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Nappa: The Dragon Ball villain that truly changed the status quo!

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      Hello everyone, Hector again, and hope you're all doing well! I have an exciting topic today to discuss that involves one of my favorite things in the world: Dragon Ball! I was in the mood to go back into Dragon Ball recently, particularly with Z as that's the one I grew up on, and it was fantastic to revisit! I'm not hugely into anime, but Dragon Ball Z is everything I love rolled into one incredible package: Full of imagination, effective world-building, spectacular action, amazing animation, excellent music, and a lot of beautiful people making stuff explode! It's perfect!       I'll gladly go into more detail on how the franchise influenced me, but that's for another time as I don't want to veer off from my topic today too much. As for this topic, it involves a particular character from Dragon Ball Z that caught my eye in more ways than one, and that is none other than the mighty Nappa!!! For anyone who doesn't know or remember, Nappa is a vi...

Halloween Horror Nights 2024 (It's Terror Time Again)

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      Hello everyone, Hector here once again, and I'm so excited about our latest topic for my blog as it's about one of my favorite things ever! Recently, I've visited one of my favorite events, Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Florida for its 33rd year and for the past few years since 2021 (AKA the best vacation ever), I've been attending the event. Coming into HHN 2024, I was optimistic but skeptical as the prior year I experienced wasn't great as many of the scare zones, haunted houses, and overall vibe weren't clicking with me unfortunately. In retrospect, I was disappointed by the experience as something felt missing or off. It wasn't a total disaster though as I enjoyed a couple of the scare zones and some of the haunted houses were fantastic, like "The Darkest Deal" (the best house of 2023), "Dueling Dragons", "Universal Monsters: Unmasked", and "The Last of Us."      I walked into the haunted house...