Day Forty-Five: Samantha Crosses Over to the Dark Side

7/28/14, 11:15 PM PDT

Today, my new Gamecube controller came in the mail, thanks to my awesome awesome Amazon Prime free trial, which gave me two-day shipping. Look at how beautiful it is.

The box. The gorgeous, gorgeous box.

Back of the box. All of the text reads "Yes, I'm sexy" in Japanese,
Trust me.

Front of the box.

Fresh out of the box, amniotic sac and all. Just kidding, it's plastic wrap.
I'd be horrified if it came in an amniotic sac.

So white. It's stunning, isn't it?

Why'd I order a new Gamecube controller even though my old one works perfectly fine? Well, it's because if you recall from my Comic Con entry a few days back, my silver Gamecube controller got covered in signatures, signatures which I want to preserve as long as possible. Obviously, every minute I spend using that controller means more and more of the signatures on the handles will be rubbed off, so I bought myself a new one so that I could keep the signatures on the old one.

And I've decided that the only time I'll ever use the signature controller is in some monumental gaming event. Like if I'm in the grand finals of some HUGE tournament or something. It'll be like the controller equivalent of a really fancy dress watch.



So around 2PM, I walked to the library to meet Samantha so we can film a few important lines that I need to finish my short film. Or, at least we were supposed to film a few important lines today. When we finally got around to filming at Panera, her first line ended up making me laugh, which made her laugh, which made acting hard, so I just decided I would film the part myself. Plus, it was pretty awkward to film in a place as public as Panera, especially when the script called for panicked shouting, so I think my decision was a pretty good one.

Bought me a bread bowl (sans bread) while she bought a flatbread sandwich, which we both thought was burnt initially because neither of us had ever seen black bean hummus before. Eventually, Kayla showed up with her brand spankin' new phone in hand. She didn't seem to notice us, so I tried to get her attention by sending her a text that said "Behind you" which creeped her out because apparently, since she got a new phone, she didn't get to keep her contact names so she thought it was a complete stranger that texted her.

"Mmmm yes, Kayla. I'm riiiight behind you."
(via thejrexperiment.com)

Then Christina showed up, soon followed by Angela and Nick. We all then went to the theater to watch Dawn of the Planet of the Apes The Purge. A few spoiler-free highlights of the movie? A massive creepy Mexican dude named Diego that said the words "It's Diego's night!" right before licking a woman's face awkwardly for 30 seconds.

...That's pretty much the only spoiler-free highlight I can remember. All in all, The Purge 2 is waaaaay better than the original, but that's not saying much because the first movie was awful. But give it a watch though, because it's unintentionally funny at parts. Plus the main protagonist is pretty badass.

Later, we went to In N Out, joined by David and Jena. Angela, Christina, Kayla, Nick, and I just kept laughing at the most HORRIBLE things, especially about ████ getting his ████████ ████ removed after ██ years of having one on and imagining how he reacts upon ██████ it for the first time. At one point, Samantha wanted in on our conversations, but David didn't want her to get in our discussion because it'd be like "Joining the Dark Side."

Come on over to the Dark Side, we have ████████ ████s!
(via sbmania.net)

UnFortunately, she crossed over anyway. At one point, we were talking about anime and she just asked us what "Hentai" was. We told her to Google it and immediately realized that would be a bad idea, so we just gave her an explanation of what Hentai is in the most PG way that we could come up with. And even though our (my) definition involved a birthing video, I feel like we succeeded in giving a very PG definition of Hentai.

As if it mattered though, because after Jena and David left, we fully initiated Samantha by showing her the... grapefruit video. 

"Don't do it, Michael! She's too innocent!" -My conscience. I didn't listen.
(via aicr.org)

She (like the rest of us) thought it was HILARIOUS. And if you don't know what the heck I'm talking about with this grapefruit video, just look up "angel grapefruit" on YouTube and click on the link with the most views. NSFW.

Afterwards, we went to Daiso H-Mart, where Samantha and I found a few interesting products.

About half of the stuff in H-Mart had anime style characters on them.

It's It. It's just it, It's It; It's It doesn't need more explanation, it's It's It.

"I want some screw." -Samantha

But... I don't want cream in my colon...

Well at least it's honest.

We also found these weird looking animals in the seafood area.

I have no idea what they are...

But they look disgusting.

After everyone else left, Samantha and I ran into Liya, who absolutely flipped out after finding out that the two of us were dating. But I have to give it to her, she did make a correct prediction in the beginning of the year that the two of us would start going out, so I think that flip out is acceptable.

RFotD: Michael is practically braindead while writing this. He just wants to sleep.

SGAT: Spent pretty much the whole day outside.