If you want to challenge evolution? Fine and dandy. Happens all the time. There's a reason the theory as it stands is not identical to the one that Darwin put forth; science has not stood still for the past two hundred years. Darwin would have had no idea what a "gene" was - the incorporation of genetics into evolutionary theory was one of the ( Read more... )

Watching this video made me feel sick. If it disturbs you, then you're paying attention.

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Columbia police enter a guy's house in the dead of night, guns blazing, find a penned-up pit bull in the kitchen barking at them - that's right, the dog was BEHIND A GATE - and shoot it to death ( Read more... )

Death Note is a bad series. The main character is flat and cartoonishly evil, and his plans are outright ridiculous - the only reason he survives as long as he does is direct protection at the hand of the author.

That is all.

Today is my sister's college graduation. She's earned it, and she's going to med school after this summer ( Read more... )

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Having to run an Exalted game makes mouse sad.
Honestly, I have no real problem with the system; it's White Wolf with some interesting tweaks. The idea of it being essentially "based on awesome" - stunt rolls and the like - is fine by me. I love kung-fu movies. I LOVED Kung Fu Hustle. I've played, and enjoyed, Vampire: the Masquerade, Werewolf and ( Read more... )

This has been bugging me for the past few days ( Read more... )

I fucking hate gym class.

I pay through the nose to go somewhere this smug jackass of a gym teacher (he is a jackass solely by virtue of his profession) forces me to work until it feels like I'm going to die. And I have to pay for this shit or the thousands and thousands of dollars I have spent towards a college degree are going to be for ( Read more... )

From "WoW -> Info -> Basics -> Surviving PVP":

On your career in a PvP realm, ganking will be a common occurrence, particularly while leveling.

What the fuck? What kind of brain-dead game designer makes something where low-level players can be killed with impunity by fuckheads at max level, even in, say, neutral towns (where a level-75 player can ( Read more... )

The following was written when I was feeling sorry for myself, and generally acting like an idiot. I'm leaving it up so the next time I feel like that, I can read it and remember how stupid I can be sometimes.

( Stupid juvenile ranting behind the cut. )