| Jan. 29th, 2009 @ 09:25 pm Return of the curse of the secound cousin of "I live!" MwahahaHAHA! |
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Once again I have been putting off updating Livejournal.
In matter of fact I have even been putting off reading LJ. I've been letting it fall by the wayside. Is it because I've had this LJ around for so long? Am I getting bored of it?
Anyway, a bunch of miscellaneous thoughts from the past few months:
* In the final showing of BAS for 2008, I saw three anime downer endings, in rapid succession. First was Tower of Druaga, which was great fun up until the last five minutes (except for Ahmey *bawl*), and then we got both a downer-ending and a setting-up-for-the-sequel non-ending.
* Then there was Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, which was also somewhat of a downer ending, which seemed a little out-of-place in a series all about kicking logic and sense and reason out the door.
* Then there was Code Geass R2, which I swore I would never watch any more of after episode 14. It was the end of a long day and I was morbidly curious as to how the whole thing ended. We saw the final culmination of Lelouch's plans, and, yes, it was somewhat of a downer as well.
* What's with Gurren Lagann occasionally deciding to get all logical and sensible and reasonable? (For example the whole deal with the moon.) It seems a little out-of-place.
* Saw a lot of Basilisk recently. I won't bother watching all of it. I know how it ends and the ending doesn't seem all that interesting, but some of the stuff in the middle is fun. Weirdly, I like Kasumi Gyoubu a lot. He has a nifty power, that actually lets him sneak around unseen (usually important for a ninja). It does means he goes around nekkid a lot, though.
* My travels and efforts in the World of Warcraft continue. I don't know if I mentioned that I got the recent expansion pack. Well I did and playing my level 70 druid was much more interesting again, because suddenly she had a whole lot of new things to do. Fairly recently, she made it to level 80, the new maximum level, and rapidly got boring again.
* I also have a Horde-sied Tauren druid, because, dammit, I'm going to level up a Horde character no matter what I do. He's at level 30, and has just got a riding Kodo. I was zooming around as a massive great Tauren on the back of this even-more-massive Kodo, singing and humming "The great Kodo" as I did it.
* The expansion pack for WoW mean that my travels and efforts in the City of Heroes has slowed almost to a standstill. None of my CoH characters seem even half as interesting or as capable as my druid characters in WoWarcraft.
* My nephew Finn is growing up (as babies tend to do). It's amazing to look at him these days and realise just how much he's grown in the past five months. Also, he's making great inroads into solid foods! He's so advanced!
Well, OK, it was really just a mouthful of potato salad.
* Also on the subject of Finn, I got him a little baby shirt for Christmas. It is a shirt for the modern day baby, and says, "iPood."
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And, for something a bit more recent:
January 26 is Australia Day - it marks the anniversary of the First Fleet arriving here, and the start of English colonisation of Australia. It is a day of great celebrations, marked with large citizenship ceremonies, the naming of honourable Australians for the past year, and so on.
It is also the anniversary of white men arriving here, invading the lands of the Australian Aborigines, and shooting their world all to hell (sometimes literally). To the Aborigines, Janaury 26 is Invasion Day, and they get extremely upset by the fact that it is now the national day. Every year on January 26, there are protests and marches about Invasion Day and that the Aboriginal community doesn't support it.
This year, Australian of the Year for 2009, Mick Dodson, suggested that we, the nation, have a discussion about the suitability of January 26 being the date of Australia Day. Perhaps it should be moved to some other date? Less than 24 hours later, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said, politely but firmly, "no."
Now, maybe he said more - he does like to talk, after all - but the news reports didn't show anything else. So I don't know why he said, "no."
If it's because we should *also* be remembering the Aborigines and what happened to them, and that we should be using the anniversary of Invasion Day to strengthen our resolve to do what we can to help and improve the Aboriginal condition (because it truly is a sad situation they're in) then I can understand why he said, "no."
If, though, he said, "no," for any other reason, then I'm quite upset with our Prime Minster.
The other guy, the Leader of the Opposition, was *worse*. He supported Australia Day staying as Jan 26, and waffled on about how January 26 was the day civilisation came to Australia. Um, foot in mouth, much? Compared to him, our Prime Minister looked like an absolute saint.
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Saw a very funny description of what a real WoW fight... somewhere. In absence of a link I shall describe from memory.
Far from being a consummate fighter, capable of the most amazing combat feats, the warrior is getting hit a lot. He is perhaps parrying one hit in ten, is using his shield to hit the bad guy in the face far more than he's using it to block, and is calling the bad guy every bad name under the sun.
As he fights, the bad guy is hitting him and giving him absolutely terrible wounds that make the warrior look almost dead. The priest is off in the corner, keeping up an almost constant stream of panicked prayers to the Holy Light, and as a result these absolutely terrible wounds keep on rapidly closing.
Oh, and the warrior is hitting the bad guy, but to no discernible effect.
The rogue and catform druid appear as if from midair and ambush the bad guy from behind. The rogue plunges his poisoned daggers into the bad guy's kidneys and twists, to no discernible effect. Meanwhile, the catform druid is mangling and shredding and biting the bad guy's ankles, even though he should be going for the jugular. It is perhaps understandable that the druid's furious attack is having no discernible effect.
A bolt of fire hurtles from another corner of the room, followed by all manner of offesnive magic. Again, even though this is setting the bad guy ON FIRE, there is otherwise no discernible effect.
Suddenly, the bad guy suddenly just drops dead all of a sudden.
The rogue, druid, and mage start arguing about who hurt the bad guy the most. Meanwhile, the warrior is trying to tell them to not do so much damage, because he's running out of bad names to hurl at the bad guys. Except they're ignoring him. The warrior staggers over to the priest and they commiserate. "You look like hell," says the priest. "I'll heal you once I have a drink of melon juice." |
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