Allahu Akbar

Allahu akbar
So I know it's been like a month since I've updated and I doubt anyone is reading this but basically I had to work overtime and it really was kinda shit. Not just like a few hours a week, either. Some weeks were in excess of 65 hours.
That went on forever--
and then after it finally ended I had a few days off so I went to Osaka.
Let me tell you what Osaka is like: it's awesome. It's the biggest city I've ever seen.
Well, except New York City.
And Seoul.
But those don't count because I only saw those through the airport and I think technically the airport in Seoul is in the ass end of Incheon.
Just like the Busan airport is in Gimhae.
No I don't understand it either.
It's not like these are suburbs of these places either (although technically that's how they function I suppose) but if you were to address a letter to someone in Gimhae at no point would the address contain a reference to Busan.
It's all been so long I don't even know what to say. I don't even know how to unpack all this.
66 hours a week is a fucking nightmare and by the end everyone is so grumpy and like two of the higher level management is bitching at me
about nothing, really, and it's like motherfucker
I didn't want to be here
this wasn't my idea
just send everyone home
But you know get drunk with everyone the day of the part and suddenly everyone is cool
people are are fucking weird, man.
So anyway then I go to Osaka which was a nightmare flight that got delayed--
well I missed my first flight and all this overtime and generally not spending money while here in Korea means I can just buy another ticket without really blinking so that's what I did--
so then this flight is delayed because of all the rain or something. Then there are a bunch of, and I have no way of saying this without sounding racist so I'll just say it, Muslims and they're being super loud during the flight and it's just me and this 80 year old Korean man exchanging concerned glances the entire time.
But it was fine. Except I think Japanese immigration was getting ready to deny them entry for some reason. I dunno. All I know is I sailed through immigration and they were being detained.
So then I take a taxi--
in Japan--
which as it turns out is a huge mistake.
So he drives for a while and he ends up in this narrow ass road in like a residential neighborhood and he has to turn around and he's like welp
that's the end of the taxi ride
so I say hey wait no you can't just ditch me here where's the fucking hotel
and he's like oh
it's over there
and so I say well fucking drive me there
and he says he can't and it's time for me to get out
oh by the way it's 11,400 yen (114 dollars) and I about flipped my shit but no, that's ok, my laptop is in his trunk and I'd rather be out 114 dollars and hopelessly lost in the dead of the night in an unfamiliar Osaka suburb that might or might not be owned by organized crime than definitely lose my laptop.
You know because I can potentially carry through and get to my hotel but if I throw a shitfit that laptop and all my clothes are definitely gone.
So I get out and I make sure to position myself so he can't see where he's turning and he scratches the hell out of his side (good fuck that guy) and then I start my hike.
So he seemed to indicate that the road would continue to the main drag where the hotels were (I could see a rather porno looking hotel called Hotel Layla close) but no, the road ends and turns into a gravel road and some woods.
And I think oh good this is how I die.
So I walk through the black woods
of Osaka
Japan
fortunately I didn't see anything and I ended up just making it to the road.
My keen survival instinct just informs me I should keep left at all times so that's what I do and luckily the hotel isn't that far.
Maybe it's just me but as I'm walking in all these unfamiliar places I always try to remind myself about how low the crime rate of Korea or Japan or wherever is
but then there's this moment where I think yeah but it isn't 0
but luckily, no, nothing happens.
So I get to my hotel and by now it's 10:00 PM and I'm just ready to go home
to fucking America I mean
but I check in and what the fuck is this hotel room
it's gorgeous.
Like I have never seen a cleaner hotel room. The room had a desk and couch and a king size bed and a huge projector that worked as a TV. 100 inch TV in my room.
Oh and a slot machine. I was told they had Fist of the North Star slot machines but sadly wasn't lucky enough to get one of those rooms.
This hotel was like 40 dollars a night, mind you.
I'd like to see what an 80 dollar hotel looks like.
So at this point I think hey this'll be ok.
Even if I can't find anything chilling in a room that isn't perpetually a little bit damp due to the age, humidity of the place it's in and the general pissing-down-rain nature of Korea will be great.
So at this point I think oh good I have no clue where I am at all
most people do research but fuck those people frankly
you have way more fun when you wing it I think
So I ask the desk lady hey where's the station and she gives me a map and circles the nearest terminal.
So I think hey this'll be it then.
So I go up to my room and it's time for Japanese TV
turn it on
porno
this is going to be a theme running through the whole of the trip to Japan, really.
So after checking that indeed I just turn the TV on to porno a few times I decide to see if there's any better porno on. Flip through the channels? no more porno.
But oh wait there's an entire softcore channel just part of the basic cable package apparently.
So then I discover that there's an Art of Gundam show so I fucking went to that shit hardcore, man.
That was my entire Saturday.
That and going to Den-Den Town where they sell everything for nerds
basically nerd heaven is what I'm trying to say. And occasionally you see a hot chick dressed as some sort of weird anime character.
Basically where I want to go when I die.
Anyway that's about it for today I might post again tomorrow with something relevant I dunno
fuck blogging

I got something to say

It's better to burn out
than fade away
so first thing's first look at this nightmare:

its eyes also glow red.
What is it?
It's like Korea's interpretation of Stephen King's IT by way of a kid's Pikachu ride.
Imagine you want to go to the grocery store to buy some fucking cream cheese or a sparkling water and then whamo there's that fucking thing.
So anyway I dunno even what to talk about today.
Feminism tag?
Why?

This website is literally a race to see who can get the most offended first

Well that about covers it, I think.
I just got finished reading a forum that sought to defend hating on Thor being a woman now via its violating the mythos, it’d offend those who believe in norse mythology, its practicioners, ect. Ect.
Alright, I just wanna point out how ass backwards that idea is having actually read the eddas and myths. Lets begin:
Oh boy feminist interpretation of mythology ahoy

Mjonlr isn’t some sentient magic weapon thats picky about who holds it, its just fucking heavy. Marvel has some bullshit about being worthy that they got from god knows where.

Yes but in mythology Thor is a man.

So honestly, some mother fuckers need to crack a book before they spout stupid shit about fictional characters that barely resemble the myths they are based on. Honestly, as someone who actually practices Asatru, if they wanna make their thor a chick, that’s they last thing I’m tripping about inaccuracy wise and isn’t even an issue.

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In fact, did you know that the Vikings were actually big on womens rights had better rape laws than we do, didn’t discriminate them from holding positions of power and fucking even fought along side their women? That gods took female form and goddeses took male form time to time?
Something to think about when an ancient “barbaric” race had better equality than we enjoy.

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Wow this is awesome.
Let's change all fictional characters into women and then 90% of the tumblr whining goes away.
Sorry all the things you like are written by men and indeed were intended for men usually. Maybe you should write your own fiction and then you won't have this problem.

girls can’t wear shorts to school bc some 15 year old guy will get “distracted” by the hair free version of his own anatomy.

Come to South Korea, then. Shorts so short they might as well not even be wearing them.

I swear to god give me a week to control the US

Free healthcare. Heavy ass fine for racism and discrimination. Legalized marriage for all couples. Legalized marijuana. Drunk drivers get jail time. Guns would have extreme procedures to legally own them. Abortion would be legal. Transsexuals would have better access to healthcare. Women would be paid the same. The minimum wage would be enough to actually live off of. Large corporations would be kept out of politics. More money would go towards funding education than giving the rich tax breaks. And on Wednesdays we wear pink.

So you're going to turn the US into a brutal police/nanny state.
Good.
But just for that week because then all your rulings will be reversed.

“"No" doesn’t mean "convince me".”

—  Anonymous

 

Except when it does mean that. 

If white girls want to play that way they need to be fucking overt.

Common opening question in South Korea: "are you single?"
You lay your cards on the table immediately.

I can't tell you how much easier shit is here on that front.

I need feminism because

when I told my 16 year old student to put his phone away and focus on his assignment he told me to “quit bitching.”

No that's why you need administrators.

  the funny thing about sexist women with internalised misogyny holding their little cue cards and carefully compiling their little lists to justify why they personally believe that they don’t need feminism is that they wouldn’t even be able to do this in the first place were it not for feminism

What amazes me most about feminism is how deeply misogynistic it comes across at times.

Like what, the only reason women can think for themselves is because literally 40 years ago a bunch of women burned some bras?

Men have been thinking independently since the dawn of time. Why did it take women so long?
If that seriously is your argument then my response is, and I'm dead fucking serious, women aren't competent enough to have rights.

I’ve heard many Christian feminists say that they are a feminist because of Jesus—because of their Christianity. I think that’s great. It’s not my story, however. I am not a feminist because of Jesus. I am a Christian because of feminism..

"Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law."

1 Corinthians 14:34

 Before I began to view my Christian faith through a feminist lens, I was convinced that there was no redeeming it. I grew up in conservative Christian fundamentalism, going to a church and Christian high school that I consider abusive and cult-like. Even after leaving that church, I couldn’t shake my hatred of God—not just the fundamentalist God, but the God of even more socially liberal evangelical Christianity still focused on atonement and the glorification of violence.

"For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man. Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man."

1 Corinthians 11:8-9

I didn’t truly know or love God until I encountered her through feminism.  Christianity taught me a lot of things I was “supposed” to know about God. God is love. God is just. God is Trinity. God’s Word is made flesh through Jesus and through the body of Christ. God died, buried, and rose again the third day. God created me in God’s image.

 "Let the women learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression."
1 Timothy 2:11-14

But these concepts seemed meaningless at best, and harmful at worst to me.
Then I started reading feminist theory and theology.

"Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything."
Ephesians 5:22-24
"Give me any plague, but the plague of the heart: and any wickedness, but the wickedness of a woman."
Eccles. 25:13
No really you picked a great book for feminism.
I always love the Christian apologetics on this, too. Well Paul was really just talking about one church with crazy women--
ignoring the fact that even if that were true they still felt it a significant enough message to include it in in the Bible for the record-- presumably a record that would continue far into the distant future--
and that's not even addressing the fact this is a message repeated a couple of times in the Bible. I didn't even quote all of the instances the Bible is down on women.
There's this Biblical rule that a lot of Christers follow that states the more something is repeated-- because goddamn if there's a consistent message in the Bible-- the more important the thing is. I'd say this is repeated often enough for it to be significant.

Woman: I don’t need feminism!
well gee ok have fun going back to forced childbirth, being bought and sold like property, and legal beatings when you don’t have dinner on the table for your man. because these are all things feminism is currently protecting you from you simple bitch.

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You know what game is pretty great so far? ArcheAge. I don't want to say it'll save the MMO genre because I'm pretty sure it'll be relegated to obscurity or mismanagement basically out of the gate but it seems to be trying harder than any of the other crap I've tried lately.
Speaking of: I bet the Elder Scrolls Online dev team is feeling pretty silly they didn't listen to me.
They actually messaged me one on one so I could tell them what a monumental fuck up this game was, which I commend them for not being bitches about it but they're still dumbasses for not listening for one second.
I guess I can't blame them since my advice was tantamount to saying "stop this and start over."
Being a good game developer, though, should be about having the strength of character enough to say no I won't release this, I think.
Remember when Blizzard was a good developer and didn't release Starcraft: Ghost because it was shit? That's what I mean.
I'd tell you all the problems with it but here's the gist: it's a huge problem when I'm 5 minutes into the game and I've already found enough wrong to bitch about it for an hour.
But that wasn't a problem I had with ArcheAge. I'd been looking forward to it (quietly. I don't like to hype games at all anymore) for a while so I dropped my 70 plonkers on it and expected 70 string cheeses I could never buy.
Booted it up and the character creation was both flexible, easy to use and had a variety of options.
Class options, while not the most unique on offering seemed interesting enough and can be freely combined to create some genuinely unique roles.
You know, sort of like Elder Scrolls Online lied about doing.
The setting, while again not the most interesting I've ever seen in my life was competent and had some genuine attention to detail with some surprising flares of uniqueness. Not the best but definitely competent.
Character growth seems varied and not a pointless gear treadmill like WoW.
Questing, of course, seems like the typical boring fetch quest and meat grinders but the stuff around it seems cool. Build buildings that persist while you're logged out, fight people, build ships and explore the ocean, crafting that has a genuine purpose outside of just being another stat you grind--
yeah I think it'll be quite good when it's fully released.
I don't want to damn it to faint praise but it's an MMO I'd rather play than WoW.
Anyway I sort of lost where I was going with this. I need to wash my sheets.

Rust never sleeps

Sorry I haven't posted in a while. Got this overtime thing I gotta do at work for a while and when that's done I'm going to Japan for 4 days so updates might be a little sparse.
Basically I worked 60 hours last week.
That might be normal for some plebeians but not for a glorious patrician class like myself.
And I was a little sick on top of it so basically what I'm saying is I know serious suffering.
Just kidding I'd rather do 60 hours like that than 15 hours at Harris Teeter.
Or, God help me, 50ish hours at that shitty high school I student taught for.
At least this place pays and has the good sense to not ask for the impossible.
Hey can you do 10 hours of work for 2 people in 5 hours with 1 person?
No?
Why not?
Anyway I'm just going to trawl the tumblr feminism front page because that's basically blogging to me at this point.

have you ever heard any wild gaming conspiracies?

Yeah I heard Chucklefish took your fucking money and ran.
Anyone who dropped 15 bucks on Starbound--
Well, that's 15 string cheeses you can never buy.
What kind of idiot would buy that game on the promises that it'd be a glorious space journey where you can build an entire techno city on an alien planet?
CERTAINLY NOT FUCKING ME ;_;

Yeah, there’s this one ridiculous conspiracy theory going around that women, LGBTQ folks, and people of color don’t actually play videogames, and any criticism they bring up is not the legitimate concerns of dedicated fans and consumers, but rather a shadowy crusade by disinterested outsiders to destroy anything fun and make everything “politically correct” - for some as-yet-unknown (but clearly unacceptable) reason.

I know tons of black people who play video games so that one isn't true but the others are real.
Let's look at #women in games for proof.

What I like in Game Of Thrones, it’s that the women are so badass .

That's a TV show and a series of books, dipshit.
Yet another fine example of fairly competent writing (not groundbreaking) that was ruined by its retard fans.
I salute George RR Martin, though. Fairly above standard author with an original spin on an idea catapulted into millions. Good on him.
Notice I didn't say good author or original idea. Because he isn't and hasn't.

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JUST… some GoT strong womens .
yeah…. i just love Arya
and Brienne.
okey….i like Sansa too.

Game of Thrones again--
I love these .5 second gif loops that might as well be a still image. Please, let's keep doing that.
Because, you know, if you're browsing imgur on your phone like I often am you might as well put a bullet in your brain now.
I can't wait until I can read what people think about the characters in my book.
I'm sure it'll bottom sore tumblr feminists.
I'm not about to be super edgy here and say that's my goal because it isn't. I'm just letting the cards fall where they land and I'm sure it'll end with them being offended.
Because unlike every industry in the world I'm not kowtowing to this demographic.

If you haven’t heard about this yet, last night the BBC aired a powerful documentary called Blurred Lines that explored casual misogyny online and rape culture.

>casual misogyny online
Listen, as a man who has spent 10+ years playing female characters you sometimes run into someone who assumes you're either a woman irl or you're incompetent because your character is a girl.
The important thing to know is:
1. you can use this to your advantage
2. you just need to get your murder on better than them and then that dispels all doubts.

Assassin's Creed Unity:*no playable female Assassins* 

I'm glad Ubisoft told everyone to go fuck off about this.
Also there's a gameplay reason for it.
Hyrule Warriors:*10 playable characters, 8 of them are women*

Male gamers:WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?!?! There are too many girls in this game! What about us, the male fans? Why the female fans have more options? Women aren't interesting, if you don't include more men in the game then the story will become boring!

1. they're not done announcing the roster
2. no one is overreacting like this
You know looking at this tag I see why some game companies and real gamers are concerned. #women in games is 90% not video games.
I guess women think game of thrones, bitching about clothes and general bitchiness is video games.
Way to destroy that stereotype.
Lol blog about repairing female armor
NOT IN MY WORLD.

alright, i hope this isnt too off-topic, but this game has a female protagonist with a face that isn’t doll like, 

 Yeah it's about video games.

Stop that.

Dudes complain a lot about how men are objectified as much as women in games.

No one cares. We just say that because you fucking moan about how skinny and attractive women are in games. The common defense is "yeah and men are ripped" but unlike you no one is actually losing any sleep over it on the other side of the camp.

Would I want to play a video game with someone with my level of physical competency?

No. That game would be over the second Alduin lands and starts breathing fire on people.

Can we ever have a talk about sexism in the games/digital art industries without one or more dudes having a whine about how boring they find having this discussion?
Dear Those Dudes: Not EVERYTHING is done for the entertainment of men. Jesus.

Go ahead and have it all you like.
Just not with me.
Just like how everything isn't done to entertain me, you don't need me to have your little discussion.

See, if a woman (especially in battle) would wear something more comfortable and logical the world would explode. Right?

Yeah I need a lot of logic from my games where I can make pacts with demons and shoot fire out of my mouth.

Here's someone bitching about Soul of the Ultimate Nation's armor:

Even she looks like she doesn’t want to be there.
“Sigh. Really? Do I really have to wear this?”

Well she is in Soul of the Ultimate Nation so she probably doesn't want to be there.

I had a great time speaking to a packed house at High Point University in North Carolina about women in video games. 

lol HPU enjoy your overpriced shit.

Seriously if you don’t have a crush on any of these women, (straight, lesbian, bisexual etc)
Then you need to get your priorities sorted!

STOP FUCKING OPPRESSING ME JUST BECAUSE I DON'T LIKE WHITE WOMEN WITH MAN JAWS GOD HELP ME TRIGGER WARNING no but seriously you're out of your fucking mind.

Transformers Fans:why aren't there any girl transformers?
Hasbro:lol silly women. they are robots. alien robots. they don't have genders. why would there be girls? lol 

Fine argument to me but in fact Transformers did have girls.
Oh right I'm sorry I forgot no woman gave a shit about Transformers in the 80s and only leeched on when it was socially acceptable to be a nerd but they tortured you if you were one in high school.
My mistaaaaake~

[M]ale players who play female characters behave very differently than female players playing female characters, most tellingly in the way that they move. For some weird reason, they tend to “move backwards more often” and are more likely to physically distance themselves from the rest of their party. They also use a lot more smiling emoticons, tend to select more conventionally attractive avatars (duh), and jump around a lot more than female players — 116 times more on average, as a matter of fact.

>2014
>not distancing yourself from plebeians
the other shit is bullshit. I never jump unless I have to and I never go backwards because that would imply cowardice.

The research team thinks that this could be because many male players use female avatars so that other male players will be nicer to them (which is hilarious given the way that female players are treated in a lot of other multiplayer games), so jumping around is a way to hold their attention.

Lol not just picking girl characters to stare at their asses
why is everyone except me gay
If I see one more fucking picture of Natalie Dormer on this tag I'm out.
She's fucking weird looking. She's not hot.
There she is I'm out fuck the world.