2010 in Review

Looking back, 2010 was rough. Lots of disasters happened, like the Haiti earthquake, the Gulf Oil Spill, and the Iceland volcano eruption. The Winter Olympics and the World Cup also happened this year, and so did the vuvuzuelas. It was a good year for the Jersey Shore cast, and a bad year for Lindsay Lohan, Miley Cyrus, Paris Hilton, and Tiger Woods. EA drove its customers crazy, yet managed to deliver two expansion packs loved by the fanbase. Toy Story 3, Harry Potter, and Inception were box office hits. And lots of people collected animal bracelets.
What do you remember from 2010?

TV Show King 2

A while back, I complained about the lack of good games for the Nintendo Wii. Mike suggested getting some Wii Ware games, like TV Show King. After researching it, I found out there was a sequel for it and decided to get that later. When my brother bought me 2000 Wii Points for Christmas, I decided to get it. Surprisingly, it was great.
The game has a lot of different elements from game shows, like the wheel (Wheel of Fortune), suitcases (Deal or No Deal). It also has a traditional question/answer format, like almost every other game show imaginable which has categories from general knowledge to sports, to science, and to literature.
The questions are good, and eclectic (I never thought I’d use that word in my blog). There are some easy questions, but there are some hard ones, too. It depends on what you know, though. If you keep up with movies and TV shows and stuff, those categories (probably) will be a breeze for you. There’s also a math section, which has pretty easy questions. If you’re a sports fanatic, then you’re in luck for those parts. Anyway, the questions are mixed. Unless you’re experts in all those areas, you probably won’t get all the questions right, which is good, because being in the lead all the time isn’t always fun. You could also make your own questions.
The wheel could change the entire game. That goes both ways, though. Most of the time, it will result to yelling at the game in a way similar to Mario Kart cursing, or cheering.
The graphics are pretty good, especially for a Wii game. There are lots of colors, and the Miis are well drawn, too.
Overall, this is a fun game. The only thing is that I couldn’t play on Wi-fi, but I’m not sure if it’s a technical problem, or if nobody else was playing at the time. It’s a fun party game, and it’s only for 800 Wii Points.

Happy New Year’s!!!

Happy New Year, everyone. I know it still isn’t midnight, but in most of the world, it’s already 2011. I think it became 2011 an hour ago in Syria, where my parents are from. Like Snooki, I’ll be spending my New Year’s in New Jersey; unlike her, I’m staying at home.

I don’t have any resolutions so far, though the typical ‘Go online less’ ‘Get better grades’ and ‘Make new friends’ stuff are good back-up resolutions.

I hope all of you have a great 2011, and remember, don’t drink and drive!

The Late Night Dilemma

Last week, I saw a Sims 3: Late Night game for $29.99 on the Target website, and a couple of other stores. However, I don’t like ordering stuff online, and I didn’t feel like going to a store to buy it at the moment, so I just thought  “Hey, why not get it next week? I mean, after Christmas specials will make it more or less the same price, right?”

Turns out I was wrong.

Now, most places, it’s $39.99.

I don’t want to buy it now, because the price might drop in a couple of weeks. Also, it’s an EA game we’re talking about. I’m not going to be so willing to give them money. On the other hand, this week might be the only time I could ‘really’ play (as in, for more than just half an hour or so), because midterms are coming up. Plus, I got some money for Christmas, so I could use that.

To those of you who have Late Night, when do you think I should get it? Now, or in a couple of weeks? Would you say it’s worth $40, or should I wait until it gets less expensive?

Finished my Homework!

I’d say this is a new record. Usually, I’d finish by Thursday or something. But then again, the blizzard which has kept me at home cancelled my plans of going to the mall.

Christmas Eve was good. Christmas Day was a little boring, but still good.

And in other news, we’re almost done with the Timberson Legacy!

Apparently, ABC Family has updated their schedule. A ‘new’ show, Still Standing, is on, as well as My Wife and Kids, That ‘70s Show, and 8 Simple Rules. I wish they’d get Boy Meets World or even Sister, Sister on. It sucks how ABC Family is either the channel which satisfies my craving for stuff from the ‘90s (Hey, they sometimes show ‘90s movies and shows), or the channel which has one too many teen dramas (Pretty Little Liars, The Secret Life of an American Teenager, and others). Yes, I haven’t seen those shows, so I don’t have a right to judge them, but if it’s called ABC Family, why do all their shows appeal to teen girls?

I have to stop making personal life updates. They’re always so short.

I know they’re just pixels, but….

 

…Aren’t these dresses a little short to be called ‘Holiday dresses’?

No, I’m not talking about wholesomeness. At the end of December, I’m pretty sure most people would be bundled up in coats, scarves, and hats, not in sleeveless dresses. These pretty much go against all rules of winter wear.

But I still like them.

Merry Christmas (Eve)!

I probably won’t get to go online later today because my family’s coming over, so I’ll say it now. Merry Christmas to all the blog readers! Have a great Holiday!

Before tonight, though, I’m not sure what I’ll do. Maybe help prepare around the house.

And since this post looks like it needs a picture, here’s a banner I made in GIMP!

Life's a Game and it's not Fair...

Wow. I'm using the Blogger website to write a post for once. No, there's nothing wrong with Windows Live Writer. I'm typing on my desktop which is somewhat old, so I can't risk downloading anything unneeded.

Today, I didn't have a lot of homework to do, so I decided to stay after. There's an annual hallway decorating contest (How Martha Stewart/ Nate Berkus) at my school by grade, and the winning class get money for the prom, so I wanted to help.

It was a disaster.
My grade had a meeting (Which I couldn't go to, because of personal errands), and decided on a theme. The theme was a famous board game, yet nobody knew how to decorate with it (Name of the board game left out for anonymity reasons). Not much people showed up, and there were even less stuff brought in. The class president, SRB, and the VP-lackey were just complaining how nobody else brought stuff in, and how there was such a low attendance rate (They didn't bring stuff, either). However, the teacher who was advising our class called them out for it, saying (More or less):

Okay, being in the student government does not mean that you could boss others around all the time. You shouldn't have just expected everyone else to bring stuff in. You guys should have brought some stuff, too. If you only brought yourselves, what were you expecting?

Oh yeah, and neither SRB or VP knew anything about the game (Which is famous, like 'The Game of Life' level), so the decorations were facepalm-worthy. I told them 'Have you ever even played the game?', and the teacher agreed with me (Not sure how you could agree to a question, but it makes sense in context).

And by the end, the decorations were shoddy.

Oh well. There will be other times to fund-raise. And we could just not reelect these people next year. Or impeach. If that's possible for student government.

And tomorrow's the start of my Christmas/Holiday Break.

And congratulations to David Schwimmer, who's going to become a dad in a couple of months. Good luck.

This week was Stressful

I could fully explain why, but that would be stupid for anonymous stuff, and it would be time consuming. Plus, I don’t think anyone would really want to hear about my selfish teen complaints, when there are people dying everywhere and stuff.

The short version: My APUSH teacher got mad at us again, and gave us busy work. I stayed up till 11:30 doing it. Then I couldn’t sleep, because I was nervous for that class (And because I had tea and some Chips Ahoy which probably gave me caffeine) until 1: 10, maybe?

Then a Photo project which I stayed after school for, a lot, got graded, and I got… a B-. On the rubric, he told me what I had to fix. He couldn’t just say that in person, when I still could’ve fix it? .-.

My Biology teacher' forgot we have other classes to study for and gave us a hard quiz.

My English teacher made sure my brother and I can’t work together on a project, and had to give a BS reason for why we didn’t work together, instead of just “You two might cheat/ Codependence is bad” or something.

Most of the week, I was waiting for the weekend just so I could sleep eight hours.

Oh well, it’s almost Christmas.

Thanks, Ilovethesims7!

Thanks for the hair!

Miley’s Wild Ride

Yesterday, a video got released of Miley Cyrus using a bong. And it showed her having hallucinations of her ex-boyfriend, Liam something.

And this just happened a couple of days after she turned 18.

Miley, listen up: You shouldn’t do stuff like that. Not because ‘It’s bad for you’ (Which is still a valid reason), not because ‘Little kids look up to you’ (Also valid), but because that was probably the stupidest career move you could have done.

Remember Lindsay Lohan? You know, the girl who worked for the Mouse House a couple years before you? Yeah, take a good look at her and her career. That might be you in a couple of years.

Disney (Or any kid company) won’t hire you for anything anymore because of all of this, and no serious film company will hire you because nobody wants to work with a train wreck. Just look at LiLo!

And what did her father say about this?

Sorry guys. I had no idea. Just saw this stuff for the first time myself. Im so sad. There is much beyond my control right now.

I’d let this slide, but she’s taken it too far now. I didn’t think much of her Teen Choice Award Performance, or any other ‘Provocative Wardrobe’ stuff, but this time she was doing something worse than wearing skimpy clothing.

Nonetheless, I want her to get her act together.

The Weather Outside is Frightful…

…But in Sims, it’s so delightful.

Recently, All About Style has contributed some warm winter wear for teen girls.

What have people said about it?

While I haven’t actually downloaded them or whatever, I agree with both Anons.

Teen clothes is completely pretty rare (After male clothes of any kind that isn’t underwear), so I’ll probably get it sometime later this weekend.

And Anon #2 has a point. Though if All About Style wanted to replicate realistic winter teen clothes, they’d be better off with sweatshirts, sweatpants, and Uggs. And Northfaces wouldn’t be so bad, either. Just saying.

Elective Rant

Yes, I know it’s not that smart for me to discuss school choice stuff online for anonymous reasons; plus, I’m not going to make this decision until late February-ish, but I feel like this is the only place I could vent and get feedback.

I’m in Photo I this year. It’s a semester course. There are 6 Photo classes in the school at the moment (With budget cuts, that might change but whatever). The last three are independent study classes. As in, everything happens during studies, after school, or other free time.

The other day, I was thinking about whether I should continue Photo and was confused.

The class is fun, and I might want to continue photography outside of high school. Plus, I want to learn how to take better pictures and stuff.

On the other hand, it’s a time consuming, annoying class. Most of the time, I’m taking (and retaking pictures), developing and redeveloping, and the teacher gives me vague advice. A lot.

And plus, there’s only so much classes that I could take. Next semester, I’m taking Computers in Art (Which is pretty much just Photoshop), and Computer Science I (Which is like computer programming stuff). Next year, I’m (probably) taking Math SAT Prep, Computer Science 2 Honors, and… that leaves me a semester class. Yeah, sure, I’ll have plenty of space in Senior year to take those electives, but I don’t want to be in classes filled with lowerclassmen. Plus, there’s also another class which I’m interested in, so I want to take that, too.

So, any ideas? Am I just looking too much into this?

It’s the Holiday Season…

…And it’s time for some holiday-related, short rants!

Do Disney and Nickelodeon do holiday related specials, anymore? I know that there’s a Big Time Rush special premiering tonight (Which, they completely spoiled in the commercials for it), and on Disney, the Sonny with a Chance holiday special’s on again, as well as another special, but I forgot what it was. Could the fact that they’re competing be anymore blatant?

And I know that seems like a lot of holiday specials, but:

• Hannah Montana hasn’t had any Christmas specials. At all. Especially weird, seeing as the Cyrus family is pretty religious? The closest they’ve had is “Killing me Softly with his Height”, which wasn’t really Christmas themed. It was just about Miley dating a guy who works as an elf at the mall. And she was prejudiced because he was short. They also had “'It’s the End of Jake as We Know it”, which was just about Hannah filming a Christmas special while breaking up with Jake. You’d think they’d have an episode relating to the holiday.
• Wizards of Waverly Place hasn’t had any specials, either. I guess since Disney’s using the “They’re magic! And Christmas doesn’t like magic!” excuse.
• Jonas, the short-lived show featuring the JoBros, didn’t have any specials, and the Jonases are religious, too.
• The network also hasn’t really made any ‘Holiday movies’ like they used to, and they don’t show much, either. And The Ultimate Christmas Present is being shown at 2 PM on a Monday afternoon. And that night, what are they showing? 16 Wishes. One of the worse Disney TV movies.

And at the moment, HM and WoWP are probably the network’s most popular shows. So, why haven’t they done much for the holidays? Disney do you think the holidays are ‘lame’? If you haven’t noticed, ABC Family’s doing the 25 Days of Christmas!

Last Friday, I watched TV’s Funniest Holiday Moments: A Paley Center for Media Center. I didn’t know most of the stuff, but I still laughed at some- specifically the Murphy Brown turkey fiasco, the All in the Family Christmas carolers, and the Seinfeld Christmas card. Friends was on twice, which was awesome, because that show typically gets forgotten about for these types of stuff. It also was number one! So here’s to Friends!

I want to do something Christmas related in The Sims 3, but I don’t know what.

Zynga games everywhere (on Facebook) are having holiday deals for stuff, including Christmas/Hanukkah/Winter decorations (Both cash and free!) and they also have gift cards. The gift cards are pretty blatant, but whatever.

I want to watch Home Alone some time this month. It’s my favorite Christmas movie. Large, semi-dysfunctional family from the ‘90’s during Christmas? Count me in!

Nintendo Rant

WARNING: This is not a ‘Console Wars' rant. If you’re going to comment telling me to buy a ‘PS3 or Xbox 360’, then close the tab. If you’re going to tell me something along the lines of ‘Real gamers don’t play Nintendo’, close the tab.

Today I went to the (somewhat) local mall since I didn’t go yesterday, and I was hoping there would still be good sales (There weren’t any, but oh well). I went to the Gamestop, even though I hate the company, just in case there was anything worth getting. I went to the Nintendo Wii section, since that’s the console I have, and I was annoyed at the game selection.

No, I don’t care that everything is rated E. In fact, I prefer seeing rated E stuff than video games which make soccer moms think video games are killing teens.

It’s the quality of the games which bug me. A lot.

Most of these games have good cover art. Not necessarily the best, but it gets the job done. And then they show screenshots on the back, and it’s horrible in comparison to the front.

For example, Wipe Out: The Game. The cover is nice, with realistic-ish drawings of people, and nice text. Then, the screen shot looks horrible. The water is mostly one shade, and the people aren’t detailed well. This wouldn’t be so bad if Nintendo just said they were Miis (Which are supposed to be simplistic), but for copyright reasons, they can’t, and the players look like botched up stick figures.

Some games don’t even try to have good covers, like Wheel of Fortune.

Seriously? Again, it looks like they’re trying to copy Miis without copyright infringement. And while the front cover is bad, at least Pat’s and Vanna’s features are recognizable. It looks like two out of the three contestants don’t have noses!

(All pictures from Gamestop.com)

I get that Nintendo has a budget, and there’s a recession going on, but these games were relatively expensive for bad graphics. If they’re going to charge so much, can’t they at least get better graphic artists? Especially if Microsoft and Sony are having games with better graphics?

I’m not going to get a new console because of this, and I don’t want to hear “LOL you’re not a real gamer because you play Nintendo”. I guess I’m just saying that I’m going to stick to Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Mario Kart Wii.

P.S. Are the bad graphics just game company stuff? Like are Activision and THQ (The developers for the two examples) bad at graphics, or is it with other companies, too? And was The Sims 3 for the Wii any good?

Homework- Done!

I finished my homework for the weekend. :D This includes busywork given to my class by my AP USH teacher, who decided to take charge of the class Monday. I still have to study for a quiz for that class, but I’ll do that later, so I could actually remember the stuff.

I could finally play The Sims 3 when it’s not past 11, which has become impossible thanks to school. I’ve been able to play The Sims 3 on weekends, but by the time I play, I get so tired I just turn it off and go to sleep. And this means I’ve been on the ninth generation for… a while. It doesn’t help that there are too many elders in the current eight slots, so the game has become boring.

And I watched The Fran Drescher Tawk Show. It was good, because she was endearing yet funny, and she still was herself. Plus, she actually has enough of a personality to own a talk show. Other talk show hosts rely on celebrities promoting their latest thing or dysfunctional people fighting with each other, but she didn’t solely rely on her guests. The episode was about nutrition/weight, and while she had Kirstie Alley on via Skype, it wasn’t like Kirstie was promoting a new book or anything. Plus, she had her adorable dog, Esther Drescher, on the show, and she parodied The View’s table discussions with a panel… of five year olds. There were two references to The Nanny- aunt Frieda’s actress came by, and Fran showed some wardrobe from the show and compared it to what she wears now.

Edit: I wanted to find a quote from an interview Fran had about her show, and she said this:

Fran Drescher: Yeah, I don't care about your movie, you're welcome to hock it, but you've got to have a point of view, you've got to be doing something for the greater good. But you know, the biggest stars actually do a lot for the greater good: George Clooney, Sting, Brad Pitt, Bono, Angelina [Jolie]. Angelina, myself, Brad Pitt, Bono, and George Clooney are the five most successful celebrity lobbyists in Washington D.C. and that's according to the Washingtonian. I was really impressed that I made their list [laughs].

Source: Laist.com

Happy Thanksgiving, Everyone!

Photo from Google.

This year, I’m thankful for my family, my friends, my health, and having a home.

I’m watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade today, and were there always this much musical numbers? It feels like this year there aren’t any floats, and it’s all just songs. I began watching this year’s at 10:30 because I overslept, but did they really have all the floats from 9 to 10:30?

And for the Pokemon float- why couldn’t they just stop at Pikachu? I used to be a Pokemon fan (And that’s where this username came from), but I stopped paying attention last year-ish. The new Pokemon look bad, in my opinion. But that’s nostalgia talking.

Long Weekend!

Happy Thanksgiving Weekend to you! I hope you all have a good weekend.

I’m happy Jennifer Grey won DWTS, because now Bristol Palin’s irrelevant. They could all just stay on Sarah Palin’s Alaska and nobody will mind.

And the other day in my game, I noticed this (Censored because of spoilers in the legacy):

Babcock? Does that sound familiar?

To those of you lost on the reference, CC from The Nanny also had Babcock as a last name.

And Fran Drescher’s tawk show begins Friday. Luckily, I have no school, so I could watch it. I’m a bit worried the ratings will be lower because of Black Friday stuff, but whatever. And Charles Shaughnessy allegedly was filming with Fran for the tawk show! Maybe there’s a reunion coming up?

And Renee Taylor guest starred on Shake it Up! as a cranky senior citizen in a retirement center. Sadly, no references to The Nanny.

And in other news, I watched a somewhat famous episode of Roseanne the other night. It was the home ec field trip episode, which made me laugh a lot.

iAm Disappointed

 A few days ago, I was excited for the umpteenth iCarly special. This one was going to answer the shipping question. Or so I thought. Most of it sucked.

Somewhere on Tumblr, I saw a ‘5 reasons to watch this special’, and it included these 5 reasons:

I was already worried when I saw Jack Black guest starring, and Spencer singing wasn’t much better. Spencer’s already my least favorite character of the show, so I was annoyed. And Guppy returning wasn’t exactly some I was looking forward to.

And Carly’s crush has already been revealed. She liked that one guy from the beginning of the show who wanted to sing but couldn’t- Jake or something? She also liked Shane in iSaw him first, and she had a semi-crush on Freddie in iSaved your life. And there have been lots of shipping fan war episodes already, so… why did we watch? And on another note, why are all of Carly’s love interests satellite characters?

At first, when this episode was getting promoted a couple weeks back, it was a “Which ship will last?” ish episode, and it looked like it would be serious about the topic, and leave fans and shippers satisfied. However, as Nickelodeon was getting closer and closer to yesterday, it was getting promoted as a “Jack Black special omgomgomg!!!1”

I remember for iSam’s Mom, I got annoyed with how they put Jane Lynch, an actual actress outside of kidcoms, aside for a Freddie subplot. However, for this, they got an actual actor outside of kidcoms (Jack Black), and they put him in a subplot, but that subplot became the main plot. Nickelodeon executives, relax, I don’t think this will be Jack Black’s only iCarly guest star appearance.

The episode had not so subtle references to characters on other Schneider shows, like the two nerds (Craig and Eric) and the mullet guy (Gavin) from Drake and Josh, and the lisp girl (Staci) from Zoey 101. It was funny at first, but then the D&J guys got ovations from the studio audience/sound effects people. Last time I checked, didn’t only legitimate celebrities get applauded (Like ones not on kidcoms)?

Then Carly had a not at all subtle speech about how “iCarly is about the comedy and not the relationships, and how we’re supposed to just laugh at it.” And then average shippers became compared to nerds with no lives, who just religiously ship people for a living. Yeah, they’re totally the same, right?

The problem with that is that the show’s not that funny for the stuff Dan wants us to laugh for. Like the stuff which the ‘studio audience’/sound effect people laugh for is a bunch of bad puns, and all the innuendos with no laugh track are the better jokes in the series. And in show, the webshow’s not really that funny.

And how does Dan expect fans of iCarly not to ship? He’s had a bunch of shippy episodes, like iTwins, iSaved your Life, iKiss, iThink they kiss, iSpeed Date, and iReunite with Missy. With episodes like that, what does he expect us to do? And on fellow Schneider show Victorious, it’s practically all about shipping!

But hey, they didn’t spoil everything this time, so that’s a start.

And Disney aired the Hannah Montana movie at the same time-ish. Ratings duel much?

Total Drama World Tour: The Finale

Yesterday, Total Drama World Tour ended. As much as I like the cartoon, it’s been a little annoying the past few episodes. Specifically, “Rapa-phooey!” and onwards. It’s literally just been Sierra, Alejandro, Heather and Cody. I needed some differences!

Heather won the million… until zombie!Ezekiel stole it all from her and then fell into a volcano. Alejandro got burnt and trampled by everyone, Heather was trying to avoid a flaming boulder, and then… the show ended.

Oh, and there were Star Wars and Lord of the Rings references. Too bad the safety of some characters had to be compromised for these references. Oh, and chances are, no kid in the target audience from this cartoon even knew the references!

I’m glad Heather won, because she was one of the only contestants who was in it to win it, unlike those trying to get out on purpose (DJ), or those who tried to use the show as a matchmaker (Harold, Gwen, Duncan, Courtney… the list goes on). She made a full circle from villain to anti-hero.

And today’s “I have too much time on my hands!” theory is:  Heather is two letters away from Hester, as in Hester Prynne from The Scarlet Letter. At first people hated Hester, but then she won them over with her sewing skills, or something like that. She had to wear a letter A, which stood for Adulteress, but later stood for Able. Heather used to be an Adulteress for kissing Trent, but then she became Able enough to win the competition. So, is Heather Hester? Probably not, but still.

Courtney talked a bit too much, which annoyed me, and Sadie, a near mute character, finally got lines.

There will also be a new season coming up next year, so we’ll have to stay tuned.

Disney Alumni going to College?

No, it’s not Miley Cyrus.

Tonight, on TBS, a new show will premiere called Glory Daze. This is a show set in the past, I’m guessing like How I Met Your Mother, The Wonder Years, or Everybody Hates Chris is. It’s about people going to college, and there’s… two (sorta) Disney ‘graduates’: Kelly Blatz (of Aaron Stone and Sonny with a Chance psuedo-fame) and Drew Seeley (The guy whose sung lots of songs for the Mouse House, but never gets credited).

I’m not planning on watching it, but I found it interesting how Disney more or less threw Kelly to the curb after cancelling Aaron Stone. Knowing the Mouse House, I’d expect him to be tossed from series to series, making random guest appearances. But yeah, looks like he’s going to the real world. I’m also shocked that Drew Seeley finally left Disney after recording lots of music for them. But he’s 28, he kinda has to begin finding non-Disney related jobs.

And another iCarly special concerning Creddie versus Seddie will air Friday, I think. I’m excited, but Jack Black will guest star, and he’s probably going to hog the whole hour. And Disney’s premiering The Hannah Montana Movie that night to. Ratings scheme, much?

And in other news, I haven’t seen a True Jackson VP special new episode  rerun commercial anything in the past few months. Yikes. But apparently there are some episodes that have yet to be aired, so the show’s still safe.

And Good Luck Charlie confronted the issue of cheating somewhat seriously in Sunday’s episode. Apparently Teddy’s boyfriend was cheating on her with some other girl, and he told said girl Teddy was his cousin. The episode had a reference to Charlie bit my finger, and it had a cute but sad ending.

Carrie: The Review

I had to read Carrie by Stephen King for school. I enjoyed the book, but sadly, I can’t talk about what I liked about the book for my English class. I have to talk about the writing style and stuff like that. Since that’s no fun, I decided to write about what I thought of the book here.

Margaret White: She was such a creep. And a jerk. Ugh. Everything she did in the book was worth a facepalm. She didn’t even have a justifiable back story. She took “Lifetime movie woman” to a new extreme.

Chris: In my mind, I was yelling profanities at her whenever King was writing about her. Her boyfriend and her dad both knew about her ways, but didn’t really try to stop her? Really? By the end of the book, I just shrugged that she died.

Carrie: I’m not sure if she was supposed to be parodying angsty teenage girls for thinking of herself as ugly, yet at the prom she was pretty, but that’s what she came off as. She was the most sympathetic character in the book. I don’t get why at the end, she didn’t just kill Chris and the other bullies. She didn’t have to kill the entire population of Chamberlain. Especially if she could mind read and stuff. Why didn’t she just do that to know who was laughing at her? That was kind of a crappy move.

And on a semi-random note, I remembered this from the IJBM from TV tropes for Sabrina the Teenage Witch while reading Carrie going psycho on everyone:

"I know The Libby comes from this show and I was certainly tortured by enough girls like her in high-school, but I could never feel any satisfaction whenever Sabrina defeated her with magic. To me, bullying comes from an imbalance of power and since Sabrina is a pretty much an omnipotent goddess, it was her that came off as the bully when she used this advantage against a mortal high-school girl. On The Secret World Of Alex Mack, Alex, too, had magical powers but she refused on principle to use them for petty revenge against her Libby (The decent thing to do.) You know, in general, it just bugs me that on this show (following Bewitched) witches have god-like powers like time travel and without the need for spells or potions or anything like that. Not only is it not like that in folklore, it's really boring dramatically.”

That kinda describes the Carrie VS Chris Conflict. I mean, bullying for years, versus killing someone? But still, Chris was annoying so Carrie using her powers gets justified.

It bugged me how the main moral seemed to be “Don’t bully people, because they might go psycho on the whole school and they might hurt you,” not “Don’t bully people, because they have feelings, too.” Then again, I don’t think Stephen King writes for morals.

And Carrie reminds me of Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult. Or the other way around, seeing as the latter was written in like 2007. Basically:

Book	Carrie	Nineteen Minutes
Setting	Maine	New Hampshire
People nice to bullied victim, who later unknowingly caused bullied victim to get revenge.	Sue/ Tommy	Josie
Things that should and probably count as sexual harassment.	The shower scene.	Peter getting pantsed at lunch.
The story telling style.	Newspaper article scrapbook with science articles on telekinesis.	Flashbacks and flashforwards with psychological assesments.
Jerk boyfriend dying.	Billy.	Matt.
Bullied Victim dying.	Carrie getting fatigue from overusing powers.	Peter suffocating himself at the prison.

 

The only different stuff were Carrie had a religious mom, while Peter didn’t.

Thank You, Ilovethesims7!

 

Thanks, Ilovethesims7!

I was in a bad mood today, so when I saw this, it pretty much made my day. :) And my male Sims needed more hairs, too.

My AP USH Class gives me a Headache….

WARNING: This is a kinda long IRL rant. If you don’t like these, then skip it.

…… And I’m not talking about the workload.

The class is filled with suck-ups and arrogant narcissists. The suck-ups aren’t that bad. Seeing as this is everyone’s first AP class, I’m kinda okay with that, and I’m just hoping that people are nervous and don’t know how to act. And besides, I kinda suck-up too, and the teacher’s okay with it, so I guess it’s okay.

However, the narcissism is annoying. In that class of more than 25 people, I could only stand like 7 or 8 people. Everyone thinks too much of themselves. People interrupt the teacher, interrupt others speaking, and the class is generally loud. Most people have the maturity of middle schoolers in that class, and it’s filled with more ‘nerds’ than popular people, so… yeah.

My friend who took that class last year said it was more serious last year, and once she said she was just walking by when we had it, and she noticed “People were all just talking to each other and walking around the room.” And she said “Last year, we were quiet when we entered. Your class made it a joke.”

And my teacher is constantly threatening us, saying “This class will be the first AP USH class to get busy work". Yes, he said it from a “If this continues” kind of way, and not a definite way, but still. Most students actually were determined to get us busy work.

Today, we had to do a mock-continental convention, and luckily, a sane person became the moderator/judge. Students were still talking out of line. The grade president always interrupted EVERYONE, saying his point of view (Btw, he wasn’t the moderator, so he was supposed to just sit there and raise his hand.), and didn’t let the class agree on something he opposed. So, whatever the class agreed on something, he had to agree on it, too. And he wasn’t the judge person.

Let’s face it, in life, even if you don’t agree on stuff, you’re not supposed to complain until you get your way.

Things got worse when someone (Another non-judge person) was debating with the president, and saying what the quiet people were thinking. Neither the president nor this person were picked on to speak. Guess who got in trouble and (albeit, voluntarily) left the class?

Yup, not the president. And nobody called the president out.

The judge person kept on telling everyone to be quiet, but no luck.

I left the class with a headache.

So basically, the teacher has little control over the class, the grade president thinks he has more rights than others, and everyone in that class thinks to highly of themselves.

Happy Birthday, AE!

Okay, so it’s belated, but I hope you enjoyed your birthday. :) Good luck with your surgery and enjoy Late Night and the Console game, and relax and stuff.

And in other news, I finished reading Carrie. I liked it, and I’ll probably write about it later.

And it’s getting really cold here, and winter doesn’t start till December-ish here. :\

I don’t Know if I should be Happy or Sad..

I was channel surfing today, and I saw Family Ties on a channel. I thought, “Wait, wasn’t that show, like from the eighties? What’s it doing on television?*"” So I looked at what channel it was on, and it was a channel called “The Hub”. Since my family recently switched Cable providers, I just shrugged, and thought it was a new channel. Later, though, I channel surfed again, and saw The Wonder Years, a show from the nineties, on that same channel. I got slightly suspicious. What channel syndicates two old shows on the elusive side? I decided to Wikipedia it, and turns out…

… The Hub is the new Discovery Kids.

Apparently, Hasbro (The toy company) owned half of Discovery Kids and somehow manipulated FCC’s E/I regulations and crap, and now there’s a channel devoted to some stuff from the eighties and nineties, and some stuff from the old Discovery Kids.

I have mixed reactions. I used to occasionally sometimes (Redundancy intended) that channel, and I kinda liked Trading Spaces: Boys VS Girls and Endurance. But then they just got more gross out shows and I tuned out. And a toy company running a channel seems screwed up. Marketing at its worst?

But then again, if fans of retro shows are happy, and kids could also watch those shows, then I guess it’s a win-win-ish deal. Sadly, I don’t think I have time for more shows to watch. :(

And ugh, this post reminds me of my old posts. Like, my 2009 ones. :\

 

 

* I’m not saying it’s unworthy for television. I was just shocked that something from the eighties would be on TV and not on nick@nite or TV Land.

New Banner!

I changed the top banner today. The blue on the old text was kinda giving me a headache. :P
What do you think of it?

And there's a new blog for custom content sharing purposes ran by Vidkid and LE! Check it out over here.

And why have my last few posts have been so short? -_-

And I reorganized the 'Currently Reading' navigation bar thing, so now it's in alphabetical order instead of most recently updated.
I changed it back.

Thank you, Vidkid!

A bit late, sorry, I had school work. But thanks for helping ArmenianTwin95 and I fix our game successfully! You helped us way more than any EA worker would.

And speaking of the patch, why are twins different (astrological)signs? o.O

Happy Halloween!

I was going to embed a Sims Thriller music video, but that backfired. :(

But I’ll link them here.

Short Thriller Video. 

Longer Thriller Video.

They’re both pretty good.

Have a safe and fun Halloween! Remember not to eat any unwrapped candy. :P

Trick or trEAt: EA Edition

I’ve been avoiding the Fast Lane Patch, because I didn’t find anything in there worth getting. ArmenianTwin95 and I decided to get the new patch for Late Night, though, because we liked those features. But sadly, it wasn’t as easy as just pressing the “Update Now” Button. At first, we got messages that said we didn’t have the “qtcore4.dll" thing. After reinstalling the EADM for the qtcore4.dll, though the problem wasn’t solved. Typical EA. The update came, but the game didn’t work, coming with this message:

So it’s telling me that I need to update my game, even if it says that “Your game is up to date,” I have version 4.5., the “Update Now button’s grayed out, and the bottom left corner has Late Night’s and Fast Lane’s icon things? Major Fail.

Now, we can’t get into the game, at all.

Any help at all?

Why I Like Roseanne

So recently, after having nothing else to watch on a Friday night, I decided to watch Roseanne. Before you head to the comment box and say “WHY?” remember this is the person who finds The Nanny, Mel & Joe, and Disney and Nick Kidcoms tolerable, so… yeah. But yeah, the show soon grew on to me for a couple of reasons:

• The theme song’s catchy.
• Roseanne doesn’t care about what others think. She doesn’t change herself for other people.
• The show makes me laugh. Like actually laugh. The jokes are somewhat sarcastic, but it also relies on other types of humor. “Springtime for David” made me laugh out loud a lot, seeing that it was kind of making fun of Six Flags and Disney World.
• The finale was interesting. Yeah sure, it was a complete disappointment to long time fans, but the last part was somewhat insightful. And I got sad just by watching the finale on Youtube without knowing much about the series.
• It’s from the nineties. That gives the show like ten more points in my book. :D

I avoided the show like the plague bad CC trolls when it was on nick@nite, partially because I thought it would be bad fat jokes, and because I was 9, and, well, I wouldn’t get how it was funny.

I also like How I Met Your Mother now.

My Problem with Total Drama

As I’ve been watching Total Drama, I’ve noticed one thing in general: How the show seems to revolve around one love polygon, and Owen. I’ve illustrated this below.

Seriously, the characters on the bottom have less air time. On the three seasons of Total Drama, 3 of those contestants have only competed once, six of them have only competed twice, and none of them have won. (Okay, so one of them won in an alternate ending, but yeah).

Owen (AKA ‘farts a lot’) makes it pretty far each season, more so because without him, toilet humor couldn’t be used. He seems to be is the show’s resident comic relief, even though they could still fill that place in.

But yeah, for the most part, Total Drama always focuses on the same handful of characters, leaving a lot flat.

Ugh –_-

Thanks to trolls, every blog has become less interesting. Seriously, now every blog has to disable comments/delete posts/shut down completely because of trolls. Or they’ve had less interesting posts. I’m not referring to anyone specifically, but I miss the ‘old’ blogosphere. Like a couple months back.

And today, at my school, people dressed up for Halloween. Trolls were walking around unmasked. I’d talk about it, but it’s a long story and I’d rather remain anonymous. Let’s just say ‘popular people who befriend others for the lulz’ were being, well, themselves.

In other news, Snooki seemed to take over my school today, which is weird because people wear “Jersey Shore” sweatshirts on a daily basis.

Reborn or Repasted?

As good as this hair is, why does it look so much like a wig? It looks like the Sim-models are bald and they’re just wearing this as a wig. It looks unnatural. Even for Newsea.

And could someone tell me if their Sims are that pale without CAS? Seriously, why can’t Newsea pick more natural skintones? Or at least anything other than this usual one.

Child Stars

Recently, Miley Cyrus has added another item to her list of controversies- a video in which she’s wearing close to nothing, while writhing on her bed. The Parent’s Television Council is pissed off at her for being a bad role model, especially since Hannah Montana’s still airing on Disney. And by the way, Miley’s dad’s on the PTC, and he supports Miley’s behavior, so… yeah.

I don’t really care that she’s doing this, I mean, girls her age in high school dress the same (but with more affordable clothes), and some of them do worse. And besides, Jamie Lynn Spears, another child star, actually got pregnant, so Miley’s acts still aren’t that bad. And personally, I think that girls in her Hannah Montana target age probably get influenced by the high schoolers they see at the mall just as much as they get influenced by Hannah Montana. And at this point, who really likes Miley, as her or her alter ego?

I’m more annoyed by her impatience than her lack of morals. Couldn’t she just wait to release this album once Hannah Montana ended in March? Couldn’t she just practice singing until then, so she could, oh I don’t know, have some talent?

And while it’s somewhat good to see Miley defending herself over these controversies instead of relying on the Mouse House to defend her, I think that it’s annoying to see her go like “I do it for the art. My true fans will understand,” for like everything.

But yeah, the PTC is acting like she’s so influential, even though two or three years from now she’ll be forgotten about, or the next Lindsay Lohan. Only time will tell.

And speaking of child stars graduating the Mouse House Academy of Stardom, Selena Gomez is working on her last season for Wizards of Waverly Place. She also has a music career, which is going kind of better because she doesn’t have a controversy for each single she releases. Plus, I actually hear her music on the radio.

So once these two leave the Mouse House for good, who’ll take their place as the “Tween Star It Girl(s)”? I doubt Demi Lovato or Bridgette Mendler will be a good replacement, seeing as Demi’s hated for her smile and Camp Rock, and Bridgette hasn’t been that popular. Maybe it will be the new Shake it Up! tweens, who look scarily skinny, and too young. And Debby Ryan probably won’t be one, because she plays a smart character on SLOD, which won’t get her that far. And Brenda Song’s too old.

It looks like Nickelodeon’s trying to replace Miley/Selena with Miranda Cosgrove and/or Victoria Justice. Miranda’s been getting a lot of attention on her singing, and they even included it in an iCarly episode. Plus, TPTB at Nickelodeon are dressing her up more and more each season of iCarly.

Victoria Justice, well her whole Nick career is more or less Nick overpromoting her. She began with a ‘normal’ career on Zoey 101 in 2005 to 2008, and by 2009, she was in a Nickelodeon TV movie, appeared in The Naked Brothers Band (Yes, that really was a name of a show), iCarly, and True Jackson VP. By 2010, her ‘fame’ grew even more, seeing as she got her own cash cow franchise show, Victorious, and guest starred on The Troop, and lent her voice to an episode of The Penguins of Madagascar. She also will have her show crossover with iCarly, and will have another Nick TV movie tonight.

Dan Schneider has to stop trying so hard to make the next “Tween Star It Girl”. His (Or Nick’s) are blatantly obvious. Especially since iCarly will soon become the “Look how pretty/smart/funny/awesome/perfect Carly is! Look at what Spencer’s gonna do next!” if he keeps on going this.

At the end of the day, though, they’re all child stars, who’ll either suffer from their current fame, or shine with their talent. And all that matters to the Mouse House and the Spongebob company is how much merchandise these girls will sell.

Nothing to Blog About

There hasn't been much to really blog about in the past week, which is why I haven't blogged about anything (obviously). I've had too much homework to blog about random stuff, too.

The only interesting thing that happened this week is probably just The View/Bill O'Rielly(sp?) spat. I'm not going to talk about it, though, because I don't really like debating politics on the Internet.

Fran Drescher is getting a talk show, called "The Fran Drescher Tawk Show" or something like that. It's going to start Black Friday, aka the day after Thanksgiving/ materialism at its worst. I'm kind of glad for her. Even if people find her voice annoying, she's a nice person. The talk show will be on for a three week trial run, so good luck to her. It'll be on Fox.

And Jarsie9's been banned from the forums! Looks like her "Bribe the mods" fund finally became empty.

The Golden Question

Sidenote: My thoughts on EA’s latest shenanigans/atrocities are indifferent from most Simmer’s, so I’m not going to bother making a blog post about it, since I’d just restate the same thing. All I could really say is, at least I’m saving my money boycotting them, because I won’t want to buy Late Night or The Sims 3 Console. And is Late Night really coming out in a couple of weeks? Gah, too fast. It feels like Sims 4 will be coming out next year or something. .-. Okay, so this was still a lot, but whatever.

Tomorrow is Columbus Day, and depending on what school you go to (In America), you either have a half day, full day, or no school. There are also plenty of good deals on mattresses, cars, clothes, vacuums, and other stuff. But why? I know it’s a cheap marketing ploy, but what are the stores’ excuses? “We’re remembering Columbus discovering America by giving you a good mattress”? Ugh, it baffles me.

And then there’s the whole debate/controversy on whether this day should even be celebrated, but I’m not going to get into that.

But really, why should we get household appliances for less because an explorer found America? The two stuff are completely unrelated.

Old McDonald had a Farmville…

Is McDonald’s even allowed to do this? Advertising fast food on a video game? How low can you go?

I mean, yeah sure, I eat McDonald’s once in a while, but still, this disgusts me. Especially how they have the ® there, too

If it’s functioning properly, then DON’T TRY TO FIX IT

Warning: The following blog post will be in an angry tone. Remember, this has both the Rantdom and bad mood tags, so it’s going to be, well, angry. If you dislike complaining, close this tab now.

So I have a desktop computer which my parents got for the entire family in 2004. The desktop became slow in 2007ish thanks to plenty of computer games, but still functional. Last year, it became irritably slow(As in, 20ish minutes to open the Internet, 1 minute to respond to simple clicks), but I didn’t really use it that much. This year, it became worse. As in, “Mozilla Firefox is not responding, End Now” every hour or so. Again, I don’t really use it that much, and if it wasn’t the only computer that could access the printer, it’d be forgotten about.

My dad got this new desktop last year, and he only uses it for internet searching. He’s highly overprotective of it, and if something goes wrong on it, my brother and/or I will be the first blamed.

Last week, my dad asked me how the desktop was going. I told him “Slow, barely functional”. Guess how he responded? “If you’re going to always be online, you better know how to fix computers. I’m sick of you complaining about it if you can’t fix it.”

I guess this first sentence was true, but definitely not the second part. Usually, I open the computer an hour or so before I need to use it, and I do my other homework while I wait for it to load.

Tuesday, my dad invited my cousin over to fix the computer. And by fix, I mean install the meaningless crappy updates. Yesterday, I had to print something out, and guess what?

The computer’s lag didn’t improve. Every window still had the “End Now” messages, and to add insult to injury, now the printer didn’t even work. (My brother pretty much summed up everything about the printer’s problems here). When I told my dad about it, he just said “It’s your computer, you fix it”.

WARNING: ANGER PART OF POST WILL HAPPEN NOW.

REALLY? THAT’S your ADVICE?!? YOU WERE THE ONE WHO DECIDED TO UPDATE IT, YOU FIX IT.

Seriously, I had no problem waiting for it to load while doing other things.

And now I have to print something out. Lucky me.

And for the most part, we’ve tried uninstalling things that we don’t use, but the computer’s telling us that “It wasn’t installed properly. Reinstall it, then uninstall it.” But we’ve lost the computer game discs, so… yeah.

More Mel & Joe News

So, when did this blog become the Mel & Joe blog? Sometime last week, apparently. :P Matthew Lawrence, of Boy Meets World fame, is going to star on Mel & Joe on November 2 allegedly. He’s Joe Lawrence’s younger brother.

And today’s episode was better than last week’s Dancing with the Stars special. Yeah, sure, the Lennox subplot was kind of controversial(Well, for Robert Pattinson’s standards, not ABC Family’s, anyway), but it kind of made me laugh. And she had the most ‘depth’ in today’s episode. Next week’s episode looks like it’s going to be about her. Specifically, “Mel and Joe team up to invade Lennox’s privacy, and find out she’s dating some leather wearing motorcyclist or a football player.” But still, I’ll probably watch.

Some Simming Stuff

This weekend, two interesting things happened on the Sim-blogosphere:

TS3's Creative Community: This is a blog ran by xXAngelicEvilXx/ AE. If you haven't checked it out before, it's a a troll-less version of MySims3Blog. It's for people who want constructive criticism, not just anonymous people bashing their work.


HarmonySims's 100 Baby Challenge: This was a challenge in where HarmonySims' Sim, Cadence Sierra, wants to raise 100 babies. Recently, she hit the milestone. So congratulations to her!

Congratulations, Mel & Joe?

Recently, ABC Family has ordered new episodes of Mel & Joe, their latest attempt at a comedy. I guess this is good, because the show could maybe improve with these 10-12 episodes.

ABC Family’s attempts at keeping this show interesting are somewhat completely obvious/blatant. This week’s episode was, “Dancing with the Stars of Toledo” was supposed to air last week, but they (probably) changed it last minute so it could air this week, versus Glee’s episode of “Britney/Brittany”. I guess they thought Dancing with the Stars guest stars could compete (and win) against Britney Spears.

And they’re only eight episodes in, and they’ve already begun romantic angst between the titular characters.

Posting Spree, Posting Spree, Nothing Could Stop me…

I’ve had too much homework during this week, so all the blog post ideas I’ve had have been delayed till today.

Sims 3 loaded in 19 minutes (Sunday) and 18 minutes(Yesterday) this week. I seriously was surprised. No joke.

And Nickelodeon is doing their annual Worldwide Day of Play, which would be good, but well, I’ve talked about this before. This year, once they go back on the air, they have Spongebob on for their daily amount of I dunno, 6 hours?

Dear Nickelodeon,

IF YOU WANT KIDS TO BE ACTIVE, YOU’LL HAVE TO DO MORE THAN GO OFF THE AIR FOR THREE HOURS. ESPECIALLY IF FREAKING SPONGEBOB IS WHAT YOU’LL RETURN WITH! IF YOU’RE TRYING TO GET KIDS TO BE ACTIVE, SHOW A LESS POPULAR CARTOON!

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But then they have episodes of True Jackson VP, Victorious, Big Time Rush, and a special of iCarly. Yeah, sure, it’s night, so kids can’t exactly play basketball in their driveway, so I guess it’ okay. The only thing I have against it is that this block is being hosted by Keke Palmer and the others from True Jackson. True Jackson is neglected on Nickelodeon, since it’s not a Schneider produced program. So one of the only promotions for this show is when Nickelodeon is telling kids to not watch their channel? Doesn’t that sound like they’re giving ruining the show on purpose?

Total Drama: World Tour

I’ve only had one post about the Total Drama series on my blog, which doesn’t really show my love for the cartoon. Well, as much as love you could have for a cartoon. Total Drama started out as a reality show parody with stereotypical contestants. The goth girl, the reality show bitch who everybody hates and yet stays on for a long time, the sassy black woman, the gentle giant, the fat guy only available for food/fart jokes, the dumb blonde, and so on…

Now you’re probably thinking, “How shallow of a show! That’s not funny” and stuff, but the show makes it kind of work.

The show had a worse second season, mainly because some of the characters weren’t on, and the show focused on one love triangle thing. And I didn’t have the time to watch most of the season. :x

The cartoon had a third season, which was a… musical. Yes, you’re probably confused on why I like the cartoon. The third season was an improvement from the second, because they had more contestants, and the character conflicts were somewhat better. And here’s what I think of it more:

• Gwen. I liked her in TDI, but hated her in TDA because she was the main love triangle person. In TDWT, she doesn’t get any better by kissing another contestant’s boyfriend, and acting like she did nothing wrong. After thinking of the first season for why I liked her, I just found more reasons to hate her. She had an inconsistent on-again-off-again thing with another contestant, and then she voted him off, because she saw him kissing the reality show bitch who avoids eliminations. And at the end of the season, she has a tirade on all but five campers. And she learned to befriend one of the people she ranted a couple episodes before. I guess she’s supposed to be parodying whiny teenage girls too?
• Heather, the aforementioned reality show bitch who managed to avoid every elimination. She had no real personality at TDA, but in TDWT, she’s somewhat of a better character. She’s not as evil. She’s probably my favorite this season.
• Sierra. She’s a new girl who’s supposed to be a teenager, but she looks 22, and she’s parodying stalker-fangirls, I guess. She has a crush on another contestant who likes Gwen, but that hasn’t caused much drama yet. I like her a bit.
• Owen. This season still is Owen-centric, and I think it’s (Pardon the horrible weight pun) because he attracts people with a gravitational pull. He’s still in the competition at the moment, which is probably because without him, the writers wouldn’t have anyone to use fat/fart jokes on. He won TDI, made it to TDA, and is in TDWT, so it’s pretty obvious that the writers like him. In show, he prolly won TDI because he didn’t do anything to seriously piss anyone off, so nobody voted him off.
• Alejandro. I have no real opinion of him, but it feels like the producers of the show listened to me when I complained about Justin. Justin was supposed to be the “Hot one” in TDI, and became the antagonist in TDA, but then he just randomly changed back to the “Hot one”. Alejandro seems to be Justin, but as a consistent villain.

If you’re okay with stereotypes, satires, toilet humor, cheesy musicals, and reality shows, then this is okay. Like I said in my TDA post, it beats most stuff on Cartoon Network.

I Love the ‘70s Comment

I watched some of the “Best of: I Love the ‘70s” yesterday, and I was somewhat right in my previous post. For the ‘70s, the commentators were less snarky, and more nostalgic. They had a positive tone for things like Shrinky Dinks and Sea Monkeys. Yeah, I said positive and Shrinky Dinks in the same sentence. :P

They also had some better, well-known celebrities, like George Lopez, Constance Marie, and Maggie Wheeler. Well, at least they’re somewhat legitimate actors.

I Love the Decades Rant

If you watch cable TV, have plenty of guilty pleasures, and love nostalgia, then you’ve probably watched, or at least heard of the VH1 series “I Love the ___” Series. Basically, VH1 gets a bunch of ‘celebrities*’, comedians, and rights to show bits of shows and movies, and they just talk about trends and stuff from that decade.

With I love the ‘80s, it was a hit. Then they just decided to do that with the ‘70s, the ‘90s, toys, holidays, and the 2000s. In 2008.  Seriously?

Aside from the fact that the decade wasn’t over, I Love the New Millennium was bad because of a couple of things:

• They missed out on a lot. For certain years, they didn’t include things which were iconic in the year (And still are big now), yet they included things that were kind of big, but forgotten about after a while.  Most of the time, this was for budget reasons, or the actors from the movie/show didn’t want to be on, but still.
• It wasn’t much of “I Love” the New Millennium, as much as it was “Let’s roast trends from the 2000s, because when they were in, we were too old to ‘get it’”. I watched a “Best of I Love the ‘80s” and the comedians actually liked the things they were talking about, and seemed nostalgic. But for things like Sudoku, they were just like “WTF IS THIS?” They could’ve wait till 2020-ish, so then people whose childhoods were in the 2000’s could talk about the trends and toys and stuff more nostalgically.
• They missed out on a lot of stuff. They made it in June 2008, and a lot happened in the year and a half left of the decade: Barack Obama winning presidency, the Tina Fey/ Sarah Palin SNL sketches, the Olympics, H1N1, Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, and lots of other celebrities dying, Lady Gaga (In general), Glee, the Taylor Swift/Kanye West VMA incident, The Hangover, Avatar, etc…

Sadly, it came to this fate:

The Golden Rule of today? Don’t recap decades that haven’t ended yet for nostalgia, especially if they don’t even have a proper name!

*Celebrities meaning D-List has-beens or never-weres.

This Week in my TV watching

After my enthusiasm for the iCarly special, iSam’s Mom, it seems weird that I didn’t blog about it. I just didn’t have time. I also managed to watch a bunch of other stuff, too, so I decided to clump them all together.

iCarly: iSam’s Mom was good, but not enough Jane Lynch. The episode has a subplot which was about Freddie and his mom, and it managed to be a co-plot, not subplot. Seriously, Dan? You should've make it an hour long, or make the Freddie co-plot another episode. Or you could’ve have Freddie’s mom and Jane Lynch fight. Okay, so the last one would be weird.

Good Luck, Charlie: The show is the only thing on Disney which makes me laugh (Other than Wizards of Waverly Place, though). Too bad Disney reruns the show too much. It has some funny lines, but Disney reruns the show 24/7, and the jokes are the “You’ll only laugh once” types. But Charlie’s cute!

The VMAs: So I’m not sure if I had to italicize that, but oh well. :P Lady Gaga won a lot of stuff. Rihanna had a “surprise” appearance. Not much else.

Response to Yesterday’s Post

Just in time for Halloween: Newsea’s models double as….

…..demon things!

Thank you AE for the idea. I used Gimp(Which I haven’t used for a while, other then the banner for this blog) for this. Her skin looks a bit on the sun burnt side, but oh well. :P devil horns from Google.

Another Good Hair Day?

I’ve found (And by found, I mean saw it on My Sims 3 Blog) a good hair again. This time it’s by… Newsea?!

It looks familiar, like he’s already done it before. But he’s done so much hairs that they all look alike at this point.

Good Hair Day

Sorry for the cheesier pun-title then usual. And for not posting at all this week. School has begun, and… yeah. How many times have you read that in the past few weeks? I have a couple of post ideas, but I’m saving them for the weekend because I haven’t had enough time to type them.

On another note, though, My Blue Book has made a really good guy hair, which is, well, really good. :P

It looks like a real hairstyle, and not just a random “emo hairstyle”. There are plenty of good hairstyles on that blog, so go check them out. :)

I promise I’ll try to post some (TV show review) blog posts this weekend.

Incoming Ham: Maggie Wheeler on Drake and Josh

Tomorrow, Jane Lynch is guest starring on iCarly as Sam’s mom. I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned that a lot. :P Speaking of stars performing on Nick shows, I found out Maggie Wheeler of Friends was on an episode of Drake and Josh. Thanks to IMDB, I found the episode (and a link to the video of the episode): Here are some screenshots of her:

And here she is in the credits:

© to Nickelodeon, Dan Schneider, Viacom, Spongebob, Drake and Josh…

And to those wondering, I got the screenshots from the Nick video site.

This Week in my Life

So, this week started out with my brother and I franticly finishing our summer reading. For the record, we started the summer reading during Mid-July, and we read during vacation, so it’s not exactly procrastinating. The summer reading included coming up with an alternate ending to a book, for a AP US History class. Yep, that’s right. We also had a test with two essays for that class. Looks like they’re not joking about the AP part.

We also got the news that our grandma’s brother passed away. That definitely made our day sadder. :( RIP.

School was okay, but the first day was filled with signing things and hearing about the future and SATs and colleges and stuff like that. Not exactly the best transition. As mentioned before, we had a test too. We haven’t gotten the grades back yet.

Oh, and I’m using “we” because my brother and I have lots of classes together, just thought I should mention that somewhere.

We’re also in plenty of Honors classes, and I came to the realization that almost everyone in it is sucking up to the teacher in blatant ways. Like, seriously, small talk with the teacher is one thing, being their Yes Man is another.

My biology teacher’s hairstyle is kind of familiar (If I recognize that hair, does that mean I play Sims 3 too much?), and there are only two other sophomores in that class. The rest are freshmen. I think in our district, biology is supposed to be a class with mostly, if not all, sophomores. So that’s… awkward.

And now we have a long weekend because of Rosh Hashanah. Happy Rosh Hashanah to those who celebrate it.

I’m looking forward to Saturday, because Jane Lynch is guest starring on iCarly, and Sunday, because my cousin’s son is getting Baptized, so I get to spend the day with my family. And then there are the VMAs, which I guess I might watch if I have time.

Disney xD Fail

Last Sunday, I mentioned how The Nanny was being taken off nick@nite, but apparently, it’s still on. So um, I was wrong.

And on another note, Disney XD is making a sitcom called Pair of Kings which involves Mitchell Musso of Hannah Montana fame, and Doc Shaw, of The Suite Life on Deck fame. Or House of Payne fame. Anyway, they go from being normal fraternal twins living in Chicago into heirs to a throne in a foreign, make believe tropical island.

Yeah, how are they fraternal twins? I don’t mean to be offensive to biracial families or whatever, but it bothers me how Disney couldn’t find actors who are the same ethnicity to play twins. They don’t even look alike otherwise. Seriously, Disney? They could’ve just say they’re stepsiblings or cousins or something.

And why are they getting their own show? At 19, Mitchell is too old for Disney with Hannah Montana ending, and he’s not going to be taken seriously with a Disney xD sitcom. And at 18, Doc Shaw should be looking for other projects, too. Not to mention, Doc Shaw wasn’t exactly a good actor on The Suite Life on Deck, seeing as he just shouted all his lines, and complained about not being famous anymore.

This Friday, there’s going to be a sneak peek of this show on Disney Channel. Honestly, I’m kind of confused, because Disney xD’s a premium channel, so if a kid likes the preview on Disney Channel, are they just going to tell their parents to buy the package with Disney xD? Disney tends to do this a lot. They’ve had “Special Previews” of their other Disney xD shows, like Zeke and Luther and I’m in the Band. Other than the obvious reason (Money), why do they do this so much? Disney xD’s targeted toward boys, and Disney Channel is more for girls, so how do they expect these crossover things to work?

Oh, and that Chuck kid from iCarly’s also going to be on Pair of Kings, so yeah.

Zynga’s Labor Day Celebration

Even though it doesn’t make any sense that a Facebook Game Developer celebrates Labor Day (How could one even ‘celebrate’ Labor Day? Mourning seems to be a better word), Zynga’s celebrating it anyway.

With Farmville, there’s double mastery in this weekend, from now until Monday. So if you have any crops you’re trying to master, but you’re having a hard time doing, plant them now. They haven’t made any decorations or buildings yet, but that’s okay with me.

And Yoville, eh, not exactly the best time to be a Yovillian. They don’t have any stuff like double mastery which improves game play, and they just made mediocre furniture and clothes, most of which costs real money (Where does this sound familiar? Oh yeah, The Sims 3 Store). Heck, they didn’t even make new jobs. Last year, they used to make new stuff which cost coins, and looked nice. Now, everything’s a ridiculous costume that costs real money. I have more than 60,000 because there’s nothing to spend it on (Yes, that sounds ridiculous, but comparing the game to what it was a year ago will show how much it’s declined).

Just Say No to Paysites

This, time, I’m not necessarily talking about TSR. There’s a new paysite called Soulful Sims, and xXAngelicEvilXx gave plenty of reasons for why it’s bad. Paysites in general are illegal, because EA owns the rights for making profits off of the Sims custom content. So just boycott them.

And because this wasn’t a lengthy or well written post, here are some links:

Chouxie's Chalkboard: It's Not Worth Any Money You Give Them

Zeri's Useless Ponderings: yet another illegal paysite

New Header

I updated the header for this blog. Now it’s not just text.

I really need stuff to blog about. .-.

Closing Thoughts on The Nanny

The Nanny is ending its run on nick@nite this week, and it will be moving to TV Land. I remember watching it last year, and getting hooked in to the show. I liked most stuff about it. I’m able to watch the show with Fran’s voice. I’m able to watch it with all the celebrity  guests. I’m able to deal with the (slighty) cliche plots. I’m able to deal with the nineties-centric clothing. But there’s one thing I’m unable to deal with: The length of the series.

The show lasted six seasons, which is a lot for most shows, especially since lots of sitcoms can’t get picked up past the pilot or first twelve episodes. I think the series has too many things going on in the last two seasons, specifically (In white for spoilers):

• Fran and Maxwell get engaged and married within eight episodes.
• Yetta gets engaged to to Sammy, played by Ray Charles.
• Maggie thinks she’s pregnant.
• Fran thinks she’s pregnant, but it turns out she wasn’t.
• Fran really is pregnant a couple of episodes later. This time for real. :P And she’s having twins.
• Max is asked to move to California, to make one of his plays a sitcom.
• Niles proposes to C.C., she rejects him.
• Maggie gets married.
• Niles tries to propose again.
• Fran gives birth to twins.
• Niles and C.C. get married in Fran’s delivery room and C. C. is pregnant.
• The Sheffields move to California.

Yeah, all that happened in two seasons. I’m not sure if the show got cancelled, or if Fran Drescher wanted it to end, or what, but I’d like to see another season so all these events wouldn’t seem so shoehorned and stuff. Alternatively, the producers could’ve write Fran and Max’s romance into the series earlier, and stop with all the “Will they or won’t they?” moments earlier.

But um, farewell Fran and the rest. See you on TV Land.

What’s really Wrong with the Jersey Shore

Being from New Jersey, the show Jersey Shore is somewhat personal. They gave our state a bad name, more traffic in the summer, and a reputation for having promiscuous tourists. But those stuff don’t annoy me as much as a certain thing. No, I’m not talking about the tanning promotions, or the stereotyping of Italians, but some other stuff.

Specifically, the Unfortunate Implications of this show.

To those who don’t watch it, the show’s just about 8 people living together and clubbing and stuff.  Cameras roll while they’re drunk, or dancing, or telling each other off. What happens in the nightclub is the part which annoys me about this show.

If the guys see a girl who’s ugly in the clubs (As in, not a supermodel), they’ll call the girl a grenade. The phrase describes people who are hideous, like EA/Maxis Sims hideous. They don’t stop at insulting these people in front of national television, though. They also dance with these ‘grenades’, and kiss them, and even take them home! If these girls are ‘so ugly’, then why are you leading them on? And for the record, these guys are jerks in general, and they only have six-pack abs. Since when does having a good beach body give you permission to insult people on national television?

And on another note, I just saw a commercial for My Wife and Kids getting welcomed to nick@nite with…. a George Lopez marathon. As if it’s not on enough. Fare well, Fran.

Farmville Update

So last time when I posted about Farmville, it was just complaints. But since July, Farmville kind of… improved to me. In the past few months, they’ve had some more sets, and there have been more decorations and buildings that cost coins, not money.

There also is a new Farmer’s Market thing which lets Farmers use their crops to make goods- (No, not those kinds of goods.) wine, baked goods, and perfume. The only complaint I have is that I chose the bakery option out of process of elimination (I thought it would be awkward to be making alcohol stuff as a teen and I thought it would be weird to be making perfume as a guy), and the crops you need for the bakery aren’t what I plant (They mostly are in the hour ranges, while I prefer the “day” ones). Yeah, sure, you could still find the crops on the market as long as your friends have them, but Farmville isn’t as popular as it used to be, so that’s still hard.

They recently updated the storage system. Before, you’d have to buy some big sheds or barns to hide some items, and these sheds weren’t really decorative, and you’d have a hard time hiding seasonal items like Jack-o’-lanterns or Christmas trees. Now it’s easier to store stuff with the cellar.

They also have a pigpen buildable, which is relatively easy compared to the past stuff. You only need 24 things, as opposed to the past 50 items.

Overall, these changes are for the better, and I’m beginning to like Farmville again.