Getting Back Into Business

I haven't written here in a long time, mostly because I haven't had a reason to with my new Deviant Art account and how busy I've been. I haven't even had time to make any new videos. Instead I have been focusing on my education and writing, which certainly need the attention. This brings me to the new blog I have created which is solely dedicated to my current project: Where Mighty Rivers Run. It's a science fiction novel that I first devised in grade 11 as a joke. I basically sat down one night and thought up about half the characters and factions used in the story and gave what I typed up to my friend the next day. She said something along the lines of me being "extremely random and strange", which I take as the highest compliment. To learn more about the story and my progress, head over to: http://wmrrproject.blogspot.com/

Now I'm not sure what other people's holidays are like, but I'm one of those poor souls that celebrates Christmas. Every year it seems less and less like a holiday and more like a headache. I am, to be honest, sick of it. The only part I actually like about December is the actual day: Christmas. That day we sit around, open presents, eat tons of good food and see family. Before and after it's like a giant swirling vortex of agony. I was working full time in a mall that was puked on by Christmas in a store that played horrible, HORRIBLE, Christmas music and had to put up with frustrated customers and their screaming children (I worked in a kid's clothing store over the holidays...and I say "worked" because I'm technically "on call" now). So overall not the most enjoyable season.

Now I only have 4 days of holidays left and I am swamped with school work. Thank you full year English courses for giving me such a lovely holiday with your papers, research and mountains of reading material! Three cheers for university. Thankfully I got a few video games for Christmas which is a savior to my sanity. I just completed Assassin's Creed 2 last night, which is a spectacular game in many senses. The graphics are decent with it's colourful environments and extra care in detail (though the map and interface DID spaz out a few times...I think this was my fault however for playing 6 hours straight). The music was some of the best video game music I have ever encountered, created by Jesper Kyd, who in my mind now is a genius. Much like the first game, I am in awe of the character movements. The main character "Ezio Auditore de Firenze" was the best part of the entire game. His movements and actions were refined down to the smallest details, he had an excellent costume and he is honestly one of the best looking video game characters I have ever encountered (honestly he'd be a sexy, sexy man if he were real). The story was better than a lot of video games, though I'll admit I liked the story of the first game better. The ending was a surprise and though I promise not to ruin it, I'll say that it was quite the twist. I enjoyed it quite a bit...except for this one part involving an end of the world conspiracy theory which I thought was stupid...but hey, it's a video game, who cares? It's stupid to nit pick when it comes to those subjects.

The other game I was pleasantly surprised with is probably one you wouldn't expect, or maybe even have heard of: Rabbids Go Home. Yes, a spin-off game from the original Rayman: Raving Rabbids video game. This game is a stupid, random, brain-numbing, IQ dropping, mess...and it is FANTASTIC. I have never played a game so idiotic as this, and it is honestly some of the most mindless fun I have had in ages. No complex plots, no challenging puzzles, no clear antagonist, no special music or graphics...it's just you, a couple of bunnies and a shopping cart. Essentially, a group of "Rabbids", who have apparently taken to living in a landfill after the Rayman game, notice a giant glowy ball in the sky: THE MOON. Being the intellegent little critters they are, they decide to build a giant pile of STUFF to reach the moon so that they may sleep on it (or something like that I'm not entirely sure). A team of three Rabbids are sent to the city to collect items for the pile: a driver, a collecter and a cannon ball (you shoot Rabbids at various points in the game to help you through the levels). The stuff consists of XL and XS (why there is none in between I have no idea...better not to ask questions in this game), and include anything including table, bottles, jet engines, infectious patients, cows, the clothes you strip off of the humans and nuclear reactors. You can also find all the hidden "Santa Clauses", who for some reason hide in air ducts and nuclear cores and carry garbage cans around on their backs. They also drop hamburgers when you scare them. You also have the option of participating in unique challenges, including one where you have to shake around a Rabbid that has been sucked into your Wii remote in the right directions. One last feature that adds to the inanity is that wou may spray paint, tattoo and give your bunnies items to put on their heads (some examples are a cement block, a chicken and a saw). An extremely strange game, but if you have a morbid sense of humour and you havce the ability to turn your brain off at will, you'll have a great time playing it.