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Introductions are hard

So here we are our first comic. I had to resize it because it was huge, hopefully that doesn’t detract from the quality.

It’s been awhile since I’ve found anything interesting to say because Fall 2009 was a low point because few shows managed to catch my interest and draw me in. Plus, it served as a good break given my heavy courseload. So, Fall goes by and I can’t really say I feel any sort of urgency to catch up. Time to turn a new page and start fresh.

And what a better target to pick on than K-ON! After all, K-ON! is pretty much the latest poster child for everything that’s wrong with anime, right? Cute characters with irritating one-dimensional personalities, a general sense of pointlessness about the plot, and nonexistent character growth. Basically, compare Hidamari Sketch to K-ON! and you’re looking at a world of difference in terms of quality and I’d argue that both aim towards the same general target audience.

Enter Sora no Woto with its similar general artistic style and its seemingly nonsensical foundation of a plot and you have a product that would be easy to write off. Unless you actually watched the first episode, that is. (continue reading…)

Crap, I got so caught up in New Years Decade, Assassin’s Creed II, Tropico 3 and whatnot that I completely forgot about this Halo Legends episode. Well, on the bright side, streaming it online gives me the chance to get some omgpics! So there’s something to make up for it, right?

Also, believe it or not, I’ve been anticipating this episode in particular. Why? I’ll explain 2 paragraphs below.

IN THE DARK REACHES OF SPACE!

After the events of Halo 3 (wherein (*ahem* Spoiler alert!(?)) the Master Chief and Cortana end up lost in deep space in a half-destroyed warship), Cortana finds herself with nothing better to do than to contemplate her virtual navel (and perhaps the Master Chief’s cryogenetically-frozen navel, as well). She claims that upon her creation, it took her 2 hours to absorb the data pertaining to all of human history, knowledge, and understanding. Well, thanks for being such a cocky cunt, Cortana. Maybe you should take up being a schoolteacher… Actually holy shit that should totally happen. A.I. teachers? No, not that! Cortana in a teacher’s–

I mean … Anyway, so this is when the flashbacks begin. Oh boy, the flashback of all flashbacks. The flashback that retells the entire Halo timeline, from 100,000 BC to 2553 AD. Not that this is a bad thing, as this episode can be compared to The Animatrix’s The Second Renaissance, and everybody knows that was the best short of the Animatrix anthology. But then again, most people watching these should already know the history, so you would think they make up for it in pretty cinematics and finally showing us a glimpse of what really happened back then, of Forerunner civilization, right? Right, so I won’t bother with a synopsis as there isn’t much to say. As I mentioned before, I’ll make it up to you with what everyone loves: Pretty pictures!

Cortana proves she was behind it all by showing us her All-Seeing Eye...

100,000 years ago, the Forerunners ruled the galaxy.
Until a bunch of extragalactic space zombies knocked on their door and, ahem, flooded their worlds and colonies.
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Recently, as I’m sure you all have noticed, we here at Visionary Nexus have been incredibly lax in our posting of new content, as evidenced by the few posts in the recent months. I’d like to take this chance to apologize for our inability to get new posts up for our readers. While no excuse really justifies this lack of activity, do know that we tried our hardest to get new articles up for the last few months, however certain circumstances have made that impossible. Be it lack of free time, lack of a topic, personal issues, or other matters, we simply could not get the old machine working for a while.

With that in mind, I would like to announce that the staff is FINALLY getting back to work and will be posting articles once more! So no more logging on to the VN Blog and seeing nothing new, as I assure you that productivity will definitely see an increase.

I would also like to take this chance to note that there have been some staffing changes, as Blade Kiro is longer with the Visionary Nexus team. We are sad to see him go, but understand and respect his choice to depart. As such, Demi has been, in a unanimous vote, promoted to Administrator on both the forums and the blog. We all are very excited to see his work, as he is a skilled artist, a competent writer, and a great YouYube contributor with various Let’s Plays.

So in short, we’re back, we’re different, and we’re better than ever! (continue reading…)

I never understood why, but I always liked picking out a random game that had been overlooked by the masses. The fun part of this is never knowing whether it’ll be mediocre, or delicious. I present to you one of the latter: Avalon Code for the DS.

Avalon Code (Read: Under appreciated game)

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