Do you know what a Tab-Explosion is?
It's when you read an article, and that article links to several other articles, which again links to several other articles, and you want to read all these other articles as well, because you know they are also really interesting. This will make you open all these new articles in tabs so that you can read them when you are done reading the one you are reading right now. They will keep on multiplying. It's a special kind of sexless reproduction only parallelled by the malignant cells in bad cases of cancer tumours. They just keep multiplying until it takes you several minutes just to scroll your tab bar to see where it ends.
You know when is the worst possible time for this to happen? Three weeks before your exam...=/
I did the huge mistake of looking something up on TvTropes a couple weeks ago, and I am still working through the tabs. I have about 20 to go, and I have a severe case of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder when it comes to these things, so I am gonna have to read them before I close them.
I try to get a little studying done in between this, and I am succeeding to some little extent, but not very much. I get some reading done while commuting thou. I will be better next year. I promiseXD
Monday, May 3, 2010
Sunday, May 2, 2010
What came first? The egg or the hen?
Or rather the strip or the band?
In 2005 J. Jacques made this Questionale Content strip:
Homeless Hipsters
I was kidding around with a friend and said that wangsty Raphael of this strip was almost worse than Emo Hobocore. To which we replied double-u tee eff, and instead of searching through the archives for the strip I Googled it, and found this Urban Dictionary article
In this article they mention a band called Trashcan of Deception, who apparently started off in 2005.
I am wondering, are the two unrelated, or did one set off the other?
Who came first, the strip or the band?
In 2005 J. Jacques made this Questionale Content strip:
Homeless Hipsters
I was kidding around with a friend and said that wangsty Raphael of this strip was almost worse than Emo Hobocore. To which we replied double-u tee eff, and instead of searching through the archives for the strip I Googled it, and found this Urban Dictionary article
In this article they mention a band called Trashcan of Deception, who apparently started off in 2005.
I am wondering, are the two unrelated, or did one set off the other?
Who came first, the strip or the band?
I am fetish. Hear me ROAR!
It started some time during the late eighties early nineties, with Madonna singing some dude made her feel like a virgin. And it just sort escalated from there. (It might have started way earlier thou, I am only 22, so anything really old I won't have discovered yet.)
Alice Copper made a video with half naked women prancing around in a room full of chains hanging from the ceiling. That was considered risqué. It's was considered downright indecent.
And then comes the middle and late nineties. The innocent little pop-princesses started growing up. Discovering the world, and themselves, and, well, sex.
It gave us Britney videos like this:
(I was gonna embed Slave 4 you here, but I couldn't find a video that would let me embed it. This one shows my point thou. Which was Britney singing about how she has grown up while prancing around with her underwear on the outside of her clothes.)
And the world-famous (and many places banned) Christina video:
I must admit this is about where I stopped listening to the radio, and just about then Crappy-Reality-Show-Channel (otherwise known as MTV) stopped showing music videos, so the further development was lost on me.
That is until lady GAGA entered the stage. Her style blatantly stolen from fetish models such as Miss Mosh. (Warning: I have waived the no porn rule in this case. That is a fetish porn site. It is NOT SAFE FOR WORK (or moms))
She put on latex and ballerina heels and made herself out to be the next big shocking thing.
Her lyrics have a double meaning and sexual innuendo up the wazoo.
(Chosen because it was the first of her videos I was exposed to.)
She kept escalating and eventually donned a wannabe-gimpmask and made Bad Romance.
It's rather stunning visually actually.
In between these two, Britney wanted to show she could be sexy too.
And fell flat on her face.
Her next try was way better:
Now, however, Christina has showed once and for all, she can outfetish just about any pop-princess.
I give you: Not Myself Tonight
NSFW
It might not work in embedding, seeing as it's tagged as mature. If it doesn't you have to be over 18, and have a youtube account and go watch it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iV-1U06DDM
Alice Copper made a video with half naked women prancing around in a room full of chains hanging from the ceiling. That was considered risqué. It's was considered downright indecent.
And then comes the middle and late nineties. The innocent little pop-princesses started growing up. Discovering the world, and themselves, and, well, sex.
It gave us Britney videos like this:
(I was gonna embed Slave 4 you here, but I couldn't find a video that would let me embed it. This one shows my point thou. Which was Britney singing about how she has grown up while prancing around with her underwear on the outside of her clothes.)
And the world-famous (and many places banned) Christina video:
I must admit this is about where I stopped listening to the radio, and just about then Crappy-Reality-Show-Channel (otherwise known as MTV) stopped showing music videos, so the further development was lost on me.
That is until lady GAGA entered the stage. Her style blatantly stolen from fetish models such as Miss Mosh. (Warning: I have waived the no porn rule in this case. That is a fetish porn site. It is NOT SAFE FOR WORK (or moms))
She put on latex and ballerina heels and made herself out to be the next big shocking thing.
Her lyrics have a double meaning and sexual innuendo up the wazoo.
(Chosen because it was the first of her videos I was exposed to.)
She kept escalating and eventually donned a wannabe-gimpmask and made Bad Romance.
It's rather stunning visually actually.
In between these two, Britney wanted to show she could be sexy too.
And fell flat on her face.
Her next try was way better:
Now, however, Christina has showed once and for all, she can outfetish just about any pop-princess.
I give you: Not Myself Tonight
NSFW
It might not work in embedding, seeing as it's tagged as mature. If it doesn't you have to be over 18, and have a youtube account and go watch it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iV-1U06DDM
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Stupid game=(
You know the Sapphire I wrote about a couple of hours ago?
The one that keeps bugging.
I think someone messed it up.
It has a sticker over the screw that reads "MM do not open". If anyone knows this sticker, could you please comment and tell me what it means?
It keeps freezing and bugging and now it won't migrate Pokémon into SoulSilver.
That was 200SEK right out the window.
I just want to cry right now....
The one that keeps bugging.
I think someone messed it up.
It has a sticker over the screw that reads "MM do not open". If anyone knows this sticker, could you please comment and tell me what it means?
It keeps freezing and bugging and now it won't migrate Pokémon into SoulSilver.
That was 200SEK right out the window.
I just want to cry right now....
You are a STOOOOOPID game!!!
So I got my Ruby and Sapphire in the mail on Thursday. I started playing Sapphire the same day, and it kept freezing up on me. So I cleaned it, ever so carefully with a Q-tip and a teenytiny amount of Heptan (an alcohol based solution based used among other things to remove band-aid glue from your skin). And it worked fine after that.
Until about an hour ago, when I was turning on my DS to play and it stared with the message "previous save file has been deleted, you can now play the game". Which meant, literally, that my save had been deleted. I had between 20 and 25 hours of gameplay on that thing, and now I have to start all over. I figured, I am gonna play until I have 7 Pokémon, and then PalPark 6 of them over to my SoulSilver game. And I am gonna do this until I have all the 3rd gen starters on Souls Silver. I am collecting starters at the moment^^,
If it happens again, I am gonna have to write to guy I bought them from and complain.
In addition, when I started the game over again, don't you think it froze in the middle of my first battle?
Luckily I am have gone all out OCD on saving, so I didn't have to replay the entire intro sequence more than once. And let me tell you, I have now played Pokémon intro sequences so staggeringly many times that I can tell you exactly how it goes, blindfolded in the dark while asleep.
It so incredibly boring, and thou I realize they make them because new players need an introduction to the general idea of the game, I really REALLY wish there was a skip button.
What I hate most with intro sections are the "I will force feed you this tutorial even if it kills me" attitude of certain characters. This will result in this sequence of dialogue:
"Do you know how (insert gadget here) works?"
"Why, yes I do, but thank you for asking."
"Don't you just (insert long explanation of said gadget only in question form here)."
This phenomena is not in any way exclusive to Pokémon, it's present in just about any game where there either isn't a tutorial mode, or you can skip it. The more technical doodads appear in the game, the more you get of these, and the later they appear for the first time, the more like it is you will have the tutorial flown in to your mouth on a teaspoon while the game is making "here comes the aeroplane. Wooooooosh. It's coming in for landing" noises.
It's incredibly annoying.
I get that ten year olds, who aren't used to figuring out the more or (more often) less complicated controls or inner workings of their brand new game, might need this. I can see where it can be handy.
But seriously, game companies: please stop fooling yourself into thinking that kids are your main demographic. They aren't.
Except for the very few Pooh-bear and Disney-movie specific games that are released, you main demographic is people who grew up playing your games. The biggest part of people playing Zelda are 20- and 30-somethings that have played since they got their first NES console, and their kids. Kids that have been playing since the day they stopped drooling all over the controllers.
I have been playing Pokémon since I was 10 years old. I have been playing Pokémon since '98, 12 freakin' years, and thou I do realize that for Pokémon, the main demographic IS kids, and that most of the veterans have jumped ship. But are kids these days really so stupid that they need every tiniest scrap of gameplay mechanics forcefed to them in this manner?
When I was young (you did see that coming didn't you?) we stuffed the manual back in the box, and figured how the game worked ourselves. (Should be mentioned that I personally usually kept the manual nearby in case I needed to look up something that I really could not figure out on my own.)
I remember when my Dearest Little Sister got her first Tamagotchi knock off, and my father came to me in awe and asked if I had thought her how to take care of her little virtual puppy. I of course hadn't, which prompted a shock-awe response from him. Turned out she hadn't even taken the manual out of the box.
I can also tell you about how my father came to me once, when I was sitting and animating jumping shapes with Office Word (yeah, you can actually do that if you have a really slow computer. You can't record it, but it's fun anyway. A once built an entire farm in Office Word. Now she uses Poser. But the Word farm is darned impressive), and said that I knew so much more about computers than he did. And I was self taught. He said that he didn't dare mess around going "what happens if I do this", and that that had led me to get better than him. Yes, Dad, you said that^^, I still find it's a fun memory, the day you came and said I could do more with computers than you=D=D
It got me kicked out of my elementary computer class thou. It appeared I knew more about computers than the teacher O.o
Which really makes me think the teachers must have be awfully non computer savvy, because I really didn't know all that much.O.o
You know, I have my Linguistics exam in 3 weeks. I am gonna go pretend to study a little^^,
Until about an hour ago, when I was turning on my DS to play and it stared with the message "previous save file has been deleted, you can now play the game". Which meant, literally, that my save had been deleted. I had between 20 and 25 hours of gameplay on that thing, and now I have to start all over. I figured, I am gonna play until I have 7 Pokémon, and then PalPark 6 of them over to my SoulSilver game. And I am gonna do this until I have all the 3rd gen starters on Souls Silver. I am collecting starters at the moment^^,
If it happens again, I am gonna have to write to guy I bought them from and complain.
In addition, when I started the game over again, don't you think it froze in the middle of my first battle?
Luckily I am have gone all out OCD on saving, so I didn't have to replay the entire intro sequence more than once. And let me tell you, I have now played Pokémon intro sequences so staggeringly many times that I can tell you exactly how it goes, blindfolded in the dark while asleep.
It so incredibly boring, and thou I realize they make them because new players need an introduction to the general idea of the game, I really REALLY wish there was a skip button.
What I hate most with intro sections are the "I will force feed you this tutorial even if it kills me" attitude of certain characters. This will result in this sequence of dialogue:
"Do you know how (insert gadget here) works?"
"Why, yes I do, but thank you for asking."
"Don't you just (insert long explanation of said gadget only in question form here)."
This phenomena is not in any way exclusive to Pokémon, it's present in just about any game where there either isn't a tutorial mode, or you can skip it. The more technical doodads appear in the game, the more you get of these, and the later they appear for the first time, the more like it is you will have the tutorial flown in to your mouth on a teaspoon while the game is making "here comes the aeroplane. Wooooooosh. It's coming in for landing" noises.
It's incredibly annoying.
I get that ten year olds, who aren't used to figuring out the more or (more often) less complicated controls or inner workings of their brand new game, might need this. I can see where it can be handy.
But seriously, game companies: please stop fooling yourself into thinking that kids are your main demographic. They aren't.
Except for the very few Pooh-bear and Disney-movie specific games that are released, you main demographic is people who grew up playing your games. The biggest part of people playing Zelda are 20- and 30-somethings that have played since they got their first NES console, and their kids. Kids that have been playing since the day they stopped drooling all over the controllers.
I have been playing Pokémon since I was 10 years old. I have been playing Pokémon since '98, 12 freakin' years, and thou I do realize that for Pokémon, the main demographic IS kids, and that most of the veterans have jumped ship. But are kids these days really so stupid that they need every tiniest scrap of gameplay mechanics forcefed to them in this manner?
When I was young (you did see that coming didn't you?) we stuffed the manual back in the box, and figured how the game worked ourselves. (Should be mentioned that I personally usually kept the manual nearby in case I needed to look up something that I really could not figure out on my own.)
I remember when my Dearest Little Sister got her first Tamagotchi knock off, and my father came to me in awe and asked if I had thought her how to take care of her little virtual puppy. I of course hadn't, which prompted a shock-awe response from him. Turned out she hadn't even taken the manual out of the box.
I can also tell you about how my father came to me once, when I was sitting and animating jumping shapes with Office Word (yeah, you can actually do that if you have a really slow computer. You can't record it, but it's fun anyway. A once built an entire farm in Office Word. Now she uses Poser. But the Word farm is darned impressive), and said that I knew so much more about computers than he did. And I was self taught. He said that he didn't dare mess around going "what happens if I do this", and that that had led me to get better than him. Yes, Dad, you said that^^, I still find it's a fun memory, the day you came and said I could do more with computers than you=D=D
It got me kicked out of my elementary computer class thou. It appeared I knew more about computers than the teacher O.o
Which really makes me think the teachers must have be awfully non computer savvy, because I really didn't know all that much.O.o
You know, I have my Linguistics exam in 3 weeks. I am gonna go pretend to study a little^^,
Spring...
Attention citizens. Spring has been put on hold until further notice.
It has be raining for 3 days straight (maybe more, I have a little trouble keeping the days straight). It's biting cold outside. I wear a fleece sweater outside of my regular sweater when I go outside...
Where did the beautiful spring go?
Did the volcano scare it? It seems to me, this sudden cold front came just about the time when the volcano with the unpronounceable name erupted.
Which makes perfect sense when you think about it. The ash and the glass and everything shadows the sun, and makes the warmth not reach us.
Another thing about said ash and glass and sand and everything.
The aeroplane companies keeps saying that the government is crying wolf, and are overreacting.
They keep pointing at that one plane that discovered that these (invisible mind you) clouds are dangerous, that that plane was able to land safely.
Well, that plane had to land on two out of four engines, and that was only after they managed to get them working, because they all stopped. They only managed to get them working by taking a nose dive. And the actual landing was done on half the instruments, because the windscreen was blown opaque, and was thus impossible to see anything through, and the rest of the instruments had stopped working.
It was sheer luck, and a lot of skill on the pilots' part that saved that plane. We might not be that lucky twice.
That is not overreacting or crying wolf. That is being properly cautious.
That said they need to find ways to deal with this, because the aeroplane companies took a big hit this time, and Katla (which is way bigger) is due to blow in the next six months.
They should start building out trains and producing boats right now. They might already have started. I really hope so....
It has be raining for 3 days straight (maybe more, I have a little trouble keeping the days straight). It's biting cold outside. I wear a fleece sweater outside of my regular sweater when I go outside...
Where did the beautiful spring go?
Did the volcano scare it? It seems to me, this sudden cold front came just about the time when the volcano with the unpronounceable name erupted.
Which makes perfect sense when you think about it. The ash and the glass and everything shadows the sun, and makes the warmth not reach us.
Another thing about said ash and glass and sand and everything.
The aeroplane companies keeps saying that the government is crying wolf, and are overreacting.
They keep pointing at that one plane that discovered that these (invisible mind you) clouds are dangerous, that that plane was able to land safely.
Well, that plane had to land on two out of four engines, and that was only after they managed to get them working, because they all stopped. They only managed to get them working by taking a nose dive. And the actual landing was done on half the instruments, because the windscreen was blown opaque, and was thus impossible to see anything through, and the rest of the instruments had stopped working.
It was sheer luck, and a lot of skill on the pilots' part that saved that plane. We might not be that lucky twice.
That is not overreacting or crying wolf. That is being properly cautious.
That said they need to find ways to deal with this, because the aeroplane companies took a big hit this time, and Katla (which is way bigger) is due to blow in the next six months.
They should start building out trains and producing boats right now. They might already have started. I really hope so....
Thursday, April 29, 2010
I liek Torchics^^,
My two third generation games arrived today^^,
Ruby and Sapphire. I chose Torchic for my starter on my Sapphire game. Of course I'll do the whole start-trade-start over to get all the starters^^, I hope the wireless trading works for GBA games as well.XD
I like Torchic, might be because I like Dawn, but I like Torchic anyway. Mudkips are cute and all, but Torchic is way cuter. And Treecko is mildly cute but Sceptile is a truly foul-looking Pokémon.
Actually all the third generation starters evolve into really ugly Pokémon.
I mean Combusken and Blaziken are cool and all, it's just that... not really. They look weird.
Marshtomp is a total dahling, but Swampert is really fugly.
Seriously thou, the out-of-battle graphics are really bad. I have played ROMS before, but I had totally forgotten just how spectacularly awful they are. I mean, the out-of-battle graphics always was a little bad, but they look all tiny and squashed. The IN-battle graphics are unrivalled in horrifficness in the first generation. I mean, Machop looks like a it could be drawn by a kindergartener XD
I will probably be distracted from my exam-studying today, but my plan is to go back to studying fulltime again tomorrow. At least I'll tryXD
I liek TorchicsXD
Ruby and Sapphire. I chose Torchic for my starter on my Sapphire game. Of course I'll do the whole start-trade-start over to get all the starters^^, I hope the wireless trading works for GBA games as well.XD
I like Torchic, might be because I like Dawn, but I like Torchic anyway. Mudkips are cute and all, but Torchic is way cuter. And Treecko is mildly cute but Sceptile is a truly foul-looking Pokémon.
Actually all the third generation starters evolve into really ugly Pokémon.
I mean Combusken and Blaziken are cool and all, it's just that... not really. They look weird.
Marshtomp is a total dahling, but Swampert is really fugly.
Seriously thou, the out-of-battle graphics are really bad. I have played ROMS before, but I had totally forgotten just how spectacularly awful they are. I mean, the out-of-battle graphics always was a little bad, but they look all tiny and squashed. The IN-battle graphics are unrivalled in horrifficness in the first generation. I mean, Machop looks like a it could be drawn by a kindergartener XD
I will probably be distracted from my exam-studying today, but my plan is to go back to studying fulltime again tomorrow. At least I'll tryXD
I liek TorchicsXD
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