I already get a wonderful deal with them and I was just sent an email to day for an even better deal. let me start at the beginning. I got an account with powermonster.net after my free domain and hosting with whirl host had issue. Basically wirlhost got bought out and went down hill very fast. At the time powermonster.net had a great offer that was just to good to pass up so I took it and moved this blog off of wirlhost and on to powermonster. Been with powermonster.net for close to a year, not sure exactly with out looking at my first email from them. Any way to day they sent an email to current customers about a new deal that is used for renewal. I am tempted to take it as it would save me a little bit of money how ever I do not pay that much begin with so I kind of feel as if I am taking advantage of them. They are such a good host I do not wish to do that. So I am kind of in a dilemma do I take the offer and save my self money or just pass it up as to not take advantage of such a great host.
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April 11th, 2010Lost universe review.
April 11th, 2010I loved this anime, and give it 5 out of 5 stars. This anime I bought from otaku mitsukai because one site I read said lost universe was part of the slayers series. I had to find out for sure as the description of lost universe did not seem to mention that it was part of slayers. I know now that it is not part of the layers but does have some things that are like slayers. It is made by the same writers and was made around the same time. To me it seems like far into the future and slayers is in the past. The main character on lost universe does look a lot like Lina inverse from slayers and they could be brother and sister. His name is Kane Blueriver and does have some commonalities to Lina Inverse but they are different. I just included a picture of both in this post. I could not find better pictures but I think you might see what I am talking about.
Between the 2 animes they do have some other similarities like the opening song sounds a lot a like but yet is different. They both have Gorinova, not sure of the spelling on that but in slayers it is a sward and in slayers it is a ship, a lost ship. Lost ships are like the Gods or demons of slayers, with the exception of one being a good one.
lost universe has a lot of action and a very good story line. To bad they stopped making it as I really got into it and would love to see more I do also think the same about slayers though as they are both very good anime.
The V series, my confusion and more.
March 31st, 2010
Box set that I got from target.
The past month or so I have been seeing a lot of ads for the V series. I mean a lot of ads on varies web sites I go to. So many so I went looking to see if I could buy the V series and found a remastered dvd box set of the mid 1980′s V series. I thought this must be what they are advertising for as it was the only V series I could find. I added it to my watched list on ebay which I use as a wish list type thing, as I have watched items that ended a long time ago. Any way 2 weeks ago during my vacation I found the remastered dvd box set of the mid 1980′s version at Target so ended up getting it.
The past few days I have been watching the dvds in the box set I got and found the first few episodes a bit boring but did start getting into it after a while and found it very interesting to watch. I had talked about the V series with a few friends on varies sites and even facebook. Most people I talked to had not seen it or even the ads I had been seeing.
New V series on ABC.
Now here why I said confusion in the title. Yesterday (March 30th 2010) I saw a new ad for V this time it said returning to abc 10/9c so I quickly set an alarm on my phone so I would not forget to watch it as I had been thinking while watching the old version it would be awesome if they brought it back. I mentioned it to 2 of my friends on facebook. For some reason I said it different to both. One of my friends I said: They are making a new series of V and it starts tonight at 9. The other one I said are you going to be watching v tonight or some thing along those lines. The one that I asked if he was going to watch it was the only one that replied and said he was going to watch it tomorrow on hulu. Any way when the series came on it confused me by saying “Last time on V” I was like wait a minute this is supposed to be the return of V, Then I thought maybe it was one of them 2 day specials and I missed the first day. So I talked to my friend on facebook saying I had missed part of the return of V. He said it was on hulu so I brought hulu up and found 5 entries for V. I was utterly confused and talked to my friend again and he had mentioned they made the new series of V several months ago and made 4 episodes and then canceled it and tonight, which was yesterday being the day they brought back the new series. So to catch up I ended up watching the first 4 on hulu last night as I did not want to miss them specially that it was mentioned on hulu that they were going to remove them after March 30th. Kind of thinking in my head well gee they should have given me more time to catch up as I knew nothing about the remake until yesterday.
I did very much enjoy the new V series and found it much better then the original that I purchased at Target. There are a few differences. The main one being that the V’s do not have to wear sun glasses or goggles to protect their eyes from the bright light that I was told they do not like. Another difference is the head V in the original series is called Dianna and in the new she is called Anna. Another huge difference is in the original all V’s wear the red uniforms and in the new series they wear what humans were. A few things I do not know yet is do the V’s in this new series eat humans like they did in the original, it has not been brought up yet. It does look as if they will still have the star child though, which is a hybrid of a human and V. They also still have a resistance movement but done more realistic. Actually the whole series seems more realistic then the original.
Bad movies I have recently watched.
March 27th, 2010
First bad movie on the list is the movie called First Born. This was 1 of a hundred dvd’s I got from a going out of business sale at a rental company. None of the dvd’s had the original case so when I went to watch this movie I had no info on it except for the name and the picture on the dvd. The picture on the dvd made me think it was some sort of horror movie. So any was no knowing what to expect I started watching it and found it a bit boring so after about half way through I looked it up on imdb.com and found a few reviews all of the reviews said it was bad and every one said the ending was a either a disappointment or completely unexpected but not in a good way. I then ended up watching it all the way to the end. I would have to agree with the other reviews it had a very bad ending. Was not at all what I was expecting and I was like wow really?. Some thing that was not mentioned by other reviews was the 2 time loops I saw. Well I call them time loops. One was in the very middle of the movie. Basically what was happening id she through some one was breaking into her house and in reality is she was seeing her self 5 minutes or so in the future and when she got to the 5 minutes or so in the future she was seeing her self 5 minutes in the past. The other time loops was at the beginning of the movie she finds a diary whiten by an unknown writer. How ever at the end you see that she wrote it and put it where she found it. That how ever is not the surprise ending though.
Another movie also in that 100 dvds I got was In a dark place. This movie was a lot like the movie first born, it actually felt a lot like the same movie. Only a few differences. Instead of 1 child it had 2 and these kids were not hers but kids she was baby sitting. In both movies the main character goes nuts for one reason or another or actually many reasons that are pointed out in the movie. The ending had the same sort of surprise but done a little different. This one also did not have all that great of reviews on imdb.com. No time loops in this one though but it did have ghosts. Although they may have been in the girls head who was playing the baby sitter as no one else sees the ghosts.
The third movie on the list of bad movies is Petrified. This movie should have been a horror but it was done very badly in my opinion. It had a mummy in it but was done so poorly you could see he was wearing a mask. It felt like a very old low to no budget film but with modern technology as it was actually made around 2006. I had to look up reviews about this one as well and it also had bad reviews even worse then the other 2 movies. The story line if it even had one was not all that great. It kind of felt like it was mixing a mummy movie with a mad scientist movie as they had 2 separate things going on.
Online anime store review.
March 25th, 2010I buy a lot of anime on ebay how ever I have also been buying from an anime store I found a few months ago. Not sure exactly how long ago but found them through twitter. The store is called http://otakumitsukai.com . One of the nicest things I like about them is if they do not have some thing listed on the site I can contact them via email, google talk, or twitter and ask if they can get one that I want. Most of my orders from them were requests. Oh ya another nice thing is the price is usually cheaper with them then it is with ebay.
I only had a few issues with them but the issues were all worked out. The first issue was a request order that I made was not able to be filled after I ordered so they gave me a credit on my account for the amount of those dvds. Which was nice of them. I am glad they told me right away and let me know they would not be able to get that anime any more as it is no longer produced. I would have been upset if they did not tell me so I am happy with the end result of that. OH and I used that credit to get a few other anime I wanted.
Another issue was one anime I ordered and the only one I ordered that was not a request. After I ordered it they did tell me they had to wait a month or 2 to get more ins stock, which was no problem. How ever the issue was it was longer then 2 months and I was starting to get worried. So I probably annoyed them more then I should have to find out what was going on. They were able to get more in stock and shipped it out right away so overall I am happy with that. Oh and they did apologize for that wait and sent a free gift with that order, just a small one but it was nice of them.
Any way I do plan on buying more from them but at this time I am broke so will need to wait until I have a few things paid off before I buy any more.
