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I came back to my hometown for the week because it’s a week off of school after midterms.   Normally I wouldn’t feel the need to write about this so much.   It’s not much to talk about at all.   “Oh, look at you, back in your hometown.   Weren’t you there a month and a half ago?”   It’s a little bit more than a month and a half, but yeah, I see what you’re thinking.   But there is something to talk about.   Two things as a part of one thing, to be exact. I decided to go for a walk today.   It was an interesting walk because I didn’t know where I was going to go and just went with whatever whim I decided to follow. It took me around in a rather large circle.   The weather took a turn during the second half when the cold rain and snow started falling but that has nothing to do with what I wanted to discuss. There were two big changes in buildings around the route that I walked.   The first one is the lesser of the two changes.   ...

When I was going through my weekly movie binge a couple weeks ago, I stumbled upon two movies that I had never seen before that tackled a very similar story.   It was an odd thing to have happen because I didn’t know of any similarities between the two movies.   The first was Real Steel, a movie about a man who participates in robot boxing while bonding with the son that he had left years before.   The second was Over the Top, a movie about a man who participates in arm wrestling while bonding with the son that he had left years before.   Similar?   I think so. Let’s begin with Real Steel.   I watched this one because, why the hell not?   I quite enjoyed the movie and by the end I was rooting for Hugh Jackman’s character to help his robot, Atom, to a victory.   The thing to point out about Real Steel is how good the visual effects were.   I wasn’t expecting too much going in, but I thought they masterfully crafted each robot in a way that...