As I've recently gotten back to playing The Legend of Zelda on the Wii, 2 words struck me over and over again (alright, maybe closer to 4 or 5, but they're all interrelated), and that is....HAYAO MIYAZAKI!

Why Hayao Miyazaki? Well, if you don't want any spoilers, don't read on any further, but unlike me, I'm quite sure many readers here have already gone much, much further than me. =P

When you first see the Twilight world and the "Boom Tube" the weird designs just screamed "NAUSICAA!" over and over again. Any manga readers of Miyazaki's Nausicaa will notice how eeriely similar many of the architecture and style of the twilight bad guys are very much like that found in the organic "lost" technology in Nausicaa, or when you save the First Guardian of Light, it looked very much like the Deer of Nature found in Princess Mononoke. Even the Second Guardian of Life's art style reminds me very much of how Miyazaki would drove kami-like nature deities and so on.

*end spoilers*

Is it my imagination going wild, or do you see it too? Post on, dear readers!

As mostly all WoWers heard by now
Blizzard has cut down Honor Gain by 30% for PvP, raising the ire of many a gamer, like when the 40 man raid dungeons was announced as soon to be 25 man dungeons, or that Pallys and Shammies will be available for both factions. From these changes it has appeared more and more to me that Blizzard's try at walking the fine line between casual and hardcore MMORPG gamers is getting rougher and rougher, and that it's becoming more prevalent in the game that this sort of balancing is cheesing off both sides and leaving neither happy.

After spending some free time running wild in youtube googling
"Dead or Alive Extreme pole dance" it's come to my attention yet again on the developments between Sexy Beach 3 and DOAX2; as an H-counterpart of DOAX2, the Sexy Beach series specifically tries to capture the sex appeal which sells DOAX2 and it's earlier counterpart, DOAXBV.