Entertainment, Maybe Endorsement [Double-Tapping]

And now for something much much shorter. Two (maybe run-on) sentences that review random, unrelated entertainment pieces (books, anime, movies, game, TV).

Assassin's Creed 2: A scifi "memory" drama that contains lots of quick-bursts of city guard depopulation and some epic fourth-wall destruction. Even better, finishing the main side question collection quest grants you a cloak that draws in guards like flies to your deadly, bug-zapper of a protagonist.

Borderlands: A role-playing-shooter taking you across various wastelands and trash heaps, depopulating the lands of bandits, animals, and guns. It's mindnumbingly fun when you play it with 3 other players over a local network, even if it goes kill-loot-move-kill-loot-die-rinse-repeat.

Zeno Clash: A well-realized world filled with enough animal-human crossovers that you may feel that it's Jeff Noon done in a more early-human setting as opposed to a post-human setting. And you get lots of hand-to-hand combat in first-person perspective that tends to be quite enjoyable.

Terminator Salvation: The robot apocalypse from the 1980's James Cameron given life with Christian Bale and an extremely predictable plot. Oh, and it ends with a sacrifice, like all the other Terminator movies.

Tales of Monkey Island: A Monkey Island story chopped up in five episodes of varying quality that somehow justified its purchase with me at its conclusion. Also, the first instance of character development for the typically static "sage" character.

Needless: Your typical shounen mess with an insane lolicon priest main character and everyone screaming the names of their secrets moves like they were going out of style. The show is saved by its ridiculous-factor, laughably unpredictable shifts in animation quality, and the presence of a conclusion.

Darker Than Black - Gemini of the Meteor: Hei is back for another season with a list of one-shot and two-shot (and the mythical three-shot) character meeting violent deaths. Also returning from the first season are irrelevant characters and a not-ending that leaves you angry that you expected a conclusion from anything DtB.

Sora No Otoshimono: An ecchi-comedy that stays entertaining throughout its season and has a new ED every episode. Watch this to balance out the craptacularity of Kampher.

Altered Carbon: The first part of a tech-noir trilogy by Richard K. Morgan that is set in a future where technology allows for the backup of human personas upon or near death, actualizing the concept of the body really just being a meat puppet/sleeve. The concept is integral to the setting, so the story focuses on its government-super-trained sociopath of a main character and his unwilling employment as a private investigator for a 300-something year-old man/persona as opposed to the tech that supports the setting.

Umineko No Naku Koro Ni: Why the hell did I watch this disorganized snuff-anime poorly disguised as a murder-mystery show? Oh yeah, to see it try to conclude everything in the last 10 minutes of its run, then cut away to the two characters with the least amount of screen time in the whole twenty-six episode run.

Eh...I fucking give up.