Chardo's Headquarters

Dont you sometimes get that feeling that your ideals and expressions change completely over the years? I often feel that when I see my old posts and cant help but feel "did I type this piece of shit?" well, it often feels like that for me, so have pretty much decided to re-write most of my posts these days, bear with me.

Raw has been, is, and probably will be my lifetime project, as the supposed writer and guionist I am, its the "Big story" I have been improving for about 10 years, we all have these kind of projects we like to talk about every now and then, as I have grew up, I always end up talking about these "small worlds" we have with fellow internet and real-life friends, and really get inspired by doing so, so in this section, I humbly type what my world is about, and hopefully someday it will be a real game, comic, or just a story you may stumble upon, that is why I start here, so someday this stops being just dreams and someday turns into something real.

Introduction:

Its hot, its dark, its full of fire and industrial technology, its the underground world of RAW, a dirty and violent place where freaky rusted technology and fighting meet, gigantic caverns, deep tunnels made of rusted steel, abandoned factories, invading plagues of fungy and giant spiders, its like living in a post-apocaliptic nightmare world.

feel like getting out of this world? too bad, getting to the surface means going through a thick shell of hard stone never pierced before, or more like, the technology to pierce that ceiling is too expensive and obsolete, anyways, who wants to go to the surface? there are not even records left of people going to the surface, people have lived underground THAT long, its just general history: that one of the many human space colonies once settled to this giganted piece of rock thousands of years ago.

time to get sad? not really, the civilization in RAW is not a depressing, dying one, in fact, humans are as hot-blooded and strong willed as ever, they are just adjusted to a different environment than other civilizations, life here consists of the willing of the strongests, in general, people make a living from finding whatever resources they can, moving convoys, there are so many unknown human colonies and convoys lost in the underground world, that you never really know what you will find the next day from drifting in some tunnel, there are also, settled amazingly huge metropolies, what you could call the "normal people" the lifes of these can relate to how we normally live, they have internet, and good transportation.

Raw takes place in a special region, called "El matadero" this one, is probably one of the most violent regions in the entire planet, apart from the fact it is on a much lower level, reaching the core of the planet, making it a very hot place, the people here only live from 2 ways, stealing or bounty hunting, the first kill and steal whatever they feel like, while the other do a living by keeping a watch from the killers and stealers, usually by killing them.

its a complete outlaw area, full of bounty hunter clans and warzones, even crazier, there is a law that if an outlaw with a bounty, kills another head bounty, his own bounty gets "paid" the exact amount of the person he killed, resulting in every important person in the area being a possible "target" for the safety of another.

most of these bounty and outlaw clans seek either survival or wealth, its a never ending cycle of killing and being killed, but even in this horrible region, spawned from an underground civilization, there is a very interesting clan in particular.

a clan with objetives that would even look ridiculous for normal, people from the cities, this clan seeks to go to the surface, what this humanity has forgotten, to find out what is left of that place.

as far as I have told you, RAW sounds like some sort of Sci-fi themed star wars movie of sorts, except, the focus on this story is different from most stories.

first of all, this story doesnt seek an "end" a conclusion, something like this clan finding the surface and THE END AND SO ON HUMANS FOUND A BETTER PATH, I want to create a world were many stories can come up, a world that can do more than just a "cool story".

settled that, RAW is inspired on delivering Hardcore, speedy and intelligent Fights, some inspired on the so hated shounen-manga genre, introducing freaky characters with interesting battle styles and catchy skills, fighting in interesting industrial ruins and caves in fact you can compare RAW to games like metal gear or guilty gear (Raw could turn out to be a game) where you are introduced these interesting enemies or situations for yourself to defeat, RAW is a combination of the fighting in guilty gear and the adventure feeling and twists of metal gear, in a different, post-apocaliptic underground setting.

so mainly, the story is about this clan seeking a way to go to the surface, while it tries to survive from the many other killers and situations that take place in "el matadero".

So, I have barely updated these months for unknown reasons, I waited to play more games and watch more anime, suddenly I realized I have a LOT to talk about, so better start soon, First I will start with something I have wished to do in a LONG time, a deeply thought list of my top 5 favorite games of all time, in no particular order, There are many more I love, but these are the most symbolic of them all, I also made a list of honorable mentions at the end of course.

1.- Starcraft

I have been playing this since it was released, so it means its around 8 years, It NEVER gets boring at all, its just the kind of game that has ALWAYS been there since ever, the game I play whenever someone comes to my house, even to this year, I still cant decide which is my favorite race (though the one I play the best with is protoss), just got into it since the announcement of Starcraft 2, in which I plan to use zerg this time, and ONLY zerg, I plan to use zerg so much to the point I think achieve a higher level of skill, I just dont want to be obliterated this time by my friends.

(Favorite unit, Lurkers)

2.- Ragnarok online

This has to be here, even If I dont play it that much, it has consumed so much of My life it deserves to be here, since that day in 2k3 I made an archer, I still get to play RO each summer vacation each year, the strongest MvP was baphomet, the newest city was Juno, oh god, the days. There is just something about the music, the sprites and how easy to customize the status are, also how fast you can level if you know how, its pretty simple and not as complex as WoW wants to be, just make your build, get cards, the end, you can do it alone if you want, also Im pretty sure its one of the MMOs with more dungeons out there, teh quantity is just monstruous.

(Favorite class, Rogues)

3.- Guilty gear XX

I doubt there will ever be a fighting game as fun, well done and original as this one, its characters are just epic amongst anything, and anywhere close to typical, the gameplay is so thight and frequently gets updated with new versions that focus solely on rebalancing the characters, Its THE ONLY Fighting game I have confidence to beat anyone with, and I hope I cant at least go to one serious tournament of it in my life.

(Favorite characters, A.B.A and Zappa)

4.- Tales of Destiny Remake

The best Rpg I have ever played, the tales series are just my favorites out there, though you have to be a inporter and translate japanese to play the BEST ones, I also love Tales of Rebirth and Destiny 2, but Destiny remake is the most complete of them all, this game is so deep, fun and well done it made me forget Square-enix and its FF rehashes forever, Tales series are the only for me.

Favorite character, Leon, (Dual sword baby)

5.- Shounen Jump Ultimate stars

99 Hours of gameplay, I reached them about 5 months ago, I bought it 6 months ago, and I STILL play this, it is the BEST Portable fighter ever, and its combo system is so fun to experiment with, about 40-50 playable characters, and about 100 or so STRIKERS to test your combos with, I have spent hours just browsing and testing decks, and even MORE killing random people Online, even better it has made me interested in so many mangas I didnt know at all before I bought it, these include Neuro, HxH, Busou Renkin, D-Gray man and Gintama.

I have a bunch of decks, but my favorite is 5-Laughter Franky (one piece) 3-Int Mello (Death note) and 6-Power Allen (D-gray man), Challenge me if you want, I have beaten sennas, trunks, Raohs, even Dio infinite hackers with this deck, you also dont want to ever face my Solo Kazuki deck, that guy is immortal.

Favorite character, (5 Coma franky + 3 Coma Mello)

Finally here is a list of honorable mentions, games I love too:

- Metal combat (the sequel to Battle clash, that super scope snes game)
- Metal Slug series
- Megaman Zero series (GBA)
- Neogeo battle colosseum
- Melty blood cadenza
- Street fighter Third strike
- Phantasmagorian of flower view (Tohou)
- Pokemon Diamond/Pearl
- Smash Melee

2D fighters are my favorite genre since ever, they are the most addicting, competitive and time-killing games, Honestly, If I was offered to chose between a 2D fighter or a Free ps3, I would pick the fighter, Even if the ps3 came with a Free Wii.

Im so glad to see that this Genre is still alive and well in Japan, With Snk planning to do a completely remade 2D kof, the announcemtent of "Immaterial and missing power 2" (doujin fighter about tohou) and the following 2 games, 2007 is definitely a good year for us 2D fighter fans.

The first game Im gonna mention, its called Akatsuki Blitzkampf, which definitely takes a different aim than most doujin fighters do, it doesnt want to be a guilty gear copy like most of them, and has an ambientation/characters resembling 2nd World war nazys with electric martial arts among other guys, (think about the bad guys from Metal gear 3), yeah you read that right.

I mean, there is a guy called Elektrosoldat in the game, Rofl, this is a thousand times better than the usual anime girl spam or martial arts you see in fighters, freaking badass.

The game has a pretty hardcore soundtrack, and very old-school style battles with fast proyectiles and short but effective combos, while it doesnt look that gorgeous in animation as melty blood, its a pretty solid and fast game, it includes a special defense which works like the parry system.

I say, a pretty Badass, solid game.

The second one is the more popular, Big Bang beat, Made by the guys who did Melty blood (YAHOO), its a more anime styled fighter, based on some obscure hentai game (hey, Melty blood its based on tsukihime too), this one also features amazing animation and flashy looking combos, with a much more improved combo system and bars, Its pretty awesome looking and the music and presentation are pure win.

While some characters look pretty stereotypical, they look cool enough to deliver, my favorite is the boxing guy, he just looks ready to kick some ass, there is also this guy called seita who yells adds OTOKO to most of his attacks(Otoko means man), pretty manly, other guys are the classic school punk with a wood sword, kind of resembles Johnny, Daigo the Bruce lee impersonator (WHOOO DURAGOOON FAIAAAAA), and the classic crazy guy with knifes that screams like hell.

It has been like 10 years since I became a what you could say, hardcore anime fan, back in the days, the most popular anime used to be sci-fi stuff, like Mechas, cowboy bebop and Evangelion, anime was getting popular for showing crazy characters, ideas and storyes. back in they day Trigun and Evangelion where the shit, and that was okay, they where quite complete, from sexual tension, Philosophic storyes, crazy mechanic designs, etc.

Today its a different story, somewhere, something went TERRIBLY wrong, Badass anime is getting more and MORE rare, while other genre is taking up, a BAD Genre, nowdays, Anime fans are turning into retards, and now I usually feel ashamed of being called an anime fan for 2 reasons: Moe and Kyoto animation.

The first is an already old Concept, Moe in short words, means "cute and fuckable girl" one of the reasons people love anime, take for example, Love hina is a harem show that focuses on showing moe girls.

The problem, its that for the past of years, it was an obscure concept, you usually saw anime to entertain you and show you entertaining storyes of sci-fi, Moe-focused anime existed, it was fun to watch, but once people got serious they always ignored it and focused on more Serious anime, Badass and serious storyes where respected.

Slowly, more and more anime is getting produced, but not for good, the fans are asking for more Moe and moe and harem and moe and moe its getting kind of retarded, even worse, the anime industry is ansewering them, each year, more and more animes adapted on dating sims are coming out, to the point its just ridiculous, I used to like these shows, but about one per year, back in the day we just had stuff like Ranma and Azumanga, and that was okay.

Then Kyoto animation came. and everything just went to shit.

Basically, Kyoto animation is a studio whose only achievement has been Full metal panic! special episodes.

I still dont get why the fandom, but after they released haruhi, Anime fans exploded, you could see blogs everywhere with stuff like "THIS HARUHI ANIMU IS FUKKEN AWESOME".

so I downloaded it, fell asleep with the first episode (the 0 one) and jumped to the second one.

It was basically just another moe show, but this one had a lot of quality in animation and a dance ending.

This is where I still dont get it, why the fuck is haruhi so popular? the story is interesting indeed, but each time I see haruhi fan, he acts like a zombie retard who just keeps replaying that fucking dance part just to learn it and dance it like a retard on some anime convention.

Oh fuck, apparently, Kyoani accidentally discovered the easy way to make the most popular anime of the year, trow in some Quality animated moe Girls dancing and Money will rain, oh god, thanks to kyoani, the days of Mechas, guns, philosophical plot twists and overall badass are dying.

so I endured the fandom, after haruhi, everything that anime fans are watching these days are shows about moe girls, there are usually about 3 "harem" animes per serious anime. what the hell.

It got even worse this year, when Lucky star was announced, pretty much the worse and most overrated piece of anime shit this year, and you know what? people love it.

It was horrible, the first commercial features a blue haired girl going "UUHHUHHUUHUHUUH" for like 30 seconds, the ansewer?

OMG COMEDY GOLD, GENIOUS, KYOANIMATION IS THE SHIT.

even worse, its the biggest fanboyism I have seen since Final fantasy 7, people Love this show for 2 fucking reasons, Kyoani did it "OMG MAKERS OF HAROOHEE" and a dance opening.

talking about that, the opening is pretty good, one hell of a good one, but anime fans, an opening doesnt make an anime, its just an O-P-E-N-I-N-G.

so when the shit starts, badly drawn schoolgirls talk for 7 minutes about food, 7 FUCKING MINUTES, anime fans prefer to watch 7 MINUTES OF BADLY DRAWN ANIME GIRLS TALKING ABOUT FOOD and say its THE BEST ANIME OF THE SEASON.

BEST ANIME OF THE SEASON? STOP bullshiting me, have you even seen the other animes this season? how can you Retards prefer Lucky star than Gurren lagann, Darker than black, seirei no moribito, seto no hanayome or such?

Gurren Lagann

YES, LUCKY STAR is getting much better ratings than these animes, for 7 MOTHERFUCKING MINUTES OF FOOD TALK.

There is SOMETHING WRONG with this

so, this is my question, WHY ARE YOU TURNING INTO RETARDS?

this is a serious issue, if you anime fans keep praising this Lucky star show, each year we will see less shows like "Darker than black" replaced by kyoanimations new DANCING MOE GIRLS ANIMU, NOW WITH LESS STORY AND 12 MINUTES OF DRINK TALK.

MOE is a good concept when put slightly in my anime, but NOT for being the whole concept of a show, I always preffered having a good story, a good amalgam of it all, nice music, artwork, action sequences and lovable characters, Lucky star is just MOESHIT, it not the kind of show that deserves the praise it gets.

So, remember when I said bleach sucks? well.. I JUST CHANGED MY MIND.

so, everyone recommended me about it, and I FINALLY SAW IT, THE MOST ORIGINAL AND AWESOME BATTLE THAT CHANGED MY OPINION ABOUT BLEACH.. READY..?

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Dont get it..?

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well, I just showed you the most climatic moment of the battle..! Ikkaku pulled out bankai and EXPLODED, then the battle ended..!! OMFGOLOLL.

It was like the most orgasmic ever! IT WAS SO ORIGINAL, IKKAKU PULLED OUT THIS THING CALLED BANKAI, like he went SUPERSAYAN, IT JUST ASTOUNDED ME AN ANIME CHARACTER COULD BECOME STRONGER BECAUSE OF HIS "hidden" power.

Basically, Ikkakus bankai makes him.. S-T-R-O-N-G-E-R.

yes! Stronger! he can now slash things that he couldnt before! Every fight themed anime battle should be ashamed about how much they suck because this one was simply so original! he becomes STRONGER.

Even the CLIMATIC ORIGINAL EXPLOSION of the end of episode was awesome.. you see. in usual BLEACH battles you see an explosion ending a battle huh..? well, dont expect that here! because the explosions this time were ORANGE AND PINK COLORED.

I SHAT BRICKS WITH THIS BATTLE.. its like NO ONE EXPECTED. A SHINIGAMI TO GET BANKAI, now excuse me, I have to comment on some youtube videos about how AWESOME this battle was. also disregard that I just felt like an IDIOT WHO HAD NEVER SEEN AN ANIME FIGHT IN HIS LIFE while I wrote this review, lol.

Bleach is DBZ with swords, Damn, how horrible is that.

In case you are wondering, yes, this is sarcasm, bleach is stupidly boring and horrible to watch.