World of Warcraft Story

Someone stole my WoW account that I haven’t touched in a few months. I found out when I got some emails letting me me know that

1. They bought the expansion pack
2. They were banned for farming
3. That I can recover my account

I did so, slapped my authenticator back on, and Blizzard restored all my gear.  The farmer had been working pretty busily too.

I now have 60 Thorium and 60 Mithril, which isn’t that big of a deal, but my mining skill went from 40 to 525 and they leveled me to 83 and didn’t spend any talent points.

So my WoW account got hacked and here is what I got out of it:

• 3 levels
• A $40 expansion pack
• A free month
• maxed out mining skill
• some gold for in the game

I still am not feeling like being active in WoW, as I don’t feel like relearning how to Death Knight, or any of the other classes, as I have spent too much time in WoW and I can’t stand to deal with any of it any more.

 

Space

I really miss science fiction.

Well, it’s still there, but it’s not.

Space is dead.

We don’t care about seeing the universe, having decided it’s just boring, we don’t dream of playing god and remaking worlds in our own image.  In the real world, the future is dead. Mankind doesn’t desire to escape this gravity well we have fallen down. Excuses like costs and danger.. stupid things.  It’s fucking space, 40 years ago we had men on the moon, and now it seems we are 10 years away from the moon? The fuck is that shit? It’s so sad in a way, that we are so focused on what is in front of us, we can’t look at the bigger picture, of having humanity across the cosmos.

I want to re-ignite that dream.

I don’t like the suburbs

I am not sure if it’s the grass.  Or that if I turn down the wrong street I will see another neighborhood almost just like mine.  Nearly anywhere in the country.  My 2 story, 3 bedroom home is cookie cutter.  It’s not a bad design, nor is my neighborhood, which is how I could travel 500 miles and find another like it.  Then another 1000 to another just like it.  That is skipping all the ones inbetween.  The suburbs grate on me.  It’s the sense of sameness, I know that others have mentioned this but it really makes me feel insignificant to know that others are feeling this way too, as I know out there, is at least 1 or 2 other people who are almost me.

There is also the fact that the suburbs are unsustainable, and most buildings aren’t built to last.  What happens when this 40 year old home becomes 100?  Will anyone try and protest the demolition of the suburbs?  Where are people going to expand?  40 years ago my home would be in the country, a 45 minute drive from Detroit, a weekend getaway.  Now the getaway places are 100 miles north.  But people are already living and working there.  When will the cabin-on-the-lakers realize they are the reason why they need to get cabins further and further out?  When does our horizontal expansion stop?

I want to live in a city, I want to be around people.  I want to live somewhere with public infrastructure and it’s own unique style and ideas.  I want to live in a place that isn’t the same as every other place.

Scott Pilgrim Is A Movie

Aside from being a comic book, Scott Pilgrim is a movie.  The movie is a separate entity than the comics.  The movie is a great comedy/action movie that feels like Manga brought to life.  It also uses fighting game cliches and indie music.  I enjoyed it.  It had a couple great dramatic moments, like when Scott dumped Knives, and Ramona leaving Scott.  I could relate to those moments quite well, I felt for them, as I’ve been there.

I already saw it twice, not like I was trying to, but I had 2 chances to see it, and I said yes both times.

The comic however, is different.  I can curl up with it and it’s intimate to me, it’s a special series, I feel it strongly.  It’s an amazing series.  It’s about more than just love and beating the exs to me.  It’s about trying to belong and find happiness.   It’s about trying to get past yourself and being a better person.  It’s still about love and action, but.. just something about it feels true to me, I’m still going to bust out my copies of it years from now.

The Future Has Been Here

I have a T-shirt.

This is what is on it.

I was browsing the web, and it suddenly dawned on me, the future is here.  As I was browsing the internet on a cellphone that has a fucking keyboard and a touchscreen.  It’s better than the ones on Star Trek.  The future arrived and no one noticed, as the future looked like the past still.  No one tore down the old buildings to make way for new ones, nothing has changed that much in terms of looks, aside from cell-phones and the prevalence of laptops.

The future did come.

It’s just invisible, it’s here in radio-waves that we can’t see, but deliver all the information in the world, and can send anything.  I can be nearly anywhere in the world and talk to a person somewhere else on the world via video.  I can find out information on anything within seconds.  The future is here, and it’s mostly been about communication and thinking better.  I can solve a math problem using a website that it used to take hours for a mathematician hours to perform.  I can right click on words that my computer know are misspelled and fix them.  25 years ago that idea didn’t even exist.  I can play videogames with people in China.  The future of the past didn’t even have that as an idea.  Hell, Star Trek the Next Generation had Holodecks, which were local Multiplayer only.

Almost all the information of the world is at my fingertips, things my grandparents and parents never dreamed up are right here.  In my pants I have 2 small electronic devices roughly the same size as my wallet that each have better displays than fullsize TVs from 15 years ago, they have better CPUs than laptops from 12 years ago, smaller batteries and more RAM, and are less than 1/20th of the weight.

The future came, and it’s going to keep coming, and we can never be sure how it will look.

Annoyance

I feel quite annoyed right now, I feel like I am going to just snap at someone and then storm off.  As everything just is making me want to rage.  Fucking birthers!  In college!  They are sitting here talking about how Obama was not born in the USA and stole the election and it’s his fault the economy is in the shitter.  Really.

Oh, now it’s this shit about St. Patrick’s Day, fuck them, fuck their holiday.  No one cares about except fucktards and children, and children are a subset of fucktards.  Really.  Find any child, now do they seem like a fucktard?  Aside from the age?  A bit, right?

Rawr.

I am also afraid of watching music videos, as they ruin music for me.