I might even stick around for awhile.
And is it just me, or are there other people out there who don't give a flying fuck for the global economy? And I might mean that both literally (macro economics bores me to tears and just isn't worth knowing or caring about at a mini micro machine level) and ironically (as the leaders of Europe don't seem to care much either).
Video Games - there is nothing worse than official forums.
I'm playing Dark Souls currently, building a STR/FAI character for SL120 PvP with The Grant and Great Swords. Easily the best game this year, by so far other games might as not have existed (much like 2009 with DeS). My back log consists of heavy hitters like GoW3 and Uncharted 3, but I don't care for them, despite my undying love for their prequels. I've almost grown out of gaming it seems, having weened myself off my favourite forums (I'm missing NeoGAF though...). I still visit the odd blog (Kotaku AU, KillScreenDaily, Giant Bomb, Critical-Distance and RPS), but after reading 3 or 4 comments in any article on some of them that mentions a console and a PC at the same time (and sometimes, just mentioning a console is enough) and I'm about ready to throw myself under a bus. And the less said about authors who encourage said attitude the better (Kotaku US is seemingly full of them). All that is to say nothing of the fucking depressing state of official game forums too.
Who the fuck are all these self-entitled, whiny, narrow-minded myopic wankers filling up some corners of the internets?
On that point, the VGA awards came and went this week, if it wasn't for the GiantBomb guys writing pretty excellent articles about it I wouldn't have even been aware. Sounds like I didn't miss anything. Alex was on the money when he said
This simple sentence and its intrinsic, encapsulated meaning sums up my feeling towards gaming. Its attitude towards gamers (EA's project $10; mint game online codes, DLC, you know, just the usual stuff). These aren't the things the industry or especially gamers need, nor are the inevitable backlash each come with unwarranted, but they might just be what it deserves.
Employ - there is nothing worse than being bored.
There is only so much time I can spend creatively engaging others on ThePunch, or ABC's TheDrum each day, and only so many times I can troll the Daily Telegraph pages (incidentally, getting your argumentative ideas posted to Andrew Bolt's blog is difficult if you are in the least bit coherent, never mind your political or logical leanings). And NTNews doesn't update regularly enough to be more than a 0930 login effort.
I'm wasting 1/3 of the best days of my life away in this piece of shit, sycophantic, insular, unimaginative, unengaging, unappreciative, cunthole. A place where external students are not cared for, but preferential treatment is given to PhD students - "oh won't somebody think of the PhD students!", or the many full fee paying internationals who attend.
For example, look at this passive-aggressive piece of shit email from the middle of this year - Richard Torbay, this is in your jurisdiction and I have a time bomb email waiting to go your way about this very thing:
"Hi Folks, how are we progressing with this issue?
I have a female PhD student sitting up in the paddock (doing experimental observations) adjacent to where this person is camping in their vehicle and I don’t believe this is an acceptable situation.
If XXX* security are unable to move these people on I need to know what the next option is.
This needs to be sorted out today"
The answer wasn't to help the student with their accomodation issues for their mandatory intensive school, but was instead to seek the police to escort them from the campus. Next time you see a TV ad about 'little boxes on the hillside', about all the 'care and effort given to external students' feel free to stick your middle finger in the air at the university in question. Fuck them. Seriously. Full of arseholes.
It's a goddamn mandatory intensive school. The uni is empty with halls galore for people to unroll a swag in and a temporary soup kitchen for any one of the numerous cafes in town to supply some staples to for a fortnight. There are youth hostels and youth halls in town to make arrangements with. But no. That's obviously too hard, too progressive.
Fuck you. You're a prick.
Fixing the problem - there is nothing worse than not knowing.
Typing my locale into jobs.com.au returns a laugable 4 results today, down from a marvellous 33(!!) last month. The place has gone into xmas lockdown.
To hell with whinging anymore on that subject though.
*XXX = the university's acronym.
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