I love my friends. Especially my best friend. She's someone I can call whenever and I know that she'll come over as soon as is physically possible, and that's pretty comforting. And she's as weird as I am.
So she sort of introduced me to this new anime, Death Note. I say sort of because I actually read the manga for awhile, before I came up to college. So I was familiar with it but I had never watched it...well, she got me to watch it and we watched the last episode today...it was a lot of fun. It is, in my opinion, a very profound anime. Its basic premise is rather philosophical. Light, the main character, finds a "Death Note." Basically, it's a notebook that if you write someone's name in it and think of their face, they'll die. Light decides (once he tests the book's power and realizes it works) that he's going to create a new world...one where there isn't any evil...and he's going to start by killing criminals. It's a noble cause, to rid the world of evil. Killing people and not having to reap the consequences in this life. It's also more interesting than most animes because it doesnt' rely on huge battles with swords or guns--almost all the fighting is done with the mind. Light trying rid the world of evil and L (another character) trying to track down this same mass murderer. It's really really fascinating.
But yeah, Jessica came by today and we watched the last episode. It was very powerful. Of course, me being the kind of person who smiles when nervous or when faced by angry people and the kind of person who laughs at all her friends when they cry...I totally made fun of it. But crazy people are so easy to make fun of...it's really irresistible. :)
...yeah, yeah. i'm a geek, I know.
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
RA: A WoW parody
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I-0badO8rc
This is a spoof of a series of commercials that Apple did...I think about the time Ipods first came out. It's a World of Warcraft-inspired video trying to convince people to switch from Alliance(the side that most people are on; humans, dwarves, gnomes, night elves) to Horde (orcs, undead, tauren, trolls).
WATCO switching from alliance to horde on your desirability as a character people need in groups?
Enthymeme: Switching from alliance to horde will increase your desirability as a character people need in groups because switching from a paladin to a shaman makes your all-around stats go up.
Logos: More than half of the "commercial" is about the problems with being a paladin. (Just as an FYI, you can only be a paladin on alliance and you can only be a shaman on the horde.) It points out the problems of being a paladin, such as everyone expecting you to be able to heal. It also points out the better attributes of shaman, such as totems.
Pathos: The entire thing is made up of jokes that are generally much more funny if you actually play World of Warcraft. None of the arguments are new; it's only the style in which they are presented that makes it interesting. Also, spoofing directly from a Apple commercial adds to their appeal, because it makes them memorable and gives them something to link to whenever they see an Apple commercial or hear this music they might think of these spoofs. I do, at least.
This is a spoof of a series of commercials that Apple did...I think about the time Ipods first came out. It's a World of Warcraft-inspired video trying to convince people to switch from Alliance(the side that most people are on; humans, dwarves, gnomes, night elves) to Horde (orcs, undead, tauren, trolls).
WATCO switching from alliance to horde on your desirability as a character people need in groups?
Enthymeme: Switching from alliance to horde will increase your desirability as a character people need in groups because switching from a paladin to a shaman makes your all-around stats go up.
Logos: More than half of the "commercial" is about the problems with being a paladin. (Just as an FYI, you can only be a paladin on alliance and you can only be a shaman on the horde.) It points out the problems of being a paladin, such as everyone expecting you to be able to heal. It also points out the better attributes of shaman, such as totems.
Pathos: The entire thing is made up of jokes that are generally much more funny if you actually play World of Warcraft. None of the arguments are new; it's only the style in which they are presented that makes it interesting. Also, spoofing directly from a Apple commercial adds to their appeal, because it makes them memorable and gives them something to link to whenever they see an Apple commercial or hear this music they might think of these spoofs. I do, at least.
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