Cartoon Heroes

For all of you wondering whether these are the lyrics of one of my favourite songs Cartoon Heroes by Aqua, I am sorry but you are mistaken. I actually want to show you guys the role cartoons played in my life. Alright, I know what you are thinking. Is he such a nerd that he still watches cartoons? I am 21 yrs old for your information. But I find cartoons are much more than just 2D/3D animations. I am about to reveal a very startling fact to you. I actually learnt to speak some proper English only by watching cartoons. I know this sounds weird. But that is a fact.

I remember the good old days when I used to come home from school and watch a good bit of cartoons until my parents came home. The best part of all this is that we used to discuss cartoons like they were the most important things in the world in school. I still see many people discussing something like this; TV-series/soaps. It actually set me thinking. Do we actually need to watch these soaps and fill our hearts with contempt(I am not talking about my new theme ) and sadness? I prefer getting a good laugh out of watching a cartoon series. But I now see even these cartoon series have changed a lot.

Whenever I switch on the TV and surf all the cartoon channels like Nick, Cartoon Network and Jetix all I see are a LOT of copied concepts and really annoying cartoon series which would be better off if they just stopped. I meant all these Power Ranger type of cartoons. I mean… what are they trying to achieve by doing this? But POGO is an exception where I still see some good shows like Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and lots more. I had a good laugh and forgot all my troubles for a while.

Why is there so much merchandise on cartoons? :O I am still not able to comprehend all this. Of the half four show on the TV, approximately 15 mins of it is only commercials. and I HATE commercials. F*** those crazy B******S. For fear of being marked as a mature blog I have refrained from spelling out those words, which I would happily spell if someone asked.

Why am I bitching about this here, you ask? I can’t find any other place where people will listen to me. Simple, isn’t it? The other thing that captivated me as a young teen(wait… teens are SUPPOSED to be young. Right? Well whatever) are video/computer games. I was all coo-koo over them. Not my fault you see. Those people made them that way.

Ok. Be frank. Tell me how many of you have wondered how these games were actually made(do I  use “actually” too often? )? I guess I could be one of the very few who wondered about this. But then I always had an over-active imagination. Some people may also refer to this as dweebism, if such a word exists. But on the other hand, I have seriously considered taking up game development as a carreer. Sure, you can laugh at me. But all you people need to think for a bit. Are you taking up your carreer because you like it or because everyone is doing it and its the “in” thing?

Before this post gets diverted too much, I would like to say thank you for putting up with my nonsense for so long. Always glad to be of help.

-Yours lovingly,

Your friendly neighbourhood dweeb

PS: Please go through my other posts and pages too. I am very disappointed because many people don’t. YEAH RIGHT!!!