Louis-the-Hedgehog

Why am I talking about Julius Caesar on independence day? Well as the old saying goes, those who don't study history are doomed to repeat its mistakes. I first started learning about him in depth in the sixth grade, about how he was abducted by Sicilian pirates, how he demanded they raise his ransom, he later had all the pirates crucified, how he kept winning battle after battle, how he quickly rose through the ranks of the roman government until reaching the title of "dictator for life", and how people who were concerned he was obtaining too much power eventually stabbed him to death. But what made his rise to power possible? Rome hated being ruled by Kings, so when their final King was overthrown, Rome became a republic. Instead of being ruled by a King, they were ruled by Senators, members of a legislative assembly called the Senate. Now, things may have worked out fine at first, but over time they too engaged in the very behavior as to why they overthrew their last King. They

For years I've been telling people that although the Sonic franchise has it's clear problems there is more to it than what is obvious, and everyone just refuses to see it. But ever since the movie came out, I realized that I needed to do a better job practicing what I preach. I thought I would be screaming "WHY?!?!?!" over and over again while running out of the theater, but instead I thought "it had it's moments." My favorite moment was when they showed Sonic to his room, it would have made my late childhood hero smile. So then I wondered if I was perhaps wrong about some of the other works from SEGA. So I started watching the cutscenes of Sonic Unleashed. At first I thought this was a total waste of time. In the end, I haven't been this emotional over anything Sonic related since my childhood hero died. Now true, the gameplay is probably bad, sonic is stuck in a boring copy of the human world, the wherehog gives the impression that SEGA is running out of ideas, Amy being an annoying