Ironic Title

Well after having no internet for a week I returned to my blog to find no one has commented in that time so clearly my loyal and devoted audience are just mute with anticipation for another post. And who could say no to such a touching response.

During the Dark Week of Netlessness I had a good......adequate idea for a post, but as the past tense has indicated, this is no longer the case and it has the gone the way of my frequently surreal dreams, and the six years of high school education: forgotten.

So instead I'm just going post some random stuff that I've thought of but can't find a appropriate context to use.

1) The unsatisfying nature of the 'linear warrior quadratic wizard' issue with older versions of D&D:


All I can say is that using Paint takes much longer than drawing something by hand and the quality is lower (though my hand drawn stuff is still pretty bad).

2) Time-freezing speech in anime:

Ok I get that in manga (comics too) that you have characters say several paragraphs of angst or heroic resolve whilst in mid-punch. This is something that should not be transferred over into anime at all yet seems to always happen. A perfect example is in Gantz, where the various aliens seem to always have to periodically pause to allow the characters to struggle with inner turmoil/state the bleeding obvious/remember they have freaking guns.

3) French Foreign Policy:

No opinion.

4) Half-Life 2 getting overrated:

I'm seriously getting sick of HL2 getting so much acclaim over its clever avoidance of cutscenes. Instead of a cutscene you get the fun of being locked in a room while the various NPCs info-dump. There's only so many times you can throw a book at Alyx's head before you realise all that's happening is a cutscene.....which you cannot skip. Go innovation.

I'm rather tired now (it's 11:30 for those playing at home) so I'm going to leave this for now and continue tomorrow, or maybe the next day....definitely sometime this week.
Alright, night.
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Back.

5)......christ I've forgotten what I had next.

Bugger it. I don't care that much and I doubt anyone is reading this why bother continue this filler level of quality post.