Epic Fail, EA!

So instead of focusing on actual issues, guess what EA is doing? They’re making Barnacle Bay. It’s a pirate themed town. Not much is known, but I know one thing about it: I’m not buying it. Honestly. It costs like… I’m not sure. I read somewhere that it’s 1650 Simpoints. That’s like $16.50. I could buy two meals with that money. I could go to Aeropostale or Sears and buy a t-shirt or two with that money. I can donate it. So why does EA think they can charge us for their crappy games, merchandise and towns? What the heck? I’ve seen some tropical island/beach themed towns that look better and more legit. And EA is probably gonna add like 20 rabbit holes and make some brand new ones, just to remove more playability. Honestly, how freaking low can they go? The only way I might think about considering buying that trash is if there’s no rabbit holes[Was that sentence grammatically correct?]. Maybe.

Oh, and they made a Tumblr account, too. I’d link to it, but I don’t want to give them publicity. :P I saw some LOLCats grammar, or whatever it’s called. It’s cute on individual picture made by bloggers, not a large video game company ran by middle aged adults. The only good thing that might come out of that waste of Internet space is spamming their comments. :P

That’s So Average

So, when I watched that episode of Sonny with a Chance with Raven Symone, it was… okay. I’d give it a 5 or 6, and Raven really saved the episode. It was fun but zany and ridiculous, so it felt a lot like a That’s so Raven episode. I’m happy that she still has some acting jobs, but I’m disappointed that she’s stuck with Disney. At least she’s sober and drug free, right?

And apparently Kyle Massey is going to be on Dancing with the Stars? LOL. Good luck, Kyle. Go to 2:42, if you want proof. :P

AND OH MY GOSH APPARENTLY IT’S COMING BACK FOR A THIRD SEASON ACCORDING TO WIKIPEDIA!?!?!?! :D :D :D

Sorry. I’m obsessed with Disney, and I loved Cory in the House. :) Sure, there were no sources on Wikipedia, but oh well. I’m suspicious, however, because apparently it’s coming back December, but I haven’t seen any new promos yet. Also, if Hannah Montana’s president was Mr.Martinez in 2007, but a few weeks ago, he was played by someone who looked like Barack Obama, does this mean they got impeached, or lost the 2008 election? :P

Blog Makeover

I’m thinking about giving my blog a makeover. I’m not sure what I’ll have on it. I’m probably going to change the color scheme, the banner, and maybe, the layout itself. The nav bar on the right feels cluttered to me, with all the other blogs, tags, comments, and stuff. And now that I have some good male teen sim custom content, I can probably make a somewhat accurate (Or what I want to look like :P) Self-sim. The picture thing I have for my Blogger Icon is what I made in May, but I never played with him, and I never took any pictures other than that, so I’ll probably make a new Self-sim.

In other news, I’m almost done with 1/3rd of my AP US I stuff! :D That gives me till… next Tuesday to finish reading another chapter from another textbook, then a historical fiction novel. Oh, and I need to make my own ending up, too (3 Pages). And I have a test on the outline I’m making right now. D: My parents said that I can’t go online in the school year until I get an A. I’m pretty sure it’s one of those things parents say to scare their kids into getting them to do stuff, but if it isn’t… D:. Like I said before, I have a test on the first day of class, then Wednesday, I don’t have history. Then, my school is closed for Jewish holidays(I think Rosh Hashanah? Forgive me if I’m wrong :P) for the rest of the week, then I have class again Monday. So I’d be going a week without Internet. o.O So I’m really hoping they change their minds. Or I get some randomly pointless ‘Introduce yourself’ assignment in English or whatever in class on the first day, and then I get it back the next day, with an A. :P

I think I deserve something for making such a boring blog post. And you deserve one for reading it. :P

Cookies! Enjoy. :P

And the picture is from Google, as always. :D

Fred: The Movie

Once upon a time, there was a channel called JKLProductions. The trio made awesomely hilarious videos, and were some of YouTube’s most famous users. Ever. Then, the L from JKL split, and made his own channel for his alter ego, ‘Fred’. The end.

I wish the story was that simple. So Lucas, AKA Fred, became freakishly popular. He got advertisement offers, a successful webshow, guest star appearances on shows, and all of his videos went viral. Meanwhile, Jon & Katie (How ironic!) were forgotten about, and Lucas took most of his videos down from their group channel. Before, they were unanimously loved, but now, Jon and Katie are disliked for being boring and trying too hard to be like Lucas. And Lucas is constantly criticized for just speeding up his voice for humor and only doing it for the money now. Most importantly, people hate him for being everywhere and annoying. Now, he has his own Nickelodeon movie coming up.

I use to watch Fred, and I was a big fan of JKLProductions. But then the humor went away and it was him just saying random things sped up. I’m probably gonna watch the movie, but for Bertha, AKA Jennette McCurdy from iCarly. They didn’t make her just some average ‘tough’ girl, but like a goth girl. And she made me laugh in the trailers.

What do you think of the Fred phenomenon?

Stop Calling, Stop Calling, I Don’t Wanna Talk anymore

Warning: This post is going to be long and me rambling about my lack of social life, so you know where the close tab button is. :P

So, way back in 7th grade, my twin brother and I moved to a new town and started going to a new school.  Fast Forward a few months later, and we made two new friends: ‘Don’ and ‘Mariah’. And things went smooth for the rest of 7th grade, but we had a few fights once in a while.

8th Grade started, and Don became extremely… different. He started cursing more, and he became more of a jerk. He always was sarcastic, but 8th grade really made him cruel. And Mariah started acting snobbish. She became obsessed with Don, but constantly denied having a crush on him, even though it was completely obvious. Then a few weeks later, we just stopped talking with each other. They replaced us with trashier people who listen to them, and do whatever they say. And since Don was on the very last end of the school food chain, it made us unpopular by association. Basically, school sucked because Don and Mariah decided to be immature little jerks who hate people because they don’t like to curse.

In March of 8th grade, Don and Mariah started going out. The two of them started acting really…. well, let’s just say, you’d find cleaner behavior in the Jersey Shore hot tub. And they were on our bus too, so we couldn’t avoid them at all.

Then… Mariah made a Facebook and started sucking up to EVERYONE for no reason. Literally. I’m talking about 2 wall posts a day to everyone, whether they replied or not, liking every picture you have and commenting about 5 times, and posting a bunch of those applications like ‘Who’s your soulmate?’ to everyone’s wall. So basically, everyone started hating her.

And one day, while Don and Mariah were… uh, intimate, on the bus’s backseat (Found from Google), Mariah’s Dad saw them, as he was driving behind them. And if the picture from above wasn’t clear enough, he saw everything, and she got owned, according to her Facebook status. I posted a snarky comment, which eventually turned into a huge fight between me and her. Guess what? She didn’t show up to school the next day and everyone agreed with me. Sure, it might’ve been a little cruel, but she deserved it. And over the course of a month, she tried starting more fights with me until she won, and she lost. Don tried to fight me for owning him and Mariah, but nothing happened besides a kick and some empty threats.

And that summer. another fight happened, but I’m guessing she stopped after that because of cyber bullying policies.  Oh, and in all of her fights, she’d use curse words and stuff like slut. Like she didn’t really have any real arguments besides being vulgar and cursing.

In 9th grade, Don and Mariah broke up, Don went to another school, and Mariah became depressed. And after my brother and I got a new ‘reputation’ for putting up with Don and Mariah’s crap and telling them off, apparently, Don sent all of his trashy replacements to annoy SS and I. To the point of stalking, sometimes. Honestly. Some ‘highlights’ include… stealing my backpack, prank calling SS’s cell phone late at night, ‘befriending’ me for a group project, then just acting like jerks(I knew what they were up to a lot, but the teacher was assigning groups, so yeah), and so on. But last night….

My parents sleep earlier than SS and I do. Around 2 AM, we were the only ones awake. We were just in the basement, watching TV and playing Sims. Then, at like 2:48 AM, I heard a phone call. I was worried that my parents found out we were still awake and wanted to use the Intercom-thing feature on our home phone to tell us to get up, but by the time we ran up to get it, it was a message. Someone just said ‘Get on Facebook’ and hung up. My Mom woke up and got mad at us for still being awake.

Then, this morning, our parents flipped out on us. They were like ‘Well, you guys always are on Facebook. People know if you’re on’ or something like that. Then they began to talk about how we ‘tell everyone our phone number’. Seriously, WTH? And now, we can’t stay up past 12:00AM, because obviously, our sleeping schedule affects stupid prank calls.

I have a feeling it was the trashy replacements who prank called us. They prank called SS before, so it’s likely they’d do it again. And it sounded a lot like them, and they know about my Internet addiction. Not to mention, I had my phone number written in one of my notebooks, which was in my backpack, so it’s likely that he found my phone number, wrote it down, then called it later. And earlier that night, my cell phone got a call from Restricted, AKA a prank call. It’s likely that it was someone else, but still. And I think I heard other people in the background, which would be likely, because they’re always together. Like at malls, school, Facebook, parks, and so on. And an unhealthy amount too. Like they’ve sat on each other ‘fighting for seats’, they’ve tossed coins, and wrestled each other ‘fighting for the coin’ and so on. And they constantly call anyone who isn’t ‘macho’ like them gay.

The only evidence against that theory is, that the phone number isn’t from my town(Thanks Google!). But, even that isn’t 100% true. The one who stole my backpack has mentioned that his parents aren’t together, so maybe he was at his Dad’s house or something like that. And he’s like the king of shoddy business schemes. Maybe he knows how to change caller ID stuff? And not to mention, online phone number stuff aren’t always accurate.

And it’s annoying, because what if it continues and my parents get angrier? And I didn’t even add them on Facebook! They wouldn’t know if I was online! And my parents think it’s only because of us. It’s also stupid, because I barely give my phone number out to anyone, and if I do, it’s my cell phone’s number. So my parents give our number more than SS or I do.

So, how do I end this toxic ‘relationship’? D:

Back to School Playlist

Since school is starting in a while, I’m going to try to make this as positive as it can be, for me, anyway. :P So, here’s a playlist with some school themed videos and lyrics to try to ease us into autumn and the school year.

Let’s start things off with… High School Musical! LOL, just kidding. Paramore, with Misery Business. I’d recommend the official music video for it, for more of the school ‘essence’.

Britney Spears is up next, with Hit me Baby one More Time. The video is school themed. And I’ve seen it used for anything school related, so enjoy.

Here’s All American Rejects, with Dirty Little Secret. I think it’s a great description of high school. Everyone has secrets- that one class they regretted joining, the club they are embarrassed to be in but still go, or going to tutoring, and so on. And then there’s the really scandalous stuff that belong on Jerry Springer and Maury. So, uh…

Here is Fifteen by Taylor Swift. She’s like the Queen of high school related pop music. :P I like the video, specifically, their clothes and the color changes. :P

Here’s another Taylor video, You Belong with Me. Yeah, sure, it’s overplayed on the radio, but I’m pretty sure everyone has experienced this moment in their high school life. And this video tells a story too, and it isn’t just a Sim version of the actual video. And I like their clothes, again. :P

This next song is about school fights. And cheerleaders. And bananas. So, this video is… Hollaback Girl by Gwen Stefani! I’m just warning you, this video features the s word a lot, so don’t watch if you dislike cursing. And ugh, bad thumbnail. DX

Good luck with school, everyone! :)

That’s So Cool!

On Disney, they’re airing a bunch of commercials for Raven’s appearance on Sonny with a Chance. :D I loved That’s So Raven and I was really disappointed when Disney cancelled Cory in The House. I remember last year I read a rumor about a possible Chelsea spinoff, called Chelsea Daniels in the Diamond. I’m not sure WHAT happened for that, at all. Like why it popped out of nowhere, or why it was called that. And Chelsea would be a college sophomore or junior by the time the show aired, so if anything, it would be more suited for ABCFamily. Then the show just disappeared. And I was left Ravenless. :(

But now she’s back and it’s okay, for now. Maybe she’ll get her own show once Hannah Montana is off? –wishful thinking- 

The Lightning Thief: Book Review

Since I read this for my summer reading, I remembered that I have to discuss the book, too. So, here’s my book review and recap of Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. There are spoilers here, so be warned if you plan on reading the series or whatever.

  So, the story starts out with a troubled boy, Percy Jackson. He gets kicked out of (expensive) boarding/private schools on an annual basis, and is blamed a lot for causing trouble because of his ADHD. On a field trip, he gets into a fight with a teacher, who turns into a gargoyle-esque monster. He kills her, but since she’s really a Greek monster, she doesn’t really die, so it’s not as bad as it sounds. Anyway, he gets expelled for that, again, and his teacher, Mr.Brunner(I think?) and his best friend, Grover, are discussing what they’re going to do with him. Percy gets really freaked out, but since he doesn’t know about his Greek heritage, he thinks they’re just talking about private school stuff, like where he’ll go next.

The chapter flies by, and school ends. Grover offers to take Percy home, but Percy is a little creeped out on how weird Grover has been acting around him lately. So naturally, Percy ditches him. Did I mention that at this point of the book, Percy believed that Grover was disabled, so Percy left his 12 year old, disabled friend alone in the middle of New York city. So after Percy justifies his behavior toward Grover, he goes to his Mom’s apartment. She’s a single mother who’s working (Assumingly) minimum wage at a candy store, and she married a really, really bad guy. Like horrible, disgusting, abusive, alcoholic, and gambling. And just to help out everyone, I’ll post some pictures of how the crew looks so far in the movie. I needed mental pictures of everyone to keep up with the story, so I don’t know if you need it to. Well, most of the cast was hired for eye candy, anyway, so it won’t hurt anyone besides those with slow Internet connections if I post some pictures up. :P

So then, the Mom comes home from work, after Percy got into a fight with horrible Stepfather, Gabe Ugliano. A scene you’d expect from a Lifetime movie occurs, and then Mom tells Percy that they’ll go to the beach for the weekend. Percy is thrilled, Gabe isn’t.

On their way there, a storm occurs. Or a monster like their teacher from before attacked them. And a fight scene happened. And Grover came back. I think he found Percy at his apartment, but I forgot. So anyway, the Mom, Sally, goes like ‘I should’ve done this before. Percy, you’re going to camp.’. Percy isn’t thrilled. Camp? Like for ‘special people’? All year long? But Grover tells him they should, and then another fight scene occurs, and Sally gets killed. :( Or does she? But after Percy being sad about his Mom’s loss, he had to take care of Grover, who was injured severely from said monster, and they go to that camp. Percy wakes up after being unconscious.

  He wakes up to see his old teacher, Mr.Brunner, as a Centaur. And on aside note, I don’t remember Mr.Brunner looking that young or happy in the movie, but apparently, Google told me they put him in a beard? So Mr.Brunner was just like a talent scout, except for Demigods, half humans/Greek god children, and his name is really Chiron. And Grover wasn’t disabled, he was a satyr. And there’s a mysterious blonde girl who we’ll learn more about later. So Chiron starts telling Percy all about the camp, Camp Half Blood. I already feel like this is too long, so I’ll spare you the details, but it’s like regular camp, but with a mythological twist. The story isn’t really picking up over here, and I don’t remember the camp parts mostly, so I’ll just talk about the new characters mentioned in this part of the book.

So, mysterious blonde girl’s name is Annabeth. In the movie, she is 26, and a brunette. And it shows. Yeah, they bumped up the cast’s age 4 years, but that ruins the series later on, if they plan on making sequels. She’s really snarky and mean to Percy because he’s a boy, therefore he is stupid and careless. Did I mention she’s the daughter of Athena? Yeah, that’s reaaallly wise. She doesn’t really have that much of a role in this book yet, besides being a girl to increase the gender ratio, and provide a possible romantic interest. She also provides a lot of sexist comments, but she’s a girl, so they ignore them. And she provides a lot of facts about what it’s like being a demigod, which adds a lot of angst to the book. Yeah, it sounds bad, but honestly, 12 years olds at summer camp shouldn’t be so sad!

And I have the random urge to comment on the cast. I have a feeling they casted Brandon as Grover for a token minority. I don’t mean to sound racist, or to imply that Africans can’t be in Greek mythology, but he’s 26. I heard that a sequel will be released in 2012, and then he’ll be 28. If they keep going at that rate, with 5 books in the series, he’ll be in his 30’s by the time the series is over. And if the last book is gonna be divided into two books, then that will be even longer. And yeah, they mentioned how he looks older than the other two, but honestly. Oh, and am I the only one bothered by how the only African American isn’t even fully human? How is that supposed to be politically correct, if they were going for that?

Sally/Catherine’s eyes weren’t that small in the movie, and she didn’t always have that smile on her face. That’s why I have to say about her. And Gabe/Joe? He scared me in the movie. I’ll just leave it at that.

The casting director once again disappointed me with Alexandra Daddario. She was talented in the movie, and she looks great and all, but I don’t think she was the right actress for the movie. One, she’s 24, which makes her too old for possible sequels. Two, they described her as a blonde and a ‘stereotypical Californian girl’. I don’t mean to offend, but wouldn’t that imply she has a tan? I know California has mountains and isn’t just a beach, but they implied that she would have a tan and be blonde, which she is neither. She seemed to say all of her lines robotically, or with an angry tone. She had even less of a purpose than Book!Annabeth. Oh, and on the whole eye candy topic, she looks like my friend’s Stepmom, so that immediately got rid of any potential celebrity crushes. Is Hollywood really in a tanned-blonde-teenage-actress shortage? Oh, and she looks like Danielle Fishel. 

And then there’s Clarisse, a girl who got cut out of the movie. She’s the daughter of Ares, and she’s really aggressive and hates Percy. They blended her into Annabeth, as mentioned above. She doesn’t really serve much purpose in this book either, but she served as a minor antagonist, so that counts for something.

Oh, yeah, I forgot about Luke. He’s the son of Hermes and is a camp veteran. He’s 19, and acted as a brother to Percy. He’s really nice. Well, was. See, he backstabbed everyone at the end and started the major plot of the series. Annabeth had a crush on him, despite them treating each other like siblings. And in the movie, they casted Jake Abel as him. He didn’t really add anything special or memorable for line delivering, so I still believe the casting director added all these model class actors based on looks, not talent. Of course, it’s a tween/teen fantasy series, so what can we expect? And remember how I said Annabeth treated Luke like an older brother AND a crush? Jake is only 22, and he wasn’t significantly taller than Alexandra(Which would’ve at least give us an allusion that he was older), so that killed another subplot. Thanks a lot, shallow casting director.

So eventually, time flies, and Percy is revealed to be the son of Poseidon, the Greek god of Water. And there’s a fight going on at Olympus, with Zeus claiming someone stole his Lightning Bolt, and blaming Poseidon. Percy feels angst-ish that his Dad only ‘claimed’ him so he can use him, but later feels like going on the quest to get the Bolt and stop the war.  Being the book’s natural sidekicks, Grover and Annabeth tag along, as well. They make a couple of pit stops on their way to LA(Did I mention they’re in NY? Oops. ^^;), which if I mentioned them all, would take up a lot more space. So, some of the highlights included…

• The trio going to Medusa’s Gnome Emporium/Warehouse/Whatever accidentally.
• The trio visiting the St.Louis Arch, and Annabeth talking about architecture.
• The trio meeting up with Ares at a diner, and going to do a mini-quest for him at an (abandoned) amusement park. 
• The trio going to a resort.
• The trio going to the Underworld.
• The trio going to fight Ares after they find out what really happened.
• The trio going back to NY, giving the Lightning Bolt to Zeus, and Percy meeting his father.

Then, they go back to camp. The rest of the summer flies by(Did I mention that the climax took place on the summer solstice?) and then, Luke tells Percy his real plan. They get into a fight, and then Luke runs away, and Percy tells the others what happened. This starts the ‘main’ plot of the series. Oh, and Percy and friends decide if they should stay at camp or not.

Oh, and most importantly(To me, anyway), Sally is OK, after they get her from the Underworld. And she got revenge on Gabe. I’ll leave it at that. ;D

I really liked how they made the Greek Mythology allusions, and how they revamped a lot of stories. Although this was the second time I read the series, I remember going like ‘:O OMG NO WAY’ and stuff a lot then, so Mr.Riordan is a great author. Although I think the series started getting really good during the third book, I still loved them all. It’s a quick read(Okay, so 377 isn’t that short, but I finished it on vacation. :P), and I never really got too bored while reading it. I thought the movie was okay.

The genre for this book…? I’m not sure. People say fantasy, but it’s not like just a random list of monsters and potions and battles or whatever. There’s a real story going on. I’d like to say it’s like if realistic fiction and fantasy had a kid, and then fantasy got to keep custody of it. :P I remember in 7th grade I had to do a presentation on this book and I lost points because I couldn’t explain the genre. D:

I’d give the book a 4.2 out of 5, because it had to explain the series and a lot of important events and information, so they had to start it off slow. But it makes learning about ancient history and reading fun, so the book redeemed it’s self for me.(Side note, I think I’m forgetting apostrophe rules. D:) There’s also humor and sarcasm in it, which I like. The only real turn off is the battle parts. I’d just read the first paragraph actively, then skim through the rest, and reread the paragraphs that said if someone died or whatever. I don’t like battle scenes because A)I don’t know the terminology, and B) I don’t know how to visualize it.

So, if you like to read and have a lot of spare time on your hands, I’d recommend this series. It’s fun and addictive, even if I spoiled it for everyone. :P

Melissa Joan Hart-less

Normally, I would recap Tuesday’s episode, but SS did that, so I don’t want to post the same thing twice. :P But, I did go on Television Without Pity for Melissa and Joey, and I found out… that MJH(Yeah, there’s no way I’m typing Melissa Joan Hart everytime I wanna mention her :P)…

 

• Has said homophobic stuff on her MySpace page. Although the links were taken down, apparently, she seemed pretty pissed that her husband got screwed over by Chris Daughtry, and his music that he wrote for her. She called the new, rewritten version of her husband’s song ‘gay’, and ‘a fairly love song’.
• She said some really mean stuff about Farrah Fawcett dying.

Now, MJH, I understand you’re a bitter former child star, and that you’re upset that your stuck with crappy ABC Family roles, but being a snobby homophobe who speaks too fast and overacts won’t help your reputation.

My comments are: For the first issue, there’s a difference between a middle school student calling something gay, and a 30-something mother of two calling something gay. I’m straight, so I’m just saying that not only gay people get offended by those kinds of actions. And what would she think of some of the more, uh, lighter, un-Daughtry like pop music that Idol produces? Besides, she could’ve dealt with bad companies the mature way: Suing them. :P

And for the Farrah Fawcett comment? Melissa, look, you’re a former child star. Your weight will be going up and down like a Ferris Wheel. You could’ve just gain 60 pounds on purpose and look fat, then suddenly ‘miraculously’ lose wait, and get like 20 magazine covers, an exercise video, and a show. And even if you did think that, it’s just tasteless to talk about someone, let alone Farrah Fawcett, like that. She’s been performing before you were born, and she’s been through a lot. She deserves to get magazine covers when she’s ill. I feel bad that her life ended tragically like that, and that Michael Jackson overshadowed her death, but if her personal life was hell, the least she deserves is one magazine cover. Besides, one magazine cover. MJH, that’s not gonna spark your comeback. And people would just think ‘Hey, isn’t that Sabrina?’, then walk past it. It wouldn’t start anything else.

Will I still watch M&J? Yes, probably. Will I be as lenient when criticizing it? No.

Sorry

Sorry for not blogging a lot for the past few days. There isn’t anything to write about in the Sims community, for me, anyway, and I think I covered the heck out of shows and sitcoms. I’ve been trying(KEYWORD: Trying =P) to do my summer reading, well, finish the AP portion, and I have like 2 weeks to do it, so I’m pretty nervous about it. I know, you’re probably thinking ‘You had since the end of June, and you’re doing it at the last minute!’. That… isn’t true. I had since the beginning of June(Around the Alejandro by Lady GaGa video premiere), to work on it, but for the last month, I’ve been nervous about it and thought about switching out. Flash forward 2 or 3 weeks later, and I’m still nervous, but I’m working on the assignment. So, wish me luck!

And, ew, it’s getting cold and rainy again. Pretty soon, I’ll have to wear sweats again, and it’ll be dark around 4 or 5, and… ugh.

EA’s Employment Issues

So today, I was on Wikipedia, and I noticed this on the EA page, in their criticisms section:

Basically, EA treats their workers like crap. As in, working 13 hour days. So eventually, the peasants workers revolted sued, and they got better treatment! :o

If I was working 13 hour days making crappy games with millions of glitches, I’d have no motivation to work, either. And maybe, if people take action against EA for being crappy game developers, they’ll do something about their forums?

And I kept reading that page, and EA has done some pretty stupid stuff. Like editing their own Wikipedia page? What company is so conceited that they mess up one of the most neutral and frequently used names on the Internet? What’s next? Banning people on their forums over pointless reasons? Oh, wait…

Wii Party? No We Don’t.

So yesterday, at a family trip to the beach, SS and I were overcome with a strong case of nostalgia. Specifically, the Mario Party series, and other Gamecube and Nintendo64 moments. We talked about the characters! The minigames! The boards! And all the little inside jokes we had in between. Although we only had Mario Party 1, 2, 3, and 7, we loved them all, and played them for countless hours until some point in 2008.

So, today, SS and I were researching the series, and if there were any plans to make new ones, and so on. We were nervous, seeing as they made new ones annually, and the last one was made three years ago, so the franchise seemed dead. We came upon a bittersweet discovery: A new game is being made… but not for the Mario Party series. For the Wii series.

I don’t mean the actual console, but all the Wii themed games, where you get to play with your own Miis and it’s just boring. Other games in the ‘series’ include Wii Sports, Play, Fit, Music, Sports Resort, Chess, and Fit Plus.

Honestly, if people don’t hate the Wii enough already, this will give them a reason to run into every GameStop in their area and vandalize the Wii section. I mean, I already thought 95% of the Wii games were party games, so why make a specific one that basically says ‘This is the official party game for the Wii, and others are inferior knockoffs’? Besides, it’s ridiculous that people are going to have to pay around $50.00 dollars, not including frivolous peripherals, to play bland, dry, repetitive minigames they could already find in Wii Play. I mean, at least the Mario Party series lets you play with loveable Nintendo characters, and the whole game is themed, so you could play ridiculous minigames without thinking ‘Why can virtual people fall into fire repeated times but come out without a scratch?’. And there are things like Bowser and the whole Star concept that can’t(And shouldn’t) be rewritten into the Mii series. Basically, yeah, Nintendo is the Mario series’ parent, but they shouldn’t be allowed to, say, turn Mario Party’s old bedroom into the Wii series’… gym, or study after Mario Party moved out, or went to college, or something.(If we’re still going with the parent analogy). And if people would be paying around 30 or 40 dollars for a Mario Party game(Ah, the good old days, where video games didn’t cost someone an arm, a leg, or their first born), at least they’d be promised that the game had Mario, and that Nintendo went creative with the game. For the Wii games, they don’t give you a theme, they don’t bother thinking of characters, they probably won’t give you voices, there won’t be a storyline, and there’s going to be about 40 sequels before the next Nintendo console. And each will probably introduce 20 new useless crappy peripherals that you need to play. I miss it when the worst thing about video game storage was just getting controllers tangled.

And the crappy part about this is, that my Wii’s playback thing is being.. stupid. I can’t play any of my old games from the Gamecube, and I’ve done exactly what Nintendo wanted me to do for it. And they haven’t put any of the Mario Party games available on the Virtual console, so it looks like Nintendo is trying to write out my childhood memories the Mario Party series out of existence.

Family Issues

Don’t worry, I get along with my parents and family and everything and it’s not like the problem is abuse-level or anything. It’s just this one issue that presents a small conflict between my parents and my brother and I.

How do you block someone out from your life? Specifically, a family member(or 4-ish) that only talks to you when they need you, make fun of you, your beliefs, and are just generally annoying to be around? And the only person who believes you is your twin brother?

My cousin’s family, who I’m pretty sure I’ve written over here about before, is the family above. Although I could have hundreds and hundreds of posts on why I dislike them, I’ll just say the main stuff.

1. They only try contacting my family whenever their Church needs more members. And they live like 10 minutes away. :/ (My family’s also Christian, we’re just a different… denomination? Branch?)
2. They get offended over the smallest crap, or if we don’t show up to one of their unimportant events, but they didn’t even know that my brother and I graduated and WE POSTED IT ON FACEBOOK. They throw parties for other people over anything, and do you want to know what they told us(My brother and I) when we said we graduated(Middle school, but still.)? ‘It’s your fault you didn’t tell us!’ Keep in mind that A) We invited their Dad/our Uncle, so we assumed that he’d spread the word(They all live in the same house) and B)They yelled at us for their mistake, and they threw their cousin a party for graduating middle school, too.
3. They force us(SS and I) to go to their Church’s ‘youth group’. I put quotes around it, because they just read a few verses from the Bible, talk about it for 10 minutes, then go on and on about their lives. When we go there, they either A) Ignore us, B) Try forcing us to think like them(They’re all Conservative, SS and I are Liberal, so they usually tie in ‘And that’s why gay rights/abortion/Obama is bad’.), C) Manipulate us. I’m not sure if manipulate is the right word or not, but they play with our schedules(‘Okay, YG today! NVM! It’s cancelled! Okay! An hour later! NVM! Be ready in 3 minutes! OK, 6 Flags tomorrow! NVM! It’s raining!’ and so on), and D) Mock us. Older Cousin is an educated hair-cutter person(Stylist? Barber? Beautician? Cosmetologist?), so she thinks she has the right to call us out for anything relating to appearances. ‘Your hair is gross/Get a haircut/*Sniff* I can smell your hair from here!/Who did your haircut? What? No, I did not do something that bad…. oh, yeah, that.’(The gross hair comment was said after using hair gel, which dried up and… yeah). The comments get worse, from implying we’re overweight(Okay, so I could lose a few pounds, but 1/2 of their ‘clique’ is more overweight than we are), to telling us to get new clothes(They weren’t old, warn out or anything. It was just a slightly ridiculous winter coat) , or to shave(This comment was last year, so don’t worry. I shave. :P ), or to use acne products, tweeze our eyebrows(Isn’t telling thirteen year old boys this a little ridiculous?) and so on. And when we tell our parents? They just either shrug it off, agree with them, or don’t believe us. :/
4. They use my brother and I for free baby sitting, for their 11 year old daughter(Who happens to be the only tolerable one in their family) and their Church’s kids, like 4 or something 7 years olds.
5. The daughters/my cousins have done a LOT of stupid stuff. I’ll start the list off with somewhat dangerous driving, spending, time management, prank people into thinking that they’re going into the military/doing some Christian missionary program, and so on. And they also wear revealing clothes. Which isn’t that bad, but they call out others(Like SS and I) for ‘not being Christian enough’ just because we don’t go to their Church, but act like their, um, promiscuous clothing and behavior is perfectly acceptable. And they always curse, use offense terms like gay and retarded as in stupid, and cursing every 2 seconds, IN A CHURCH, but if I say crap or something which isn’t even that bad, they go like ‘Did you just say that? Watch your mouth :/’ and everything.
6. My Grandmother, who is also their Grandmother, treats them like the perfect ones. She still loves us, and since she lives with our family, she sees us more, but if I get a B on ANYTHING, or give the slightest amount of attitude, she just goes all ‘Your cousins are perfect compared to you. Blah blah blah’ and everything. When I point out anything mentioned on this list, she denies it.
7. My Parents and Grandmother don’t believe us. We’ve been trying to tell them we don’t want to see them other than holidays and stuff since November 2008, but they always go like ‘They’re great, you’re just trying to get out of one other social function so you could go online more’, and everything. If I tell them a story about them, they always view them as the heroes and make me look like I did the mistake, or it’s my fault they criticized me, or whatever. It’s so annoying. And once, the cousins confronted my parents about feeling like SS and I are ignoring them, and instead of defending us, my parents just say ‘Well, they’re shy. You should try speaking to them more.’ and made everything WORSE. If they had a problem with us, then why couldn’t they just tell US, the source of the ‘problem’? Only one other person believes us: My 2nd cousin who doesn’t even live in the US.

It’s just annoying dealing with them, and I really want to see them less, like just at holidays, and just phase them out of my life. I mean, if they don’t want to deal with me, then why should I deal with them?

So, any tips? For the youth group, I just plan on saying school stuff, like tests, projects, AP stuff, and so on. But I can’t use those excuses forever, and that doesn’t get rid of all my problems with them. Being sarcastic, snarky, and boring around them doesn’t help that much, because they just think that we’re ‘Growing apart from the Church and being affected by the negativity of the world’ or something like that.

And I apologize if there are any typos or if there are words that appear to be out of place. While I was typing this, Window Live Writer would randomly move the blinking-mouse cursor thing into another paragraph and I’d be typing sentences into other paragraphs, and while I believe I fixed 99% of those, I probably missed a couple or something, so yeah.

Random

Today, I was reading The Mare’s Nest, and they made a Golden Girls reference. And I noticed that…

There were several things wrong with it. :P

1. Bea Arthur, AKA Dorothy died last year. :’(
2. Rue McClanahan AKA Blanche, died in June, and Estelle Getty, AKA Sophia died in 2008, so only one of the four are alive. :’(
3. Betty White, AKA Rose, is the only one left, so Vera Blake-Trelawney would be Rose.

I just realized. I’m a 15 year boy home on a Friday night, correcting three (I’m guessing) 20something female’s Golden Girls reference. That says a lot. :P

 

But…uh… look! Puppies!

And if the Mare’s are reading this…

And as usual, the pictures are from Google.

Predictable, but Better

Right now, I’m watching the 2nd episode of Melissa & Joey. It’s good-ish. It’s too predictable, but the second episode is making me laugh. The jokes are mostly conversations with double meanings(‘I’m getting my inches back!” When referring to a 52 inch television lost in a divorce, “Those are mine! I paid for that and those!” , about trading a chair with said ex-wife, and those meaning her… yeah.). The characters gained more dept, sort of, and although things were clichéd, it made me laugh.

And I know this is really random and unnecessary, but why does the boy have the thickest New York  Noo Yawk accent? I’m not even sure if it could be classified as that, but he seems to be the only character with the accent.

But they couldn’t avoid the symbolism thing again. “Yeah, I think I like it. At first, I hated it being here, but now I’m use to it.” Mel said it about the TV, although it could pass off for her thoughts on Joey. Get it? People think she’s talking about the TV, but she’s really talking about her nanny manny! Clever!

And I noticed something:

Don’t those backgrounds look similar? It’s not like ABCFamily has a specific color or anything, so they could’ve just pick a different gradient in Photoshop.

Yes! I agree!

Although I’m pretty lenient to what I watch, regarding sitcoms, I strongly dislike(And I use that word very loosely) 2 sitcoms: Everybody Loves Raymond, and According to Jim. They lasted too long, and were the most average, boring shows. Ever.

I’m not sure how legible that is, but basically, TVTropes, a website about television, says the show is extremely average and nothing exciting really happens, at all. That’s like the quiet kid in everybody’s English class, who you don’t ever hear speak. And when people have to read their own stories about some random highlights of their lives, they’ll usually have something like going on a roller coaster or a sports thing. So after listening to their most likely boring story, you still don’t know anything about them.

And again, According to Jim might as well be the same show.

Seriously, if I’m willing to watch basically anything with a laugh track and have positive thoughts on it(Or at least be nice), then why do I hate these shows so much? It’s because nothing notable happens, at all. Oh, I’m sorry. That depressed older brother got married in Everybody Loves Raymond? I wouldn’t know, it’s not like she changed the show or anything. At least in other shows, babies were born, marriages occurred, divorces happen, and character development. But if a show that’s on for 8 or 9 years has no storylines and the DVD box covers don’t show a different cast, with hair changes, or noticeable aging, then why should I watch it? If I won’t feel bad for these characters, then why should I waste 22 minutes on them?

Oh yeah, I also dislike According to Jim, because apparently, it indirectly cancelled George Lopez.

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Schedules and Signatures

So today, after countless hours of waiting for the mailman, I got my sophomore schedule! Yay! Finally, the suspense is gone and I can see who else is in my classes and what not. I should be happy, right? Except, the guidance counselor people screwed up my schedule a little, and forgot to assign my lunch for one day. And some other schedule conflicts which I dislike…

• My gym classes are in the morning and afternoon. They both aren’t at the same time, but if they let us out late during the afternoon class, then I miss my bus, and need a ride home. Or, I could wait an hour and a half for the late bus, with a bus driver who scares me(I’ll explain later), and come home late and do my homework late and sleep late, and my sleep cycle would be ruined, which would screw me for my morning classes…, and you get the idea. This year, after some point in May, I started sleeping later and later because of homework. Then, I almost fell asleep in a lot of my classes, which sucked. But it’s only for the second quarter/term/marking period, so that’s not so bad. And then, there’s the whole Morning- My hair is ruined, afternoon- I come home sweaty and gross issue, but that can’t be so bad, right?
• 3 Honors classes and 1 AP class. Expect me to be on less.
• The teachers. About two or three of the teachers have a reputation for being tough. One of them doesn’t give out A’s easily. For an elective. And my Spanish teacher was talking about how there was a conflict about who would teach the upper levels of Spanish, and said it was narrowed down to two teachers. And my Spanish teacher is neither of those names, so I’m hoping that one of them just married/divorced/changed their name, and not a last minute girl who just got hired because she was the only one available. And even then, one of the teachers were really strict, and the other one was clueless, to quote my Spanish Teacher.
• Driver’s Ed. The closest thing I’ve done to driving is Mario Kart Wii. What if everyone knows everything and I don’t? What if I don’t pass the test and have to go retake it on my own time? And then, in NJ, we have to drive around with a supervisor for 6 hours. When will that be? During a busy weekday? Or on a weekend? And it’s just weird. Like at first, I use to sleep in the backseat on road trips, pretty soon I’ll be driving. And other drivers…. Yikes.

And this week, on Animal Farm The Sims 3 EA forum, they traded signature space for…. links to their social networking sites! I’m kind of happy and angry. The only good thing is now I don’t have to see people who just embed every video of every song they like or post all of their celebrity crushes in their signatures, so that’s okay, I guess. But that doesn’t make up for all the cropped signatures and how EA is being stupid, selfish, and hypocritical. I don’t mean to make fun of anyone who goes on their pages on those websites, but the Facebook one is seriously…. ugh. I’ve seen people who make Facebook accounts for their Sims and post every picture they take onto their album. And the second EA posts something, it gets millions of likes and comments within a minute. Their YouTube channel has okay videos once in a while, but I don’t go there everytime I’m online. And Twitter. I don’t even check celebrity-twitters that I’m obsessed with. Why would I follow EA?

Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer, I guess.

A New Kind of… Actually, No

So, last night I went to the mall. Sorry, Melissa Joan Hart! I didn’t watch your show! And ABCFamily decided to retaliate by have Melissa and Joey ads everywhere at the mall. Yikes. So, being the kind person I am, I decided to try watching M&J(Yes, I’m going to abbreviate it as that now.) online, on the ABCFamily website. And I watched the first episode. It was okay. It’s seriously… average. I’d give it a C. I remember watching some episodes of Who’s the Boss when I was 8 or 9 on Nick@Nite, and this feels like a revamp. Seriously. It has references to political scandals! Failing schools! And the economy! And they think they were being clever when at the end of the pilot, Joey tells Boy(I don’t know his name.) ‘Mom’s home’ and it’s some kind of symbolism for them living together with romantic tension. Reeeealllly clever, writers. I did laugh at the part when Lennox(I think?), the daughter, passed out letters about a rhyme for the principal, Ms.Lunt.

I haven’t watched the second episode yet, but that’s more out of laziness. So, do I recommend the show? Eh, it’s alright. Hopefully it gets better.

 

 

And what’s with schools who mail things out late? Schedules, progress reports, report cards, and so on. Yet they ask for the most trivial paperwork within a day or two of it being given, even if it includes 20 pages of forms. Schedules are especially ridiculous, considering most schools start course selecting near February, and I don’t think guidance counselors need 6 months to make schedules. Especially if they push students away after, saying that they are ‘extremely busy’. I’m just happy my guidance counselor helped fix my course selection sheet’s mistakes and typos.

Not Again, Disney!

So, Hannah Montana on Disney Channel recently had Miley/Hannah break up with her ‘true love’ Jake for cheating on her. Keep in mind that he’s an actor and the picture of him cheating could’ve been a picture of him from a movie, although he didn’t deny cheating. But anyway, now Miley is single again, and, she likes some guy from last season. She ends up ignoring her Dad and rescheduling a Father/Daughter day with him to go out with Jesse, the guy. Then, on the date, Jesse takes a call from his Dad, when Miley flips out on him, saying that she had to leave her Dad for a day with him, and he can’t ignore one phone call. But… Jesse’s Dad is in Afghanistan! Then the commercial ends with ‘A special performance by Hannah Montana dedicated to military families’! Okay, no offense intended to military families or anyone, but it bothers me how Disney just summed up the episode in 20 seconds. Yes, I’m still going to watch it if I’m home, but it bothers me that now others won’t because they summed it up. And for this special, important episode, they spoiled the plot, but for other random episodes, they don’t tell us anything.

They’ve done the same with Good Luck Charlie, like the episode with the anniversary. ‘The kids plan a special anniversary dinner for Mom and Dad! But will plans fall apart? *Cue showing Charlie ruining the Moroccan theme*’. And then that episode where Teddy sucks up to her teacher ‘Teddy’s teacher doesn’t like her! So will she use Charlie to help her?’, and then they said something about Charlie being gassy. Basically, they always spoil the episode within the commercial.

The only show they haven’t done this for is Suite Life On Deck (I know who’s getting eliminated kicked off, but from outside blogs, not Disney), and it’s basically on it’s sixth season. Wizards of Waverly Place doesn’t get spoiling commercials, but… misleading commercials, which are just as bad. And Sonny With a Chance? My brother figured out who did it in the one hour special, Sonny with a Secret, before that episode even aired.

That iCarly episode where she gets a brand new room had not 1, or 2, but 3 places to stop the commercial! ‘It’s Carly’s birthday!’, ‘But there’s a disaster!’ and ‘Her new room/Spencer saves the day’, but not actually showing the room! I was gonna watch it, until I realized, A) It would be on reruns(I haven’t seen it yet D:), B) It would be on Demand(It’s not there, either), and C)They already showed pictures of her room online, so I’m not really missing anything. This commercial spoiling thing is a multi-network phenomenon!

But overall, I’m happy Disney did a special episode, but they should’ve just end the commercial with ‘But will a phone call ruin their date?’, then show the performance clip .

And the picture above is from Google. No copyright issues intended. ^^;

Tough Love from EA

Recently, florida1cowboy got temporarily banned from The Sims 3 Forum. He came back, but his in-store merchandise didn’t. So, he’s deciding on leaving the forum.

Some people were sad in their goodbyes.

Chenmn123 tried finding the brighter side in things.

Apparently, Simming is serious business for florida1cowboy. 

Darkling and MaryJos offered sensible advice.

And Zeri also suggests suing.

 

If I recall correctly, in the US, you could sue people if they steal something worth more than $20 dollars in court. Of course, I’m not sure how an individual could last against EA, but I’d suggest telling other websites and companies about your problems, like The Mare’s Nest said. Googling ‘gripe sites’ helps, but there are already several ones you could email, like…

• G4TV
• GamePro Media
• Game Informer
• Consumer Warning Network
• Better Business Borough

Thanks to Vidkid for the links!

To Watch or Not to Watch

With this fall coming up, I’m gonna try to watch a few new shows, like ones that are actually being made, and not being screwed by ABCFamily or Nick@Nite. But I don’t exactly know what to watch. Any recommendations? I love watching Friends, The Nanny, Boy Meets World, and George Lopez and Family Matters are okay too. And as for kids shows, anything that isn’t Victorious or JONAS L.A. is okay for me. So, here are some stuff that look appealing to me this season.

• Melissa and Joey: Well, not because I want to watch it, but I know ABCFamily is going to be showing advertisements for it everywhere, so I might as well see what the fuss is about. And I read a post from Melissa Joan Hart’s blog saying that she doesn’t care if the critics like it, but if the fans like it, and all the hard work, dedication, and love they put into it. So, I might as well try supporting her. I mean, those Sabrina syndication rights aren’t gonna last forever, and she has a family to support. Granted, she’s probably doing well off and is nowhere near financial trouble, but still. Besides, it can’t be that bad, right? She compared it to ‘Two and a Half Men’ and that’s been on for like, 8 years now? Maybe it’ll be good.
• Cougar Town: AKA the Courtney Cox show about her being 40. I heard they changed the show so it’s not just her dating people who can be her kids, and it’s good. The problem is… I didn’t watch last season so I don’t know if I’m missing out on anything. Not to mention, it has 1/6th of Friends, so that’s a good sign. :D
• Mr.Sunshine: A show about Matthew Perry going through a midlife crisis. It has 1/6th of Friends, and Wikipedia says it’s a mid-season replacement…. so :|
• 30 Rock: Tina Fey makes me laugh on SNL and when I read about the show, it sounds funny. The only problem? I think I’m too late into the series. :( Eh, whatever.
• Modern Family sounds good, but it looks like there’s too much characters for me to get into, especially if I’m going to be, oh, I don’t know, in school.
• Glee: I watched the Lady GaGa episode and the funk one, and… this one is worse with the characters and the trivia tidbits and all of their names sound similar, to me(Quinn/Finn, for example.). So, this one, probably no.

What are your favorite shows to watch? What do you recommend?

Nick @ Nite: Good Bye

Eh, I know I’ve already posted this topic somewhere on the Internet, or something. Or maybe SS said it. But… Nick @ Nite is really getting worse. Seriously.

First, they have the same shows, only with different ethnic backgrounds or cultures. I’m not racist, and I don’t intend to offend anyone, but all the shows that have been on lately have a father that’s clumsy and lazy, the mother that’s attractive but nags a lot, the son who dislikes school and gets away with everything, and the daughter that always is in trouble for no reason and isn’t given teenage privileges, but with a variety of races and backgrounds.

Malcolm in the Middle has a Caucasian family with basically all but the fourth stereotype, Family Matters, Everybody Hates Chris, and The Cosby Show have most of these roles given to characters at one point or another in African American families, George Lopez has a Hispanic family with all of these roles, and the only shows that subvert these are The Nanny(Okay, so it has half of them, but considering, Fran is only related to them at the end of the series, I don’t think you can call The Nanny’s cast the ‘Sheffield/Fine/Babcock/Whatever Niles’ Last Name was clan’. Not to mention, the show is getting moved off Nick @ Nite by the end of this month)  and Glenn Martin DDS, but most people just try blocking that show out of their lives. And judging from the promos for My Wife and Kids… it’s so far, George Lopez with another family. I don’t mean to hate it without watching it(I stayed away from George Lopez because a [Now Ex-] friend told me it was stupid. Yes, that says more about me than where I was going with this, but I was 13 and naive! I did stupid stuff back then.), but really? ‘Sexy Casual’? ‘Slutty Formal’? I can already tell I’d only watch the show because I feel bad for that daughter.

The whole programming is just for guys, or at least, guy leads. Yeah, sure, Family Matters was made for Harriet, AKA Jo Marie Payton, but it turned into the Urkel Show. My Wife and Kids… well, I don’t know, and frankly I don’t plan on finding out. And Fran moved to TV Land, with Roseanne, so, basically, guy programming with commercials for mothers, branded off as ‘Family’. I think it’s trying to be like ABC Family or something. I mean, My Wife and Kids and Family Matters were on ABC Family at some point, and George Lopez was on ABC, like the ‘main’ channel.

But Friends is going on next year, which is good, right? And there’s been an endless amount of rumors for Boy Meets World going on it too, so I guess there’s that to look forward to?

Besides, I realized that my house does recieve TVLand, so I can watch The Nanny on there. All my other sitcom needs are either from other channels(Golden Girls :X), the Internet(Friends), or I’ve already had enough of the show(George Lopez, Family Matters, George Lopez, and did I already mention George Lopez?).

And I finished three parts of my summer reading! Now I only have one book left! :D Or I can pick if I should stay in AP History.  And I think I’m getting my schedule sometime this week, so I’m kind of nervous for that, with the AP History problem.

Coming up to this blog… My own Nick @ Nite wish list? Maybe an ABCFamily rant, too?

Another Reason to Hate Disney

I’ll start this post off with restating that yes, I’m a 15 year old boy who (still) watches Disney Channel and Nickelodeon. And it’s not as mind numbing as everyone says it is, or at least some of the shows are watchable. So anyway, I haven’t seen any new episodes of Wizards of Waverly Place in a while and I read that the last few episodes of this season will be big (According to TVTropes, anyway), so I was concerned that either A) Disney realized it has more than tweens watching it so they’re screwing it to end it or B) Disney aired only a few promos for the new episodes, and it got blocked out by Phineas and Ferb or Suite Life on Deck stuff.

But guess what I found out on Wikipedia? The fourth season and second movie will be the last parts of the series, and then they’re just gonna cancel production on it.  Yes, I understand that 4 seasons and 2 movies is a lot for a kids show, but still. It’s going to end around 2011 or 2012, whereas other shows on Disney got like 6 years of production or marketing, and tons of merchandise and music, concerts, and dolls(Hannah Montana) or they were on Disney for 3 seasons, then they got a ‘spinoff’(I use that term very loosely), and are still surviving another 3 seasons(The Suite Life series. But seriously, it’s basically 6 seasons of the same show.) So why can’t Wizards survive? If the trio(Well, David Henrie and Selena Gomez, anyway) are getting too old, can’t they just add some adult humor, retool it a little, and send it to ABC Family? I mean, seriously! They already had an episode where Alex(Selena Gomez) kills someone (Well, freezes, then unintentionally breaks into pieces and shrug off). Can’t they just make it like Sabrina the Teenage Witch more?

So, in another Disney news… that Den Brother movie aired. Just from watching those commercials, I knew what the entire movie would be. Main kid(Hutch Dano or something?) is annoying, gets in trouble for ego, takes care of annoying sister and friends(G… something. Couldn’t they shorten her last name, too?), ‘hilarious’ montage takes place where Hutch dresses up as their (female) adult chaperone, antics which only embarrass and kill any chance of Hutch’s career outside of Disney occur, then Hutch goes out on a date with random Girl. RG then goes like ‘What? You’re a jerk! I hate you! You suck!’ or something among those lines, and then this is when Hutch decides to change his act with the help of some annoying background music, which totally isn’t symbolic of anything. Then there’s something involving hockey, like a game against the rival team, and while Hutch takes annoying sister and friends there as a ‘field trip’, one of the team members on the hockey team get injured (Bonus points if it’s the former best friend) and Hutch has to sub for him or something (It’s Disney, and I don’t get involved in sports, so I’m not sure if that’s allowed), but there’s some regulation about… I don’t know, but they don’t let him play. So then, brilliantly, annoying sister plays! And there’s some random moment like potential love interest for Random Girl on the rival team crosses the line and almost knocks the sister out, and then there’s a slow motion/suspense moment where, guess what? The little sister wins the game. And then the Random Girl falls in love with Hutch and the movie ends with a song, which is probably performed by Hutch or the sister. Bonus points if it’s a duet.

Yeah, I need to watch less Disney.

Apologies

Sorry for not posting the latest chapter of the Timberson legacy. I’ve been debating about school classes and doing summer reading stuff, so once I get those out of the way, I’ll blog more. But there’s nothing to do, really. The EA forum is getting less active everyday, and I don’t want to just ramble about my opinions and bore everyone. So, I’ll just talk about… I don’t know?

And what happens if someone reports a mod, or specifically, a SimGuru? Does the report get filed? Does the report-er get banned? Will EA find out I posted this and ban me? D:

Announcements

Warning: This post is just random Twitter sized statements concerning future stuff that may or may not concern you. So, you know where the ‘Close Tab’ button is. :P

• School: I finished my second summer reading book, and now I have to decide if I want to stay in AP or go to Honors, and then I have to either do 1 assignment and read 1 book for AP, or read 2 books for honors. Advice?
• The Timbersons: Expect a new chapter to be posted tomorrow(Well, it’s like 1 AM over here so I still consider it ‘today’), or rather around 8/12/10. Sidenote: Ewwwww, August is moving by too fast. *Ties Down*
• I made a LiveJournal! Yeah, it’s effortless, and I won’t be going on it a lot, but since a good portion of longer-lasting Sims legacies are over there, and I want to comment and stuff, I just made an account to get an upgrade from a ‘lurker’ status. :P
• And for the Sims, or rather, my Simming habits. In game, we’re almost up to generation 8, and posting wise, generation 4. Posting isn’t as big an issue as playing it, because it takes like an hour to load, which will become quite time consuming in the school year whereas posting doesn’t take as much time, and chapters can be as long or short as we’d like. And I have a huge feeling that Late Night will have a bunch of flirty/party animal reality show(Ahem, Jersey Shore) like stories, or will create a whole new ‘genre’(Could you call Sims stories that?) of it’s own… so be warned. :P

I’m back!

Hi guys! I’m back from vacation. Other than that… nothing new. So, what’s up?

 

And why does the mainstream media focus on back to school stuff… in the middle of July? Yes, in an earlier post, I mentioned they go school-obsessed in August, but really. Walmart, Sears, Yahoo!, ABC News, even MUSIC CHOICE embrace going back to school! And Walmart still has summer commercials for stuff like ice cream and pool equipment and back to school running at the same time! Seriously, Walmart. Learn when to air commercials, please!

Cool!

So, I was lurking on the Internet… and I found this website: Wordle 

I forgot where I found it from, to be honest, so sorry if it’s from someone from the Sims community and everyone knows about it.

Basically, it’s a neat little website that makes a word cloud thing for your blog/website, which shows what words you say the most. I had fun with this. :P

But here’s mine:

I found it entertaining. xD

Vacation!

Hi guys. I’m on vacation now, and I’ll be back around next Sunday, the 8th. I have Internet access, but it’s kinda suckish, so I won’t be on a lot. I’m just reading blogs and social networking and stuff so don’t expect anything big. :P

 

And eww. It’s August. No offense to anyone born in August, but it’s just ‘Back to School sale!’ month all the time. D: It’s like Sunday nights, except for summer.

So, have fun. And congrats to all you bloggers out there with hit-milestones. :)