Gamers

I have a confession. I am a gamer. Whew. I feel better. I seek escape through alternative realities that have little to do with bills and sick kids and work. In this alternate environment I can be a great and mighty hero or a vile and despicable villain. My choice.
Not only am I a gamer but I'm also going to school to design and write for video games. I will have spent 57,000 dollars by the time I graduate learning how to create the games of my dreams.
Having said all of that let me say that it's getting to the point that I cannot stand gamers.
Don't get me wrong, most gamers are fine. We're intelligent, somewhat socially awkward, funny, curious and just flat-out odd individuals who choose to spend their free time gaming. However, there is a growing minority (or, much like politics) a more vocal minority who are just vile, repugnant, self-righteous, falsely entitled cretins who hide behind a smokescreen of anonymity to spew venom and opinon based on nothing more than a simmering disgust of how pathetic their own lives are.
They are misanthropes and spoiled little brat children who never grew up properly. They hate everything and everyone, mostly themselves, and the internet has given them the tools they need to spread their stupidity and half-assed opinons across message boards the world over.
Nothing is ever good enough for them. Nothing is ever right. No one is ever as perfect as they, evidently, think themselves to be. They could do so much better but don't feel they can right now because their mom's basement isn't big enough to give them the space they need to do the work properly.
They have no idea how difficult and time consuming it is to build a game. They have no idea how much goes into it. All they know is they are miserable and need to spread their misery to as many people as they can because only through spreading their uninformed and hateful curse can they ever truly be happy. They are a plague on the gaming industry. They are a plague on themselves.
They cannot be reasoned with or cajoled or taught. They think they're so very smart and some of them can even use big words mostly in context to try to get their opinions across.
Well, here's a tip for all of you misanthropic, sadistic pricks. Fuck off and die. Every single last one of you. Go stick your fucking tongue in a light socket and blow yourself through a wall. You have never done or created anything. All you do is poison everything you see with vitriol and venom. Go fuck yourself then die in a house fire.
Subtlety is too good for you assholes. Fuck you and all and the hate you spew.

The Long Slide Part One

I think it may be time to face a harsh reality. The world as we know it is going to shit. I know! It's a shock!
To be honest, the world has been constantly going to shit since people grasped what going to shit meant. Ask anyone of any age or region and they'll all say the same. The Aztecs thought the world was going to shit. The Egyptians thought the world was going to shit. The Romans thought the world was going to shit. The colony at Roanoke thought...well, in that case they were definitely right. But you get my drift.
I've always maintained that the United States is Rome in Fast Forward. What took the Romans 700 years to lose won't take us a fraction that long. To be honest, we haven't even really mattered as a country except for the past hundred years or so. Before that we were a backwater filled with savages. Europe was where it was at. If you were in the US you were akin to an aborigine. Maybe taller.
But then World War I came and we tore that shit up! Well, no, not really. we were Johnny Come Latelies to the party and were treated mostly with disdain. Then the League of Nations came along and was not, in retrospect, that good of an idea. But, BLAMMO! WWII, baby!
We drop the bomb, help off the Nazis and all of a sudden we're the bees knees. Every country wants to be us. Or blow us up. We're the new tough on the prison block. One minute we're following George Washington's policy of isolationism and the next we're GLOBAL, man!
But the fundamental problems that took Rome years to realize they'd created we built in no time. All of a sudden there was the super rich and everyone else. The super rich didn't want to pay taxes and everyone else couldn't. We threw money at the military like dollar bills at a strip joint, just like the Romans did. In the words of Septimius Severus we "Enriched the soldiers". Except...we really didn't.
We enriched those already enriched. The wealthy company owners who built the war machines (some of which worked, some which didn't and some which just sucked money and never actually came out at all) While these people got richer and richer soldiers themselves found their families back home on welfare.
We lowered the taxes on the rich and raised taxes on everyone else to make up for the shortfall. We became a nation of debtors led by corrupt public officials and a shadowy "electoral college" that no one seemed to know very well. We invaded nations and then sent them transport planes filled with millions of dollars all the while we borrowed and borrowed and mortgaged our future.
And, just like the Romans found out 2000 years before us. Our economy is in the depths of a collapse. Yes, I know, it collapses every fifteen years or so. But this time it's not just us. In a modern age it's a global shitstorm.
Rioting in England, Fascist Tea Partiers fondling suggestive photos of Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachman and calling for a good old fashioned lynchin' just like their ignorant KKK breathren of yore, most of Europe going into debt. Pretty much the whole middle east revolting against something or someone. Things ain't lookin' so nice. So what are we to do?

The Horror of the MEDIA!!!

Let's all whine a chorus to the media. The biased, corrupt, liberal, conservative, fascist, commie media that corrupts our precious youth and skews Americans' vision of politics. If you read any story on yahoo or google even remotely concerning politics and then scroll down to the horror that is the comments you will find that web 2.0 users hate and blame the media. Amidst the sprawling tapestry of American ignorance and hubris that is celebrated in every comments section you will find no less than 200 references to the "media". Who is this shadowy underworld "Media" they talk about so scornfully? What power do they wield? What backroom deals are they finalizing to send us all to the abyss of ruin?
Well, if you read a bit deeper...except for Rupert Murdoch who is a very dangerous combination of a moron, an Alzheimer patient and fascist (Alzmorist) the media doesn't do a whole lot. They report the news and, yes, they can put whatever slant on it they want, but at the end of the day, the American people will blame them if their views don't match with what's reported. If you like Obama you can blame the media for making him look bad. If you like Boehner (Boner?) you can blame the media for making him look ignorant.
The reality is that, unless you're foolish enough to believe Fox news, you will read what the nasty media says, discard what is clearly bullshit or bias and draw your own conclusions. Unless you're an idiot.
Sadly, I've done an informal poll and there are, roughly, 208 million idiots in the United States alone. People that should not only never have access to a computer and the ability to spread their plague of ignorance across the entire world, but people who are so clearly misguided or flat out dangerously stupid that it's a wonder they can form words in anything resembling English at all and every single idiot out there blames the "media". I'm surprised, to be honest, that most of them can even use the word media in a sentence, let alone spell it.
If you hate the media don't watch it or read the stories or, here's an idea...draw your own conclusions like a big boy or girl! If you believe Fox news seek psychiatric help and burn your computer so you can't drag down the mean IQ online.

Immigration

Ok all of you people who feel that the way our ancestors did immigration was all right because we all followed the rules. You need to shut the hell up. You have no idea what you're talking about while extolling your rudimentary knowledge of history. Our ancestors came here because there were no immigration laws until the 1920s. So, no, great grandpa Giuseppi did not do it "legally" following the "rules" because there weren't any. Get off your high horse and ask yourself how the Indians (They're not native to America any more than my family is, they're native to Asia and just lived here longer. Sorry.) felt about these "legal" immigrants showing up on their shores and throwing small pox infected blankets into their camps to spread disease and thin out the population. They probably weren't too terribly keen on the whole concept of immigration at that point in time.
There are fixes for immigration, none of which involves treating these people like criminals. Try maybe pressuring their government to provide for its citizens the way the anti-immigration people inevitably bitch about us doing. Maybe have Americans get off their high horse and stoop to doing the work these immigrants do at minimum wage.
Either way, shut the hell up about our forefathers doing things "right" You know nothing and need to be treated with the derision and scorn your ignorant comments deserve.

What Message Are We Sending To The CHILDREN????

All right you freaks, here's the message that YOU are sending to your kids when you bemoan what message something on television sends to the kids: I am incapable of being a parent.
Who gives a rat's fuck what message is being sent? If you don't like something don't let your precious little asshole kids watch it. Simple. If you're so worried about the pervasive influence MTV has on your 16 year old daughter and how she's going to get pregnant so she can be on their "reality TV" shows then pay attention to what your kid's doing. If you've had an open and honest dialog with your kids then you have a much better chance of stemming off their reality TV desire to get pregnant than  if you cry about how morally wrong television is. Television's job is to sell. If you don't like it become Amish.
Ah...yes...but there is the crux of the problem. Dialog. We love to tell our kids what to do. We love to tell our kids what not to do. But do we talk to them? Do we treat them like they have minds of their own and give them the courtesy of discourse? Or do we simply tell them to not fuck up and then go back to commenting on how morally wrong the media is?
Everyone who does this deserves everything bad that their kids are going to do, because you're not being a parent, you're being a useless, pontificating rat fuck candy ass who never should breed in the first place. Be a fucking parent you ignorant son of a bitch, Spend less time talking down to your kids and a bit more time talking to them.

Tea Party

Ok, I saw one of those Tea Party bumper stickers and I started thinking...wtf is this shit? Silent majority no more? Is there proof you were in the silent majority? What stats do you have to offer to support your supposition? What if you're NOT in the silent majority? What if you are all just a bunch of low rent Nazis and people like ME are, in fact, the silent majority? And has anyone actually mentioned to these weasels what the Boston Tea Party was all about to begin with? You know, the "no taxation without representation" thing. Do they know this? And, if they do know this, what the hell does the tea party have to do with reducing federal spending?
Assuming, probably likely, that most of these people that slap these ludicrous stickers on their car are Republican-leaning right wingers, are they aware that George W. Bush inherited a $127 billion surplus and when "dubyah" left office he had amassed a $1.17 trillion dollar deficit? Last I checked dubyah was a right wing freak...just down these assholes' alley. Where were the "silent majority" when Bush was whoring himself to every special interest in America? Presumably...they were silent.
If anything holds true about Tea Partiers is that they are far from silent. In fact, they won't shut the hell up. They also have no concept as to what the original (and still best) tea party was all about. They just thought it sounded American and righteous. Well, no. It sounds stupid and inane. Rather than blame Obama for the spending and deficit maybe they should hold the mirror up and look long and hard. These are the same people who shoot down tax increases to help schools because most of them have already had their kids put through school and why should their hard-earned dollars go to help anyone else? They continue to think that way until someone mentions social security in which case their granny panties get all bunched up and they angrily decry any attempt to fix a broken ass system that won't be there for anyone in ten years.
The Tea Party needs to do America a favor. They should all dress like Indians and throw themselves in a harbor somewhere. Or, failing that, they should shut the fuck up and go back to pretending to be the majority...complete with the silence.

Apple

Just some food for thought...get it? Food? Apple? HA! Anyway...there are a few things I've noticed recently that would make alot of sense for Apple. They could make a movie like the new Tron one but have a scene where the protagonist arrives in an arena designed by Apple. There could be 7 programs all equally spaced from each other golf clapping but looking fantastic and over everything, the disembodied head of Steve Jobs could lord, occasionally screaming about how the programs are holding things wrong.
They could also get involved in the food industry. Make Apple brand Doritos. There'd only be 6 in a bag and they'd charge 80 dollars a bag but, damn! Those chips would look FANTASTIC! And, judging by Apple's minimalist approach to everything there will eventually only be one button on the Mac (we're going to market the same OS over and over because we can). The one button will be completely useless and esoteric but will be completely, utterly circular. It will be flawless.
I hate Apple. They are the Fascists of the computer industry and should be treated with the disdain they deserve. Plain and simple.