I was pointed out by Max Thrane that the comments weren’t working. Thanks to him pointing this out, I was able to go in and fix the code. It was my fault, as I changed some stuff around and forgot to test to see if the comments still work properly. So if you tried to post a comment the past two days and got an error message, I apologize for the inconvenience. The comments are now working again.
If you remember, not long ago there was a huge controversy about an Al Qaeda-linked website making available the beheading of an American civilian. People either clamored to watch the video, or speak out against watching it. I’m one of those who think it’s inherently wrong and stupid to watch the video. Now some college punk wants to air it on a closed-circuit college broadcast and force people to watch it because, “”It’s not that big of a deal. People show stuff this violent and horrible all the time.”
It is a big deal. It is disrespectful to the man’s family, it gives the terrorists exactly what they want (anger, disgust, fear), and you have to be sick in the head to watch the video in the first place. Some people say you should watch it, it’s the truth, it’s reality. That is a pathetic excuse. If I read in a book, or heard on the news about the beheading, I don’t have to watch it too. Why subject myself to such horrors?
It’s one thing to see the beheading of a person in a movie, because it’s not really happening, and it is used to set up an emotion or to tell a story, but to see it happening to a real person, is another matter entirely. I accept the fact that some people love to watch people getting seriously hurt, killed, or tortured to death, and I also accept that some people are so messed up in the head, that they don’t care too.
Saw a hilarious post, that tries to figure out what Canada has brought upon mankind that is good, and the guy struggles with it. I could figure out one thing: it’s one of the rare places where you can ask complete strangers for a fag and not get dirty looks.
“There’s nothing like Canada day to make you realise that Canada is a boring place… or at least that’s the image that seems to be projected to Canadians and Non-Canadians alike. I too suffer from the self-deprecating anti-nationalism that is symptomatic of living the Staid White North, but I’d take that over jingoistic fervour any day. How did Canada become written-off as being defined by a handful of terms? Canada = Cold, Hockey-obsessed, harmless.”
I’ve put together and made available a new stylesheet with a more “manly” look for this site, if you so choose. The default will still be the pink and purple I first put together, but since some of you aren’t in touch with your lesbian side like I am, you now can choose the blue/green/orange look. To the right you’ll notice a new box, Colors, where you can choose between two icons. As always, any feedback is welcome. Style switcher courtesy of Alex King’s excellent style switcher plugin for Wordpress.
After waiting for over 4 years for the third sequel to the Thief series, it is finally out, and Gamespot got a review out. It’s disappointing a bit because it is a precious game premise that was executed so well the first two times. To do it a third time, by a different group of people, made me a little fearful how it would turn out. However it looks like they captured the gameplay of the previous series, while upholding the substandard graphics as well. There’s no excuse today in the PC gaming arena to have graphics that look over 3 years old.
Games like Half-Life, Doom/Quake, and Unreal pushed the high end systems in the past, yet were still immensely successful, so why are developers so timid and use substandard graphics? Because they want to cater to the console crowd. This means PC gamers are left with a crappy product because the console gamers are still stuck in 2001 with their Xbox’s, Playstation 2’s, and Gamecubes. PC developers are more interested in making vast amount of money, not providing superb gameplay the furthers the industry.
As a PC gamer, I’m sick of consoles holding back the PC industry. PC developers should focus on PC gaming, not money and consoles, and they’ll be rewarded by the legions of unforgettable loyalty of PC gamers who’ll always buy their products. Porting from the PC to the consoles is fine, because then the consoles don’t miss out on anything, but when they port from the consoles to the PC, PC gamers get the shaft. After Daikatana, the joke that is Deus Ex 2, and now Thief 3, Ion Storm has lost my respect, therefore my money.
I’ve been feeling really down the past few days, mostly due to financial difficulties and the impending feeling that something bad is going to happen two or three months down the road if Murphy’s Law is still hanging around me. However, I talked to my mom today on the phone and she has really cheered me up and made me feel better. She gave me a feeling of hope that I need.
It made me realize that’s what moms are for. They are there when you need them the most, and they tell you everything is going to be alright, and you believe them because they usually do turn out to be alright. Thanks Mom. Now I’m gonna go bake some cookies.
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If I had the money, I’d jump on this in a heartbeat. Also, if you use WordPress, they’ll donate 10% of the proceeds to the WP development team. Very nice! Via Photomatt.
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