Random Assault Podcast is Back!
Yup, and we’ve got our own site too!
http://randomassaultpodcast.wordpress.com/
I’ll be posting old episodes until we’re caught up, and then expect new episodes every Sunday! Yay!
Also I’ll be writing most of my articles on there now (if I write anything at all) so subscribe to this new site if you like me at all 
Why aren’t you listening to Random Assault Podcast?
Is it because I never advertise more frequently on my blog that I’ve formed a group of intelligent and well-spoken individuals for a weekly podcast?
Is it because you didn’t know that you can find past Random Assault Podcast Episodes on either Front Towards Gamer or iTunes or in the GamesRadar Forums ?
Is it because the first statement was a lie and all we are are a bunch of filthy nerds who talk about whatever the fuck we want ranging from video games and other entertainment media to erotic asphyxiation and sticking lemons in our butts?
Well, do yourselves a favor and listen to Random Assault Podcast Episode 28 because I’m on that one, and I was a little drunk.
I’ll even give you a direct link to the episode if you’re having trouble downloading it from the website, so you have no excuse.
Thank you for your time, you won’t be disappointed.
And if you are don’t tell anybody please
Friends With Benefits Podcast Update
That’s right, we got a new name and new friends at fronttowardsgamer.com!
Check out our new episode!
http://fronttowardsgamer.com/2011/05/08/ftg-random-assault-ep-007/
Get Something Off My Chest
I just wanted to weigh in on this Osama Bin Laden dead thing.
Yes the man was a monster, I was 16-17 when New York was attacked, I lived in Elizabeth and could see the smoke rise from the Twin Towers, it was a horrible event and I still feel for the families and people involved.
BUT
The fact that people are excited about the death of a man proves that nothing will ever change with humanity. His death means nothing in the grand scheme of things, someone will just replace him, probably someone who is filled with the same rage and thirst for revenge we all felt towards Osama Bin Laden when he gave the order to take 3,000 civilian lives.
Death leads to more death, anger leads to more anger, revenge leads to more revenge, we will never get to where we need to be as humans if we still glorify death.
Personally, we should have tortured him until he begged for death and not given it to him, but hey, that’s just my opinion.
friends with benefits podcast!
Here’s some previews with the links to the landing pages of episodes 1 and 2!
We’re still finding our ‘voice’ if you will, but I think we’re coming along nicely.
We just finished recording episode 3 which I feel is the strongest so far, so stay tuned!
TalkRadar UK
I started listening to the UK TalkRadar and I must say it is very entertaining. I tried giving the UK guys a go a little while ago, but I must embarrassingly admit that I just couldn’t understand their accents right away, and I also didn’t understand the humor (or should I say ‘humour’ derp). Thankfully, I stopped being lazy and gave it another try after a fellow forum members 510BrotherPanda and Breener told me to and now I’m hooked for life!
In certain ways they share the same sort of humor as the US TalkRadar guys, like I swear they spent fifteen minutes talking about Amsterdam’s red light district and how the prostitutes will try to milk your prostate to get you out faster. Wait a minute…prostitute…prostate…both have ‘prost’ in the words…
Anyway is a fan vid I made for them, enjoy!
Also here’s a neew one I made for the TalkRadar US team
WARNING! Not Safe for Work!
Ohhhh man I think I’m really pushing this whole not getting banned thing…
Sundome, the Greatest Manga with the Greatest Disappointing Ending: The Really Unexpected Part Three
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Well I did some research and found a forum dedicated to Sundome, and one of the more interesting point of views for the ending made me a little sick, which is always fun, but the one that made the most sense was one that suggests Sahana did live, and her and Aiba are married at the end.
I tend to lean more towards this ending because the mole was probably being covered up by make-up due to that she was very paranoid of people seeing her looking ill, when she was always ill, so those were the times when she was probably not wearing make-up.
The other thing that I noticed anyway was the diologue that was being spoken by the woman at the end did fee like something Sahana would say, so yeah, I guess it is Sahana.
I just don’t get this vague ending crap, drawing your own conclusions bullshit. Fucking Japanese, I love ‘em, but damn!
Sundome, the Greatest Manga with the Greatest Disappointing Ending: The Unexpected Part Two
As if to prove to myself how important Sundome is to me, I just woke up and my first conscious thoughts were of how the ending bothered me. However, where in my first post I mentioned that the ending was vague (which it still is), I think I may have figured it out. The rest of this post is going to be spoilers, so please just skip this one if you haven’t read Sundome and you want to. If you have, please, please, please tell me what you thought about the ending and tell me if I’m right or wrong.
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There is this over-arching story element in the story that revolves around the Roman Club that the characters belong to in school, which I honestly thought was ridiculous, where the Alumni had put in place a rule that if any members could stay a virgin throughout their high school career, the Alumni would pay for your college education to wherever you wanted to go. Obviously most would succeed in this endeavor (I know I would have) but what the Alumni do is send ‘assassins’, women (or men I guess) that would present themselves to certain members of the club and willingly have sex with them, which the women would have various things awarded to them for doing so.
This story element makes the events interesting, in which the new girl in school, Kurumi Sahana, who the protagonist, Hideo Aiba, is instantly attracted to. This is shown by the raging boner he gets when he sees her. Over the course of th story the mystery is does she really like him back, or is she just another assassin sent to fuck Aiba.
Now I can tell you that the signs that she is NOT an assassin are pretty clear in that she teases the FUCK out of Aiba but never allows him to have sex with her. The rules are clear in the Roman Club: if you have sex you’re kicked out and you won’t get any financial backing from the Alumni. Which leads me to the ending.
Over the course of the story it is clear that Sahana also has some sort of mysterious illness that through foreshadowing, is most likely going to end with her death. Towards the end of the story she is put into isolation at the hospital and Aiba and the other members of the Roman Club devise a plan to help her escape so that she can see the Wave Flowers before it’s too late.
Now here’s my problem with the ending. It would appear by the artwork that they have sex at the beach while watching the wave flowers, but again, this isn’t made clear, especially by what is on the last page of this scene. The last words on the page, also which isn’t explained who is talking, are “When I wake up, let’s have sex”, and the last drawing is of his hand in hers, but her fingers aren’t entwined in his, like if they are limp.
Now on the very next page it shows Aiba as a resident in a hospital (he always wanted to be a doctor), and then at home with his wife where it is implied he just had a sexual snafu, wether it be he prematurely ejaculated or has a boner malfunction, it isn’t clear. But my problem is, who the hell is the wife?!
Is it Sahana? If you look closely you’ll notice that this woman has a mole on her chin, Sahana never had a mole. Her breasts are larger and her hair is longer too, but obviously those can change as a woman gets older, but why the mole? And Aiba never calls this woman by name, so it’s even more vague as to who the hell this woman is. I would go by the face, but let’s be honest, the only thing helping people figure out what woman is who in anime is their breast size and hair style, other-wise they are interchangeable most of the time.
But now I think I may have been wrong about the ending, I think that maybe Sahana did die, right on that beach next to Aiba, which lead to them not having sex, which lead to Aiba getting the Roman Club Alumni to back him financially to become a Doctor. Now the whole time I was saying to myself, if Sahana dies, I’m going to cry like a big bitch. In fact I did cry once during this story during a foreshadowing scene where the fish Aiba and Sahana get together at a festival, the one they name after her dies suddenly. But since the ending is so vague it took away from my emotional response to whatever the hell happened. This story most of the time doesn’t make you think that hard, but then you have to be a goddamn detective to figure out the fucking ending!
The only other review I could find on the ending of Sundome says that the woman is Aiba, but I don’t that’s right because of the mole on her chin. That particular reviewer was also the one that said this story wasn’t mainstream and that they couldn’t recommend this one to people to read because of the strong sexual content, on which I say fuck you, you asshole.
Anyway that’s what I think happened, it’s just a shame the ending had to be such bullshit, the same thing happened at the end of Welcome to the NHK, another one of my absolute favorites, that ends weird and abruptly. It’s like these story tellers know how to tell a story and when it comes to ending it they get all “how can we make this ending as annoying as hell as possible to people outside of Japan who have been invested in it for over three years even though it’s only eight volumes but the translation process is ungodly slow and we’ve already moved on to two sequels a year and half ago?”
I mean Jesus jumped-up fucking pogo stick I just realized this fucking thing was released in 2006 in Japan and ended in 2009 and we’re only now getting the ending?! I guess it’s a fucking miracle this came out here at all!
Anyway, if I’m wrong about th ending please someone explain it to me, all I’m saying is if that woman was Sahana all growed up then why draw her with a fucking mole? All you’re doing is confusing your audience you asshole! Fucking hell I’ve spent nearly $104 to read this shit and support the release and this is the ending I get? Fucking bullshit!
