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Funny how most of my reviews seem to be in words, I wonder why.

So this semester, due to a colossal fuck up in my last semester, I’ll be taking 50 Credit point instead of 40. This translates in laymen’s terms to me getting fuck in the ass with a bulldozer. My work load is going to be insane. Though it’s not all bad, since so far my subjects are all pretty good.

My four subjects are:

• 2501ICT Programming 3 – I’ve always been pretty good at programming, though it isn’t the career I want to take. This time we’re doing C++, finally a useful language. Shall be time consuming, but I should do well.
• 2575QCA Parametric Modelling 2 – This one I was worried about, since I hadn’t done Parametric Modelling 1, but the lecturer has given us all the tutes from the first one, so I’ll be able to catch up. Shall be fun, but time consuming.
• 3624ICT 3D Video Games Development – This one could still go either way, since it’s a new course, and they’re still working it out. They’ve picked an engine called ‘Hammer’, which is written entirely in Korean. It’s being translated for us, but I just know it will be full of engrish. It also means that the documentation for it will be limited to what they give us. On the plus side, it’s in C++, so I won’t have to learn yet ANOTHER GOD-DAMN FUCKING LANGUAGE.
• 3002ICT Third Year Project – This one is the big one. 20 credit points instead of 10. It’s basically a year long course fit into a semester. The project that my group has chosen is a Rifle Simulation game. In flash. sigh.

Week 1 was fairly uneventful, other than getting the opportunity to look bad ass in front of all the clueless 1st years, which is always fun.

In other news, I have a jelly party to go to tomorrow. FUCKING WIN. That is all.

Over the last week I watched both of these films, but I’ve been putting off writing the reviews for no apparent reason other than I hate you. So, here we go.

Daybreakers first: Set in a near future world where much of the population have turned into vampires, but kept a working society very similar to our own, except based around night. Because vampires can not go out in daylight. END OF FUCKING DISCUSSION ON THAT POINT. Anyway, they require human blood to stay.. well, human. If they go too long without blood, they gradually devolve into a ’subspecies’ of nasty creatures. Of course, the true human population is dwindling, and blood is running out. The story follows the life of a scientist trying to find a blood substitute, that’s having fuck all luck at it. But what he really discovers is something far worse…

…or better. The movie plays on the fact that the vampires are just normal people, now coping with immortality.. and the possibility of losing that very power. The concept is very cool, though I wish it have been fleshed out a bit. The ending is a bit ambiguous, and left me wanting a bit more closure, but it was a solid and entertaining ride.

I give the Daybreakers a solid 7 out of 11.

As a side note, the movie was filmed in my city, so I had some fun picking out various places around that I recognised.

Next up in the longest blog post I’ve written in quite sometime (I used to write a metric FUCKTONNE of pure comedy gold back on my old blog), is Sherlock Holmes. A gritty reboot of a widely known detective’s adventures in ye olde london town.

To be short and frank, I loved it. It had it’s silly moments (Hello complete lack of burns after a massive explosion), but hell what movie doesn’t these days. The story is engaging and not completely cliché,  I was actually drawn in and cared about the characters for a change. The villain is well done and rather mysterious, and the ending wrapped everything up in a neat little package. The set’s and costume’s were believable, and some of the tricky things Sherlock gets up to are simply genius.

Highly recommended. 9 out of 11.

What? you were expecting a proper update? Fuck off, it’s too hot today, remember.

Eh, it was ok. Strange/abrupt ending.  6/11.

“Video games don’t make people more violent, and I’ll kill anyone who disagrees.”

See, told you it would be quick.

By all accounts of pretty much everyone I know, 2009 was a rather ordinary year. I’d have to agree with this general consensus. To compensate for this I got really drunk on new years. Woo.

2007 was the year I finished school and found a girl, it was great.

2008 was the year I started University, and I still had a girl. I turned 18, got drunk. It was even greater.

2009 was a year of shit uni subjects, quiting my job (and not bothering to get another one) and losing said girl of the past 2 years. Among other things that sucked, there just wasn’t much to be excited about during it. Even turning 19, it’s such a nothing age.

2010 was brought in with a bang, is my final year of university, and at the end of it I’ll be entering the real world. Who knows what it shall bring. Hopefully it’s more alcohol and hookers. But I digress. I’ll be two decades old soon. I feel like I’m getting old already.

I think another factor in all this is that there’s nothing really new to look forward to anymore. The future is awesome, but we reached it about three years ago. Now all we have left is the inevitable apocalypse and more shitty blog postings from me.

Woohoo!

It looked gorgeous. It was great. etc. 9 out of 11.

Oh fine, I’ll write a little more. I saw it in 2d, but they say 3d is much better. Who knows. So yeah, It looks gorgeous, but that’s about all it has. The story is ok, the dialogue is a bit ordinary, but I wasn’t bored through the movie, so I guess it achieved it’s objective. I really couldn’t be bothered writing more about it, so fuck you.

Once upon a midnight dreary, a man typed upon his computer weary;

He looked upon his blog in delight, to find he had posted 4 times tonight;

Writing rubbish like this rhyme, taking his sweet time;

to find something that made sense, in the context of his current tense;

though it gradually became clear, that the end was near;

of this ridiculously stupid crime, the phenomenon they call rhyme.

Wow, that took way to long to write. Anyway,  Now that I’ve updated several times in the past 30 minutes, it’s time to disappear for another month or so. mwhahahah!

In other news, Christmas is over. Thank the lords. Now it’s time to waste a week, then get smashed for new years and forget I wasted my week. Hurrah! My next post: My plans to fail my new years resolutions.

So I finally got around to watching Pixar’s latest masterpiece. I’m glad I did. Like all of Pixar’s movies this is one the kids and adults alike can enjoy. I know I certainly did. The story of this man’s life is a great one. The movie has happy moments and sad moments, but I feel as though the overall mood of the movie was a sad one, and it had a great effect.

The animations are flawless, as pixar movies always are, though the character design of the old man was a little odd (He’s really square for some reason), though it doesn’t detract too much from the movie.

I also watched WALL-E for the second time today, and comparing the two I’d say they’re both about the same in terms of goodness, so if you liked WALL-E, You should like Up.

I’d write more, but really, you should just go and watch it, you lazy sod.

Overall, I give Up 10 out of 11.

The above is a test to see if I can embed youtube videos. let’s see. Also, it’s a strangely hypnotic video.

edit: Failure! Take 2:

edit 2: Success!