So my PC decided to finally die on me a few days ago while working on some paid illustrations, but just today it booted up and worked. Thank the Omnissiah the file I was working on didn't get corrupted. Still need to have it checked though since i'm pretty sure it's dying this time around. Everytime I open photoshop my computer starts to flip the shit out. Backing up files and everything is a bitch. First hiccup of 2012.

In other news.

Films:

Watched Arena. You know. That strange film staring Samuel L. Jackson?
                                                               

I found it hilariously twisted in a Battle Royale kind of way. Wasn't really that good compared to BR. This film was so bad. The Tits and ass were nice though, but if I wanted to watch tits and ass I would have watched porn instead.

Cowboys and Aliens made my brain hurt. Somehow the local Indians were doing a better job fighting a technologically advanced alien race with their bows and tomahawk axes than the cowboys armed with rifles and revolvers. They should have called the movie Indians and Aliens instead. I did like how the aliens reminded me of the Deep Ones from lovecraftian lore. Olivia Wilde has one of the most beautiful set of eyes. But don't get me wrong. I don't find her that attractive at all. It's just those eyes.



Real Steel was an OK film. Though I thought it ended a bit too abruptly. A nice film that somehow manages to bring you back to your childhood. Now I have this sudden urge to watch Iron Giant all over again.

The Change-Up was hilarious. Never really saw any trailers for this movie, so when I watched it for the first time I was surprised to find that Olivia Wilde was in it. But as I've previously stated, I'm not really into Olivia Wilde.


Ok let me clarify that. I find Olivia Wilde VERY attractive. But unlike most of you it's not her pornstar body I'm attracted to. It's really just her eyes. The pornstar body just so happens to be attached to those lovely set of eyes, so what can I do?


But enough about Olivia Wilde's eyes. If you like films like The Hangover then you'll probably like it. If not then why are we even here? oh right. you saw the pretty pictures on this journal. Carry on.

I was finally able to watch Lord of war which was surprisingly good. I quite liked it. It had Jared Leto so I enjoyed it very much, though it seems now my girlfriend is also a huge Jared Leto fan. LOL.

Bad Teacher was a pretty hilarious film. It's been awhile since I actually laughed out loud or seen a Cameron Diaz film for that matter.

In Time caught me by surprise. I liked the concept, but I'm not really sure Justin timberlake pulled it off, and I still can't get my mind off his performance in Bad Teacher. The story was kinda interesting I guess. I probably enjoyed it because I wasn't really expecting a lot from it. Heck, I wasn't even expecting Olivia Wilde to be in it. . . Surprise, Surprise. According to the story, by 2161, genetic alteration has allowed humanity to stop aging at 25, but people are required to earn more time after turning 25 or die within a year. Time is the currency and without it you will die. Literally. The good part is if you're filthy rich, you get to live forever. On the other hand, if you're poor then you hardly make enough to get through the day.



The moral of the story is don't waste time, most especially if your mom looks like Olivia Wilde. I've also learned that In the future corporate/bank security is next to shit in a blender.



Animu:
Nisemonogatari was pure fetish fuel just like Bakemonogatari. Except this one takes it to a whole new level.



The amazing part is how it manages to avoid falling into a predictable harem anime pattern like most perverse harem anime.
                                                                                                        

If you're into strange anime and fetishes(You're bound to have one or several. Admit it.), then you'll probably like this series. And If those three screen shots weren't enough to send you to your favorite torrent site, then there is either something very wrong with you or you're a pick up artist posing as an Anime-Connoisseur, just so you could bang that hawt anime cosplayer you've been eyeing for awhile now.  


                                                                                                         


Mangu:
I really should stop reading Gantz every release. Waiting for the next issue is painful.
                                                                                                        



I have a feeling Reika is going to die horribly in the next issue. I will miss those huge pair of tits. . .
                                                                                                          


If you guys haven't heard of Mardock Scramble yet then I suggest you check it out. If you're into Deus Ex: Human Revolution then you might like it. That's if you don't mind the fact that the heroine is a jailbait deluxe with Adam Jensen's kickassery.

                                                                                                       



I forgot to mention that it's also very cyberpunk/neo noir, and a little bit of Blade Runner. Roy Batty even makes an apperance.

                                                                   

On a final note. I don't really like the anime. They changed the character designs so much, Rune ended up looking like a Motoko Kusanagi jailbait model sexdroid and Boil looks like Batou from his child molesting days. Plus the pacing and sequence of the story is kinda weak compared to the manga.

Vidya:
Finished Uncharted 1 to 3. It's fun if you can manage to turn your brain off to how absurd the whole thing is along with Drake's morality. I quite liked the airplane segment in part 3, but I have to question the hired thug's priorities. It seems all of them were more concerned with trying to kill me instead of getting the hell off the burning plane. Sounds like unwavering loyalty. Good help is so hard to find these days. I'd say these thugs were worth the main bad's paycheck. The game still has some bugs but man does it look beautiful. Not bad from the studio who made crash bandicoot.



But as good as this game is it has a lot of bad attached to it. To name a few. Repetitive gameplay. I'll have to agree with one review on the web that pressing the Square button is an easy way to deal with EVERYTHING.



The lack of a god damn story( OK that wasn't fair of me to say but, oh man, Don't even get me started on the story), The inhuman resilience of Nathan Drake, and Victor Sullivan's inhuman GAR inducing classiness. Ok that last one was actually the only thing I really liked about the game. Sully has swag. Lastly let me tell you about the stealth system which frustrates me. The moment I mess up in killing one isolated thug almost half the entire continent knows where the hell I am. If the developers wanted me to just gun my way through everything then they shouldn't have bothered giving me a frustrating stealth segment with their Gears of War like gameplay.





Street Fighter 3: Third Strike ONLINE EDITION would have been really great if it didn't look so god damn horrible on my HDTV monitor. Though I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy the Nostalgia Rush. Feels really good man. Though It's just sad that CRAPCOM could have made this a definitive title if they just bothered to spend some cash on redrawing the character sprites we've grown to love over the decades instead of giving me more 3D diarrhea like Marvel versus Capcom 3 or Street Fighter 4.

During Chinese new year I played a local game of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 1 with a few good friends of mine, and after almost 3 years I'm surprised I've still got it. I'm not saying I'm good at the game, but I wouldn't say I suck either. Now before any of you decide to comment with "Call of duty sucks my balls hurhurrhurrrr" or "Boy Friend number 3 is best military multiplayer evaaaahh hawwwwww" I would just like to tell you that amazingly enough I don't give a shit. MW was a great game despite a lot of it's flaws, but if you and your friends are enjoying it together then there isn't really a lot of things people can say to stop you from having a good time. I'd have preferred playing MW2 or 3 with my friends, but the ones in the cafe we frequent haven't cracked those properly yet. So I'll settle with MW1 since it doesn't really matter if you're playing with friends. That's the magic of friendship.

I've always enjoyed Team based objective modes since it really does give you things to do, plus for me it is the true measure of skill in multiplayer. The game mode Free-for-all is probably the mode I frown upon the most, but only because of people who "claim" to be good at the game just because they top that mode all the time. They forget that against an organized group of players, their one man bravado won't really cut it. Don't get me wrong. I do enjoy some mindless killing once in a while in between objective game modes. I should play this game again more with my friends here. I dunno about you foreigners but internet cafe's here in my island tend to be pretty cheap, so playing local games is pretty much how we do things for maximum Bro-Time. Issues like grenade spamming don't really become an issue since we all play in the same room, we can always tell the guys who grenade spams to cut that shit before shit happens. I guess games like this are really different played across the internet.

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater is still and will be one of my personal favorite games of all time. Playing it on Extreme mode every chance I get and I could not believe how HORRIBLE the controls were back in the day. Getting used to it again is a bitch and I have Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker to blame for that. PW had such perfect controls. I hope KOJIMA makes MGS5 with the same control choices as PW.


Though to be quite honest if MGS5 is still about Solid Snake, please for the love of god just let the man die already. I'd be more interested in a game about Naked Snake. Anyway with regards to MGS3's controls, I adapt easily to things so it shouldn't be a problem. My love and devotion to anything I enjoy is very powerful as it is potent. I won't be finishing this game anytime soon due to work but until then I'm still in a dream SNAKE EATER~!