Would you look at that! A full month where I didn’t post a single thing. I took a lot of time off to work on a new website for Alien Outkast studios. I am currently in the process of finalizing the color scheme and then making the modifications needed to change the website from looking like it was made from a WordPress tutorial, because it was, and into something I can feel more proud of. This is taking a lot longer than I expected because I had multiple things fighting for my attention. Blog posts, designing stuff for my game, coming up with an art style for my game, learning Chinese, learning new ways to help people learn English, setting up my new TOEFL tips site, and tons more. I’ve actually stopped playing games except when I am playing with my brother and his wife. For most of the week I do not touch my Switch or my PC for gaming. I’ve been booted from two guilds in Guild Wars over this! I decided to just focus on that website exclusively and abandon all other tasks in the meantime. I am trying to organize and prioritize a list of things to do once the website is finished, which is hopefully soon. With that said, there was one thing I could not give up: podcasts.
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Hello!
I am an aspiring game designer and programmer. I am currently working on a project for our new studio. I like to read, skateboard, play games, practice guitar and the synthesizer.
I decided to convert my old website into a blog to just give me a place to vent.
Christmas Started This War
I gotta address something before I start this post. Last time I said you would be surprised about my next article because I considered it risky but not risky enough to where I couldn’t publish it. Well, it turns out I ran my mouth a bit too early. Had I published that article, which made it to about 2000 words and counting, before I decided to look into the potential legality of it, I could’ve violated speech laws in Texas. My website could’ve been shut down; after all it is hosted in Texas. So, y’know, I don’t need to break bullshit laws in Texas. I’m currently reading more into these laws and trying to figure out how I can discuss why I can’t publish that specific post. If I had the money to challenge the state of Texas I would 100% risk the article. I just can’t financially support protecting our first amendment right. If anything I’d bungle it and we’d lose more freedoms. Alright, let’s bitch about Christmas now.
It’s amazing how annoying people can make you go from not giving a shit about a cause to actively rooting for the cause to lose. In fact, it almost seems like if you want people to be against something you should start an annoying cause. *Cough* Just Stop Oil. *Cough* Oh but that’s just for liberal cucks, right? You strong conservatives never cry about oppression, cultural appropriation, or start annoying causes! Right? Why are you trying to act like y’all don’t bitch about the war on Christmas. Every. Single. Fucking. Year. The people who cry about the war on Christmas use the same exact tactics that they accuse the “secular liberal socialists” of using. What’s funny to me is everyone, including the so-called secularists, ignores the fact that Christmas started this shit. Since I was a teen I noticed Christmas decorations, songs, deals, and more were going up earlier and earlier. Ignoring other cultural holidays, and even national holidays. This is where people always want to interject that I am viewing this from an American lens, but where the fuck do you think this whole shit started? Where do you think most of the war on Christmas movement is? It’s in the US and the UK has to deal with the stupid shit we invented. Consider it payback for giving us the anti-vax movement. This isn’t going to be a piece on debunking the war on Christmas. No. It’s instead going to explain how y’all acting like the liberal cucks you claim to be better than has created an actual war on Christmas, and I’m all fucking for it. Stay in your lane, Cuckmas.
Continue reading “Christmas Started This War”Look ma, a month passed!
It sure has been a month. I’ve been wanting to write but just couldn’t. I also never explained why I stopped doing daily posts. So, I’m just going to explain what’s been happening and why.
Continue reading “Look ma, a month passed!”Unity has created a mess
This Unity shitstorm is an interesting thing. Like, I have never seen a company set itself on fire like this before, at least one I am partially invested in. What’s funny is a lot of people also don’t understand why Unity set itself on fire, it actually has a good reason. Y’know, despite it doing the dumbest fucking thing imaginable. A lot of people also don’t understand where they stand in terms of Unity’s interests. Nor do they understand why Unity doesn’t give a shit about them, it does have a reason to not care about you. I know this sounds like I am siding with Unity, but I’m not. What Unity did was fucking retarded and I do not think they will fully recover from this, if they ever will. What surprises me the most is how many studios/teams insist on relying on others for tech instead of making their own so shit like this can’t happen again. (Ed note: This was delayed due to a few injuries)
Continue reading “Unity has created a mess”How do coupons work?
Recently I watched a video that awoke some deep forgotten memories I had. It’s hard to think some of my teenage years are now deep forgotten memories, but that’s besides the point. The video mentioned how people used to make fake manufacturer coupons on 4chan. At the time I didn’t know they were fake, so I used them. This then dug up another memory of mine. When I used to get free beef jerky coupons from Jack’s Links in high school from Jack’s Links. These were because my school kept selling expired bags. I’d buy $2 of beef jerky from my school and get a coupon that gave me up to $10 in beef jerky. It was a nice way to “make” money. Thinking about it now, who paid for the coupon? In fact, who pays for any coupon? Like when you go to Walmart and you use a 30 cents off coupon. Who paid for that 30 cents? How the hell do coupons work?
Continue reading “How do coupons work?”Isom #1 – A Distracted Story
This was honestly a surprising read/review for me. I went into Isom thinking I would 100% hate it. In fact, I went in thinking I would somehow find a way to demand my time back from Eric July. While I would not recommend anyone read Isom #1, at its current price. If you can snag it for around $20 I can recommend it to people who are more forgiving to first issues. I can’t say I fully hated it. The hate is at about 80-85%. That means I liked it 15-20%. Which is slightly below average for any first issue of a new comic. This was a huge surprise for me. I read a lot of reviews about Isom #1 and was expecting a glorious train wreck, but I was instead greeted with a mismanaged idea. An idea I wound up being interested in. The TL;DR for my review is this: I don’t recommend reading Isom #1 if you don’t want to be greeted with Marvel Cinematic Universe-esqe teasers. I would instead recommend waiting until issue 5-10, choose a number, and start there. It’s really hard to judge a new comic since every comic sucks until issue 5-10, except webcomics taking until page 30-45, but this one wasn’t the worst issue #1 I read, nor the best. It’s about average, and held back because of weird choices.
Continue reading “Isom #1 – A Distracted Story”The biggest blunder a “smart” person has ever made
There’s always been one thing that has confused me since I was a teenager: Why do people conflate money with intelligence? I’m unsure when my eyes were opened to the fact that rich people aren’t geniuses but I remember it happened pretty early in my life. With that said, I do know what opened my eyes. All of the rich kids in my classes were fucking retarded. I was confused by this pattern for the longest and I am unsure when the connection was finally made, but it was. I feel like there’s one acquisition that proves it: Disney buying Lucas Films. Ha, you thought I was going to say Musk buying Twitter. No, Disney managed to fuck up something more than Musk did, but no one talks about how badly Disney fucked up.
Continue reading “The biggest blunder a “smart” person has ever made”Why are news sites so bad?
Since I am doing my best to give up on social media I decided to look for news sites to read. This would give me different sites to check and let me stay informed. It would also save me the hassle of filtering out bullshit from people pretending to be others by paying for Twitter Blue. With that said, I am having an issue where every news site kind of sucks ass. I know I can just use Google News, but my Google News keeps showing me celebrity news and other things I don’t care about. It seems like a glitch when it shows me a news story I am interested in. I am also trying to ditch Google News. I want to help lessen Silicon Valley’s control on the net. The problem with that is news media groups are making that really fucking hard to do.
Continue reading “Why are news sites so bad?”I ain’t crying crocodile tears for Stack Overflow
Every now and then I peep at social media to see what’s going on. I’ve not interacted with anyone, but I do this just to stay informed with the happenings. Today was one of those days and what I saw floored me. People are spreading this weird lie that AI is killing Stack Overflow. Then I am seeing posts about people being sad over the demise of Stack Overflow! Why!? Stack Overflow is quite literally a forum full of those Linux assholes who ruin any chance of there ever being a year of Linux, but instead for every programming language possible. I am happy Stack Overflow is dying. Yes, I will explain why I, and quite a few of my friends, have all stopped using the site and are waiting for the day where we can say, “Rest in piss”.
Continue reading “I ain’t crying crocodile tears for Stack Overflow”When I learned I wanted to be a teacher
When you become a teacher people will often ask you, “Why did you become a teacher?” When you’re a teacher who is seemingly good at lots of things, and other people consider you smart, you hear that question a lot. The truth is I stumbled onto teaching. Even before I officially became a teacher I was teaching people random things. When I first started I was pretty bad at it, but my pupils still learned. There was a lot for me to learn about teaching, especially since I started teaching around the age of 14. I can’t remember when my first time truly teaching someone something was. However, I do remember the first time teaching someone something earned me respect.
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