Devil May Caramelldansen

Badass fictional characters.

What exactly makes a character “badass”? What defines badass? Is there a list that must be fulfilled in order for a character to be labelled badass? I dunno about you, but I define the term used for fictional characters as “being able to kick everyone’s butt with a flick of his(I’m not sexist, its just I don’t classify females as badass, even if they are.) finger, and looking cool and 1337 while doing it”. Let’s cut the crap, and let me list down the characters I think fit this description.

1. Dante from the Devil May Cry series

The man at the height of cool and badass, Dante kicks serious butt and looks cool while doing it. He’s also a master of different weapons, and can wield a sword as well as he can shoot with a pistol. He also uses dual pistols, one black and one white (called Ebony and Ivory), which is cool. He also has white hair. Throw in that red trenchcoat and his sarcastic, cheesy one-liners and we have a winner!

2. Sol Badguy/ Holy Orders Sol from the Guilty Gear series

A man of few words, Sol is a Gear, a biological superweapon, who kills other Gears to protect humans, and his ultimate goal is to do in the creator of the Gears, who is only known as “That Man” (Ano Otoko). He wields an oddly rectangular sword of his own creation, called the Fuuenken (Fireseal). Capable of feats of superhuman ability, he also has a fire-addiction, and uses flames in his attacks. As we all know, fire = cool, so Sol is right up there in the scale of badass-ness.

3. K Dash from the King of Fighters series

K’ is another fire-addict whose slouch, black jumpsuit, white hair and tanned complexion makes him an instant badass. His cocky attitude adds to that, with the famous intro line “Ore hitori de juubun da”, meaning “I alone [in this fight] is more than enough”. He also wears a red-plated glove, which is probably to help him control his flames (I can’t remember. Its been ages since I played KOF and I’m too lazy to Wiki him).

4. Sephiroth from Final Fantasy 7

EVERYTHING about Sephiroth is badass. He’s probably the king of badass. He’s the villain that everyone remembers best from ANY Final Fantasy game. White hair (again), exposed chest covered partially by his slick black coat (like Dante in DMC3) and last but not least, Masamune, his impossibly long katana. Sure, he’s insane, but that doesn’t stop him from being cool. He makes a certain blonde spiky-haired kid with a huge sword look passe.

5. Grimmjaw Jaggerjack from Bleach

Clothed in a white vest with rolled-up sleeves (bare-chested again) and a white hakama, Grimmjaw is easily the most badass character in Bleach. His perpetual cocky grin and violent, bloodthirsty (possibly unstable) nature reeks of badass. In their first fight Grimmjaw totally pwnt Ichigo, showing him a world full of hurt and only receiving a light injury from Ichigo’s Getsuga Tenshou. True, Ichigo surpasses Grimmy later, but that don’t stop Grimmy from being WAY cooler than Ichigo. Pfft.

Did I mention he has light-blue hair and a kickass hairstyle?

Comment and choose your favourite! Or name another character who can kick all these dude’s butts.

The Time has Come.

Well… Just wanted to share this with y’all. The title of this post is the name of Nero from DMC4’s theme song. It’s pretty good, so here ya go:

The lyrics:

The time has come and so have I
I’ll laugh last cause you came to die
The damage done~the pain subsides
And I can see the fear clear when I look in your eye. 

I never kneel and I’ll never rest
You can tear the heart from my chest
I’ll make you see what I do best,
I’ll succeed as you breathe your very last breath. 

Now I know how the angel fell
I know the tale and I know it too well
I’ll make you wish you had a soul to sell
When I strike you down and send you straight to hell

My army comes from deep within
Beneath my soul-beneath my skin
As you’re ending, I’m about to begin
My strength, his bane, and I will never give in.

I’ll tell you now I’m the one to survive
You never break my faith or my stride
I’ll have you choke on your own demise
I make the angel scream, and the devil cry!

———-

On another note, maybe I should post pictures, whether related or not, into my posts. Seems like my blog’s been kinda…dull? So yeah. I have decided: MOAR PICTARS.

8Minutes Youth Film competition and some random news…

Before I start bitching, HAPPY NATIONAL DAY.

Okay.

Now, Austin press-ganged me into joining the 8minutes youth film competition with him along with Eugene and Zaidi. We were supposed to make a film that’s not longer than 8 minutes in 8 days, to the theme of “A resilient community in the spirit of giving”.

Needless to say, we were stumped by that title.

Anyways, a very tiring week before last. And the best thing? Last week my Digital Compositing and Matting and Effects Animation assignments were due.

Pretty shitty time for me, as you can probably imagine.

Now that’s over, I have to worry about next week’s submissions: A storyboard and a continuity report for my production assignment, a matte painting for my… matte painting module and a 2000 word essay on the Matrix for my film module.

After that, I’m home free!

Mai laptop died D:

Strictly speaking, I suspect either my video processor died, or there’s a connection problem with my motherboard.

Both of which meaning basically, all my assignment files can’t be accessed, because the damn thing starts up but there’s completely no display whatsoever.

Due to poor time management and total shagged-ness on my part (I didn’t sleep on Thursday night just to rush edit the 8minutes film shit) I not only couldn’t get up in time for the afternoon lesson, I didn’t do anything until today. Which got me scolded by my dad.

I’ll prolly bring my laptop down to the Acer Service Center on Monday. Hope if they can’t fix it on the spot I can at least get my files from it.

So I use my home desktop for the first time, and look around online for solutions to this, and surprisingly for me, I found a whole freakin’ community of people who have the exact same problem as me. WITH ACER LAPTOPS.

Some of them get this problem after only a coulpla months of use, some of them, like me, got it awhile after their 1year warranty expired.

FIshy? No shit, Sherlock.

So now I’m hoping it won’t take too long to fix, or I’ll be screwed; my assignments are due THIS FRIDAY.

Origins

Nothing much to say right now; I’m saving up my post on the 8minutes film competition for when it ends. So… I’ll just give a short background on my blog’s title.

“Keep Yourself Alive”, and subsequently “Keep Yourself Alive II” and “Keep Yourself Alive III”, is the title of the theme song for Sol Badguy from the Guilty Gear series, IMO the best 2D fighting game there is.

This is actually a song by Queen of the same name.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_Badguy <- Wiki’s take on Sol. Linking is somehow down on WP, I’ll try to fix it later.

Pictures promised, so…

I suppose I did promise.

Talking cock (Sally ninja’d us!)

From left to right: Mafiaso, Ochazuke, KageKurenai, Malzias, Sanzen, Yumeno, MinistryOfLaw, Nagare, Tea, Inazuki(front)

Fingerssss.

Sally took this picture for us, aLKayeL jumped in. Guess which one ;P

FOR TEH LULZ.

New theme!

I sorta got bored with the old theme. Isn’t this nicer?

Just in case you didn’t know, my favorite color is black, followed by red.

Also because I’ve been feeling kinda down lately, and I have no idea why. So darkness is just right for my frame of mind right now. *hides in shadows*

Ex-WrathOfGod Outing!

Wazaa!

I was MIA from teh interwebs yesterday cuz we haz OUTING! WrathOfGod ex-members met yesterday for a gathering, and also to hang out with KageKurenai who was visiting from Brunei. It was a small gathering; at any one point in time we had around 8-10 people invading walking around Suntec City. MinistryOfLaw aka Sally, the queen organiser; Inazuki, our resident long-haired kid; Mafiaso, the faction bouncer; Sanzen, the triple-bikini-elementalist-user; Yumeno, the PvP enthusiast; aLKayeL, the big-daddy of WoG; Ochazuke, his gay partner cousin; Tea and Nagare, new members of the WoG family; KageKurenai, the self-proclaimed buaya visiting from Brunei; Lighto, the one who lost weight after quitting GE and me, Malzias, the newly demoted Faction Slave promoted Deputy Leader for IraDeorum.

We went for lunch at Marina Square’s Ministry Of Food (strange, MinistryOfLaw organising lunch at Ministry Of Food…hmm) a Japanese restaurant behind Kenny Roger’s. Mafia was late, so the rest of us (excluding Lighto, who was still working) had our lunch there. Nothing much, just the standard Japanese fare. What made the outing fun was the meeting of people we only knew from an online game; both exciting and foreboding at the same time. I’d met most of the members before, except Kage, Tea and Nagare.

After lunch we went to look for Lighto at Suntec; he’s working at 25Hours. We said hi, then proceeded to walk around, then down to the Fountain of Wealth. We originally wanted to bring Kage there to take a look and perhaps do the walk around the central fountain, but there was a queue there o_O” So we dumped that idea and went upstairs to the place immediately above the Fountain to take some pictures. I’ll post them up when I grab them from Sally ~(._.~)

We then went to hang around, eventually sitting down at Carl’s Jr. so that Mafia can have his breakfast (at freakin’ 4pm) and so aLK and Ocha can have something to eat (they only had desert at MOF) We waited there, chatted about GE, about life, compared prices between Singapore and Brunei in electronics and other stuff. Apparently electronics in Brunei are around a hundred bucks more expensive than those in Singapore, which is why Kage’s gonna buy his external HDD and PSP here. aLK, Ocha, Yumeno and Mafi left earlier, and didn’t join us for dinner

Lighto got off from work at 7, he found us at around 7.30, then we went for dinner at ThaiExpress @ CityLink Mall. I must say the food there is really good, a must try for all you Thai food fanatics. Their tom yum was excellent; even though I only had one spoonful from Lighto’s bowl and the words of everyone else there praising it to go by on, but it really was good. The prices are also quite reasonable for the standard of food, so a +1 from me.

Quite a fun day, lots of laughter and jokes and whatnot.

You know you’re gaming too much when…

1. …you see Grim Grips everywhere and start trying to grab them with your imaginary Devil Bringer.

2. …you meet a friend at a crowded place and when you don’t see him/her, you “PM” him/her and ask “Eh, what channel ah?”

3. …you start worrying about zombies attacking you.

4. …you carry a gun around to shoot zombies and/or demons.

5. …you yell phrases your favourite characters like to use.

6. …you investigate the corpse of the ant you just killed to see if he dropped any good loots.

7. …you think every exam or assignment is a boss fight.

8. …you lose sleep wondering how you’re gonna overcome that ‘boss fight’.

9. …you want to carry a hugeass sword and have a gravity-defying hairstyle just to show you’re cool.

10. …you can add to this list.