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July 9th, 2009
 | 12:41 pm - Writer's Block: Duos
Londo and G'Kar?
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July 7th, 2009
 | 01:33 am
The curious case of David Myers, who in my words, is the the most creative jerk to ever bother to gank PvPers in my most favorite MMO, and then bother to write a paper about it.
It's a shame I never actually met him in the game. But I don't think he ever played on my server, and I never really go into the PvP zones very much!
And yes, I made a comment to that article. I like the idea that he's some dadaist professor with an obsession with computer games, and that he actually planned all this decades in advance.
Now, from a relevant thread on City of Hero's official board:
- Twixt started on Champion server, then moved to Freedom. He may have moved after that, but I'm not aware of it. If you never heard of him, cool. If you supported him, cool. If you hated him, that's cool too. He was, to say the least, a polarizing figure to those of us who knew him.
- He was originally a nice guy that many people teamed with. Once his "study" began in PvP zones, it was widely thought that his account had been sold because it seemed like an entirely different individual.
- His method was not droning. It was TP Foeing opponents into PvE mobs (Longbow), fearing them, and keeping up this combination until they were killed by the mobs. This resulted in debt for those individuals. This is the main reason he received so much vitriol. He played a DM/Regen Scrapper that specialized in TP Foe, Touch of Fear, and TPing away. It was not a revolutionary tactic, and the "skill" associated with it is debatable. He simply applied the tactic with the intention of giving the other players debt.
- He worked hard to develop the anger that was directed at him. He talked trash, he posted kill-logs, and he specifically harassed those who expressed the most outrage. He portrays himself as some victim who doesn't understand the anger directed at him, but it simply wasn't the case.
- I've been in contact with the author of the article (wasn't hard, just shot an email asking if he had thought of actually researching the story instead of just taking Twixt's word as truth), and I'll be writing and submitting a Letter to the Editor tomorrow. The author didn't seem all that pleased with how the article turned out. Apparently, he wanted to provide a more in-depth description of what Twixt had actually done, but the piece was intended to be a human interest piece on Twixt's player, not a focus on the research itself. Someone quoted my "comment" toward the beginning of this thread, and as a Champion player, I'll be posting my letter in the Champion thread on this topic. Feel free to swing by there to check it out. I never personally held any contempt towards Twixt, but I would like to at least set the record straight as to exactly what took place.
Note: There's no excuse for the threats that were thrown at Twixt. He didn't deserve such things, but he also is nowhere near the altar boy he's presenting himself to be.
Indeed, I say, it's quite rare to see someone being such a creative jerk. Certainly there's creative people out there. And god knows there's lots of jerks! And some creative people are jerks. But it's not often that you see someone using his creativity to such a high degree, planning decades in advance, going to the trouble of actually earning a doctorate and attempting to earn a decent reputation in his fields of study in order to lay the groundwork for his meticulously planned caper, and then waiting for the right MMO to launch, and then laying in wait for a while longer in order to earn a decent reputation for himself within the game, all just to thumb his nose at other players--people who likely weren't even born yet when he first started college (let alone that MMO's as we know them now did not exist and/or were certainly not as popular back then)--and then actually write a paper about it.
So yeah, he's an asshole. But he's a creative asshole. I wonder what his next boner will be in thirty years.
Current Music: Kenny Loggins - I'm Alright
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July 2nd, 2009
| 04:06 pm
To prove to you all my geek leanings...
While busy all day hunting for videogame box shots, and then collecting ESRB ratings, I got this picture in one FireFox tab, and this video playing on YouTube in another.
So, yeah...
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June 23rd, 2009
June 19th, 2009
| 11:21 am
I went and left my "television" on during the night. I actually have no real television, but I do have a TV card in my computer, connected to a cable box. I usually watch TV using DScaler. This works as long as I don't care about hi-def.
Leaving the TV on while you're sleeping can sometimes result in weird and/or stupid dreams. As soon as I woke, I recognized that during the night, I'd dreamed about The Breakfast Club, Heartbeeps, and Victor/Victoria.
That's what I get for leaving it on HBO. I suppose it could have been worse if I'd left it on Cinemax.
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June 17th, 2009
 | 07:33 pm
This is a test of yet more esoteric fonts: But I don't actually have anything interesting to put here. However if you see it in a foreign script that you couldn't read you wouldn't be able to tell It's too bad that I couldn't just define these fonts in CSS without you having to actually download them, though. That means I'd have to make static images with them first.
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 | 12:54 pm
This is a test. If you can actually read this, then you don't have the right font installed!
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| 10:13 am - Writer's Block: Conversion Rate
I left Catholicism and became agnostic, but I guess most people would say that doesn't count. :P
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June 16th, 2009
June 11th, 2009
June 10th, 2009
 | 12:11 pm - Writer's Block: Last Meal
Not so much a "what" as a where. :9 :D
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| 12:07 pm
Could this possibly be true?
Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour is gearing to make a comeback???
I loved going to Farrell's when I was a kid. It was the place to go for your birthday! I was always sad to see the chain fade away. I really hope they do come back.
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June 8th, 2009
 | 06:12 pm
I call shenanigans!
I've known some pretty obtuse wackos in my lifetime, but this one seems too oddly aware of herself. As if she were playing it up for an audience. I sense that someone is engaging in some online performance art; an Internet Improvisation. Of course if they are, they've gone into Andy Kaufman levels of detail...
Of course that ED article is the very first I ever heard of that person, so maybe I am wrong! But after seeing her inane responses, my first reaction was that it's gotta be an act! Or maybe I'm just not appreciating how egotistically stupid some people can actually be.
Guess I'll just have to wait and see what happens!
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June 6th, 2009
 | 09:05 pm
I checked out Califur 2009 for a few hours this afternoon. I must say that I actually enjoyed myself a little.
It kinda re awoke memories I had of the old ConFurence. Only back then I had a lot of people I knew both locally from the con meetings to which I'd tag along, and a lot more from FurryMUCK who I played with back then, and with whom I'd hooked up with at these conventions. So even though I was totally poor back then, I had a lot of fun anyways.
Of course Califur is no FC or AC, and if I ever decided to actually go to either of those, I might actually have a better time. Not that I should really be trying to compare it with my memories of experiences a decade ago; that's called "getting old" and I don't really wanna go there just yet! So... yeah. I had fun and I only ended up spending sixty bucks more or less. What more you gonna ask for, I asks ya?
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| 12:02 am
You know, in my recent memories, I've got a few regrets.
There was this one time, when I was still working retail, inside a mall. The mall just closed and as most mall workers are prone to doing, I turn the radio up really loud. That day I'd brought a bunch of CDs with me, and one of them was the soundtrack to Pulp Fiction. The first track is of course "Misirlou", but it throws in a bit of dialog right before the music starts:
Honey Bunny: [about to rob a diner] I love you, Pumpkin.
Pumpkin: I love you, Honey Bunny.
Pumpkin: [Standing up with a gun] All right, everybody be cool, this is a robbery!
Honey Bunny: Any of you fucking pricks move, and I'll execute every motherfucking last one of ya!
My coworker, having never seen this movie, got real wide-eyed at me when this bit played on the very loud stereo. For a moment, she thought we were actually being robbed!
I was quick to calm her down! But I admit I had a bit of a chuckle at her expense.
If I'd known she hadn't seen the movie, I would have warned her. That's what you get for assuming!
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May 30th, 2009
 | 10:31 pm - Writer's Block: Multilingual
"Ah, good. New acquisitions. You are a protocol droid, are you not?"
"I am See-Threepio, human-cy..."
"Yes or no will do."
"Oh. Well, yes."
"How many languages do you speak?"
"I am fluent in over six million forms of communication, and can readily..."
"Splendid! We have been without an interpreter since our master got angry with our last protocol droid and disintegrated him."
"Disintegrated?!?"
"Guard! This protocol droid might be useful. Fit him with a restraining bolt and take him back to His Excellency's main audience chamber."
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May 28th, 2009
| 02:43 pm
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May 24th, 2009
 | 07:29 pm
Well I was finally tempted to pick up a Disney DVD (that was neither Tron nor The Incredibles), for once!
But I had to. This one featured both "The Reluctant Dragon" and "Ferdinand the Bull". And those two shorts always remind me of the Furries here on my friends list. Because you'd all be reluctant beasts, and you always take the time to stop and smell the flowers.
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May 22nd, 2009
| 10:10 am - Writer's Block: There Can Be Only One
I don't know. Does monogamy believe in me?
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May 15th, 2009
 | 03:00 pm - My CoH character The Cyborg Systre is pretty much like this:
- Baby's got an atom bomb
- Baby got a poison gas
- Baby got a heart attacks
- Baby got a pain on tap
- Baby gimme some of that
- Baby got a nobel prize
- Given for the perfect crime
- Baby got an alibi
- Baby got eight more lives
- Baby got a satellite
- Baby got second sight
- Baby got a masterplan
- Baby got purple hair
- Baby got a secret lair
- Baby got an army there
- I ain't ever seen baby scared
Current Music: Fluke - Atom Bomb
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