Deep Blue rising

Random Haruhi Review

2008-02-23T20:19:00.000-08:00

Yes this is yet another of millions of blog posts about Haruhi, the anime that spawned memes, wuvs, and hate. Boo Hoo, I feel like doing this to get down my thoughts on it after basically rewatching the series.

Haruhi is amazing on so many levels, understand that. Unfortunately, my desire to finish this post has faltered, so I'll finish it later, if ever. That's how I roll.

Yes, I'm that lazy.

Wow

2007-06-21T23:19:00.001-07:00

OMG Starcraft II

2007-05-20T09:08:00.000-07:00

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(42 times)

update soon, or not...

lol

2007-05-17T16:44:00.001-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBvaHZIrt0o

pan's labyrinth

2007-05-17T16:22:00.000-07:00

I bet I'm the millionth person to discover this and say "wow, it was amazing"

*spoiler*
she dies! That's (sob sob) so awesome
*end spoiler*

what this movie is really about is the fight between the cold, hard reality, and the fantasy of make-believe. It's set in the time of Fascist Spain, nuff said about that. The movie is truly amazing.

5/5

Al Gore

2007-05-17T16:19:00.000-07:00

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1622009-1,00.html

I really hope Al Gore doesn't returns to politics. My feeling is that a second loss will truly break him. Even running would ruin everything he's done in the past years...

Grrr... unhappy day

2007-05-09T14:37:00.000-07:00

I would like to mark the occasion of this day, in where I worked my butt off on today's presentation, and my incompetent lab partner, Sam, messed the entire thing up on an level unknown. Now please for a moment of silence.

Beijing Newspeak, The end

2007-04-28T14:17:00.001-07:00

@swb

I am greatly pleased with the newfound length of your responses, but quite disappointed with their shallowness. You have added nothing except calling me a bigot and a fascist. Both points are weak and untrue. I have stated my bit and arguments, yet you offer little new substance, akin to the monkey-Texan in the White House. I have said what I wanted to say and you disappoint me. Therefore I see no point continuing this, and I will not come back to this blog after answering your charges of bigotry and fascism.

I am not a bigot. Many Americans engage in self-criticism and in America it is a cultural norm to make racist remarks about your own race. When you criticize your own race, you are in fact criticizing your self, therefore not racist. As you can tell I milked this for all it's worth. I do not hate Chinese people. I love them. The church I attend, the Rochester Chinese Christian Church, is almost all Chinese. I still have many relatives in China. I only hate stupidity and weakness, which is what you and the PRC have in common.

I am not a fascist. For purposes in my attempt to debate, I shifted my political views to the right in order to provoke intelligent responses from you. You have greatly disappointed me. On many things we see eye-to-eye, yet you never adequately defended your view points. You are weak and you ruin the good name of liberals and the anti-war movement if you resorted to calling me a fascist.

awaken.Deep.Blue@gmail.com

Beijing Newspeak prt II

2007-04-27T23:54:00.001-07:00

@swb

my my my, how you disappoint me. I put all the effort into engineering a George-Bush response and you hardly responded. From your previous responses, I was reading that you were setting up a rhetorical trap, baiting for a very American response, from which I decided to give you wholeheartedly. I expected this to be a relief for you, to give you reason to fully express your anti-Americanism like I expressed my Chinese-stupidity; responses akin to the Three Gorges Dam busting. Shame. But you did call me an idiot. “strike a raw nerve”? hypocrite. And quite expected from you.

Last time I tried to exploit a weakness in your posts. I guess I have no chose but to debate you for every argument.

First post:

Not once did you mention the core topic of this blog. Not once did you mention the flaws of the Chinese media, while you rant against the western media. You may be boarding the discussion, bringing in a new view point, even pointing out flaws in our arguments, but you very strongly imply the Chinese media is superior and everyone else are barbarians by not once mentioning the Chinese media at all while criticizing the western media. We may have “conveniently” misreported Virginia Tech, but you conveniently left out your feelings about the Chinese media.

Second post:

This is the first time you have mention that you “have touched a raw political nerve.” Oh god. You speak about American arrogance and self-rightness (with strong support and evidence), yet nothing strikes a “raw nerve” by you saying you “have touched a raw political nerve.” I have said it before and I will say it again. You *bleed* arrogance and self-rightness.

Based on your second sentence, you notice how people rant about media censorship and freedom. What you forget that censorship and freedom are the “case-zero” of this entire blog. The very foundation of this debate. The western media far, far from perfect, and we Americans are often their harshest and most frequent critic, if only by virtue to being it’s most frequent audience. China has plenty of censorship and a lack of freedom. This debate may not even happen in china; the blog censored if the topic shifts to Tiananmen Square. Have can you improve, how can you take a step forward if there is no freedom of press.

Next I will chide you and your use of the word “imperial” in your third sentence. Ignoring several counter-facts, such as how it’s the most common word used by anti-americanists, how meaningless it is, how between the US and USSR the European colonial empires that imperialism defines were dramatically dismantled, and while being the world hyperpower, America has not established colonies, against the definition of imperialism, China is not immune to the label imperialism. China has conquered Tibet (and I will leave it to that), and forever eyes Taiwan. Nuff said.

I also remembered that you called me a nationalist pig. You also used that in your third sentence. Remind me, what does the PRC govt. run on? Can’t be communism. Can’t be capitalism. Oh yes, nationalism. Fueled by demonizing the Japanese, who have forever ruined the Chinese honor. Also fueled by every international incident seen as an affront to China. And you criticized Western media, again “misreporting though omission” how china is different. In fact, the PRC encourages this nationalism, to boost their legitimacy.

Fourth post:

This is simple. You imply a top-down conspiracy. Things don’t work this way in the free world, in the most arrogant and self-righteous way. The media doesn’t have agenda. It only has greed. Greed will make honest mistakes. Greed will twist stories for maximum profit. But greed will admit mistakes. Would you like unemotional human motive control the media, or a human who seeks dominance over you to control what you hear?

Fifth post:

You “strike a raw nerve” again, criticized free press and freedom, tried to redirect criticism against you, renarrowing the discussion to the western media, and called other people as hypocrites. Oh, and you tired to blame the western media and have a “black out” about China. Again, nothing on how China is superior? I rather be a stupid-chinaman (oh, I’m sorry, an American-chinaman) than hypocrite (Chinese Bastardized form of American-chinaman).

Sixth post:

Look like it took you 12 hours to report any failings of the Chinese media. I guess you missed the 7:00 news, so you have to report your apologies on the 10:00 news. I’m sure it means a lot to you. Typical. We all Chinese think alike, don’t we?

You’re an even bigger fool than I thought if you believe the western media is a propaganda machine. How many western government have been embarrassed by it? How many leaders humiliated and forced to resign? How many famous people disgraced? Not to mention have the war in iraq is being decimated by the media alone. What has your Chinese media done?

Maybe you should ask why the western media is more trusted through out the world? Maybe it is the best, rather than trying to fit reality to your beliefs?

I’m not going to even argue about you three supposed examples. They only show the shallowness of your reasoning and even your intelligence, inadequately hiding your deep hatred for America and the west in general.

The rest of your responses are repeats of your previous posts. You are a Chinese Bastardized form of American-chinaman.

Deja Vu

2007-04-27T23:51:00.000-07:00

this was an interesting movie. I actually had some real science, and plenty of action, although I still hate the "dumb black guy" all movies always use to get the science explained. Also, this movie had a very Hollywood ending.

3/5

This makes me sad

2007-04-21T22:15:00.000-07:00

wow

Introducing "Heroes"

2007-04-21T22:04:00.000-07:00

It's here!. Finally it's here! April 23th! Now... oh sh_t, homework!

Beijing Newspeak

2007-04-21T21:46:00.000-07:00

I just posted on Beijing Newspeak . It moved me so much that I actually responded. Because it's moderated, here's a copy of the post:

After reading this blog, I only have to say “wow”.

My first impression is “swb”, you’re a dumb f__k. Now why did I say that? Usually I’m just self-loathing, yet I find myself intensely hating you. Why?

Because you’re freaking bleeding arrogance like blood spilled at freaking Virginia Tech! I feel like I’m wasting calories wasted on you, but here we go:

How can you be so high and mighty against the so-called “free media” when the historically glorious middle kingdom cuts off its own balls for “the good of the nation”? While you admit that the people of the west are fear-mongering greedy bastards (and rather proud of it, or I am. bwahahaha) not once did you admit that is was not a crime against humanity, if not a crime against china (more important, nor its government humane, maybe even certain people) NOT to report this, not even to warn people of anti-chinaism from US (meaning United States of America, or only me). Does china have too many men and needs to treat them like women, lest they form the next government? (no regime change necessary, historically china has a cyclical pattern) Thus the first part of my username to describe you.

To be on the record, my name is Albert Z. I am an American. One of my friends has noticed my overall physical resemblance to the Virginia Tech killer, only needing to remove my glasses and shave my hair a bit. My a__hole friend already asked me:

-if I owned any guns? (wished I did)
-when do I plan to shoot up the college? (not fully unreasonable)
-who do I plan to kill? (he just made the list)
-can I call you Virginia Tech instead of Prince Albert? (look the second one up)

So in a tiny part I already received a tiny part of the perceived backlash. But the similarities go even deeper. We talk the same, have the same amount of real friends, heck, even the same general line of thought (us vs. World). I would be totally unsurprised if deemed mentally ill, it not insane. We are exactly the same except… wait the second… (drumroll)

I’M FRICKING CHINESE

Not the a__hole would care. Oh the irony as I read this blog. God bless America!

http://monroecc.facebook.com/profile.php?id=70607903
(hint, the a__hole friend is the lastest post)

April 16, 2007 Virginia Tech

2007-04-17T11:32:00.000-07:00

God Bless their souls

Wow, what an intelligent article!

2007-04-13T18:43:00.000-07:00

Figures, it's on the New York Times

So today...

2007-04-13T18:11:00.000-07:00

Woke up at around noon, had some fun trying to balance noodles and sauce for mac and cheese, then chauffeured my two cousins to the dmv for their permit tests, which was it's own adventure. That was my day to 3:30 (approximately). Oh well. Nothing else to say, nothing of importance.

Oh, and me and my sister read Ultimate Spiderman 107 together. That was good...

Jade Empire part 2

2007-04-12T20:47:00.000-07:00

Well, I just power gamed Jade Empire through the good side. Unfortunately, although expected, the good ending was disappointing. Whoopee, we get cheered on be the crowds. Another slight disappointment was how the romantic relationship with both Dawn Star and Silk Fox ended, although manipulating the two women was fun. I would have liked to tried playing female and having a romantic relationship with Silk Fox. Just for fun.

That's all I have to say!

The Good Shepherd

2007-04-11T21:17:00.000-07:00

So I watched this movie. Ho hum.

My first impression was that this is going to be one of those boring, character driven, plot driven, acting driven movies. And I was correct.

The next thing you ask, is that is this a good movie, or a bad one. Unfortunately for both of us, I don't know. The problem of this movie is that it's fundamentally split into two parts. One is when our main character is very wooden, very one dimensional. The other is that he actually shows some subtle signs of actually being human. Maybe that's the point of the movie, but I felt very disconnected to our protagonist for the first half. I don't know what to think now.

The strongest part of the movie is when he has to chose between protecting his country or his son. The point being that everything we does, he does for his son.

The Good Shepherd is a movie about a man and his life in the CIA

red vs. blue

2007-04-10T21:13:00.001-07:00

need I say more?

Tokyo Mew Mew (err, nonspoiler?)

2007-04-10T20:50:00.000-07:00

Ahhh... (I like that sound) one of my first serious anime. Quite literally 90% of it is a piece of shit, with the exception of rather cool plot points. This is mainly because it's shojo magical girl. Just watch the last 5 episodes.

Ghost Stories, as so far

2007-04-10T20:31:00.000-07:00

You know what, I'm going to keep this short and simple but to the point.

This is perhaps one of the best dubbed anime I've ever seen. I'll try and explain some time later, if I ever reach that point.

Jade Empire

2007-04-10T20:19:00.000-07:00

I might as well get this out of my head. I'm midway into my spring break (an as usual I get nothing done, nor do I go anywhere) (but this time I do not follow that stereotype, but that for later) and I finished beating Jade Empire for Xbox, evil ending.

About Jade Empire:

System: Xbox
Made by: the same dudes that made Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (KOTOR) and started KOTOR II

My thoughts:

So this is the game that the guys from the first KOTOR focused on when they abandoned KOTOR II and disappointed me. I'll think I'll state my rating now and explain it later.

My rating: 5/5

yay, first post!

2007-04-10T17:33:00.000-07:00

right?

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