Fan Stuff 
 Ultima 7 Part 2: The Serpent Isle This game was simply awesome for its time(1993). it is still a great game. It is, so far, my favorite Ultima ever.  Fantasy HERO This is a genre supplement for the HERO system, whose primary genre Champions was voted the number 1 RPG of all time by InQuest magazine.  Super Castlevania 4 This is one of the best games in the Castlevania series, which is a great series. It was the first Casltevania to be made for a 16-bit system. Unfortunately it didn't have any werewolves in it.  Castlevania: Symphony of the Night This is absolutely the best Castlevania EVER, and quite possibly the best 2D platform game. This game has excellent graphics, beautiful music, and great game play.  G.I.Joe A Real American Hero G.I.Joe was and still is the best action figure line. They had the best practical articulation. Sure C.O.P.S. had a wrist joint, but they were 6" instead of 3 3/4" so they couldn't make playable vehicles to the same scale as the figures. Sure the Blade action figure has the mighty and impressive toe joint so he can stand flat footed, or do a dynamic foot pose, but he isn't a toy line, He is a single guy, plus he is too big to get playable vehicles, and he is half-blood sucking undead. G.I.Joe had a great cartoon from Sunbow and a mediocre cartoon from DIC, plus a 12 year comic book from Marvel.  Macross Plus Macross is a great japanese anime series. It focuses on the lives of people involved with large robots that can rearrange into jets or space fighters. The animation from the first series was resused for the first part of Robotech which was shown on american TV. I like most if not all japanese animation.  Princess Mononoke This is one of the best films of ALL time. It is beautifully drawn, has a superb story great voice acting, and an excellent musical score. Plus I've seen it dubbed in theaters, as well as subtitiled. Everyone aught to see this.  Final Fantasy V Final Fantasy 5 is the best game in the FF series so far. Sure it doesn't have fancy 3d eye candy, but it has one hell of a story and an excellent job system. You can probably find a translated rom of the snes version, and it is supposed to be available in FF Anthologies for the playstation.  Dragon Quest aka Dragon Warrior Dragon Quest is another great crpg series. It has a different feel from final fantasy, and I like it better.  Zelda: the Ocarina of Time The Zelda series of games is very cool. The Ocarina of time is the first 3d Zelda, and its quite fun.  Depeche Mode My favorite musical group, of All Time. My favorite song of their's is Shake the Disease, but all the songs are good. Other groups that i like are The Cure, Erasure, Ah ha, Duran Duran, New Order, REM, and so on. Non-Fan Stuff also known as rants Werewolf : the ApoCRAPolypse This game's setting is crap. The way it portrays werewolves is crap. The title, which should have been WereCoyote: the Crappy Eco-warrior, is crap. I hate this piece of crap. No sentence about this game here will not end in the word crap. The only noncrap thing about this game is that its books sometimes have good pictures of werewolves in them, although many of the pictures are crap. An American Werewolf in Paris This movie looked like it stunk so bad I didn't bother to see it. The CG animation looked horrible, plus it follows the stupid tradition of portraying werewolves as man eaters. I don't like what I've seen of An Amreican Werewolf in London either, even though I've heard the special effects were well done. Micro$oft Monopoly!! The evil empire of making slow, buggy, hard drive consuming software. A company who's flagship product is a descendant of Quick and Dirty Operating System, which they didn't even make themselves. Star Wars: Porce of the Force 'action figures' and other 'poseable' statuettes. Pretty chunks of plastic with 5 joints don't make an action figure. The key word is ACTION! Almost all so called action figures are semi-poseable statuettes. They are great for display but poor for play. Capitalism Capitalism likes to believe that it is the best economic system ever, well it isn't. Its emphasis on profit is its pivotal and fundamental flaw. Profit and growth can't continue forever, it is just not possible because the quantity of resources on the planet is finite. The resources in the solar system is finite. If growth were to try to continue forever it would eventually run out of room and resources. Capitalism promotes the pooling of all wealth into the hands of the few, and effectively turning the majority into slaves. It would be possible to have 'free' markets without an emphasis on perpetual growth and profit, but it isn't likely to occur. The most probably event is a revolution that redistributes the wealth and begins the cycle over again, which doesn't exactly solve the problem. Faith & Religion Religions suck, especially all forms of christianity. Religions provide illogical wishfulfilment in exchange for mind/belief control. Faith is an odd word. It is often asociated with positive thoughts because of the way it is used, but what it means is strong and/or unquestioning belief/trust. What is so positive about that? Especially if the thing believed or trusted isn't worthy of belief or trust. If the believed thing is worthy, then there isn't a problem, but most monotheistic religions set things up so that questioning belief in it is viewed in a bad light, thus preventing close examination of the justification of belief. One of the things that I find abhorrent about religions is the exclusive mindset of "One True Way"™ belief systems. Another thing I can't stand is the illogical nature of "faith", belief without proof. I'll elaborate on this some more later. |
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