Damn Stereotypes

Now I hate stereotypes and grouping people into something they're not, but I think sometimes these things just make sense and apply to a certain people, and being a cashier makes you aware of all of these things since you have to deal with most everyone.

I want to point out that among all the customers that go through my lines there's a large variety of people with varying characteristics in all races, but Indian people tend to have one thing in common, and by Indian I refer to Asians, those who are from the Arab world. Now, not all these people are the same, but pretty common. They're assholes. When they're at my register they frown at you with displeasure and make you feel like a piece of poop and it seems like they're never satisfied. Other people are like this too, but Asians tend to be constantly like this. They just stand there and scowl and make you feel bad and I just try to be the nicest person I can be, but they won't budge. I'm sorry, but this just grinds my gears.

Not that Evil

Walmart has always gotten a bad rap about what they are; being anti-union and just generally being evil, but as a new associate at their evil empire I honestly don't think they're that evil, or maybe I've been brainwashed into thinking they're good, but who knows.

Compared to my previous job it's light years ahead in treatment, pay, and pretty much everything else except the distance from my house. No one I've met has said that they hate their job and I can see myself being with them for a while until I get my career up and running and making it sort of a back up job, if I ever need one, so we'll see....

Living Independently

To most people's surprise I live alone due to certain familial circumstances and I always get comments about how lucky I am, but it really isn't all that it's cracked up to be. Well I mean living by myself is AWESOME since I can do whatever I want, but I would certainly choose having a roommate over living by myself any day and which I'll do as soon as the contract is over. Paying bills sucks, it just sucks so hard and whenever you feel your done paying Februaries bills the next round is just sitting there waiting for your hard earned money, so I'll be happy when I finally have someone to split the bills with.

One of the questions I'm asked the most is how do I manage to pay all these bills and to them I say that I sell drugs, make porn, and go to school.

Trypophobia

For the longest time I have known to be scared of holes, holes in wall, holes in the ground, holes anywhere, even the hole in the bathtub which I always try to stay on the opposite side of when I'm taking a shower, but one day I was browsing the internets as always and I figured out that there was a word for my phobia. It's Trypophobia! By definition the T word stands for the fear of holes, cracks and/or clusters; An irrational or obsessive fear of holes, cracks and/or clusters, or what might hide inside them.

Now as I read along all the symptoms clicked with me and I looked at the pictures that came along with it. They gave me goosebumps, and other horrible horrible feelings I've never had, but at the same time I had a strange curiosity for coming back to look at them. It's like I'm trying to subject myself to pain willingly. Now I can say I have a phobia. woo! It was pretty hard putting these pictures up to so please enjoy.

Prince of Persia is a great looking game, it has a variety of setting and the dialogue between characters is humorous. Your basically an acrobatic prince who jumps from one place to another with a princess trying to turn the work into good after being taken over by an evil prince. It a great looking game, almost looks like a moving painting and the characters move in such smooth lifelike motion, but it has no challenge. You can't die in the game. There is no challenge at all, if you fall into an endless pit you automatically get saved by the princess and the game doesn't rise in difficulty at all it the same old jump, but in different settings, so in the end I got bored of it and sold it back. The game certainly isn't worth buying, but it maybe deserves a rental.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Oh man what a great movie this is, oh yes, it's like time flew by when I watched it and it was a beauty too. I liked how each scene was setup with a particular feeling. As if every scene had a center piece to focus on, the steamboat, the ballroom, things like that. There isn't much to do then watch it. I would say it was my favourite movie of the year. wooT!

Skipping

Skipping is dumb. I've learned the hard way that it's not a very smart thing to do as Captain Obvious tells me and I shouldn't have never done it. So now I face the consequences. It sucks, but it's life. Hey! At least it's heart healthy! :D

Fallout 3 is an RPG game, a type of game I've never played or touched. They always seemed too complicated with number and lists and just too much care taking of characters. They were always a chore, but something about Fallout 3 struck me as different. The style, set in 2775 in a post apocalyptic world where everything was destroyed with nukes. You roamed the Capital Wasteland of Washington DC and it seemed so cool and it is. It was like everything was stuck in the 50's, the music, the style of clothes, and even the technology reeked of 50's design except that it's advanced for it's time. You roam the capital wasteland killing mutants, doing quests, and mainly looking for your father. I spent 30 hours on it in a week and even then I wasn't bored of it and I can't wait to get back on, so hopefully on this long weekend i can sit down for another 20 hours. I'll give it all my attention.

Oh school, how I wish you would pull me back in...

So recently I haven't been doing too well in school and I really didn't know why until I came to this conclusion, theirs no incentive or anything there to pull me back in, the teachers aren't helping either and I don't feel like what I'm learning is going to help me later in life. I like school is just feels like the same old thing, like we're covering the same old stuff over and over and there really isn't an incentive for me to keep doing better. I could've moved on to college earlier and focused more on what I wanted to do, but I didn't because I didn't know what to do. And am I spelling didn't wrong? It keeps highlighting the word as misspelled, but I'm pretty sure it isn't. or is it? It's driving me nuts!!!

Gears of War 2

So Gears of War 2 just came out and having played through it I would say it's a really great sequel to one of the best shooters in the last few years. This shooter revolutionized the cover system. It's the game that all other games look up to, or copy, the cover system from, but you know imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and it's propelled other good games to being great. This is a great sequel, great graphics, probably the 2nd or 3rd greatest looking game out at the moment and surprisingly their are a few scenes that pull at your heart strings. So I'd give this game a 9.8 out of 10.

Barack Obomba!

So Barack won. Very exciting indeed. This has been the election I've followed the closest ever and I'm very excited at the possibility of change. Hopefully he can bring change to Washington. Barack is going to be our first internet president I believe so thats exciting too. I'll be watching closely.

Video Games are Bad?

Brandon Crisp is a 15 year old teenger who ran away from home after having an argument with his parents over what his parents described as obsessive playing of his Xbox 360. So basically this kid ran away because his Xbox got taken away and he was mad at his parents. Unfortunately his body was found near a police search area about a month later, now the media immediately blamed video games, the media always blames video games after a murder, shooting or anything in the same matter. It has gotten old and it's the medias only scapegoat. That doesn't mean that is this case can be blamed or in other situations, but in this situation bad parenting is mainly to blame in my opinion. RIP.

Little Big Planet

Little Big Planet is a platforming game. You jump, and you gather orbs that break up into points. That's it. Think of it like a Super Mario game, everybody knows Mario except this one is for the modern era and it includes one big feature. Create. What gives this game longetivity is the ability to create levels. Anyway you want. So in theory this game is an unlimited value. It has great music, and your characters are pretty awesome. You can customize them any way you want. I haven't played much of the game, but I would give it a 9.0 out of 10.

Metal Gear Solid 4

Metal Gear Solid 4 is what some people would typically think of if they thought of a modern video game. A gritty, violent shooter. Although what this shooter specializes in is stealth combat, which basically see's you moving through your enemies stealthily without them having to see you or hear you. If they see you then they begin shooting at you until you go back into stealth mode. That doesn't mean there isn't some straight up out in the open shooting. Another thing that seperates this game from other shooters are the cutscenes. A cinematic sequence which helps further the story without giving the player direct control. The cutscenes in this game are up to 1 1/2 hours long. Most game cutscenes are 1, 2, or up to 5 minutes long, but this game really takes it to the extreme. Overall this game is great fun, it has an absolutely crazy, over the top story and the cutscenes are great, but sometimes they do get boring. I would get the games a 9.7 out of 1o.

Video Games are Bad for You

Video Games. Always controversial and fun to some. It's always been accused of being the bane of human productivity, but the industry still keeps growing with 1 day half a million dollar sales eventhough politicians like Hillary Clinton harp on the violence in them. So as to keep this blog decent I'll cover news in the gaming industry, gaming releases, anything gaming related, and other randomness.