This is it..

^ I need to be like this guy, he really knows his shit.  I need to really think outside of the box if I’m going to survive the math of the board exam. Its coming, I’m graduating on the 25th of June, please pray your ass off for me.  This is it..

Anime completed:

Welcome to the NHK: It was at times hard to get through this one, But I did and I am better for it. This show is a slice of life comedy about the “NEET’s” or “HIKIKOMORI” basically shut-ins, recluses, and socially mal-adjusted otaku culture that is becoming an issue in japan. it follows the life of a man named Sato who through various reasons goes crazy and becomes a hikikomori and stews in his own juices going through the various phases of extreme social anxiety that are the cause of ones life crumbling to pieces. It hits home in a lot of ways, because of my own troubles following the 2011 loss of my old job where I was content to live off unemployment until the bitter end(depression is a bitch). This was a bad time for me emotionally, But I got picked up and dusted off by a family member leading to the future I have today. For the character Sato, he has a small cadre of people who come into his life and are just as fucked up as he is if not more so. Through getting into trouble with these extremely down trodden people does he find the courage to leave his apartment and become a productive member of society. If you think this doesnt make for a compelling anime then your wrong.. It doesn’t get anymore true to life then this. 24 episodes by famed studio Gonzo,  give it a look see if your hungry for something serious. A

The garden of words: This is the most detailed and beautiful animated CG/animation combo anime you will ever see. A short 30 minute story about a high school boys relationship with a teacher is more of a demo of how far animation has come and what it can truly be with a lot of hard ass fucking work.  (A for the animation, C+ for the story)

Letter to Momo: This anime was done by the guy who directed JIN-ROH, and makes a heavy knod towards the whimsy of studio Ghibli . A 1 hr 40 minute tale of a girl who leaves Tokyo with her mom to the islands after the death of her father, and discovers life in the rural town of her grandparents. Except she is followed by Demons only she can see, who are determined to report on her to the heavens. Hilarity ensues. I loved this one.  A

I have no desire to play Overwatch, But the character designs are pretty awesome. Its got robots too.

Shadowrun: Hong Kong complete.  Just wanna say a few things about this, namely that my overall experience with the trilogy has been a positive one. This game takes place in HongKong like the name suggests, and you take on a new cast of shadowrunners to be your family. I choose an elf mage/shaman/swordsman this time because I choose a human Decker master last time. I played the game on normal up until a certain bugged part of the game where I was forced to open up debug mode and cheat inorder to bypass the bug and get to the next level. I realize the difficulty of this game may be slightly higher then the previous 2 games, Returns, and dragonfall, but we’ll never know because I relly never turned off debug mode for much of the rest of the game. (Witcher 3’s blood n wine expansion was coming and I really wanted to play that above everything else.)  The characterization and scenario writing in this game was improved over the last 2 games, the matrix got a face lift, and provided you picked up the extended edition off steam you could get a bonus campaign to play after you beat the main game. There is a lot to unpack for a supposed “15” hour game. My advice to someone thinking about starting this game is to make this your ‘2nd” game if you are playing the trilogy through because the story line in it is not as strong as dragonfall. Plus there are a few nods in this game to the events that happened in dragonfall to make your experience of that one richer.  Their is not much else to say other then give a summery of my personal opinion, and that is i felt the story was very strong up untill 3/4rths of the game.. and then the ending is kinda anti climactic. The last fight did not give me the kind of ending payoff I was looking for, Maybe that’s just me. 2 kids raised by a mysterious Chinese man in Seattle are summoned back to HongKong to solve the case around his possible death/disappearance while the local police force have put out an order to kill you on sight thinking you are members of a terrorist organization. You must join the employ of the local Triad chapter in order to find your father and put a stop to the terrible nightmares flowing from the Kowloon walled city beyond.  Its not a bad game, I give it a B

Lasty, Ive been talking with a couple people on what to highlight as the “weakness” of the Machine folk in Atoll Lab. As I have said before, it is extremely important that each “race” of people have their limits or failings. Something to keep them from being OP as compared to humans because that really makes for more interesting and diverse story telling. It becomes too easy to say that the object of your desires (Machines) are just naturally better then the people(humanity) who make you nervous day after day in reality.  Real races of people tend to fall into shades of gray, not black n’ white. Sure they come about based on direct alien influence, but Dire folk are still creatures bound by the laws of the planet, in order to survive it should be logical to try and work together.  So how should I do this? well I have tried thinking about how to make humans and machines compliment each other by putting them into category of good and bad.

Humans (Good): Have the power of imagination, creativity, adaptability, Improvisation, can be Jack-of-all-trades or masters, empathetic, Innovative, lower-cost of living.

Humans (Bad): Physically frail, Short lifespan, Illogical, impulsive, Irrational, fallible, Malleable.

Machine folk (Bad): Lack of adaptability, Rigid thinking, Obsessive compulsive, Presumptuous, Highly specialized, fallible, Higher cost of living, unnatural**

Machine folk (Good) : Physically strong, Longer lifespan, Higher memory capacity, empathetic, Lawful, Regenerative, Born with some level of inherited mastery.

*This is not to say that both races don’t posses some % of good and bad from each others list, but when noted, they are especially prone to said trait.

Let me know what you guys think? is this enough? Or have I not gone far enough?