One Punch Man

One Punch Man is an Anime that recently started airing sometime in September, I believe. The concept of the show is that the main character, Saitama, trained so much that eventually he became so strong he could defeat anything in one punch Also all of his hair fell out. There's also some hero organisation, but for the most part, it's just the antics that go around that and good ol' Baldy himself trying to find something that he can't instantly kill in one punch. Upon hearing that concept, I was immediately intrigued. Something about it just clicked with me, and I knew I had to watch it. I can safely say that it did not disappoint, One Punch Man has quickly become one of my favorite shows out there. Aside from how absurd the concept is, the entire show feels like a parody of some of my least favorite cliches in Anime, but yet still manages to keep an engaging plot despite it's more comical nature. I love it when a show can find the perfect balance between comedy, story, and good old badass fights. After the first episode, I ended up getting hooked and couldn't help myself but watch all 6 episodes that were up at the time. Sadly, I now have to wait for a new episode every week, just like all of the other shows I watch.

Why can't I just be able to bingewatch a series for once?

The main character, Saitama, is really likable too. Despite the fact that he's the most overpowered thing in existence, he's just a total goofball. He never seems to take anything seriously, and being a hero is more of a hobby to him than anything. It's not too often that my favorite character in a show is the main character, since most of the time, the main characters just seem to be too perfect and focused on "the power of friendship" or some garbage like that. Saitama is just your average dude who happens to be the strongest fighter out there. His design is also great, there's something about it that always puts a smile on my face. It's great how he looks really silly, but then suddenly look surprisingly menacing.

Wait, wrong character!

This show is also one of the most inspirational things I've ever seen as an artist. Not because the story has morals or anything like that, but because of its origins. Before it was an anime, it was a manga, and even before that, it was a webcomic, with... Interesting art, to say the least. Despite it's poor drawings, a professional artist teamed up with the original writer to remake series, and eventually that remake got popular enough to get its own adaptation into an animated series. There's something inspiring about how it went from this:

To this:

And finally, to this:

Who knows, maybe someday, even a crappy webcomic I make could become an animated series? I mean, it probably wouldn't, but still. Either way, I recommend this series to anyone interested, although the series is currently only available in Japanese, so you'd need to watch it with subtitles to understand what's going on. If that's not your thing, you can always read the Comic, although I recommend reading the redrawn version and not the original webcomic, unless comically bad art is your thing.

And with that, I end this blog post with a GIF of Saitama biting a sword.

Did I mention this show is badass?

Carg Made a Fightstick. Woooah!

You read that title, Carg made a fight stick! Made one! By himself! In woodshop class! What do you do in woodshop class, huh? Swords? Pssshh! I made a functional video game controller!

For those of you who are not aware (Which is probably most people reading) a fight stick is a controller that is basically the controls you would find on an arcade machine. They're often used in fighting games such as Street Fighter, Blazblue, Marvel VS. Capcom I still wanna play that dangit, and Skullgirls, my fighting game of choice, mostly because I don't suck at it.

One question I seem to be asked a lot is "does it work?". Of course it works, why would I be going around with a non functional controller with a joystick buttons? I guess it is kind of surprising that I managed to make this, but still. If you ever want to annoy me, just ask if my fightstick works. Or when I'm going to beat Battletoads, either one of those.

As for how I made this, it's basically just a box with some wires and holes inside of it. I ordered the buttons and joystick off eBay for about 40$, which came with a small circuit board that all of the wires connected to. I didn't even have to solder them, they just plug right in. It's supposed to only work on PC, but I haven't tested it on other consoles. It probably wouldn't work, but there is a thing I found online that would let me connect it to PC, PS2, PS3, and even Xbox 360. I plan on hopefully getting that for this someday, when I finally manage to get Marvel VS. Capcom 3 so I can use this to play it. I just wanna play Marvel VS. Capcom 3 ;0;

And that about wraps up this post. I'll probably update it with more pictures later, so stay tuned for that. If you like fighting games, I recommend trying out a fightstick, and maybe making your own, assuming you can get access to the materials. Overall, the fightstick is not yet 100% complete, I still need to make it work on other consoles, but aside from that, I'm really proud with it. Who knows, maybe one day I'll see myself winning a tournament one day! I probably won't since I'm a filthy scrublord, but hey, a guy can dream, right?

Carg's Stupid Xbox 360 Stories

The Xbox 360 is a console that has brought me a lot of disappointment and frustration. Not only do I find it a fairly boring console with not enough exclusives to warrant a purchase, but I've had some really bad experiences with the console in the past. The original white Xbox 360 model from 2005-ish is known for having many hardware issues, such as the infamous 3 light error, or the "Red Ring of Death." I myself have a few stories involving these rather stupid hardware issues, so I'd like to take a minute, just sit right there, I'm gonna tell you how I bought 2 Xboxes that don't work.

The first one happened about a year ago; I was biking out looking for yard sales as I usually do, when I managed to find myself an Xbox 360 for 5$! What a Steal! The owner of the house was an older man, so he likely didn't even know what he had. Sadly, the small little bag I had was too small (INSERT DICK JOKE HERE) to fit an entire Xbox 360 and cable inside of, so I had to bike all the way back to my house to pick up another bag. After going back and biking a rather heavy console on my back during the rain. The rain! When I got home, I was ready to play test out the console, only to find out it didn't have any AV cables! Of course, this meant I couldn't use the system. In order to test out the console, I went over to my friend's house for the night. As it turns out, the console was only 5$ for a reason: It didn't work. It had the error code 74, which  according to Google, means a hardware failure. I would need to bring it in to get the console fixed, but I never got around to it. The console has just been sitting on a shelf for about a year now, not doing anything.

The next story happened sometime this summer. Once again, I found an Xbox 360 at a yard sale! This time,  the guy said it worked and was fully functional, he had tested it the night before! Well gee golly oh my, I can finally play Marvel Vs Capcom 3! I bought it for 50$ along with some controllers, and then set it all up. It seemed to work perfectly fine. I went over to my friends house, borrowed his copy of Marvel VS. Capcom 3, and went home to play it! Wow, I love this game so much, pulling off combos is so much fun, and it's great having 3 characters to switch between! Man, I am having such a good time!

GOD DAMMIT

Friggen red ring of death, ruining my day, all I wanted to do was play Marvel VS. Capcom 3! JUST LET ME PLAY MY FIGHTING GAMES MICROSOFT!

Thankfully, I was able to return it the next day and get my money back, but I still wish I could play Marvel VS. Capcom 3. I only got to play it for about 20 minutes total before my console decided to kill itself for no reason. It's insane how a console can be this faulty, my Super Nintendo from 199-something never has these kinds of issues. Heck, my Wii never has these problems either, and it came out only a year later in 2006! No other console I've ever had has ever just not functioned for no reason. I should just get a PS3 instead, it probably doesn't have these problems on it. Probably. At least I could play Marvel VS Capcom 3 on there without it breaking, and maybe I could even get my fightstick to work on it! On the upside though, they did release an updated version of the Xbox 360 with some issues fixed and improved hardware, not to mention it's black like the original Xbox!

And that's the end of my Xbox 360 stories. Hopefully one day I'll learn my lesson and not buy used Xboxes from yard sales, but I probably won't. At least I know what I'm doing the next time I get another broken Xbox 360:

Rivals of Aether

Hey, you there! Do you like Smash Bros? Do you have Steam? Are you not a filthy casual scrublord? Then Rivals of Aether is the game for you! Recently released on Steam Early Access, Rivals of Aether is a 2D arena fighter, very similar to smash brothers. One may even call it a "rip-off". It was made using GameMaker Studio, a software I use from time to time. This game really inspires me to try and make more with the program, too bad I'm a lazy scrub with no talent.

BUT YEAH, RIVALS OF AETHER! All of the characters feel really good to play as, and they're all really strong. None of the characters feel weaker than another, I've been wrecked online by each character at least once. My personal favorite is Wrastor, mostly because he's a bird. He can jump 4 times in a row, and can use his strong (Or Smash attack) in the air, but doesn't have one on the ground. If I were to describe him, I'd say hes a combination of Captain Falcon, Jigglypuff, Falco and Marth from the Smash Bros. Games. He's a really good character for me, mostly because I tend to jump more than I should in fighting games. I'm starting to also like playing as Frosburn, due to his smoke ability, and knives. Knives are fun.

Wrastor, that one character I was talking about. Look at how sexy he is, it's a bird with a scarf.
Who doesn't like birds? And SCARVES?

 I do feel like some characters are a bit easier to play as, though. For example, the character Zetterburn is a fairly easy to use character who can burn opponents and kill really early compared to other characters. Meanwhile, we have characters like Orcane and Maypul who are really complex, it would take a lot of time to learn how to practice and play as these characters. However, I've barely see anyone play them online, including me! I can't deny I never use them, nor do I feel like learning to use them. I myself prefer characters I don't have to try very hard to use! I'm not very good at this game...

And there you have rivals of Aether. I think it's a pretty dang fun game, and I reccomend you try it out sometime. We could even fight eachother if you have the game using online! I need someone to play against who isn't some guy who's 5 times better than me online and has a potato for a router. Laggy matches aren't fun for anyone.

Battletoads, Part 1: It's a game

It's the month of Halloween, as you can see from my last two posts made as a joke. Since it's the month of spookiness, I figured "Why not talk about something scary?" Of course, I decided to pick a game that strikes fear into the hearts of gamers everywhere: Battletoads.

Battletoads Title Screen

For those of you who aren't aware, Battletoads is a game for the Nintendo Entertainment System infamous for being one of the most stupidly hard games out there. The game was made in 1991 by the company Rareware (Source), who is famous for the Donkey Kong Country games Banjo-Kazooie, and being bought out by Microsoft in the early 2000's.  Many people have tried and failed to overcome this dreaded game, but few have managed to get past the third level. Even Speedrunners are afraid! My goal when playing this game was to a least get past the third level, so I can say I'm slightly better than most people who play this game. I'll do a quick run down of the first 3 levels, and my opinions on them. Before that, I'd like to first discuss why this game is so gosh dang hard.

Now I know you might be thinking: "But Caaaarg, this doesn't sound so bad, a lot of games did this back in the day! Haven't you played MegaMan or something?" Well, the thing about Battletoads is you only get 3 lives and 3 continues (Assuming you don't use the 5 lives code). You can gain 1ups from either getting 50,000 points, or just finding a 1up in a level. If you lose those 3 lives and continues, you're dead. Game Over. You gotta start all the way from the start.

3 lives.

3 continues.

That's all you get.

Have fun.

It doesn't help that 90% of the game is memorization and insane split second reaction times. I myself thought the game looked pretty fun, so I decided to try it out. After all, if one of my friends could somehow beat this game, I can do it too! After all. I'm a very talented person, and I can definitely beat this game! Yeah, I can totally do this! Help me

LEVEL 1: Ragnarok's Canyon

Level 1 plays out like your traditional beat em up game, you go left to right beating up enemies and can even pick up a weapon to use against enemies! The level is fun, and not too hard. It ends with a really cool boss fight from the view of the enemy. He'll shoot you with a bunch of pellets, which you have to pick up and throw right at the screen. A similar fight was in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time. It's a really cool concept for a fight, and I love how you never actually see the boss you're fighting, it's anyone's guess what he looks like. This level is really fun and easy, and makes you think that you're in for a relatively easy time, but nope, this level does nothing but lie to you and the game only gets harder and harder from here. Insert dirty joke here

Stage 1

Stage 1 Boss

LEVEL 2: Wookie Hole

Don't let the name fool you, Level 2 is not Chewbacca's butthole. It instead has you being lowered down into a cave, while various bug enemies try to attack you, Once again, you can take a weapon from one of these bug enemies to use against them. Another cool thing about this level is that if you go to the farthest side of the stage, you can turn into a wrecking ball and plow through any enemies in your way. There's not too much to say about this level, it's not much harder than the first level, but still pretty fun. The best part about it in my opinion is being able to juggle the fly enemies to get extra points, and eventually a 1up if you hit them enough. My favorite part of the game so far is trying to use the right moves to get the most amount of points so you can get extra lives, it's pretty dang satisfying. I also love how every level seems to do something different than the last, it's variety is really what makes the levels stand out as a game. There's not a single level that resembles a previous level in terms of looks or gameplay, and it's really cool.

Level 2

LEVEL 3: TURBO TUNNEL

And now we enter the dreaded Turbo Tunnel. The name strikes fear into the hearts of anyone who has played this game, or even heard of it. It's the infamous part of the game where everything get's stupidly hard and unfair. It starts out a lot like the first stage, making you feel relatively safe, as if this level isn't going to be so bad. Then, it happens. You hop onto that dreaded hoverbike thingy and the true part of the level begins. The level is just avoiding pillars in your way and jumping over pits while you're riding on the hoverbike, it doesn't seem that bad, huh? WRONG! The timing on some of these is extremely quick, and a lot of the times I feel like you need to know what's going to happen next if you want to avoid it. A lot of people despise this level, but how do I feel about it? Well, I honestly think it's a really fun level. I didn't have too much trouble dodging most of the things headed at me, and aside from the really stupid portion at the end of the stage, I personally don't think it's as impossible as everyone says it is. I think the easiest way to get through the dumb last portion is if you get into a rythem or listen for the sound Cues, you can maybe survive! Maybe. Honestly, I had a blast with this stage, and it left me wanting more stages like this, whether because I enjoyed the speed of the level, or because I like torturing myself while playing games, who knows.

That really stupid part near the end,
except it's slowed down. A lot.

And with that I conclude part 1 of this review. Overall, I'd say Battletoads is a fun game, even though I wouldn't call it a fair game. I recommend playing the game using infinite lives or the 5 extra lives code (Hold UP, DOWN A + B and then press start at the title screen), unless you feel up to the torture challenge to play it without infinite lives. God have mercy on your soul if you don't use cheat cheats. The first 3 levels are pretty fun, but good lord, the idea that there are harder levels than Turbo Tunnel fills me with nothing but pure fear. I'm not sure if I'll make a part 2, since I don't think anyone would be able to beat this game without cheating or losing every last piece of their sanity. I do recommend playing Battletoads at least once in your lifetime if you're up to the challenge. You can get it on the Rare Replay collection for the Xbox One, and there's also a version on the Sega Genesis. Be careful about trying to call a store for this game though, they don't take too kindly to phone calls about Battletoads.

OCTOBER IS HERE

Waiting for October...

Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World: The Game and Nickleback Kidz Bop

Here's a slightly different kind of blog post: I recently found out that the game for my favorite movie and book series of all time, "Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World: The Game" has been taken off the Xbox Live Arcade and the Playstation Network Store due to an expired licence. This is a common occurrence with licensed games being sold on an online store, eventually the contract will expire, and the game will have to be taken off the store, never to be downloaded again unless they renew their contract, but that usually doesn't happen.. Another example of this is Marvel VS. Capcom 3 and all of it's DLC, the Deadpool videogame, and Jojo's Bizzare Adventure: Heritage for Future HD (That one really makes me sad). I've wanted to play this game for years, but alas, I never owned either of these consoles. If anyone would happen to own an Xbox360 or Playstation 3 with the game installed, I would really appreciate it if you could let me know, we could bring it to school and play it on a TV or something together. That, or just find a way to pirate the game or some crap. Usually I'd feel bad for doing that, but considering I can't even buy the game anymore, I don't really care. If you're willing to take up this offer, let me know at school, or write a comment on this blog post. Basically, just contact me any way you can. I really appreciate it!



On a side note, sometime after I did the Kidz Bop post, I had realized I made a grave mistake; I didn't include any of the Nickleback Kidz Bop songs. I apologize greatly for this horrible crime I have committed, but I hope to make up for my mistakes by including as many Kidz Bop Nickleback songs as I could find. I didn't think it was possible to make Nickleback worse, but I was clearly mistaken.

To be honest, I'm hesitant to be believe any of these are real, there is no way they made this many Kidz Bop covers of this band. Too bad they didn't do a cover of Rockstar, that would have been a sight to behold.


Anyways, I'm thinking on doing a review of Battletoads, or at least as much as I can manage to play without breaking down. I've managed to beat the infamous Turbo Tunnel Level without using a continue, so I'm already better than most people that try playing that game. Keep a look out on that.

Kidz Bop Is a High Form Of Art

I'm sure many of you are aware of the music groups Kidz Bop. You know, CD you got at McDonald's that one time and then threw into the trash. The concept of Kidz Bop is to take whatever song is currently trending and getting a bunch of children to sing them. After all, why would you listen to the real song when you can listen to a bunch of prepubescent squeakers sing them instead, right? I myself want to see a Puberty Bop album, filled with voice cracks and other puberty related stuff. Maybe a Senior Citizens Bop, where our favorite folks from the local retirement home do their best to sing the new hip music! Heck, how about a Kidz KPop, where they sing Korean pop songs-

Oh wait, they already did that. The horror!

I'm not sure how these albums keep being made, who keeps buying them? They've been going on since 2000, and it doesn't look like they're going to stop anytime soon. It's been going on for so long, this band has replaced more members than Kiss. I wonder what happened to these kids, did they ever go on to do anything else in life, or is this the only noteworthy thing they've ever done? Do people ever make fun of them for their past? Were any members in Kidz Bop ever murdered? Are all the members in Kidz Bop created in a laboratory to be the perfect Tween Stars? I wouldn't be surprised if they were.

Kidz Bop also tours around doing concerts! I myself have never been to a concert in my life, so I feel like Kidz Bop would be a good introduction. Maybe I could take my nonexistent girlfriend with me to the concert, that would make for a great date. Sure, it would be awkward since everyone else there would be a 6 year old girl, but come on, Kidz Bop, man!

Since I don't know what else to talk about, I'm just going to post the worst Kidz Bop songs I could find. Be warned that they are the worst things ever, and the weak hearted should avoid listening to them. You've been warned.

Remember to praise your almighty Ogrelord, kids.

I like call these two the "IT'S NOT A PHASE MOM" bundle.

Also, neither of the main singers in these songs sound like they're kids.

I don't think anyone can deny that this is the worst one of the bunch. Let's take Crazy Frog, the most annoying song of the early 2000's and get a bunch of kids to sing it, what could go wrong? EVERYTHING. Everything the could go wrong did go wrong with this song. It doesn't even sound like anyone here is trying, I feel so bad for the people that had to sing this. This makes me so mad, the same species that landed on the moon made this. The human race is truly a mixed bag of awful.

To be honest, I could have put anything on this list. The band is just so bad, that I could have put anything on here and it wouldn't have made a difference. I'm just glad they haven't touched my favorite band, They Might be Giants. I guess they're not relevant enough in this modern day and age. At least humanity has got that going for it. Did I miss any of the truly awful songs? Be sure to let me know if I did. I would sure love to torture myself some more with awful songs made worse by children singing them! Then again, no one reads this garbage blog anyways, so I that probably won't be happening anytime soon. I think I just dodged a bullet. Yay for being unpopular!

"Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle" Review

Warning: You will probably have no clue what I'm talking about in this post. I also go full weeaboo, so beware of that

Have I ever mentioned my unhealthy obsession for the series Jojo's Bizarre Adventure? Because I think I may be too attached to this series. Ever since I watched all of the anime on a totally legal video website, I can't help myself from posing fabulously during the day, or making some reference that no one will understand. It's consumed my entire being, and there's nothing I can do about it. So one day, I decided to order the PS3 game online to see if it was any good. I had my hopes really high, I could make DIO from Part 1 fight his older self from Part 3! I could make Josuke from Part 4 get pissed about his hair! I could make Jojo from Part 2 predict the next line of any of the other characters in game! It was like a dream come true for me, I could finally live out my stupidest Jojo related fantasies in this game! I borrowed my cousin's boyfriend's PS3 just so I could play this one game. How was the game, you may ask? It's OK.

The game is a fighting game, and fairly "Meh" one at that. Maybe it's just that I'm not used to 3D fighting games, or that I'm not used to the PS3 controller for fighting games. The combat itself also felt really slow, but then again it may have been my unfamiliarity with the poopy PS3 controller I had. I mean, the game itself was fun to play once I had gotten used to it, but it's nothing compared to the Arcade Game that came out back in the day. Either way, I had a week to play the game until I had to return the PS3, so I might as well make the most with what I had! After all, I could still play as DIO and beat the shit out of everyone in Arcade mode! Time to go and pick DIO, my man-

The game's starting roster

...Where the hell is DIO?

And now we come to the biggest problem in the game: You have to unlock characters! It's a fairly common thing to have to unlock characters in fighting games, but if you look up there, over half of the roster needs to be unlocked! I would understand having a few unlockable characters, but not most of the gosh dang roster! If I were to bring this game over to a friend's house to play it, we'd either have to waste out time unlocking some characters, or just deal with the 14 starting characters. DIO isn't even a starting character. You know, DIO, arguably the most iconic Jojo character! No, in order to unlock DIO, you have to play through a Story Mode. A really, really crappy story mode. The story mode has you fighting characters and playing through the of a certain part of the game, as you probably expected. Here are the problems with story mode:

1. The game is missing some key playable characters from the series, so the story feels empty

2. You only play one stage for each of the volumes for story mode. You'll be fighting Kakyoin for the first time in Cairo, where the final battle took place. Because that makes sense.

3. It's so boooring. I just want to play as DIO, let me play as DIO!

The worst part is I didn't unlock any of the characters past Part 3. I've only read up until halfway through Part 4, so I didn't want to spoil the rest of the series by playing through the crappy story mode. I ended up just playing story mode for 2 hours to unlock everyone just so I could have fun playing the game, and by the time I did unlock some of the characters, I didn't want to play the game anymore! I ended up so bored playing through the awful story mode that I just kind of gave up on the game. Now that I don't have the PS3 I borrowed, I regret not trying some of the other characters from later parts. I was so busy with unlocking characters that I forgot to have fun playing the game. Now I don't have the PS3 with me, and I can't play the game. At least the box would look good on display, it can show off that I'm a total Jojo nerd, even though I've mostly just watched the anime, because I'm a filthy scrublord who hasn't read the manga.

And with that, I end my stupid rambling. Oops, I'm a total weeaboo about Jojo, have fun sending a lynch mob to my house. At least someone will be coming over to visit. Curse you, lonely summers. I just want a hug.

I'm back from the dead!

Hello, readers of this stupid blog! I have returned from the underworld to bring back my apparently humorous posts, just for you! Expect more posts for the rest of this month, and maybe even some videos, assuming I don't end up being a lazy potato and not doing anything. Be sure to spam me until I do that!

You're a Kid now, You're a Squid now

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The Splatoon Global Test Fire!

Last weekend, Nintendo had a global online demo where you could play their newest IP for the Wii U, Splatoon. Splatoon is a 3rd person shooter, where you take control of a humanoid squid called an "Inkling", and use various water gun related weapons to shoot ink in order to cover an area of your teams color. Inklings also have the ability to turn into a squid and swim in your own team's color of ink, increasing your movement speed. Whichever team has the most ink of their color at the end of a round wins. It's a really creative concept for a shooter, and it feels so refreshing to have some color in a shooter other than brown-ish grey.

Now, I participated in the global online demo this weekend, and I'm here to share some of my thoughts on the game. I've been exited for this game since its reveal last year, and I'm so glad I finally got to play it. Even though I could only use 4 weapons in the demo, it was a blast to play. At first, it was really hard for me to figure out how the controls worked. I'm usually not very good at these kinds of games, but after a while, I got used to the controls and learned a few techniques, and then I started winning most of the matches I played, and it was a blast. I felt really bummed out that I had to stop playing after the 1 hour online demo was over, I wanted to keep playing for hours on end. It's hard to believe that this is just a demo of the game, I probably had one of the most exiting experiences with an online shooter that I've ever had.

By far my favorite of the 4 weapons you could use in the demo was the normal SplatterShot, and maybe the SplatterShot Jr, since it had that shield special move, which really helps with battles. A lot of people seem to be saying that the roller is the best weapon by far, and that it might even be considered OP, but I never had any trouble taking out people with the roller. When you have a gun and they're running towards you with a short ranged melee weapon, it's not that difficult for me to take out a roller user. Event though I didn't like the Roller very much, by far my least favorite weapon is the Charger. It's supposed to be a long range sniping weapon, but I feel like it has a too short of a range to be a good sniping tool, honestly. Plus, ussually when I hit someone with a charged shot, they didn't even die. However, the worst part of the Charger has to be that it's very bad at covering turf. Since the main point of the game is to cover the most turf with your teams color, this makes the Charger a much less viable weapon for covering ground.

Overall, I'd say Splatoon is definitely worth getting. It launches on May 29th, or this Friday. I'll be sure to pick it up on launch date, so if you somehow happen to own a Wii U, I'd recommend picking it up. If you do happen to pick up the game, message me, and we could probably work something out to play it together. Until then, I'd recommend looking into this game if you're interested. If you want to know more about the game, click here to watch a video about the game, it shows off almost everything related to Splatoon. There's a lot more about the game that I didn't talk about in this blog, including a singleplayer campaign.

I talk about Frozen for some reason

Frozen is one of the most successful movies in recent time, both critically and financially. I myself thought the movie was simply "meh", but like many people, I couldn't stand the huge following it had obtained. People singing "Let it Go" everywhere I went. You have no clue how hard it was to volunteer as a camp counselor for a drama camp, when every week some kid would want to be Elsa in one of the plays the kids got to write and preform.  After 3 weeks of someone asking to be Elsa, we eventually got sick of it and decided to banish any Frozen related things from any of the performances.

It truly is impressive how popular this movie has become. Even now, I still see merchandise everywhere over a year after the movie's release. I myself like to call those little girls who have all sorts of Frozen merchandise and toys and clothes "Elsaheimer's diseases" because I'm a horrible person. I haven't seen anything like it since Shrek was on every single product back in the mid 2000's. I see it everywhere, not even Club Penguin is safe from the Frozen virus, getting multiple events to promote the movie, as if it needed any more.

However, even with all of these things, there is one thing that annoys me more than anything this movie has spewed out. Something that induces rage into my body at the simple sight of. Behold, the spawn of the underworld: Olaf.

I have a supreme hatred for this snowman. I was told that he was supposed to be the funniest character in the entire movie, and that "I would love him". Oh, my feelings towards this abomination are the opposite of any sort of affection. I never laughed at anything this creature did, rather, I simply cringed at the fact that this thing was supposed to be funny. I myself never found the "Lovable Idiot" stereotype to be funny, usually it just ends up being really, really annoying. To me, nothing is worse than a character that doesn't exist for any reason other to be funny or appeal the kids. At the end of the movie after all the snow vanished, I was hoping to see Olaf melt and die, but no, he get's his own personal snow cloud, which somehow keeps him from melting. Perfect. Don't even get me started on how he sings, either. His only song is about how he wants to see summer, which I'm guessing is supposed to be funny, since he's a snowman. It came off as really annoying and stupid. Maybe I just have no sense of humor, but every single time I look at that stupid smile of his, I get the sudden urge to physically hurt him. I would love to simply lure Olaf into a Pizza oven, telling him there was free candy in there or something. Of course, he'd happily walk in, only to find the door closed behind him. Then I would get to witness the pure joy of watching that stupid face of his turn into a face of pure terror, as he slowly melts into a puddle. Where's your cloud now, huh? Once he had become nothing more than a puddle, I'd take that puddle of his, along with his carrot nose, and make myself some nice carrot stew, with a fire flamed by his coal buttons. Then, I'd feed that stew to the homeless, so something good could come from his pure terribleness.

How much you want to bet I'll be sent to a therapist for this post?

Review of the Mewtwo DLC Character in Super Smash Brothers for Wii U and 3DS

At long last, the long awaited Mewtwo has been released as a DLC for Super Smash Brothers for Wii U and 3DS. Mewtwo was first introduced in to the series in Super Smash Bros Melee, but was absent from Brawl and the newest game. However, due to popular demand, he was added as a DLC character availible to purchase for 3.99 for one version, and 4.99 for both versions. Even though he's not available for purchase until the 28th of April, if you had registered both versions of the game, you could get a free download code for Mewtwo to be able to play as him early! However, I didn't do that, so I thought I would be stuck without being able to play as Mewtwo for the next two weeks. Thankfully, an online friend of mine didn't want the code for the 3DS version of the game, so I got myself a Mewtwo code early. I thought I might as well take advantage of this and write a quick review about how I feel about him as a fighter.

I never really liked Mewtwo in Melee, but I'm glad they brought him back. He's been greatly improved in speed and power, even though he mostly plays the same as before. My favorite part about Mewtwo has to be how he can easily keep foes at a distance with side Side B, his shadow ball move, and by swinging his long tail at his opponents. You can easily do some decent damage while staying at a safe distance. However, I feel Mewtwo's biggest flaw would have to be his rather poor methods of dealing with enemies up close, and he's easily overpowered by faster enemies. He's fairly slow, and if you're up against a fast character like say Greninja or Lucario, you could be in trouble. Overall, I think Mewtwo is a really fun character. He doesn't have that ridiculous power that other slower characters have, but he makes up for it for it with his incredible range and unpredictable floaty controls. I'm just happy he's back and improved from his Melee counterpart, and I'm excited to see what characters will be added next as DLC.

My thoughs on the April 1st 2015 Nintendo Direct

Yesterday, Nintendo uploaded one of their Nintendo Direct videos. If you're unaware, these videos are made to showcase upcoming games and various other Nintendo products. Despite this Direct coming out on April first, it was no joke. Many things were announced, and I shall discuss them in this blog thingy.

Now, the first thing I'm going to talk about is the Super Smash Brothers related stuff. We finally got footage of the upcoming DLC character Mewtwo in action, and I couldn't be happier with how he turned out. I really do hope he was buffed from his Melee counterpart, since Mewtwo honestly wasn't that great of a character. I'm also super glad Lucas is back too, since as you should know from a previous post, I recently hacked my Wii to play Mother 3.

A large part of this direct seems to have been focused on RPGs, too, like Xenoblade Chronicles 3DS, the new Fire Emblem, and a cross over between Fire Emblem and Shin Megami Tensei. I'm not very experienced in any of these series', so I'm not going to talk too much about them. Although, deep down, I was hoping they would announce Mother 3 for the Americas, since they revealed Lucas as DLC, and because they talked about so many RPGs, but at this point, Mother 3 being localized in English is as likely as Half Life 3 coming out.

The final thing I wanted to talk about is the new content coming to Mario Kart 8. Not only did they reveal more amiibo costumes, but they also announced when the next DLC is coming out, and a new mode to the game: 200cc. If you're unaware, the Mario Kart series has 3 speed settings: 50cc, 100cc, and 150cc. In the Nintendo Direct, they revealed the new 200cc mode, the fastest speed in the series thus far. I am super exited for this new speed setting, since going fast is quite fun indeed. Plus, with the Blue Falcon as a cart in the game, I can pretend I'm playing a new F-Zero. A man can dream...

But yeah, that's all I have to talk about for now. The only question is what will they be anouncing at E3 this year? Maybe they'll bring Mother 3 to America. Oh wait, that's never happening.

The Story of How Carg Hacked his Wii

Gather around, kiddies, for today I shall tell you a story to be passed down from generation to generation! Now, everyone sit down shut you faces, for today we shall learn about the time Carg hacked his Nintendo Wii to play GBA games, and much more!

Once upon a time, Carg was talking about the Earthbound series with some friends online, and how he was never able to get Mother 3 to play properly on his GBA Emulator. Shortly after this chat, Carg discovered a fan made Mother 1+2+3 for the Wii! Of course, since 2 of those games were never released outside of Japan, Carg wanted to play this quite a lot. Upon showing this to one his few friends, he said he could help him install the Homebrew Channel on his Wii so he could play this fan made thingy!

Now, the Homebrew Channel is not an official application for the Wii, rather, a fan made software used to run emulators, cheats, and mods on the Wii. So, before anything else, Carg needed to install this channel by hacking his Wii with a certain program! Carg's friend sent him a few files, and told him to put it in an SD card. Of course, Carg ran into some trouble with this, but after minutes and minutes trying to get it to work, they eventually managed to successfully install the Homebrew Channel on his Wii without destroying his Wii.

With the Homebrew Channel installed, he could now put Mother 1+2+3 onto the SD card! Rejoiced from this fact, he quickly installed the program on his SD card, only to find out it didn't work properly! For some reason, when Carg would try to launch any of the games, it would just keep loading, and never actually launch any of the games. Mother 1+2+3 may be a broken piece of crud, but Carg wouldn't let that stop him! He would play Mother 3, no matter what the cost!

After that failed attempt, Carg decided on a new goal: To get a GBA emulator to play Mother 3, and a NES emulator to play Little Samson, a rare NES game that costs 500$ on eBay. So, Carg explained the situation to his friend and asked for both of these things. Of course, if you ask, you shall receive, and Carg managed to install both of these onto the Homebrew Channel, and began playing Mother 3 and Little Samson. And with that, my friends, the tale of how Carg hacked his Wii comes to a close. What other adventures lie within the Homebrew Channel? That my friends, is a tale for another day.

You're not the iBoss of me now!

During lunch, me and my friends usually play games on Steam, like TF2, Garry's mod, and Terraria on our laptops. Sometimes we even play those games in class, so recently, my school got fed up with us ignoring their boring lessons and started blocking various sites, like Steam, Netflix, and a bunch of other stuff I can't be bothered to think of using a program called iBoss. They always had this program, but it was used to block people from looking up certain keywords, like hentai, or naughty language. (Don't ask why I know this), but now, they started blocking all the steam servers. The best part about they didn't even block the games themselves, they just blocked us from downloading them, or using the Steam Store, so you just need to install the games at home on your laptop, then you can just launch them anytime, so really, they didn't stop much at all, they just kind of put a wall in front of our games. Of course, we could just get a ladder from our house and climb over the wall. However, they recently blocked online servers for Team Fortress 2, so I guess we can't do that, so I've been reduced to going on Club Penguin at lunch to annoy little kids! If I can't have a good time playing on the computer, neither can they. Maybe they'll block that, heaven forbid we're playing an online game made for children at lunch. I guess the worst thing that could happen is we start playing our 3DS's at school. I'm not even sure what I'm talking about at this point, so I'm going to shut up and take a nap.