LISTEN TO HIS SEXY VOICE. --Me
You are an angel... when you hugged me, it made me feel like I existed. -- Hazel
Say goodbye to your kneecaps, trufflehead! Scout, TF2
I see... so that is the Persona that answered your call... Elizabeth, P3
Im getting onto some new stuff since I got a Bamboo Touch tablet for a Christmas present, the medium one, the spiffy new one. Yeah its exciting and all- now wheres the time for me to actually learn how to use it? Not very much considering my University schedule is beyond ESCAPABLE.
Anyways, Im trying to find some way to draw for me... and not just for this site. I really feel that stepping up to my New Years Resolution is going to take a lot more than me saying I can do it. What I really want is to indulge in myself. Ive never done that in my life, Ive always been paying attention to other peoples problems and issues when I never pay any TLC to mine. When I do concentrate on myself and what I want, the best of my ability gets drawn out of me and into my artwork, my writing, and into anything else I do.
Its not a selfish act. When you do something you love, you feel it crack your bones, and tingle your spine like pulling apart a cheesestring and feeling the very fibres peel apart, to reveal a tender inside that wasnt there before. I want to feel that again, and Im going to do whatever it takes to write the deepest part of me in my writing, and draw the deepest part of me in my art.
New Years Resolution: Search the cosmos for the knowledge I need to open up my entrails and find the deepest part of myself, and swim in the sea of my soul until I find the answers to everything.
Jade Cocoon... good LORD, I think I was... ten, maybe nine when I first played this game on the Playstation 1? It came out in 1998 so, Im guessing thats how old I was when I started gaming. LOL
Holy Christ. I cant believe where games have gotten to now. When there was Nintendo 64 and Playstation 1, a lot of obscure games could be released, and it was a real treat to get the gold out of the mud if you know what I mean. The hunt was fantastic-- looking for these little gold nuggets lying around EB games and such.
Good old days.
Now with the Ps3 and the Xbox 360 I find that the majority of games have gone all mainstream, and you dont find the really cool obscure games that end up being 100x better than whatever people think is popular now.
I dunno, it just really reminds me of how people got creative with game-story-lines back then, now its just whatever makes the most money.
Jade Cocoon was definitely one of them, man, it had artists from Studio Ghibli on there! There was only ever one sequel called Jade Cocoon 2 for the Playstation 2 but god damn... that was NEVER the same as the first one.
The first game you got to merge creatures together and completely ( to the extent of Ps1 graphics, completely ) remodel the appearance of your little demon. The second game nothing changed except the skills of the demon, so if it was an ugly little bugger with sick skills... youre gonna have to deal with it hellah ugleh.
The generation of gaming needs more titles like this, like the Shin Megami Tensei series (I will talk about that one next), the Xenosaga series, and all these underrated collection of games that never get any glory- except for the really hardcore fans of them, of course.
Either way: I hope more creative groups make games like these in the future and dont stop like the lead guy on the Xenosaga project. The whole reason Xenosaga stopped was because it didnt make enough lettuce.
I hate it when game companies milk a game series for all its worth *cough* Final Fantasy *cough* (sorry for any FF fans out there, but, eh) and the good ones get stopped for selfish reasons.
So in future prospects, creative guys need to get out there and make me some fucking awesome games before I start believing that there are actually NO good games, out there anymore.
Shin megami tensei was totally unknown to me until
HURRY UP ATLUS.
Its another one of those Japanese series thats supposedly as popular as Final Fantasy back East, but never really got a chunk of fame over in America because people didnt know what it was. Again, except for those hardcore gamies out there.
I digress.
Im now playing Shin Megami Tensei: IMAGINE, which is a sweet futuristic spin on the original SMT series. It makes Demons look cool, and theres no bit of cheese ANYWHERE- and surprisingly, the online MMORPG is brilliantly well executed.
Now the Persona 3 Portable game that my friend has is completely drool -worthy, yeah, but I have to get a PSP if I ever dream of getting it. Which I hope as Atlus SEEMS to have localized every Persona game out there, and if Im right, I also hope that it might be several months before it reaches American shores.
The Velvet Room is the sexiest place in the game.
Its like the epitome of knowledge all in an indigo, velvety room, with every assistant carrying this fat book of KNOWLEDGE, while wearing these futuristic-awesometastical uniforms. Plus the music is epic.
*DROOL*
And no, I dont suddenly like this room because of the new MALE assistant that you can choose instead of Persona 3s original Velvet Room assistant, Elizabeth.
Its just part of the PSP game; I cant help it if they make it so the Female Protagonist can date the guys in the game.
Sheesh.
Its not my fault Theodore looks sexy, and sounds sexy, with his sexy voice...plus he knows everything, which is the epitome of sexy in my books. Books are sexy...
MOVING ON--
I saw Avatar in IMAX a few days ago, which by the way was AMAZING in 3D go see it if you have not already.
As soon as I came home with that theatre feeling, I massively downloaded the whole OST via rapidshare, whilst singing along to Leona Lewiss I See You. Some people say its better than Celine Dions My Heart Will Go On from Titanic buuuuut... I think some people got a little too caught up in the Avatar express.
Dont get me wrong, the constant tune of the Avatar theme in the movie was beautiful, but the Titanics theme was so raw and basically everyone knows who and what it is that I dont think people should be calling Leona Lewis the next Celine Dion, JUST because she got lucky, and scored a gig with James Cameron and his epic movie.
Besides the point to his graciously acclaimed, Romantic sci-fi epic, James Cameron did a few booboos that Id like to point out, in my self-owned opinion.
For anyone whos seen Avatar, did anyone notice that the Navi people were just that perfect combination of human and exotic alien so that people could fall in love with their beauty because they were exotic looking, but at the same time, could only do so because they looked so human?
And what about the feline attributes? Sure its a cool idea, but I know a lot of guys who think bunny girls and especially CAT girls are like, the epitome of sexy. Hell, in a cast vote for Whos the sexiest comic book female Catwoman was voted the sexiest out of Emma Frost and god damn IVY.
Just saying, I honestly thought it was really funny how the character design was constructed like that.
And I also laugh at all the people Navi-fying themselves all over deviantart. Its cute, I admit, I want to know what I look like as a Navi, but I hope no fangirly, fursona shit messes up the actual intent.
ANTI-FURSONA-FANGIRL SHIELD, ACTIVATE.
Or how their diety, Ewya (LOVED the neuro-science behind this, dont get me wrong, BUT-), could conveniently do the same neurological transfer of the human consciousness to the Avatars consciousness and worked EXACTLY like Graces machine?
Plot devices are a little too convenient on that note.
Good thing was that the human selfishness was played out well, and that humans werent the SUPER-bad-guy in the story, as many of the humans going against the Navi people stopped what they were doing and saw that what they were doing was fucking retarded.
There was no... how you say, one-sided-characters in this movie. Like, there was no HUMANS ARE BAD, NAVI ARE GOOD thing going down. It was balanced, and the Libra inside me approved hugely of that being played out. I also noticed that a lot of people like me see Avatar as a re-made Pocahontas with epic cinematic screening.
Personally, if it was intentionally like that they did a good job of performing it. BUT IM JUST SAYIN:
The whole, Invade the native land cause they got sum GEWD stuff thar. Is REALLY similar to whats-his-face, the English, going into the native land and- you get my drift.
And then the Mr.Smith replacement is a Marine that falls in love with one of the Natives, and instead of being a snitch from the Englishs inside HQ he sneaks out to meet her, yadda yadda, Jake Sully did the SAME thing. Jake first saw this as a job, now he falls in love with the people, the planet, culture, and Neytiri, all like how Mr.Smith did with Pocahontas.
Seriously.
My eyes are still boggling over the bioluminescent connection of the planets inhabitants and the moon, however. That just makes me tear at the beautiful imagery and interconnectedness of the world with its planet.
I WANT GLOWING PATTERNS ON MY BODY WHEN THE MOON COMES OUT
xoxoxoxo, Rainy