Post 44: Cybernations

Cybernations is an online text-based nation simulation game, in which people create their own countries and build them up with the use of lots of different in-game methods. Their are alliances, in which groups small, medium and large come together in order to benefit from Trade Circles, protection and meeting new people. Or at least, that's what the creators want you to think.

What it really is is this: A bunch of morons who do what they're told by their control-freak, elitest leaders who think they know what is best for everybody, and of course, every single leader has a different view of what is best. So, really, it could be compared to our world governments current state. I could go on for hours about how much I hate the people that play this game, but that would be kind of hypocritical, considering I recently closed my latest-formed account.

I had created the account just around the new year and had been talking to people on my alliances forum, on the game forum, and on other alliances forum when I realized something: people are stupid. I've had this view for a long time, but my realization was more in the context of 'people that play this game are stupid, and I need to quit'. The thing about Cybernations is that the meta-game (the politics and huge 300 nation wars) are much more important to the people who play then the actual physical game. Once you reach the point that most of the people who have been playing for around 8 months to a year have, you get bored, and you just start shit for the sake of starting shit. Now, don't get me wrong, I love to do this, but when you're a lowly peon and you're ruled by oppressive assholes who tell you they want to help, but really only help you to a certain point before they stop speaking to you altogether (the point in which you are convinced that they are awesome and you will do everything they say).

Sometimes I just really want to hit people in the head. Hard. That's it for tonight, folks, I've been tangential (VOCAB WORD, BEEYOTCH) enough. Peace out, homeskillets.

-Bobby

Post 43: An Apology

I am aware that I have not posted in a long time (five days) and this is purely out of laziness. Thus, I have constructed a new way of blogging. I'm not going to be posting every day, some days a blog post is just simply out of the question with my schedule, however, by the end of the year, I want to have 365 posts total. I think this is a much more reasonable way to approach intensive blogging, and I am sure most if not all of you will as well. So I plan to do two more posts tonight, both of them kind of half-assed. Again, really sorry to everybody who believed in me so much, but my previous way of going about this project was just insane. Thank you for all the support, everybody, I really don't deserve the praise I've been receiving.

-Bobby

Day 43: Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief

Tonight, I went out with my family to see the first Percy Jackson film. I've never read any of the books, and had no idea what I was walking into. My younger brother, on the other hand, is a die hard fan of the series and was thus our reason for going to see the movie. I was pretty blown away, I really liked it. Though, I feel that it will be a lot like the Harry Potter series in that the first movie(s) aren't going to be able to top the second half in the least. Much to my surprise, my brother also really like the way the movie turned out. Though, when we were walking out of the theater and the entire car ride home he explained all the flaws/differences from the movie to the book. He still thought it was a great movie, anyways.

ASK QUESTIONS, DAMMIT.

Short Story tomorrow might get cancelled tomorrow, and I will instead write about the possible Free Hugging I will be doing. We'll see what happens.

-Bobby

Day 42: Cyclists

On Wednesday night my dad's boss and six of his friends came to our house for dinner. Why? They are all cyclists, and they were taking a trip from Walnut Creek through Monterey with their final destination in Malibu, CA. They were all very nice and they all seemed to be pretty cool guys. My father made 8lbs of meatballs and a vat of sauce, and we had some of the best spaghetti ever created. Dessert was two cheesecakes, a chocolate and a vanilla/lemon. Now, you'd expect that it couldn't get much better then that, but oh, you are so wrong. I slept so well that night it was ridic, and was completely energized for the last day of school in the week. Man, did that feel good.

I NEED MORE QUESTIONS. ASK ME SOMETHING, ANYTHING.

PS - This wasn't late, stupid Blogger didn't post it again.

-Bobby

Day 41: A View Of What's Ahead

Since it's really late and I don't want to do an actual post, I'm giving to show you all what's to come.

Thursday: A blog about what happened tonight
Friday: Percy Jackson Review
Saturday: Short Story
Sunday: Blog about my epic Valentines Day
Monday: Questionaire (sp?)/Maybe I'll tell you all a story about my favorite documentary of all time.

In case I decide to go with the Questionaire, ask me questions either in the comments in the blogs to come, send me a message on Facebook, or shoot me an e-mail. All questions will be answered. Bring it on, the more, the better.

I love you all.

-Bobby

Day 40: Aw, shit. Get your towels ready, it's about to go down.

So, tonights episode of LOST really effing got me hooked. The final twist was almost so awesome I couldn't take it.

SPOILERS: I'm pretty sure Sayid was made invincible by the waters that the asian dude and the translator put him in, but there has to be a catch. Maybe he's possessed by everybody's favorite son of God, Jacob? That's my argument for now, anyways. It was a Kate-centric episode, which at first kind of put me off, because I don't really find Kate's story that interesting, but Kate almost always follows Jack in order of episodes, so I saw it coming. We saw in the pilot that she makes a break for it and gets into a cab with Claire and un-born Aaron inside of it, puts a gun to the drivers head, and tells him to step on it. However, at a few different points during the entire episode of the alternate universe where the plane doesn't crash, Kate seems to somewhat recognize Claire, and is specifically recognizing her when she Claire instinctively names the baby Aaron. I'm thinking they remember things from being on the island, and certain memories trigger bigger ones. This is all speculation, though. Keep that in mind, folks. Then, at the end of the episode, Jin is about to get killed, right? He's got a bear trap on his ankle, and the guy from 'It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia' is about to shoot him, but then out of nowhere he gets shot. We're made to think it's the black guy that he was with, but then the black guy gets lit up, too. After that, I thought 'HOLY SHIT, SAWYER SAVES THE FUCKING DAY! AND THAT'S AWESOME AND SIGNIFICANT BECAUSE HE WAS ALL DEPRESSED AND HE AND JIN ARE BESTIES!' but then, holy shit, even bigger twist. The fucking camera pans over to Claire. WHAT THE FUCK? HOW THE FUCK? WHY THE FUCK? I'm thinking it's not actually Claire, but it's the smoke monster manifesting itself as Claire, because it couldn't take over Sayid. So what's gunna happen is Claire (smoke monster) is going to save Jin and bring him back to the camp where Jack, Hurley, Sayid and Myles (sp?) are, and then they're all gunna be like 'LOLWTF IT'S CLAIRE LET THAT BEEZEY IN HERE' and then The Others are going to let Claire in, but then she'll go hide like Locke did, turn into the smoke monster, and start doing work on The Others, though, I can't be sure the smoke monster wants any of the Survivors. I'm pretty sure he doesn't have any beef with them, but who knows.

Holy shit, that's a long post. If you're not a LOST fan, it's going to suck to be you. You should still read that anyways, though, because I find that it is written pretty hysterically. Anyways, I'm off.

-Bobby

Day 39: Tylenol PM-Induced Haze

I'm not sure how safe it is for me to be writing in the current state that I am in, so I'm going to try and make this one short and I'm going to try not to rant.

Today was a Monday, and thus was a pain in the ass and boring for everyone. However, it does bring us one day closer to Tuesday, which is LOST night, so it wasn't TOO bad.

I've been listening to Joy Division pretty non-stop all day, maybe that helped ease my mood and mental stability into it's current state. Who knows...

I'm off for the night, everybody. Go listen to some Joy Division.

-Bobby

Day 38: Ruh Roh

It seems that the Indianapolis Colts have lost the Superbowl. So, what I need to do is this.

I apologize to all the Saints fans who read my previous post, and retract the statements I made. NOT. Considering it's just a game, and all comments were made in good fun, I'm not sorry if I offended you, because you shouldn't take a game so god damn seriously.

On a side note, school tomorrow, until Friday, when my Joe Pesci given four day weekend begins.

Thank you to all my loyal readers, I am now the 100,678th most popular blog on this site!

-Bobby

Day 37: Gaeux Colts!

It is currently 3:51AM and I have yet to post. So I'm going to say this: in about 12 hours, the Colts will be that much closer to kicking the Saints asses in their first Super Bowl. Manning is going to mop the field with New Orleans, and we're having a party to celebrate.

Your predictions on the Super Bowl go in the comments section, except for Saints fans, you all can go away.

Day 36: Quick Update

Tonight's blog is going to be pretty quick, like all of my latest ones have been. Not a whole lot has been going on in my life lately, pretty normal school, homework, video games routine, nothing terribly exciting. Thought, last night was pretty fun. The first friday of every month there is an Art Walk in Oldtown Salinas, so I went with two friends and we walked around downtown, went to the Steinbeck center (SO EXCITING), and had really good Chinese food. T'was a good night, no doubt. Then I came home and played Call of Duty until I realized it was really late and I needed to blog. So here I am, blogging. Not much else to say other then that, though. Hope you all are doing well, I'm out for the night.

EDIT: For some reason this didn't post last night, and was just saved under my 'Edit Posts' option. Stupid Blogger.

-Bobby

Day 35: I Forgot

So you all get this instead. If you have the time, try and watch at least 3 parts, he's an absolute genius.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKnzPHtf9u4

Day 34: Time Flies Like an Arrow, Fruit Flies Like Bananas.

I really like puns. I really like being overly sarcastic and crude, add these two together, and it can make for interesting conversation, try it sometime.

Today, I got out of school at 1PM.

Minions: Why did you get out of school so early, Bobby?
Me: Well, because every other Wednesday is an early release day, so at 2:45PM, we get to leave.
Minions: But Bobby, that doesn't explain why you got out at 1PM.
Me: You're right, you all get gold stars for observational skills, minions. I got out earlier then 2:45 because my last two classes were free periods, so I just left at 1PM.
Minions: Wow, Bobby, I wish I had your schedule, sounds like you've got it made!
Me: Yep.

That's my explanation, don't like it, too bad.

Recently (today) I've been listening to a lot of music I don't normally listen to. Bands like Dave Matthews, Counting Crows, Steely Dan and The Police. It's been really awesome to go through all the songs that I enjoy listening to by all those bands, and I even found a few new ones that I really like. Problem is, I'm so lazy I keep putting off installing iTunes to my new PC, so I can't rip any of the music from YouTube to my iPod. I've decided to put it off until Valentines Day weekend, when I have the Friday and following Monday off from school.

I found this video on YouTube today about government control and how it is done, and I think it is more then 100% truthful and accurate, and hope you all enjoy it, as that is what I'm leaving you with. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZeiSKnhOBc. Have a good night/day/evening/morning/afternoon everybody.

-Bobby

Day 33: LOST

As some of you may know, I'm a pretty avid follower of the show 'LOST' on ABC. I think it has a very compelling story and is something I've enjoyed watching since the 1st Season. As some of you may also know, the last season premiere was on tonight. One word can describe it fairly simply. Epic. So many questions answered, and so many more brought up. It's an amazing stroke of TV genius, and I'm going to be sad to see it go. However, I think all the fans will enjoy it as it lasts, and we all can't wait to see what happens next, that is for sure. So, another short post tonight, but I leave you with a question I'd like to see all the fellow LOST geeks who read this crap answer.

What did you think?

PS - Another long, heartfelt, meaningful post tomorrow, I get out of school at 1PM, more on that tomorrow.

-Bobby

Day 32: Shoes

I have recently come into possession of some really awesome shoes, they are slip-on Vans, and they are all white. Every surface of the shoe is white, I bought them so I and others could draw on them and make them look awesome. So, I come to you, minions, in search of help. I need suggestions for some kind of design, I don't want pictures necessarily, I want more of a geometric or spiraly-type-thing design, and the shoes can be totally different, I would actually prefer it that way. Any ideas in any form are appreciated, whether it be a text description, or a drawing e-mailed to me at t3hb0b1n4t0r@gmail.com, I'd love to see what you all come up with. That's all for now.

-Bobby

Day 31: Crazy Taxi

This weekend was spent in San Francisco in celebration of my mom's birthday, we all had a great time and I'm very glad I decided to go. Tonight, you are getting one of the better stories from the trip.

So, on Saturday afternoon, we were leaving the SF Westfield to go back to the hotel to get our stuff/car and head home, and we had all been on our feet all day and didn't feel like making the long walk. My dad hailed a cab, and we all hopped in. Now, I've been in enough cabs to know that cab drivers aren't always the safest human beings on the planet, but this was insane. He nearly had us killed at least three times by the end of the ride, and I was literally shaking from fear. One of the bigger things was how he would slam on the gas pedal and slam on the brake pedal, as if there were no in between in terms of speed, it was either speeding up or slowing down in this guys opinion. So, to someone who isn't used to that kind of decision, it's like saying 'Would you rather shit your pants on this car ride or keep them clean?' The scariest thing that happened, in my opinion, was this. He had been holding on the gas pedal for about half the block before he realized that the light was red and wasn't changing any time soon, so he started to push down on the brake. We got closer and closer and closer to the car that was stopped ahead of us, and when we were less then a foot away from it and still had some momentum, the driver pulls the steering wheel to the right and we jerk into the right lane with no time to spare. After that, I just thought to myself 'This guy would be really fucking good at Crazy Taxi' (my favorite driving arcade game of all time). Then I came to the conclusion that most cab drivers might actually have a leg up on the normal person when playing that game. I don't know, I just think it's funny to see how somebody's career can impact how well they do other things in life, like an architect. An architect could probably build some insane stuff with LEGOS. Maybe I'm crazy and neither of those things would ever relate to each other at all, maybe I'm not, I don't know.

Anyways, I'm off for the night. School is going to suck tomorrow, then again, it always does.

-Bobby