Blog 18 - Star Trek

"It's Humanized, it looks sad."
It refers to the human race in the movie.  I guess they looked down upon the humans. That is why Spock was looked down upon by his race. Because he is half human, everybody just hates him.


"You were meant for something better."
People were trying to tell James that he had potential to be the next captain of a ship like his father who became captain and saved many lives the day he was born.


"The impossible would be probable."
I don't remember who said it but it is sometimes true in life. You have to just try and make the impossible probable. It's a good thing that there's always a chance of that.


"What is necessary will never be unwise."
I think Spock said this and it's true because the necessary is what is wise. Like it's important, so it would always be wise to do the necessary.


"Anger I cannot control."
Sometimes you just can't control anger and it just releases.

Blog 17 - Guilty Crown

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Recently I have been watching this anime called Guilty Crown, I only watched it for my own enjoyment but as I think about deeply and I noticed that it has some philosophical connections that we have learned in philosophy class. Guilty Crown takes place in the future where everything is advanced in Japan. Apparently a virus that infected everyone in Japan similar to the black death occured on Christmas which they called "Lost Christmas". The main character, Shu Ouma had lived a regular life before he met Inori Yuzuriha. She was part of the Funeral Parlor which is a group that was rebelling against GHQ which was the organization that cured the virus that occurred on "Lost Christmas". Apparently they developed a way to be to control human genomes, and only 3 doses was made. This is how Shu got involved with the group by accidentally gets injected by one of it and people who gets injected by it gains a new power and is known as a King that can extract people's voids which tools or weapons that are the manifestations of people's hearts. He denies it similar to Neo from The Matrix that he would be the one to save people from another virus that would occur again. He denies his potential and as the story goes on he believes in himself because of Gai, who helped him realized his potential like what Morpheus did for Neo. He would later then go through the same stages like Neo did. The Enlightenment stage where in the end he used his powers to the best of his abilities and save Japan.

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that are the manifestations of peoples' hearts.
Read more at http://myanimelist.net/anime/10793/Guilty_Crown#yQvYymSdO2ADz0l2.99

that are the manifestations of peoples' hearts.
Read more at http://myanimelist.net/anime/10793/Guilty_Crown#yQvYymSdO2ADz0l2.99

that are the manifestations of peoples' hearts.
Read more at http://myanimelist.net/anime/10793/Guilty_Crown#yQvYymSdO2ADz0l2.99

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Neo going into the Enlightenment stage

The movie "The Matrix", was about humans living in a computer generated based world. It takes place in the future where some sort of aliens are able to make and groom humans. Humans no longer have power during this time period. There are a few remaining "real" humans, they form a group to stop this madness. Morpheus, their leader is in search in finding one, which later reveals that Neo becomes the one who is able to see and control the Matrix with his ability. This connects to Buddhism in a way. Neo becomes one when he is able to realize the truth of his own life and find some what peace during his moments with agent Smith. In Buddhism, enlightenment is when a Buddhist discovers the truth of life, which is similar to how Neo was able to become the "One" and save his group. He realized that he did not have to follow what the oracle had told him, he could make his future and change it however he would like to.

Neo was able to achieve enlightenment because he did not give up even when Agent Smith was beating him to a pulp and he felt like he already lost, but at the very end he was able to believe in himself and Morpheus. Doing so he was able to see the truth of life and was able to achieve a new power to see and control the Matrix which ultimately saves him and his friends.

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Groud hog day Blog # 15

Phil Connors was in the denial stage at first. When he first wakes up from his slumber and realized that he was repeating everything that occurred that day. He didn't believe it and denied it right away. He denied because this is like utterly impossible to occur like you would think this would never happen too so it was normal for him to deny it.
Connors was then in the bargaining stage. Because he denied it but then he decided to like have fun with and go with the flow. Because he would always wake up and repeating the same thing everyday so he wouldn't face the consequences so he just did whatever and whatever he wanted to do and have fun with himself.
He was then in the depression stage. He went into the depression because of his life was being repeated and it got to him. Because it kept repeating he couldn't do anything new and he was bored. Living the same life everyday for the rest of your life got to him and he couldn't handle it so he went into this stage and was basically depressed and he kept on like committing suicide over and over.
Phil Connors was in the anger stage. He took it out on his alarm clock by smashing it into 100 pieces. Like waking up to the same thing everyday knowing that you'll be living the same thing again would make you angry too because you can't do anything about it and your forced to live it regardless of what you want.
Finally Connors enters the acceptance stage. He realized that if he was angry, depress and denied this he would never get anywhere. He decided that he would do good and master his skills in such arts like ice sculpturing, or playing the piano. Then he would try to save everyone from danger, for example when he knew the homeless old man would die, he tried to do everything he could until he finally saved him. Also enjoying his life with people and doing what it means to be the most valuable person.

Blog # 14 - Game Review : Ryse, Son of Rome

Ryse, Son of Rome

Ryse was featured at E3 and because of its exceptional game-play.

It focuses mainly on combating enemies. Its combat system is similar to the batman games (for ex. Arkham Origins). It was interesting, the story takes place in Rome and the main character is out for revenge for what happen to his family. It goes back when the Roman empire ruled Europe under the emperor, Nero. You play as Marius Titus who is a Roman general. I do not want to spoil anything but something or someone is revealed at the end and basically caused all of this to happen .The campaign is approximately 5 to 6 hours. The game is fairly easy like there are 3 different types of difficulty. What kind of sucks was that you could never die in the game like you can you heal back up to full health when you switch to one of your abilities. I think they might need to nerf that move a little but overall the game was fun. The developers of this game used the full potential of the next gen console in this game. The graphics of this game was beautiful. 

Ratings : 7 out of 10
 

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The Truman Show Blog # 12

The Truman Show is shown to be a movie which represents how much people want to have a perfect Utopian environment which is what the creator of the show, Christof is trying to prove. Raising Truman in such environment to make Truman think that this world is perfect which is Christof is trying to get across to his audience. Sadly the world is not perfect as it depicts in the show. Christof is sort of an creator who makes Truman's world perfect and to prevent him from seeing the real world which he describes as "terrible" in the movie. Christof controls mainly everything that occurs in the show which kind of makes him seems like a god.