Black Mirror S1E1 The National Anthem

Lately, I've been seeing films with few people in it. They weren't bad at all, I just couldn't like it. So it was a treat to see this episode of Black Mirror. With many people seem to be getting their screen time. The nuance of that the main story involves massive audience can be felt right away.

The story was about a kidnapping of The Princess of UK. The kidnapper wasn't asking for ransom money. He was asking that the prime minister need to make love with a pig, broadcasted live throughout the country.

The prime minister asked for the video to be taken down, but the power of the Internet made it impossible to do so. The video has been downloaded and re-uploaded for the public to see, and it was getting on the news in no time.

People were divided into 2, where majority of them said that the prime minister doesn't need to do the kidnapper's demand, and will not watch even if the video of him making love with pig is broadcasted.

But as any people in the world, some just want to see how the story unfold, thus waiting in front of the television.

Backup plan was constructed. Using some actors and CGI, the one that does the act doesn't need to be the prime minister himself. But the plan was leaked, and the kidnapper sent to one of television company that one of the finger of the princess was cut. With the video released to the Internet, majority of people were shifting to wanting the prime minister to just do what the kidnapper's demand.

With no time to be wasted, using the data extracted special team was deployed to storm the most likely place where the first video was uploaded.

I don't want to spoil the rest. By the time I wrote this, it is still on Netflix. You can go check it out.

It was really a good treat. I can really feel the horror someone need to go through before the need to decide something really important. And the feeling of getting the judgment from the mass was just making the atmosphere heavy.

I know that there were some detail I missed, one of which because I tried not to use the subtitle. And there may be some easter egg that would be revealed if I just watch another episode. But for know, I was pleased with the experience.

Last Shift

For those of you horror movie lovers, put this in your must-watch list!
The tension just keep on building till the end of the film, it wasn't a roller coaster, it wasn't just some cheap jumpscares, it was intense.

The story was about a rookie policewoman who was tasked to guard an old police station from 8 to 4 in the morning. There was a room full of evidence that was supposed to be taken care of the day before but was somehow delayed, and need to be kept an eye on. When her shift finishes, her senior will pick her off. It was her first day on the job, so she intended to stay whatever happened.

The story unfolds when she heard more about the case that involves her father. Many young girls, and 2 police officers, which one of them was her dad, were killed. She keeps receiving phone calls from a girl named Monica Young, which was easy to guess,  that she was one of the victims.

Paranormal activities keep happening inside the station and she fight to keep her sanity intact.

Here are some screenshots of the film,

those are from the shorts that was shown when you hover your mouse on Netflix

most of the screen in this scene is just black, but the sound that her flashlight makes was really unnerving

she keeps on getting calls from the girl

I thought I can have some relaxing moment because she had a company, at least someone to talk with

and also this scene

The only problem I had was there is a lot of phone calls, but for me, the sound was hard to hear. I need to adjust the volume many times to hear what was said from the other side, but again I need keep the banging sounds not being too loud. I don't really like the acting of the old man, but it was not bad at all.

The background of an empty police station hallway eeriness was great, and as I mentioned earlier, the atmosphere was intense throughout the whole movie. It was a great movie and I couldn't recommend it more.

Loujiana Mama - Italian Restaurant, Takashi-Ten, Toyohashi City

If you happen to visit Toyohashi city in Japan, i want to recommend you to come and visit this restaurant. Loujiana Mama is an Italian restaurant, that have a lot of special menu. Compared to other Italian Restaurant in Japan, Loujiana Mama is a little bit pricey i think. For one menu for spaghetti it costs around 1000 ~ 1200 yen. If you go here with your friends, you can choose group menu. You will get, salad, spaghetti, cheese fondue, pizza, dessert and a glass of wine. It will cost around 6500 yen for that menu. For the taste, i really like arabiata spaghetti. The other spaghetti menu also delicious. And cheese fondue will melt in your mouth. The service also so good, the manager so cheerful. She make the atmosphere really good. This place open on Tuesday to Sunday. Only Monday they close the shop. Dinner from 6 pm to 10 pm. I really recommend to eat dinner here.

WinterStarcraft - Angry Coach

If you like Starcraft II, you might also like this channel called WinterStarcraft on Youtube.  He is a grandmaster ranked player, and he regularly stream on Twitch and post some of his games and casts on Youtube.

And, my favorite topics is Angry Coach, where viewers can upload their replays and have it analyzed, or to be precise, roasted. He'll scream and get angry at almost every small detail in an amusing way, that we can learn many things while also having fun.

I know I am even not as good as people who posted their replays, but I know when they do something wrong (it is always easier being a commentator), and when Winter stop talking and rewind his replays, many times, I just lost it.

Winter Disappointed

On the screenshot above, the player just threw his unit onto its death just like that and we can see Winter's disappointment.

If you have free times, just relax and watch his videos. It's right there, just search it.

Starcraft II - Serral vs INnoVation - IEM Katowice 2019 - Commentary From a Cast

This is another commentary from one of my favorite Youtube channel, Lowko. You can check the video here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzjCKHA3Zc0
As the title suggest, this is also a game of Serral. I am a little bias, for I also played Zerg, and he is one of the best player at the moment.

This game is played in Automaton LE, a small map in my opinion. Whenever I played in this map, the game ended in like less than 20 minutes or so, where I just rally my roaches to the enemy's bases and overrun them. One of the time I also got massed ghost where I haven't yet solve the problem.

Enough with my game. In this replay, we could see where INnoVation was dictating the rhythm since the early game where he sniped some of Serral's queens. It may not have been an economic disadvantage, but it surely poke Serral's balance. The game quickly transition into late game scenario with Serral going into double spire to produce his broodlords while simultaneously upgrading his air weapon, while INnoVation scanned the spires and reacted by making ghosts.

The game's army composition went into Serral with mainly broodlords and corruptor, with a couple of infestors, some vipers, and the rest of the army using zerglings and hydras. On INnoVation side, we have mass vikings, mass liberators and ghosts, with marines, marauders, medivacs here and there. 

The dance was crazy, like all normal human being, they have the same set of two eyes, one right and one left hand, two ears. They were also using only one screen. But it seems like they have many screens at a time. When I was a child, I thought if we can atteck them, preferably on the side with mostly workers, our opponent will have to shift their attention toward the base. Right? It is, on Bronze League Heroes level. However, on professional point of view, they would just need some seconds, might be split seconds to handle with the aggression. In this game, with that many spellcasters, they control all of their units at one time.

INnoVation, using his ghosts, constantly using nukes on the southeastern part of the map, to zone Serral's army, because of the slow moving broodlords. There were many nice fungals and snipes all over the battles. Zoning with nukes were also done numerous time by INnoVation. Then, whenever Serral had taken his northwest base, INnoVation just went and burned that base over and over again. Until they have mined out all of the best, but INnoVation get a portion from Serral's part of the map and Serral broke down from the constant pressure after 40 minutes long game.

reference:
1. https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/INnoVation
2. https://www.intelextrememasters.com/season-13/katowice/starcraft-ll-results/#?matchday=1