In Cold Blood - Logh
Lights From Sovereign States - Logh
An Alliance of Hearts - Logh
The Man Who Sold the World - David Bowie
Masters of War - Bob Dylan
For The Love Of Money - O'Jays
Mad World - Gary Jules
Imagine - John Lennon
Burnin' For You - Blue Oyster Cult
My Sweet Lord - George Harrison
Revival - Allman Brothers
The Outlaws, The Doobie Brothers, Mountain, Five Horse Johnson, The Band, Fairport Convention, Fleet Foxes,
Jose Gonzalez, M.Craft, Jason Collett, The Story, Askeleton
"Jealousy is not the enemy but only another way we learn. We learn who we are and not to judge. We learn that some people have more than we do. We can't always be who we strive to be" Jillian Jenkins
Oh and don't smoke weed. Well try it if you want, but don't turn it into your favorite thing since sliced butter like the Farinalla's have. It got old pretty fast and since I don't smoke hanging around a bunch of baked people is insanely boring.
Gave me the feeling MGS4 did. Epic as hell and holy balls, it unloads tons of crazy ideals and suggestive parallels to Xenogears, which I'm starting to play now too. This series is way too good!
I honestly can't remember the last JRPG I beat before this, it's been years.
lol, kind of. It sucked me in for good though, I'm on the second disc. I've got Xenogears coming in the mail soon and plan to finally play that one afterwards, I'm really stoked. Sci-fi, mech's, heavy dialogue, challenging God, Chrono composer ... yes!!!
Seirei no Moribito is excellent. You should consider checking out the GITS series afterwards I'd say, definitely two of Production IG's top series I'd say.
I've got Kimagure Orange Road downloaded, looks pretty good. I'll try and never compare anything to Maison though in that genre, since it seems to be top of the game easily...
Andrew has told me a lot about Hajime. I guess the manga is huge and has been going on for quite awhile. Kaiji looks interesting... I think you've shown me some scenes before or something.
Also been meaning to ask, is it still best to custom build PC's or do they have decent packages thesedays? I'm still stuck with this laptop and its really lagging behind, especially with just simply ... playing videos. All these huge encodes and Blu Ray rips are too much for it, even after reformats and the best codecs around, this thing is too weak (I even put in more ram lol). Also wanted to know if MicroCenter has HDTV's? Though I suspect Walmart still might be the best choice to go with. I've been interested in getting a 42' for awhile, I might do that soon or just wait until my tax return.
The sense of progression was definitely awesome in LOGH. I remember watching that one slower than I was with other things last year (when I wasn't working), I consistently watched 1-2 episodes per night for 2-3 months, and I think this way worked out very well because it gave me time to let things sink in and whatnot. I mean, someone could probably marathon the series right away for the first viewing, but it might melt their brain with awesomeness or something. I think the next time I watch it since I know more, I could go through it quicker. I know there will be a few more "next times", hehe. Same with Maison probably.
I have heard an awful lot of good things about sports anime overtime and I think I'm about to take the plunge. I might wait on Touch, since I hear that one is similar to Maison, so I might go for something a little more different... Slam Dunk, Hajime No Ippo, Hikaru no Go, etc, might start with one of those. I think especially after watching something like Maison I could definitely see myself getting into this stuff, since I hear they're like 110% character driven, that just sounds great. It's also gotten to the point where I don't have a lot of options for more mecha/sci-fi, lol, so time to broaden my horizons I guess!
By the way Ben told me you got the new Batman game? Epic stuff or what? I think we all knew it was going to be worth the wait, but I had no idea it'd end up being game of the year potential. I was pretty damn impressed, really hope they make another with other villains and such in Gotham or something.
Also I don't think I mentioned it yet but I got Xenosaga III finally and I'm about 12 hours into it now, I honestly think it could be the first JRPG I'll finish in years. It gave me a rush of nostalgia at first, seeing all these familiar characters return and everything kind of made me realize how much I enjoyed the first game. I think it's safe to say I'm hooked on the third now, so heck yeah. I might hit up Xenogears next. I've decided I love stuff with Nietzsche influences (Votoms has this too, with stuff about the Overman).
Yeah it was pretty mindblowingly epic. After I hit about midway into the series I kind of had a feeling the ending would 1-up my expectations and I'd end up seeing Godai and Kyoko get married, but yeah, then it went even beyond that.
The two most emotional scenes for me were:
- I can't explain this one much, but when Soichiro's father walked into congratulate Kyoko when she was sitting down in her wedding dress, I kind of lost it there. You could tell Soichiro's father kind of had this sense of sorrow or something and was always hoping for Kyoko to move on, then she finally did and you could tell it was such a huge sigh of relief for him. Maybe this scene didn't stick out as much for others, I dunno, I loved it.
- Then when Mitaka came into the bar towards the end of the last episode and a pregnant Asuna came in, the manliest tears ever. Mitaka congratulated then and I can barely think about it without losing some breath. For awhile there I kind of had strong mixed feelings about Mitaka and Asuna, I was always hoping something big would happen between them that'd make Mitaka fall more for her, but it never happened. It was just these tiny little things that built up a bit, like their dogs getting together, drunk Mitaka falling on Asuna, etc. The final scene between the two (before the last episode) in Mitaka's room, they were just kind of like "Well, I guess we'll try to start fresh and make the best of this". So on one hand I was happy they ended up together but still felt kind of bad for Mitaka because he just constantly showed it in his eyes that he couldn't let go of Kyoko... but then that scene came in at the last episode and you knew it was practically fate for Asuna to come into his life, and then the next scene that showed them with all the kids, it was amazing.
It obviously wasn't just this part that hit me during that scene at the bar, but just seeing Mitaka come in and give his best wishes to Godai and Kyoko was so awesome.
After I finished it it kind of felt like Yagami got kind of a bad ending, but then I talked about it with Aaron and Chris... it always hit me that Yagami was in Kyoko's position when Kyoko was in school and met Soichiro, however it didn't really hit me until after I really thought about it that, the Yagami at the end of the series at college, was basically where Kyoko was at the start of the series. Kyoko had to eventually find a way to make room in her heart for someone else and now that's what Yagami has to eventually do. It's like if they made a sequel somehow, she could've been one of the main characters or something. She was a mixed beast throughout the series, but in the end this is definitely one of those shows where I can't help but love every single character.
All the stuff with Kozue was really intense. I thought it was very believable that throughout those huge portions of the series without her, she was seeing some other guy behind the scenes. It was believable. She needed a good slap or two at the end with not wanting to give up Godai, or for confusing Kyoko so much "But Godai you said you'd propose to me"... but it all came together in the end and the scene with Godai seeing her off was really epic.
The propose scene was awkward for an instant and then it became something incredible. It doesn't always have to be fancy, it was the perfect moment.
I'll stop there though it's really late and this is just a lot of rambling, but yeah. The ending went beyond my expectations, it's like not a happy ending, but the ULTIMATELY happy ending for EVERY character. And seeing just about every single character in the series at the bar at the end was great.
Nice. I was actually thinking about looking into them for next year or something, for part time. My current plan (that I've been set on for awhile) is basically to work full time for the rest of the year, since I'm too late for school and stuff, saving up money, then go back to JCCC full time next semester and maybe get a new part time job. I don't think there's anyway I could stick with this job any further than that, it's decent pay, "technically" a very easy job, but boring as shit, all day everyday, nothing ever changes. You go in and turn into a drone for 8 hours. I also recently had a "corrective action" for bad attendance... it was so bad that it was an Elevated Warning and I'll be on cap for 90 days, fuck! Aaron was put on cap a day earlier too for the same thing... his second time, lol. It sounds like everyone has been on cap at one time though for attendance.
But yeah, I've been looking into going for an AAS in Electronics Technology at JCCC. Right off the bat you can pretty much take specific classes, not a lot of those silly electives or anything, and it seems like it might be better than a normal AAS since it's a little specific... assuming I go into the tech field or something. But I really don't know anything since I don't have any experience with this stuff! The only classes that scare me are Technical Mathematics I-II. Everything else looks interesting and I think there's no programming!
Well hopefully it's nothing serious. I had a glimpse of what it might feel like to have that stuff and yeah, talk about the worst.
Yeah, can never look up stuff for anime without finishing them first I say. I remember just looking for pictures of Gurren Lagann back when I started it and bam, episode 8 spoilers all over. I know it's happened a few times since then too.
Anyways, yeah it's been a real journey with Godai and Kyoko. I think the way you've always put it, is it's like these people are my friends, lol. And the gradual development and changes are awesome to see. Kyoko's finally starting to let go of the past and Godai is starting to realize he needs to man up a bit. It's getting intense with Mitaka too, whom I still definitely can't hate at all or anything. It's like I'm rooting for both him and Godai, even though I want Godai to win in the end. The preview for the next episode I'm at is bringing in Asuna though... looks like Mitaka is going to get a lot more focus here for a bit I'm guessing. I like how Mitaka has already confronted Kyoko a bit too about her "already deciding" and him having lost... it's just so believable, they don't bullshit around with this stuff and pretend Mitaka is oblivious to her feelings for Godai and things like that.
The Yagami arc, yeah. Didn't you used to always say Kozue(?) was the devil? Haha, because Yagami was like 20x worse in my book (I don't mind Kozue honestly). Though I was actually surprised how well they redeemed Yagami by that last episode of that little arc. It was a big sigh of relief, but those episodes were extremely intense and I was ripping my hairs out at some parts, like when they were in that cabin and the teacher and Kyoko saw them, if that happened earlier in the series is probably would've killed Godai's chance to get with Kyoko. It was such a good thing that Godai at that point was defensive and Kyoko was understanding of the situation. Also I guess looking at this arc in another highlighting way, I thought it was pretty cool how it kind of reflected Kyoko's past with Mr. Otonashi and whatnot. I thought it was pretty cool, though as Kyoko said, Yagami was way more aggressive and extreme.
This is definitely one of the best shows ever. I'm sad the Suki Sa OP didn't last long though, lol. The third is great though.
Just glancing over some comments and articles (Joystiq has one) here and there, it sounds like they got pretty serious with this game. It's supposedly more open and honestly like I said before, it kind of looks like this could be "What Halo 2 could've been", with it taking place on New Mombase (hopefully the whole game is on Earth!)... so yeah, I guess I'm a sucker again for Halo, lol. I want it. The music in that video sounds really amazing too but almost different, I'm sure it's Marty, but yeah it sounds a lot darker or something.
Yeah, there's more random gore like that here and there from what I remember (and you probably saw some before), lol, guess it's a perk for LOGH "technically" being an OVA. Another random scene was this super quick glance of these humongous fat stripper chicks at one point, I don't even know when or why that happened, but I remember seeing them. Not a pretty sight!
More kidney stones dude? Ugh.
Anyways, call me crazy but I think I'd venture to say Kamiya is a good bit above Norio in my book. I hate to be the type that says Norio's gone downhill a bit because of his fame... but he's done so many cliche' roles, especially lately in newer stuff. He's always some evil emotionless King or ruler of some sort, and blah. lol, I think I've said it before but I wish he did more relaxed characters like Reuenthal in LOGH. Kamiya on the other hand, doesn't just sound like he's there for having an awesome voice, but it really feels like he becomes the characters. So much passion. I really like Shou Hayami a lot too (Max from Macross), but he hasn't had as many big roles as other big names.
Oh well, Norio's still pretty epic nonetheless and I'm still a big fan. It's pretty funny though in Aura Battler Dunbine, probably before he got big, he voiced multiple no-name characters, some family members for the main cast, news reporters, the narration, random soldiers, etc, in that one. It was hilarious because it's Norio, there's just no way you'd miss it everytime his voice popped up.
lol... it's funny how much attention I pay to these things nowadays. Rewind a few years ago, they were just all Japanese people. Now, it's "Oh hey it's that guy, or her! Oh nice, he plays this character?" etc, haha.
I recently bought from them a week ago (Shogo!) and these do work really well. I remember you showing me how ridiculous Postal 2 was a long time ago, would love to see it again.
I was skimming LOGH where you're at and Poplan popped up, then it hit me:
Toshio FURUKAWA
Legend of the Galactic Heroes (OAV) as Olivier Poplin
Maison Ikkoku (TV) as Sakamoto
Hahah, I knew Sakamoto sounded like someone I had heard before. But yeah, I'm not sure what talent LOGH did NOT have. However whenever I think about it now I'm kind of surprised Kamiya didn't really voice anyone noteworthy. He's credited as Bagdash but I don't remember that guy at all that much.
How do you leave Claire behind? I don't think I ever figured or saw anyone mention how to do that anywhere. I think Gold Weapons don't effect your percentage once you have them unlocked, but I could be wrong. And there's a speedrun achievement? I guess that one could be tough, lol.
Oh yeah, the Suikoden DS game... I heard it had godawful voice acting that can't be changed, so that kind of turned me off instantly. I've got some high hopes for Xenosaga III and I think a lot of us are crossing our fingers for FFXIII, but I'm pretty sure we felt the same before FFX and XII came out. Well I'm just happy XIII is kind of back to the hybrid futuristic/fantasy settings that FFVII and VIII had and the gameplay looks like a mix of Xenogears and Chrono Cross or something. I hope it's worth the wait.
Honestly though I've been kind of wanting to block out the 360 for awhile and get back to some PS2/PSX games I need to play and haven't even started up. I guess on the bright side there's still a lot of older RPG's I need to check out. I actually have a ton of PSX games I haven't even touched like Wild Arms 1-2 which I've always heard are great, lol.
Oh, and the FEAR 2 DLC "Reborn" was garbage. Alright so it was fun, but I'm pretty sure it literally took me maybe a little over and hour to finish, for $10. Very well could've been like one chapter in the main game.
I dunno, maybe it's this gaming burnout boosting my anime watching, lol.
