Yeah, well ... after finding out that Rose will be back in TVD for episode 19, as a ghost, fans kinda freaked out. Just like me. Let's see what they have to say about this:
@Katherine9712: @LaurenCohan I'm so happy to see you in TVD again! <3 xoxo
@MsAndrewLincoln: All of the ROSE and @LaurenCohan fans are sharing a SUPER MASSIVE FREAK OUT!! <3 We get our precious Rosebud back!!! :'(#TVD
@tvd_dabarina: Sooooooo happy Rose will be back! @LaurenCohan can NOT wait to have you back! #TeamRose <3
@KristopherRod: So I was gunna go back to sleep, but I ended up seeing for the next TVD episode and ROSE WAS IN IT! Omg I am so happy@LaurenCohan is back!!
@MsAnnie26: I'm so happy we get to see Rose! @LaurenCohan is just amazing! ♥#TVD
@TammyChilton: OMGGGGGG! CAN'T BREATHHHEEE! http://youtu.be/x7nw_3D6Kv8ROSE IS MY FAVOURITE CHARACTER! @LaurenCohan Literally jumping around the room right now!
And so many others ... It's amazing, I mean ... Rose is one of the characters people can't just forget, so I think ... that's why writers decided to bring her back ... for atleast an episode!
Yeah, well ... after finding out that Rose will be back in TVD for episode 19, as a ghost, fans kinda freaked out. Just like me. Let's see what they have to say about this:
@Katherine9712: @LaurenCohan I'm so happy to see you in TVD again! <3 xoxo
@MsAndrewLincoln: All of the ROSE and @LaurenCohan fans are sharing a SUPER MASSIVE FREAK OUT!! <3 We get our precious Rosebud back!!! :'(#TVD
@tvd_dabarina: Sooooooo happy Rose will be back! @LaurenCohan can NOT wait to have you back! #TeamRose <3
@KristopherRod: So I was gunna go back to sleep, but I ended up seeing for the next TVD episode and ROSE WAS IN IT! Omg I am so happy@LaurenCohan is back!!
@MsAnnie26: I'm so happy we get to see Rose! @LaurenCohan is just amazing! ♥#TVD
@TammyChilton: OMGGGGGG! CAN'T BREATHHHEEE! http://youtu.be/x7nw_3D6Kv8ROSE IS MY FAVOURITE CHARACTER! @LaurenCohan Literally jumping around the room right now!
And so many others ... It's amazing, I mean ... Rose is one of the characters people can't just forget, so I think ... that's why writers decided to bring her back ... for atleast an episode!
Another convention!! #C2E2 !! So Lauren is invited at this new convention, Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo on April 13-15, 2012 in Chicago, Ilinois !! Isn't this great ? She'll be there with her The Walking Dead co-star Steven Yeun. You can buy tickets HERE!
And look .... she's an "Entertainment Guest" ;;)
She and Steven are scheduled to appear on Saturday, April 14 for autographing. Ticket giveaway details here.
Another convention!! #C2E2 !! So Lauren is invited at this new convention, Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo on April 13-15, 2012 in Chicago, Ilinois !! Isn't this great ? She'll be there with her The Walking Dead co-star Steven Yeun. You can buy tickets HERE!
And look .... she's an "Entertainment Guest" ;;)
She and Steven are scheduled to appear on Saturday, April 14 for autographing. Ticket giveaway details here.
Wow ... it feels SO good to learn that they didn't forget ROSE ... even though Elena said "A vampire named Rose" ... we know for sure it's our Rose because she's the one that turned Katherine ;) And maybe ... if we're lucky enough, in one of the next episodes (or even in season 4 .. I don't mind) there'll be a flashback to Rose's transformation ... wouldn't this be great ??? For me, it would be.
OH MY GOD~!!! You know what ... I posted this like 20 minutes ago and now I'm updating it with an even bigger idiot smile on my face :D ROSE ... appears in the promo for 3x19 "Heart of Darkness" !!!!! And we didn't know ... absolutely ANYTHING ... wow ... well that was quite a surprise
How am I are we supposed to wait until APRIL 19th ???????
Wow ... it feels SO good to learn that they didn't forget ROSE ... even though Elena said "A vampire named Rose" ... we know for sure it's our Rose because she's the one that turned Katherine ;) And maybe ... if we're lucky enough, in one of the next episodes (or even in season 4 .. I don't mind) there'll be a flashback to Rose's transformation ... wouldn't this be great ??? For me, it would be.
OH MY GOD~!!! You know what ... I posted this like 20 minutes ago and now I'm updating it with an even bigger idiot smile on my face :D ROSE ... appears in the promo for 3x19 "Heart of Darkness" !!!!! And we didn't know ... absolutely ANYTHING ... wow ... well that was quite a surprise
How am I are we supposed to wait until APRIL 19th ???????
I don't know for sure if this is new (I mean it's not new, but like ... we've never seen it before) but it's a little different from the others ... look:
The difference is small ... but there surely is a difference!
Yey :)) I love it when I find new (but still old) pics ...
I don't know for sure if this is new (I mean it's not new, but like ... we've never seen it before) but it's a little different from the others ... look:
The difference is small ... but there surely is a difference!
Yey :)) I love it when I find new (but still old) pics ...
Basically what I look like when I try to play video games
I debated calling this article "why I suck at video games" but that would be defeatist, now wouldn't it? But let me take a moment to me recall a recent scenario for you:
I'm playing Sumioni, a PS Vita downloadable title, for review. Being the good, timely reviewer I am, I dive right into it, playing whenever I have a free moment. Enter the first boss of the game: A glowing, floating eyeball thing with pointy projectiles, that also happens to be the final boss for the game's first ending (yes, ending – I'll clarify momentarily). You know, the first and second tries don't really count, since you have to get used to the enemy's patterns, right? Well, yours truly probably clocked in at about 10 tries before throwing in the towel and handing the shiny black handheld over to my husband, who hadn't touched the game before that moment. I throw him into the deep end and have him restart the level I'm currently on – why waste time replaying earlier levels just so he can learn the ropes?
Shaun beat that boss in two tries. That's once to figure out all of the game's controls and the boss's attack patterns, and a second time to get 'er done, as they say. I knew my husband was a fiend when it comes to games (you should see him play DotA...), but I was not prepared for immense gap in our skill levels. Does that mean that Sumioni is disgustingly hard, or even more difficult than your average platformer? Well... probably not, because I already knew I was pretty bad at gaming. But it makes for a good story, eh?
That said, I've only gone through the first two endings of the game so far (with help from Shaun, of course). You get a rating at the end of each level (which so far have only taken about 2-4 minutes to complete) which will dictate how you will progress on the level "tree." There are a total of six endings, the first being the easiest to obtain and that last, which I assume is the "best," being the hardest. You'll need to get a lot of 2 and 3 star level ratings to follow the tree down to the better endings, which means replaying the initial levels a lot of times. The fact that the game doesn't really tell you how it scores you at the end of each level is a little confusing, but from what I gather it's based on the usual stuff: how much damage you've incurred and how long it took you to clear the level.
Graphically, I'm quite fond of the game. Many have compared it to Okami, and it's true that they're both based on the Japanese art form known as sumi-e, but Okami was so much more colorful and vibrant than Sumioni, so I think in the end the comparison is pretty arbitrary. The backgrounds are rather sparse, much like sumi-e paintings, but so far have been pretty varied between levels. I've been seeing a lot of the same enemies, though... Let's hope that changes as I progress further.
And what self-respecting Japanese game would be complete without a cute princess?
Sumioni utilizes the front and back touch pads in a continuation of the sumi-e theme by allowing you to draw platforms and execute spells by swiping the screen as if your fingertip were a paintbrush. At the same time, you'll be controlling your demon's movements with the analog stick or directional buttons, and jumping and attacking with x and square, respectively (I find I prefer using up on the analog stick to jump, though). When your ink meter runs out, and it will run out, you'll need to rub the back touch pad in order to recover ink. Let tell you, this happens a lot. I don't know if it's the way I play, but in boss battles in particular, my pattern of actions goes something like this: thunder magic, fire magic, swipe swipe swipe rear touch pad. Rinse and repeat. You'll need to be fast, and regaining your ink feels so painfully slow... It's a fun mechanic but I'm finding it a little hard to get used to. For one, it gets tiring swiping so furiously after a while! Drawing platforms on the screen to evade enemies and position yourself for optimal attacks never gets old, though.
From what I'm hearing the game doesn't take more than 6-8 hours to complete, so I should be able to finish my playthrough and have my review up before the week is out. Until then, feel free to ask any questions if you're at all interested in this title and I'll do my best to answer them!
Oh, wait. Did someone say... pizza?
Yup, that's right! And not any pizza. Sumioni pizza. The few blogs I read that covered this interesting collaboration seemed rather disgusted by the prospect, but I have to say, if I lived in Japan, I would've ordered that pizza the day it was released. As it stands, it the promotion was just concluded yesterday, unfortunately.
This awesome pizza not only has squid ink sauce to make it look like it was splattered with ink, but also those funny looking pointed crust pieces that are meant to look like demon's horns, or so the advertisement says. Other toppings include cheese (of course), basil, tomatoes, tomato sauce, and actual squid.
So, the big question is: Would YOU eat it? I'm personally salivating at the very thought.
* Vencen pero no convencen * No somos malos aficionados, somos EXIGENTES. * Gallos no fué fácil, pero les ganó la boca. * ¡1400 goles, HERCULEZ GOMEZ, GOLAZO! * Se viaja para la Semifinal a Toronto.
¿ Que hay peor que un equipo con 9 hombres? un equipo con 11 pero conformista, y eso fué lo que pasó con Santos Laguna que no pudo ( no quiso, ud. decida) descifrar como abrir a sólo 9 jugadores que se atrincheraron en su campo, si, pero que tu falta de imaginación para atacar e irse a la cómoda de que "al cabo ya voy ganando" sin pensar en que sea el rival que sea, DEBES DAR TODO en la cancha, por respeto a tu afición que hizo un gasto bastante importante para ir a verte, te hizo ganarte al final un sonoro abucheo bien merecido en lo que fue tal vez, un despertar de una verdadera afición.
Peor tantito es el hecho de no aprovechar a estos rivales, para ensañarte, y ampliar tu gama de goles anotados para --pensando a futuro y viendo lo cerrado del torneo-- tener otro dato para diferenciarte de los demás, parece que no saben de eso y les es mas cómodo jugar a medio gas "porque en la semana tenemos juego", imagínense que el Barcelona que la mayor parte del tiempo juega entre semana estar "ahorrando energías" para el siguiente juego, sin pensar que todo se gana a goles. OJO, no estoy comparando equipos, sólo estoy presuponiendo que pensaran de ésta forma.
"¿cocha diche?"
Gallos Blancos fueron un hueso difícil de roer hasta que se les fué la lengua de la boca, y en pecado llevaron la penitencia cuando primero les marcan un penal ( podría haberse marcado o no, esta vez y gracias a la irregularidad y mediocridad que existe en el arbitraje mexicano se marcó, verán que la próxima jornada, no se marcará algo igual) cometido sobre Oribe Peralta por parte de Adrián García Arias, el cual vino a ser cobrado con maestría ( aprendele Peralta, Herculez, Morales, entre otros) por el Chato Rodríguez para el 1-0 inmerecido tal vez, pero pues, a final de cuentas esto es de meter las que te ponen enfrente. Minutos más tarde, García Arias no conforme con haber cometido el penal ( y haber sido amonestado) Pero Arias no se quedó conforme, y en otra jugada, se le va la lengua en el reclamo y el silbante sin consideración le saca la segunda amarilla para dejar al Gallos con inferioridad apenas al minuto 29 de la primera mitad.
"¿Pa qué lo agarratiiiis...? ...."pos nomáaaas".
"de aquí pal real" pensarán, pues no, Aún con 10, le complicó la vida a Santos al grado de crearle jugadas de gol en su portería que apuradamente sacó la defensa, y como normalmente pasa con nuestro equipo, nunca se ve la superioridad que te da el rival por haberse quedado con hombres menos.
"La Turca que la mía es queretana..." y por hablador, lo mandaron a las regaderas.
Al iniciar la segunda parte, falta sobre el Gallo Martínez --a favor-- el cual se levanta y le grita al árbitro quien sabe que tantas cosas que éste al son de "a mí no me gritas pendejo, que no soy tu vieja" le saca amarilla que sería su segunda para mandarlo a chiflar a su mauser; apenas iniciando la parte complementaria y gallos ya se quedaba con 9 ante el superlíder, su gente y su poderío ofensivo...Todo pintaba para una goleada infernal en tierra de Santos...Pero...
Santos con todo a su favor tuvo el balón...y tocó, y tocó, y tocó...como el conejito Energizer, topándose siempre con 9 weyes que lo único que les quedaba era no salir goleados ante miles de laguneros que esperaban gritar el gol 1400 pero que ante la falta de imaginación del superlider no se veía por donde... fueeeee hasta el minuto 74 que en un tiro de esquina cobrado por Quintero, se levanta la figura de Herculez Gómez y diciéndole "que no" a la pelota manda cabezazo preciso y precioso al angulo contrario del portero para el gol histórico del equipo en primera división. Uno de los goles mas bonitos de cabeza que se han visto en este nuevo inmueble y es que fué bastante vistozo como movió todo el cuello para ponerla donde él quería.
Wallpaper de regalo para la banda guerrera DENLE CLICK A LA IMAGEN.
¡Y eso fue todo! si, no es mamada ni mucho menos, pero, Santos de ahí en más, ya no quiso hacer nada, vinieron cambios, pero nunca entró el cambio de mentalidad y dejaron en la cancha el conformista, siguieron tocando el balón pero nunca con peligro, todo por un solo lado, cero imaginación, la gente los alentaba a ir por más, pero no se les veía mayor gana parecían satisfechos con el 2-0 como diciendo "y digan que les fue bien" nunca pensaron en la diferencia de goles ( mensaje que desde la banca debería de haberse enviado) y hasta ahí fue el corrido. Al final, la gente les regaló un muy merecido abucheo, como reclamo a no haber visto futbol mas que el de a cuenta gotas regalaron, y que gracias a las expulsiones pudieron quedarse con 3 puntos que los siguen manteniendo arriba como "Superlíderes" algo que no conforma -al menos- a la gente que sabe que se cuenta con mucha materia como para mostrar más de lo que han mostrado. No queremos un Barcelona ( PORQUE NUNCA lo tendremos) pero si queremos que dejen a un lado ese estigma del huevonismo o conformismo que a veces se nota desde el Periférico. Santos Laguna es exigido por su gente porque sabe que tiene para dar más no porque sea una afición malagradecida, sino porque sabemos del potencial que se tiene en cada uno de los jugadores que conforman esta plantilla de élite, más aún teniendo enfrente a un rival a modo, con 9 hombres y devastados por su propia boca, culpa que ustedes no tuvieron, PERO QUE DEBIERON HABER APROVECHADO.
"¡ay doctor!, ya me volvió el dolor".
El "superliderato" se mantiene, pero con alfileres, teniendo a un Morelia a un lado y con solo UN GOL (ahhh, ¿ahora ven que si se necesitaban más goles?) de diferencia, ahora, Santos se va a la tierra de Maple para enfrentar en las Semifinales al Toronto a media semana, en el juego de IDA, para luego viajar a Toluca para el duelo apocalíptico ante los eternos rivales, los Diablos rojos, en ambos juegos se disputa mucho pues en el primero tratarán de traerse algun marcador que les permita manejar el juego de vuelta para meterse a la final, mientras que en el segundo se juega el liderato de visita mientras que Morelia y Tígueres se enfrentan entre sí en lo que bien pudiera convenir -o no- a la causa guerrera. Entonces, se viene una semana importante, y esperemos que ese "ahorro" de energía, rinda frutos en Toronto donde según cuentan está haciendo un frío de la tiznada, con temperaturas de -1 con sensación térmica de -6 según cuenta nuestra corresponsal.
"si, hace un chingo".
Yo no se de qué se queja...
¡SALE!
PD. el resumen de los goles en video por si ud. amable lector se perdió el 1400.
Just saw that our beloved small tiger has turned into:
"Jersey Brit currently playing farmer's daughter, Maggie Greene on The Walking Dead"
But I'm sure her motto is still "Sometimes I wish I was a bear, sometimes a small tiger" !
Also, I saw that she has now 21 851 followers!!! It's good, but we can be MORE. So, go click "Follow" @LaurenCohan ! And don't forget to follow us @LaurenCohanRo! But first of all follow her, because she's the most important thing here!
Just saw that our beloved small tiger has turned into:
"Jersey Brit currently playing farmer's daughter, Maggie Greene on The Walking Dead"
But I'm sure her motto is still "Sometimes I wish I was a bear, sometimes a small tiger" !
Also, I saw that she has now 21 851 followers!!! It's good, but we can be MORE. So, go click "Follow" @LaurenCohan ! And don't forget to follow us @LaurenCohanRo! But first of all follow her, because she's the most important thing here!
I suppose we all knew it'd happen eventually, but if you haven't heard, Theatrhythm Final Fantasy will be coming out in the US and Europe sometime this summer! How's that for great news? To celebrate, hit the play button on your favorite Final Fantasy track and take a look at some of this awesome merchandise I managed to wrangle up!
First of all, I have to say I've been warming up to the cutesy art style used in the game. It first appeared in a Kingdom Hearts cell phone game in Japan, and I never found myself very partial to it... But the more I see, the more I find myself starting to like it. I mean, who can resist drinking their favorite beverage of choice out of one of these Theatrhythm mugs?
I personally like the color on the tumbler, but prefer the simplistic design of the mug. But it's hard to pass up chocobos!
But better yet, perhaps you already have a trusty water bottle you'd like to spruce up a bit? In Japan they have bottle cases like these all over the place:
There is certainly a lot of drink-related Theatrhythm Final Fantasy merchandise, isn't there? But never fear, the usual cute keychains have also made an appearance:
I'll be honest – that's not my favorite Final Fantasy moogle design (I'm actually partial to the more rabbit-like moogles from the Ivalice Alliance titles, but don't tell anyone I said so), but the chocobo is pretty darn adorable. I particularly like the contrast of the yellow and blue.
And last but not least, we have a special item that I could only find on Kuma's Mad Dog Blog, a Square Enix blog dedicated to their merchandise (the previous two photos were also taken from there):
A tote bag?? Better yet, an unreleased tote bag?? It's a little known fact on the internet that I am actually obsessed with tote bags. They're good for groceries, books... everything, really! Ok, I'm a little obsessed. But I do love something that's both cute and functional, and tote bags really do fit the bill. According to Kuma's Mad Dog Blog, where this image was posted on March 15th, it's a brand new item, and currently no more information is available, so we'll have to wait and see when and where this is released. Admittedly, it is a little on the plain side, but I think owning a Theatrhythm Final Fantasy tote bag trumps all. I think I'm going to make it my personal mission to make sure I get my hands on this lovely thing.
Do any of these items catch your fancy? What would be your ultimate Theatrhythm merchandise? I wouldn't mind some stickers...
