The following section is not for the squeamish
» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «I am a volunteer at a local wildlife refuge. Yesterday was rat day. To put it simply, We unloaded a truckload of boxes of dead rats, and put the rats into ziplock bags. We then put them in a wheelbarrow, and someone wheeled them away to a freezer. They are food for birds of prey and exotic cats. It was a good hour and a half.
Saw Spiderman 3 yesterday, It was pretty good, but there were a few strange things...
» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «First: Why wasn't Peter's professor suprised about venom? He was just like "This matches the makeup of certain meteorites" and wasn't like "Oh My God, this is a life form from another planet!" You would think He would show more interest in that.
Second: What were the scientists doing when flint fell in? All they seemed to be doing was stirring up the sand.
He could feel his blog sliping away, far away, into the dark void. He tried running to it, but he could not move. Then, out of the darkness, there came a light, that pushed his bog away, and back into his arms...
Wow, It's been over a month since I last posted! Kind of ridiculous. I'm probably gonna post a ton of stuff, over the next week.
First, I saw Spamalot on thursday! It was great. Some of the stuff in Holy grail was better, but it was a pretty good musical.
2nd, I recently got a
"Liberty bonds?"
Liberty - freedom
Bond - something that binds, fastens, or holds together
Oxymoron, anyone?
Michelin's Slogan used to be "Because so much is riding on your tires"
Now it's "A better way forward"
Do they not care about the customer anymore?
The egg clearly came before the chicken. Why is that expression still used?
Why, in my health class, did we only learn about one Health thing (nutrition)? Everything else was bad things, such as diseases, or drugs.
Where did t
Well, first of all, I would like to apologize for my post on Friday, I was under some stress, and had a bad week. I caved to my own will, and I will continue blogging; I enjoy posting (even if nobody reads it). If you don't know what I'm taking about, that's fine.
A bunch of things to get out:
First, a few days ago, I finished reading 1984. Very good, very sad, very disturbing. I have also decided to read a bunch of classics, such as Dracula, The Arabian Nights, Through the Looking Glass, an
Well today in Bio, I had a test on... Human Reproduction! And I got a 100%! For the first time since the first test! The only "problem" I had was because one of the questions was so painfully obvious, I thought it was a trick. So my teacher had said that after we were done, we were supposed to grab the packet, and turn it in by the end of the period. From the way he phrased it, I thought he meant we were supposed to pick up a packet, not turn in the one we had been working on throughout the week
Give me "Video Games" for 500
This is Sonic the Hedgehog's genre
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Don't worry, I couldn't answer it either
Well, back in the old days, Sonic was a platformer. Then, with the release of Sonic adventure, it became an adventure game. Next, Shadow the Hedgehog was a TPS. Don't forget Sonic Riders, a racing game. And now, with Sonic and the Secret Rings, It's an RPG at high speed. Stick to a genre already.
Citizen one: You killed Caesar! How could you?
Brutus: I loved Caesar, but I love Rome more. Caesar was ambitious, he had to be stopped.
Citizen three: Of course, Why didn't we think of that? Let us cheer for Brutus' killing of Caesar the way we cheered for Caesar's killing of Pompey!
Antony: No, Caesar was generous, but Brutus is an honorable man.
Citizen one: Antony spoke last, let's listen to him!
Citizen two: O, Brutus and Antony, feed us more lies!
Citizen four: We're impr
Why do they have peanut butter, but not cashew butter, or any other butter from different nuts?
If our perception of smell is based on the way we are raised, why do we teach our kids that anything smells bad? It makes life less enjoyable.
Why is America so dumb? One of the greatest countries in the world, with extremely slow and easy education.
Why can't people accept that the egg came before the chicken?
When a teacher asks "any more questions" when reviewing for a test, why do peop
Yesterday, I got back from Walt Disney World. It was the first time I've gone in over 10 years. I'm 15 years old. Basically, I remember nothing from my first trip. It was fun. I loved the Japanese store at Epcot, and most of the roller coasters were pretty cool. I also went to Universal Orlando. I was disappointed (but not surprised) that there wasn't that much Chernabog stuff. I was wondering what would happen if I put a dime in the penny crush machines, so I did put the money in, then pressed
All of you may be enjoying Valentine's day, but I'm not! This morning, my imaginary girlfriend dumped me for my imaginary best friend! How horrible is that? Just Kidding, Happy Valentine's Day!
The ESRB is ridiculously inconsistent. Example:
Boktai 2: T for Teen, Animated blood and Fantasy violence. The "Animated Blood" was tiny spurt of red when you were bitten by a bat or the vampire.
Lunar Knights: E 10+ for every 10 years and up, Animated blood, Mild fantasy violence, Mild language, and Mild suggestive themes. I tend to ignore "mild suggestive themes," because that basically means at least one attractive female (in this case, her) or ANYTHING related to a relationship. Anyways th
In Boktai, There was a fire dungeon (firetop mountain) and an ice dungeon (permafrost). In Lunar Knights, once you beat Baron Stoker, You were able to return to the hunting mansion and the old culiacan sewers, and access new areas. They start out just being extensions of the mansion and sewers, but the terrain then changes to be like the dungeons in Boktai. The sewers look like the permafrost, and the Mansion looks like the inside firetop mountain. It even has the boss arena, a large stone slab
B for BZPower, of course. I turn 3 on BZP today and get my spinny Great Kanohi Huna! Yay! Free virtual Ice cream for everyone! Fireworks! My only regret is that it's less shiny than the mask of light
I have so many people to thank for this:
Me, for joining
Time, for not stopping or going backwards
The admins of the site, for making the site
Lego, for making bionicle
Santa, for... um... making... the world... maybe?
EDIT: How could I be such a fool? I forgot to overload this entry with V
I take both bio and chem, and it was funny, because my last bio lab was abut acids and bases and pH, and my last chem lab was making popcorn and figuring out the percentage that was water, as an introduction to mathematics in chem. My Bio lab was more like a chem lab, and my chem lab was more like a... dumb thing you do in 4th grade on holidays
Also, next year I'm taking physics + AP bio together. I'm also hoping to take AP programming, but it hasn't run the past 4 years because almost nobo
Final Day: Closing Comments and Thoughts
Boktai and Boktai 2 were truly great games, unquestionably my favorite two on GBA. While the solar sensor may have seemed gimmicky to some, it made a truly great experience. On Boktai, I loved collecting new parts for the solar gun, Playing through the game several times, Going through the azure sky tower, and doing the puzzles. Boktai was my favorite of the two, because of all of the customization of the weapon, the azure sky tower, and the option to
Day 6: Story
Both the story in Boktai and in Boktai 2 involve preventing immortals from (for lack of a better term) taking over. In Boktai, your father, Ringo, was a famous vampire hunter, and he was a solar child (had the power of the sun in him), and you are too. You start the game by getting his solar gun, the Gun del Sol, and meeting Otenko, your fathers tutor, the embodiment of the sun in the from of a floating sunflower. you head north into a small dungeon, and drag out you father's arc
Day 5: Additional Gameplay Elements
Stealth: Stealth was a major part in Boktai, because the more you were seen, the lower your rank. In Boktai 2, there was no ranking system, but it was important to be stealthy because Boktai 2 was much more challenging than Boktai.
Puzzles: Boktai and Boktai 2 had as much puzzle solving as action. There were block puzzles (pushing large blocks to form paths or activate switches), ice block puzzles (similar, but kept sliding until they hit a wall, and cou
Day 4: Azure Sky Tower and Dream Avenue
In Boktai and Boktai two, there were two long and challenging towers. In Boktai it was Azure Sky Tower, in Boktai 2 it was Dream Avenue. In both, the mission was to collect the blue key and find the blue door on each floor, which would lead you to the next floor. In azure sky tower, the blue key was hidden in an enemy. You would have to go around defeating all of the enemies until you found the blue key, then you had to find the blue door. Each floor on
Day 3: Bosses 2
The bosses in Boktai and Boktai 2 always have two stages. Stage one: Defeat the immortal. Generally pretty interesting battles. Stage two: Drag the immortal back to the beginning of the level to the piledriver, purify them. In order to start the piledriver, you need sunlight, the stronger the better. Four pillars come up from the ground, you shoot energy at them to energize them, then once they are all energized, you begin the purification process. While purifying, The bosses
Day 2: Enemies, naming, Bosses 1
In Boktai and Boktai 2, many enemies were the same. There were a few ranks of zombies, golems, and mummies in both, with crimson rank being the most powerful for each monster. In Boktai, there were some bats, spiders, octopi, kraken, and cockatrices. They came back in Boktai 2, but there were many more small creatures, additional ranks for cockatrices, skeletons, floating weapons, blobs of jelly, ghosts, and a couple types of hounds.
Naming is based on othe
Well, only seven more days until Lunar knights comes out. I think I'll do Retrospective on Boktai, in 7 installments.
Day 1: Gameplay
In the original Boktai, your main weapon throughout the game was a solar gun, Gun del Sol. You got to customize it in many ways. Frame (Type/power of shot/spread), Lens (Element of shot/spread), Battery, and Grenade. The frames were divided into categories, based on the way they affected the shot/spread. The shots were energy shot from the gun like a project
For some reason, I like to take the feet from sets, and connect them sole to sole. Anyways, when I was doing it with Pridak's feet, I noticed something. I looks so much like a white version of the Shadow Crystal from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. Here's a Pic for comparison. It's easier to tell with better pictures. Also, If you look at the front part of his foot, there is a pattern that looks like a TLoZ-ish eye. And it's interesting, because in WW, hyrule was under the ocean, like Ma
