We sail tonight for Singapore,
we're all as mad as hatters here.
I've fallen for a tawny Moor,
took off to the land of Nod.
Drank with all the Chinamen,
walked the sewers of Paris.
I danced along a colored wind,
dangled from a rope of sand.
You must say goodbye
to
me.
So, I think “the Avengers” has ruined going to the theater for me.
I’m not even a huge comic book nerd, but I can’t imagine an action movie topping what I just saw. It was epic on epic with a side of fucking epic. They even managed to make hawkeye and the black widow cool, which was my biggest worry. I mean, a guy whose power is “I’m really good with a bow and arrows” and a chick who uses pistols and is a good interrogator. Sounds lame on paper but they made it work.
Plus a teaser for my favorite comic book villain of all time at the end?
mrbrooksgrant asked: I apologize if you have been asked this by many others before me, but I was wondering what you thought about the Mass Effect 3 ending? I saw an earlier post where you said you hadn't got around to playing the game yet, but I think by this time you must have considering your such a big fan of the series. Again, if you have been spammed by this question I apologize.
Still haven’t even touched ME3. I’m working on playing through 1 and 2 on the PC, and waiting to buy 3 till it’s nice and cheap. Hopefully by the time I get around to it, Bioware will have patched in the new endings they’re working on.
With Diablo 3 dropping in 7 days, it’s going to be many months before ME3 is even on my to-do list.
Why is there very little internet outrage regarding CISPA?
Two very clear reasons:
- The people pushing this legislation realize that the American people only care about things in short, frenetic bursts. The 24 hour news cycle, the forgettable garbage we’re fed in the form of music, movies, video games and television programs and the very nature of social media and most of the internet have assured that. We’re witnessing the real harm of so-called “slacktivism.” People believe that they’ve “done their part” because they signed a couple of internet petitions back when SOPA and PIPA were a big deal. Who can keep up with this stuff, anyway?
- Virtually no big media companies are on board this time because, quite frankly, they couldn’t give a fuck less about CISPA. This legislation is aimed directly at you and I, not them, so why would they care?
You won’t see any blackouts this time around, which I hope will clue people in to the ugly truth: These big internet media companies ARE NOT your friends. Twitter, Facebook, Reddit and Google aren’t your buddies, they don’t have your back when some odious, privacy-infringing legislation is on the table unless it also makes their lives harder. They do not have your best interests at heart. In fact, many of them are directly responsible for the misinformation you are fed in the form of “News.” They are responsible for the cultural wasteland that America has become.
You and I were useful idiots when SOPA and PIPA were being considered. Now that those pieces of legislation are effectively dead, they want you to continue doing your job. “What is my job” you ask? Your job is to eat the shit they feed you, to jump when they say jump, to care when they say you should, and to continue making them BALES of money by using their meaningless little exhibitionist websites, showing off GPOYs and funny imgur links and witty little 140 character Twitter blurbs while your already flimsy rights to privacy and free speech grow ever more threadbare.
Before you call me a hypocrite, I readily admit it. I’m just as guilty as you are. The sad part is, it doesn’t really matter - Guilty or no, I’m just as fucked.
If I were you, I’d delete my entire online presence, cancel my internet, sell my home and cut ties with all my friends and family, move to a shanty somewhere in the wilderness - way off the grid and live the rest of my simpering, worthless life contemplating the 50-megaton pwnage bomb that this dude just dropped on me.
There can be no recovery from this.
I have been defeated.
Sometimes…
It really sucks being born on international “everyone fucks with everyone” day.
Happy april fools everyone, happy 32nd trip around the sun to me, and all the other april fools babies out there.
Why r/atheism is a frontrunner for “biggest circlejerk on reddit” which puts it high on the list for “biggest circlejerk on the internet.”
“Thank God” that being an atheist doesn’t mean I have to take part in the shitty fucking “atheist community ©” that some people are trying to build. I love some Neil DeGrasse Tyson as much as the next guy, but come on you smug fucks.
younameitnatrually asked: what is going on with all this Mass Effect 3? It seems to be getting a lot of hate from fans but honestly i love the game. How do you feel about it?
I haven’t played ME3 yet - I’m currently playing through 1 and 2 on the pc because my initial playthroughs were on the 360 and I’m tired of fucking around on my xbox.
I’ve been actively trying to avoid ME3 spoilers, but I have read some of the disappointment. In a general sense, I don’t think there was any way Bioware was going to please people in wrapping up this series. The level of nerdy expectation is far too high. I’m fully prepared to be a disappointed nerd myself when I finally get around to playing 3, but I’m also ok with it - as long as there is some form of closure.
I think that the worst part of all of this (outside of my own powerlessness) is the tortuous pace that it’s all happening at. People in my age bracket and younger were weaned on “end of the world” flicks where some great natural cataclysm or alien invasion or Zombie virus wipes everyone out. The truth is closer to rot, but rot that moves at a painfully slow sub-biological pace.
I often times feel an unshakable sense of silliness after making a youtube video on the subject. Am I the modern version of the crazy homeless guy with the sandwich board slung over his shoulders, screaming “the END is NIGH” at disinterested passers-by? Have I unknowingly bought in to the apocalyptic notions that every generation of Christians seem to share, minus the “JESUS IS COMING” dogma?
I don’t like going down this introspective road because I can’t answer the question at the end of it. Am I crazy? I’d like to think that the answer is no, but so would any crazy person, right? Is there a reason that I look at this culture, at the things that other people seem to gleefully fill their lives with and feel no connection with them? Are they ALL wrong? Are they ALL deluded, stupid and uniformed - or am I suffering from some paranoid delusion?
There are things about my psychology that I can’t defend. As time goes on, I feel more and more like I’m being watched, followed or in some way spied upon. Part of me dismisses the notion as absurd - in a nation of three hundred million and a planet pushing seven billion, I’m somehow important enough to be singled out by some shadowy government agency? Yet, despite the obvious silliness of that conclusion, the feeling is there and it gets more pervasive year-by-year.
Couple that with the feeling of impending doom that greets me upon waking up every morning, my disconnection and disinterest in the things that seem to drive the public at large and the monumental amount of time I spend reading about, and having audible verbal arguments with myself about the “coming collapse”, I have to at least consider the possibility that I’m batshit insane.
If that is indeed the case, what the fuck do I do with the conclusion?
The more I assess the world lately, the more I feel like a Martian sent by my home planet to surveil a dying culture and take notes. The problem is that I know I’m not a Martian. I am witnessing the slow collapse of my own culture, and I’m unsure what actions I should take to contravene this…
