... in which the Fool decides to pass the time in a net cafe

I don't know about other people, but I feel excited just reviewing for the board. I know others believe that its a chore, or that its boring, and they're only there because they're friends are there, and its an excellent way to pass the time (or at least its a way to pass the time instead of lying around at home).

Damn this keyboard, the keys are TOO soft!!!! And Blogger has actually changed the shortcuts for bold, italics and all those stuff! It used to be that I'd have to write in the html code for "bold" and stuff like that. Interesting. Feels like I'm using Word to make a post.

Well anyway, I'm just griping about having nothing to do before my hands-on classes start. My hands-on classes is sort of like an online exam gauging how much I learned over the course of the review, of course, I get to decide which topics I'm going to take up so its not really a very accurate measure, but it beats having none. I could also take it elsewhere, like say at home, but its been more than a year since I lost my net connection at home, so I can't do it there.

So might as well tell people about Sin City. Its been a pretty interesting movie, except for the fact that some of the fight scenes are just too exaggerated, for a comic that seems to be all about realism. I mean, I can understand that movies can't replicate scenes where people get knocked really far, but what they did was just plain... ugly. But the plot seemed to be a very good rendition of some of the plots from the comic. It was great seeing this tank of a human being called Marv, just knocking people around, taking all that they could give, and still dishing out even more. I just wish the other stories could have been just as long, but then, I guess that's the reason Marv's was called the main story.

What I don't understand however is why Bruce Willis' name is the first that appears on the posters, despite the movie being mostly 2/3 about Marv. I mean, does he get first dibs because he's such a hot actor? What the heck? The movie was nearly 2 hours, but I saw Bruce for less than half of that. I mean, what's wrong, dammit?

I thought I'd be running out of things to write about, but when I look back, I see that there's a lot of stuff to talk about.

For example, I guess for lack of a better word, I'm starting to become a nerd in my review classes. I feel like I'm no longer slacking off in my studies as I used to. Its like I'm always too serious when it comes to review classes that I bring the lectures with me almost everywhere I go. I mean, I used to just shrug off lessons when I was still studying in college, but right now, when I get to school, the first thing I look for are the answers to the questions that I didn't get while studying at home (studying at home? now who would have thought of that happening to me????). Its refreshing yet at the same time, scary... Even I can't imagine myself studying for any amount of time for no particular reason.

I mean, I'm actually spending time to calculate permutations, combinations, probabilities, in addition to simple algebra, and most recently, areas and volumes. Now in this last lecture, I suck. I mean, areas, volumes and stuff like that is probably the simplest math around, its just simple substitution of values into their corresponding formulae. But for some strange reason, I just can't envision which part is the radius, the relationships between legs and hypotenuse, and diagonals, and all those stuff. Funny for someone who took my course, it should be easy to do it...

Anyway, I know that I'm going to do that stuff either tonight or two nights after. I hope that I find a tactic that works for me.

In other news, I'm still a gamer guy, and I'm still playing a lot of games, except for that stupid Chaos Legions which I never got around to finish. I just couldn't find a way to kill off all those hordes of enemies effectively. But then again, I lent the game to Domondon, so I really can't finish it, seeing as how I haven't gotten it back yet.

Speaking of which, I should remind myself that Terence's Final Fantasy X and Metal Gear Solid 2 are still with me. I should return them. Sometime. Hehehe...

In addition to playing PS2 games, I've gone back to playing card games, foremost of which is the new VS system which pits comic book guys against one another. Its a lot like Magic: the Gathering where you can "recruit" characters to do something for you, and you use "plot twists" to perform stuff. In a sense, you're the writer, and for some reason, you're fighting against another writer to make sure you emerge victorious. Why some people don't write stories about the emergent stories in they're games, well, I'm not really sure. Probably because I haven't found them yet.

Maybe I ought to write about some of my games, but next time.

In the wake of my being a card player though, I've lost the opportunities to play pen&paper RPG's. That's because my usual group no longer has a place to hang out, plus our GM is busy with studying and judging as well. I guess I could run my own games, but I suck. And I haven't planned one out, since that weird stuff that I've thought about in my last planned MARVEL game. I would still want to run that game, but then... I have no players, but mostly because I don't want to look for them. I guess I could run it as a pbem, but I don't want to announce it.

Maybe next time.

Well, I still want to run a high school/college type game, where the players are all students of the school, and have something that sets them apart from the usual populace. I'd like to run it ala the movie coming out this July entitled "Sky High", but then I'd also like for them to have a secret identity of some sort. But perhaps later, when I have more time. As I've said, I'm suddenly studying. (STUDY!!!! Of all things...)

That's it for the meantime. I still need to think of strategies for VS, as well as look at other sites.