Punkzilla: Summer reading post 1

From what I have read so far in this book, I can say this. This book is weird. Let’s start with the main character, his name is Jamie but goes by Punkzilla, he is a druggie, runaway from his parents and from the military school they sent him too. He is originally from Cincinnati and has a younger brother that isn't mentioned very much and an older gay brother that ran away 4 years before after he came out. Both of them hates their mother’s husband whom I assume isn't there father but I could be wrong on that. He is a decorated vet and hates both of his wife's kids that aren't his. Coming back to Jamie, he ran away from the military school and hitch hikes from I assume Virginia to Portland origin. in the beginning of the story, I can tell it is mostly backstory because you just start it and it starts right as he is getting on a greyhound bus to Memphis Tennessee. The backstory is mostly Jamie's story in Portland and some near the 50 page mark of his run away from the military school. In Portland he was mostly stealing iPods for money and using that money to pay rent, buy food and getting favors from a girl that lives a few doors down. He has a few friends that aren’t that remember able. But all he wants is to see his older brother one last time… and we will pick up on that next post.

Book Trailer: Halo: Eveolutions

Halo: Evolutions

Horror: how it has fallen

horror as a genre has fallen from the eye of the beholder, in movies, video games and books. the major reasons I feel is because the industry has moved away from suspense to jump scares. don't get me wrong jump scares can be effectively used, but it is hard when you are literary bombarded with jump scares almost every scene in a horror film today.

the reason I bring it up is because the craft isn't dead. just like in outlast, a video game, in writing it is not "dead" just not really alive. in video games, there are games such as outlast and amnesia that have released resiliently that are made to scare. but the horror games of our elders are how just generic action games and have been watered down from there horror roots. if you don't believe me, play resident evil remastered and then resident evil 6, you will see a difference.

if you haven't cached on by now, atmosphere is everything. for the original resident evil, it is a dark mansion with allot of small coriander and not very well lighted areas. just like outlast that has poorly lightened hallways, and jump scares but sometimes without you seeing them coming. (Warning, foul language on videos, it is just to show you examples of jump scares preformed correctly and a creep pasta.)

writing has also kept it alive very well. I can Tell this from the short story I am reading now about the second human in counter with the flood. the short story is about 150 pages and doesn't directly show the flood til about the 75 Pg. mark where they have a major jump scare. another example of horror in writing is any creepy pasta ever. If you don't know what a creepy pasta is, it is a internet horror story that is passed around from website to website and its goal is to scare you.

the grand sacrifice

I know that you probably will never deal with this decition, but what would you do if your faced with the dicition of retreating and detonating a bomb that would wipe yourself out and the enemy along with it? I know most of the human race would run away to safety and never do anything about it. but the select few selfless people that would stay behind alowing everyone else to escape; those are the men that deserve to be comemerated. We do have a comemeration for those soldures, it is the purple heart. It is given to soulders that desplay total acts of selfleseness in the name of protecting the many. It is usualy the last honor that soldures reseve before they are burried or removed from acteve duty. ofcourse not all men in the military get these and it is an honor to get one if you are still alive. i am not here to tell you to join the military, but I am saying to think how you would react.

halo: spec ops

In the halo universe, there are multiple form of spec ops (specialised opratives) that are well trained and go beond what the common marine would do. there are the ones like the spartan twos and the spartan threes that are choosen at young age and are trained vigoutesly. there are also the ODST's that were the main spec ops bfore the spartan program started. the ODST's are still used but they are not as effective than the spartan two and three's. but of the spartan three's there is a group of sodiures that are the most rigourous of them all... the head hunters.

the head hunters are four two man squads that are trained to cause mass damage in minamal time to strongholds of the enamy. they are trained with higher training than the avarage spartan 3 but lower than the spartan 2. they are also given the more experimental gear from ONI. they are highly silled and are masters of illusion. the only reason they are lessly used is because it takes some time for them to plan there entrance point but once there in, it is am matter of minutes before they are finished.

Halo: makeing the decition

the goal of the military is to defend the people from what ever evil that is apposing the country they are in. they follow orders and do what they are suppose to do.but not always are the rules of war followed or the will of there upper followed.

in the book I am reading now the main character is a marine that has been in for 2/3d of his life. he wants out but he won't get any money because the organisation that he joined was disbanded and he lost his penitence. what him and his Friends do to compensate for it? rob a bank... during there battles. but when they Finlay do, they find civilians in the last vault they check because that was one of the only places they thought was safe.

the book goes one way with this but that doesn't mean it is the only way. my question is what would you do? would you grab the rest of the gold? dump the gold you already have and use that room for civilians? or keep the gold you have and save some of the people but remember there
is only so much room in your car.

Halo: Military Training

the military in the story has 4 or so major branches that train very differently. These are different from ours because the air force and navy have been combined from space travel, there are now space deployed troops called ODST's (orbetal drop shock troopers); the well trained but fairly regular Marines and the very well known Spartans that are very well trained but only are of the select few that where selected for the spartan 2 program.

you don't learn much about the naval training but I can imagine that it is similar to the marines but they get flight training instead of driving and military positions training. as for the marines, they are allot like ours. very tough men and women that have fairly intents training that involves allot of strength, mind and strategic training. they get much more extensive fire arms training than there flying companions but aren't the best.

a specific branch of the marines are the ODST's these are the men that you don't want to meet in a dark ally late at night. they have the best and hardest training of all the marines but don't have the best over all because that honor goes to the Spartans. what makes the ODST's different form the marines is that you have to be in the marines first to be an ODST. the people in the program also get an exclusive training for dropping from outer space in a veahicle called the SOEIV's (single-occupant insertion vehicle) they had the hardest training and where treated with the highest respect and where feared... antil the spartans came along.

 Spartans never die... or so they say. the spartans are the secret program of ONI (office of navil intelegance) and is ment to make the best soldires they can. they take children, all around 6-7 with a very similar genetic makeup makeing them born to fight. they were trained harder than the ODST's scince they were obducted by ONI. they were than given an experamental prosigure that left more than half of the ones that touch it forever crippled. but the ones that did survive with out side effects, they where the stronger, quicker, and smarter than they ever dreamed. they then got a suit of armor that enhansed them eaven further to the point that they were almost human tanks. they are almost unstopable and no one wants to find themselfs within 5 feet of a spartan because they might snap there neck.