Maniacal Machinations: Character Creation

I finally decided to title my Maniacal Machinations instead of just sticking dates on 'em. Yay progress!

Anyway, I was playing Mass Effect (which is why my posts are so infrequent this week) when I realized something: in-game character creation is a huge bitch!

This ain't the first time either. Anyone remember Oblivion?

For one, half of the options don't do jack and have no noticeable impact. On top of that, once I got my character to stop looking like they had a horrific accident and facial reconstruction didn't go so well, guess what? Once I started playing, I found out that it did, in fact, still look like someone who had their face slammed into the pavement and rubbed around. Turns out the character-creation perspective and in-game perspective don't quite match up.

Every time the game goes into a cutscene, I cringe . . .

LLL Christmas Special

Yeah, I should be happy about getting buttloads of presents, more than most. But my presents said, "Yes, we are aware of who you are. But only your father is going to encourage it, so here, have money towards a department store that has nothing but clothing items. We know you hate clothes shopping, but this is fine!"

I gave my parents a list with 50+ manga titles. I got one manga. Singular. That my mom has been buying for me since the first volume came out. OH WAIT! They tried. They got me Wild Adapter Vol. 2. Vol. 2 of the original soundtrack to the super lame gouge your eyes out Wild Adapter OVAs that should never have been made. EVER.

In short, this Christmas has been about my parents telling me to stop being such a lowlife nerd. Anyone else? Come on, I need to here stories more depressing than my own.

Consumer service: part deux

Nova again, been a while yes I know. my usual procrastination and laziness got in the way again.

So the high season if finally coming to a close for us people working in retail, just 2 more weeks of gradually declining client numbers and we can close the books.

Now you all might have heard of the general shortage of Wii's out there. yup, you people all know about it. yet it appears that our clientelle doesn't. so you go out of your way (ignoring to aid, or transfer like 50 clients) to explain the dumb fucktards what the deal is with this Wii.

Now, we're about 30 minutes in and the brainiac decides to mention that our chain might have other Wii's in stock. alright fair enough I start calling... results: none in stock... ANYWHERE. so you again apoligize to the client and regret the fact that you can't supply him/her with a brand new Wii.

pretty angry and demotivated by that the client leaves (although his kids were happy since we're giving away candy during the high season).

NEXT
another client approaches, one you've spotted earlier as he/she was paying attention to what you just said to the former client. and then in the 5 seconds between the other guy leaving and the new guy approaching, they totally forget and ask me through the usual steps again....

this is one of those parts of the job that I hate, you have to smile, nod and do as the client says (according to corp policy at least). thank god I can scoop him/her off to a co-worker and focus on people who actually bother to keep up with the times.

so here is a hint for all you shoppers out there

STOP BOTHERING US WITH ASKING THE SAME SHIT THE PREVIOUS GUY ASKED.... PAY SOME FUCKING ATTENTION.

god, and people say I have a short term memory....

Maniacal Machinations 12/22/07

While some people like to euthanize their gingerbread men quickly, I prefer more . . . "creative" means.

The first of these methods is to snap that sucker in half and devour 'im piece by piece. This loses its fun kinda quickly.

My favorite way is to devour it limb by limb, starting with the legs, then the arms, and after admiring my work for a minute, make my way up the body and finish with the head. Ah, good times.

Maniacal Machinations 12/16/07

So my brother was telling be about his friend's silenced speargun . . .

Yes, a silenced speargun. Now, it's one thing to silence a pistol, but a speargun?

WHY?!

I don't know about you, but when I want to kill someone discreetly (not that i'd want to <_< ), "speargun" isn't the first word that comes to mind. I mean, you'd have to be like five feet away from someone to kill them with that! And even if you kill them, what are you gonna do next, hide the gun in your coat? If you have a coat big enough to hide a speargun, ya might as well just bring a sniper rifle.

Even if ya limit its use to fishing, I don't think the sound of something discharging is gonna scare the fish as much as A FUCKING SPEAR ENTERING THE WATER!

Let's Loathe v. 4.5

"Are you whining again? Jeez, it's just a Guitar Hero-based fundraiser."

"But the reward for winning a VIDEO GAME is the opportunity to choose your schedule next semester?! That's such bull!"

"Look, do you get off on bitching about stuff?"



Huh. Wow. I'd never thought of myself that way before. I always thought that I whined because I never got my way, and whining was better than getting violent. I whine about things I get angry about, but... does expressing my rage in finding errors in the subject of said rage give me some sort of high? I'd never noticed before. And I know that my friends listen to me bitch all the time, and just nod and agree. The problem I have is that when anyone bitches back, I know that I'm of a superior mindset , they're idiots, and suddenly, it doesn't feel like it's worth arguing with a complete loser.



Take for example yesterday's Biology class. We watched a biographical movie about Charles Darwin, a man I consider to be the single greatest mind of modern history. Screw Einstein. Einstein wasn't going to get his ass kicked by the Church of his home country, he certainly didn't think up anything someone was just too scared to say, and he didn't risk losing the love of his life over his passions (Hell, he was gay if I remember correctly). So then the biography goes on to touch on Darwin's love for his cousin, Emma. Of course, the guy behind me, who I already know is a total douche, goes, "This guy WAS cracked all over."No, no he wasn't. Greatest mind of modern history, and if you lived in that time period, you'd probably have already done all your cousins, second cousins, and moved on to your sisters, you damn hick.



NEWSFLASH: EVOLUTION IS A PROVEN FACT.



Besides, who says God didn't make it so that it worked that way? But I didn't feel like bringing up this point. Instead, I turn to my bio professer (brilliant woman, by the way) after class and tell her what I heard. She lol'd, and said the same thing I did. "Greatest mind of modern history, and if you lived in that time period, you'd probably have already done all your cousins, second cousins, and moved on to your sisters" etc. Only without the whole "doing" thing. Knowing that my professor, someone I respect, and who, incidentally is nominated for TIME person of the year for teaching Evolution, saw eye-to-eye with me on this issue and was able to laugh with me about this idiot meant so much more to me than showing that loser that everything he believed in was a lie imposed on him by "THA MAN." Tha Man can have all the little cronies he wants. We free-thinkers may not take over the world, but under the tyrannical rule of Tha Man, we'll feel ultimately superior, and laughat his expense. I know you can all relate with this "idiot" deal.

Huh... I went way off topic.Well, till I get a proper, organized "Loathe" up, enjoy the extreme fucked up weather wherever you are! YAY GLOBAL WARMING!

Maniacal Machinations 12/11/07

Even Anonymous has some pride.

Let's Loathe w/ LEVIATHAN v.4.0

I have a 10-year-old sister. She is a cheerleader. She's blonde. If I hadn't seen her in the hospital myself, I'd say she was adopted (My mother had this thing where she wouldn't let her children stay in the nursery ever, so that's ruled out) because of her blonde hair and green eyes. She's annoying as FUCK. *cough.* Anyway, today's topic is:

Children's Television Shows.

So I'm sitting there studying or reading or whatever, and the next thing I know, dearest little sister comes home, and clicks on Disney Channel. Normally, I can just tune it out.

But something about this particular episode of Hannah Montana seems unusually stupid. I tell my sister to turn it off.
"No! I love this one!"
Then I realize what's so fucked up. SHE'S SEEN THAT SAME BAD EPISODE 50,000 TIMES ALREADY.

How does that work? It's not the first time it's happened, either. Other shows rerun the SAME EXACT EPISODE IN THE SAME TIMESLOT all the time.
All right, cool, it's a mindfuck. That's all. But my little sister is ENJOYING IT.

Conclusion:
Children's network stations like PBS (gag, who the hell killed Big Bird?) and Disney Channel (I remember when there was a full documentary series called Amazing Animals that I loved more that my mother. Who killed that?) will purposely rerun episodes of their series OVER AND OVER AT THE SAME TIME for two reasons: 1. Kids will whine to mommy and daddy to watch at different times. 2. The stations don't have to write nearly as much content.

Which brings me to my final point: American Children need Shin-Chan. New episodes next week. Rock on crayon monkey boy. Get your honor, honor and a peeeenis. Rock on.

Maniacal Machinations 12/10/07

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Have you ever noticed that none of the America's Funniest Home Videos hosts are actually funny?

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Maniacal Machinations 12/9/07

There comes a time in every person's life when they must decide which is more important: Pie or Cake.

I chose pie because the cake is a lie.

Maniacal Machinations 12/7/07

Kinda mesmerizing, isn't it?

Random Rant

Fucking abbreviations and shit now a days. I agreed totally when Maddox ranted about peoples opinion and shit. He covered many points, but I'll expand on it.

IMHO

I'm Massively HomO. That's must be what it fucking means. Why the H? WHY the fucking honest? First off, IMO wasn't... really needed in the first place. Whenever you say something is better, or your favorite, and provide no real explanation or reasoning why, then of course it's your damn opinion. We can leave it at that. Sometimes opinions are good, other times bad, but it is what it is.

'Honest opinion'? Is there a need to tell them that your being honest now? Were some people giving opinions that were dishonest? Do we need some disclaimer now so people don't think your lying? I can see it now:

"Oh, man, this guy has some crazy ideas, that could never happen, must be a liar. OH SNAP! That's his HONEST opinion? Maybe I should check it out to be on the safe side...."

Fuck you. That's right, fuck you guys. If they lied before, why can't they just add the h and lie again? Fucking faggots.

Now for some lunch

Maniacal Machinations 12/4/07

There are times when I wake up in the morning after a tranquil, dreamless slumber. I blink once or twice, snug in an impregnable fortress of sheets. Faint light filters through the curtains, spreading across the floor and reaching the foot of my bed. With a yawn, I roll to the side, my toes groping to find a certain pair of fuzzy slippers. I stand, closing my eyes and taking a moment to take in the sounds. I hear among the distant droning of cars a cat's purr. For a moment, all is right with the world. Then . . .

"Oh shit, I'm late for work!"

Maniacal Machinations 12/3/07

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I bring upon you a terror like none you've seen before!

Let's Loathe with Leviathan v.3.5

I don't really have much of a topic for this one, just something to whine about.

So I'm sitting in homeroom, talking with friends about shit. Then the TV gets turned on, and the Mass Media class broadcasts the morning announcements. Cool. But once a week the "school idol" and mascot (he happens to run around in the mascot costume Friday nights in football season), Fungus, broadcasts his series "Fireside Chats." It's usually some horribly unfunny joke. Today's was the least funny of them all. He was pumping the school up for our playoff game, farthest we've ever gotten in the 50-year history of our school.
"There was once a time when all groups, the Preps, the Nerds, the Slackers, and the Hot Girls got along, and even sat at the same lunch table." My friends and I took this time to shout that the nerds have never associated with preps. "But then one day, in the forbidden social studies office, the teachers decided that the students needed to be divided. They had no control. So entered the EMO. The emo put ketchup on the Prep's shirt and blamed the Nerd. The emo stole the hot girl's lunch and framed the slacker." Oh, you did NOT just make fun of some of my best friends you little corpse eating decomposer. "But you know, the Emos may be responsible for our breaking apart, but maybe they can be responsible for our unity. They're very angry people. So we need to unite against this common enemy with anger! You can be just as angry as an emo kid with new Eem-O's!" What. "Side effects may include wearing pants made for the opposite sex, cutting, acquiring a taste for horrible music, and Hot Topic." No. You. Did. Fucking. Not.

MAKING FUN OF EMO KIDS IS 4CHAN'S JOB! YOU ASS HOLE! YOU'VE NEVER EVEN HEARD OF THE HACKERS ON STEROIDS! AND YOU MADE FUN OF MY FRIENDS! YOU MOTHER FUCKER DECOMPOSER! I HOPE YOU TRIP AND FALL WITH YOUR MASCOT HEAD ON AND CRACK YOUR SKULL AT THE PLAYOFF GAME!

And guess what he and the cheerleaders are doing? This playoff game is against one Martin Luther King Jr. High School, primarily black population. The banner that our football players will break through is going to read, "Dreams don't always come true!"

Mine might. You'll all get horribly gangraped.

Actually, the cheerleaders are so fucking ugly and flat, they'll probably just get lynched. The football players might get assraped though, and then killed. :D

Leviathan Talks about shit.

I was going to do a Loathe today, but classes are only half an hour. Instead, I'll describe what the hell i'm doing with half-hour classes. Today is what we call a WEB day. I go to a charter school, meaning I go to a private school with no tuition and government funding that happens to teach the same cirriculum as every other school in the county.Anyway, our charter states that on every Wednesday that we don't have aa school holiday or other early release of that same week, classes area half hour each, and finish at 12:45. After that, students are free to go to either a club meeting, get extra help from a teacher, or evengo home. Sometimes, there are government-sponsored programs like Alcoholand Drug Awareness that are necessary to get your driver's license.I usually go home, walk to La Madeline with some friends (The entire schoolgoes to starbucks on WEBs, so we're basically beating the system), or get extra help from a teacher.

tl;dr: WEB. Wednesday Enrichment Block. Super Early release days for Leviathan.

Interesting how it's called early RELEASE like we're locked up?

So when I start my uber "YAY TODAY IS A WEB!" dances, you'll knowwhat the fuck I'm talking about. Sorry about today's format, i had to write this in a plain text document today. -Lev

Maniacal Machinations 11/26/07

Rule #34 isn't the only thing that can ruin your childhood. XD

A Look Back at Social Qualifications of Gamers

I don't know bout y'all, but my fuzzy Grey balls remember back in the day when gamers were deemed nerds. Put into a class which was shunned by the popular kids. Usually cause they smelled and didn't attempt proper hygiene in any sense of fashion. Yet when you look at things these days, it is not the case. Even the cool kid is rocking a game in one sense or another.

I grew up in the 80's. An era of complete awesomeness. Don't lie, you all miss it. It was the era where video games really took off. Nintendo hit the stands, and either the nerds or the spoiled kids had them. Fast forward to the SNES. I remember my buddy had the cartridge that would allow him to play snes online... with all 5 other people. Wait, I'm totally getting off topic with nostalgia.

Back to the topic at hand. Now a days it is perfectly acceptable to sit in front of a TV with a controller in hand. Its cool to chat at the lunch table in front of girls about getting 12 head shots in a row. I guess I should enlighten you all as to why I felt I should write about this topic. Well now that I graduated from college, I don't live 5 mins away from my friends on foot. I live 15 mins away if I'm lucky. And as I do not like driving myself to the bars, I usually go out with my older brother. A person who has a lot of friends that I know none of. Now the last 4 times I have gone out with him, Every time I have spent at least 3 hours talking about gaming. The kicker, only one person has been annoyed about this, my older brother.

Now fast forward to 1990 ish times. This wouldn't be the case. It would be that only you and your friends could connect on this level. Now with the advent of XBOX live, you can play with people with people across the globe. I guess the purpose of why I am writing, is because I can at least say I am grateful that gaming is where it is. Now I don't have to raise an awkward kid who reeks of anti social behaviors. So remember, if you are at a party and dont think you have anything to talk about with others. Shut the fuck up and talk about nerdary.

Love and Kisses
CH

PROXY UPDATE

TAKE THAT SCHOOL DISTRICT! I JUST OWNED YOUR PROXY!
more on this later.

LATER IS NOW.

So I successfully set up a proxy break at my house. It took awhile since I had to figure out how to automatically pull my computer back online when it dropped. In the end, I just decided to write blog posts offline first, then copy and paste them to here before my connection dropped.

This particular proxy my school uses blocks all but ports 22 and 80, both of which have something plugged in. I could go on to tell you that it was an inside job, but seriously, all it means is that I still can't use IRC or any other chat program that uses port 6000 and up. Also, since I really only have enough time to log in to blogger, paste in my post, hit publish, and pray my teacher doesn't come up behind me, I don't have enough time to look up how the hell I beat a boss on Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time. And yes, the damn school has EVERY site blocked with "game" in the url.

It's a very childish game, really, intended for that new generation that didn't grow up with the "SUPER MARIO WORLD and SUPER MARIO ALL STARS SUPER ALL-IN-ONE" package on the snes with every mario game ever made on the snes plus one never released in the US before. But as far as a new mario game goes, it's really fun. I just can't seem to beat the boss that continually regenerates. Every time I kill off a squad of three shroobs holding a giant shroob bomb-omb, another one comes along with another giant bomb-omb. Supposedly, you're supposed to kill off their commander, but he only shows up between waves of three shroobs + bomb-omb, so I have no idea how the hell I'm supposed to kill him.

And I'm stuck at the classic second-to-last ice-based level. That's not a mario thing; that's a Nintendo thing.

Maniacal Machinations 11/24/07

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If you are what you eat, then would cannibals be people and prostitutes be dicks?


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Maniacal Machinations 11/22/07

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Baseball makes no sense. A man with four balls can't walk!


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Maniacal Machinations 11/21/07

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Water Polo is nice and all, but how do you get horses into the pool?


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Maniacal Machinations 11/20/07

Once, back when my brother was an adorable lad and not the asshole he is at the moment (XP), we had an interesting conversation.

He said, "Pop quiz: What's 20 times 4?"

I said, "80"

He said, "Oh."

I said, "Wait, so you didn't even know what it was?!"

He said, "Mhmm"

"Let's Loathe!" with LEVIATHAN v.3.0 *PMS SPECIAL*

It's been awhile, guys, sorry about that. As compensation, I'll be ranting about something very special today: PMS, and the horrible "first day" that follows. Take notes, men.

You think you've got another week until your next cycle, so when your head starts to hurt whilst out in public, you're extremely exhausted, and you can't eat, you think you've caught the flu. Then you get home, wanting a little rest and relaxation. You hole up in your room, but the first thing you're told after getting downstairs again to finally eat something is that you're acting weird. WEIRD!? So you hole up again, and wanna play some video games. You wind up lashing out at anyone who dares ask for the controller, and you realize you are acting a bit weird. So you take an advil, and go to bed, with your typical, "YAY FOR TOMORROW" attitude.

First thing when you wake up, you realize you've started just in time. You take three Advil and two Midol because you spent an hour or so writhing in pain from cramps. Ugh... makes me kinda miserable thinking about it. So then you spend the whole day running to the stupid bathroom every two hours if you're the athletic type (tampon user), or just whenever you can if you're a comfort type (pad user). And the whole time, you have these nasty cramps that shouldn't be there, and when you don't, you have a killer headache.

Protip: compressing your head either by pushing it with your hand on the back of your head against your desk or by tying a tight handkerchief around your head can make a headache feel much better.

Then comes the horrible heat flash ON TOP OF ALL THE OTHER SYMPTOMS. "It's so fucking cold in here!" No, it's not, i'm freaking sweating you sunuva bitch.

Finally, finally FINALLY, you get home. You've fallen so far. You remember what happened yesterday, and sneak a few slices of lunchmeat or a couple granola bars or something with you to your personal cave. Finally, you curl up with a book or Game Boy or DS or PSP and your granola bars with your head between your knees, and all your symptoms go away. Then someone comes in to give you a hard time, or maybe just to ask a favor involving you getting up.

Oh, HELL NO.

GET THE FUCK OUT, I FINALLY HAVE PEACE FOR ONCE, I AM ABSOLUTELY NOT IN THE MOOD FOR YOU! WHEN YOU GO THROUGH SUFFERING INSTEAD OF PURE JOY FOR YOUR OFFSPRING, THEN WE'LL TALK, MOTHERFUCKER!

kbai.

And suddenly, everything's better.

Maniacal Machinations 11/19/07

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What in the-?!

Maniacal Machinations 11/18/07 - 3

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Friendship is replacing your buddy's oral thermometer with a used rectal thermometer.

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Maniacal Machinations 11/18/07 - 2

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In a perfect world, every day would be Caturday!

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Maniacal Machinations 11/18/07

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Love is finding out you're pregnant at the tender age of fourteen.

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Maniacal Machinations 11/13/07

Holy crap. I'm really inconsistent, aren't I? Sorry!
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I was browsing 4chan the other day when I came upon a rather odd manga. Now, I've seen some wierd shit, but this takes the cake. It's about a woman who has the power . . . . to turn into a refrigerator. I shit you not, folks. That is the actual premise. Hold on, though. That's not all. Not only can she turn into a convenient medium for storing perishable goods, she can also freeze anyone who looks into the freezer and kill people by falling on them.

Once again, Japan has given us a wonderful gift. >_<

Maniacal Machinations 11/11/07

Oh shit, guys. It's 11/11. You know what that means . . . . It's the Day of the Turkey!

No, not Thanksgiving, but a pagan festival dedicated to the dark god of poultry, whose terrible gobbles tormented the bellies of those unfortunate enough to hear them. One day, a brave warrior slew the Dark Turkey by pouring boiling gravy all over it before stuffing it full of vegetables through its anus and throwing it into a volcano.

Every year on this very day, the turkeys go out for blood, seeking vengeance for their ancestor. They swarm the streets and countrysides, slaughtering any humans in an ironic and somewhat humorous fashion. So remember, lock your doors, seal your windows, and keep some stuffing handy.

Maniacal Machinations 11/9/07

Once, I put soap on my toothbrush and rubbed toothpaste all over my face . . .

Maniacal Machinations 11/7/07

If a tree falls and crushes a lone hiker in the forest, will I give a flying fuck?



I guess not.

Maniacal Machinations 11/6/07

One day, I'm going to make a giant Where's Waldo? puzzle with no Waldo.

It's Not Violent Video Games We Should Be Keeping From Children, It's Headsets

First Off before I start I will state that my stance on using demeaning slurs in my book is not OK.

With that being said you probably have a good idea about what I am planning on writing about from the title. Every gamer knows about this epidemic that has been a problem for years. Its the young kids on headsets that use every vulgarity known to man. I will give you an example to refresh you minds. During the first week I had Halo 3 I was playing online a lot. Things were going great for a while. The other players were usually civil, if there was trash talk it never escalated past the word fuck. Then it happened. The pre-teen crowd hit the game. There was this kid with the name Daniel in his gamer tag who in the beginning went down the list and called every player in the room a derogatory term. usually stringing them together in nonsensical terms. To which I do my normal reply. I'm sorry that your testicles haven't dropped sweetheart, but because you know other terms for homosexuals, does not make you A. good at a game, or B. any cooler then your mom thinks you are. Well he wasn't too happy about this. Especially since me and my pink armor and unicorn emblem handed his ass to him.

The point I am getting at is parents think that violent games corrupt children, when I believe its handing them headsets for these video games. I have never heard such racist people as these 10 year olds. What does it make them feel empowered. Are they suppressing inhibitions that they wish to explore themselves? I believe that much like with violent video games being bought by ignorant parents, if they knew what their children were saying online to others, they would take away that headset away ASAP. Probably slap the child in the mouth.

Now on the nerd side of things, These kids are always horrible at the game. They have some skill but they never follow through, and get even more enraged post match. These are also the kids who call HAXXOR after a match because they do not have the hand eye coordination to find there penis to get the manly release, let alone play a video game. I remember watching a video on you tube during a rainbow six match where this child was demanding chocolate milk and calling his mother a bitch. Listen sparky, I'm damn sure it is not you whose paying that internet bill.

But speaking about parents, where the hell do these children find these terms. You all know that these aren't the normal cuss words that you drop in middle school let alone elementary school. When I have kids you better believe they playing their VG games in the living room where I can hear em. So please if you have children, make sure they are 16 before letting em chat online with audio, and even then they are probably still to stupid to talk.

Love
CH

Maniacal Machinations 11/4/07

You know how we just gained an hour with Daylight Savings?

Well, how do computers deal with this?

I mean, do the clocks go from 11:59 to 12:00 and stay at 12 for an hour?

Do they go to 12:59 then loop back to 12?

This merits further research.

Maniacal Machinations 11/3/07

Looks like I owe ya guys two MMs, eh?
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I noticed people on da internet like to say "It's my opinion, leave me alone. Don't try to change it. Blah blah blah."

Well, i've got one thing to say: If you put your opinion out there, it's going to get criticized!
If ya can't take the heat, don't fucking say anything!

If you have to state your feelings on a matter and an opposing view comes up (while you're unwilling to properly defend it), then just SHUT UP! If you just "wanna state your opinion", then just say it and shut the hell up after you do it!

The second you defend your statement, it becomes a debate wherein you need to support your view with evidence. "It's just my opinion" is a cop-out excuse at this point and essentially says "I lost". If that were all, I wouldn't care, but the people that do this have a nasty little habit of continuing to argue, using the opinion excuse whenever they're cornered.

So to all of you who like to abuse this line of thought:

Maniacal Machinations: Wierd Titles 2

Yup! Another cop-out. What other weird titles have I found this time?

Fruit Cup
- Yum?

Holy Virgin
- Not for long, by the look of it.

Mystery of the Necronomicon
- I REALLY don't like where this is going.

Pigeon Blood
- Yeah . . . real sexy . . .

Sailor And The 7 Ballz
- Sounds like a rap group.

Mania Secret of the Green Tentacle
- Tentacles have secrets?

Demon Beast Invasion
- Oh shit.

Romance is in the Flash of the Sword II
- I dunno what to say either.

Crimson Climax
- That does NOT seem pleasant . . . or sanitary.

F3: Frantic, Frustrated & Female
- ?!

Maniacal Machinations 10/31/07

-Global- [fiberOptiC] there will be a small split
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(One_Sin) A "small" split? How the fuck do these guys define "small"?!

Maniacal Machinations 10/30/07

I've noticed something. I have this weird habit where I occasionally type sentences, stop mid-sentence, change my mind on how to word the sentence, and then forget to delete the old sentence.

Thus, I end up with I have to deal with stupid-looking sentences like I make one fugly run-on sentence like this.

Scammers

It is late atm, so spelling errors will probably be here till tomorrow. I'm pissed of because yet again (only twice this has happened.) I fell pray to a scam that is worse the the poor Nigerian king. This is the crap computer programs that claim to speed your comp up. I fell prey to Uniblue. The reason I fell prey to this as I normally don't buy one of these programs without researching em is because these lying shit bags state on their site that they gamed high scores from CNET and other reputable sites. Upon later research i found that these are not the real scores, and in fact most of the users said all the programs were crap. The Uniblue page also states that it is Microsoft certified and I bet you that it isn't. Any who I will make this post short as I am tired, and have work early on in the morning. The point of this mini rant is that these shit bags who scam people like this should be drowned in their own fecal matter. this is pure shit. At least with the e-mail scams, you have to have been through a lobotomy to fall from them. These new ones look legit, and are programmed to make it look like its scanning your comp for problems. Remember check out any and all programs before you pay for em. even mIRC.

love,
CH

Maniacal Machinations: Wierd Titles 1

A series within a series? You bet! I took a glance at a hentai title encyclopedia. Here are just a few of the odd names I ran into . . .

Custom Slave
Hardcore Hospital
DNA Hunter
Living Sex Toy Delivery
-Say what?
Night Shift Nurses
Nymphs of the Stratosphere
- Nymphs? Whatever, but what the fuck do Nymphs and the Stratosphere have in common?
Princess 69
Samurai XXX
- Kenshin is rolling in his imaginary grave.
School Of Bondage
Viper GTS
- I seriously doubt this has anything to do with the car . . .
Equation of the Immoral
- y=2x+sex?
Mama Mia!
- Not touching this one . . .

Let's Loathe with Leviathan! v. 2.7

I hate not having my own laptop. Right now, my GPA is like a 3.0. That ain't good at my school. It basically means I'm a fucking retard who probably spends my days in In-School Suspension (which really isn't that bad, you just get all your work done in the first two hours, then read or take a nap or something). Point is, until my grades go up, no laptop. I already had my access restricted to the weekends. This fucking sucks balls. Oh wonderful! my internet connection just failed. I hate this computer. It's right over the garage, and as far away from the router as possible. The garage interferes with the signal or something.

I WANT MY LAPTOP THAT I CAN TRAVERSE ACCESS POINTS WITH! RAWR!

Anyway...

My laptop has my wonderful photoshop on it. I have hundreds of pictures I need to scan and get other people to shoop to death. I don't have time to do line art, people. 6,000 straightlines for a chibi? Jesus! Tibit-sama (I'll introduce him later) is nothing but curved lines, he alone must be more than that. Then my two epic pictures... UGH! Who wants a job doing my line art? Anyone? Please?

My laptop has all my music on it. Not everyone can afford a fucking ipod. And I just sent my cell phone through the wash, so all my ipod money's going to a new one. Thanks, Apple. You suck balls.

My laptop has my irc with all my channels on auto join. Not even going to touch that one.

My laptop has my animu. I can't download it without my laptop. Not really. It takes hours if not days to download an episode, and I'm NOT, i repeat, ABSOLUTELY NOT going to use youtube or veoh. They are the devil's advocates for people who don't know how to cap their upload rate.
CAP YOUR UPLOAD RATE AT 10 kb/s AND YOUR SHITTY UNSECURED NETGEAR ROUTER WILL BE JUST FINE.

My laptop has my Yaoi. Nuff said.

My laptop has my LIFE. I need it! I was in withdrawal until a little while ago. If i had someone who was willing to supply me with anime on burnt cds, that'd be awesome. But I don't, cuz my friends all suck. Except Riyoko. She bites.

Huh... I said i'd post something this week.... but i can't remember what it was, since OS posts like every day, and Nova left this fucking pamphlet of a post. So now I gotta go find it. This is Leviathan, signing off.

EDIT: What you are seeing is apparently my second existance. Huh. I'll choose one username and stick to it. And looking back, I was in a pretty shitty mood...

Maniacal Machinations 10/27/07

What would I do if I had three wishes?

Ask for more wishes.

Maniacal Machinations 10/26/07

I'm getting some interesting emails lately.

"FAMILY IN NEED OF ASSISTANCE {this is not spam}"

All right, so not only do I get spam emails, but now the spam is telling me it's not spam!

Maniacal Machinations 10/25/07

Lie - v - To enhance the truth

Consumer service

Yo, so I'm Nova.

I'll be writing crazy shit here about stuff that happens in my daily life. which will usually be work related since I spend most of my time there.

So to reak it down for you people. I work in a toy store (yes you can laugh later) known for it's excellent consumer service I'm in charge on service after purchase and the games departement. Especially because of that first bit I encounter some weird shit.

So last summer we sold pools. Big pools to be exact. Now a few weeks ago a client called me, saying there was a water issue with her pool. Now standard procedure says we take back every purchased article, in order to get it repaired. As I told the client this she was outraged, yelling at me, calling me scum of the earth and shit like that.

Needless to say I transferred the call to my boss. I got better things to do then listening to french speaking little bitches who live on flemish land, refuse to speak dutch and complain about shit.

A week later the client in question arrived with the huge ass pool. So my and the pool guy open that fucker to give our first check on the thing, before sending it to central dispatching. As we both thought, she fucking cut her liner and pool herself. The cuts were too clean and too small, not to mention too frequent to be a production error.

We both mention this too the client who again, was outraged and made a scene inside the damn store. So against policy, we sent it out for repairs to central dispatching.

A week later, we get thesame note from central "This pool has been destroyed by the consumer, therefor warranty is void." When reading this I called dispatching telling thel THEY could share the news (and be shouted at for a change).

About 15 minutes later, central calls me. "Yeah, we're giving the client a full refund." WHAT... A FULL FUCKING REFUND. you gotta be kidding me. We're actually gonna PAY that fucking bitch for screwing up her own (expensive) pool.

too my astounishment, two weeks later, she showed up... with a letter from central, stating we are giving this woman a full fucking refund.

So while I'm counting the money for the third time to hand it to her, she starts yapping to me about her damn water bill. Claiming she had to pay over € 500 in order to fill her pool.

€ 500 O_O WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU FILL IT WITH? CHAMPAGNE?

Not pleased with my remark (I'm known to piss off clients) she calls central again. And afterward I get a damn call. "Yeah we're giving this woman a free pool next summer as refund for the water bill"

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? WHAT IS THIS? A TOY STORE, OR THE FUCKING SALVATION ARMY?

This is the largest piece off bullcrap about working in the store, the client is ALWAYS right (even though they are dumbasses) and they ALWAYS get their money back. and if they get angry enough, get a little extra in return. This news has now spread through forums and such. Basically my chain of stores is known as the panzies of consumer service. But in the year I'm working there, I've made a reputation for myself. and I quote from a forum:

"This guy isn't a panzy like most, he knows his stuff. He's not the manager, but he could very well be one. He says shit the way he wants it to. and he'll give you the service you require, even if that means repairs with payment."

This pleases me. I'm harsh, but I'm fair. The client is not King when I'm around. The client is a fucking drug addict, and I'm his supplier. You don't like how I work? Go to a different store with employees who have NO product knowledge whatsoever.

I have no problem with being friendly to clients... but it's the abusers like this that piss me off and bring up the worst in me.

Maniacal Machinations 10/24/07

I was considering dressing up as an Anonymous for Halloween . . . but then I realized how much of a tool i'd look like if I ran around the streets in a pinstripe suit and a green ski mask while holding a trick-or-treat bag and screaming "We are legion! We do not forgive! We do not forget!"

Movies Suck - Halloween

Hello Hello this is Malachi here with my first of weekly movie reviews. This one is on the recent horror movie Halloween.

Halloween, a wonderfully gory tale of murder, mayhem and death all mixed together in a giant pot stirred by master of the wicked, Rob Zombie. A gripping tale about a boy, his mask, and their journey into the world of mindless killing. We are first introduced to the young Michel Myers, a boy that has been brought up into a world where he finds no love from anyone but his mother. Deeply disturbed, Michel turns to violence, against anything that he feels the need to hurt. The film presents a deep look at the childhood of a future serial killer, and those around him that might have been the cause.
The viewer will see the life of a killer and how he affects the people around him both directly and indirectly. The true nature of people is exposed when they think that no one is around to witness their cruelty. The film is almost a shot for shot remake of the first film, with the same characters and the same feeling of eeriness. For fans of the horror genre it is a perfect addition to the series, and it keeps the older fans in check. It follows Michel from childhood until adulthood; he spends most of his life in the same cell of a mental asylum, where he is constantly visited by the esteemed Dr. Samuel Loomis, a child psychologist. Who tries to salvage what is left of Michel’s life by talking to him and trying to befriend him.
The film was very well done it had some very experienced people working behind it. The director, Rob Zombie, know what he is doing with two other horror movies under his belt. So the story was very well played out, everything happened in order, it made sense and it was true to the overall story that came before it. The scenes were all well shot, and the locations very nice. The movie looked like it took place during Halloween, also most of the scenes were in the dark, but the level of visibility was reasonable. Being a Rob Zombie film, there was bound to be plenty of blood and guts. The limbs and organs all looked very realistic, as did the gallons of blood.
The music in the film was a combination of the original scary theme, and other scores written for the movie, and some music from various bands and artists. It was strategically placed throughout the movie to help aid the suspenseful feeling in the audience.
A few things that I did not like about the movie are the same things that I don’t like about any horror movie, the complete lack of hope. In most horror movies there is some prevailing good that eventually defeats the evil and saves the day, or at least escapes from being killed. There was really no problem with the way that the film was made, the only real problem I had was the way the teenage girls acted so vulgar and annoying. Other than that I found nothing wrong with the way the movie was made.
The most important character in the movie was Michel as a boy, he was played by a brand new Canadian actor Daeg Faerch. He did an amazing job playing a demented little kid in this movie; I had a hard time believing he could be normal in real life after seeing this movie. Rob Zombie used a lot of the same actors that have been in his other movies, such as his wife, Danny Trejo, and William Forsyth. The part of Dr. Samuel Loomis is played by the esteemed Malcolm McDowell, he does a perfect job as the well read and sophisticated psychologist.
The only characters that I had any kind of problem with were the teenage girls. For lack of a better word, they are all whores in the movie, which is probably just an excuse for the audience to think it’s okay for them to die. Most audience members will feel very angry at the people that caused Michel pain, and even angrier at him when he does it back. He is a very easy character to hate and so are most of the people in the movie. The somewhat hero of the movie is Dr. Loomis, he tries to help Michel and is very worried about his well being, so he is easy to like and relate to.
In general this was a good movie, and a very good horror movie. Acting, directing, story, writing, music, and anything else you could think of was all good. It was no masterpiece, but it is so much better than anything else that comes out these days. I give it 41/2 of 5 stars.

Thanks. See ya next week.

Maniacal Machinations 10/23/07

Moments in history:


God damn furries . . .

Maniacal Machinations 10/22/07

Midlife Crisis - noun - Realizing there's more to life than World of Warcraft and 4chan.

Good luck, internet. XP

An Intellegent Look at Fanboys

So as I sit here drinking 7up and Jim Beam, I keep thinking about a discussion I was engaged in the other day on mIRC. The discussion was about the competency of fan boys. And as I was trying to think of a topic to tackle on my first blog entry here, I thought I might point out the stupidity of all fan boys. Yes thats right, I feel all fan boys are stupid. Well first I will break them down. You have silly people in forums arguing about there system as if it was the bloody crusades. They argue over their system as if it was the shield and crest of their own name. It is ok to like a system, but you clown shoes have petty arguments to prove That one system is the best at anything. Thats why there is free market. A chance to have competition. And as I am not going to go over every nit picky topic i will point out at least one pro and con for EVERY system.

PS3:
pro- Amazing graphics on this system. Why? Because unlike the 360, the PS3 is utilizing the hardware and software it has put into its system to a high potential. I am no engineer, but if the PS3 can push its system even further in fluidity I will be astounded. If you see Heavenly sword you will see what I am saying. The rub here is it looks astonishing on a standard def. I know they "claim" that the 360 isn't even using its full potential, but why bother holding out on the consumer.

con- The price. Why is it so expensive you ask? It has a built in Blu-Ray player. And the funny thing is, the majority of people who own a PS3 don't even know they have a Blu-Ray player, and yet are still counted as Blu-Ray player sales. Microsoft did me a huge favor by separating the HD player. I don't care for a player that has very little number of titles, and I don't want to pay it. Also do the consumer a favor and release games.

XBOX 360

Pro- They hit the ground running with the release and haven't stopped running. With he most titles out of all the systems so far it's doing a good job. Also the Xbox Live is great, and not just for games and demos. TV shows can be bought and downloaded as well as movies, (in HD mind you.) Plus in my eyes the main menu for the system is the most cheery. (sorry wii, your too blue.)

Con- Too many glitchy games. Half the games you buy have massive glitches in them. two worlds, overlord, the darkness just to name a few. I'm sorry I realize your trying to top the market in your system, but do the consumer a favor and test them some more, cause a lot of these glitches are very apparent and you guys are crap on releasing patches on time.

Wii
Pro- Its teaching many lazy fat nerds to get off their ass and exercise.

Con- When are you going to come out with a new stock character. I mean honestly, Mario is fun and all, but we been staring at that goofy mustache for what, almost 20 years now. Give the masses some variety. And I know that there are other games by Nintendo, I mean games that people rave about. Why can;t you make a bad ass zombie game that is wii specific. That would be tight. Also I do kinda agree with some on the effect on children who will play manhunt 2 on this system, as there are stupid parents who don't look at the games ratings or look to see what they are buying for there children. (Jack Thompson PWNED!)


I realize my wii con is a little weak, but for me the monotony of a system is a huge downer for me. Though Metroid is still fun. But I digress. My point is, is that there are things wrong with every system, and there are things that are right. But its better having multiple systems on the market as opposed to one insanely jacked up system with a huge price tacked on. But for the most part, fan boys enjoy your games and systems, but stop telling others they are wrong in their choices. These are what intelligent arguments look like. There are valid points constructed here, not "This game sucks even though, I Haven't played it, but it is not on my console which obviously means I am right and you are wrong."


LOVE,
Crazyhaze

Maniacal Machinations 10/21/07

Maniacal Machinations 10/17/07

Does anyone else wonder why they only give ketchup in those dinky little packets that you need ten of to do anything with?

No?

My mistake. >_<

Welcome!

Yo!

One Sin here! Welcome to da blog! Unlike my other blog, Living in Sin, The Edge of Sanity will have a variety of posts from all sorts of authors including myself, so sit back, relax, and be careful not to fall off the edge! ^_^

What . . . ya want me to say something else? But I don't have anything to say!

Cept this: