This is Hilarious and Adorable

I would do a big post tonight but searching for news has proved poor, my gaming habits have not changed and it is storming, so I do not have a whole lot of time on the computer since the power could go out at any point.  (In fact it did, I'm posting this from a draft.)  So I was recently shown this and I really enjoyed it and felt like sharing.

Something bigger tomorrow for sure!

okay, I don't even play Smash Bros. anymore, but I still got the joke and it made me fucking laugh

So, What's Going On?

Things have been a bit weird here on Kupowered!  I know this.  Generally, if there's a problem I tend to skip a night, but it's rare that there's two in a row, and without computer problems or something like that, I've never been behind more than that at any point in time.  I mean, I guess there's just a first for everything, but goddamn if I'm not frustrated with it.  In a sense.  The part I'm frustrated about is that I haven't really had a lot of time lately, and even when I -have- had time, I haven't really had the focus or ability to actually just sit down and type like I do.  Always something going on or something like that.

Most of it's....well, it's not bad things, but it's some things that I am exceptionally nervous about.  Without going into too much detail, it's related to a family member, and there'll be a fairly serious situation regarding that on Friday.  It's something that definitely merits worry, which I've been doing, but it's also something that -shouldn't- be worried about.  I've been working on that.  You know how it goes sometimes.

The other crazy part of my life is something that I've taken to explaining as "a Goddamn Anime".  (Used in a nice way, of course)  I won't bore you with the details (rather, I dare not share them) because the absurdity of the entirety of it all is unfathomable - even living it, I simply don't believe it.  Thus I surely can't expect others to do so.  Maybe I'll share the story one day when it's actually come to some sort of conclusion and I'm not in the dead center of it, but we'll see.

Now, the main reason I wanted to get this post out is that yes, I've been posting up posts rather late and dating them back to sequential dates.  The reason I've been doing that, aside from the obvious, is simply to get every page some visibility.  Besides, I have actually -started- these posts on the nights they're going up, it's just that I never really got to finish them.  It's cheating, sure, but I'm fairly sure you fine lot don't care too much.  Especially once I finally ht my stride and get everything set up nice and easy.

This week, whenever I get around to it, will finally be Game of the Year time.  I just wanted to say that I won't be going all-out this year and will instead be embracing a new format.  Or rather, an old one.  If you remember my Final Fantasy Tactics thing where I tried to make it a big deal as a way to ensure I would actually finish the game for once (and failed), I made extensive use of staggering pictures from side to side and for whatever reason I just really liked that.  Considering I have a -large- list of games this year (20, like last year) and considering that I about burned myself out completely last year doing them, I'm cutting it back to something much more manageable.  By...doing a staggered picture thing like that for aesthetics while saying a little piece on each game.  Of course, around the Top Five or so, I'll probably have -more- to say about each game and might go to something more traditional, but for everything before then, simply expect visually pleasing blurbs.  I think it'll work much, much better.

Thanks for all your patience, folks.  Sorry I've been a bit shite, but things have just been really...hectic.  Hectic is not the right word, but it's close enough.  It's been unlike anything I've encountered in a -while- and definitely not since starting this blog.  So it just hasn't been the easiest thing to juggle.  Still, I'm okay personally and I'm in good spirits, so that's all I'll need!  Probably.

bad Mogs, you don't want to try FFT again after reading those posts, stop it

Okay, So, Go Watch Shingeki no Kyojin

The theme song is so damn badass.

I like to, you know, write things in my blog posts, especially when I'm telling you specifically to do something.  So when I tell you to go find a way to watch Shingeki no Kyojin (more commonly known as Attack on Titan), you're probably like "Oh, why?  Is it good?  What's it about?"  I could tell you the answers to those questions.  In fact, okay, I will.

Because it's awesome.  Yes, it's awesome, not just good.  It's about awesome things.

Saying anything about the show would kind of be spoilers, so just....go watch it.  Stream it somewhere - Crunchyroll has it as one of the like three dozen shows it streams as a pay service for some reason.  It's also on Hulu if that's your thing.  There are other streaming options, of course, though I'm not sure about any of them, so I won't share.  You all know how to use the internet, though.  I think there's a physical release, but it's probably absurdly expensive, so I won't even look.  Do what you have to do.

Just....just watch the show.  I am.

coincidentally that is why short post tonight, I'm sure you'll forgive me

Giant Robot On: Gundam Wing

Gundam Wing.  If this was not the coolest thing around when you were a kid, you simply had a wrong childhood.  At least, that's what anyone who was a kid in America in 2000 will tell you; since that's when we first got Gundam Wing.  It, alongside Dragon Ball Z (which was also hot around the same time, thank you Toonami) simply helped reaffirm everything we'd already learned growing up with the Power Rangers.

Fighting is cool.  Giant Robots are cool.  Fighting -in- Giant Robots?  Yeah.  That's where it's at, son.

Squeeeee.

As most, well, cartoons of any sort, all semblance of plot is nonsense, but strong enough to carry a narrative outside of all the awesome battles.  In the future, when mankind has begun sending people into space to live, everyone on Earth sort of bands together into the United Earth Sphere Alliance to create a super-nation across borders, across oceans, promoting peaceful coexisting and the like.  Well, more like, they stopped fighting each other, because they took to picking on the people living in the Space Colonies.  Since the Earth has all the military and the colonists have nothing, it's easy to make sure the colonies do everything the Earth wants and, unsurprisingly, this doesn't sit well.

When their pacifist leader gets assassinated, the space colonists just kind of take it, I guess.  Eventually the Alliance's Elite, The Organization of the Zodiac are created for reasons I can't quite remember.

Or....something like that.

Five scientists.  Five Gundams.  Five pilots.  This is not the best rebel alliance.

Basically, in what amounts to the most un-coordinated Scientific Effort ever, five different scientists agree to create five different Gundams (the giant robots made of Gundanium alloy, which is really durable and apparently in great supply) without any input from one another.  Then they get five different teenaged boys, train them in their own way, and send them down to Earth to attack the Alliance directly, destroying their weapons so they can't fight anymore.  None of the five are informed that there are four more of them working to the same end.  I guess, the scientists figured they might get captured?  Maybe the plan is to make it seem like there's just a lot of them, or something and when the boys can't say there's others because they don't know about it, chaos ensues.  I don't know.

Anyways, the five Gundams fighting with the Organization of the Zodiac is the prime focus anyway; dudes in super impressive Robots fighting other dudes in super impressive robots.  Heero Yuy, Duo Maxwell, Trowa Barton, Quatre Raberba Winner (Nobody called him this.  Why he has more than just 'Quatre' as his name is beyond me.), and Chang Wufei were these five Gundam Pilots sent to fight the entire United Earth Sphere Alliance army by themselves, and every day, we would watch and see their success.

Though memory of the actual show might be fleeting, specific moments will never cease to cause bouts of nostalgia.

Remember the time Heero fell down that cliff, broke his arm and then reset it by himself?

Remember how Zero system drove three different people absolutely crazy when they used it?

Remember when they made DeathScythe -even cooler-?

Remember how Heero and Milliardo always fought, like seriously, all the time?

Yeah.  You remember.

If you don't, by all means, go, see this series, it's only 49 episodes.  That's only about 17 hours of your life.  Think of all the other times you've said, "There's an hour of my life I'll never get back," or, "Why did I sit here and play this for ten hours, I don't even like it".  Don't you wish you could say, "Hey.  Remember that time I watched every single episode of Gundam Wing and had a hella fun time watching Giant Robots fight each other?

Yeah.  Yeah, I do.  Those were good times."

I miss my Epyon model.