Enfero Lunos

Yeesh, it's been like forever Well, school started a couple weeks ago. My AP psych, AP calc, AP physics, and french teachers are teachers I've had in the past for other subjects, great teeachers, but I already knew I would have them. My AP stats teacher, from what I've heard, isn't that great, but I've yet to have a problem with her. My econ and english teachers were the only ones I didn't know about before the year began, but they both seem to be good enough teachers. At my school, we have "senior walls". It's a stretch of wall where it's decorated, and the year is put up, then signed by every senior. Unfortunately, this year, The "Class of 2009" is written in a ###### surreal style, and there's not really any background. I would rather have an unoriginal but good-looking wall than an original yet hideous one. Oh well.

Well, I'm back from the medical thing, which I really enjoyed. We got to go to a hospital and a med school and did a bunch of other medical stuff. We practiced suturing on bananas, which I failed at. I think I can eliminate "surgeon" from any possible career choices. In other news, my new computer arrived while I was away. It's pretty intense. My old one died during a freak power outage (middle of the day, no wind, no bad weather at all). The new one is going to be much better, and I'll be ale to play spor to it's full capabilities. Unfortunately, Animal crossing (and I guess wii music) was (were) the only really interesting new game(s) at E3, but apparently, a new zelda game and a new pikmin game are being worked on.

Unfortunately, somehow, I only got a 94 on the physics regents. Don't know how that happened, considering that I put more effort into that than anything else this year. I certainly had the knowledge, I probably just made a bunch of stupid little mistakes. Physics is the type of course where that can happen a lot. Oh well. I got a 92 on my english regents, which I'm happy with. My math teacher assigns (not assigned, I'll have him next year for calc) homework almost every day, but rarely checks it. When he does, however, if you don't have it done, he takes a point off your average. Amusingly, the first marking period was when I did the most homework, but I got the lowest grade (only an A). All other marking periods, I did much less homework, but got A+'s (got one on the final exam, too). To quote him "Well, if you have a 101 and subtract 4 points, it's still 97." Lol Anyways, on sunday I leave for some medical "national youth leadership forum" in Phoenix. It should be fun, except for how much dress stuff I need to wear. I hate whoever invented neckties.

Holy cow, it's been forever since I posted! Well, since march, I: -Took the SATs (got a 1510/1600 [or 2150/2400]) -Took AP US and Bio (still waiting for my results -Got crisis core (great game), the world ends with you (another great game), and FFCC: my life as a king (started off good, got kind of boring) -Failed at my AP bio final project. I don't mean I failed it, I mean it didn't work at all. Not in the "my results don't support the hypothesis" way, but the "my data isn't worth jack" way. -Took the English regents (thank god it's over, 4 essays in 2 days is a pain in the neck), took the US regents (easy), and I have the physics regents tomorrow. After discovering that NOBODY at my school has ever gotten a hundred on it, I decided that I MUST be the first to get a hundred. Does that mean I'll study? Nah. I'll just double check each question.

Well, last Sunday I got Brawl, at a midnight release. During school weeks, we never get enough snow for a snow day. I have a theory that the only way we can get off of school is if we absolutely do not expect it. Anyways, in keeping with Murphy's Law (anything that can go wrong will go wrong), we got probably more snow the weekend Brawl comes out than the rest of winter added together. I almost wasn't able to get Brawl at the midnight release. Anyways, I love it. The graphics are way better than Melee's, I was shocked at how much more detailed it was, even after seeing videos online. It's not really evident in the videos, but Brawl is a bit slower and floatier than Melee, and feel so different too. I find I'm using special moves a lot less, and that Up special moves in general are much more for recovery than attack. Another nice thing is that the characters are more balanced. I'm a big fan of Subspace Emissary, the adventure mode. It's made up of 35-45 levels, and a few boss fights. The stage builder is pretty great too. I have yet to build a real, non gimmicky stage, but I'm okay with that. I'll get to it. The extra stuff is so much cooler than in melee. Melee only had like 150 (or so) trophies, brawl has over 600 trophies, and over 700 stickers. The color changes are better too, I like the fact that all characters have a dark and/or light costume. and the soundtrack is epic, 287 songs. I'm far from unlocking everything, but I'm loving what I do have.

The release date for spore is set at Sept. 7, 2008! It looks like one of the best games ever. Why? I'm a customizaholic (yes, that's a real word, as of 3 seconds ago). You can customize pretty much everything in the game. Your creature, eventual buildings and vehicles, spaceships, and even planets. Yes, even planets. Frankly, I'm looking forward to it almost as much, if not more than, Brawl.

I was just looking at my join date and realized that Saturday was 4 years since my join day. I was camping, so I wouldn't have noticed anyways. Also, I think I just defeated Makuta. Missed 2 milestones, oh well

That's not entirely fair to say, I guess, I'm also looking forward to Endless Ocean and Okami (for Wii) Brawl - Looks INCREDIBLE. Only 4 weeks away now, and it won't be delayed any more, at least not more than a week or two at most. Roster spoilers: » Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «Unlockable characters: Marth, Mr. Game & Watch, Luigi, Falco, Snake, Ganondorf, Wolf, Lucario, Ness, Sonic, Toon Link, R.O.B., Captain Falcon, Jigglypuff Well, I must say that I'm disappointed. I am glad about Lucario, Toon Link, and R.O.B., but there were so many other series that needed representation. Where's the love for Metroid, Zelda, Animal Crossing, or Mario? The starfox series gets a third character who is essentially another clone of Fox. Meanwhile, Metroid, doesn't get Ridley or Dark Samus, Mario and Zelda get no real newcomers, and though it's not that hard at all to make a moveset for an animal crossing character, we don't get one. How is that fair? At least, on a positive note now, the alt colors for characters are amazing. The music is so amazing. There are songs that I know and love the remixes of, and songs I've never heard before but still love. There are 287 songs in Brawl, more than a gigabyte, more than 16 hours worth! The adventure mode has been ramped up a notch, several actually, and is now more than 5 hours long, not counting replay value. Boom Blox - Don't know much about it, but it looks good. I can't describe it very well, it's basically a physics-heavy game that has a lot of block-based puzzles. Think Jenga on steroids. de Blob - Basically: Dull, monochromatic world, get colors, paint buildings by jumping at them, get points, beat level. Sure, it's simple, but simple certainly worked for Katamari Damacy and Elebits. Boktai - Okay, nothing new, who cares. I don't know if I mentioned this, but my friend lost my copy of Boktai. I was upset at first, but I accepted it. Anyways, he bought me another copy, and one for himself. I finally beat it again today (it's much harder when you're weaker, out of experience, and trying to never be seen), and got a (fairly) good rank (A-). No rank S, but it was my first time through. Weaker weapons, fewer speed nuts, didn't go through all dungeons. Endless ocean - Just an exploratory game at it's core, but it looks like it could be fun. It's already out, but I have yet to rent it. Okami - I played and beat the PS2 version, but I'll have to at least try this. The Wii controller will make the celestial brush techniques much cooler/easier to use. And who knows, this could lead to a sequel on Wii.

Well, even though I'm only halfway through the year, I have to start working on my AP Bio final project. Because we don't get the AP exam results until July, we need something else for our final exam grade. Anyways, I bet you're wondering about the title. Well, with my remarkable creativity and limitless mind power, I was only able to come up with one good idea. Attempting to condition butterflies to choose dark food sources over bright ones. Oh well, the amount of money that I'm spending on it makes it feel less stupid, because I'm actually working on it, and showin myself that it is an O.K. idea. All I have to do is hope my classmates aren't too immature. Well, I can dream. In other AP Bio related news, wind is stupid. I am dead serious, we get more "severe wind" or "power outage" days than snow days, and I live up north. What I'm getting at is that last Wednesday, I was supposed to take my field trip to some college to do one lab with restriction enzymes and gel electrophoresis, and one with genetic engineering of bacteria/plasmids. Fortunately, it's being rescheduled for the 15th, but its still dumb. Recently I had midterms/exams. I got a 95 on my math B regents (meh, I could have done much better), 83 on my AP US (Multiple choice: good, Thematic essay: great, DBQ: err, not so good), 91 on my French 103 final (what a sucky test, taken straight from the horrible book), and 98 on my Physics (1 multiple choice wrong, got centripetal force equation mixed up with gravitational force equation). I noticed that at least 2 or 3 questions on math B exams are always physics questions.

I just finished the His Dark Materials trilogy. Wow. It was amazing. Also very sad. It's hard to describe my feelings right now. Happiness that it was such a good series, but also sadness about the sad ending. So much left open, but some small hints at hope for a possible good ending, far in the future past the end of the trilogy. It has affected me profoundly, and I imagine it will leave me feel kind of down for a few more days.

Wow, the last post was over 2 months ago? Yeesh. 2 things: I saw the golden compass, it kinda was horrible. As a movie, it wasn't too bad. In relation to the book, ...Blech 2nd, I got Antroz and Vamprah. I love Antroz's wings and mask Vamprah is definitely my favorite phantoka. He looks sooo much like a bat. It's wonderful. My only mild dislike is his legs.

Wow, this blog has seen a lot of neglect. As for my "Valkren discovery" section, I may eventually get to updating it. Unfortunately, I'm hopelessly lazy, and I never quite put forth the effort to scan my drawings or write stuff. As for my Junior Year of High School... Makes me happy: -AP Bio -Physics -Precalc -College French -AP US -All of my teachers. My AP Bio teacher and French teacher aren't amazing, but they're okay. -Electives for gym (Every unit, you get to pick one of 4 choices) What makes me unhappy: -English -Writing essays for English -Writing essays in general -No lunch (schedule prevented that)

Well, I got Hydraxon (today) and Maxilos & Spinax (About 10 days ago). I really like them. Maxilos has an okay color scheme, but the best thing about his color is that he has Mata red, which is awesome! He may well be one of the best sets yet. Spinax is pretty sweet two, and can have great poses Pros: -Well built -Incredible torso design -Lots of articulation -Great MOCing pieces -Trans-red connectors (gotta love 'em!) -Mata red -Spinax Cons: -Unstable (single ball-joint connection between hip and leg) -Color Scheme could use a bit of work -A couple small design flaws IMO (Lehvak-Kal plates, short chain) Hydraxon is also pretty sweet Pros: -Good color scheme -Very stable -Good MOCing pieces -Awesome hands -3 way plus rod thing (for lack of a better term) -Silver version of Pridak blades FTW! Cons: -Not much leg mobility -Nothing to hold in his awesome hands -Many peg/plus rod protrusions Man, I wish I had an endless supply of the trans-red connectors, and 3-way plus rods *Imagines massive red and gold honeycomb*

No, that's not a typo I just got back from Alaska today, after being there since last Saturday. I flew up to Anchorage, stayed a few days, went up to Fairbanks for a couple days, and came back down to Anchorage for a couple more days. Denali is a National park, for all of you who were unaware. I didn't see too many moose up there, only 5. One of the coolest things was stuff involving the huskies, the sled dogs. One of the things I did there had a demonstration of how dogs are hooked up to the sleds, and it was amazing how eager they were to go. One strange thing is that it seems that Me + Alaska =/= Bacon. I ordered bacon on 5 things I ordered in Alaska, and got bacon on 1 of them. I also broke my DS there, it dropped one time too many and broke. C'est Dommage. Also, because of my flight home, I got 30 minutes of sleep in the last 24 hours. I'm ready to go to bed.