RWNR: Sonic Boom

  Listen, I've known Sonic the Hedgehog since I could talk, and I've always been more of a TV guy than a gaming guy, so you can kind of see where the problem is here. I mean, it's not like Sonic didn't have any TV series. I can only remember watching some of Sonic X, but for some reason I never got into it. I guess I always wanted to see something a bit more like this (you don't have to watch it; I'm just trying to make a point. You should watch it, though...just watch it!):

The beginning of the videogame Sonic: Unleashed.

  Yes, I know I'm picky when it comes to visuals, but it's not like this type of animation (close to it) hasn't been done on TV. Have you seen the Clone Wars?

  Anyway, the story involving Sonic and friends isn't that important to me. I just like the furry rascals. They're a classical "save-the-day" bunch we see all the time, but the total uniqueness of their designs are icing on the cake. A hedgehog with super-speed? A two-tailed flying fox? RAZOR SHARP KNUCKLES? I didn't what a hedgehog, echidna or knuckles were before Sonic (games, comics, etc.). As long as they're doing their thing and looking the part, I'll always love it.

  Just make sure you don't wreck them to the point of no return!

  I saw the headlines of the new Sonic Boom series that's coming soon or whatever. Apparently, there's gonna be a game based on the TV show, or a TV Show based on the game, or they'll both need each other, or SOMETHING. I don't really care. I'm here about the show; I could give less craps about the game (Shadow the Hedgehog and Zero Gravity; that's it). If you're interested, here's what they're doin'.

  Now, the show's gonna air on Disney XD . Disney XD is the "not dumb sit-coms" section of Disney (okay, they show re-runs of old sit-coms, but it's mostly the stuff Disney calls cool). When I heard about this show last year, they had some silhouettes of the character designs they were going for:

Oh, no...

  Umm, last I checked, gloves don't grow finger holes (Knuckles...), mutant echidnas don't have growth spurts (Knuckles...!), and steroids don't grow on trees (KNUKCLES...!). Why? WHY? Just make a show, FOR ONCE, without spraying what you wish a character looked like all over our brains and saying "deal with it"! You just couldn't leave them alone, could you? Oh, well. Knuckles is a strong guy, why not make him buff? What the heck. Survivable.

  And then there's this:

Don't give me "work in progress". You already released a trailer, you jacks!

  

  Okay, no. Knuckles, you didn't need to change, but if it was only you, and it wasn't a horrible idea, I could've survived this. Yet for some reason, Amy looks more like a "you know what" than an innocent, physical-age boosted 12-year-old (look it up). And what's with the mummification? I guess they're going for a "rebels" thing to make them look more rough than usual and make you take them more seriously (they're not meant to be taken seriously, just wait for it), but why are their SHOES wrapped? Why are Sonic's GLOVED hands wrapped? "Bandages" doesn't always mean "cool", you know!

I rest my case.

  Also, why did buffing up Knuckles mean starving Sonic? The poor guy's anorexic! Sonic wasn't chubby or anything, but by furry standards he was, like, fit or something. Here he looks like he was stretched torture style by two cars on opposite sides with chains. In fact, he looks like the skinny guy on the street who sold Knuckles his steroids!

  The final straw was the preview. Watch it if you can:

Take a deep breath...okay, it's not THAT bad...okay, it is.

  The action and the animation is lazy and poor. The humor is horrible. Why did Tails make a funny face if he was ABOUT TO DIE, and why didn't Sonic use his spin-dash instead of pulling a TARZAN with a tazer? I know it's a preview, but previews are meant to either hype you up or mystify you. This made me evaporate with disappointment. I hope it'll get better.

  Oh, yeah, and Sonic's voice actor sucks. Wherever the dude who voices him in the games is better take the money and shut up because he is needed right now. He's like the only guy who can get it right. For some reason, people have been seeing Sonic and thinking "squeaky" or "puberty cracking" (okay, that last one is new. Did you here him?! GOD!), but whoever he is in the games gets it just right, a little between "I'm twenty-years old" deep and "I'm a kid at heart" high...wait, what? Say that again? BLASPHEMY! For the last most recent Sonic games, the voice actor for Sonic in them was...the same guy here! How is that possible?

  Well, I went through a few stuff and saw that around the time "Sonic and Sega All-Stars Racing" came out, Sonic's voice actor took a swerve. Nowadays, if look at the credits of whatever, you'll find Roger Craig Smith voicing Sonic (Sonic Free Riders, Olympic Winter Games 2014, Sonic Generations for example). If you look at any time before that, you'll find Jason Griffith as Sonic. How did I not notice this? Well, the Smith guy started out when I stopped playing games that have Sonic in 'em. In fact, I actually got Sonic and Sega All-Stars Racing (witch featured Jason Griffith), but by the time the other version of this game came out (there was demand for that? Really?), I was no longer interested. How convenient that that's when the voice actor changed to the new guy! It's weird, though, 'cause it's like every Sonic featuring game I have has gotten a sequel and a new voice actor, both of which didn't tickle my fancy (did I use that right?). Sonic Riders and Sonic Riders Zero Gravity (both of which I played and loved) featured Griffith, while Sonic Free Riders (which I never played) literally featured Smith. Guess who voiced Sonic in Smash Bros. (the Wii one)? Griffith, played it, loved it. Guess who's voicing him in the new Smash Bros.? Hasn't been revealed yet, but my money's on Smith (guess who's not getting a Wii-U?).

  It's like they know. They're after me, and possibly others, and they want us out. Even here, in Sonic Boom, they've got the Smith guy, and I'm not sure I'm gonna watch this show (I've give the first ep a shot, but that preview above is not helping). We won't let them break us, though! Keep Sonic the way he is! BRING BACK GRIFFITH! LONG LIVE GRIFFITH (not Andy, I didn't know him that well)!

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There've Been Some Changes...

  Greetings. I've been putting off writing anything here for way too long now, but with the rise of a ton of new hobbies, interests, and overall dumb stuff that sucks that I hate that nobody will listen to me rage about...I'M BACK BABY!!!!

  Now, true to the title, there will be a new system implemented on this shrine of awesomeness, but don't fret. I mean, they're not bad ideas or anything, but who doesn't go ape from spontaneous change? Anybody see what they're doing to Chrome these days? That new scroll bar, man. Sheesh.

My scrollbaaaaaaaar!!!! (what was wrong with the last one?)

Anyway, things change, boo-hoo, stop crying. I've devised an ingenious set-up that will make this blog much easier to navigate and hopefully single out posts for certain interests. How cool is that? Congratulate me. That wasn't a request. DO IT.

  From now on, my posts will fall under these particular categories (number of titles listed here non-permanent. Maybe.):

:D/ Anime Episode Review (real name TBA).

:D/ TV Show Episode Review (real name TBA).

:D/ Book Review (real name TBA).

:D/ Movie Review (real name...you get it!).

:D/ Stuff From My Head.

:D/ Real World News Reaction (RWNR. I like it.).

  That's all for now, and I'm really hoping I start busting this stuff out soon and frequently.

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Jeez-Mail

  This is simply a shout out to all of the people who actually know me and have my g-mail account in their contacts, but I'm sure I'm not the only person who has this problem with their friends. 
  
  Have you ever been criticized for something you didn't do, like you couldn't find your dad's stuff 'cause it wasn't in the place he told you it was but then he whips it out five seconds later? And no matter how many times you explain it, people still get up in your business about the same crap not two days later? Well, my friends have recently noticed that I "don't read my emails".
  
  Here's where I started to lose it.
  
  Number one, I DO read my emails. What they don't seem to understand from me telling them day after day is that, thanks to the laptop and internet I've been allowed to have, I check my g-mail inbox EVERY SINGLE DAY. I click on Chrome everyday, and all of my bookmarks and favorites open up automatically. I check new posts on my favorite websites, see what new videos my subscriptions have notified me about, scroll through my online course over-due lessons, and I check my email. Every time. Every day. The g-mail window is, like, right there. In fact, I can't not check my email. I'm always logged on, and the new emails just stare me in the face, basically saying "read me".
  
  Now, here's where they started to lose it.
  
  "Bro, did you get my email?"
  "Which one?"
  "Oh, that's right, you never check your email."
  "Bro, just tell me which one. How do you know I didn't see it?"
  "Nope, you never check it, I'm sure you didn't see it."
  "Just tell me which one, dude!"
  "The one about the blah-blah-blah."
  "Oh, yeah, I saw it. That was pretty interesting. Why were you so convinced I hadn't seen it?"
  "You didn't reply."

Wh-wh-wha? Wh...What? WHAT?! Huh?! Wh..?!

  Someone actually said that to me! And before I knew it, I realized that if I don't reply to an email when everyone else did, everyone assumes I didn't even see it! It's as if the "reply" button to me is the "okay, I read your useless, waste-of-time, oh-my-god-new-gaming-console email" button to everyone else!

  

  People, I can READ. It's possible with eyes, I swear. I look at words and I can read them. If your email consists of words and I see it, I can read it. I WILL read it. If I don't reply to your email, don't immediately assume that I'm dismissing it or that I didn't care enough to click on it. In fact, on that note, if someone who can change the g-mail format reads this, you should add a little side box for everyone to see how many of the guys they sent an email to clicked on it. Shouldn't be too hard. Then they won't attack you on the streets in front of your house.

  

  Another thing that may be considered a personal preference of mine is the availability of an interesting, or in the very least available, subject on an email. The email window gives you the "option" to place a subject of the matter you'd like to share with your cohorts. Bro, that's not an option. That's a freakin' requirement. If an email says "no subject", I personally don't even click on it. I feel like I was denied something really important, or that the person sending the email is, like, daring me or taunting me by not telling me what's going on. Even in real-life, you don't just go see your friend for no reason. Yeah, that's what I see subjects as: a reason. 
  
  When someone comes over, the first thing that comes to your mind, if you hadn't invited that person, is "why are they here?" or "what do they want?" or simply "what's up?". And when you go to the door, that person won't just stroll into your house and start doing stuff. No. They'll tell you what's up, and a series of events spawn. It could be good news, bad news, funny news. But you need to know what type of news is going on or you'll just be confused, your mind constantly repeating "so?". So yeah, me checking my email is me chilling at home, the email itself is my friend suddenly showing up, and the subject of the email is what's up. Then the rest of the email is what goes on after that.

  
  If an email didn't have a subject, then no, I didn't read it, because you intentionally made me not care. "What's the email about? Click it and find out!" That's not gonna happen. What the heck do you want to tell me? 

  Now, if an email does have a subject, and it seems relevant to life depending on my mood, I'll read the preview. Then, if I'm interested, I'll click the full link. If I see a "check this out..." or a "hey, I was wondering..." or something like that, and the subject has already given me a look into what this might be about, you have me interested. But if I see a "no subject" and then a bunch of "hey dude lol chck ths out rlly fnny #lmao", go home and cry rivers because I don't care at that point. 

  
  Anyone who disagrees and is reading this now, tell me you would have read this post if there hadn't been a title. If you say yes, I won't freakin' believe you until you make a video with you saying with a straight face that you wouldn't have cared for a title on this post and post it in the comments section. In fact, if five people tell me in the comments that they don't care if there's a title or not, my next eventual post won't have one. Then you tell me that you didn't shiver.

No title? sssssssssssssssss.....that sucks.

   I mean, jeez! 

  Until next we meet.

Ruining our Heroes

  We all agree on a few things in the world of movies. Number one, child actors suck. I mean, the Home Alone kid's scared face was so fake I think anyone who picked up a DVD version of the movie wanted to know what the kid thought was so funny about burglars. Number two, every main character (key word "main") in any movie involving guns is basically Neo until the end if the directors decided to kill him. Bullets are allergic to good guys. Ask Batman; I mean, he's been doing this for like fifty years. And here's something I'm sure has crossed your mind but hasn't quite dinged! yet. It's this: some actors just aren't their characters.
  
  There have been SO MANY movies in which the directors just chose the wrong guy/girl. Here's an example of a perfect choice: Tony Stark in the Iron Man and Avengers movies. I don't even call him whatever his name is (I know what it is but I refuse to say it). I just call him Tony Stark. Here's an example of the wrong guy. ICEMAN in ANY X-MEN MOVIE.
  
  What is this actor's name? I don't care (I actually don't know it this time. heehee.). So far I know he has a twin brother and he is definitely DEPRESSED. I mean, for real. He's going through something.
  
  See, I do watch a lot of TV. And I love Sci-Fi. It's my JAM (not as in toast). Star Wars, Tron, Falling Skies, Fringe, Alphas, you NAME it son. I've seen it all. Except Star Trek. That cow snot can go and hang itself for all I care. And, back to the Iceman actor (and his amazing TWIN!!!) they both starred in an episode of Fringe, and one of them in Smallville. In the Fringe episode, surprise surprise, one of them is some nut job and his brother is stuck in amber. His brother is a murderer or something. And they both have problems. DEPRESSION. In the Smallville episode (you know, about a teenage Superman growing up) he's this socially awkward kid with a crappy life, disapproving parents, nerd status, and when he accidentally gains Superman's powers through electric current (I know, right!? What the crap?!) he becomes dictatorial and out of control. DEPRESSION. This guy is just good at acting like a depressed, unappreciated, outcast individual. He might even be like that in real life (him and his amazing TWIN!!).

  So why. On Earth. Was he cast. AND IS BEING CAST IN THE UPCOMING MOVIE (Days of Future Past). AS ICEMAN!!!!?!?!?! Why is he Iceman?!!?!! Do you KNOW Iceman, dude who chose the actors for the X-Men movies? HUH?! Read comics for a change, you ape! Iceman, aka Bobby Drake, is the funny guy. He's ecstatic. The joker. The guy who has an awesome power and knows it, and makes sure the rest of the world does, too! He's THE MAN. He's cool (pun intended, human race! PUN INTENDED!). He's fun. He's bright.

This is Iceman. See? He's freaking happy.

  So why did you choose depression guy? I mean, this dude's FACE is depressed. It's bored and empty of emotion. It's actually almost SERIOUS. Iceman is not SERIOUS! Not all the time! I did not like any of the X-Men movies that much, and one of the biggest reasons besides Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch's absence and the stupid sunglasses-phone (it's just stupid I hated it) was Iceman's character. Heck, in the movie, when his parents find out he's a mutant, EVERYONE'S depressed. He doesn't crack a single joke, doesn't smile enough, if at all, and dates ROGUE. When did Iceman date ROGUE? You can't even date Rogue! You can't touch her and she can't touch you! Have fun talking for the rest of your life! This dude just...aint Iceman, yo. He aint Iceman.

He aint Iceman. Look at his face. He's more depressing than Rogue.

  Another thing: I know perfection isn't really out there. No one looks perfect or acts perfect or just is perfect or anything. But when you get Superman, in his return to the big screen, in the EPIC movie Man of Steel, and you have our hearts pumping and our emotions swirling and our hands clinging to our seats, don't make him scream out loud in regret and show off his jacked up teeth. I mean, the dude's teeth were not good. At all. He had the black, oily hair. The red cape. The "I'm awesome" demeanor. But then the dude has jacked up teeth? I mean, one was twisted and one was backwards and I was just shocked at how bad they were. Of all the things that got messed up during your fight (which shouldn't be anything, really) his teeth got messed up? Don't use that as an excuse. Get good dental care with the money you made being Superman, you donut!

MY TEEEEEEEEEETH!!!

  I'm very disappointed at these things that can be avoided so easily. How could that be Iceman? Why didn't you put a green screen or something on Superman's teeth (I don't know a whole lot about green screens)? Fix these movies. Please. I really want to see the new X-Men movie...but I might not be able to.

ps: I guess Hugh Jackman looks like Wolverine, a lot, but I'm not...scared of him like I should be. Or intimidated. Like, when Hugh Jackman goes snikt! and Wolverine on TV goes snikt!, I find myself having nightmares of the cartoon. Wolverine is scary and gruff. Hugh Jackman just has the right hair.

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Meese

  You want to know something that's kind of annoying? The English language. Who came up with it, or whatever it is the world uses in this age and era? You have words and words and words, and all this time you have no idea what you're doing.

  Is there anyone monitoring the English language? Let's assume there is, and call him Joe.

  You're not doing your job, Joe!!

  First of all, you have...SAT words. Intense vocabulary. Words that are tens of letters long that must be memorized and studied and understood. But I seem to recall that once you already have a decent something to perform or play as something, you don't need to make another one! So why are there words like "deleterious" which just means "harmful" or "fallacious" which means "incorrect"? What was wrong with keeping the words that you already had and saying "Done!"? Why was that so hard? And after you've beat yourself up, stabbed and jabbed all of these words into your head, and graduated from college, you realize...

  No one on God's Earth uses them!!! No one! You've literally committed yourself to memorizing these long, unimportant words that you won't use in any situation. If you write something, why are you gonna use all of these complicated words that only someone extremely educated will understand while you have an entire arsenal of words that everyone understands? Example: anybody remember Charlotte's Web, the book turned into a movie with that pig and that spider? Anyway, at some point, the spider says to the pig:

  "Salutations."

  And the poor pig replies:

  "What's that?!?!?!?!"

  And the spider says:

  "Just a fancy way of saying hello."

  SAY FREAKIN' HELLO!!!!! 

  Secondly, Joe, why do you go back completely on your own rules? Plurals, for instance. Apple? Apples. Door? Doors. Then, Joe says: "Hmmmmm. I don't like how 'gooses' sounds, so I'm making it a special case. What? No, no, humanity, you won't ADAPT to saying the word 'gooses' until it becomes comfortable, just like what you'll do with every other word. No, no, how about 'geese' for the plural of goose, huh? 'Geeeeeeeeeeese'. See how it rolls off the tongue?"

  Later, in the Batcave....

  Joe: "Whuh? No, the plural of moose will be simply 'moose'."

 Facepalm.

  Joe, Joe, the people want to know: after your utterly ridiculous decision, you know, the 'geese' thing, what was wrong with...'meese'? Seriously, don't tell me I'm wrong, true believer, I am making PERFECT sense! If the plural of goose is geese, why the crap isn't the plural of moose 'meese'? You know what, forget it, I'm not even putting it between quotations any more: meese. It's a word, because you literally SAID so, Joe, so deal with it. Meese is a word. I'm totally getting a customized shirt that says moose/meese. If you ever see me and we start talking about meese, expect me to say the word a bajillion times.

  Joe, do your job. Please. We need you. I'm not the first and only guy in the world whose mind hasn't at least crossed this. But you know how nowadays we laugh at our ancestors for saying "thy" and "thou" and stuff like that (believe it or not, those weren't underlined in red, unlike meese...)? Yeah, well I'm warning you, Joe, give the world a few decades and your grand-kid's grand-kids'll be laughing at how we never said meese...until now.

Until next we meet. Save the meese.

Moose? Meese, scumbag.