Some people I know have been prodding me with a very long stick to try and get me to be more social and interactive with others. So I crawled out of my dark hole and decided to stream things, on occasion at least. If you are interested in them vidya games, and maybe some synx nonsense, you can catch me over here: https://www.twitch.tv/uhohspaceworms

Art will likely become a thing to if this has enough interest, but I'll probably find a different place than twitch for that.

There are also talks about me popping up on some friend's streams to discuss particular topics in depth. We'll wait and see about that to.

So yeah, if you ever wanted to actually hear me ramble on about anything, rather than just read my colorful descriptions, now's your chance.

It would seem some synx enthusiasts took advantage of the spooky season and used blood magic to summon me back.

First off, thank you to everyone who sent nice messages to me over the years (I really don’t deserve that) and everyone who visited (you guys rock!) and especially everyone who helped me in my greatest times of need (words cannot describe my love for you and what you’ve done).

THANK YOU, sooo much!

Needless to say, I’ve had quite the journey. I won’t bore you with all the details, so here is the condensed version.
At the start: disaster and death, which resulted in me nearly losing my home multiple times, living off $1 TV dinners and
cereal/cheap junkfood. Caring for the animals my deceased family left me. Having a relative move in here in 2016 to “help”, but they ended up being a burden and danger to themselves (and to my home and animals). That person is now crippled, and in turn also became someone I had to care for these many years. It was like a perfectly crafted hell made just for me, I should have known that Wolfram and Hart contract would bite me in the ass. Things change though.

This year I lost the last of those animals left to me (RIP I’ll never forget you guys) and my cousin moved back in, helping me take care of the aforementioned relative. This has opened up time and focus I didn’t have before, so I think I’m going to try and pick up where I left off, at least as much as I can. I know FA isn’t quite the same now; we nearly lost it, and we did lose  Dragoneer (RIP man).

Before anyone asks, no, commissions/trades are not open. I’ll be focusing on art already owed, as well as projects I started but never finished, and if I can get through that, then I’ll consider taking on things for people again.

I liked the movie; I give it a solid 7-ish score. I can only assume most of you will enjoy it quite a bit more, given the obvious theme, so I suggest you all go out and see it. =) Wanted to get that out of the way first because I don't want anyone to think what I say below is trying to discourage anyone from going to the theater. I also don't see the point of saying what I liked about it; basically all reviews are positive, so you wouldn't really get anything but a parroting of what several others have said. So I'm just going to talk about what I didn't like.
((WARNING: The following opinions are my thoughts and feelings about what the movie presented, and really just that. If this bothers anyone I am sorry, but my positive/negative input shouldn't be vital to your enjoyment of the film))

It's a kid's movie... don't over think it.
It's funny to see this popup when someone questions or criticizes Zootopia while it is simultaneously receiving praise for being "deep" and "well thought out" by mobs of film critics and fans. It's almost like the movie is thoughtful only when it's convenient for it to be. The way I see it, if it can be praised for its attempt at depth/world building/sensitive topics, it can be criticized for them as well. I mean, that's fair... right?

Ok let's start with the big one-The Message:
I don't usually like it when a movie/show/story compares prejudice between species too prejudice between races. Both are such complex issues in entirely different ways, you kind of have to handle it with the same care you would radioactive material. I am not completely adverse to the idea itself, but it is usually done poorly, and has since become an outright pet peeve of mine. It's an incredibly easy and cheap element to add to a story when you insert it in its most basic form; the fast food equivalent of story telling. And like fast food it tastes delicious, even if it isn't healthy for you to consume.
Unlike races, species are actually different from one another. By using them, one risks treading into dark territories with winding paths, some of which lead to the unfortunate few instances prejudice is actually, genuinely justified.
That's why racism and speciesism are not comparable at all. That wasn't a problem in Zootopia though, (of course, it was a Disney movie after all). The particular problem with the film was it went too far in the other direction, to the point that none of it made any sense. There was also no finesse to it. Having teeth and claws was akin to having a particular skin color (?). Ok, but there was no other difference between the predators and herbivores otherwise; not in behavior, culture or politics, at least not that I could see. The predators didn't eat anyone nor did they show any interest in such an act. There was simply no reason for the distrust and fear, yet someone (the villain) was so motivated to make them look bad...? It's a tad baffling to me.
It feels it would have been more effective if it gave the main characters one actual issue of day-to-day life to deal with in this world, like those collars they cut from the final film. Ultimately the message part of the film came off as a little shallow to me because of that.

The Details:
Yeah I know, this shouldn't be a big deal and normally it would be just a nitpick for any other movie. But when a film comes out the gates with the creators boasting about how much thought they put into their world, I got to say I expected a little bit more. I know this initially sounds like a nitpick, but they don't even say what the predators eat in the movie, I had to search social media to find that detail out. You can't possibly say that is something easily dismissed either, it's the very reason why this world can exist in the first place. (the answer is fish and insects, btw) Seems a tad bit important lol

For the third time, the movie isn't bad. I can definitely see why young kids and enthusiastic furries think it is a 10/10, but I'm just not feeling it in quite that way. I just see it in the standing I see the original Kung Fu Panda and Disney's Robin Hood, but that's still good because I like both of those.

Let's start of by being very clear here: I have a very low tolerance for "hamminess" in movies I want to be more serious or movies that really should be more serious.

At no point in JP1 did I feel it was hammy; everyone acted very naturally and human. Excluding the end sequence in JP2, the rest of JP2 was the limit of hamminess I am willing to withstand, and JP3 was (ironically enough) x3 my lethal dose, as are movies like Age of Ultron and other things I simply cannot stand. But don't misunderstand, I like silly movies like Kung Fury to. At no point in Guardians of the Galaxy did I feel things should be any other way then they were, it just worked the way it was.
Like JP2 this movie reached my limit... but it didn't cross it. I stood on the threshold, but I didn't fall into the abyss. tl;dr I was still interested and in tune with the movie even when it was being stupid, and it does indeed get stupid sporadically throughout the movie.

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I absolutely did not like:
Super cheesy military guy (Vic)
Super business lady/park manager (Claire)
and Jurassic Park geek *nod to audience winkwink* guy. (Lowery)

I like the "idea" of all these characters, and I do think they needed to be there, but I think they were handled poorly and could have been a lot better/less exaggerated/more like real human beings. None of them came off as real people; military guy and the manager were cartoon characters and very one dimensional ones at that. Lowery was just a poor actor and talked very fast at first. Everything involving him seemed unnecessary because he lacked any kind of real personality, even if someone needed to be there and say the things he said. Either his parts were poorly written or he's a bad actor. SHOCKINGLY the kids didn't annoy me... Yeah, I'm at a loss for words there. Of course Owen was great, the guy actually in charge of everything also gave a decent performance while he was around. Good on both of them.

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I am split 50/50 about the end sequence. I went with a group of people and we all argued in the car whether or not what we just saw was super cool or super stupid. A fucking Velociraptor riding/tag teaming a T-rex to kill the irex(?). Ok maybe it's cool and stupid, I don't know. And as much as my company wanted to pick it apart, I gave the movie the benefit of the doubt. The raptor and the T-rex weren't actually working together (I argued). They just happened to be attacking the same thing at the same time, which makes sense because they both felt threatened by it more then each other. After it was dealt with, they were probably both tired as fuck of fighting, so went their separate ways. STILL, the movie did frame it as something more then that, which did bug the crap out of me, I admit... But it was still a cool thing to see still. I guess it's time to hang up my "I'm a mature adult" hat.
As much as some might disagree, the Indominus Rex was also very believable in it's behavior. I could see a giant 50ft parrot doing a lot of these things if it had the biological abilities this thing had, but I get that a lot of movie goers were probably thrown back; not everyone knows how smart some animals are, so it all probably just seemed like "typical movie monster logic" to them.

Speaking of which I was kind of thrown back by something and taken out of the movie, specifically Dr. Wu refusing to say what was the Indominus Rex was made with. It's like.. REALLY? After it got out and already ate people you're still worried about patents!?!?!?! I'm sorry, that wasn't believable at all, if anything I would be frantically trying to help everyone with spilling as much info a possible to reduce my own liability once the casualties roll in. Also Claire wanted to keep the park open while that thing was loose!?!?! Completely unbelievable to. Could you imagine a zoo trying to keep it quiet a lion was loose? Fucking hell what is a brain, how does it function? The mysteries of life I guess...
The raptor scene- letting them out and everything that happened afterwards - was very well done. I'm happy they killed/ate people. The trailers to this movie painted a very different picture of the raptors, and I wouldn't have liked them or the movie if it went that "big trained dogs" route. That would have been the thing that finally killed the movie for me, thankfully that wasn't the case. It made sense the only human they hesitated with was Owen, that was completely acceptable.

I admit I was grinning hysterically when I realized the kids were walking in the ruins of the Original Jurassic park. But fuck that happened in 22 years? It looks more like 100 passed.

Also it's pretty damn obvious Dr. Wu is going to be the villain in the next movie, that departure of his wasn't subtle at all. He sounded like a super villain in some parts of this movie already, even if he still came off as having understandable motives. It's clear though his "work" will continue on somewhere else, especially in regards to the deal with generic hardass military guy, which obviously has to do with using dinosaurs as weapons in some way.

All in all, I give it a 7 or 8 out of 10 (that seems to be the consensus online). For perspective, here is my opinion of the JP movies now that I've seen them all

JP1: 10/10
JP2: 7.3/10 (1.3 points just for Jeff Goldblum, otherwise a 6)
JP3: 3/10
JPW: 7.8/10

Honestly I would have given it a 9.x if only a handful of things where done better and a few characters were more believe and less phoned-in.

So as all of you are undoubtedly aware, the internet is becoming an increasingly sensitive place. There has always been people trying to police what is in our movies, music, books and video games, that isn't new. But this mindset is something I've seen starting to bleed into more personal and familiar territories I am a part of. Even I have had several recent questions aimed my way: "why would you draw something so horrible?" but I'm still getting the gentle end of this. Others who I follow have been called outright psychopaths and horrible people for making "unhappy" drawings. This seems to be a complete lack of comprehension or understanding as to why anyone would create something that isn't happy.

A LOT of people like Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones and Attack on Titan. The Saw movies sold enough to apparently sustain that franchise for 7 damn movies; and they were nothing but gore and torture. Horror itself is a very popular genre, and people complain in video game forums daily that there isn't enough of it. We want to be scared, we want to be horrified, grossed out or otherwise bothered, all to varying degrees between each person, but still quite a lot of us want it to some degree. It's not inherently bad to feel these things, it's how we handle them that's good or bad.
So many of us go through day to day life, droning on in an almost trance-like autopilot. Sometimes it takes watching a character you empathize with die horribly or nearly die to remind you what a precious thing life is and break that trance. Some people just like to be afraid, maybe for the thrill, or because they don't really get to experience that emotion otherwise. It's fun to force yourself to feel bad emotions in a controlled environment where no harm will actually be done to you, that's why people watch sad movies/read sad things on purpose. The person exposing themselves to that entertainment wants to feel sad, they just don't want the consequences of actually having to experience something in real life that would bring about that emotion, and for reason.

Don't like that stuff? Don't want to feel something bad? That's perfectly fine, however there might be something wrong in your wiring if the existence of such entertainment unsettles you to the point you go on little crusades to wipe it out of existence. That isn't a healthy or rational thing to do, and yes, I would say even less healthy and rational then any scary drawing someone made.

This is in no way meant to be a discussion on whether or not souls exist. That's a common debate I have absolutely no interest in. I do however find the reactions of people in this particular situation fascinating, and I am willing to go headfirst into it. This seems like an interesting thing to debate.

The recent kerfuffle going on about the Pope telling a small boy animals go to heaven is actually really interesting from an observation standpoint. I see a lot of upset people apparently weirded out by the idea that their pets or the things they kill for food aren't just biological machines. Soul or not, I will respond to that with a resounding DUH. Even if they didn't have "a soul", animals do think, there is a lot going on in the heads of many of them. They make decisions, dream, hold grudges, remember things, experience emotions and a great many other things we experience as well.

But now that the pope has suggested they might have souls, people are freaking out and asking "Should we eat them now!?" I'm sorry, but I find that outright disgusting. The Pope making a declaration of any kind doesn't change the fact that animals have always been here, showing their ability to think and express themselves this whole time, but apparently that wasn't relevant until NOW!? I cannot even fathom the mental gymnastics required to justify being so openly dismissive about them before, then suddenly pulling a 180 because of what an old man said... even though nothing in the world has actually changed.

That said, the people saying "Now that animals have souls, should we eat them?" are also admitting they're pretty fucking cruel. What I mean by that is the very act of asking that question suggests they were more then happy to eat something if it "didn't have a soul". Really..!? So taking the life of something and blipping it out of existence because they like the taste of that particular animal is totally ok, but the idea that it might exist in some fashion afterwards makes them rethink it? They WANT things to blip out of existence after they kill it, they're more comfortable with that. Killing and eating an animal that has a soul at least assures that poor thing will somehow exist afterwards, so if anything I'd rather eat animals that do have souls, because that makes more ethical sense, doesn't it?

Do animals have souls? ...do we? The fucking hell does it matter; it doesn't actually change anything around us one way or another. That said, animals eat animals and even occasionally eat us (they used to a LOT more in the past), so if god does exist, he's a huge fan of things with souls getting eaten, since this is all supposed to be his design. Seems like that should immediately answer the question of all these lost and confused people.

Disclaimer: I am in no way against eating animals, the point of this was more disgust at people's attitudes about it.

*Dio joke here*

I think I've finally realized why many people (including myself) hate The Legend of Korra and also why people dislike Attack on Titan, and it's mostly the same reason, just at different extremes. The reason is the focus on the world, or lack there of.

Avatar the Last Airbender is considered one of the best shows of all time, so why did Korra drop the ball with so many? Is it the unlikable characters? Sure, that definitely helps, however I admit I started to like Korra herself somewhere mid season 2 and most of season 3, and still this show fell flat for me. Now I know why! The world, or better yet, the lack there of. Aside from the likeable characters, do you know what made Avatar the Last Airbender a great show? It was an adventure. You took this group of kids and they explored an entire world together. Seeing all the neat creatures, all the new settings and watching these characters interact with these environments for the first time made you feel like you were on this adventure with them. And as weird as this world was, it was also believable, at least in the framing they were providing.
The Legend of Korra isn't about exploration, it's not a journey or adventure. It's mostly just the characters switching between 2 or 3 locations the entire season, and all the emphasis is put on these characters, not their world. Sure, it did focus on the world a few times, but most of it wasn't very important. Very stark contrast to The Last Airbender, and also a very large error in judgment on the part of the creators. They believed the characters in Korra would be so interesting the world could easily take a backseat. Given the poor performance of Korra's show, it's clear they were grossly mistaken. Huh, world building is important... who would have guessed!

Then we have Attack on Titan, which has just the opposite problem. Almost the entire focus of Attack on Titan is the world and the situation itself, not the people and not the characters. Because of this many viewers are immediately turned away, baffled by what it is they see and annoyed that the resolutions for the characters aren't immediate or apparent. Nothing says that so plainly as watching reviews of it like this:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/vid.....ttack-on-Titan

These two were so laser focused on the characters, everything important that was revealed about this world and this conflict went straight over their heads. The implications of the second half of the series is what was supposed to be interesting about it, not whether or not they saved the day at the end. Who the female titan is wasn't supposed to be a mystery... the interesting part about it was what it meant. Again, these fellows had such focus on the characters, the bigger picture was lost to them completely. The reason I bring that up is because that "bigger picture" was the world; the very thing the characters had been in conflict with since the show began.
I don't fault these guys, I completely understand why someone wouldn't enjoy Attack on Titan if they couldn't appreciate the world or mystery surrounding it, but that begs the question; is it bad to focus too much on a world like that?

Korra didn't do it enough, Attack on Titan did it too much.
It's interesting to see the fallout of both, and I suppose someone's like or hate of either could be a good measurement of how much they value this part of a story.

How important is a world to you?

Ok, so definitely not as bad as I thought it was going to be, and I will even make the cardinal sin of saying I enjoyed the humans and their "story" more then in Pacific Rim (excluding Hannibal) because they were characters and not caricatures. But really I thought Pacific Rim was ok so don't attack me.

Still, don't understand this movie in many ways, ways that conflicted with the serious tone it was otherwise trying to convey.

1. It seemed the majority of the movie consisted of people trying to get these impossible-to-stop-monsters to notice them!? They stood on rooftops, populated every bridge conceivable, stood vacantly on walkways... anything to make sure they remained in the line of sight of these gargantuan things. I know people on this site who have fetishes for being stepped on/eaten... am I to believe this was an entire world of these people? Because that's what I thought I was watching. I mean for fucks sake they couldn't even parachute down without making as big a spectacle in the air as possible. If you people want to get eaten by monsters so bad just brows the internet for that stuff and fap, don't throw your lives away! Goddamn

2. Speaking of eating, if these things fed off radiation WHY DID THEY HAVE MOUTHS? I even saw them eat things a few times... Sorry, my creature-design OCD is kicking in again =x

3. Then of course I saw the dog and the Tsunami coming and even though it should have been impossible it survived because AUDIENCE. The reason why I am complaining about that is it happens to be one of my biggest pet peeves in movies; seeing an ambiguous and adorable animal in an impossible to survive situation miraculously make it because they are loved by everyone watching. Nothing smacks me out of a movie faster. It's like watching Hollywood itself materialize into a solid object which then proceeds to beat your skull in.

4. Guns... just, just why. Please someone explain to me what anyone with a gun in this movie hoped to accomplish? In fact pretty much every single shot fired only worked to lure the monsters in closer, see complaint #2 for more details on that. This shouldn't have been an issue at all... this isn't a "lets fire and see if it works" situation, you know it's going to fail before it even happens! Firing a gun at these things would be like firing a gun at a fucking mountain. I try and try to imagine the logic in which theses people's brains worked, and I just can't find anything.

So yeah, aside from that it wasn't horrible, but overall I just can't into Godzilla. I was trying to like this movie, but it just kept pushing me out.

Jesus Christ I thought this was staged... I really did, I couldn't even believe it, I refused to.

Now I feel bad .__. But I also feel good, some of those kids had the right idea at the end.

I still don't know how they didn't know what Zelda was, they're still making Zelda games for fucks sake. Do kids not even play video games at all anymore!? Also, why can't Metroid crawl?

Guess I'm a new tier hipster according to that random teenager .__.
https://twitter.com/ChimeraSynx/sta.....740288/photo/1

https://twitter.com/ChimeraSynx

It's funny, the moment I joined I got urge to say something horribly offensive, get into arguments with anonymous people over it and then delete my account! I don't know what's coming over me, it's like the shining of the internet.

Oh look, Zootopia is coming out early on netflix!

That ending reminded me of FA, so I thought I'd share.

So I got to try the PT (Silent Hills) teaser demo, and if you are unfamiliar with what that is here is a random youtuber doing the same thing:


I have very mixed feelings right now. The apprehension of my last journal aside, at first I was really digging playing this. This is the first time the PS4's graphics actually impressed me as well, so I started getting my hopes up high. That quickly subsided though as I started to realize the direction they were going in. This felt very much like Silent Hill 4: The Room, complete with ghost at the end and everything... As someone who doesn't find ghosts very scary and really likes Silent hill more when it's only grazing physiological horror, I was overall disappointed. You know what I find scary? Exhausting yourself beating an indiscernible mass of flesh to death that was previously limping at you. I'm not saying I want Silent Hill to be an action game, no that's not what I'm saying at all. I'm saying there is a balance between everything. The horrors being physical things, especially ambiguous physical things adds an unsettling bit of tangibility to the whole situation. Phantoms phasing in and out of walls just seems silly to me.
I did like being locked in the bathroom with the writhing fetus though, as depicted somewhere in the above video. That was very nice, and well beyond the scope of what I expected of Del Toro or Kojima. That very small part at least fills me with hope. Yes, we'll call that little dude the 'hope fetus'.

Game play wise I kind of found the whole thing boring. At first walking through that infinite hall was neat, but once I realized that's all you could do, it became more tedious then anything else. The baby sounds and all that other stuff also eventually got tedious and just kind of obnoxious, like a kid jumping up and down behind me rattling chains asking: "Are you scared yet!?" This could have easily been fixed if you weren't going through the same area over and over and over again. No matter how good your haunted house is, if someone goes through it for the 10th time they won't be scared anymore. Haunted houses are about initial startles, and this was no exception. That was pretty much what made me realize this was all very neat, but it wasn't Silent Hill. Going through the school in Silent Hill 1 (even with PS1 graphic) still unnerves me to this day, even though I've probably done that 10 times. This new game quickly looses it's teeth once you get used to something. Again, I am pretty sure it was the lack of a tangible threat that made me feel safe and even bored in this "Hell-Hall". Even the dark areas weren't scary anymore once I realized nothing physical would be assaulting me. Also the dialog/text was terrible. These people need to understand that less is sometimes more in a Silent Hill Environment. Adding "from Hell" to the inscription on the wall wasn't scary, it was cheesy. Subtly is the key to these games.

BUT, the end of the demo says this won't be indicative of the game... so, there? I am not sure what to say. It seems like they are capable of making atmosphere, that's for sure, but it doesn't seem like they knew what to do with it once they had it. The actual Silent Hill game they make could me much different from this, but if it's full of ghosts and areas that repeat forever, I'm probably not going to like it =x

It's being made by Hideo Kojima and Guillermo Del Toro

Guilleromo Del Toro's team usually makes magnificent creatures, so that's a plus for this new Silent hill game since I'm assuming that will effect the monster design in-game, but I really, REALLY hope he isn't directing or writing it. I'm just going to say it now, I don't think this guy is capable of horror, at least the kind you find in Silent hill. The closest thing I've seen this guy get to horror was 'Mimic', and that was quite a long time ago. If anything his movies are consistently getting sillier and sillier. Now don't get me wrong, Hellboy 1 was one of my favorite movies, and I even liked the second one a lot... but the second one mostly for eyecandy, and this brings me to what I am apprehensive about. When I think of Del Toro now, I think of cool monsters still, BUT I also think of that scientist from Hellboy 2... you know which one. I also think of that scientist from Pacific Rim as well... you know which one. Thinking about those characters makes me wince and actually curl up like a spider just sprayed with RAID. I am really unsure what to think hearing this guy will play a role in a new Silent Hill.

Then there is Hideo Kojima who is completely fucking insane, but that's GOOD! Granted, he still might not be up to the task of horror, but we're on the right track at least. I am under the belief you cannot make a good Silent Hill game unless one person on the production team is mentally unstable. Still, the guy is known for also getting super silly and banking on jokes in otherwise serious situations. That is absolutely not something Silent Hill would benefit from, but I guess we'll see. I am more confident in his abilities to do the writing and directing then I am Del Toro, but they might work well off eachother somehow, I don't know yet, we'll see.

There is also Daryl Dixon, aka the hillbilly from the walking dead. I never like it when celebrities are brought into video games, I find it pointless and extremely jarring. It's also usually a red flag: an admittance they think they need starpower because someone up the ladder fears the game can't or won't stand on it's own.

But hey, whatever comes of this it can't be worse then all the recent American made Silent Hills... right? ;_:

OBVIOUS SPOILER WARNING
I have seen the entirety of the show and one chapter of the manga right were the show left off. If you have not at least seen the show to completion, MAJOR spoiler warnings mixed in with my assumptions.

Theory :The Titans
Going by everything I've seen, I believe they're infants: creatures recently given life. It's so obvious in their mannerisms and awkwardness, some can't even walk right. Like a baby, they only care about fulfilling their most basic and urgent need, however that is not hunger. Titan's don't need sustenance, and they only attack people, not animals. This isn't hunger causing them to eat people, but it's still a need they mindlessly follow. The characters in the show are aware of this, but they believe it is because the titans want to annihilate humanity. Obviously that's not the case because these things don't even really think, how could they possible want to annihilate anything?
Given the obvious complexity and thought that went into this world, I believe the show gave a lot more hints then most people are aware. When Eren and Annie turn into Titans, their human bodies are in the back of the neck, the same weak spot for regular titans. The difference being that on regular titans there is nothing there but flesh. I think one of the characters even casually mentions how odd that is. In stories so draped in mystery, it's always important to catch the small things like that. Because this is also the only vulnerable part of the regular titans and vital for them to exist, I believe this is essentially their "control center". I mean that literally, because I think the titans are more-or-less living machines: living machines searching for their missing part, and that is why they only eat humans. Humans are the missing part, and the titans mindlessly consume them because they are oblivious how to genuinely integrate with them. They eat and eat and eat not realizing why that void hasn't been filled, even though they're putting the right part inside themselves.

This would also explain why the regular titans still attack titans like Eren and Annie, because they have the part that's being sought after. I also believe the titans are matter transmogrified; basically the process Eren goes through every time he transforms? Yeah, that, only with anything. Again, as I mentioned above, the titans are missing their human component, that's why they're after only humans. I believe whatever that is that happens to Eren could basically happen to anything, even possibly inanimate objects or plants. I am sure to mention plants especially because they go out of their way to specifically mention that some titans go dormant at night and need sunlight to be active, but only SOME. Again, I have to assume they are leaving clues to the mystery here, just like they left clues for certain other things I'll get to. It would certainly explain the way the titans behave. They act very much how I'd imagine something inanimate that was just given life.



Theory: The characters
Yes, I know who the colossal and armored titan are. I was one of the unfortunate people caught in the comment spam on youtube and all other social media places. You know, the whole "Snape killed Dumbledore" shtick. It's fine though, looking at the clues it was pretty obvious, especially considering who they consorted with (and that's all I'm going to say about that). However I don't believe that is the biggest bombshell.

My theory about the characters is this all isn't about the origins of a hero, but a villain. Eren is the villain of this story. It's perfect, he starts out as a regular kid, he's sympathetic, he has friends who care about him... Adult Eren is a monster, he's crazy, everyone sees it in his eyes, and at the end of the first season he really let all that show, killing innocent people left and right just to stop one titan. He even says "I'll destroy the world". I don't believe he was just spouting random nonsense in his rage, everything in this story seems very deliberate. Also the Armor titan, Colossal titan and Annie are all the "goodguys". They're good people trapped in a horrible situation who have to do something terrible, or they created a horrible atrocity in order to somehow avoid an even greater one. I can't say exactly what the specifics of that could be, but I have ideas that I'll soon touch up on. In any case it would be pretty amazing if this series ended with people rooting for Eren to be stopped for everyone else's sake, especially considering how this story began.

Theory: The world
I found this entire story suspicious from the very start. It's one thing to tell people it's dangerous outside, it's another to make knowledge of the outside world outright forbidden. I don't believe for a second the world really is overrun with titans, there is too much secrecy and too much "stop asking questions and just believe what we tell you" attitude around that whole show. So if the world really isn't overrun, why is everyone trapped in these walls? It's likely connected to why the colossal and armored titan originally attacked. They don't want people in this location for some reason, and considering they're willing to kill hundreds of thousands of innocents, it must be a damn good reason. It is entirely likely the fate of this world hangs in the balance. Even more creepy, I don't believe the walls are there to keep titans out, but to keep people in. I have a sneaking suspicion who or what is creating the titans is only doing it outside of the walls and doing so in order to keep the people inside, because they need them and they need them there. This is obviously going to have a very bad outcome, which would likely start to justify what colossal titan did. So yeah, the titans aren't an invading force, they're jailers, and Eren was right in what he said at the very beginning: their home was literally a pen. I honestly wouldn't even be surprised if humanity did still exist outside the walls and the world really was a populated place.



For those who have read all the manga, PLEASE do no tell me if I am right or wrong, assuming the manga has even explained anything yet. I purposely avoided catching up to the manga just so I could enjoy the WTF factor of season 2 like I enjoyed season 1. I don't even care if I am wrong, I just like to try and test my powers of observation. XD

Space Dandy

This is a show that couldn't possible have lived up to it's hype, and it didn't. It's still not "bad", but it certainly wasn't what I was expecting. When I heard people from Cowboy Bebop, Full Metal Alchemist and Soul Eater were getting together to make something sci-fi related, my hype meter went up to 11. But what we ended up getting was just a silly comedy that happily reveled in how pointless it was. Still, I liked the characters, which made me all the more disappointed that there wasn't really any story to speak of; I get that's part of the joke, but it makes me question why I'm bothering to watch it half the time. It also has zero continuity, which is usually a HUGE deal breaker for me. The "villains" also only have a few lines of dialog sometimes, often just muttering the obvious while watching the "heroes", before being brushed away for the rest of the episode. I find it very jarring they even exist since their relevance is basically nonexistent. They're just kind of there, like the ship is just kind of there.

All and all the second season has made me realize I am going to be referencing this show every time I talk to someone about wasted potential. It's still not a horrible show, and I will keep watching it just to see what weird, random thing it does next, but considering the talent behind it I'm kind of flabbergasted it falls as short as it does.

This is also the first time in my life I've used the word flabbergasted.

I liked it.

My apprehension came from the fact that I didn't really like the Avengers movie. It didn't have much of a story to speak of, and to be honest I found it kind of boring in many parts. Loki was beaten by Thor alone, and seeing Thor teamed up with the Hulk, Iron Man etc. kind of... um, took the suspense out of whatever kind of urgency the movie was trying to convey. His generic army of 'Gears of War' monsters also didn't make him seem anymore menacing. There was simply no way the goodguys were going to loose, they might as well been squishing ants. I also found the whole thing out of character for Loki, who had his sights set much higher, but then settled for trying to conquer earth, a place he didn't show much interest in before. Ok maybe I'm being a little hard, I didn't HATE avengers or anything, but was disappointed nonetheless. I mean I did at least watch (and like) the cartoon.

This brings me to reason #2 why I was apprehensive of this movie. This:

Is how I was first introduced to the Guardians of the Galaxy, and it was all I knew about them up till now. Now remember, I liked this cartoon, but I'll be outright honest here: I did NOT like these characters just from what little I saw of them on EmH, particularly the raccoon. The advertisements for the movie also made the raccoon seem a bit annoying, portraying him as a one-liner machine, but really that wasn't the case at all. His voice was also MUCH BETTER in the movie, he sounded much less like a stereotypical, small, cute cartoon character trying to sound menacing as he did in EmH, he also sounds better without the forced accent.
The rest of the team was also better. Seeing them fight the Avengers in the cartoon to a standstill made me worry these characters would be just as boring as the avengers were on screens, but that wasn't the case at all. In the movie they were pretty weak and basically the underdogs. They didn't stand the least bit of chance against the main badguy of this story, which made it more interesting to me. The characters also had a lot more heart put into them, and I was surprised just how much they were trying to play the sad fiddle in this movie between all the jokes. I'm very happy it was like that.

The only thing I didn't like about it is most of the aliens were far too human, literally "colored people" and such, and some not even that, just regular people passed off as aliens; but I know that's just Marvel. I am also familiar with the Kree and stuff, so that didn't bother me at all, and I knew what the main characters looked like already. I was just hoping to see more interesting background aliens, but there really wasn't any. =I Small complaint though! Didn't really ruin anything for me.

tl;dr I'd totally watch it again, and am excited to see any sequel it might produce.

I'm asking a genuine question here, one that's going to be relevant to me in a few days when some friends drag me kicking and screaming to that movie. I don't know much about him, but I know about him. I've seen him make appearances in cartoons and video games before, briefly. He seems to have a large following to, but from what little I've seen of him he appears to really just be a raccoon with a gun. I'll be the first to admit: I don't get it... I mean, sure, it's cute, but there is clearly something I'm missing here considering the amount of fans this thing has. My interest in the marvel universe never really expanded outside of 90's Xmen. I'm just assuming he's a "lol so inappropriate/random" character, like Deadpool, but please correct me if I'm wrong.

I'd like to feel better about seeing this movie.

http://www.scified.com/site/jurassi.....osaur-spoilers
There will be lots of Dino on Dino fighting, as some of the Dinos are “good guys” that are trained by Chris Pratt’s character. The raptors and T-Rex are among the “trained” good dinosaurs. The big bad dinosaur has instant camouflage abilities, like the cuttlefish, so he blends into the background, is smart like the velociraptor, uses his jaw like a snake, and can terrorize like the T-Rex. Does this mean the new Dino will be the ONLY “bad” one? Or will there be more than one? Unconfirmed, but it will be the catalyst that kicks off the peril.
Business is good at the park, but the powers that be start to dream up new ways to keep customers coming back; namely by splicing Dino DNA with other Dinos (and other species). That becomes the problem. They splice together a T-Rex, raptor, snake, and cuttlefish to create a monstrous new Dino that, of course, gets loose and terrorizes the park. Nothing like a little greed and human arrogance to ruin a good thing, right?

Ok... Lets keep calm and look at this piece by piece:
"The raptors and T-Rex are among the “trained” good dinosaurs."
.......... Oh, I'm sorry, I was just taking a drink. See, I became an alcoholic before I finished reading that line. But seriously, there is so much wrong with this sentence alone, I could make a journal just about that.

"The big bad dinosaur has instant camouflage abilities, like the cuttlefish, so he blends into the background, is smart like the velociraptor, uses his jaw like a snake, and can terrorize like the T-Rex."
Causal detected.

"Business is good at the park"
Wow, I must have really forgot a lot from the last three movies! I'll have to watch them again.

"That becomes the problem. They splice together a T-Rex, raptor, snake, and cuttlefish to create a monstrous new Dino that, of course, gets loose and terrorizes the park."
Even though that sounds like the plot to a sci-fi original movie, I admit it will be funny to watch a bunch of people get swallowed by a camo-snake-rex right before the children save the day with hacking, smoke grenades and hacked smoke grenades. But in all seriousness I can't for the life of me figure out why they spliced it with a snake. T-rex could already eat people and regular sized animals whole. ...Unless, unless it's not the size of the T-rex. Oh god, it's also part cephalopod. Watch, it's white to XD

"Nothing like a little greed and human arrogance to ruin a good thing, right?"
Now I honestly wouldn't be surprised if this was funded by anti-genetics propaganda to stop modified crops or something.


So yeah, this is being filmed right now. I don't know if this sounds a lot worse or a lot better then the original JP4 script that had dino-humans, but.. yeah, I don't know what to think aside from my comments above. What do you think?

Need to help to get my ass out of my depressing rut, and music seemed to be helping but I've listened to mine too much now... Any suggestions? .__.

I want stuff that's exciting and/or fast paced; just full of energy. Don't really care about the lyrics, mostly just the way it sounds. Scratch that, it doesn't even have to be fast paced, just anything not slow might help.

Any band, even anime and game music is welcome. Really, the only things that make my ears bleed are rap and usually country music. All suggestions are welcome and appreciated, thanks!

Please forgive me for going all Scream on you, but you know that typical trope-moment in horror; the part where the girl trips over her own foot in a dark forest? That's not good storytelling/writing, nor is it entertaining or fun or even scary to watch. You never feel sorry for that person, you just want them to die for being such a fucking moron/klutz. It doesn't feel suspenseful, it feels like the writers just wanted the character to die at that moment, so the universe converges just to make it happen. That isn't just bad horror, that's bad storytelling in general.

The only thing the "girl tripping over herself" moments accomplish is making the audience feel frustrated.

So imagine my disappointment when they made an entire series based on this, it's called The Walking Dead.

Let me start by saying I watched this show when it was new, I enjoyed the first season quite thoroughly. I thought it was fantastic, which is amazing since I normally find zombie settings quite boring. It was just so well written and the world they offered seem potentially interesting and neat. That said, I was heartbroken when I heard all the writers were being fired to hire on cheaper ones. I worried about what this could mean, and sure enough my fears were justified. Almost immediately the show became centered around the stupidity of the characters, and that one thing became the driving force moving the plot. Now, don't misunderstand me. It's perfectly fine for characters to be imperfect, and it's perfectly fine for them to make mistakes that get themselves and/or others killed. That is FINE.
The problem is 'that is the entire plot' now, and the mistakes all the characters are making are so monumentally bad they've far reached beyond stupid. It is, as I've said, now the "woman tripping in dark forest" the show! But enough of my exposition, lets see what I can remember just off the top of my head, and YOU can decide:

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*Hysterical woman driving. Right off the bat the new writers make one of the more level headed characters drive off the road and get into an accident; an EMPTY road! Why? "Because she's a hysterical woman". This was pretty much the starting point for the ride I knew was coming.

*One of the characters "turns evil", and he immediately shaves his head to show how evil he is. I have no other comment.

*Zero supervision for children: a common theme that is going to get people killed repeatedly from this point on. The child of the main character is allowed to wander out by himself in this zombie infested wasteland, and of course he brings back a zombie to the farm everyone is bunking at. When they kill it the sound alerts all the other zombies in the area, and sure enough everyone is fucked.

*Walking into a dark hallway filled with motionless bodies, because what could be better then walking over potential zombies in a dark, cramped place with no escape? When they find the prison, their first instinct is to clear it out, so they go from room to room. They go into this dark hallway, stepping over bodies like the most fucking stupid people in all existence, until (shock!) they start moving and the old man gets bit in the leg. This was truly one of the most aggravating scenes in the entire series, I couldn't stop wincing.

*Woman runs through forest, escaping badguy. She arrives at a clearing where she can see the prison (where the good guys are) only to STOP FOR A WHILE AND SMILE WITH HER BACK TURNED TO THE FOREST. As she paused there I just winced and convulsed while mentally head-desking a million times. I won't spoil what happens (I don't have to) but I just wanted her to die form that point on. When she did it was very relieving.

*Farming next to a rickety fence being pushed on by zombies... WHILE PURPOSELY WEARING HEADPHONES.

*Not expecting anyone to die suddenly in the night. The way The Walking Dead world works is everyone is infected, so when anyone dies for any reason, they turn into a zombie. While the main characters hold up in a prison with a bunch of other families, they focus any security to the outside of the building, expecting thugs or zombies to attack. Apparently it NEVER crossed anyone's mind that someone might just die in the prison from natural causes ...Am I seriously expected to believe this!? For Christ's sake, someone may fall down some stairs or slip and break their neck while peeing. But no, NO ONE thought of this apparently, and guess what happens...

*Girl and hillbilly escape the fall of the Prison, he shows large signs of mental instability so she purposely tries to get him drunk. She purposely... tries to get him drunk. SHE PURPOSELY TRIES TO GET HIM DRUNK. What is sense? Putting aside what a mess the guy is (and the obvious dangerous-drunk he turned out to be) it's just them... Zombies are everywhere and you want to get drunk without anyone being level headed enough to do anything!? What - in - the - HOLY - FUCK.

*Little girl proves to be mentally unstable and even dangerous. Adults leave her alone with her younger sister and a baby; even allows them to play outside with zombies everywhere, with the baby. Arms them... WITH THE BABY. Somehow, by some weird inconceivable coincidence, leaving two younger kids with a crazy older kid (who recently tried to feed themselves to zombies) turns out to be a bad idea. Truly strange how that worked out, if only someone could have seen this coming. I feel so bad for these characters, truly all their hardships are just a run of terrible, terrible luck that they don't deserve. Yes, truly.

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I am sorry, are the characters just supposed to be so fucking stupid they're completely unlikable, or are the writers just this bad at understanding how actual interactions and 'thought' works? I mean, I don't expect everyone to be "badass survivalists", but for fucks sake, if NONE of the characters have once ounce of common sense or even a little will to survive, it's really hard care about what happens to them. If this was a one-shot horror movie who's purpose was to kill off everyone or gross-out, it would be fine because it's short and then it's over. But The Walking Dead is a god damn series that's 95% character development and 5% plot. *The characters are supposed to be important, they're the focal point*. This is just so poorly done it's fucking astonishing.

tl;dr
How not to write Horror: Don't make the characters do things that make the audience cringe, otherwise it's no longer "horrible" when those characters die.

Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey

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I'm sure watching this show will actually make people smarter... so imagine my surprise when I noticed this was airing on Fox, of all places. Even if you know most of what they're talking about, it's a good idea to still watch this if possible, because even learning one thing you didn't know before is worth it, because everything they're talking about really is important.

Giordano Bruno, for example, is someone I don't even remember learning about in school. He is also one of the people responsible for first preaching to humanity that the universe is infinite and we, by comparison, are infinitesimal. That's not the interesting part though, the interesting part was the fact that he was a very religious man, and it was partly his faith in god guiding him to do this. It was because he saw god as infinite that he believed the universe must be to, and so he was one of the first people actually starting to understand what it is that's all around our world. Very interesting to hear something like that in this day and age where there is such a raging war going on between science and religion. Just going by the inspirational story of Bruno, you'd think things would have gotten better over time, not worse. Humans are quite interesting, but I fear we (as a species) really are trapped within the confines of our own nature, just like any animal.

In any case, I'm really excited to see the rest of this series.

Starting Eryi's Action in a few
http://www.livestream.com/wormnebula

Horrified the grumps rage-quit the troll game, I have decided to have a go at it myself. You can watch if you want and laugh at me. Hopefully I can at least make it to the first boss without dying 100x like them ._.

So yes, if you want to see me suffer for any reason here's you're chance. Or if you just want to come and socialize, thats fine to. I'll try and join in the chat between deaths.

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It's over. Hopefully I did a little better then those guys!
Thanks for watching. =D

This is literally 'Trollface:The Game'

I don't care if you like GG or not, watching anyone try and play this game is absolutely hilarious. Bravo to whoever made it, you're a pretty cool person.


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That 1:26, OMG hahaha WOW!

I AM SO BUYING THIS!! Looks hilariously frustrating.

My oldest and greatest enemy: Conventional sci-fi

I might be wrong on this, but I have a distinct feeling that the kind of sci-fi I want is a niche greatly unfulfilled, at least in this day and age. I keep seeing so many things dance upon the precipice of where I want sci-fi to go, only to pull-back before things get too strange or too extreme, or even play it all off as a joke. It is outright frustrating and aggravating me lately... and I think that's it: that's the sign, isn't it? I hate to sound cliche or even pompous, but it's reached the point that I feel "if you want something done right" and so on. I have spoken with friends before about some rather ambitious projects, things that I honestly thought would remain more-or-less in the conceptual stage perpetually. This is no longer feasible. In order for me to be happy, I think these things must be made reality, and they will be.

So remember that, and remember this journal.

Leave your comfort zone now, because it's going to be nowhere in sight once we go down those rabbit holes I plan to take you through. We are literally traveling into the unknown from this point on.

So apparently they've taken this:

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And made it into this for the bigscreen:

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Where do I even begin. Don't misunderstand me, I like the way the second one looks in many ways, but something isn't quite right about it. The source material they are using is essentially as basic a cartoon as you can get, with characters that have much of the same design aesthetics as something from Loony Tunes. You render that in fully shaded/furred/detailed CGI with a realistic atmosphere, and that is like doing the same thing to Bugs Bunny. You can't take something that had such a deliberate not-real design and try to make it look real without it looking.... off. Maybe if it was at least more stylized CGI it would have worked, but thats not what I'm seeing.

Sly has always been the simplest kind of cel-shaded. If there was ever a time to make a friggin cartoon, this would have been it, because that movie trailer just looks really, really, really weird.