Rant = ON
Ok, I've decided that the polls are getting rediculous. Why do I say that? Well...how about
"Are you a Redneck?"
Ok, fine...technically, vampire victems have reddish necks...I'll buy that. But, I doubt this poll was created in that vein.
Recently, I created a poll that I thought was funny. I wish I could uncreate it. I'm not even giong to look at polls, anymore.
Ok, one nice thing about the polls is that it's taken a lot of the roll-call threads out of the forums.
Rant = OFF
I started playing Star Wars:Knights of the Old Republic II, last night. I'm not much of a console gamer, but I'm enjoying this thing as much as i did the first one. Now...if it only had a vampire in it....
EDIT: A sexy little bird brought to my attention the fact that I can close my own poll. It has been done. I still think it's funny, but I'm still boycotting all thing pollish. Pollock. Poll-like. Yeah, Poll-like.
As for the sixty-some-odd percent of you who said "NO" in my poll. YOU LIE LIKE A RUG! Mu hu ha ha!
If you know me, or if you've paddled through my profile, you pretty much know that I enjoy reading webcomics. There are a LOT of good webcomics out there, if you're into that kind of thing.
Anyway, the reason I like them is that I find some of the most humorous things in the musings of the writers.
In the archives of www.penny-arcade.com I found this example:
"Carrot Cake Soup is like the taste of watching girls make out."
Even withough knowing what that line is all about, it's funny. And if you don't think so, I reccommend you NEVER talk to Daire. You won't understand a thing he says. He'll just confuse you or piss you off. I'll bet he'll laugh when he reads that line.
Ok, I digress. Go to the following link to read the entire carrot cake write-up. Make sure you click on the "Latest Comic" link, too.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/news.php3?date=2002-01-14
I don't remember being an angry, spiteful teen. Ok, so, it was a while ago, so maybe I'm getting old and my memory isn't what it used to be. heheh
I've noticed, as of late, the influx of more and more teen-agers to the site. I'm talking about highschool aged teens, here, mostly. Maybe it's just the "subculture" that the subject of this website attracts, but it seems that there are a lot of kids out there who "hate" everything. They hate where they live. They hate thier parents. They hate school. They hate people AT school. They hate thier friends. (I'm still trying to figure that one out.) They hate thier brother, sister, cousin, uncle, mailman and dog. About the only things they don't hate are cats, rats and thier "one true love who I will die for and do anything for with no punctuation or capital letters because i love him/her so much."
Oh, and they don't seem to hate Brian Warner.
It really seems that these kids are miserable. Yeah, you're kids. Deal with it. You still live in your parent's house, eat the food they provide, go to school, borrow the car, etc. Kids. Still don't believe me? Well, here's the test:
I'm 34.
If the first thing that popped into your head was "Damn, he's old!" YOU are a kid.
Anyway, what's with all the angst? I don't remember having that kind of angst. I didn't hate. Well, I hated that girl that dumped me over the phone that one time. But, I mean, I don't think I can say that there was ever a time where I was scribbling "I wish my dog understood me! Noone understands me!" in my spiral notebook during Alegebra.
You think noone understands you, now? Wait til you get out of school into the "real" world. Then, not only do you have to deal with the fact that your boss doens't understand why you have 47 piercings in your face...oh wait...that's right...you couldn't get hired BECAUSE of the 47 piercings in your face. Oops. See, noone will understand you. Still. Life is just like that.
Ok, I'm starting to lose my train of thought, here and all the "good" stuff is coming unravelled. Let's get back to hate.
Why do you kids hate so much? I really want to know that? I imagine that some of you truly do have well and good reasons to hate. I have no doubt. Whatsoever. But, there is no possible way, statistically, that there can be so many teens who's lives absolutely SUCK that bad on this one web site. (Dhampir is working on the mathematical proof of this, I swear. Just ask him.) Are you all really THAT miserable and angry? I sure hope not. If so...well...you ARE the future of this planet. And, if none of you understand each other...well...the planet is kinda fucked.
Well, I just flipped over to the forums, and I realized, as I read the topics on the first page, that there is nothing that I have any interest in. Unfortunately, my net connection is so slow that I can't stand waiting a couple of minutes for a thread to load that I'm just completely disappointed with. I think the first stage of VR Burnout has begun.
Someone let me know if anything interesting happens in the forums. Or somthing....
The winner for today...
"Vampieric"
No, I'm not talking about porno movies. If you get that joke, then you're my kind of person!
I'm talking about the forums. I logged in and flipped to the forums page, today and skimmed the subjects for the general threads. I really didn't see much of anything that I wanted to read. Ok, so, that's my problem. I know that. What's entertaining and informative for me, is not so for others and vice versa. I get that, too.
But, I've noticed that over the last month or so, "roll call" threads are becoming prevalent. Some of them are fun, but most degenerate into conversations between two or more people. It's annoying. Especially since my connection is slow.
I miss the threads that made you think. I miss the topics that got lots of people involved, and not just the same 3 or 4. There are several people who I have started to call "forum junkies." Ever notice how the same people post in EVERY thread. And most of the time they don't really say much. Or, their first post is relevant and everything after that is....fluff.
Also, why do people feel the need to post more than once in a "roll call" thread. Example:
What's your favorite color? Blue! Then...after three other people have posted the same person posts again "Oh, I forgot about mauve! I love mauve!" Then three or four posts later "I forgot how much I love yellow! isn't yellow great!" And THEN, another forum junkie just HAS to put thier two cents in: "Oh, you're so silly! I just love that you love yellow! I love yellow, too!"
"I just think yellow is great!"
"Me too! I can't believe we both like yellow!"
"Remember that yellow car?"
"Yeah it was awesome! Let's talk about that, now"
"Ok, cars are great!"
"Yeah, I love cars!"
"Me too!"
"I can't believe we both love cars!"
Do you get my drift?
Anyway, I digress, again, but that's ok, because this is a rant. Rants are stream of conciousness, right? right?
So, anyway...bring back intelligent, thought provoking threads, I say! Fight the tide of fluff! Dig into the depths of the forums and BUMP that thread that really made you think! If the fluff knocks it off the front page...well, bump it again, I say! Vive la BUMP!
My favorite color is blue. No...green...ahhh hell....
Pretty much anyone who knows me, knows I'm a huge fan. Hell, I even like Jar Jar. heheh Anyway, Jamie, from this site, sent me this link and I though it was damned funny. Open up another window and paste this sucker in.
http://www.newgrounds.com/video/losthope.html
Well, I found the ball. It's been missing for almost a week. It was under my desk. It was definitely watching me.
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