Anime & Games to Movies

There are plenty of stuff we would really want to see on the big screen. Mostly because of nostalgia, stuff we've grown up with when we were still children. If you are a 1990 kid like me, then you'd definitely know what I'm talking about the creation of the X-Men trilogy, the Transformers and the upcoming Speed Racer. All of which was really popularized by their respective animated series in the 90s (Although the X-Men was originally from the 60s....).
Now, we see plenty of WILD and pretty mind-blowing news of comics, television shows and books that we have read when we were younger! Here's a little list of upcoming movies that will soon appear in the few later years. That is of course the Mayan Prophecy of Apocalypse is false.

Tekken
One of the news that really got me excited when I heard of it is Tekken. Tekken is a video game that released in the 90's Sony Playstation. It was a fun game, one of the first fighting game's I've ever played.
In 1998 they created an anime movie, it both received praise and distaste from both fans and casual movie-goers alike. It was praised for it's marvelous 'realism' in fighting styles, but booed for the bad English dubbing by English listeners (Jin's voice was compared to Vegeta's from DBZ).
But this time, English viewers needn't complain about dubbing this time. Speculation of a Live Action Tekken movie was released and confirmed. IGN and IMBd has posted the following plot and revealed that the movie once again revolves around Jin Kazama. It's some story about uncovering evil and darkness with an old monk named Zhen. I can't wait for this film! Casting has already begun and the following actors were cast for these characters:

Luke Goss Playing as Steve Fox. The dodgy boxer that kicked my ass when using Capoeira.

John Foo as Jin Kazama. Of course, this is just leaked information. It may change...

Cung Le as the Kick Axe Marshall Law

Kelly Overton as the Capoeira counterpart of Eddie Gordo - Christie Montiero.

All those have been released thus far...
Tekken shall appear anytime soon, say around 2009?

Dragonball Z
Then comes the popular Dragonball Z and yes it will be Live action! It is to be released on April 8, 2009! The popular anime series that had unsuccessful attempts to make itself evident in the U.S. but extravagant in other countries.

But what the hell!? Im excited nonetheless... I'm still kinda curious to how they'll pull the movie off. Anime is so hard to replicate...

Project Lawsuit (Arrr...)

The internet is always filled with a variety of interesting controversy, debates... Pretty much separatism and all that jazz. Take the ones who think they're so smart for example. No one likes them - however much they're right, no one likes ignorance to be disrupted. Those of you who wander around comments in a video from YouTube or Break, or forums in general, you're most likely to know what I'm talking about. Yeah, two groups: One who can't help adding science and all theat mythical stuff, and those who just want to enjoy carefree random days on the internet. But that's just on a tiny and much more minute example of the oh so divided opinions of the Internet. The bigger scale would be the age long battle between Record Companies ($$$) and Internet Pirates (Arrr Matey).

Ignore the Comic Bashing on Apple's schemes of releasing one gadget after another after another

Many argue that it is simply 'sharing' files and that it is no crime at all. in fact, it only raises the popularity of one artist! Others argue that the artists should be respected and supported by paying up the respected price of their albums. I agree with both sides, in fact, it reminds me of when Napster came out as a blast! And then Record Companies sued them for allowing downloads. (Read this interesting Article about Napster and the Music Industry) However, there are some exceptions which I have run through my head for quite a while. One of them is that music be made available to the users of the internet. Not necessarily downloadable, but simply available. Once you tread beyond that line, then it kinda is understandable.. but annoying... and frustrating. This is where Project Playlist comes in.
Project Playlist is popular web tool that allows users to enter the website and search for an artists song or album or playlist (created by other users) and listen to them. Other features of this site allows the embedding of a created playlists into other sites such as Gaia online, MySpace, Facebook, Blog Sites (such as this), and basically any site that allows custom HTML editing. Now, this site where 25,030,450 users (and 9.5 million views everday) is being sued by 9 label companies including Motown Record Co LP, Warner Music Group Corp's, Warner Bros. Inc., Virgin Records America, and more. The reason for this is because they do believe that it is one ginormous (ginormous: Giant + Enormous) copyright infringement. Project Playlist hasn't released any comments regarding the situation or anything in particular in their defense...
But on the bright side, if you're looking for a job, I saw this sign on the bottom of Project Playlist's page saying that it is now hiring. Bad news is it might shut down. Don't worry, at least there's a similar site called www.imeem.com . In fact, I have embedded a Project Playlist Player here singing it's probable demise. Until then...

The Fantasy

Final Fantasy... The grandeur of all RPG gaming that started all the way back to the ever so nimble Sony Playstation... The game grew in popularity in it's early years, especially in FF I as it was a new generation of gaming in those good old days. It fell in its second installment endangering its future.. But don't worry, it picked up again on it's other installments such as 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 10.5, 11, 12 and 13... But besides the point of Square Enix's attempt into condemn kids into tantrums, teens into lockdown and adults who have nothing better to do into contemplation, they intend to further their advances NOT by creating something new... But something much more scandalous, innovative, scheming, orgasmic (nerdgasmic to put it in proper geek terms)... A remake of the Final Fantasy 7 series...

Now, to those who aren't aware of the social impact of Final fantasy 7 (or know of FF7 - Shame on you) to todays teen culture, here's a quick rundown on the whole darn thing.
Final Fantasy 7 was a global phenomena that was released in 1997 and made a little set line of dominoes that were toppled upon teens of sorts that are oh so similar to the persona of Cloud Strife . It was recognized by Gaming Monthly as one of the most IMPORTANT gaming titles of gaming history. It was the first of the Final Fantasy series (or possibly the entire gaming world in the 90's) to have evolved into a 3 dimensional view which was pretty big as it set the standards even higher for other games. Also, the game was criticized and bombarded by parents who related the game to the Columbine High School Massacre saying it was games like these that promoted violence, but hey, that's why we have ESRB right? Did I mention that it was also labeled as number 7 on Game Spy's most overrated games? That's a different story.. MOVING ON...
Anyway, you all can read the rest of it's history in wikipedia... There's bigger nerdgasmic news coming 'round.

A remake of Final Fantasy 7 in this bigger, badder big brother of the Playstation is coming right after the successful production of Final Fantasy XIII. Yes, those who has heard of all the hype but can't tolerate last decades graphics rejoice for now is your time to catch up to the whole damn thing! Little hints have been given out to the public though it hasn't been fully unveiled. It began as a teaser - a technical demo of Final Fantasy 7 to make fans wriggle in their seats screaming at their computers to make it already... But just for comparisons sake, I have placed the original intro.

But now, fans need not scream at their computer any longer about 'making' the remake... They can now scream in joy and of impatience as it has been contemplated amongst Square's studios of the coming title for the PS3... Of course, it's just contemplation, no confirmation. Here's what Yoshinori Kitase said once upon a time:

"My feelings are that if a remake were to work well then all the core members of the original team must be reassembled, all the artists and designers."

...? Didn't Nobuo move on out of Square Enix and started making all other soundtracks to other gaming companies like Mistwalker (who made Blue Dragon)

"The problem is that, although all of us have an idea of what a remake should be and how to do it, organising such a thing right now is logistically very difficult. All the different members are now involved in very new, very large projects like Final Fantasy XIII and those projects are going to take a while.

Maybe, when all those games are finished then we can look at doing something like that.

Of course, that said we came up with the idea for Crisis Core in just two days. It was a case of 'this is what we want to do, so let's do it'. So, you can definitely expect the probability of something spontaneous happening at some point, but it's hard to predict."

Despite all the talk, FF7 fans are quite conservative on the matter. Some disprove of the remake saying that classics should remain classics. Meaning that a remake is A-OK as long as the battle system stays the same, the cutscenes, the dialogue, etc. Nothing added, nothing removed. Kinda reminds me of those parents who bashed on the Columbine HS Massacre... (Don't mind me, I just don't like that much conservatives who want things to say the same).
But forget them, I for one cannot wait for the remake!

The Problem with Google

Google Certainly is the worlds most used search engine -- No Contest. Google is a hugetastic and still growing industry, to further elaborate their growth, may I remind the coming the Google Phone and dozens of upcoming google features everywhere! One of their upcoming release for 2008 is the Google Page Creator which allows businesses and individuals to create intranets, project management tracking, extranets and other custom sites. Sounds cool huh? But despite it's plans to get into the custom site communities and cool gadgetry, there is one flaw that could jeopardize its plans... Ladies and gents, I bring to you the Google Terms of Service section 2.3

You may not use the Services and may not accept the Terms if (a) you are not of legal age to form a binding contract with Google, or (b) you are a person barred from receiving the Services under the laws of the United States or other countries including the country in which you are resident or from which you use the Services.

No comprende? Well, the legal age for most countries to form a binding contract (including the United States) is 18 years old. Still don't get it? Minors won't be able to use Google so they'd better hit the libraries (or wikipedia).
There hasn't been any method for blocking the services for minors, but if they do- Google will be facing a troublesome year.
May I suggest using www.ask.com if they do ever find a way.

The LoL Cats...

Yes. LolCats have been around the internet since the beginning of time... How long? Well, lets say they have been around for a very long axe* time and according to G4 specialists, they claim to have been around long enough to influence humans over the strands of time watching our every single move.
The earliest recovered relic of the LoL Cat is the one to the right. It is a picture of a cat and a snake... The cat killing the snake with a blade of... grass... There were hieroglyphics on the bottom of the image which was translated to "I see what you did there" which brought upon the everlasting trend of the LoLcats' miraculous appearances such as the ceiling cat and the trashcat.

The History of LOLCats - Watch more free videos

But on a more serious level. The LoL cat was quite a remarkable internet phenomena. Like G4 said, it all started with HappyCat and it was flamed like hell. But that didn't stop some passers to actually have found some humor in it enough to spread its influence. Thus was the creation of the modern lolcats we see today.

HappyCat died on the year 2007 of old age. Many users of the LoL Speak community mourned his loss and pretty sure - the entire internet who has grown to love and hate this chubby and extraordinarily happy cat. May he have all the cheezburgers he wants in heaven.

The Creation

I'd like to introduce all of you to someone very eccentric and oftentimes nonsensical, me. Yeah... me*... of all people. I'd otherwise introduce you all to cool people that matter most like Albert Einstein who could teach us the makings of the A-Bomb in person or perhaps or someone even more interesting like that one guy who survived being sucked into a tornado and flung right into the air, flew for miles and survived... No, not today. Anyway, 'me' is a a student. 'Me' is eccentric. 'Me' is someone who owes the library ten dollars and fifty cents. Bottom line: 'Me' is a very average person.
So, for your own comprehension of this little blog I have provided a set of Rules that you might want to take into your consideration...

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Rule # 1: There are no Rules.

Rule # 2: The author is a very nonsensical person and oftentimes than not writes about random items. You should completely disregard any information or message that is ever published by him.

Rule # 3: The author is a very thoughtful person. Everything he says should be taken into consideration and must be taken seriously.

Rule # 4: Drink Milk. They're good for your bones.

Rule # 5:

Rule # 6: Refer Rule # 1
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Right... Now that we have all that set into everyone. We can get on with this introduction?
Random Reverberations purpose is to be a collective gathering of news and stuff people might care about. From Games, to Uproars, Gadgets, Videos and interviews from random people... I sincerely hope that all readers who come across my web blog will enjoy this.
The End.

~Khal

*Me refers to me... My screen name: Khalfani... Or as I am popularly known in Real Life: "J.P."