Tuesday, December 14, 2004

   Judged.
Comments on commentary-

Sen- No problem with being a dork with a dorky haircut.

Shinfaru- When you were younger eh? Getting old, Shin? lol. =P

Erin- That book rocks. Hurray for people who read Catch-22.

Mr. Fett- Crimson Spider? I was kinda surprised to see him too. Not pleasantly surprised either, lol. Was expecting the thread about toleration of homosexuality to pop up though.. it was about due for something like that to be created.

Aye de Eff- Thanks. Sometimes I get the feeling that people find me to be that dark, morbid person who is apathetic about death. I might be somewhere near that but.. not quite. ;) "Suburbia: The place Ken wants to escape from."

Lea- Yeah! ATDI rocks.

Over and over a slave.

I've mentioned this thread before, but I have a different tangent to go off on. I matched wits with Drix D'Zanth quite enjoyably, I learned some things and he hopefully learned some things- but, I'm amused at the common behavior disccusions follow on OB now. It seems like nothing in OL can be discussed anymore with one or both of the people degenerating into childish attempts at wit, lol. You'll note that when I have nothing further to say about a certain subject, I don't say anything- I respect the other person. That seems to be dying on OB- everyone is inflexible in their opinion, stagnating in neutral. He is five years my senior and I seemed to be slightly more mature than he was- that is rather amazing to me. Intellectual thought you learn with age- a 30 year old is supposed to know more than you do in wisdom and in intellect. I wasn't surprised that he was able to match wits with me- he is 21, I am 16. He is supposed to be my senior in all respects. I was taken aback that, while I was doing my uptmost to us rational thought, he seemed to degenerate into this pseudo-wit babble. I decided to review the thread over to see how often this was occurring between people. No one was really being respectful to the other person- maybe I'm just old fashioned, sit down and have a nice discussion but that's ridiculous. You have people with high IQ's acting like 10 year olds talking about a movie that one thinks sucks and the other thinks is good.

"Does not suck!"

"Does too suck!"

"Does not suck, you weenie head!"

"O.O! Does too suck, you mudeater!"

"Snotnose!"

"Buttsniffer!"

That is exactly how it appears to me, lol. I'm not too exposed to social dialogue- but do intellectuals IRL do this? If so, I'm going to be embarrassed because all it does to me is cause a grin on my face. I hate to just be standing there grinning at people trying to burn me, but I have no qualms at being proven wrong, lol. Life is supposed to be a learning experience- you aren't supposed to know everything at age 16, 20, 25, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70 or even 80. You learn until you die, in other words. Learning means that your previous thought will probably be overridden for the "facts" as presented to you, until those "Facts" are replaced by newer, more truthful ones.

I'm not the smartest person on OB, but I'm starting to get the belief I might be the wisest, lol. Surely someone, somewhere agrees with me that all of that extra pseudo-wit is unnecessary to the flow of knowledge and discussion. All it does is attempt to prod the person into folding and degenerating into the same sort of pseudo-wit. It's like a bane on what could be a really good thread.. kinda sad, really. Oh well. Remember folks- you can always be wrong, but that means you get a chance to learn what's right. Being proven wrong just means next time, you'll be the one who is right. Learning is a process, it never stops- you never know all, you never have seen all. Sometimes you're the teacher, sometimes you're the student- and sometimes, you are the sage.

It doesn't matter if you are the student, that means you are getting the chance to learn to be the teacher. It's to your benefit no matter where you are in the process.

Slow hands.

I wrote the first RPG sign up rough draft I have written in a year and a half it feels like. Read it, if you would.

[b]August 13th, 1642[/b].

Tired, sore and getting near broke you slump down into the chair, letting out a brief sigh. Here you are, in Port Royale- you left the graceful, serene beauty of your European home to seek the glory, riches and wonder of the New World but have only gotten yourself some sea sickness thusfar. You take a glance around at the people in the tavern with you- some of them you recognize from the ship, all of them wearing the same worn-out look that you do. The captain of the guard is flirting with the prettiest barmaid he can find, the bartender is sharing some information with a shady looking character- people are drinking, laughing and living it up to the best of their ability. A few young lads are sitting restlessly, waiting for that potential captain to waltz in and invite them to join his crew- it's just as you imagined.

As your eyes trace around the room, they lock onto a pair of eyes that are staring right back at you- the man peers at you with the uptmost of curiosity, measuring you up somehow. His eyes bore into your head, making you feel very uneasy- you look away and ignore him, ordering the cheapest drink to ration the precious amounts of money you have. Sipping it, you steal a glance back to where the man was- and find that he has disappeared silently from his spot. Feeling somewhat relieved, you join in the festive atmosphere- this is beginning of your adventure, here in the Caribbean Sea.

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[b]August 14th, 1642.[/b]

The next morning, feeling a bit 'dazed' from your celebration, you start to look for work- there are many opportunities in and around Port Royale, but you know only a few of them have the potential to lead you to glory. Amongst the scattered jobs you could take is a once and a life time offer- from behind you you hear someone yell "[b]CREW WANTED FOR PIRATE HUNTING EXPEDITION TO KILL THE MOST FEARED PIRATE OF THE SEA[/b]". You take an interest in the this- the most feared pirate of the sea.. and you could be apart of the crew to kill or capture him. That sounds as good a start as any to your goal of riches/fame/glory. Hunting around for a bit, you finally find, inside the tavern, a small crowd gathered around a single table- a smart-looking man sits there holding a stack of sign-up sheets. He hands them out to everyone that wants one, including yourself.

"Just fill out the required items. We are not too picky about who joins up- just as long as you are willing to work hard for the Captain. Are you willing?"

You nod in reply and he nods back, letting you get to signing up. You sit down at the nearest table and glance over the sheet- trying to hide your excitement, you start to fill out the required information.

~By the order of Port Royale's Governor, Governor Bartnett, we hereby declare an official pirate hunting expedition to take place aboard the 5th rate Frigate HMS Hunter on the date of August the 17th in the year 1642. All who wish to join on this expedition must be able bodied, willing to work and not afraid of death.

We will be seeking out the infamous pirate, Captain [u]Julian Kidd[/u]. Wanted for: [i]Pirating, extortion, smuggling, kidnapping, murder, manslaughter, destruction of His majesties' property, scandalous conduct with Governor Bartnett's daughter, the seizure and illegal sale of the- Sloop-Of-War HMS Greencoat; Royal Sloop HMS Hillshire; 5th Rate Frigate HMS Blunt; Merchantman HMS Answorth; Merchantman HMS Yorktown; 6th Rate Frigate HMS Scorpian; Gun-Brig HMS..[/i] [the list continues for quite a ways, so you skip the rest of it, somewhat in awe of this 'Julian Kidd'].

[b]Real Name[/b]:
[b]Date of Birth[/b]:
[b]Gender[/b]:
[b]Past Employment[/b]:
[b]Tasks You Are Proficient At[/b]:
[b]Personal Armaments[/b]:
[b]Other[/b]:


(*Date of Birth= age or supposed age. *Past Employment= bio. *Tasks you are proficient at.. what are you good at? Bandaging up wounds? Cannon gunnery? Swordplay? Navigation? Cooking? Keep it in context with the time frame. *Personal Armaments- what kind of sword do you use? Do you have some of those new-fangled one shot pistols? Do you use armaments at all? Other- put your personality here if you want, or whatever you want there.)

What do you think? I have a basic plot outlined in my head.. but I don't know if people really would go for a Pirate RP, lol. I will prolly add some footnotes so people know what the ships are, what the grades mean, etc.. maybe get a map of 1640's Caribbean Sea from somewhere.

Arr. ;)

Dead or dreaming.

Just a shot in the dark, but does anybody here know if strawberries grow extensively in the Black Forest area of Germany? That would be the province of Stuttgart, I believe- the Black Forest is in that south-west most province.

Just a random inquiry.

Know thyself.

People take things personally from me, lol. "Why do you not care if you come off as an ass?" "Why do you care if I come off as an ass?" Over my short existence I've come to find that a great many people make it a personal goal of theirs to misunderstand you and to go off on tangents due to their misunderstandings. They will claim you are x or you are y or you are z. They are sure you are x or y or z and wonder why you have to be such an x to them or had to be like y at the time or say a z-ish thing- well, what are you to do? If Z, X and Y are apart of your soul, what are you to do? What's a man to do? Filter and mute himself just to coexist with people? Half live just to gain the company of a few people who don't enjoy his nature? I don't think so, lol. I'm usually a very nice person, but I say some quirky things people take wrong- or, sometimes, I'm just downright controversial. Well, if someone is too vocal about it.. Dr. Suess said something I heard awhile ago that I have lived by since.

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Suess

Respect is one thing. Lying to someone just because they don't accept you for who you are is another.

Bloodshed.

Hmm. Situation with a friend of mine. Something about non-consensual sex while she was 'passed out' and her being late for her period.

I smell trouble and I don't like it.

I'll catch you later. I need to see what this is all about.
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Luke's Wall.
Comments on Commentary-

Mimmi- Yeah! I saw the movie once and thought it was the best movie I had ever seen. I'm glad someone else likes it.

Juuthena- I can say Muse is overrated since I paid for their CD awhile ago. <_<' Yeah, I know what you mean- everytime I write a post that has an argueable point in it, I try to cover all my bases with "if you don't agree, that's fine" type sentences- essentially, as I tell my viewpoint, I'm subtlely telling people to STFU if they even have the inclination to argue with me. >_>

Shinfaru- Peter Sellers! Woo. :D Anthony Hopkins! Woo. :D Cannibals! Woo. :D

Boba Fett- definitely! Those other films are on par with those two films. ^_^

Aye De Eff- The only major conflict between WWII and Vietnam is what "The Forgotten War" is. That would be the... Korean War. It didn't match the number of people killed in Vietnam, but it got more casualties in a shorter amount of time than it did. Since it's smashed between those two large conflicts, a significant majority don't know anything beyond the peninsula the war took place on- if they know anything at all about it, that is. So, it's generally called the Forgotten War. I dunno, it was a test to see how many people here knew their uh, history.

Mr. Dan- SuperSonics are a weird team to be watching succeed so much. They just sorta came out of no where, lol. Alamo Drafthouse, eh? Hmm. I'll check it out.

Interesting Fact: World War II killed off 2 percent of the world's total population at the time.

Lost my mind, yeah. I don't mind.

People talk about how horrible it is people have died in war- I find myself oddly apathetic. Trying to combine morality with the fact we are all mortal is silly- you are going to die. I am going to die. We've accepted that. How we die seems oddly unimportant compared to the fact that we are simply going to die. That might seem overtly morbid, but it is just a fact- if you are sure you aren't going to die, please step up and tell the rest of us how you are going to avoid your death. That is the sort of thing you should share with your peers, you know? Maybe I'm trying to say I am apathetic towards how you die, unless you die with alot of respect paid attention to your death. If you are murdered in cold blood, I obviously will want to voice my displeasure. In war, there is no murdering in cold blood. If they aren't enemy soldiers, they are civilians aiding the enemy government economically, politically or commercially.

In the evening, we lie in wait.

I'm pretty tired. I played some basketball today- I'm mainly an outside shooter, lol. I, for some reason, can't do lay ups for the life of me.I had like 56 percent of my three point shots go in- 4/7 I think. It was an amusing distraction, heh. Other than that, my mother and I toured the rampant destruction afflicting my forest that is named "man". Tsk. Acre upon acre of forest destroyed in a few days, what will replace it? Shoddy, stereotypical, suburban America homes. Oh, and they will have the audacity to plant a few new trees in their yard- in lieu of what was practically a temperate jungle that was there before. Idiotic policies by idiotic people.

I can see how some people can allude to us being parasites- if I was as naive as them, sitting across the street from the destruction occurring, I would say the same thing.

Toll due, bad dream come true.

Shh! Don't tell anyone in this thread but I would prefer to live under a benevolent dictatorship than either a true democracy or a some form of true Marxist communism! All systems of government eventually turn into some form of dictatorship for a reason- it's the most efficient. Your personal freedoms could be equal to or better than a Democracy's if the dictator was benevolent enough- heh. So, keep this between you and me and everyone else who reads this! I don't want to anger the idiotically biased people :O.

Ahh! Too late! BACK YOU DEMONIC HORDES OF VERMONOUS SWINE! *firefight breaks out*

I WILL NEVER CONCEDE DEFEAT TO THE LIKES OF *devoured* AHH I'M BEING EATEN ALIVE

Send transmission from the one armed scissor.

That seems to be about it. I'll catch all of you later.

Have a good one.

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Tuesday, December 7, 2004

Got me wrong.
AHHHHHHHH MOTHERLAND-

Laura, President of Dictionaries- Thazza good question, mate.

Sen, President of Dorky Haircuts- ToS is alot of fun. It's like old school RPGs without all the jagged polygons that cut into your eyes. *points to scaring on eyes*

Roxie, President of Everything- Muse *is* overrate-*stoned to death by MyO Muse cult following* Ahhh! O_O

P.S. Why does anything that is planned, fail? Something goes awry. There are several ways that Communism can go awry- for one thing, humans are corruptible. Money, power, prestige- that all can be corruptible. It's just another idealistic dream [a world for the worker, by the worker] that cannot be applied 100 perfect efficiently because humanity is humanity.

Aye Di Ehf, President of Green Fonts- Diablo/Icewind Dale= rocks. Absolution is pretty good, but not the best I've gotten. I like track 2. o.o


Watch where you spit.

I'm a pretty big watcher of movies- not current, shitty movies [everything in the theatres right now sucks]. Older, better movies are my cup of tea- stuff before 1991, mainly. I don't know how much you guys watch old movies, I know some of you are pretty big consumers of the current, shitty movies but uh.. if you ever find the DVD of these movies, you should get it.

Harold and Maude (1971) [DVD]- This movie is a very, very good movie. It has a very morbid sense of humor at times- and if it's morbid, I like it. The acting is done very well- the guy who plays the teenager does a superb job. I think that alot of you would find it is, well, you know- speaking your language. It's about this shy, introverted kid whose mom is trying to force him into, well- living life. She is trying to arrange marriages for him and such, but he is more interested in attending funerals of people he doesn't know- at one of these funerals, he meets an older woman named Maude. Maude thinks that he needs to live life too- but she does it in a different, more interesting way than his mother is trying to do.

Being There (1979) [DVD]- Anything Peter Sellers is in, I adore- he is my favorite actor of all time, without a doubt. This movie is a little bit different from the stereotypical silly movies he is in- it is deeper, much deeper and, once again, has a very good underlying message in it. I don't have to mention how good the acting is- Peter Sellers = God. The story is about this guy who has learned all he knows from TV- he has worked as a gardener for all of his life at an isolated house. The wealthy recluse who was raising him dies and he is forced out into the real world. It was pretty touching at the end- might have stirred my heart a bit. Just a bit. ;)

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) [DVD]- Peter Seller's, man- demi-god of acting. This is the best satirical film I have ever seen- Peter Sellers plays three separate characters and is wonderful in all of them. The comedy is, well- both subtle and not. You can like it if you don't understand the underlying messages, you can like it more if you do- it's win-win. The synopsis is, well- A general thinks that the Communists are fluoridating America's drinking water, so he a B-52 H-Bomb attack on the Soviets. A frantic President and Joint Cheifs of Staff have to find a way to stop it. Sounds good, eh?

The Silence of the Lambs (1991) [DVD]- This is probably my favorite movie of all time- Anthony Hopkins is the other demi-god of acting, better than any current star. The way he plays Hannibal is just so.. amusing to me. It's pure evil, and it's amusing to me. The scenes when he is attacking those guards is just so beautifully filmed, it's wondrous. Everyone should seen an uncut version of this movie at least once if they want to call themselves a movie addict.

Those are my four favorite movies- they outclass any current release in the last few years in every way possible, in my opinion. So.. yeah.

Hopefully, this will have been of good use to someone.

Crazy, but that's how it goes.

Life is abnormally fine. I'm waiting for the drop off beneath my feet, though- I'm sure it will come soon, lol. It feels good to be going to OB because I want to go- when I was a mod, I grew tired of feeling like I had an obligation to something as silly as an online message board. You shouldn't do things like that because you feel obligated- you should do it because you want to, it's entertainment, you know? Why did I come there first? I came there because it's a forum, it's a place of talking. You shouldn't ever put obligation upon yourself to basically go talk with people, lol. I would like to be a moderator again, ironically- maybe of Otaku Lounge or something since no one in the PC forum really talks about the sorts of games I play on the PC.

I don't know about you, but the trend on OB seems to have shifted away from all these little moo-cow stereotypical newbies to pseudo-philosophers- mind you, I understand I could be slid into that class, but the people on OB are alot more egotistically charged then I am. "I AM RIGHT AND YOU ARE WRONG SO AHAHAHAHAHAHAA YOU SILLY PENIS". Stuff like that. I can take a hit to my opinion because- it's opinion. It's supposed to be fluid, like water- not a huge rock that no one can move. There is a difference between being stubborn and being stupid- and I feel safe in saying several people on OB fall into the latter. There are, of course, several respectable intellectuals on OB- Siren, James.. uhh... ... uhhh....

... Those are the only two I can think of.

Come down and waste away with me, down with me.

Stuff to watch out for:

-Rwanda doing bad things to Hutus in the Congo.
-Africa continuing to be a shithole post-colonialism. [The white man is HOLDING ME DOWN by not letting us engage in tons of civil war!]
-Ukraine doing bad things to itself.
Before a nation-wide group hug breaks out due to too much vodka.
-Russia doing bad things to the west.
The west not giving a shit because, hey- it's Russia.
Before remembering the thousands of nukes Russia has.
Before remembering that if Russia tried to launch a nuke it would probably do a giant loop and slam into it's own soil. [In Soviet Russia, nuke nukes you!]
-MLB doing bad things to it's players.
Before they continue paying them millions of dollars to hit balls, catch balls, throw balls and run around bases in questionable uniforms.
-The economy slowly going up.
Before it goes back down.
-Oil prices faltering around some more.
Before they go back up.
-Someone going insane on OB.
-Me going insane on OB.
-A ton of rappers/black people/white people who like to think they are black/ghetto people getting a Grammy nomination [or more] because, hey- you don't have to make music to win a Grammy. =)
-Eminem getting shot because.. he needs to be shot.
In the chest.
With a double barreled shotgun called "Divine Justice Or: Shut the fuck up before I make you".
-Someone asking for dating advice on OB.
Where some of the brighter minds on OB will try to help them and somehow fail horribly.
-France will screw up again.
And yet still be arrogantly prideful of their nation because, hey- France did hold off Germany in one war out of three.
With the help of half the superpowers at the time.
And half the great powers at the time.
And a ton of smaller nations who no one really cared about then and still don't care about. [New Zealand: WE SENT PEOPLE TO GET KILLED, RESPECT US >_<]
They even conquered most of Europe one time!
Before getting their ass kicked by.. winter.
-George Bush to do that quirky smile of his. [George Bush: *smile* I wish I had a clue! ^_^]
As he dooms another nation full of middle eastern people.
Yet still has more support than any democratic rival.
Because, hey- people know that the God they worship wants you to kill as much as possible. Go religious people! Get those suckers!
-Someone, somewhere to look up into the sky and suddenly realize they are living someone elses life.
Before they promptly leap off a cliff.
And realize that was probably a bad time to give in to what their gut was telling them to do.
-This MyO post eventually ending. [K: HELLO TO YOU I HAVE MUCH TO SAY TAKE A SEAT. Person: <_>]
But not before you lose the 12 percent of your sanity that is left.

Went in the room, didn't stay long. Looked on the bed and 'brother was dead.

There is no problem with Otaku Lounge. There is nothing to change. You cannot effect the flow of people into it and their views, the things they will create. To try to control that is irritatingly dictatorial, to say the least. If you wish to curb the tide of what *you* view as meaningless or irritating topics, then that's great- I see no reason to. I might make fun of them alot, but it's Otaku Lounge- it's there for people to talk about shit. Not to knock down OB's stereotypical, false message of it being Quality over anything else posts but really- not everyone exists on the basis of deep thought. I don't know if I will post this in that thread in OL. We'll see if I can word this in a truthful fashion without stirring any controversy- or maybe my opinion will change by the time I feel like trudging up the words. We'll see. But for now, I see no way you could "improve" it in the ways that are implied without coming off as being a jackass board full of intellectual elitist nutcases.

Waaaaaait. I'm a intellectually elitist nutcase! Uh oh, this has turned into a PARADOX. HM. Well, while I am that way, that forum seems specifically bred for a mix- between the people who are the pseudo-intellectuals and the people who aren't.

.. Yeah.

Make my way back home, gonna learn to fly.

And now for something that might make you think.

American wars- duration of time involved in the war, casualties [killed in action and then wounded (if available)].

American Civil War- 4 years long. 434,052 killed. 288,875 wounded.
World War 2- 4 years long. 292,000+ killed.
World War 1- 1 year or so long. 126,000+ killed.
Vietnam War- 11 years long. 58,226 killed. 153,303 wounded.
"The Forgotten War"- 3 years long. 36,576 killed. 17,424+ wounded.
War of 1812- 3 years long. 12,000+ killed.
American Revolutionary War- 8 years long. 4,435 killed. 6,188 wounded.
Spanish-American War- 4 months long. 2,446 killed.
Philippine-American War- 14 years long. 4,234 killed. 2,818 wounded.
Mexican-American War- 2 years long. 1,733 killed. 4,152 wounded.
Gulf War 2- Almost 2 years and ongoing. 1,254 killed. Between 9,326 and 25,000 wounded.
Invasion of Afghanistan- 3 years and ongoing. 150 killed.
Gulf War 1- 6 weeks. 148 killed.

Totals of Wars listed [33 military conflicts of varying degrees are not listed]: 973,254+ killed and 473,336+ wounded in 59+ years of fighting.

Civilians killed in those wars (total duration of war followed by approximate number of killed) [where applicable/statistics are provided]:

World War 2- 6 years long. 39,200,000+ killed.
World War 1- 4 years long. 6,500,000+ killed.
Vietnam War- 18 years long. 5,000,000+ killed.
"The Forgotten War"- 3 years long. 1,240,000+ killed.
Philippine-American War- 14 years long. Up to 1,000,000+ killed.
Gulf War 1- 6 weeks long. Up to 200,000 killed.
Gulf War 2- Almost 2 years and ongoing. Up to 100,000 killed.
Invasion of Afghanistan- 3 years and ongoing. 1,067 - 1,201.

Totals of Wars Listed: 53,241,451+ civilians killed in 50+ years of fighting.

Absolute total amounts of people killed in the major multinational conflicts out of that list of wars:

World War 2- 6 years long. 56,000,000+ killed.
World War 1- 4 years long. 15,400,000+ killed.
Vietnam War- 18 years long. 6,063,765+ killed
"The Forgotten War"- 3 years long. 3,000,000+ killed.

Totals of wars listed: 80,463,765+ killed in 31 years of fighting.

Conclusion: Make your own.

Like the coldest winter chill, heaven beside you.

THAT'S ALL FOLKS.

KTHX BAI.

P.S. No more energy drinks for Ken.

P.P.S. Tsk.

P.P.P.S. Go Spurs. =)
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