What a Distraction

In the process of writing an essay on Globalization, I had a revelation of sorts. The concept of a comic series:

"The year is 1950, and a secret organization is looking to destroy the remnants of the 3rd Reich across the world. Max Wald, an Austrian immigrant lost his entire family to the Holocaust. He has joined this organization with one goal in mind; revenge.

Max is part of a team sent to a small island off the coast of Chile to locate the man who started it all, Der Fuhrer, who has secretly survived his apparent death. When the team arrives on the island however, they are violently greeted by things that are simply not human. On the brink of annihilation, Max and the few other survivors must fend off wild animals, Nazis and sheer abominations against God until help arrives."


The premise is basically, Jewish Nazi Hunter is part of a team to kill Hitler and the remaining Nazi party, who survived Berlin and are hiding in South America. Upon finding them, however, they witness the terror that these survivors have become through self experimentation.

After this surviving this incident, Max is made head of a new Guild just formed by the American government that hunts Nazis through out the world. We then skip ahead to 2003 where his grandchildren are modern day Nazi Hunters for the guild.

Crispin on "Garlic Jr"

Crispin: do you remember garlic jr? He was one of my favorites.

Eddie: Of course. Why'd you like him so much?

Crispin: cause he was a brilliant strategist

Crispin: who else tried to take over the world when goku and vegeta were gone?

Crispin: and he turned everyone into a demon

Crispin: brilliant!

Crispin: and he has the coolest power in the series

Crispin: he can summon a damn void

Crispin: of course conversely he is dumb cause he got trapped in it twice

Eddie Chats About Porn With Jeff: Hilarity Ensues

Eddie: I saw this hilarious porn the other day. This asian woman is deciding whether she wants to fuck these two guys one of them is black. One of them is white.

Jeff: Dude, does she fuck them?

Eddie: So they're both the stereotypes. Like the white guy is really geeky. And the black guy is all ghetto.

Jeff: that's fuckin ridiculous

Eddie: So she makes them take off their pants. The black guy is tiny and the white guy is huge. Needless to say, the chick is really surprised.

Jeff: hahahahah

Eddie: Anyway, she ends up fucking the white guy. The problem is I was laughing so hard at this point that I lost my boner. Some porn is just too funny

Jeff: seriously that's just fuckin ridiculous

Jeff: The black guy was tiny huh

Jeff: Can you imagine that? Being casted for that role?

Jeff: "Ok, you're the stereotypical black guy that's only in this porno to get rejected because, to the surprise of everyone, you have a tiny penis!"

Jeff: "CONGRATULATIONS!!"

A Continuing Trend

How come my favorite characters always die?

Just to name a few:

Series: Pirates of the Carribien
Character: James Norrington
Cause of Death: Impaled by crazed star fish pirate.
Necessity: Zero

Series: Trigun (1)/ Trigun Maximum(2)
Character: Nicolas D Wolfwood
Cause of Death: 1) Killed by his teacher after sparing his life despite killing indiscriminately kind of being his thing. 2) Over exerting himself while fighting his master, his rival, AND 3 ninjas simultaniusly. He actually manages to win too before dropping dead.
Badassness of death: 1) Nonexistent. Over the top and melodramatic, though I really liked it when I was 13 and seeing it for the first time.
2) Holy shit yes.

Series: Neon Genesis Evangelion
Character: Ryoji Kaji
Cause of Death: Shot for treachery by an unseen gunman.
Did he get laid before dying: Absolutely.

Series: Naruto
Character: Jiraya
Cause of Death: Skewered numerous times, then punched into a lake where he drifted to the bottom.
Did he get laid before dying: Probably not

Series: Lord of the Rings
Character: Boromir
Cause of Death: Impaled by many many arrows
Was he Sean Bean: Hell yeah!

Series: Harry Potter
Character(s): Cedric Diggory, Sirius Black, Albus Dumbledore, Severus Snape
Cause(s) of Death: Killing Cursed, Stunned into a portal of death, Killed Cursed off a 20 story tower, Eaten by a snake.
Was I the Only Cedric Diggory Fan Prior to His Death: Probably

Series: Dragonball Z
Character: Piccolo
Cause of Death: First he got exploded by a Stone Cold Steve Austin alien look-a-like. Then he got better. Several years later he was blown up along with the rest of planet earth.
Was he Sean Bean: No.

Series: Resident Evil (movies)
Character: Carlos Oliviera
Cause of Death: Suicidally driving a truck into a field full of zombies, then exploding it.
Were These Movies Terrible: Yes. I really liked Carlos in the game (re 3) too, so I hope they don't take this movie as an idea for the future.

Series: Star Wars
Character: Obi Won Kenobi
Cause of Death: Darth Vader'd
Was this acceptable: After seeing the prequels. No. No it wasn't.

Series: South Park
Character: Chef
Cause of Death: Shot, impaled, disemboweled, and partially eaten
Am I stretching it: Yes


Moral of the story: If I like a character, they are going to die. Leon Kennedy and Hateke Kakashi better watch out because they are my only favorite characters left.

Dback-Giants top of the 9th

Two weeks till summer break.

I'm going two write until the d-backs game is over. Top of the 9th, 5-4, 1 out, man on first. Aaron Rowand just flew out. Brandon Lyon is pitching, John Bowker (whoever that is) is up.

Not really a big Lyon fan mostly because I cut him a few years ago, so I'm rooting for the Giants on this one.

Finished up my last Southeast Asian culture essay last night. Never sign up for a class to meet girls of a certain ethnicity. It backfires horribly and you end up getting the opposite of what you intended. Also, slept through English.

Bowker struck out. He looked pretty bad too. Castillo up now.

3 finals next week and one last one the Tuesday after. I'll probably spend most of the time in between that wandering around town. Probably get some ice cream and spend a few days in Borders. Then I'll go back to Massachusetts. Hopefully for a while. It really hasn't been half bad here, especially this semester. Probably because I'm not being anti-social. Whatever the reason, I'm probably not gonna harp on it. From one situation to another. Its all good.

Castillo strikes out. End of game. D-Backs win again. That's all for now.

Smash Bros Brawl

Finally got around to playing Brawl at the local Hollywood Video. My first thought was that it was a slightly better animated, copy of Melee with more characters and the new final smash feature (which is awesome). Then I played as Link. They dumbed him the fuck down. His boomerang now makes the gayest looking tornado in the world and his death spin B-up move which was always my favorite no longer has the same power and reach it previously did. This is tragic for me as a seasoned Link veteran since the original Smash Bros. Aside from that, it played very well and the new characters were fun, especially Pokemon Trainer.

In other news, the Forbidden Kingdom was really really good and I'm up to the castle portion of RE 4 after being frustrated by REmake to the point of throwing my controller. Yeah... That was basically my weekend.

REsident Evil: Like Zorc with Zombies and Graphics

Started playing Resident Evil: Remake. I've heard mixed things about it, which is pretty understandable. While I don't like it nearly as much as Resident Evil 4 (which is far more action based and stars Leon Kennedy, probably my favorite protagonist in any video game other than Doom) its still pretty cool.

I think the biggest difference other than the controls (like driving a tank) is the general atmosphere. Its in a zombie infested mega mansion, at night time during a lighting storm. The animation is excellent to the point that the mutilated reanimated corpses are quite terrifying. I've been enjoying it very much, especially with the commentary of my roommate. One instance of this involved a key that was on the floor early on:

Eddie: Hey there's a key there. I should go grab it so I don't have to keep on wandering around.
Joey: Don't.
Eddie: Why not?
Joey: Something bad will happen. No one just leaves a key lying around on the floor.
Eddie: They did in Resident Evil 4.
Joey: Yeah, but there weren't tracks leading up to the key and giant suits of armor lying around too.
Eddie: There were definately parasite infested suits of armor.
Joey: Fine. Don't blame me when you die.
*takes the key... Immediately the suits of armor move, 2 blocking the escape path and a third sporting what appears to be a power drill*
Eddie: Fuck...
Joey: Try shooting it.
Eddie: Its not wor---- Crap. I'm dead.

Also different is the puzzle solving. These are really needlessly confusing, as opposed to 4 where they were easy. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, merely a difference.

Anyway, planning on getting a wii once I get home, as well as smash bros brawl and Umbrella Chronicles, both which look awesome.

Good times will be had by all.

Moving Right Along

Haven't written for a while. My bad.

Spring Break was great. Not much to talk about there. It was great having Victor here for the three days after we got back. Might've put on a good thirty pounds from all the food we got though.

Andy and the Dragon was awesome. Scored in the top one third in the class AND got a standing ovation which was pretty incredible.

The last few weeks here have been pleasant and noneventful, which is great considering everything that happened in February and March. The quiet life never felt so good. There really isn't much that can top a warm cup of tea and twenty-six volumes of Dragonball Z. Speaking of which, I really miss that show.

While we are on the topic, did anyone ever notice that Yamcha consistently got the shaft at literally every turn. He lost soundly in the first round of every tournament, got killed by a Saibaman, then had his woman stolen by the man responsible for his death for more or less no reason at all. What the hell? I mean even Tien had some glory. He beat Goku at one point. Krillan not only got some really good fights in, he also got some character development AND he got the girl... Er... Female Cyborg. The only character possibly shafted more was Chou-Zu who somehow only had one fight in the entire series, but then he was never made out to be more than a Pikachu look-a-like. Anyone else feel kinda bad for the poor guy? The best thing we actually see Yamcha do is play baseball, which admittedly was pretty sweet.

Got three weeks left here and I haven't been happier or more relaxed. I really think I'm going to miss my roommate. He's a really cool guy and I'll be sad to say goodbye. Oh well, ya win some ya lose some.