Epiphany

This is a transclusion of my only Note on Facebook; I just wrote it tonight after the fireworks.

Tonight I feel like I had an epiphany. Perhaps the fireworks inspired it. Simply due to how it's affected my outlook on life, though, I'm sharing it with you.

Gurren-hen

Firstly, I apologize for the sudden change in font; I had some random spacing issues that caused this font the change all over the place, and I ended up standardizing with this style. Anyway, I once explained the film I'm about to review with the following analogy: "Gurren-hen is to Gurren Lagann as Rebuild of Evangelion is to Neon Genesis Evangelion." It turns out I was a little bit wrong about that. You see, Gurren-hen in itself is defeated. Like Rebuild of Evangelion, Gurren-hen is meant to be an abridged retelling of a portion of the anime in a movie format. While Gurren-hen is this, it also isn't. It's kind of confusing, almost comparable to double-think or your basic contradiction.


In a much earlier post, I reviewed the first half of Gurren Lagann, a recent anime series about mechs, fighting spirit, and spirals. This blog post conveniently fits in between that and my review of the second half of the anime, because Gurren-hen, also known as Childhood's End, is an abridged version of the first half of the anime. However, that's almost too strong of a definition of Gurren-hen, because that's exactly what  most of the movie is: an abridged version, to a very, very, very high degree.

Lolkick Sims Log III - Toilets N' Gills

Where we last left off, Tabris Schiller changed Hexed's masculine, all-black bed into a mixture of pink, lime green, yellow, and aqua sheets. Hexed awoke in a shock, and jumped out of his bed in fright. Hexed grabbed a plate of waffles and ran to a chair in the now brightly lit computer room. But Hexed didn't care about the waffles. After he finished the last tasteless bite of his meal, Hexed just stared at the wall... motionless... lifeless.... Meanwhile, Tabris was getting a promotion from his boss and was totally in the clear for the prank he pulled.

And that left Door. Door, finishing work, hopped in with his carpool and began the ride home. However, as they cruising alone the forest-filled roads, a car suddenly stopped them from moving any further. As it turns out, the driver was some kind of medical agent. Door, a low scientist, was for some reason wanted in the medical field. Door was sure this was a mistake. He coaxed the man back into his car, who at this point was yelling in confusion. Door decided it would simply be best to flee the scene. His carpool and he quickly sped away toward the city.

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

This post was going to be about Lolkick Sims, but then my mood changed. So I thought, "Hey, Pirates 4 was AH-MAY-ZAH, so I'll review this instead." Yeah, seriously.

You could say that was a kind of thesis statement; the movie was certainly amazing. Going into the theater to see the movie, I wondered how the movie would be able to compare with its predecessor, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. I thought that movie was also AH-MAY-ZAH. I remember the epic battle at the end of it, the way the plot tied everything together, and the way that the fates of Will Turner, his father, Davy Jones, and Jack Sparrow all intermingled into a beautiful web.

I can easily say that On Stranger Tides lived up to the greatness of At World's End... but perhaps just that much.

Doorsey and the Insano Day

Today was insane. Simply put.

I finished my final exam yesterday for this year of courses. Now I have three months off to enjoy no notes, tests, exams, or late night studying. So I was expecting that the first day of this great break would be lazy and peaceful.

Oh, how wrong I was. The funny thing, though, is that the events of this day actually start last night... kind of. As a result of my late night exam studying Wednesday night, I was exhausted on Thursday. I crashed after eating something... at 6 PM. However, my body was so in need of long sleep that I slept all the way until 3 AM. I awoke lying on top of my bed, no sheets or covers on me, with the lights and fans on. After a few minutes of lazily laying there, I realized it might be a good idea to actually get some real sleep, not fully understanding that I had just accumulating a whopping NINE hours of sleep.

Final Fantasy Type-0: A Preview

"You spoony bard!" "There's not a thing I don't cherish!" "We live to make the impossible possible!" "I, Garland, will knock you all down!" "Now we fight like men! And ladies! And ladies who dress like men!" All of these are somewhat infamous quotes from one of the most successful and well-known video game series ever: Final Fantasy. For years, the Final Fantasy series has graced its audiences with such recurring icons as its rebellious protagonists, fluffy, pom-pom-bearing Moogles, large golden Chocobos, gelatin-based enemies, and the greatest swordsman of all.

 However, such a bright and lifting description is more fitting for the most early entries in the Final Fantasy series, in which you fight as characters wearing humorous onions as armor and are assisted by old man and five-year-olds as magicians. Let's also be sure not to forget cheese, biscuits, AND mashed potatoes! In contrast, more recent entries in the Final Fantasy series have been far from so whimsical and for some gamers, pleasant. Starting in Final Fantasy VII, the plots became more Gothic, the characters became darker and more negative, and so forth. Hopeless and failure became more common in the stories. Thankfully, we still had our cute, cozy, fluffy Chocobos and Moogles to make us feel some sense of familiarity.

But not anymore.

Kingdom Hearts Re:coded Log III

Welcome back; time for another exciting episode of logging Kingdom Hearts Re:coded. This one is late because I spent the last week submersing myself in Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy. That game is amazing, by the way, I highly recommend it.

Okay, Wonderland. This time around, Sora's looking for completely unexplained items called "Inklings", which no character bothers to fully unveil or clear up for us. However, Sora looks just behind him to see something sparkly and shiny and possibly star-transcending. Once Sora found it to be an Inkling, he discovered it had two of these qualities. Then Sora reminds a girl who looks to be at least in early teens what her name is... only you, Kingdom Hearts, only you. Anyway, off to collect more delicious Inklings.