star controlSo, The other day after messing around with the Spore Creature Creator, and creating a few versions of Fwiffo(who hails from Star Control II and is the alien whom i've borrowed my moniker(sp) from) I decided to download "The Ur-quan Masters". Which is the free source code somewhat updated Star Control II. You can download it at sourceforge. It has been rated as one of the top games of all time by EGM and Top Hundred games by IGN.
If you go to spore.com and check out the sporepedia and type in Star Control II you'll find countless creations based on Aliens from the game.
If you download the game and enjoy it, stop by toysforbob.com and send an e-mail thier way letting them know you would love to see a true sequel made.
We are all mostly just one person. Now some people are a little bit more, and some are a little bit less. It is odd to be chuggin along your life and encounter a situation that causes you to step beyond who you normally are to be someone else temporarily. I imagine that if you encounter enough of these situation... you might end up adding that part into who you are.
Actions are often prompted by situations.. how you react is a defining moment in who you are..
Not always is this the case, if you act first you can avoid certain situations all together, again prompting a display of who you are.
You must act. Thus, you must solidify who you are. All I think I have to say from here is Act wisely.
I'm still there. You can't get rid of me that easy. With you... its all about transparancy, how easy it is to see right through me. I can't wait for this waiting to be done, who knows how long i would have run just to find out that I didn't want to get away? You look at me and say things that mess with my head, give me hope and at the same time eviscerates my resolve.
I'm still here, never thought i would last this long. My heart goes on an' on and on an' on, no matter how many arrows are put into it. Thats the least I can do for the chance of love.
trust me... click on the link. Pheonix Wright can do no wrong.
"The Incredible Hulk" was an awesome movie. I highly suggest seeing it. It breaks away from the "first" movie and while the break isn't very clean, what with a new actor playing ol' brucey boy (Edward Norton), I love the direction it takes.
Clean shots, clear dialogue, a plot that builds to a climax pleasantly, and enough explosions to shake a stick at. With Norton in the role of Bruce Banner, your not waiting for him to get angry, but you don't mind when he does either.
Check it out, it fits well into the Marvel movie universe with of course S.H.I.E.L.D. interjected slightly into the plot.
Slight Spoiler Warning! (keep your eyes open for a specific S.H.I.E.L.D. agents name in the opening of the movie) Spoiler over.
Like the first movie Stan Lee and Lou Ferrigno show up in the movie. Also, according to the credits the voice of The Hulk is Ferrigno's.
And to save you time, there are no little teaser tidbits after the credits, although there is something quite interesting just before them.
I've played plenty of video games where limbs are cut off, heads are blown off, people are blown up, thrown around like rag dolls (hence the name rag doll physics), liquified, electricuted, burned, frozen, crushed, eaten alive, ripped in half, and lets not forget vaporized by vengeful ghosts. I've also seen my fair share of violent movies with again the list above. There have been studies done where they have two people doing different activities. One person is playing a game like Doom (wooo doom, run and gun and boom and fireballs!) and the other is playing solitaire. ..... ... ... I doubt that the results would be very shocking. Now... lets say you have two people in different situations. One person in a room full of people who constantly tease and redicule and generally exclude said test subject, and for the control we will put the second test subject in a room by himself playing solitaire. Again I doubt the results would be very shocking. Test data can be taken and applied (quite liberally by some) to show numerous different things.
People are not lab rats. When you have an experiment you need a control. A control is a situation that is supposed to show a normal occurance without a catalyst interveining. All our lives we are showered with events that act as catalysts. When I was in a car accident, I happened to be wearing my seatbelt. If I had not been, I probably A. would have died, B. Would have been paralyzed in any number of ways, C. Lost a lung D. Ended up in a coma, or any mixture of the above events. But I did wear a seatbelt. All I did get was 27 stitches and a totalled car. Needless to say, I will always wear my seatbelt from here on out. I've heard of people who have said that not wearing a seatbelt saved them. Thrown clear of a vehicle and where they were sitting is left a crumpled up space. Two situations that are alike, resulting in two seperate results. The situations are not Identical. You and I are not Identical. You and I both react differently to any number of events. We deal with stress differently, we deal with pain differently, we deal with people differently.
You have heard it many times by many different people. Everyone is unique. There can be no control. Nothing is 100%
I for one like it that way.
I guess all I'm really saying is people would rather find a scape goat than to deal with the problem. Rather try to medicate symptoms than deal with the disease.
There are countless things that frustrate, upset, annoy, aggrivate and just plumb make me mad. I do my best to vent these negative emotions that you tend to absorb from the world around you. But rather than just vent anywhere... like spitting mouthwash out of a car down the free way, i try to find a constructive way to let it out. Where no one is hurt by the fury of partially digested rage. There are a lot of things that could cause us to rage. Some of it is caused by the little stuff. People being inconsiderate... stuff like that. Some of it is caused by people blatently just not giving a damn about how thier decisions affect you.
This is part of the reason i keep a blog. So i can figure a way to deconstruct these emotions i have a hard time understanding (both what is causing them and what it means to me) and rebuild them into something that makes sense.
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If not IHOP or the like will have to deal with my hairy legs...
The morning arrives here with a yawn, the early dawn, no nook without light.
I crawl out of bed, no sleep for my head, slip out to the stoop for a smoke.
Words slip and slither, nor do they dither out of a mind that just awoke.
I'm hungry, oh so hungry, alike both body and soul.
I ponder, yes i ponder, about heading towards that goal.
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So... what i'm really thinking here is... all i'm dressed in is a night robe... i could grab my keys and wallet and drive to an establishment with drive through capabilities and get something to eat...
I really don't feel like dressing..
Tricky...
Oh so tricky...
1. California weather may seem grand and wonderful, however the truth of the matter for me is that sunny isn't always pleasant. It wasn't always sunny either. When it wasn't it was this horrible grey blah. When it was sunny, the sun beat down furiously upon my skin, making me rue spending more than a few minutes in it. Another sad part about this is that more often than not i'd have to deal with it and just stay outside.
2. The sound of wind rustling through leaves when not present creates a sad longing in ones heart.
3. I'm hungry.
4. No matter where you go, who you are with, and what you want, if you don't make use of what is available to you, then you will always be wanting, always be in bad company, always be somewhere you don't want to be.
5. Piercing eyes are a rare commodity.
6. There are moments in your life when your brain refuses to formulate a single thought or feeling into something you can understand or explain.
7. The path is winding and not at any point can you see every other point. It is important to keep your eyes open so that when a moment does come to look ahead or look behind you do not miss it.
8. I'll never be dissapointed by the mystery that is Jones' cryptic messages.
9. I'm a Water Boar in the Chinese Zodiac.
10. There is something in each of us that screams out wanting to be heard. Is it a talent? An unexplainable interest in the unknown or is it just the bad burrito you had for lunch yesterday?
11. Missing the oppurtunity for a hug is a crime.
Well those a few of my Musings.
I'm sitting here in a towel. I just took a nice bath and i'm pondering. What should I eat. I have ground beef, bacon, eggs, noodle mix, spaghetti, sauce for said spaghetti, bread.... oh yea, i have left over curry and rice.
Any suggestions?
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