MUSIC! Fact or Fiction?

Duh. It’s fact! Anyone who doesn’t get that is an idiot. Seriously. Music exists. For all of you non-musical people, a brief history of music.

Music has been around for a really, REALLY long time. You know how old that really old guy down the street is? Longer than that. Heck, it’s older than that big tree over there. It’s been around since humans came around. The first caveman probably was all like “ugga ugg!” in a tune and decided he liked it. However, the first written music only came around in about the 1000s. From there, we’ve been through many ages of music and styles, and they’ve all been pretty good. Besides a few of them…

Brief history over. So. As you probably can’t tell, music has been around for as long, or longer than the human race. (seriously. BIRDS!) Anyway, music kicks some serious ass. Except glorified rhythm. I call rap glorified rhythm. It may be interesting, but all it is is a person, saying how they 1)beat up/killed/hate someone 2)had sex with someone or 3)got drunk/high/stoned out of their mind. (don’t laugh yet rock and roll, you’re better, but same concept.) Essentially, rap is people talking about these things, with a background of heavy bass. Rock and roll at least has melodies and something other than a rhythm! What music should be is something that contains at least three of the following. Rhythm, Melody, Countermelody, lyrics. Rap has two. Can we just call it a rhythm with words now? PLEASE??? Can we stop throwing our money at these people? If not, WHY!

BLOG REVIEW: Camsworld

For your knowledge, all future posts are intended to be satirical in nature. The reviews, however, are not. If you dislike them, you may think of them as satirical.

This above blog is very good. It’s done by a friend of mine, and he manages to be slightly funny with it, while delivering news of important things happening in the world. Also, his grammar is excellent, to my limited knowledge of grammar. His news isn’t really something to be used in the world as a guide for anything, (for that I recommend The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. All of them.) instead to be used as just a source for cool information. Every source he uses can also be checked out to be very reliable, unless suddenly NPR and other news things suddenly start making everything up. So just so all of you realize, this blog is now good for satire, and that blog is now good for neat news topics. Link to it : http://camsworld.wordpress.com/ In all, with my new restaurant rating system: Three stars (out of three). The steak is quite excellent, as is the lobster, and both come served garnished with parsley sprigs.

Suit.

Now look at suit in a paragraph. With suit there lots of times. Not suit suit suit, but something actually relevant. Now tell me that it doesn’t start to look really odd after a bit. Do the same with a letter. Any letter, but just stare at it a bit. So, the English language, to anyone else, if they had no idea what it was, would see it’s a language because of the repetition of symbols, but they, with no prior experience, could not glean ANY information out of it. Seriously. About four of our letters are lines. Some of them are circles. In other words, English makes no sense. The general thought of the creators was, as far as I understand, “Let’s take a bunch of words that work nicely in other languages, and stick em all together!”. It doesn’t work well. We all think, “Hey, it’s fine. I get it.” But seriously, look at it for a bit. if you know no Chinese, and you try to read it, that’s what everyone else thinks of the English language. It may be the standard for communication, but it makes NO sense. Early humans had it right with pictographs. So if you don’t what it is, with pictographs, you say, “Oh! It’s a BOAT!”, and with English you say “What the…” and look it up in a dictionary. That is time-consuming, and inefficient. Efficiency is important. Without it, we’d be sitting in the Stone Age saying “Eh. I’ll get to it later.” Which is sort of like procrastination. But this isn’t that. Why? Because procrastination hasn’t been invented yet. They haven’t gotten around to it.Either way, that’s something for another post. Hopefully, we’ll all just learn a good language that doesn’t have ten words meaning the same thing in the future. (Seriously. Look through the dictionary. China gets by with a couple ten thousands. We have over a million words.)

GAME REVIEW: Kirby 64

A kickass game, that’s for sure. While it is easy, and has not much of a difficulty curve, it’s very fun. It’s graphics, 2000’s eye candy, are nice, even by today’s standards, (fine. on handhelds.), and it’s replayability is very high, just to get all the crystal shards. And you know, some of Kirby’s other adventures, namely Nightmare in Dreamland and Squeak Squad may have better gameplay mechanics, you simply can’t beat the combination powers of Kirby 64. (my favorites: lightsaber, curling stone, and exploding ninja stars). With few powers, about 7 or 8 (too lazy to check which) it doesn’t seem like you can get much variety, but the combination makes it so you can have a heck of a lot more. And for all of you who take the time to get all of the shards, you get a treat with possibly the most fun boss of ALL TIME. My score: 9.5/10

It’s a FINER line, people.

In the previous post, I have said things that are being taken the wrong way. I think that Nintendo is great. I think this of Nintendo. http://loadingreadyrun.com/videos/view/184/its_a_wonderful_game

It’s excellent. But, my personal opinion is that Wii gaming is innovative, and not purist. It is the Protestant (more popular now) to the 360’s Catholic (less popular now). However, some rabid Nintendo fans will still manage to take my words wrong, so let me say this: IT’S AN OPINION. Also, STOP commenting on this! IF YOU CAN TELL ME WHERE I SAID THE WII WAS INFERIOR, THEN SHOW ME. I HAVE NEVER SAID THAT. Nor have I ever said playing FPSs makes you a purist. I simply named games that I had been playing at the time.

It’s a fine line, people.

Are you a gamer, or are you just someone who plays video games? My thinking: A true gamer is one who plays such as Halo, or CoD, or something else, not necessarily with a traditional controller. Essentially, a person who considers a big part of their life to be playing video games. However, I don’t think the Wii fits in this spectrum… The Wii is just sort of there, and without a traditional controller, (besides the Gamecube ones) it isn’t really a purist’s console. It’s more an innovator’s console, or the console for the people. The Xbox 360 is a purist console, because it has a traditional controller. SOMEONE is going to try and say “But the Wii has Corruption!” Yes. The Wii does have Corruption, and it’s a great game. However, in Nintendo’s AMAZING attempt to put you more into the game, they succeed, but they have gone away from the appeal of the gamer’s video game. The gamer’s video game is buttons, not waving their arm around. It’s a fantastic thing, but it just doesn’t have the same thing as the old consoles/other consoles. The Wii is everyone’s console, and the gamers don’t like that. Great for business, but gamers want to be individualized by what they do, and a people’s console falls out of that range. Gamers also want to be individualized by the complexity. If everyone can pick up a controller and be ridiculously good at it, the joy in owning n00bs goes away.

NOTE: This post has been closed for commenting. I don’t delete things on my blag, except in the case of these previous harmful comments (not harmful to me, harmful to you. I can do SO much with those words.) I think people are taking my words wrongly. I do not mean to say that Nintendo sucks. That is not my point at all. Above are simply my opinion on gamers. Yes, you can have a Wii and be a gamer, but not in the traditional sense. You are an innovative Wii gamer, not a purist (sort of like Catholics, but I didn’t start an inquisition against Wii gamers) gamer. I think that Wii gamers are great, but I feel it’s like diluting the solution. Like putting some water in strong tea. It still tastes good.

HA! IN YOUR FACE, G.B.!

Those initials stand for someone. A very important someone. Sort of. Everyone (almost. You’ll get there, don’t worry) hates him, and he isn’t doing his job too well. Either way, with the Internet becoming huge, i say we make it a STATE. But, there isn’t really a place on the globe for it. I’ve got that covered too.

It’s the Bermuda Triangle. We should just say the Internet is there! Not really any other place for it, and it’ll just be like Alaska or Hawaii. Anyway, we’re not even sure what’s there. It could just be a giant server farm! PERFECT for the Internet. Soon, The Great State of Internet. That way, all the Communists will be FORCED to show their online activities, and we’ll see just how good for the U.N. they are! So, edit your flag desktop background, and edit your maps, we’ve got 51 states.

[For the non-internet savvy individuals, a server farm is like a web hosting place, its what holds the web site so you can visit it. No, the website isn't just THERE.]

Webcomic!

I’d love to show you my new webcomic. I really would. Unfortunately, it’s on my desk. Not my desktop. Just my desk. I don’t have any means of getting it onto my computer, so you’ll have to do with its name, and main character. It’s called meteor, and it follows a guy named Ted. Yup…

Nothing is certain in life

But death and taxes. Forgot who said that. Either way. Think about the tax situation for a bit. We’re NINE TRILLION dollars in debt, since 1776. We’re a really young country, but we have a HUGE national debt. We have an estimated population of 303,810,000 people living in the country. I was unable to find how much was paid in taxes last year, but if each citizen pays $500 in taxes, the government gets $151,905,000,000. If we determine a billion goes to waste in paying the government workers, and ten billion goes towards the country, we have $140,905,000,000. If all that goes to paying the debt, in 63 years we have all of it paid off. Of course, we’ll have higher tax rates then. I know those numbers aren’t CLOSE to accurate, but if we paid MORE in taxes, instead of getting all these tax cuts, people would be slightly less happy, but if we pay $500 more per citizen, then that’s 32 years. Even if we spend even more on the government and fixing things up, we’ll still have it all paid off in about 40-50 years. That’s 1/5th to 1/4th the time we accumulated that. So if you don’t mind paying a bit more for taxes, and if the government gets an actual budget worked out, we’ll be out of debt! The economy will actually GROW! Hasn’t done that in a while. If we time this plan of action to coincide with a spike in the economy, it might bring it down temporarily, but if timed right, the US will prosper, the dollar will go up, and we won’t have an enormous national debt! [I know someone is going to get mad at me, so let me say this!: This is all pure speculation. But if we fix up our budget, this could become true. So don't blame me if this is wrong. I couldn't find anything to back me up on this, but just think about it. I don't care if you think this is bullshit. It might be! I have no experience with taxes, but if we all take one for the team...]

Hola, Como estas?

Yes. I’m turning Mexican. Racist jokes aside, I came up with a really good webcomic idea today. Only problem: I don’t have a server, this won’t hold up to it, and I have no means of getting it onto my computer. Sigh. Epic failure. I haven’t updated in a bit (50 hits ago. Wow) because I came down with the flu, and went off to Oregon. Oregon was awesome, flu sucked. My uncle lives up in Oregon, is an awesome neurosurgeon, and for some odd reason had human bones, that he thought were Indian that he had found. He wanted me to help re inter them. I didn’t. (interesting anecdote: when I first looked at the bones, my vision went all weird and I felt faint. No, not supernatural, dehydration. I hadn’t been drinking much. I drank water after that, I’m good. Don’t worry two (hopefully more!) people who check regularly.)