Rainbow Colored Fail

July 31, 2008 in Uncategorized | Tags: , , | 1 comment

It’s been around for many centuries. It’s hurt many people. Yep, if you can guess by the title, it’s racism.

Only now, people are starting to say “L0L RACISM IS BAD AND WE KNOW THAT. BUT TO KEEP OURSELVES FROM LOOKING THE SLIGHTEST BIT RACIST, WE MUST ADVERTISE THE FACT THAT WE ARE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY COMPANY. MISSION STATEMENT: MAKE EQUAL OPPORTUNITY ADVERTS EVEN MORE BLATANT AND OBVIOUS THAN THE ADVERTISEMENTS IN GUITAR HERO 3.”

I was watching a commercial for some kind of criminal justice college program thing, and the political correctness was amazing. It shows women and the occasional man (because, you know, they can’t have too many men or people will think they are sexist or something) doing criminal justice type stuff, like working in crime labs. Most were minorities (because even if there is only one Latino woman in the whole entire college she HAS TO BE SHOWN IN THE COMMERCIAL TO PROVE THAT LATINO WOMEN ARE NOT BEING DISCRIMINATED AGAINST), which brings me to another story.

On the news while I was on vacation in Minnesota, I saw a story filmed on a college campus in North Dakota about new student grants. I’m not being racist, I’m telling the truth: I literally see about 1 or 2 Asian people a month. South Dakota (and most of North Dakota for that matter) does not have much in the way of cultural diversity. A very strong majority is Native American or Caucasian around here, not much else. Of course, however, the TV station has to show probably the one Chinese student on campus. He was most likely an exchange student, as his English was pretty shaky. Next, they showed a student with a thick accent I couldn’t place. Do we have to be so politically correct and racially sensitive that we have to show exchange students and nobody else on the news story because we might be offending someone by showing an American student?

There is even some of this going on in the current political race. It’s calmed down a little bit, but comments against Barack Obama (or Hilary Clinton, when she was still in the race) can still be blown out of proportion and deemed racist or sexist.

I’m not saying we should all start using the n-word and reinstate Jim Crow laws. But come on, people. Calm down about the political correctness.

Things that Creep Me Out/Scare Me

July 24, 2008 in Uncategorized | 3 comments

1. Heights (scareh plz)

2. Meeting people

3. White shirts

4. Hailstorms breaking my windows

5. Dying of asthma

6. High school

7. Public restrooms

8. High school

9. “Howdy”

10. The threat of elevators breaking

11. Tall bridges breaking when being driven over

12. High school

13. Military boot camp with asthma

14. PE IN HIGH SCHOOL

15. Keyloggers and viruses in my computer

16. Bees

17. Getting strangled/choked/smothered to death

18. Drowning

19. Getting diagnosed with something that keeps me from eating what I want to

20. Having my fingers get infected, forcing me to get them amputated

21. Scoliosis tests

All I can think of for now: Expect more. XD

Camp Rock INCONSISTENCIES

July 2, 2008 in Uncategorized | Tags: , | 2 comments

I decided the other night to watch some TV, and as I was flipping around I landed on the Disney channel. If you know anything about the Disney channel you’ll know they’ve been promoting a movie for months now. The movie is called Camp Rock and guess what it’s about? A MUSIC CAMP. (no rock involved, sadly, unless you count the Jonas Brothers as rock. I don’t.)

So out of curiosity and possibly a bit of laughter (probably not at the “funny” parts of the movie) I started to watch the movie. I caught it about halfway through, but what I managed to gather was this:

Mitchy (what a name), played by Demi Lovato, is attending Camp Rock. She has told everyone, including the little popular clique, that her mother cooks for celebrities and her father is rich. What they don’t know is that her mother is actually the CAMP’s cook (ooh drama) and her father isn’t really anyone special. Tess, the leader of the popular clique, sees Mitchy saying goodbye to her mother and thinks “Z0MG SHE LIED L0L LET ME GO TELL MY FRIENDS!” which she then does. Mitchy looks like an idiot in front of the whole camp. Meanwhile, she has been singing to some guy named Shane, played by one of the Jonas Brothers (I don’t know his name but I think he’s the oldest one). Tess gets jealous of Mitchy and plants a charm bracelet in the kitchen, announcing that it has been stolen. Mitchy and a friend take advantage of a loophole and play in the camp’s final event, aptly named Final Jam. Sprinkle in some singing by the Jonas Brothers, Britney Spears type pop, and about one song that didn’t bother me. That’s basically Camp Rock in a nutshell.

NOW COMES THE INCONSISTENCIES.

Inconsistency Number 1: Shane is singing to Mitchy when they are alone. WHY ARE THERE BACKUP SINGERS INVOLVED?

Inconsistency Number 2: In the Final Jam (end of the movie basically) there is a girl singing a song and playing a guitar. The fingering and strumming look off. L0l fake guitar?

Inconsistency Number 3: In a hip hop dance part, where they are supposed to be just following Shane, the whole camp performs the dance perfectly (except for the coolest guy in the movie, a drummer, who falls down at the end to possibly make it look more natural and set up a pun of “dancing to the beat of a different drum”.) when it’s supposed to be their first time.

Inconsistency Number 4: At Final Jam, Mitchy and Shane sing side by side with microphones. I was expecting microphone feedback@@

The Biggest Inconsistency: You can tell everything has been studio mixed when it’s supposed to be “live”. 😦

If any of those were explained in the half of the movie I missed, I will admit defeat. But for now, I HAVE PICKED APART CAMP ROCK. DISNEY, DO A BETTER JOB NEXT TIME.

In other news, the new RuneScape graphics are beautiful. ❤

Asthmatics everywhere can rejoice!

June 21, 2008 in Uncategorized | Tags: , | 5 comments

Because the music industry has finally begun to understand our lives.

I turned on the radio and was utterly amazed to hear songs like these:
1. A song that mostly consists of “Breeeeeeeeeathe. Juuuuust breeeeeeeeeeeathe. Ohhhhhh breeeeeeeeeeathe.” *repeat* There were probably other lyrics too but I was too awed to notice them.

2. A song that by what sounded like Avril Lavigne or somebody like that, which had the lyrics “Why can’t I breathe whenever I think about you” which is basically my attitude when I think about running.

3. “Love Song” by Sara Howeveryouspellherlastname (yes, I actually know the name of this one) that mentions “And they tell me to breathe easy for a while” which is what I’ve always heard asthmatics being told, including myself.

4. This is a big one. A POPULAR SONG BY AN AMERICAN IDOL WINNER. EVEN THE NAME RADIATES SYMPATHY FOR ASTHMATICS. “No Air” is the title of this one. I was flipping radio stations and heard a song that sounded like one of those R&B songs that you hear all the time. They don’t bother me, but I was about to change the station when I heard “It’s so hard for me to breeeeeathe”! I stopped and turned the volume up slightly. Sure enough, this song could easily be an asthma anthem! The chorus kicked in. “Tell me how I’m supposed to breathe with no air” is the artists’ way of realizing the problems we go through, then creating a song about it. GO JORDIN SPARKS, CHRIS BROWN, AND ESPECIALLY THE PERSON WHO WROTE THAT SONG.

Now, we asthmatics are being recognized as a significant group of people. I applaud the music industry. Thanks for making us feel special, and spreading asthma awareness to the world. Next, diabetes will become the newest topic of popular songs@@@

I ask anyone out there (probably one of my 6 viewers, according to the wordpress stats) to listen to current hits. If you find a song involving breathing, post it in the comments so asthmatics can feel even more special.

Hay guess wut? ANOTHER RANDOM THOUGHT SENTENCE BLOG POST THING

June 6, 2008 in Uncategorized | 2 comments

I hope Rohan has good PvP after all the n00bness I’ve had to go through already.

I might get GTA4 🙂

I have made a monumental discovery: I play guitars and Guitar Hero better lefty.

It needs to stop raining, it’s like freaking England here.

SKYNET IS COMING 😮

Sandbox trends fail (except bloonheading l0l0l0l).

Watching Top Chef makes me hungry (oh, I think Stephanie is going to win this season) and I wish I had a delicious steak to eat.

Why do MMORPGs often look so promising, then turn out to be a big sack of fail when you get to the actual gameplay?

Monsters need to stop dropping female-looking clothing for my character in Rohan, as my pants look like a dress.

I wish Santa Claus existed.

so i herd u liek mudkipz

Those nooby pinatas in my Viva Pinata garden need to stop stepping on the other ones. Also, I need more garden space.

My WeatherBug firefox extension looks depressing, it keeps showing rain. 😦

The AdventureQuest swordsman needs to stop practicing his pornstar act and get back to fighting poorly animated frogs.

Since I can’t write a blog post lately

May 20, 2008 in Uncategorized | 4 comments

Here is a quick summary of all the drafts I’ve created.

Global warming fails, and one person can’t magically save the environment.

Music prices need to be lowered or piracy will continue.

Hillary Clinton needs to gtfo of South Dakota.

Metal is the best music ever.

REINCARNATION? THE EPIC WIN METER IS OVER 9000@@@

I lost a pound!

Programming is hard.

I dislike carrying heavy hardcover books all over the place.

School’s almost out!

The weather is hot.

I had a bad asthma attack and now I’m on nooby medication that’s not helping.

I’m not following my doctor’s orders completely when it comes to taking some of the nooby medication.

I want some sort of advanced reading class, I’ve already read Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom for Pete’s sake.

I can’t wait until the band’s end of the year concert. Tuba fish to the rescue@

I have to write an Informer article, and I don’t know what to write yet.

Whoever has borrowed all the Darren Shan books out of the library needs to hurry and return them before I finish my crazily long books.

I should read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_%28novel%29 sometime, because my mom said it was a good book.

Wikipedia needs to have definite spoiler alerts in their articles, I didn’t want to know how Orry died. 😦

I can’t wait for Gears of War 2.

I wish noobs would stop arguing like small children on internet forums.

…Wow, getting thoughts out this way wins. No need to figure out a full length blog post to write!

Free Writing = ragglefragglearghhh

May 9, 2008 in Uncategorized | Tags: , | 2 comments

Ok, so my English teacher who I hate (yay for not many days of school left@@@) is probably going to prevent me from getting straight A’s at the end of the year? Why? She is having us do free writing, and sometimes writing with a very vague topic.

I will admit that I am terrible at just writing whatever comes to mind. Sometimes she doesn’t make you free write, and she gives you a topic. Unfortunately these topics are almost as vague as just telling us to free write. That’s not the bad part though. My English teacher is actually not paying any attention to the writing itself. I know for a fact that she only looks at the length of the writing. Watching her just look at the paper for an instant before immediately putting a “B” on it would make any readers of this blog know that as well. Not only that, but she doesn’t give people enough time to write. I also admit that I take a bit to come up with ideas, but it’s no coincidence that most of the class doesn’t end up with “9th grade writing” by the end of the too-short writing time. There is a girl in my class, and she is a brilliant writer. She has straight A’s, but her true talent is writing things. One advantage she has over me in “notebook writing” is that she can write a good amount on whatever boring, vague topic the teacher gives us. Today, we compared writing before turning it in. It was very well written (slightly longer than my paper too) and actually managed not to be a borefest like these writing exercises usually turn out to be. Both of us turned in our papers to the teacher’s desk (after waiting for approximately 5 minutes before she was done sitting there and ignoring us raising our hands, but that’s a whole new topic of irritation) and waited for her to read them. She literally took about 5 seconds to skim my paper (written on the topic “Doctor”, not one of the worst ones she’s ever had, I thought I did a fairly decent job on it too) before writing a big “B” on it. The teacher then picked up my classmate’s paper, might have spent 10 seconds looking it over, before putting another “B” on it.

If you are a teacher, please actually read the goddamn work we turn in. I realize you may feel like accepting utter shit because it’s longer, but if you want to do that, please at least give some decent writing credit.

In other news, I’m becoming a professional at air drumming.

I want to die (but not in that emo way)

May 2, 2008 in Uncategorized | 1 comment

I was thinking today about what happens when we die. Obviously, no matter what theory of afterlife you believe in, nobody will be able to tell you what happens after you die. Then, I realized something.

Even though every ounce of atheist was screaming at me “REINCARNATION IS A LIE”, I was thinking about how cool it would be.

Honestly, even if we didn’t know that we had come back to life as something else, wouldn’t it be nice to live life as something else? It would certainly be better than just losing your state of being, which is technically what I believe. There is just something about being able to try again at life that seems appealing to me.

Which brings up another thing: What happens to your consciousness, your state of being, your identity? If I came back to life as someone else, would I have the same personality? Do your thoughts just die with your body, do you just cease to exist? Obviously, you wouldn’t realize that you had stopped thinking if you did, but…gah.

This post probably doesn’t make sense any more, but oh well. I felt like posting it. :O

Since I can’t write a blog post lately

April 26, 2008 in Uncategorized | 1 comment

Bl00n told me to write about life.

I had a baseball practice today. When I got home, I cooked some rice and chicken. My dinner was delicious. Then, I played Oblivion for a few hours and wrote this blog post.

YAY FOR MY LIFE

The Best Copy-Paste Comic Ever

March 29, 2008 in Uncategorized | 1 comment

The dinosaur comics. Yahtzee is not only great for his Zero Punctuation reviews, he has good taste in comics. While I didn’t completely agree with his statements about the Ctrl + Alt + Del comics, I spotted these comics on his website, http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/.

Basically, the dinosaur comics are exactly the same panels for every comic, with different dialogue. I personally prefer VGCats over all other webcomics, but some of these dinosaur comics just make me laugh.
http://www.qwantz.com/ will take you to the greatness. Noob images got cut off on my blog.

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