Art in Games

Good God, whereas I'm one of those people who actually love the new PoP trailers, but there some people who just have some negative comments about this. As the words of the wise Ben 'Yathzee' Croshaw from Zero Punctuation says...

The thought occurs that for all my banging at the "games are art" drum, art is only as good as the culture that surrounds it. A game could give the most extraordinarily emotional experience in the entirety of human culture, and bring tears to the eyes of a jaded war veteran with no eyes, but it's all for naught if it's not surrounded by self-important bearded tossers who read too much into things for a living...

In other words, you have the arty-Okami-type people who actually love the games that are basically 'not-going-to-hyper-realism-with-photorealistic-graphics' and have really distinct and different art styles than the other popular games and then there's the typical-fanboy-FPS-type people, who never actually understand and appreciate Klimt, Picasso and Aardman Animation, hate lots of brushwork that artists spent ages to put their efforts to the public and would rather wowed at the grapics that have realistic faces and all wanted blood to be as realistic as possible and just basically never put a foot on a fine art gallery, whatsoever. If you choose the second optiion, congradulations; you've just awarded to being a dumb person, who spends life not caring for the changing world and you never, ever seen the Culture Show, watched some documentaries and most importantly...you hate the colourful artistic direction that the games are going to that way, instead of going to crappy never-going-to-be-perfect-photorealistic graphics that are basically covered in browns, greys and dark tints that would best described as dull and lifeless.

If I were you, just don't be afraid and pick a damn art book, like Van Gogh or something, look at the beautiful illustrations, watch some Studio Ghlibi movies or the anime version of Metropolis; appreciate the world as it has some hope and most importantly...STOP SAYING TO DEVELOPERS ON WHAT YOU REALLY WANT! Ben Mattes has defended himself that he wanted the new PoP game on a more artistic and poetic direction and wants to join the Okami bandwagon and also says that the Sands of Time trilogy has already concluded AND is AND WILL NEVER, going to join the WW and T2T stuff ever again.

And possibly wanted to apologise to Jordan Mechner, for creating the 2nd and 3rd PoP game to the wrong direction. And I highly respect Mechner, because he really wants the PoP series to be more fantasy and poetic rather than the hyper-realism crap that has no soul and would rather put some dull environments that I'm going to say 'meh, where's the variety?' and some other stuff.

And if you're STILL denying that games can be art and they can have as many different art styles as they want, then your IQ must me really low and your soul is completely hopeless and would carry to purgatory when you die; that way, you'll regret it.

Doodles + Work = NOT FUN AT ALL

AAAAAAAAARRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!! This is pissing me off, so this is the reason why I'm going to rant this. Apparently, my older sister and my dad do not understand that if they call these doodles and pieces as 'work', I might as well throw everything in the bin and start doing some cosplay stuff and ignore anything that thwy're start asking me about work.

It really pisses me off as a design student. I'll give you many reasons why I don't like the word 'work' and mixing in what I love to do:

A) Work is like having no ideas at all, aside from a few research ideas and then expect to start drawing from day one and continue, until your soul has been consumed by the 'ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKE SHO-SAKA A VERY DULL GIRL' robot. I just hate it, it makes me want to cry.

B) My older sister and my dad always tell me to do 'work' for a few hours, but there's one problem that they'll never understand artists and designers who blog their rant on peer pressure: when they say a 'few hours', it's mostly taking a whole day staying in at home and expect to produce lots of drawing that you can mostly describe your own as 'shit' quality. And to be honest, I hate that peer pressure; they may like 'my work', but I'll always see this as 'shit' and 'something I'm going to regret later on'.

AND most importantly...

C) DRAWING IS SUPPOSED TO BE FUN!!! Get that, FUN!!! It's something that I'll always do on a whim and something that I really love. But one day, it's something that's going to be that I hate, thanks to her and my dad!!! And for once, I should really wish that they should call those pieces that I was supposed to do as DOODLES that can used to inspire later on, NOT works on the essay of what the word 'art and design' means to them!!! If they keep calling them 'work' one more time, I might as well give up the whole project altogether and lose my 'drawing' spirit forever.

I get really pissed off when they say 'work, work, work', but what ever happened to something like 'something you'll enjoy is something that you like to continue for your rest of your life'? It's really sad no one would see enjoyment of a hobby turned into a nightmare thanks to peer pressure. That's why if she and my dad think the 'work, work, work' attitude to me, then they made me go unmotivated on the doodle aspect and ending up ranting in my blog that neither her or he would find me here and expect some flaming in the comment box.

*Sigh*

Insert Some Angry Emo Title Entry

I'm angry and emo for two simple reasons:

1) My Dad and my older sister keep bugging me about this crap coursework deadline that I was supposed to do over the summer. Yes, I know that universoty life is important into work and play, BUT that doesn't mean they should peek into my problem, aside from the "£3000" tution fee excuse.

I just wish my tutor should have given the whole class a better assignment, because robots and futuristic stuff are NOT sort of my cup of tea.

AND

2) That horrible 'Middle-Child-Peer-Pressure' syndrome that got me into emotionally stressful and at times, really depressing and emo. Let me explain: Ever since when I was eight or so, I didn't know that I had to SATs, meaning I was a happy child, until at the tender age of ten that when I found out that I was going to the same grammar school as my older sister, who I shall call her CQ. And then, I never forgave my Dad onwards, because during the summer, that old bastard kept bombing me with those English, Maths and Verbal Reasoning test papers all in one go and my childhood days of being a cheerful one soon ended, because of him. Then, there's the 11-year-old SATs and this is where I started to loathe the tests more in the coming years.

By the time I got accepted into a Grammar School (which is full of snobby type boys that I'll never go out on a date with them), I got depressed that some of the people, including my cousin, are cleverer than me and I thought whether I shouldn't have passed the entrance exam and pleased my Dad.

However, then things starting to turn for the worse. By the time I had done my end-of-year tests at the age 0f 14, I was depressed that my maths results were shit and that I nearly flunked Chemistry, though I did score well in English, Physics and French. And then I didn't realised that I could never be the academic type who likes to sit and concentrate in classrooms later on and when it came to GCSEs, I think that the only subject that I love is art: But my artistic freedom of expression was hampered down by my ex-art teacher who forced me to do stuff that I didn't want to. And when it came to academic types GCSEs, I just lost the will to carry on and my Dad and my older sister keep nagging that studying right now in the middle of an exam period is more important than just blogging your hatred to them (and hopefully none of them are going to read I'm complaining about them). I know they care for me, but I just really hate it when they start asking me the same questions EVERY SECOND!!!

And then when it came to AS and A2 Levels exams, they still KEEP bugging me like I'm some sort of a teenager refusing to grow up and change my personality!!! And this is where I start to loathe of why I didn't enrolled to a vocational 6th Form college like CQ. Oh, wait. I forgot, my Dad. He always insisting to go on an Academic 6th Form College, but what I realised is that I can never be like him and be a mathematical genius like him (and I start to even loathe more when he found some spiritualism in form of a REALLY Catholic guy and that he acts like some kind of person who is worse than a Jehovah's Witness coming through the door, telling me if I don't believe in God, then it's a one way ticket to Hell (yeah, like that's going to happen. I think I believe that devils and angels are no different to each other and that they like to hang out with each other and play a bit of Wii)) and that he just doesn't get with my unpredictable personality and what I actually feel. Even a help with the Francis House Hospice didn't help, because I hated my Dad for what I actually am.

A poor confused girl, who is looking for alternative paths in the future. I always hate his one-sided view and plus for the fact that I hate him for not accepting me that I'll never be as clever as them and that people with different minds and problems are always good, instead of trying to be clever, only to fail at life. I just hate him that he's trying to put some peer pressure on me and that he's conviced he's right.

I've got one word to him:

F**K OFF YOU OLD T**T! JUST STOP WORRYING ME AT ALL TIMES! I AM A GROWN PERSON WHO DOESN'T NEED SPIRITUALIST HELP FROM SOME CHURCH ORGANISATION THAT I'LL NEVER GOING TO FOLLOW (Yes, that's right. The Vatican's going to destroy humanity by not sending out condoms to Third World countries and thus AIDS spread and eventually killing them) AND CERTAINLY NOT GOING TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, BECAUSE IT'S MY PROBLEM AND I SHOULD BE THE ONE SORTING THIS MESS OUT NOT YOU! YOU'VE GOT YOUR OWN PROBLEMS TO DEAL WITH, SO SHUT UP AND LEAVE ME ALONE! THE SAME GOES FOR YOU CQ. YOU MAY KNOW ME FROM THE OUTSIDE AND INSIDE, BUT YOU'LL NEVER SCRATCH THE SURFACE AND FIND WHAT I REALLY FEEL!

Selling Myself

Well, since I was actually run out of money (thanks mum for the 'advice' you gave me...), now I'll have to set up the affiliate program with Play-Asia.com to sort my money out. Eurgh, I hate my life. And doing the financial stuff all by myself is miserable work too. T_T

Oh well, at least I bought the 'It's a Wonderful World' (now called 'The World End With You') OST from that site. Great bargain, though. Only around £10 for the CD!

Must be Thursday Again

Blimey, just what have I bought?



Death Note: How to Read manga and that Another Note novel. Great, I need to add to my Death Note collection (excluding the merchandise). And what's this entering through my house?



YAY! Persona 3! Right, I'm going to name the student, Ryoutarou for this...



Funny thing is, you know Inoue Toshiki (guy who's currently doing Kamen Rider Kiva scipt)? He does the Death Note anime scriptwriting, as well as Devil May Cry the anime and Cutie Honey the LIVE. Though I like his scriptwriting in terms of narrative, I think he's pretty unsuitable to scriptwrite children's shows, even though anything to do with horror (or just emo-drama-crap) is his speciality. Oh dear. I think someone is going to shoot me for this.

Quote of the Moment - "I don't want to ruin this!" - Me on that Death Note: How to Read manga, which has a name card stuck on this manga. > ___ <

Games = Sudoku???

Oh great. Another person claims that video games are bad for kids and is like Satan's sudoku.

But wait a minute, isn't Sudoku itself a game (and not just any game on paper, but it also has countless of video games itself)? Yeesh, someone should give her a slap on the back for not doing enough research properly. I play video games AND play sudoku on paper and yet, my soul did not sold off to the Devil. Perhaps she needs to play more Brain Training to keep her brain of hers active.

Quote of the Moment - "These are Satan's Sudoku, crack cocaine of the brain. Even the crappiest cartoon or lamest soap teaches a child about character, plot, drama, humour, life. Playing videogames, children are mentally imprisoned, wired into their evil creators' brains." - Janice Porter ranting about how video games are really shallow of the storyline. Geez, you do know that there are plenty of video games that HAVE character, plot, drama, humour and life into one package (take the Metal Gear Solid series for example).

IDie

Watched yesterday's The Gadget Show and I'm really pissed about the Apple's I[Pod (shuffle/nano)/Tunes/Touch/Phone/Whatever] stuff being the greatest gadget in the world. Even the IPhone's been given the Gadget of the Year 2007. Seriously, I think they are IOverrated and I'll tell you why I hate them more than my Creative stuff...

- They're a pain in a butt when it comes to converting .mp3 files into .aac files and I'm not really a fan of those. They take so long to convert, I'm going to have to smash the Ipod plug in half. Plus, I'm not that patient to have to wait for the files converting and then listen to enjoy.
- IPhone's rubbish. I'm sorry, but at £35 on the monthly contract via O2? Yeah, right. That's a total ripoff! I rather go and buy a Sony Ericsson with Pay as You Go Top-up fee than this. And then it has a rubbish 2 Megapixel camera and the music in there is awful.
- So popular, I'm going to have a fit here. I just hate how one minded the Technology magazines say they're really good. Oh, for God's sake, have you ever heard of the proverb 'Don't judge a book by its cover'. Please, let me find at least one person who hates the IPod/whatever.

So, there you have it. The reasons why I want to buy a Creative Zen M, instead of ICrap stuff.

Quote of the Moment - "ARGH! LEAVE ME ALONE!" - Me, when playing Warriors Orochi and lots of CPU characters are following me. Creepy...

I Told Her I'll Be Pissed...

...when I post this to my blog.



Now, I'm very angry at my older sister for abusing my laptop. I'll never forgive her for that. The next time she comes abusing my poor laptop, I'll make a laptop that she cannot bear. >:(

Quote of the Moment - "When are you going to play?" - My younger sister asking me a million times so much, I just gave up saying 'yes'.

Bashing Younger Sibling Time!

Oh God, what is wrong with my younger sister?! Acting like she still got her 'teach-me-everything' inside her brain, always trying to be good to our mum and dad, which all adds to the absolutely opposite of me. My older sister can leave this behind as she already became an adult, but to be honest, I would rather let see my younger sister turn into a proper adult who can think for herself, rather than saying out loud to tell me my head is a size of shoe and that hers is like all things inside Wikipedia and out. And the way she told me about it was really offensive.

What I can describe best about my younger sister is that she's like a total Political Correctness machine gone berserk when it came to obeying parents and what really annoys me the most is that she's not the younger sister that I knew, since at a very young age. We were young, rebellious; always being so curious. But by the time we were old, I still have my curious trait intact, whereas my younger sister just abandoned and live in an oppressed world where your insanity is wiped clean.

In other words, this what happened last night; arguing each other to see who can have my bedroom, but I'm having none of that, because I need my bedroom to SLEEP, STUDY (well, okay not studying, but more like drawing things for University) AND GETTING CHANGED, but all that my younger sister has is that PC machine stuck in 'Nanny Mode' and trying to beat the crap out of me. And I hate that sort; younger siblings trying to turn me into them; being a emotionless git who always going to say 'yes' to my parents. Sorry, but I'm going to tell my younger sister that I do things the way I like and being an anarchist to a family is a nice change. Even my older sister was one of them. Except I'm going on to a different path. I'm going to teach my younger sister that there's always a time where you sometimes do need to break their laws and just do what you have to do. I'm going to abandon our sisterly ways and get her 'Always-Not-thinking-about-her-actions-and-tries-to-be-the-parents'-gold-star-attention' out of her systems.

Quote of the Moment - "She's crazy!" - My younger sister, *coughHANHcough*, describing about me and my personality. Good thing, my younger sister has never touched a blog and then write back on how much she's pisses me off back as I pissed her in the past on my blog entries. And better if she never started a blog account in the first place.

And you thought Cat Fights weren't the only thing girls do

Today, my older sister and I have a sibling fight. Well, it's not one of those Cat Fights literally, but both of us have a really on-off relationship with each other. In fact, I love her when I feel depressed and that I needed help, but I also hate her, because she always thinks that she's the boss and that she tells me something that I disagree with her and that I would rather take things my way. And the same thing goes for hobbies, academic skills and interests. Worse still, she always tries to force me into something that not in a million years that I become her and if she still tries to make me become a better person, I rather do this myself.

And so the cat fight begins. She tries to make the offensive, I block her with my defensive skills up and manages to get away. If my older sister has read this blog entry, I would have been in deep trouble, because this blog is how I verey personally feel towards them and I'm going to have to explain, which I'm unprepared.

One thing to say to my older sister: *Raises a middle finger gesture* Me love controversy. I rather be kind to everyone and my younger sister than you. You always think of me on the outside, rather than the inside on what I'm really saying.

Quote of the Moment - "Oh shi-" Me when in deep trouble. I'm really hoping that my older sister doesn't know how to write a blog and then discover my blog.

So, You're Saying that you don't like women in real life?

Right, that's it! I'm now completely disgusted of what those men over at Rangerboard think of Hana during the Den-O discussion.

And to Black Fang and the other few men who think that Hana is useless: *Uses the middle finger on her left hand*

If you think that Hana is really useless in the last several episodes, then why do the Taros Imagin are not wrecking havoc inside Ryotaro's body, as well as outisde, if it wasn't for her keeping them in line from getting the poor boy in more trouble than he would have expected?! Or how about the time when young girls in Japan watching Den-O need a female role model, like her, so that they can be stronger in the future and stand up to them when they feel they've been hurt? Have you even thought about the kids who are younger than yourselves who needed a good role model than yourselvves?! For Christ's sake, you people should know that Kamen Rider Den-O is meant to be towards for young children, who are still learning and growing up. And you people, including Black Fang, have you got any shame that you're just being selfish towards others, including women in real life?

And if my evidence wasn't enough, how about strong women, like Hana, in dramas (whether it's Japanese or global), other Toku shows, anime, manga, video games, movies and other type of media? And here's just a few examples:

• Chun Hyang from CLAMP's Legend of Chun Hyang manga
• Rukia and Orihime from BLEACH
• Takiko from the manga; Fushigi Yuugi: Genbu Kaiden
• Chun Li from the Street Fighter series
• Akira and Izm from the Akihabara@DEEP TV series
• Mia Fey from the Ace Attonery series
• Martha Jones from Doctor Who
• Osaka from Azumanga Daioh (well okay, she's not really the type of strong women, but she's the recently most influenental character the world has ever seen)
• Aerith Gainsborough from Final Fantasy VII
• Fuu from Samurai Champloo (she's a bit like Hana, only she's the one keeping Jin and Mugen in line)
• Asuna from Mahou Sensei Negima
• Sakura from Cardcaptor Sakura
• Lara Croft from the Tomb Raider series
• Karou from Rurouni Kenshin
• Tokiko from Busou Renkin
• Jun Kazama from the Tekken series
• Zelda from the Legend of Zelda
• Lisa and Maggie Simpson from the Simpsons

And that's just more than a list. There's also girls and women, including me in real life who watches Den-O and when I saw your comment, I was deeply offended by you. So, in other words, do you hate women in real life who have very strong personalities and able to shut the men up or when they stand up for themselves to men who feel they are like second-rate citizens? Do you prefer women who are annoying, naive and weak-willed? Are you guys really one-minded if you don't like girls, who at first, look useless, only that they are very important? If you're like Black Fang from the Rangerboard forums, then I suggest you go out, take another hobby besides watching Toku, and see how you look at women in real life, as well as in fiction. There, I hope that opens your eyes men.

And as for you, Black Fang, WHY DON'T YOU WATCH ANOTHER TOKU SHOW BESIDES THE KAMEN RIDER SERIES, LIKE LION MARU G OR WECKER SIGNA OR EVEN GUYFRED?! OR EVEN WATCH AN ANIME SHOW AT LEAST ONCE?! OR EVEN BETTER, TAKE ANOTHER HOBBY BESIDES WATCHING!!! GEEZ, it's like your future is going to worse than bleak for you.

Quote of the Moment - "For thine is the high school, the home and the kokatsu, A! MEN" - The Osaka Prayer that I found on the /azu/ board.

The Problem with Nightly Prayers (or why being a Catholic isn't working for me)

Most of my family will never going to understand me of why I skip nightly prayers for most of the time (that's pretty much tradition to Vietnamese Catholic families, but I don't see my cousin's family do that or the majojrity of the Vietnamese families themselves) is because of this: My most lame excuse is that I went to the bathroom for so long, but that isn't my true reason for this - it's my struggle to accept that there is a God and that I should say some prayers to him is the one that I can't accept the fact, plus the fact that being a Catholic makes me feel un-enlighten. It's a good thing neither of my family members are going to read this blog, since none of them has got a blog and start doing some emo entries on me (well, at least my mum's not computer-literate).

Because I was brought as a Catholic, my dad (the strongest Catholic of all my family) expects me to do some Catholic things, while at the same time blend in with normal stuff. However, as I grew up and my dad wants everyone to say prayers every night, I just simply lost myself between being an agnostic or being an atheist, because when I tried to pray to God night after night, the expected results aren't always working and then afterwards, I gave up that praying isn't working to someone who neither exists nor just made-up and that I should put my faith into myself and start doing things to get the work done, instead on relying Him.

Another reason is that I have secretly got manic depression and have some suicidal thoughts in my head. Yes, I was the middle child, but neither my parents nor my older sister really cared for or how I'm actually feeling, because if I say things that's anything controversial or something to do suicidal, then they want me to get psychiatric help. But that doesn't work for me, because the specialist never thoroughly looked at me - he or she just looked what's on the outside with the body language, instead of what's really inside my mind. So I keep those thoughts to myself and only tell my darkest secrets to someone that truly understands on what I feel. The same goes for my disillusions of my spiritual enlightenment of being a Catholic.

And there's no way I'm going to convert to Jehovah's Witness (too many people say that modern medicine = No-no); Evangelical Christian (their high-energy music about how great Jesus Christ is, is just too much for me, they make me want to commit suicide); Islam (oh no, I'm not ready to give up alcohol forever); Scientology (Eeew, who would want to believe Tom Cruise and the silly little Church that has some issues with animals) or any other cult religion. They're just wanna make me commit suicide after one day of joining.

*Sigh* I rather want to enjoy life without the need of a Prayer than doing that.

Quote of the Moment - "I knew it! Cheesy storyline!" - My younger sister talking about Hoshigami Remix.

Why on Earth Excel and Me Hate Each Other #23232

Grrr. I hate that stupid job. It's just that, when it comes to anything to do with Excel-related and either my Dad or my older sister wants me to do, I actually drop that interest immediately. Microsoft Excel and me do not get along well with each other. EVER . It's all that jumbled ICT skill crap and Spreadsheet shit, as well as a pinch of mathematics, that made me wanna murder Excel. Literally with a knife. I hate Excel more than Word. I hate putting things that was written on the sheet.

I rather have my Dad or older sister ask me to do some graphic design on the leaflets or the shop sign, than doing this Spreadsheet crap. I hate is when either of them have never recongised my artistic potentials on getting more money for my Dad's business. Especially them. They don't really care on artistic people like me. One minute they look at an object that was created by a person who worked really hard on making this beautiful and the next minute, they shrugged and leave without a comment and instead, focus on business this, business that. Only my younger sister really does care about that. My Dad and older sister should burn in Hell and suffer for making me suffer Middle Child Syndrome. I wish I was born under a Japanese family who have artistic background.

Quote of the Moment - "I knew I should have swapped Grapic Design instead of ICT." - Me talking about my GCSE results. I got a D in ICT if you want to know.

To the People who Email Me about their Problems...

...STOP F**KING SENDING THOSE PERSONAL PROBLEM EMAILS TO ME!!! YOU, PEOPLE DRIVE ME MAD THIS INSTANCE ON EVERY TIME YOU GIVE ME AN EMAIL SAYING THAT YOU HAVE DEATH THREATS FROM OTHER COUNTRIES OR YOU NEED GETTING THEIR ATTENTION OR SOMETHING!!! IF YOU WANT TO HAVE THOSE PROBLEMS SOLVED, THEN DO IT BY YOURSELF!!! I know that it will risk your exposure, but at least it's better than sending out emails that I don't know about you!

Quote of the Moment - "17 August - 5 September" - Estimated delivery date for that Okami artbook from Amazon.co.uk. Damn.

Oh Look! Emo Girl Entry Time!

It's official. I'm now more depressed than crack. I'm one of the few Vietnamese people who doesn't act like Vietnamese at all. I mean, I know I have potential for all things creative and anything to do with art and design, but when it comes to family values, none of my family members, not to mention my ENTIRE family tree has ever done art and design as their careers, though I begin to suspect my father was regretting that he sacrificed photography for computer science (I can tell. He has a really good traditional SLR camera somewhere), which he took beautiful pictures.

And then, there's the middle child syndrome in my family. Unfortunately, when I read some articles about the middle child syndrome on the web, a lot of them are really true and it's pretty scary to see why. My parents and my sisters, they're always treating me like a second citizen or they're just ignore me or blaming me for things that I haven't even done wrong or worse, all of them above. And yeah, I never take orders from my younger sister, just because she said she's got a 'job' (IMHO, that's just her favour to help our father) and claimed she's doing it for money and she thinks she's all high and mighty and would just be a very spoiled brat on telling on what she wants as long as she's got money around. But, I always think that money has more problems than solutions *coughallworkandnoplaymakeHanhaveryveryverydullgirl*. The same goes for my older sister, though that's from a different path, but still, she never undersatnds on what I'm actually saying, as well as actually feel when my younger sister and/or my parents blame me for the wrong reasons. And the worse thing is...

...my parents have more attention toward my older sister and younger sister than me, just because I'm more creative and have some potentials that would have make such an impact to gain some profit for my father's shop. ;_; I just wish they would listen to me and understand me more by reason, rather than just looking at me straight away. And yes, I'm the oddest out of my family. I need a hug.

Quote of the Moment - "I've got suicidal thoughts in my head and yet, I always discussed with my only friend that I trust apart from my family member...my brain." - Me.

One Really Annoying Person Rant Time

Eurgh. >o<

You know what pisses me off more than Ukraine getting second place in this year's Eurovision Song Contest? One certain member *coughblackfangcough* over at the Rangerboard forums, whose mind is stuck somewhere between 'Me like Den-O' and 'I like Den-O, but I hate some elements to the show, so I'm comparing to Kabuto and older Kamen Rider shows'. I would like to say this to him/her...

FOR GOD'S SAKE! LEAVE KABUTO AND OLDER KAMEN RIDER SHOWS OUT OF DEN-O AND LEAVE YOUR SO-CALLED 'INTELLECTUAL' THOUGHTS SOMEWHERE IN YOUR BLOG OR SOMETHING, WHERE NO ONE IS GOING TO LOOK AT YOUR RANT/MUSING/POST!

Geez, your comparisons between Den-O and Kabuto and older Kamen Rider shows are like comparing the Final Fantasy series: same franchise, different storyline, world and characters. And before you flame me (yes, you know what I mean), comparing Den-O and Kabuto doesn't work at all. In other words, you're comparing to shows that have come from the same franchise, but they are completely different to each other and they are NOT COMPATIBLE TO EACH OTHER AT ALL TO COMPARE. Just look at Final Fantasy VII and VIII: They may have come from the same franchise, but by just looking at the surface, as well as deeper inside, their storylines, worlds and characters are completely different in directions. And the same applies to every Final Fantasy game. The only comparison that you can compare is the sequels to the game itself; the best examples being Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy X. And if you don't know what Final Fantasy is, try going to Wikipedia for yourself.

And really, don't really take the Kamen Rider series seriously. I would laugh my arse off, if you gave me a serious comment. And just to let me saying that should really drill in my head: KAMEN RIDER IS A JAPANESE CHILDREN SHOW, NOT SOME POLITICAL SHIT THAT GET THE PEOPLE TALKING THROUGHOUT THE WORLD! And I hate the way you say you can compare Den-O and Kabuto specifically. The only valid comparison that I can think of, is Kamen Rider Black and its sequel, Black RX.

This maybe going to dismiss you, but apparently Den-O is a far lighter affair than the last couple os KR shows that have gone a bit too dark, but is as unique as any Final Fantasy game you come across it with and thanks to the show's uniqueness, a lot of female viewers from everywhere, not just Japan, along with young parents with children can enjoy the series, without taking it seriously.

The bottom line is, 1) don't take the Kamen Rider franchise seriously, like some really hardcore KR fan who has no life outside your hobby at all. Have you even considered doing some real life stuff, like paying taxes, worrying about your appearances or something else? 2) your comparisons between the current and past KR shows are rubbish and you're comparing it like a Final Fantasy VII/VIII (delete where appropriate) fan who endlessly babble to compare TWO completely different games that have no connetion to each other whatsoever and 3) stop being an asshole who just whine about the show and just enjoy watching the show! IT IS A SHOW, AFTER ALL, TARGETING THE YOUNG CHILDREN!

Thank God I didn't joined the RB forum immediately and I have an open mind that there is more to life than just Kamen Rider all the way.

Quote of the Moment - "Excuse me, while I kiss the sky!" - Jimmy Hendrix and the song Purple Haze. And yes, the lyrics clearly say 'kiss the sky', not 'kiss this guy'.

Things that I want to shut up

• Tony Blair not actually keeping his promises since 1997. Seriously, what were you thinking?
• Gordon Brown putting more taxes in than what the Conservatives have done.
• Some Fundamental Christians (Strictly speaking Evangelists or Jehovah's Witnesses)/Muslims proclaiming that other religions are not true and would do anything to convert them into their own religion. (If they come to my house, I just say to them I'm Catholic and always been following the Church. Okay, scratch the 'always following the Church' bit.)
• A bunch of sensitive British Muslims who have big anger problems when it comes to small or harmless issues.
• News after news, I keep hearing a bunch of Shia militia Muslims bombing crowded streets, killing at least dozen of people in Iraq. I must be thinking that Shia militia Muslims really love gaining attention toward newsreaders and journalists.
• American humour trying to copy British humour.
• People comparing American humour with British humour. Get over with it. You can't compare these two. It's like comparing Kabuto and Den-O all over again.
• John Mc Cricky or something. He's the most sexist and disgusting person who is a total slob and won't just listen to any women other than ordering his wife. And won't change for good.
• George W. Bush Jr. 'Nuff said.
• UK entries to the Eurovision Song Contest post-2000. Gemini was complete utter tripe; Daz Sampson's a rubbish black rapper wannabe and Scooch is a complete waste of time who wants to be like AAA or Morning Musume, only the British Music Industry just threw them away for good.
• This year's Ukraine entry to Eurovision Song Contest. If I send Ladymercury a YouTube video of an Ukrainian Drag Queen dressed in tin foil, she'll going to vomit over that one and vowed that she'll never going to speak to me again. I wish Lordi would come back and entertain me.
• Chavs and Lauren-a-likes who think they rule the world and just do what they like. Too bad they have an IQ of a brainless idiot.
• Snobby female students, who I like to call them 'Plastics' who just exploded their computer volume into full and disturbing other students, including me.
• Paris Hilton, Anna Nicole Smith and other dumb blonde women who have a lack of education and their parents were lazy slobs raising their children.
• Younger/shorter sisters/brothers/cousins/friends/people than me, who are really arrogant/rude/annoying to me.
• That 'Poo Obssessive' woman from 'You Are What You Eat' or some Channel 4 programme. Seriously, she's going to need some help on her 'poo' obssession problems.
• One minded anime and manga fans who think that Tokusatsu is just a Power Rangers rip-off without realising Tokusatsu is a product from Japan that goes beyond Power Rangers itself.
• Eastenders, Hollyoaks, Emmerdale and other British Soap Opreas that are more like not depicting real life than comedy dramas and Doctor Who themselves. Same goes for American Soap Opreas.
• McDonalds and Burger King adverts. Well, at least KFC avoided the 'Toys of the Moment' bit, whereas the latter two were at least annoying and one of them have that annoying Gina whatsherface as the voiceover.
• Barbie Dolls and its spinoff merchandise. Women, just get over with it. You can't have the same perfect breasts and body as her and she's a toy with no sense of what's going around the world and an IQ of 0.
• Bratz. Oh dear God. Four teenagers dressed up as prostitutes and have the worst character designs I've seen. I want to slap the one who are responsible for this shit.
• One minded console fans (i.e. Sony/Nintendo/Microsoft), who wasted their time bickering and bitching each other on which console 'rules'.
• Disney animated movies post-1998. Ugh, first came second rate animation that I think Dreamworks animation (in the 2D kind) had actually spent of a lot of their efforts making their films and then their attempts to do 3D CGI films. Seriously Disney; they failed, because they spend more time doing shit merchandise to the films than the movies themselves and only a stupid short attention group of children who would go 'wow!' over at the graphics.
• The Vatican's reaction to the 'Da Vinci Code' film and attempts to ban it. Sadly, they haven't realised that the film itself was rubbish itself, with wooden acting and dialogue that I would just laugh at it. 'Quick, we must go to the library!': I lol'd over that one (sorry Ladymercury for breaching copyright act). And yes, I am Catholic.
• British Vietnamese males who just wouldn't care for British Vietnamese females, including me. Grrr.
• My female AS/A2 Level chemistry teacher who always catches me out; from sleeping in her class (God, the way she teaches is sooo boring!) to bringing out endless past exam papers that she always brings out and scold me off for not getting the answers right. The worse came from my GCSE female chemistry teacher who not only used to be my older sister's form teacher back at secondary school, but she taught me up to AS/A Level!

Man, that's a lot things that I hate. No wonder I have a sarcastic and miserable view to the world. Well, thank God for British comedy, Have I Got News For You, Boris Johnson, Paul Merton, Ian Hislop and Never Mind the Buzzcocks to keep my sense of sanity. No Quote of the Moment tonight, due to that I have to prepare for this Level Zero and Foundation Art and Design Exhibition I'm supposed to hang, so you would just get used to one big list I have written. *Sigh* Come back Leavers' Ball! All is forgiven!

One Stubborn Lady + One Daydreaming Lady = Two Troublesome Posts

Okay, I think I want to give Ladymercury (now called Smart Lady for some reason) over at the HJU forums a slap on her head for being such a stubborn bitch when it comes to the Den-O movie dispute (after I posted a picture of Princess Fuse from Okami and use the Den-O picture as a comparison between the two). Here's what she said:

"That looks like a shop so bad its not even funny."

While I respect her opinions on other things, this is one post that I want to wrestle with her for this. Has she even been to the Movie's Official Site and checked under the News section? -_-; Hey, Smartass Lady, if you think this photo looks like it's been Photoshopped, how come that photo you claimed it's been 'Shopped is on the Official Website?! Huh? Have I made my point clear?

Geez, you should look at the site for some time, you stubborn Smartass Lady bitch...

Quote of the Moment - "8 guys, in the gayest set of gym wear from a 1970s sports film wearing the gayest sailor's hat from the 1940s marching and making dumb retarded expresses with CGI tears rolling from their eyes." From Ladymercury's Livejournal entry on this Eurovision-camp-Jpop band or something.

AAARGH! DOCTOR WHO DELAYED?!

WHY?! Judgement Day has come upon us and it's...

EUROVISION SONG CONTEST!!!

Eurgh...I hate this contest and yet, I have watched this shit for the last couple of years. The music is shit, the costumes are shit, the singers are shit with tuneless pitch and uninspired lyrics that are mostly either about love or some novelty act that doesn't make sense at all and worst of all...Britain's in it, along with France (Grrr...) and Germany. If I hear another cheesy Jpop-cum-Eurobeat-cum-techno-style song again from either of the countries ever again, I'm turning the mute button on and go straight to listen to the British Music Industry...permanently. Thank God for pure music talent.

Oh, for those who don't know what I'm talking about, the Eurovision Song Contest is an annual music competition, where European countries come all the way to sing. And their songs are like Jpop-type, only five hundred times worse than AAA (Attack All Around), Ayumi Hamasaki and KOTOKO combined altogether. And Britain hasn't won a thing since ten years ago. And I'm betting that Scooch or whatever would get 'nil points' (in a French accent) from other countrie; I remember in 2003, where Gemini is just do rubbish, I just turned to the other channel and listen to Coldplay. Or something...

Quote of the Moment - "We're flying the flag!" - Scooch, verse from their song. God, this is pointless! >_<'

I Hate ResNet

ARGH! Stupid University! I tried to download the latest episode of Den-O via BitTorrent, but University got restricted and it's now slowing, even though it's broadband (surprisingly 10MB) and it's supposed to be fast! >_< I hate ResNet. I've now decided that I should go back to Manchester, buy a wireless router and go straight to Wi-Fi Mode! I'm now sick of cable broadband.

I'm complaining to the Accomondation Office about this.

Quote of the Moment - "ARGH! STUPID RESNET!" - Me in Internet rage.