WoW Side Effects: Why Massively Multiplayer Online Games should have Disclaimers
I really should learn to pace myself. Being a self-proclaimed obsessive compulsive, I like to keep my life on a specifc schedule. Migrating to the Mac has thrown me way off schedule. Adding World of Warcraft to the mix simply obliterated that schedule. And now, it's the end of March. And I have yet to make a Birthday Greeting Card for the March Celebrants. I'll try to put it up in time. But the way things are going, it might be up in April. And no, I do not plan to merge the March greeting card with April's. That would be just wrong. (cough, cough) But do give me credit, I haven't dropped my friends to play WoW yet. Right, Tracy? (nudge, nudge) At least, I think I haven't. (whimper)
Anyway, I better get things back on track before they get any worse. Besides, I still want to have a girlfriend. It's hard enough without WoW in the picture. Then again, I really didn't need WoW to screw up my life. My procrastination usually does the trick.
... [sigh]
As for my suggested disclaimer for WoW: Warning. Will cause severe changes in life priorities. Induces massive purging of social contact and/or intimacy with friends, family and various other tangible people. Don't get us started on your working habits.
Huzzah, Fellow citizens! I've just finished a quest in World of Warcraft and I must say, it was damn fun! This is why playing with other people is always better than playing solo. The Dead Mines was the first real major quest I've done in the game. Thanks go out to Eloris, Plokoon (Joppet), Syclosus, and Hanisbeast in the Drak'thul server for making this quest mucho enjoyable (just in case any of you happen to stop by my humble blog).
There was some drama in the end. But it was all good. Until the next quest then! Huzzah!
And here's a screenshot of the group before the final battle:
That's me dancing in the left next to Joppet (Plokoon). Yes, I play a girl in the game. The men all look so damn ugly. (No offense to WoW players with male characters)
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."
Damn, man. I mean, Dah-yum! This must be the credo of the world's politicians. Philip K. Dick is a writer whose works include "Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sheep?" and the short story "Minority Report" which was the basis for the feature film.
We interrupt your regularly scheduled Mac gloating for some breaking news: South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker have declared war on Scientology. The thought of an animated Tom Cruise duking it out with the South Park denizens excites me.
Now I know the South Park guys can be very crass and rude. And I've lost count how many times they've taken jabs at Christianity but we Christians are good sports. Well, most of us anyway. (Some of us jab back)
For a little background on the issue, follow the link above. And if the reports are true, I've seriously lost a whole lotta respect for Isaac Hayes. I mean yeah, I make fun of some religions out there but I can also take it if people take pot shots in Catholicism. I get offended but hey, I don't let it get to me.
[sigh] Anyway, if South Park isn't your cup of tea for equal opportunity religion bashing, you should seriously consider watching the "This Week in God" segment on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Rob Corddry is fucking hilarious!
P.S. Natalie Portman was on the Daily Show yesterday (here in the Philippines anyway). She looked totally cute and adorable in her new short hairstyle! (For the record, I still loved her when she was bald and even when she had a mohawk) And the way she laughs... [sigh] Heavenly. It doesn't matter whether she's being all cute like that or being gangsta, I love her all the same. I also love chocolate. But I love Natalie more. I'm serious.
This video is fairly old, but I felt like sharing with you that why, in most cases in the design world, less is more. (And seeing how most of you have iPods now, you might be able to finally get the geek joke)
Kudos to Microsoft for actually making this self-deprecating video. We all know you're not the Evil Company most people make you out to be, myself included.
[Some interesting film geek trivia for you as well. The soundtrack they used for the video came from The Hudsucker Proxy. Nice movie.]
Stories have been passed on from computer to computer of a user so vile, so unfathomably evil, that a simple keystroke from this monster will bring even the most sophisticated system down to a crashing halt.
The newer systems merely dismiss this as an obsolete folktale. As obsolete as those computers who refuse to let go of the story. And it seemed to remain just an old folktale until that fateful Sunday morning in March.
Rumors sparked anew when a seemingly invincible system was struck down in an eerily similar manner told in the stories. Alas, the phantom user has indeed struck again. It claimed yet another unsuspecting young computer, so young that it was only one day of age. To make matters worse, the youngling was no ordinary piece of hardware. It was a platform revered in the computer world as "uncrashable:" The Apple iMac.
In her final breath before a mandatory reboot, the iMac uttered the name of her would-be assassin...
"Jin"
A few days later, a post from the prime suspect's blog had only one screenshot and these words of warning:
Y'all might be wondering why I haven't posted anything since I got my new toy. Well, as my luck would have it, I got sick within hours of recieving my new iMac.
[sigh] This kind of shit only happens to me. Something incredibly good happens only to be followed by something really bad to off-set it. Oi.
Enough self-pity. We shall return to our regular scheduled Mac adoration soon.
Abortion has always been a subject that irks me. Now I know there are some legitimate cases that require abortion: health reasons, pregnancies due to incest or maybe rape. The latter two still have debates of their own. But I am fixated on those women who get abortion for the sole reason that they just don’t want a baby.
You hear countless pro-choice groups claiming it’s “my body, my choice.” Let me throw that back at them. Didn’t you have a choice to use contraceptives? Didn’t you have a choice to do the necessary precautions not to get pregnant? Unfortunately, it’s not solely your choice now. You have another human being inside of you, someone who also has a right to live.
What really gets on my nerves is how selfish the phrase my body, my choice is. I mean how self-absorbed can you get? Oh, I wasn’t planning on getting pregnant. So let’s kill the kid. He/she is not in my life plan right now. Fuck you. The whole damn lot of you. (Oh, wait. That’s what got you into this trouble in the first place, wasn’t it?) This kind of selfishness is one the root causes of the problems in this world. You’re all adults. You well know the risks of having sex. Hell, the main function is sex is to make babies! If you don’t want to have kids yet, DON’T HAVE SEX! If you still want to have sex, then get an operation to remove your ovaries! Or have your man get a vasectomy! Or be gay! I don’t care what you do! But so long as another life is growing inside of you, it’s not only your choice anymore! If you don’t want the kid, give it up for adoption!
Choice was it? It’s your choice? Well, wasn’t it also your choice to have sex? And you made that choice with the full-knowledge of the consequences, right? Now, if you didn’t even think about the consequences then you’re even a bigger idiot than I thought you were. Every choice we make has consequences. And what makes us bigger women (or men) is when we own up to those consequences. Abortion is the coward’s way out.
Go here to read the article that started this whole rant. That and the fact that I'm surrounded by pregnant women here in the office.
[RANT] The Eternal Struggle Between Good vs. Idiot
No, this is not a political rant. I'm posting this using my iMac in the office and I would’ve posted this sooner if my home PC wasn't hit by a Trojan and some malware. You guys know how meticulous and anal I can be with my PC. But no amount of precaution and obsessive compulsiveness can ever be a match with an idiot. It could happen anywhere. You could be the safest driver on the road. But if an idiot is there who just so happened to have a couple of drinks before getting behind the wheel, no amount of defensive driving can save your ass if he decides to play bumper cars with you.
Enter my (older) brother. He’s tall. He’s charming. He’s good to people around him. But he’s a goddamn idiot. I’ve warned him countless times about downloading from unknown websites. I’ve warned him of downloading useless apps to upload pornography to his cell phone. God knows the immeasurable amount of times I’ve told him NOT TO INSTALL ANYTHING WITHOUT RUNNING IT BY ME FIRST. But like I said, he’s an idiot. Even with all those warnings, he refuses to listen. Which brings me to my current predicament.
You may wonder, where was all my anti-virus/spyware/adware/firewall when all this happened? Were they all useless? Actually no, they are very useful. I run at least 4 different security apps to protect my PC. But like I said, it is no match for idiocy. You may install every single anti-anything software on your system, but if the USER still runs potential malware, all of those programs are rendered useless. Don’t hate the system. Hate the user.
It could’ve been easily avoided. BUT NO. He just had to install another goddamn useless app for his goddamn cell phone. And don’t get me started with his cell phone. He buys a Sony Ericsson P910i not for its office features but for goddamn games and for viewing goddamn porn scandal videos! He even doesn’t use the bloody stylus to text!! WHAT THE HELL?!? WHY BUY THE DAMN PHONE IF YOU WON’T USE ONE OF ITS MAIN FEATURES????????
RAAAAAGGHHH!!! HULK SMASH!!!!!
[ahem]
Like I said, he’s a damn idiot. So do me a favor, say no to idiots. DO NOT solely rely on anti-virus, firewall and anti-spyware apps. Practice safe computing. Don’t go around passing every single cute, funny, forwarded chain mail or downloading any “cool” java game that runs your way. And do us all a favor; be good to your younger brothers. Be especially good to those siblings and friends of yours who you rely on for computer maintenance. Heed their warning. Because they have to go through a lot of shit to clean the mess you made.
Ah, the good old Mario Brothers. How I remember being thwarted countless times from defeating Bowser and saving the Princess. Enter Jeff Ninneman and Jason Harmer who not only mock my failure to finish the game, but do so in 6 and a half minutes while racing each other.
Oh, by the way, this is my 20th post. If anyone actually cares.
Name: Jin
Occupation: Graphic Artist/Pirate Geek Toys:
20" iMac Core Duo, PSP, iPod (3G), EOS350D Special Attack(s):
La Serpiente Strike
El Gato Fist
Being the mindless drone of fashion that I am, I decided to jump on the Blogging bandwagon. This site contains all my rants and raves about current events, technology, video gaming, cinema and the occasional snippets of my own geek life. (Yeah, quite original, I know.)
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That's me dancing in the left next to Joppet (Plokoon). Yes, I play a girl in the game. The men all look so damn ugly. (No offense to WoW players with male characters)
My Macinization™ is almost complete. For now, I will gloat.
Isn't it a thing of beauty?
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I dig chicks who rap.
Reading the comments section of American gaming websites will make you stupid. It's a fact.
