The Promised Homestuck Post

I promised I would write about my opinion on Homestuck a while ago. I made the promise before I realized that there are more interesting things to do than writing about Homestuck all day. These things include looking for Fanart of Homestuck, Reading Homestuck Askblogs and re-reading Homestuck. (And reading fluffy Homestuck AUs. OH Gog so out of character, it's all homestuck's fault)

But yeah, a promise is a promise.

First of all I'd like to thank The Rambler once again for making me read the amazing webcomic/game thing that is Homestuck! Thank you!

Anyways, Homestuck starts out a bit boring, with John just running around doing random stuff, but it gets way better. Once Sburbs gets installed it gets really interesting and after the trolls are introduced it will become part of your soul. Homestuck will infiltrate everything. Zodiac signs, colors, trolls, irony; anything you can think of will now be related to Homestuck, at least that's what happened to me (I am now proud over being a Libra! Yay! (even though I'm like one minute away from being a Virgo but Kanaya is cool too so it's fine)

Terezi. The LIBRA troll. Awesome.

This might have been annoying if not for the fact that Homestuck is really really really awesome! You might've noticed how at least half of my blog posts are Homestuck-related lately so yeah, I'm addicted.

So what's so great about Homestuck? I am tempted to say everything but that would be a stupid answer. The story is really incredible. It's a bit complicated but really well made and you can tell the author really plans his stories, but despite having a rather serious plot it's still really funny and crazy awesome so you'll be entertained even when you're really confused. Mood Whiplashes are very common but it's part of Homestuck's charm.

Another awesome thing about Homestuck is the cast. So. Much. AWESOME! So many lovable characters! Terezi is just awesome! I've dedicated my Display Picture and Font on MSN to her! I haven't had a display picture that isn't a cat in like forever! Since the first moment she showed up I knew she was going to be an awesome character and I was totally right!  Oh, and Tavros is just so pathetic and pitiful in such a lovable way, the poor thing. And Karkat is awesome and Rose and Kanaya and Sollux and John and Dave and Nepeta and everyone! (Well almost, I don't like the fish people. Part of it is discrimination against fish but I don't really like their personalities either)

They're actually called sea dwellers and are actually royalty but I don't care, they're just fish people to me.

But yeah if you haven't read Homestuck yet you really should. Not just because I am sort of obsessed with it at the moment but also because, as I've mentioned quite a few times in this post, it's incredibly awesome. Read it and you won't regret it!

Dream Part 1.

Not as lighthearted as the dreams I usually write about (or rather wrote about, on my old blog Naisu) but it was really enjoyable. So of course, I'll write about it. Carefully edited into a format that's (hopefully) both and understandable and pretty accurate recap of my dream written in a nice and story-like form. Aren't you lucky? Split into two because the dream became really long in this format and walls of texts are bad. Part 2 will be posted later

It all started with me and Nondescript Companion walking around in the woods without any real destination, just searching for something out of the ordinary. Luckily we found this something pretty much right away as we noticed an old looking shed on top of a hill. We, or perhaps just I, found this interesting and I immediately started running towards it as fast as I could.

When we came closer to the shack we saw a woman sitting on a very low bench. She had long dark hair and inhumanly pale skin ,obviously a Stringy Haired Ghost Girl but that didn't bother me as I happily waved at her.

 The woman didn't look up but somehow managed to speak loud and clear without even moving her mouth. She told us that we had to check an old house on the other side of the hill and we obeyed without any questions.

We quickly reached the rundown building and proceeded to push the door open very slowly. Inside was a room full of dusty old-fashioned furniture and a dark figure sitting in one of the corners. My Nondescript Companion grabbed my shoulder and tried to get us away from the thing but I simply walked towards it and dragged him/her along with me.

As we walked towards the creature in the shadows it turned around and showed a face frozen in a large grin, glowing red eyes and the same unnaturally pale skin that the woman who sent us there had. As we got closer the thing started waving its arms around frantically and trying to scratch us with its horribly long nails. We avoided it, my Nondescript Companion screamed  and I grabbed its wrists and pushed it into the wall. Suddenly it was gone.

Confused but satisfied I turned to my Nondescript Companion and told him/her that we should go back to the lady and tell her about this. S/-he protested with the completely logical and rational argument that since the woman and the aggressive creature we just fought looked similar and she sent us here then she probably wasn't a good guy but I protested and said that the lady was really cool and once again dragged poor Nondescript Companion with me.

Scary-looking? What are you talking about? (Picture not actually from dream of course but as fitting as it gets)

The Stringy Haired Ghost Girl sat on the bench just like we left her but once again she managed to talk without even opening her mouth. She thanked us for getting rid of what was apparently some kind of demon and explained that only the once with shining eyes were mad and that they were once sane like her. I didn't get a glimpse of her eyes until she, along with everything else around me, faded away in favor of my own room.

Yes, suddenly I was in front of my computer as if nothing had happened. Looking at the screen I found that I was already logged onto Facebook (I don't really have a Facebook account but dream me does apparently). On the screen was an app I couldn't remember seeing before. There was nothing on it except a prison cell surrounded by brick walls, an experience bar and one single button. I was outside the cell and inside was a shadowy creature, a creature with a large grin on its face and unnaturally pale skin, waving its arms frantically...

CLIFFHANGER

TL;DR: Me and Someone went to a house and saw a creepy lady who sent us to another house and we fought a weird thing and then went back and then I was in front of my computer and found an app with the weird thing in! Also I acted sort of stupid.

I'm up to date with homestuck

And it feels sort of empty.

I mean it's nice to be able to browse the wiki without worrying about spoilers and knowing that your knowledge of homestuck is as god as anyones but, well, homestuck is fun! Having thousands or at least hundreds of pages of fun stuff to read is nice, having to wait for an update every day and reading about 3 pages each day is less fun, at least I think so. I'll write yet another homestuck post later just like The Rambler did but I'm tired today so you'll have to wait.

WTF youtube

When I go to youtubes main page I am automatically redirected to the song Monster by Paramore. This isn't really a problem since it's a good song but it's kind of strange. Has youtube started remembering what youtube page you've viewed the most and made that your homepage or what? Wait, that doesn't make sense, I haven't even viewed it that much. So why? I haven't even watched it in a while... Strange.

Why I Didn't Post Anything Today

I went to Stockholm with my younger cousin (who's not really my cousin but my grandmother's sister's granddaughter but yeah) who was going to buy some sort of old dolls made of porcelain that she apparently collects. With the help of my superior guidance through the older parts of the town we found said dolls quickly but my not-cousin thought it was too expensive and bought a normal doll at a toy store. Both of us then slept at my grandmother's sisters house and spent the rest of the evening trying to open the goshdarn package with the doll (which is near impossible.), drew things in a book she had and ate chips. That's how all cool  people spend their Fridays right?

Also, all the cool people say gosh darn instead of god damn.
All of them.

Heheh, I'm not much of a Simpsons fan actually but this picture is pretty darn appropriate.

Youtube + Google = Annoyance

Or rather the fact that the accounts are connectable. This would've been O.K. if there was a way to deactivate it but it's not.

Some of you might not see the problem with this but I have to e-mails.  I used one to sign up on youtube and later used the other one on blogger and now I have to switch between them every time I post something here and then visit youtube, which is pretty much any time I post something here.

My youtube account isn't really that special but I like having my old favorites playlist and such so I'd rather not switch account and well, I shouldn't have to! I mean how hard can it be to make "Remember me on blogger only" an option?

It seems that to some people being able to connect anything to everything and always being part of a social network regardless of site is practical and stuff but I don't really think my blog have anything to do with my blog and I have no interest in connecting one with the other. At the moment I am using Chrome for blogging (which is just as well because Opera seems to have some problems with loading the Stats on blogger) and Opera for Youtube.

Here's a random but funny picture The Rambler sent a while ago. Just so I won't have a pictureless post.

 Also, note the posting time here. I'm not going back to scheduling all of my posts but I've decided that when I do posts scheduled posts I'll pick even times for them.

Naming Your Posts

I do not understand how you're supposed to do it! Or well, sometimes I do but most of the time it's just a simple word relating to the post (examples: Dreams and Nostalgia Critic). I got no idea why but this annoys me. I really do try to come up with a somewhat original title but sometimes I just can't do it.

It feels so stupid and nondescript. I mean a post named Dreams doesn't really stand out that much and really tells nothing about the post except that it's somehow related to dreams. I guess it's sort of silly but this really annoys me.

A post named dreams may very well be this as well. Actually naming a post about this Dreams is better than naming the post I wrote dreams. I get the feeling that didn't make any sense.... 

I'm Considering Watching a Magical Girl Series

Or well, a deconstructed Cosmic Horror story version of a Magical Girl manga which has it's own High Octane Nightmare Fuel page on TvTropes and is written by the same person as the Nitro+ Visual Novels. So yeah...

The anime I'm talking about is Puella Magi Madoka Magica, an anime that has quickly become really popular but that I personally didn't have any interest in since I didn't know about the Cosmic Horror story parts. I really like mixing happy and cute stuff with dark stuff and I hope it's good. I probably won't watch it right now since I'm not really in an anime mood right now but it's officially on my watchlist now!

Though having something that looks like this on my watchlist feels extremely silly

Why I Haven't Bought Dead Space 2

And no, not because I'm afraid my mom will hate it. My mother used to really like the Quake series and plays all sorts of video games so I really doubt she'd have a problem with a game being a little bit violent.

The thing is that if a game is trying to sell through telling us our mothers will hate it and that it's cool then it probably isn't that good of a game. Actually when all they have to say about it is that then it's like it doesn't even try to be a good game, it seems like it just aims at being as violent as possible like that's all a good game is and it really isn't.

I liked Dead Space 1 though I have yet to purchase it but sequels are generally not as good as their predecessor and that commercial pretty much proves it. There is no mention of what the game is about or anything, just that it's really violent and cool. Really, thinking people above the age of 15 (the game has got an 18+ rating) will buy the game for such silly reasons is stupid.

ANOTHER Homestuck post

And there's nothing saying there won't be yet another one. I haven't played Homestuck since Saturday (feels like forever) since I am waiting for The Rambler to catch up (she's at page 4900-something now while I am at page 5350) and also because [SPOILER IN WHITE] I don't want poor Nepeta to die, she's too cute to die! Ug [SPOILER END]

The new gameplay parts are really fun. You can walk around and talk to people and do stuff (the parts often called Alterniabound) , which is even more fun now that plot relevant stuff is in the game parts. Quite different from the games in the beginning of Homestuck I must say. It gets continuously m ore awesome despite being awesome all along (or well, at least after Sburbs is installed).

On another note I really like Vriska, sort of. I feel like punching her pretty much every time she does something but I don't know, I still want to imitate her writing quirk and draw her and stuff. I guess Love It or Hate It Characters aren't necessarily a question of or. There's probably a trope for that too. I really like that hair flip thing she does but that's sort of unrelated.

Since I can't (or well, won't) read Homestuck for a while I instead spend my time talking about it (which fails because I want to talk about recent events and that would spoil stuff for my friends), searching for pictures on the internet or replaying/reading my favorite parts if I can find a link to them. It's not as fun as homestuck but it's still pretty fun.

Bioshock 2

I spent most of today playing it. I've played it a lot but I am still horribly bad at it. So far I have only managed to complete easy mode but yeah, It's still awesome (the first one as well of course). It's not Bioshock in particular but First Person Shooters in general I think but since Bioshock is the only FPS I have really played (and not just played-a-few-minutes-at-friends-house-played) so I can't really tell. I'm getting better at it though, I haven't died a single time on this playthrough and finished like five levels (I think).

The weapons are really fun, especially the plasmids. Telekinesis isn't all that unusual anymore and I don't know if it's just me but I can't really make it useful but the Electric Attack is both awesome and very practical. I also quite like the drill weapon despite it being a meele weapon in a game full of guns, perhaps because I don't have to aim, but the machine gun is my favorite I think, effective and fun to use. I don't really like the shotgun though.

I always play as at least a fairly good guy and always save the little sisters. I guess I should try harvesting them on some playthrough to se the "bad" ending and if it has got any other effects on the playthrough but I don't really feel like it, it's just sort of pointless. I mean I can justify killing the NPCs but I really don't like the idea of killing brainwashed children just to get some upgrade quicker.

This post most likely doesn't make any sense if you haven't played Bioshock but if you haven't I strongly recommend it. The story and atmosphere is amazing and the gameplay is really fun. I guess if I really wanted you to play it I would at least tell you what it is about but really, you can just google it. My explanation would probably suck anyway.

 

Nostalgia Critic

The Nostalgia Critic is actually pretty funny. I normally don't find reviews very entertaining (in the end of let's-plays I always skip the part where the player talks about his opinion of the game) but he's actually really funny. I guess that's why he's famous though.

The movies/shows he reviews are always older than a certain age and for someone like me who've barely watched movies in the last decade this is actually a good thing. I remember several of the shows and almost all of the cartoons from when I was young and watching his reviews is a pretty good way to sort of, uhm, be nostalgic about the shows without having to watch the whole thing again. Watching reviews for my old favorite shows and movies (Sonic SatAM, Secret of Nimh and the X-men cartoon) and seeing that the shows I liked as a kid weren't trash is also fun and as stupid as it is I'm sort of proud over having such good taste even as a kid. (Even though I guess it's logical that kids like quality stuff too, they aren't that retarded I guess)

This is The Secret of Nimh. Pretty cool for a movie about mice I must say. (It had an Ages 11+ rating but I watched it when I was like 3 and loved it. I don't know if stuff like that is what made me love dark stuff or if I liked it because I already loved stuff that was a bit too scary for my age.)

The reviews for bad stuff I've never heard of are of course just as fun, if not more so. Watching people mock things and being sarcastic is almost always more fun than watching people praise things after all (pretty much the reason why Accentuate the Negative is so popular: Poking fun at things is fun). Either way, you can find the Nostalgia Critic here (or through a simple google search), my favorite video is the Carebears Sequel.

Dreams

I used to have really awesome dreams, so awesome I used to write them down and blog about them and tell people about them, but now it seems I'm in a period of boring dreams. Normally my dreams consists of things like me running around being badass and fighting insane murderers, mario snowmen and doing awesome stuff but the last week it's just been confusing and boring dreams on the rare associations that I actually remember them. This is a little depressing.

My nightmares never involve dark woods or graveyards or post-apocalyptic scenery, that stuff is just ordinary awesome dreams. My nightmares are about water.

It might just be because I'm sick and my mind is too tired to make up fun stuff but it's still really freaking annoying. Sleep feels much more exciting when you have cool dreams, even if said dreams would sometimes be classified as nightmares in the eyes of most people while my actual nightmares would be classified as normal dreams for most people.

I am considering writing about some of my dreams here on this blog but at the same time I don't really have the energy to and well, as i mentioned my dreams aren't all that entertaining at the moment so I guess I won't do it right now at least. Oh, by the way: I really got to stop this nonchalant meh-attitude I tend to have over my blog. It's probably not very pleasant to read.