Saturday, May 31, 2008

My Pokeymanz, Let Me Scrutinize Them

So, I have a theory. I know, big surprise. Anyway, Pokemon, the popular chibi-cock-fighting game, first off, is awesome. Second, I'm using too many commas. Third, has subliminal messages implanted within. Since nothing I ever think of is the first time someone has thought of it, I'm sure this is old news, but yeah. Before I get to my point, I want to present an example. Magikarp. It turns into Gyarados. Magikarp is obviously a fish-based pokemon. Gyarados is some kind of aquatic reptile. What does one call the process a pokemon undergoes to change from one form to another? Oh, that's right, evolution. Magikarp, a fish, evolves into Gyarados, a reptile. Isn't that a little strange? The same can be said for Feebas and Milotic. Or to some extent Remoraid and Octillery. I think there's evolutionist propaganda in Pokemon. I feel like a million people across the world could yell at my face "Duh!" right now, but no one's even going to read this, so who cares. But the propaganda doesn't end there. Pop quiz, what do scientists consider the closest living relative to the Tyrannosaurus Rex? Time's up, the chicken. Or more vaguely the bird, this is speculation though, so it might not be true. Yoshi; what's he thought of as? A dinosaur. Super Smash Bros. Brawl; Final Smash. Yoshi's is that he grows (evolves?) a pair of wings and the ability to breath fire. The dinosaur grows wings. Not so convinced? Have you seen these wings? Big, feathery, eagle-esque wings, not reptilian, pterodactyl-esque wings. The dinosaur gains a pair of bird wings. Now I know I'm using a lot of fragment sentences, but that falls into the same category. Nintendo is easing these ideas into our mind so we are more accepting of them. It's just something to think about. And by the by, Nintendo is still awesome and the best of the three main competitors in the console war, subliminal mind control or not.

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Tech Support

According to what the blog-o-sphere says, the minute you call tech support, either they are useless or you're an idiot.

Sunday, May 18, 2008

That Angst Thing Again

I just came to the sad realization that every time I laugh, the thing that goes through my parent's minds is "He isn't doing work."

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

How the Media Views Things

I know that not all news media people do this but, say, I dunno, FOX News got a hold of a story: child brings pet raccoon into school for show-and-tell, raccoon bites schoolgirl. By this I mean the girl got to aggressive with the raccoon and it nipped her. When the child who brought it in was interviewed, he didn't know the health records of the raccoon. FERAL RACCOON BITES LOCAL SCHOOL GIRL. WHERE WERE THE TEACHERS?

Sunday, May 11, 2008

Nothing New

I know I've been amateur-ly-ish philosophical that last few days, but I don't feel like doing that now. I just want to say I've finally fulfilled one of my easier life goals; citing Shakespeare in an argument. My sister was saying how she liked this said store better before it changed it's name a few years ago, and I responded with "I rose by any other word would smell as sweet." Owned her ass. Yeah that's right, don't cross me bitch. But seriously, it was awesome.

Monday, May 5, 2008

That Angst Thing Again

You know, I was pondering the whole popular click stereotype, and I think it is poorly defined. It's not what Disney Channel (yes I'm harping on them again, they're like my conservative media) thinks, where they are all extremely obnoxious and everyone has to like them except the protagonist. I think it's more that, there's this group of really social people, who obviously get out more and probably have sex earlier in life, and that lifestyle is looked up to. These people are usually for some reason or another, very outspoken. I know this doesn't define them, it's just ties on to the culture; I know this because I joke around in a very crude humor style with these people roughly four or five times a week. I also know that it's not the physical attractiveness of the people, all be it that does help. I believe it to be the situation and lifestyle of the person to be what other people envy, not the people themselves. I really stopped remembering what my point of writing this was, I just think the entertainment industry doesn't have this down, and because of this all of their "marketed to young teenagers" shows that six through eight-year-old girls watch regularly is badly altering the opinion of these people; it's makes them look for and classify situations as they would be on a sitcom. They believe, or want, life to be like these shows, and because of that they have a strongly influenced opinion on topics such as popularity and clicks which originated from the really extremist stereotypical characters found on those shows. Yeah, that sounds like what I meant to say. I do want to make it clear, I don't have much of a problem with these people for the most part, if you are around them enough, class, work, etc., you start to see their good points as well as the bad. That is to say, my list of who to shoot when I lose my mind Columbine-style is blank.
I had another point, but I lost it somewhere in the middle of that. Oh well.