Yes, I'm still alive

So, I'm not going to mention how I said I would spend more time on here in my last post.  Seems pretty obivious now.

But damn it if I didn't beat Borderlands2, then the first DLC came out, then the second, and squeeze in the Dragonborn DLC for Skyrim, Assassin's Creed III and it's multiplayer, and most recently (read: Yesterday) I picked up Lollipop Chainsaw.

I know, I know...why did I buy that game.  It was $20 at Best Buy and I kinda wanted to play it since Kadokowa Pictures was involved with it.  And since they did High School of the Dead, and two of the outfits in the game are from HOTD, and the Deadman Wonderland outfit, and the Is This A Zombie? outfit...

Plus you get to gut zombies with a chainsaw.

Welcome To Pandora

I'm sorry I've been away from you this long blog.  I have been soooo busy trying to kill Handsome Jack and exploring all the wondrous landscapes of Pandora that I simply lost track of myself.  I promise I'll pay more attention to you...


...after I kill that arrogant, self-centered, psychotic, asshole.


(Okay, I'm playing Borderlands 2, loving it all the way up til the end of a mission to get the Vault Key.  Now I want Jack's head to adorn the hood of my Runner.  I'm so pissed, but I don't want to spoil anything.)

Top 5 - Anime

 Man, it has been a while since I did a Top 5, huh?

OK, so I have been watching a lot of anime lately.  Like any other genre of entertainment, some are good, some are great and some aren't my cup of tea.  Oddly enough, in the realm of anime I find my tastes are greatly different than what I normally would watch.  You'll never catch me watching The Notebook, but find me a well written, sappy romantic anime and I'm hooked.  But as a guy, giant robots and explosions also work very well.

I blame [adult swim] and Toonami for really getting me to watch anime.  I watched Speed Racer and Voltron when I was a kid, but DragonBall Z was really the first series I had to watch.  Lately, Bleach has earned a half-hour of my time on Saturday nights.  And I was really starting to get into Deadman Wonderland on Toonami, when they suddenly stopped showing episodes.  I haven't bothered to see why.  Anyway, Netflix has/had a pretty decent collection of anime and I have attempted to watch most (again, some good, some not so good...in my opinion.)

So without further ado, here is MY Top 5 anime series...again, just my opinion.

5 - Highschool of the Dead

Zombies, makeshift weapons, zombies, tones of blood, zombies, interesting character back stories, zombies, a budding love triangle, zombies, fanservice...

The only thing wrong with this series was the length.  One season only.  The original manga it is based on goes a bit further into the characters quest to find their parent during a zombie apocalypse, but it too was cut short, which might explain there only being one season of the show.  It's worth checking out though, if you don't mind the never resolved cliffhangers.

4 -Gurren Lagann

OK, nothing I have ever seen has ever been more over the top, stupid and loud.  And I loved it.  This is a perfectly written story with everything you could want.  Action, romance, drama, comedy, giant fighting robots, animal people, space fights, end-of-the-universe disasters and so may lines you'll  catch yourself repeating.  Would be higher on my list if it wasn't for that "realm of anime" thing I mentioned before.

3 - Strawberry Panic

First and foremost, you have to suspend your beliefs a bit with this one.  Ignore the fact that this is a romantic story set in three all-girls Catholic schools that share a dormitory and attended by more schoolgirl lesbians than some major cities.  I'm a straight heterosexual male and I was able to ignore that fact.  At it's core, this is a very good story and the characters are interesting.  Eventually you do begin to ignore the fact that this is a sapharric romance tale and begin to just focus on the individual characters and the plot.  Plus, it anime.  Most guys in anime look like girls anyway.

2 - Shuffle!

You're going to see a pattern with these last three, and no it's the lesbian thing.

Shuffle! is one of the first romance/harem series I ever saw and it has stuck with me.  The plot is dumb and pretty boring, but it's based on a Visual Novel/Game where your whole point is to just pick a girl, so I guess I can't bitch too much about the plot.  But I can say that once you get past the sugar sweet, diabetes inducing first half of the series, the second half get much, much darker.  It's worth the wait too. (The first half does have some good comedy)

1 - Clannad, Clannad-After Story

I have to do these two together since they make up the whole story.  Again, romantic storyline, and even tries to act like a harem series, but it's pretty clear from the start who the two main characters are.  Clannad is a typical high school anime with hints of harem and mystic forces thrown in for good measure.  After Story is an emotional rollercoaster...(rollercosters go up and down and twist and do loops and shit)...this is more like one of those rides that lifts you 100 stories in the air than drops you straight down.  If you watch this series and can't even shed one manly tear at some point, you are an emotionless robot, or dead, or not watching the right series.

As always, these are just my Top 5.  Yours may vary, so I'm not responsible for any hurt feelings.

DLC Day

What a glorious day. New DLC all round.

Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut (Finally, the endings can be explained)

Skyrim: Dawnguard (the first game add-on)

Both on the same day. That is epic.

Wreck-It Ralph Trailer

Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know

Two in a row. Look at me.

I had to post this song, just because it is growing on me so much. I has to be my favorite current song.

The Dictator

This is just an amazing speech/monologue given by a Charlie Chaplin, an actor most known for his comidic work in silent movies, at the end of the movie The Great Dictator (1940).

This is just a classic.

Sons of Skyrim - {Mario Paint}

I used to be a dancer like you...