Today I finally overcame my massive losses in Blazblue. When I started playing I got owned left and right and built up a huge number of losses but today I finally overcame it. At 192 wins and 192 losses I tied it and I just beat an Arakune. I now won more than 50% of the time. Hurray. Lets hope it stays that way lol.

Well I suppose its time to cement my rank amongst the ranks of the biggest Japanophiles of the weeaboo tribe by posting my top 5 favorite chicks from anime/manga of all time. So here we go...

#5: Nami (One Piece)

Nami is in here almost as a token representative of One Piece. One Piece just happens to be my favorite manga of all time so I figured a character from the series really ought to be on the list and who better than Nami, one of the earliest characters to be introduced. She acts as the voice of reason amongst the ranks of her completely moronic crew even though her words of wisdom often go completely ignored.

So sure she comes off a bit naggy and she isn't all that great at combat but like I said, One Piece needs to be on this list somewhere so boom, Nami.

#4 Enma Ai (Jigoku Shoujo, Hell Girl)

She is Karma incarnate into a cold uncaring minion of Hell. Make someone hate you enough and they can access the Hotline to Hell website where upon entering your name and hitting submit Enma Ai will appear before them handing them a doll with a string around its neck. Untie the string and you've earned yourself a nice psychological torture with a trip to Hell following immediately after. Of course the person who cursed you pays a price. They go to Hell as well upon their deaths having cursed another.

Its not an easy job. Sure sometimes the person deserved it but that's not always the case. Sometimes a nice hardworking kind caring loveable person who never wronged anyone in their life gets sent to Hell over petty things like jealousy but Enma Ai must carry out her duty regardless of personal feelings.

She comes off as cold and apathetic at first but slowly you can begin to see how much her job hurts her as well as the citizens of the world.

#3 Mikuru Asahina (Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu, The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi)

Me and a friend came across a famous dance that all the hardcore cosplay weeaboos know and love and it turns out to be from the end credits of this series. We looked it up on animeseason.com and the description was outrageous. So outrageous in fact that I decided to watch the first episode expecting to be laugh at a horrendously bad series.

Well I laughed but not because it was bad. Far from it actually. This series blew my mind. Not only was it hilarious but it also had some awesome Matrix-reminiscent mind exploding plot that just might make you question reality. And then on top of that it had some fighting. And it was good. It was great. I dropped my jaw because I had set the bar below sealevel and it soared above it and went beyond the stars.

And of course Asahina is a major source of the hilarity as she is literally kidnapped and forced to join Haruhi's club. As if that weren't bad enough she essentially gets enslaved and is subject to the will of Haruhi no matter how questionable it may be. All the while being very cute and sympathetic and you just kinda sit there going "aww poor Asahina "

#2 Lucy/Nyu (Elfen Lied)

Ever since watching Higurashi no Naku Koro ni and practically oozing hapiness from every oraface every time its mentioned I've picked up this somewhat questionable fascination for stories in which everything goes as absolutely horrible disgusting and depressing as (in)humanly possible and boy oh boy does that describe Lucy.

Having had a rather miserable past due to her horns and powers she grows up to be a psycho ***** to put it nicely. The opening scene of the show/manga is her breaking out of her containment and casually strolling out of the lab slaughtering everyone who had the poor judgement to be within eyesight. But a poorly placed bullet to the head causes her to lose her memories and develop a second personality, one that is essentially a baby having no idea how the world works or how to speak.

Well the drama created between her past that becomes reveled over time, and when and where she will switch personalities creates a fascinating and heartwrenching story as well as hugely interesting characters and interactions between them. This is one of my all time favorite series. It was so good I watched the whole series then immediately went and read it as well.

#1 Yomi (Ga-rei Zero/Ga-Rei)

Yomi isn't my favorite anime girl of all time. Yomi isn't my favorite anime character of all time. Yomi just might be my single favorite fictional character from any medium, ever, period.

Never in all my days have I become as attatched to any fictional character as I became to Yomi. And the surprising part is Ga-Rei Zero, my introduction to her character, isn't even that long a series as compared to others.

Ga-Rei Zero acts as a prequel to Ga-Rei. My introduction to the series was the prequel and I think that's the way to do it as the manga almost seems to expect you to understand their backstory. And what a backstory it is.

Over the course of Ga-Rei Zero Yomi and Kagura as well become incredibly well characterized. Its almost like Tarantino in rather than focusing on the girls in action all the time you see lots of the characters just spending time with eachother in their daily lives and as a result of all their conversation and interaction, acted and portrayed flawlessly, they grew on me. They grew on me a lot. Not just Yomi but Kagura as well but Yomi gets to be on the list as I like her more and her character is more dynamic.

I won't give away any spoilers but I grew very attatched to Yomi and it was all the more depressing when her fate takes a turn for the absolute worst. I would even go so far as to say she recieves as fate infinitely worse than death and I was genuinely upset over it. To this day when I read the manga every time she's mentioned I go "omg noooo Yomi "

She's just so well characterized. She's got all the craziness most anime characters have with quasi super powers but she isn't infallible and she acts like a real human which is probably why I'm so endeared to her. She's realistic and loveable and the events that lead to the end of the series really made me truly empathize with her and feel for her character, not something easily done.

She's a great character and I highly recommend the series to anyone and everyone who hasn't seen it.

And thats the list. I can't believe I actually did this blog. Damn I'm a nerd.

Ok so I decided to make my first playthrough of Killzone 2 on the hardest available difficulty from the onset, Veteran. Well I beat the game but god DAMN did they make me work for it. I mean I had a lot of clumsy deaths from the get go because I was figuring out the controls and the cover system, etc. but once I got the hang of it I was able to get through the first 3 or 4 missions with relative ease and maybe 2-3 deaths per mission.

Then the difficulty curve got schizophrenia and decided to jump so high a pole vaulter would lower their head in shame. I mean there were a few rooms along the way that just mercilessly beat the living crap out of me. Then immediately after they would provide me with a piss easy boss fight (the arc trooper) and then they let me use his gun which is easily the most over powered gun I've been allowed to use in a game. Not only does it have infinite ammo, it also does eighty gajillion damage. Oh and it connects to nearby enemies too. Then it was an ass whooping in an air turret because apparently you win by running out of missiles and I was using my damned machine gun the whole time. Then another nice easy stoll down mech suit pwnge lane.

Oh yeah I forgot there was that canyon filled with snipers. Btw getting shot ANYWHERE with a sniper rifle in this game is a 1 hit kill. Not just the head. Sprinting through that, bad idea.

Ok so while some sections in the later game brutally kicked my ass and others were a nice relaxing slaughter there were 2 sections that are especially worthy of note.

1. The train. I'm on top of a train. Get to the other end of it and take control of it. Alright fair enough. Advance up the train. Kill some enemies. Blah blah blah. Then we get to a turret section. Easy enough use turret on enemies preferably in the face. THEN. THEN!!!! Keep in mind its just me and 1 AI buddy right now. I come around a tanker to a few pieces of cover, a rocket launcher, a tank, and enough enemies to make the Horde officially change their name to the "meagerly sized squad". I ran out of ammo on so many guns that I had to lure half of the enemy waves back to the turret to even have a chance of taking them out.

Needless to say this part kicked my ass for a good while but FINALLY I was able to kill all the waves of enemies, get the rockets, and blow up the tank. "PHEW" I let out as I advanced expecting there to surely be a checkpoint after all that. No checkpoint. Just another wave of enemies. One of them had a rocket launcher. I died. I went "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" darth vader style. I did it again after another bazillion tries and I had to take out that last extra wave by running back really far and revolver sniping them because it has infinite ammo.

2. This is without question the king of "OMGHARD!!!!!!!" moments in the game. The final mission. Fitting I suppose. It begins with an assault on the leader's palace which is unsurprisingly very well defended. This wasn't even that bad. It took a long time to push all the way to the palace doors but I did it with incredibly low deaths for the situation. Maybe 1 or 2 for this whole stretch. Then the hard part. The inside of Vasari's palace. This has potential to be my greatest achievement as a gamer. I'll have to ponder that before making it official but, by god it was hard. Radec sends wave after wave after wave at you in a room with VERY minimal cover. I didn't know what I was supposed to be doing. I was trying to snipe Radec up top while fighting off the troops. Then they start coming around from the second floor and dropping down behind you. Then they have flame throwers. Then they have rocket launchers.

I actually got to the checkpoint once only to die before actually getting the checkpoint. That was annoying. Then I FINALLY get the checkpoint and move upstairs. Killing all the guys upstairs is easy as there are only 3 but then Radec will again just send more and more waves. I picked up an actual sniper and tried that for a while and found that it wasn't too effective until of course, the rocket launcher guys got spawned. Then THANK YOU JESUS ANOTHER CHECKPOINT! Oh wait. More waves of enemies. Except now the rocket launcher guys move around limiting my cover to one corner. I'm no scoping guys and meleeing others frantically trying to survive until another checkpoint.

Then I finally get the assignment to kill Radec. He teleports behind you then whips out his knife and kills you in two hits. I came up with a system to not die but let me put it this way, not counting the times I died, the fight lasted 24 minutes and 43 seconds. I didn't get the quickly beaten boss trophy

All in all for the entire final mission I had 49 deaths. The whole thing took me about 4 hours. Yup. 4 whole hours. Checkpoints were few and far between and I would hold out for insane amounts of time before getting killed by some ass who jumped down from behind my and blew my face off before I even knew he was there.

Oh and that whole time I had to babysit Rico because he doesn't understand that bullets = bad.

That being said, really fun game. Just wish it didn't beat me up and take my lunch money. (I suppose I asked for it by picking veteran though and really it was just 3 or 4 sections that REALLY kicked the crap out of me).

Having recently gotten a paycheck (that was long overdue) from the job I had over the winter as a councelor at a sports program for kids noticing that it was just enough for a PS3 and therefore also well over enough for a 360 I figured "why not. I've missed some sick games being a wii only owner. I should get one". Then began the research. Back in 2006 if future me told past me I was going to buy a PS3 at some point I might have fallen over laughing. I thought of the console as a joke back then. Sure the 360's were exploding and what not but at least they had exclusives that were worth a damn.

Well as it turns out over the past 3 years the PS3 has significantly improved their line up the pinnacle of such being inFAMOUS, Valkyria Chronicles, MAG, God of War III, etc. Considering the only exlusives on 360 I'd get would be Halo 3, Mass Effect (2), and maybe Gears, I was leaning towards the PS3 side of the coin.

The thing to push me over the edge was actually a silly comment. I was watching the Backloggery Live stream of Uncharted when Nathan came upon the corpse of Drake (I think. I missed some plot). Someone in the chat said something along the lines of "zombie time". I, a huge zombie fan, thought surely that was a joke. There's no way this game would have zombies. So I said "If this game has zombies I'll buy a PS3 tomorrow" and then BOOM. 5 seconds later, zombies.

I was like "OMGWTFBBQ". Immediately after that I believe it was drumble who said "looks like someone has to buy a PS3". Well I am a man of my word and that following Thursday I ordered a Killzone 2/MGS4 bundle from Best Buy due to arrive sometime this coming week.

Now I'm looking over all the multiplats and exclusives I've missed these past 3 years. I have quite a collection to build.

Well I had my first Conduit rage quit and was quite the epic ragequit. Anyone who knows me probably knows I have a temper and a very low tolerance for frustration. During the SAT's because I had to sit and wait for the end of the section before I could continue, thus wasting my time by dragging out the test, I almost crushed my pencil into two pieces. Oh man and every time the proctor said 5 minutes remaining, boy did that get on my nerves.

Anyway for several games in a row I was playing with a group of people who were pretty much on my level. There's nothing wrong with that, in fact thats a good thing. What does piss me off though is having my kills stolen. For an entire match EVERY SINGLE ENGAGEMENT I got into went like this. I attack person. Person and me get into heated fire fight. I'm about to finish off person. Person got me down to about half health. Guy comes along and kills person as I'm about to get off the finishing shot. Kill is stolen. I am weakened and need to reload. Guy kills me as he has a full clip. I die.

It went like that or variations of that involving 4 people all attacking me at the same time for several consecutive matches. Not to mention the mini team. It seems a couple of friends were talking to eachother via the phone or skype or the like and were working cooperatively as a team. This was especially a pain in ASE football where one guy held the ASE and the other ambushed me every time I went to kill his buddy. Then in quick matches they just ran around together teaming up on people. AKA CHEATERS.

After several rounds of this I just couldn't take it anymore and then came the most epic ragequit I've had to date. My original wrist strap has been immune to everything and my TV remains unscathed, that is until today. My wrist strap was ripped to shreds from the wiimote. My couch and chair got a pummeling. My chair especially which now has a permanent handprint from my fist. My soda cans were crushed by bare feet. A box of Cheezeits has been exploded via screwdriver impalement which was rather dumb on my part as there are crumbs everywhere now

There was no permanent damage done to anything really important. Some minor permanent damage to the chair and bed but nothing that will make it unusable. And my hand got but up a bit on the wood but I'm used to that and I'm like a masachist light so I tote it proudly in a sense. Oh and a bitemark on my nunchuck.

To all of you who are like "oh my such an angry child you need help its just a game" don't lie. You've thrown down the controller in rage. Everyone who's played a reasonable amount of games that doesn't have the patience of a saint has had one of these moments. Its true. Besides sometimes breaking **** is the best therapy am I right?

Therapists should just have a really nice room, give you a baseball bat, and say go. That'd be an awesome business. Anyway steams been blown, all calmed down

I don't ragequit often and they're usually not this bad but after an hour of having my kills stolen EVERY SINGLE TIME. Keep in mind I mean this literally. EVERY. TIME. I just snapped.

(I control myself better with people around )

In an attempt to prevent myself from insanity at not having the Conduit yet (especially knowing other people do because some stores cheated) I decided I had to distract myself somehow. I went looking for animes (I usually read manga but felt lazy ) and seeing as how the last anime I watched, Higurashi no naku koro ni, was so freaking awesome I didn't even care that it made less sense than the fact that platypuses exist. So I went and googled "crap similiar to that" and they gave me Ghost Story. Let me say this is the first anime with its official demographic listed as "female" that I've watched from beginining to end (in fact my only other experience with anything termed shoujo or josei is when it comes on after a nice manly show on the funimation chanel or something).

Anyway the only reason I even decided to give this series a chance without instantaneously shooting it down due to its target audience was because I saw some pics or clips of it where there was some creepy dude covered in blood staring down a girl as if to say "I am going to kill you so bad that you won't even recognize you". If anyone knows me, I like horror, gore or not. All I ask is that if there's gore in a movie it not be senseless. I don't like gore for the sake of gore, I like gore used to a good effect. Well thats not entirely ture as madworld kinda has gore for the sake of gore but it's also what made the game so damn stylish and cool so whatever.

Anyway I was right about the series. There was a lot more awesome ghost action and mystery than there was "oh lovee dovee silly little girlish glee and stupidity". I mean every once in a while usually briefly between two "oh **** I'm going to die" moments I had to sit through 2 minutes of "oh she's so jealous blah blah blah" nonsense but the good parts outweighed the "shut UP" parts.

As much as I hate to admit some of the inbetween nonsense actually made me laugh a bit. I hate that I found humor in their stupid love triangle but there it was and every time I caught myself laughing I was like "aw dammit but its funny". Then there were other times when it was just not funny and I was just like "get on with it so we can get back to the possessed dude with a knife please".

But yeah the ghost scenes were for the most part good. Some of the mysteries were predictable and I was like "Um X is the one who cast the curse" 2 minutes into the story arc but other times I was just totally wrong. Anyway if you check your manhood at the door this is a decent enough series. Higurashi is better (and I also had an interesting start into Higurashi as the first 2 chapters of the manga were like "hey lets cosplay and dress up the only male character in a french maid outfit" so I was like "why is this labeled horror ._." so I skipped ahead 3 chapters and it only took me one panel to be like "oh, that's why...I should probably keep reading this...") but that's a given because I love that series.

But yeah. Maybe some of those other horror series labeled shoujo might actually have some value in there but I'm still going to approach with caution to avoid what I like to call "no longer a man" syndrome. I'm listening to Gojira right now after finishing the series just to regain any lost manhood during the stupid scenes.

But yeah, decent series is decent

I've seen a couple of religious rants, preachings, etc scattered throughout my life the past several days and I decided as an athiest to explain why I think there is no such thing as a god and why I'm against organized religion. If you are a religious person and are reading this I'm not going to sit here and hate on religion in the sense that I'm going to make claims like "God is dumb and so is everyone who believes in one", I'm going to try and rationally explain the reasoning that lead me to believe there is no god and why I struggle to understand why people do believe in a god. I will also try to express why I am against organized religion. If you feel you'd be offended by this then, stop reading. Simple yes?

Lets start with why I don't think there is a God. First of all lets take a look at the origin of religion and the steps its taken as its evolved. Ancient people had very primitive science with no means to explain natural phenomena such as tornados or lightning. Unable to provide any logical reason for tornados and the like people invented a reason, something was angry at them, the gods. The whole concept of Gods and deities originated because people were unable to explain very simple natural occurences that we can explain today.

That then brings me to my next point, the evolution of God. Most early religions were polytheistic and now today most major religions are monotheistic. Somewhere along the line something had to change yes? The earliest religions like Zorastrianism are now nearly extinct while newer religions like Christianity and Judaism came to be. Greek Mythology is now considered just that, mythology, but to the Greeks it was just as true as Christianity is to Christains. There are so many different religions out there from Islam to Christianity to Judaism to Shintoism to Bhuddism to Hinduism to Daoism and so on. How can any member of any of those groups claim "we're the ones who are right, all the other religions have it wrong". And even if one of those religions were right and all the others were wrong does that mean everyone who was raised believing in the wrong god is doomed to eternal damnation? To me it just doesn't make any sense.

In addition to that the effect religion has had on people even in this modern era can range from silly to ridiculous. The fact that, I'm not sure of the exact statistic, but a ridiculous amount of the Republican party candidates for the presidency raised their hands when asked if they did not believe in evolution is extraordinary to me. There is so much scientific evidence to suggest that evolution is how things happen in this world that to believe otherwise would be almost outright insane. Even if evolution isn't correct, creationism is (and this might be the one direct shot I take at specific religions) absolute insanity. Creationism should've died the second the first fossil was discovered but no, to this day it's widely believed in some places and it certainly plagues the republican party. I consider myself a moderate politically and I can say I'm not a fan of Bush or Obama and many of Obama's policies concern me very much but the Democrats are going to continue to dominate elections until the Republicans stop walking around preaching because outside of the bible belt no one actually takes them seriously anymore. They need to stop being the party that caters to angry old men and go back to their fiscally conservative roots. Back on topic with Relgion however I was told that in some states creationism is required to be taught along side evolution in biology classes. So much for separation of church and state.

The idea that what I believe to be a fictional deity is so influencial in people's actions and every day behavior is both crazy and frightening to me. People making decisions because they "heard the voice of god" when what they should be doing is getting checked for schitzophrenia because they're hearing voices in their heads. More importantly many of these people who make claims like this are the ones with signifigant power (Bush). I have no problems with the message that Religion is at its heart trying to preach, be kind, be moral, etc but people have warped religion into something evil and monstrous. Religion has been a justification for countless wars and acts of violence, the crusades, 9/11 (something I could witness from my own back yard, I also knew someone who's father was killed), the war in Iraq, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the holocaust (although this should probably be considered more genetic than religious), human sacrifices ontop of Aztec temples. The list is far to long to write up completely.

What started as a means to explain the unknown mutated into a (perfectly acceptable) message of benevolence and was then further mutated into a corrupt means to do harm onto eachother. I'm an athiest, I don't believe in God, that doesn't make me some sort of heathanistic puppy slaughtering satan worshipping psychopath like some very religious people might think. I mean I'm no saint but I'm not completely amoral either. There's no reason people need a man in a robe to tell them how to live their lives. People should live life, experience situations, and construct their own moral codes based upon those experiences. People should be taught moral codes from their parents, not that blowing themselves up and 20 other people on a bus will lead them straight to eternal paradise. Without religion the world wouldn't fall into chaos in fact I think it'd be a better place as religion sprouts so much violence that its reached the point of absolute insanity.

People fear the unknown and people are curious creatures. We can't help ourselves but to wonder what comes after life and many seek answer through religion. The truth is we really have no feaking clue. Priest X will preach one thing and Monk Y will preach another. People shouldn't look to these figures for answers, they should live life to the fullest and discover their own answers to the mystery of life. I don't believe in an afterlife, it doesn't mean I sit cowering in fear at the concept of death. Sure I'm not looking forward to the day I die but its going to come eventually and when it does that's the only time I'll ever find the real truth. Who knows maybe I'm just spouting total nonsense right now and there is a heaven. In that case, awesome. I just don't see it happening that way though.

God was invented as a means to explain simple phenomena and god has come in so many forms over the years how can anyone claim to be right. The truth is we can't really know for sure but I haven't seen any evidence to suggest the presence of a higher being. If there is a higher being it certainly isn't personally involved in everyone's life like many people want to claim. All in all I see no proof, just a supersticious explanation and that is why I don't believe in God or religion.

(athiests are the most mistrusted group in America. Kind of ridiculous that me not believing in something someone else does means I should be mistrusted. Kind of like a 4 year old not trusting their parents because they told them there was no boogeyman)

It motivated me to go back and finish Fire Emblem. (well I'm not done but got a good chunk outta part 3 done today) and I thuroughly enjoyed it. Only problem is I played for 8 straight hours and can't see right anymore.

Thanks backloggery

I found a site called the backloggery. Pretty cool idea. You list all your games and your progress through them (unfinished, beaten, completed, and master run). From this you can then see what you should go back and finish up. I like the idea cause I have some games that could use some beating or completing (especially VC and wiiware for me). Anyway check it out

http://backloggery.com/

I'm back from camp. The new layout for my page caught me off guard but I like it.

Anyway I have no idea what I missed so I need to look into some stuff

Tomorrow I leave for camp. I will be gone for a month. If you guys feel nice you could post awesome news that I miss here but I think I'll be able to catch up rather fast because the forums just parrot the same topics over and over again.

Anyway be back later

I saw the movie last night and wow. It was appx 2 hours and 30 minutes but I was sitting there like "no Peter Jackson has to make it so its 16 hours long!" because it wasn't enough. It was so good I wanted more. Every scene with the Joker was amazing and there just wasn't enough of his craziness in the movie to satisfy me because it was just so good.

*SPOILERS MAY APPEAR BEYOND THIS POINT*

For instance when the Joker set up the boat thing I was SO sure knowing the Joker that one of them would press the button and it would blow up their own boat but no one pressed the button. I was so sad but its ok because there was so much other good stuff like the Joker's "magic trick" and the Joker keeps changing his story and its awesome. Pure unadulterated awesome.

Also I would've had NO idea that Twoface was in this movie except those *****s (can you curse in blogs?) at G4 decided to interview the guy who plays Harvey Dent at the premier and they were like "omg how does twoface show up" and I was like "wait what" so that ruined it. Otherwise it would've been a massive surprise because I don't read the comics and I didn't know that Harvey becomes twoface (assuming that the film stays true to the comics).

And Morgan Freedmon better come back because hes the best actor ever.

*SPOILERS END HERE*

Anyway it leaves me wondering what they can do for the sequel. The batman series can never, EVER, EVER! have the Joker in a movie EVER again. Heath made it so no one can do a better job. Even if the Christian Bale Batman movies are over no one can use the Joker again. hes done forever. *SKIP NEXT SENTANCE FOR SPOILER* And twoface is dead so he can't come back *NO MORE SPOILER* So what villian can come in the future. The only ones I know are the Riddler and The Penguin and the penguin is the worst villian in history. He's just too stupid to believe. Riddler could be ok I guess if they do it right.

Anyway awesome movie and see it if you have a soul

Seriously mods. Stop it. You guys find some excuse to mod me pretty much every day. Now when I went into that "my BF called me stupid" thread I was thinking "oh god. I am going to be modded." and when I saw that other dude saying some stupid stuff I thought "I must reply. I know its antagonizing another specific user but I can't help it. Must voice opinion" and I did and I was modded.

Seriously mods come on. Leave me alone. Sometimes people just have it coming and why should I be punished for delivering.

Also heated debates between two people shouldn't be modded (as has been the case in the past). Thats a friendly debate not a bloodthirsty battle.

Also that gif in my sig the other day was funny. If you didn't see it then too bad becasue it was hilarious but seriously how was that offensive. No one was hurt (beyond what modern medicine can fix). And ok sure some property was severly damaged but it was funny. It didn't make a race joke it was fine. This is the internet. Accidents like that are one of the internets biggest attractions.

Also come on. This is the internet. We're all big boys now (or girls w/e). I think we can handle some certain words. I mean I called a developer of a crappy game a word that isn't considered remotely bad where I come from and I was modded for it. We all know what it means here on the internet and anyone offended just by seeing it is very overly sensative and shouldn't be on the internet because the internet is the single most offensive thing in existence.

Anyway leave me alone. You can tell me to read the terms of use over and over but I will never EVER sift through all that crap and dedicate it all to my memory. I will continue to voice my opinion no matter how politically incorrect or offensive it may be because I think it needs to be said. You will never silence me!

and leave me alone please

I made a new banner image as seen above. For those of you who don't know its Battle Royale.

Allow me to say Battle Royale is one of (if not the single most) messed up movies ever made. Its not over the top gory like Saw but the concept is incredibly twisted. And I loved every minute of it. I thought it was a great movie and as I said in the banner the Japanese governments attempt to ban it in addition to protests only boosted its popularity. One of the highest grossing Japanese movies ever.

And now a very brief plot synopsis without spoiling anything.

The premise is the youth of Japan are basically becoming disrespectful and ignoring all the commands of their elders so the Battle Royale act is passed in an attempt to straighten out the kids. Every year a freshman class is randomly selected and taken to an island where they have to kill eachother. If at the end of three days there are more survivors than a single winner everyone dies (thanks to an explosive collar on their necks).

Basically when I was watching this it has a bit of everything including a bit of very sick humor (like the instruction video) and I loved every second. It was amazing but I would not reccomend this movie to anyone weak of heart. Its a severly messed up movie.

Also you know how American movies constantly rip off Japanese movies (ie the Eye and the Ring) Well I'm pretty sure "the condemned" is a blatant rip off of this movie but its also not nearly as good. The condemned does basically the same thing with prisoners. Prisoners can die and no one will care all that much. 9th graders being forced to kill their best friends on the other hand creates a much more engaging and sympathetic viewpoint which is why Battle Royale is infinitely more successful as a film.

Also this movie wouldn't work in America. Not only would it be assassinated by every mother in the country before anyone could pitch the idea but theres something deliciously Japanese about the movie that really adds to the film. The main bad guy is right is over the top "Japanese Bad Guy" and the Japanese have different traditions and such (like the uniforms. For some reason the uniforms really enhanced the experience for me) that make the film work better that way.

Anyway awesome movie but certainly not for everyone.

Alright first of all the icons given out by gamespot are a bit misleading. Yes I saw the sony and MS confrences here but I did see nintendo too. That was the only one I cared about enough to go watch on G4 while I are my lunch. the other two I chatted with my friends as I watched here.

Now the nintendo confrence. Yeah it sucked. I was watching it in total disbelief like "really? this is the best you can do?" BUT there was one moment when I was jumping for joy and that was Animal Crossing with Wii Speak. I'm not big on the sims type games so AC isn't a huge thing for me but wiispeak is. I'm sure conduit and hopefully cod5 will use it and FPS online may finally be really good and team games will work well. Now that being said the other moment in the nintendo confrence that had me interested was the kendo game with motion+. I am a fan of motion + and the kendo game looks like a good intro to sword games with it. It interested me, not sure I'm going to get WSR for one motion+ and the kendo thing but motion + looks amazing for something like a lightsaber game or the next zelda to come out. I only wish clone wars and force unleashed had access to the technology.

Now in terms of Nintendo's future I've noticed an interesting turn. Nintendo is now a massive lackluster dissappointment and the third party games are what really have my interest which is contrary to the past. The Conduit has shown us a live demo and man I gotta say, I am a big fan. I'm loving what they're doing and I know the game isn't finished but still that was impressive. I have two complaints about what I saw. 1. While the graphics are amazing on character models and such the enviornments felt a bit bland. Possibly bad art direction but they felt somewhat generic. This is however a minor complain next to the epicness I saw. 2. All the brightly colored bullets and stuff are distracting. When playing theres tons of lazers flying everywhere and I know war is hectic but its not usually neon colored and hectic. This is an even less minor complaint but it was a tad distracting. Also a question. Are the enviornments destructable. The grenade exploding by the car led me to believe no but whatever its fine.

Some other 3rd party titles that have me excited are Dead Rising, oh yeah. Madworld, lookin good. Deadly Creatures, could be good. CoD5, has potential. There are others but I don't want to list them.

Nintendo also has some stuff behind the scenes that cater to my interests like Fatal Frame 4 and Disaster Day of Crisis.

Sony's confrence was next and me and my friend Lucas were talking the whole time and we agree, we didn't like it that much. They spent a lot of time talking about PS2 and PSP when the thing sony really needs to worry about is PS3. PS3 is selling like anthrax and they really need to bring some games to the table. A majority of the time they spent on PS3 was about the playstation network and what they were really doing was talking about how they're better than IO On Demand and Netflix. Sony spent too much time on movies when they need games. Little Big Planet will probably be awesome but we've known about it forever. Its no surprise. Resistance 2 looked like a slightly above average samey alien shooter. Gears 2 will probably be better and honestly having played the first Resistance I wasn't a huge fan. Everything was really dark like AVP Requiem to the point where I was sitting there going "what's happening I can't tell" and I just really didn't like it much. Resistance 2 had the big boss fight outside and that was kinda cool but I really think that if someone will buy a console based on Gears 2 or Resistance 2 then they'll end up with a 360. Also Resistance's big thing was 60 people online. Well MAG just took their 60 and slapped them in the face with the 256. Now when I heard that I was like "....wow...." but then I became a bit skeptical. If they pull it off it will be nothing short of epic but somehow I think 256 people in one game is going to cause some massive lag. I mean if you're running around a big city in WoW some will lag and some won't based on internet connection and computer power so I dunno it might work. I'll hold judgement but I can't help being a bit skeptical. then a lot of the other games PS3 advertised were multiplatform. PS3 needs exclusives. Then the next thing was the Ratchet and Clank download game. Ok sure its Ratchet and Clank and its cheap but I'd prefer a full length game. Ratchet and Clank will probably be good and successful but I think a full length one would've been worth pursuing over this. PS3 owners will take what they can get though I'm sure. Also Home is basically Second Life and Second Life is real life except you can fly and thats boring. Not a fan. And GT TV is basically the Speed Channel on PS3. Again PS3 is not focusing on games but videos and such. I think sony may want to consider sticking to that type of media because the fact that the PS2 is still present to cover the losses of the PS3 really shows to me that PS3 is not very successful.

PS3's confrence however as flawed as I thought it was still beats Nintendo's. Nintendo's confrence was terrible. 360 easily had the best one.

Now I want more demos of the Conduit. That was not enough. I want more! and More Madworld too! Demo some stuff I care about websites! Please!

I've been watching my G4 and heres my opinions on the stuff I've seen.

Ok well lets start with the thing that excited me most. G4 had the Fallout 3 Demo on their show and I may need a 360. Like right now. I can't even begin to describe how much "OMG" I was experiencing. That pick the body part thing whatever its called was SO cool. The enemy just exploded and I was like "OH ****" and then he threw the grenade and I was like "HOLY ****" and then he used the "rock-it launcher" and he exploded a guy with a teddy bear and I 1. died laughing and 2. went "HOLY ******* ****". The game looks amazing to say the least. It seems to have a somewhat black humor like Portal (which had me in stitches the whole game through) and I am a huge fan. Seriously I am highly considering getting a 360 after that display.

The other games on G4 had me less interested. I'm not into vehicular combat although as far as games like that go wheelman seemed interesting if only for a little while. Too Human looks lame. I was like "10 years? Really?" Its not really my type of thing so I think I may ignore that one completely.

Now the confrence. Avatars? Really? First of all anyone who doesn't see these are blatant rip off's of miis is blind. Secondly the average 360 gamer is a kind of frat boy "kill everything war war war explosions murder" type guy. I would imagine these avatars do not appeal to those type of people at all. They are kinda cutesy and not murdery which will problably mean they're going to be ignored or despised by the average 360 owner. Also I don't like the new interface. Its probably just a get used to it kinda thing but as of now I don't like it. Now the statistics they posted. It felt kind of stuck up. they were sitting there basically saying "look how awesome we are " and it wasn't even that it was more like "look how much more awesome we are then the other losers" and I know they're trying to sell their stuff and be successful but could they have had a more smug speaker. He was sitting there with a stupid smile and he kept making that annoying hand gesture. Anyway 360 is winning in America, Wii worldwide, something they chose to leave out for reasons blatantly obvious. They also boasted their 3rd party support and while they haven't appeared yet theres some stuff for wii I'm pretty excited about.

COD,WaW and the Conduit could be the shooters wii needs to provide some competition to the shooter king 360. COD is on everything but if the wii version is a real effort it could potentially hurt the sales of 360 version because people would choose wii version over it. I think that really boils down to the online. If the wii COD has online like Mario Kart (which I will argue is Xbox Live quality) and hopefully voicechat I seriously think a decent amount of people will pick controls over graphics. Conduit on the other hand is a wii exclusive and I personally think it looks awesome so far. Its like everything we loved about metroid and MOH made 100 times better and I definately think it will do for wii what halo did for the original xbox (become an icon and a standard of excellence for the console).

Now before I go on a rant about what I want for wii back to what I actually know about based on E3. RE5. If I'm getting a 360 for fallout I will be sure to get this. RE4 is to this day one of my favorite games ever. Its amazing. And RE5 looks to be a bigger better version of that. The only thing that I don't like about it is going from the epic wii controls to the 360 controller seems like a major downgrade and I'm not happy about it. Other than that this game is a 100% guaranteed great game. I expect excellence from the series and delivery is guaranteed.

I got suspended for 2 days for using offensive terms or something. I personally think its stupid because we're on a forum and everyone there is old enough to know words that some find offensive. If anyone is really offended by this stuff then what are they doing on the internet? Its everywhere worth being.

Anyway before my suspension ended I went camping. It was meh. I'm not a huge camper type but apparently I'm good at mountain climbing.

Anyway I'm back to voice my opinion on everything I can

Well in my review I made some assumptions comparing the Wii version to the 360 version of the game. I thought that the wii version didn't have a final boss (Sarah) and the 360 version did. I thought the 360 version had more items and levels than the wii version, etc.

Well a bit more informed now I'd like to edit my mistakes.

The Sarah thing. Well I went back and played that last mission in chapters mode because I remembered Eduard pointing a gun at Sarah. Well apparently during this sequence if you press B you actually kill her creating a slightly alternate ending. This is the same as the 360 version. Well guess what that means, the conclusion still sucks to the point of "Haha funny joke Atari seriously wheres the last level". Both endings leave a massive cliff hanger and provide no closure in the outrageous story which despite being outrageous I still was getting into. It makes me a bit happier that the 360 version as well has this craptastic ending but seriously, finish the game before you sell it. (well a lot of things about it weren't finished).

As for the extra level things yeah that holds true in at least one case I'm aware of and I'm sure theres more because the 360 central park is open ended. The "tree level" is present on 360 and absent on wii but frankly considering what I've heard about that level and how unbearably cruel it is I'm not all that upset.

Also there are variations in the levels. Our forklift level is just driving a crappy steering forklift. according to IGN or GS review (don't remember which one) they fight a monster when trying to get in the forklift.

The 360 has more items too. Glowstick, sticky tape, flammable bullets, and they can carry molotov cocktails/flammable gas stuff/blood packets in their jackets. we can't. Also they have a screwdriver.

There's also gotta be something else in there because they know the names of the monsters and I was given no names (humanz, batz, ratz) while playing, and I read all the notes and stuff.

Anyway just a few little mistakes on my part hopefully gotten right this time.