Oh Boy

Remember a few updates ago when there was that question about reincarnation and I asked if anyone recalled that cunt who always said "IT'S VERY RUDE OF YOU TO ASSUME EVERYONE BELIEVES IN REINCARNATION and I said I should hunt her answer down but then I was too lazy?
Well, her blog came up while I was searching for one and here's her official response:

I think that reincarnation is one of the stupidest and cruelest myths ever spawned by the mind of man, and that assuming that everyone believes in it is very rude.

Gr8.
Anyway with that bit of merriment out of the way, BEHOLD. Guys, blogs, all are gay, etc.

I've been going through my medicine and vitamin cabinets, and I have a lot of old stuff that I don't want to risk taking anymore. However, I don't want to just throw it out, as I've heard that doing so can be dangerous to lower life forms, the environment, etc.

Take them all at once.
Surely all the bad stuff in one will cancel out all the bad stuff in another and you'll end up with a stomach of placebo.
Pretty sure that's how that should work.

Is there a recommended way to dispose of a) expired or unused medication (both OTC and prescription) and b) old and unused vitamin/mineral supplements? I have a lot of the latter, but a bit of the former, too.

Yeah. A trashcan. Fuck lower lifeforms.

It seems the Fight for the Light expansion pack for DC Universe Online is giving us a little more than they originally said they would:

People still play DC Universe Online?
Serious?

(Yes, yes, I know, some people get e-mail on their mobile phones, but seriously, how large a percentage of their 1.4 million customers have set up e-mail on their mobiles?)

A majority, I'm guessing.
AN EMAIL ON YOUR PHONE?
WHAT YEAR IS THIS, 2011?
WHAT HIGH TECHNOLOGICAL SORCERY IS THIS BULLSHIT?
So now he's going to some convention about video games I guess and they have speakers about dumb boring shit like the social ramifications of video games (zzzz) and here's one of the speeches he's excited to see:

7:00pm: Can RPGs Teach You to Write? (Coronado)

No.
In fact, take this line from the best selling RPG of all time as proof that RPGs can't teach you to write:
HIIIIIIGH AAAAAART

I'm in an absolute total blue funk today.

Yes, I know that other people have it worse than I do. Far worse. I am employed, I am doing something I love doing (the band), I have a house to live in, I have food to eat. That right there puts me above a whole lot of other people, all of whom are just as deserving as I am.

Pussy.
I always love it when pussies preface their whining by saying "I have no right to whine because there are people starving in Africa" like one has anything to do with the other or that even makes any goddamn sense.
Look, if you want to whine, just get it over with. Don't get all self-righteous on me.

But no amount of actual good fortune can account for screwed-up brain chemistry. And right now, my brain chemistry is such that everything feels totally effing awful.

I just want to go home and hide under a rock, because the world is a horrid place and will eat me alive.

Whatever.
Take all those pills you found.

The first second DLC scenario for Dragon Age II came out a few weeks ago, and so I downloaded it and played it. Teri was over, playing Final Fantasy XI on the couch next to me.

GIRLS PLAY FFXI-- no I already knew this.
A friend of mine got a 3 day ban for "harassing" an in game couple that were married in game and wanted to get married in real life and in fact met through the game.
His "harassment" technique included sitting near them.
Apparently Square takes their in game romances seriously.
I later had the intense misfortune of partying with them. The one wouldn't change out of her wedding dress or engagement ring to don proper equipment.
BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, AFTER A WOMAN GETS MARRIED SHE NEVER REMOVES HER WEDDING GOWN.
Her argument was she was a healer and therefore didn't need the stats offered by real armor.
So I decided to party naked with the logic that, as a warrior, I was a damage dealer and not a tank and therefore didn't really need armor.
Somehow she got buttwounded and offended and accused me of not being respectful.
So I called her a stupid cunt and to summon her hasubando (JAPANESE[-ish] FOR HUSBAND BECAUSE IN FFXI WE ARE SO KAWAII [Japanese for "cute"] to her defense. He showed up in like three seconds and started yelling at me.
It was the funniest and most embarrassing thing I've ever seen in a video game.
The other people in the party wanted to fucking murder me for derailing their party, too.
Oh well, losers. Trust me, I saved everyone a huge headache by killing that shit before it got started.
Oh right, blogs.
Oh and the rest is an unfunny nerd joke that makes me want to hit this man in real life.
With a brick.

Do you think that criminals should be able to profit from selling their memoirs, after serving jail time?

Well the way the system is currently set up why shouldn't they be able to? What are you going to do, prevent them from a lucrative endeavor?
I say just kill all criminals so they can't profit off writing their memoirs. Everyone wins.
But no, as we have it, they should be allowed to. America is a capitalist society.

PRO: Someone who has been released from prison has supposedly paid his/her debt to society and ought to be able to earn a living however he/she chooses.

Exactly. End of discussion.

ANTI: However, we know that most ex-convicts are not, in fact, rehabilitated, and many aren't even repentant, so to let them profit from telling the story of their crimes would not only reward them for being criminals, but possibly encourage more criminal behavior in those who read the stories.

Just like violent video games encourage kids to be violent, eh, gamer?
Also their ultimate view on their crime is irrelevant. What, do you want to lock them up until they repent? Why not just cut to the quick and kill them?
My solution is elegant, simple, saves the taxpayers a fuck ton of money and prevents stupid moral quandaries like this one.

There's also the philosophical aspects of the question. For instance, is it acceptable to always restrict the freedom of an at-risk population in order to prevent possible or occasional harm to society? Conversely, is it acceptable to always allow an at-risk population to act freely if it carries risk of possible or occasional harm to society? Is there a way to reach a middle ground, mitigating risk without restricting freedom?

I'm pretty sure they call America "land of the free" so no, you're not allowed to restrict people that way.
Unless you're okay not being the land of the free which frankly I am. Clearly people have shown they can't handle the freedoms they've been granted.
Now I'm getting language tips from this yahoo.

Predicament vs. Dilemma vs. Ambivalence vs. Indifference

Thanks for the bold font I have to fiddle around with now, asshole.
Let's see. A predicament is a particularly difficult, dangerous or unpleasant situation versus a dilemma, which is a situation with two (or more) equally unfavorable outcomes.
Ambivalence, by definition, is uncertainty versus indifference, which by definition is a marked lack of concern or care for a situation.
Does that about cover it, chief?
Yes it does.
Amateurs.

I just got a bill from my auto club for my annual renewal.

Am I really reading about some dick's auto club?
Is this what has become of my life?

Apparently I owe them fifty-five dollars and ninety-five and three ten-trillionths cents.

Do you think they'd dun me for the extra three ten-trillionths of a cent? Or should I round up to $55.96, just to be safe?

Pfft, I dunno, call them?
I've been telling you idiots this forever: rules don't really apply to you if you know how to spin it.
Take me and Disgaea 4. I wanted my Flonne DLC but I preordered too late.
Fucked, you'd think.
Nope, two emails to Gamestop later and I'm enjoying yet another healer (TRIPLE REDUNDANCY UP IN MY PARTY YEAAAAH SON)
I could have played this two ways: I could have been straight with them and hoped they'd take mercy or I could lie. I suspect either would have netted the same result but Gamestop has done some shitbag things to me personally in my life and I believe I've always extolled the virtue of lying on this blog so I felt it my sworn duty to lie my way through.

(EDIT: I called them, and they said it was an error and that I should only pay the $55.95*. The guy on the phone seemed to have no sense of humor about it, either, which is really sad...)

He has no humor about it because it's probably literally the fiftieth call he'd gotten that hour and he's probably halfway between deciding whether or not to quit or fucking kill himself.
Nerds of the world, I have something to tell you: repeating jokes does not make them funnier.
Here's a post about International Women's Day.
To my disappointment this isn't about international women, that is, a day devoted to the delicious brown and yellow girl but instead an international day celebrating women-- I guess.
Let's talk about this yahoo's blog real quick, actually, because this post summarizes succinctly a big problem I have with this moron. Due to the way I process my own entries (I copy each block of text into Notepad first before copying that into my blog to remove any bullshit HTML tags or CSS nonsense) and one positive side effect (there are no negatives to doing this) is it gets rid of hyperlinks because those are created through HTML.
Anyway, here's an unfiltered post:

It's in celebration of the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day.

In related news, my old friend from junior high school, Viveka Davis, is participating in an event called Soul 2 Sole (and, apparently, so is her 72-year-old mother), which is a cross-country walk that will last six-and-a-half months. It started this morning at Oceanside Pier, and it will conclude on September 21st (the International Day of Peace) in Washington D.C.

Kudos to you both, Ms. and Ms. Davis!

I DIDN'T KNOW I WAS READING WIKIPEDIA.
Or, no, excuse me
I DIDN'T KNOW I WAS READING WIKIPEDIA.

When did the preferred spelling of "pyjamas" become "pajamas"?

Considering the word comes from Persian which contains both a 'y' and an 'a' after the 'p' I'm guessing this argument is ultimately pretentious. Also I know for a fact the British still spell it "pyjamas".
Oh man this is boring as fuck.
Time to go~

The Shit

Generic Harry Potter fan ahoy I guess.
She might write fanfiction.
I haven't seen any evidence that she does but Livejournal + Harry Potter fan = it's assumed.

If you could write the next Star Wars movie, what story would you tell? It could be anything: a sequel, prequel, or anything in-between. Describe your adventure in 300 words or less. Our favorite story will receive a Star Wars saga Blu-ray gift pack!

... No one cares about the fucking prequels. No one cares how the toilets got installed on the Death Star except fucking Star Wars nerds and they're so hopelessly pathetic they'll actively boycott a Star Wars video game they've been waiting for for years because they can't pick the color of their lightsaber.
IT'S IMPORTANT TO MY STAR WARS ROLEPLAYING EXPERIENCE HOW ELSE WILL I EXPRESS MY CHARACTER'S SUPER DEEP CHARACTERIZATION UNLESS HIS LIGHTSABER IS YELLOW!?!?!?!?
The only natural thing to do is a sequel but the problem there is the original three are an entire saga told in trilogy form. You'd have to work fifty times harder to make your sequel not feel like an unnecessary appendage. Like teeth in your asshole.
As I understand it in the "Extended Universe" (or "EU" as I learned today. It took me a solid five minutes to realize they weren't talking about Europe) Luke eventually falls to the Dark Side which is curious because that was kind of the pivotal moment of the entire series where Luke is tempted by the Dark Side and ultimately denies it, which ultimately redeems his father, Darth Vader.
You'd think nerds with their love of Star Wars would be able to pick up on pretty fucking basic literary elements but nope.
Anyway I'm really just spinning my wheels at this point because any further Star Wars movies are objectively a bad idea. I guess if you offered me a fuck ton of money to do it I could come up with something like, I don't know-- Han Solo adventures or some shit. Basically I'd just try to pander as hard as I could to nostalgia. Get an older Han who acts more like Indiana Jones so you can cross those wires in peoples' brains-- I dunno. It'd suck but it'd probably get good reviews due to nostalgia goggles.
I guess the point I'm trying to make is you can't make a legitimately good movie but you can do a good homage. Maybe. Of course the alien creature that lives in Lucas' hideously distended and swollen neck would probably take over and we'd have another five hour saga of tortured dialogue from two cardboard cutouts and the most embarrassing attempt at romance I've ever seen in my entire life.

I would love to see the story of what happens between RotS and ANH.

No idea what this shit means.

So, my story, would be about what happens between the two. I want to see the training Obi-Wan does. Obviously, it's a way to communicate with the Force Ghosts, but I'd like to see that. And, I'd like a bit more of a backstory on Han. Because we don't know a whole lot about him. We know he's a smuggler.

That's not really what makes his character interesting or complex, though. He starts out as this giant space bastard and is kind of humanized-- ugh forget it.
Christ you people are thick.

But that's about it. I'd love a bit more of a backstory on Han. And the story of Leia is lacking a bit too. I'd love to see more development on her. And I want to see how the Empire grows. So here's my little "story", if you will.

I don't really care.

The Galaxy is in a state of unrest. War has broken out and the Galactic Empire is in control.
The Emperor has his apprentace, Darth Vader, in charge of overseeing the construction on
the most powerful weapon in the Galaxy, the Death Star.

Spelled "apprentice" wrong there, chief.

OH! I've been watching a lot of Glee lately. I got Season 1 on sale at Target the other day. It was like, 20 bucks. So of course I had to get it. I couldn't pass that up. Probably better in the long run. I wanted to get part two of season 1, since I already have part one. But yeah. *Shrugs*

Jesus I thought I was rambling and grasping at nothing with my Star Wars rant.
Am I really reading about how some dumb bimbo bought Glee DVDs?
Is this what has become of my life?

And I broke my bank account the other day getting a new charger for Lappy. He has issues. He really needs a new battery. And a new disc drive. And Geek Squad wasn't much help. I'm sure I needed a new charger. But I still feel like I wasted money somehow. Poor Lappy.

CHOPPY SENTENCES: THE WAY TO GO.
Also are you really referring to an inanimate object by gender? And you've named it? Are you shitting me?
Also I like how you blame the Geek Squad for parts breaking on an integrated system. You do realize the DVD drive isn't really a separate, replaceable part on a laptop, right? I mean I guess someone with a fair (and I do mean fair) bit of technological savvy could replace it but it'd probably be cheaper and easier to buy an external disc drive. Assuming you can be assed to lug a separate drive about. I sure couldn't be. I'd just torrent any disc image I needed.
But, again, that implies technological knowledge sufficient enough that you wouldn't need to consult with the Geek Squad.

I remember, exactly where I was when the Towers were struck.

I was in my Freshmen year of high school. I was in first hour, which was band.

Holy shit that makes us about the same age.
I thought for sure I was saying mean things to some 16 year old.
Two posts about 9/11--
well, I didn't have a 9/11 post so she took mine. Let's go with that.

And, today, I've done some career thought. And I think, between the love of theatre, and my want to help people, that maybe I should look into Drama Therapy. Yes, it exists. And it sounds really interesting. So, I'm gonna look into it more. But it looks like if I want to study it, I need to either go to San Francsico or NYC. If I apply, and get into both, I'll go wherever it's cheaper, and if I get grants/loans/scholarships, whichever place I get more money. And, whichever city is less dangerous and whichever city is cheaper to live in, as that's a factor too. But yeah. I think it's worth a shot to look into.

Oh look, another event in FFXIV.
What is this? I like all these neat medals. I wonder how many Edie would have--
I'm taking one of her medals from her for acting like a dumb slut yesterday, though. I clearly hit my heavy shot macro (3) and that somehow turned into a quick nock (macro 0) that hit 5 different enemies.
I don't even understand how that happens. I couldn't have accidentally hit 0 instead of 3 because they're literally on the opposite side of the keyboard and I know for a fact I hit 3.
Maybe she got a little kill crazy.
I FUCKING HIT THE RIGHT MACRO HOW IS THE WRONG MACRO TRIGGERING? FUCK THIS GAME.

So, I think I finally got the hang on potion making. ((I got onto Pottermore last Friday. So, I've been there a little over a week.)) I really haven't done much within that week. Dueling has been down, and I've gone through all the pages, and I was pretty bad at it.

Pottermore, as I understand it, is a Facetube-esque Harry Potter game.
If you got into the closed beta you could sell your code on eBay for literally hundreds.

And Hufflepuff is down by 684 points. Come on Puffs! WE CAN DO IT!

But yeah. Pottermore is going well, and now that I've got the hang of Potions, I'm enjoying it more.

I don't know what a Hufflepuff is but if that's a faction I'm joining any other than them.
Seriously, expecting something called "Hufflepuff" to win?
What is their logo? Two penises fighting over a mustache?
Oh there's the logo of Hufflepuff, in fact. Looks like some sort of weasel.
Apparently the choices are a lion, a badger, a snake or an eagle.
I think I see the lamest one in that bunch. If you remember back to last entry when I (embarrassingly) took the same Harry Potter quiz it called me the lion one. FUCK YEAH LIONS ARE THE BEST ANIMAL.

It's really hitting me that the last Harry Potter movie is Thursday. And I want to cry and cry and cry. I got tickets for a special showing of DH 1 before DH 2. So Maegan and I are going to that. No questions asked. We're going. And I've been watching the marathon on ABC Family this weekend. And it's just making me tear up. I guess Harry Potter means a lot more to me than I thought it did. That's not a bad thing. It's just really hitting me now.

Fucking hell.
Speaking of lions being the best, I remember when Animal Planet had that show about "what if animals that would never fight each other in real life fought?" and the lion always got punked out.
I seriously think the lion lost to everything including wild dogs. I think they just hate lions.

Um...hmmm...whatelse is going on? Not a whole lot. Watched the Princess Bride the other day. I love that movie. So much. And I painted my nails. Haven't done that in a little while.

PAINTED YOUR NAILS HELL YEAH EVENTFUL EVENING. I'M SO GLAD YOU'RE TELLING ME ABOUT IT IN WRITING.
That implies I'd like it if she told me in person. Let me clarify: I don't care about this in any form of expression.

I played some Lego Star Wars today. God I love that game. I finally got past Degohbah on ESB. I'm just about done with it. ESB that is.

I can't believe how many acronyms Star Wars has. It's almost half as many as pussy sensitivity.
Ohhhh goodness.
Anyway I think I'm going to go play Disgaea 4.

No hero left in man

Hold your butts because we have a woman who fancies herself a writer.
VIRGIN
TERRITORY

In the next life, who or what do you think you’ll be reincarnated into?

Uuuuuuh. Remember that woman a few posts back who was constantly "THIS ASSUMES WE GET REINCARNATED. A BETTER QUESTION WOULD BE..."? She was such a Christfag. I can only imagine her reaction to this question. I should go back and look.
Nah fuck it.

Statistically speaking, probably a plant, insect, or some other single-celled organism.
What would I want to be? A bird. It'd be sort of nice, I think.

>Bringing logic and math into a question about FUCKING REINCARNATION
Also:
>implying plants and insects are single celled

Sean has been bringing home rhyming books to read for homework. Today, he got "Rhymes With Block."

Jock
Knock
...
Cock
Oh, lock
MOCK
FUCK YEAH I AM AWESOME AT KINDERGARTEN HOMEWORK.

Why is it the first word I thought of was "glock"? Definitely my father's daughter, I guess. :P

HAR HAR HAR shut up, cunt.

I wish authors of both sexes would stop perpetuating the notion that a guy will get the girl if he chases, pesters, and/or stalks her enough. It's not romantic. It's demeaning to women.

I don't read books written after 1970.

And it doesn't matter how rude the woman is so long as she's pretty (as these damsels always are). Really, love is being used as a justification for sociopathic tendencies. It's often played off as "She's just playing hard to get."

It is a fucking fictional story, you know.
I read a ton of shit that's basically ultraviolence and I play violent video games. Do I want to murder every person I meet?
Nearly, but that's not because I play violent video games.

Because when a woman says no, that's *never* what she means. To see major female characters promoting rape culture...it's disgusting, and it needs to stop.

Rape culture. There's nothing quite as sobering as getting called a rapist because you're a man. In an educational setting. By a woman. Getting paid for this.
Oh yeah, that happened to me once. Apparently we're going off ultra-conservative Christian logic in this ultra Liberal campus. "Thought about sex? WELL DID SHE DIRECTLY CONSENT TO BE YOUR MASTURBATORY FANTASY? RAPIST."
No, that's not how the logic went. Apparently simply by existing in a first world country I'm in some way supporting rape and racism. I guess. I don't know once I heard that I kind of checked out and started playing Tetris.

Like all those people who think "Every Breath You Take" is a love song, not some stalker song. Even though Sting himself said it was the latter.

And let's not forget -- men are the smart ones, while women have to be attractive to garner any time of day. These attitudes come straight from the women, too.

/feministrage

>Having women characters in your stories

I seriously hope you guys don't do this.
Now here's a book review like I give a shit.

Now for the gripes, albeit minor ones:

Like McCarthy in "The Road," Frazier foregoes quotation marks in "Nightwoods" but not for the same reason. This novel doesn't share the same minimalistic conversation style, and therefore dialogue looks poorly edited

>Cormack McCarthy
>not poorly edited nonsense
Wow we sure live in different realities.
Also who was it that said The Road was the most significant book written in the last fifty years?
Were they on drugs?

If it starts a paragraph, there's a dash. If it occurs mid-paragraph, it just looks like he forgot to put quotes in. Often, you can't tell if Luce is thinking to herself or talking aloud until a "she said" pops up mid-paragraph. It makes the story feel schizophrenic.

NO IT'S POSTMODERN DON'T YOU GET IT? WHO NEEDS QUOTES ANYWAYS?
I'm going to write a story about a pansexual feminist furry communist fascist Native American shaman who magically switches gender every other paragraph and your challenge, as the reader, is to guess the gender.
I'm calling it "Ode to Livejournal: Time to Die"

Too many points of view. When it was just Luce and Bud, the story had a great flow to it. Then he added Stubblefield, whose storyline had me confused; he's the grandson of Old Stubblefield, not the old guy in a flashback time period.

First thing I think when I hear "told from multiple points of view" is "there probably isn't a good reason to do that." In fact, I'm seriously wracking my brain right now and I can really only think of two or maybe three instances where the "multiple points of view" thing works to the benefit of the story. There was a Warhammer comic that told a period of the Black Templar's chapter from three points of view and the reader finds out at the end all three characters are actually the same person and it's kind of a "look what time can do to someone" that was surprisingly deep for a fucking Warhammer comic. Then there was Rashomon which was all about perspective and misinterpreting shit-- can't think of a third one, actually.

Awesome video about how advertising has driven women's perception of body image. Definitely worth watching. I wish more women would stand up and fight this (and judging by "Modelland" you too, Tyra).

>video is 23 minutes
>there's a part two
not happening.
I think I might have actually seen this for a pussy sensitivity class--
maybe.

There's a great article over on Alternet about how debt and the free-market policies of the 80's drove Africa into a state of famine. Tragic and quite a shame that legitimate news organizations are ignoring the subject.

What about the fact that the US alone sends enough food to Africa to feed every person comfortably every single year and the food just rots in storage?
You-- you can't help people when their country has no infrastructure and their warlords are happy to use food as a weapon.

Now that I'm finished with that, I consolidated all the files on my computer and finally switched over to Mike's previous computer (thank you, external, hard drive, for making the process a snap). I have a few more things to settle in, but it's mostly done. The fan in mine was terribly squeaky and loud, and the hard drive would occasionally make awful sounds when I accessed the external drive.

You got a new computer because your fan was too loud.
Are you fucking kidding me?

A study from UCLA reports that tweens value "fame" as their #1 value. Self-acceptance ranks 8, behind such gems as popularity, financial success, and power. It's a sad day when hedonism makes the top-10 and benevolence doesn't.

Did you just confuse self-acceptance for benevolence?
Those two things are entirely unrelated, you realize.
Also I'd wager you could have interviewed tweens in 1390 and the list would have looked very much the same. Tweens and early teens are assholes.

Mike and I went to see Captain America today. idk, I could've used a lot less of the energy weapons. It was the 40's after all, and every single one of the bad guys had them.

I think I just found a reason why you're a shitty author. I've never encountered a situation, real or fictional, and thought "this doesn't need energy weapons."
Here's a quiz about which HARRY POTTER HOUSE I'D BE SORTED INTO!
FINALLY A QUIZ ABOUT WHICH HARRY POTTER HOUSE I'LL GET SORTED INTO!
Fucking hell.
Bitch is mental if she thinks I'm taking this.
.. Okay I took it and it called me brave, chivalrous and courageous despite admitting that I'd willingly do some shady shit for personal profit and wait for opportune times to attack enemies.
Pretty sure that's the opposite of chivalry, actually.
Quiz is fucked, man.

I was browsing the school handbook today, and I was a little bit miffed at some of the things a kid can get suspended for. Unauthorized distribution of printed material? Littering? Repeated truancy? lol, sounds like suspending them is totally the answer for that.

AND THE ONE DAY THE FUCKER BOTHERS TO SHOW UP IS THE DAY I'M GETTING REVIEWED-- sorry.

And because self-defense doesn't get you out of punishment for fighting, if someone picks a fight with you, make sure you f*cking FINISH HIM.

Students cannot trade food in the cafeteria?? How random is that?

Personally I'd make the rules stricter and far, far harder to follow. I'd get rid of lunch and actively disallow eating in the school to force students to be cunning.
Most tests would be literally impossible for them to pass without cheating, and they'd fail if they get caught cheating.
Need more innovation and caution in today's society I feel.
Well this has been a riveting bit of nonsense but I think I'm going to do something else now.