Typical College Stereotype and Me

If one year of college has taught me anything its the fact that going to college is an entirely different experience compared to public education. Also the so called "college stereotype" arises with every student. If your too dense or oblivious to what I mean, basically its the "lets party, drink, skip classes, and do things at the last moment" kind of thought. Such thoughts have come accross my mind about these things, and let me tell you none of those things are true. So lets buckle down and explain how this kind of thinking does not fit into a typical student's train of thought or my own.

Point number one: lets talk about drinking. I want to talk about this first because this is the one thing that comes to any in-coming freshmans' mind whne the word college is mentioned. I can tell you drinking is not fun, even though I haven't done it (I'm underage for crying out loud) I can still say that its not a good idea to do it during the week. I've tasted a bit of wine and it was awful, I'd rather be strapped to a chair and be forced to watch all of Love Hina and it's movies in English than to drink any form of alcohol. Plus its expensive, a whole bunch of six packs that a student uses could probably buy me the next two seasons of Inuyasha or even a Perfect Grade Gundam model. Also getting drunk isn't fun either, you do stupid things and don't even know about it.

Partying, theres a lot of it going on even when there aren't even classes. Depending on what kind of party you go to its a sure bet that there will be some annoying and aggresive people. Thats why you always hear about fights being associated with parties. Now I enjoy parties, just not with alcohol and jerks. I'll take a nice Starcraft LAN party with my roomates thank you.

Skipping classes, I'm pretty sure that I'll never do this (I swear I never will). As I mentioned before college is different from public education, why because you're paying for it. So then why would anyone skip classes. Sure the common excuse is that the syllabus contains all the things for the week and you'll get the notes from someone else. The sad truth of it is most people either attend half or none of the lecures at all. So how can you trust getting anything from anyone in your classes. Plus if your paying for your education and you happen to fail the course and you need to retake that course over again thus prolonging your career, the school just made a cool thousand from you.

Doing things at the last minute. This is not fun. I've had bad experiences in the past with this and I vowed to never do it again. Look I know that in high school it was possible, but in college no no,no,no,no,no. Theres a simple solution to this and let me say this: break up assignments into smaller pieces. From there its just up to you.

Well thats my rant about college stereotypes, a pitch VIII tomorrow. This one will be an interesting one.

Graciously Losing

"One shall stand, one shall fall", a famous quote by my hero Optimus Prime. Someone has to win and someone has to lose, no middle ground what so ever. Losing is something that we see as a bad thing. In war it means returning home empty handed and nothing accomplished and with thousands of deaths. You see I suppose society today puts too much emphasis on winning. Everyone wants to win whether it may be a war or something as simple (yet very trivial) as the lottery. I know I may have wrote about this a while back, but its come up again in my life. Recently my friends (who are also my roomates) got me back into Starcraft. We hold LAN games between the four of us or more when we feel like it. To be honest I'm not all that great, plus its been a while since I've played. I usually get the beat down both online and offline when it comes to games like this.

But you know what, its all right with me. I play to have fun, while the entire atmosphere is competitive in the end I just take it my pride's not hurt and I had a good time and its GG with my roomies. Sure people say that you should learn from these losses, thats true in some situations however the point I'd like to make is that we need to not see losing as a bad thing. I've seen lots of people lose and learn nothing from it, they just get really mad and hate the winner. You see nobody wants to lose, because it usually means that the loser ends up feeling worst about failing. In some cases there needs to be one winner and one loser. What we need is to realize that losses aren't a bad thing, it's as long as both competitors walk away with a sense of satisfaction that they gave it their all and in the end if they won or loss it all comes down to regretting nothing.

So the next time you ever fail or feel that you just can't do anything about a losing streak, just remember do all that you can and never regret taking a challenge.

Oh yeah, this is my 100th post, wootz cheerz *throws confetti and vaccums it up. I'll see my readers in post 200.

Thematic Elements of Demon Savior

Post 100 is coming up so I decided to do something deep for that so watch for it. But for now I'd thought I'd take some time again to write about my ultimate vision for Demon Savior also known as a pitch III. If you've read any posts (or a majority of the ones dealing with this idea) the story line is a very dark one. I present this world much like reality, theres crime and various dark things going on in our world that people like us can't imagine. Most of these things happen in an underground sense where "if I don't see it then its not happening" kinda deal. You might be saying "but most animes show places and things like that", well one of the things that I want to get at is that things like this are happening. I just wanted to get this across because for one of my next enemy files for a special breed of demon born in select children, this demon reflects child assassins and soldiers. But more on that later.

The main point that I want to get across in Demon Savior is what is mankind willing to sacrifice to achieve salvation? This question will be portrayed by Ryo and his allies as they fight to deliver our world from the darkness. Each character will sacrifice something, but the one with the heaviest burden is Ryo. A war that started thousands of years ago will ultimately end with Ryo and the salvation rests in the hands of a seventeen year old boy who can barely keep a B average in school. Also another question I pose in it is that is mankind worthy of saving? But all in all, the basic plot shows how one young man falls into the darkness of the world and with the help from friends and allies he ultimately delivers the world from the darkness that consumed him. I have the entire ending of the Demon Savior world in my head, the series will end happily (the final episode would be entitled "Ever After") and followed by a movie which is in the works and a sequel series after that which deals with the next generation of saviors the children of the heroes who saved the world in Demon Savior.

Well thats what I had in mind for the series, look at this as a disclaimer as to the next few entries if they happen to sound too dark or disturbing for that matter. So no theres nothing wrong with my head or anything its just a sad truth that I realized about our world as portrayed in my anime idea.

Mindless Wanderings

I'll be frank, I know that I haven't been thinking of deep stuff lately. Lately I've been watching a lot (and when I mean a lot, I mean an average of 2-3 hours a day). I've just caught up with some of the series that I follow and I've been getting into new ones (Black Lagoon, Inukami, Genshiken). I get my daily doses of comedy and action for these past few days. Genshiken reflects my life in terms of anime and gaming.

But anyways I guess I'll make this topic into a deep thought. I guess its good to have these times of mindlessness, since it gives me a vacation from all the thinking that I need to do for school. Like I said in my post about growing up I just may never have this time to think about stupid things again. Thinking is hard I know, it gives me white hairs causing me to worry about things. Our world revolves around thinking whether in your career or even in a video game. We live in a world that says "think before you act" its the number one rule in our lives.

Take the educational system for example. We train students like myself using highly priced text books published by a company employing hundreds of people that we never see and professors and teachers expect us to spit the info in these books right back out. Now what I'm getting at is the fact that its a matter of absorbing the information rather than in and then back out again. This past semester I had two take home finals from one of my history classes. Now people complain that it was hard and they'd rather do a normal scantron exam. Now from a student's perspective I'd take that over a four page essay at home. But really the essay is a way to think about the material critically. I know these things since I took four years of history back in high school. But now I'm older and I need to know why these events are important and how did they serve the present? Life isn't just read this and give me what the book says, no its read this book and tell me what it means to you, the world and to society.

I guess at times its not good to do mindless things. I'm sure anyone would get bored pushing a button that causes pickles to go into a jar for an entire day. We're getting lazy mentally at times, it occurs everytime we turn on the t.v. to watch reality television, everytime we power up our computers, everytime we pick up the latest copy of people magazine. I admit I'm guilty for two of the three things listed above, but everytime I write here I try to think about whats wrong with our world today, sure I go on tangents like my anime ideas and character anaylzations etc. But I always try to get my share of deep thought everyday. So go out and think about something, maybe something creative, something deep because we can't escape thinking. We may not be able to get rid of it, but we can still keep it at bay by looking at the world differently.

Character File: Cage

"It'll be fun to fight against the fallen Chaos General once again."

Lets take a look at Cage now. Cage is in a previous post the Shadow General, and in terms of rank he is the second most powerful general next to Chaos. Decon class demon, he resembles a human with the exception of having fangs. In terms of story he is the rival to Selpha, both are the same age and became generals at the same time. In terms of power he is highly skilled in sword fighting and spells. While Kin (the death general) is the most skilled in terms of demon magic, Cage's spells are in a different class. Cage's family specialize in shadow techniques, but these are not your typical shadow spells like sending a shadow out to bind them or grab objects. These techniques make the user immortal in a sense and bend dimensions. Cage's shadow is a projection of his soul. Unlike most creatures his soul is not bound to his body, but rather to his shadow. While Cage can do things like send out his shadow, he can actually make his shadow rise up and fight along side him. With his dimension katana Kragon, he can open up holes in space to send up his soul or make a quick escape.

Spell wise he is deadly, since his shadow is his soul he can take over the bodies of others and fight. I mentioned immortality, when a person is cut or shot the shadow experiences the same anguish. However that is not the case for Cage, his soul is his shadow and as long as it exists he cannot die.

Personality wise he is very intelligent. He seeks to overthrow the Nightmare Emperor and become the new demon emperor. He also has unfinished business with Selpha, with Selpha's exile he lost the one person who he wanted to surpass and he was the one who killed Iris the angel.

Of all the generals Cage is one to be feared and the most difficult to kill.