Feeblemind

Transformers 2… was awful.

As I am coming out of (yet another) two-month blog-coma, I haven’t put together my own review of the movie yet, and at this point, the pain has faded enough that I may not ever (why reopen a wound?).

However, I thought this FAQ fairly accurately explains the film.

To: Starcraft Fans
From: Blizzard Entertainment
Subject: FUCK YOU

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6212765.html

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As someone who is planning a Starcraft I LAN party this weekend, I think it’s safe to say that this is total bullshit. I couldn’t care less about “achievements” or “stat-tracking”. I seriously don’t want “advanced communications options”. I don’t want to talk to the mouth-breathing pig-fuckers who populate Battle.net. Here’s a communication option for you - have your friends in the same god-damn room!

Playing on Battle.net sucks. It has always sucked. I have never once had any use for it. But I’m sure it will be a “quality multiplayer experience” to have all eight people sending game information along a single shared internet connection. Nope, no lag possible there, guys!

Starcraft is not World of Warcraft. The best thing about Starcraft was LAN play. I am sick and tired of losing game playability to the phantom of “piracy”. Let’s get some things straight:

1. Most people who pirate games are not going to pony up money just because you made your game harder to pirate. If they don’t get a pirated copy, they aren’t going to get any copy.
2. This game will be pirated. Dropping LAN play isn’t going to stop that.
3. Overbearing measures in the name of “anti-piracy”, especially when they reduce the playability of the game, are counter-productive. I am going to have to wait for someone to crack a copy of this game so I can play it multiplayer. I have no interest in playing through the shit-hole that is Battle.net. So, I have no incentive to purchase the game until there is a multiplayer crack; if there never is a multiplayer crack, I won’t be purchasing the game. Do they really think that the lost sales from treating their customers as criminals will make up for whatever magic number they believe they are saving from slowing down pirates?

This could be the single most stupid game design decision since Dungeon Lords was released to the public.

When I named this website, I didn’t actually mean anything by it, it was just two words strung together to make a name that wasn’t already taken. Now, of course, is my second death announcement in a month, as we lost our cat last night. Plus, I have to retract my happy soon-to-be mom post.

Nature is a cruel, stupid thing.

So for no particular purpose, the next ten random songs on my playlist:

1. The Sisters of Mercy - Walk Away
2. T.a.T.u. - How Soon Is Now
3. The Sisters of Mercy - Temple of Love
4. MC Frontalot - Charity Case
5. MC Hawking - Bitchslap
6. Orgy - Blue Monday
7. MC Frontalot - Gonna Be Your Man
8. MC Lars - Mr. Raven
9. MC Frontalot - Very Poorly Concealed Secret Track
10. Garbage - Hammering in my Head

I’ve defied nature! Muahahaha

Congratulations, soon to be Mom!

Marion Idelle (Rohde) Kitto
3/13/1920 - 3/24/2009

Nothing I can say sounds quite right, just now.

Thank you for everything. I’ll miss you.

Wait a minute - The damn iPhone, which, as it always is with Apple, is billed as the second coming of our Lord and Savior, and if you don’t use one you are neither intelligent or hip - didn’t support cut-and-fucking-paste until version 3.0?

The stupid, it burnses us.

Wind River Workbench

UPDATE: Technically, I suppose, the problem is with Eclipse, which is what Workbench is built on. Which only makes both of them annoying, instead of just the one.

Alternate title: Now I hate the pope.

Discussing AIDS:

“You can’t resolve it with the distribution of condoms,” the pope told reporters aboard the Alitalia plane heading to Yaounde. “On the contrary, it increases the problem.”

Thanks, Benny, for condemning thousands more people to slow deaths. Can’t we have some sort of IQ test here? But then, I guess, that would be mutually exclusive…

Well from that day to this I have wandered alone
I’m a jack of all trades and a master of none
With the sky for me roof and the earth for me floor
And I’ll dance out me days drinking whiskey galore

Singing ‘bainne na mbo is an gamhna
And the juice of the barley for me’

This is one of the funnier things I have ever read:

http://www.theagitator.com/2009/02/10/radley-balko-exposed/

Bonus idiot points to the Republican for:

1. Direct linking an image from the site of the person he (or she, I guess) is trying to smear - that is, all that the Agitator had to do was change the image on his own server, to change the picture in the article.
2. When they noticed the picture had changed, claiming that the Agitator had “hacked” their site.

Found at Balloon Juice.