Journal Entries

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10/9/24
I really really enjoyed this video.
 10/9/24
Been a moment since I shared a thought here: Here are two pictures of my work in progress commissions! 9/8/24
Look at this thing, orbs!!!! 9/5/24
More Minecraft Movie rambles
I feel like Minecraft could work as a great plot device to ask the viewer questions that the game naturally does with how it plays out.
When you play survival Minecraft, there is not much in the way of objective goals set for you. Yea, you should build a house, stay alive, kill the Ender Dragon, but what now? You are left here in a world which appears to be the remains of a much greater civilization. What even was the point of killing the Ender Dragon? What are you even fighting for or working towards? What's the point of surviving if everyone is gone? What is the significance of you?
I am no master in story telling, I just think there is so much potential being left on the table for A Minecraft Movie. I think everyone knows that. I hope the movie doesn't make any money at the box office. I feel as if the trailer makes it pretty clear on what this is going to be. Corporate schlop. 9/4/24
Wow.. A Minecraft Movie looks so poorly thought out. The trailer leads me to believe it'll be another extra safe corporate action adventure movie for the whole family.

The artistic direction feels really strange and I feel like they should've gone without introducing real life humans. I think most people would agree that nothing feels very cohesive, inviting, or easy to look at.

I wish they captured the peaceful and soft tones of Minecraft. When I think of Minecraft, I think of taking a natural world and slowly mending it to my liking. I think of C418's and Lena Raine's beautiful and melachnoly music. I think of how mysterious Minecraft can be and how it at times, emphasizes the fear of the unknown. The trailer in contrast just looks so... loud, oversaturated, and no understanding of what makes Minecraft's world appealing.

It seems like they're doing a Jumanji like plot with the protaganist coming through a portal and looking bewildered at the sight of the world. Which is overdone to death and a trope I don't think I have ever liked.

I was a bit skeptical when it was originally announced that Jack Black was going to be playing Steve, but now I just do not like it. I think it is less of the fact that it is Jack playing Steve, but it is just the way he is dressed and the way he delivers his one line. In my head, Steve is almost like Max from Mad Max, a man of little words but is quick on his feet and whitty. In general, any other depiction of Steve would be better.

From a technical perspective, the movie looks to be a mastery of CGI/VFX, but that really goes for any Hollywood movie nowadays. Art teams always do the best with what their given.
8/30/24
valve plz fix 8/25/24
I watched Alien: Romulus. I really enjoyed it! However, I don't approve of animating the likeness of dead actors. That just feels morally wrong...
Spoilers for Alien:Romulus and SOMA (Click)

I noticed a lot of things that felt like parallels to the game SOMA. If you haven't played SOMA, please go in and play it blind instead of reading this.

In the Romulus, one of the plots that unfolds throughout the movie is about an artifical human named Rook. It seems as if Rook has been left alone to his own devices. Rook becomes obsessed with making this goop that can "enhance" human life by letting them stay alive and be stronger. However, much like the WAU in SOMA, this goop doesn't really bring things back to life, or well, it creates things which are unrecoginizable from its former self. Although we see this all throughout SOMA, we learn how it works in both the movie and the game in the exact same way. In the game, Simon finds a dead rat in a lab, the rat can be injected with the WAUs weird goopy stuff, which "reanimates" the rat in its own weird gross terrible way. In Romulus, the characters enter a lab with a dead mutant rat, although the characters don't inject the rat, there is a video playing on the monitors showing the rat being killed, then reanimated, then eventually transformed into a freak of nature.

Another plot in Romulus and SOMA is questioning the morals of artificial humans and what really makes us human. In SOMA, the player is asked a lot of questions, does it matter that humanity lost its physical form? All that is left is digital copies of brains. Is it okay to hurt something if it is artifical? Even if it can express its pain? Even if it cries? While it is not as large of a focus in Romulus, one of the main characters is an artificial human named Andy. Throughout the movie, we see a wide array of opinions on artifical humans. From people who think they're terrible objects which have no emotions, to Rain, who deeply values Andy and views him as a brother. Although Andy is artificial, he expresses emotion which often looks like is being held back. Although we see a shift in Andy's personality when a new chip is put into his head, what we see doesn't seem to be Andy. It appears to be another mind controlling Andy, using him as a vessel. Which in a way, raises the question once again, should we value digital minds? Even if their origin isn't that of a naturally born human?

I dunno. I just thought it was neat. I am no essay writer, I just wanted to share my thoughts.

 8/24/24
Man, the GBA features for the original Animal Crossing/Forest is so cool. Seriously thinking about buying a GBA link cable, I don't know where I put my Animal Crossing GC game disc, but I do have a Wii I could use to load the game from a SD card with. This video has a lot of intersting information about the Animal Crossing GBA minigames.
8/23/24
Ignoring everything wrong in the world for a second. The internet is so cool. I can learn and find anything I want with a web browser. 8/22/24
Actually so excited to have commissions! bouncing off the walls. 8/22/24
Yay the first journal entry! I just wanted to bring attention to this cool program called Nook Desktop. All it does is play Animal Crossing hourly music. It is as if your desktop is apart of an Animal Crossing game. This is such a specific nieche but I am glad that it is being filled. Nook HomepageFlathub
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