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Hi, y'all! Sorry for failing to post for so long.... I've been nuts as of lately. How? Like this:
Me: *Looks around* "Dammit! I've fucked up and now it's time to fix everything. No more extremely slow downward spiral for me!" *cracks knuckles*
My Depression/Anxiety: *Perks eyebrow* "Really? Are you sure you want to do that?"
Me: "Yes, motherfuckers! My brain isn't some place where you can camp out and run self-destructive programming for free! I'm tired of sleeping all day, not taking my pills--which can make me sick--and not being productive! I have stuff I need to do!"
D/A: "Uh, no, you don't! You have other stuff that's more fun! Besides, chores and responsibility are boring and lame; you'll be boring and lame if you do them, and they're not fun in an ironic sense!"
Me: "LIESSSS!!! I have dishes to do, a living room to clean up, a bathroom to scrub clean.... I have to start now!"
D/A: "No, your inner Lazy Dalek says that you can do it later, following it up with repeated chanting of 'PROCRASTINATE! PROCRASTINATE!' Plus, isn't it lonely? You don't have many fr--"
Me: "SILENCE! I shall be productive today! Not later--TODAY!!!"
D/A: "Crap! Uh, uh....! Hey, Attention Deficit Disorder! A little help here?"
That's a sort-of typical conversation that led to me to a lot of unmedicated days of sleeping, nights staying up until 6 am EDT, and not even following through on plans that can help me be Pro-Eden.
Yeps. Pro-Eden, meaning helping me make positive changes towards my life. How come? Go listen to the Pro You Podcast on the Nerdist Podcast Network! Episode I, Inertia--the Real Phantom Menace, should explain everything, and help you start on your way towards better awareness, and, ultimately, a better lifestyle.
It's because of this podcast that I've decided to get going with my climb up Mt. Molehill; I've even gone so far as to not refer to workouts as "workouts," but as "Pro You Moments". I've been tweeting with their Twitter account, and been giving updates with my progress. Here's a couple of the latest ones that I sent them recently (before this blog post):
Just to report in: had another #ProYouMoment! Just signed up for membership at Planet Fitness. Meeting with someone tomorrow! @proyoupodcast
— Lady Eden Pyrithea (@LadyEden1337) April 29, 2015
Seriously, this podcast is awesome, especially after all the talking is done, when Tom (one of the hosts) gives you a chillaxing Pro You Moment, where you can meditate with food for thought.
Beyond that, some other stuff happened, which I will update in another blog post, one that I'll publish once I've stopped yanking my hair out over Artist's Block, aaand, for the most part, being like this:
In any case, be consistent (especially with medications), be aware, and ENJOY YOUR TACQUITO!!!!
Sorry
for not posting anything as of lately.
I've been quite busy with life. I
had to be out in public and get a new laptop of my own and new headphones and
stuff. (What?! I want to blend in with the background, to
make it impossible for y'all to see me!
I'M INVISIBLE TO YOUR OCULAR SENSORS!
MWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!)
Anyways…..I
figured I should post SOMETHING to keep people from going, "OH, NO! SHE'S DEAD!" (Well, at least the people who don't watch my
twitter feed. Those who do, or those who
are friends with me on Facebook, or interact with me regularly on Deviant Art
know that I'm alive and well.) That and
to rant a wee bit on Star Wars.
Okay,
more than a wee bit. But I do have some
nerd frustrations that need to be unleashed.
(No, not THOSE nerd frustrations!
Gawd, get your minds out of the gutter!)
That and some funny shit to share.
So, sit
back, relax, tune out to "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger," (the"Deadmau5 remix" according to my library) by Daft Punk (which Papa
Spock needs to listen to more). And remember
that at the time of my drafting this, I am actually very tired. My butt was kicked by Thursday, and I still haven't
recovered much; instead, I've been reading Bill Nye's Undeniable and Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy in bed, like I "should" be doing.
So Far, So Good…. I Think…..
So, a
status update: I don't exactly know what I'm doing right. I have tons of cleaning to do (still), a few
appointments to either check up on or set up, a whole dozen others to attend,
and a bunch of distractions in between.
I've accomplished stuff, made the opposite of progress on other stuff,
and there's
not enough time in the day to do it all!!! Really, the word, "Bleh," pretty
much sums up my current mental state.
Let's do
a quick run-through here….
~~Public
speaking—I've had to do a couple of presentations in "public"
to a group of young adults with disabilities about social media. Yes, apparently, I'm an expert. (What I did, however, was share my firsthand
experiences online with these people.)
And I enjoyed the satisfaction of surprising myself with how well I did
(according to audience feedback), which is a really good booster for my
low-to-medium self-esteem. And yes, I
got paid for it in gift cards provided by the sponsor, which is a very popular
large (national? world?) retail company found
all over the US. And when I was done, I
was also given a gift (that isn't exactly necessary but very, very, very
helpful, since I can't take my not-so-portable desktop computer everywhere)
that was provided by this sponsor: a new laptop! BUT, I still don't have Internet at home. Oh well.
~~Exercising:
My FitNerd Journey—I've also started doing a sort-of-kind-of exercise
routine. Basically, twice a week, on
Tuesdays and Thursdays, I go out in exercise clothes to do some…. PHYSICAL
THERAPY!!!! Yays!!!!
What? Did you expect me to just say, "I go out
to some lunkhead dungeon to have a stranger yell at me to work through the pain
of my muscles tearing as I try to do the impossible, only to return home in
tears and swearing to punch them in the face next time I go before passing out
on the bed"? Seriously, I know for
a fact that the scenario I just described is detrimental to any sort of routine
construction, and destructive to the nerd psyche many of us tend to have. That and because I'm worried about certain
other medical conditions, which means I'd rather take a step between
"regular workouts at the gym" and "not exercising very
much." That step, for me, is
physical therapy. No, I'm not injured; I
just want to start in a supervised setting that will allow me to get the
fitness-and-health-goal cheese wheel rolling down the hill. And so far, I've been doing really well,
exercising my legs and my arms and increasing my endurance a bit so I don't
feel like I'm dying when rushing to catch the bus. I've figured out the ideal posture (which is
just like the posture I had when I was doing horseback riding: spine straight
and tall, shoulders down and back a bit, sitting on your tailbone with your
legs relatively underneath your profile, but relaxed, with your stomach tucked
in), and I've also been able to do better leg curls and bicep workouts. It's awesome, and a really good self-esteem
booster.
~~Home and
Internet—Right now, both of them are separate: home is meh, since I'm
still trying to clean it up more and more.
Internet is also meh, because I'm getting behind on so much! I've been doing the Crash Course videos
("doing" as in watching), specifically the
Astronomy series. I've already put
together a playlist of the videos I've added so far. Surprisingly, I've found a lot of the lessons
to be the same in Bad Astronomy! Like, Phil's repeating himself for the crowd
who is more likely to watch YouTube videos than to read actual books that were
published in 2002 or 2003. But you can't
beat the graphics from Thought Café!
They're really well done and funny and awesome; I wish that I have a
well-funded web series that has them doing similar graphics to the ones you can
see in the episodes! 5/5 plungers and a
ton of POINTS(!) to them for their creativity, style, and their humor!
That's
all for now, with the updates. You can find
more on Twitter. As for the Team
Savage-vs.-Team Bagans internet battle, I've put together a journal entry on
Deviant Art, complete with links to tweets, blog posts, videos, etc., so if you
want to find out everything quickly, go check that out.
That's
it for now, mostly because there is a disturbance in the Force that I've been
ignoring up until now—and I can't take it anymore!!!!
Star Wars-Episode Everything: The Approaching Doom
Alright,
even though the official teaser is cool (with the Garth Brooks version made by
@midnight being super funny—POINTS(!) to them for it)……
……and there are pictures of what's happening behind the
scenes, I am worried about the fate of the current Star Wars universe. No, not the one Disney has constructed! The one that existed before Disney decided to
fuck us nerds over!
You see,
I've been prowling through the Nerdist site lately, and I've found some awesome
articles that I've shared with people on dAmn (the Deviant Art messaging
network, which is basically just a bunch of chat rooms created by DevArt staff
and users). But lately, I've come across
some news that should excite people, but actually just made a lot of us nerds
angry with grief over how a sandcastle empire (that each of us nerds and fans
and nerdy fans have contributed to with careful precision and painstaking
effort to make it juuuust right) was destroyed by Disney just stomping their way
through.
As many
of us are all aware, Disney bought the rights to Star Wars and have hired J.J.
Abrams to direct the new Star Wars movie, Episode VII: The Force
Awakens….. Shouldn't that be "Reawakens"? Because last I checked, at the end of Episode
VI-Return of the Jedi, it was already awake, but feeling quite lonely!
So, when
THIS article was posted, I was shocked.
I could only skim through part of it, before immediately jumping down to
the Comments section to post my complaints:
Before long, I got some responses:
And I felt the frustrations rise, which resulted in me
posting a response to one:
However, I was fortunate enough to have a brief encounter
with some extremely funny nerds on there, offering replies that made me laugh
hard!
Thank
you, kind strangers of the nerd population, for giving me a bit of comic relief when
I was still feeling the sting of having Disney smash what we had to pieces.
Seriously,
what happened was that the Expanded Universe (much of it documented on
Wookieepedia) was just erased from existence.
None of it (the books, especially) is canon anymore. The only stuff that is canon is everything
that is in all the movies, plus the Star Wars: Clone Wars series and whatever
specials that they have. That's it; the
Thrawn Trilogy books that I have yet to read, anything that involves an
agreement as to how Boba Fett escaped the Pit of Sarlacc, what happened with
Darth Maul, all of that is no longer "accepted" as Star Wars lore.
I
expressed these frustrations to Papa Spock recently, and he responded with his
usual Spockish answer: It's because what was already there was too restrictive
for them to do anything creative with the storyline in order to draw in more
people. I suspect that J.J. was a large
part of that decision, seeing that he was the one who did the Star Trek:
Alternate Universe movie series! And
because of that, the Star Trek Online game was completely changed! Like, WHAT THE FUCK?!?! It's frustrating, especially since people are
going to respond with "It's Disney, not ours. They can do whatever they want with it,
seeing as it's their Jeep and no longer the Jeep that George Lucas has allowed
all of us nerds to go joyriding in. They
can change the radio station presets on it to whatever they want, and you
shouldn't worry about it."
I am
worried about it. So much has been
ruined lately; nerds are being sexist with their anger, saying, "HOW DAREYOU MAKE MY GHOSTBUSTERS WOMEN!!!"
And many of us are still Klingoning (Heh, get it?! Klingon…ing?
Never mind, I meant, "clinging on"….) to the Original Star Trek
series, to Next Generation, Voyager, and Deep Space 9, to keep alive the
memories of what we enjoyed the first time around. It sucks!
You see,
we nerds (especially those of us on the Autism Spectrum) are resistant to
change (much like conservatives and Republicans—*shudders* That felt creepier
than I thought it would be….), and if you introduce sweeping changes all across
the major nerdism nodes (like superhero genders, storylines we grew up with and
memorized every detail of, Star Wars universe elements and happenings that take
place outside of the movies and television series, etc.), we're going to be
resistant. Like, we're fine with the way
things are, and they made sense; why did you change everything that was
working? You can't fix what isn't broken,
and the worlds we dive into oftentimes (Marvel comics printed on paper, DC
comics printed on paper, Star Trek series before effects got super
high-definition cool, Star Wars the way George Lucas did it originally, etc.)
just seemed to work for us. So, it's
frustrating to force us to accept sudden changes to the worlds we love. And like I said, we're resistant to changes;
you might be able drag our bodies into the theatres through persuasion by
awesome trailers, but you will never be able to take hold of all of our minds
and hearts that were dedicated to the original stories.
(I'm
going to nitpick here: the longsword with its lightsaber Crusader hilt,
amazingly cool as it is, doesn't have to be done like that. According to Wookiepedia, there is
such a thing as a darksaber, where it's a lightsaber that seems to
"glow" black, and isn't in the general rapier style we have
grown accustomed to, but rather like a katana. If you have read Wookiepedia, you wouldn't
have to piss off so fucking many nerds!
Now back to my regular spiel….)
Evolution: It's a Painfully Long Process That is a Part
of Life
Now, a
proposal for the solution to everyone's problems….
Has it
ever occurred to you that mayyybe Papa Spock (who is quite biased, considering
that he's a Disney Geek for reals; don't go, "Team Disney," at me,
Dad!) could be right in some aspects?
That they're being too limited by our expansion of the Star Wars
universe, ruled over by the god known as George Lucas, who caused that
universe's Big Bang with an awesome idea?
And,
Disney and other involved parties: you're losing us over your changes. Would it really hurt to include us nerds in
the process of creating this new movie?
Or are you too busy focusing on the movie and not on what the reception
of the movie might be like? (Same for
you, Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, Star Trek, and video game companies/franchises,
with your products!) Our demographic is
highly populated with early-adopters; a new gadget or video game or Marvel
movie comes out, and within hours, you have thousands of nerds stampeding forth
to line up for the midnight releases, shoving money into your faces while
scrabbling at whatever we could grab on to while pitching tents in our pants
over how excited we are for this new addition to our universes. We live, not just in our physical universe,
but also mentally in thousands of abstract universes that might actually be
real universes that exist somewhere within the multiverse! Why else do you think we play Dungeons &
Dragons or Magic the Gathering? We tend
to argue over certain minute details, but we're happy to add to what we have,
rather than just knocking it down and starting over.
We
should get involved with each other…..
(Oi, gutter brains! Not
sexually! Okay? Get back to reading!) Nerd-sourcing, similar to crowd-sourcing, is
incredibly cheap; we highly value the mental and emotional parts of producing
nerdy content, which means that even if we don't get paid, we are likely to still
do the work just to be a part of something special. How else do you think Ok Go (Shit Fuck) was
able to do the Rube Goldberg music video without spending way too much
money? Nerds pitched in because they
knew it would be a good idea that needed to be created and put out onto the
Internwebz.
I
propose that the resistant members of the nerd community rejects the rejection,
and keep the Expanded Universe alive. while cherry-picking what Disney
introduces to us; this is what they plan on doing to our EU, anyways, adding
what they like and erasing what they don't like officially. Nothing says that we can't have fan-created
content just because someone bought the rights to something. (Yes, Disney, there is such a thing as
fan-fiction and fan art. Also,
Wookipedia is OURS!!! So if you get lawyer-happy,
we'll rally around our own kind, outright rejecting you altogether. At least, that's what I think will happen….)
Anyways,
we should have two parallel Star Wars universes, with galaxies inside that
reflect what we nerds accept inside one of them, while Disney gets to have
their own universe; this way, we can both be happy! *uses Jedi mind trick on Disney's Star Wars
dept* You will accept this idea
and implement it without issue…..
That's
all I can say about this for now. Of
course, it's still up for discussion; discussion and healthy debates (and not
just flame wars that involve name calling and cursing and whatnot) are good for
society and its many demographics. It's
what Athens was built upon way back when; why can't we do the same?
Chew(bacca)
on that. In the meantime, enjoy your
Greedo Tacquito!
Yeah! A new blog post! Wanna think about it? Try my Psybient Chillscape playlist that is a couple of days and a few minutes long in total playtime! Chillax a ton! Expand your consciousness! Huh?
Oh, no, wait, it's a blog post, not an acid trip.
Just
recently, I've had another bit of existential angst on the scale of the human
species. It's not that it's a bad thing,
it's something that probably everyone should think deeply about, while they do
repetitive boring tasks or are spending time by themselves doing nothing that
will risk their lives (like operating machinery or driving or patrolling for
trouble if you're one of the cops out there).
Say, perhaps 5 minutes at a time on your smoke breaks. That should work….
Anyways,
this has only popped up in my head during a shower a few weeks ago on Monday evening (on
February 9th, 2015). It was like my
brain just decided to open up a corner of my mind I prefer not to frolic
through, mostly because it's a bit too dark.
And from that corner in all of her Sith glory emerged Darth Eden, the
dark side of my humanity that I insist on suppressing. And it was not a good thing at all; in fact,
this is proof that I should medicate more often, to prevent Darth Eden from
ever even seeing the light of day, or night, or evening, or whatever time I
arise from my comatose sleep; she can still exist, but she shouldn't ever take
an active role in my life because I want to be a good person. Anyways, with Darth selves come dark
questions, and this moment was no exception: Darth Eden just emerged while I
was shampooing my hair and, simultaneously, pondering the validity of the moral
and ethical conflicts that arise from deciding who should die—the chimpanzee or
the little person being attacked by said chimpanzee. ("Schwaaaaaaaa? Where did THIS come from?!" Listen to Nerdist Podcast episode #130,"Penn and Teller." The link for the impatient ones is also available.) And
without skipping a beat, while I decided to try and drop the mental dilemma,
Darth Eden asked with evil eyes aglow, "Why should the human race as a
whole exist the way it is now? With all its faults and issues and the conflicts
that we currently have?"
That
frightened me so much that I just HAD to reach out to my friends and my tweeps.
And it also helped to remind me that
they are simply awesome weirdos just like me who totally get me! So, major POINTS(!) to them!
The Questions of a Young Padawan to Jedi Master Leonidas
First,
let's start with a response from my friend Jesse, who I absolutely SWEAR is the
Jedi Master version of Leonidas! He was
wise, he totally understood where I was coming from, and he's a Spartan! Really!
(Ever heard of the Spartan Race?
I think that once I become a ninja Jedi, I should run in it! *adds to list of currently unlikely dreams*) His responses were really insightful and
what's also interesting is that he thought that my question was so good that he
shared the conversation on Facebook:
A friend of mine, Eden Pyrithea, asked me a question that had come to her mind, and its a good one, and we had a conversation about it and i thought i should post it here because i do believe every word i said to her"Should we humans, as a whole, exist the way we are?"i thought about my answer for a while before responding, "No, we should exist and work daily to improve ourselves and the universe around us. Simple acts can lead to mighty changes. Go speak at a town meeting on views that you believe in, volunteer at a soup kitchen to help those less fortunate then you and make the world, and the universe a better place""Huh. What about the general current human state There are evil people who live inside of the lies they spread." was her next question"They only exist in power because we allow them to. So by beginning a small movement that can then become a large movement you can resist them, a perfect example would be Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his dream.""But they carry influence like we carry mass.""Only because we allow them to. I think a time will come, and sooner than some think, that we as a people will rise above things like hate and greed to become the utopia Gene Roddenberry believed we could"and yes i do believe we could be as great as The Great Bird of the Galaxy thought we could be, but its up to us to start finding small ways to help each other. Like my thoughts or not, but i will stand by them to the end.
He's
right, though it does seem a little frustrating. There are so many good people in the world,
but there are all these larger-than-myself issues such as war and ISIS and the
anti-vaccine bullcrap (as well as the anti-autism fears people have related to
it) and us having a really corrupt Congress (and possibly POTUS if the antichrist
twins Koch brothers succeed in buying the election) that, despite each drop
into the bucket of liquid influence causing a small ripple, I just want to kick
the whole bucket over, spilling its contents, shaking up everything to the
point where people can finally figure out what really works and helps everyone
vs. what doesn't. But maybe once I start
attending town hall meetings and speaking out on issues that I'm passionate
about, my drops of influence could become rocks that get bigger and bigger. I should become more patient. And I probably shouldn't be so impatient; as Mahatma Ghandi once said:
Perhaps
maybe the world could change quicker and for the better if we work together….
Into the Twitterverse: When You've Found "YOUR
TWEEPLE"!
Another
good friend could be one you have met online through Twitter. Fellow Nerd @LisaR_M (who is actually a
hardcore Chris Hardwick fan, but not to the groupie level that @DiHard11 is at)
was able to provide some insight of her own.
Here is her series of tweets that helped me onto the path of personal
enlightenment:
@LadyEden1337 What are you thinking about that’s scary? Murdering somebody? Committing the unpardonable sin? Doing something perverted?
— Lisa Moore (@LisaR_M) February 10, 2015
@LadyEden1337 Ah, big picture existential angst. That’s a “Let go and let God” situation. Or insert whatever your higher power is.
— Lisa Moore (@LisaR_M) February 10, 2015
@LadyEden1337 All of life is a paradox. It’s always a take the good with the bad situation. There can never be perfect people.
— Lisa Moore (@LisaR_M) February 10, 2015
@LadyEden1337 And you have to watch your ego. It’s tempting to think you know what’s best for everyone but you’re not omniscient
— Lisa Moore (@LisaR_M) February 10, 2015
@LadyEden1337 The issue you're having with the bullshitters is a clashing of egos. Instead of judging them try to learn from them.
— Lisa Moore (@LisaR_M) February 10, 2015
@LadyEden1337 :) I’ve thought a lot about this stuff. It’s exhausting sometimes that's why I avoid politics & try to let it go.
— Lisa Moore (@LisaR_M) February 10, 2015
I was
able to take to heart the "ego check" one, because sometimes, when
you're on the Autism Spectrum, you don't always think of the world through a perspective
outside of your own. This (in my case,
especially) often leads to moments where you feel as though you have all
the answers! ALL OF THEM! Including the Answer to Life , the Universe
and Everything! (That one is easy to
obtain; just read Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and ask, "What is 6
times 7?")
It does
get frustrating at times, and she's right: we shouldn't think that way. Even if you're not on the Spectrum, if you're
just a nerd, it's still the same principle.
Chris Hardwick has already pointed this out on page 105 in a subsection
titled "The Third Reaction" in his book The Nerdist Way, saying, "Nerds know they're
smarty-pantses—in fact, it's part of how they define themselves, so sometimes
we come from a place of 'everyone is stupid but me.' This is shitty and wrong. It also leads to spontaneous emotional
reactions to situations rather than calm, well-thought-out ones." So, as a member of this community of
differently-wired persons, we should work on understanding what makes sense to
other people, instead of dismissing it as "utter crap". In fact, that's what I'm adding to my XP goal
chart: "Understanding and Communication," because I know that once I
understand where my debate opponents (like the anti-vaccine….. *struggling* people)
are coming from, I can communicate my way around their defenses to see if I can
help them open up to (at the very LEAST) healthy discussions that are highly
educational for both sides of an issue.
This is also made difficult because everyone understands something their
own way and are often convinced that they know the "truth" behind certain
topics; and everyone living their life as a story, and they are the hero of it,
regardless of whether other people regard them as heroes or villains.
(Small
parenthetical paragraph note: Another great way to help people get a better
understanding of Autistic Spectrum Disorders is to talk to us!!!! So often are we excluded from the
conversation that I'm sure there is misinformation out there, provided by
people who are thought to be the voices of the "autistic people,"
when they're not really speaking for us, but rather for themselves. Yes, this includes Autism Speaks; they don't
really pay attention to what we're figuratively saying. Just talk to us or ask us about ASDs and
living independently! We can answer
questions! Either tweet to me or to @chromesthesia;
we can give you insight!)
So, as I
was saying, I was given pearls of wisdom that I'll be fashioning into Earrings
of +20 Wisdom, thanks to my friends. And
it has led me to perhaps what the goal would be for the world.
My Hopes for the World in Commercials
This
discussion about humanity has led me to having hope for the future of the human
race; it's not a very big anti-vampire spotlight of hope, because it's a lot of
work to set forth a giant tidal wave of change.
But now that I typed that sentence, I am realizing that I shouldn't work
on creating a tidal wave, but rather just create my own small waves that will
erode at this rock of evil that I see before me. And I can do it similarly to this commercialfrom Liberty Mutual:
One way to start, just hold the door open for the person
entering or exiting the building you're entering or exiting from, or keeping to
the sides of the grocery aisles, shopping cart and all.
Maybe
once that gets going, we can live life like these adorable animals in this Android commercial that has been making the rounds of the advertsphere:
In any case, I should enjoy what I can, taking the good
stuff to heart and cherishing it emotionally while leading the bad stuff to my
mental laboratory to analyze it, determine if it's an endeavour to take on with
the experience I have or to pass on it, buying more time to learn about the
issue that is staring at everyone in the face.
(And can
I point out that we have a time limit here?
I mean, come on! Asteroid Apophisis coming! TICK-TOCK TICK-TOCK!!!)
In any
case, I hope you agree with me on this and have decided to join me on this
journey towards world improvement. And
to make the journey more enjoyable, why don't we ride a burrito boat? JUST BECAUSE!
Heehee! In the meantime, enjoy
your mindful tacquito!
Happy New
Year, y'all! It's 2015 and EVERYTHING
SUCKS already! *sniffles* Sorry, just went through a hard time, and
still doing so; I'll explain why when the time is right. However, I have a few things to express. First of all, I have a few goals for this
year: EDUCATE people about how vaccines do NOT cause Autistic Spectrum
Disorders AT ALL(!); explore how humanity is getting worse and worse
(especially American society and government); how ghosts MAY exist or how your
brain can trick you; celebrating science and positive changes being made in the
world, etc! I'll also continue to review
books, movies, television shows, and continue to nerd my pants over certain
shows and celebrities. I plan to lose
mass (at least better than I have been last year—it fell apart from lack of
momentum!) and become more confident, and I have an even better reason to do so
now (the hard time stuff).
Anyways, I
should also add that what happened with the satirical magazine in France is
TRAGIC! ISIS is a group full of assholes
and they should be EXTERMINATED! They
retaliated in the wrong manner in response to a cartoon that was published by a
SATIRICAL newspaper! The following
tweets express my feelings:
I have no words for the tragedy in France, in French or English. Except that i'm pretty sure the ISIS idiots don't know what "satire" means.
— Lady Eden Pyrithea (@LadyEden1337) January 8, 2015
I am
Charlie, and I'm not afraid! (More will
be expressed on my DeviantArt page….)
Two Shows I Nerd My Pants Over, One Time Slot (Porno, Anyone?)
So, yeah,
that subheading title is a reference towards that Two Girls, One Cup porno
(which should NEVER be watched or googled), but it's in regards to a dilemma I
decided to tweet about, tagging Adam Savage of MythBusters on Discovery
Channel, and Zak Bagans of Ghost Adventures on the Travel Channel:
I did not
expect to get a response….but I totally DID!!!!
From Adam Savage—SQUEEEEEEEEE!!!!!
His response was almost typical because I expected something along the
lines of "MythBusters because we're real." I did NOT expect the fans' reactions! My cell phone (Obamaphone, free unlimited
text messaging, I get mentions, direct messages, favorites and retweets
directly on my phone through text message…) started blowing up with
responses! A ton are funny, but a lot
were REALLY uncalled for! I can't just
embed them ALL into my blog post at once because that's a LOT of tweets to
embed and it makes the blog post here TOO DAMN LONG!!!! So, I've decided to Storify it…..
Those last
few tweets bashing on Adam is just really dickish! Since when is it okay to tweet to an
influential someone to say, "FUCK YOU!
I'm never watching your show again!
Your an asshole! Suck a dick and
go die from a demon attack at Bobby Mackey's!" (For your information, I would NEVER endorse
the last one! Bobby Mackey's, if you're
unfamiliar with their reputation beyond being a country club already, is really
infested with demons! These dickhead
demonic entities are really nasty to the point where if you ever mention Zak
Bagans' name inside that place, you get attacked! It's really insanely bad energy inside there,
and to suggest to a skeptic to go in there, mouth running off with insults and saying
Zak's name over and over is irresponsible, mean, dickheaded, immoral, and all
out WRONG! Especially if they did not
have any experience with a demonic entity scratching you, insulting you, trying
to possess you, oppression and attachment, etc.
It's a real danger—which is why I vehemently CONDEMN such a response!)
Has anyone
ever heard of Wheaton's Law? Anyone?
If you're that good of a nerd, you'll already know it by heart, but I'll
share it here as a refresher:
DON'T BE A DICK!!!!!!
It was first stated by Wil Wheaton (friendly co-performer at
W00tstock to Adam Savage) to his team at PAX one year, and before long, it was
being quoted in forums and on websites and it earned the name "Wheaton's
Law," and it's a REALLY GOOD LAW TO HAVE!
In fact, when I was in Nerf Club at college, when we first drafted up
the rules, Wheaton's Law was Rule #1; Rule #2 was "Always follow Rule
#1!"
So, when
one is a fan of Ghost Adventures and MythBusters and reads Adam's tweet,
they're obviously going to take it a bit too personally, assuming that it's
negating their beliefs in an afterlife.
Granted, Adam is a definite skeptic, and he doesn't believe in ghosts
and demons and what-not, but to raise a stink over a single tweet?! That's immature and ridiculous! I'm sure that Adam did NOT mean it like that
at all (then again, he could have—I don't know for sure; I also am not
affiliated with him in any way beyond being a fan of his and MythBusters), but
don't call him a cunt and a dick and an asshole just because he shared his
opinion and input in response to my dilemma to ME.
Let's Break It Down!
*Beatboxes*
MythBusters
is an excellent show, promoting critical thinking and applying common sense to
life so that you don't have to spend time and energy worrying about something
that isn't true or factual (i.e., water heater explosions, earthquake survival,
the JATO rocket Darwin Award myth), and learn what it takes for things to be
real, as well as being surprised by things that are real. So, even though Adam isn't, as Phil Plait
would put it, a "classically trained scientist," he still has
experience with the Hollywood special effects tricks of the trade, being able
to bust myths that stem from movies, television shows, etc. And who (besides terrorists) can go wrong
with explosions?! That cement truck just
disappeared like Alderaan! So, even
though the show's name is "MythBusters," it's not proof
that they're "fake"! It's a
short, easy title that describes EXACTLY what they do: they bust myths! Also, they're based in San Francisco;
Hollywood is a "little" TOO FAR SOUTH to be where they're at! (However, if they want to take a field trip
there, they certainly can!)
As for
Ghost Adventures, it's not a show that "looks for ghosts," the way
Finding Bigfoot tries to find a Sasquatch; it's actually a show that is all
about gathering evidence in support of proving the existence of ghosts, as well as
researching what a ghost could be, and even possibly helping homeowners or
property owners and their families and friends realize that they
aren't crazy!!! Or that what
they're afraid of really isn't dangerous at all. So that weird feeling that trolls get in
their pants when tweeting their rage at Adam with misspellings and all isn't a
ghost; it's just them cranking one out from being a dick (thereby violating
Wheaton's Law). It's obvious that a lot
of fans love this show, especially since the members of the investigation crew
are the producers, the camera crew, the host, etc.; they created the show, they
film the show themselves, there's no glamour or Hollywood involved—it's raw,
it's real, it's almost indie and very, very organic. Stemming from a self-shot documentary from
the early-mid naughties (2000-2009), this is also a way to help boost tourism
to certain locations, which helps generate revenue for the locations and tax
dollars for the cities and states these are all located in.
Also, I
should point out that the science labs aren't the places that are haunted, it's
these places such as the Washoe Club, the Winchester Mystery House, the Sun Inn
located in Bethlehem, PA, etc. And any
good scientist should know that if you can't create this situation in the lab
to study, you should conduct a field study.
So, discounting ghosts completely without fully investigating the culture
and approaches and the evidence is just…..I don't have a word to describe it,
but it's equivalent to mixing up, "close-minded, presumptive," and
either "fearful of the results" or "lazy". And don't assume that one show was running
longer than the other: Ghost Adventures started airing in 2008, and MythBusters
definitely started earlier than that, with 10 YEARS under their belt! So, they both have a ton of positive
points. So, tweeting, "FUCK
U!" to someone really isn't the way to go…..
Ethical Criticism: Why the Internet Has a Larger Underbelly
Than It Should
Most
hate-tweets are very unproductive and have a total lack of class and
character. Criticism is helpful because
it allows people to improve in the areas that are addressed. However, haters and trolls just do it to be a
dick. Trolls gonna troll, haters are
gonna hate, and even them Sontaran taters are gonna tate, no matter what. BUT, you can ditch these labels and provide
tweets that are better constructed. Adam
won't listen to "EAT A DICK!" (I received this tweet directly; my
response was, "As long as it's not yours!") but it's very likely that
instead of allowing your emotions to be in charge of your twitter feed, you
provide a calmer response that goes along the lines of "I disagree with your
statement, because…"
Bad:
"Ghost Adventures is REAL! So, fuck
you, loser!"
Good: "I disagree: it's
real because….."
Bad:
"You're an asshole! I'm never
watching your show again!"
Good: "I now feel like my
beliefs have been devalued.
Thanks!"
I hope
everyone gets this, because I don't ever want to cover this topic ever
again! We have the ability to use a wide
range of words that will make us sound educated; why not use it? (Flame wars are pointless; don't engage in
them!)
Diffusing the Rage
As many of
the tweets have suggested, several Ghost Adventures fans believe that Mr. Adam
Savage should go on Ghost Adventures to prove his point. "Why?
It'll just be a waste of time!"
How would you know that if you've never conducted an experiment to prove
or disprove this hypothesis? The only
way to prove that it's a waste of time is to 1.) Be patient and 2.) just join
Zak and crew on a lockdown. Just make
sure that it's the Ghost Adventures Crew, and not some other paranormal
investigation crew, because if it's someone else, the camera crew might be
allowed in, and their job would be to film the talent, not the evidence or
activity. So, if it's just Zak, Nick,
Aaron, Billy, and Jay, with the camera crew hanging out at nerve center,
there's less contamination, and a better likelihood of capturing evidence that
isn't easily debunked.
So, I
agree: Adam Savage should go on a full 12-hour lockdown with the GAC on their
show, and try to debunk the evidence if he would wish to. At least he'll know (without assuming
anything) that ghosts do exist, and that Ghost Adventures
isn't fiction.
But I'm
very sure that I've said all I needed to say, and that it seems like I should
start taking cover before the bullets start flying between the fans of
Mythbusters who are hardcore skeptics of ghosts, and the fans of Ghost
Adventures who are hardcore skeptics of skeptics! (HA!
See what I did there?!) In the
meantime, keep it cool, keep yourself warm, enjoy your tacquitos, and above
all, DON'T BE A DICK!!!!!
*dons dragonskin
vest and other armor, then takes cover in a warm bunker!*
Just
a warning: your mind might be blown; you could get minor headaches or migraines
from thinking about what I'm about to share with you too hard; I'm not
responsible for either of these things, or for breaking you to the point that
requires some therapy. Seriously, I'm
sorry for what happens to you after, despite your reaction to this post being
COMPLETELY up to you.
I will
be honest here: I think I'm having a little bit of an existential crisis. It's not exactly like, "What's my
purpose in life?! I NEED RELIGIONS TO
GUIDE ME!" and it's definitely not like that more familiar Midlife Crisis
of "Hey! I'm not that old! I can
still do young stuff! BATCYCLE, TO
ME!" I know I'm addressing
things that are WAY outside of most people's perspectives, but I'm serious—I'm
having an existential crisis at the universal we're-too-small-to-have-any-major-impact-on-the-whole-of-the-universe-and-are-helpless-at-this-point-in-time-being-at-the-mercy-of-our-solar-system
level.
What I
gathered from these two shows is that we, the denizens of the planet Earth
(Sol-3), are not exactly the creation of a deity. We're not living in the only solar system
that exists in this universe (If you need more proof, just look at science
headlines that go along the lines of "NEW EARTHLIKE PLANET
DISCOVERED!"), and our physical selves did not just come out of
nothing. We're made of STUFF, these
different elements such as iron, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, carbon, calcium,
iodine, sodium, etc, that did NOT exist at time of the Big Bang.
Instead,
we're the product of a series of VERY fortunate happy accidents.
Think
about it: we're probably in one of very few (out of an infinite number of)
universes that actually supports the existence of life, that mysterious
chemical reaction that results in organic multi-cellular beings, with each one
made of an uncountable number of molecules, making up a shit ton of cells that
are able work together to function as a whole system by itself. This universe was able to form out of matter
and not antimatter, just because particles of matter simply just happenedto outnumber antimatter particles. The
universe that then formed after this cosmic battle of matter-vs.-antimatter
(which results in the destruction of both particles, by the way) just happened
to be uneven enough for gravity to attract these particles to each other,
enough to form the first stars. These
stars just happened to create the
elements (out of hydrogen nuclear fusion) necessary to build us.
Yes,
we're not made of regular dust just like the Bible states in the Book of Genesis;
we're made of stardust! Which is
pretty neat, if you think about it long enough; it's kind of romantic, in a
sense.
Anyways,
some of these stars just happened to explode, creating enough
material to form our current solar system, and the sun (Sol, of course) just happened
to form successfully, and in just the right size in the PERFECT
spot in the Milky Way Galaxy: not too far from the central supermassive black
hole, but also not too close to whip us around at impossible speeds, expose us
to deadly radiation or to suck us into the black hole.
And, in
addition to the whole "What the Fuckery?" I just laid out, the Earth
formed in just the right spot in the solar system, at just
the right size with the perfect amount of gravity and
elements, AND survived the Hundred-Planet Demolition Derby that took
place after the sun first formed. Not to
mention that enough comets hit the surface of this rocky and hot world to give
us exactly
the right amount of water (give or take a few litres) to cool it down to exactly
the right temperature. Plus, the atoms
of specific elements successfully created these molecules that formed the first
cells and, therefore, the first forms of life!
And to
top it all off, Jupiter, our big tough super-strong super popular planetary
brother, formed far enough away to not affect us, but also to act as our
bodyguard, deflecting and/or attracting in-bound comets and asteroids that
would've hit Earth and prevented our existence otherwise. Plus, the moon formed and took its spot at
the right distance for us to land on it, and gives us almost the right amount
of light at night so we can still see just enough to be able to not trip on
something in the meadows and grasslands.
(Well, in my opinion, at least…)
AND, to
top it all off, that comet/asteroid that hit Earth millions of years ago wiped
out all the dinosaurs, to allow US, the mammals, to survive, and evolve into
creatures that can understand and map the universe! We are simply the product of a series of
accidents who can create abstract ideas that have no solid tangible presence in
the universe, and extremely large solid objects made up of the same stardust as
us that DO have such a presence!
Which. Is. Weird!!!!
What the
hell?! What is humanity's purpose in the
universe? Are we really experiments,
something that just SO happened to form as part of a simulation (which I suspect due to the discovery of the Higgs Boson particle, or the Keyon, as I like to call it)? Or are we the creation of the universe itself
so that this (possibly sentient) universe could understand itself—making us its
neurons in three-dimensional space? I
have so many questions, many of them being "WHY….?" and eager for an
answer that doesn't just have any basis in statistics and probability.
Perspective: Now You Have It
It's
frustrating and scary to see how we have all of this amazing stuff going on
and NONE of it is the primary focus of the human race! We're all on the same spherical rocky
iron(ic) boat, orbiting the same star, paying witness to some of
the same
awesome stuff in the skies (including the moon), and yet we're too busy
bickering with each other about police brutality and who crossed which lines in
the sand, eager to collect all parts of an abstract creation of ours, an idea
that we place numerical value upon, despite it having not a lot of purpose
besides being a tool that we use in a system that we set up, and
fighting over how people see other people who are different from them (Sunni
vs. Shiite and Middle East vs. America—everyone wants to be right, nobody wants
to be wrong; it's pointless to force your ideas of how people should
live/think/function onto someone else, and that goes QUADRUPLE to the (tel)evangelists
and racist fucknuts out there!). Why do
this, when we have a whole other realm to explore?
And why
destroy the planet we're all living on? IT'S
THE SAME PLANET EARTH!!!! The
climate-change global warming deniers (read: idiots) are poisoning the same air
that everyone else is breathing and relying on for survival, only because they're
not educated enough or they don't believe that we're all going to destroy
ourselves as the result of our own actions.
We're making each other sick, we're killing each other, and we're
ruining ourselves because of disagreements and bullshitting. (Also, any deniers are NOT going to be
allowed in my boat. You cause it, you
suffer the consequences—have fun either treading water or drowning or dying
from dehydration!)
Why
fight? Why destroy things? We could be the only witnesses to everything
the universe is showing us, and yet, we're staring at the ground and our cell
phones and computer and/or television screens, and glaring at everyone
else. We're unhappy narcissistic
creatures that are intent on focusing on ourselves and our own problems. Our world-view is small, limited to what we
each see around us, when we could just look up together and learn what we have
yet to know about everything and everyone.
Why
don't we just do this right?!
This is
all I can say right now. That is the
gist of my sort-of existential crisis.
That is the result of watching those two shows on DVD—and I think
everyone else should do this, too. It
would be good for you, at least, to realize what I have learned: we're a
miracle that isn't acting like one, and should start in order to save itself
from the extinction we've forced on many other creatures that live on the same
planet we do. If we do get our act
together, cooperate and accept everyone's differences (including the colors of
our skin, the religions we practice, and the fact that many of us have Autistic
Spectrum Disorders and other disabilities), we can do incredible things, which
can help us understand the universe (that can be scary due to the sheer size
and scale of it—but only if you look at it that way) and also ensure the
survival of the human race in case the universe decides to butt-fuck us again,
with Apophis or whatever else is out there.
Random Thoughts Are Random
I know:
I was "thinking like a crazy person" (despite being completely
reasonable) prior to this part, so why not share some thoughts that I had
amidst this whole existential crisis I'm having and before?
Aw, @Macys! Plz use "Question!" next yr, if not to promote critical thinking, then to have buildings across the st. do "Answer!" in reply!
— Eden Pyrithea (@LadyEden1337) December 1, 2014
to me, right now, a lot of things don't just not "matter" to me--actually, they #antimatter to me. HAHA! #neilwithit
— Eden Pyrithea (@LadyEden1337) December 2, 2014
I wonder what would happen if you stab someone with a #unicorn horn. What magic would take place? @TheBloggess
— Eden Pyrithea (@LadyEden1337) December 1, 2014
That's
all for now, folks! Keep sharing this
blog, and ENJOY YOUR COSMIC TACQUITOS!
Hey,
readers! This is my "remotely
released" blog post that shares MY views on "Gamergate," and why
this is absolutely a waste of our time and energy. This blog post was drafted on October 30th
(and finished on October 31st), 2014, the night after I found out about this
so-called "scandal"—that's what "Gamergate" is, right? Because only real major scandals can have the
"gate" name. In fact, on that
note, does anyone think that Bill Gates is more than one scandal in human
form? HAHA! #ReallyBadJokes
Anyways,
I feel, that as a female Nerd who enjoys playing video games, I should speak
up, sharing my point of view. Yes, it's MY
OPINION, which is neither right nor wrong! So stop trolling and pay attention!
BREAK DOWN THE GATES!!!
Why Not Everything Needs a "Gate" Involved
Let's
begin with the first item on my docket: Do we HAVE to inflate the
"scandal" factor in the most RIDICULOUS topics in the media? Not everything is a scandal; in
fact, most is just bad planning and design and what-not. Seriously, "Bendgate" and
"Hairgate" should not even exist.
So what if you get your hair caught in your iPhone6 and it bends in the
pocket of your skinny jeans? That's your
own Davros-damn fault here! Because who
would be placing the ear piece right on their hair? It should be brushed out of the way before
using said device as a phone (which I'm sure is rare nowadays; just fucking
call the device a tricorder already!
Because we can do everything else with it, INCLUDING MASTURBATE!). I do that with my Obamaphone (which is not
a sign of socialism, conservative fuckers!) already! I brush my hair out of the way before doing
anything with my pointed ears!
As for
"Bendgate," well…..just don't wear skinny jeans. They were out of style before they were even
IN style. The only reason why they were
invented was because the designer had to come up with some sort of pant-like
garment for fashion runway shows and the twig-like models (who have a body mass
index less than 1, I'm sure) had to wear them; they have no real function in
our lives except to make us super uncomfortable and unable to bend over and
pick up the loose change that falls out of our pockets. There's no need for skinny jeans (or this
"gate" nonsense associated with video games and tricorders) anyways,
in this universe. In a
parallel/alternate universe, maybe; but this is not that universe, because if
it were, the products that are of concern would be designed a LOT better.
In any
case, only give a real high-level scandal the "gate" watermark. PLEASE!
No more first-world bullshit powered by our selfish narcissistic desires
for top-notch quality-made products that (in order to obtain in the first
place) we would have to shell out millions of dollars to purchase in this
market.
The Real Issue: "Gamergate" Is Just a Sexist
Response To Gaming Feminism
So, the
night before drafting this post, I was watching Colbert Report,
and he shared the super-hyped story how
many male gamers are issuing death threats against female gamers who want
ladies to stop being thrust into the objectified damsels-in-distress role in
many of the video games that are made for a male-dominant market. I have to say, I agree with those ladies; I
disagree with the response the guys are giving them.
Seriously,
anyone who reacts negatively to this statement is a sexist pig who should never
be in a relationship with another woman, because they are sure to be abusive to
her. They are already programmed that
way, so maybe it IS the game developer's fault in the first place—WAIT, WAIT,
this is confusing and I'm not medicated when drafting up this post, so let's
try again……
A large
number of the video games created for Nerds have historically been designed for
the straight male half of the Nerd race (which, until recent years, was
stereotypically painted as the socially awkward weakling), because that was
what the companies assumed would be the majority of their market make-up; I'm
sure those companies were run by old sexist geezers in the first place, saying
that "running a business is no place for a woman," and sticking them
into the secretary role. And therefore,
because of this mentality, those video games were designed for the male brain,
which crave not only food and being able to display male dominance gestures
(which include guttural roaring while firing off an automatic machine gun like
Al Pacino), but also sex from women whenever they want. It's empowering to them, especially after
having been bullied by the intimidating jocks in the real life
environment. Playing those games are
their way of getting that self-confidence and, in their mind, taking that power
back from those Cthulhu-damn jocks!
However,
with the more recently abundant acceptance that ladies should be treated as
equals to men, this mental processing is being challenged; the virtual social
hierarchy (and the many places in the world still believing that science and
religion are equal, as well as certain places in Asia and on the workplace's
payroll) is one of the last bastions of a patriarchal social structure where
men can have all the power and women they want, believing that they are akin to
objects, "things" that don't feel anything and are made to be used
without need for asking for permission and worry, because women "are more
submissive and not as tough, without having a single original thought in their
heads." This kind of thinking is
not acceptable anymore, especially as society continues to develop. Yet it's frustrating that many men think
it's still okay to make cat-calls and wolf-whistles to women who walk by them
on the street. Oi! We're not your sex dolls, okay? If you want to display that behavior, do it
at a strip club!
So, of
course there are video games like Grand Theft Auto and whatnot that have strong
male leads and "weak" female NPCs (non-player characters, for those
not familiar with gaming lingo) in today's world. Because the video game market is not changing
fast enough to support the idea of using a strong female lead that isn't just a
sex icon. That or gender-neutral video
games such as the one where you play a gust of wind…….or say, has anyone ever
heard of flOw? That one is
gender-neutral! There are whole species
of plants and animals that are without gender living on this very same planet;
why do we still have gender-specific games where the exciting sexist action
games are geared towards men and the frilly boring "bake a cake" or
"raise a puppy" games are geared towards women? Our world has CHANGED; it's time the nerdy
gaming market should do so as well!
So, What the Fuck Again?
Getting to the Points……
Why have
this assumption of a narrow market that is mostly made up of male Nerds in need
of a confidence boost that only exists in an artificially constructed
world? Why not expand the mentality to
other genre games? There are games out
there that are indie, and games that have strong female leads. When I was playing the Beta for LP Recharge
(that is now available as an app for tablet devices and for sale for actual
MONEY—neither of which I really HAVE!
Why leave the poor female nerd out of all the fun by not making it
available for free on Facebook anymore?!
Can't we just pay for the ad-free portability instead? It will allow for a wider audience/market, at
least!), I had the option of playing a strong female lead character—which I
did. And it was awesome! I could play my customized character the way
I wanted to. Why can't we have similar
games like that out there, for Xbox/Playstation/Nintendo/Sega consoles?
We must change
the gaming landscape and market, stimulating an evolution and growth that
allows gamer diversity in the marketplace.
Though I'd love to fuck with the current gamescape by releasing a game
that has ONLY strong female leads that rescue "wimpy" nerds from the
clutches of evil, we should start small; we should allow female characters to
not just be a standby in the scene, but rather be a part of our team, and be
playable. This line from the Halo Reach
release panel says it all: http://youtu.be/1aOb6Nn8egA?t=12m15s
However,
the solution I presented isn't the problem here: it's the reaction that male
gamers have to the possibility of a female-equivalent gamescape (which is a
gaming market landscape, in case you haven't figured it out yet), by issuing
insults and death threats to those females who speak out. Why do that?!
Why be programmed that way?!
We're not your pixelated bitches!
(Technically speaking, sometimes I am a pixelated bitch, but I'm not your
submissive pixelated bitch!)
Isn't it
against the LAW (especially in California) to issue a threat? Isn't it wrong anyways, if there isn't a
law against issuing threats? Especially
"terroristic" threats of school shootings? In what way does it make sense that it's
"okay" to do that in response to us ladies (or lady Nerds) speaking
up for equal more accurate representation in the virtual universe? Because, gamer dudes and guy Nerds, in case
you forgot, we ladies are a formidable gender for one reason and one reason
only: we. Have. VAGINAS!!! And our vaginas are dangerous and wily. They are the gateways of NEW LIFE! Yes: WE BEAR YOUR CHILDREN, BOYS! And those hormones that rear their heads
every month exist for THAT very reason!
That and our mother bear instincts are the reason why your genes are
still in the gene pool (provided that your genes make up part of the DNA of
your spawn)! You think we're weak and
submissive? Threaten the safety of our
offspring and we go She-Hulk on everybody's asses! #EdenSmash
So,
"Gamergate" (aka, the Gamescape Waste-of-Time) is just plain
ridiculous. There's no good reason for
males to be like, "Whoa, wait, FUCK YOU TO DEATH, BITCH, BECAUSE WE
DOMINATE THIS WORLD!" and for them to be programmed that way in the first
place. Open up your minds, bros. (And I think legal weed should help in that
respect. Just not too much.) Or else the next time you're online, all the
ladies will definitely be fragging your ass in Call of Duty/Modern
Warfare/Halo/Destiny/whatever because of how much of a dick you just had
to be. And I'll gladly be one of them
once I can figure out how to play first-player-shooter games a lot better
(without being the victim of every other "death" in the game)….
Anyways,
that's it for my rant here. Let's all
breathe a sigh of release, drink some delicious dessert wine in celebration of
my 24th birthday (which was this past Halloween, if you haven't read my
previous post), and share the love. And
while we're doing that at the same time as my partial absence, I hope y'all
