Hello there. I would like to ask something very important: "Why does it seem as though we like to demonize the other side?" Have you noticed this? No matter what the side is, we always demonize them. The religious vs. Atheists. One side calls the other deranged, idiotic whackjobs. The other side retaliates telling them that they are going to Hell. Democrats vs. Republicans. One side calls the other Nazis, rednecks,etc. The other side rebuttals with names such as Communists, Liberal pansies, and etc. Why are we so hard press into calling one another names simply because we do not completely agree with their values? Was not America founded with the ideal in mind that people could speak what they wanted to a reasonable extent without fear? Now and days it appear that people are yelling simply to be yelling, refusing to listen to others with opposing views. Trying so hard to be heard that they can not hear themselves. What has this nation become?

Okay, so I was on Youtube yesterday and I came upon another video pointing out the flaws in Christianity. And it came to the conclusion that God was imaginary. Pretty standard video about religion and I didn't feel too bad, even if it was attacking my religion because there are flaws in it I'll admit and it is a bit hypocritical. But then the video stated something along the lines of, "And why should people be allowed to believe in something delusional? Why should I care? Because it is hurting our species. Delusional people do illogical, deranged things because imaginary friends tell them to.' And I became mad. Because I have imaginary friends and if it was not for them I would not have any real friends. I mean, they act as my confidants 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They support me when my real friends are nowhere to be find. They help mellow me out. And they have not once suggest that I do something 'illogical' as the video puts it. I will go so far to conjecture that the reason why we get up everyday is because we are all just a wee bit insane and delusional. I mean, everyday somewhere people die. We are all destined to die. Some of us live in total pain for the rest of their lives due to an accident which may injure anywhere from 99% of our body to just 1%. And yet we still push. We still resist the sorrows of this world in hopes of building a new one. If that is not what delusion is, the hope of something better whereas everything is pointing towards it not being, then I do not know what is.




In other news, I really like the movie Walk Hard: The Story of Dewy Cox. It is a pretty good movie that parodies biopics like Walk the Line and Ray. But, I don't think it is better than Walk the Line. However, my parents, who hate comedies and the like, actually liked it better than Walk the Line. Something is wrong.

Did you know that when you are looking in a mirror, you are technically looking at a younger version of yourself? It's true. See, when you look at a regular mirror, your image appears as far back from the mirror as you are in front of the mirror. This means that the image is roughly double the distance away from you. When the light you emit hits the mirror it is reflected back into your eye, but since the mirror is only half the distance between you and the image, you see the image before you actually should.

Crazy? Yes. But this is physics, so it makes since.

So I was on youtube today, looking at the videos there when I came upon this video of Robert Palloni, the developer of Bob's Game ( a self-made game that he tried to get published) pretty much going through the Nintendo Store in New York and plastering posters of his game up, and essentially defacing the store with his stuff. Now, whether this is just a viral marketing campaign, or he really is miffed about Nintendo not speaking with him is unknown, but if it is the latter, then I have a few comments for Mr. Palloni.

First of all, why are you going to go to the Nintendo store to raise your complaints? Regular people do not decide what games are published, the executives of Nintendo do. That's not smart business sense. One is going to go into a company's store, cause a scene, and then expect said company to take them seriously? That is lunacy. Furthermore, if people remember you and Nintendo does overlook the scene, the people will not buy your game, for they will think you are deranged. Secondly, there are other publishing companies out there besides Nintendo. If he couldn't get Nintendo to publish him, he could have gotten Atlus, Capcom, etc. Nintendo is not the only gaming company that publishes games for the NDS. Nintendo DS has lots of publishers, so it is not the end of the world.

To be honest, I was one of the people who looked forward to Bob's game, if and when it would be produced. It seem fun, charming, and a quirky game. However, I am somewhat put off by the developer's tactics to raise support for his game. If it works for him, so be it. But I don't think I could buy a game from someone that uses advertising tactics like this.... What are your thoughts on this?

VIDEO OF BOB'S Game Developer and his tactics...




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Before i get to the point of this article, I'm going to tell a small memory from when I was twelve years old. When I was twelve years old, I used to go to the YMCA in Linwood, Kansas City, Missouri. Now, the Y's facilities were quite lackluster, I mean they had a pool and some other stuff. However, their one main facility (that every kid everywhere likes) was the swings. There were only four swings and we would fight over them, racing to the playground and literally tripping one other another to gain a coveted swing. The rioting over the slides escalated everyday and pretty soon, I decided to stop running for the swings, for I could tell that an accident would occur. And it did. One of the counselors opened the door and said, "Play time!" Every kid began running to the door to run up the steps to the playground where the swings were and knocked down one kid. By the time the kids dispersed, the one that had been knocked down had been trampled over. Now, he was still alive, but he was in desperate need of stitches afterwards and I never saw him again.
Now, let's look at what happened this Black Friday last week. A Wal-Mart employee was trampled to death after the customers went into a frenzy trying to get into the store. I was instantly reminded of this incident and realized that the parallels between them are uncanny. With the Y, we became so frenzied by the want to swing, that we completely disregarded human life. We blindly followed one another, pushing each other out of the way just to fulfill our own wants. And for what? The swing would only fill our need for it for a short while and one gets quickly bored. Same with what happened at Wal-Mart. Greed had blinded them, they became so materialistic as to ignore the people around them. And sadly this trend seems to go for the whole of America. Too much have we bought things that we really don't need. Me included. And perhaps that is the problem. If we become so materialistic that we push the needs of people away and believe that technology is our only friend, then perhaps we will fall apart as a nation.

TayZonaday sent me a friend request on youtube recently and I accepted it....So yeah.

I'm also working on my stories and stuff....


And also, I found this... about the old Superman radio show...

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Superman radio show is iconic. A lot of what we take for granted about Superman (like Kryptonite) was introduced through the radio show. But the show also helped battle racism. Stetson Kennedy, a leftist writer in the ‘40s, infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan and learnt the inner workings of Grand Dragon “Doc” Green’s vicious Klavern #1 of Atlanta. After finding out that the KKK had strong ties with the government he gave the writers of the Superman radio show information like code words, rituals, etc to produce a series where Superman battles the Klan. The result was a series called “Clan of The Fiery Cross” in which Superman helped show the underbelly of an organization that was otherwise accepted – at the time - as a part of Americana. During the first broadcast, “Doc” Green received a phone call from the Atlanta AP bureau chief: “Superman’s really on your trail … sounds to me like Superman’s got a pipeline into your klaverns somehow. You’d better watch your step.” “I smell a rat,” the Dragon said bitterly. “Just wait till I get my hands on him!” “You’d better make it snappy–Superman just flew over your Imperial Palace to case the joint.” “Nuts,” the Doctor said, and hung up. Source. The show received phenomenal ratings and even after a Klan boycott of Kellogg in Atlanta kept being green lighted. It is one of the most remembered series of the radio show and can be found through either repeats of the show on AM radio or by downloading it on the internet (search for it).

So yeah.

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By: so64 | On: Wed Sep 17, 08 8:05 PM

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Okay, so I was watching the news and I heard that this British lady didn't pass her driving test because she splashed a pedestrian. Now, that is silly. Especially since it was more on the fact that the splash is considered a crash, invalidating the whole test. The lady was a very good driver and this one little incident screw her up. Silly.

Next, yesterday, I was walking to my bus and some girl on a bus said that with my laptop bag and my suitcase bag, I look like a pregnant dolphin....I was too weirded out to be surprised...