Welcome aboard, Chang. I'm Wildweathel.
<<--- But, it says "Chillax" over there. Why? ???
Because, This Is RAF! Make 250 posts and you can change your name at any time. If you really want some fun, switch with someone else! The sky's the limit.
I like to bury myself in many hobbies, which range from super nerdy, to probably some what cool. So from the super geekiest thing would be Warhammer 40k, and the coolest thing being I dunno something along the lines of film? Some of my other hobbies are Competitive Footbag(hackysack, ask if you'd like to know what the hell I am talking about), Mixed Martial Arts (since it kind of keeps me in shape and keeps me being off my ass all day), and Street Fighter IV(TIGER!). Other hobbies are things like rollerblading, hanging out with people watching in the mix, movies, music, you know stuff that other people do.
Ooh, sweet. I had a friend who was into 40k. But, then, he ran out of money. Miniatures are
pricey.
I think I can outdo the geekiness though: I've competed in national
mathematics competition. Yikes! Interestingly enough, though, math team introduced me to hackysack--though I never got good. MA in general is
sweet, though I'm personally more interested in traditional Japanese arts than competition. Once I have some free cash-flow (and have settled on a place to live) I'll sign up for an Aikido class.
I absolutely cannot play arcade-fighter games. Have tried. Have failed. It's adventure-action and the occasional RPG or mon game for me. But, I am somewhat familiar with Street Fighter's music thanks to this
OverClocked Remix album. Capcom liked the music so much that they commissioned the artists from
Blood on the Asphalt to write the music for Street Fighter II HD Remix.
I know nothing about Animorphs at all, but like I said Jess! demanded I joined, and some other person (faerie) seemed to find it interesting enough that I was a "professional hackysacker going on the holy crap lions tour" so needless to say, two reasons to join I suppose.
Well, Animorphs in a spoiler-free nutshell... Well, you're familiar with Jean Craighead George, yes? (If not, shame on you! Shame!)
Well, if Jean Craighead George read way too much Tolstoy and Machiavelli, then rewrote Heinlein's
The Puppet Masters for kids, exploring themes of morality, expediency, and really nice aversion of
You Fail Biology Forever.
Just for fun, you throw in massive amounts of 90's pop-culture references, a nearly omnipotent "brilliant loser," and time travel and alternate universes. Time travel + ability to change species = really messed up family tree.
As the story progresses, you gradually build sympathy for your Puppet-Masters and reveal the whole thing to be an epic struggle between good and evil a la Stephen King (!). Finally, you top it off with a bitterly ironic and disturbing ending, write your fans a letter saying "It ends this way because it has to, dammit!" and move on to blowing up the world in your next book.
Add a truly craptacular Nick live-action adaptation (now,
there are four words that shouldn't , and get
ripped off by Stephanie Myer, and
This Is Animorphs.
Now, be warned, we spoil Animorphs with reckless abandon here. (other rules for other series) If you don't like that, go ahead and
read it now. It's about 100-200 hours total.
