I Am.

No, I can’t do it. I’m having trouble coming to terms with the terrible fact. Everything I know is a lie no, y’know? It’s as if one voice, either mine or Jared’s (2), suddenly cried out.. and then was not silence. Like, they were allowed to continue crying out, making their discontentity known.

Ahh, man, this is terrible. This is absoulutely, freaking terrible. It haunts my soul and my consciousness just to think of this.

That’s an interesting thing. Is your consciousness your soul? By consciousness I mean, like, your mind. Your presence. Your ability to think, and your thoughts, all put together into a mass of.. consciousness.

On the other hand, when I talk about soul, I’m talking about, like, the evil spirit that possesses all human bodies. Well, I guess it doesn’t have to be evil. That’s the only good kind of spirit, though, an evil one. Do not ever trust a spirit that says its a good spirit. That will only lead to disaster.

Well, I mean, it could, very well, lead to disaster if you trust a spirit that say’s it’s evil. That has been known to happen too, every once in awhile. To be safe, it’s probably a good idea never to talk to strange spirits, whether they’re good, evil, alcoholic… Just stay away from them and you should be safe.

Speaking of disasters, I finished the majority of the Order of the Phoenix video game today. Well, I got past dueling Lucius Malfoy and Bellatrix Lestrange as Sirius, and I also got past dueling Voldemort as Dumbledore (and the occlumency battle between Harry and Voldemort)… but now I’m back at Hogwarts with only 65% of the game completed.

My biggest gripe about the game, other than it being based off the movie (snap?) is the controls. It’s like, you hit the “go left” button, the A key, and you go left… in relation to where the camera is. And then, while your going left from the camera’s perspective, the camera moves to right behind Harry, so by pressing the left button, you’re telling Harry to go to his left, which is also now the camera’s left.

There were some pretty cool parts, though. Like, every time you duel people the camera does this huge rotating arc around the characters. So then, when it did that arc for your final duel as Harry, against the inquisitorial Squad, it literally gave me goosebumps. *

This is why they should have kept it like the first three games, especially PoA (I liked that game): lock the camera behind the character, make things invisible if they walk in your line of sight, re-add in the ability to jump, and throw in some spongify tiles (you know, just for good measure).

Goblet of fire was a weird game. They got the camera stuff right in that one, where it’s in a fixed position, but they left the controls as being left or right in relation to the camera’s fixed position. It was weird all around, though. It was a complete diversion from the theme they had had going before that. For one, it didn’t really seem like it was based on anything. They could probably have sold this as a standalone “do magic” game, sorta like Quidditch World Cup, and then developed a different GoF game that follows the story. As it was, it was just a bunch of playable levels where you have no control, really, over what spells you cast. You just hit ‘z’ for charm or ‘x’ for jinx (it may be the other way around).

It wasn’t a terrible game, though. It was just good in a very different way. It definitely wasn’t really what I was expecting. I was expecting another Prisoner of Azkaban game. Um.. nope. The being chased by a dragon part was fun. The trying to find the mermaids part… wasn’t. The “Moody’s Challenges” part was sometimes fun.. the maze… not so much (I felt cold and sore–from being hit by the plants–just from watching Harry getting beat up on by vines). The forest was sorta fun, but the greenhouse… HELL NO, Jared (3), HELL freaking NO. Those mosps.. *shudder*. Also. those ent things were pretty annoying.

*Speaking of goosebumps, the third to last (the penultimate penultimate) episode of Doctor Who totally gave me them. It was insane. I’m afraid that the actual penultimate episode wasn’t really my favorite ever, although it was pretty good. And the cliffhanger was evil.

Anyway, that’s all very beside the point. Awesome alliterations are alll absolutley amazing.

What I learned is the terrible fact that that is not, in fact an alliteration.

It’s an assonance.

-Timmy

EDIT: ….Jared. (4)

1:30 PM on 6/30: Added in some stuff.

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Malcolm

June 9th, 2008 - Post by Ben

I, hereinafter referred to as Timmy, hereby vow to accomplish the following listed tasks without any backtracking and/or regrets for vowing to accomplish them. Furthermore, I vow to attempt to my fullest ability to accomplish the listed tasks sometime during the up and coming summer, while others are off enjoying their time in other ways.

Make The Original Stiff a real reality. I’m serious. I’m finally in a freaking band, and I am not going to let that explode like it normally does. Honestly, and I mean no offense at all to my dear sadist, even if Moses doesn’t want to do it, I’ll get others. I swear, the Original Stiff is going to be awesome and magnificent and is, in fact, going to happen.
Speaking of Moses, I vow to get him the present I need to get him for his birthday. Srsly.
The prize. Starts with an ‘l’ and ends in a ’5.’ I was gonna say the entire acronym, but if you Google it, it’s actually the very first result. Heh. Anyway, Sticky and I will do this. I’m serious.
Meanwhile, we’re gonna start filming on POTOR, whether you like it or not.
I’m going to remain thoroughly and completely feeling bad for crushing Chris’ dreams of creating one of the greatest films ever, The Puppet Demention. Everything exploded at once. It sucked… sorry, Chris.
I’m going to finish up The Legend of the Purple kNights as well as the revision of Jamez Blak and the Monks of Tunisia (*cough* on the linkage).
I’m also gonna finish up the typing and completing of the first Brotherhood book and then work on getting it published. Yeah, that’s right, I said published. I’m getting tired of, when people suggest I get it published just saying, “heh, yeah,” like I’ve never considered it. Of course I’ve considered it. I’ve written almost five-hundred pages when it comes to the Brotherhood (if I’m doing my math right). It’s not just going to sit there and wait for an archaeologist. Even if I have to publish it myself through, like, LuLu or something, it’s getting published.
I’m gonna get over the whole Keira thing. I’m a failure. I get it. I have to move on, self, seriously. You suck.
Finish my post-apocalyptic script. That thing, while being sorta cliche in parts, would make an amazing film, I have to admit.
I will have a life. No really, I will.
I will, while maintaining said life, update this blog regularly and update you, fair reader(s) of my daily goings ons. Or, y’know, weekly. Or, y’know, no goings ons at all. I may just do reviews and Words & Phrases. My intention is to make this site a rather enjoyable place to be. I may add a forum. I may not, though. That might be too presumptuous (in thinking people’d join, that is).
I’m gonna shoot several things on the HVX, even before we do POTOR (or l—-5).
Read some good books.

Although that is all that Timmy can think of at the moment, he hereinafter vows to accomplish all further tasks he sets for himself to accomplish in the coming future.

I’m serious.

-Timmy

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Only Slightly Intriguing

May 30th, 2008 - Post by Ben

Hey look! I broke my pattern of doing a review every other blog post. Amazing! Actually, I was waiting to do my Batman review until after I made a non-review one, ’cause I don’t want the majority of things on here to be reviews. Not that I don’t love my reviews, but I get the distinct feeling that people who read this don’t. I mean, nobody ever compliments me on my reviews. If I do get complimented for anything on this blog (and that doesn’t happen nearly enough), it’s always about the posts like this.

Plus, when something you write makes yourself bored it’s generally not a good sign. Seriously.

Fascist, Fascintating Galazy Thing

I just realized that I honestly don’t have a lot to say about the topic I was gonna write about. I was thinking about it and I realized that I wanted to write a blog post about it, but, honestly, there’s not a lot of elaboration to add after my thesis-like, origin sentence.

I also don’t like writing shot blog posts. I like writing long, drawn-out blog posts that only cool people read and, hopefully, like. I like to write about whatever I’m thinking about, but only if what I’m thinking about is in the slightest interesting. To me, at least. It doesn’t have to be interesting to you for me to write about it. Well, ’cause I don’t know what you, fair reader, find interesting. In fact–no, no one’s gonna do it anyway, which is sorta sad, I guess. I was gonna say to send an email containing what you find interesting and would like to read about to timmy@sttimmypro.com, but, honestly, what’s the point if no one’s gonna send me one, seriously.

In fact, do you read this on a consistent basis, or, in fact, at all? I mean, I wanna know if I even have an audience for this thing. Even if I don’t, it’s not gonna stop me from writing all these, but still. I’d like to have some sort of an idea. So you should either send an email to that address up there, or comment this post, or tell me in person (blasphemy!), or something. Seriously.

Aaaaaanyway. Look! I just found a way to make this post considerably longer, and none of it was forced purely for that reason. Of course not. I wouldn’t even think of doing something like that. That’s just not right, or something. I mean, I don’t get what’s wrong about it, but, still.

My topic was originally the word “fantastic.” The word ‘fantastic’ is really not that fantastic of a word. Nor is it amazing, or epic, or anything like that. It just… is. Y’know? It’s like if a swear word is being used a lot excessively in a fairly short period of time: the more it’s said, the less meaning the word seems to have.

That’s why the whole banning the N-word in New York thing was sorta dumb. I mean, it was going to be banned because it was becoming too widely used. For some reason, they didn’t get that that was a good thing. Like I said: the more a word is said, the more it loses its meaning and just becomes a word and not, necessarily, an insult. By banning it, you’d merely remove the word from circulation and the usage of said word would decrease, and therefore the word would become a terribly insulting word again.

You get what I mean?

Jeez, this is taking forever. The word ‘fascinating,’ while not fantastic or amazing, is still sort of interesting. Not because there’s weird meanings or other digressions I can make about it, but because of the way it’s spelled. It really is a weird word to spell. I mean, s-c combinations are always weird.

It’s actually that s-c combination that made me want to write about the word: whenever I type the word ‘fascinating’ I think about the word ‘fascism.’ Now, fascism is sort of an interesting topic. If I took more time to learn much, much more about it, as I know relatively little about fascism at the moment, I bet I’d even say it was fascinating.

But I have no plans to, so it isn’t, really, right now. World War II is sort of interesting, though. Like, the axis and the Tripartite Pact, and stuff.

Honestly, though, that’s all I have to say. Fascinating, I know.

Oh, by the way, Jared, Jared, Jared, Jared. Take that.

-Timmy

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