Mid-week madness.

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< _ < > _ > Looks like the coast is clear. Okay, time to let you in on a little secret. Video games aren't going to make the kids violent. In some way, the work in an opposite manner - we frag bits with virtual weaponry and explodey gore, and even if it's other people we're playing against, we gets the aggression out. Keeps us from shooting up your schools, you know. Pure pwnage is satisfying in some ways, because we know what the consequences of rampaging out here in reality are. So kindly STFU about the whole "Ah! Violent games! Training mass murderers, you are!" this, ya n00bs. Instead, turn your attentions where it is needed most - the places where your children are interacting with other human beings. Raise your child and take interest in them, and you'll find out they're more willing to talk to you about things. Might be that the football game is supplanted by the FPS as a male-bonding moment. Wouldn't that be fun? And while we're on the subject of gaming and the next-gen consoles, would it kill developers to implement these kind suggestions into their games? Develop the sadistic A.I. - just leave a setting for me, since I'm not usually that good at video games that aren't RPGs. Ah, yes, and bring back adventure games, please. I had so much fun playing those on my PC. Now, they don't really exist that much.

And while we're on the "irate rants" segment, note this well - Liberals are tolerant. But they won't tolerate idiots. The idea here being that it is perfectly acceptable to be both tolerant of "alternative" lifestyles and such and still want to hammer into the ground anybody who insists on passing their way of life into law. My "tolerance" insists that I ensure that nobody infringes on someone else's ability to live their life the way they want. I can be tolerant of people screaming at them until they're blue in the face about how wrong and sinful and decadent they are (although the mute button will probably be employed), but the minute one of them lifts a finger to infringe on that right, they give me license to breathe down their neck about it, and possibly take the L.A.R.T. out for a spin or two. Whether I do so or not depends on whether I agree with them that the particular behavior should be regulated, relegated, or outlawed. But I still retain the right to say "no", even if I've agreed with them before. Because, after all, when they set their sights on me, I'm going to want to be able to try and dent the skulls of the T.V. audience, just like everyone else tried before me. I'll fail, of course, but I'll have been ideologically sound. For some reason, that line sounds... humorous. Right before the Thought Police break in sort of thing.

Yeah. So maybe to get rid of the anger, I'll play a quick video game. Of course, maybe, just maybe I'm a robot, like all the rest of you, and it really doesn't matter.

Have you ever met someone who can make technology break just by looking at it? (And there are some who can heal it by threatening it.) Well, someone's running experiments to see whether or not they're giving off bad vibes that do it.

For the curious, although, I’m not sure how many people would actually be curious about it - the designations "furry" and "Christian" are in sufficient combinations that they hold a reasonably populated livejournal community. Okay - it's a very well-populated LJ community. Check out the rules and userinfo to learn more about it. I don't know why I'm posting this, as I am neither (currently) of the two objects being combined. But someone else put it on his "WTF? That's just WRONG" list. And it's not the Christian part he was incensed about.

Dunno. These things happen, ya know. Just got to go with it. Of course, there are other times where I just don't see the signs. Hopefully people stay patient with me while I blunder along. I take those kinds of things a bit hard - because I think I should be able to see the signs. It's even more problematic when you don't have the facial cues to go along with the text. Suffice to say, if I ever was thickheaded, I apologize. It happens to me like that. I don't guarantee I won't be just as thick the next time we talk, but I don't want to hurt people just by being a bull in a china shop. (Which, if I wasn't sure it would earn me a frying pan, I would say was my natural state.) I dunno. Maybe I really am on someone's cosmic sitcom. Or drama. Whichever it is, somebody tell me what genre I'm in...

Comments

[urbankotq.livejournal.com]

Furry Christians, huh? Very cool...makes for some interesting prayers, too. Like a deer kneeling by his bed:

"Dear Lord, please protect my brother Arnold, for he is doing field work tonight and could be eaten by wolves. And if he is eaten, please don't let my friend Bill Canidson have done it, because that will be really, really awkward. Amen."

[silveradept]

Really, really, awkward indeed. You know, that almost asks to be drawn in some way. But hey, wasn't there a command to preach the Word to every living thing?

[2dlife.livejournal.com]

"Liberals are tolerant. But they won't tolerate idiots." is my new favorite sentence.

Thank you.

[uncle-pervy.livejournal.com]

That Tolerance thing reminds me of the South Park episode where Mr. Garrison was trying to get fired for being overtly gay to the students and was instead being inducted into the Hall of Tolerance. He then went on his rant to the people.

Mr. Slave: Oh! I should have never shoved all those poor animals up my ass! [a few moments of thought, and then more applause]

Mr. Garrison: Uh...

Man 4: [black hair] Courageous.

Man 5: [behind him, brown hair] So courageous.

Mr. Garrison: [frustrated and finally letting loose] God-damnit, don't you people get it?! I'm trying to get fired here! [the applause dies down]

Man 3: [softly] Oh, that's courageous.

Mr. Garrison: Look, this kind of behavior should not be acceptable from a teacher!

Mr. Slave: Yeah, Jesus Christ.

Man 6: But the mu-se-um tells us to be to-le-rant

Man 3: [stands up and raises his arms] Yes. The mu-se-um.

Man 7: [stands up and raises his arms] The mu-se-um tells us.

Mr. Garrison: Tolerant, but not stupid! Look, just because you have to tolerate something doesn't mean you have to approve of it! If you had to like it, it'd be called the Museum of Acceptance! [the audience looks on] "Tolerate" means you're just putting up with it! You tolerate a crying child sitting next to you on the airplane or, or you tolerate a bad cold. It can still piss you off! Jesus Tapdancing Christ!

Mr. Garrison: [relieved] Ogh! Okay, so now can I PLEASE get fired and get my 25 million dollars?!

Thank God for the Internet helping me find this.

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South Park, much like Family Guy, for its veneer of crude humor and generally disagreeable characters, nonetheless manages to make considerable fun of the things in our world without having to resort of moralistic drivel. Perhaps because it's people behaving badly bringing about these situations that we're inclined to snicker at (and hopefully realize) the joke when it's taken out to logical, if slightly extreme, conclusions.

[zieistari.livejournal.com]

I just want to say, Thank You. You have voiced, so very well, what I have felt/said for years. I stand in awe of your skill.

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*blinkblink* Huh? I'm afraid you may have to be more specific in your praise, because there isn't anything that I have there that hasn't been said elsewhere, and probably with more eloquence.

[rimspace.livejournal.com]

Well, someone's running experiments to see whether or not they're giving off bad vibes that do it.
Meh, every good hacker knows it isn't vibes - people who break machines just by being near them have high bogon potentials (c.f Quantum bogodynamics (http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/q/quantumbogodynamics.html)).

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Funny, that's what D.R.T. said about the article, too. They captioned it "Scientists about to discover the existence of bogons".

And thus, after a quick jaunt through the jargon file (rather interesting thing, that), I wonder whether the F/Verse has bogons as well...