Posted by: etoven - 7th July 2011, 2:37 PM - Forum: Ramble City
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So, I was listening to a report on NPR, I forget what it was about.. A little while in, one of the guest speakers Neshail Noris was interviewing happened to mention that a certain individual in a county not to far from me, was a priest, who is currently in prison, and is due to be released soon.
He was in prison for raping a baby... That's right! He raped a god damn baby!! What Tosh.O jokes about in his comedy standup the hill billies in this hell hole are already excelling at.. I'm forced to wonder how many people in Salem are in lockup for raping babies. The story wasn't even about this guy, I think it was about prison reform or something.. But, in my opinion they should have devoted the hole half hour to talking about this freak of nature.
The retards in this hell hole make me so god damn sick to my stomach the thought that we're the same species makes me want to end it all.
Yes, really, at age 47 he's a player/manager for the Yuma independent league team. I hadn't heard of this until I saw this article, but I thought it was really interesting. Jose Canseco was one of the more interesting baseball players of the late '80s to the '90s. I always kind of liked him. Then of course he was one of the poster children for steroid use, but on the other hand he also wrote that book exposing the whole thing and naming names of steroid users, a pretty brave thing to do. He now claims that because of that book he's been blacklisted out of pro baseball, which is possible. I'm sure a lot of people didn't like what he had to say there...
As for what he's doing now, it's a little sad that someone who was a great player is now reduced to this, but if he can still do it, and is still in the game, why not?
Either way, I'd say people who are baseball fans should read the article, it's kind of interesting.
Sacred 7 01 - This is Sunrise shonen mecha. That's about all you need to know. Sacred 7 is very shonen, and above all very Sunrise. The hero is a guy who's somewhere on the borderline between depressed and being a jerk. He's a school student, and everyone except for this one girl is scared of him. He has special powers, and doesn't like that because he hurt a bunch of people with them once. But this girl doesn't believe he's dangerous, so she asks him to join her school club.
First, our MC refuses the rich girl's request for him to fight for good with his powers. Then, villains attack! And oh no, the girl who asked him to join that club is in the area of the attack! The monters are stone Medusas, who can turn people into stone and destroy stuff. Fighting them are an army of girls in maid dresses led by a very rich girl and her butler who is also a strong fighter and can drive a mech. Yes indeed, this is anime, bad anime, what else could you have expected? (That this kind of thing is predictable says some things about anime today I think... but anyway.) Anyway, the hero decides to go save the girl on his scooter. When he arrives his powers go out of control and he destroys one stone monster but goes crazy. The rich girl stops him (somewhat risky move) and then turns him into a costumed superhero with a long red scarf, so he can fight the monsters without going nuts. And so he does. End of episode.
Overall, it wasn't very good. It wasn't the worst thing ever, but it was quite bland and generic for the genre. Its main unique feature of sorts, I guess, is that there were some in this episode, and we can surely expect much more of in the future, Sunrisey antics. ... Problem is, that's probably more a bad thing than a good one... :)
At least there isn't some conspiracy thing, yet, the people in the city clearly noticed the monsters. I wonder where the story's going to go with that, if anywhere.
(Don't ask me anyone's names, I don't remember any of them except for Wakana, the girl he rescued, whose name I just managed to remember. They aren't especailly memorable, and the show's more about destruction, brooding, ridiculousness, and fighting than it is anything else anyway.)
Surprised no one has mentioned it here yet. So far all I've picked up is Just Cause 2 and all it's DLC for $7. The little scavenger hunt min-ARG they're doing across the games they're showcasing is also kind of fun.
