a fucboi you'd probably like this.
A really good scene..
Now that I think about it, this anime is meme paradise. Scene by scene giffy material, it never ends.
Another show I watched this week is Shimoneta. It's about a guy who joins a terrorist organization whose main goal is to tell dirty jokes. It's as fun as it sounds dumb. I've taken to the character Anna, and her pure antics. Love nectar. Seriously, she should be a nun. There are some really good scenes in the show, and for the most part was really entertaining. Love nectar. There wasn't much a story here, as it kind of just involves them doing weird/ perverted antics for 24 minutes. There is the final boss subplot, and also some treachory, but I didn't care much for it. Love nectar. Where the show did shine was the ignorance from all the characters from all the lewd things happening. Love nectar.
I did also finish D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die. What an amazing game is all I have to say for it. If you're into TellTale games but thought it needed a splash of Japanese imagination, say no more.
We have arrived at the promise lands.
D4 is a game about a man discovering his past and identity of his wife's murderer. I'm not going to get into detail here, but I definitely advise you to check it out, as my good friend did advise me.
The game is chock full of QTEs; the best parts were usually what followed. The cinematography(can you call it that? not sure) shined like no other. The cast and the mystery behind the whole thing left me intrigued. An excellent, off the wall 'who-dun-it' adventure game with lots of QTEs.
Anywho, time for a story.
Gather round readers. This happened in a small town, with small going-ons.
It was a hot, summer night. 7'o clock had spun around, and it was time for me to clock out and head homewards. Jumping into my car, I noticed it. Some homeless man was sleeping in his truck again for the tenth night in a row. Insignificant, but I did notice him. Well, to be frank, I don't know if this guy is homeless, I'm just judging that from how many nights he's been sitting in the same spot and also his beard. Anyways, I roll out on to the street on my usual route when I get stopped at a red light. This seemed like any other day, but this one was different. As I turned up my anime music on my iPhone and rolled down my window, a car of the 'gangster' variety rolled up to my Silverado. Inside the tuna can of hip hop and urban knowledge were four dangerous, deadly possibly gun toting individuals. At this certain point in my life, I felt a very familiar feeling rise from my chest. It was my old friend, the "Fight-or-Flight" response. Yes, the same feelings responsible for my shut-in otaku upbringings has reared its shy, ugly head once more to potentially save me from a disastrous outocome.
Oh no! Were my thoughts when I looked at the traffic light, which remained a static red.
Oh shit! As my anime music was now blaring because I'm an advocate for "Kawaii in the streets, Senpai in the sheets," lifestyle.
My hand still on the volume nob, I instinctively turned left. The left turn that will not only turn down my music, but also save my demure,pasty skinned life. Yes, I thought, this is ultimately what evolution has led to. A billion years of evolution has led to this very moment, there was no feasible way my on point 5-frames or less reaction would let me down. I felt the neurons in my brain surge with aptitude in nob turning. The hair on my skin lifted, and I felt myself gaining a powerful aura. I could not possibly lose.
The music turned down. The light was still red, and they were just now making their way to slow down to a stop beside my car. I relaxed. I have won this day.
"Hey man, you smoke the righteous ging?" (dramaticization, he really just asked if I smoked weed)
I jumped a little. I also might have shit my pants. Maybe.
"Yeah dude, 420." (dramaticization, I really just heck yeah to be cool)
The gears were turning. What the hell did I say? I've never smoked any kind of illegal substance, much less ganja. What the fuck?
I must have said it out of fear. At that time in my life, four individuals with any car I saw from San Andreas automatically associated itself with the 'thuglife' in my brain. I'M SORRY I DON'T MEAN TO PROFILE. But I can't help it. :( And so my brain told me, "Hey man, they might have guns man just play it cool." They were scary to my brain, so I believe that's why I said it. Anyways, back to the story.
The gentlemen in the car gave me a smile. I was relieved. I had passed the test.
"Hey dude, I can get you the good stuff. Just call this number ***-***-****."
I complied. I reached into my pocket for my phone, and entered the digits into my contacts list. In fact, if you know me in real life, I can even show you his number if you'd like. Maybe you want some weed or something. I don't know. Don't arrest me NSA.
"Call me right now mane."
As he ushered these words into the air, the light on the stoplight finally granted me mercy.
Green is the color of heaven.
I nodded to the gentlemen in the car, giving my "Okay!" in the form of a physical message. HAHA! I did it. I won. I sped up a little, just enough to be out of sight of the guys in the car, and I threw my phone into the car seat adjacent victoriously. What came next I should have seen a mile away. Literally.
As I came to a little further down the street, another stoplight came up. This time, it was green. Someone was watching over me, I thought as the light turned yellow. Wincing, I sped up a little.
Not this time.
But as fast as the glimmer of hope came, it also left in a flash. A red flash.
"Welcome to hell, enjoy your stay," as my vision turned red and flames enveloped my surroundings. At the forefront was the red light, sitting atop his throne stopping all that is good in life.
My face was flush.
As I creaked to a slow stop, I heard the car behind me catching up. I watched on the mirror as the vehicle otherwise known as urban satan slowly rolled up to my car. A drop of sweat rolled down my cheek.
I picked up my cellphone from the seat and started to play with it. I was on my music app scrolling through music as they rolled up. They looked at me.
There are times in my life when I definitely think I should have died. I read an interesting theory on this on some internet forum, so it must be true. Anywho, the theory entailed that whenever you died, you lapse into another timeline where you don't die and continue on with your life. I thought it was a cool theory and a nice sci-fi spin on life. Anywho, I feel that I should've switched timelines at least 5 times in my life.
I waited there. It took a minute for the light to switch, but it finally did. Even as I rolled ahead, I kept playing with my phone until I was in the clear. I swear they were loading their imaginary firearms. The brain is powerful man. Fuck me.
Anywho, that's just an excerpt from my overly anxious life.
Time for some goals.
*Finally did it. I applied for University of Houston. It was pretty cool, too. On Friday, I visited Bryan College station and dropped off my college transcript. Texas A&M is really nice.
*Got my college transcripts
*Finished Prison School. Worth it.
(x)I completely forgot about this. This is embarrassing. :( (x)I went for only 2 runs this week. Bleh, I should've gone out last night but I was lazy.
*Finished D4. Badass game.
And next week's goals.
*Apply for a scholarship
*Look into exchange student programs
*Practice guitar at home through lessons or JustinGuitar
*Run through some vocal practices *Look up on starting a band
*Go for 2 runs (I know, but giving myself a little leeway this time. I wanna be lazy this week.)
And that's it. Hope you enjoyed, as always. Love you guys.
Not sure where to start with this week. No doubt a very productive one. Oh! That's right.
I started college again.
Over here where I live, my college just got done with our winter break. It was really nice, but I'm sort of bummed I can't drape myself over my furniture doing nothing. Now I have to drape myself over furniture doing Calculus homework. Well, at least I'm back in. I still have to worry about transferring and such. Bleh.
Having taken all my classes except one(The last one I haven't taken is my private guitar instructor, who I wittingly heard was sort of a pot head), I'm loving all my teachers. Very cool people, and very engaging classes. Nifty.
As far as actual media goes, I started out this week watching a movie. Two movies actually, but I couldn't stomach the first one to finish it in one go.
The first movie I watched was the dubbed version of Athena: Goddess of War. Please don't mind the italics, I was taught to do this in school. Anywho, the movie starts off.. uh, hard to say. My attention was divided between playing Hyperdimension Neptune and watching this movie. I'm a little sad to say that Athena got a good 10% of that attention. I'll uh, try to reiterate what I can remember.
Okay, going off of the times I was in loading screens in Neptuna, there was a kidnapping of the South Korean Minister's daughter. I believe the kidnappers were North Korean spies. I'm not shitting you. I hope. Beyond that, the North Korean spies are hoping to acquire nuclear bomb plans(I think?) and doing so by the kidnapping. Luckily, a Super K-Pop model happened to be strolling around, and spotted the no-gooders at work. With the help of an actual cop, they released the daughter, but not without sprinkling some Korean rom-com into the mix. Back at base, k-pop model unfortunately has to wake up to reality, and soundly returns to paperwork at his desk job to pay bills. Fortunately, some kind of god is at play here and is in the mood for some STEAMY, HOT rom-com antics!(school taught me to put that in italics too I think.) Which brings us to our next topic.
"Bombshell spy chick ready to escort your children."
Back at base, it just so happens a very attractive woman who looked like a flight attendant was escorting children around the base. I believe it's a government building, or a police station. I'm not sure, nor do I care too much. But k-pop cares. He cares too much. He was awoken by bombshell super babe and is promptly told to not be a bum. Smitten by her hair covering one side of her face(Always good btw, this never fails to appeal to me. Send me pictures my way.), he asks her to dinner. She promptly declines and runs away.
"This is not a porn blog, I assure you. I'm glad this is giving me an excuse to randomly insert this."
Okay, I can't go on any further. So the whole story revolves around K-Pop model, father figure guy, and bombshell. Bombshell is a double agent, obtaining plans and playing it really careful-like. However, during the course of the movie, she is torn between the two lifestyles, as well as the two love interests. This got me curious. I am aware that a movie is just movie; however, they are a play on real life. You can derive so much humanity out of any movie, good or bad. This got me thinking. Are human emotions so fickle? Especially this woman's. I know people change everyday, and we shouldn't try to stick to one staple of behavior. For her to turn on her lover; her first love must not have been all that great or else she would have been faithful, no? Well, I suppose it is easy to be swayed by a k-pop star, but I digress.
ANYWAYS, on to my favorite part of the movie. The one that was not given enough shine at all. I bring to you the real star of this Korean action film.
"Ta-da."
The South Korean's Prime Minister's Emporer's Daughter! (I'm uninformed, sorry) Seriously, whereas everyone else just wanted to kill themselves and shoot their throat, she just wanted to draw. She is an art student, who not only has this air of individuality about her, also has problems with her uncaring father. I wish there was more exposition, but in the short ten minutes of her air time, her character had more depth than everyone in the entire cast. Police guy wanting revenge after 10 years? Over done. Overbearing, father like spy guy with goatee? Uninteresting. Even the main heroine; I'm so torn apart with who to love ughhh girl problems also who am I working for again? Pass.
Not only attractive, but she tries to live a normal life compared to her father's. She wants no part in the actual movie, and I'm kind of wondering if they just kidnapped a random Korean girl. Any who, after being creeped on by K-Pop model, the kidnapping happens. The kidnappers make their demand, but Daughter is torn. She knows. She knows her father is more than willing to make the sacrifice. That stirred me. What happened between the two? Was it just growing distance because of wanting a different lifestyle? She just wanted to express herself through pen. Maybe she was willing to be the sacrifice, as to not want to bother her father. Ahh. Or maybe she's just living through my projections, and this is honest proof that any character can be fleshed out with some imagination from a fan/ an obsessed nerd. Whatever it is, I want to know what she was drawing while sitting on that stair case that day. By the way, the movie isn't all that great.
The next movie I want to touch upon is a movie called Kuroneko. Having watched the Bakemonogatari series, I can recite confidently what a Kuroneko is. It is a Japanese god that punishes people for messing with dead cat bodies. To the tee, if I don't mind saying. I think, I'm uninformed once again. I google'd the word and got an anime girl instead. You know what, forget everything I said. It's a fucking black cat.
"Haunting."
Anywho, on to the synopsis. The story is about two women who were molested and their house burned to the ground. They made a deal with the devil, and now they are spirits who take samurais back to the burnt house to seduce and dine. It's a really good Japanese Horror movie, with some tasteful 70's effects (It was made in 1968 but still effects were pretty cheesy), and is a classic movie about "being very careful what you wish for or you go to hell". The movie was a blast, and some of the parts near the end left me really unsettled.
I've been reading Eden no Ori (Cage of Eden) for the past few weeks, but haven't really wrote about it.
"N-not a porn blog, I assure you."
The story follows a group of survivors led by Sengoku Akira. Throughout the island, you witness our main guy grow, as well as watch his group of survivors gain and lose members constantly. It's one of those mangas where you can't get attached to anybody new to the group unless it's a main character or you risk having your heart broken a little. There are a few problems, like having to keep around a character that is literally just for exposition, and others not so bad like absurd amounts of fan service, but the whole experience is really fun to read. The whole experience has a really good formula to every arc, and some of the characters are really good and relatable at times. I'll update you on more once I actually read the whole thing.
I've also decided to try out Kangoku Gakuen. This is one of my favorites, and an actual manga I keep up with and check for updates on my phone regularly. The manga is really fun; some of my favorite art ever is in there. Just so many good panels, there is no lackluster here.
"You did good."
I finally gave the anime a try today. Surprisingly, the animation holds up. What I found profoundly goofy in the manga, was also profoundly goofy in the anime as well, thankfully. HanaKana, one of my favorite voice actresses, voices one of my favorite characters.
"Perfect roundhouse."
HanaKana plays Hana, and she does an amazing job giving off a cutesie vibe, and smoothly transitioning to a deeper, more hostile voice on whim.
As far as games, I bought.. a few. I experienced a little buyer's remorse at first, but this game is certainly the jewel of the bunch. I'll instead be posting the Let's Play I promised a week ago instead of a length description.
"Sorry for the bad cuts, something went reallllyy wrong."
Anywho, I recommend checking out this game if you get the spare cash. It's really underrated.
My movie section this week was a bit too expanded on, I'll try for less next week! Sorry readers!
Anyways, the goals.
(x) I did not get to apply for University of Houston. I decided to wait for my next paycheck, as it costs again and I'm still recovering from spending all my cash :(
*Went for the two runs, I'm feeling fantastic! I'll admit, though, I did laze about and could've went for three; I'm just too lazy.
*Finished the two movies, explained above.
*Released a Let's Play
*Got my college books. Funny story, they were stolen, but not 20 minutes later someone found them and were returned to me. Someone is watching out for me.
(x) Did not finish Hyperdimension Netpune, but I am extremely close.
*Practiced a JustinGuitar lecture. They're kind of long lol
Next week's goals
*Finally apply for University of Houston
*Get college transcripts
*Finish Prison School anime
*Practice another JustinGuitar lesson
*Go for three runs now, more if I can
*Finish D4:Dark Dreams Don't Die
And that's it. I'm a bit tired, so I apologize for the abrupt end. Thanks for reading once again babes, I love you. ;)
This week is a semi-huge success! I'm debating whether to post my semi-success now or later, but I think it'd just be economic with space/ classier if I just save it for last.
Anyways, on to the post.
My week literally started after I posted the last blog. After pondering whether to read the rest of Umaru, I caved and binge read the rest of the series. It's been a blast, and the relationships between all the brother-sister pairings are mushy heart warmers. Watching the anime and then reading the manga, I am very excited for the rest of the manga to make it to the living room TV, if ever. I loved seeing all the characters grow; if by small gradual amounts in every other chapter that wasn't just filler. The steadiness of a subtle plot works well with the growing world the author is presenting in a slice of life format. Honestly reminds me a lot of Yotsuba. I'm a little sad I caught up with all the chapters, but am now excited for the rest of the series. I blame it on this series, but sisxbro pairings are growing on me. Fuck. My slow descent into madness begins here. Ughhhh I hope nobody read that. Anywho, Umaru waifu.
"Imouto bliss."
Most of the week I'm finding that I watch a lot of Southpark. Not really binge'ing it, but I get on Hulu to watch a few episodes here and there. Comedies have been a thing for me lately. Having watched season 19 and 18 already, I dipped into an even older season. Season 17; I'm finding it a little weird since the newer Southpark seasons have adopted season long subplot. It's now episode-by-episode individual plots. Or at least I think so, I haven't delved too deep into the season. Nor do I focus too hard on it. Watch newest season for PC Principal, bro.
"Please watch it."
Over the week, I've been having a serious craving. A craving.. for sushi. Okay, okay, I don't blame you if you stop reading here. I promise you, this is not a two year long punch line; I have been really wanting some. So I did that. I went out to this Korean Japanese Hibachi grill called Seoul Garden. I feel a little bad because I wanted to post some bonafide pictures of actual food from the restaurant on account of the presentation being really solid, but I completely forgot on account of stuffing my face. Sorry.
"Please accept this photo I found from my usual photo source, Google Images"
I ordered a plate of fried California roll things dubbed the 911(9-1-1). Looking at the menu, I had to double check to make sure I wasn't reading the sushi incarnate of 9/11(which is still an insensitive topic, not something to joke about at all) As for the actual taste, it was delicious. I remember a really creamy, spicy taste, and the fish had a really nice, smooth texture. I would definitely eat more if it wouldn't literally kill me, which is a topic I'll touch on a in moment. A few days later, I did happen to stop by again, and I assure you it wasn't to chat up the cute waitress working there; who just happened to be leaving with her brother(?). Damn it. Anywho, food aside, my favorite part of the whole restaurant was the staff hands down. Now, I always dubbed the location the restaurant was at cursed on account of five restaurants setting up there, and four restaurants closing in the short amount of time I've lived near Temple, Texas. This is actually the first time I've visited there, and absolutely won't be my last. However, I've never seen the restaurant with a full parking lot of customers, and I wasn't concerned until now since I'm kind of invested with the whole place. When I last visited, there was probably two customers max, one of them being a possible relative just stopping by. I feel like the shortage of popularity is on account of the actual restaurant not being a buffet like the other local fooderies, but I find that really sad. The guys working in Seoul, I feel, deserve more praise. The low amount of people eating there does add to the pleasant local feel of the restaurant, though. Interactions with the servers just feel a bit more personal; there hasn't been an individual in there that I haven't gotten along with at the sushi bar. It's nice being spoiled by a server.
If you're ever in the Temple, Texas area, I recommend visiting these guys.
Anyways, enough with the food.
During the middle of the week, I actually visited the doctor. I implored my parents to take me, and I found out I'm sorta sick. Nothing life threatening(hopefulla haha), but I now know I have high blood pressure. Man, I never thought hours of literal sedentary otaku , neck beard growing lifestyle would catch up to me in the manner that it did. Huh. Life is strange, right? Oh well, is what I thought. This just means less greasy foods and more fruits and other unfun stuff I have to eat more of. As a proud member of the United States of America, I will miss you cheese burger.
"I'm probably going to get some tomorrow."
As I type this, I'm actually watching second season of Ghost in the Shell. Ghost in the Shell: 2nd Gig is the continuation of Stand Alone Complex universe. Scrolling through Hulu and doing some Wikipedia research, my findings have come to reveal that there are even more Ghost in the Shell spin-offs than I could ever imagine. I've started watching Ghost in the Shell: SAC after seeing a scene from the 1995 movie. It was of a slo-mo shot of Mokoto doing a roundhouse to a sorry sod's face. It was 10 levels of amazing, and I'm glad I watched the rest of the movie as it is easily one of my favorite movies of all time. Now, the themes in all the different spin-offs/universes. GitS(1995) is mainly about the question of the soul, and whether a soul is unique to just humans or it can be created and born through other mediums. Really thought provoking stuff.
Stand Alone Complex has different themes for every episode; a generalization however is that SAC mainly revolves the problems of society being too "cyberized" that it causes a lot of issues. Kind of like an awareness campaign; at least from what I view it. Also questions of "ghosts" and other soul philosophies tossed in there to remind you that you're watching GitS.
2nd Gig is different however. It follows Section 9 once again, but this time since it's a different organization. Section 9 plays it a bit more aggressively this time, since it is sort of a private military company. As far as the themes go, from what I've seen (all the way to episode 5), seems there's a lot of how society functions as it did without cyber enhancements. Lots of episodes raising thoughtful questions and so on. I'm just glad I get to see waifu back in action.
"The bae in uniform."
Last thing I wanted to talk about today before I talk goals again is a movie I saw. Having never seen any of the others besides Fury Road, I've decided to delve back into the nitty gritty world of Mad Max. I watched Beyond Thunderdome and finally finished yesterday. It was definitely a Mad Max movie, probably the most staple of the series. Honestly stayed for the action. It was a really good ride of a movie, except for one bit. If you haven't seen the movie (I don't blame you at all for not seeing this, it took me a good 30 years to actually catch on), please do not read.
SPOILERS Okay, so what was up with the middle section of the movie. When did this shit turn into a goofy, kid flick summer comedy. The music was playful. The action scenes near the movie was straight out of a Home Alone movie(with guns). The redeeming part however was the shoot out and car chase scene at the end. Amazing. SPOILERS END
It's still a good movie, though despite my bitching. I'm glad how everything turned out. It gave us Fury Road, which I can't mentally fathom thinking of a complaint for.
Alright. Goals.
(x)So I did get around to finally applying for Texas A&M. However, I did NOT get to applying for University of Houston. No excuses, I'm just being very lazy. I enjoy being lazy, though.
*Got an interview set up with UnCollege this week on Wednesday. Sorta scared that I won't be able to pay for it, however.
*Called AIFES, and honestly felt a little blown off. I'm not sure if I'll keep pursuing this.
*I did finish a movie, am watching one currently.
(x) Finish Hyperdimension Neptunia. Huge spectacular failure. Seriously, this game is so long.
*Went for a run, actually one and a half. Good stuff.
Next week's goals.
*Apply for University of Houston
*Go for at least 2 runs.
*Finish another movie. 2 if I can find the time.
*Release a Let's Play (Will post in blog)
*Get college books
*Finish Hyperdimension Neptunia(I'd like to. This might be the last time I post about it in the blog)
*Edit: Finish and practice a JustinGuitar video.
And that's it. See you next time, readers. Love ya, babe.
I've noticed this rising internet phenomenon has been plaguing YouTube and various other media sites. I can call Facebook a media site now. All I see are video shares now and the occasional "I'm graduating college!" or "I'm having a baby!" status updates. The latter I'm more fond of; I love seeing people succeed at life. It fills me with that warm, fuzzy feeling you get when you look at a really successful person. On the nose, but I also get that sense of hope for the human race, and how I can live vicariously through my Facebook's news feed; and that's why I dread video shares because I get nothing out of it other than the sparse "forcing air through nose" laugh when I find something humorous.
"I just updated my status! SoFlo's new stolen video rocks!"
Done with that.
This update is really important because it marks the second week of my weekly updates. I'm saying that, because I've decided to make this an actual weekly thing. That's right! You're favorite piece of 3 paragraph literature is now in a weekly format! I recently read this article from a gentlemen named Mark.. some other, and it's inspired me to make habits rather than goals. Which I wholeheartedly recommend to anyone else reading this. Now for the second part.
I've decided on setting a few goals for every week to complete. I know I literally just said to make habits rather than goals, not even 5 lines ago, but this one is to keep track of what I do.
I'll save that portion for the last bits, however.
I've watched a couple of things. I started my week with finishing Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance. It's the second movie in the series and sadly the last, because I really enjoyed the first Lady Snowblood. It is, in all senses, a timeless piece of work. The "chapter-by-chapter" format, tastefully cliche fight scenes and effects (I love oil based pastel blood), and the semi-predictable but still enjoyable twist at the end made for a really good time.
Please don't google Lady Snowblood in images.
What was an adaptation for a manga from the 60's, became even larger than life on the big screen. It felt like I was watching a Tarantino movie the whole time and I loved it. If the image above looks like a scene from Kill Bill, that's because this movie literally was the biggest inspiration for the creative development. Also, I'm in love with the actress who played Snowblood. So there.
I wish I could say the same about the second movie however. Everything, from the choreography in the fight scenes, to the actual cinematography just felt incredibly weak. The story is spun around an anarchist movement, and the whole movie Snowblood is being led everywhere by the plot to do anyone's whim. Trying not to spoil, but Snowblood's character is really weak this time around. She still does her routine display of poking bad guys with sharp sticks, but is easily swayed by whoever gives her the longest lecture about how the country is dying. Why should she care? I didn't take her for a patriot when she slaughtered the leader of the secret police or the politician smuggling guns for the country in the last movie. Why is there suddenly an interest in politics?
tl;dr I can't bring myself to like it as much as I did the first movie.
While watching these Japanese flicks, I also came across a movie on Hulu which I completely forgot the title of. I automatically label it as a "Watch with low volume when everyone is asleep" on account of it literally being porn. That came as a surprise to me as I can't go into the detai- Okay, it showed a guy's penis. It was definitely an adult film. The interesting part is that it was a movie first, and then a blatant 90's porno second. Maybe it was the way the movie was shot, but I didn't get the porno vibe I get from hopping on Pornhub or some other. High budget porn, I guess. I was only slightly uncomfortable.
Fourth movie I came to watch was House. I had to take this movie in strides, or I was going to have some serious nightmares. I don't want to say too much, but this movie is legit terrifying. From the moment the movie starts everything is just unsettling. The effects were fun, however, and I sometimes got a good laugh at the absurd Japanese things happening.
That should be it for my movies.
I did get to watch more anime this week. It was busy. (In watching a shit load of anime that is)
Hyperdimension Neptunia was a blast. Having played the game prior, the show takes on a separate plot from the games. The story wasn't all that great, as it did follow about four different arcs in the short span of 12 or so episodes. The characters are, and forever, lovable. Peashy was great, I adore her. I loved that they snuck in lines from the game into the actual show, and I felt pretty awesome when I could spot and hear them. It's a great adaptation, definitely watch if you enjoy the humor in the actual games.
That was good scene, it left me hard.. ly breathing.
Second show I got through in my short time was Himouto Umaru-chan. What came as curiosity while looking for another show I wanted to watch, I gave the first episode a shot and curiosity got the best of me. Six hours later after following an impromptu whim, I'm done with the show. I checked out and read a few chapters of the manga, and I'm debating now whether to wait for the really well done anime, or read the rest of the series which I am now enjoying too much.
It's a slice of life. The plot takes a few steps forward, but ultimately does not matter as you stay for the jokes and joy. Loved it, and I only felt a little shame being able to relate to the little sister. The references are fire in this one.
And that's it. I've been doing some gaming as well, but it doesn't take that much precedent to write that down here, as I think I've got too much already. Also I'm kind of tired.
As far as my goals for the week; it's time I write them. If I finish them or fail them, I'll write them down in next week's goals.
Is there some kind of bullet function on this? No? Someone, please tell me.
*Apply for Texas A&M and University of Houston
*Get an interview set up for Uncollege *Call AIFES back, I think they might want to set up an interview, too lol *Finish a movie or two *Finish Hyperdimension Neptunia (This is a stretch, it will take all my willpower to do this, I am bad at sitting and finishing stuff) *Go for a run
And that's it. Okay internet, thanks for reading. I love you, baby.
