Is it just me, or did the 'props' archive on the Final Fantasy website make you feel claustrophobic?
Interesting design work, nonetheless. We're getting closer all the time to movie production being cheaper without film, actors or real sets. Whether or not this is a good thing is somebody else's semantic exercise. I'm not up to it today.
I just hope the story in the movie isn't as. . . culturally alien as they have been in the games. I liked the level of plot detail and back story, (quite excellent in both regards), but I just can't get into some of the approaches Eastern story psychology takes. Some story structures are universally appealing, but others just don't jive with my hardwiring. Guess I'm too old. Thankfully, at least, this production doesn't look insipidly cute! And hopefully it'll also have more soul than the equipment used to make it.
Just watched T2 again last night.
"If a machine can learn the value of human life, then perhaps we can as well. .."
And most narcotics manufacturers work in the third world for AK-47 wielding managerial staff.
Plus I seriously doubt there's truly only 300 employees making hardware for MS. What about all the people working the factory floors assembling their optical mice?
Anyway, that's not what I'm talking about. The fact of the matter is that MS is having to learn the production, process and marketing of a whole new type of product which has nothing to do with providing toys and market support for Windows. Sony and Nintendo know the biz. MS is a fucking entrepreneur with daddy's wallet.
ilk are the only games which can keep my attention . (Well, Grim Fandango rocked, too.)
But how many teeny-boppers hook into the more cerebral software of that sort, versus Pokemon and retarded 'My Kung-Fu-Magic is stronger' fight games?
Americans do come up with some amazingly cool ideas, but not enough of it and not very often, and certainly not to the tastes of the game station playing public that I've seen. (Game Station. What kind of dumb-ass name is that, anyway?) And who the heck wants to play a Starcraft style game on a low-res TV?
And did they really port Starcraft to a game consol? They must have if it got popular in the East. I seem to have heard that almost nobody owns a PC in Asia. Something about keyboard stupidity.
Anyway, I'll be interested to see just how well the X-Box sells in the Orient. Cultural/business xenophobes that they are, an American game platform sure won't be playing on a level field. . .
But then again, Americans are sometimes known for inventiveness. . . I bet there's a ton of eager young programmers out there who have been aching to make their dream game, but just never had the backing capital to do it.
Who knows. Maybe this will be the best thing to happen to gaming since Pac Man & Donkey Kong. . .
(Hmm. Who made those?)
Nah. I was right the first time. It'll all suck.
-Fantastic Lad - The Most Indecisive Lad of Them All!
Creative Geniuses are rare as hell. I may not be one, but I know crap when I see it!
Unlike their competition, MS has NO EXPERIENCE WHATSOEVER running a giant hardware manufacturing outfit. They only know application and OS software. They're bound to make mistakes.
And perhaps I'm wrong, but it doesn't sound to me like they have any of that disgustingly cute/popular Anime shit being developed for their system. They're dead. Only older geeks crave Western games, and last time I counted, there were too few X-Geners to warrent a market in anything.
Despite the fact that I hate the look, feel, and general psychology of their games, the Japanese know how to make them better than anybody on the planet. Their video game production infrastructure is like our Hollywood. It makes ours game industry look small fry; like we make games about rubber monsters trashing Tokyo.
So from their 150 companies, (all rushing to meet a deadline, and most of them inspired primarily by cash rather than an honest burning desire to develop original game ideas,) d'you think we should be prepared for a landslide of more dull FPS's, ET cartridges and bad knock offs of stuff that was cool two years ago?
As if MS is dumb enough to NOT buy up commitments from a zillion hard working programmers. IT"S WHAT THEY DO, for crying out loud!!!
Way to win your point. (Even if it is a tad anal. Please say you just cut and paste one big list and didn't type all of that just because some bozo crossed your opinion. Hell. I lose arguments all the time because I'm lazy. When you're right, you're right, so who cares what some wrong-guy thinks?)
--Fantastic Lad, the Rightest Lad of Them All!
"Let's see what the Tweedlebugs are doing today!" --Ernie.
If I can plug a keyboard into one of MS's little boxes and use it like I do my regular PC. . . If I can use all my old software on the thing. . . If I can get all my equipment, printers, scanners, graphics tab, etc, to work with it. . . And of course, a good monitor. . .
Hell, if it costs the same as a regular stupid game consol, it might just be worth picking up.
If you like cheep, usable computing power, that is. . .
The only games I like exist exclusively on PC. The rest is just a lot of annoying Italian plumbers from Japan, the land of sickly-cute and retarded, low-res strategy games.
If I have to watch my girlfriend play another insipid Final Fantasy, walk three steps between "My Kung-Fu-Magic is Stronger" fights, I'll puke a damn kidney.
--Fantastic Lad
"Let's see what the Tweedlebugs are doing today!" --Ernie.
Hooray! Yet another way for stuff to become even more soulless and stupid-looking thanks to the god of 'Digital'.
Already we have a crapped out Star Wars franchise, impossible looking digital effects in every second film, (think Lost in Space with those helmets which morphed out of nowhere.) We have dumb-ass FPS games which teach people bad physics, (Quake II, where every slanted surface meant you slid! Carmack might be able to think, breath and shit algorithms, but he and his crew of code-dozers have clearly never walked outdoors. They certainly look pasty enough.)
Every second ad on the subway uses a lame Photoshop filter, or employs stupid looking effects which graphic artists from even ten years ago would never have screwed up.
Printing agencies scan everything these days, forcing me to use Photo-fsking-shop to create tone depth in images. No more the days of analog photography! All my work has become ephemeral. Original art, what little there remains, is confined to fitting into pre-fab scanner bed sizes if I realistically want to remain in the game. Quick! Everybody standardize. Everybody into one of three box sizes! Everybody work less on each project in order to turn out more, in order to remain competetive!
And some asshole with a computer knows where I am, what I buy, and makes money off me every time I turn around.
So yeah. This rocks. Let's scan the whole damned world and be done with it. Let's reduce it to the moronic dream land of the lowest common denominator. I want to see more sickly over-sexed content, less work, knowledge, and responsibility required to create more useless crap. I want a world where kids never have to learn how to use their hands. Let's see just how dumb they all turn out to be. Already kids are turning into overweight prune people thanks to fsking Sony.
Remember when kids played with toys like Leggo, train sets, and model kits and -shock- bicycles and soccer balls? (Tomorrow's kids will think that Carmack and Lost in Space physics are real. Yippee! Let's see how long the world lasts under their rein! It's already run by evil assholes. Let's see what happens when they become morons as well!)
I hate digital. I hate computers, and I hate the net. It sucks away health and soul, and I've become mired in it like everybody else. Perhaps one day I will screw up the courage to toss my evil computer out the window and I will be (partly) free, and nobody will have to listen to my rantings on-line ever again. The prune people will be able to digitally converge into one giant uber-prune in peace!
Besides the fact that it's old and was never very funny, I also suspect that you are ugly.
For future reference, I recommend you arrange your attempts at humor in such a manner which allows for variety and a continual modification of themes so that you don't bore everybody to a premature death.
Just a thought.
--Fantastic Lad, the most amazing script kiddie ever!
While I agree that in the long run, nothing really matters since we're following the rules of engagement by just living, eating and screwing, some of your comments do beg an argument cuz they're either amazingly selfish, willfully ignorant or just plain dumb. . . For the sake of space, I'm only going to address one of them:
I'd be shouting for joy to see little kids in SCHOOL rather than being abused in factories. But if they absolutely MUST be in factories, then why not pay them what their work is worth? I use the Nike example; on a pair of running shoes which retails for over $100, is it really fair that the child who manufactured those shoes, only get a few pennies?
No. Any way you slice it, it's not fair. And don't go spouting any free market jargon at me. The fact of the matter is that child work forces don't have the resources or the know-how to bargain for a better deal with their employers. In fact, in certain cases, whenever some of them have rallied together in an attempt to form unions, they have been openly murdered. So, yes, shout for joy. Rich Westerners have murdered children in order to maintain the stupidly high profit margins which come from not having to pay workers. This is documented and real.
American companies see the shattered economies of third world societies as rich exploitive opportunities and nothing more. Those corporations are run by people who have deluded themselves into thinking of foreign children as a natural resource, like nickel or coal, for which they should, like any other resource, pay as little for as they can get away with, (with a dash of, "Well, at least they're not prostitutes. Look at us. We're being noble.").
There is no nobility in providing kids with dangerous and poisonous factories as an alternative to picking over garbage heaps for food.
And that's not even taking into account the fact that many of the economies of these counties have been shattered or hampered because they have become drug corridors for traffickers heading for America. I met a doctor from South America, (who had been brought to Canada as an adopted child), who described Venezuela as being ruled almost exclusively by armed drug lords. He was shot at and threatened with murder when he visited his home town, because he'd stopped on the street to tell children that snorting drugs would hurt their brains.
It seems clear to me that you don't know as much about the 'Real' world as you think you do, so I'd advise that you not be so quick to condemn others who think that maybe the world should be run in a civilized manner rather than in a draconian, 'dollar comes first' way.
News flash: If you cannot afford a canoe, you are not entitled to one. I'll tell you what.. I just bought a new Porsche Boxter. Would you like one? Perhaps we should replace the lines at the unemployment office with lines at Porsche dealerships, so that everybody can have a Boxter! Why, the government can just garnish the wages of the top 1% of wage-earners and use it to buy everybody sports cars! That is your socialist paradise, isn't it? Everybody's equal? Hard work means nothing?
I agree with our Capitalist here to a degree. You deserve what you earn through the ever trumpeted, 'Hard Work'. The only problem with his argument is that there are a whole mess of people who work extremely hard in important jobs and who still have trouble making ends meet. Whether or not you can afford a canoe has a great deal to do with where you exist in society.
Prove it. If those in the working class were as "competent" as you claim, it's a wonder that they're still in the working class. Our society gives people the tools that they need to advance themselves, if they are talented enough. Most people are not talented enough, so they stay where they are at, which is where they belong. Your assertation is ludicrous and laughable, and it is supported by no facts whatsoever.
Again, I think our Merry Capitalist is right to question your statement. But again, I still think he's also being amazingly myopic. Our society does give people the tools they need to advance themselves, but the distribution and quality of those 'tools' is extremely uneven. I would be very curious to see how our merry Capitalist would have performed in the Loop of Life if he had been born to a single mom, was malnourished from birth, given a crap-ola education and had to duck bullets and drug pushers his whole life. Even supposing he got to use the same genetic make-up he was born with, I would be willing to bet that he would not be buying a Porsche today.
I think the main problem is that a lot of people maintain the fantasy that they are more than human. They don't believe that they are just as susceptible to hunger and abuse or that they will succumb to the decreased self respect and mental strength which results from living under such bad conditions. They truly believe that, put in a prolonged bad scenario, they would 'find a way out'. Sadly, this simply isn't true. It's just a 14 year old's daydream of power, or it's a capitalist excuse for not wanting to admit they are benefitting from an elevated starting point in society over which they had no control. The truth of the matter is that we're all frail and mortal. Certainly determination and hard work can make a difference, but it seems more and more these days that it's a case of standing on the shoulders of giants. When shoved into the gas chamber, you die like everybody else. Nobody is Rambo.
Anyway, the thing which never fails to amaze me, is that guys like our Merry Capitalist praise their lord Jesus, but seem to forget that the basic tenet of Christianity is compassion.
So. . . Merry Capitalist: You are playing the fool. Grow up. Stop deluding yourself. You are not special or superior. You may have talents and you may work hard, but many people do.
Intellect and wisdom are entirely different animals, and if you had both, you wouldn't be making such comments as above. I'm not saying don't enjoy your new car, but I am saying you should be aware that it is a privalege and that you should kiss the sky for having been lucky enough to have been born into a position where you can work for nice toys. There are 9 year olds in this world with more brain potential than you probably had as a kid, and who work a helluva lot harder than you ever have or ever will, and they are starving because Nike doesn't see fit to pay them a fair share of the $100 running shoes they make.
And the single example of the Netherlands is certainly the most significant nation in the EU! Small, but entirely worthy enough to base our entire heap of Capitalist rhetoric on!
And Boy!
I can only wonder why the quality of life in the Netherlands was so darn good when I last visited! It just boggles the mind! Surely, their whole society must be ready to crumble to the ground any day now!
Much more heartwarming was that marvelous outpost of Right Wing politics, Great Britain!
When I was there a few years ago, most of the populace was living hand to mouth, were severely undereducated, and were dying in the winter because the state had permitted coin-operated heaters in the home! (Did you see that picture of the heater which the power company had installed on the ceiling? The old lady had to stack chairs just to feed it coins! What a laugh! The funny poor person!)
Ah! We can only hope that such Social Darwinist trends will permeate all cultures, and those crazy socialist schemes will be banished forever!
I mean, how the heck are guys like us supposed to survive in this world? I mean, I don't know about you, but all I can afford to impulse buy is one lousy canoe a month! It's a crying shame, I tell you!
Fantastic Lad -The most amazing script kiddie of them all!
-If people would just stop having sex, we wouldn't need all this nerve gas!--
They work just as hard as anybody else, and have the audacity to think that they're somehow as good as us! Bah! The monkeys! To think!
Wonder boys like us, with our rich parents who gave us cars on our 16th birthdays for scoring high on our report cards and put us through the best colleges without our having to lift a finger, MUST on some fundamental level be superior to those lame, poor-ass losers out there! Social Darwinism rocks, because it happens to favor us rich kids!
Hooray!
Fantastic Lad, --the most amazing script kiddie of them all!
-If people would just stop having sex, we wouldn't NEED all this nerve gas.--
Corporations are bad? What the heck? When did that happen? And I can only run around in shadows now? Is this because of that ozone thing? Hey! I bet the corporations did that too, with all their air conditioners. (Though, I still don't get why they prefer the condition of air to be such that it offers no protection against sun burn. . . Must be some kind of scam where they sell lots of extra sunscreen lotion. --Or hey! Maybe it's the black people getting back at the whites for all those years of forced cotton picking. Hum! I knew letting blacks run all those giant corporations would lead to no good!)
That's it. I'm pipe bombing somebody! I'm going to go blow up a gas station! Boy! Won't that look cool! Just like in 'Terminator'!
Fantastic Lad--The most amazing of script kiddie of them all!
"Well, if people would just stop having sex, we wouldn't need all this nerve gas."
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-Fantastic Lad
Is it just me, or did the 'props' archive on the Final Fantasy website make you feel claustrophobic?
Interesting design work, nonetheless. We're getting closer all the time to movie production being cheaper without film, actors or real sets. Whether or not this is a good thing is somebody else's semantic exercise. I'm not up to it today.
I just hope the story in the movie isn't as. . . culturally alien as they have been in the games. I liked the level of plot detail and back story, (quite excellent in both regards), but I just can't get into some of the approaches Eastern story psychology takes. Some story structures are universally appealing, but others just don't jive with my hardwiring. Guess I'm too old. Thankfully, at least, this production doesn't look insipidly cute! And hopefully it'll also have more soul than the equipment used to make it.
Just watched T2 again last night.
"If a machine can learn the value of human life, then perhaps we can as well. . ."
-Fantastic Lad
And most narcotics manufacturers work in the third world for AK-47 wielding managerial staff.
Plus I seriously doubt there's truly only 300 employees making hardware for MS. What about all the people working the factory floors assembling their optical mice?
Anyway, that's not what I'm talking about. The fact of the matter is that MS is having to learn the production, process and marketing of a whole new type of product which has nothing to do with providing toys and market support for Windows. Sony and Nintendo know the biz. MS is a fucking entrepreneur with daddy's wallet.
But how many teeny-boppers hook into the more cerebral software of that sort, versus Pokemon and retarded 'My Kung-Fu-Magic is stronger' fight games?
Americans do come up with some amazingly cool ideas, but not enough of it and not very often, and certainly not to the tastes of the game station playing public that I've seen. (Game Station. What kind of dumb-ass name is that, anyway?) And who the heck wants to play a Starcraft style game on a low-res TV?
And did they really port Starcraft to a game consol? They must have if it got popular in the East. I seem to have heard that almost nobody owns a PC in Asia. Something about keyboard stupidity.
Anyway, I'll be interested to see just how well the X-Box sells in the Orient. Cultural/business xenophobes that they are, an American game platform sure won't be playing on a level field. . .
Hmm. How many people own HDTV's in Asia?
Who knows. Maybe this will be the best thing to happen to gaming since Pac Man & Donkey Kong. . .
(Hmm. Who made those?)
Nah. I was right the first time. It'll all suck.
-Fantastic Lad - The Most Indecisive Lad of Them All!
Creative Geniuses are rare as hell. I may not be one, but I know crap when I see it!
And perhaps I'm wrong, but it doesn't sound to me like they have any of that disgustingly cute/popular Anime shit being developed for their system. They're dead. Only older geeks crave Western games, and last time I counted, there were too few X-Geners to warrent a market in anything.
Despite the fact that I hate the look, feel, and general psychology of their games, the Japanese know how to make them better than anybody on the planet. Their video game production infrastructure is like our Hollywood. It makes ours game industry look small fry; like we make games about rubber monsters trashing Tokyo.
So from their 150 companies, (all rushing to meet a deadline, and most of them inspired primarily by cash rather than an honest burning desire to develop original game ideas,) d'you think we should be prepared for a landslide of more dull FPS's, ET cartridges and bad knock offs of stuff that was cool two years ago?
I think so. But that's just me.
-Fantastic Lad
Corporate money buys the body, but rots the soul.
As if MS is dumb enough to NOT buy up commitments from a zillion hard working programmers. IT"S WHAT THEY DO, for crying out loud!!!
Way to win your point. (Even if it is a tad anal. Please say you just cut and paste one big list and didn't type all of that just because some bozo crossed your opinion. Hell. I lose arguments all the time because I'm lazy. When you're right, you're right, so who cares what some wrong-guy thinks?)
--Fantastic Lad, the Rightest Lad of Them All!
"Let's see what the Tweedlebugs are doing today!" --Ernie.
Hell, if it costs the same as a regular stupid game consol, it might just be worth picking up.
If you like cheep, usable computing power, that is. . .
The only games I like exist exclusively on PC. The rest is just a lot of annoying Italian plumbers from Japan, the land of sickly-cute and retarded, low-res strategy games.
If I have to watch my girlfriend play another insipid Final Fantasy, walk three steps between "My Kung-Fu-Magic is Stronger" fights, I'll puke a damn kidney.
--Fantastic Lad
"Let's see what the Tweedlebugs are doing today!" --Ernie.
Already we have a crapped out Star Wars franchise, impossible looking digital effects in every second film, (think Lost in Space with those helmets which morphed out of nowhere.) We have dumb-ass FPS games which teach people bad physics, (Quake II, where every slanted surface meant you slid! Carmack might be able to think, breath and shit algorithms, but he and his crew of code-dozers have clearly never walked outdoors. They certainly look pasty enough.)
Every second ad on the subway uses a lame Photoshop filter, or employs stupid looking effects which graphic artists from even ten years ago would never have screwed up.
Printing agencies scan everything these days, forcing me to use Photo-fsking-shop to create tone depth in images. No more the days of analog photography! All my work has become ephemeral. Original art, what little there remains, is confined to fitting into pre-fab scanner bed sizes if I realistically want to remain in the game. Quick! Everybody standardize. Everybody into one of three box sizes! Everybody work less on each project in order to turn out more, in order to remain competetive!
And some asshole with a computer knows where I am, what I buy, and makes money off me every time I turn around.
So yeah. This rocks. Let's scan the whole damned world and be done with it. Let's reduce it to the moronic dream land of the lowest common denominator. I want to see more sickly over-sexed content, less work, knowledge, and responsibility required to create more useless crap. I want a world where kids never have to learn how to use their hands. Let's see just how dumb they all turn out to be. Already kids are turning into overweight prune people thanks to fsking Sony.
Remember when kids played with toys like Leggo, train sets, and model kits and -shock- bicycles and soccer balls? (Tomorrow's kids will think that Carmack and Lost in Space physics are real. Yippee! Let's see how long the world lasts under their rein! It's already run by evil assholes. Let's see what happens when they become morons as well!)
I hate digital. I hate computers, and I hate the net. It sucks away health and soul, and I've become mired in it like everybody else. Perhaps one day I will screw up the courage to toss my evil computer out the window and I will be (partly) free, and nobody will have to listen to my rantings on-line ever again. The prune people will be able to digitally converge into one giant uber-prune in peace!
-Fantastic Lad! The most cynical Lad of them all!
Besides the fact that it's old and was never very funny, I also suspect that you are ugly.
For future reference, I recommend you arrange your attempts at humor in such a manner which allows for variety and a continual modification of themes so that you don't bore everybody to a premature death.
Just a thought.
--Fantastic Lad, the most amazing script kiddie ever!
"Argh! Somebody put shit in my pants!" --JTHM
While I agree that in the long run, nothing really matters since we're following the rules of engagement by just living, eating and screwing, some of your comments do beg an argument cuz they're either amazingly selfish, willfully ignorant or just plain dumb. . . For the sake of space, I'm only going to address one of them:
I'd be shouting for joy to see little kids in SCHOOL rather than being abused in factories. But if they absolutely MUST be in factories, then why not pay them what their work is worth? I use the Nike example; on a pair of running shoes which retails for over $100, is it really fair that the child who manufactured those shoes, only get a few pennies?
No. Any way you slice it, it's not fair. And don't go spouting any free market jargon at me. The fact of the matter is that child work forces don't have the resources or the know-how to bargain for a better deal with their employers. In fact, in certain cases, whenever some of them have rallied together in an attempt to form unions, they have been openly murdered. So, yes, shout for joy. Rich Westerners have murdered children in order to maintain the stupidly high profit margins which come from not having to pay workers. This is documented and real.
American companies see the shattered economies of third world societies as rich exploitive opportunities and nothing more. Those corporations are run by people who have deluded themselves into thinking of foreign children as a natural resource, like nickel or coal, for which they should, like any other resource, pay as little for as they can get away with, (with a dash of, "Well, at least they're not prostitutes. Look at us. We're being noble.").
There is no nobility in providing kids with dangerous and poisonous factories as an alternative to picking over garbage heaps for food.
And that's not even taking into account the fact that many of the economies of these counties have been shattered or hampered because they have become drug corridors for traffickers heading for America. I met a doctor from South America, (who had been brought to Canada as an adopted child), who described Venezuela as being ruled almost exclusively by armed drug lords. He was shot at and threatened with murder when he visited his home town, because he'd stopped on the street to tell children that snorting drugs would hurt their brains.
It seems clear to me that you don't know as much about the 'Real' world as you think you do, so I'd advise that you not be so quick to condemn others who think that maybe the world should be run in a civilized manner rather than in a draconian, 'dollar comes first' way.
I agree with our Capitalist here to a degree. You deserve what you earn through the ever trumpeted, 'Hard Work'. The only problem with his argument is that there are a whole mess of people who work extremely hard in important jobs and who still have trouble making ends meet. Whether or not you can afford a canoe has a great deal to do with where you exist in society.
Prove it. If those in the working class were as "competent" as you claim, it's a wonder that they're still in the working class. Our society gives people the tools that they need to advance themselves, if they are talented enough. Most people are not talented enough, so they stay where they are at, which is where they belong. Your assertation is ludicrous and laughable, and it is supported by no facts whatsoever.
Again, I think our Merry Capitalist is right to question your statement. But again, I still think he's also being amazingly myopic. Our society does give people the tools they need to advance themselves, but the distribution and quality of those 'tools' is extremely uneven. I would be very curious to see how our merry Capitalist would have performed in the Loop of Life if he had been born to a single mom, was malnourished from birth, given a crap-ola education and had to duck bullets and drug pushers his whole life. Even supposing he got to use the same genetic make-up he was born with, I would be willing to bet that he would not be buying a Porsche today.
I think the main problem is that a lot of people maintain the fantasy that they are more than human. They don't believe that they are just as susceptible to hunger and abuse or that they will succumb to the decreased self respect and mental strength which results from living under such bad conditions. They truly believe that, put in a prolonged bad scenario, they would 'find a way out'. Sadly, this simply isn't true. It's just a 14 year old's daydream of power, or it's a capitalist excuse for not wanting to admit they are benefitting from an elevated starting point in society over which they had no control. The truth of the matter is that we're all frail and mortal. Certainly determination and hard work can make a difference, but it seems more and more these days that it's a case of standing on the shoulders of giants. When shoved into the gas chamber, you die like everybody else. Nobody is Rambo.
Anyway, the thing which never fails to amaze me, is that guys like our Merry Capitalist praise their lord Jesus, but seem to forget that the basic tenet of Christianity is compassion.
So. . . Merry Capitalist: You are playing the fool. Grow up. Stop deluding yourself. You are not special or superior. You may have talents and you may work hard, but many people do.
Intellect and wisdom are entirely different animals, and if you had both, you wouldn't be making such comments as above. I'm not saying don't enjoy your new car, but I am saying you should be aware that it is a privalege and that you should kiss the sky for having been lucky enough to have been born into a position where you can work for nice toys. There are 9 year olds in this world with more brain potential than you probably had as a kid, and who work a helluva lot harder than you ever have or ever will, and they are starving because Nike doesn't see fit to pay them a fair share of the $100 running shoes they make.
And Boy!
I can only wonder why the quality of life in the Netherlands was so darn good when I last visited! It just boggles the mind! Surely, their whole society must be ready to crumble to the ground any day now!
Much more heartwarming was that marvelous outpost of Right Wing politics, Great Britain!
When I was there a few years ago, most of the populace was living hand to mouth, were severely undereducated, and were dying in the winter because the state had permitted coin-operated heaters in the home! (Did you see that picture of the heater which the power company had installed on the ceiling? The old lady had to stack chairs just to feed it coins! What a laugh! The funny poor person!)
Ah! We can only hope that such Social Darwinist trends will permeate all cultures, and those crazy socialist schemes will be banished forever!
I mean, how the heck are guys like us supposed to survive in this world? I mean, I don't know about you, but all I can afford to impulse buy is one lousy canoe a month! It's a crying shame, I tell you!
Fantastic Lad -The most amazing script kiddie of them all!
-If people would just stop having sex, we wouldn't need all this nerve gas!--
They're all a bunch of monkeys!
They work just as hard as anybody else, and have the audacity to think that they're somehow as good as us! Bah! The monkeys! To think!
Wonder boys like us, with our rich parents who gave us cars on our 16th birthdays for scoring high on our report cards and put us through the best colleges without our having to lift a finger, MUST on some fundamental level be superior to those lame, poor-ass losers out there! Social Darwinism rocks, because it happens to favor us rich kids!
Hooray!
Fantastic Lad, --the most amazing script kiddie of them all!
-If people would just stop having sex, we wouldn't NEED all this nerve gas.--
Corporations are bad? What the heck? When did that happen? And I can only run around in shadows now? Is this because of that ozone thing? Hey! I bet the corporations did that too, with all their air conditioners. (Though, I still don't get why they prefer the condition of air to be such that it offers no protection against sun burn. . . Must be some kind of scam where they sell lots of extra sunscreen lotion. --Or hey! Maybe it's the black people getting back at the whites for all those years of forced cotton picking. Hum! I knew letting blacks run all those giant corporations would lead to no good!)
That's it. I'm pipe bombing somebody! I'm going to go blow up a gas station! Boy! Won't that look cool! Just like in 'Terminator'!
Fantastic Lad --The most amazing of script kiddie of them all!
"Well, if people would just stop having sex, we wouldn't need all this nerve gas."