Tuning in from The Void

Been a while since I put something worthwhile up here, probably because I have very little to rage about and I usually do most of my best writing when influenced by near-hysterical emotions, positive or otherwise.

There is a variety of news to report to the three of you reading my blog (this is after filtering out family watchers), assuming of course this is entertaining enough, if not just skip to the end where I mention free beer.

Continuity Mish-Mash

So I'm reading scanlations of Guyver, and I must have come across at least 5 different ways Dr. Balcus's name has been spelled. Or is it Valcus? Could it possibly be Barcas?

What about Commander Gyuot. Or no wait, Gyro. Maybe it's Guyot?

And let's not get into the zoanoids themselves, I'm still confused about who's who.

Why don't scanlation groups agree on one version of a names list and just stick to that across all projects and groups? Let's not deviate from the plan, guys, or you'll have fans like myself going: "Who the fuck is this dickhead again?"

You are censored

For putting the word porn in your blog rant title.

So if I'm complaining about how disgusting and degrading porn is, my entry would still be censored, because the word is in the headline.

Notice there are absolutely no naked people in this entire blog, apart from almost-naked man in the header, but almost-naked is not naked-naked.

It's finally official

We've been laid off.

At least I now know that my safety net is officially removed on the 28th of February. Time to go job hunting. Yay.

Money well-spent?

What does that even MEAN?

Well let me tell you, to me it means a plethora of games I probably will never be able to finish, as well as great cuisine and man on man porn, any money I spend on these is well-spent. To another person it could mean something entirely different.

Now I get it when people say my government could have invested the money used for the GUINNESS WORLD RECORD BREAKING FIREWORKS SHOW to better the country, but let me put the cause and effect of the show in a few simple terms to show why I think they did the right thing.

1) Kuwait was a pioneer in the region by signing its constitution fifty years ago.
2) The fireworks display made thousands of people happy and brought them together for a joyous occasion.
3) People felt proud of their country for a change, a rarity considering all the political turmoil lately.
4) No right-leaning religious organization could stop the festivities.

To me, that's worth the 4 million KD spent on a few fireworks.

On Windows 8

OH MY GOD MICROSOFT. WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING?!

If I wanted another Xbox, I would buy another Xbox.

Rejected. Get back to the drawing board for Windows 9.

Chop chop.

Corruption; not limited to politics!

So I bought Cities XL 2012 in the Steam 75% sale on Focus products this weekend, however I didn't get to play until earlier today before work because of the game not launching after installation. At first I thought, "Well fuck, I just paid for a broken game."

However, I wasn't too butthurt over the prospect, since I only paid about $9 total for it. Interesting to note that just before the game was added to my Steam games library it had done some odd quirky thing during the download process where it looked like it hadn't been downloaded properly.

On a whim, I decided to delete the local files and tried to download the game again.

The game worked the second time around. I'm so smurt.

Lesson of the day: sometimes your software just decides to fuck itself over and needs a helping hand to straighten things out.

Participate or die

What's with humour websites forcing you to use their Facebook app if you want to see their more adult content? I don't want to use an app on Facebook for everything, hell I don't want to use apps for ANYTHING on Facebook, I don't even have that many on my smartphone.

I don't like your forced participation, so that's one number on your hit counter that won't ever pop.

And people are okay with this? When did everyone become mindless sheeple when this sort of thing started happening? Oh wait, the advent of the app age, stupid me, I'm still stuck in the 'disclaimers are more than enough' age.

Damn, I feel old.

Price check on propaganda

My dearest brothers and sisters in the western world,

Please stop making all the Muslims I have to live with angry over unflattering depictions of their beloved prophet. Every time one of you does that I have to wade through pages and pages of religious propaganda on my Facebook news feed, and it's driving me insane.

Thanks.

Factual evidence

Mess with the bull and you get the horns. Don't like it? Get out.

Office bum hangout spot. How many bags can you count?

Office bum equipment storage.