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| Monday, June 8th, 2009 | | 10:46 pm |
To attempt to understand this existence, is to attempt to open a crate with the crowbar that is inside it. | | Monday, July 28th, 2008 | | 12:45 pm |
| | Monday, July 30th, 2007 | | 4:51 pm |
A few days ago, I saw a man pushing a wheelchair down the sidewalk. In that wheelchair sat only a beach ball. | | Sunday, July 29th, 2007 | | 7:33 pm |
Lord of the Rings Online combines the crack of a usual well-crafted MMO with ...I mean, it's Lord of the Rings. I am very afraid. | | Thursday, April 5th, 2007 | | 1:22 pm |
| | Sunday, March 18th, 2007 | | 9:52 am |
http://gamerscoreblog.com/team/archive/2007/03/14/542900.aspxHa...hahaha....heehehe... aaaaahahahahahahaha....oh...oh my... they think we're going to... eeehehehehehehehe...oh, it hurts... We're PC gamers. We've never paid to play anything that isn't an MMO online. Ever. Now they'd like to tell us we're going to pay for merely the privilege of the online multiplayer portion of the latest fps, or perhaps to get our latest patches and previously free content updates. Just to play? Nono, they have such astounding features as Gamertags! And patches and updated content...oh, wait, we always got those for free too. And and...Ron Howard! They've taken a page from AOL's handbook after that particular entity's death certificate has mostly been signed. Some may think AOL still survives, but it is a shambling reanimation. A grand total of 5 customers keep it alive with an unnatural pseudo-life, the commercials seen post-mortem twitches of its nervous system. Microsoft, welcome to the jungle. For having helped build it, you have a suprisingly nonexistant grasp of how life works here. Console gamers accept your pay-more-than-it's-worth-per-thing, cell-phone-esque business model because that's all they've ever had. PC Gamers have already been shown that, yes, it works to have online gaming for free. No developer that is not in the back pocket of Microsoft is going to take a product to publishing in a PC gaming industry that's already in a slump, and hurt their sales by putting the online functionality into this particular black hole. Those who are in the sulfuric jeans-receptacle of Microsoft, may find the smell growing rapidly too unbearable, and costly. Still, the going down in flames will be fun to watch. I'm bringing a stick and some marshmallows, chocolate, and graham crackers. Mmmmm, corporate greed failure s'mores. | | Monday, February 19th, 2007 | | 8:12 pm |
Last night while coming home, I saw a strange little man on what would have been the sidewalk were it not currently buried in snow. He looked like some kind of gnome, in a dark knitted hat, and light grey sweatsuit on his spindly frame. He had a small, particular sort of moustache that you rarely see on any aside from the Pringles man. And there he was, 9pm at night. Cross-country skiing around the block. I'd have thanked him, if I'd thought he'd have understood why. | | Saturday, December 30th, 2006 | | 10:09 pm |
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmaszawanzakaaah, Merry Decemberween, Happy Bob Day to our Yakistonian friends. | | Monday, November 27th, 2006 | | 5:17 pm |
| | Saturday, November 25th, 2006 | | 8:56 am |
Happy Thanksgiving and assorted sundries. We go to a weekend of turkey and passive aggression. | | Thursday, June 15th, 2006 | | 9:28 pm |
Summer...blech. My ancestry was clearly bred by happenstance to weather cold climates. I am the human space heater, a trait which serves me well in winter, but right now it feels like I have a furnace under my skin. This made more difficult that Daedalus, my computer tower, generates enough heat to make my room a good 10 degrees warmer than the rest of the apartment when it's on, which is most of the time. This has resulted in a quiet thermostat war which occurs very passive-aggressively between myself and my remaining roommate after the other two moved out for the summer. Indeed a front of sorts has been created, between my own endothermic tendencies and my roommate's apparent ancestry including denizens of hades. This isn't a statement of evil so much as it is one of his bizarre need to live in climates more normally associated with places that names beginning with dry-, and dead-, and the aforementioned lake of fire.Testing in a couple of days for yellow belt, and then a solid week during which I'll be doing nothing but practice, followed by camo belt testing. I already hurt in places I didn't previously imagine I possessed from the last practice, I can only hope I'll come ou thte other side of next week not wheezing in the corner, curled into the fetal position. At least it'll be indoors. You daytime, surface dwellers and your bright burning ball in the sky confuse and frighten me, and prolonged exposure to your world causes me to hiss and claw futilely at your angry solar diety and flee underground to quietly await it's retreat. We craves air conditioning. And ice cream, yes. | | Tuesday, May 9th, 2006 | | 3:20 pm |
Learning Kung-Fu is much, much harder than sitting in a chair and making a vaguely inappropriate face while a metal rod is stuck into the back of my head. This is what I have learned so far from taekwondo. Although I did pass my rank test last week, so I am now sufficiently orange-belted. Althought I hurt in places that the good lord never intended to hurt from learning this. It's not likely to let up either, my next testing is in 5 weeks, for a belt form much harder than this one. So far, it's been a lot of fun, although I'm vaguely aware of what a bizarre non-sequitur I am sometimes. Finals, over. Thank gods. No school for me this summer, working full time to try and prepare for the move. Sony = Bastards. Evil, evil bastards plotting my downfall. Why do I say this? In one weekend they both announced that the ps3 would run from $500-$600, and then they served up some of THIS. That whole trailer is realtime, advent-children level goodness. Evil, evil, evil. I've already designated a ps3-fund jar so that sometime before I graduate I might be able to afford one. Also, DR. TRAN IS COMING! | | Friday, April 14th, 2006 | | 2:50 pm |
Apparently, white-wolf.com has set up a new java-based chat setting for Exalted 2nd Ed. Now, I had sworn off white wolf's official chats, but... The setting is NEXUS. NO MORE TWINKIFIED SUPER-AUTHORITY PUFFED UP DRAGONBLOODS! *cough* Ahem. Well, who knows, it could still suck. But I fully plan to expore this. | | 1:34 am |
Exalted 2.0. Ohhhh, yessss precioussss, we wantssss... I've been reading the ebook version until I can afford the hard book. It's...actually good. Improved to the point I won't feel bad about buying it over again (Though I needed to anyway. My old Exalted core is little more than loose pages kept together by an act of diety and no cover to speak of.) This iteration somehow feels more...pure. Itself. It's past it's early, confused adolescent period of vague uncomfortable connections to the world of darkness and is now ready to leave the nest and fly free as it's own entity. Social rules changes = delicious. They finally put in a social challenge system that doesn't slant itself sharply in the direction of the social "aggressor" and, gasp, makes convincing someone to do something against their nature a long process instead of "I roll dice, you must have teh secks with me now." Streamlined combat system and better charm structure. Oh, and no need for 50 pages of errata this time. This is enough to make me want to try and get my own Exalted chat-based rp going. I've actually already started work on a stationary location-based setting, and the ideas are coming pretty naturally so far. Oh Exalted, how I've missed ye. I'll have to put some research into where to get affordable web hosting for JavaChat, or similar. Oblivion has gripped me in ways Morrowind only hinted at. With Morrowind, I was always going "Huh...well, this would be -really- awesome if..." And here Bethsoft goes and does all of those things. Plus the Construction Set is full of juicy goodness, and the Isle of Temples is slowly growing into existence off the coast of Cyrodill. Now if they'd just release a proper exporter, my work on it's architecture could really get going. I move out of this place at the end of the summer. Thankfully. Hiding in one's own home isn't the most favorable of pasttimes. Also, be afraid. Be -very- afraid. Leonard Nimoy and his color-coordinated dancers will haunt your dreams, and yes, your nightmares. http://www.alteringtime.com/files/movies/baggins.mov | | Tuesday, March 28th, 2006 | | 1:31 pm |
New Journal
Out with the old, in with the new. I decided the tone of this journal needed to change. But, I don't want to axe it completely. So in that spirit, out with old archive, in with hopefully a more positive experience. Ann Coulter is insane. Dribbling on one's self, batshit insane. This is the end of commentary, as I wish to pay her no further attention than I have today upon exposure. Oblivion...dear god. It's the fantasy game I always wanted to play. I'm closing down my wow account for a good while, if not permanently as blizzard doesn't make the smartest decisons lately. Maybe when the expansion comes out. But for now...ye gods, there goes all free time out the window. Plus an exploit a friend found makes it rather easy to make some fun wallpapers of my character. http://photobucket.com/albums/h282/LuminousAlchemy/?action=view¤t=OblivionSable2.jpgV for Vendetta...well, it will not win oscars. On occasion the Joel Silver influence creeps in. But it is a good movie, and an important one. Our country is only one unifying disaster away from the kind of totalitarian state represented in this movie. Look how far 9/11 took us, after all, into the territory of a civil rights nightmare of a church state. Not all the way there, but a solid, decisive step in that direction. The fact that the christian right ran right away to decry the movie as pro-terrorist and anti-american speaks of protesting too much. The movie is important. Watch it, because Dubya doesn't want you to. This semester has had some highs and lows, and now a heated struggle between myself and the administration stands between me and passing my classes. Apparently a doctor's note for a two-week absence is only accepted if the professor and concurrent department chair feel like accepting it. Leaving this school will not be a tear-jerking experience for me. Rather, there shall be dancing and hooting in the streets, preferably around some sort of bonfire. |
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