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Rebuild of Evangelion 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone

June 12, 2008
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I hope it doesn’t count as a spoiler to put the screenshot i made of Lilith out here–it wasn’t a secret anyway, and i couldn’t find any normal, good-looking material to promote the first one in the Rebuild of Evangelion tetralogy. I just watched the first piece, 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone, which more or less consists of the first six episodes of the Neon Genesis Evangelion anime series. The storyline is said to be changed, but i haven’t realised much about this: the newly redrawn graphics and the much more watcher-friendly presentation makes this movie a great alternative for the series. It’s just as depressed and/or depressive, but meanwhile more bearable–or maybe just i changed, matured for two more years (it was about that long since i watched the End of Evangelion movie). It’s easier to digest for sure. With the series one could have the feeling that it’s made to be understood only by people who suffer from severe depression–but the Rebuild 1.0 is “appropriate for all brave and mentally stable audience”. I won’t say you should watch it: if you think you’re strong enough to see the struggle of a totally hopeless and depressed mankind, give it a try. Else… it’s up to you. Just don’t lose your faith, because i could hardly forgive myself then.

Evolution

June 12, 2008
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A rarity occurred just now: i played. For a long time, about one and a half hour. What game could remain entertaining for so long? Many, naturally, but in my case, it was now the “mighty” flOw, the game where the player leads a small worm-like creature to evolve, and become the dominant (and only) inhabitant of its region of the sea.

flOw at first came out as a flash game in 2006, and it was very successful, having reached 350 thousand downloads in two weeks from its launch (according to Wikipedia). I got it sometime in 2007, but i don’t remember where have i read about it or where have i seen it–it doesn’t matter either. I haven’t played much with it ever since then, because after completing the second chapter (the Jellyfish), there’s no way further. I’ve read that a bug prevents me from going up to the surface again, but there’s nothing afterwards anyway. In the flash version, there are only two creatures you can control, the first “Worm”, and the second “Jellyfish”. With the Worm, it’s a lot easier than with the Jellyfish, but still not too easy. In its PS3 version, because there’s such a thing, there are many more creatures. (Now comes the summary.) It’s an entertaining, and not easy game, for “all audiences”. If you have a spare hour, give it a try, you won’t regret it.

Utopic image

June 11, 2008
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A world with only nice people. A world without sin, a world without madness. An ideal world. A world where everyone would be happy to live. A world that won’t ever exist, and that makes me think about my own life. My life, that’s going to be lived in this world of dirt and foulness, that’s going to crash down into a pile of dust in a matter of years. How am i supposed to outpower the stupidity of many, when the sane are so few, and never in power? Apropos, why are the sane never in power? Or… if that never will become true, because it never will (pessimist! may someone kill me?), maybe… maybe this will bring you a minute’s peace of mind.

Title: utopic image .
Creator: *m0thyyku

I should’ve written this post in hungarian. Who cares? Who cares at all? Who would be the one to always be beside me? Probably no one. Probably i’m the one who’ll die lonely on a deserted mountain peak, meditating about his life and the true meaning (if any) behind it. I’ll go and watch the Rebuild of Evangelion. Just what i need now: a depressing, mad movie. Something familiar.

Kung Fu Fighting

June 11, 2008
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I just watched the Kung Fu Panda movie. I loved it. It was funny (i laughed as much as in the past half year altogether), it was unique, at least i haven’t seen anything like this before, and it had some message too. Although that message was the same as all those popular fighting anime: “believe in yourself”. Among the countless doubts and troubles of the life, this message brings a few moments of peace–it makes you smile how someone, even it’s just a fictional, fat and not really sharp kung fu fighter panda (named Po), someone so… ordinary (in that world) can grasp something close the “meaning of liff life”, the “way of the ninja kung fu”. I’m not good at writing about movies (so much you can see already), and i’m not much into them either. I only know what i’ve seen: this movie is good. It was very entertaining, leaving not even a moment for boredom, and that’s all that matters.

Now come

June 11, 2008
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I’m about to start filling out my application papers for my japanese scholarship. Later i’m going to school to fetch my letter of reference and have lunch (it’s gonna be chili, woot). I’ll also have to talk with one of my clients, because i really need the money. Right now i’ll transcode a few albums so to save a bit of HDD-space. I’m in a very strange state of mind. I almost fall asleep. Excuse me…

God help me

June 11, 2008
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I usually try to pray without asking for anything (and i usually fail, but more about this later). Why? Because who am i to ask anything from God Almighty? What am i in this infinite world, why would he even move a finger to help me? At all, do i deserve it? Am i not a sinner? I am—and that makes it worse: i am a sinner, i know, and yet i sin again and again, knowing i am doing something wrong. Still, i’m bound by my body. And my consciousness adapts. Sadly. But when i’m in a pitch, i don’t think—i pray and hope.

But i didn’t want to go in-depth of this topic (now). I wanted to write about my plans for the summer. Nice beginning, nay? The beginning may be nice, but i can only hope that the end too will be. I have so many plans for the summer… Many movies and new anime to watch, dozens (literally) of books to read, uncountable parties to attend, many thousand lines of code to write and others i don’t take into consideration yet. Beside all these, i must work, so that i’ll have the financial background for my plans. I think i won’t write more than ten posts altogether in july, because i won’t be home at all. This summer will be a silent one, but only for the blog.

Not

June 10, 2008
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Today haven’t turned out exactly how i planned… But somehow i’ll manage. I’m dead tired now, and that’s the reason of the change: tonight i had a programme planned which would need a lot more energy than i have now. First, i had my math exam today, about which i’ll write (a bit) more later), then i had lunch at school, and went out shopping with my mom. Don’t think we went to a plaza and started the shopping of the usual artificial human visitors–we went to sports stores to buy various equipment: for example we bought a new front tyre for my bike (though i couldn’t put it on in lack of the neede tools) and (in Tesco) eight two-liter bottles of Schweppes tonic. I drink a lot of that stuff nowadays (as of now, i was into Kinley (the Coca-Cola version), but someone suggested that i should give this one a try too). Now i started reading those tens of blogposts and news that piled up in the past two days (i haven’t checked anything yesterday), with only one interruption planned: having dinner in a few minutes. I asked my private chef (my mom) to put together a (usually very good) vegetable-salad for me. Olive, tomatoes, and loads of other stuff the name of which i don’t know even in hungarian, not to mention english.

Would you like to print it?

June 8, 2008
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Thanks, but rather not. I tried to print a 88 page Word document. I tricked it a bit, so that i could print it on 22 sheets. The fun thing is that i started printing, and Windows returned some kind of error. Okay then, abort printing. I decided i should try printing only about four pages at once, and started like that. Instant freeze, as if it was touched by Vonnegut’s super-ice. I reset the computer, and when it finally started up after the reboot—now comes the real fun part—it suddenly started printing the original, 88-page thing. I wonder how. It just completed now, though it started about an hour ago… That’s Windows XP and HP F2180 for you.

Fun

June 6, 2008
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Today i’ve been to school – no success. I wanted to fetch my letter of reference from the headmaster, but they claimed that they asked my form teacher for her opinion, and she hadn’t yet responded. Man, how irresponsible they can be? Even i know that whatever she promises, she forgets that very moment… I won’t get that letter of reference on next tuesday, what they said, not even friday, if it depends on her. But i’d kill then, because the monday of the week after the next is the deadline for application (for the scholarship in japan). But at least i could have lunch at school, because a second-year friend gave me his.

Since i arrived home, i did nothing, and that’s troubling. In the evening we’re going to a “Dumaszínház” event with a friend, and before that (so in the coming hour), i should learn at least three math questions for the monday exam… I’m done with about five out of twenty as of now. No worry. I collected some of my past designs into one folder, and did one more, an alternate skin for my domain after i’m done with the CMS that’ll be the base of it. It looks fun, and very-very web2.0… I’m into diagonal stripes, gradients, shadows and glows nowadays, when it comes to designing. I fear i’m becoming more and more general… I should design something really unique. Oh, and if you send me an image, i’ll do a possibly valid XHTML+CSS page out of it. If i can, that is.

Somewhere in time

June 6, 2008
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Speechless. A bit hard to start writing a post, when i sit down in front of the keyboard, and look at the screen, and nothing comes across my mind. Some ancient and funny Pendulum-remix doom-dooms its way out of the speakers, and after a nine mile bikeride i’m “caught somewhere in time”. I’ve done a layout, that’s probably the future skin of all valerauko.net sites (most of which is not yet present, or not in the form they will be). It may end up an open-source content management system, since that’s exactly what i need. A small and powerful back-end, which can be converted virtually into anything using modules and plugins. This idea just popped out of my mind, but i think i could integrate my current blog plans into this script. Based PHP and MySQL, it’s going to be simple (as simple as could be), customisable (absolutely), powerful and fast (i hope). It’s not going to come out fast, i’m afraid… My summer is a bit stuffed already. I think i’ll only have free time in the end of August, i mean free time more than a day. I like it if i know what’s going to happen around me, but i don’t like it if i have no freedom, because everything’s planned, and each day has something to do. The next: math exam, monday.