Yeah so I just watched this episode which was released a few hours ago.
I'll make no secret of the fact that I dislike the whole mecha-turn this season has taken. Lately it's all about who has the most spanking new knightmare with ultra lasers and like.. mega soundwave blast-shielding. Okay maybe not, but anyway..
Lelouch needs to pull a victory soon using his geass and his brainpower like he used to in the old times, or this will forever go down in my book as a let-down season. And don't get me wrong, this season is still great, but it is a let-down considering the awesome first season and the potential it had. There is a reason why people were so eager to watch R2, and it wasn't only due to the sadistic cliffhanger at the end of R1. It was because they expected more of the same great entertainment and mind games, but what we got was more in line with a generic mecha anime.
Okay, enough season 2 bashing. Moving on!
The Chinese princess is seriously too small, she can't even be considered a loli. See, loli is a term that implies some sort of sex appeal being present, but in the case of our princess here, she pretty much reminds me of a beaten and starving baby bird. She is too damn skinny and whiny! No loliness detected.
And so it seems the Black Knights is being taken over by the girls. That was sort of a funny moment, but we will have none of that softy carebearism when we go to war later please!
The final point to cover is the seemingly most hated character of the show; None other than Suzaku. I must admit that though I despise him now, I sympathised with his ideals, at least somewhat, in the beginning of R1. He still had that annoying knightly attitude, but at least he was trying to do the right thing...
Now he is of course the world's biggest asshat as evidenced by the fact that he sold out Kallen, my beloved Kallen. I feel an urge to kill something so strongly right now that I'm afraid of leaving the house out of fear that I might inadvertently strangle the first person I meet.
All in all a quite entertaining episode, but with too much mecha power-up and too little of Suzaku getting tortured to death.
Sunday, 22 June 2008
Stuck on the roof of a flying police car 2000 feet above the ground with a dead man at the wheel.
...With no parachute.
This bizarre scenario is quite an accurate picture on life. At least that's how I've felt about my existence the past 6-7 years, or in other words ever since my brain started functioning properly. Of course, the realization of the severety of the situation is a gradual process, starting when you're born. At first, the wind rushing by may feel nice, and the feeling of speeding through the air may be thrilling, but pretty soon you start to wonder what would happen if a cliff face were to suddenly appear in front of you. The car might suddenly start plummeting to the ground, and you would be helpless to stop it. But if you've ever been in a car with a parent figure at the wheel, you will remember as a child having absolute confidence that nothing bad could happen. That is the sort of feeling that will keep your mind off the nagging thought of ending up somewhere on the ground 2000 feet below... At last for a while.
Eventually, of course, you start to notice the absence of intelligence in the way the car is moving, and decide to take a good look at who's driving. Many things give it away, but wether you first notice the pale hue of his expressionless, wax-like face or the blood protruding from the obvious gunshot wound in his chest, it is quite obvious that he is a goner. This is the realization most people come to anyway.
The thing is, there are people who say that the man at the wheel ain't dead. They say he is alive and well aware of where we're going. But instead of just ridding us of any doubts by giving us a wink and a smile through the windshield, he prefers to play dead, leaving it up to us to interpret the slight vibrations of his nose hairs as a sign that he's still breathing. The truth is, of course, that those vibrations are caused by turbulence as the car rushes unguided through the clouds.
While the idea that he is indeed alive and conscious may have a comforting effect on some people, it is of course completely without merit and doesn't change the fact that the car is plummeting to the ground now that his foot has slipped off the speeder. There's no way to safely land this car, as the ground far below is full of razor sharp rocks. When it hits the ground, it's all over.
In the end, it is up to yourself if you want to hit the ground believing that the dead guy will steer away at the last second. Just as it is up to you to face reality, throw the dead man out the window, sit down in the driver's seat and see how high this car can fly before it runs out of gas.
Who knows, you might even find a place to land before then...
This bizarre scenario is quite an accurate picture on life. At least that's how I've felt about my existence the past 6-7 years, or in other words ever since my brain started functioning properly. Of course, the realization of the severety of the situation is a gradual process, starting when you're born. At first, the wind rushing by may feel nice, and the feeling of speeding through the air may be thrilling, but pretty soon you start to wonder what would happen if a cliff face were to suddenly appear in front of you. The car might suddenly start plummeting to the ground, and you would be helpless to stop it. But if you've ever been in a car with a parent figure at the wheel, you will remember as a child having absolute confidence that nothing bad could happen. That is the sort of feeling that will keep your mind off the nagging thought of ending up somewhere on the ground 2000 feet below... At last for a while.
Eventually, of course, you start to notice the absence of intelligence in the way the car is moving, and decide to take a good look at who's driving. Many things give it away, but wether you first notice the pale hue of his expressionless, wax-like face or the blood protruding from the obvious gunshot wound in his chest, it is quite obvious that he is a goner. This is the realization most people come to anyway.
The thing is, there are people who say that the man at the wheel ain't dead. They say he is alive and well aware of where we're going. But instead of just ridding us of any doubts by giving us a wink and a smile through the windshield, he prefers to play dead, leaving it up to us to interpret the slight vibrations of his nose hairs as a sign that he's still breathing. The truth is, of course, that those vibrations are caused by turbulence as the car rushes unguided through the clouds.
While the idea that he is indeed alive and conscious may have a comforting effect on some people, it is of course completely without merit and doesn't change the fact that the car is plummeting to the ground now that his foot has slipped off the speeder. There's no way to safely land this car, as the ground far below is full of razor sharp rocks. When it hits the ground, it's all over.
In the end, it is up to yourself if you want to hit the ground believing that the dead guy will steer away at the last second. Just as it is up to you to face reality, throw the dead man out the window, sit down in the driver's seat and see how high this car can fly before it runs out of gas.
Who knows, you might even find a place to land before then...
Atheists are morons.
Yep, that's right. Atheists are absolute idiots when it comes to debating creationists.
Why, you ask? Because it has given the creationists the erroneous impression that their position deserves to be taken seriously. They are now suffering under the unfortunate misconception that creationism is a valid alternative to evolution. One could therefore call it ironic justice that we atheists are now paying the price for our own lack of foresight when we first started taking on the creationist "arguments" with serious rebuttals and scientific facts.
My favourite atheist and evolutionist on youtube is a guy posting videos under the name of Thunderf00t (that's two zeros instead of 'o'. Even smart people can be 'hip').
You will know him if you have followed the debate on youtube even a tiny bit. Anyway, the reason why I love him so much is that he is taking on the creationists in the manner they should be taken on; With ridicule. The overly gentle way in which they have otherwise been handled by atheists and evolutionists has made them overconfident and has somehow spawned the idea in their little pea brains that their worldview is a worthy opponent to evolution. Had they only been laughed at to begin with, they would have learned their place.
But alas, now we see moron after moron popping up on youtube, spewing the same garbage over and over again. The thing that is most amusing (or perhaps most tragic) is that if you spend even just a few minutes listening to their ramblings, you will find that their beliefs are all based on the same lies fabricated by the same three or four people which can be found on various creationist websites. These involve bogus propability calculations, unfounded rumors supposedly proving the incompetence of scientists, or just plain ignorance of the theory of evolution itself.
So what we have is a couple fraudsters who are, I believe, intentionally misguiding the brainless masses by falsifying evidence, quite mining, or simply lying and hoping that the creationist sheep are too uneducated to detect the bullshit. Most prominent among these morally devoid bastards are Kent Hovind, Ben Stein and Kirk Cameron. These are people making a living off of deceiving people. Well, maybe stupid people deserve to be exploited... At least I'm sure that is the defence you'll hear these assholes come up with if confronted with these accusations.
Okay, that's enough rambling! Check out Thunderf00t's videos if you like good things.
Here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/user/Thunderf00t <--- Seriously, how hard was that to look up by yourselves?? Lazy tossers...
Why, you ask? Because it has given the creationists the erroneous impression that their position deserves to be taken seriously. They are now suffering under the unfortunate misconception that creationism is a valid alternative to evolution. One could therefore call it ironic justice that we atheists are now paying the price for our own lack of foresight when we first started taking on the creationist "arguments" with serious rebuttals and scientific facts.
My favourite atheist and evolutionist on youtube is a guy posting videos under the name of Thunderf00t (that's two zeros instead of 'o'. Even smart people can be 'hip').
You will know him if you have followed the debate on youtube even a tiny bit. Anyway, the reason why I love him so much is that he is taking on the creationists in the manner they should be taken on; With ridicule. The overly gentle way in which they have otherwise been handled by atheists and evolutionists has made them overconfident and has somehow spawned the idea in their little pea brains that their worldview is a worthy opponent to evolution. Had they only been laughed at to begin with, they would have learned their place.
But alas, now we see moron after moron popping up on youtube, spewing the same garbage over and over again. The thing that is most amusing (or perhaps most tragic) is that if you spend even just a few minutes listening to their ramblings, you will find that their beliefs are all based on the same lies fabricated by the same three or four people which can be found on various creationist websites. These involve bogus propability calculations, unfounded rumors supposedly proving the incompetence of scientists, or just plain ignorance of the theory of evolution itself.
So what we have is a couple fraudsters who are, I believe, intentionally misguiding the brainless masses by falsifying evidence, quite mining, or simply lying and hoping that the creationist sheep are too uneducated to detect the bullshit. Most prominent among these morally devoid bastards are Kent Hovind, Ben Stein and Kirk Cameron. These are people making a living off of deceiving people. Well, maybe stupid people deserve to be exploited... At least I'm sure that is the defence you'll hear these assholes come up with if confronted with these accusations.
Okay, that's enough rambling! Check out Thunderf00t's videos if you like good things.
Here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/user/Thunderf00t <--- Seriously, how hard was that to look up by yourselves?? Lazy tossers...
First post?
I bloody well think so. Well, I pretty much made this blog on a whim, so there's no telling if I'll grow tired of it before long.. But in the meantime, let's lay down some basic guidelines for what this blog is gonna contain...
I am a Danish bloke turning 21 this August. My main interests include, but are not limited to, anime, gaming and windsurfing. Besides that, I am an atheist and enjoy following the creationism vs. evolution 'debate' going on over at youtube.
So, you can pretty much guess what the content of this blog will be; For the most part I'll be ranting about the latest anime, maybe a few games, or bashing creationists. I will not necessarily be writing on these subjects exclusively.. But let's see where this goes.
That's all!
Now get the hell off this blog and do something constructive you bastards.
I am a Danish bloke turning 21 this August. My main interests include, but are not limited to, anime, gaming and windsurfing. Besides that, I am an atheist and enjoy following the creationism vs. evolution 'debate' going on over at youtube.
So, you can pretty much guess what the content of this blog will be; For the most part I'll be ranting about the latest anime, maybe a few games, or bashing creationists. I will not necessarily be writing on these subjects exclusively.. But let's see where this goes.
That's all!
Now get the hell off this blog and do something constructive you bastards.
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