I found something interesting today, and the best part of all was that I found it on accident. I thought it was worth a good laugh... reminded me of something that happened a few years ago.

Anyways, I am bored at work right now... sure I have something to work on, but I'd much rather milk it out to last me the rest of the week. I'm gonna update the super awesome sci-fi adventure twice today since I haven't updated it as frequently as I thought I would.

Matt is gonna try doing a WC-inspired D&D game, but without using the WCRPG books because we all took a look at them and thought they were pretty lame. There were a few things in there that might be implemented such as racial modifiers and monsters and weapons to make it feel more like WC, but aside from that, its garbage, human garbage. I was interested to see them rename Dex, Con, and Wis to Agi, Stam, and Spi respectfully, but I was disappointed to find out that Agi, Stam, and Spi are identical in ever way, shape, and form to Dex, Con, and Wis. Such a waste of time and energy to do that.

Hmmm..

This weekend, my allergies have been terrible: sneezing every time I get too close to a window or door and when I step outside. Fucking Michigan and it's bull shit plants. At least the Western states are smart enough to have a law against planting trees that produce common allergens or whatever the fuck its called. Once I move there, it'll be nice to be able to go outside without having to sneeze a ton.

Anyways, I had a really weird dream last night, and I can't seem to get it out of mah head. Maybe it's Charles's fault, or maybe it's because I woke up with a migraine every day for the past 4 days.
Surprisingly (or not), the dream was James influenced, though that isn't necessarily a bad thing. Instead of just telling you what the dream was, I'm gonna tell it in a story-teller form on this blog from the perspective of a few different characters. It'll get updated pretty regularly, and done in a semi-chronological order. Each blog post will be title with the character and the part.

Holy Shit!

WHOA! ITSA BESA JULY! DAT MEANS ANNIS GONNAS COME HOMEAS SOON!

I found another interesting website. Yet again, it is a website created by the Christian Nazis who have embarked on their God-given fight against freedom. I have to give them credit, for I remember in John 3:17-18 "and Jesus said 'Takest thou porn machines and destroy them, for if God intended man to be seen in the nude, He would have created him so.'" and Mark 5:30-36 "The Heavens opened up to reveal a brilliant light. All of teh internets was shut down before the power of the all mighty Lord. The sinners then spoke to Him asking why He destroyed their beloved, and He responded by molesting every orifice and creating a few new ones, for it is written 'let he who is without sin throw the first stone and I shalt smoketh it.'"

I seem to be reminded more and more frequently about why I deserted Catholicism and religion in general. Granted, I don't want to offend any of the other religions that don't engage in random acts of douche baggery every day, but it's hard to give religion a chance in a world where one group of people claim God wants them to kill themselves while the other says God wants us all to be the bestest of friends.

I know religion isn't supposed to be about being right and wrong and that it's supposed to be about establishing morals and ethics that you find most relevant to existing, but the fanatics are the ones that ruin religion for everyone. I used to not mind going to church every week: I'd sit there patiently next to my mom silently reciting the entire mass to myself while the priest can't even read from his little cheat sheet book. Then, I'd sleep a bit during the homily or maybe watch the squirrels outside being merry. Next, some more silent reciting and then some random coughing to liven things up. And then last, but certainly not least, I'd finally get some good exercise and blood circulation going when I went up for communion. All and all, I knew there was a better way to spend my time then rotting away at a church for an hour (or at least more proactive ways to rot).

I was around age 17 when I realized that I was losing faith. Some of this was due to the outrageous environment I was exposed to at my new high school, but now, 5 years later, I realize it wasn;t much different from the Catholic school that I transferred from. My freedom of faith was also allowed to bloom at the new high school because I didn't have someone constantly shoving religious mumbo jumbo in my face and making me recite from memory bull shit verses and prayers that I'd never need to say again. I also was exposed to a truly religiously diverse environment - you know, like the one that exists in reality - and I found out that I was one of few Catholics at my new school.

I didn't let that bother me - those who know me now could vouch for me by saying that I have very little cares in the world. I, instead, used this as an opportunity to study how people of different religions act in the world (you know, like coming up with stereotypes for each religious group). One thing that I found was that the black kids at my school, who mostly happened to be high school drop-outs and rejects, acted the same way regardless of their religious affiliation. Next, I found that the Jewish folks tended to behave more towards loud and obnoxious. This was completely different then the stereotype the mass media has made the Jewish people to be, or so I thought at the time. The Catholics all acted very differently: some were outgoing, yet at the same time, unsure of themselves, other were just the opposite - quiet but very confident. There were also those that just didn't fit in no matter how you looked at them. And lastly (I apologize for putting a bunch of religions under the Catholics category, but face it, there's tons of Catholic sects out there), there were the Atheist kids who seemed to be well-rounded and actually prepared for their next phase in life.

Clearly, being a moderately religious person, I was confused by this, and this led me to have about a 3 year long debate with myself about what exactly I think about God (no, it wasn't a continuous debate. I generally thought about it about an hour or two before I went to bed). One of the questions I brought up to myself in opposition to God was "If God exists in the manner the Bible describes him, then is it not hypocritical or at least illogical to believe that God can be both purely good and even slightly evil at the same time?" One of the questions I brought up in defense of God was "If God doesn't exist, then why does religion?"

I'll let you all ponder those 2 questions, if you so choose, so you can come up with your own answers. I do not wish to sound like I am preaching. However, I will say this much: more questions arose for me upon answering my second question, and I thought of that question just about 3 years after my self-debate started.

Don't get me wrong: I think religion is a necessity to the existence of society because it helps keep people under control when the law can't. I'm sure at least 4 out of 5 people would commit a crime if they knew they could get away with it. Religion helps keeps this in check by creating an omnipresent watch dog that keeps track of all of your deeds, misfortunes, and crimes, and supposedly after you die, you'll be in court with him and be either a freeman or jailed for the rest of eternity.

Losing my faith hasn't changed my life much. I think some of my lack of faith came from my disliking of the average person and wanting to become nothing like him at all. I'm surprised to find out that I haven't been smited with a lightning bolt or hit with an orb of annihilation yet, but whatever. I do sometimes wish I could go back to the time before I started my inner debate to try to stop it. After all, ignorance is bliss.

I apologize again. This random post went off in a tangent a bit. And as an FYI, I did submit my blog to the Net Authority because I thought it was the right thing to do. However, God must disagree with me since he took the database down, and I was unable to submit it. I guess that's some of that God working in mysterious ways bull shit I keep hearing. You know what that means right? My blog is great and God approves of it. I should make a banner award for myself.

Speaking of awards... And to my special viewers, the code word for this week is "Christ Compels Me". If you submit this before midnight THURSDAY, you will add 2,000 points to your account (time extended for Flag Day and the hang-over that follows).

The Nazis are Coming!

Hmm, I recently discovered an "interesting" website @ http://www.americandecency.org. Apparently, American Decency is defined by Christian morals and views, so if you aren't a Christian, you are already not decent.

Anyways, after having a look around this website, I was able to put together a computer generated image of what the majority of the writers, contributers, etc. for this site must look like. I first skimmed through most of their issues, and was bombarded by stupidity and qqing. I decided that I get enough of that crap from MMO's, so I decided to skip the rest of the issues section. That lead me to the campaigns section.

At first, I thought this had something to do with the upcoming 2008 election, and I thought it would list politicians they support, those they oppose, which state legislatures have passed a Final Solution bill, etc. However, I was surprised to find out that the campaign were actions, petitions, etc. against "obscene" or "immoral" behavior. Ironically, the first campaign they had listed was against Victoria's Secret, so I decided to take a look hoping they'd have some pictures to demonstrate their points.

Unfortunately, I was wrong. It was a small wall of text that was tldr, but I can tell you with some assurance that it had something to do with Victoria's Secret objectifying women in their advertisements. I am one of those people who believes if a store really is doing something wrongful or hurtful that the people the store is wronging or hurting won't shop there or might be upset if a family member such as a significant other shops there and buys them a gift. I don't know... afterall, I am not a Christian anymore (though technically I can never stop being a Christian until I get myself excommunicated from the church since I received Confirmation back when I was 11 or 12).

After I was tldr'ing the Victoria's Secret thing, I decided to take a look at what their other campaigns were. I saw a cliche campaign against TV since TV is too sexual / vulgar now-a-days and parents are too lazy to tell their kids what they can and can't watch and don't hit them if they find their kids watching those shows. However, I was surprised that Grey's Anatomy was one of the shows they were battling against. Now, Ive never watched Grey's Anatomy before, but from what I could gather from the commercials, it was about a young Mexican or Cuban or something girl that ventures out into the rain forest to talk Math, Science, and Literature with animals. Apparently, I was wrong.

Another campaign was against a thing called Movie Gallery. Now, I had no incentive to even research what it is until I read the first line of the article: "Movie Gallery is known nationwide for its distribution of hard-core pornography." Perhaps I'll further investigate what Movie Gallery is at home. However, I think Movie Gallery should be cut some slack. After all, American Decency's concept of pornography is if a woman is wearing too short of a dress (you know, the kid that don't touch your ankles) or has too big of breasts (even if they are as natural as those that God made). So, I think the worst Movie Gallery has done is shown one too many money shots, but I'll find out later.

The other campaigns were against Abercrombie and Fitch and more media shit. Religious groups like this are why people are further distancing themselves from religion now-a-days. They may full-hearted agree with an overwhelming majority of what their religion teaches, but when shit headed groups like this begin associating themselves with their religion.

The's Going's-on's of's My's Day's

Well's, not's much's has's changed's from's last's week's aka's friend's still's hasn't's gotten's fired's. I's really's don't's understand's why's, but's then's again's, I's am's not's a's nice's person's like's my's boss's is's. I'd's rather's run's the's place's like's a's nazi's to's ensure's work's gets's done's, but's hey's, if's she's doesn't's want's work's getting's done's than's I's guess's that's works's out's too's. However's, I's have's had's to's make's sure's I's am's not's caught's bsing's on's the's internet's like's I's am's now's for's the's passed's few's weeks's and's that's really's sucks's.

And's to's my's special's viewers's, the's code's word's for's this's week's is's "Ride the Walrus". If's you's submit's this's before's midnight's tomorrow's, you's will's add's 2,000's points's to's your's account's.

Epic win

Wow... my friend has apparently been trying to get himself fired for the about past month. Yesterday, my supervisor/boss told him that if she catches him fucking around on the computer again, he's fired, and today, guess what she found him doing?

Unfortunately, he wasn't fired. Him and I just switched places. The best part of this is that none of the programs we use will work for me on his old computer since I have never used it before. So, I get to chill until the LTU Tech Squad get their lazy asses here and fix the shit for me and my new boss.

I really don't know why my supervisor insists on putting up with my friend for as long as she has. She is a really nice person, but yesterday she told me that she has wanted to hire a replacement for him for over a year because he is a shitty worker. I really do think that if Matt hasn't been taking his sweet old time turning his application in that he would already be working here Yesterday, she also mentioned that she wanted to fire my friend at least twice in that day. Again, I don't know why she is putting up with him. She also had me talk to him because it would be something that friends do for each other.

I've never told her that she should just fire the kid because he is the reason I got the job and I feel indebted to him for that. However, had the circumstances been different, I would have told her to get rid of him and I'm sure she would have listened. Oh well...

Stuff

Well, I've been playing WoW on Burning Ascent for the past few days. I'm the first and only person to reach 70 and the first to get a flying and epic flying mount (Epic flying mounts go about as fast as the flight path mounts go... I couldn't believe that). I got basically all of the server firsts :) This server is pretty funny. A lot of people don't know how to level or make money. I got to 70 in 15 hours /played and got 6700g (counts all riding training and mount costs except for the level 40 mounts) in about 1 day 10 hours /played. There are people that have been playing since before I joined the server that haven't hit 40 yet. I don't understand how that's possible, but whatever.

On Saturday, my family went on the Detroit River Princess or some shit like that for their lunch buffet. It was pretty good - better than we all expected. It was funny to see some of the fat asses that clearly came just for the food... they were the only ones that stayed indoors the entire time.

I also found out that the new bridge that is being built in Detroit is going to have 6 lanes (instead of 4 like the Ambassador Bridge) and be built right next to the Ambassador Bridge. I don't understand the logic behind this. The reason the bridge gets so backed up is because customs takes a mandatory 5 minute minimum inspection of every vehicle with a 1 minute minimum bitching out the driver of the vehicle. Adding another lane will make the back-ups look visibly shorter, but it will still take just as long to get back into the US. The Canadian border rarely has problems. One of the few things Canada does that is better than the US.

And to my special viewers, the code word for this week is "Gee Whiz". If you submit this before midnight tomorrow, you will add 2,000 points to your account.

Haikus

Of all the things to find on my work computer, these were the last things I expected to find. I thought these were lost to the ages, but alias, here there are.

How I hate haikus.
They are like totally lame.
Death to all haikus.

Haikus are such noob.
Any noob and his mother
Could make a haiku.

Yip yip! I saw it!
Did you see it? There it is!
That is one big rat!

Did you see me pwn?
I'm all about the headshot.
Boom! Headshot! Boom! pwnd.

"Lawl" said teh_h4x0r.
"Ima pwn j00 wif meh h4x.
Lawl Roffle Roffle!!!!11!1!!!11!11!!!"

Here is a new one:
I made it for D&D,
but I botched my roll :(

Now I will take 10.
Because I don't want to botch
Another haiku.

Unfortunately,
That still isn't high enough.
I declare bull shit.

Hurray!

I am starting to think about going back to WoW again, but everytime I vist the WoW website, I get reminded of how much time I wasted playing that game. Granted, for the most part, I did enjoy raiding with my Asian m8s, but the grinding in WoW is ridiculous. But, I can understand why they designed WoW that way... it keeps people playing it long after they've hit max level.

I also got to take a look at the D&D book called the Tome of Battle. This book has everything in it that I thought was missing from D&D melee classes. I was actually thinking of implementing something similar to maneuvers and stances in the game I was running, but they would behave more like feats that could be used once every few days depending on the power/level ratio. They would have been available to everyone, but there would be ones that only benefitted certain playing styles. They'd also cost quite a lot to use.

I like the way the Crusader gets to use maneuvers. At the beginning of an encounter, 2 of the crusaders maneuvers are randomly made available for him to use while the others remain unavailable. If the Crusader uses a maneuver, it gets spent and cannot be used until it is made available again. At the start of each turn for the Crusader, 1 random maneuver is made available. This continues for the entire encounter.

For the other 2 classes, they have all of their readied maneuvers available for use at the beginning of the encounter, but each maneuver can only be used once per encounter. It is a good thing to be able to use most of the Crusader maneuvers multiple times in an encounter like the healing attack or DR attack, but in order to constantly use them, you have to be lucky.

One of the other maneuvers I picked adds a +4 attack bonus to all of my allies that are attacking my target for 1 round. Another which I don't have access to yet cuz it is a max level maneuver, allows myself and all allies nearby to charge at an enemy or group of enemies without provoking any attacks of opportunity and if the charge is successful, my attack deals normal melee damage +50 and my allies' attacks deal normal melee damage +25 and the target(s) of the charge are stunned for a round. Also, the attacks made by the chargers gain an attack bonus of +2 for each person involved in the charge, including myself. Fun fun!

Stances are pretty cool too. The one I chose for the Crusader I made heals myself or a nearby ally for 2 points of damage everytime I make a successful melee attack. This means once I gain multiple attack bonuses (or god forbid I go duel wield), this healing would tick multiple times per round.

And since I'm on the subject of Crusaders, I'd like to mention a feature or 2 of their class. First, crusaders have a delayed damage pool. Basically, what this does is it prevents a certain amount of damage from affecting the crusader until the end of the crusader's turn. At low levels, the damage pool has a low damage cap, but at higher levels, the cap increases to a substantial amount. Also, if a Crusader attacks with damage in his delayed damage pool, he gains attack and damage bonuses to his attacks. Lastly, if the Crusader has damage in his damage pool and gets healed, he can choose to have the points healed to his hp, the damage pool, or split between the 2 (half goes to each).

The main reason I bothered writing about D&D is because Matt told me he didn't feel like doing Aberrant for awhile after the next game. Level 6 reroll IMO but WHATEVA.

And to my special viewers, the code word for this week is "Mild Hulkism". If you submit this before midnight tomorrow, you will add 3,000 points to your account (bonus points for Father's Day).

BTW, I can't believe I forgot to put this up before: bam

Gamestop Free Overnight Shipping

Only reason I am posting this is because Gamestop is also having a pretty big sale called Game Days. Game Days lasts until June 17, and you can get a lot of game for 25-50% off including the Starcraft Battlechest (Starcraft + expansion). If you want to have free overnight shipping on any DS and PC games, use the coupon code POPS.

So, back to this....

For some unknown reason, I have decided to start up a "blog" again. However, I will not be telling people about it immediately cuz I want to talk to myself for a bit. I also decided to set the blog's timezone to CA time since I'll be moving there soon.

And to my special viewers, the code word for this week is "Eggo Sandwich". If you submit this before midnight tomorrow, you will add 2,000 points to your account.