Friday, May 27, 2011

Those Games Were Hard... A Poem?

Before there were "Easy", "Normal", and "Hard",
There was only, "Near Freakin' Impossible".
Before the dominion of Thumbsticks,
The D-pad reigned supreme.
Before there were 64 bits,
There were only 16.
Before the Ocarina of Time,
There was... A Link to the Past.

Saturday, May 14, 2011

Some Actual Grumbles...

     So, a few friends and I went to see Thor last Sunday. Overall, it was a good movie, and I probably liked it more because Thor is my favorite Marvel character. However, there was one thing that irked me, and Thor isn't the only movie to have done it. No, I think the first time I noticed it was back in 2007, with Transformers. It probably happened before then, but it only first came to my attention then. What is this "it" I speak of? It's the problem of, "Can you please hold the camera steady during the fight scenes so I can actually tell who's getting hit?"

"If shaking the camera won't work... Just cover all the action with explosions! They'll never figure out what's going on!" - Michael Bay

Monday, May 2, 2011

What is this... Favorites? Characters!

     WHEW! It's been a few weeks since I wrote something new. I've been suffering from some epic laziness, but that ends now... With this post!    

See if you can name them all before reading the rest of this thing!
     After reflecting on the... Forty-three (yup, just counted them) animes that I've watched, I began thinking: out of all of the characters in all of these animes, which are my favorites? Why do I like them in particular? As I looked back, I decided to choose ten characters who've defined awesome for me.

     For some of these, I may not really have much of a reason other than I just like them as a character (I am entitled to my own opinion!). They also aren't going to be in any particular order, but I figure I at least have to start with my all time favorite... Or perhaps I'll save that one for last. Yeah, I'll save it... There are going to be a ton of spoilers (each will be prefaced with "SPOILER" for easy spotting and blacked out so you wont accidentally read them. As always, highlight the blacked out areas to read!) so if you are interested in watching the anime, watch out for those. I'm not going to give away a lot of details about the animes themselves, so if you want to know more... watch the anime! Or, you know, you can just Google it or something...