Turbo Other Stuff Blog Z

I was watching the DVD of Maria Holic and was like "Wow, hey this is funny!"
I was doing a tutorial for Unity engine and was like "Cool."
I was screwing around in Blender and imported some stuff into Unity and was like "Neato!"
I signed a how-to-draw book out at the library and drew some scalies <3
I looked at some fake(?) ghost pictures and got myself a little freaked out (0.0)
I did some dishes and was like "Boss betrayed us...bosses men done laid Charlie low! Done filled em fulla holes..." because I was daydreaming about mafia stuff..........
I watched Flapjack and Chowder and that was fun.....

Turbo Video Game Blog Z

So yeah I recently came into possession of Touhou 1-12. Shoot the Bullet is a lot of fun.

Anyways, this is one of those incredibly common video game blogs that I'm sure everyone is sick of reading by now but let's get started.

I was playing Pokemon Ruby and was like "Cool, this game is okay."
I was playing Borderlands and I was like "This game is pretty good but needs work."
I was playing Fallout 3 but have no strong opinions because I am not familiar with the series.
I was playing Turok and felt naughty because the dinosaurs have v*****s.
I was playing Doom 3 and was like "This game is as not bad as people make it out to be, but it is not the best game ever."
I was playing Half-Life 2 and was disappointed because a game eight years in the making should be way better.

Turbo Anime Rant Z

I have been playing Pokemon Ruby because that is all I can think to do in my spare time. Also, I am watching Shin Mazinger, but that is serious business and will not wait for anything.
I bought an anime that I actually bought to enjoy and not because I hate myself, like when I bought Scrapped Princess. To be fair, it was the Volume 1 and Volume 4 boxsets with the figurines and they were ten dollars each and my sibling and I who buy this stuff together have a policy regarding "rescuing" cheap anime from dollar bins and such. But this is a different.
Maria+Holic is a charming show. I thought so when I first watched it less than a year ago when a friend of mine gave me all twelve episodes in .MKV format. I figured since I enjoyed the show extralegally I might as well purchase the show to enjoy legitimately because I am not some penniless failure who insists that downloads are better, but really they are just butthurt because anime costs money in the real world. I happily forked over the $35 dollars to watch this show in oh well standard definition hey the DVD upscaling is pretty good this show actually looks nice on my 1080 True HD monitor.
The show is essentially about this hard gay lesbian who goes to an all girls school to get lucky, but ends up being this transvestite guy's bitch. A bunch of other stuff happens too, and it's funny and cute. It could have used a lot more bending of gender roles, but we are basically left with this girl whose romantic pursuits (of other girls) make the kid in Golden Boy look like The Man Without Testosterone.
It was released by Sentai Media who, honestly, I've never even heard of and they did a great job releasing it.

Also, Seven of Seven is the greatest underrated anime that isn't a mecha show of all time. But the show is only good if you sit down and watch all 26 episodes in English, because Veronica Taylor can act. It is also proof that Imagawa is a great anime director, which brings me back to my first point because he directed Shin Mazinger Z.
There are so many shows that start out good but halfway through get terrible, or shows that have a lot of great episodes when watched individually but as a whole are just eyesores. It was refreshing to have a show which actually gets better as the series progresses, and Imagawa likes to build up to big final moments like in G-Gundam and the Giant Robo OVA. He's also good at the coming-of-age stories, which is why I'm surprised those elements aren't present in Shin Mazinger Z. Oh well.


Just to clarify, Imagawa didn't direct Maria+Holic, but I'm sure I just created an alternate universe where he did.

Coolness Tier Part 1

I can't believe I am actually doing this.

So, right. I guess I start with the annoying Ninja v Pirates debate that has become so detestably common that even television commercial for candy directed towards 5-10 year old kids make reference to it. I guess there is no better place to star than here and now.

Ninja's are definitely lower tier. They are masters of stealth, but have all these flashy moves and high pitched screaming. They are like histrionic children in dark colored clothing with masks, and you are trying to escort these children as you are shopping for groceries because the baby sitter lied about being sick because your hyperactive ninja manchild is a terror. But the more you try to restrain your ninja child, the more they climb on the shelves, open packages, and put unnecessary things in your shopping cart when you are not looking.


Pirates are middle tier. They are like what happens to those children who partially outgrow being ninja terrors, get a drivers license, and start cruising around at God Knows what hour doing God Knows what with God Knows who...
That's basically pirates. They are middle tier cool because they actually have some ability to attract people who aren't also behaviorally challenged idiots with transportation.
What I'm saying is that pirates are basically ninjas with transportation and potential income.

No photoshop massacre here. The cap'n and I have an understanding.

A tier above pirates and ninjas is, you guessed it, shrine maidens.
What can I say? Chicks who wear modest clothing, hang out with raccoons, and fight demons all day. If that's not fairly high tier, I'll eat my hat.


I can't believe I'm going through with this.

Wow

I mean site navigation can be hectic, but everything is so streamlined and moves along just fine. The blog tools themselves are easy to use and friendly to look at. It's as if Google is begging stupid, impatient people to write as many blogs as humanly possible, like they're trying to bring about the end of the internet one ignorant blogger at a time.

Thanks Google. We couldn't have brought about the e-pocalypse without you.

Coolness Tier Intro

Hopefully, or hopelessly, I will be writing a series of posts discussing hierarchical lists of things or people arranged from top to bottom, or bottom to top, by order of degrees of coolness, or tier lists of coolness. Usually tier lists are made for fighting games, which can be fun, but I usually play video games by myself so things like that are irrelevant to me.

First and foremost, tier lists are not cool, by any stretch of the imagination. They are just over-glorified opinion lists presented as arguable facts. It is merely by the curse of subjectivity that I enjoy such trivial pastimes. I do not consider myself cool, this is not about me being cool. This is a fruitless attack against things I don't like, with no casualties because the last thing I need is to be a trend-setter. Hopefully this won't get too out of hand, and no one important will see this and sue me for damage to personal image.

Dusting this thing off

It's almost been a year since I used this thing.

There's that show. You know, the one where all the characters are, like, ghosts or grim reapers or something, but they fly around and fight with comically over-sized swords. I really don't like that show. I find it hard to even watch ironically.


It is a show about hotdogs, apparently.