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So I finally watched Inception and I don't understand why people say they don't understand it.
Bro and I thought the movie was pretty easy to follow. Given the amount of comments along the lines of "So confusing~" and "I don't understand the movie~~", we were hoping for more mindfuckery. Bro felt cheated. Maybe it's because we like mindfucks so much and we watch a lot of mindfucking shows or maybe it's because people here don't watch that much mindfucking shows and they don't really like mindfucks...
I don't really see what the fuss was about.
Yes, it's a good movie with a not-so-clear-cut plot. Yes, the imagery is pretty and trippy. Yes, I think I can see why so many people ship Arthur with everyone. And hell yeah, the spinny hallway fight was still my favorite scene even if I'd seen it a couple of times when all those commercials that aired while I was walking by. But still! Was it really that hard to follow? Is bro's claim of people not comprehending lateral plot lines true? *_*
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And now for some spoilers XD
WATANABE!
The Japanese restaurant dining scene reminds me of that scene in Dollhouse where the Japanese guy was "enjoying" himself up in the Attic.
Oh Leo DiCaprio, your bishounen voice does not have the gravitas befitting of the role you are playing, even if your beard tries it best.
Bad Edith, bad!
JGL is the buttmonkey! *pats*
Oh yeah, there he goes. The Architect who isn't Ellen Page. Goodbye.
Hey! It's Alfred--I mean Michael Caine!!
Juno! Another garang-walker. Hurhur... Oh dear... the implications of Prof Alfred and Genius Student Juno... She's not gonna be the next Batgirl, is she? D:
NOT THE BOOKS!! Oh wait... Huh. So *this* is how it's like to have your mind blown. Epic. XD
Mmm... Flirty Eames... Team bicycle. You will serves us well as comical sidekick since JGL is busy being organized, uptight and prissy.
Nfft!! Leo D almost couldn't squeeze through the tiny tiny gap between houses. Time to lay off the donuts?
Yusuf the Chemist! How does bringing him into the dreamscape be useful? Does his chemicals work in the dreamscape too? Uh, okay... Whatever you say, Word of God.
Ooo...
LOL @ Watanabe buying the whole airline instead of just buying the cabin and flight attendants.
Ho! Production Posse!! Christopher Nolan really likes Cillian Murphy with a sack over his head.
And the con is on!
Reality(?): Plane
Dream Layer 1: LA shootout (Eames to Arthur: "You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling." <3) & Bridge drop
Dream Layer 2: Spinny Hallway Hotel
Dream Layer 3: Snow fortress
Bonus Dream Layer: Leo D and Edith's house in their dreamscape.
That building/cliff thing facing the ocean really reminds me of the edge of city in the movie Dark City, another mindfuck movie come to think of it.
Oh scenery porn... <3
And jolt! (Back to Layer 3) The snow fortress came tumbling down~ Tumbling down~ Tumbling down~
And another jolt! (Back to Layer 2) Well done son guy! Your father's not disappointed in you. Your father's lurveeessss you. See? He kept your childhood windmill in the safe with the will that will make everything better! D'aww... whispers: It's all in your head!
And another jolt! (Back to Layer 1) It's all up to Jack now.
...Opening scene. CALLED IT!!
WATANABE!!
And we're back. (To Reality?)
Sly sideway glances all round. Cillian's face saying "hey I know you from somewhere" and everyone's walking away, walking away.
Ooo... Top's still spinning... And cut! There's only two ways this could end. One, happy ending in Reality! Two, everything was all a big elaborate dream! Either way, it's still not hard to understand!!
Overall, great use of slow-mo and the song "Non, je ne regrette rien" there...
Did Christopher Nolan really shoot on location for those scenes? I saw Japan, UK, France, Morocco, USA and Canada. If so, major props to the director! Nothing says the real deal like the real deal.
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Woke up, fax machine died. People couldn't fax stuff through and there wasn't even a dial tone when I hooked the phone directly to the wall socket. Was careful not to accidentally hit the switch on the multi-plug extension while hooking the phone up but bumped into the switch of the main plug that the multi-plug extension was connected to while I fixed the loose telephone socket connection instead. Fax machine fixed, killed comp and internet. Restarted comp and internet. All was well.
Did some poking on the iPod Touch. A hell lot of respringing and manually shutting it down and restarting. I have long since been used to the Touch blinking. Finally gotten everything that I set out to do last night/this morning despite all the constant restarting. Went to Grandma's place for dinner and tang yuan dumplings for winter solstice. Got home, tried to make the Touch post something on lj. Killed it. Restarted it back up, tried to post again. Success!
(Side note: Blinking refers to the device suddenly shutting off and restarting itself.)
Started printing Dad's stuff. Printer won't cooperate. Tried to find solution online and printer mysteriously worked properly again. Gee... Continued to print. While I was picking up the newly inked paper to flip over for duplex printing, the computer blinked. I wasn't even touching it! I swear!! O_O Hope I can get to the end of printing all of Dad's stuff before something else gets killed by me.
Again... How is it that I am a Walking Tech Bane while being a Miss Fixit all at once?!
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So much shiny--I mean spoilers to TRON: Legacy
So bro had the bright idea of watching the midnight screening of TRON: Legacy on the day it opens (technically the 2nd day it opens) and I don't see why not so we booked the tickets to the 3D version. Ouch but worth it. Even though it was 5 minutes into Friday, the theater was packed. Don't these people have work tomor--oh wait... December holidays now. Right.
We sat through the inane chatter of the surrounding, ads we've seen before, a few minutes of technical difficulties as they switch from normal projection to 3D projection (I predict a riot--but I was wrong), 3D ads we've never seen before and Gulliver's Travel trailer in 3D before being subjected to a 3D shiny laser light rendition of Walt Disney Pictures logo.
It's beginning! <3 Green words on screen tells us most scenes are 3D but some scenes are shot in 2D and they are meant to be 2D for storytelling purposes and that we should keep our 3D glasses on. Girl sitting to my right pretty much paraphrased the green words to her boyfriend. Bro thinks reading comprehension is a lost art. I am inclined to agree.
Woah TRON poster! I <3 you for introducing it to me, Chuck Bartowski!!
Young Flynn in Real World looks fake. :S Did having a son dampen his douche-iness?
Oh! No... His douche-iness was prevalent in all those clips of him the news covered during his disappearance. OMG KEVIN FLYNN IS TONY STARK?!?!
Happy son's slightly less douche-y but more fake-looking dad went missing. Turns into emo son. Then grows up to be thrill-seeking idiot son.
The bike chase music had Daft Punk written all over it. :D
Ooo... Black Ducati! <3 Please don't let it be the one with the ugly metal bars, please don't let it be the one with the ugly metal bars, please don't--OH THANK GODS NO UGLY METAL BARS!! Those metal bars under the gas tank are hideous!
Douche-y CEO addressing his minions and son of the first movie's douche-y CEO Dillinger. Gods... As if the world needs more douche-y CEOs or Dillingers. (IMDB says he's the uncredited Scarecrow. I say he could be subtly set up as the next big bad.)
...I was kinda expecting to see more advances in technology. Like that pin table thing in X-Men or the air gesturing thing in Minority Report, seeing as we already have multitouch-capable sleek black computing table back in 1982. :P
Ah... Papa Awesome. You have gained much gravitas in your finely matured age. Me likey. <3
Oh the douche is strong in this one! Truly the son of The Original Douche. Son of Douche!
Hey! A pager!! I wonder what numeric code did Papa Awesome receive from The Original Douche...
...Nice. Flynn's Arcade was not torn down after all these years! The phone line's been cut for 20 years but the electricity is still running!! The plot demands and it is made so!!!
Yay jukebox! <3 Separate Ways (Worlds Apart) and Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This).
Does the retro arcade machines accept new coins? ...Apparently it doesn't.
Secret passage, found! Secret lair, entered! Secret important multitouch-capable sleek black computer table, covered in dust! I don't think dust works that way when you swipe at it!!
Ooo... Zap! Ooooo... My 3D glasses are finally working. Shiny...
Damn. I kinda like the guy with half his face deresolutionized. Never to be seen again~
Ooo kinky. Being dressed by 4 vacuum-packed white-latex clad chicks stomping around on fuck me heels in unison. Me likey. <3
...And Young Prince Douche-y wins The Game. Of course.
Hey! That last guy Rinzler reminds me of Snake Eyes--what with his helmet and double-wield light discs and all. :D The placement of those 4 dots on his chest is significant. I know it. *whispers* Tron...
Ah. I was expecting you, The Original Douche. Even though I already know you're not really The Original Douche from the trailer I DID NOT WANT TO SEE BUT WAS FORCED UPON ME BY ANOTHER MOVIE!! *ahem* I guess I'll hafta dub thee The Original Cloned Douche Program!
Nice! Light cycle races have discovered the third dimension since we last saw them.
Ah, Olivia... I was expecting you to swoop in to save our intrepid douche.
Also, I had long pondered the possibility and/or feasibility of having driving controls on both sides of the car--either with one control to swap or slide over as and when needed or two controls with only one side activated each time. Thanks for showing me that it is possible in The Grid.
Oh mountain lair that looked like it's actually inside a dormant volcano! The Original Douche is now The Dude. Guess spending so much time in a volcano does that to you huh. But spending so much time in a volcano does not explain the frock and hood!
Oh gee... I can see the Eye of Sauron from the mountain balcony that overlooks the city The Original Cloned Douche Program built. What do you mean that's not symbolic?!
TOD/TD: So anyone in your life? Wife? Girlfriend?
SoD: No. Just a dog.
TOD/TD: *slightly surprised look*
Me: (as TOD/TD) I'm a cat person myself. *gestures to Olivia looking catty and cat-like*
Me: (as Olivia) Meow. =3
Why does Olivia look so stumpy? I didn't think she looked this stumpy on House. And her being all wide-eyed and innocent is so darn cute! I like her here more than I ever will on House!!
And the Holy Douche is off to find
Dude... Stealing a hood from some homeless man is not cool. No matter how much like a Jedi apprentice it makes you look. Seriously.
Hey it's that white latex white girl from before! Nice brolly... <3
OOO!! I like this one a lot. Tony Blair reminds me of the evil albino twins in The Matrix. He owns the End of Line Club! He has Daft Punks spinning for him! He has a pimpin' transparent Plexiglas cane! He's crazy! He's funny! He's Zuse!! What does it say about me when I always end up liking this type of crazy funny opportunistic lowlifes? XD
Daft Punk continuing to spin in their booth while the fight goes on below is all kinds of awesome!
Son of Douche caught! Olivia fail! Show 'em how it's done, The Original Douche/The Dude.
And poof! Zuse became Coco Crunch! I would like to use this opportunity to point out that his End of Line Club is located very very high above the Digital City of Sauron. Like way above what constitute the cloud level. Like Mount Olympus high. >_>
Oh hey look! A conveniently placed freight train heading for where our intrepid douches are going. I wonder what they will do.
SoD messing with TOD/TD's Zen was funny. Does that mean that TOS/TD will be just TOD again?
Ah... So nice of them to give them some down time to bond with each other. Father-Son bonding, with extra douche-iness. I knew that nice bike is too beautiful and ugly-metal-bar-less to be a contemporary build! Son-pet cat bonding, with extra sexual tension. Father meditating with a nice white glow behind his head. What do you mean it's not symbolic?!
The Original Cloned Douche Program is building an army by reprogramming other programs?! Where have I heard that one before?
The Original Cloned Douche Program addressing his newly reprogrammed army? I feel like calling him Emperor Palpatine and giving in to my anger...
Send in the
Epic showdown between the user and the program. Can't say I didn't see it coming.
All I wanted was to be loved by you, don't you know? That's why I worked so hard to be perfect, just like you asked me to be! Now you tell me you were wrong and that the world does not have to be perfect. Are you kidding me? Do you mean to say everything I did for you was pointless?! No, I will not have that!! Wait a minute! Your douche-y son and your pet cat girl is in The Beam doing the classic TRON movie poster pose! That's not good!! That means your douche-y son is getting out and he's going to stop me! Noooo~~ Stop dragging me back with your awesome Jedi Force trick! Aarrrggghhhh~~~ (TOD/TD: Come! Let me embrace you in my bosom!!) Oh god you're hugging me! AARRRRRRGGGGGGHH-- *bursts into tiny silicon chips*
*boop*
And we're back in the real world with Son of Douche, downloading everything into a nifty chip like thing that is much too big to be a microSD card from a Nokia phone. Don't they know anything? Apple out-douched everyone in like 0 A.J. (After Jobs) or something. All other brands no longer exist due to lack of douche-iness.
Except for the Douche-COM, Apple's sole douche-competitor. Especially now that Son of Douche wanna take over the company. Apple will be crushed!
Aww... Papa Awesome is the kind of guy you wanna phone in case of an emergency. Or page, since he seems to only respond that quickly to that tiny black box. Or maybe it's a Flynn thing. Papa Awesome is a douche-magnet... His growing gravitas has the unfortunate side-effect of drawing in douches.
Where did Olivia get normal real world clothes? I really hope it's not from The Original Douche's secret crossdressing stash in his office... He would be devastated!
Riding without helmets? Don't they have traffic polices to catch them??
...End scene.
No extras after the credits but the credits are pretty, shiny and pretty shiny. We always stay til the credits end anyway so there!
Side note: I am so glad I watched the original TRON on Wednesday. All the allusions and references!! <3<3<3
Side side note: It occurred to me after I got home that all them computer/technological people are all douchebags. We have The Original Douche, Son of Douche, Son of Dillinger, Tony Stark, Justin Hammer, Facebook guy, etc. Is douche-iness a prerequisite to be successful in this digital age?
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Dear Google Instant,
You suck.
I know I'm a little late to the party but hey, I was busy. You know how that's like, what with you trying to fix what ain't broken and all.
It all started when one fine day, I decided to find a solution to stop Youtube from showing me the "You're using an outdated browser" notice even though I am on the most updated Firefox version. A quick fix and a browser restart later, I discovered you when I wanted to search for something on Google.
And boy was I annoyed.
I'm pretty proud of my ability to type with all 10 fingers and my typing speed (even though they might be somewhat hampered by the fingernails I am too lazy to cut unless absolutely necessary) and I almost always know the spelling of what I am trying to search for. But with you, my typing speed and spelling prowess are moot! I can maybe get in 3 letters before you took over and showed me search links to things I'm not searching for. Worse, because I type fast, I always end up with some alphabets missing in your search text field. Like how "obsession" turns into "obsson" and "snuffaluffagus" became "snulufgus".
Why not just turn it off, you ask? Well, I tried. Damnit, I tried but you just keep coming back. You're like syphilis!
Now I know all you're trying to do is help. But instead of saving me that 2-5 seconds, you made me waste more than 2-5 seconds correcting the typo you caused me to make by not allowing me to complete what I am typing!
So please, Google Instant...
Go curl up and die in a cold dark hole this instant.
Yours faithfully,
Frustrated hyper-typer
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Wayhey! I finished Sengoku Basara I & II within 4 days. And 2 of those days were spent waiting for II to be completed! /proud
So I got bored the other day--I think it was a Thursday. Can't remember. It could easily've been a Wednesday--and I decided to dig out my copy of Sengoku Basara I'd stashed somewhere. Finished 5 episodes before bed and the rest of it after I woke up the next day.
How productive!
The Gratuitous English was very gratuitous indeed but I thought
There's also a whole bunch of well-known seiyuu so I was pretty much playing Hey It's That Voice the whole time I was watching both series.
I also quite like the Ham to Ham Combat between Yukimura and his Oyakata-sama (see above) and just about anyone who is fighting someone else.
...You know what? I should just leave the link to the series on TVTropes here for you to read.
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So earlier today, in a bid to fix what was wrong with my USB ports and find out why My Computer did not pick up the external hard drives I'm trying to access, I pulled open my CPU and started poking around. While I'm elbows deep in computer parts and a hell lot of dust, The Mother came in and asked if I want the 2" doll keychain dangling between her fingers. Below is a transcript of our conversation.
Me: No.
TM: Oh yeah! You don't like fuzzy dolls. Since young you don't like them hor.
Me: No, I like fuzzy just fine. *gestures toward my stuffed toys* I just don't like dolls.
TM: Yeah that's what I meant.
Me: *beat*
Me: ...Don't you think it's weird to be asking a person fixing the computer whether she want dolls?
TM: Nothing weird about that. *leaves the room*
Me: O_o
End scene.
The irony. It is lost on her. XD Luckily, bro was around to find it again.
Also, turns out my USB ports are working fine. It's just that the power needed to power the external hard drive was too much for this awesome 4 port Lego brick-esque USB hub already powering my printer, wireless mouse and charging the iPod Touch. Managed to find another USB cable long enough to stretch from the back of the CPU to the table top to connect with the external hard drive and all was right in the world. Still couldn't figure out why one of the front USB port could not be used though. I've never been able to use that since I first got the CPU so I guess it's an inherent thing. :S
I also managed to clean up the inside of my CPU. It was so dusty, I managed to clear out a dust ball the size of my fist. Bro was being bitchy about me dusting and cleaning in his presence, causing his sensitive drippy nose to act up. He also said (and I quote) "Yo mama will be so pleased, what with you bringing out the vacuum cleaner on your own accord", to which I reply "No she wouldn't. She'll just find something else to nitpick". But I have to say, after that round of dusting, cleaning and vacuuming, I feel so accomplished. Lol! Everything feels so clean and new and fresh! Even the speed of the computer seems to be improving!! XD
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Twitter has ruined things for me. And I'm not even on Twitter! Watch as I pull this pale approximation of a "Retweet" ala Twitter and/or "Share" ala Facebook.
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Had fun laughing at this earlier today.
Happy Hanukkah!
...I am *really* watching too much TDS and TCR. XD
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Also, Twitfail. I exceeded the 140 character limit! I think I'm just physically incapable of explaining myself in 140 characters or less. XD
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Having mostly spent my time sleeping and camping in front of my computer these past two months, bro asked me what am I gonna do the other day. I answered "Nothing". He then went on to clarify with "Not now! I meant with your life, in the not-so-immediate future", to which I answered in the same deadpanned "Nothing".
I also went on to clarify that I am only one hydroponic medicinal weed cultivating and smoking away from being an actual stoned slacker. I'm already watching too much TDS
Damn my inability to obtain drugs locally.
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How is it that I can be Mr. Fixit and a Walking Techbane at the same time?!
I'm the one who does the computer/TV/VCR/DVD player/cable box set ups and is frequently called upon to solve the OS/BIOS/phone problems but yet I still have the uncanny ability to kill/maim/slow down CPU/laptops/mobile phones and make software/programs/apps go all wonky.
I killed bro's sturdy non-camera phone which had served him for a good 2 years while he served in the army just by touching it.
I caused a friend's MacBook to slow down and then hanged itself. It never froze and he never had to restart it all the while he'd had it until I used it briefly that day.
I have discovered many a glitch in programs no one else complained about and the IT department had no solutions even after checking what I'd checked before going to them except to reinstall the program (which I could've done on my own if I *had* the program installer).
And don't get me started on the amateur software written by someone for our use during a lab in school. Killed it so often I had to turn off the sound to stop the sudden THUNK Win XP likes to make whenever it encounters an error.
I like me some gadgets and electronics as much as the next guy. I know my way around the hardware and software--even if I suck at programming (no logic flow XD). But alas, my love for them are not reciprocated.
*sigh*
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