Samurai Warriors 2

I recently relocated my Samurai Warriors 2 disc (it was in the Samurai Warriors 1 case… in the basement) and have been indulging in glorious fantasy melee combat for the past two days. For those who don’t know: Samurai Warriors is part of a series of games by Koei in which you take on the roles of various generals and leaders very very very very loosely based on historical figures and rip through entire armies with your superior martial arts, ki, and elemental powers. Fuck yeah. Where the English names for the games are kind of goofy (Dynasty Warriors, Samurai Warriors) I assure you these games are both fun and challenging.

Where I’m going to talk mostly about Samurai Warriors 2 (without doing an article on Samurai Warriors 1 first… it’s my site, I do what I want!) I can’t help but go into how much I just love the series/concept as a whole. I admit I was never into the games in the old school "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and Kessen days, and came into the series with Dynasty Warriors 3, but I’ve been a fan ever since.

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Moar Photos and Sketches

Since I keep doing art update posts despite the "Latest Art" widget on the left menu there, here we go again! Just some new photos and some sketches today. I need to get my ass finishing some stuff. Incidently these sketches were unearthed while I was looking for stuff to potentially finish. The stuff I have in a pile of "should be finished" is not to be shown for I am a superstitious artist.

28 Weeks Later

WARNING!

This post is going to contain massive spoilers, including the hilariously ridiculous ending of the film "28 Weeks Later", read only if you’ve already seen the film or don’t give a shit about spoilers or zombies or zombie-like viruses and the events they lead to.

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Second Life

My avatar before I slightly less
crappified it

For those of you who don’t know  "Second Life" is a program that is somewhat like a MMORPG, only… without the RPG part. With the name clearly being honest about its escapist intentions, thousands upon thousands of people act out a fantasy life in this virtual reality every day. The denizens of SL have full control over the lands, the structure, and can even open virtual shops and sell virtual items for virtual money… which they can then exchange for real money. It’s web 2.0 to the extreme and you would think it would be alot of fun.

Yeah. You would think that.

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The Illusion of the Nuclear Family

What is the "nuclear family"? Typically the term refers to a mother, father and 2.5 children household setup. The Christian Right especially would have you believe that this is the ideal environment for a child… but is it? They would have you believe that any child not raised by both a mother and father will be maladjusted, deprived, or even psychologically disturbed, and they use this excuse to decry gay marriage rights and single parents alike. On the issue of single parents it’s single women who are especially vilified, because how dare a woman raise children alone? Regardless, of course, of her situation, whether her husband may have divorced her or died or she’s raising the product of a rape which they encourage women to keep in the first place. On the front of gay marriage it’s all just a thinly veiled attempt at jutisfying their irrational abhorration of gays and the looming possibly of them obtaining equal rights that won’t effect anyone but the gay community itself.

But outside of gay parents and single mothers, the idea that the nuclear family is the only hope of raising a well-adjusted, productive member of society is an insult to the majority of households in the United States. Why? Because the nuclear family only makes up about a quarter of them. Is then anyone who was raised by gay parents, a single parent, seperated parents, their granparents, their elder sister or brother, their aunt and uncle, or even, yes, adoptive parents according to some of the proponents of the nuclear family, a maladjusted deliquent who suffered a deprived childhood? Given the numbers I’m sure some of you reading this must by now feel insulted. But never fear, for Sai is here, to tell you that the concept of the nuclear family being the only acceptable environment in which to raise a well-adjusted human being is complete and utter bullshit.

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