May 30, 2003
Oh yeah, I forgot.
Diana got Xenosaga about.., umm.., a few months ago..., I think... Anyway, since she got it, I've been playing it. I'm not sure if the story is quite as good as the in-depth story of Xenogears, but everything else seems pretty good. The graphics are rather nice, very pretty. The FMV's are really nice looking, and the in-game graphics are more or less the same. Yes, there are a lot of movies, but that's mostly because the game is very story-oriented. At first it's weird to get used to, but after a while, I started playing more so I could get to the next movie and move on with the weird storyline. So overall, I liked the game, I have but one major complaint.
So on the back it said, "80 hours of gameplay!". I beat the game in 40 hours :(. It was really sad, I was expecting an epic of Xenogears proportions, but like, 3x that. Instead I look on the cover and realize this is only "Part I" of a series of 6 it seems. (not sure about that number, but I don't care enough to look it up) So yeah, I gotta wait 'til September or some time like that until I can play the next part. Oh well, I can wait, I suppose I should be concentrating on not failing my Calculus class anyway. 2 weeks and it's over ^_^. But then again, 2 weeks and it's out of the dorms :'(. *sighs* Well, I'll just have to try and make the most of it.
Diana got Xenosaga about.., umm.., a few months ago..., I think... Anyway, since she got it, I've been playing it. I'm not sure if the story is quite as good as the in-depth story of Xenogears, but everything else seems pretty good. The graphics are rather nice, very pretty. The FMV's are really nice looking, and the in-game graphics are more or less the same. Yes, there are a lot of movies, but that's mostly because the game is very story-oriented. At first it's weird to get used to, but after a while, I started playing more so I could get to the next movie and move on with the weird storyline. So overall, I liked the game, I have but one major complaint.
So on the back it said, "80 hours of gameplay!". I beat the game in 40 hours :(. It was really sad, I was expecting an epic of Xenogears proportions, but like, 3x that. Instead I look on the cover and realize this is only "Part I" of a series of 6 it seems. (not sure about that number, but I don't care enough to look it up) So yeah, I gotta wait 'til September or some time like that until I can play the next part. Oh well, I can wait, I suppose I should be concentrating on not failing my Calculus class anyway. 2 weeks and it's over ^_^. But then again, 2 weeks and it's out of the dorms :'(. *sighs* Well, I'll just have to try and make the most of it.
May 27, 2003
Whee, just recently saw Reloaded, and just got a copy of it today. Too bad the copy sucks ass, but it let me look through the movie again and see the cool stuff again.
Overall impressions of the movie?
I liked it.
I went in mostly to see it for the action and the fight scenes, but I also liked what they [The Wachowski brothers] did for the story as well. The first Matrix might have seemed particularly awe-inspiring for the idea that our day to day lives were false, but it was also something that had been done before in Sci-fi novels, most specifically it's done in the "Cyberpunk" sub-genre. It's also from that genre where the first Matrix leeched a lot of it's ideas, especially from William Gibson. (Apparently it also rips quite a bit from some comic book series called "The Invisibles", but I've never read it) Anyhow, in the second one, they seem to break away from being a rip-off in terms of story and ideas, and make the movie series into it's own, original series. At least that's how I felt. I don't really want to say too much about it, but yeah. And the fight scenes were also pretty sweet as well, although in the fight scene with the Merovingian's lackeys, my friends say the Asian person with sunglasses and shoulder length hair was a woman, and I'm almost positive it was a male, but on my, umm.., copy, of Reloaded, it's very unclear, so I can't tell. Anyway, I'm very much looking forward to Revolutions, which is supposed to be coming out in Sep or Oct sometime I think, not sure.
Overall impressions of the movie?
I liked it.
I went in mostly to see it for the action and the fight scenes, but I also liked what they [The Wachowski brothers] did for the story as well. The first Matrix might have seemed particularly awe-inspiring for the idea that our day to day lives were false, but it was also something that had been done before in Sci-fi novels, most specifically it's done in the "Cyberpunk" sub-genre. It's also from that genre where the first Matrix leeched a lot of it's ideas, especially from William Gibson. (Apparently it also rips quite a bit from some comic book series called "The Invisibles", but I've never read it) Anyhow, in the second one, they seem to break away from being a rip-off in terms of story and ideas, and make the movie series into it's own, original series. At least that's how I felt. I don't really want to say too much about it, but yeah. And the fight scenes were also pretty sweet as well, although in the fight scene with the Merovingian's lackeys, my friends say the Asian person with sunglasses and shoulder length hair was a woman, and I'm almost positive it was a male, but on my, umm.., copy, of Reloaded, it's very unclear, so I can't tell. Anyway, I'm very much looking forward to Revolutions, which is supposed to be coming out in Sep or Oct sometime I think, not sure.
May 16, 2003
School is pain *_*. Two midterms today (Friday), and one more on Monday, on top of the normal homework and stuff that I have, pain, pain, pain, yeesh. Was looking at classes for Fall quarter, well.., one class for Fall quarter, and it looks like I'll have to take a 0900 class in the Fall, poor me :(. I suppose waking up earlier is good for you though, and it's a class I should enjoy (Physics 9HA), so it shouldn't be too bad. My roommate has been steadily going to sleep earlier each night, he says he thinks it's making his sickness go away faster. I should go to sleep earlier too, seeing as how my sickness is just starting and is getting worse by the day, but instead I'm here, sorta studying for midterms, and mostly just stressing.
So on Wednesday night, there was this Cuarto Idol thing at my dorm, and it was cool. Basically, it was a talent show with prizes, and Tommy, Mark, Paul, Adam and Spencer all went up and performed Let's Get It On by Marvin Gaye, kinda weird style. Mark on electric guitar, Spencer on bass, Adam on acoustic, Tommy on the bongos, and Paul singing *_*. They did well though, they weren't aiming to sound real awesome, mostly they were just having fun, and they ended up sounding pretty good too. In the end, they did indeed get the most votes, _but_, they were DQ'ed for various reasons, and were totally janked out of gift certificates to Tower. The reasons for the DQ were really flimsy too, one of them being, that they "brought too many of their friends to the show and unbalanced the vote". I found that one particularly stupid. Oh well, spilt milk and all that.
School is ending soon! AUGH! I'm not gonna worry about that yet, but I'm kinda looking forward to it. I'll definitely miss the dorms though :*(, but it should be ok, hopefully I keep in contact with many of the people I know here, but now it's time to sleep.
So on Wednesday night, there was this Cuarto Idol thing at my dorm, and it was cool. Basically, it was a talent show with prizes, and Tommy, Mark, Paul, Adam and Spencer all went up and performed Let's Get It On by Marvin Gaye, kinda weird style. Mark on electric guitar, Spencer on bass, Adam on acoustic, Tommy on the bongos, and Paul singing *_*. They did well though, they weren't aiming to sound real awesome, mostly they were just having fun, and they ended up sounding pretty good too. In the end, they did indeed get the most votes, _but_, they were DQ'ed for various reasons, and were totally janked out of gift certificates to Tower. The reasons for the DQ were really flimsy too, one of them being, that they "brought too many of their friends to the show and unbalanced the vote". I found that one particularly stupid. Oh well, spilt milk and all that.
School is ending soon! AUGH! I'm not gonna worry about that yet, but I'm kinda looking forward to it. I'll definitely miss the dorms though :*(, but it should be ok, hopefully I keep in contact with many of the people I know here, but now it's time to sleep.
May 13, 2003
So, I had a really freaking weird dream, here it is.
So in the dream, I was doing something, nothing important and all of a sudden Laura, a friend from Granite Bay, popped in to visit me with a few of her friends, and we were just hanging out for a while. And then, as we were sitting there, (we did some other stuff, I really can't remember very well though), anyhow, as we were sitting there, stuff started appearing in the air, kinda like wavy effects, (sorta like the gnosis appearing in Xenosaga *_*) and then they appeared. Then like 4 big people-kinda things appeared right in front of us, and I was like, "What the fuck, oh shit..", then Jesus appeared, and then my fears were confirmed that it was the Apocalypse. Weird huh? Anyhow, so then Jesus came down and talked to us, said it was indeed the Apocalypse, and quoted some lines about it from the Bible, then we all had to take the test thing. At this point Laura kinda disappears, then I'm in the front of a line with two of my friend's from junior high, who were both Christian, and I was really shocked at this happening, and she said, "Well, it's been written for thousands of years, it's your own fault". But yeah, we were waiting in a line, and the line was like, a walkway sorta thing, really high up off the ground, and there was a trampoline on the floor at the end of the walkway, and another walkway a little bit farther off than that. So the test was, we had to jump down onto the trampoline, and if we were to be saved, then God would propel us to the next walkway. So my friend's did it first, and they were easily saved, and I was really worried, but I did it, and I was launched across too, thankfully enough. Although, I remember that I didn't jump off onto the trampoline, I climbed down the walkway, then asked Jesus if it was ok for me to sit on the trampoline and jump instead. He said I should just jump from the walkway, but then I literally said to Jesus, "I'm scared shitless of heights", and he said I could jump straight from the trampoline then. So I jumped and I was saved. After that I don't really remember what was happening, I remember being with Diana, then us arguing, then I remembered I was hanging out with Laura, and I wanted to call her to see how her and her friends were, but I didn't have her number, so I had to go to my computer to see, so I went back to my dorms. But when I got there, my computer wasn't there first, but then I saw it on my bed, apparently my roommate moved it. Then I went to go put it down, but it turns out he dismantled it, and broke some of the stuff in it, and I was getting really pissed at them. It was just about then the dream ended, it was really surreal....
So in the dream, I was doing something, nothing important and all of a sudden Laura, a friend from Granite Bay, popped in to visit me with a few of her friends, and we were just hanging out for a while. And then, as we were sitting there, (we did some other stuff, I really can't remember very well though), anyhow, as we were sitting there, stuff started appearing in the air, kinda like wavy effects, (sorta like the gnosis appearing in Xenosaga *_*) and then they appeared. Then like 4 big people-kinda things appeared right in front of us, and I was like, "What the fuck, oh shit..", then Jesus appeared, and then my fears were confirmed that it was the Apocalypse. Weird huh? Anyhow, so then Jesus came down and talked to us, said it was indeed the Apocalypse, and quoted some lines about it from the Bible, then we all had to take the test thing. At this point Laura kinda disappears, then I'm in the front of a line with two of my friend's from junior high, who were both Christian, and I was really shocked at this happening, and she said, "Well, it's been written for thousands of years, it's your own fault". But yeah, we were waiting in a line, and the line was like, a walkway sorta thing, really high up off the ground, and there was a trampoline on the floor at the end of the walkway, and another walkway a little bit farther off than that. So the test was, we had to jump down onto the trampoline, and if we were to be saved, then God would propel us to the next walkway. So my friend's did it first, and they were easily saved, and I was really worried, but I did it, and I was launched across too, thankfully enough. Although, I remember that I didn't jump off onto the trampoline, I climbed down the walkway, then asked Jesus if it was ok for me to sit on the trampoline and jump instead. He said I should just jump from the walkway, but then I literally said to Jesus, "I'm scared shitless of heights", and he said I could jump straight from the trampoline then. So I jumped and I was saved. After that I don't really remember what was happening, I remember being with Diana, then us arguing, then I remembered I was hanging out with Laura, and I wanted to call her to see how her and her friends were, but I didn't have her number, so I had to go to my computer to see, so I went back to my dorms. But when I got there, my computer wasn't there first, but then I saw it on my bed, apparently my roommate moved it. Then I went to go put it down, but it turns out he dismantled it, and broke some of the stuff in it, and I was getting really pissed at them. It was just about then the dream ended, it was really surreal....
May 03, 2003
Should check my other blog, Sean has absolutely captured the essence of Misheru in another pic of his series. Ah, the wonders of photoshop ^_^ I knew that picture had potential. The original series of photos can be viewed at http://karniph.msspro.com/278.htm
Anyway, today I was reading the Bee and I noticed an article about www.reallifecomics.com, a webcomic I like, that I found sometime like October last year, was in the Scene section o_O. It's a funny comic, scary though, 'cause he's updated consistently, everyday, for the past.., 2-3-4 years? I dunno, a long time, very impressive. Machall does not even come close :P Although, Machall is very good in another way altogether.
Looking back, I've read a buncha weird comics, I think my first webcomic was Megatokyo, when it was good. Now it's just..., lame..., and weird. From there, I looked for others to read, read Penny Arcade for a bit, but didn't like it much. Then I got into Exploitation Now before the story got really intricate and serious, and I liked most of it. The series started out with lots of weird stuff, and base humor, but it moved on to a really weird, but interesting story. Started reading Machall shortly after that, and I still do. It's probably one of my favorite comics right now. Then Peter showed me Strings Of Fate sometime over last summer I believe, I also like that one very much, although she seems to update even slower than Machall, though it's really ok, I don't mind. I then found Real Life Comics just last year, like I said above. And lastly, I recently started reading another comic by the same artist who did Exploitation Now, it's called Errant Story. Takes place in another world with magic and stuff, same kinda style, but Errant Story is way more story-based than Exploitation Now was. Anyhow..., Xenosaga is fun, I'm tired, and I'm going to sleep.
Anyway, today I was reading the Bee and I noticed an article about www.reallifecomics.com, a webcomic I like, that I found sometime like October last year, was in the Scene section o_O. It's a funny comic, scary though, 'cause he's updated consistently, everyday, for the past.., 2-3-4 years? I dunno, a long time, very impressive. Machall does not even come close :P Although, Machall is very good in another way altogether.
Looking back, I've read a buncha weird comics, I think my first webcomic was Megatokyo, when it was good. Now it's just..., lame..., and weird. From there, I looked for others to read, read Penny Arcade for a bit, but didn't like it much. Then I got into Exploitation Now before the story got really intricate and serious, and I liked most of it. The series started out with lots of weird stuff, and base humor, but it moved on to a really weird, but interesting story. Started reading Machall shortly after that, and I still do. It's probably one of my favorite comics right now. Then Peter showed me Strings Of Fate sometime over last summer I believe, I also like that one very much, although she seems to update even slower than Machall, though it's really ok, I don't mind. I then found Real Life Comics just last year, like I said above. And lastly, I recently started reading another comic by the same artist who did Exploitation Now, it's called Errant Story. Takes place in another world with magic and stuff, same kinda style, but Errant Story is way more story-based than Exploitation Now was. Anyhow..., Xenosaga is fun, I'm tired, and I'm going to sleep.
