Since I don't have a forum at the moment, I'm just adding another post here for this. The concensus seems to be that people like Kill Bill vol 2 better than Kill Bill vol 1. Well, I guess I did, too. I think they could've shortened Budd's dialogue, though. He talks too damn much.

I also wasn't too fond of the opening, when Uma Thurman's character (what's her name?) was telling you that she's already killed everyone. I mean, you know that's what's going to happen, but it does kind of remove some ability to surprise the audience with anything. You see her in a car, looking fine, driving, saying she's on her way to kill Bill. I don't know about you, but for me, that eliminates a lot of plot possibilities. I won't go into what plot possibilities it eliminates, as you might not be able to make the connections off such a small amount of information so quickly, but I didn't like it. Of course, I'm the kind of guy who can't watch movie trailers because it'll spoil too much of the movie for me.

I guess I can use this opportunity for a real post, as well, since I just touched on the topic of movie trailers. I did watch the trailer for "The Punisher" because I wanted to know if they screwed it up. I'm pretty sure they did. I'm not going to see it. I also watched the trailer for "Alien vs Predator" to see if they screwed that up. That's not even a "probably", that's a "definately". They fucked that movie up the ass and out the mouth. Alien vs Predator has so much potential to be incredible, and yet they give the project to the guy who gave us the horrible "Resident Evil" movie, and he makes it into a slasher flick. A slasher flick. This is fucking Alien vs Predator we're talking about. How do you fuck up so badly that you make it into a slasher flick? Everyone involved in this movie should be incarcerated or killed for their crimes against cinema.

Lineage 2 is currently in open beta. That means you can play this highly-anticipated MMORPG for free at the moment. Just have to sign up for the beta and download a 1.1GB file (server's good, so it took me under 2 hours). I signed up and started playing. I haven't been playing long, and I probably won't continue playing.

First, I'll cover the good points. It's got really nice graphics. The female characters, aside from the dwarf, are all hot, especially the dark elves. The dark elf women start off with an outfit made almost entirely out of belts. It's got the whole bondage look without the pain or restricted movement (thus defying the purpose of bondage, but that's not the point). Naturally, I'm playing a Dark Elf female. The first piece of armor I got for her? Pantyhose. That was hot. Later, I'll edit this part of the post and put up a screenshot of her. The other good point is that there's keyboard turning, although it doesn't work that good right now.

Now, the bad points. It takes a really long time to get anywhere. You spend a lot of time running, and not much time doing anything else. Also, combat is pretty boring. Mechanically it's not very different from other MMORPGs, but just going around killing things doesn't provide for much excitement. I played Knight Online (link later), which is also in open beta, and combat was essentially the same, but it was fun. It's good that combat was fun in Knight Online, because that was all it had. There are some other problems that are probably going to be fixed during the beta, such as text-wrapping, but they are minor annoyances.

I'm sure there's a lot more to the game than what I've seen. I know there are mounts, because I've seen them in screenshots, but I have yet to find out how to get one. This brings me to another problem with the game that will probably not be fixed during the beta: The documentation is crap. The manual they have online basically just tells you what a MMORPG is, and nothing of how to play. Combat was pretty easy to figure out, as was spellcasting and some actions. Chat was pretty obvious, too. I couldn't figure out how to swim, so I died when I fell in the ocean (fortunately, there's no penalty for dying at such a low level). So, maybe it's a very fleshed out game, full of all kinds of things, but it doesn't do much good if they don't tell anyone about them.

Mostly I can't get around how long it takes to get anywhere. I fall asleep just trying to get out of a town. It's not that there's a lot there, it's just that everything is so big, and there's lots of empty space (I like to call it "pointless space"). As a result, I don't play it very much. Why play an RPG where you don't do anything when I can go play Ultima Online and spend very little time getting places and a lot of time actually doing stuff? Well, it certainly has some appeal to a lot of people. I hear it's popular in Korea. I think it's a Korean game, so that stands to reason. I'm not fond of it, myself. Only reason I keep playing is because my character is hot.

I ate at the Olive Garden recently. I hadn't eaten there in many years, but I needed a place to eat and it was there. So, I stopped in.

Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant. It looks classy on the inside, with everyone wearing black pants, white, button-down shirts, and ties, and everyone has nice hair. However, it's not expensive. My total bill was about $14.00 before tip (I was alone, was getting flyers printed at Office Depot). So it's basically the place where middle-class folk go to feel like upper-middle-class folk. I certainly felt upper-middle-class being there.

I've talked before about pink lemonade, and how it's an affront against heterosexuality. Well, that's because it's pink without reason. At Olive Garden, they've got their own lemonade. It's pink, yes, but they don't call it pink lemonade. They call it "Raspberry Lemonade". It's because they use raspberry juice instead of cherry or coloring to make it pink. When you drink it, you don't feel gay. In fact, it's damn good. I had about seven glasses.

I also had some breadsticks. There's too much salt on those for my tate, but I still ate four of them. The salad they bring out is ginormous. It is obviously intended for multiple people to feed out of, as it comes with small plates and tongs. By the time they brought my actual lunch, I was full. I ate a little bit of the chicken, a little bit of the spaghetti, and then I took the rest home. I felt like I was going to explode. I didn't eat again until the next day.

Olive Garden is a really good place for a date. The atmosphere fits it, the music's not loud, and they give so much goddamn food you only need order one dinner. There's two pieces of chicken in the Chicken Parigiani, after all. Most importantly, you can still feel like the man while drinking the pink lemonade, because it kicks ass.

I should get fucking paid for this.

I'm under the impression that someone out there actually cares what my opinion is on the movies I see, so I've decided to write yet another movie review, this time on Hellboy, which I saw last night.

So I saw Hellboy last night. I know, shocker. I was kind of disappointed with it, though, to be quite honest. The biggest disappointment, obviously, was that Liz was never in a skin-tight, black leather outfit. What's the point of a black-haired pyrokinetic hottie if she's not in skin-tight, black leather? It's a crime against cinema, I tell you.

The movie is two hours long, which is about a half-hour too long. It was basically just an introduction with some fighting, a bunch of fighting, a little character development, some more fighting, and then resolution. The movie does get points for resolving what little character plot there was, though. Most of the time, movies just have that there as filler, and when the final main plot point is resolved, the movie ends, without ever tying up the loose ends. Hellboy didn't disappoint in the resolution department.

Ultimately, it's pretty much just 90 minutes of fighting and 30 minutes of plot. So far, that's better than the Matrix sequels. However, the fighting did drag a bit. Since none of the characters had cool abilities, it was about as interesting as watching WWF (yeah, I don't keep up with wrestling, either). If that's your thing, you'll definately like this movie. If it's not your thing, but you liked the American Godzilla movie in all it's atrociousness, you'll probably still like it. If you like thick plot and character development, you probably won't like it too much. The assassin guy was kinda cool, though.

It's not a movie I'd pay to see, but I'd watch it if someone else was buying the ticket (which actually was the case).

I don't think that people should have pictures of their family at their workplace. This will ultimately lead to an association. You will see your family at work, a place of stress. When you go home, you will see your family, who you've seen all day at your place of stress. This will make you feel stress, even if you don't realize it. Stress leads to anger, anger leads to hate, and all that other good stuff Yoda said.

Think about it like this. At some point in your childhood, if only for a day, you were happy. Chances are, there is something you can see or smell or something to remind you of that day. When you see (or whatever) the whatever it is, you get a feeling of happiness, regardless of how your day/life has been going. That's a feeling created by association.

Another analogy is when you go to the bathroom. This one I'll only apply to men, because I don't know if it applies to women. You've been driving. Somebody needs to go to the bathroom, so you stop somewhere. You don't need to go, but you walk into the bathroom anyway, because you may as well get it out of your system now. You walk up to the urinal, and before you even whip it out and relax, you need to leak. It's the association you have between peeing and the toilet. You see the toilet, you know you can go, so suddenly you need to go. Some people even have this association between sleep and their bed. Cockbites.

Work isn't fun. That's why we get paid for it. Chances are, you wouldn't do your job for free, and chances are it's because you don't enjoy it. You may even hate your job. There may be piles stress stacking upon your shoulders, and at times it may feel like the world is crumbling down upon you. You look to the picture of your family for comfort in your dismal times. It's because of the very association I'm talking about. The problem is, when you go home and see your family that you've been looking at during your bad times, you're going to remember the bad times. Whether you try to or not, you're going to get that bad feeling you were trying to escape.

I don't have anything from home at work. It's all work stuff. Sure, I take my clothes home with me, but those are my work clothes, not my home clothes. When I go home, and I see my house, and the things in it, and the people (well, person) in it, I don't have any association with work, just home. Even when I get on my computer, it's my home computer, and has a completely different feel (I think it's the larger monitor and higher screen resolution that does it, because it's the same dark color scheme). I feel relaxed. That is, until I remember all the stuff I have to work on at home, which sucks. It's not work from work, it's work from Anime USA or from a friend of mine who gave me an alternate income while I was unemployed that I haven't finished because as soon as I started I landed a job (how's that for a run-on sentence?). Still, there's no association between my actual job and home.

Okay, so I've got pale skin, sharp and pointy canines, I'm sleepy all day, I have trouble sleeping at night, I prefer dark-colored clothes to light-colored clothes, I primarily listen to heavy metal, and I'm just possibly entirely evil. All this can only mean one thing: I've got a vitamin deficiency.

As expected, Kill Bill vol 2 was as good as the first one. I say "as expected" because it was basically just one movie split into two parts to keep it from being too long for theaters, and both parts were made at the same time. While it didn't have all the blood-spurting of vol 1, it maintained the feel. Kill Bill is both a satire and an homage to several different genres, primarily oriental martial arts films.

Despite being "as expected", it does not just deliver more of the same. It brings new material to the table. This is actually what I was expecting. Your expectations may have differred. There were several surpises, and several things that were predictable. For instance, you know she's going to kill everyone on the list, because she says so right at the beginning, right in the opening scene, in a monologue (in other words, I haven't spoiled anything for you, except that the opening scene is a monologue that spoils something you pretty well expected anyway). In short, it's not a case of "If you've seen one you've seen them all."

Basically, if you liked the first one, you'll like the second one. If you didn't like the first one, you won't like the second one. If you haven't seen the first one, you shouldn't see the second one until you have seen the first one. If you've seen both the first and second one, then you've really been wasting your time reading this review, haven't you?

Isn't it kind of ironic how the smokers get the most fresh air?

So I work a technical job involving computers. I'm not going to get into that, because it's long been my policy not to talk about my job here. However, I will talk about one problematic aspect of it: This crazy thing called English. Here is a problem that I ran into at work, but I assure you that it could very easily be independant of any job.

"Updatable" is not a word. In English, anyway, there is no word "updatable". If you want to say this in proper English, you have to say "able to be updated". However, there is a word "upgradable", which means "able to be upgraded". Does this seems silly to anyone else, that while we have a rule that will apply to one word, it can't apply to another, very similar word? There are many more cases of this, and you will see them on here occasionally (I usually note my new words in parenthesis). Please add them to your personal dictionaries.

And why the hell do flammable and inflammable both mean the same thing?

I'm a generous guy. I'm willing to give a girl anal. But I'm also very sensitive. When she's sucking me off, I really feel it, and that means a lot to me... especially if she isn't charging for it.