Thursday, August 12, 2004

If God wanted us to wear socks, he would have made boa constrictors out of 100% cotton.
Back down to #61. Perhaps I'm getting too hung-up on the ranks.

The computer's being fixed up as we speak. My dad decided to upgrade the RAM to 512MB, and put in the new hard drive, which is basically a must. We're just going to re-purchase Windows 98 instead of get XP simply because my dad's cheap.

This isn't the computer to end all computers, of course, but it's not meant to be the top computer in this house for five years. We're going to be getting the computer more suited for my needs (Can you say "Half-Life 2"?) "soon," according to my parents.

Now "soon" can mean a lot of things. In the most optimistic sense, "soon" could be within the next month or two. It could be in six months, or maybe ten. In the end, a lot of "soons" turn into "never." The ambiguity of this word irks me to no end- and this issue is the perfect example.

But I think it's high time that I talk about something than these simple computer issues and bring up something that's interesting to people other than myself.

And, of course, this is the hard part. For me, trying to come up with a subject to talk about is a real pain in the ass, in conversation and in myOtaku. I talk about and learn about a ton of things every day, and it's hard to remember it all, sift through it all, and select the tidbits that are, first of all, interesting, and second, something that I have an opinion/interesting view on.

So, out of sheer laziness, I normally write about the first thing that comes to mind, if I'm not fixated on a certain subject at the time. That's why you have all been listening to nothing but me talking about my computer troubles for the past four or five days.

And for that, I apologize. :P

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A week ago I went over to a friend's house overnight and we watched a lot of Evangelion. A month or so ago he came over and we watched the first disc or so, so we did the only logical thing to do in such a situation: We picked up where we left off (Shocking, isn't it?). I believe we got to the end of the fourth disc by the time I started dozing off. Honestly, I don't think Evangelion got really good until halfway through the sixth disc. Sure, the rest of the series was good, but a lot of it seemed a bit too filler-ey and standalone for my tastes. Of course there was a ton of the story mixed in with it all, and I was enthralled from the beginning, but episode 20 was where I really got into it.

The seventh disc was my favorite. I mean, between a flashback episode going deeper into Yui, Gendo and Fuyutsuki's relations, Rei II's demise, and Asuka's whole fiasco in episode 23, how could it get any better?

Yes, Azure, if Shinji were to die a painful death it would make everything a hundred times better, but it's not going to happen, so get over it. >:|

And as if Rei II's death weren't cool enough the first time through, the Director's Cut edition released in February added several shots that added a lot to the intrigue, confusion and overall creepiness that made the scene so cool.

I never liked Asuka as much as Rei, and so I didn't like her episode as much, even though it was still one of the best, but the extended peek into Asuka's mind as the angel is "defiling" her really gave me a better opinion on the scene, and Asuka in general.

Beforehand I simply felt she was a.. Well, bitch, heh, plain and simple. Sure, she had some traumatic experiences in her childhood, but none of the stuff displayed before really made me pity her for it.

Her reasons for how she had acted before was all were clear now, and it made you feel sorry for her. Plus this is where I got really, really depressed. :P

Sorry to any Asuka-lovers out there for bashing your character so much, but that's how I felt.

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Tune in next time for another Evangelion rant (End of Evangelion, specifically,) and possibly a recap of tomorrow's trip to San Diego.

Oh, and I'm way behind schedule on the comic. I haven't even decided which idea I'm going to do next.
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