Dr Manehattan

1. Yeah Yeah Yeahs 2. Crystal Castles 3. The Beatles 4. David Bowie 5. The White Stripes I'm also fond of TV on the Radio, Gorillaz, NIN, Beck and though they aren't really a band I listen to a lot of Daft Punk.

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I just recently saw an action movie called The Raid: Redemption. Not the *most* violent or gory film I've seen, not by a longshot... but it's still pretty darn violent. Highly recommended. It's one of the best action movies I've ever seen. Also the movie Drive has a few short bursts of violence, but when it gets gory it really gets gory. Regardless of how violent it is, it's one of my favorite movies ever!

Irreversible and Enter the Void. I've seen people get their heads chopped off and whatever... but stuff like Saw or Battle Royale are so unrealistic that they don't affect me that much. For Irreversible and Enter the Void... the violence is just too real, and their placement in the story just make them too emotionally taxing for me. They're great films IMO. But definitely not for younger people. Seriously, this isn't Pulp Fiction... these two movies might just scar you for life. Not only are they extremely violent and messed up... but their messages are just super depressing. Like y'know how they say Jaws makes you afraid to go back into the water? Those two movies just make you afraid to continue living. Kill Bill, Battle Royale, The Thing, Tucker and Dale vs. Evil... Those movies are all very violent, but fun to watch. If you don't want to be severely depressed, avoid the other two films I recommended, and check out these other ones. These ones are gory but fun. Also, there's a French horror movie called Eyes Without A Face. It's pretty old(1960s?) but it was very controversial when it came out and I think the effects hold up very well. It definitely made me squeamish, and it's hard for movies that old(or even recent ones) to do that. OK I just remembered another few really good gory movies: OLDBOY It's a Korean revenge movie. Really really good story, and some pretty intense violence. One of my favorite films of all time. Let the Right One In It's a Swedish vampire movie. They had a remake a few years ago(Let Me In) but the Swedish one's more violent(though LMI was really good for a remake).

Season 5 of Breaking Bad. Nothing like watching a dark gritty drama about cooking meth in between seasons of my favorite colorful pony cartoon.

I actually think Adventure Time is better than My Little Pony. I hope I don't get crucified for that, I love MLP, but Adventure Time is one of my favorite shows ever. It's not very plot-based, but most cartoons aren't. It's about as plot-based as MLP IMO, which is juuuust right for a cartoon. I think all of the characters are great, the show is very imaginative. There's some brilliant creature designs and I personally really like the music score. Every once in a while there are some more plot-based/character-driven episodes that you can really get into emotionally. But at the same time, the show never takes itself too seriously. I don't watch the new Dr. Who, but I loved the show when it was on a few years ago. I never know when it's on, and it might be hard to catch up. But I loved the show because it was just so imaginative at times. Like Adventure Time, it doesn't take itself too seriously, but knows how to make you emotionally invested. There's a lot of quirky designs and some thought-provoking ideas sprinkled throughout. The acting as I remember was pretty good, but I think they've changed actors once or twice since I last watched the show. I think with both shows... they just have to *click* with their audience. There's tiny little details in them that win you over, but they're easily missed. I think beyond all the acting, animation, comedy, action, writing, etc. there's something that people just subconsciously connect to. Like MLP, it can be a show you become hooked to immediately, or several episodes. I got really into AT and DW after seeing just one episode, but with MLP I watched it from the beginning and didn't see what was so special and then I just gradually fell in love with the characters.

THE LAST F***ING AIRBENDER I didn't think it was possible for a project with so many people and so much time and so much money to turn out like... like this... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RpgbZcHk_A&feature=related Also Dragonball: Evolution. I've heard a lot of people mention Rubber. The movie isn't actually that "dumb." At least not in the way The Last Airbender is. The guy was clearly trying to send a message about storytelling... but the message was still pretty shallow and stupid. From the trailers, I felt like the movie was going to be surprisingly deep, like there was a really strong subtext. But I thought the movie ended up being obnoxious and way too long. The director just flat out said what the movie was about at the beginning... that it was about nothing... and then I felt like he was just stroking his own ego by making the story go on and on and on. If it was 15 minutes long and was just of the tire blowing stuff up... it would've been deep and powerful filmmaking(seriously)... but it was so convoluted and overblown that it collapsed on itself. It was more disappointing than dumb. A dumb movie that's actually really fun to watch is The Room. Check that one out.

Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go. Don't want to give away too many details, but it's an extremely beautifully written book and it's also very very sad. It makes you think about how delicate all the relationships in your life are, and how delicate everything in general is. I think the story will make you appreciate all of the time that you've got in the world though. I have a pretty strong heart, but The Giving Tree is always effective. I was in a bookstore when I saw that book in the kids section. I remembered it from when I was like 5, so I picked it up, sat down and started reading it right there in the store, but I got kinda embarrassed because I started crying, and there were little kids all over the place since it was the kid's section.

I remember the first time I watched Adventure Time. I hadn't seen Cartoon Network in years (No Samurai Jack... also My Gym Partner's A Monkey and Johnny Test just sort of made me hate watching cartoons) So one day I flipped on the TV and they played an episode and the music just reminded me of playing my gameboy as a kid, and then the whole boy with his magic dog thing just made me super nostalgic... and it was the one where there were a bunch of princesses, and as soon as they introduced LSP in that episode I became hooked onto the show. Since then I've been watching a lot more cartoons. I think if it wasn't for Adventure Time, I wouldn't have discovered Regular Show, The Legend of Korra and My Little Pony. So the show's super meaningful to me.

Hell Yeah Sex Bob-Omb! If you like their music, maybe you'd like Beck. Unless you already know his music. But he wrote all of the music that Sex Bob-Omb played in the movie. He hasn't released an album in a while... but he's got a huge catalog and his style's changed a lot over the years, but maybe you could find something that sort of sounds like Sex Bob-Omb. Maybe Mellow Gold or Odelay?

I love the Beatles, but everyone loves them... My favorite singer is... Karen O - I just love her voice and her style. Her band, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, are amazing and they manage their radically change their style with each album. Their debut was very art-punk, but they became a bit more mellow and "indie" with their second, and their most recent one integrated more digital sounds. Here's a track from the YYY's debut. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcjPFAV1foU She's also done a lot of collab/soundtrack work. She did a cover of Immigrant Song with NIN for The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo movie and she also did a bunch of songs for the Where the Wild Things Are movie. I heard that she wrote a song for the new Tim Burton movie as well. Next to Karen O and the YYY's... my favorite band would have to be Crystal Castles with Alice Glass on vocals They're an acquired taste, but I think they're the best thing to happen to music in a long time.

The ultimate nostalgia overload for me has gotta be... when Cartoon Network would play movies. A lot of the time they were movies I'd never heard of, but they always had a really bittersweet quality to them and I always get nostalgic just thinking about them because some of the films were so confusing to me as a child... they were wacky but always seemed kind of sad. - I remember seeing "An American Tail" through this - I also saw "The Iron Giant" through this, and that's probably my favorite animated film - "We're Back, A Dinosaur's Story" I just remember this film being particularly odd. I never finished it and I still don't remember what exactly happened. - And there was one film that I only saw 3 minutes of... But I think it was about this boy who could travel between the stories in books... something like that. I think the title may have had "-master" or "-wizard" in it's title. I think the boy had glasses. I always wanted to know *what* this movie's title was because I was dying to finish it. if someone could help me with this, it'd be greatly appreciated. But yeah you guys remember this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHiOro0rRDo&feature=related

I prefer playing games alone... mostly because I play for FUN. When I play anything multiplayer... all anyone cares about is skill skill skill. I used to have a friend who would always rub it in my face about just how great he was at video games... But I didn't care because his skills amounted to nothing in the real world, and he'd get so worked up that no one else around his could have any fun. I can get competitive(like with fighting games) but I don't make it a goal to train to be better than everyone else. I know some people are into that, but I just like to not get stressed out when I'm taking a break from everything. I can see how playing for skill can become playing for fun. It does feel good to be at the top. But I'm too lazy to really get there.

I used to love The Lion King, but I dunno I didn't like it as much as I did as a kid when I rewatched it a while back. As far as more recent 2D ones go my top 3 would be: 1. Lilo and Stitch 2. Mulan (that music man...) 3. Atlantis (seriously underrated) I started watching some of the older classic Disney films on Blu-ray... and I had no idea how incredibly good they are! When I was a kid, they were just cartoons, but watching them now, I really appreciate how revolutionary these were when they came out. The animation in them are better than a lot of the 90s Disney movies TBH. Fantasia - I'm surprised this is Disney. It just makes you fall in love with music and animation. Bambi - I always thought this was a kid's movie... but it's hella deep Snow White - what a gorgeous looking film! When I was 4, my favorite Disney movies were probably The Jungle Book and Tarzan. But I haven't seen either in over 10 years.

Harvey Dent - The Dark Knight His story in TDK is just so tragic. It's my favorite version of his origin in any form, because you really feel a lot of sympathy for him, partially because his loss is almost like a collective loss since it completely changes Batman's life and the way people live in that entire city. You saw a man who really was pure of heart and had a belief that he could save the world and bring society to new highs... and then he was pushed over the edge and everybody had to suffer for it. Clu 2.0 - Tron: Legacy I think a lot of people didn't "get" his character, but I always thought his character was really tragic. He's basically someone with extremely high expectations. He is supposed to be an "exact, perfect" clone of his creator, Kevin Flynn. Flynn was the creator and basically God of his world, and Clu was created to help him perfect this world that was created. Flynn created Clu to create "perfection" and so it was built into his programming. Because he wasn't human, like Flynn, he was permanently in this state of mind. Of finding perfection. But while Flynn realized that you couldn't really "create perfection" Clu was unable to learn this and stop obsessing over "perfection." He really just wanted to make his "father" happy. So when a bunch of "imperfections"(people not created/designed by Flynn) wandered into the world, he committed genocide against them, because he was trying to keep the world clean and organized. He became a villain and he was basically disowned by his own creator for doing what he was told/"programmed". Lotso-Huggin' Bear - Toy Story 3 Pretty simple setup, but you've gotta feel sorry for him. He started off as that cute cuddly pink teddy bear... But he lost all faith in children because he got replaced by his original owner. The only reason was because she really thought she lost him... but he never forgave her, and he stopped trusting others. Roy Batty - Blade Runner He's an android with a built in "expiration date." He's lived most of his life as a slave for other humans, and as he feels the clock ticking, he goes on a rampage trying to find a way to give himself and his friends "more life" He just loved living, even through all the hardships, there were enough good moments that he knew he wanted more. ????? - Watchmen The identity of the villain is sort of a enormous spoiler, but he/she is definitely someone you can sort of feel sorry for. You sort of feel sorry for every single character in that story, they all have super depressing lives from the main characters, to smaller villains, to random people on the street. If the villain isn't pitiable... well there's like another 36 anti-heros you can pity. Dracula - Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) I don't know why... I hate Dracula throughout the whole movie... I see him as just the most terrible and evil type of man... but at the very end... I kind of tear up and feel pity for the guy. Maybe it's because he's played by Gary Oldman, one of the best actors alive. Bill (and his brother) - Kill Bill Vol. 2 These guys are way too cool for you to not feel at least a little pity for them. You're on The Bride's side the whole time, and you know she should have her revenge because they both did something terrible to her... but you sort of don't want them to die because you know they're both normally pretty nice guys. Kong - King Kong (2005) Well if Kong is the villain then I felt pretty bad for the guy. If it's people, then I really don't care for them because they really slowed down the movie lol. How can he not be pitiful when he came out of a pit! ok lame joke. I sort of felt sorry for him, I was reading about some deleted scenes and it seems like the guy went through a lot.

My favorite graphic novel/comic book, and one of my favorite novels period, is Alan Moore's Watchmen. I just think it's one of the most well-written pieces of fiction I've ever read. It manages to be extremely philosophical and political while never leaning too hard in any direction, and it creates extremely well-developed and human characters. It's also got a very well thought out "What if super heroes were real" storyline that cleverly fuses them into an alternate history that spans from the 1930s to the height of the Cold War. It's also a story that its author wrote specifically for a comic book, and because of that it takes advantage of everything that makes a comic book a comic book, from the panels to the pages and layouts to the manipulation of time and speech bubbles, etc. tl;dr Watchmen is awesome. Being a huge fan of the book, I wanted to make up a username related to it. Dr. Mane-hattan was an easy pun.

Certainly not. Slender is a really awesome independent game though. For such a small project, it's very impressive. However, the gameplay is simple and repetitive. But it works. Amnesia has so many different features and all of them are extremely effective. It's a full game and it has enough content to last me a lifetime(since I rarely finish scary games like that anyways) Basically, I could imagine Slender as a level in Amnesia, it'd fit right in, but it's not one of the best levels.