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It's Late

    Spring break is coming to an end and I realize that I haven't done a single productive thing all week... life is good.  Apart from that though; to tell the truth there isnt really anything else to say.  I'm really tired... but as it's one of the last days I have the opportunities to do this, I'm not even planning on going to bed at a reasonable time.  So here's one for all those late nights spent in amiable boredom, doing nothing, just enjoying whatever petty hobby you spend your night time hours with.  I for one, am going to use this night to the fullest... or do absolutely nothing.  Either way, this is The Albino, signing off to fight the forces of sleep with caffeine and mildly addicting, late night internet games.

So Much Anger

I already typed this up once and the thing glitched, however I will persevere.
Why are the fanboys, generally the loudest, most vocal of an interest group's supporters, generally the least informed? It seems as though some find it their duty to distort facts, create bitter rivalries, and devote their entire lives to what amounts to nothing. The gaming industry is widely known for this tech-racism, but it seems to have afflicted every other part of our lives as well... music, other technology, our friends, what we wear, the list goes on and on. Self expression is great, I love that, but when you refuse to accept the merits of something simply because of a brand name or a certain label then your self expression has lost all validity and you've descended into pig-headed ignorance.
What really makes me shake my sandwich, is the total lack of information that many people spew to prove a point. America has gotten to a point where it's not who speaks best, it's who speaks the loudest that really counts. We follow the crowd, accepting the first assertive voice as our guide on everything. We no longer examine the doggerel being pushed down our throats, we nod our heads and except everything at face value, there's no objective scrutiny. This has devolved into more of a rant than a blog, but I'm sick of people bending the truth, I'm sick of the way people refuse to think for themselves, and I'm just sick of the **** that we have to put up with every day of our lives.
Our society is afflicted with diarrhea of the mouth and constipation of the brain, and this imbalance is taking a toll on our country. People need to think for themselves, they need to become dependent upon their own thinking skills instead of taking the nonsense that people are spewing on every street corner. We're moving closer everyday to the society that's described in Fahrenheit 451, people are reading less, accepting everything at face value. We're moving slowly, inexorably to a world where instead of thought, we have acceptance, nub belief in whatever mouthpiece is being used loud enough to catch our attention.
Things need to be judged on merit, which the average person now seems incapable of doing. We need to move away from interest groups controlling our government and our society; but more importantly, we need to regain control of our minds.

This is the Albino, fighting the good fight.

Arrghhhh, There Be Pirates Ahead!

This morning I had the pleasure of reading PC gamer, and as I was flipping through I noticed on article on the safegaurds that publishers are putting on games to prevent pirating.  As it turns out, these programs not only protect against piracy but they also protect against legitimate users.  Personally, I've never had this problem, but according to the editor these programs can really screw up you system ( he mentioned a program called StarForce specifically).  It seems to me that these bugs in protective software might end up costing the gaming industry more in lost sales than the actual piracy itself.  Developers really need to work out the problems with this kind of thing before they start losing their consumers.

Also in this article, they had a really cool anti-piracy program that actually let the pirate play the game, but slowly degraded the experience.  If the pirate was a hot shot sniper, the game's protection would slowly deteriorate his accuracy until his ability was totally neutralized.  Anyway, thought that was pretty cool.

Welcome to the Jungle

   Hey, welcome to my profile.  I know it's about two weeks overdue, but I'm finally setting up my blog.  I'm going to try and keep the topics in discussion as broad as possible, I really want to hear what the rest of the gaming world thinks.

   All I ask is that you keep your comments kind of brief, and don't start any of those idiotic fire fights, thanks for reading.