Rants & Raves

Since Obama has taken office I have become sick. Sick of every ignorant motherfucker who feel the need to make some sort of play on Obama's campaign motto, "Change we can believe in," every time something arises to which they disagree with.

I can't seem to wrap my head around what these people represent. Are they Republicans who didn't pay attention to anything during the election other than party affiliation? Are they Democrats who spent the last few months in a magical fantasy land? Regardless of their affiliation they're apparently the most unqualified people to comment on the current political situation in the US.

Somewhere along the lines people must have gotten it into their head that Obama would force the government into a 180. That every element they disapproved of would suddenly be fixed overnight once Obama took office. Fools, the lot of you.

New Cast of Fullmetal Alchemist

A while back, news broke that for the new FMA series, based closer to the original Hiromu Arakawa manga than the first television series, the Japanese voice actresses Romi Paku and Rie Kugimiya would be reprising their roles as Edward and Alphonse Elric, respectively. This was met with much celebration from fans of the first series, such as myself, as they were great in those roles. However, now there's confirmation that while some other voice talent are returning to their roles in the new series, others are not.

Here's some of the new cast (replacements noted with credits):

For those of you who haven't been on 4chan's /m/ board for a while, let me recap:

- Nobody likes Gundam 00, but nobody can explain why
- Everybody is now an expert in what constitutes good and bad writing, despite their terrible ideas
- Any attempt at reason is met with an accusation of being a "[insert 00 character]fag"
- Nobody is satisfied with anything ever - even given a new UC production, they whined it was "too OYW-oriented" and said they wanted Gundam Unicorn
- Nearly every thread is a troll thread

I think I liked it better when I was banned.

Radio has been of great influence in American history. Since the early days airwaves have brought new forms of entertainment and new forms of music to our homes, places of work and automobiles. Since the 1920’s the radio waves have born witness to great dramas, the birth of rock and roll, international headlines, the rise and fall of radio personalities and the death of the radio star. Despite these shifts the format has remained strong over the decades… only to fall ill in these past few years; unfortunately, it is with a sickness that may prove fatal.

I received news today about a little bit of theft and a little bit of crying at Eliziabethtown College's newspaper, the Etownian. It turns out some chap died and the paper decided to dedicate some print and web space to his passing. Unfortunately the Etownian lacked any proper pictures of the diseased. Written by the ever crafty electronic generation they quickly turned to Facebook for pictures. There’s nothing wrong with using social networking sites to find pictures. It's a great tool for the lazy reporter. These days who has the time of day to contact relatives for a proper photo? Apparently they're also too lazy to credit the photographs they used. The pictures published by the Etownian in their print edition and online were not credited to their photographer. Nothing screams amateur like journalists who don’t credit media. Nothing screams pathetic like journalists who refuse to credit media.

Penguin Truth's Top 25 Favorite Vidya Games I'm quite fond of video games. I'm not really a "gamer" the way others are, mostly because I've never been all that good at them. Seriously, I suck out loud at video games. They won't even let me in arcades. It doesn't help that folks who are good at video games make you feel like worthless trash if you aren't as good as they are at playing them. It's very discouraging. Still, there are a lot of video games I've enjoyed in my twenty five years of life. And here's the top 25! I'll provide some reasoning for the top ten. 1. Chrono Trigger (SNES) (1995) (Squaresoft)/Chrono Trigger DS (DS) (2008) (Square Enix) Chrono Trigger is the greatest video game of all time, of that I have no doubt. Okay, so actually, I've not played every video game of all time, so it would be impossible to determine whether or not this is an actual truth.

MY SOMEWHAT INCOMPLETE GUNDAM TIERS CHART. Tier Review: God Tier - High Tier - Mid Tier - Low Tier - Shit Tier GOD TIER This is the best of the best, cream of the crop, true blue (and yellow... and red) Gundam.

MY SOMEWHAT INCOMPLETE GUNDAM TIERS CHART. Tier Review: God Tier - High Tier - Mid Tier - Low Tier - Shit Tier HIGH TIER Here we have examples of Gundam entries that excel.

MY SOMEWHAT INCOMPLETE GUNDAM TIERS CHART. Tier Review: God Tier - High Tier - Mid Tier - Low Tier - Shit Tier MID TIER These entries are all decent if you're fond of the elements of the franchise, but none of them particularly excel in their elements.

MY SOMEWHAT INCOMPLETE GUNDAM TIERS CHART. Tier Review: God Tier - High Tier - Mid Tier - Low Tier - Shit Tier LOW TIER These are the Gundam entries that just don't quite make it for one reason (or for several, in some cases).