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With a combination of formal and informal (mostly informal) text:

You are shrewd, inner-directed and can be perceived as indirect.
You are intermittent: you have a hard time sticking with difficult tasks for a long period of time. You are independent: you have a strong desire to have time to yourself. And you are imaginative: you have a wild imagination.
You are motivated to seek out experiences that provide a strong feeling of discovery.
You consider independence to guide a large part of what you do: you like to set your own goals to decide how to best achieve them. You are relatively unconcerned with tradition: you care more about making your own path than following what others have done.

Name

Value

Big 5

Openness

90%

Adventurousness

70%

Artistic interests

16%

Emotionality

31%

Imagination

94%

Intellect

89%

Authority-challenging

91%

Conscientiousness

19%

Achievement striving

19%

Cautiousness

38%

Dutifulness

9%

Orderliness

9%

Self-discipline

3%

Self-efficacy

52%

Extraversion

18%

Activity level

6%

Assertiveness

16%

Cheerfulness

12%

Excitement-seeking

27%

Outgoing

8%

Gregariousness

5%

Agreeableness

8%

Altruism

8%

Cooperation

34%

Modesty

12%

Uncompromising

12%

Sympathy

80%

Trust

22%

Emotional range

58%

Fiery

60%

Prone to worry

24%

Melancholy

70%

Immoderation

49%

Self-consciousness

60%

Susceptible to stress

14%

Needs

Challenge

66%

Closeness

63%

Curiosity

74%

Excitement

58%

Harmony

69%

Ideal

44%

Liberty

56%

Love

71%

Practicality

73%

Self-expression

47%

Stability

66%

Structure

69%

Values

Conservation

3%

Openness to change

97%

Hedonism

93%

Self-enhancement

65%

Self-transcendence

15%

  With mostly formal text:

You are heartfelt, somewhat insensitive and strict.
You are adventurous: you are eager to experience new things. You are imaginative: you have a wild imagination. And you are empathetic: you feel what others feel and are compassionate towards them.
Experiences that make you feel high prestige are generally unappealing to you.
You are relatively unconcerned with tradition: you care more about making your own path than following what others have done. You consider independence to guide a large part of what you do: you like to set your own goals to decide how to best achieve them.

Big 5

Openness

100%

Adventurousness

100%

Artistic interests

56%

Emotionality

2%

Imagination

100%

Intellect

100%

Authority-challenging

100%

Conscientiousness

96%

Achievement striving

84%

Cautiousness

96%

Dutifulness

26%

Orderliness

1%

Self-discipline

69%

Self-efficacy

97%

Extraversion

3%

Activity level

2%

Assertiveness

3%

Cheerfulness

0%

Excitement-seeking

0%

Outgoing

1%

Gregariousness

0%

Agreeableness

2%

Altruism

11%

Cooperation

90%

Modesty

3%

Uncompromising

6%

Sympathy

100%

Trust

34%

Emotional range

1%

Fiery

1%

Prone to worry

0%

Melancholy

4%

Immoderation

0%

Self-consciousness

8%

Susceptible to stress

0%

Needs

Challenge

17%

Closeness

2%

Curiosity

7%

Excitement

1%

Harmony

9%

Ideal

1%

Liberty

1%

Love

9%

Practicality

10%

Self-expression

4%

Stability

2%

Structure

5%

Values

Conservation

6%

Openness to change

90%

Hedonism

37%

Self-enhancement

50%

Self-transcendence

29%

Jurassic World

So I watched Jurassic World.


Let me first talk about what I didn't like about it.

It was a Hollywood movie.

What, that wasn't enough? Alright, let me elaborate: It was filled with people doing typical Hollywood dumbass things (though the kids weren't as bad as the ones in previous films), main characters so astoundingly bland it was hard to give the slightest shit about them, yet another shitty out-of-place romance subplot that goes nowhere and achieves nothing, the Indominus Rex's being way too implausible at points, and everything involving the velociraptors and the last bits were fumbled around clumsily (Spoiler for climax, highlight to read: Also, the T-rex felt like it was channeling fucking Godzilla over there when it turn around to give the humans one last look before stomping off. You could seriously have played the fucking Godzilla theme there).

That being said it wasn't as bad as it could've been. It wasn't 3.

 As a movie it's pretty bad. It barely stands on its own, and when it does manage to rise to its feet with knees shuddering like they're about to buckle anytime it does so with the help of its massive special effects budget.

That's as a movie though. As a piece of fanservice for someone who loved the first movie- Well, it's pretty fucking good. Not great. Not fantastic. Just good. But good enough. The gates, the visitor center, the callback near to the end to the end of the first film, the nerd with the Jurassic Park T-shirt and dinosaur figures on his desk (yes he's a shameless insert for all the nerds who grew up with the first film, but they manage to balance his screentime so that he's an actual character but not obnoxious)- All of this is for us. It's also for the children. The rides and gadgets, the park functioning as an actual theme park, the raptors, the climax with you-know-who working together (which works both for the kids and for the older fans, though I think it was fumbled a bit too hard for the latter to really enjoy it)- It's almost as if they went back in time and asked all the children watching the first movie what they'd liked to have seen, and then put all the answers they got right in. I also liked the ambiguously foreign CEO with his just-right balance of hopeless idealism and scruple-free business brain, and thought it a pity that he didn't get more scenes.

Unfortunately, I was ultimately let down by how it showed signs of potential and then just totally dropped the ball there, though. Corporations sponsoring new dinosaur hybrids, dinosaurs that aren't at all authentic because they're not made to look like real dinosaurs but to look like what people want dinosaurs to look like, the nerd sarcastically suggesting that they just let the corporations name the new dinosaurs whatever they want ("pepsisaurus"!) . It would've been great if they'd tossed in a mention of how contemporary research says most dinosaurs had feathers, and that the ones in Jurassic World don't because people don't like them. Talk about focus groups. Talk about greed. Just fucking TALK. But no, aside from two or three lines early on all of this is thrown out of the window for more chase scenes. The Indominus Rex was kind of a letdown too since it had too little screentime and didn't really put its abilities to much good use (it uses its camouflage thing, what, once?) and I can't help but feel like I'd seen it before in one of the bad Jurassic Park ripoff horror flicks we got back in the day.

But yeah. Jurassic World was fun. And I guess I liked it.

I want a T-rex action figure now. A big one, not something tiny like the silly Revoltech one which looks more cute than cool.

The thing about Jurassic World, though, is that it's a summer blockbuster, and nothing more. Nothing less, but nothing more. Jurassic Park, on the other hand, wasn't just a blockbuster; It was a Spielberg film.

Nothing in here comes anywhere close the Jurassic Park's greatest moments, which is a pity.

というわけでジュラシックワールドを観てきた。この手の映画にありがちだが人間がアホすぎて笑うしかない（もっとも、今回の子供はシリーズの中で一番マシだったが）、かつラブロマンスが場違いで蛇足。ただ、音楽に初代のテーマ曲が使われたり、例の門が再現されたり、司令室のオタが初代のロゴのTシャツを着てたり、初代のビジターセンターが出てきたり と、初代のファンならサービスが多いので結構楽しめるかと思う。少なくとも３ほどの駄作ではないし、２とは同程度くらいの出来かな。あと最後のTレックスだが、新しく登場した怪獣が暴れるに暴れたらゴジラが出てきて新怪獣をぶっ殺して一度振り返って人間を見てから帰っていくという構図 にしか見えなかった。てか完全にゴジラ。しかも本編では言わなかったが公式によるとこのTレックスは初代にも登場した同一の固体らしい。一本の映画としてみるとかなり微妙で割りと甘い出来だったと思う。企業が新種をスポンサーしてるとか、顧客のニーズに合わせて恐竜を遺伝子改造してるとか そういった面白い話が少しだけ出たが結局そのまま放置されたからね。もう少しそこら辺を掘り下げたらメッセージ性のある深い映画になれただろうに。

余談かつ毎回のことだが、日本語字幕が相変わらず酷すぎる。細かいワーディングは覚えてないが、「シャツが臭い、恐竜は匂いに敏感だぞ」と叔母さんがおっさんに 言ったが、恐竜を「they」と表現したからか、何故か恐竜がシャツになってた。シャツが匂いに敏感ってなんだよ！意味不明だろ！

This and last week's loot (26th July 2015)

Yeah I've been (and still am) busy. Probably won't be updating next week either.

Anyway, loot.

Cleared Angel Beats 1 and Daigyakutensaiban. Angel Beats was fantastic, though Yui's route was kind of half-assed. Daigyakutensaiban was decent enough; I liked what they did with the 3D but some parts felt too stretched out and there weren't enough REALLY good bits. Been playing Shin Sekaiju no Meikyuu, loving it. Just started on Akai Hitomi ga Utsuru Sekai and been finding that I can't fucking remember most of the plot of the previous games. Not starting on the Possession Cybuster kit yet but plan on giving it the full works once I get round to it.

Also, I didn't go to Wonder Festival but heard about Kotobukiya and Busou Shinki and HOLY SHIT FUCK YEAH.

I Am A: Chaotic Neutral Human Wizard (4th Level)

Ability Scores:
Strength-9
Dexterity-10
Constitution-14
Intelligence-13
Wisdom-9
Charisma-11

Alignment:
Chaotic Neutral A chaotic neutral character follows his whims. He is an individualist first and last. He values his own liberty but doesn't strive to protect others' freedom. He avoids authority, resents restrictions, and challenges traditions. A chaotic neutral character does not intentionally disrupt organizations as part of a campaign of anarchy. To do so, he would have to be motivated either by good (and a desire to liberate others) or evil (and a desire to make those different from himself suffer). A chaotic neutral character may be unpredictable, but his behavior is not totally random. He is not as likely to jump off a bridge as to cross it. Chaotic neutral is the best alignment you can be because it represents true freedom from both society's restrictions and a do-gooder's zeal. However, chaotic neutral can be a dangerous alignment when it seeks to eliminate all authority, harmony, and order in society.

Race:
Humans are the most adaptable of the common races. Short generations and a penchant for migration and conquest have made them physically diverse as well. Humans are often unorthodox in their dress, sporting unusual hairstyles, fanciful clothes, tattoos, and the like.

Class:
Wizards are arcane spellcasters who depend on intensive study to create their magic. To wizards, magic is not a talent but a difficult, rewarding art. When they are prepared for battle, wizards can use their spells to devastating effect. When caught by surprise, they are vulnerable. The wizard's strength is her spells, everything else is secondary. She learns new spells as she experiments and grows in experience, and she can also learn them from other wizards. In addition, over time a wizard learns to manipulate her spells so they go farther, work better, or are improved in some other way. A wizard can call a familiar- a small, magical, animal companion that serves her. With a high Intelligence, wizards are capable of casting very high levels of spells.

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Detailed Results:

Alignment:
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Neutral Good ---- XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (18)
Chaotic Good ---- XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (20)
Lawful Neutral -- XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (16)
True Neutral ---- XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (19)
Chaotic Neutral - XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (21)
Lawful Evil ----- XXXXXXXXXX (10)
Neutral Evil ---- XXXXXXXXXXXXX (13)
Chaotic Evil ---- XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (15)
Law & Chaos:
Law ----- XXXXXX (6)
Neutral - XXXXXXXXX (9)
Chaos --- XXXXXXXXXXX (11)
Good & Evil:
Good ---- XXXXXXXXX (9)
Neutral - XXXXXXXXXX (10)
Evil ---- XXXX (4)
Race:
Human ---- XXXXXXXXXXXXXX (14)
Dwarf ---- XXXXXXXX (8)
Elf ------ XXXXXXXXXX (10)
Gnome ---- XXXXXX (6)
Halfling - XXXXXX (6)
Half-Elf - XXXXXXXX (8)
Half-Orc - XXXXXX (6)
Class:
Barbarian - XXXXXXXXXX (10)
Bard ------ XXXXXXXXXXXXXX (14)
Cleric ---- XXXXXXXXXX (10)
Druid ----- XX (2)
Fighter --- XXXXXXXX (8)
Monk ------ XXXXXXXX (8)
Paladin --- XXXXXXXXXXXXXX (14)
Ranger ---- XXXXXX (6)
Rogue ----- XXXXXXXX (8)
Sorcerer -- XXXXXXXXXXXXXX (14)
Wizard ---- XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (16)

This week's loot (12th July 2015)

(Yes I've noticed that this post is kind of late)

Watched a load of movies. Avengers 2 was better than I expected (actually liked it a bit while I hated the first one). GitS, Tomorrowland, Mad Max and Geass were all mediocre.

Fire Emblem if's last route (Invisible Kingdom) was released and I cleared it over the weekend. It was disappointing (will do a post on it later).

Also been playing Angel Beats 1. It's way better than I expected since I thought Maeda had run out of ideas back when the show was airing. I of course don't like how it's split up into six and all, but if each part maintains this level of quality, well, I'm not complaining. I especially like how it has even more pointless joke choices than Little Busters, and am amazed at the baffling amounts of special lines for combinations of what you choose.

Also, got a bunch of Kindle books during Yurihime Comics' sale (some of this stuff isn't from the sale but stuff that I got anyway because I liked the sound of it)