An Ill Omen

So just did some divination and turns out the anti-hero ranger walks a path of evil. When I was doing the heavy combatant things turned out good or lawful. I have not gotten the evil answer in a long time. It makes sense me in the wood would kill who ever the fuck and do what ever it wanted. This would be compared to the heavy combatant who participates in battle. It seems as though without society I would turn to evil like that. And if anyone reads this who does not know the source of our divination fuck yourself. Idk we will see how things go it might be that the ranger phase ends once I beat Skyward Sword.

Ranks of Armor

There needs to be more games that have medium armor as a skill. The way I think it works is that for the overpowering combatant there is heavy armor. This is the player that will charge in take the hits and then hit you really hard. Then there is the mobile combatant. This is where medium armor should be used. If you are the type that like to move a lot during combat medium armor is for you. They need medium armor because it allows one to dodge and because they are still in combat they need something in case they get hit. The third type of armor is light. This armor serves no combat purposes and is meant for out of combat utility. Light armor is for non magical non combat classes. If your a rogue sneaking you cannot wear heavy or medium because it makes too much noise. You need light armor because it makes it easier to move through brush, and climb shit. The only problem is a lot of games do not have medium armor. So if it is a decision as a movement based combatant you have to look into which armor gives you the most mobility. If there is no difference than pick heavy.

Status Update

I have not blogged in a while so I feel like writing about what has been going on even though the people who read this already know. Anyway I feel like adding some commentary. First thing is I am on a ranger binge. This is due to Skyward Sword and Skyrim. Whenever I play a Zelda game it usually means that I am on a ranger binge or will put me in the mood to do one. This does not really make sense because Link is a master of all martial skills not just a ranger. I guess he looks more like a ranger because he is an elf and uses a bow and is in chain which depending on which game counts as light, or medium armor. On the other had he uses a heavy shield which is definitely says warrior. As for Skyward itself I have one more flame to get and then what I would assume the final battle/dungeon. Over all I like the game they changed and added a lot of mechanics and still had the classic Zelda feel to it. Also it is harder and longer than Twilight Princess. Somethings I did not like was the bow and hookshot are the last too weapons you get. This is way to long for classic Zelda items. Also there was no huge blunt object to hit people with. This is a classic that they left out.

Now lets move on to Skyrim. I would say would be roughly half way through this game. This is a hard game to judge how much progress you have made in the game because there is a large amount of it that is optional quest lines. So you have to make a decision on what quests lines you want to do. However the reason that it has put me on a ranger binge is because of the skills/play style I am using. That is two handed, bows, and light armor. I did this combination because I wanted to test a play style and it ended up not going the way I intended and by the time I figured that out I did not feel like rerolling. In the end once you get stagger on bows and movement speed perks in light armor you can kite anything very easily. This helped push me into a ranger phase. As for the game one problem is that the thing the game is supposed to be about, dragons, are way to easy to kill. The tactic I use was run up to its flak and hit it with a two handed axe. I have only gotten one dragon that actually turns so this works very well. Even when it turned it did not do that much damage. The only time that they did that much damage was magic damage otherwise they fly around doing random crap then they land and I run up to its flank and hit it. But Elder Scrolls has never really had that great of an AI system anyways and is more about the emersment. For that I am a racist redgaurd because fuck everyone else. One more thing that I hate. Why the fuck can you not climb mountains anymore. I mean what is this a return to Guild Wars where you could not fucking climb a slight slope. If you do not want people to climb up mountains than fill it with things that are hard to kill to discourage them and make people want to take the path instead.

This brings me to my next topic Ao no Exorcists. I started reading this a couple days ago out of Borden and because I heard it was good. To me it seemed like your typical battle manga, I would give it a 3 out of 5. It is not like it is bad but it is not great either. There was nothing that made it stand out. It is the simple formula of protagonists that has powers that no one else does with some side characters. One of which is a Yoko nock off, and another that is a hilarious fop. It gets great revues but apparently the anime sucked. Also it seemed that the drawing was not quite there yet. So I looked up the artists and it is done by a women, which seemed weird to me because the characters that seem to need the most work are the female ones. She has done a 5 volume piece and a couple of one shots before this. So she is fairly new to the game. Hopefully she continues to work and improve and puts out another piece after she is done with this one.

The End of the Year

2011 is done and the stats are in. 15 bottles of Tyku Black and 4 bottles of Tyku Liqueur for the total of 19 bottles of Tyku. Lets see how much we can drink in 2012.

A Life of Eras

I am going to break down the times of my life and compare it to historical eras

1987-2000 Pre-History

This is the time of life where nothing is really going on. All you have is establishment of existence and survivability. This is where you get my childhood. Here I lived but that is really the only thing that happened. It was not a bad time but I would not really consider it a thoughtful one. More of like figuring out how to exist in the world not master it. This would be like caveman times to Egyptian society. Cave men are there and living but there is really not any great achievements everything is more about how to survive life. It is also a very long period of time. It end with the beginning of civilization. Kind of like the early establishments of friendship. It is a more advanced form of life but not quite there yet.

2001-2007 Classical Era

This would be the second year of middle school through the first year after high school. This is when thought began to from. This is when life moved from survival to thinking about how life and the world around me works. The old group of friends had stayed where they were and I had moved to a new one. The historical period would be from Greece to Rome. And just like the fall of Rome this too will end in a fall into darkness.

2007-2008(9) The Medieval Era (Dark Age)

This period would be the sundering of the group and the fall into the council of four. Like the Dark Age this period was a bid for power and a struggle of ideas. It is funny to think that this only lasted one to two years because it felt a lot longer almost like a thousand years of darkness.

2008(9)-2009(10) The Renaissance Era

This time was intertwined with the Dark Age. It was post sundering and the council of three. This was a time of great knowledge. There was no longer a power struggle or a clash of ideas. Also though this period was one to two years it seemed like a long time. This may be because the Dark Age and the Renaissance where kind of like a four year period of on and off again reason and Darkness. The biggest difference is the end of the power struggle and the switch from the council of four to the council of three. Those are the things that separate the Dark Age from the Renaissance.

2009(10)-2010(11) The Enlightenment/Scientific Revolution

This is when we made some of our biggest breakthroughs in thought after the cap of the Renaissance and the shift of the focus of thought. It is the point when the basement days ended and the beginning of the apartment days.

2011-? Industrial Revolution?

I am not sure if we have reached the industrial revolution yet or if we are still in the Enlightenment. It feels to me as though the industrial revolution would be setting up the tools and gathering the resources to master the world. It seems that if we are not there yet but will be there shortly.

? Modern Era

This is when we actually start to master the world. Who knows if we will get this far or if we become successful. We might die here or before we get here.

? Post Modern Era

This is when we have mastered the world and either go back to the metaphysical discussion that we left behind or are too cynical to care about anything anymore because the world is a joke.

I'm sure the people who lived through this with me might have a clearer idea about the dates I proposed but I think that I got fairly close.

Why Man Chick Villains?

One thing Japan needs to stop with the man chick villains. Why is this a thing? Was playing skyward sword and the "villain" is a Man chick. Just make it one or the other. Man chicks are not menacing so stop it. It has to be a cultural thing. So for the sake of everyone just stop this trend.

Done

I have just finished my Senior Theses for my bachelors degree and pending I do not fail any classes I will graduate. Though this is done I feel as though I have accomplished nothing. I barley tried and got out with like a 3.1. I got a history degree so I cannot do anything without more schooling. So I have to go back to school or get one of those jobs that only require a degree to get. I am going to spend some time off to try and figure this out so that is what I am going to be doing as long as I pass all of my classes. I might just get buff and learn to fight. That could be fun. IDK.