I got my laaaab done, I got my laaab done. Oh ya! Oh ya! Anyway, I actually have something I want to talk about! That would be the Silent Hill series, and more specifically, Silent Hill 2. If you hadn't noticed from my background, the biggest concept from the entire series is pyramid head. Its not like he is the same character in all of the games, either, he signifies something different in them all. I think thats why he is such an iconic figure for it. By the way, somewhat of a spoiler alert (just in case).
In the second one, for those who don't know, Pyramid head is the evil, angry, and masculine pent up side of the main character. He was supposed to be the way for the player to piece things together about not just the character your playing, but about the town itself. Thats a lot of what the series is truly about, is you piecing together what the town is all about, not the actual characters.
Another thing I've kinda noticed about it is that its more like an art piece (for the early games anyway) in that the artist might have a set thing that the game represents, but people can have their own theories as to what it is. Like, I personally think that Silent Hill is a sort of purgatory that people go to after they die, and they have things that they regret or sinned happen over and over and over. I also think that peoples Silent Hill cross over into others.
Personally, I also think the series is much better than Final Fantasy VII, mainly because FF VII is long and they had unneeded quests. The only thing that was memorable to me was the ending and the "message" of the game. Ocarina of time is my best game of all time, followed by, surprise, Silent Hill 2. So, I am going to watch the movie now, because I haven't seen it for a very long time and I can't remember most of it except for the ending. Such a sad ending...
We just had our spring break last week and I couldn't relax for all of it. I had to work...woo hoo. And it wouldn't be so bad if I didn't have to work at five o'clock in the morning. Thats really crappy, but I did get eight hours out of it so I can't complain too much. Also, work is exhausting now. We have all those Indonesian students who appeared and they are energetic and making it really tiring to teach. Bleh. I am so tired...
Anyway. I have been drawing and being creative lately, which isn't necessarily a good thing right now. I have college to worry about and my classes are rather concrete in what I need to do right now. It makes life kinda difficult. Also, I have a HUGE urge to watch Silent Hill since I can't play the second one.
Silent Hill 2 is one of my absolute favorite video games. It is psychological, you don't understand everything till you play it more than once, and its not just for the casual gamer, you have to have played console games since the early playstation games to rock hard core at it. Absolutely amazing.
And now spring break has officially started! Thank god! Unfortunately, I have a lot homework to do, but it should be just fine. None of it is due until I get back from break. I also have to come back early and get a bunch of students to another test. And of course its at 7 in the morning. Yay...
Anyway. I am so happy that I will get to relax and play video games. And sleep. I missed sleep. I really want to sleep...its sounds nice... Also, I really just want to not do anything. But my father has other plans. I have to have an interview with the Mayor, who I have taken home from him and my father drinking together before. So this is bound to be weird. Especially cause he will be my boss if I do well in this interview. Ugh...
I'm going to go get food now cause I haven't eaten all day and I'm starting to get dizzy.
If any of you know what this is, skip to the second paragraph. For everyone else, here is a quick summary. The Westboro Baptist Church is a church in Topeka, Kansas. They are anti-gay, anti people for gays, anti-military, anti-jews, anti-any other religion, and anti-brittney Spears. ...okay, the last one was a little off, but heres the gist of them. They believe that god hates everyone. Yes, everyone. Especially America, Ireland, Sweden, and Canada. They are most known for protesting at funerals, especially military funerals. They have signs that say thank god for 9/11, thank god for DUI's, thank god for dead soldiers, God hates f**s, and god hates Jews. They have told broadcasters on international television that the broadcaster isn't Christian. Yet, they say that they don't hate America, but god does.
Second paragraph time. I have studied the bible, just like I have studied all religions that are well known, like buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, and Greek and Roman Mythology so that I don't sound ignorant when I argue against them. So when I say something about the bible, I really know what I'm talking about. These people are definitely not reading the bible correctly at all. There are several references to God loving all man kind in three books in the old testament, and multiple others in the new testament, all conveyed by Jesus Christ himself. There are references to love thy neighbor, and that forgiveness shall let you in to the glory and wonder of heaven upon death.
The church seems to just skip over these all together. The worst part of it is, that none of them have any mental illness, or lower IQ's. They are just influenced. Most of them see the logic in what they are doing. They think that it is perfectly logical to think these things and do these things. The problems of being a social creature is that we are easily influenced depending on certain things. I do not agree with what they are doing in the least, but I do not think of them as having something wrong with them. I merely see them as being influenced in the wrong way. A good example of what is happening with them, is with Hitler. He convinced an entire country that the jews were not human. And he destroyed them...which by the way, the Westboro Baptist church thinks was a great thing...and a lot of people, normal people, believed him. It just makes my heart cry to see these people not understanding what is really being said to them. That they are just blindly following like most people in this and any other country. All because we are social creatures of persuasion.
Sorry, I really needed to get that off my chest. They said something recently that I just couldn't hold my unending anger at them in and I needed to rant about them. For those of you that want to know, I'm atheist, if that wasn't obvious enough. Alright, thats all I got to say.
Ugh, it seems like forever that I've been gone. Sorry about that, just a lot of things in my life have been pretty crazy lately. I don't even know where to start. Well, Lets just give the school excuse first. This was midterms week. I had two exams this week, and another one next week. Lucky me. Unfortunately, the two last week were my hardest classes, and they were one day after the other. I had one thursday morning, and one friday morning. So bleh to that.
Then last week, a family friend fell, cracked her head open and started bleeding in her brain. Had the whole family up in a roar and I didn't even hear it from my parents. I had to hear it from my cousin who just so happened to be on facebook.
Another thing was one of my professor sprang a surprise homework assignment that was supposed to take two weeks on my class and set it due in five days. On top of that, my hardest class that I had an exam on thursday for, had a homework assignment due on that wednesday...the life of a engineering student is indeed tough.
