wow those were some fucking weird dreams

So there was weird hall shit going on before these, but I don't remember them well enough, but I'll pick up where Pik and Dahak were still here, but they were leaving so for some reason I wanted to give something to Dahak before he left, so I dug up this Samurai Champloo DVD I apparently had, and so we decided to watch it since there was enough time. Except it was all fucked up and shit because the main characters turned into Furries which freaked me out. Then this viewing slowly turned into a game of Double Dash, except we were playing the EXPANSION, which is all weird and shit with different minigames and lots of other craziness, plus new tracks, and the samurai champloo furries were new playable characters see, so that explains that. So then people kept getting annoyed at me because I kept WHOOPING their asses with DK, and his sidekick, which was a DK barrel with arms and legs, and it eventually came to violence, and then I have no fucking clue what happened.

Also, Once Upon a Time in the West is certainly the best western ever made (from those I have seen anyway). No exaggeration there. Opening scene with Charles Bronson and the harmonica: creepy as hell, and fucking brilliant. SUPER GOOD.

Speaking of movies, which I can been experiencing quite a few of lately, I ran into some new instances I can use in my battle against the EVIL CG. I'm also kind of movied out, which is easy to see, given I was at that whole scifi SUNRISE OVER LSC marathon, we've been watching close to a movie a day, and, most notably, I've been reading lots of good scifi lately. When I'm reading good stuff, it's very hard for some old movies to compete. Plus we finished with Firefly recently, making it also more difficult.

Anyway, at the scifi marathon, they showed ET, Serenity, 12 Monkeys, and Empire Strikes Back. Out of these, I would like to discuss ET and Serenity. ET was made in 1982 (same year as The Thing, oh the synergy) and in terms of visual effects, it too is fucking amazing, yet you do not get the false CG feel when you look at ET. He is tremendously detailed, imaginatively conceived, and just plain fucking awesome. And I am 100% convinced that CG would have made him seem less real. Serenity on the other hand, is a modern movie, but does not make overly large use of CG, and when it does, it doesn't allow it to interfere with anything. And its damn good CG, which helps. But I can tell when I'm looking at CG, and one of the problems with movies is their use of the "OMG LOOK AT MY CG GUYZ ITS SO PRETTTEEEE" mindset. Serenity does not intentionally draw you to the CG. It plays a highly functional role, and is not used to draw attention. That is my basic point there, and saying more would be beating the dead horse.

And I just got kind of weirded out a minute ago so yeah. Enough then.

P.S. WOOOO BABY SLOTHS
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