My Boring Ass Life

BULLSHIIIT!

ARGH!!! Fucking Bullshiiiiiiiit!!! rage, fucking morons, why are you so stupid and do you really think that your enriching ANYONES live with your MEANINGLESS statistics when you fill my facebook news stream with bullshit statistics.

okay, now that the rage has gone lets try to be a little bit more eloquent. this has been going on for quite some time now but recently resurged with a petition to stop a law in Uganda, i believe, rage dulls the memory, now, this country wanted to make being gay illegal, I’m quite sure this is this is already the case in many locations, whether instituted by state or religion. now, this isnt what I’m annoyed about today, but it seems to me to run along the same vein, people on facebook who believe that they can make a difference/ claim the moral high ground/ feel better about them selves by doing something meaningless but putting on a show of caring. this is why the possibly uganda situation is different, because as we all know if the ugandan government look up to anyone its the white kids on facebook who claim to know better than them .

No, today i just saw a spam message, one of those ones that tell you to send them on, they originated on mobiles i believe, or at least thats where i first encountered them, then emails, blah blah blah, make a wish, then if you send this text to x amount of people it will come true! yaaay! =D. no. fuck off. blah blah blah, a girl died of horrific circumstance, she’ll haunt you if you dont send this email to everyone in your friends list, because you know, thats what ghosts care about, viral emails. so thats the backstory, i received a lot of mass message things when i was younger and its made me bitter about it. But the most recent form of this is of course on social networking sites, and it comes in the form of the statistics, hey! did you know that 97% of people who say i love you dont mean it? i find that really fucking strange cus thats exactly the same percentage that every other fucking facebook statistic uses, i wonder if theres some kind of fucking connection!? but i see this shit in my news feed, multiple times, not from my close friends but i have to see this idiocracy in motion, i see the statistic once and then i see it again, not only do i have to see people posting this crap but i have to see people reposting it.

part of the three percent that are asked to repeat it no less, i know an awful lot of fucking people who always mysteriously land in that three percent.

the one that inspired todays post is thus:

A boy was almost beaten to death on his way to school, he was forced to strip all his clothes off, then they stole his phone and started to kick and punch him in the head before setting a dog on him.
The sad thing is that 97% of people would just walk past, 2% would stand and watch, only 1% would try and help out. No one tried to help david out.

Like this if your the 1% that would help.

oh sorry, just reread it, this one isnt asking for reposting its asking for likes, the biggest show of support for those among us who are going through hardships at the moment, the facebook like, i know that when i feel bad that little pixelated thumbs up on a troglodytes comment makes me feel better, and you know what, i guess i too must be quite special, being one of the very small minority, we 2% gotta look out for each other.

Well Done Facebook

In such a short amount of time too. Though I must apologise to Facebook, its not their fault, its the people on Facebook, and partly Facebook for making it but these Question things are getting annoying. What set me off this time was general sleepy crankiness and a question that asked is bath pronounced “baff” or “barth”. Because it’s quite clearly neither, its pronounced bath!?

Or maybe I’m just weird, and when talking about how something is spoken, i read it phonetically, so “baff” is reminiscent of the first syllable of the Bafta’s, and “barth” is reminiscent the first bit of the name Bartholomew , where as bath is pronounced bath, ie. a “bah” sound followed by a “th” sound.

But that’s not all, there’s a question about which hurts more, being kicked in the ball or childbirth, you get no guesses as to the clear dividing factor that determines which answer everyone chose, because men clearly have memories the size of their testicles after an unfortunate event involving them and a herd of stampeding feminist elephants, comparatively, because the analogy of childbirth being reminiscent (my word of the day) of pushing a small lime through ones urethra is far to vivid in my mind.

Other than that nothing much exciting has happened.

Facebook Annoys Me Sometimes

how many of the “see this guy, he’s different for a really bad reason and you should feel ashamed for bullying him” like things do we need? It really is ridiculous, and starting to get very annoying. Do you remember that time Facebook had the few weeks of cartoon display pictures? i could get behind that because it was fun and eventually actually did try and do something to get something done, by directing people to a decent charity.

But this? this is a like contest and a poorly hidden one at best.

“see this guy, he judges his self worth by how many likes his posts get on facebook, and so will make them with the un-subtle undertones that your a bad person for not liking it”

My Boring Ass Life At College

unfortunately that kinda sums it up perfectly, not much to add, but i will, because otherwise this would be kinda pointless.

… maybe this was a bad topic to choose, i cant think of anything.

classes, of course, I am a third year college student, so I’ve done two of the three subjects I’m doing this year before, the third is horribly sucky at the moment, I’m in a group making a music video, a group in which I have no say whatsoever, going from the start, my media partner decided we’d do her song, my input be damned, saying I’d do the music video plan, and other creative stuff, that didn’t work out, I did an outline, storyboard, started filming, she decided that it made no sense and scrapped it to start on her video, I wasn’t part of this conversation. So now I’m working on the CD stuff and posters, I’m just sitting around waiting for her to undermine this endeavour so i will have contributed jack shit. But hey, whatever keeps the wheels moving smoothly.

going back to the button mashing thing, feels like I am the only one who hates it, K likes it ‘cus she sucks at videogames and I was playing Marvel Vs. Capcom the other night and no-one seemed to care when the guy I was playing continually spammed the quick light attack that stopped me from doing anything. more to come on that later.

Button Mashing

Gamers hate button mashers. Button mashers see no problem with button mashing. Today, after complaining that my opponent was button mashing, I got posed the question “what’s so bad about button mashing?”

It’s a question that I haven’t had to deal with for quite some time now, everyone who I play with accepts that it’s a bad thing. So I got complacent, never really questioning it, and completely off guard for when someone asks said question. And one thing I hate is people who can’t back up their opinions, so needless to say I wasn’t happy at my lack of eloquence.

After my initial complaints that it’s un-sportsman-like got rejected I tried to think of something else, I couldn’t. Of course it lacks the finesse, skill and grace of playing like boss, but those three things can’t be a fall back argument because without those you can still enjoy a game.

So I can’t say its un-sportsman like because technically it isn’t breaking any rules? And button mashing is a good way to learn what combos work without checking up on the pause menu/ manual (even if you don’t implement this later on continue to button mash) and as you can have “tactical button mashing” where you block and button mash when appropriate, it still shows some level of skill? What can I say to debunk this other than flat out disagreement.

So where did I go wrong? arguing the sportsmanship of games with non-gamers?

To cite the urban dictionary; “The act of pressing just about all the buttons on the game controller in a desperate attempt not to get your ass kicked at Marvel vs. Capcom. Often used when someone has never played a videogame before and doesn’t know the commands. Sometimes used because it’s cheap.”

It agrees that for newbs (the term for new gamers, not to be confused with noobs, 13 year old pissants who inhabit xbox live) button mashing can be acceptable, however, it was their game i was playing, I was the newb.

Another quote from Urban Dictionary; “2. A video game where the gameplay descends into the mindless random, or repeated, pressing of a button or buttons.” when looking for my answer this stood out, if the actions related to the game can be describes as “mindless” can you really claim to be playing a game? (this is different to being “in the zone”) Are you playing a game or are you just hitting buttons? (this is different to simon) and i think thats what i want to end on, if you’re just mashing buttons, are you really playing the game, or are you just looking for a cheap way to win.

(however now I don’t have anyone disagreeing with me, so we’ll see how that one goes)