eddyfate

I’ve been thinking about us lately, and I feel like we should take a break. Things have been very hard for me and I don’t want them to be harder in the near future. It just seems like I have more fun with my friends when you aren't around, and I don't know how I feel about that. Plus, it seems like you go to a lot of places without me these days. I don’t want you to be hurt more in the process, so that’s why I’m telling this to you now. I don’t think that it’s your fault -- it's mine actually -- but I feel that I need space in order to understand myself. I don’t know why I’m feeling this way. I loved you, I’m sure, but I can’t keep you waiting. I don’t want to deny you your freedom, because I still care for you. Can we still be friends?

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... also, maybe one more porn clip, for old time's sake? No? Okay, I understand, you need to be alone for a while. Just call me if you need to talk.

All players in "Flame War Bingo," please mark off the following squares:

* I Am Not A Lawyer (But I Play One On the Internet)

* Massive Backpeddling

and

* Psychotic Douchebag.

Also, a correction to the previous turn. It was correctly pointed out that Godwin's Law is, in fact, a free square in Flame War Bingo. Our apologies for the mistake!

All players in "Flame War Bingo," please mark off the following squares:

* Physical Threats over Minutia

* Logic Drowned Out by Gibbering Stupidity

and, of course

* Godwin's Law

Anyone have a full card yet?

What I find secret glee in is watching people who are flagrantly unethical call someone else unethical. Maybe that's why I am both repulsed and intrigued by political campaigns. But in the back of my head, I'm always amused because it seems like "Well, you would be the expert on that."

Strange. This scenario seems unusually familiar somehow....

Little, tiny things are getting to me. None of them directly impact me, but they poke at me just the same. Likely it's because I've got a lot on my mind at the moment, and haven't gotten back into the swing of having an ongoing project, but minor drama, annoying online practices, our TiVo dying for no good reason, and people emailing me who are absolutely sure I'm something I'm absolutely sure I'm not sit in the back of my head and drive me quietly mad.

Eh. My personal trainer will be here in a few minutes. After he's done, all I'll care about is the pain I'm in.

Some things that fantasy novels can do without. And some more.

Hell, some of those LARP characters can do without as well....

Dear Muse,

Yes, we have some free time right now. That time should be spent working on revising my short stories for submission, getting my application together for college, or maybe even working on things for Sekrit Project C. This is not an opportune time to go back to poking at the Transformers RPG that you started working on nine months ago. Despite what you might believe, the world does not need another unofficial Transformers RPG, no matter how frustrated you get at all of the different versions floating around. It certainly doesn't matter if you have come up with a clever way to mechanically reflect Headmasters, Targetmasters, Mini-con powers, and Cyber-key powers. We have other things we need to be working on. Seriously.

Sincerely,

eddyfate

Worlds of Warcraft: The Text Adventure. I think this sums up what I find so uninteresting about MMORPGs.

From Wired News:

Tony Long, copy chief at Wired News, once killed a man using a paragraph written with nothing but adverbs and semicolons.

Cingular attempts to patent emoticons

Edit: samldanach clarified that the claim isn't to patent emoticons, but dedicated hotkeys to display emoticons.

It's the second annual Vague LJ Post Week!

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You totally screwed me, and I smiled and let it happen.

Apparently if you're a smelly LARPer on the third day of a con, you're actually Unshowered Edwardian Punk.

Dear muse,

When I warn people that I'm going to drop off the radar because I need to focus on a lot of things for a while, this is not the opportune moment to give me a really cool idea for a Midway City card game. The correct time to have done that was a few months ago, not after I've just dived into a ton of work and set deadlines and commitments to people.

I hate you.

- eddyfate

STAR WARS TRANSFORMERS?!?!

garchangel, get your boots on. We have some asses to kick over at Hasbro.

Dear Internet,

"LOL," no matter what case you put it in, is an acronym. It stands for "laughing out loud." It is used to signify that you find some comment to be humorous, to the point where it inspires laughter while sitting at your terminal, computer, phone, or whatever.

It is not to be used at the end of a sentence in which you insult someone (unless you are mildly psychotic). It is not to be used at the end of a sentence in which you express anger (unless you are incredibly psychotic). It is not to be used at the end of a sentence in which you express grief (unless you are incredibly tacky).

LOL (lol, l.o.l, et al) is not in any way, shape, or form, PUNCTUATION.

Learn the fucking language, you mouth-breathing morons lol.

- eddyfate

Hilarious.

Caveat: I don't have a particularly strong opinion on the matter (although I do lean toward the scientific view). However, I appreciate snark.

Yes, I'm a private jerk. I get a small measure of amusement out of people with no reading comprehension skills. I chuckle at those who act like they're right when they are clearly wrong. I enjoy the downward spiral of denizens of the Internet who are steadfast in their unknowing and unwitting idiocy. Granted, I don't often do anything about it or bring it to people's attention, but nevertheless it amuses me when it happens.

(Note: If you're going to start looking around trying to figure out what prompted this observation, don't. It was a number of things, most of them private to me in various forms.)