Why Big Barda is Amazing

Since I haven't talked about DC in a while, mainly because I haven't gone to my local comic book store in a while, I'll continue with a character named Big Barda. She's not that big of a character, and mainly in cameo roles most times, her picture comes up in Sandman once, when Scott (or as most know him, Mister Miracle) wakes up.
The first question is why would I pick her?

Normally she doesn't have the axe, but by the end of this I hope you'll understand that she doesn't need the axe to kick ass. First off, she was part of the Justice League, Birds of Prey, and was an elite warrior from her home planet, for further reference, watch this video in which she kills her former subordinates.
Here it is.
It wouldn't let me put it here so there's the link.
It should be noted as well that Wonder Woman is awesome in this, and in other things as well. But Wonder Woman gets plenty of attention, so I'm giving Barda a second in the spotlight. Of course its not a great spot light, but better than nothing. Anyways, one of the reasons I admire Barda is that she has actual armor. The first time I saw her its what won me over. It was in this episode of Justice League Unlimited that she was brought to my attention. Of course she does have some fantasy moments.

Keep in mind she could still end you.

She's also married, to Mr. Miracle (Scott Free). Which points me to my next point, they were a gender reversal in who's stronger and protective. She is the powerhouse in the relationship, and although poked fun at sometimes, she still has moments of just wanting to be a normal person. In the 80s comic, she wants the neighbors to not think of her as a freak at times. And the relationship isn't some attempted love triangle, or one that people aren't sure if it really works, they love and respect each other. Every time Mr. Miracle shows up, Barda at least has some face time, and they'll joke with each other. And this is one of the two comics of Mr. Miracle I owned.

I enjoyed the partially humorous nature of their relationship. Its in someways ridiculous that she is the "man" in the relationship, but it really works for them, so what does it matter?

Like most comic book characters, she's evolved over the years and all for the better. She's still stayed strong, but stays pretty much true to herself.  

Elder Scrolls online is making me depressed

So the more I've seen it, the less I like it. First off, the picture on the official site that greets you as soon as you go to it.

The Nord looks alright, and the imperial thief-type class is ok, from what I see, but wait, what in the holy hell?
The female elf mage, what the hell?

Is that a bosmer? It has to be, altmers are golden and dunmers are grey. But she's too damn pretty, and cleavage armor, really Bethesda?

You went from this:

To this pretty girl. I can't handle it. It annoys me to no end.I'm scared of what they'll do to both the Altmer and bosmers. And oh god what they might do to the beast races.

Oh god why did you do that to the Khajit? I kid, I kid this pic is from this forum

And that's just the tip of the iceberg. 

The pacts I under stand, but I have a bit of the problem with a couple of facets. The Ebonheart pact makes the most sense from the grouping race wise. These are the three races that although they don't like each other, they don't tend to like anyone else either. And the Ebonheart in this is different then the one in Morrowind. The one in Morrowind is on Vvardenfell, this one is on the main land. So I bet you Vvardenfell will be an expansion pack/DLC/whatever, if they're honest to their own lore. Oh and I get my Elder Scroll lore from uesp.net so if you want to see where I get my Lore facts from, it's from there. 

 The DaggerFall one is what gets makes no sense for one reason only: The orcs. The Bretons and Redguards aren't busy fighting each other yet, so those two make sense. But the orcs, well, have a history of being attacked by both neighboring races, so I find it odd that their teaming up with the two races that have a history with them, unless its a way they're people pleasing to include it. Or to make the teams even.

And the third: the Aldmeri Dominion, the Bosmer, Altmer, and Khajit. The khajit are just kind of there, for being there and needing to fit in an aligince and everyone has already teamed up. Like the kid who came in late to class and he makes an odd number so he's teamed up with the best buddies that ignore him.

And the graphics are pretty and all, but it still feels like it's going to be a yet another WoW wannabe. 

My problems with Science Fiction and Fantasy books

I love science fiction and fantasy, don't think that I have a problem with them, I love immersing myself in Tamriel and Middle Earth, the ideas of weapons and beings beyond our imaginations makes me giddy. The problems I have aren't with the genre itself, it's mainly with the writers and the readers. Allow me to explain.
1. Taking themselves to seriously 
So I couldn't get into science fiction or fantasy in middle school, because they tend to recommend incredibly serious, heavy stuff. It was quite a switch from Wishbone and Animorphs.

Tell me a time where being a starfish would help you save the world.

In fact, if it wasn't for Douglas Adams, I might have never gotten into the sci fi/fantasy realm past supernatural love triangles.(Another time maybe). And I'm not saying that all science fiction needs to be as delightfully random as Douglas Adams, I'm saying that there needs to be more authors like Adams and Robert Asprin. There needs to be more options for those who want a light-hearted, but not kiddy, science fiction/fantasy to read. 

2. Where are the women writers?

I know, you can't blame the famous male authors for doing well. And I'm not, I love Tolkien, Asprin, Adams, Moore (even if some don't say his stuff is Sci fi, but I think if you read Fluke you'd call it Sci fi) Millar, and I'm starting to read some Alan Dean Foster. And I know there are women writers in both of these genres, but a good amount are young adult novels and the others I haven't heard of. And I'd be willing to try some of the young adult novels if it wasn't for the force of the love triangle. I was told about The Hunger Games a while a go, but I couldn't bring myself to read it. Not that it didn't have an interesting idea, but the back of the book made the love triangle front and center instead of a side note.

Screw political commentary, Peeta and Katniss forever. 

3. Re-used tropes 

Games have slowly been getting better at this but Douglas Adams and Christopher Moore are offenders of this. The Damsel in distress and/or sexpot. And my favorite in fighting, they either tend to be hyper-masculinized or hyper feminized. And I'm not even getting started on fantasy armor. That started out in books and it hasn't ended yet.

Look all in all, I love the sci-fi/ fantasy genre. Just the books are sometimes not very female friendly. 

Elder Scrolls Online

So I'm not sure what to think of it. At first I was like this:

but with online, but the more I think the more skeptical I am. On one hand, going through dungeons with friends and being able to possibly do a market thing and sell my wares to other than just shop keeps I like the idea of.
 But the open world feel and the sociological density can't be like that on Morrowind through Skyrim. It says on the wiki they have up that you can look up here that right now they only have plans on the three provinces. I can understand that in the quality over quantity idea. And the plot seems pretty cool, but some of the race characteristics they've built well, will probably go away.
For example, Altmers are jerks. In every game since Morrowind, they will act superior over you. But since you have people playing as all races,the snobbishness is going to rub away.
It also sounds like they're bringing back classes, which unless they're doing XP based I'm not too excited about, but that's for another post.
I'm also guessing it'll be a monthly payment kind of thing, so I won't be able to play it. But I'll comment as more is revealed.

Participation not needed.

So I saw the whole movie marathon except for Iron Man And Some of The Incredible Hulk. See last post about class if you're wondering why. So I want to start off  with the fact that most people in the theater saw all the movies. And even if they didn't Captain America was right before The Avengers. But then I hear this:
"Why is Captain America still young?"
Both my boyfriend and I were dumbfounded. We just saw the movie and it was explained. But anyways, the movie was good. My problem after this great episode was with the rest of the audience. The action scenes are good, and the lines were well written, but I don't see the need to applaud after every funny line or during good action scenes.
It kind of seemed like this:

"Just keep clapping, it proves we like this," The scenes were good but I don't think that you need clap every time the hulk or your favorite character is on screen. It just got tiresome. But other than that I enjoyed the movies.

In Preperation for The Avengers

So I'm going to a movie marathon that leads up to The Avengers. But I'm only going to see half of the movies.   Damn class that will dock me half a grade for missing.

Anyways, I'm still super excited to go to Thor and Captain America before the midnight showing.So last night I was shown this awesome video from when Lou Ferrigno was the Hulk.

 

Oh mullet Hulk and shoulder pad Thor. If this doesn't get you pumped for The Avengers than maybe this person who designed fashion inspired by The Avengers.

If you like this, you might want to check out Kaciart on her Tumblr. The only one I don't like is the Hulk one, it feels too simple. But I love the other ones so much. Especially Thor and Captain America.  And also eye makeup. You can't say that it's at least impressive. If I had the talent, time, and not cheapo makeup I might have tried something like that. Or pay to have it done if I had the money. So now I wait until I can go to the marathon. 

Update on my rage and awesome mystery professor

Okay, so after my rage at Bloodmoon, I learned none of my characters were harmed in the hullabaloo of all the uninstalling and re-installing. And to celebrate, here's Samwise from Lord of the Rings to show my enthusiasm that I had inside at 1am when I realized this news.

But I decided to start over because I wanted a better balance of spells and straight up hack and slash.

Oh and someone in the faculty in my college plays Skyrim. How do I know? They have a map of Skyrim on the door. Which makes waiting for your instructor a little better. And it's not on my instructor's door but I still did this:http://myfacewhen.com/183/
and the guy sitting next to me did this: http://myfacewhen.com/110/