8-Bit Music: Portal - Still Alive

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Star Wars: The Force Awakens Trailer

This is exciting. After being hyped for months, Disney teases us yet again with what is sure to be a great movie. I absolutely cannot wait for December to roll around!

8-Bit Music: Pokemon Mystery Dungeon 2: I Don't Want to Say Goodbye

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What If?: The End of Doctor Who

What if? It's a question we ask ourselves a lot. 'What if I win the lottery tomorrow? What if I meet the love of my life? What if the world ends tomorrow?' I'm sure you get the point. We speculate about the world and what might happen in it. It can be helpful at times to ask what if. Asking yourself and those around you what would happen if you did something. 'What if I go and help the homeless tomorrow?' That is a good what if question. However, what if can be dangerous. 'What if the person I like texts me out of the blue tomorrow professing their undying love to me?', or the ever so lovely: 'I did a bad thing and I got away with it. What if I do it again?'.

That is when what if becomes dangerous. In the first example, you get rapped up in that idea. That something will happen to you for no reason when there is no evidence supporting that it will happen. The best example I can come up with is the mirror from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. You look in the mirror, see the one thing you desire the most, and go mad with longing. The second example can be equally as bad. You did a bad thing; stole from someone, cheated, lied, etc. and didn't get caught. If you didn't get caught the first time, why would you get caught the second time? 'What if I did it again? Well, nothing. I got away with it the first time!', and the cycle goes ever downward.

I've gotten a bit off track here. What if is a very powerful question, one which can go in any number of different ways. For today's post, let's ask a very specific what if? question: What if Doctor Who were to end?

The answer is... well we don't even have to speculate. Doctor Who took a 16-year hiatus starting in 1989. At the time, the show had been loosing popularity, so it simply wasn't doing as well as it used to. The program later came back in 2005 and has stayed on until this very day.

NuWho, as the program from 2005-now is affectionately refereed to as, has been going on strong since is started. There is no sign of it stopping anytime soon. In theory, it never has to end; the Doctor could just keep regenerating and regenerating forever. However, as a great man once said, all great things must come to an end. As a fan of the show, I hope this doesn't happen for a long time. I want to be able to watch the show for many years to come. But when the show does end, I would want it to end well, with a satisfying ending that ties up any and all loose ends the show has. What if I had to write that very final season of one of (if not the) greatest science fiction show ever to be created? Well, I guess it would go a little something like this:

Pre-Ultimate Season: The Doctor has regenerated 25 times. Nearing the end of his second regeneration cycle, he knows his next regeneration will be his very last. In the last episode of this season, the 23rd Doctor (Author's Note: it would be the 23rd because of the War Doctor regeneration and David Tennant regenerating into himself) is somehow injured and regenerates into the 24th Doctor. This new Doctor sends whatever companion he has home so that he can spend the last of his life by himself. In the last moments of that episode, the Doctor scans his body for any anomalies. The screen blinks red and displays these words: VORTEX SICKNESS. The Doctor, now in tears, says: "I have less time than I thought." and the last episode ends.

The Final Season: In the last episode of last season, the newly regenerated Doctor finds out he has Vortex Sickness, a rare condition among Time Lords that is the result of either traveling too much throughout time and other universes or spending too much time in or near a TARDIS or anything else that has a direct connection to the Time Vortex. The Doctor, spending most of his extremely long life in his TARDIS, has traveled through time a lot, more than any other living thing in existence. Vortex Sickness is basically your soul being sucked into the Time Vortex. The Doctor will slowly loose his memories and other skills until, ultimately, his atoms separate and he fades into the Time Vortex. Calculations predict that he has about 10 years to live. Knowing that traveling in time, or even being in his TARDIS will shorten his lifespan, the Doctor goes back to Gallifry in the first episode, where the Time Lords tell him that there really isn't any hope, as the only way to cure Vortex Sickness would be to separate the Doctor from the Time Vortex, which is impossible as the very fabric of the universe is made up of the Time Vortex.
        The Doctor decides that he is not going to spend his life stuck at Gallifry being bored until he denigrates. So, over the course of 22 episodes, the Doctor takes his greatest enemies and traps them in the literally inescapable dimension Insanitarium. Every single Dalek, Cybermen, Silence, all of the Doctor's strongest foes are trapped there, bringing peace to the universe.
        This shortens the the Doctor's lifespan, as he has had to travel in the TARDIS to trap the monsters in Insanitarium. The 24th episode of the season and the last one in the series takes the Doctor back to Gallifry before the Time War broke out, where he meets a young Time Lord named Metus. The Doctor, recognizing this Time Lord but not sure where he met him, takes him on a ride in the TARDIS. Something in the Doctor tells him to speak to Metus about how there is more to the universe than just Gallifry; that Metus can have amazing adventures like the Doctor did.
        The TARDIS lands on Earth in 2014. Metus falls in love with Earth and it's people. He had never been here before, and absolutely adores it. The Doctor tells Metus of some of the adventures he's had on Earth, even though he can remember only a few and the details of those stories are fading quickly. The Doctor realizes that he doesn't have much time left and needs to get Metus back to Gallifry.
        The TARDIS lands on Gallifry, and the Doctor begins to expel regeneration energy, as the process of dying from Vortex Sickness is almost like regenerating in reverse. Metus, who thinks the Doctor is regenerating, goes up to the Doctor to ask him why he's regenerating. He gets right into the Doctor's face too, which triggers the Doctor's memory about Metus. "I know you. I know how I know you." The Doctor says as he's dying. "How do you know me, Doctor? We've never met before." Metus replies. "You'll know who I am soon enough. Now, promise me something." the Doctor says, painfully. The Doctor asks Metus to never give in. To never be cruel or cowardly. The Doctor begs this of Metus, who says yes, that he will never give in, or be cruel or cowardly. Metus leaves the TARDIS, walking straight out the door, and watches as it just fades away. Not in and out as the TARDIS normally disappears, but it just silently fades out. And with that, the Doctor is gone.
        Metus is mesmerized by Earth and absolutely has to go back. He ends up stealing a TARDIS right from under the Time Lord's noses and taking it to Earth with his small granddaughter, landing in 1950's London. As he lands, Metus figures that he is going to need an Earth name to fit in, so he tries to translate his own into any language from Earth.
        Metus looks at the monitor, amazed at the result his TARDIS gives him, which happens to be in English. Metus sees this and realizes that it must mean something: that he was going to do some amazing things.
        Metus is a Gallifrian word, and when translated into English, it means doctor.

What if? What if the BBC sees this and adapts it for the very, very last season of Doctor Who? What if the show ends in 150 years and I don't get to see how it ends? What if it ends very differently than the manner depicted here? What if they just cancel the show after Series 9, just like they did in 1989, and no one gets a satisfying ending? I honestly don't know.

This ending might not be great for you, personally. But for me, with a much, much more fleshed out final product, I would be extremely happy with this ending. It comes full circle and ties up any loose ends the show has. Isn't that all we can ask for in an ending, whether it be the end of a TV show or the end of something much greater and more significant?

Endings are inevitable. We can't stop them from happening, because that itself would be an ending, an ending to endings of sorts. Great things, bad things, thoughts, opinions, and other dull things, all of it has to stop somewhere. Otherwise no question would ever end, and neither would any answer. Death and life would both be eternal. No, every sentence has a period, every show has a finale, every life has it's death, and every story has it's ending. We must do what we can before we come upon our own finales.

But we can dream. We can hope and believe. We can weave our own stories. Every sentence has it's capital letter, every show has it's premiere, every death begins in life, and every story has it's beginning. Even this blog post has a beginning.

We asked a simple question. We asked the question that allows us to dream and hope and believe. We asked the question that we use to weave stories and tell tales. The question of imagination, those simple two words with a question mark at the end that can birth something beautiful and amazing and wonderful or dark and scary and evil. The question of storytellers, playwrights and people everywhere was the one we asked.

We asked: What if?

Update: I Lied Before But Now I'm Back (no really)

The first Fazbear Project teaser

The second Fazbear Project teaser

So I have been gone for awhile. I haven't updated this in a bit, but I am back, and better than ever. The Fazbear Project is coming along, I'll be it slowly. It is definitely the biggest story I have ever put to paper, and by far the most complicated. It is coming along.

As you can see by my earlier posts this month, I am also updating my YouTube channel! I plan on putting more stuff on there as well as this blog.

I'm going to be redoing the blog a little bit now. Don't know exactly what I'll do next.
But the color scheme as it is is alittle too
Halloween for my taste as a year round thing.
Alright, I'll be back!

The Commercial That Changed My Life

Commercials are everywhere. Whether on T.V or on YouTube, we all see at least a couple every single day. Most people don't like commercials, and it's understandable why; we want to watch a show or movie and semi-frequent breaks throughout filled with ads can get a bit annoying. Sometimes the commercials vacuum cleaners or car dealerships, but sometimes the commercials we see are for video games.

The year is 2010. I was 8 years old at the time, and had just gotten a DSi for Christmas. I was just sitting by the T.V one day, watching a show on Cartoon Network (I can't remember for the life of me what show it was) when the commercials came out. I, being young and bored, went into the other room to play with something else until the show came back on. When I walked back into the room, the commercial that changed my life began to play.

It was a commercial for Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver. I had never even heard of the Pokemon series before then. It seemed fascinating to me. There were these tiny monsters following a kid my age around a city. I had never seen anything like it! What really caught my interest back then was the fact that the game came out on my birthday. That sold it for me; I had to get this game!

I went up to my mother and told me that I wanted the game. When she asked me which one, I said I wanted HeartGold. 'Gold is better than silver.' my young, naive mind reasoned. A couple of days latter, she told me she had pre-ordered SoulSilver, I was a bit disappointing, but I really didn't care.

So the day finally rolled around. My 9th birthday, March 14th 2010. My mother held out her hand and showed me the game. I popped it in my DSi before we even left the Walgreen's parking lot where we were at. I loved the game just as much as I thought I would. It took about a month or so, but I finished the first half of the game, playing it as often as I could.

That Pokemon game was the start of my long time love of the series. It has truly shaped my life and interests in a way I never imaged it would. One example is the avatar I use on most of my accounts on the Internet. It is a picture of my Minecraft skin, which is the player from Pokemon SoulSilver. My favorite color is silver. It's odd how many things it influenced in my life.

I said earlier that I originally wanted Pokemon HeartGold instead of SoulSilver, however it only took a couple of hours of playing SoulSilver that made me realize how wrong I was. It has become one of my favorite games of all time, but I would have never seen it had it not been for that commercial coming on at that exact time.

A minute long commercial, seemingly so small and insignificant, changed my life forever. I probably would have gotten into the Pokemon series at some point anyway, but it would have been much later in my life had it not not been for that small advertisement.

That is the message in this post: it's the small things. The little things change your life. The big things change your life too, of course, but we all see that coming. No, the small things that we don't expect to change anything can, and sometimes will, change everything. Don't disregard something due to its seeming insignificance. It might be a walk in the park, or a drive down a street you had never been down before. Or, in some odd cases, it might be a commercial for a Pokemon game.

8-Bit Music: Pokemon Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald - Title Screen

It's been awhile!

I have a series on YouTube called 8-Bit Music. I haven't updated it since the first of the year, but I'm back. I plan on updating the blog more, and my channel. But for now, just check this out!

FNaF Fanfiction: The Fazbear Project

I made this. I am proud :)

As most of you reading this know very well, I enjoy Five Night's at Freddy's. Love the games to death, and I also love the songs, artwork, and other cool stuff the FNaF fandom creates. The series lore and story is so cryptic that we have more theories and speculation than hard fact, and I do love a good Game Theory (those of you who get that, you get high five).  

I also enjoy writing, as you can probably tell by the fact that I have a blog. Most of the stuff I write in my free time are short stories that usually don't get finished. I have finished one really good one, or at least I enjoyed writing it, which I might publish on Wattpad or something. 

But that's beside the point of this post. The point is that I started a FNaF fanfiction and now just can't seem to make any head way in it. (And I know you are going to ask: no shipping! Not one pairing in the entire story! Spoiler alert: nothing at all romantic/sexual happens!) I got to a point that is just dragging its feet a little too much for my ADHD mind to make something out of (if you are any kind of storyteller you know exactly what I mean). 

Let me tell you what the story's going to be about: 

The Fazbear Project:
A FNaF Fanfiction

"Freddy Fazbear's Pizza has become something of a myth. The horrors of the children's restaurant have been reduced to legend; something discussed in Creepypastas and paranormal internet forums. Not many people remember what really happened there—and even less believe it to be true. Even so the myth is there, and people enjoy myths.

Alex Turner knows that people like myths. He also knows that people will probably pay to 'experience the legend for themselves'. That is why Alex has created a team focused on recreating Freddy Fazbear's Pizza as closely as possible.

Or at least, that's what everyone thinks.

The Fazbear Project is a dramatic tale spanning over 60 years of horror and mystery. Questions and truths thought to be buried deep in the past will be uncovered as Alex's tragic history is revealed. Lives will change and deadly secrets that would be best left alone will be discovered." 

That is the synopsis of the story. It is still in the early stages but I am pretty confident that this will be a whopper of a story. I am not going to release anything else on it until I have finished it, although I might do a sample chapter at some point if I feel the burning hot desire to do so. 

I will be putting the story on Wattpad, as well as a couple of other sites when the time comes. I don't have a definite release date, but hopefully soon. I wish to have the whole thing completely rapped up by the time FNaF 4 rolls around.

Until next time,

Cini 

Update: Where Has Content Been?

The newest teaser for FNaF 4 from Scott Cawthon

Hello everyone. Welcome back to Thoughts, Opinions, and Other Dull Things. As you may have noticed, not many thoughts, opinions, or other dull things have been put on the blog for awhile. In fact, nothing has been put on the blog! I do plan on doing more stuff. Most of my posts have been longer and take longer to write. I will still be doing those posts, but I will do smaller, more frequent posts about just stuff. Do not worry, loyal fans, I am not dead. I will be doing more stuff in the following weeks. I am working on posts about FNaF lore and To The Moon, an excellent indie game I played last month. I am also thinking of a way to do a short story type thing about FNaF, which a seperate post about that and what I plan to do with it will be in a separate post I make right after this one.

Again, do not worry. More will come on the blog. But for now, this is me signing off.

Until next time (which will be sooner than last time),

Cini

To The Moon

©Freebird Games 2011  

The world is a beautiful place. This spinning hunch of rock we cling to the skin of has been our home for years, nurturing us and letting us grow. Humans, despite there flaws, create amazing pieces of art, filled to the brim with effort and skill. To The Moon is one of those artworks.

To The Moon is an indie RPG released in late 2011 to critical acclaim. It won many awards, including GameSpot's Best of 2011 award.

The first two paragraphs of this article were written over a year ago when I played this game. The memories have stuck with me since. I don't know why I didn't finish this post when I first made it, but I know why I'm going to finish it. 

To The Moon isn't great because of any gameplay element. In fact, there is little in the way of player choice or interaction. That's not why I love this game. I love this game because of its story. 

The Sigmund Corporation specializes in altering people's memories. They give you the life you've always wanted, well, inside your head that is. Didn't marry the person you wanted to? Sign up. Dreamed of being richer than you are? We've got you covered, Sigmund replies. The only catch with this operation, you ask? Because of how much it alters your reality, it's only legal when I person is close to death. 

Johnny is sick, and Johnny is dying. He contacts Sigmund and asks them for their servives, and they send out two doctors to help him 'remember', Dr. Rosalene and Dr. Watts. When thd doctors arrive, they ask Johnny what his dying wish is. He simply replies, "I want to go to the moon."

The strangest part? He doesn't even know why. 

That's all I can really say without spoiling it. The truth is, for our discussion, it's all we need.

To The Moon poises an interesting question, a question that you, dear reader, should ponder: is this the right thing? Here are some follow-up questions to clarify: Is changing your life right before your death right? Does it cheapen your real experiences? Does it matter as long as you're happy in those last moments of life? 

I don't know. I don't know if I'm even qualified to talk about it or not. 

If you know me personally, you'd know I lost someone about a month or so ago. My grandmother on my mother's side passed. It's been hard. I just wish I could speak to her again. Maybe get around to giving her those books back I borrowed. Even just to say goodbye.

I played To The Moon around exactly a year before she passed. I remember that because I had been thinking about replaying it right around when it happened. It got me thinking about how many choices life has and how easily one of those choices could end up being the wrong one. Would it haunt you till the day death took you? Would you change it if you could? Even if it does an injustice to your entire life? The biggest question To The Moon poses is this one however: does it really matter?

We don't know what's beyond the veil. Does the truth matter when you're that close to the true Final Frountier? Let that question simmer in your mind. I don't know an answer. You don't either. 

Today in History: The Battle of Lexington and Concord, 1775

If I could go travel in time without consequence, I would probably visit a lot of times and places. I know that I would go back to my first birthday, and watch as very tiny me was showed the world for the first time. I would go back to The Battle of Bannockburn, as that was very important for Scottish Independence (and when I say important, I mean it won them their independence), and that is very cool. I would look at some dinosaurs, watch the first moon landing, and the Battle of Fort McHenry, among others. I might even go back to gravedistractions.com and buy some books if I am feeling really wild. But today, this day in particular, as thoughts of time travel run though my head, I feel there is one place I would like to go:

The Battles of Lexington and Concord. April 19, 1775, 240 years ago today. British forces stand on the Lexington Green. On the other side, the Lexington Militia stood, much smaller in numbers, holding their muskets, so very scared. In all of the tension, someone fired. The Shot Heard 'Round The World. Such a legendary gunshot, and we don't even know who fired. The British said the Americans fired, and vise versa.

After that gun fired, and the ball flew, chaos descended on that field. British forces fired at the Americans and we shot back. The Americans scattered, leaving eight of their men dead and ten wounded.

That shot, on that day, was the true start of American freedom. That gunshot that rang in all the corners of the globe changed the course of human history. The reason I want to go back is to find the answer to a very simple question:

Who? Who fired that shot on that fateful day on the Lexington Green 240 years ago? What ran though their mind when they pulled that trigger? Thoughts of freedom or delivering the king's justice? That is why I want to go back. To find answers to questions we cannot answer. That is just one of many, of course. There are endless questions, that without time travel, we can't answer.

Ah well, no use lamenting what you well never have. Maybe. You never know though. You just have to give it time.

Until next time,
Cini

On My Phone

I am using Blogger on my phone just to see how well it works. Hopefully, it should work pretty well. I don't place on saying much; I am working on another post on my laptop and want to work on that.

The app seems okay from the small amount I have used it for. It isn't nearly as functional as the website on the computer however, so I will probably just use that. I will still use this, of course. Just not as often.

What, you expected more? Nein, friend, there is no more. So, go drink your Ovaltine. I have work to do.

Until next time,
Cini

Five Night's at Freddy's: The Movie

©Scott Cawthon 2014

In my last post, I said I would be doing a post about life. Well, I lied. I am actually talking about Five Nights at Freddy's. Now, as most of my friends and family (and DeviantArt, Wattpad, and Fanfiction.net accounts) know, I am a huge Five Nights at Freddy's fan. I own the trilogy on my computer, and could sit here for hours explaining the story for the game, or some of the many theories on the game. But, alas, that will have to be another day, for today, we are discussing the topic that is on every Five Nights Fan's mind:

Five Nights at Freddy's: The Movie.

Now, when I heard the announcement, I was shocked. The franchise has always been fast-praised in terms of releases, but this is unheard of. The first game has been out for less than a year, and already, they are making a movie about it.

It's (me) not some silly little studio that is doing it, either. The rights to the horror series were picked up by Warner Bros. Yes, you read me right, Warner Bros. themselves. This is politically a huge win for all parties involved. Scott and Warner Bros. get a nice payout, if they do it right, and fans of the franchise get a great movie, again, if they do it right.

The question that remains now is: Are they going to do it right? I hope that the answer is yes. I think if Scott is there every step of the way, then they should be fine. However, video game movies are (in)famous for being bad. Don't get be wrong; I like quite a few of them, but there general reputation has overall been bad. Five Nights has a rich story behind it, with such a potential, but it comes down to who is being the camera. From the list of other movies some of the producers had done, I have hope.

For me, personally, I don't exactly know what I want or expect from this film. They could go in many different directions with this movie story-wise. There is really no telling what they will do. If the writers play the games, understand the story half as well as most fans do, and no one at Warner Bros. is a total idiot, then this movie could be worth my time,

Until next time,
Cini

Welcome to Thoughts, Opinions, and Other Dull Things.

The internet is full of places that are undesirable. Whether young or old, there are so corners of this deep, dark web that just are not the greatest to visit.

To you, this may be one of them.

Welcome to Thoughts, Opinions, and Other Dull Things. I am your lovably crazy host, Robert Kannard, although here, I would like to go by my internet handle, Cini Checuk. You can just call me Cini. There is not much to know about me. My career as a middle-school student is drawing to a close. I sometimes play video games or write short stories. I am also an admin on my father's company's blog, Grave Distractions Publications. My father publishes books, as you could probably tell by the name of the blog.

The direction this blog is going to go in is unknown at this point in time. I personally don't have a clue. I like talking to people, so I guess that is what I shall do. I will probably talk about video games, T.V, books, or just my life. I will post as often as I can, hopefully daily, but no promises.

That's it. My next post will be about life. Life and all of it's Charlie Foxtrotinuss (I can make up words.)