Hnnnng

Oh man. I don't get what it is about FFXIV but it seems like anything related to that game makes people bitch. They'll bitch, and acutely. Yesterday they changed the craft system because it wasn't working right (apparently, I never had trouble) so now you have to do standard synths instead of rapid synths. Literally you can just click one button instead of another. I failed maybe 4 more synths than I normally do and people are threatening to quit over this.
YOU WANNA GIVE IT A DAY, ASSHOLES?
I guess I don't understand this whole attitude of needing your infantile whims fulfilled at every moment. It'll work and you'll get your rapid synths back if you give it ten fucking minutes, Jesus.
Anyway today we have "The Pen Is Mightier... than the sword" which I always thought was a sketchy saying. Hey, hey, if the pen is mightier than the sword why do actions speak louder than words?
The truth is everyone says this shit to avoid having a thought for once.

What inspires you in life? What makes you want to reach for the stars and do something truly extraordinary?

I guess sheer force of will does. I mean really anything you do is pointless so the only reason to do anything at all is because you want to do it.

Child-like wonder, I guess you could call it. I may be twenty-eight, but I can't help but see magic and beauty and mystery in almost everything I encounter.

You're 28. You're posting on Livejournal about how much your job sucks. You don't have wonder about anything.
"Child-like wonder" goes alongside "child at heart" as one of the douchiest things you can say and one of the most misleading things, too. What's with all this desire to be a child again?
Yeah, remember when nothing made sense and you couldn't do shit? Oh yeah, let me go back to those times.
Shit motherfucker, you can get in your car, partake in the MIRACLE OF HUMAN FLIGHT and be in another fucking country tomorrow if you wanted to. Tell your job to get fucked and adventure across India.
Let's see a kid do something like that.

Okay, long time no post, but I've got a fun story to share from my adult ESL class last night.

Oh this'll be fun. Let me tell my horror story after to bring the audience down.

Well, one of the topics was "Phobias" and when asked, I explained that a phobia is when you are afraid of something--very afraid.

That's not a phobia, idiot. If I'm "very afraid" of the man with a gun pointed to my face in the bank I'm not being phobic. A phobia is pathological, that is, there's a cause outside of normal fight-or-flight responses.

I guess you can't unload all this on people learning English but that's no excuse to be inaccurate.
Now, I may be a bit conservative on what I let my six and eight-year-olds watch, but I'm sure I'm not the only one who watched the trailers for Avatar and never thought what a wholesome children's movie it would be--although, apparently McDonald's did. Or maybe they just had a falling out with Disney.

Making toys for the highest grossing film of all time or another modern Disney animated flop.
Gee, McDonald's sure has no marketing sense.

(And note that I do differentiate between Vanity Press, which is predatory business, and Self-Publishing, which can be a legitimate option in a variety of situations.)

IF YOU HAD THAT MUCH TALENT YOU WOULDN'T NEED TO SELF-PUBLISH.

mood: infuriated

What exactly is our identity? An amalgamation of all our past experiences, our opinions, our reason and passion, our personality and physical attributes, or are we merely a sum of numbers, facts and details kept in a file logged somewhere in the depths of that soulless pit we call bureaucracy?

Well, really, if the movement and actions of atoms is highly regular and can be predicted and our brains are made up of nothing but atoms then freewill pretty much cannot exist, but on the other hand as you increase the number of interactions between atoms (and increase the number of atoms) the probability of an accurate prediction decays so I suppose--

Which of these definitions does today's society adhere to if something like our identity is so easy to steal?

I don't think you understand how identity theft works. They just pretend to be you to get to your money. They're not actually pretending to be you because your life is so crazy awesome.

I think in a culture like ours that celebrates the individual it is doubly atrocious to violate someone's sense of self by stealing their identity, an act on par with rape

Oh we're talking about society or something I guess.
I'm just amazed a woman was prepared to compare something to rape. Usually that's reserved for the worst crimes imaginable, and women (the people most likely to be raped if I may say so) should be extra reserved in using it for analogies.
It kind of goes back to what I said Wednesday: people immediately go to the top shelf of words to describe an emotional state because the fact is they don't feel that much and cannot properly express themselves so HUGE WORDS THAT SOUND REALLY EMOTIONAL replace actual thought.

in that it robs a person of not only their private information, but of their reputation, leaving behind a ravaged virgin whose lost innocence can never be regained, who cannot get to sleep at night because the nightmarish terror that their tormentor, their violator will return.

I'm really confused. Are we talking about identity theft (the crime) or are we talking about some kind of metaphysical "identity theft" society somehow does to you?

I understand that fear well. As a teenager I had a male family member harass me in a way that only my father's fortuitous intervention prevented from being rape.

I guess the latter, but I thought this was as bad as rape?
Now it's literally rape, I guess.

I have certainly forgiven this family member, and I'd thought I'd put those painful feelings behind me, until this morning when I investigated the arrival of a receipt for a paid traffic ticket from a county I've never heard of apparently issued to someone with a very similar name, using my information.

So it is identity theft (the crime). You seem to be confusing the actions of society with the actions of an individual. America does indeed respect the self-made man and all that shit, which is why if you notice identity theft is a heavily-punished crime.

It hurts to think I've been reduced to nothing but a series of numbers on a state issued card, and that my sense of peace and self can be so easily shattered by some uncaring and inconsiderate person's actions.

So it is a societal thing I guess. Holy fuck. Well, of course they issue a number. Do you want to organize the logistical nightmare of alphabetizing 400,000,000 people?
What about all the people with the same name?

Who we are is a fragile thing, like a butterfly.

Oh don't be so dramatic, Jesus Christ.

He stepped on a land mine in the war, The War, WWII, fighting in Europe; and spent the next two years in hospitals until they got rid of the osteomylitis by amputating from the knee down.

Oh well fuck this cunty blog, let's read his blog instead!
I bet he's not whining about identity theft or whatever. Fucker stepped on a landmine in France while being shot at by Germans, I think he's been through worse.

After his terms were up, he went into private practice and has represented people or offered legal advice up until his pace-maker failed at the age of ninety, an event he miraculously survived.

NOTHING CAN KILL THIS MAN.

It's past Wednesday, and it's not quite Friday. But I am glad it's almost over. Thursdays are my longest days

Start the long and arduous process (which I'm not getting paid for, incidentally, so my intentions must be pure) to teach English to disadvantaged youths in a high school that doesn't even have air conditioning in the morning then go to a class at 4 where I'm yelled at for not being culturally sensitive.
No, great. Really.

no, a pencil isn't and has never been considered a respectable dueling weapon

Well people are pussies and outlawed dueling so what can you do?
Every single honorable, manly means of resolving a conflict have been taken from you and people wonder why there are lawsuits out the ass now.

Granted attendance isn't what it would be if it were mandatory,

Man I wish attendance weren't mandatory on Thursday. But nope, instead I have to listen to this one cunt in particular extol the virtues of being liberal while interning in the most advantaged school in the county.
Tool. Somehow I bet he's more racist than me despite being the "most sensitive to the issue".
Oh right, this.

I brought a revision to a short story I've been playing with called "The Lawn Knight".

Not to be confused with The Green Knight, who was endlessly awesome.
Name... Ten better stories than Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
So it's about this pussy named Gawain, right, and this Green Knight comes in and challenges one of Arthur's court to a duel but none of them want to accept because they're partying and a beheading kind of puts a damper on the festivities. Eventually Gawain is kind of guilted into dueling. The Green Knight gives Gawain the first attack, so Gawain beheads him. Instead of being butthurt and dying the Green Knight just walks over and picks his head up.
The rule was, then, that the Green Knight would get a return attack in one year, and much of the story is the ensuing quest during that interim year.
Well, I've officially created a LiveJournal now. I guess I'll put up an interesting link or two for you to enjoy.
Speaking of beheadings I think I'm going to go make some gladius blades in FFXIV.
Someone has to supply the endless engine of war, hey.
This is a gladius, for those of you who didn't know. The manliest sword ever.

GAYLO THREE

Playing Halo online. Why would you do such a stupid thing? Here, I can recreate the Halo/Xbox Live experience for free: lock yourself in a room with five 13 year old boys and scream "faggot" at each other until it's six the next morning.
Enjoy your fun I guess.
Meanwhile I'm taking time out of my incredibly busy schedule of faffing about school and forging metal and punching rodents in FFXIV.
Who knew the path to becoming THE FIST OF THE NORTH STAR was fraught with so many squirrels?
Oh, right, the tangential connection to Halo: he talks about Halo and has Master Chief avatars on his blog.
I know I've missed the last couple of posts but between posts for school and Final Fantasy, well.

What's the one question you would like to ask if the answer were guaranteed to be correct?

What are the winning lotto numbers for the very next lottery in NC?
If this isn't your question you're provably stupid.
Also: he has the "you must be 14 to view these earth-shattering thoughts" and most of his posts are Writer's Blocks. Great.
I do love the number of people who asked "IS THERE A GOD?" Hurr, great. Even if the answer is "yes" what are you going to do armed with this knowledge? Meanwhile I can buy ten thousand boats or something equally stupid with all my money.

Am I really going to have a well paying job, a house, and lovely housewife?

?

?

:(

Wow you fucked up. Ask my question and you won't need the first, you can afford the second and you'll magically find the love of your life somehow that has nothing to do with your new wealth, honest.
Oh now Blogger is automatically skipping lines every time I want to skip to a new line because of the dumbass way he formatted his blog. Get fucked, you.
There, I fixed it.

Do you think having children is a fundamental human right? Should there should be any restrictions?

Yes. The number of children you have should never outnumber you, the parents. One exception: if you have one child and then through NO ADDITIONAL AID (like fertility drugs, etc) you have twins, triplets or whatever.

I'm pretty sure that reproducing will keep the human race alive?

Wasn't what they were asking, asshole. Way to pay attention.

Have you ever been the target of cyber-bullying? What was your reaction?

This is a trick question. There is no such thing as cyber-bullying. If people are saying mean things to you on the internet and you're that upset about it do you know what you can do?
WALK AWAY FROM THE COMPUTER.
If people are saying mean things to you on Facetube:
1. You're on Facetube. No one gives a fuck about that cesspit and if you do you're silly.
2. Just imply you fucked their mother or something and 99% of Facetube users aren't intelligent enough to come up with a response to this.
Easy shit, kids.
Seriously I don't know what you'll do when you run into a dedicated internet troll like myself.

This happens almost all the time on Xbox Live.

Ultimate retaliation on a video game: just do better than them at it.
Yeah, I'm a fag and you just went 17:1 against a fag, so what's that make you?
Honest to God, people. Grow up.

Which celebrity are you sick of seeing? Who would you like to see more of?

JUSTIN BIEBER. I shouldn't even know his name.

Less Justin Beiber.

RIGHT ON. Can't believe I'm saying that in response to someone on Livejournal. A Writer's Block, no less.

More Altaïr Ibn La-ahad!

Err, the main character in Assassin's Creed. Brotip, friend: he's not real.

How do you feel about the upcoming Twilight film? Are you a fan or a critical bystander?

Twilight sucks and if you enjoy it you have no taste in books or movies.

I'm not huge fan, nor am I a critical bystander. I just enjoy the frickin' movies

Fag.
Seriously name one objectively good thing about Twilight.
I can wait.

Fanfiction: Do you love it or hate it, or are you totally indifferent? Why?

Seems silly but I guess ultimately I'm indifferent to it.
I mean it sucks so I just don't read it. Hate seems like an awfully strong emotion for something like that.

I don't love it or hate it, and I'm not indifferent.

So-- err.

I don't love it because I've never written one, nor have I read a substantial amount to say that I like them. I don't hate because of that reason.

If you don't love or hate something aren't you, by definition, neutral to it?
I guess you could get cute and say you "dislike" or "like" them because love and hate are strong emotions (of course, people immediately go to the strongest emotions they can feel for something because they're emotional vacuums with no opinions for themselves so using strong words creates the illusion of thought) but you have, what, 100 entire words to ask a question in Writer's Block? Forgive me for not running through all your options, Christ.

I'm not indifferent because I do generally like the idea of fanfictions because they're like stories based off other stories or movies.

So, what?
And it just ends there. Get fucked.

If you could create/select a new subject that had to be taught in high school, what would it be, and why?

I guess what I'd be looking for is really a civics class but really I'd want a class that'd teach these urchins how to not be such socially cloying, vacuous idiots.

Sex education needs to be highly prioritized. I can't speak for other schools but my school has a very weak health program.

No it doesn't. Let's waste more time on nonsense meanwhile half the people in high school are on a third grade reading level.
Here's a condom, here's how to use it so we don't create more wastes of resources like you, now back to the Cat in the Hat.
Man I have a negative view of school for a high school English education major, goddamn. I know I'm playing up the negative views for comedic effect but whatever.
Oh I love this comment (I know I never quote comments but fuck it):

Agreed. More sex ed would prevent so many std-related deaths. I think that abstinence (not sure that´s spelled correctly) should be promoted more too. Not just "safe sex".

That's all they promote, idiot. That's half the problem because abstinence doesn't work on a population that has never known self-control or denial. Or at all but we're not really talking about history.
Sometimes I feel like I'm going insane with shit like this. Am I the only one that sees glaring flaws in what entire institutions do?

I think abstinence is promoted to a certain degree. When hormones start flowing, and a boy and a girl are alone, it's sorta hard for abstinence to control their minds.

The response. The response to this:

Reality? They wouldn't listen. What the hell they care about using condoms. They are invincible.

Future policy maker posting here, folks.
SO IF THEY THINK THEY'RE INVINCIBLE AND WON'T USE CONDOMS WHY WOULD THEY LISTEN TO TALK OF ABSTINENCE?

How well do you take criticism? Do you deflect it or take it personally?

I don't deflect it or take it personally. I usually just say "oh thanks that's a good point I'll think about it" and keep on doing what I'm doing. When they're right I'm man enough to admit it and make the change. Usually they're wrong and I don't. What's the big fucking deal?

It depends on which type of criticism is in question. I can handle constructive criticism

Constructive criticism is another word for pointless compliments, as I've learned. When I'm looking for criticism I want criticism. I know what I did well, I want to hear about what I didn't do so well so I can improve it.
That reminds me of all the bullshit posting I've done in my school career. SANDWICH METHOD, PEOPLE. SAY ONE NICE THING, ONE THING THAT NEEDS IMPROVEMENT THEN ANOTHER NICE THING.
I think I'll employ the sandwich method for the sandwich method:
I like the name.
Great, thanks for wasting my time having to read and type more nonsense.
It really helps me evade butthurt (sometimes).
Well that wasn't so hard.

If your pet could talk, what is the first thing s/he would say to you?

She'd probably just whine at me incessantly for treats she doesn't eat.
Hey wait she does that anyway.
Strange.

Are you worried about where technology will lead us? Do you think it's possible that civilization may someday turn away from technology altogether for the betterment of humankind?

>turn away from technology FOR the betterment of mankind
WHAT THE FUCK DID I JUST READ?
Yeah, man, we were sooo much better off with a simpler technological base. Dying of easily cured diseases really is the sign of a quality life to me. Tools.
Or shit like the Haber process that's used to grow up to a third of the world's food?
Yeah fuck that noise. Surfdom and endless toiling are clearly the path to a better future.

As long as technology exists, people will become more lazy and dependent on it.

I do hate watching people try to operate their technology but the technology itself isn't to blame.

Like "why send him a letter when I can text him?".

... Legitimate question, actually. Why would you want to do something that takes more effort and ten times as long to get a response when you can literally just text him and get a response in thirty seconds for the same result?
That's not lazy that's just using what you have to achieve a goal you want.
Also you don't need a period when you have a question mark.
Christ all mighty, some people.

It'll take miracle for people to turn away from technology in my opinion.

It's like we've adapted to creating shit to aid our work.
Hey wait--

If you could choose which fashions would go out of style permanently, what would you choose, and why?

Jeans or tights and skirts.
PART OF THE ALLURE IS THINKING MAYBE A STRONG GUST OF WIND WILL COME ALONG AND I'LL GET A PEEK. NO HOPE NOW.
His response is skinny jeans which proves he's more of a fag than I thought.

The eighties were known as the Me decade. The nineties have been called the Electronic age. So far, what would you label this decade?

The Shit decade.

I had been like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter; I did not realize that they had plotted against me, saying, "Let us destroy the tree and its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name be remembered no more."
-Jeremiah 11:19

Fuck yeah Jeremiah. Throwing down now, motherfucker.

Is this a quote from the Bible? I only say that because of the 11:19.

JEREMIAH 11:19. MAYBE IT'S FROM THE BIBLE.

If humanity were to become extinct, do you think another animal species would evolve to take our place?

Hard to say because evolution isn't deterministic. It'd have to be another creature strongly similar to us, though. Probably monkeys again or perhaps marsupials.
I mean life existed perfectly well for far longer without species like us than it has with us, so it might never happen again.

I think dogs will probably evolve and take our place. It seems as though dogs have a humanlike mind and are far superior than us in physicality,

Define "superior", asshole. I haven't seen a dog work a keyboard. When you have your jaws to grip things and nothing else you've kind of limited yourself. Evolution doesn't select the traits based off what you deem to be good.

As long as they DONT follow our selfish ignorant ways they would be alright.

We're one of like five species to be found on every single continent in strong numbers. I'd say we've done all right for ourselves.
Only species to go into space, too.

Could you spend the rest of your life with someone who had horrific taste in music?

Considering I make it a sport to goof on music yes I could.
Speaking of, have you heard Like a G6? What a shitty song, holy fuck.

If your best friend and/or romantic partner read all of your email for the last month (or longer), how would it impact your relationship(s) and why?

Well lately these Chinese dudes have been trying to scam my World of Warcraft password from about three years back (for some reason) so I guess if whoever is reading my email fell for that I might be in some trouble but otherwise no, no impact.

If a loved one got diagnosed with a painful, terminal illness and asked you to help them terminate their life before they deteriorated, would you do it?

NO REGRETS.

When something is troubling you, where do you usually turn?

The Good Book. The Warhammer 40,000 Third Edition rulebook.

Do you think society puts too much pressure on people to be in relationships and/or have children?

Well there is this bizarre phenomenon I've noticed where society tells men to be sexually promiscuous and women sexually repressed which I suspect might cause some sort of relationship turmoil on a societal scale but otherwise no, don't give a shit.
And I'm up to his first entry where he tells me rather humorously his journal is "friends only". What were the fifteen million entries I just read then, asshole?

Whoa!

Almost no update Friday as well.
Well, I'm sure you were all looking forward to it (without asking) and here's my official review of Final Fantasy XIV:
Last night I started at 8 PM (class and maintenance stacked on top of each other to keep me off until later) and the next time I looked at a clock it was 3:30 in the morning.
You can punch things, you can craft items, you can mine for fish-- not getting too technical, am I?
Oh but let's take a break from the glory that is hunting for wind shards (258 fire shards and counting, though) and read some fuck.
The title is "Hiding out from the Inter-Hemisphere Police" and he (?) probably thinks that's "lulz funny xD becuz their arent inter-hemisphere police!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" but I'm here to shit on his parade.
They're called Interpol and they don't have nearly as much authority as you'd think they would.
In fact, as near as I can tell, they're kind of pussies. I know personally I'd suit them up in power armor, but that's just me.
I do like their company symbol, though: the globe with a dagger through it. Very authoritarian take on law enforcement, gentlemen.
Like all blogs recently, we start with a writer's block:

What would you do if you only had one month left to live?

I'm amazed at the number of people who think they'd do something incredible. If you could really do all this shit that easily and the only thing stopping you was you weren't close to death, why wouldn't you just do it now?

My life is complicated enough without adding time frames into it.

Thankfully, I don't have to worry. As a non-corporeal being, I won't really "die". I might freeze eternally, never to post again.

Now we have to give pause here. Is he being serious? He might be, you don't know. The immediate reaction, I'm sure, is "oh he's just kidding. I don't really get this joke but surely--" but you don't know that, man. I've reviewed some fuck in the past that you can't in good confidence say "he's definitely joking".

Or... since my account is always online, I would be immortal....

Or as long as the internet is around--
huh, didn't think of that, did you?

Is it appropriate for governments to spend so much money on defense and weapons? How much is too much?

Which governments? Some countries don't spend very much at all whereas some (South Korea, Russia, US, China, Japan, Israel, etc) spend tons and tons. Some of these nations (South Korea, US, Israel, Japan, etc) would seem within their rights to spend so much: they had some of their shit ruined in the recent past or their shit is threatened in the near future.

The problem isn’t expenditure per se, but more the lack of imagination which *results* in defence expenditure.

It would be much more interesting for countries to sign an International Treaty On The Resolution Of Disputes By Poetry.

... What the fuck am I reading?
Anyway my problem is this country spends so much money on defense contracts but spends hardly any at all on research and development.
Never going to have space marines at this rate, are you guys?

Or…what about an Annual Smut-Writing-Extravaganza?!

*nods enthusiastically*

Of course this may have the unforeseen consequence of conscripting some of my favourite people (including my Other Self) into military service.

Other Self. Nope, don't wanna know.

The answer is: Because it was interfering with my love life. What's the question?

"Why did you have penis reduction surgery?"
Hard carrying around this baseball bat, ladies.

The question is: why did you quit LiveJournal?

*teehee*

*evil smile*

If you do that again I'm going to roll up a newspaper and swat you so fucking hard on the nose your head will spin.

What is your fondest childhood memory? How often does it come to mind?

TRADING POKEMON WITH A BRO WOOOOO
EVERY TIME I LOOK AT MY LEVEL 100 GYARADOS

*clears throat*

Well, actually I wasn’t.

A child that is.

I sprang into existence as a fully developed entity.

So--
Errr.
Well I think I'm going to start up FFXIV now. I doubt this riveting tale will command my full attention.

Spontaneous existence is somewhat like spontaneous human combustion. Without the humans, flames and nasty death related side effects.

I wish I had a psycannon from Warhammer right now. You'd be faced with un-birth now, demon.
Now loading.

However I do have a surplus of penguins.

*all applications for penguin adoptions will be considered*

LULZ XD UR SOOOOOOOOOOOOO FUNNY!
Seriously I hope if you ever get on a plane it crashes twice.

I could more accurately be described as an inter-hemispheric Baudrillardian simulation with a dual personality.

So, not joking? Just crazy?
When philosophers ponder “the meaning of life” I can only assume they’re being facetious, because the answer is obvious: paper-clips!
HURRRRRRRRRRRR.
So fuck this noise. Just nonstop xD so randum moments. If I wanted to deal with this fuck I'd read Gamefaqs or something.