This game is a modern day classic and the all important starting point for the Mass Effect trilogy. Playing through it today, it's pretty archaic and boring at times. But that's on all the stuff that is outside of the main missions, side objectives and character interaction. All of that is brilliant in this game. The story is fun and introduces you to the incredible world of galaxy hopping and future reaper destroying.
This version of the game has quite a bit of slowdown at times. I have never had a crash, but I've seen plenty of slowdown and odd visual glitches. Playing the game on it's hardest difficulty is pretty much mathematically impossible. You just don't do enough damage points to make it practical. So that kind of stinks as I like when the difficulty is geared more towards the skill level of the player and not just numbers.
Saren is a worthy bad guy and worth the trouble of chasing across the galaxy to destroy. The mission on Illos will stand out in most player's minds. The final battle is pretty memorable too, even if it is a bit clunky at times. The combat could be described as clunky by and large. But it's still fun if you're patient and a big fan of the series already. The changes they made to the combat from 1 to 2 and then 2 to 3 were incredible. That's not to say that commanding your squad in this game isn't fun. But it does play at a much slower pace. The difference between 1 and three is so great that I would not blame someone for thinking they weren't from the same series.
Overall, this game was well worth revisiting for probably the 5th or 6th time. I love the Mass Effect series. Just remember that if you decide to revisit one and create a new character, you will have to destroy Saren, the Collectors and the Reapers all over again. So do it..that's what I'm saying. It will be great!
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Movie Review: The Terminator (1980)
I had drank my 9th and 10th drinks of the day during the viewing of this movie. That was awhile ago. So my memory on this might be a bit shaky. Anyway Arnold Swartzawhatever goes back in time to try and cockblock our hero of the story, your friend, an actual mother fucker. Mfer is sent from the future to impregnate the mother of his friend so that they can all save the world. The mother is the actual hero of the story but I don't want to give too much away for the folks like me that are clueless to the pop culture that we are all supposed to have seen. By the way the LOR movies are boring, bloated garbage. More on that some other time. Star Wars is pretty shit too. And I don't like the Marvel movies really.
The indestructibility of the Terminator is pretty awesome to watch. There is some stop motion in the film, I am always in favor of that. The romance doesn't seem unrealistic or really all that creepy in spite of my plot synopsis. The music is good, the action is great and the characters are really interesting. If I had to come to terms with being the savior of all mankind then I would probably kill myself or hide in a bear cave in the mountains. I don't have heroic aspirations to say the least. Anyway it's a great film and if you haven't seen it then see it.
The indestructibility of the Terminator is pretty awesome to watch. There is some stop motion in the film, I am always in favor of that. The romance doesn't seem unrealistic or really all that creepy in spite of my plot synopsis. The music is good, the action is great and the characters are really interesting. If I had to come to terms with being the savior of all mankind then I would probably kill myself or hide in a bear cave in the mountains. I don't have heroic aspirations to say the least. Anyway it's a great film and if you haven't seen it then see it.
Movie Review: Rosemary's Baby (1968)
This movie is the ultimate study of paranoia and subtle horror. Maybe there are better examples of subtlety in horror movies but I can't think of one right now. There are so many violations of trust in this movie, so many situations that make you question whether there is a conspiracy or if Rose, the main character is just losing it. The paranoia and isolation of the film bothered me so much the first time that I saw it that I didn't sleep well for about 3 days.
If this movie accurately portrays what it was like to be a woman in the 60's, and I wouldn't know. I was neither woman nor existing in the 1960's. I am not well read on the societal pressures of women in any time period. Because if you have the free will to decide what you want to read, why on Earth would you read that shit? What I'm getting at is that everything I've learned about the world since my high school graduation has come from news headlines, horror movies and jokes. So I'm basically this timeline's contemporary Socrates.
So I don't know what it's like to be a woman, be abused by a romantic partner, that's in this movie btw, and I don't appreciate proper study material. These are the things that I've learned about myself from watching this movie again and writing about it. I watched it with two of my best friends and they were really into the movie. Scared the shit out of both of them the way that it did me on my first go round. So I recommend the movie, but if you've been abused by a partner or if you suffer some serious paranoia, then maybe give this one a pass. I think it could lose it's entertainment value for someone with that background. Anyway, much love and I'll see you all on the next one.
If this movie accurately portrays what it was like to be a woman in the 60's, and I wouldn't know. I was neither woman nor existing in the 1960's. I am not well read on the societal pressures of women in any time period. Because if you have the free will to decide what you want to read, why on Earth would you read that shit? What I'm getting at is that everything I've learned about the world since my high school graduation has come from news headlines, horror movies and jokes. So I'm basically this timeline's contemporary Socrates.
So I don't know what it's like to be a woman, be abused by a romantic partner, that's in this movie btw, and I don't appreciate proper study material. These are the things that I've learned about myself from watching this movie again and writing about it. I watched it with two of my best friends and they were really into the movie. Scared the shit out of both of them the way that it did me on my first go round. So I recommend the movie, but if you've been abused by a partner or if you suffer some serious paranoia, then maybe give this one a pass. I think it could lose it's entertainment value for someone with that background. Anyway, much love and I'll see you all on the next one.
Movie Review: Doctor Sleep (2019)
This movie featured several re-creations of scenes from The Shining(1980). Those scenes felt like cheap knockoffs. In the same way that a similar looking actor dressed as Jack Torrance and looking like Jack Torrance still has nowhere near the impact of actual Jack Torrance.
The main problem with this film is that it succeeds as a spooky ghost tale but not much else. It is not a classic and it diminishes the shine, pun intended, of the original film. This movie is more like King's writing and less like Kubrick's film. Which is why it is just an entertaining spook fest and not a masterpiece.
My opinion on this movie and pretty much most opinions of this movie really comes down to who you like more: King or Kubrick. I prefer Kubrick's work overall. Sure Doctor Sleep follows some of the plot points of Kubrick's film more than the original novel. But it still lacks the subtlety and dread of the masterpiece. Steam eating ghouls that can be killed via western style shootout and car accidents are not what the 1980 film was about. So this was a good movie and you should rent it when it's out, but it's no masterpiece.
The main problem with this film is that it succeeds as a spooky ghost tale but not much else. It is not a classic and it diminishes the shine, pun intended, of the original film. This movie is more like King's writing and less like Kubrick's film. Which is why it is just an entertaining spook fest and not a masterpiece.
My opinion on this movie and pretty much most opinions of this movie really comes down to who you like more: King or Kubrick. I prefer Kubrick's work overall. Sure Doctor Sleep follows some of the plot points of Kubrick's film more than the original novel. But it still lacks the subtlety and dread of the masterpiece. Steam eating ghouls that can be killed via western style shootout and car accidents are not what the 1980 film was about. So this was a good movie and you should rent it when it's out, but it's no masterpiece.
Movie Review: Some Guy Who Kills People (2011)
This is a funny movie that doesn't really have any scares. There is violence in it, but nothing all that scary.
The pacing of the plot kind of sucks but the tradeoff is more time spent developing the characters. There were definetly some moments where I just sat there thinking "what the fuck is going on again?" But it was enjoyable.
Movie features the best child actor I've ever seen. She is convincing, funny and turned over a very consistent performance.
This movie features the greatest sheriff in movie history. This guy is fucking phenomenal. The scene where he addresses the mayor is worth watching the film alone.
The pacing of the plot kind of sucks but the tradeoff is more time spent developing the characters. There were definetly some moments where I just sat there thinking "what the fuck is going on again?" But it was enjoyable.
Movie features the best child actor I've ever seen. She is convincing, funny and turned over a very consistent performance.
This movie features the greatest sheriff in movie history. This guy is fucking phenomenal. The scene where he addresses the mayor is worth watching the film alone.
Movie Review: Black Christmas (1974)
Characters were top notch in this film. I never felt like anyone character was unbelievable or implausible.
Villain was a strong one, ending was chilling. Really sends a shiver down your spine. Kind of like meeting your neighbor for the first time and he's a 39 years old still trying to be a hipster.
Laughed my ass off at the main character because she just answers the phone like a motherfucker. I didn't answer the phone like her even when my only job was to answer the phone.
Just a heads up, abortion is the killing of a baby. I don't have all the answers, but that is what it is. If you want to be independent and make all the decisions for your own body, then just admit that you killed a baby and get on with your life.
I got a tremendous kick out of the scene where one of our important characters fails his piano recital. He sounds like he is playing piano for the first time. Babies can clang on the keys of a piano with more rhythm and skill than the guy on screen did.
A character named Barb tells a really uncomfortable sex joke to a prudish old man who is afraid that his daughter might have been killed. She's drunk and the scene is hilarious to me. It was really tense for my friend that was watching it with me. Guess he's an old prude on the inside.
Villain was a strong one, ending was chilling. Really sends a shiver down your spine. Kind of like meeting your neighbor for the first time and he's a 39 years old still trying to be a hipster.
Laughed my ass off at the main character because she just answers the phone like a motherfucker. I didn't answer the phone like her even when my only job was to answer the phone.
Just a heads up, abortion is the killing of a baby. I don't have all the answers, but that is what it is. If you want to be independent and make all the decisions for your own body, then just admit that you killed a baby and get on with your life.
I got a tremendous kick out of the scene where one of our important characters fails his piano recital. He sounds like he is playing piano for the first time. Babies can clang on the keys of a piano with more rhythm and skill than the guy on screen did.
A character named Barb tells a really uncomfortable sex joke to a prudish old man who is afraid that his daughter might have been killed. She's drunk and the scene is hilarious to me. It was really tense for my friend that was watching it with me. Guess he's an old prude on the inside.
Book Review: The Power of Your Subconscious Mind (1963)
Book starts out by telling us that there is an infinite amount of riches just around the corner for all of us if we just hang in there and read the rest of the book. So already the book is a con and knows it's a con and is hoping that we don't know that it is a con.
Book rambles for a few paragraphs about how some dude who lost his arm, lost his arm because of the "flow of his thoughts." If thoughts made that much of a difference then everyone that ever cut me off in traffic would have died horribly and I would be a mass murdering psychic. A guy if you cut him off he'll use his powers to make you steer your car into the nearest concrete wall at top speed. I think everyone that drives would also be that same character. So this is horseshit, that's what I'm getting at.
There was a brief example about how the same suggestion could merit two wildly different responses depending on who you make the suggestions to. Well yeah, haven't you ever yelled "Suck my dick!" at a group of murderous dudes on the street corner as you drive by? They don't give the same exact reaction as when you yell it down the hallway at the nursing home.
The book points out that through the power of suggestion ancient healers were able to convince people that they weren't sick anymore by putting them through nightmarish rituals. Maybe you could consider that a healing if they forget about their aches and pains, but how do you heal the trauma associated with having minced squirrel guts and lizard tongues muddled with assorted wild berries and then smeared all over your body by a chanting mad man?
There is an example of a lady that wanted a Cadillac car. So she follows the mumbo jumbo from the book about how to imagine you are in the car until you have it. Sure enough she ends up with her uncle's Cadillac car. The uncle passed away and left it to her in his will. So either this was just an unfortunate incident, or her thoughts literally killed her uncle. Since this book wants you to believe in magic, I'm going to say that her thoughts killed her uncle for his car.
There's some marriage advice in here as well. For the nagging wife it recommends that you praise her for her positive points and show her more attention. I think that you should just imagine having the whole bed to yourself each night and your thought will force her car off a cliff with her in it. It worked really well for the Cadillac lady.
Book rambles for a few paragraphs about how some dude who lost his arm, lost his arm because of the "flow of his thoughts." If thoughts made that much of a difference then everyone that ever cut me off in traffic would have died horribly and I would be a mass murdering psychic. A guy if you cut him off he'll use his powers to make you steer your car into the nearest concrete wall at top speed. I think everyone that drives would also be that same character. So this is horseshit, that's what I'm getting at.
There was a brief example about how the same suggestion could merit two wildly different responses depending on who you make the suggestions to. Well yeah, haven't you ever yelled "Suck my dick!" at a group of murderous dudes on the street corner as you drive by? They don't give the same exact reaction as when you yell it down the hallway at the nursing home.
The book points out that through the power of suggestion ancient healers were able to convince people that they weren't sick anymore by putting them through nightmarish rituals. Maybe you could consider that a healing if they forget about their aches and pains, but how do you heal the trauma associated with having minced squirrel guts and lizard tongues muddled with assorted wild berries and then smeared all over your body by a chanting mad man?
There is an example of a lady that wanted a Cadillac car. So she follows the mumbo jumbo from the book about how to imagine you are in the car until you have it. Sure enough she ends up with her uncle's Cadillac car. The uncle passed away and left it to her in his will. So either this was just an unfortunate incident, or her thoughts literally killed her uncle. Since this book wants you to believe in magic, I'm going to say that her thoughts killed her uncle for his car.
There's some marriage advice in here as well. For the nagging wife it recommends that you praise her for her positive points and show her more attention. I think that you should just imagine having the whole bed to yourself each night and your thought will force her car off a cliff with her in it. It worked really well for the Cadillac lady.
Video Game Review: Ghost Squad Wii (2007)
I think I explained earlier in my writings that I really love shooting games that let you get your shooty on. I don't need a tutorial or a bunch of screens and text. I just want to get right to shooting. This game certainly delivers. I don't pop a game about shooting bad guys into the console with all my hopes and dreams aimed at sitting through an explanation. The only time I ever listen to explanations is when my doctor is giving them. I ignore them at work because after pretty much a whole lifetime of working I think I fucking get it. I get working that is. I make a shit ton of mistakes at work, but thankfully my job mostly has to do with personality. At least that's what I always say.
Okay the game is fucking short. A friend and I tried it out for the first time before I had to go to work and we accidentally beat the game in about 48 minutes. But that's really not a negative because I didn't plan on spending the rest of my life playing games anyway. If you're a gamer and spending your whole life on playing games then well you are a twat. I'm just kidding, games are fucking awesome and I'd rather have a full library of them than kids and a wife.
There is potential to make your friend that plays with you, and with light gun games, yes that is pretty much mandatory. A little bit uncomfortable when you are so obviously way better at light gun games. So when you're like me and you just rattle off pretty much nothing but headshoots, this can cause your friend to be a bit insecure. I wrote headshoots on purpose because I think it's really fucking hilarious.
Shoot everything on screen in every scene. There are hidden power ups that you can get by shooting random objects. If you do this then you'll be shooting all the time and that is really all I want from almost any game. I love Persona 4: Golden for the constant interaction with virtual, pretend friends. I love them more than most of the friends I've made the last few years. If I could take the characters from that game and play a light gun game with them, then I would be in Heaven. That doesn't have much to do with this review, I'm just telling you that.
The game has you blasting terrorists in a very anime flavored setting. There is nothing here but dumb entertainment that happens to be fun. I can't stress it enough, that this is all a game really has to be. I don't want every game to be The Last of Us. When I'm tired from work or just tired from depression, sometimes I don't want to contemplate the failures of humanity and the tirelessness of the human spirit. Sometimes I just want to shoot baddies. If you're like me, then you'll like this game.
Okay the game is fucking short. A friend and I tried it out for the first time before I had to go to work and we accidentally beat the game in about 48 minutes. But that's really not a negative because I didn't plan on spending the rest of my life playing games anyway. If you're a gamer and spending your whole life on playing games then well you are a twat. I'm just kidding, games are fucking awesome and I'd rather have a full library of them than kids and a wife.
There is potential to make your friend that plays with you, and with light gun games, yes that is pretty much mandatory. A little bit uncomfortable when you are so obviously way better at light gun games. So when you're like me and you just rattle off pretty much nothing but headshoots, this can cause your friend to be a bit insecure. I wrote headshoots on purpose because I think it's really fucking hilarious.
Shoot everything on screen in every scene. There are hidden power ups that you can get by shooting random objects. If you do this then you'll be shooting all the time and that is really all I want from almost any game. I love Persona 4: Golden for the constant interaction with virtual, pretend friends. I love them more than most of the friends I've made the last few years. If I could take the characters from that game and play a light gun game with them, then I would be in Heaven. That doesn't have much to do with this review, I'm just telling you that.
The game has you blasting terrorists in a very anime flavored setting. There is nothing here but dumb entertainment that happens to be fun. I can't stress it enough, that this is all a game really has to be. I don't want every game to be The Last of Us. When I'm tired from work or just tired from depression, sometimes I don't want to contemplate the failures of humanity and the tirelessness of the human spirit. Sometimes I just want to shoot baddies. If you're like me, then you'll like this game.
Move Review: Friday The 13th (1980)
This movie loses half of it's score because they actually did kill a snake on camera. What the fuck man? You guys were filmmakers, you didn't know how to fake that shit? What's next? Every guy that John Wick shoots in the next film is going to actually be dead? I fucking hate that they killed the snake. Snakes are great. I see one around my work all the time. He doesn't bother anybody, he doesn't even try to scare people. People are just actually scared of snakes so they jump and scream when they see him. But it's not like he goes out of his way to jump scare them. He just wants to do some sun bathing.
The movie features a pretty good twist. This was a very influential film, blah blah blah. Kubrick released The Shining in the same year. A much better film I might add. But I think that The Shining is a much better film than any film. So here is where I present that I am not a real critic again.
So I watched this back in September. I'm publishing this review now because it is Halloween. Or maybe it's tomorrow. I don't know or care enough to google it. I am excited about binge eating candy and binge eating turkey next month. Then binge eating cookies in December. Then drinking in January. I work during New Years and make up for missing out on the drinking that night by drinking the rest of the month away.
The kills in this movie are pretty good. The movie has some genuinely scary moments. But you watch it for the title and for the experience. Then you realize that they senselessly murdered a snake in the making of the film and you just wish that you could wash that terrible taste that it puts in your mouth out. The movie is entertaining but I'd never own it and I'll never watch it again. Because I could be watching The Shining instead.
The movie features a pretty good twist. This was a very influential film, blah blah blah. Kubrick released The Shining in the same year. A much better film I might add. But I think that The Shining is a much better film than any film. So here is where I present that I am not a real critic again.
So I watched this back in September. I'm publishing this review now because it is Halloween. Or maybe it's tomorrow. I don't know or care enough to google it. I am excited about binge eating candy and binge eating turkey next month. Then binge eating cookies in December. Then drinking in January. I work during New Years and make up for missing out on the drinking that night by drinking the rest of the month away.
The kills in this movie are pretty good. The movie has some genuinely scary moments. But you watch it for the title and for the experience. Then you realize that they senselessly murdered a snake in the making of the film and you just wish that you could wash that terrible taste that it puts in your mouth out. The movie is entertaining but I'd never own it and I'll never watch it again. Because I could be watching The Shining instead.
Video Game Review: Code Vein (2019)
So if you want a Dark Souls experience, then just play the first Dark Souls. Stop playing all these weird ass clones with new paint jobs. The paint job on this one is anime.
The combat with this game is not as carefully crafted and the difficulty is not as meaningful. The enemies are too plentiful and the combat doesn't feel as rewarding. There doesn't seem to be much staggering of the enemies either. Which makes the combat have less weight. I don't feel like me or the enemy are doing much of anything when we clang each other with our weapons but neither one of us reacts.
The environments are bland. I don't care if it's the end of the world, I am playing the game to be entertained. Part of that is having a visually appealing landscape. The cathedral section was kinda cool but it was repetitive. It was also clearly supposed to be Anor Londo.
I wish that there was a bartending mini game in the place where you hang out in between missions. That would be cool to throw rocking parties in there on a whim.
The game is for you if you are a weeb and you want to play dark souls but with the square button to spam instead of R1.
The combat with this game is not as carefully crafted and the difficulty is not as meaningful. The enemies are too plentiful and the combat doesn't feel as rewarding. There doesn't seem to be much staggering of the enemies either. Which makes the combat have less weight. I don't feel like me or the enemy are doing much of anything when we clang each other with our weapons but neither one of us reacts.
The environments are bland. I don't care if it's the end of the world, I am playing the game to be entertained. Part of that is having a visually appealing landscape. The cathedral section was kinda cool but it was repetitive. It was also clearly supposed to be Anor Londo.
I wish that there was a bartending mini game in the place where you hang out in between missions. That would be cool to throw rocking parties in there on a whim.
The game is for you if you are a weeb and you want to play dark souls but with the square button to spam instead of R1.
Book Review: Victims of Groupthink (1972)
Well this book will certainly teach you how stupid our government is, if nothing else. Most of the worst military and political blunders that the book goes over all feature a few common elements. The group that precided over all the decisions was composed of a bunch of circle jerking, high fiving morons that didn't even consider the negatives so long as they all felt good about each other.
The book has several relevant pictures, yes I did enjoy them. Thank you for asking. Sometimes I just need something else to look at besides the walls and walls of text that trap my eyes like a prison cell. Though pictures are all in black and white. They aren't the kind of black and white that looks smoky and mysterious. They just look like documentary style photos. So the book loses credit for having boring photos.
The general idea behind the hypothesis presented in the book is that if you are with a group of people that you admire and want to do well with, you will ignore evidence in order to do what the group thinks is best. D.A.R.E. tried to convince us that this was called peer pressure when we were growing up. They wanted to make sure that we didn't start doing drugs or boning because our friends thought it would be cool. But I started doing drugs and boning because I thought it would be awesome. It was awesome! Seems like D.A.R.E. was a campaign against all things awesome.
My copy has a bunch of starring and underlining in it. So somebody thought they were really learning a lot from it. Or maybe I did all that when I was in a scholarly drinking session. Those are rare for me, but they are usually brought on by Scotch.
If you've ever read Ayn Rand then you already know that groups are shit and individuals are the best. This book doesn't find that individuals are the best way to go, but it does show that group ideas and rationalizations will override the individuality of each member of the group.
I think anyone that has ever had to do a group project already knows that groups are shit. Just reduce the amount of workload and giver everyone an assignment on their own. See what we are made of just one to another. Don't test us on how well we can work with other people. Although this book does make me wonder, if you are always making the wrong calls in a group of people that you like, will you ascend to total mastery of the universe if you are in a group with people that you can't stand? I can't stand anyone really, so maybe that's what I need. A group of random people that I can't stand. Or, just a group of random people.
The book has several relevant pictures, yes I did enjoy them. Thank you for asking. Sometimes I just need something else to look at besides the walls and walls of text that trap my eyes like a prison cell. Though pictures are all in black and white. They aren't the kind of black and white that looks smoky and mysterious. They just look like documentary style photos. So the book loses credit for having boring photos.
The general idea behind the hypothesis presented in the book is that if you are with a group of people that you admire and want to do well with, you will ignore evidence in order to do what the group thinks is best. D.A.R.E. tried to convince us that this was called peer pressure when we were growing up. They wanted to make sure that we didn't start doing drugs or boning because our friends thought it would be cool. But I started doing drugs and boning because I thought it would be awesome. It was awesome! Seems like D.A.R.E. was a campaign against all things awesome.
My copy has a bunch of starring and underlining in it. So somebody thought they were really learning a lot from it. Or maybe I did all that when I was in a scholarly drinking session. Those are rare for me, but they are usually brought on by Scotch.
If you've ever read Ayn Rand then you already know that groups are shit and individuals are the best. This book doesn't find that individuals are the best way to go, but it does show that group ideas and rationalizations will override the individuality of each member of the group.
I think anyone that has ever had to do a group project already knows that groups are shit. Just reduce the amount of workload and giver everyone an assignment on their own. See what we are made of just one to another. Don't test us on how well we can work with other people. Although this book does make me wonder, if you are always making the wrong calls in a group of people that you like, will you ascend to total mastery of the universe if you are in a group with people that you can't stand? I can't stand anyone really, so maybe that's what I need. A group of random people that I can't stand. Or, just a group of random people.
Video Game Reviews: Golden Sun GBA (2001)
This fucking game was and is great. I don't know which consoles you can play it on. But I know that you can still play it on GBA. That's the ultimate nostalgia gasm for all of us millennials from that particular time segment. This game made you have hope. Even though you were a kid and the twinkle of a good, happy life was still in your eye, this game preserved that twinkle. Whereas something like Superman on the N64 just made you wonder why the world was so cruel and unfair.
The story is rad. It's the expected and typical jrpg style story. Which means that it's perfect. I know it's been said before, but it's not really a jrpg if the main characters don't bond and grow stronger over the course of a long journey and then team up to kill the god of their world, then it's really not a jrpg.
The exploration of the in game continent is rad. Imagine the magic in the eyes of a young babby Austin when I realized I had an entire continent to explore with my ragtag group of pre-teens. They have Ice, Earth, Fire and Wind powers. So basically everything that makes Captain Planet get an erection.
The bosses are rad. The regular enemies are rad too. You also have plenty of towns and dungeons to go walking around. You can capture little magic squirrel/bird things that boost your powers. The game is basically flawless and should have already had a major console release. Oh and the weapons are rad. Almost forgot. The animations of pretty much everything is great. It's either really cute and shows what they were able to accomplish back in the day. Or they are really impressive mini cut scenes that demonstrate the full scope of your badassery.
No surprises here, if you love games then give this one a try. Treat yourself to a fantastic experience that still holds up today as well as it did back when it was new. The timeless experience of enjoying a classic game.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPywZOYDSrzlPgQnsuMxDXg
The story is rad. It's the expected and typical jrpg style story. Which means that it's perfect. I know it's been said before, but it's not really a jrpg if the main characters don't bond and grow stronger over the course of a long journey and then team up to kill the god of their world, then it's really not a jrpg.
The exploration of the in game continent is rad. Imagine the magic in the eyes of a young babby Austin when I realized I had an entire continent to explore with my ragtag group of pre-teens. They have Ice, Earth, Fire and Wind powers. So basically everything that makes Captain Planet get an erection.
The bosses are rad. The regular enemies are rad too. You also have plenty of towns and dungeons to go walking around. You can capture little magic squirrel/bird things that boost your powers. The game is basically flawless and should have already had a major console release. Oh and the weapons are rad. Almost forgot. The animations of pretty much everything is great. It's either really cute and shows what they were able to accomplish back in the day. Or they are really impressive mini cut scenes that demonstrate the full scope of your badassery.
No surprises here, if you love games then give this one a try. Treat yourself to a fantastic experience that still holds up today as well as it did back when it was new. The timeless experience of enjoying a classic game.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPywZOYDSrzlPgQnsuMxDXg
Video Game Review: Mass Effect 3 WiiU (2012)
This is only a recent pickup for me as I was playing the entire trilogy on Xbox 360 back in the day.
The Mass Effect series has always appealed to me because it allows you to make friends with people that don't exist, who will love you unconditionally and will die for you if you ask them to. I mean, if that's not the highest quality escapism, then I don't know what is. You can even have sex with a bisexual blue alien lady. I'm still looking for someone out there to enact that fantasy with me in real life.
This one is the final entry in the trilogy of ME games. But the rest of the series cannot be played on WiiU. So the experience as a whole is greatly diminished. But if you take the game for it's own merits, it's still pretty fun.
I love playing multiplayer in this game. It's a repetitive ass horde mode that nobody plays anymore. I'm serious, I've played with the same four people that still play this game on this console. The WiiU is a dead console but seriously. There are only five of us out here still trying to win the war. But it's still fun.
The shooting sounds and feels great on every gun. The powers are awesome and figuring out how to build your character in order to do the most damage possible is a great time. The main story has amazing music and plenty of great missions. The reapers feel unstoppable, like an unknowable force from deep space that rains down terror on the masses. That's because they are that, but just saying it is not enough. These are enemies that we waited to duke it out with for 2 other long ass games. They are awesome and always a pleasure to kill.
Some of you have heard about the crappy ending. I don't really care about the ending, because I loved the games for what they were on their own. I only play games to have fun. This is a fun game with a disappointing ending. But if you didn't take the time to get to know all of the characters and love them with all your heart, then the ending will not matter. You'll just have enjoyed a really good game. So take my word for what it's worth and give this classic a revisit. If you want to play with me on WiiU then my tag is legendoeddiebob. It's a really stupid name but it always makes me laugh when I say it out loud.
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The Mass Effect series has always appealed to me because it allows you to make friends with people that don't exist, who will love you unconditionally and will die for you if you ask them to. I mean, if that's not the highest quality escapism, then I don't know what is. You can even have sex with a bisexual blue alien lady. I'm still looking for someone out there to enact that fantasy with me in real life.
This one is the final entry in the trilogy of ME games. But the rest of the series cannot be played on WiiU. So the experience as a whole is greatly diminished. But if you take the game for it's own merits, it's still pretty fun.
I love playing multiplayer in this game. It's a repetitive ass horde mode that nobody plays anymore. I'm serious, I've played with the same four people that still play this game on this console. The WiiU is a dead console but seriously. There are only five of us out here still trying to win the war. But it's still fun.
The shooting sounds and feels great on every gun. The powers are awesome and figuring out how to build your character in order to do the most damage possible is a great time. The main story has amazing music and plenty of great missions. The reapers feel unstoppable, like an unknowable force from deep space that rains down terror on the masses. That's because they are that, but just saying it is not enough. These are enemies that we waited to duke it out with for 2 other long ass games. They are awesome and always a pleasure to kill.
Some of you have heard about the crappy ending. I don't really care about the ending, because I loved the games for what they were on their own. I only play games to have fun. This is a fun game with a disappointing ending. But if you didn't take the time to get to know all of the characters and love them with all your heart, then the ending will not matter. You'll just have enjoyed a really good game. So take my word for what it's worth and give this classic a revisit. If you want to play with me on WiiU then my tag is legendoeddiebob. It's a really stupid name but it always makes me laugh when I say it out loud.
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Video Game Reviews: House of The Dead 2 and 3 Return Wii (2008)
I can't believe I didn't play this game sooner. It is so much fun and is exactly what I was looking for on my Wii. Before anybody moans and groans, yes the controls are perfect and arcade quality. But also better than arcade quality if you went to an arcade back in the day that had a bunch of kids in there always throwing things and breaking things. Little shits. I am not an arcade repair man, I don't know how to re-calibrate a snapped in half plastic uzi.
Do you like to partake in the old rooty tooty point and shooty? Well do you like to point your shooter at NINJA FUCKING ZOMBIES? These aren't ninjas that are fucking zombies. They are zombie ninjas. How can anyone not want to shoot that? If there is a porno where ninjas fuck zombie broads then WHY haven't I wacked off to that yet? It sounds awesome! Maybe now is the time when most people would feel shame, but I've been alive and miserable too long for any of that.
The game is hard as fuck and you will only really enjoy the experience of playing it if you play with a friend. I was playing with a close friend of mine and we both had a blast, got frustrated, planned on quitting and then played some more. We went through that cycle like 3 times before the night was out. I had a great time. I think he got tired of me blaming all of our game overs on him. That's my bad, the game is hard enough without having the one person that's on your side turn on you.
The graphics and sound look fine. Don't be such a pampered little pussy. You don't need to be able to zoom in on every HD screenshot of zombie boogers in order to know if you're having fun playing the game or not. The voice acting is hilarious and the gameplay is fast paced. There are fuck tons of zombies. What else could you want? For you father to come back home with that pack of cigarettes that he went out to get 12 years ago? Well it's not gonna happen but this game did happen. And playing it should happen to you!
The boss fights are a big plus as well. I love the crazy movements of the first boss. He fights like the grooviest dancing monster thing at the club. He doesn't buy drinks for anyone, they just buy drinks for him and slip him ecstacy when he looks like he's about to pass out. Fucking wild man, party machine monster.
I recommend the game if you couldn't tell. If you can't tolerate seeing a game over screen then you are a pussy. But you also probably won't like this game. So just save your money. But if you aren't a pussy then definitely give this energetic old classic a try.
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Do you like to partake in the old rooty tooty point and shooty? Well do you like to point your shooter at NINJA FUCKING ZOMBIES? These aren't ninjas that are fucking zombies. They are zombie ninjas. How can anyone not want to shoot that? If there is a porno where ninjas fuck zombie broads then WHY haven't I wacked off to that yet? It sounds awesome! Maybe now is the time when most people would feel shame, but I've been alive and miserable too long for any of that.
The game is hard as fuck and you will only really enjoy the experience of playing it if you play with a friend. I was playing with a close friend of mine and we both had a blast, got frustrated, planned on quitting and then played some more. We went through that cycle like 3 times before the night was out. I had a great time. I think he got tired of me blaming all of our game overs on him. That's my bad, the game is hard enough without having the one person that's on your side turn on you.
The graphics and sound look fine. Don't be such a pampered little pussy. You don't need to be able to zoom in on every HD screenshot of zombie boogers in order to know if you're having fun playing the game or not. The voice acting is hilarious and the gameplay is fast paced. There are fuck tons of zombies. What else could you want? For you father to come back home with that pack of cigarettes that he went out to get 12 years ago? Well it's not gonna happen but this game did happen. And playing it should happen to you!
The boss fights are a big plus as well. I love the crazy movements of the first boss. He fights like the grooviest dancing monster thing at the club. He doesn't buy drinks for anyone, they just buy drinks for him and slip him ecstacy when he looks like he's about to pass out. Fucking wild man, party machine monster.
I recommend the game if you couldn't tell. If you can't tolerate seeing a game over screen then you are a pussy. But you also probably won't like this game. So just save your money. But if you aren't a pussy then definitely give this energetic old classic a try.
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Movie Review: Event Horizon (1997)
First of all, the movie has Laurence Fishbourne and Sam Neil in it. That should be enough to make any film fan weak in the knees. Imagine if the movie would have been Jurassic Park meets The Matrix in SPACE! Now that would have been a sure fire hit.
So I've heard, like everyone else on the internet, that the movie is highly edited from it's original cut. They took out a lot of the horrible maiming and mutilation. Well, I agree with that decision. I don't give a fuck about the artist's original vision if the original vision would have made the movie harder to watch.
What important meaning am I supposed to surmise from a bunch of glorified gore and gross out shit? I've seen the movie clown movie from 2017 I think where the clown smears shit all over a restaurant bathroom before going on a killing rampage. I didn't find any meaning in that movie and I don't think there is any meaning in the suffering of humans in general. So yeah, I'm pretty much a Philosopher today. Eat your heart out, ......college. Yeah, mother fucking college can suck it.
There were several times where all I could think was "what a beautifully shot movie." Such a variety of things to look at on what I would normally imagine to be a bland office style workplace. I mean, it's a space ship designed for people to travel to the edge of Hell in or some shit like that. I wouldn't imagine that there would be a whole lot of creativity needed in the interior designing of a ship like that. But they came through with it anyway.
The Doctor and his wife keep meeting in weird places and she usually scares the shit out of him. The ship becomes possessed by the Devil or something like that and everyone on board is at risk of having a flashback to their evil, worse times and deeds.
Eventually the ship turns one of the characters into a slashier version of Pinhead from Hellraiser. He's all hyped to go show everyone what Hell is like. How are there any characters evil enough to be hyped about the trip to Hell? Wouldn't any sort of visit to Hell suck? No matter how evil and sadistic you are, or who you know there, I doubt anybody really enjoys an eternity of torture and evil. Maybe that's just me.
Anyway, I had a flashback of my own while watching the movie. It was to a time when I really believed that life would just get better and better. But it turns out that I was just spinning my wheels and I'm just as alone as I always thought. Maybe that's how Morgan Freeman feels in the world of professional voice over. Can't say for sure, I don't know the guy. Anyway, I recommend the movie, it was pretty good.
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So I've heard, like everyone else on the internet, that the movie is highly edited from it's original cut. They took out a lot of the horrible maiming and mutilation. Well, I agree with that decision. I don't give a fuck about the artist's original vision if the original vision would have made the movie harder to watch.
What important meaning am I supposed to surmise from a bunch of glorified gore and gross out shit? I've seen the movie clown movie from 2017 I think where the clown smears shit all over a restaurant bathroom before going on a killing rampage. I didn't find any meaning in that movie and I don't think there is any meaning in the suffering of humans in general. So yeah, I'm pretty much a Philosopher today. Eat your heart out, ......college. Yeah, mother fucking college can suck it.
There were several times where all I could think was "what a beautifully shot movie." Such a variety of things to look at on what I would normally imagine to be a bland office style workplace. I mean, it's a space ship designed for people to travel to the edge of Hell in or some shit like that. I wouldn't imagine that there would be a whole lot of creativity needed in the interior designing of a ship like that. But they came through with it anyway.
The Doctor and his wife keep meeting in weird places and she usually scares the shit out of him. The ship becomes possessed by the Devil or something like that and everyone on board is at risk of having a flashback to their evil, worse times and deeds.
Eventually the ship turns one of the characters into a slashier version of Pinhead from Hellraiser. He's all hyped to go show everyone what Hell is like. How are there any characters evil enough to be hyped about the trip to Hell? Wouldn't any sort of visit to Hell suck? No matter how evil and sadistic you are, or who you know there, I doubt anybody really enjoys an eternity of torture and evil. Maybe that's just me.
Anyway, I had a flashback of my own while watching the movie. It was to a time when I really believed that life would just get better and better. But it turns out that I was just spinning my wheels and I'm just as alone as I always thought. Maybe that's how Morgan Freeman feels in the world of professional voice over. Can't say for sure, I don't know the guy. Anyway, I recommend the movie, it was pretty good.
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Movie Review: Joker (2019)
What a lame movie, where was Batman? If you like movies with Batman in them, then you should watch Lego Batman instead. Another plus from watching that movie over this one is that you won't want to paint your face like a clown and then blow your own brains out as the credits roll.
Can't believe a guy named Joker never made any funny jokes. I went to the movie hoping to steal some really good jokes to reuse on here but now I just have to review the movie. What a let down.
Who was the romance in the movie designed for? A fucking detective? I didn't realize that people could film scenes in their heads that aren't really happening. That must take up a lot of whatever the brain considers to be CPU. Probably part of the reason why the guy was so angry all the time.
So his mother didn't care about him, and then he kills her. What the shit? If you're a middle child like me then you already know that nobody cares about you. That doesn't mean that we're gonna make the next Thanksgiving look like a Mafia shootout.
So he had a hard time with his pills and the system let him down. Well, nah yeah that's pretty much how it is. He reacted the way you should if you're a mentally ill, abused child, cigarette addict. The cigarettes might have been his only real issue. He smoked enough to get lung cancer in this one movie. Imagine if there is a sequel. I wonder if having a complete lunatic smoke cigarettes for the entirety of your blockbuster movie is good for cigarette sales. Like "Hey I want to be just like that guy!"
Movie blew. Not a funny movie, or full of fight scenes with Batman. There was no Harley Quinn either. Of course, I guess if you like learning a little something more about the human condition then you might like this movie. I guess if you wanted to witness the desperation and hopelessness of losing your mind first hand, then you might take away a meaningful experience away from this movie. Idk, I had to watch golden retriever videos on YouTube for 2 hours after the movie just to keep from curling into a ball and weeping. Sometimes I hug the covers in a big bunch and pretend like I'm hugging an actual golden retriever. I'll explain my fixation with goldens in a later entry. Anyway, have a good one.
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Can't believe a guy named Joker never made any funny jokes. I went to the movie hoping to steal some really good jokes to reuse on here but now I just have to review the movie. What a let down.
Who was the romance in the movie designed for? A fucking detective? I didn't realize that people could film scenes in their heads that aren't really happening. That must take up a lot of whatever the brain considers to be CPU. Probably part of the reason why the guy was so angry all the time.
So his mother didn't care about him, and then he kills her. What the shit? If you're a middle child like me then you already know that nobody cares about you. That doesn't mean that we're gonna make the next Thanksgiving look like a Mafia shootout.
So he had a hard time with his pills and the system let him down. Well, nah yeah that's pretty much how it is. He reacted the way you should if you're a mentally ill, abused child, cigarette addict. The cigarettes might have been his only real issue. He smoked enough to get lung cancer in this one movie. Imagine if there is a sequel. I wonder if having a complete lunatic smoke cigarettes for the entirety of your blockbuster movie is good for cigarette sales. Like "Hey I want to be just like that guy!"
Movie blew. Not a funny movie, or full of fight scenes with Batman. There was no Harley Quinn either. Of course, I guess if you like learning a little something more about the human condition then you might like this movie. I guess if you wanted to witness the desperation and hopelessness of losing your mind first hand, then you might take away a meaningful experience away from this movie. Idk, I had to watch golden retriever videos on YouTube for 2 hours after the movie just to keep from curling into a ball and weeping. Sometimes I hug the covers in a big bunch and pretend like I'm hugging an actual golden retriever. I'll explain my fixation with goldens in a later entry. Anyway, have a good one.
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Book Review: Common Sense (1776)
My copy of this book had an introduction that was like 20 pages long, so that's a huge minus in points. After that there was Thomas Paine's introduction. So this book is basically unreadable.
First paragraph is about abuses of power and the evils of tyranny. Paine seems worried that his words won't be "fashionable". Well what was in fashion for the day was slavery. American independence didn't do away with that so, this is already kind of reading like a propaganda pamphlet.
He mentions that as a colony grows it has to have a more limited parliament because the concerns of the public will be many and mostly trifling. I only know trifling as a way of describing hoes that apparently cheat on their boyfriends and then talk on the phone with them afterwards. They also appear to allow the man they cheated with to record the experience and post it online. The source that I'm citing there is porn.
There is some pointless rambling about how people are greeted in the book. I thought this book was supposed to be about guns, burgers and bald eagles. Isn't that what they mean by "American Classic"?
When I think American classic, I should be hearing the national anthem and be on the verge of dropping a little red white and blue tear. Not wading through page after page of complaints. Thomas Paine seems like the kind of guy that would call customer service and bitch them out over nothing and then demand a refund. Then he'd start his own company in the same niche.
Paine felt the need to include his accounting homework for the British navy. Americans do not count other country's battleships unless we are keeping a running tally of how many we've blown up. Read this book if you want to learn more about the forming of our country, but definitely not for entertainment.
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First paragraph is about abuses of power and the evils of tyranny. Paine seems worried that his words won't be "fashionable". Well what was in fashion for the day was slavery. American independence didn't do away with that so, this is already kind of reading like a propaganda pamphlet.
He mentions that as a colony grows it has to have a more limited parliament because the concerns of the public will be many and mostly trifling. I only know trifling as a way of describing hoes that apparently cheat on their boyfriends and then talk on the phone with them afterwards. They also appear to allow the man they cheated with to record the experience and post it online. The source that I'm citing there is porn.
There is some pointless rambling about how people are greeted in the book. I thought this book was supposed to be about guns, burgers and bald eagles. Isn't that what they mean by "American Classic"?
When I think American classic, I should be hearing the national anthem and be on the verge of dropping a little red white and blue tear. Not wading through page after page of complaints. Thomas Paine seems like the kind of guy that would call customer service and bitch them out over nothing and then demand a refund. Then he'd start his own company in the same niche.
Paine felt the need to include his accounting homework for the British navy. Americans do not count other country's battleships unless we are keeping a running tally of how many we've blown up. Read this book if you want to learn more about the forming of our country, but definitely not for entertainment.
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Video Game Review: Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles and Darkside Chronicles Wii (2007 & 2009)
Both games are light gun games that you can play with a friend. They are supposed to flesh out the story from Resident Evil games that came before resident evil 4 I believe. If I wanted a history lesson I would consult my former uninterested high school history teacher about the historical context of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations. But I don't want a history lesson and these games are ass.
The thing I love about a light gun game is being able to shoot a lot of targets in a short amount of time with a good degree of intensity. The zombies do not die quick enough. Sure you can kill them in one shot with a head shot sometimes, but not all of the time. I want it to work every time so I can go racing through your levels. I think the action in these games would excite only my aforementioned history teacher who probably works as a security guard on the weekend. I'm saying that because he was fat and boring. That's pretty much it. That also summarizes what I think of security guards.
You can enjoy anything that you do with a friend. That's about it for these games. You could probably have a good time trying to build your own coffee machine with a friend. You might even enjoy building your own meth lab with a friend, but that doesn't mean that you should do either or play these games.
Jack Krauser is in Darkside Chronicles, so that's a big plus. Krauser in these games is like going to a friend's house where all they have is cabbage soup and a spectacular dessert. The desert was great, but it wasn't really worth dealing with the smell and flavor of the cabbage soup. Krauser is that desert.
These games could give you a good degree of nostalgia if you love Resident Evil, or if you loved these games when they came out. But they just move too slowly for me. They might convey the frantic action tone they were going for if I had french fries seasoned with Carolina Reaper dust right before playing them.
I've always pretty much hated these games, because back in the day Capcom, the folks who made these games hinted that they might make a Wii exclusive game that would play like Resident Evil 4. Re4 is my favorite game of all time and was back then too. So I had my hopes way up high for that game and then they gave us two average light gun games instead. I'm still salty about it and that will probably never change.
The thing I love about a light gun game is being able to shoot a lot of targets in a short amount of time with a good degree of intensity. The zombies do not die quick enough. Sure you can kill them in one shot with a head shot sometimes, but not all of the time. I want it to work every time so I can go racing through your levels. I think the action in these games would excite only my aforementioned history teacher who probably works as a security guard on the weekend. I'm saying that because he was fat and boring. That's pretty much it. That also summarizes what I think of security guards.
You can enjoy anything that you do with a friend. That's about it for these games. You could probably have a good time trying to build your own coffee machine with a friend. You might even enjoy building your own meth lab with a friend, but that doesn't mean that you should do either or play these games.
Jack Krauser is in Darkside Chronicles, so that's a big plus. Krauser in these games is like going to a friend's house where all they have is cabbage soup and a spectacular dessert. The desert was great, but it wasn't really worth dealing with the smell and flavor of the cabbage soup. Krauser is that desert.
These games could give you a good degree of nostalgia if you love Resident Evil, or if you loved these games when they came out. But they just move too slowly for me. They might convey the frantic action tone they were going for if I had french fries seasoned with Carolina Reaper dust right before playing them.
I've always pretty much hated these games, because back in the day Capcom, the folks who made these games hinted that they might make a Wii exclusive game that would play like Resident Evil 4. Re4 is my favorite game of all time and was back then too. So I had my hopes way up high for that game and then they gave us two average light gun games instead. I'm still salty about it and that will probably never change.
Book Review: A Layman's Guide to Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis (1957)
I started this book the way that I start all books, by opening to a random page and letting intuition decide where on that page I begin reading. The first passage I read was about eating and having energy, so the book loses points for that. The title of this book told me that I would learn how to read minds if I picked it up. I don't need to know about energy, unless you're telling me that I can develop psychic energy to make things levitate or something like that. I want knowledge of actual super powers not actual facts. Which one would you rather be, superhero or super nerd? Yea me too, although I'm pretty much already super nerd.
Next passage I picked at random had to do with the Id and the Ego. Neither of which do I know about in Freud's terms, but I do know that satisfying my ego is the only reason why I rise from the bed each morning. It's also the reason why I do anything at all. My ego is my own siren call. Every time that I've been had it was because I convinced myself that obviously really awesome, pretty much implausibly good stuff happens and should happen to me. Like how when I get started discussing quirks with the hottest girl in the bar. I soon find out that she believes that her all encompassing obsession with demonology is a quirk. It's not a quirk, it's just scary and talking about it with you makes my balls shrink to the size of raisins.
The book is dated, obviously if you saw the date in the title, then you already knew that. But it is fun to look back on what was once taken for expertise. I wouldn't know what parts are dated or not, because I'm a comic not a fucking doctor. But for my part I love to read and I love the smell of old books. So this one is probably getting a recommendation from me either way. It was also really cheap, which won't sell you on the idea of finding another exact copy of this book, but it might sell you on your local used book store. These places are great and are the lowest cost, highest value entertainment that you can find. Where else can you pick up books about T-Rex, Nietzsche's Superman and DC's Superman all for less than it costs to eat one meal at Wendy's?
One section talks about how we are born with an urge to kill and how it's somehow linked to wanting to have sex. I'm not too sure about that one. After before and during sex, my mind never strays to killing. That would probably scare me. I'd definitely go talk to someone professional if while pounding away on some box it occurred to me "I've got a really sharp chef knife like 3 feet from this bed." My apartment is a studio, technically the knife is always within reaching distance. I just imagined my naked self running around my small apartment with a chef knife and yakety sax was playing in my head. That's this song is you don't recognize it by the name: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=39&v=Zcq_xLi2NGo
I felt very absorbed and in the moment while reading this book. I skipped around like I said, but it was a lot of fun. It made me wonder what the lives were like of those who had held and made use of this book over the years. It was very interesting and I think everyone should enjoy an old book like this sometime. A book that is as old as this is worth more to me that going to see a new movie in theaters. To me it's like the difference in watching your friend throw down a windmill dunk and actually owning a working windmill. I don't know what windmill's are used for, crushing grain I think? But if I could have one, I'd definitely have one. Because it's awesome, it's old and it might make people think that I'm more of an artisan than I could ever actually be. A local journalist could totally expose me for not knowing jack about crushing grain.
The section on what a drug addict is was a bit eye opening. The experiences of the drug addict described in the book are the same as what you'll find today, tremendous suffering. The book said that drug addicts become addicts of the mind. I'm not sure if that means that they thought morphine addiction was only in your head or what. But it's definitely not just in your head. That part read the way most addiction writing reads today, as though a lot more research needs to be done.
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Next passage I picked at random had to do with the Id and the Ego. Neither of which do I know about in Freud's terms, but I do know that satisfying my ego is the only reason why I rise from the bed each morning. It's also the reason why I do anything at all. My ego is my own siren call. Every time that I've been had it was because I convinced myself that obviously really awesome, pretty much implausibly good stuff happens and should happen to me. Like how when I get started discussing quirks with the hottest girl in the bar. I soon find out that she believes that her all encompassing obsession with demonology is a quirk. It's not a quirk, it's just scary and talking about it with you makes my balls shrink to the size of raisins.
The book is dated, obviously if you saw the date in the title, then you already knew that. But it is fun to look back on what was once taken for expertise. I wouldn't know what parts are dated or not, because I'm a comic not a fucking doctor. But for my part I love to read and I love the smell of old books. So this one is probably getting a recommendation from me either way. It was also really cheap, which won't sell you on the idea of finding another exact copy of this book, but it might sell you on your local used book store. These places are great and are the lowest cost, highest value entertainment that you can find. Where else can you pick up books about T-Rex, Nietzsche's Superman and DC's Superman all for less than it costs to eat one meal at Wendy's?
One section talks about how we are born with an urge to kill and how it's somehow linked to wanting to have sex. I'm not too sure about that one. After before and during sex, my mind never strays to killing. That would probably scare me. I'd definitely go talk to someone professional if while pounding away on some box it occurred to me "I've got a really sharp chef knife like 3 feet from this bed." My apartment is a studio, technically the knife is always within reaching distance. I just imagined my naked self running around my small apartment with a chef knife and yakety sax was playing in my head. That's this song is you don't recognize it by the name: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=39&v=Zcq_xLi2NGo
I felt very absorbed and in the moment while reading this book. I skipped around like I said, but it was a lot of fun. It made me wonder what the lives were like of those who had held and made use of this book over the years. It was very interesting and I think everyone should enjoy an old book like this sometime. A book that is as old as this is worth more to me that going to see a new movie in theaters. To me it's like the difference in watching your friend throw down a windmill dunk and actually owning a working windmill. I don't know what windmill's are used for, crushing grain I think? But if I could have one, I'd definitely have one. Because it's awesome, it's old and it might make people think that I'm more of an artisan than I could ever actually be. A local journalist could totally expose me for not knowing jack about crushing grain.
The section on what a drug addict is was a bit eye opening. The experiences of the drug addict described in the book are the same as what you'll find today, tremendous suffering. The book said that drug addicts become addicts of the mind. I'm not sure if that means that they thought morphine addiction was only in your head or what. But it's definitely not just in your head. That part read the way most addiction writing reads today, as though a lot more research needs to be done.
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Video Game Review: My Love will go on for Red Steel Wii (2006)
This is first person shooting and sword fighting game. That's enough of a sell for me right out of the gate. I played this game when it came out way back in ye good olden year of 2006. I only recently beat it because I like to put things off in a major way. Actually, I didn't beat it all those years ago because I thought that it was terrible and I didn't want to play it anymore. Now, in 2019 and in 2020 I've revisited the game twice and I can honestly say, I love it.
This is by no means a perfect game. Your aiming dot will sometimes just fly out of control no matter how steady your hands are. By sometimes, I mean there is a constant flickering and jankiness to the aiming. The flickering and jankiness can be compounded by the dot flying totally out of control. You can expect this to happen a few times when you're activating the slow motion shooting power. This is because you have to hold down the A button and then lurch the controller forward like you're trying to stab a ghost.
My hands shake like I need a drink, because I need a drink. Though I wouldn't recommend drinking while you play this game, you could get really frustrated and break something valuable in your place. Controllers learn to fly much easier when there is some alcohol fueled rage in the room with you. Yes I might be disassociating from the booze rage I get after 7 consecutive deaths to a highly pixelated samurai lady. I'm not gonna tell you directly of my booze rage situation, but it may have happened over at my friend's apartment who happened to be revisiting this game around the same time.
Sometimes the sword fighting controls will feel perfect and sometimes they will ignore you the way most women ignore me after our first conversation. Something about sending a lady 8 straight one-liners about my penis that sends them running in the opposite direction. I thought people loved hearing about my penis? Anyway, the sword mechanics in the game. Sometimes you can sneak up on an enemy and whip the nunchuck at them for a stealth sword kill. The kill part of the equation work pretty reliably but the stealth part doesn't. As your character winds up for the kill, the bad guy usually turns around and shoots you at least once. That kind of blows, but it doesn't ruin the experience.
The 1v1 sword battles are just plain rad. I know a lot of people hate them because they make no logical sense. Scott, the main character is a gun expert. Why on Earth would he swap to a sword and battle it out with some fools instead of gunning them down on the spot? Because this is a video game! Scott knows that we need these sword battles whether we want them to make sense or not. So he delivers.
The sword combo moves can be somewhat difficult to pull off at first, but I found them to work consistently after a good bit of practice. Regular sword fighting enemies are usually fast or heavy hitters. You have to dodge and counter the heavy hitters and you have to parry the fast hitters. Sometimes they will swap styles in the middle of the fight. Even so, once you get the hang of it, they are not that hard to handle.
The sword fighting boss fights are tense and challenging. Specifically the one with the babe that you see sitting on Scott's lap in the loading screen. She swaps styles and you have to lower her aggression meter or something like that, I don't know I wasn't really paying attention to that part. You parry, dodge and unleash combos to win, just like every other game. This tough babe is in the geisha mission and fighting her is probably one of the highlights of the game. So if you play the game, look forward to that mission.
So, like I said, the asian sword hotty is on Scott's lap in every load screen. Does that loading screen imply that we boned her off camera and cheated on our fiance that we are trying to rescue? If that's the case then why was that scene cut from the game? As a total creep, I would have loved to have observed a bit of pixelated junk bumping. Plus the lady is Asian and I think we all know that they have blurry genitals anyway, so, no need for censorship. Real missed opportunity there.
When I first saw that loading screen I thought it meant that we would befriend her and then turn over a few buddy cop missions. Maybe they had something like this in the game but had to cut it later on. It would have been so cool to get to work alongside her to stealthfully take out unsuspecting enemies like a couple of ninja lovers. Then at the end of the game you have to decide if you want to make your lifu about your sword waifu or go back to plane Jane damsel in distress. I'm 100% in the marry plane Jane and then cheat on her with sword waifu third category.
The final sword boss fight sets up a twist ending that you could probably see coming. But it's still fun anyway. I'm not sure that it really counts as a twist ending, but it does go against your expectations, so it's pretty good in that way. Like I've said before, you don't make your way through this murky, pixelated shoot and slash fest for the riveting story and deep symbolism. You don't even play this game to learn more about a culture. Well, maybe they had some kind of consultant for that stuff but I really doubt it. Most of the time the voice acting sounds like an offensive impersonation of an Asian person. That's not a dig against the voice actors if they really do sound like that, but it does at times make me laugh just listening to the dialogue.
The technology of the Wii was brand spanking new when this game was made. So it is pretty janky control wise. The graphics are pretty bad and the story is pretty dumb. But you shouldn't come into a game like this expecting cinematic brilliance and cutting edge realism. You should be in the mood to make the bad guys go boom-boom and to whip the controller around your apartment in a virtual sword fight. I got way too into one fight and slightly strained my left bicep. I told everyone at work that I did it at the gym but I think they can tell that I don't go to the gym.
The fight where I strained my left bicep was during a parrying mission against a guy that you are lead to believe is your friend. His fight is in place to make you master parrying. I didn't really understand the levels of parrying in the game at the time and so the constant whipping of the nunchuk during the fight caused me my minor injury. After something like 21 straight half parries I was able to figure out that I needed to wait a little longer to swing the nunchuk and to make the movement shorter. This allows for the full disarming parry and that's how you beat the bastard.
I was happy for most of the experience with this game. The shooting felt really good. The slow down time power was pretty rad and the game as a whole has this silliness but sometimes seriousness to it. It's really an interesting flavor. It's not always ironically funny either, some of it is intentional. The highlight of the game is probably this comical but also horrifying rabbit level. At first it plays like it's comedy, but then you have a pitch black fight scene with a bunch of ninjas or something like that. I got kind of spooked to be honest. There is no shortage of demented rabbit heads in the level. It's weird man. It's like the people who made it wanted a way to communicate that they are in fact Japanese and therefore the champions of being weird.
There are two scenes in the rabbit level that gave me jump scares to be more specific. One of them is the moment directly after the lights are turned out on you. There are two flying white orbs in the room. Turns out, those are the masks of two guys who will shoot you when you get close enough. Pretty damn spooky yo. The second time is when you walk down a corridor and see a green dinosaur looking mannequin. You can walk right past it and get a shotgun blast to the back. The green dinosaur mannequin is a man! For a rated T 2006 Wii game, these two moments got me pretty good.
When the sword fighting is responsive, which is about 75% of the time, the game feels awesome. When the shooting feels responsive, which is about 90% of the time then you feel like a total badass. The uzi is fun to blaze away with, the pistols are all great. The semi auto shotgun and the Scar assault rifle are just a great time. Both guns make you feel really powerful. The game is fun if a bit dated and janky. I give it my full recommendation. You might want to take a pass if you are easily frustrated though. In those moments where you are swinging away as if you're a madman trying to kill a house fly that isn't there, the game can get pretty frustrating.
This is by no means a perfect game. Your aiming dot will sometimes just fly out of control no matter how steady your hands are. By sometimes, I mean there is a constant flickering and jankiness to the aiming. The flickering and jankiness can be compounded by the dot flying totally out of control. You can expect this to happen a few times when you're activating the slow motion shooting power. This is because you have to hold down the A button and then lurch the controller forward like you're trying to stab a ghost.
My hands shake like I need a drink, because I need a drink. Though I wouldn't recommend drinking while you play this game, you could get really frustrated and break something valuable in your place. Controllers learn to fly much easier when there is some alcohol fueled rage in the room with you. Yes I might be disassociating from the booze rage I get after 7 consecutive deaths to a highly pixelated samurai lady. I'm not gonna tell you directly of my booze rage situation, but it may have happened over at my friend's apartment who happened to be revisiting this game around the same time.
Sometimes the sword fighting controls will feel perfect and sometimes they will ignore you the way most women ignore me after our first conversation. Something about sending a lady 8 straight one-liners about my penis that sends them running in the opposite direction. I thought people loved hearing about my penis? Anyway, the sword mechanics in the game. Sometimes you can sneak up on an enemy and whip the nunchuck at them for a stealth sword kill. The kill part of the equation work pretty reliably but the stealth part doesn't. As your character winds up for the kill, the bad guy usually turns around and shoots you at least once. That kind of blows, but it doesn't ruin the experience.
The 1v1 sword battles are just plain rad. I know a lot of people hate them because they make no logical sense. Scott, the main character is a gun expert. Why on Earth would he swap to a sword and battle it out with some fools instead of gunning them down on the spot? Because this is a video game! Scott knows that we need these sword battles whether we want them to make sense or not. So he delivers.
The sword combo moves can be somewhat difficult to pull off at first, but I found them to work consistently after a good bit of practice. Regular sword fighting enemies are usually fast or heavy hitters. You have to dodge and counter the heavy hitters and you have to parry the fast hitters. Sometimes they will swap styles in the middle of the fight. Even so, once you get the hang of it, they are not that hard to handle.
The sword fighting boss fights are tense and challenging. Specifically the one with the babe that you see sitting on Scott's lap in the loading screen. She swaps styles and you have to lower her aggression meter or something like that, I don't know I wasn't really paying attention to that part. You parry, dodge and unleash combos to win, just like every other game. This tough babe is in the geisha mission and fighting her is probably one of the highlights of the game. So if you play the game, look forward to that mission.
So, like I said, the asian sword hotty is on Scott's lap in every load screen. Does that loading screen imply that we boned her off camera and cheated on our fiance that we are trying to rescue? If that's the case then why was that scene cut from the game? As a total creep, I would have loved to have observed a bit of pixelated junk bumping. Plus the lady is Asian and I think we all know that they have blurry genitals anyway, so, no need for censorship. Real missed opportunity there.
When I first saw that loading screen I thought it meant that we would befriend her and then turn over a few buddy cop missions. Maybe they had something like this in the game but had to cut it later on. It would have been so cool to get to work alongside her to stealthfully take out unsuspecting enemies like a couple of ninja lovers. Then at the end of the game you have to decide if you want to make your lifu about your sword waifu or go back to plane Jane damsel in distress. I'm 100% in the marry plane Jane and then cheat on her with sword waifu third category.
The final sword boss fight sets up a twist ending that you could probably see coming. But it's still fun anyway. I'm not sure that it really counts as a twist ending, but it does go against your expectations, so it's pretty good in that way. Like I've said before, you don't make your way through this murky, pixelated shoot and slash fest for the riveting story and deep symbolism. You don't even play this game to learn more about a culture. Well, maybe they had some kind of consultant for that stuff but I really doubt it. Most of the time the voice acting sounds like an offensive impersonation of an Asian person. That's not a dig against the voice actors if they really do sound like that, but it does at times make me laugh just listening to the dialogue.
The technology of the Wii was brand spanking new when this game was made. So it is pretty janky control wise. The graphics are pretty bad and the story is pretty dumb. But you shouldn't come into a game like this expecting cinematic brilliance and cutting edge realism. You should be in the mood to make the bad guys go boom-boom and to whip the controller around your apartment in a virtual sword fight. I got way too into one fight and slightly strained my left bicep. I told everyone at work that I did it at the gym but I think they can tell that I don't go to the gym.
The fight where I strained my left bicep was during a parrying mission against a guy that you are lead to believe is your friend. His fight is in place to make you master parrying. I didn't really understand the levels of parrying in the game at the time and so the constant whipping of the nunchuk during the fight caused me my minor injury. After something like 21 straight half parries I was able to figure out that I needed to wait a little longer to swing the nunchuk and to make the movement shorter. This allows for the full disarming parry and that's how you beat the bastard.
I was happy for most of the experience with this game. The shooting felt really good. The slow down time power was pretty rad and the game as a whole has this silliness but sometimes seriousness to it. It's really an interesting flavor. It's not always ironically funny either, some of it is intentional. The highlight of the game is probably this comical but also horrifying rabbit level. At first it plays like it's comedy, but then you have a pitch black fight scene with a bunch of ninjas or something like that. I got kind of spooked to be honest. There is no shortage of demented rabbit heads in the level. It's weird man. It's like the people who made it wanted a way to communicate that they are in fact Japanese and therefore the champions of being weird.
There are two scenes in the rabbit level that gave me jump scares to be more specific. One of them is the moment directly after the lights are turned out on you. There are two flying white orbs in the room. Turns out, those are the masks of two guys who will shoot you when you get close enough. Pretty damn spooky yo. The second time is when you walk down a corridor and see a green dinosaur looking mannequin. You can walk right past it and get a shotgun blast to the back. The green dinosaur mannequin is a man! For a rated T 2006 Wii game, these two moments got me pretty good.
When the sword fighting is responsive, which is about 75% of the time, the game feels awesome. When the shooting feels responsive, which is about 90% of the time then you feel like a total badass. The uzi is fun to blaze away with, the pistols are all great. The semi auto shotgun and the Scar assault rifle are just a great time. Both guns make you feel really powerful. The game is fun if a bit dated and janky. I give it my full recommendation. You might want to take a pass if you are easily frustrated though. In those moments where you are swinging away as if you're a madman trying to kill a house fly that isn't there, the game can get pretty frustrating.
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