So the hot topic this week are games characters, to me what makes a successful character is as simple as their character. If you can’t relate or root for the main protagonist, and intern have the ultimate hatred for the antagonist you can’t get into the game. Yes the story is important but without characters you have no story, it go’s in swings and roundabouts.
So here we go, a little award ceremony of my own to award characters titles to the ones that deserve it the most. Now these are my opinions so I don’t want to hear you piss and moan about it.

All-time favourite character award goes to… the grate John Marston from Red Dead Redemption. RockStar really managed to squash the essence of the Wild West in this bloke. He’s not the typical pretty boy with perfect teeth that would look so out of place in the game, he looks like he has really fought with wild men and animals with all the battle scars to prove it. His lived in clothes wrapped up together with the gruff voice of Rob Wiethoff pull this character together nicely. Marston’s background story, life and looks make him one of the most interesting and believable characters I’ve seen so far.

Most annoying character award goes to…Roman Bellic from Grand Theft Auto IV. Gawd this dude is so annoying with his unhealthy obsession with his cousin Niko Bellic with his constant “Hay cousin, wanna go bowling?”, answer; “No Roman I do not want to go fucking bowling with you!!” and because the fat slob is your cousin so your kind of obligated to help him out time to time when he’s managed to piss off some gang members, and you end up having to save his sorry ass over and over again making him more annoying than thrush.

Award for best gaming couple go’s to…Tidus and Yuna from Final Fantasy X. He was a guy who got sucked up by a giant monster, then got washed up at shore. She was becoming a priestess (of sorts) who could call forth grate guardians to help you kill things. They met and travelled and fell in love and had sex in a pond, all to find out that he’s not real, yes that’s the typical relationship everyone has. Seriously now, these two Shakespearian romance captured a lot of peoples hearts including mine, I mean the love was so strong it caused the first ever sequel to a Final Fantasy game.

Best bad guy award goes to…The Colossi from Shadow of the Colossus, when you first come across these big ass monsters you are taken back by the scale and the magnitude of the situation. You a little person equipped with a sword and bow and arrow and has to kill this thing the size of a block of flats, buy climbing up it and stabbing it repeatedly in the head. Each one of these bad guys are amazing to watch and enormously fun and challenging to defeat. The thing that makes them unique is that you don’t actually hate them. Unlike most games the bad guy has a reason to be called bad and you toughly enjoy kicking there ass, these monsters are the opponents but the reason your killing them is to bring your dead girlfriend back to life, so does that make you the bad guy for killing things for your own benefit? Nether the less these Colossi challenge you on not only the brute force scale but the intellectual one too, making them really cool and in a strange way lovable lol.

And lastly best good guy award goes to…Lara Croft making running around in caves sexy with hot pants, guns and boobs; she’s probably the most iconic protagonist of the gaming world. Uncovering priceless artifices, saving the world while looking good is all in a day’s work for Miss Croft not to mention her insane strength and acrobatic skills. Lara for me is the ultimate good guy even though she seems to obliterate nearly all the animals on the most endangered list.

I’ve been waiting for the live action film of Tekken to come out for a while, so when I got my hands on a copy I was over the moon, but then I watched it. The film is good but if you’re a bit of a Tekken nut like me, and you know the ins and outs of every character back ground story line, it’s not something to get too excited about. The only thing true to the game is the characters names, the word Tekken and fighting everything else seems to have been ignored. The fight scenes are fantastically choragraphed but that’s as much praise for the film I have. I’m always on the fence when it comes to game to film releases. Favourite ones have to be Alien vs. Predator (It was based of the Mega Drive game), the Resident Evil series and Tomb Raider. I know they can’t fit all the hours of game story and footage into a film under 2 hours long, but it’s a bit heart breaking when you see games which you’re fond of being ruined. Resident Evil is even going down the same way it’s like the directors go; I like the characters, I like what they do but fuck the plot off. The films Tomb Raider, Street Fighter amine’s and the Tekken anime are the only films I can say that I have seen that stay true to the game. If you don’t know much about the game behind film, you probably enjoy the film more, because you’re not nit picking though out the film. Dead or Alive, Street Fighter The Legend of Chun Li, Dante’s Inferno, Alone in the Dark, Dead Space and Silent Hill are all films that I’ve enjoyed probably because I don’t know much about the games. Out of all of them I only know DOA but that’s because I was more of the Volley Ball game follower. I can kind of remember the Super Mario film but it’s so distant in my memory I can’t comment on it. Then there’s the ones made that are in a league of their own i.e. their shit Hitman, Prince of Persia, Final Fantasy (shocker, I know), Max Payne and Doom, yes there’s people out there that will shout at me because I liked Tomb Raider and Alone in the Dark and not some of these but they are shit. The best part of Doom was when you saw from first person shooter and all the best parts from the other films was when they ended. Prince of Persia I suppose could do with some credit because they snagged that hot bird that also appeared in Clash of the Titans around the same time. So my opinion on game to film releases is if you don’t know much about the game you have a better chance of liking it and if you’re a diehard fan lower your expectations because you’ll be disappointed. Saying that looking forward to the new Silent Hill Revelation film coming out some time this year, I also saw a short preview of a clip for a new Mortal Kombat film which looks fantastic but had my hopes dashed when they said it was only going to be a short film released on the internet, why do that? They should pull their fingers out of their arses and make a proper film of it (not the 1995/7 versions they need to make a good one) another game that needs to be made into a film has to be Halo and it needs a good budget too, otherwise don’t bother. Red Dead Redemption would be epic there’s so much love for this game out there I would be surprised that the film isn’t already in the making. I would say Grand Theft Auto would make a good film but you have The Fast and The Furious so, meh, what’s the point.

Doctor Who has been rocking my world at the moment, the truth is David Tannant was the best doctor by far but I’m getting used to Matt Smith. So the new series started the other day and I like it! The monsters in it are giving me the creeps for the first time so that’s a good start and it defiantly ended on a WTF moment, I don’t want to spoil it for people so I won’t say much but Rivers…I’m on the fence about her, the episodes featuring her always end with the question how the hell did she know him so well and on this new episode they were defiantly putting across that The Doctor and Rivers hooked up, but she’s cringey to a point where I don’t like the woman, all this “Sweetie” business is hacking me off and what I don’t understand is the Doctor can go to any time any place on our world and others, yet out of all the woman he decides to tap that, Doctors got it all wrong. Though I did see a gif of the doctor getting it on with a dude so that could explain his taste in woman, he messed up Billy Pipper’s head so much that she ran away and became a prozzie on ITV. The Doctor Who series leads to another bit of information I picked up off the good Russell Howard that China has banned anything to do with time travel on TV and Film from the country, this not only includes the above but Star Trek, Back to the Future, Austin Powers and many more. So why has the Chinese government decided against this? Well apparently it goes against the country’s values and that it shouldn’t encourage people to rewrite history. It sounds ridiculous but I can kind of understand where their coming from, some points raised do make sense, but is it just another thing to keep the people under the thumb? You always hear the argument you can’t sensitize the internet well China has done a good job of it, I find it amazing how the government of China has managed to isolate it from the world when it comes to jeopardising its integrities.

The other big thing in my life was the release of the new Fast and Furious film which starts directly after Fast and Furious ends. The film is epic, and I loved it, I still think it should have been called Fast and Furious, Cash, Ass and Automobiles but they want with Fast and Furious 5. The thing with the two Fast and Furious films their prequels to Tokyo Drift. I’m not sure whether it go’s The Fast and the Furious, Fast and Furious, Fast and Furious 5, 2 Fast 2 Furious and Tokyo Drift or the Fast and Furious and Fast and Furious 5 come after 2 Fast 2 Furious, confusing, no? No matter what they are a prequel to Tokyo Drift you’ll see why once you see them. I saw a poster for a film called Faster with a picture of the Rock looking the way he does in 5 on the front with a car which I think maybe a spin off because they did end on a bomb shell at the end of 5. The sagas shit hot and 5 just pull it together. The only thing I could criticize was the some of the stunts, the punishment they put these little fiberglass cars through is ridiculous and yet they stay in one piece which is bull shit. There’s a part in it where their ragging a 4x4 truck thing through a desert and it does a jump when it hits the floor you see the axel was fucked and the wheels slanted outward yet a second later the things as good as new, its full of stuff like that plus Vid Diesel look fat in this one but the film is so cool it doesn’t put you off at all. I highly recommend this film the sexy cars and the ultimate American Mussel Vs. Japanese Imports are the main thing but with fantastic fighting scenes and the awesome sound tracks not to mention the juice head men and the fit woman in my opinion makes this probably one of the most exciting Fast and Furious films yet. Roll on the next one I say.

Since I’ve acquired a computer and games consoles I hardly watch TV, but when I do I’ve always been one for watching trashy TV. I can’t stand reality TV shows, they come under this category and it’s embarrassing how low people will go to get their 5 minutes of fame, Big Brother was the god of this. We all wondered what C4 would do with all the spare time it had on its hands, it was obvious to me any big gap that channel 4 has they would fill up with repeats of Friends, urgh! Channel 5 has now bought Big Brother, we thought it had gone but just like an infection, probably an STI, stuff like that never goes away. We will once again be subjected to lunatics, failing models, dumb asses and the other nationality put in there for some clueless red neck to make a racist remark and for the public to go “OMG it’s so controversial”.
I’ve sat there and watched one series a long time ago when it first came out, and never again! Once bitten twice shy, I say. Why the hell would I want to spend my evenings watching a load of people argue, if I wanted that I’d just get my family in one room. Not forgetting the live shit they broadcast at 1am of birds tweeting and people snoring. I have more interesting stuff to do like watching paint dry or actually having a life.
Any way the mass amount of free time C4 has, isn’t being completely wasted, yes there’s Glee and 90210 (Seriously, I’ve seen pornos with better acting) I know one person’s trash is another person’s treasure, so to me stupid o’clock Anime films, My Name is Earl and Rude Tube is my TV time. Now getting to my point I watched a show called The Idiot Awards and if there’s one thing that intrigues me is the dregs of society America has to offer. Now we have some nutty fucks over here but at least we have the common sense not to supply them with guns. One of the awards given was for the worst parents, and I was shocked to see parents taking their 3 year old kids down to the firing range to let them have a go at shooting. The only time I think its crap that overhear in Brittan we can’t get guns like America is when I think shit if a Zombie Apocalypse happens, how are we gunna pick them off with ease without access to guns. Yes zombies trouble me! But come on don’t these people feel bad for being so irresponsible? parents letting their kids play with guns I mean, not zombies. But it’s not just America many other Countries are kitting their children out with guns and it’s going too far I think. Children are not murderers or weapon’s for war!
Recently some American electronics store in Idaho had been giving free guns away to first time subscribers to satellite TV. The customers who sign up to Dish Network packaged for the first time are given a coupon for $135 (£82) to buy either a pistol or a shotgun from a local sporting goods store and that subscriptions for Dish Network packages have increased threefold. What the fuck? Now this isn’t the first time I’ve heard crap like this, that shops in America are giving away guns to people who buy their stuff. All people have to do at expo is give away free Pocky to haul their crap. I would expect free packets of choccie biccies would have the same effect on the Yanks but no. I have no idea if they have some rule to enforce that unstable people can’t get the guns (I bloody hope there is) but I can’t help but think that’s stupid. Now most people who haven’t got sky or free view over here have to be stuck in an area that’s like hills have eyes, I live in one such area and I shudder to think that if these people who hadn’t got sky, went out and got it and were given a free gun it wouldn’t be good. They’d watch some bull shit that’s been shown on TV that would blow their minds, then they would sit there and think why isn’t anyone doing anything to stop this, then they would remember they had a gun and go deal with it themselves. In my area it would be like:
“Now Mavis I heard that you weren’t going to sell those nice cream scones in the caff any more, if you stop I’m going to have to shoot you in the Pancreas”
“Do you know what a Pancreas is Dave?”
“Yes thanks to the discovery channel. Thank you Mr Sales Man for setting me up with a Sky dish and giving me this free gun”
“Well dew! I’m going to have to get me one of those too”
Before you know it, it’ll just be like the Hot Fuzz town! Madness I say. Madness that I could get me a shot gun for £82 to protect me against them Zombies, there coming to get you Barbra…so you better sign up to sky to get you a free gun to protect yourself.

I’ve been buckling down and making my cosplays for the London MCM Expo in May, well when I say making I mean I’m making one and buying two. The one I’m making is my baby and it’s a female predator costume based off Maciko from the Alien vs. Predator Comics. It’s my own creation a mixture of the figurines that have been released and my own concept work. I know I’ll get a lot of, there were no girl predators, she’s not well known, but I’ve spent 3 months making it and far from finished. I’ve also got a Nurse Joy cosplay and Maes Hughes cosplay lol.
Last time I booked the train I hated it. I freaked out when I had to change trains half way through my journey and it cost me £60. I’m a big fan of booking stuff early when it comes to the Comic Cons because you make sure your there and because you do it early its cheaper, but saying that a train return this time will cost me just under £100! I live in a stupid place so I have to go north before I can go south for some odd reason that’s why it costs a bomb. I nearly died when I saw this price so I was like buggar this! and I found out that can catch the bus down to London and return for just £20, I can cope with sitting on a bus for 4 hours to save me £80. They don’t want you taking any pointy objects on board with you so I have to make sure that all my weapons can fit in my suitcase and hope they won’t check. If they open that up and see a mask, spear and a body stocking they’ll think I’m going to some kinky swingers club.
I really look forward to these comic cons because it gives me a chance to just kick back and be happy for once. I prefer going alone and meeting friends there; my boyfriend has made it very clear to me his opinion of all this anime and expo stuff so I like to keep them distant now to avoid agro. I’m going to sob story you now, so you were warned! I was more dug up than brought up. My parents were victims of the showbiz world of the 80s. My dad was a music engineer for some of the big band around the 80s and he toured a lot, and when you’re exposed to that world things can go downhill very quickly. They divorced when I was young and I spent my childhood looking after mum who was hooked on hard-core drugs and my teens on my dad who had become an alcoholic. When you’re exposed to crap you have to toughen up and grow up quickly. I started to watch anime, at the time to me it was cartoons, and I learnt the words anime and manga a lot later on. It was escapism in a way, I all ways felt happiest while watching anime or playing computer games. I liked cosplaying too but when everyone around you is chavs, artistic expression was limited. Once I learnt about manga and anime that was it I’ve never looked back. Talking to a girl in a games shop I found out about the comic cons and I now can dress up. You see, to me Expo means a lot more to me than just some hobby, it’s my chance to escape. I can act a child, go mad and be hyper do things that I’ve never had the chance to do. I’ve been accused of just going there to act a slut, well it’s a part yes and part no to that lol. I like to dress up in attention seeking cosplays my bum nearly always getting frost bite from the winter conditions known as seasons in this country, and yes I can be a big flirt but it’s a joke. I play up on that “dumb boobie blonde girl” but to be honest, I don’t go there to get laid or find love (got plenty of that back at home lol) I go there to be an idiot and have fun. The people who I meet are awesome because there on the same wave length as me, just being able to escape, chill and have fun are to them their only time off and holidays. I’m known as the ditzy, foul mouthed blonde, with a beer in hand that’s up for a laugh and dresses like a prozzie lol. I know I seem like a mardy cow sometimes but I love ya all really and looking forward to causing a bit of havoc this time round.

Everything has been ever so slow lately. I’ve been rather ill so doing anything that is remotely interesting, if you can call it that, has gone down the drain, and it’s made me more of an irritable twat than thrush. Some of my rants of late have been;
1) Cameron's been getting on my tits. I mean most politicians piss me off, but do they ever think of anything other than inside the M25 bubble? I know for a fact they sit there thinking every one earns as much as they do, and every one lives a stone throw away from work. It used to cost £20 to fill up the car 3 years ago now it costs £70! I won’t be surprised if fuel will go up to £1.50 per litre, I know fuel will fluxate depending on the oil baron’s mood. It’s not that, that annoys me it the fat cats in government that tax the hell out of everything. What makes me laugh though is these stupid people who sit there and say its labours fault were in recession, bull shit!! Open your eyes, so is it our labours fault that most of the countries in this world are in recession. Was it Gordon Browns fault Americas is in recession…no! We could have gone bankrupted like Iceland but Gordon sat there and dealt with something that was happening to every one worldwide and the conservatives have the cheek to sit there and say Labour squandered money away when at the moment they’re going overboard on tax, making it difficult for people to live, saying it’s to get this country out of recession yet they giving money away for pointless crap like it’s going out of fashion.
2) Uber geeks are total nutters, there’s nothing wrong with enjoying something, but if you’re going to be an arse for no reason I’m not interested. I’m surprised some of these people still have teeth in their heads.
3) I have found how much I hate having random people poke me in the ribs.
4) I’ve been doing those 30 days of some thing or other on Facebook; it’s actually interesting how much people don’t give a crap unless you put up a Final Fantasy picture or a pervy picture of a cartoon girl up.
5) The plots in Anime where they just invent some crap to prolong the story i.e. Bleach, I’m loving it but you can’t help but grown at parts. There’s a bad guy that is so incredibly strong it threatens the existent of the soul society (it’s like the spirit world) and earth. All the main characters get battered to hell it looks like there’s no hope then Ichigo is suddenly like “Oh I have this new magic power that’s come out of nowhere” and cuts the baddy then he’s dead, next day same shit happens.
6) I went to see Drive Angry the other day a fantastic film but how the hell does a girl get hit full belt in the face so many times and her nose doesn’t break and her lip gloss stays intact? A titanium nose job and a large pay check from Lorel that’s how.
7) Huge tablets that taste like ear wax that get stuck in your throat when they are more than capable to make them oval and sugar coated.
God I don’t half winge. The only thing that’s been getting me through my bitch rut (FYI It not PMTing its just how I get when I’m stuck doing nothing) Is Monty Python, 80s/90s Films, The word derp and all images that go with it and the fact that Nicholas Cage wants cake.

The films coming from the good old UK have been awesome, well when I say from the UK I mean they're British ideas, but probably most of them are backed by American studios. I say though gritted teeth but these films have made it big (I may not be too thrilled with them but there’s a lot out there that are) you have Harry Potter, Slumdog Millionaire, and Kings Speech etc. I couldn’t care about these, it’s my new love of my life Simon Pegg and the fat one… (Just checking Google for his name)…Nick Frost. These two have been amazing. I was always in to Spaced where these two started off, it was an episode from Spaced where Simon fell asleep after playing a zombie game and had a nightmare about zombies they decided to make a film, and thus we had Shaun of the Dead. I don’t like zombies, they scare me, but I really enjoyed this film and it showed us all was not lost when it came to talent in Britain. I’ve all ways been eager to see what else these lads make, Hot Fuzz was a bit of a let-down, there were still funny moments, it was like The Village but over here, which makes it way more believable because I live in a country village just like that one, but our cults are a bit more chilled because most of them are hippies and they're so stoned half the time you have to treat them like wild animals, like sudden movements will scare them and not to feed them because it encourages them to nest and so on.
I liked Run Fat boy Run, the romantic comedy was a change of pace, minus Nick Frost. There’s not much to it but Simon trying to get his ex-girlfriend back by running a marathon to show he's not all selfish, scenes include Simon in hot pants, Simon falling down the stairs and Simon being in pain due to some mishaps during training.
I’ve recently seen Paul and I don’t want to spoil it but this film is fantastic, it easily on par with Shaun of the Dead. There lots of laugh out loud moments usually thanks to Paul's dry humour. It starts off with them going to Comic Con in America then doing a road trip to visit all the alien hotspots around the country then they meet Paul and that’s when things kick off. If you like Simon and Nick's work, definitely check it out. A lot of country’s don’t get our humour but these guys are showing them the errors of their ways. Can’t wait for the next creation.

Right I’m buzzing at the moment, Valentine’s Day is in less than a week. It’s the time of year when it sucks to be single and rocks to be in a relationship. To be honest you shouldn’t pay any attention to those stereotypes and say fuck to this single or not I’m having fun. I’ve put down the rules last year I told John if he brought me flowers I'd beat him with them. So this year I’m being a complete arse hole and telling him exactly what crap he can waist his money on. I am saying no to; Flowers, there over priced weed that will die in a few days, probably because I can’t be arsed looking after them. Chocolates, I am partial to some choccie now and then but the shit they pedal on Valentines taste like Lidel’s own make (it tastes like paper). Toys, if it’s not the latest Rampant Rabbit I’m not interested. Underwear, there cheap dental floss G-string with a corset that has bells, bows and feathers on them. It makes you look like a confused hooker bird on try outs to be Santa’s reindeer. It’s good for one thing and that’s bedroom wear, that will be worn once and left at the bottom of the wardrobe for the rest of its tacky life.  Jewellery, I’ll lose it. Your probably sitting there thinking I’m glad this bitch ain't my girlfriend, but I’m sure there are men and woman out there that feel the same just ask them what they want, if their reply is “I don’t know surprise me” or “Nothing” they deserve a shit present because there too stupid to seize the opportunity you just gave them.

Since I’ve known John for years now I can be cheeky and tell him exactly what I would like, and its paid off. I’m going to a big cinema and watching a comedy film about a CGI alien and a great British actor which has buggared off to America but I think they've nicked him. Then off to a Japanese restaurant to cry in to a bowl of noodles, because it looks just like what it does in the anime I watch. Yep, yep Paul then Ramen and I couldn’t be happier. You see, it’s not being a bitch, to do this it just guidance to get something that you truly want and being happy.

I’ve given a brake to watching anime at the moment and decided to read manga instead, just to make sure I can still read.

 Shadow Hearts, I’m always harping on about it. It’s a PlayStation 2 game which is basically like a darker and grizzlier version of Final fantasy, a cross between survival Horror and tactical RPGs. The reason why I like it so much is because it’s the only Japanese (or any other country’s) game which I’ve seen which features the UK so heavily in it but it’s not just that it the main parts are based in Wales. Being from Wales myself the only things I usually see that features Wales is something that takes the piss out of it (Incept Doctor Who) it’s a nice change of pace to see that’s says something other than its full of stupid sheep shagging bastards. I’ve known for a while that the Japanese like the legends and stories that come from Wales. The Studio Ghibli film Howle’s Moving Castle is based off an old Welsh story, putting that all aside the game is good. The graphics aren’t that good and the gameplay is like the old final fantasys when all the good guys line up on one side and all the bad guys line up on the other, and they very politely take turns in beeting the living day lights out of each other until one of them is dead. The story line is brilliant. Shadow Hearts 1 is based in pre-World War 2. The lead charicters  are a 20 something lad from Japan, Yuri,  and an early 20s girl raised in London, Alice. The main synopsis of the story is that their battling to save the world from destruction, from a bad guy who wants to bring god to earth to “wipe the slate clean”. They start in Japan; move on to China, then to Europe finally ending in the Britain. They go to London, somewhere just under Scotland on the East coast then its Wales is where the final battle ground is set.

I’ve recently found out there was a prequel for Shadow Hearts called Koudelka. It was on the PlayStation 1 so I’m defiantly getting it sometime in the future. Its set in 1896 in Aberystwyth, Wales, and the game follows the mysterious occurrences surrounding Nemeton Monastery, which appears in the following Shadow Hearts games. Like the others is well it’s about someone using an old manuscript to bring their dead loved one back to life, and like the others, it never works out. All that’s created are monsters, which you have to battle and get down to the root of all the madness that had occurred.

The writers of Koudelka wrote a Manga which is a sequel to the game. It short but it sums up the Series so well. I haven’t played the Koudelka game so I was a bit lost at the beginning of the book but it slipped all in to place later on. Koudelka a medium (she see’s dead people) escapes from a hospital. She falls into I young boys (Joshua) cart off a cliff, the impact causes her to lose all her memories. The story follows her and Joshua travels as they go on the run from a scientist from the hospital who has framed her for murder and how they try to regain Koudelka's memories. As this is going on Joshua takes Koudelka to London to hide in his dead mum’s old place which is a prostitute house. They find out someone been kidnapping the pregnant prostitutes so Koudelka helps them find answers, which leads them  the sad and grizzly truth of how this is all tied together.

The other Manga I have been reading is High School of the Dead. It follows a bunch of high school students in their fight for survival in a world full of zombies as they try to track down their parents. I first got into the anime which ended abruptly, I sat their eagerly waiting for the second series which I found out they had axed. Disappointed I started to read the Manga instead which once again I really got into. As it’s a new Manga they keep taking brakes in writing it. With the recent brake from chapter 29; during which roomers have been floating around that they’re going to axe the manga too, this is crazy with such a huge fan bace to it why they would want to quit. It turns out that Japan has released new laws. The department which regulates anime and manga has to become stricter on what content is released in them. People have been complaining saying anime/manga has been influencing people in a bad way. In one way I agree and in the other it pisses me off. I don’t like it how in Anime and Manga they will sexualize under aged girls i.e. put them in sexy outfits or doing panty shots (this is not including the Hentie stuff they do).

I get aggravated though because this is just like the argument that films and games influences people into doing bad stuff. Hypothetically someone has committed a murder it turns out in the past they have played games which contains violence. Is this to blame? I say people have been violent and done horrible stuff way before games, films or anime was about, it’s just something now for people to blame it on. The makers or writers don’t force you to read, play or watch this stuff. They put on age ratings, tell you what it contains. If someone is that unstable that they killed or assaulted someone do you think they would of done it anyway regardless or not of what they had seen on a game or film. Do you think world war two was started because they all had a session on Black Ops on Xbox 360? No! All I ask is that they don’t go over the top with this.

If you fancy giving Koudelka maga a check out go to http://manga.animea.net/koudelka-chapter-1-page-1.html

So it’s 2011. At the turn of the New Year did you do what many others do? Say you were going to do something that would make your life more beneficial, for a new year’s resolution? Then fail. I usually say I’m giving up smoking, because I don’t smoke my resolution is completed very quickly. I’ve done that for a good few years running now so I don’t think it will fly this time. So I’ve sat down and thought what would make this year better than last. Getting Fallout 3 online, yes! Stop being so lazy and when my next door neighbour decides to play his shit music at 2am until 4am on a Tuesday. I will see how good surround sound, sounds up his arse. I will be kind though, and lube it up first before committing Hi-Fi rape, yes! Or possibly giving up my vitamin tablets which are giving me gay tendencies.  No matter what I say though I could put money on what this year will be like; I will watch an unhealthy amount of cartoons for someone my age both, both Japanese and American, going to mcm expos and making more revealing cosplays for my next indecent exposure. So to me this year sounds great already.

I brought in the New Year, in a club, which I have never done before. We searched the town with its many clubs to find a decent one. Most were so loud that stationary objects were moving to one side through the vibrations, plus the music being blasted down my ears was absolute shite. The local orange girls with their glittery dresses so short you could see them going commando and the men who straightened their inch long hair seemed to enjoy themselves though. I did manage to get find somewhere that was playing decent music (80s rock) though most of the people were double my age it meant it was quite relaxed. I had fun and by fun I mean getting rat arsed. Don’t tut at me, I hardly ever get pissed but when I do its legendary. The one thing that pisses me off is when people say a) I look like Amy Pond from Doctor Who; b) I am Amy Pond from Doctor Who. So when over the music I heard “I’ve had a tip off that Amy Pond is in the house! Amy if you’re out there come up and request a song and all the drinks are on the house” and all that night people were saying how much of a fan they were, I was not pleased. I spent most of the next day in bed with my pillows over my ears. Blocking out the silence that was giving me a head ache. When I did eventually get my act together, about 6pm, I went out to full fill my craving of meat! So when a tiny frail girl asks for a mixed grill which comes on a plate as big as a sink and demolishes the lot. It’s a freak show!!

I’ve been trying to finish Final Fantasy 13. I am a fan of the Final Fantasy series but this game is rubbish compared to the others. I can’t seem to get into it. I liked it when you ran about, had fights and it would level you up automatically. This one’s levelling up system is similar to the spear grid in FF10. I’ve adopted the PS3 while John (my partner in crime) has the Xbox 360 and has discovered online gaming. The whole online thing is quite cool, but I can’t help but think Xbox just milks you for money. He’s addicted to Red Dead Redemption online. We’ve brought all the accessories and add ones for the game and he’s glued to it. He finds it weird that he’s starting to recognise people when they  go online and are friends with them, and has no actual idea who or what are in the real world. People who play this game to me are split into categories, which probably applies to all games you can play online.  You get the people who are on there to enjoy the game. They do the little missions and level up and are usually easy going. The dick heads who just kill everyone and everything i.e. there’s a lad on Red Dead Redemption who invites you to be on his team then starts killing you, dick head! Then you get the Nerds. They regard the game as the bible, they know everything and anything about it. There was this bloke who came into the game and said “I’m tired of you killing innocent people. Will you stop it or I’ll start killing you”. He was referring to John’s team killing the locals in a town to get a bounty on their heads. These “innocent” people weren’t players just the characters that had been put there by the programmer of the game to make it look like it was a normal lived in town. He fell into the slot of his own he was both a dick head and a nerd. Look it’s not real it’s just a game! He was American though, so it explained a lot. His group was trying to insult John’s but trying to slag off his mum…seriously??  It did make us laugh though which pissed them off, but we cut the bull shit and killed the lot of them! YEAH!!

My life has just been dominated by the London MCM Expo coming up in May. I’m super psyched for it. I keep changing my ideas for Cosplays to do. I want to do a good one so I can have a pop at the Euro Cosplay Competition. If you know me I like doing outrageous cosplays which are unknown by a lot of people so I can be different.

The year so far has been quite chilled and anime and game filled. Hears to it carrying on this way!