Onideus Uncensored

Are You Raising A Disease Or A Child?

noreply@blogger.com (Onideus Mad Hatter) — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:04:00 +0000

That's a question I keep coming back to, the more I read up on parents of children who ~supposedly~ have things like autism, aspergers, ADD, ADHD and the like. Now, I don't deny that those things exist, but it honestly seems as if some parents are more interested in labeling their child than they are raising them. There also seems to be a *LOT* of parents who seemingly "self-diagnose" their children, for whatever twisted reason. It's almost like a new form of Münchausen syndrome, one that the medical community seems very happy to accommodate in order to sell pharmaceuticals to parents so they can drug their child off to school everyday. Daddy's little disorder. Mommy's little malady. *shakes head* I feel a great swell of pity for those children, I really do.

Teh Scanning Continues!

noreply@blogger.com (Onideus Mad Hatter) — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 06:37:00 +0000

Heh, I really was uber kyoot as a baby:

^__^

People say all babies are beautiful, but honestly, I've seen some ~pretty~ hideous looking babies out there. Both my sister, my brother and I all came out looking like happy little bubbly, blond cherubs when we were babies. Josh was the odd one out though, he was born as bald as a billiard cube and then when he did sprout hair it was blond like my sister's and mine, but it was ~uber~ curly...stayed that way a long time too.

My hair eventually turned light brown, although my beard and stash come out fiery red and blond for some strange reason. A regular "ginger beard" if you will. A trait that's also shared with my cousin Chad, but with no one else in the family that I'm aware of. According to my mom, apparently we have some pretty strong Irish roots, so that might be where it's from...a genetic atavism and all like that.

On the scanning progress, I've got around 450 pictures scanned so far...although scanning is actually the ~fairly~ easy part. It's the whole "clean up" process that's ~really~ time consuming, so that's going to go much slower.

Right now I'm primarily concerned with getting all of them scanned, partly so I can be rid of the originals and give them all back to my mom, to free up some "personal space" (I'm a bit of an uber minimalist) and of course, once scanned it will ensure that they'll be fully protected from any accidental destruction (ie a fire or something like that).

Of course I'm also keeping multiple backups of the scanned versions, two at my place, one at my brothers and one will eventually be on my server as well. I'm also going to build PAR2 sets for the images as well, to protect against any minor, bit level corruption that may occur over time.

Equivocation

noreply@blogger.com (Onideus Mad Hatter) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:24:00 +0000

LOL, I've always been fascinated with the human preoccupation for creating problems that don't actually exist, seemingly going out of your way to turn mole hills into mountains, screwing people over on a whim and doing unto others what you would ~never~ want done to yourself...yup, that's very much the central core of the deranged little human psyche. Personally I would describe myself as a "more evolved" (mentally) human being...however the last time I did that it generated quite a number of hate mails, with frothing little tantrums about how I ~apparently~ have "no right" to call myself a human being...LOL...as if *THAT* would really be a bad thing. ^__^

Anyway, it seems that here, suddenly, out of the blue, someone I ~thought~ I kind of knew has taken it upon themselves to arbitrarily try and screw me over...without any particular reasoning or goal in mind...other than to try and cut off their own nose to attempt to spite their face it would seem...either that or they're just plainly fucking stupid...I haven't quite decided which yet.

The question remains though...what to do, what to do...on the one hand simply exposing the truth about the situation and the particular company behind it would certainly inflict a rather enjoyable mass level of damage, a literal public relations nightmare for the originating franchise...especially if I actually take them to court over it.

On the ~other~ hand though, doing it that way would very much prevent me from using my...~usual~ methods of "equivocation" if you will, as taking such action would generally make me look like something of a hypocrite if I want to try and play out the truth, do nothing, and simply be a "helpless victim".

So I'm really a bit torn...I mean either way produces rather nth level amounts of fun and excitement all around (not to mention teh drama), but the later method ~would~ be *MUCH* more satisfying to me personally, especially since the person in question was someone I ~thought~ I could trust, someone whom I ~thought~ was at least semi-honorable. I mean if someone you know to be a fuckhead goes out of their way to try and screw you over it's not as if it's that big of a surprise, I mean you pretty much expect that sort of thing from them...but to be betrayed by someone you ~thought~ you could trust...yeah, that makes it personal, that makes the "crime" just that much more insidious and disrespectful.

I haven't decided as of yet which course I'll take, but I'm sure I will have to take one of them. If there's one thing I've learned about humans it's that they don't learn, even if you verbally bitch slap them right across their idiot faces with just how fucking stupid they're being, even if you expose them to the same level of damage they seek to inflict upon others...they *DON'T* learn.

I'll keep ya all updated with what I go ahead and decide to do though, and you can all be guaranteed a front row seat for the fun! ^__^

Family Photo Archive

noreply@blogger.com (Onideus Mad Hatter) — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:36:00 +0000

I have begun teh photo scanning!

I'm already done with *THREE*!

Family Photos

...only 87 bazillion more to go!

...heh. -_-

Those are the "online versions" in that directory, most of which are based around a res of 1024 x 768 and look pretty good on a computer screen. I'm also keeping hi-res, 600 dpi lossless scans as well, most of which have a resolution of around 3,000 x 2,000 pixels and are better suited towards printing and editing.

Because of the sheer volume of pictures I'm not really going crazy with the editing/fixing, so the hi-res versions have a lot of specks, grains and other typical anomalies (mostly from dust and micro-scratches which aren't normally noticed by the naked eye).

If I was printing the photo for some specific purpose I would likely manually edit all those anomalies out...however that usually takes like 20 minutes per photo, so it's not really feasible to do it on every single one of them since there are so many.

Luckily, when scaling the images down to monitor size, most of those artifacts and specks are automatically lost in the resampling/conversion, since at that point it's basically like looking at the photograph with the naked eye, rather than uber close up with a magnifying glass, which is what the hi-res ones represent. And those artifacts that aren't removed that way can be removed pretty quickly with a basic despeckling filter (which won't work on the hi-res versions).

Technically speaking the hi-res versions are a bit over-kill and it's actually scanning at a resolution that's effectively higher than what the camera captured in the first place, which is why I'm not putting those up online right now (that and they take up a tremendous amount of space), but it gives me peace of mind to scan that way, especially since I don't plan on keeping the originals at all.

If any family member wants hi-res copies of anything that's in there let me know though and I can put 'em up for ya.

I'm going to try scanning at least five photos a day, I think that'll be a pretty good pace, so you can just keep checking the directory say every week and see what updates are there.

The photos are, unfortunately, vastly unsorted, so I'm not really organizing them at all at this point, just numbering them as I scan them. Once I eventually get them all scanned then I can worry about sorting and organizing.

I will include any relevant details though in the file summaries. For example if there's text written on the back of the photo I'll include it in the file summary, which can be accessed by right clicking on the image after you've downloaded it, choosing "properties" and then clicking on the "summary" tab. If the file has a summary it'll be mentioned in the file name (none of the ones up so far do).

Anywho, that's one of the things I hope to get finished with this year. I'd also like to get finished digitally recording all those old audio cassette letters from grandma and grandpa...although that requires a ~whole~ lotta sorting, since they're all mixed in with a bunch of Lawrence Welk recordings, some of which have both on the ~same~ tape...OY...not lookin forward to having to listen through all *THAT* material. -_-

I'm also still trying to track down the old Hi-8 video reels, which may or may not have been thrown out back in the mid 80s. See at one point back in the mid 80s I guess some of the family members talked grandma and grandpa into getting the old reel to reel video converted to VHS format. However VHS resolution at the time was limited to about 252 lines of resolution, which effectively destroyed about *HALF* of the original 480 lines of resolution from the Hi-8 video reels. As such, what I've got currently, from ~25~ year old VHS tapes looks like video that was run through a washing machine six or eight times...it ain't pretty.

The Color Of Smell

noreply@blogger.com (Onideus Mad Hatter) — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:19:00 +0000

As human beings we tend to take things for granted and often think that the whole world revolves around us and our ~superior~ species, but as nature would have it, we're really not all that perfect, especially when it comes to our senses.

Humans have very good eye sight and can see an estimated 10 million or more colors, which is quite incredible compared to most animal species... BUT!... consider for a moment our sense of smell.

Now, comparatively speaking, a dog for example has a sense of smell roughly FORTY TIMES greater than a human being! A number which, seems pretty impressive, but it's really kind of hard for us humans to really grasp that difference, since we really have no way of knowing what it is that we're actually missing.

Keeping that in mind, and being inspired somewhat by the interpretation of sound into graphics in the movie Mr. Holland's Opus, in order to give deaf people a way of, effectively, "seeing sound", I figured I could do something similar with smell.

We humans are effectively near deaf, or near blind as far as our sense of smell, compared to that of a dog. Let's say we take an image that has roughly 450 thousand colors:

If Smell Was Color - Dog

Let's say that, that is the full amount of what a dog can "smell" (in color). Now how would a human's sense of "smell" (in color) compare to that? Well, looking at pure colors, forty times less than that would be roughly 11 thousand colors. As such, there are a variety of ways we can present our near "deafness" of smell, by reducing the overall color gamut, by reducing the saturation, by decreasing the brightness, etc, etc...all of which would provide an end result of less overall color.

So, with that in mind I created two artistic models of color reduction, utilizing a variety of methods including color reduction, contrast and brightness alteration, saturation reductions, shadow and midtone alterations and gamma alteration, that represent our limited sense of smell in a visual representation, right nyah:

If Smell Was Color - Human - 01

If Smell Was Color - Human - 02

Pretty neat, huh? Kinda scary when you think about all that we're missing out on in life, all that we could have, that we could experience...if we were only dogs.

It's interesting to think of what the future might hold, as science advances, advanced brain to computer interaction may become possible, which may enable us to experience things that we never could in our normal human bodies, to be able to smell in the way that a dog can perhaps, or it could even allow us to create brand new senses that don't even exist in nature as we know it. A Matrix like world where being able to fly like Neo would seem like a cheap parlor trick compared to the level of experience that could be truly offered by such a near limitless construct.

You might liken it to the use of heroin, which can allow you to experience pleasure levels dozens of times greater than the most intense sexual pleasure, which is generally the maximum level of pleasure the human body is capable of achieving on its own.

The problem however with the human brain is that if you're getting too much pleasure, well your brain starts shutting off and closing pleasure receptors, which means it takes more and more of the drug to be able to keep experiencing that intense pleasure and if you suddenly stop, well those receptors take quite some time to "open back up" so to speak, which basically creates withdrawal and feelings of horribleness.

But, if we can wire our brains into a computer, it would theoretically be possible to experience those pleasure levels constantly, without any degree of tolerance, and without any physical sense of withdrawal from stopping. It would still be addictive of course, and it likely would have a large psychological impact, after all, if you could feel pleasure that intensely all the time, well regular things like eating, socializing, creating things and even sleeping wouldn't really give you any form of comparable satisfaction, and as such you likely would just stop doing them altogether...until you died.

On the other hand though, with such precise control, we could effectively use pleasure in a controlled manner in order to manipulate our behaviors. For example you could up the overall level of pleasure in the brain by a small factor and then have some kind of control software in place that could, basically, reduce that level of pleasure say...every time you started biting your nails...or say every time you started eating. Used in that way it could be very beneficial to us. Of course on the other, other flip side, it could also be used to effectively manipulate people in any number of horrible ways.

To put it simply...the future is gonna be pretty interesting. ^__^

Electronic ComponentDealer Comparison

noreply@blogger.com (Onideus Mad Hatter) — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 02:17:00 +0000

Recently I had a flat panel monitor that I bought a few years back from Wal-Mart burn out on me. Now, I realize that Wal-Mart generally sells "disposable" technology, designed to last a few years, burn out and then you buy another one...hence the real cheap prices and all. But I decided to look into this one and see about repairing it, mostly for fun, more than anything.

So I popped open the little puzzle box of parts and after taking out what must have been about two or three dozen screws (honestly I lost count) I uncovered the power control board! Oooh, aaah, covered in a vast array of capacitors I decided that this would be the best place to look for problems first...and I would be right. I found, not one, but three, *THREE* popped capacitors!

Now for those not familiar with what a popped cap looks like, well, the one on the left is a good cap, the one on the right...yeah not so good.

Basically a popped cap looks sort of like a soda can that was put into the freezer too long, sorta bulging a bit, with often a reddish, brownish nastiness leaking from the top. Some popped caps are more spectacular than others. Keep in mind though that a cap doesn't have to appear popped at all for it to be fubar, at which point you need to break on out yer multi-meter and start checking everything manually...tedium! Yeah, but most times it'll be fairly obvious what the problem is.

Sooo...I needed new caps! At first I decided to try Radio Shack! LOL, yeah, I know, RS has become a bit of a joke in recent decades as far as hobbyist electronics go. Most of the flunkies working in their stores probably don't even know what a capacitor is, much less the difference between radial and axial caps, voltage, microfarads and so forth.

Anyway, on Radio Shack's website I ran a search for "220uf 25v"...and I got nothin. Big surprise. So I then tried to dumb my search down to the Radio Shack flunkie level and searched for just "capacitor" and that brought up some hits...none of which were actually relevant to what I was looking for, but hey, good try Radio Shack, good try!
^__^

Okay, enough with the amateurs, now it's time to look at the *REAL* electronics distributors and see what they got to offer. I'm going to be looking at six companies here, including Digi-Key, Futurlec, Mouser, Jameco, MCM and Allied. Most of which are fairly big names as far as electronic component dealers. I'll now go through each one and describe my experiences on their websites, their prices, their shipping, etc and finally I'll round it all up with the company I finally went with and who I think the best overall is. Okay, here we go!

Futurlec

This is the first company I looked at. I was able to find them via a Google search of "220uf 25v capacitor". They were the first hit (sans the sponsored link by Digi-Key).

Their component search lacked any product pictures, but they did have a "more info" icon you could click on that would bring you to another page that had a picture of the product. Somewhat cumbersome, but at least product images were available.

The caps I selected were just .10 cents each and they let you order in singles. Their "standard" shipping, via USPS is just $4, for orders up to $29, which brought my total up to $4.30, the second cheapest out of all the companies I looked at.

The downside to this company...well, I placed my initial order on 12/29 at approximately 6pm, that was a Tuesday. Not including New Years Eve, New Years or the following Sunday, they could have shipped it out on Thursday, the 30, Saturday the 2nd, or heck, how about today on Monday the 4th? Well, as I write this, it's already just about 5pm pacific time and their order tracking page still has no information at all regarding shipping.

So sans any mistakes I'm ASSuming that they still haven't bothered shipping it out yet. Of course, while they don't seem very speedy as far as shipping, boy they certainly wasted no time at all charging my debit card, that was done right the next day on the 30th.

Mouser Electronics

This company had a pretty extensive array of products ...almost too extensive. Out of all the companies I looked at, each of them either had too few or too many products to choose from, not a single one had a nice, medium range of products...you know like say twenty...twenty is plenty. My search at Mouser for "220uf 25v" brought up over 150...yeah...a lil overkill there.

Their prices were good, only .12 cents a cap for the ones I was interested in and they let you buy them in singles which was nice. They also had product images within the search results for most of their products, which was also a plus.

The cheapest shipping they offered, via USPS was $6.95 and that would have brought the total up to $7.31 for my three caps (not including any potential tax charges). Overall not that bad. Not the best price by far, but certainly not the most expensive either.

Jameco Electronics

These guys didn't have a huge selection, only 5 results from my search of "220uf 25v", however they did have product images and once a product was selected they had a nice, simple, well designed display of the product specifications.

The downside to this company is that with all the products I found, you had to order in multiples of 10. Their price per cap wasn't too bad, the one I was interested in was only .15 cents each, so overall it would have just cost $1.50, similar for what the price was for buying just 3 or 4 at other outfits.

I did think it was a bit wasteful though, since I really didn't need any extras and they likely would have just been thrown out in the long run...and keep in mind these things are made out of lead, not exactly real environmentally friendly.

The point that broke the deal on this company though was the shipping charge. Their cheapest shipping method was $8.45 for the 1st 2lbs, via UPS ground (residential).

That would have brought the total up to $9.95 for 10 caps...not including any potential tax charges.

Allied Electronics

I'm afraid I didn't get far with these guys. I ran a search for the caps I was looking for and got 64 results for "220uf 25v"...but I couldn't order from them.

Why not? Well, first of all, only *ONE* of those 64 products even had a product image, so I really had no idea at all what I would even be getting. This was compounded by the fact that the majority of their search results had no real descriptions, only a couple were listed as being axial or radial or surface mount, etc, etc.

Upon later inspection of the site I did find that there was a string of seemingly random letters tagged onto the product names and I was eventually able to decipher some meaning out of them to figure out (I think) whether or not they were at least axial or radial in design.

Of course by that time I had already moved on and ordered from someone else. And no, no they didn't even include any sort of a legend or key as to what all those seemingly random letters were for...hell I don't even know if I was able to decipher them correctly or not...I mean what with no product images and all.

MCM Electronics

By far the most expensive, these guys literally rape their customers wallets on several points. First of all, for the 3 caps I selected, they were $1.82 ...EACH! Of course they only had *TWO* kinds, THE WORST selection out of all the companies I looked at. And the other kind they carried, the cheapest, they were still $1.03 ...EACH!

But oh, the wallet raping with MCM Electronics goes deeper than that. Once you select your products and go to the order page you'll find that the minimum shipping price is, get this...$8.99! And that's the *SAME* "lowest" price as shipping USPS, FedEx or UPS. Now, last I checked, USPS, FedEx and UPS all didn't charge the exact same flat rate for shipping, but I guess apparently no one has told the guys over at MCM Electronics that.

In total, if I had ordered with this company, I would have wound up spending $14.45 (not including possible tax) for just THREE measly little capacitors. Yeah...don't do business with these guys, they're just looking to rape you.

Digi-Key

By far they were the cheapest, I was able to buy my three caps for .33 cents each, with .08 cents sales tax and $2.41 for shipping via USPS first class mail. My total was just $3.48 in all.

The ~problem~ with Digi-Key though is that you don't ~actually~ know how much your order is going to be...even when you submit it. It lists the shipping as "unknown" and you have to look through their shipping page and try and calculate the weight of what you ordered in order to try and figure out how much they're going to charge you for the various shipping methods they offer.

Their product search page was also overly confusing, poorly designed, cumbersome and suffered from "information overload" so to speak. They also carry *SO* many products that it's just a confusing mess to potential customers. I think they would do far better if they cut their selection down to a more reasonable size so as not to overwhelm customers with search results in a giant, unending grid of potential products.

To make the mess even worse, their search brings up identical products with different quantity options. Quantity options should come AFTER you've selected the product you want, not molesting your screen and brain with unending reams of useless information.

Overall Comparison

Digi-Key - $ 3.48
Futurlec - $ 4.30
Mouser   - $ 7.31
Jameco   - $ 9.95
MCM      - $14.45
Allied   - $ ?.??

Order from Digi-Key. They're the cheapest, and although their website search is a horrible fucking disaster, you know you'll be getting the best deal once you manage to find what you're looking for in their horrible mess of a website.

Alternatively I would also suggest Futurlec, they were also very cheap, although their shipping seems to be a bit on the slow side...er, I'm sorry, their getting around *TO* shipping seems to be a bit on the slow side...don't wanna place any blame here on USPS after all, it's not their fault if a company sits on their ass for days at a time before sending out ordered products.

Since I just placed my order with Digi-Key I don't know how fast their overall shipping is, but I'll post an update once I do. I'll also post an update when Futurlec finally gets around to actually shipping off my order as well. ^__^

...er, no, wait...I just got an e-mail from Digi-Key, not only did they send me a new total, it's now only $3.13, thirty five cents LESS than what it originally said on their site, but they also just shipped it...I mean like right now they just shipped it. o_O

Well...I guess everybody knows who to order from now. All those other companies...yeah you can just go out of business, Digi-Key is running circles around you and laughing all the while.

UPDATE!

I just got an e-mail from Futurlec and they have confirmed that my order *HAS* actually been shipped, so it seems they're right in line with Digi-Key on the order processing. Digi-Key is slightly cheaper, although Futurlec has a more reasonable selection of parts and a better interface, so I would go with either of them.

Faith Flashers

noreply@blogger.com (Onideus Mad Hatter) — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 13:03:00 +0000

You know the type...they suddenly pop up in your e-mail inbox, or they reply to some post you made on some random message board...unfurling their faith filled trench coat and pulling out their pious preaching prattle about how they're "praying for you". Their self-righteous, sanctimonious slurs about how you're just not cutting it in the "good grace" of whatever God they believe in. LOL Yeah...I get a lot of those, what with being a horribly malevolent, evil, seditious bastard and all. ^__^

But I find fun ways of dealing with those types...like the one I just ripped all apart this morning on FaceBook:

Mmmm...nothing like verbally ripping apart a fanatical fundie to start yer morning right! `, )

Christ...

noreply@blogger.com (Onideus Mad Hatter) — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:03:00 +0000

You know sometimes I forget that most anime isn't targeted towards kids...or that it's usually at an emotionally gut wrenching level beyond American filming. I started watching Full Metal Alchemist, thinking it was going to be a pretty light hearted show all around...yeah...it's not, it's really, really, *REALLY* the fuck not.

The worst part so far was one of the semi-main characters who turns out to be a complete fucking psychopath who winds up transmuting his own five year old daughter and the family dog into a "talking chimera"...yeah, it pretty much goes downhill from there.

The whole series seems pretty centered on the whole "dealing with death" theme, that and the horrifying results of war and racism. If you showed this series to any solider on his way to go and fight in a war somewhere, well, I highly doubt he'd be able to go through with it afterwards.

This series is right up there with Chrno Crusade on the level of pure emotional mind fucks. I guess I shouldn't be too surprised though, I mean this shit is coming from the one country that had nuclear fucking bombs dropped the hell on it...guess that's well enough to fuck the "human spirit" of the populous pretty good, even over the long term.

Mapish Consorts

noreply@blogger.com (Onideus Mad Hatter) — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 09:15:00 +0000

This is a partial thread repost from one of the Webbie boards I'm posting about my game on. I figured I would repost it here so that other people can read it as well.

Thanks for the update!

What you have is very good, I hope it will be as fun to play as it is to read about. However what you seem to have is more of a 3D cube than a 4D hypercube.

A 4D hypercube has 8 cubical sides (or hyperfaces). Each cube is connected to 6 other cubes through its 6 sides (or hyperedges).

This is much like how there are 6 faces on a regular 3D cube, and each each face is adjacent to 4 others, all the other faces except the one on the opposite side.

Although it doesn't matter to me how many dimensional realities you wish to have, I think your present explanation would be more consistant with a 4D hypercube if there were 8 total. If the space folded continuousely as in the animation, each reality would only connect to the adjacent 6, however passing through the middle or 'interstice' as you call it would allow you to connect to all 8, altho the space folding transformation would not be as continuous.

Actually, that gives me an idea. What if the interstice was one of the hyperfaces, and each reality is a hyperface adjacent to the interstice? Then with the 6 realities, the interstice, and the hyperface oposite the interstice (some kind of anti-interstice?) you would have the 8 hyperfaces your hypercube needs.

Thanks for the info, I'll see about incorporating your ideas into it. The "science" of the story definitely needs some ironing out. I'm not trying to make it extremely exacting, but I would at least like it to be semi-plausible and at the very least believable by the average player. It's the old "Hollywood Illusion" as it were. Convincing the audience that sheer bullshit is actually plausible, potential reality.

*Mipsus goes off to eject the warp core and realign the pattern buffers for the transporter*

^__^

Yeah, I know it doesn't have to be scientificly perfect. Sorry, I just had to post that because my math sense was tingling.

*athomson quantum teliports instantly to the other side of the universe by hitching a ride on a stream of entangled electrons* :-)

Nah, yer post was good, it gave me some good ideas. Critiques, suggestions, maps, character forms, story lines, art work and ideas are always welcome. If there's something you want to see in the game just tell me and I'll see about incorporating it. The game's going to be big enough to include plenty of ideas, so there's tons of room for expansion.

I just finished up making one of the basic maps:
4th Space Map 1

Each pixel represent a 32x32 tile. Dark green represents forest, light green is grass, tan is dirt/sand, dark brown is lower mountainous areas, dark gray is high, rocky mountainous areas, white is snow, faded green is snowy forests, light gray is snowy mountains, the blue is water obviously and the light bluish outlines are shorelines or shallow waters.

I think how I'm going to make this work is that the worlds are going to come in sets, so each world will have a kind of "mirror world", that'll be somewhat the same, but slightly different. Like in this one, the alternate world is going to have a complete land mass on the bottom right there and it's going to be explained that the reason it's mostly gone in this world is because of some nth level, cataclysmic destruction.

The original universe is going to be a mirror of our own, but basically a few thousand years older with some various small changes in events, land mass, etc. Along with highly advanced technology since they'll be a few thousand years ahead. It's going to be that the 4th Space, the alternate realities, were basically created accidentally in an experiment gone awry. The original experiment was to try and travel through time, but instead it fucked everything up and cubed the universe into various, fragmented, folded dimensional realities.

In some respects it'll be similar to the episode of Farscape when the ship tried to travel at warp and then everything went wrong and it got split into four realities with holes between the four in various locations. Only on a universal scale. That's basically where I got the idea from. That and the episode of Voyager, "Shattered", as well as the "mirror universe" in Star Trek were also inspirations.

The over world maps are going to work a little different from traditional RPGs. As they're suppose to represent an entire planet you're not going to be able to just wander around on foot, which is kind of ridiculous. So in each world, to travel around you *HAVE* to find various means of transportation. Each world will have different forms of transportation, some more advanced than others. Also, as you're traveling around, in some worlds you'll encounter random enemies of various sorts and in others not, depending on the circumstances of that particular world.

One of the things you'll be able to do as you're traveling is to stop on the map screen and "get out" of your transportation. Which in most cases will lead you to a random, generic map that matches the terrain you stopped on. Most will have nothing there, maybe some common items, maybe some monsters. There will be a few spots though in which there will be really good/hidden items, quest items, people to talk to, houses, "Easter eggs", various puzzle related factors, etc, etc. You'll be able to find these hot spots via researching, sleuthing, talking to people, etc, etc.

In some respects it'll be similar to Zelda, "The Ocarina Of Time", where if you have a rumble pack you can find hidden chambers that can be bombed open. That's what the idea is based upon. Basically the whole game is sort of like a massive conglomerate of all the best ideas and my most favorite ideas that I've seen in other video games, anime, cartoons, movies, etc. Along with my own original story. Although even my story is going to be based somewhat on mainstream tropes that I'm fond of, in anime, as well as video games, TV shows and movies. They'll then be refined, expanded upon, broken apart and combined in various ways and developed more indepthly (so as to avoid obvious cliches).

The Interstice

noreply@blogger.com (Onideus Mad Hatter) — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:23:00 +0000

Whew, been awhile since I've done any updates. Been kinda busy. But anyway, today I threw together the Fourth Space "Interstice", which is basically a kind of space between spaces that acts as a conduit between the Fourth Space dimensions. When you start off, only two spacial dimensions are open for travel, the one to earth and another to one of the four Forth Space dimensions, like nyah:
Starting Interstice

The Fourth Space can be described as a kind of hypercube, it contains four separate outer face dimensions and then a top and bottom dimension, our home dimension being on the bottom. Like so:

How you're able to transport between dimension is visualized here, which shows the workings of a hypercube:

The inner box represents the current dimension you're in, in relation to yourself, so to travel to another dimension you're basically being spatially folded into the destination dimension. Said dimension then becomes the center cube. Everyone, no matter what dimension they're in, has their current dimension as the center cube, in relation to themselves, with the other dimensions existing in folded space, which is why you can't see them even though they're all basically in the exact same place and time.

One of the story arcs will revolve around the destabilization of the dimensional hypercube, which means the various realities will start to overlap and merge with one another and extreme chaos will then ensue. ^__^

Here's what the Interstice looks like when you have all the key crystals:

Complete Interstice

The key crystals are found in the various dimensions, so when you find one it'll open up the way to another dimension and then in that dimension you'll find the next key crystal, and so on.

There is one master dimension to the other five, and represents the original dimension. Due to some yet to be explained circumstances that original dimension was basically spatially cubed forming the other dimensions. As it is a hypercube, there is the possibility that the separate dimensions could lose cohesion which would cause each of them to be cubed, and then those cubes each being cubed themselves, exponentially creating an infinite number of folded universes all existing on the same relative plane. So needless to say, preventing the dimensions from losing cohesion will be an important factor in the story line.

In addition to the key crystals opening up the various dimensions, within each dimension there are transportation crystals and blocks, which can be used to warp from one location to another location within the same dimension. Here's what they look like:

These crystals can be used any number of times and you can put them in and take them out of the transport blocks as you like. You will have a limited number of them, with dozens of transport blocks within each dimension, which will be used to create various puzzles throughout the game. Some of the transport crystals will already be in place, some with only one end in place, and others that you'll simply find by themselves or obtain through some means.

The transport blocks are bidirectional, so one block will always lead to another block and that block will in turn lead back to the previous. In the cases where you have a transport block set that's missing both transport crystals and you only have one left on you, you can put that crystal into one of the transport blocks, but if you try transporting you'll basically wind up trapped on the destination end with no way back unless you can find another transport crystal to complete the connection.

In addition to the generic transport crystals there will be specially colored, unique transport crystals, which can be used to alter the regular pathways of the transport blocks. So if you put a red transport crystal in one block and then put another red transport crystal into another, not normally linked block, those two blocks will then form a temporary connection to each other so long as the colored transport crystals remain in place. This will of course add to the puzzle factor and there will be various circumstances where you'll really need to "think outside of the box" (pun intended) in order to progress through the game.

There will be a number of side quests that won't be directly relevant to the main story arc, these side quests will be *MUCH* harder than the regular game progression, but they could pay off in being able to obtain various rare items which can help you move through the main story arc more quickly, others will simply add more story and interest in the characters, with no super rare items obtained.

Unlike most all RPGs, this one will be very unique in that the bosses and mini-bosses will act differently and use different strategies depending on the items and weapons you're carrying as well as your character stats. So if you level up to a massive degree and are basically God like in strength, the bosses are going to be able to tell how strong you are and they'll alter their tactics accordingly. So sheer strength and level building won't really help you much in most situations, instead you'll have to actually think, find information about the bosses, their techniques and such, and then you'll need to come up with counter tactics in order to defeat them.

It'll be sort of like in the Mega Man series, where each boss is particularly weak against another obtained weapon, although this will take it to a more in depth level, although not so completely complicated and confusing that it's just frustrating and annoying (Kingdom Hearts - Chain of Memories comes directly to mind in that particular fault). You'll also gain techniques, weapons, and various items when you defeat bosses and mini-bosses, so the game won't be completely linear, you'll be able to choose how you want to progress through the game, being able to choose between various quests at various stages in the game.

You have to complete all the primary quests, but you can pick and choose which ones you want to go through first and you'll even be able to back track, such as going halfway through one quest, picking up some items/weapons/techniques/etc and then being able to go back and start through a different quest within that particular story arc. Again, this will add more strategy and puzzle scenarios, in that you'll find certain things in one quest which will aid you in another, so you'll have to do some back tracking, look for clues, figure out puzzles, etc, kind of making the game sort of like a Sherlock Holmes mystery of sorts at various stages. Like puzzles within larger puzzles, basically. But again, it won't be so completely impossible and confusing that you'll just get frustrated and want to quit out of boredom and annoyance.

The Faggot PhenomenonAnd The Beauty Of Suicide

noreply@blogger.com (Onideus Mad Hatter) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:30:00 +0000

Let's talk about homoseuxals for a bit, shall we? Now, you always hear people yammer on about how "unatural" homos are and how "perverted" they are, but honestly, I think that they've got it completely backward! On the contrary, faggots are *EXTREMELY* important to the survival of this planet.

To put it as bluntly as possible, on a purely genetic level, nature itself has recognized that humanity is a fucking plague upon this planet and if not countered in some way, *WILL* destroy the entire earth itself and all life upon it.

As such, as a genetic failsafe, more and more people are being born homosexual in order to prevent mass breeding and to blunt the incredible overpopulation of the human species. Simply put, the more people who are gay, the less we'll be able to breed through conventional means and the less people there will be on the planet. Tres simple, non?

Similarly, there's also an increase in people who are depressed. I believe that this depression is a completely natural occurrence and is basically another kind of genetic failsafe. Basically, on the genetic level, your body knows that you're an evolutionary dead end, so in order to prevent you from breeding and passing on your faulty genes, a trigger is kicked on in yer brain to make you feel so depressed that you'll want to kill yourself...for the benefit of the species.

Again, it's completely natural and anyone who is feeling overly depressed should be highly encouraged to end their lives as a gift to the rest of us who enjoy life and enjoy living. Their deaths will mean more oxygen for the rest of us, as well as reducing precious, wasted resources, which in turn will benefit the planet.

And honestly, isn't the continuation of the planet more important than the life of someone who is depressed who *WANTS* to die? It really makes no sense at all to try and intervene and prevent such a natural and beautiful sacrifice to mother earth.

Those that want to kill themselves should be praised and remembered throughout history as patriots and warriors in the fight to save the planet from the human disease which has infested her for so long. It is only because of selfish human PERVERSION that we try and interfere with such a natural, evolutionary design.

^__^

Fuzzy Pillars!

noreply@blogger.com (Onideus Mad Hatter) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:26:00 +0000

I like fuzzy pillars...but sometimes their fuzziness stings yer skin a bit...I think it's to make them taste bad. That way if they get eaten by something, well, at least they'll have the satisfaction of knowing that they gave their attacker indigestion!

In further news, I've uncovered a *MASSIVE* conspiracy! I'm here to blow the lid off the biggest cover up since 9-11! DON'T BE FOOLED!

It's those dentists! Every last one of them is in on it too! Can you believe it?! They've been deceiving us all this time, with their demented, devious, demeanors and dishonest discourse, derailing our daily drudge and dominating us to endure discolored, dingy, decayed, disgusting, dentures unless we brush our teeth!

All this time we've been conned by those crafty, cretinous, contemptible, conspiring, culprits of crooked corruption! But they've fooled us for the last time! And they won't be getting away with it either!

No siree, a magnificent, mystery mom has managed to muster up a method of mopping up the muck and maligning those malicious, misrepresenting, mischievous malcontents!

Now that they've all been outed, their secrets torn open, their lies disproved, there's no room for denial or refutal for this foul, fumbling, fixed, fictitious, foisted fraud!

We're free from the fastidious, fatiguing formula of frivolous fictition from those fiendish, freakish foes, for which we've foolishly forced, furiously upon our foreworn fangs, as well as the faulty, fruitless flossing of our festoon foundries.

But no more! Rejoice my friends, for the secret is out...for only a finite fee of fifty dollars! Certainly *WELL* worth the price to circumvent the cunning, conspiracy crisis of these foistrous fuckheads!

*nods*

Protip - Gestures and smilies really get the ED forum groupies into a gigantic, grumpus, snit fit.

*smiles*

^__^

Oh Shi-

noreply@blogger.com (Onideus Mad Hatter) — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:25:00 +0000

LOL, check out the lulz!
Encyclopedia Butthurt

Wooo! Sen...sa...tive! *nods*

I especially liked the part where Mthrfckn jumps in and starts crying about how it was really someone else whose the pussy. *snicker* Yeah, nice save there, Fumbles. I think what he meant to say was that he's not able to make like a pussy himself, so he PM'd some mommy moderator and asked them to do it for him.

The part where he starts posting links to my blog is also real funny. Apparently he's quite the fan boi. I mean it's not like I go around posting the address of this blog all over the web, it's mostly intended just for Netters and as such it's primarily only posted in my Usenet .sig.

Not sure why they're reading it though, my blog isn't for my mouthy haters and Hatter Addicts, it's meant for people who actually *ENJOY* my work, not for those who get all butt hurt and pissy about it.

I did just notice something particularly odd though...they don't own them. The web board I mean, it's a cookie cutter bullshit setup, probably a freebie one at that. Check it out:
www.forums.com

Might be fun to go over their ToS and see if I can't get them to lose their little freebie board. That'd be *REALLY* funny, not to mention ironic. As I've always said, you should never do to anyone what you wouldn't want done to yourself, so since they like banning people so much, well, maybe the same ought to be done to them? I think it'd be a good lesson...although granted the ED kids are a lot like CWC, they don't really seem to learn at all from their verbal ass kickings.

They're not much for kookology and lulz either, most of them are just in it so they can try and feel all self superior. Srsly, they recently had a whole fuckin multiple page forum thread all about how posting on ED makes them feel important. *snicker* I'll see if I can find the link to it, if I can, I'll do an update to this article.

In the mean time, enjoy the lulz of them bitching and whining about being exposed as gutless fuckin PUSSIES. Not that it was really new news or anything, but I guess the little goobers just weren't aware at all of how the rest of the Internet looks at them. ^__^

EDIT 1
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There was just a post by some guy named Dr. TL:DR whose reposting my blog entries on ED along with the text:
"didnt read it but im sure it's pretty gay"

LOL, as if I'd really expect any of them to be able to. I mean it's not exactly like I go out of my way to try and dumb my work down to the 4th grade reading level. Pretty much unless yer a college graduate yer gonna have a hard time getting through most of my posts. Either because you'll encounter too many "big words" or because yer Ritalin wears off by the time you get to the second sentence.

EDIT 2
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I found it!

An Elite Internet Club

LOL, also check out the latest post from mthrfckn where he's all, "ZOMG DON'T GIVE HIM ANY ATTENTION!!1!"

*snicker*

Yeah, like that's gonna make me lose interest in fucking around with yer idiot froup for shits and giggles. This kid is obviously seriously the fuck out of his league, he really has no fuckin cl00 at all.

Encyclopedia Butthurt

noreply@blogger.com (Onideus Mad Hatter) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:14:00 +0000

So, in case you haven't been keeping up, Encyclopedia Dramatica got itself a cookie cutter Webbie board and an IRC channel to boot! So I decided to go on over and check 'em out! I was banned from the forums in less than two days. Reason for the ban? None given. Srsly, their reason for banning me was pure, mass level, BUTT HURT.

Apparently it came as somewhat of a surprise to the other regs as I was still chatting in the IRC channel and everyone thought it was a little odd since I hadn't done anything mean or nasty to anyone there and was actually contributing to the lulz on a variety of topics...I guess though the one who did the banning was some tweenage muppet fuck by the name of "mthrfkn" (real original there).

I guess I fucked the kid's mother or something, because I was informed that he had some massive hard on for me and was absolutely ENRAGED when he found out I was posting and I guess got even moar upset when he found out that every other reg in the froup wasn't frothing over me in hatred like he was.

I think part of what makes the kid so angry and upset is that he can dish it, but he sure the fuck can't take it, and the fact that I can, well, it just drives him bonkers.

So anyway, flash forward a few weeks later and I uncover a massively EPIC LOLcow the likes of which hasn't been seen since CWC...I mean I'm talkin about a kook so gawd damn epic she PRAYS TO GOD TO MAKE HER A MERMAID! And she recently turned 20! Yeah, I kid you fucking not, this girl is like the female version of Chris. I made a page for her here:
Megan Squiers

So, being that I'm a fairly nice guy all around I decided it would be pretty pig headed of me not to share with other trolls, so I went on over to the ED IRC channel and posted a bit about the girl and everyone got real excited and someone said they would make a post for me on the forums after I got all the data compiled and sorted out for maximum LOLs. So I agreed and logged off. A couple days later, after I built the before mentioned site, I went back to the IRC channel to tell them all about it, only when I got there the user "mthrfkn" was there and apparently in massive need of a tampon as he just instantly started tryin to jump all over me with inane bullshit and trying to "attack" me with 5th rate, grade school bullshit whilst frothing on at the mouth like I killed his family or fucked his sister or something. So, being me, of course I just laughed at the little goober and made fun of him, which I guess was too much for the kid to handle so he got all spastic and banned me from the IRC channel like he did on the forums.

Now, yes, I could fire up some proxies and just go right back and start posting or chatting in IRC, but I got to thinkin about it and I figured...ya know...why should I? I mean the whole purpose of Encyclopedia Dramatica is ~supposed~ to be all about documenting, tracking, and exploiting LULZ all over the grid, which was exactly what I was giving them, practically going out of my way really to give it to them and to share epic material that I really didn't have to...and what do I get for my massively incredible contributions? Yeah, butthurt, massive fuckin butthurt.

So no, I'm not going to waste my time on ignorant tweenagers who have no real interest in LULZ, they're far too busy banning each other and stepping all over themselves for unwarranted self importance on their little shit stain of a Webbie board. To the point where, as I came to find out, is apparently some kind of a major problem they're having, where the regs keep senselessly banning their own users left and right for no reason at all, other than the fact that they're all mostly butthurt and can't handle being on the receiving end.

The group they've made really doesn't have any genuine interest at all in the art of trolling or kookology, they just want to run around trying to pick on people slightly kookier than they are so they can try and feel better about how incredibly fucking pathetic they all are. Kookologists they are not.

Beauty Comes At A Price Apparently

noreply@blogger.com (Onideus Mad Hatter) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:54:00 +0000

I took some pictures of my cat "Persephone" today. I usually just call her "Puff" or "Sprouts" though for short. Here's one of the pics:

It was a bit of a pain in the butt to manually remove the red eye but I think it turned out pretty good. Her eyes are really dilated in the picture though so it's hard to see just how brilliantly blue her eyes really are.

And her hair, well, it's not really hair so much as fur, with the exact same consistency and feel of rabbit fur. She's a Ragdoll apparently, as I've come to learn, and I was extremely lucky to get her. I check the local humane society website every day and as soon as I saw her picture up I raced down there to go and get her, barely beating out another lady who came in wanting her just as I was filling out the paperwork for her. Apparently really nice looking Ragdolls are kind of on the expensive side and I got her for only $100 so that was a hell of a bargain.

Apparently that incredibly soft fur and brilliantly blue eyes come at a price though. I guess in order to make them look like that they have to inbreed them to a certain degree and as such they develop all sorts of fun medical conditions. You can kind of tell in that picture, where her ears are a bit damaged and it sort of looks like she has ear mites. It continually clears up, then gets bad, then clears up again, almost like a cycle. She also gets real bad cat acne too, so I have to scrub her face with a wash cloth everyday...which she really doesn't like...at all. If you don't though then it gets really bad and they just like scab over and spread, so there's not much choice. A small price to pay for such a pretty cat.

My sister in law picked her name, Persephone, partly because the Greek goddess was highly known for her incredibly beauty and also because she was Goddess of the underworld, snatched away by Hades from the living world and her mother, which is a kind of allegory to my snatching her away from the other lady that wanted her at the humane society and also because my character form is often characterized as evil, hellish and so forth. I've even been called the full embodiment of the anti-christ by some. ^__^

Your Mom

noreply@blogger.com (Onideus Mad Hatter) — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 07:53:00 +0000

Reposted here, from Usenet:

Question, when you post things like "I fucked your mother" do you think that has some sort of psychological effect upon them?

No, it's meant to be a completely ironic, sarcastic bitch slap of mocking cynicism. Basically it's kind of my way of saying, "You're a fuckin retard and this is what you get for being a fuckin retard."

If they whine about it, it just makes it that much moar lulzy in that the whole thing is meant to be directly reflective of their own idiocy, basically a parody of their own retardation.

I don't waste good material on Hatter Addicts and retarded fuckwits and all the better they're ever going to get for their idiocy is a good hard verbal slap across their idiot faces with exactly what they deserve...shit.

If they don't like getting shit on then they can either strive to deserve better, or they can whine and bitch about it, either way it's of little consequence to me personally.

The *REALLY* ironic part about the whole thing though, is that, as absolutely fuckin stupid as most of these retards are...yeah, yeah it *REALLY* does bother them actually. LOL, I know, it's completely hilarious to sane, intelligent people, but it's true. To complete, stupid ass losers who have as much sense as a box of rocks, it *REALLY* does bother them to say shit like that. Which, again, is part of why it makes the whole thing so incredibly hilarious.

An Interesting Dream I Had

noreply@blogger.com (Onideus Mad Hatter) — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:14:00 +0000

I dreamt I invented a material that, when penetrated, could turn kinetic energy into electrical energy...it was really fuckin cool too. Like if you shot at it with a gun, it would release a kind of lightning bolt of energy outward in response to it...very interesting. How it all worked exactly...well, I can't actually remember that part of the dream (conveniently), so now I'm tryin to work out how it might be possible, at least theoretically. *nods*

Acceptance

noreply@blogger.com (Onideus Mad Hatter) — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:02:00 +0000

...I altered the settings on my computer to play all stereo sound as mono and only in the right receiver. For the longest time I've been kind of in denial about the whole thing. I mean I knew about, had it tested and diagnosed, told people about it, but kept on using stereo settings on my computer. It finally dawned on me though that I was missing about half the song, because many songs use lyrics and music that can only be heard on the left speaker, which, for me, means I can't hear them at all. I used to think/believe that the hearing was just bad, but that I could still hear out of it, but swapping all the music/sound to the left speaker, I found I couldn't actually hear much of anything at all, it just sounded like listening to a song while underwater.

It really hit me then though, that I really am effectively deaf in that ear, basically losing half of one of my senses. It has made me appreciate the senses I still have a lot more though. When you lose something like that, it really makes you realize just how incredibly precious and just how much people take for granted something as simple as being able to hear a song. I will never again, ever, be able to hear stereo sound...not unless somebody comes up with a way of regenerating nerve cells.

I would like to believe that it's made me a better person though because of it. I can understand and relate to the loss that others suffer when losing one complete, and even multiple senses. To lose something like that, something that can't be fixed, something permanent, really makes you appreciate what you have left. In a way, it really is like losing a part of yourself (metaphorically speaking, obviously physical), losing a part of who you are as a person.

Do You Know What Day It Is?

noreply@blogger.com (Onideus Mad Hatter) — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:12:00 +0000

It's Mad Hatter Day!

YAY!

Coconut frosting with coconut cake...mmmm...coco-nutty. ^__^

Oh, and it's double layered, with vanilla pudding in the middle. *nods* Doki, doki.

I Love Carl's Junior ^__^

noreply@blogger.com (Onideus Mad Hatter) — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:40:00 +0000

I got a $25 gift card for Carl's Junior today in the mail! Apparently they *REALLY* enjoyed the feedback I left on their website last week:

I read your press release regarding the "McHype" and, I'm sorry, but no. You've made a mistake. The burgers at Carl's Jr. are simply too good to even bother acknowledging McDonalds, or any other fast food burger joint for that matter. The lessers like McDonalds can throw out as many cheap imitations as they like, try whatever little marketing gimmicks they can, but at the end of the day they're all just shoveling out soggy, squished and slightly microwaved cardboard burgers that have likely been sitting in a heat bin for 10 or more minutes.

Carl's Jr. simply cannot be compared to that, not even on the most fundamental level. A Carl's Jr. burger isn't simply food, it's an experience. A mouthgasm that literally molests your taste buds with pure epic awesome incarnate. It is beyond any level of comparison. Those like McDonalds are not fooling anyone with more than three brain cells and, simply put, you should not even take the bother to acknowledge their existence in any of your ads or marketing endeavors. Quite frankly they don't deserve the recognition nor importance to even be mentioned in the same sentence as Carl's Jr.

^__^

...now if they would just BUILD a Carl's Junior here in Walla Walla. It's no fun at all having to drive all the way to TriCities (50 miles away) just to eat such incredible awesomeness. I recommend their teriyaki burger and their western bacon double burger:

...which are just absolutely incredibly awesome beyond belief (and they actually look just like those pictures when you buy them). When they say restaurant style hamburgers at a fast food joint, yeah, that's *REALLY* not an exaggeration. *nods*

I'm Eating A Bell Pepper

noreply@blogger.com (Onideus Mad Hatter) — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:29:00 +0000

...not exactly sure why.

...

It's cruncy.

Crunch, cruch, crunch...bell peppery goodness...

*nods*

I made these yesterday:
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Graphic_Design_-_2009_Backwater_Concept_-_02.png

I don't know if I'll use it for a redesign of teh Backwater site though...maybe for something else...haven't really decided. Been playing around a lot with shadow forms here lately, to give a kind of faux 3D look. You have to be a lil careful though, it's easy to go overboard...kinda liak with teh reflection forms.

Oops, I Broke It

noreply@blogger.com (Onideus Mad Hatter) — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:10:00 +0000

I found a fun toy over on PoE:
Save Niki

I went to play with it by adding the following comment:
Save_Niki_-_My_Comment.png

...then the site was taken down. :(

I did archive the whole thing though before they had the chance to rip it all down:
Home
Comments
Donate
Thanks

^__^

Speaking of PoE, seems they're almost effectively net.dead, I used to be able to find quite a few fun toys to play with on there, but these days...not so much. I probably only even check their site maybe every 3 or 4 months, things have been that slow over there. Guess they just couldn't hack it in teh volatile web froups community. They never were that strong though, many of their regs were just as, if not even kookier than the targets they went after. And their "no interference" policy has always been little more than an obvious copout for the fact that they just can't handle themselves in flame wars and are only effective with teh art when they're talking about people behind their backs.

Gangsta Pizza 'N Fast Food Chit, Aight!

noreply@blogger.com (Onideus Mad Hatter) — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 08:48:00 +0000

Pizza Hut has this new stuffed crust PAN pizza now, which is pretty freakin awesome...and *REALLY* freakin cheap! I got one today (they come in large), half Hawaiian and half bacon and olives for only $16 via delivery! Normally the regular stuffed crust pizzas are like $22 each via delivery! So that's a heck of a bargain. I believe it's a promotional thing though, so I don't know how much longer it'll last.

I think the thing I love the most about Pizza Hut though is their online ordering system. It's just all shades of kicking ass in every other direction and then some.

In other fast food related news, we *STILL* don't have a Carl's Junior in this retarded little town (Walla Walla), which is just raping the sweet baby Jesus in my opinion. Carl's Junior is like the *GOD* of fast food hamburgers...in fact it almost seems wrong to even put them into the same category as fast food hamburgers. I mean fast food hamburgers aren't supposed to look like the ones they show on television commercials, they're supposed to be soggy and squished and slightly microwaved after sitting in a heat bin for 10 minutes...not made completely fresh, with a fluffy, chewy bun, with crispy veggies and flame barbecued meat and so forth. When they say restaurant style burgers...yeah, they're not fuckin kidding. That shit is teh BOMB, yo! Werd to yer motha!

*flashes some gang signs*

Oh yeah, ya know I'm a lil bit gangsta. Maybe you're a lil bit gangsta yerself? Fuck, we *ALL* be a lil bit gangsta! Peace out, my wiggers!

Other People's Quotes That I Liak

noreply@blogger.com (Onideus Mad Hatter) — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:29:00 +0000

For fun I thought I'd put up all my most favorite quotes, by people other than myself that is. Free feel to add onto it with your own favorite quotes (by other people) in the comments section.

"Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck."
- Joss Whedon

"Strange, because they are so frankly and hysterically insane -- like all dreams: a God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice and invented hell -- mouths mercy and invented hell -- mouths Golden Rules, and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites this poor, abused slave to worship him!"
- Mark Twain, "The Mysterious Stranger"

"Did momma take the titties away too soon?"
- Lamont Cranston

"Malice drinks one half of its own poison."

"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body."

"Many things have fallen only to rise higher."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"I bet she does it like a weasel."
- Sigekuni, "FLCL"

"I failed on a climbing problem eight times before realizing I was climbing as high as I KNEW I could and then letting go. On my next try I climbed with no thought of failure and reached the top. We cannot know what we can do in advance. The only way to find out is to go all-out trying, thinking only of success."
- Royal Robbins

"I don't just want to feel kinky, I want to feel *abnormally* kinky"
- Yami

"A wizard is never late, Frodo Baggins. Nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to. "
- Gandalf, "Lord of the Rings" (movie version)

"Women are funny; if they start thinking about something that bothers them, they can't have an orgasm. With a guy, you gotta break a pencil off of his penis. Women look at orgasms as something they give away. It's like, 'I'm giving you my orgasm, I'm having an orgasm for you.' Guys just want to get rid of their orgasm; they're not looking to keep it at all."
- Adam Carolla, "Loveline"

"Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
- Lewis Carroll

Anya: "I love a ritual sacrifice."
Buffy: "Not really a one of those."
Anya: "To commemorate a past event, you kill and eat an animal. It's a ritual sacrifice, with pie."
- "Buffy The Vampire Slayer", Episode - "Pangs"

"Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind other than the one where they sprang up."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"To create something you must be something."
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

"The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."

"Great thinkers have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds."

"You never truly understand a thing until you can explain it to your grandmother."
- Albert Einstein

"People that drive a gas guzzling SUV and they put a flag on it, you know that's like a whore wearing a roseary."
- Paul Gilmartin

"How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin."
- Ronald Reagan

"A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most."
- George Bernard Shaw

"Home is not where you live but where they understand you."
- Christion Morgenstern

"What the public reproaches you for, take precious care of; it is you."
- Jean Cocteau

"I've had a wonderful evening, but this wasn't it."
- Groucho Marx

"An adventure is an inconvenience properly considered"
- Neil Gaiman

"The future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed."
- William Gibson

"If you're going through hell...keep going."

"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. "
- Winston Churchill

"Adaptation is compromise."
- Illyria, Angel "Time Bomb"

"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."
- H. L. Mencken

"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Shoot your murders like love scenes, and your love scenes like murders."
- Alfred Hitchcock

"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public."
- H.L. Mencken

"People who think that real issues are about liberals vs conservatives, or visa versa, full of anecdotes about how stupid the other side is are generally morons who cling to polarity in a state of mental insecurity."
- John P Sheehy

"I can write better than anybody who can write faster; and I can write faster than anybody who can write better."
- A. J. Liebling

"I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folk are like leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed."
- The Scarecrow of Oz, "The Marvelous Land of Oz" by Frank L. Baum

"If you want to understand the conflict over gay marriage, there is a simple method. Whenever you hear or read anything whatsoever about the topic, mentally replace the words 'homosexual', 'gay', and 'lesbian' with the words 'mixed-race' or 'mixed-religion'.

That's all there is to it.

The same arguments were used before, the same fears of the end of civilization were spouted, the same claims of good versus evil were demanded, and the same concerns about insult to morality were loudly proclaimed. It is the same ignorance, and the same blind, bigoted hatred."
- Jennifer Diane Reitz

"My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—
It gives a lovely light!"
- Edna St. Vincent

"Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years."
- John Burroughs

Counting victims as he snipes them off:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7... Oswald was a fag.
- "The Usual Suspects"

Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television. Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers...choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit crushing game shows, stuffing junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourself. Choose a future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that?"
- "Trainspotting"

Milo: "I trust you're alone."
Jimmy Dix: "No, I got the fuckin' Vienna Boys Choir with me. What, is everybody stupid around here?"
- Damon Wayans, "The Last Boyscout"

"This is the '90s. You don't just go around punching people. You have to say something cool first."

"Nobody likes you. Everybody hates you. You're gonna lose. Smile, you fuck."
- Bruce Willis, "The Last Boyscout"

"I am Zathras. Zathras got here by being Zathras. Zathras wants nothing, so Zathras gets nothing. That is life."
- Babylon 5

"Klaatu Verata Nikto"
- "The Day The Earth Stood Still" (1951)

"I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect."
- Edward Gibbon

Unknown Authors
(aka I'm too lazy to bother looking them up)

"If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn't plan your mission properly."

"When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend."

"Quite the opposite, my dear Kadigeaira (I'm not looking up how you spell that dreck). I was using a modicum of humor to underscore a very real problem on Usenet. You're merely the punctuation mark."

"Until future notice, celebrate everything!"

"It is no measure of mental health to be adjusted to a messed up society."

"Today is the tomorrow you were worried about yesterday. Was it worth it?"

"I can speak to people anywhere in the world, I can get any information I want, I can goto New Zealand in 0.384 seconds, so why the fuck would I want to go outside?"

"Me? I'm dishonest and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest...honestly."

"Occasionally some people open themselves up for a good thrashing. It's just good manners to give them what they ask for."

"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."

"And I'm not just talkin' fat, I'm talkin ORCA fat."

"Look at 'em, ordinary fucking people, I hate 'em."

"Microsoft Windows: A thirty-two bit extension and graphical shell to a sixteen bit patch to an eight bit operating system originally coded for a four bit microprocessor which was written by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition."

"Theft from a single author is plagiarism.
Theft from two is comparative study.
Theft from three or more is research."

"In most instances, all an argument proves is that two people are present."

"No matter what the result is, there will always be someone eager to:
Misinterpret it.
Fake it.
Believe it happened according to his own pet theory."

"Things which you see as stupid can almost always be explained by your own ignorance."

"If something cannot go wrong at all, it will go wrong in a very spectacular way."

"He who is victorious over others is strong, but he who is victorious over himself is all-powerful."

"Winning a war is just as possible as winning an earthquake."

"My favorite color in the entire alphabet is twelve!"

"Here is a candle to light you to bed. Here comes The butcher to chop off your head."

"Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car."

"War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who's left. "

"I once prayed to god for a bike, but quickly found out he didnt work that way...so I stole a bike and prayed for his forgiveness."

"If pro is opposite of con, then what is the opposite of progress?"

"If you think things can't get worse it's probably only because you lack sufficient imagination."

"A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station..."

"My god carries a hammer. Your god died nailed to a tree. Any questions? "

"You can't be late until you show up."

"Knowledge is realizing that the street is one-way, wisdom is looking both directions anyway."

"Procrastination is like masturbation... its fun at first, but then you just realize you're just fucking yourself."

Stickers seen on a motorcycle helmet in the ER:
"I'm here for the blowjob"
"Free moustache rides"
"I'd fuck your brains out but it's obvious someone beat me to it"
"Instant asshole: just add alcohol"

"Happiness is like peeing your pants, everyone can see it but only you can truly feel its warmth."

"A day without sun shine is like, you know, night."

"A smart man covers his ass, a wise man leaves his pants on."

"A smoking section in a restaurant is like a peeing section in a pool."

"A weekend wasted isn’t a wasted weekend."

"According to my calculations the problem doesn’t exist."

"After all is said and done, more is said than done."

"All those who believe in psychokinesis raise my hand."

"Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them."

"An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support."

"Anybody can win, unless there happens to be a second entry."

"Anything worth taking seriously is worth making fun of."

"Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity."

"As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in public schools."

"Bald guys never have a bad hair day."

"Be nice to your kids. They’re going to be the ones choosing your nursing home."

"Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder."

"Blondes may have more fun, but brunettes remember it the next day."

"Change is inevitable, except from vending machines."

"Chaos, panic, pandemonium – my work here is done."

"Character is what you are. Reputation is what people think you are."

"Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow."

"Being emo is merely anger without the enthusiasm."

"Don’t be irreplaceable. If you can’t be replaced, you can’t be promoted."

"Don’t believe everything you think."

"Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today."

"Don’t tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done."

"Drugs cause amnesia and other things I can’t remember."

"Earth first! (We’ll strip-mine the other planets later)."

"Eat drink and be merry, for tomorrow they may make it illegal."

"F u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n cmptr prgrmmng."

"Failure is not falling down, it is not getting up again."

"Give a jackass an education and you get a smartass."

"Help wanted: Telepath. You know where to apply."

"Hey Santa, how much for your list of naughty girls?"

"Hey! It compiles! Ship it!"

"I didn’t say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you."

"I don’t suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it."

"I still miss my ex. But my aim is getting better."

"I thought I was wrong once, but it turns out I was mistaken."

"I’m a nobody, nobody is perfect, therefore I’m perfect."

"I’m not crazy, but the voices in my head might be."

"I’m trying to see things from your point of view, but I can’t get my head that far up your ass."

"If all the cars on the Earth were lined up bumper to bumper, some idiot would try to pass them."

"If at first you don’t succeed, look in the trash for the instructions."

"If at first you don’t succeed; call it version 1.0."

"If blind people wear sunglasses, why don’t deaf people wear earmuffs?"

"If everything seems to be going right, you obviously don’t know what the hell is going on."

"If god is watching us, the least we can do is be entertaining."

"If homosexuality is a disease, can I call into work ‘gay’?"

"If ignorance is bliss, why aren’t more people happy?"

"If two wrongs don’t make a right, try three."

"If you would stop trying to be happy you could have a pretty good time."

"If you cannot convince them, confuse them."

"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."

"In America, anybody can be president. That’s one of the risks you take."

"In the dark I hold your hand, because in the light you look like a man."

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."

"Learn from your parent's mistakes – use birth control."

"Learning from your mistakes is smart, learning from the mistakes of others is wise."

"Linux is not the answer. Linux is the question. 'No' is the answer."

"Never argue with a fool, they will lower you to their level and then beat you with experience."

"Only the winners decide what were war crimes."

"People will believe any lie, either becaue they want it to be true or they are afraid it’s true."

"Reality is for people who can’t handle drugs."

"Rehab is for quitters."

"Roses are #FF0000, violets are #0000FF, all of my base are belong to you."

"Sex is like air; it’s not important unless you aren’t getting any."

"Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics."

"Software is just like sex. One mistake and you end up giving lifetime support."

"Some cause happiness wherever they go. Others whenever they go."

"Support your local Search and Rescue unit. Get lost."

"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."

"Teamwork is essential – it allows you to blame someone else."

"The best things in life aren’t things."

"The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese."

"The future will be better tomorrow."

"The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out."

"The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools."

"The trouble with ignorance is that it picks up confidence as it goes along."

"There are 10 types of people, those who understand binary and those who don’t."

"There are two types of people – those who divide people into two types, and those who don’t."

"They call it "pms" because "mad cow disease" was already taken."

"Time flies like a bullet. Fruit flies like a banana."

"To err is human, to arr is pirate."

"Trying is failing with honors."

"Viewer discretion may be advised, but it’s never really expected."

"We live in a society where pizza gets to your house before the police."

"When you are in it up to your ears, keep your mouth shut."

"Why do they use sterile needles for lethal injections?"

"With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine."

"Work harder: millions on welfare depend on you."

"Worry is like a rocking chair; it keeps you busy, but gets you nowhere."

"XML is like violence. If it doesn’t solve your problem, you’re not using enough of it."

"You don’t have to explain something you never said."

"You laugh at me because I’m different. I laugh at you because you’re all the same."

"Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with."

"Admit nothing, deny everything and make counter-accusations."

"A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students."

"A little bit of powder, a little bit of paint, makes a girl’s complexion seem what it ain’t."

"A long-forgotten loved one will appear soon...buy the film negatives at any price."

"A religious war is like children fighting over who has the strongest imaginary friend."

"A good pun is its own reword."

"A bad plan is better than no plan."

"The Future is a slut. She promises herself to everyone."

"43% of all statistics are worthless."

"Sometimes a majority only means that all the fools are on the same side."

"If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space."

That's all of 'em! Good stuff, if I do say so myself...and I do. ^__^

Bumbling Bloggers Like Tim O'Reilly

noreply@blogger.com (Onideus Mad Hatter) — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 02:38:00 +0000

Now, most of us, those of us who are Netters and Webbies, we easily recognize the bumbling RL based blogger. You know the type, they just stumbled on over to the grid *WAAAAAY* back in liak two thousand and FIVE! Actively surfing such pedestrian level sites like eBay, Amazon and other highly marketed beacons of direct RL attraction. Such superficial forms though are rarely very informative and give RLs a false sense of reality on the grid. Effectively, they don't teach these children of the Internet what the Internet is all about, how it differs from real life, what they can really expect, or how to deal with things on the net level.

Because of that fact, if and when such RLs encounter some aspect of the *REAL* Internet, they are very often quite poorly prepared to handle it, very often making bad decisions that only worsen whatever situation they've put themselves in.

Now, "blogging" is not a new concept, and it has actually existed since long before that particular term was ever coined. Problem is, in the early days of the Internet RLs were effectively and RIGHTLY banned from blogging in that having your own blog required technical expertise, the kind that RLs just don't have (even the ones who ~think~ they have it). But we are now living in Web 3.0, the "cookie cutter" Internet age, where any idiot with a mouse can create a website or a blog with little to no sense at all as to what it is they're even doing or where they're even at.

This has led to a great exodus of sorts, a mass immigration of idiots, much like the original AOL invasion of Usenet, circa 1996 and the "eternal September" that followed. The people who run these cookie cutter outfits are often RLs themselves, who simply outsource much of their operation to those who know what they're doing who build them the cookie cutter constructs they need to pawn off to the muddled masses.

At this point any idiot with a keyboard can have a blog, say whatever they want, and of course, look liak a fuckin retard. Case in point, let's take Tim O'Reilly, founder of "O'Reilly Media" (he certainly is high on himself, innt he?). Now Tim is a "blogger" and spends much of his time stumbling around the top crust of the grid and fumbling out verbal inanity at every opportunity. Now our story with Tim really begins with another blogger, whom you might recognize. One Kathy Sierra, who basically embodies every last thing that's wrong with RLs on the Internet and why they shouldn't be here.

Kathy, liak most RL bloggers, has no sense between the real world and the Internet. To Kathy, the Internet *IS* real life and she treats everything she see's online as if it were actually real and believable. This of course makes her a bright, shining target for every last troll on the grid, looking to upset some little RL fruitloop for the entertainment value of watching them spaz out over words on a fuckin screen. And hoo boy, did lil Kathy just run with it. Most likely suffering from a "victim complex", Kathy did just about every last thing she could to try and victimize herself and ran around collecting pity points at every opportunity. The height of which culminated in "death threats" that ~scared~ poor lil Kathy *SO* badly that she was crying her eyes out and just couldn't even come out of her house.

As a result she just about took her lil blogger ball and went home foreverz! ...fortunately for us she finally did and the wicked witch of whining is ding dong net.dead. Of course she couldn't "leave" without putting up a whole "woe is me, teh bad guyz wun!" post. Obviously because, as has been noted, she has a victim complex, she *LIKES* being "attacked" she *LIKES* raping sympathy and pity points off other idiots online. Whoring herself out as a delicate little flower, all stepped on and trampled by dat mean 'ol Interwebz. The level of slurpage she got off of her "leaving" was nothing short of epic...on a massively sad fuckin level. The poor lil snowflake just couldn't handle all the "abuse" anymore.

*snicker*

Yeah, right. Just to make a point of reference, since I first started posting online...I've probably received around...mmm...20 to 30 THOUSAND death threats in varying forms and circumstances. And that's been since nineteen fuckin ninety four! o_O I mean, it's been a gawd damn decade and a half of death threats against me and, well, gee, I haven't had anyone attempt to make good on any of them! At all! In *ANY* form! And unlike lil Kathy there are people who *REALLY* have good reason to want to try and kill me, especially those I performed unethical sociological and psychological experiments on.

But it never happens...and it never will. And you know why too...if you're a Netter or a Webbie, if you're someone who actually *UNDERSTANDS* the Internet and the underlying sociological structures. On the one hand you have trolls of course, looking to pray on those foolish enough to treat the Internet as if it were real life, trying to get a rise out of them, trying to get them to have a meltdown and make outlandishly kooky counter threats or to watch them have a total mental breakdown as they attempt to put themselves up on the virtual cross. Sorry kiddies, but the cross is for Christ...not you, you're no victim, not in this world anyway.

On the flip side of course you also have other RLs, who are actually genuinely ~serious~ about their threats...well, not so much in that they would ever try and carry them out, just to the point of trying to "scare" a person so they can "get back" at them. Such individuals really aren't much of a step up above the dribbling little wannabe victims and they are, effectively, enablers for the very behavior that fuels their hate of the person in the first place. A vicious cycle as it were, a ping pong game of social retardation. What fuels those types of "death threats" is of course the largely text-only environment of the Internet, which gives most people a sense of detachment and feelings of safety and anonymity, believing they can say whatever they want without any possible repercussions or backlash. Put any of those people in a similar real life situation and I guarantee they'll mostly all keep their fuckin idiot mouths shut altogether and won't say a thing.

The last point to keep in mind is that there are quite a number of children online, whose neglectful parents use the Internet as their babysitter. Such children can and will say almost anything, often without any clue at all as to what it is they're even suggesting, often without any comprehension at all of things like consequences and repercussions. To them, the Internet represents a portal into a world where they can say anything, do anything, pretend to be anything, and nothing matters at all on any level, and they of course are *ALWAYS* in the right (even when they're in the wrong, which is 99.9% of the time). Places liak 4chan and other "mainstream" volatile web communities are often the source of the largest tweenage and teenage infestations on the grid.

And if you think a death threat on the fucking Internet from a semi-illiterate 9 year old who lives half a world away is something you really ought to concern yourself with...yeah, you really are a fuckin idiot.

So anyway, back to our story, lil Kathy got a couple of these "death threats" and went BAAAWWWling about it *ALL* over the fuckin place, to the point that she even managed to get the attention of Tim O'Reilly, a "celebrity blogger" of sorts, who posted this fuckin trash:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6502643.stm

In it, O'Reilly gets his lil virtual training panties all up into a snit and quotes off this lil gem:

"The fact that there's all these really messed-up people on the internet is not a statement about the internet. It is a statement about those people and what they do and we need to basically say that you guys are doing something unacceptable and not generalise it into a comment about this is what's happening to the blogosphere."

Wow...just...WOW! Okay, first of all, do note the fact that lil O'Reilly can't even figure out that the word Internet is CAPITALIZED, a sure sign of n00b level stupidity. I've always said, if you don't know how to spell the word Internet, you ought not to go running around trying to pass off opinions about it. Because it *REALLY* just makes you look liak a fuckin ass. And that's probably the best way of defining O'Reilly on the Internet...a gawd damn ass hat, and not much moar.

O'Reilly believes that we Netters and Webbies are "messed up", because we don't try and recreate the real world online, rather we use the online world as it was meant to be used...as a free and open medium of communication...*ALL* communication, of any sort, without any opposing rules, laws, regulations, or "codes of conduct" as O'Reily wishes there was. Such forms are nothing more than Internet impotency in most cases and there are no shortage of people around to help educate you proper in how this world *REALLY* works.

People like O'Reilly are basically an affront to everything that the Internet stands for and he completely misses the whole fuckin point as to *WHY* little miss attention whore Kathy was even "targeted" in the first place. You can't take anything online seriously, you have to take *EVERYTHING* with a grain of salt, because on the Internet you have no real way of knowing FOR CERTAIN whether something is real or not real. Anything in the online world can be fabricated or manipulated...a fact that is sorely missed by our justice systems, who rarely understand the nature of the Internet.

Those who can't get that concept through their head present themselves as entertainment packages, targets to be shot up with words carefully crafted to try and get them to spaz out and have a little mental meltdown over nothing moar than words on a screen. It's a sport, really, amongst trolls, or Internet performance artists as we like to call ourselves. But moar than that it's also a teaching tool, designed to force people to comprehend that they can't take things online seriously, or, if they do, they're going to wind up with their lil mind all ripped apart. Or in the cases of online attention whores liak lil Kathy, they actually *FEED* off of it, or rather they feed off the emotional sympathy and pity that they manage to molest out of others around them as a result of it.

Ultimately the goal of an Internet performance artist is to back someone into a corner and force them to lash out in every way that they can to "fight off" their attacker, once they've exhausted every means they can think of to "get back" at the person whose bested them, that's when they're effectively forced to comprehend that, simply put...you have no real power over anyone online...at all. And ultimately, the only one who can *REALLY* make you angry or upset online...is you. At most, all anyone online can do is to provide you with opportunities and excuses to play out whatever little emotional games that *YOU* want to try and play, as you so desperately try and define the Internet as you do the real world. Such attempts are absolute comedy gold to those of us who actually understand the Internet, those of us who have evolved socially to a level where *NOTHING* online bothers us...at all. At the very most all it is, is simply...words on a screen. Nothing moar than that. You must *CHOOSE* to make it moar than that and it is *ALWAYS* on you.