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Sorry for those faithful followers who follow this blog (Are there any), I haven't updated in quite a while, but this isn't because I have forgotten. I spent the last week getting ready for college, and I have just recently moved into my dorm and gotten set up, so just bear with me, I will update soon.

Don't worry.

But for now, I give you drinking out of cups:

I hate you, Blizzard

As many of you may be aware I used to play World of Warcraft. In fact I played it since the original open Beta back in 2004, yeah, I've played it for a loooooooooooong time, since middle school in fact, and I just graduated from High School. I am also a long time follower of Blizzard, since the original Warcraft Series were my first Computer games and I've played and loved Starcraft and Diablo, both. But recently, I have given up on Blizzard since it felt like WoW lost it's heart, and it really was only about grinding and making money by roping in casuals and mainstreamers, and not catering to us die-hard fans. So I stopped playing World of Warcraft, and felt pretty good about that, since that saves me money and time, and I can use that time to play other video games and do other things.

This is why I have to say, I hate you Blizzard. Since yesterday at Blizzcon, they revealed footage for the new expansion, Cataclysm, and even let a few people play through the 2 new races. And I have to say, it makes me want to play again. What. The. Hell! It looks so well done and like Blizzard is actually going back and caring about the story and the gameplay, which is what makes me like games.

The plot of Cataclysm is that Deathwing (The Insane Black Dragon Aspect that has been chained under the earth for decades) has forced himself out of the earth in a veeeeery big way, which has completely altered the landscape of Azeorth. Places are becoming flooded, The Barrens have been completely split in half, another Human City decided to join the Alliance (Though they are cursed to be Werewolf creatures), and the Goblins were caught in the crossfire and their clan has been divided causing some of them to join up with the horde. The new races aren't even what excites me, it's the fact that for one the land will be phased so everything can change when you do things, which can alter everything! The other thing is the fact that they're changing everything in a LARGE way, like literally, the landscape and plot and everything, which means that we will get the Lich King final raid dungeon soon to kill Arthas, so that's out of the way before Deathwing shows up.

Damn it Blizzard, I might have to start playing, I don't have the money for that damn it.

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Essential Movies that Should be watched by you....maybe even you!

As you may know I'm a pretty big movie buff, or at least I really like movies. Not stupid mindless comedies, but usually the deeper stuff most people call classics, I don't know. Anyway, I was having a discussion with some family members about what movies we should consider Classics. Not as in Classic because of age, but because they're movies that either change their genre, were p0pular years later, considered fantastically directed movies, or just damn amazing. So I've decided to come up with my own list of what movies I think are Essential, that people should at least watch once before they die. So here I go, for now I'm just going to list the title and notable actors in it, I won't go into any details or argue why I think they should be there yet. I want to have some feedback before I do. Let'sa go'a:

Star Wars: The Original Trilogy - Mark Hammil, Harrison Ford, James Earl Jones Voice
Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark - Harrison Ford, Even More Harrison Ford
Rambo: First blood - Sylvester Stallone
Rocky I - Sylvester Stallone
2001: A Space Odyssey - HAL
Planet of the Apes - Charlton Heston
Stranger Than Fiction - Will Ferrel, Maggie Gyllenhal, Dustin Hoffman, Queen Latifa
Boondock Saints - Willem Dafoe
Resevoir Dogs - Steve Buscemi
Pulp Fiction - Samuel L Jackson, John Travolta, Bruce Willis, Uma Thurman
Terminator 2: Judgement Day - Arnold Schwarzenegger
Alien - Sigourney Weaver
Predator - Arnold Schwarzenegger
Top Gun - Tom Cruise, Val Kilmer
Evil Dead - Bruce Campbell
Seven - Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gweneth Paltrow
James Bond Series - The Ones with Sean Connery
Donnie Darko - Jake Gyllenhal
Titanic - Leonardo DiCaprio
Ghost Busters - Bill Murray, Dan Ackroid
Princess Bride - Cary Elwes, Andre the Giant
Ocean's 11 - George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Bernie Mac, Don Cheedle, Julia Roberts
Hook - Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams
Good Morning, Vietnam - Robin Williams
Jurassic Park - Jeff Goldblum
Jaws - Richard Dreyfuss
The Matrix - Keanu Reeves, Hugo Weaving, Laurence Fishbourne, Joe Pantoliano
Memento - Joe Pantoliano
Karate Kid - Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl - Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley
Requiem for a Dream - Jared Leto, Marlon Wayans
There will be blood - Daniel Day Lewis and his Mustache
No country for old men - Tommy lee Jones, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson, Javier Bardem
Independence Day - Will Smith, Jeff Goldblum
Men In Black - Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones
The Truman Show - Jim Carrey
Bruce Almighty - Jim Carrey, Morgan Freeman, Jennifer Aniston
Airplane - Leslie Nielsen
Forest Gump - Tom Hanks
The Green Mile - Tom Hanks, Michael Clarke Duncan
Apollo 13 - Tom Hanks
The Goonies - Josh Brolin, Corey Feldman
Total Recall - Arnold Schwarzenegger
Lord of The Rings - Elijah Wood, Orlando Bloom, Christopher Lee, Sir Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortenson
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory - Gene Wilder
The Shining - Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall

Okay, I know this has a lot to do on opinion and everything, but I'd really like to know everyone's feedback, what things you want to be on here, or think should be. Also what movie's you think I've missed. I want a lot of feedback, cause I think I'm going to continue this on for awhile. I also missed the whole Chick Flick/Feel Good movie Genre, so we'll get back to them soon.

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Play till your fingers break!

You never see good advertising for video games anymore. It used to be a few years ago there were all sorts of commercials on the TV for actual DECENT video games, now you get the occasional ones for Wii games that have to do with even MORE party games, or some DS games that aren't quite pokemon. Or if you switch to Spike or G4 you get some crappy PC game that's a knock-off of all the rest. It's very rare that an A+ game get's a Television Spot. Well, in America at least.

Japan, always has advertisements down for Video Games, and most of the time they are faaaaaar superior to the American ones. It makes since though, Japan has always been better when it came to Video games. It's one of the things they do best along with Cartoon Porn and Sexualizing Women. So it's no surprise that one of the greatest video game marketing mascots came from Japan.

Back when Sega was creating game consoles, they released one known as the Sega Saturn. The Sega Saturn had graphics and game-play far-ahead of it's time of release (Like the Dreamcast did), yet failed in America because of it's poor advertising scheme. In japan, it was pretty popular, a lot to do with the commercials, which introduced one of the toughest game-mascots in existance. Segata Sanshiro. Segata was a gruff martial-artist in a Karate Gi who would beat people up if they did not play the Sega Saturn. In fact, he killed 3 boys who just came back from a baseball game cause they didn't play it. He took his video games seriously. But he wasn't a bad guy, he just wanted the children to be happy, so he did all he could for them. Like coach a soccer team twice, play baseball with them, even save Sega from a Terrorist.

Segata did it all, I mean he even had his own theme song! Sadly though, since the Sega Saturn was still very unnsuccesful outside of Japan, Sega did the smart choice and decided to end it, and release a new system. Though to honor Segata they ended the system with giving him his own game, and a final commercial to remember him by.

Here are some of the best of his commercials:













Good Bye Brave Hero, we will remember you forever!

Nostalgia Goggles: Power Rangers

Sorry for such a delay guys, I'm just lazy and preoccupied with trivial matters. But I'm back now, with a new continuous bit that's about exactly what it sounds like, Nostalgia. The things that you loved years ago, that you grew up with, that no matter how bad they might seem today you still love cause you loved them as a kid. So, of course I'm going to start this off with one of my favorites, and classics from my childhood. Power Rangers!

I'm not talking about the Power Rangers that they're still running today, hell knows why, I'm talking about the classic show from the 90's that was still licensed by Saban. Back in the time where 60% of the footage was taken from the Japanese sentai shows, and even though the dialogue was cheesy it wasn't mind-numbingly awful like the newly released Disney Power Rangers. You may believe I am speaking purely on memory, but I actually re-watched an entire Saban Ranger Series a few months ago (Rangers in Space). Sure it was pretty cheesy and campy, but hey, it was a Saturday morning childrens show. Still, it was extremely enjoyable and just brought a lot of "HELL YEAHS" to my lips, making me feel like a child again. I've tried watching some of the newer Disney Rangers, just to see how they've kept up since my childhood, and I can't even stomach it. Just something seems, off. It just, doesn't have the same heart it used to. I'm not really sure.

Anyway, I'm sure the specific series that is prominent in all our minds, is still the one and only, Mighty Morphin'. The original Power Ranger series, that lasted longer than any of the others, in fact it was over 100 episodes which was pretty monumental for a saturday morning childrens show. Even though it technically took footage from an already running Japanese Sentai (Which is guys in costumes and rubber monsters, done waaaaaay before us) it still had a nice feel to it. This is probably from the fact that they decided to find FIVE TEENAGERS WITH ATTITUDE! Though I'm pretty sure Billy had no attitude, but they needed some smart guy. Anyway, the fact that they had 5 kids with completely different ethnicities, personallities, and backgrounds made it so anyone could relate to the Power Rangers. No matter how many racial undertones there were (Asian Girl is Yellow Ranger, Black Guy is Black Ranger etc...). Though in my Opinion, the series was still just a mindless TV show until they brought in.......this badass...


That's right, Tommy, the most popular ranger. Guy shows up as a villain, who is brainwashed into wanting to kill the other Power Rangers. Even has his own personal Mecha-Godzilla which he uses to thrash the others on multiple occasions. He didn't even have to go inside his Robot to pilot it, that's how badass Tommy was. Though, before he could do anymore damage, the team freed him from his mind-control and he joined them, and instantly became the leader. That was, until of course, he lost his Green Ranger powers and reverted back into normal Tommy. But like that could stop this BAMF, he just found himself another magic sword and became the White Ranger, cause he doesn't give a shit bout your semantics.

In fact he continued to change colors so much, that soon he was brighter than a Gay Pride flag. That was how awesome he was. In fact the character was in more episodes than any other character, and has been more colors than any other ranger. He's also lead atleast 4 different teams of rangers, from 2 Different Teams of Mighty Morphings, To a Zeo Team, To the First Turbo Team, and then even to the Dino-Rangers. Tommy Oliver was the man, and the only thing that made Power Rangers: Dino Thunder even slightly bearable.

I'm pretty sure that even if people don't remember much about the Power Rangers, they remember Tommy. Since everyone knew Tommy. Even the actor who played him is badass. Jason David Frank (Guys got 3 first names, holy crap) went on to create his own form of Martial Arts, open dojos across america, and enter a Martial Arts Hall of Fame alongside Chuck Norris. Yeah, I know.

Badass.

Obama

Hey look it's Obama

Man knows how to relax
But can take some time to take a photo in front of his memorial


That Obama sure can dress sharp, just look at that casual dress.

Though he can get into his formal suit when the occasion calls.


Guy knows how to do what he does, and he does it best.

None of the attempts were the same after that day, guess they all lost heart
But who can blame them? I mean this dude is best friends with Spider-Man.


What a classy guy.

Happy Birthday Mr. President!

Aqua Laguna

Hello there, sorry it's been a few days since my update, I've had so much on my mind and nothing to do, so I've been swamped.

Almost as swamped as literally everything outside. Seriously, we just had the wettest July on record. July is a summer month, not a damn spring month. It should be filled with sun, screaming children, and melanoma, not clouds EVERY day that I want to do something, and sunshine that lasts for literally 2 hours a week. That's just stupid. It's like mother nature is going through an extra long cycle, and her PMS is lasting our entire summer. I remember the end of June everyone was saying " Don't worry, this rain will end in like a week, and then it'll a hot and dry scorcher of a summer". I have yet to get scorched, most of the time I just get soaked, and not at a pool either. Also the fact that I jump in a pool in the middle of July and it's ice-cold and the wind is blowing and there's no sun is wrong. I like my pools sun heated, thank you. And every time I plan to go to the beach it's pouring, or I have to be at the doctors. Luckily it rains anyway so I don't feel as bad. I have yet to see sand this summer, I'm not even sure I remember what it feels like.

Last friday even, I was supposed to be at Six Flags for the entire day. They even said it was going to be a bit cloudy, but mostly hot and humid. It poured buckets, lots of buckets. So many buckets they were almost pails, that's how many buckets of rain it poured. So instead we drove to Fox Woods so we could do something fun, and 2 hours later it stops raining, and is just cloudy. So yeah, Rain ruined my Six Flags day. So I'm making an official comment to Mother Nature. Stop it, seriously, enough of your PMS raining down on us. We want Sun. Bring us Sun.

Thank you.

Game Hype: The Ocarina of Time

It's another edition of Game Hype, and this issue I'm talking about the greatest Zelda game known to man (Majora Fans don't hate me):

This game is a classic, literally, it's 11 years old, and still played today and considered one of the best dungeon adventure games produced by nintendo, and for the N64. This is also the first game in the Zelda series to be 3-Dimensional and the first one to incorporate the 3 Pieces of Triforce in the story line. Sure, the Triforce always existed, but this started the whole segment about the Triforce being split into 3 pieces which were known as the Triforce of Wisdom, the Triforce of Courage, and the Triforce of Power. Which becomes very significant to the story and the rest of the Zelda timeline, no matter how confusing this is.

Okay, the basic story (Without spoiling it for those who have yet to play it) is that you wake up from a terrible nightmare of an evil figure on a horse, as Link, the small Kokiri boy with no fairy. This is unusual in Kokiris, since all Kokiris have fairys. This is why Link is sort of an outcast, though he still has friends, except Milo of course (Cause he's a dick). Suddenly though, the great Deku Tree (Guardian of the Forest) Sends you a fairy, which turns out to be Navi the most annoying part of the game. The only part I can truthfully say I hate, since every five seconds navi yells at you to do something completely dumb. Or while you're doing the task she wanted you to do, she continues to remind you that you're doing it. Yeah, annoying.

Anyway, it's revealed that you are a child of destiny and that you are destined to meet princess Zelda. Which of course you go out and do, and of course she tells you that a great evil is approaching and that you got to get the 3 sacred gems to open the Sacred Realm that way you can protect the triforce from evil. From then on you go on an adventure through dungeons that are filled with monsters, traps, puzzles, and crazy weaponry with your trust Master Sword, which allows you to travel back and forth through time. That's the part I love about this game. You can travel forward and back 7 years, from Kid Link to Adult Link. This allows you to get secret items and do special quests by screwing around with the flow of time.

To make it better you have a magical ocarina that can warp time and space, and make things really fun and easy. All you do is play the right song and BOOM a giant block appears, or BANG a door opens, or PAZOW a windmill owner gets really really pissed off. Music is power basically, in this game.

I wish I could go into more detail on this game, but unlike Team Fortress 2, this game is a one player game where you have to play it to figure out the story and everything. If I try to hype it too much, there will be no suprises anymore. So instead I'll just add that for an N64 game it's FILLED with so much extra content like quests and large dungeons that it's sort of unbelieveable. It's fun to replay, and it's a very exciting game, with at least 10 dungeons in it. Which means of course, 10 bosses. That's so cool.

Go pick it up, since for N64 it'd only be like 3 dollars now, and you can get it for 1000 points on WiiWare. Perfect game to add to your colleciton.