152 insights into my soul

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Legend of Korra- Seriously, Mako? ( spoiler cut )

Saw Ender's game with the usual suspects- amusingly enough, I don't think any of them but K were interested, but since ND came from out of town and was all, "Let's go watch Ender's Game!" But then he went and saw M instead, even though it was his suggestion!

Anyways, it was a decent effort, but ultimately felt short. ( spoiler cut )

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Legend of Korra- Hmm, it seems like after last ep's "history lesson", Korra has become infinitely more tolerable. Who knows how long that will last though. ( spoiler cut )


ME blather- Completed solo mastery again. So I'm confident I can solo gold consistently with the krogan battlemaster, though its a bit of a slobber-knocker. I arm him with a reegar carbine X w/spare thermal clip V and shredder mod V, incendiary ammo IV, shotgun rail amp III, cyclonic modulator IV, and the berserk package V. Its pretty straightforward, just get into the thick of it, melting enemies with the reegar, and if they're still up/your shields are about to go down, biotic charge to refill your shields/hopefully cause a fire explosion. But play smart, its easy to get caught up in the mix and just stand there and try and hammer it out, but you got to just do moving fracases. If there starts being too many, run to thin the crowd into something more manageable.

Amusingly enough, just getting in the face of two primes at once is no big deal- its the bombers/hunters/pyros/rocket troopers that are the problem. Obviously, alone those guys are meat. But pyros can get your shields down fast, and the hunters plasma shotgun blasts/bomber shocks can stun lock you, preventing you from charging to replenish shields, or even reloading, leaving you vulnerable to a possible one or two shot from the rocket troopers rockets or the bomber bombs.

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Legend of Korra- Seriously, why do they insist on making Korra unlikable?! ( spoiler cut )

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Legend of Korra- How are Mako and Korra a couple? ( spoiler cut )

So AfterEllen is having aUltimate Femslash Madness Tourney. Obviously, Rizzles and Myka/HG are juggernauts, and PLL and Lost Girl figure prominently. Hey, they even have Korrasami, but they're currently losing to Sansa/Margaery.

Some of the couplings are very confusing, as they're not all pairings from the same show. Like I get Quinn from Glee and Spencer from PLL, as they're very similar. After all, it does map Brittany->Hanna, Santana->Emily, Rachel->Aria, and Quinn->Spencer. I used to wonder if Spencer was more like Rachel or Quinn, as she shares traits with both. But then I realized, while I can make the argument for Spence being similar to both, there's no real parallels you can draw between Aria and Quinn..

But I digress. Cersei/Annie from Covert Affairs confused the hell out of me first, but then I realized they were doing a "Imagine Me and You" thing since Lena Heady and Piper Perabo were in lesbians with each other in that. But Veronica Mars/Hanna Marin and Faith/Shane Mccutcheon seem totally random to me. Like I looked it up and imdb, and Ashley Benson and Kristen Bell have never worked with each other, nor have Eliza Dushku and Katherine Moennig. And I've never watched the L-Word, but maybe Faith and Shane are similar personality wise or something? But I still don't get VM and Hanna. I mean, they're both cute blonds, but the characters are not even remotely similar, or have traits that would make me think, hey, Veronica Mars and Hanna Marin, they would make a great fictional lesbian couple.

Anyways, I still haven't seen last night's Dexter, but I did have an amusing plot point spoiled for me, and anyone who knows me can guess what I'm talking about: ( spoiler cut )

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Continuum- Interesting developments, though is it me, or does it seem like a bunch of stuff is happening, yet nothing is happening. I guess its building up to something. ( spoiler cut )

Heh, so today's Penny Arcade was an amusing reference to Legend of Korra. Hmm, thinking about it though, I think I would actually go for Asami. She may not have fancy powers, but she sure does dress stylishly and has a knack for tech.

Hmm, so I guess in Japan they had a poll last year of the most popular SW chars as of SW3: Empires and DW chars as of DW7. At least I think that's what they are, I don't read Japanese.

Most popular Dynasty Warriors characters. Top ten:

1) Wang Yuanji
2) Xiahou Dun
3) Lu Xun
4) Zhao Yun
5) Cao Pi
6) Sima Yi
7) Zhang Liao
8) Ling Tong
9) Ma Chao
10) Zhong Hui

Unfortunately, I have no idea how anyone else ranks since everything is in Japanese. I guess those are all good choices, none of those are characters I dislike and are indeed some of my favorites. Interesting though, its 3 Wei, 3 Jin, 2 Shu and 2 Wu. So I guess the Wei and Jin are more popular? This is before DW7:XL though, so I wonder where Guo Jia, Pang De, and Wang Yi would rank in this? In any case, I'm a little surprised Yuanji is number one. I mean, she is hot, and the wallpaper they link is the background on my PS3. But she is a relatively new character, so for her to beat out characters who've been around way longer is a bit interesting.

Most popular Samurai Warriors characters. Top 10:

1) Mitsunari Ishida
2) Yukimura Sanada
3) Gracia
4) Sakon Shima
5) Masamune Date
6) Hanbei Tanaka
7) Motonari Mori
8) Kiyomasa Kato
9) Kanetsugu Naoe
10) Ina

I'm a little surprised at the number of folks from the latest game. Though I guess the DW list had 2 people introduced in 7, whereas this only has 3 folks from SW3, so its not that much more. Well, Kiyomasa is pretty bad-ass looking. Motonari I haven't played in WO yet, but he does seem intriguing. He seems to come off as kinda a fool, and talking in the camp, a lot of other chars dislike him and think he's an idiot, but I guess that's an act? There's a stage where he and Jia Xu team up, and Motonari comes off way smarter than he lets on, like he just acts like he doesn't know anything when really he's a brilliant strategist and technician.

I'm surprised Gracia came in 3rd, I didn't realize she was so popular, I would've though people would think she's a silly little girl. I still don't see what people see in Yukimura though. Maybe I don't know how to play him right, but he just never seemed as bad-ass as his DW counterpart, Zhao Yun. And he's kinda emo.

EDIT: Okay, I found a translated list for both. ( under the cut )

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Tron: Legacy- I'm kinda curious is Mara supposed to be Beck's love interest, or are they doing a Ron and Hermione thing with her and Zed? Or is it that she and Zed have been spending more time together simply because Beck is too busy with Tron stuff?

It is odd they're getting so many celebrities to do voice work- I mean, its fine for celebs with recognizable voices like Lance Reddick, but its not like I recognize Kate Mara's voice, and you don't actually get to see her hotness (BTW, Kate is still the hotter Mara sister, way hotter than Rooney) since this is a cartoon. I mean, its fine for Mandy Moore and Emmanuelle Chriqui, because Mandy Moore has such a sweet voice, and Emmanuelle Chriqui has a sexy one. But like I said, I couldn't tell Kate Mara from some random.

Legend of Korra- Huh, I guess the hour long season finale is next week. It actually has been 10 episodes so far, so next week makes 12. Which seems standard, but the season seemed to fly by. ( spoiler cut )

WO blather- I keep forgetting to mention, one of my favorite things about the game is the mixing and matching of the characters from DW and SW and the interactions. I guess part of it is having characters server cooler people- like I love Mitsunari being thrown in the mix with Cao Pi and Zhen Ji in a kinda weird who has his back more, his wife or his right hand. Its cooler to see Mistunari be Cao Pi's lieutenant rather than that monkey. Also, I like Hanzo being like Zhuge Liang's hand, it just seems appropriate somehow. Zhuge Liang is such a brilliant schemer, and it would suit him to have someone as skilled as Hanzo to carry out his will. Heh, I'm still curious why Guan Ping is so intent on serving Nobunaga though. Is it just because Oda saved him in the first game, and he feels he owes him? It is kinda interesting to see Guan Yu's son, someone who you'd expect to be this powerful warrior for the "good guys" serving the self proclaimed "demon king".

Magoichi trying to get in Joan of Arc's pants is kinda weird though- there is this funny line of dialogue where he basically remarks to himself after conversing with her that she's too chaste and pure and would never succumb to his advances. I do like the addition of Achilles, as he seems more an appropriate rival for Lu Bu. In the first one Keiji and Lu Bu both served Orochi as his ultimate bad-asses. There wasn't really a rivalry there, Lu Bu just like killing things and being the best, whereas Keiji just like causing chaos and carnage. They didn't really have cause to prove who was better, because there was no shortage of people to cut down. As for Honda, he seemed above any sort of competition to see who was better, himself or Lu Bu. Tadakatsu is just not the kinda guy to feel the need to prove himself. Achilles and Lu Bu have this kinda strained thing going on, like barely restrained contempt and anger for each other. Like once they defeat the hydra, they're going to tear each other apart to prove who's the greatest.

Also weird is how the Japanese and English voice acting can make a character seem totally different. I mean, take Guo Huai. He's a sickly guy, and in English he just seems grim and soft-spoken. But his Japanese voice acting makes him seem very... fey? I've been playing Rescue at Yi Ling a lot for grinding, and at some point he does this very creepy laugh, one that I would totally find weird if the English version laughed like that.

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Young Justice- Whaaatttt?!! ( spoiler cut )

Legend of Korra- Finally, we get more glimpses of the past! ( spoiler cut )

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Young Justice- Heh, we finally learn the fate of the rest of the team. ( spoiler cut )

Legend of Korra- Wait, Mako is voiced by Bud Bundy? That's so weird! Heh, and now the show has made me feel sorry for that a-hole Wolfbat guy. He may have been a cheating dick, but it would definitely suck to lose such an intrinsic part of you. ( spoiler cut )

Saw the Avengers yesterday with the usual suspects. Great movie, totally awesome. After, went to the ex-roomies for food and games. Lots of skirt steak and sausage and chicken and wot-not, tasty as usual. We were intending to try several new games, but we played the Game of Thrones strategy game, which took damn near 10 hours, I think. It was fun though. As I said, my strategic thinking sucks. I'm just no good at coming up with a big plan for winning. I'm too single minded and don't often think beyond the next battle. But I think I do okay on a tactical level.

( boring game stuff )

Also tried the Locke and Key card game. Its a pretty fun game.

TV Commentary:

Young Justice- Interesting, were we supposed to know the son of that one chick M'gan based her human form on whom she gave a blood transfusion to was going to become Beast Boy? And what the, why the hell did Superboy dump MM? Because he'd always look young and handsome even though he was aging internally? Like the Alanna chick said, it can't be because she would get old while he stayed eternally young, making it all awkward, because MM is a shapeshifter, so she could look as young and hot as she wanted too! It does not make cents!

Legend of Korra- Heh, when Pema was giving love advice to Korra and she told the story of how Tenzin was in love with another woman and how it killed her to see her soul mate with the wrong person, all I thought was, you mean like how his mother was with the wrong guy?!

Also, I'm still kinda confused about pro-bending rules. So, you win a round if you "conquer" more territory within the time limits. Knocking other team members off does help, since that's less defenders. But normally you're just pushing all the team members back an area so that you're territory is at least past the half way mark. But apparently, if you knock all the opposing team members out of the ring in one single round, that's an automatic victory?