A Different Perspective.

Science all up in this bitch.

2010-04-19T15:17:00.001-07:00

Haven't had much to do or say as of late, kind of turning into a vegetable. Though, they say you are what you eat but I haven't touched vegetables since I started cooking for myself. Anyways, I've been laughing about the video by the Insane Clown Posse' that has them calling acts of science "Miracles". A sketch group I watch online did a video mocking it very well.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/loadingreadyrun/1629-Scientists-Rebuttal-to-ICP

The link to the actual ICP music video's below the video(NSFW language). The whole thing is sadly entertaining but it definately brings the point that ignorence is bliss.

I will get to posting something that's of my own original flavor sometime. If someone wants to bring something to my attention, feel free to e-mail me at danielm1129@hotmail.com and I can give it a verbal work over. Well, have a fantastic day and if you see a muthafuckin rainbow, it's a apparently a work of god.

Been a while

2010-03-03T12:01:00.000-08:00

Yup, haven't posted in a while. Just thought I give a quick blurb on an article I read.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/98691-Dead-or-Alive-Paradises-Swaying-Boobs-Dont-Degrade-Women

The title alone kinda makes ya laugh. If you got the time, read it then continue this.

It's pretty goofy to watch that video and then read the article. The first and most important thing you have to realize is, this game is for the losers who get off on that kinda stuff and kids who are quick to tell their parents it's just a sports game and have them skip over the M rating quick. Besides, I don't have a PSP, which is the other not so important but high to be noted facts. Why? Funny articles. I read them regularly and when I start hearing about the people who decide to play this in a public place and get all........excited and offend the old couple and the clan of nuns who happen to be in the splash-zone. So yeah, I may throw some up on here later if I find them. Now, I'm off to take a shower and drink a pint of milk.

My other car is an accordion

2010-01-07T09:30:00.000-08:00

My crappy little car had a large van sit on it a few days ago. I am not a happy camper. The extent of the damage is in the front. It still ran, but when I got it to the shop to get it fixed, first thing I heard was, "You know your radiator's leaking right?". So, I'm pretty bummed out. Worse yet, I wasn't allowed to sign for a rental car so now my brother chauffeur's me around. He gets the one thing that makes this seem not so bad which is a nissan versa 2009. oh well. Just thought I'd whine for a little bit.

Desensitization

2009-12-20T11:47:00.000-08:00

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/96925-ESRB-Rates-Mass-Effect-2-Big-Krogan-Sex

I know it's kind of a stretch, but I got the idea for something to write about from reading this article. I want to talk about desensitization. I know that for people who understand that word as something other than what happens to aging men or Tobey Maguire in Spiderman 2 (heh, nerd humor) you probably have a pretty varied stance because this concept is still somewhat theoretical more than anything. So for those who don't know, here's a quick lesson.

Desensitization is the concept of pushing so much extreme content such as violence, sex, awkward situations, etc. on a person that they become unmoved by that factor. A good scenario could be someone who watches a lot of horror movies. They're sitting at home, then the power goes off. Someone who doesn't or only watches a few horror films might freak out because they're afraid of the dark or they're paranoid, thinking someone cut the power. Someone who has become desensitized might react differently by.........well, not reacting at all. This can be good, but can also be bad in it's own right. It can be good by making someone not panic and allow them to think smart and resolve the situation clear minded, but it could also be bad by making someone not react fast enough to said situation. Another good scenario is the flinching game. You fake a punch at someone. They're either going to flinch or not flinch(that is the question) and the reason that they do this is because if they flinched, it's probably because they are afraid of it because they don't like being punched. If they don't, they've probably been hit a lot or been in the situation enough to know whether it's worth moving out of the way or not. Joe Normal may freak out at a fake out punch, but Jet Li probably won't just plain flinch if he even does anything. Yet again we land at good and bad. Good, you flinch and protect your precious good looks (snicker). Bad, you're probably going to curl up, leaving yourself open for worse if the guy decides to really hit you, as well as making you look like a chump. Good, you don't flinch and you look tough and you may even be clear headed enough to dodge or counter said punch. Bad, if you just plain don't flinch and make no big deal out of it, you're probably going to suffer the loss of a tooth and some precious childhood memories. Point is desensitization can be both beneficial and superficial depending on both the situation and the degree.

Anyways, the main reason I placed this article out there was the fact that the ESRB is and has been making a big deal out of the game Mass Effect's suggestive content. This content just so happens to be drugs, gambling, sex, and heavy violence just to name a few. Now, I'm not sure about the rest of you but at this point, most drugs, gambling, sex, and violence don't phase me very easily. If I have to put this in perspective, I watched 2 girls 1 cup and 1 finger, as well as the BME pain Olympics with at least one person present and the most I could do is laugh. I kinda just sat there and snickered while I had people around me turn away, leave the room, and in one case projectile vomit. I don't know exactly what this could say about me personally, but what I do know is that it takes a lot to freak me out, gross me out, or anything of the like and otherwise. The reason for this is the fact that I have always been fascinated by freaky stuff, blood/gore, supernatural chicanery, cantankerous situations, basically anything that cannot be explained rationally as well as the stuff that can but on a more psychological basis. Now, Because of this fascination, I have read, watched, and just plain dabbled in it for a long time. Because of this, I am no longer afraid of things that go bump in the night, even though I used to be. This allows for me to walk into dark rooms, corridors, and houses without so much as a moments hesitation. I also had a bad fear of heights until I started climbing trees, roofs, platforms, ect. and after long enough, heights don't bother me anymore. This means that I can easily go up high without mental problems, but it also means I will naturally be less careful because I'm so used to it.

Now, as pertaining to the article, I want to point out the title of the article above. If you don't know what a krogan is, Google it real quick and come back. Done? Yeah, now that title disturbs you a little bit doesn't it? Kinda makes the skin crawl huh? Well, it really didn't for me. Why? Because I have heard of, read of, and probably watched at some point, two beings that I found grossly unattractive doing the horizontal mambo, and I got the ews, oh my gods, and holy FUCK's out of my system. Now, I think that just because a video game wants to make a game rating more mature because of “Implied Sex” then I'm just stuck thinking that all these fuckers at the ESRB are doing are reading spreadsheets from game testers that say “3 counts of drug use, 2 sex scenes, etc.” and they plug it into a machine that spits out a rating. I played the first mass effect through I believe 3 times and undertook both the human on human Quote-Unquote “Romantic Encounter” as well as the human on asari-alien and the female-human on asari-alien. There wasn't so much as a “nip-slip” and after the minor language, obvious violence, and suggestive moral choices, I would have to give it a Teen rating rather then the M it got. I mean, it could have been so much badder, but everyone made a big deal about the facilitation of a sex scene that could involve a human of either gender getting a squeeze and a squirt from an alien in the game. You think that should nab them an M rating for something I have heard (a professional critic mind you) someone say it was borderline bestiality (oh wait, inter-species erotica) and that was grounds for a heavier restriction. Well, I'd like to point out a few other situations. How about the movie species? Human on alien action and some of them had a pg-13 rating. Hmm? How about the movie treasure planet? Remember the scene at the end where the the captain and the dog-thing had cross species babies? I was young when I saw that movie but I knew where babies came from and I could put two and two together pretty easily. So where's it's M rating?

When you're in the future and one race has discovered a new species of intelligent lifeforms, I'm pretty sure that there's some deranged fellow on both our world and their world that would like to frolic in the cornfield, and when their done feeding the kitty, they're probably going to roll over and then yet again proceed to park the Plymouth in the parking garage of love until one of them suffers some sort of stroke. In this case, I have been so desensitized to the concept that I could care less in such a situation and I think that the ESRB, FCC, and anyone else who passes such judgments over any content onto the public should consider. Those organizations shouldn't be run by prudes, they should be run by people who understand the concepts of the content they're rating better. If they have problems with the fact that a game has a situation in which the dude piston proceeds to active in the body shop, then people who have degrees, notoriety, and general knowledge of the concept of the vulcanizing of the whoopie stick should be at a minimum consulted rather then leaving it up to the soccer moms at the ESRB.

Also, just because I condone it, doesn't mean I'd be particularly fond of watching the Krogan service the clam.

Long Time

2009-12-16T15:06:00.000-08:00

I think i'll just skip the sorry me no update thing and just give you something to chew for a little while. I just got done unboxing and sorting all the new computers that are going into my old college class that i'll never get to use. I decided to put them all on table and face them towards my instructors office window. I had one idea that from the way it looked, it kinda looked like an entrance to a cafe or restaurant and I got the innate urge to put up signs, one saying "Welcome to Chez Geek" and the other saying "Sky-net will seat you now" but I think I'm the only one who would really laugh at it. I will try and find something to write about at some point in the future. till then, i'll be seein ya. Also, does anybody know what proof the holy spirit is?

Still kind of out of it.......

2009-09-14T12:47:00.000-07:00

It's been almost a month since my last update but the surprising and recent surge of web traffic made me decide to give a status update as of..........right now. So, I've spent most of my time lately getting a job and I now work a 40 hour workweek along a 40 hour school week. As I must describe this, it's pretty freaky. I will be updating this and my gamer blog soon so you will be seeing new posts soon. I just have to manage this hectic week along the way. Til then, I bid you all adue.

Out of it.

2009-08-19T10:44:00.000-07:00

I must apologize for the lack of updates on all ends. I've been in an extremely bad way lately with a car wreck as well as my backup car going out on me, a lot of family issues, and some housing issues. I will try and find something to update with soon so please bare with me. I plan on doing some game reviews and more rants soon. Also, if anyone is feeling generous at all, I could really use any possible help financially as after paying off towing, a traffic ticket, and car parts, so I am pretty off financially. I could use the help if it can be spared. Thank you to my loyal readers and I hope to be back in full swing soon.

To be, or not to be Offended

2009-07-16T15:29:00.000-07:00

Ok, I have something new to talk about and anyone who is or was a student, white collar worker, etcetera will know something about what I'm talking about. What I am referencing is harassment policies. This means sexual, verbal, physical, mental, and the one kind only a large man named Bubba can accommodate.

I guess I'm starting off with what inspired me and why it pisses me off. I am still in college and at the beginning of class, he asks us to give him our undivided attention(which meant I wasn't allowed to waste time googling the origin of cheese) and he read to us the school's policies on sexual harassment and harassment in general. He read the things I knew he'd read; He read about no sexual comments, no sexual advances, and no pinching someone else's butt cheeks(You see, this totally ruined my plans to go around hip thrusting, fondling people's behinds saying “Imma eat you lika fudgesicle”). After that he went on to talk about another kind of harassment, the unintentional kind. He says that two people walking down the hall could think a joke about a mentally handicapped person could be totally retarded, but also very funny to the two, but not funny to someone in listening distance. This is particularly annoying for me as I quickly though, “This is an college and an adult environment. Why are these people whining like a bunch of high school freshmen?”.

Now, I admit, I find jokes about size, shape, race, religion, your mom, intelligence, and other thing that can be construed as indirectly offensive(Like your, short, fat, stupid, honky mom) normally quite funny. The main reason is because these jokes made against said group is normally untrue. A person could come up to me and say “Your momma's so fat, she fell out of bed and erased an Etch-i-sketch in Mexico” and I would know that that's so misconstrued that I won't and can't take that as offensive and unless your standing next to a giant women carrying her baby, crying about losing the square he worked so hard to make on that damn Etch-i-sketch, then no one in the vicinity should get offended.

Now this is specifically me talking about the indirect where you can stereotype something and make it so unbelievable that no one should get offended. This DOES NOT APPLY when someone thinks it's funny to call someone something meant to directly single out a person like saying “Bobby is a baby”. This is not something that should go without punishment because it isolates a person inn the intention of making them a spotlight for humiliation.

As mean as that can be, it's not what I'm talking about. What annoys me as much, if not more then that is when someone hears someone make a joke about a Mexican and his tag line being “able to leap tall fences in a single bound!” and someone overhearing going “I'm 2% Spanish and that offends my heritage!” and then we have to go without joking about such obvious fallicies and soon enough, we get some kid going nuts because he can't cope with their school being so uniform and rule heavy and decides to subject me and others to another tech school shooting. What's worse is that these people who get offended probably are as broken as the person shooting the school and they don't get ridiculed and put down in history as crazy freak.

I know a few people who are kind of like this and here's an example. I have an unnamed person who's more of an acquaintance that for some strange reason CANNOT STAND jokes that make any reference to Mexicans. However, jokes about them black people, oh yes; He loves them jokes. Worse yet, when I or others point out that fact, the guy refuses to admit that it's a little off and is probably the only way to tell if someone has some sort of a discrimination tactic, even if they don't fully realize it.

The moral of this is that, even though something could be construed as offensive, even if it has something to do with something you have a relation to,(like me being fat) you shouldn't get mad if someone makes a joke that doesn't make a distinction. I don't care what someone says about me as long as it is indirect. If someone says all black people like fried chicken, that shouldn't bother anybody because it's easy to assume that it's a generalized statement and is not true, but if someone else says “hey black guy, go eat some fried chicken” then that particular person has a right to get annoyed. If he does, then they can take care of themselves. If they don't then this vicious cycle can begin again until the first option happens. In any case, unless you are the black guy getting that tasty, meaty,......sorry what were we.....oh. Unless you have that chicken in your face, then it's not your job to get offended. Let me repeat that. It's NOT YOUR JOB to get offended. Unfortunately, I know that even after reading this, some people will only see IT'S not YOUR JOB TO GET OFFENDED. It will happen, but if in the long run these people are thinned out, we shouldn't have to deal with that bullshit(my apologies to all bulls) and we can have a little bit of our free speech back.

Sloooooooooowwwwwwww............

2009-07-14T09:10:00.000-07:00

It's been a while since my last post and my intention with this is to let you know I'm not dead. I've been busy both working and slacking off. I spent the host of my last week reading all the D&D Fourth Edition books to run a campaign for some of my in the nerd closet friends and I'm still working to sate them enough to truly fall in love with the game and so far I think it's working. I will try and post something new, funny, and relevent soon but as always, I can't make any promises. Till then, L8er.

Loyalty

2009-06-10T13:01:00.000-07:00

Not too long ago I had a discussion with a friend of mine. Though this sounds like a regular occurrence to most, this one for me was particularly important. I've been friends with this person for a while and he has proven to be one of my more trustworthy friends as I have somehow endowed him with a sense of morals close to my own and I seem to be able to trust him just as much as I trust myself. Now, although this seems like the important part, it's not. This friend of mine is also extremely immature (like a 12 year old in Pee Wee's Playhouse) and it's reflected constantly as he will do things spontaneously in an act to be funny (kinda reminds of somebody) and his version of funny is a little more close to poop humor and the etceteras as compared to my own. So, I'm cleaning my basement which I had recently lit on fire (don't ask) and he agreed to help me out. We spent most of the time joking about the random this and thats of recent times and we reach a point we talk about another friend of ours who we became very distraught on in the terms of our own judgments of him.

This friend of ours has in both our opinions made a lot of bad choices during his life. Even though I could go on and on about them, I would save everyone a lot of time and just call him what he has defined himself: a weed fiend. Now, anyone who knows me knows that I think of pot as THE most harmless drug available for recreational use. You cannot overdose on it, it takes less to get you buzzed then tobacco and it can be “vaporized” to cut out the harmful effects on your lungs. For the most part, it's never proven to me to be severely harmful (except for the one guy at my school who got sucked into a machine while he was stoned, but I just look at that one as natural selection(of an arm and a couple fingers)). Now, this friend of ours has basically flushed a lot of his life down the toilet as all he really ever did was get high and wobble to places to get more weed to stay high. Then, a couple days before the talk with friend number 1, I saw him at some random lady's house mowing a lawn and truly busting his ass. I went over and talked to him and he told me he was clean and trying to pay his court fines. I had heard that before, but I was happy to see him doing something that didn't involve a bong and the fear of care bears eating him so I walked off for the day.

Now is when I talk to my friend. He spent a lot of time explaining why he doesn't want to be friends with the “weed fiend” anymore. He believed that all that he would do is hold him back and as many times as he tried to help him, he was refused. I knew he made a good point, but I hold something in my set of morals that he doesn't, and that's loyalty. I have always held that to be one of the most honorable things a person can ever receive from someone else. Even though I knew my friend didn't like the idea, I told him that because this fiendish friend of ours had never done anything to make me unloyal to him, I'll still help him to my deathbed if need be. As foolish as it might sound, I believe in this just like I believe in the golden rule. Only when someone does something to break my loyalty do I leave them behind me. As mean as it sounds, I have had friends that have betrayed me and stabbed me in the back. I know how it feels to be treated like shit (in some cases over no apparent reason) and I never want to put anyone I consider a friend through the pain of betrayal. Because this friend of mine had never done such an act of unloyalty, I still am on his side when it comes to is decisions. I know this may be a weird way to look at your friends, but I have come to find down this long road that the real friends you have are the ones that do for you as you would do for them. Even if a friend of yours makes some bad choices, I don't think it's any reason to abandon them. They may hold me back in some way, but I bet at the same time at some point, I held them back in some indirect way. I explained this and my friend was a little adamant about it and saw what I meant and knew how he would never want such a thing to happen to him and by doing what he said he would, he would be hurting someone who was a friend to him.

So, what does this mean? It means that friends should always treat their friends with trust and understanding. It means that even when your friend experiences hardship (even if it's their fault), you should be a friend and be there to help. It means being behind your friend when they need you and sometimes even when they don't.

Really, I am trying.

2009-05-14T09:36:00.000-07:00

I'm (hopefully) getting to the end of my house hunt. I will try to get something to tide ya'll over till I move and therefore, have more free time. I may use twitter the way everyone else uses it for once but, I usually just keep throwing random irrelevent crap up there anyways. I'll put some work into something in my (meger) free time today and hopefully I will succeed.

First sign of the apocolypse, I update.

2009-04-22T07:59:00.001-07:00

Ok, Thought it'd be a good time for a basic update. I'm hopefully gonna be able to afford internet at my house which will help me take better care of this blog because I've been leaving it on it's own with my power tools and I'm surprised the walls aren't coated in blood yet. I'm gonna do something close to an overhaul as soon as I get a chance since I have enough people who care about me updating(whether long or short) that I should personalize this site and make it more unique(not a myspace). I also ave another rant in the works that's based on some more news that has been going on a lot and I have plenty of personal experience to back up the idea. So, within a few weeks, expect some new stuff. Also, keep up with my twitter since I'll use it to keep up with my time schedule or just other random stuff I think the general public or otherwise might be interested in.

On the bandwagon

2009-04-14T09:07:00.000-07:00

I decided to give nit twit twitter a try. I've heard both the good and the bad and I've decided to try it as a bit of a social experiment. I think it will work well because it will make me not have to post small tidbits all over my directory and I can just put them out of the way. So, check the right side of my page under the search engine doohickey and/or follow me directly through twitter.

Addiction and Control P2

2009-04-10T15:55:00.000-07:00

If you didn't read the first one, scroll down and come back after you read it and the first comment I got.

Yes anonymous, you are correct. Addiction is the compulsive urge you can't control, so when I say control, i really mean overcome(or one of those other words they use in AA). The main reason I use the word control in conjunction with addiction(which is a contridiction) is because I personally like the idea of controlling the uncontrollable(lLike the Incredible Hulk). The control I meant was actually the ability to overcome addiction, but still be able to enjoy the activity without letting it get to you. I hope that clears a few thing s up and yes, I am sorry for shoving personal preference in my writing which I admit would easily confuse some people(but I'm don't feel like going through the whole thing and changing it). So, till next we meet, may your skies be clear and your cupcakes be cream filled.

Addiction and Control

2009-04-09T15:27:00.001-07:00

Here is a subject I hope everyone has some experience with. Personally, I believe everyone is addicted to something and when I say everyone, I mean every single bloody person. Addiction for all it's faults is the main reason we have any kind of drive to do something with ourselves. Some people are addicted to money which causes them to work hard and get paid, but also makes some want to steal or apply for a job at AIG. Some are addicted to power which makes them try to gain influence over others and sometimes it leads to bad things like Castro. Regardless of the type of addictions there are, it's hard to look at yourself in the mirror and tell yourself that you're not addicted to something.

These addictions primarily cause us to release endorphins into our head and they also cause me to talk about science, but let me Barney it down for you. Our addictions cause us to do things that make us happy. Me, I like making other people feel good (no, I am not a prostitute). I like making people laugh or I like informing people of certain things that make them go “whoa dude” and the etcetera's. I do this because it reflects on me and makes me happy. The reason I know it's an addiction? It's because I do it every chance I get, even when I don't want to. There have been times when I could be watching a dramatic movie and just blurt out something that to most people would be a joke turned all the way up to 11, but under these circumstances the people watching who are really into the movie can't put up with it and it therefore causes a negative. A good example is my brother; He watched Twilight with his wife and because of his addiction to pointing out inconsistencies made him say things about the movie that pissed off his Twilight loving wife and he got kicked out of the room due to it(Not that he wanted to finish that movie or anything anyways).

You may think that the negative element of any addiction has absolutely nothing to do with it, but I consider it a requirement. My theory is that you must meet the requirements that it must cross your mind/manner/speech at multiple times a day and negatively affect at least a few aspects of yours and/or others lives, though there is no limit. Now, if you think about it, you will realize that those two circumstances apply to EVERY known and unknown addiction. Alcoholism is thinking about drinking, being drunk, and/or never drinking again and is also the “No daddy no! The lampshade's not your party hat and my teddy bear isn't Farrah Fawcett!” Even though that was an easy one, you should get my point. On a side note I'd also like to add that I still consider many so called Ex-Alcoholics as frauds. My dad got clean somewhere around 8 years ago, but whenever he gets a chance, he talks about it and annoys me (if not everyone else) and therefore he meets my requirements of addiction. Why is this? It's because even though he quit drinking, he still lets it control his life. He subconsciously pines for it like a baby when separated from it's mother and that leads me to part 2, Control.

Control is fairly simple, it's when you have the ability to choose when and when you don't do something. People with OCD are probably annoyed by my saying this, but there's a difference between doing something because your brain and body is unstable, and doing something because you just don't give a shit otherwise. I know that the first set of people that will say nay are people in recovery from substances and certain activities such as gambling. They'll say that they have control because they don't do it anymore, but the thing they don't see is that it still controls their lives. They let it control parts of their lives by thinking about it all the time and letting it still control their lives(even if it's in a somewhat indirect fashion). STORY TIME!!!

Way back when the Nintendo 64 was the premium gaming console, I had finally saved enough to buy my own and played it to no end. Then the game Banjo-Kazooie came out and I played the demo at a local game store and fell in love (with it's ripping off of Mario 64 and whatnot). I begged and pleaded with my mother to buy the game, but seeing as it had just came out it was an agonizing 50 bucks. Obviously, I didn't have the money and my mother wasn't willing to shell out the money so during the begging session we reach a point where she asks me if I'm “hooked” on playing video games. I refused (like any addict would) to said accusations and my mother decided on either a good way to stall me or a good way to teach me a lesson. She bet me that I couldn't go 1 month without playing any(and I mean ANY) video games whatsoever. If I proved her wrong, she'd buy me the game. I quickly shook on that bet thinking there was no way I could lose. 3 days into it I started having trouble sleeping, I was nauseated all the time, and I shivered a lot. You guessed it, I was detoxing. Now, being a young child, I had no idea what was wrong so I tried anything to take my mind of video games. Day 10, I relapsed. I rolled out of bed in the middle of the night, grabbed the 64 I promised not to touch and played until daybreak. Right before my mother got up I put everything back(having got my fix) and acted like nothing was wrong. I spent the next week kicking myself around for breaking a promise as the shakes started back in. Finally about 3 weeks in, I broke down and told my mother she was right. She was happy to see me learn a lesson, but obviously I was pretty pitiful. Since that point I have learned to control my addiction to video games as well as everything else that can prove to have addictive properties. I don't freak out anymore if I go without my 360 for a week and I feel happier because of it.

Now here's where I get to be a little conceded. I learned about this and the ability to control myself very early on in life and I've referenced it ever since. However, there are some people who never had this kind of scenario happen to them and they don't find out (until it's too late) that they shouldn't do certain things and the people I'm pointing at are SMOKERS! Many people I know who smoke all tell me that they started young and never learned to quit until it was too hard and they were in too deep. I tried smoking way back when and I was a smoker for about 1 and a half months. I was very meticulous since I knew if my mother caught me, it'd be my end so I bagged the butts and wore a lot of body spray. I got up to a pack a day and as soon as I ran out of the surplus of cartons I had bought I went cold turkey. I suffered through the sweats and shivers(and a few things I'm better off not mentioning) and it lasted about 3 days. I mean, it did last longer, but the bulk was about 3 days. I smoked camels and I inhaled and every single one was smoked down to the filter which all amounted to 3 cartons. That's a lot of nicotine in my book and I weathered it out.

Now, I know that 1 month cannot amount to the X amount of years but I'm still saying that It's not impossible. The few people I know who went years and quit cold turkey contribute about the same amount. The point is that any addiction that can impact your life so much is unhealthy. Now is where the conceded part comes in. I still enjoy the occasional cigarette and if I smoke one, two, or twenty over a day, I can still go forever and not really feel the need for another one. I smoke so erratically that my body refuses to acknowledge a need for the substance. I know that it may seem a little weird, but I know it's not my body rejecting the nicotine since I definitely feel the effects afterwards, and I know it's not because I haven't been smoking for years (since I still do smoke, just not the pack a day kind) and I really believe that this can be achieved by anybody who has the balls enough to try

Okay, that went a little bit on a tangent and wasn't 100% relevant, but my meaning is simple. People who like to drink, you don't need to get plastered all the time or give it up entirely. Start cutting back to a beer after work to help you relax and not throw down a bottle of crown every night. Smokers, a couple of cigarettes a day is as good as a pack a day if you ration it out and know when you need it more then you don't. Gamblers, a penny saved is a penny earned. Don't go waste your life savings trying to win it big. You're not going to. Go every once in a while with friends and give yourself a time and or money limit and don't go overboard. Game addicts, quit staring at the screen and do something about the dog pissing on my carpet!

In short, I wish all people to have big cajones.

Only god and I know how much I lie.

2009-04-09T07:40:00.000-07:00

I'm working on the rant but my teacher has me running stufff for the skills U.S.A. contest that takes place on a day I didn't know I had off from school. I will have an intermediate break during that time however so it should be 100% by friday afternoon, but I obviously can't make any promises.

Much ado about not doing.

2009-04-07T07:53:00.001-07:00

Sorry about not updating over spring break. I kept myself 1 part busy, 1 part lazy, and 2 parts uninspired over the entire thing so I never really got around to much. I will be posting a new long rant on a new topic as well as some entertainment so check back later and enjoy.

Edit: My apologies, my teacher is cracking down on my computer usage so I haven't been able to write my stuff up yet. I won't be able to get it up today (Chuckle) but I should get it done sometime soon.

Edit2: Ok, I got it started but it's still gonna take some time so come back later, it'll probably be done between now and eternity.........I mean 3:30 P.M.

The Daniel is Happy.

2009-03-23T08:40:00.000-07:00

I'm pretty happy with the recent surge of pageviews I've been getting. Well, I'm waiting for some inspiration to strike to do another rant since I've been too busy lately to play any games to completion and review them so if you want to contribute then drop me a line line(Danielm1129@hotmail.com) and give me an idea for a topic to talk about or anything else you want me to talk about. Might be back today or sometime this week, just waiting till inspiration strikes. Till then, see you later.

Edit: This guy is smart; He wants you to worship him.

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090321/NEWS/903210327

Sickeningly Funny:

http://open.salon.com/blog/amytuteurmd/2009/03/20/she_tried_to_flush_baby_down_the_toilet_the_it_gets_weird?97665

And the just plain sick:

http://www.miamiherald.com/295/story/960792.html

Bad Words

2009-03-17T09:21:00.000-07:00

Sorry to get this in the way of St. Patrick's Day but this does need a little clarification. Read this and come back later, I'll elaborate this properly.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1162463/BBC-apologises-Match-Day-pundit-compares-football-tackle-rape.html

Edit: Ok, This is another something I have a good amount to talk about and personal experience to go with it. There are people that use the word Rape SEVIERLY out of context. I know this is a very touchy word and that's why it annoys me when I hear it. In considerance, it's just like people who use the words gay and retarded in general conversation. I've heard “That's so gay” used out of context so many times it could power a super hadron collider, and it makes me sad to see the fact that it's used so socially now. It mostly seems to revolve around the younger crowd, especially gamers. I thinks it's just a way of being edgy and offensive to seem cool like it was when I was growing up, but now I see why so many people older then me frowned upon it so much. STORY TIME!!!

When I was, somewhere between 1998 and 2000, I remember watching my brother play Final Fantasy VII. I remember watching for a good 10 minutes and then watched as my brother got into a battle with a boss (the snake outside the chocobo ranch) and I watched as my brother got Cloud(main character's) Limit(Special ability). Not sure what was running through my head but I blurted out a comment that involved the word “Rape” and the word “Him”. Now being somewhere around 9 years old, I obviously had no clue what it meant and I'm not even sure where I picked the word up from. Instantaneously my brother called me on that and asked if I knew what the word meant; I didn't have a single clue. I thought it was a cool word that involved beating someone up. I was Veeeerrrryyyy wrong.

Fast forward a bit. Now I'm my brother's age and I'm babysitting so I can make some money. I babysit this one kid and we play violent video games over the night. He then blurts out “Rape!” in a choppy sentence as he gets mad from losing a lot. I ask him why he said that and he just shrugs his shoulders and I did the same thing my brother did to me. “Never use words you don't know the meaning to.”

Fast forward to a couple weekends ago. I'm hanging out at a friends house and we have a bunch of people over there and we're all playing a board game(Arkham Horror). Now, I know some of these people and some I don't really know. I'm setting up said game and the last guy who gets there is this gamer nerd who is twitching like an epileptic watching old batman cartoons 3 inches from the T.V. And he takes his seat across from me. We finally start the game and in the middle of one of the other player's turns when he's fighting a monster, this guy just flips out and blurts “Rape it Man!”. This kinda strikes a nerve because between the kid I babysat and this mid to late teen both blurting out this word, I've had to deal with people using this word like it's a plaything and I only expect it from someone who doesn't know any better(a.k.a., my 10 year old self). I did promptly turn to him and told him to never use that word for anything out of meaning. He agreed but then continued to blatantly use retard and gay and the etcetera's for when he began to lose.

This bit isn't just about the word Rape but all words that people don't use properly anymore. Across any day I normally manage to hear words like nigger, faggot, and worse used completely out of place by people who do not understand the true meaning of the words they speak. I am starting to hate society not frowning on this as much. I once went to a gamestop and saw a boy kick a PS3 kiosk and yell “muthafucker” while his mom bought him a copy of one of the GTA games for christ sakes. I don't want to be sitting at a restaurant and over hear the word rape and rush to stop something that's only a kid throwing a PSP at the ground. I'm not really sure why this hasn't caught on for some people(especially some parents) but I hope something comes around to make stuff like this not happen.

Lastly here's some sound advice for those of you that understand this, but still let words like those slip out. What you need to do is read a dictionary. Learn some new words that mean what you're really feeling or what you actually want to convey to the situation. Loath, odium, malice, spite, abhorrence. Words like those both sound cool and make your point without you coming across as a tourettes sufferer or an Eric Cartman clone.

Thanks for reading.

Happy St. Patty's Day!

2009-03-17T09:10:00.000-07:00

http://www.startribune.com/local/41346142.html?elr=KArksUUUycaEacyU

A little something for the spirit of today lads and lasses.

Marijuana (again)

2009-03-14T22:15:00.000-07:00

Pot, cannibus, dope, bud, grass, and all the other pseudonyms, how do ya feel about it? You've probably heard this side before (unless you've been in a cave or stoned the last 20 years) which is legalization of marijuana will help the economy. Why? It's because of the government's ability to tax the shit out of it and the willingness of the public to pay for it. I agree with this because right now, we're doing it with booze, cigerettes, and worst yet soon to be caffiene.

http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_11891484

It sucks, I know. I enjoy the fact that my drug o' choice isn't heavily taxed, it will be just like anything else that people find even slightly recreational. Now here's where my magic comes in. Right off the bat I want to make my best in your face point up front. Micheal Phelps, 8 gold medals, recreational pot user. I don't know about you, but a guy can go to the olympics, get into the pool with the cannibus cannonball, and come out smelling like a white mushroom, then the part of the nay argument that says you won't amount to ANYTHING is pretty toast to me. Next is the argument that it makes you do bad things (which is also the main argument for absinthe) is defunct because all the pot smokers I know at best are willing to walk from place to place and smoke more pot, sleep, or do something that involves them sitting on the couch for an extended period of time. It makes everything more significant and less crappy when you're stoned. It makes you want to not do anything because you reach a point when you can't be much more giddy. It's almost a natural antidepressant that doesn't remind some educated individuals of synthetic heroin. This helps under the factor that both recreational and medical use of marijuana would be near encouraged and it would help those who are wound up all the time. Hell, I bet good money if the guy(s) were smoking a little bitta chronic now and then, we wouldn't of had near as many tech school shootings.

Now, legalizing it is tricky business because the overly religious, the paranoid, the uneducated, and all the etcetera's included will prevent it at all costs. Part of it is the gateway drug problem which I can't deny but here's where this big argument is. If it's illegal, it dessensitizes you to doing illegal drugs and hey, what's the harm in heroin? If it's legal, then you can still be timid and when you think of illegal, you think of tweekers who rob friends and family blind because they need another fix and it scares the crap out of people, especially potheads. Next is the brainwashing deal. Most people are afraid of pot because their parents made such a big deal about about it. "Son, don't smoke weed, it's the DEVIL!!! You smoke the weed, then the weed's gonna smoke you." I don't believe this because the one big thing is the fact that it's not very addictive. It takes a LONG time of HEAVY pot smoking to get you to detox and all it makes you is a little edgy now and then and those episodes are few and far between. All of this revolves around people being scared of what they don't understand. Anyone who has smoked pot or at least been around a stoner for a length of time knows it's less harmful then tabacco or booze. There is no such thing as an angry pot smoker.

Now, the important part of this, legaliztion. I know it will happen. Over the last 20 years, more people are being informed and it makes them more open to new things. Even the more timid people aren't scared anymore because they know that it's not causing as many problems as it seemed to a while back. This makes some realize that it wouldn't change a whole ton of things when it's legal. Sure, there will be some people that annoy you cause their stoned, but I'd personally rather deal with a stoner than a drunk. Stoners are generally happy and not easy to upset while drunks are the other way around. This means that there will be most likely less drunks and more stoners which I am actually pretty happy to think about it.

Truth be told is that I see this going the way of a mix of gay marraige and prohibition. It's gonna be legal, then illegal, then legal, then illegal. After a while it'll be so borderline not even the cops are really gonna care anymore. Also after it's first re-illegalization, there's gonna be so many people harboring tons of the stuff that it's not gonna matter anymore. I mean it's practically legal now. There are people I know who(stupidly enough) went in front of a police station, smoked, then left the remains there and walked away. When I say in front of the police station, i'm talking about the guy at the front desk being able to see them kinda close. Thei to me points out that either no one is really bothered by the weed, or the police are kinda slow. I'm thinking of a combination of two things again.

Anyways, I give it 10 years tops. I'm not talking full legalization like amsterdam legal, probably just decriminalization first. By 20 years, FULL legalization. That means in 20 years, I'm betting I'll be able to walk into a 7-11 and see packs of Camal cannibus buy 2 get 1 free. I'll probably just get a slurpee and poke fun at the clerk, but it's still gonna happen so, Yay for all the potheads. You're going to save our economy.

Green money for Green Bud. 20 years.

Marijuana

2009-03-13T14:29:00.000-07:00

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1884956,00.html

I'll talk about this later, gotta work this weekend.

Writer's Block

2009-03-09T10:29:00.000-07:00

Need something to write about.......... I'm a go check the fark.

I'm here, tell yo friends.

2009-02-26T10:37:00.000-08:00

I wanna do a big schpeel on religion. My only problem is I have only about 10 average readers a day, devoted or random, I wanna do a big rant on religion and leave it there for a while which means I'd attempt my best work so far. I want to see more readers to read it which is my only problem so if anyone who reads this wants my A material, please plug me........I mean promote my blog. If I see more readers then I will give it my all for the ability to prove myself as a writer, a thinker, and hopefully an insightful funny bastard. So yeah, join my army and make me mighty. I'm already gonna work on another piece for later so I'll probably update in about a weekish but opefully it's going to make happy and people will go haha.

Also on an entertaining note, This particular thing happened to me that led to this article. Read it before continuing this blog if you will.

http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/38994

This happened to me two days ago. I got called and a guy came over the phone promoting this particular film. he said it was a very popular family film that everyone's raving about and thinking it was a recording I said "Then why the hell would you need my help". The line grew silent. The dude I thought was recording started telling me off that I was against family films. I replied simply with "I'm on the NATIONAL do not call list. You guys are gonna get screwed hard". Well, now we know. Also, I'm gonna download the movie and distribute it. Unfortunatly no one'll want it and I won't bother watching it. Not really sure how they could say straightfaced that they didn't think they were breaking any rules and also be a film company. That department was probably too busy doing powdered velvetine or something. I think the only thing that'll help it's number is that "No plablicity is bad plablicity" which was kinda how passion of the christ and twilight got so much money. There were people like me who would go and pay, just to see how bad something could be. I consider both movies terrible and using this logic, i'm not going to go see this "adaption" of the classic children's book; That ship has sailed. Besides, there's already two recent adaptions out there, why do we need a third? Oh well. I'm gonna go watch The Producers again. Maybe then I'll understand their logic.

A little clarification, A little rant.

2009-02-24T11:05:00.001-08:00

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Ok, I went off a little bit again and I'd like to clarify a few things. I can't hate everyone in a group regardless of what they believe in. Whether it's religeous or special interest, when I say everyone in there is messed up, someone will come from that particular group and call me on it. This hasn't happened yet and out of my fear of it happening I want to clarify this now.

I don't HATE furries. I just have a problem with the suit, no clothes under, in public ones. Since I spend way too much time on the interwebs I see and read and sometimes even hear a lot of things by a lot of different people. I know a few people in there and even a few in my somewhat immediate proximity that consider themselves to be fans of this particular group and it's because they like the artwork or the concept I thought of(Embodiment of animal spirits) and I thought those were groovy. Then I had to listen to the mass that latched on to said group who normally are just completely moronic in real life and use this fandom as a crutch. “Don't hate me because I'm furry”. No of course not. I hate you because your fuckin stupid. I hate the fact that you're the same kind of person who blames their weight on a thyroid condition, the one who blames their annoying, unwilling to change personality on a mental disability that a crack doctor diagnosed to sell you his happy pills, and the person who blames everyone else and the world onhis or her(or it's) problems. I can admit I did this at one point. I used to believe I had all these stupid diseases and disabilities that made anyone who didn't worship the ground I walked on my public enemy number one. Then back in my freshman year of high school I took the time to listen to what I said on a regular basis and what I was becoming then went “Wow, I am acting like an asshole”. After I took the time to quit acting like a moron, my old friends and I started hanging out again and less people were afraid to talk to me. Then that same year I turned to a few people who were in the same boat and said this isn't helping you, but all they did was problem, problem, problem me to death.

Now, I kind of went off in a weird direction for a little but here's where it all joins back together and scares the people who use the blacklights on the space a week later. These people who weren't willing to quit being 4 year olds and move up to being at least 12 year old like me get to the age they can move out of their parents houses; Then they don't. They would spend time playing D&D by themselves and at some point happen upon this dude who talks to him about this wonderful thing, like a while back it used to be trekkies. There were the for fun trekkies and then there were th “real” trekkies. The guys who actually believed that they were members of the enterprise and were exploring this strange planet which just happened to be your backyard and you have to chase them away with a rake trekkies. Back then, it was trekkies; now it's a lot of things because of the internet, but one of the rapidly growing ones is the furries. Now there are people like me who liked the original concept but some of the “real” fans skewed it into sex with beanie babies. I am not throwing this out of proportion either. It may only make up a small percentage of their total populous but those now “real” furries need to be put in the ground and stoned with those beanie babies after they finish because by now they're hard as rocks. At least most of them. There are the few that do just stay in their parent's basement and do all this stuff in the privacy of their lair and I couldn't care less if they do. It's just when they come into public(especially the uninformed public) and strut around hugging the young and scaring all the Vietnam vets then there is a populous who really wants to rip off that blue ribbon and strangle them with it.