I'm really sorry for not posting for a while but I had several big projects that I needed to hand in and I just finished school a few days ago and now I'm just trying to get through my last two exams. I'm sorry for not being able to post in a while but most of my stuff for the year is over and the majority of the stress I was under is gone so now I can go back to posting. I didn't die, wasn't kidnapped and I haven't quit, I have just been incredibly busy. And in the last month or so a lot has happened.
First of all I mentioned a while ago that my town has a community radio station that I volunteer at. Well they offered me and my friend our own show and we decided to do it. I'm not sure as to weather or not it will be good but it should be a lot of fun. We were planning to do a review show where we review one game and one film. We wanted to have a mixture of obscure and mainstream films, both good and bad. So it should be a lot of fun, the first things that we were going to review are Scott Pilgrim vs The World and Halo 4. We chose these two for the first review because they were both fairly well known and fairly recent, with the next review being about Chrono Trigger and Strings, which are more obscure. I hope that the show goes well, don't have a name for it yet...
Speaking of Halo 4. It was released a few days ago, on my final day of school no less. It was nice to have it come out on that day and to play it with my friends since we are all leaving school. Halo 4 had a worldwide release date of the 6th of November, since the release date was worldwide due to our time zone New Zealand got it first. One of the few advantages of living at the bottom of the world, the shipping may be overpriced (very, very overpriced) but at least we get some things much earlier than other countries. I think we got Halo 4, 18 hours before the Americans did.
Well I finally finished High School, thirteen years ago I started school and now it all seems to coming to an end (I still have university to worry about but that's for another day). It's going to be weird come February and realize that I don't have school. It's sad to have to say goodbye to my friends, I've never been able to socialize well with other people. I usually quiet and don't say much and even when I am with people that I can talk to I've never been able to be myself around. I can honestly say that this year is without a doubt my best year of school. I had a great group of friends that I really felt like I could be myself around because they were just as strange (in fact even more so) that I was. I'm really going to miss them since most of us won't even be going to the same university. I never really liked goodbyes.
I'm curious as to how your schools did graduation? For me, we all went to a local theater to have our prize giving (the school awards all the smart and talented people with lots of awards and the focus is placed on them rather the people leaving school that year. And it's always the same who win those awards anyway), we go there because our school hall can't fit the three senior years. They have a section where they bring each of the Year 13 students (people in their final year) up on stage, giving a short statement about their time at school which we got to write ourselves (I was very tempted to write, "I want to be the very best, like no one ever was", but I think most people would have missed the joke) they handed us our testimonials (documents that would help us get jobs or get into university) the audience clapped for us and we go back to our seats. Not really a big thing but at least we got something I suppose. We had the choice of going in our ordinary school uniform, the schools dress uniform, or a black suit. I didn't want to wear my suit because it was a hot day and I wasn't going to buy the dress uniform just for this one occasion so I went with my regular uniform and it was the last time I was going to wear it so it seemed more fitting. In hindsight I should have worm my suit because I went to go pick up Halo 4 after the ceremony and rocking up to the shop in a suit to buy Halo would have been a great thing indeed. But what were your graduations like? I'm just curious if more of a focus was put onto the people leaving school rather than the people who had excelled that year.
Also, yesterday me and a friend of mine decided to check out a game called Postal 2. We had heard how violent and offensive it was and it was even banned in several countries, including mine. So we just had to play it. And I can honestly see why it was banned. It had to be one of the most violent and offensive things I have ever played. Take the game Mortal Combat for instance. The sheer amount of violence and gore makes it cross the line from offensive into hilarious because of how ridiculous it all is. It crosses the line once from decent into offensive and a second time into stupidly funny. But Postal 2 crosses it a third into, kind of funny but also kind of disturbing territory. It features such things as beating cats to death with a shovel and sticking it on the end of your gun as a silencer, beating Gary Colemen to death with a sledge hammer and chopping an innocent bystander in half with a chainsaw, dousing him in gasoline, setting him on fire and urinating on his corpse to put out the fire. To be honest some of the over the top violent humor can be funny but sometimes it takes it too far. The game itself is a first person shooter taking place in the sandbox world (meaning free roam world for those of you who know, unless you all already knew that in which case this explanation was pretty redundant) in the town of paradise and you play as a man named "The Postal Dude". The game play itself is actually fairly good, the controls are tight and smooth, shooting works well, the graphics look great for the time that this game was made in (1997) and the voice acting is pretty good. My main problems with it is the dark humor and some technical problems. Namely the many loading screens and the game has a tendency to crash. There are five levels in the game, each representing a day of the week. In each level you are given a list of simple chores to preform throughout the day, such as buying milk or dropping off a book at the library or chasing in a paycheck. But despite how simple these may seem, there is usually some.... other bits to the mission. For example when you go to work to pick up your paycheck, you find that the Postal Dude works at the video game company that produced the game and that their is a group of protesters outside the main office protesting violent videogames. When you go inside to pick up your paycheck, the protesters decide to stop violent videogames buy storming inside the company office and killing everyone in sight with the various guns that they have. I'll admit that I found that a little funny and ironic. Another example is that when your trying to get a petition for a winy congressmen to play a violent videogame an Alqueda terrorist comes out of nowhere and tries to blow you up, or when you try to return your book anti-book protesters try to burn down the library that your in. Trust me, this game has a lot of stuff like this. Overall, if your really into dark humor and are not easily offended..... actually if you are not offended at all (trust me if something offends you it's bound to be in this game) then this would probably be one of the those so bad it's good games and it's funny and entertaining provided you play it with a few friends and you try not to be offended by it. Otherwise you should just avoid the game altogether. I might end of finishing the game, maybe.
You know what I probably would have done a few weeks ago if I had the time to do it? A top five list. I've always loved animation, ever since I was little I have always watched cartoons from Disney to Saturday morning cartoons to anime, I love em all. And one of my favorite parts of them is the opening theme songs, the songs that would be stuck in your head for years to come and that would get you pumped to watch the next episode. For me, the icing on the cake for a great show is a great theme song, this is my Top 5 favorite cartoon theme songs. As always, this is just my opinion so if you don't like the ones I picked or you have have different ones then don't worry about it, in fact let me know cos I'm curious if what songs are your favorite. And this list is restricted to just children's shows.
6. Transformers
So I'm starting off this list by cheating a bit. This is more of an honorable mention. This is an iconic theme for an iconic series. Fortunately for me they did air this in New Zealand when I was a kid, so I guess I'm lucky in that regard. Makes me wonder why they didn't use this iconic theme in the new movies . It was on the soundtrack but not the actual film, why!? It doesn't make a great deal of sense. But my all time theme is the Transformers Cybertron, it's a nice re imagining of the original and it sounds awesome.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUTtYQCvjOI
5. Yu-Gi-Oh
I remember back when I was ten, everyone was into Yu-Gi-Oh, everyone was bringing their decks to school and playing against each other, it got to the point where our principal had to ban them. And we all loved the card game because of the show. I still love the show despite how silly it can be and I've watched the other series (5D's is my favorite) but the original has the best theme for me. Mostly because of the bit where the big orchestral instruments come in. An epic theme for a silly yet eipc show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c7qDIXpCOM
4. Justice League
When this show first came out, I didn't really like it. I thought it was dumb because I was going through a phase where I thought that super heroes were lame and stupid (glad that phase is over). After going back a few months ago to check out the show, I was greeted by this beautiful theme. It really captures the epic superhero feel of the show. And what can I say, I'm a sucker for a good orchestral theme.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaM1FKhrODc
3. Samurai Jack
Not a lot I can say about Samurai Jack. Beyond it being a show that I recommend to everyone and to compliment this great show, they gave it a great theme.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMAgQf4ZJXY
2. Megas XLR
This theme ranks at number 2 for two reasons (1 great rock tune (2 it explores one of the themes that few shows would dare to talk about, Giant Robots are awesome. It's funny, it's catchy and a lot of fun to listen. Really helps to set the mood of the show, which is namely about Giant Robots beating the crap out of each other and it's a glorious show. It's too bad that this song was so short because it's fantastic. But for what we got, it sure is amazing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuYeHPFR3f0
1. Pokemon
Ah Pokemon, the one thing from my childhood that I will probably go to my grave adoring. My final words will most likely be, "I tried to be the very best, like no one ever was". The series was what started my love for the franchise and it all started from this very song. One that I've known the words to since I was three. This is a theme that really got you excited to watch the show, it means the most to me out of all the songs on this list and I promise that not every list I make will have Pokemon at number one. I just love this song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuYeHPFR3f0
Before I go, a few questions. How have you guys been? What have you been doing? I haven't been around in a while so I'm a little out of the loop while I try to go back through the posts that I missed but just let me know how you guys are doing right now. Also, what's your favorite cartoon show? If you don't like cartoon's, then your favorite T.V show.
Well hope that makes up for all the time that I missed, managed to cover everything that I missed in the last month or so. Well I should be heading off to bed now.
Goodnight everyone and have an awesome week
DFTBA
