Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. I just had my first, homemade turkey dinner with a huge family group, which is cool. Thanksgiving dinner back with my family is usually small due to everyone else in my family living in Japan, so we never have turkey, unless we want half a month's worth of leftovers. It sounds like my family is having Boston Market again this year, as is our tradition, I guess.

As for now, I'm looking forward to doing some Black Friday shopping soon. Although from the advertisements and flyers I've seen so far, I'm not seeing anything that's spectacular of a sale this year, which is a disappointment. But I may go out and get something anyway. Probably something small.

I guess I'm going to have to spend all my adventures on Kingdom of Loathing now though, so I'll leave this post at that. If I find anything worthwhile during the Black Friday sales, I'll be sure to talk about it. Happy Thanksgiving, and for all the other adventurers, Happy Feast of Boris!

Weird Movie - The Dolphin

Was just at another movie night with the others. Of course, the movie we decided to watch is yet another weird movie on Netflix. Upon browsing for movies on Netflix, Vicki freaks out at "something scary" on the screen. Naturally, people thought she meant the Human Centipede, which is a legitimately scary/creepy concept, especially after having seen the trailers for it. But no. She meant the movie NEXT to the Human Centipede, The Dolphin: Story of a Dreamer. @_@ "I mean, LOOK AT THAT FACE! It looks weird!" Well, I can't really argue with that. Your call on what's scarier.

Feesh! - Firion 3

Today certainly is a lot of things. My birthday, the release date of Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, and also Firion's anniversary since he arrived here on my birthday! =D So today's entry will be about Firion, although I still never got that LED light. This post will also double as a guide for keeping betta fish as a pet.

Freedom of Voluntary Ignorance

Warning example

So another poll ended, and here are the results.

How should spoilers be handled here?
Warning with a Spoiler sign: 3 votes
Hide them in a Spoiler Box: 2 votes
Avoid them all together: 0 votes
Make it hard to read: 0 votes
Just post it openly: 0 votes

Seems like having the post be labeled with a spoiler sign seems to be the most popular vote. Personally, I wanted to implement a spoiler box, but as of now, I have no way of doing that as I lack the code for putting a spoiler box in my posts. Hopefully I'll find one in the future, but until then, having a warning image for spoilers is the best I could do.

KoL - Trendy

So just recently, on November 15th, the new, special challenge path run was released for Kingdom of Loathing. Personally, I really liked Way of the Surprising Fist, so I was hoping for this new run, Trendy, will be as good and rewarding.

Well, here's what the description says for Trendy. "You're a slave to fashion -- a prisoner of style. You cannot use any item, skill or familiar that has been unavailable for more than one year. This includes Mr. Store items, holiday content, expired raffle items, and all other limited-time stuff."

I thought that if that's the only restriction, I probably wouldn't have too much of an issue with this run, since Way of the Surprising Fist had greatly reduced the amount of meat you gain from it. That was the major issue with that challenge path run, so with the meat gain un-nerfed, there's nothing to worry about. >_> ... And holy crap, was I wrong.

Promo - Charlie Tang's UMVC3

I have this friend who's quite tech-savvy; much more tech-savvy than I am, in fact. And she's in a team that designs websites for commission for those who don't have the expertise and talent in web designing. Among them is her boyfriend, who made this awesome, fan-made Ultimate Marvel VS Capcom 3 site, where it plays mp3s of each character's themes. It isn't quite finished yet, it seems, as it's a Work In Progress, but none-the-less, awesome enough to check out.

(Btw, for Phoenix Wright, click on the files below him.)

It's definitely a nice site to favorite so that you can listen to UMVC3 music and mess around on. Looking forward to when it'll be complete. o_o

Bad Movies - Mega Piranha

So... Just came back from movie night with my friends. Didn't have any particular movie to watch though, so someone suggested something with piranhas. Turns out there was only one movie in Netflix about piranhas, and it was Mega Piranha. The title says it all, really. The plot, written on Wikipedia...

"The film focuses on the Orinoco River in Venezuela, where a strain of genetically modified piranha have escaped into an isolated tributary of the river. Through human interference of the local environment, the megapiranha manage to escape from their isolated spot and swim downstream, killing all that crosses their path. The megapiranha gradually make their way towards Florida at the height of the tourist season."

I'm not very big on monster movies, honestly. They just don't appeal to me because of the one-sided, ridiculousness that's typically predicable and cliche at this point. Not to mention how I was recently talking about some of the filming techniques that a friend of mine told me in this blog post, Promo - Fiorella Films, so watching this complete mess of bad acting, bad plot, HORRIBLE CGI, and the overall low budget feel of the movie just seemed... well, a joke. I mean, here's probably the highlight of the movie.

 I was going to blame the bad acting, editing, and camera usage on the director, but upon research, it turns out that the director wasn't even there for the shooting apparently. What the hell? It makes me wonder if the director KNEW that it was going to be bad and just didn't care about this movie. Even aside from that, they try to pull some pretty bad Hollywood bullshit like "sucking on dead batteries to recharge it.". Here's a clip of the scene.

 

Yeah. ._. I pretty much gave up on the movie at this point. Just letting you guys know how bad this movie is. Feel free to check it out, if you're into this kind of thing. Otherwise, I'd just.. not bother.