Ok if you don't want to hear about politics.. just stop now. I'm ranting and you might disagree with me. and I'm ganna swear.








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Not kidding, you really should stop. This is just me venting





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The world is going to hell in a handbasket. The conservative extremists are going to wreck everything and who's fault is it? The Extremist Liberals! SJWs, BLM Terrorists it's all their freaking fault! The legitimized the right and who gets screwed? That's right the rest of us, cause SJWs are all pampered privileged little rich kids and BLM is a fucking terrorist movement. Congratulations dip shits, you acted just as bad as the conservative fuck wads and now theirs going to be backlash. Trump has all the justification his arrogant ass needs to act like he's the King of America. So that's my rant, I hate the conservatives and now that's to SJWs I hate liberals too, thanks for crapping on my day.













Now we will return to our regularly scheduled non-infuriating content.

I love the current my little pony, it is really a fantastic reboot. Of course in this age of mobile apps it naturally has several, the officially listened on a city builder type game by Gameloft. I got sucked in and for the past 4 months i,'ve been a bit obsessed so if you play why not share your thoughts with me and freand me in the game with code 011 e9 f yes thais isn,'t the ideal place but I like to share my thoughts and I love this game. Somehow rebuilding Equestrian and collecting ponies is really satisfying, and more friends helps and the game is on iPhone/ iPad android and even windows maybe you-ll like it too?

well for those who don't know I suffer from congedtive heart failure and recently I took another step toward heart surgey. I got surgery for a LVAD(left ventrical assist device) a device that helps my heart pump. I am recovering well and hope to get a transplant soon, thought is might take years. as a result I wasn't able too do much recently as I need to move in with family since I need assistance now.

Browsing Youtube I came upon a channel of 80s toy commercial collections. it had collections of the commercials for some of favorite remembered toy brands. Transformers Generation 1, Thundercats, Silverhawks, GI Joe MASK etc. Naturally Master of the Universe was in the mix, and what shocked me was how.. subdued the advertisements really where. No massive flashy special effects, or loud kids declaring how awesome the toys where. Usually just show the figure and then an example of play time with some kids. Lots of the commercials show their age with mention of price points, rather mundane by today's standards gimmicks (free holo foil stickers kids, free!). One MOTU spot even featured of all things a Vinyl "Adventure Record" pack in.

Thus the deceptively simple, amazingly successful MOTU line was on my mind. And I though about the "mysterious" toys you sometimes came across. Early released meant to be recalled that got missed, toys sent to the wrong market, things like that. Only one still to this day remains unexplained, it's origins unknown, it seems to materialize in toy boxes out of no where. Known today as Wonder Bread He-man this strange loose MOTU figure was your standard He-Man but with differences. NO accessories to speak of and a different color pattern to the official figure. Normally a tan skied, blonde haired barbarian with red trunks and boots WBHM instead was "flesh" toned with brown hair, brown boots and brown trunks. Most remember him as a mail in with proofs of purchase from Wonder Bread.. except.. Wonder bread doesn't recall ever having this figures or a mail in to send out loose action figures for proofs. Mattel the makers of MOTU also have NO records of ever working with Wonder Bread or such a early mail in figure give away. So what is WBHM? A strange artifacts created by the Mandelia Effect? a Conspiracy by the government? a bunch of early He-man figures accidentally released to the public or give away by Mattel employees?

Early reviews are in and it's a resounding... Meh.. for the Ghost Busters reboot. The controversy whipped up by the filmmakers has worked like a charm and a forgettable, soulless, marketing gimmick gained a prominent place in pop culture.

Where the haters a legion of mysogonistic assholes, no, just nerds tired of garbage reboots no one asked for designed to sell soda and cookies and candy and happy meals and action figures and anything else you can brand. But those handful that where, they played into the marketing execs hands perfectly. The outrageous claim the film had a message of Female Empowerment and "Fight The Patriarchy" tailored made to appeal to SJWs looking for the latest virtue signaling action to participate in. And by being insulting, dismissive and outright lining about the nerd audience the marketing convinced them the film was about to be a total car wreck, and we love to stop and rubberneck.

The real target demo? Little kids, just another plan to sell them over priced junk food, over priced junk toys and bug their parents to see and over priced light show on the big screen.

But the first critics have spoken, and Ghostbusters 2016 can join the Robocop reboot, the Total Recall Reboot, the Get Smart movie, the Conan the Barbarian Reboot as just another answer to a question no one ever asks "I can has shitty reboot?"

Anthrocon is coming to Pittsburgh starting tomorrow (the 30th). And despite being a burg fur myself I can't attend due to illness. Thanks to being seriously sick I'm stuck at home because well, I have no stamina and my immune system is badly weakened. The amount of walking necessary for the con and the exposure to con crud (all those lovely international germs) and I might end up in the emergency room! It's a sever disappointment, and awesome furry con right in my home town and I'm stuck home in bed feeling like I got roughed up by a gang of mean spirited nurses!

A recent article on Cracked.com pointed out several movie plots where understanding how time works effect the story. Now sometimes this is true, we see events that would have taken days or weeks present as if a few hours at most have elapsed. But sometimes thinking about how long the events of the film we DON'T see actually take can erase plot holes. Something that seems too fast, suddenly it makes sense if it took days or weeks to complete.

One example the article used was the journey to Alderaan in Star Wars. In the film it seems like the trip takes maybe and hour or so and Luke is a novice force user already? But DID it? Alderaan is a significant distance from Tatooine, it likely took DAYS of space travel thought vast emptiness to get there. Day of nothing and a Jedi Master ready to teach? It's clear that Luke was training and learning about the Force the whole time, developing the start of a deep respect and connection with Ben. Now Luke's embracing the Jedi philosophy and training by the time we get to the Death Star makes sense!

How many moive plot holes vanish when real time scale is applied? I think you find it's amazing how many.

As a general nerdly enthusiast I like some many an aware of the upcoming Mighty Morphing Power Rangers reboot Film. This attempt to cash in on 90's nostalgia and turn to turn a campy kids action show into a "serious action movie" as accented a strange thing for me. The complete unawareness media outlets seem to have about the very EXISTENCE of a franchise when it isn't in the spot light. All the time new sources speak of the Power Rangers Movie like this bizarre alien artifact that existed once then vanished from reality only to return to their complete shock. Could they honestly not even do the lest possible research to become aware.. Power Rangers NEVER went away? I mean seriously in 2017 Power Rangers Ninja Steel the 24th original season is coming to Nickelodeon, a series started in 1993 is about to enter it's 24th season but the media acts like it hasn't been around since the end of the 90s. Power Rangers outlived Fox Kids, it passed though the hands of Disney and now is on Nickelodeon, how can shows can claim that?

"It's really impressive the African American will be the blue Ranger now, that never would have happened." So Power Ranger's Samurai's African American Blue ranger doesn't count? Of what about Power Rangers Mega force's blue ranger, who is also black. What about Power Rangers RPM where the red Ranger, the LEADER was Black?

It is really so hard to understand that yes, Power Rangers was a HUGE deal in the 90s, but it's been steadily pumping out media and merchandise for 23 YEARS now. it is a definitive success story.

Ok rant warning, ganna be basically complaining. One of the myrrard of things that pisses me off, besides the fact that as you age there is always more that just pisses you off, I'm going to call "Moral Loopholeing" a form of justification for bad behavior people are taught early in life. Time and again people will do things that on their face are morally wrong, or borderline sociopathic and then break out some excuse to absolve them or responsibility or justify it. it can be boiled down to simple statements or actions, a few of which I will rage at just for catharsis.

The REAL Golden Rule - The Golden rule is "Do Unto others as you would have done unto you" a good basically rule that means not to do things to other people you wouldn't want done to you. This sadly isn't what a LOT of people actually do what they do is better said as "Screw over others first because they are planning to screw over you", casting the whole world as your enemy that needs to suffer preemptive vengeance.

The Difference Between Right and Wrong is Paying the Price - A terrible believe that boils down to the idea that if no one can prove you did something wrong, it doesn't count as happening. I hope it's easy to see WHY this is horrible as it can justify ANY action.

Crimes against bad people don't count - A terrible justification for behavior when your own horribleness is excused so long as the victim is BAD in your personal judgement. Terrible because what makes You the expert?

Stealing from the Rich is Ok, they can afford it - Terrible because who says what your stealing is something they can get back? What if it has important sentimental attachment? IF you stole money, who says it wasn't meant for someone else who needed it? You think your robin hood for stealing from a corporate bank that rips off it's customers because you stuck it to their victimizer? How do you think they are going to cover their loss? yes by ripping off customers MORE, you stole from the people you meant to help!

Stealing from Outsiders is Ok - Horrible because it devalues your fellow humans, isolationist communities do this a LOT and don't care if they financially DESTROY someone else if it's an outsider. Spreads the idea of division and tribalism both of which I see as terrible.

Equal Good Deeds Balance out Bad Ones. Also know as "The Score Keeper" a particular asshole that often comes in the religious variety. This particular jerk is sanctimonious as they will look down apron others for being amoral, yet commit multiple acts of amorality all the time. But they "balance" out the bad acts with good ones. No your not a good person unless your ALWAYS trying to be a good person, not because you make up for when your PURPOSELY a bad one. You volunteer as a soup kitchen and give to charity.. that's great, your also a peeping tom, a tax cheat and you never tip? Sorry your an ASSHOLE.

I'm sure there are more.. buts that all ticking me off today. I'm sure as time drags me along toward my inevitable death the world will only feel more frustrating. yes I'm my brithday soon and I am feeling OLD.

Every so often we get a mass of reboots to existing properties, some do it continuously, some wait a while.

Recently Cartoon Network rebooted the PowerPuff girls, the reaction is mixed. There is just something missing (well several somethings owing to the new 11 minuet format), by itself it's not a bad show but Cartoon network seems to not want it to be it's own thing. That is to say thye seem to expect the Audience to already know previous version and just KNOW the origin of the main characters and all the returning villains, making it more a continuation that a proper reboot. So new fans are expect to have already seen the old version? How does that make sense, if they saw the old version then they aren't new fans anymore, they are fans of the previous incarnation.

it's not the only show either that seems to have this expectation. CN's Teen Titans GO seems to also expect it's audience to Already KNOW the Older version, and understand it's a Parody of the old show, but still accept tit as a separate entity. They want new fans to jump in with out knowledge and older fans to weather insults the writers have directly made at them?

Disney did the same thing but WORSE with it's Reboot of the excellent Xaiolin Showdown. They pretty much started their "reboot" in the middle of the original show's second season as if to justify not setting up the plot or introducing the characters. This "Midquel Boot" makes not sens e as they had to change the names of the magical objects the show revolved around and character designs due to copy right issues. So they expected new fans to jump in in the middle of the story and older fans to ignore half the series and accept massive design, name and format changes?

I'm not sure what these networks are thinking, wanting to appeal to older fans but at the same time pandering to younger kids? That doesn't make sense, you just confuse the new viewers and insult the older ones. Pick a direction other than "merchandising, merchandising, merchandising!". Cartoon network seems the worst with this, cancelling shows for failures to sell toys despite the huge fan base, rating and acclaim (Young Justice, Thundercats Reboot). In one case the show Symbiotic Titian was canned because of poor toy sales when there WEREN'T any toys, if bad toy sales can be used as a reason how could the punish it for failing to sell non-existent products?

This ever happen to you? You misspell a word and use a use auto correct to fix it and have it replaced by a word you've never heard of? I misspell Disturbing and it got replaced with Drubbing, a word for the life of me I have never heard!

Turns out Drubbing (The noun form of the verb drub) is a word for a beating or a sound defeat. So when you beat someone up your dubbing them! When your drub someone you severely beat up or defeat them.

So that ever happen to you? You discover a word you've never heard while trying to correct spelling?

I was reading comments to a fanfiction story I was reading and someone comments annoyed me. Complaining it was wrong for a character to be depicted as childish and unfair, when the character and OC btw was meant to be immature and EVIL. This was the VILLAIN your not supposed to LIKE them, their flaws are meant to be there to accent WHY they are the villain of the piece, if they didn't have those flaws then they wouldn't be the bad guy.

It got me thinking about a similar annoyance, and that is fangirling(even if the perpetrator is male it's fangirling as far as I am concerned) of villains. Fans insisting a villain is a "good guy" because they have a motivation for their horribleness and are pretty boys. This annoys me because no matter how terrible of people these guys are they are treated like the woobie by the fangirls. the poor victim of a cruel world they everyone is just bullying. In the Yu-gi-oh fandom Yami Bakura is this despite the fact he's a frigging demonic overlord on levle with Satan. Seperoth from FF7 get it even though he's a omicidal slasher villain. Draco from harry potter gets even though he's a terrible racist and coward. How is a real nice guy supposed to get any respect if he's not some kind of pretty boy, why do the highly attractive get a free pass even if they are horrible when moderately good looking people have to PROVE they are good?

Browsing YouTube and the number of in depth deconstruction videos on the movie trailers to Batman v Superman and Star Wars 7 trailers are getting a little insane in their length and number. They are being dissected, interpreted, discussed and deconstructed so much that I wonder if Hollywood is going to start making all movies Trailer length when they realize that's ALL the people need to spend weeks and weeks on them. There is already a Cinema Sins video for the Batman/Superman trailer, like it was a whole movie. I've seen a few videos 10 times the length of the Star Wars trailer begin deconstructed, a hour long discussion of what the films mean before they even are released!? Am I alone in think that's NUTS?

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Author Author Joyce Carol Oates retweeted a image of Steven Spielberg kneeling next to the Triceratops prop from Jurassic park and criticized him for "killing" it. Please, please tell me she is JOKING with this stuff! I can see only 3 possible explanations.
1. This is a Joke, she knows it's a dinosaur and is trying to be funny, I hope this is the case cause.
2.ms Oats does not know what animal is in the picture and thinks it's a rhino or elephant, in which case he observational skills are severely lacking.
3. She believe dinosaurs and humans lived together, crazy itself, and that the Tricertops is still around, in which case... she's insane!

The saddest thing is.. I KNOW there are people out there who would fall into possibility 2 or 3. Being either complete morons who don't know what living animals look like or lunatic creationists or conspiracy nuts who think dinosaurs are still alive!

It's pretty much a given that a LOT of things we recognize as 'Disney" weren't made by Disney but not well know before Disney got a hold of them. Many Animated features we associate with Disney to this day where actually based on children's books, how many know 101 Dalmatians was a book Disney bought the rights too? So last summer we got Big Hero 6, a family friendly CG superhero film from Disney. You might say "wow those are some cool hero Disney created I wonder where they got their ideas? And well the answer would be, from Marvel Comics who way back in 1998 published Sunfire & Big Hero 6. The movie is a family friendly version, where the 6 characters created just for the book got new names, origins and powers (Wasabi for example became the token black guy and Fred' power became a battle suit rather than turning into a Kaju). Disney won't hide the truth mind you, if asked they tell you, yea big hero 6 are marvel characters. So I am wondering what other obscure marvel properties will get a family friendly make over and be presented as "Disney's (insert name)" I expect that Power Pack will get the treatment, . Power Pack is a Marvel team of pre-teen heros, all siblings who got super powers from there scientist father Professor Power's experiments heck in the 70s an attempt at a live action series was done, it never got past it's pilot Movie. I could easily see Disney recasting Powerpack as Tweens or Teens and using what ever teen performers they have under contract at the time.

I love the pokemon series of games, collecting little monsters and making them beat the stuffing out of one another. Being such a popular franchise there are many fan theories out there that trying to make them series seem darker, if you read the pokedex and realize this is unnecessary, or trying to explain plot holes in the various media depictions of the franchise. But one I personally am behind seems like it should be the most mind blowing.

Basically in the universe of pokemon all animals are in fact pokemon. Humans are themselves a kind of animal. So wouldn't it be true then that in the pokemon universe humans are yet another pokemon? Some plot holes in the anime usually pointed out are the insanity of Human trainers sparing directly with their fighting pokemon, humans with mystical powers only associated with pokemon, and the protagonist being hit with pokemon attacks like fire and lighting and only suffering minor injuries. But if humans are pokemon these thing suddenly make sense! proper training can let humans compete with the innately talented fighters pokemon are, they would have the same sorts of powers and attributes as pokemon and pokemon attacks would hurt them in the same manner as other pokemon. One of the games implies humans and pokemon once intermarried, again if humans are pokemon too this isn't far fetched. Humans with oddly pokemon like traits might just be having their genes express dormant traits of ancient non-human ancestors. And lastly the anime protagonist Ash only has a mother, no mention of any kind of father is really make, leading to rumors Ash's father in secretly Prof Oak or the League Champion, but, what if.. he's a pokemon?

I'm disabled (a lovely categorization of Disabled that doesn't get me hired anywhere BTW) so I sadly have way too much time on my hands. So I tend to fill it with TV and Internet stuff. Now that that's set up, what is it with people and not understanding how "Breaking the Law" works? Somewhere along the way people seem to become convinced that if your break the rules enough times they stop counting? "Oh I park there all the time, and so does everyone else" is not an excuse for parking illegally. "Everyone else does it so it's not wrong" is not a defense, there isn't some magic number of times you can commit a crime and become innocent of it. Then we get the attitude of "Well I was mad, so I broke the law", like this somehow forgives you from breaking the law. You where mad so it's not your responsibility to obey the law now?
I for one don't do illegal things because I understand "the law does not care if everyone else does it and doesn't get caught, you get caught your busted!" Disobeying a law you find unjust is not the same thing as disobeying a law because it inconveniences you. People who constantly break traffic laws because they need to "get where they are going" fast then everyone else sicken me. People who steal and blame the victim make me pissed. Rapists in general piss me off, but ones who blame the victim, need to be physically castrated. And justifying your behavior with " ell everyone else is doing it" it bull shit no matter the severity of the crime!

I sez ye be a sky pirate now.. ye be Captain (Your Favorite weapon) (Your Favorite Animal) (The Last Kind of Tea you drank), scourge of ye skyways! So sez I Captain Bazooka Fox Lipton Brisk!

I've been having some stomach issues lately that have been keeping me up, and it's starting to make my mind and body scare me. Lack of sleep leads to auditory hulcinations so that's been fun, but now it's teaming with physical symptoms to just.. freak me out. Basically I had to vomit and it.. came from 2 directions at once? It's the only way to describe it and it.. just disturbed me so much... sneezing, coughing, gagging combined with feelings of unexplainable dread and confusion, it's not pleasant.

Today I feel... nullified. Not really bad, but not anywhere near good. I just feel, there, a mass of flesh in space. It's like I'm too bored be depressed. I hope this doesn't last too long.

It's that time of year again, Christmas is a few days away so it's wall to wall Christmas Special Time! Things like how the Grinch Stole Christmas and 15 versions of a Christmas Carol. Not long ago in 2011 a new Smurf's Christmas Special was dropped, I didn't bother to watch it, but this year it happened to be on when nothing good was on so I watched. And just... Wow. On the surface just another rehashing of a Christmas Carol, with Grouchy Smurf in the Scrooge role.

The first problem, why Grouchy is being visited by the 3 spirits. After declaring he's skipping the Xmas activities this year Papa Smurf whips up a potion to make him see the true meaning of Christmas. Basically Papa has whipped up a magic potion to give Grouchy nightmares so he will conform to the group standard. Rather than try I dunno, talking to Grouchy, seeing what exactly his problem is we resort to forcing him to think the way we want?

Second problem, why Grouchy is pissed. He asks for a Hang Glider every year, every SINGLE YEAR, and never gets it. During the "Christmas Past" segment we are shown this, every year with out fail he wants a Hang Glider but just like every other Smurf he gets a new hat, it's even implied it's the SAME hat every time. Worse one flashback shows he has been mocked by Jokey Smurf with a gag gift box. The worst thing is at the end of the special we find out this hat is "special" as it can... be used as a Hang Glider. it never occurred to Papa Smurf to tell his moist miserable charge that "This hat is especially for you, oh and it can let you hang glide too, so it's actually what you wanted!" Grouchy is just expected to figure this out on his own with out even the barest hint.

The Christmas Future part is equally bad. After we are shown that Clumsy Smurf, in a effort to put the Star on the Xmas Tree (Grouchy's job), has basically destroyed all decorations, which Smurfette blames Grouchy for by the way, we are shown that the ENTIRE village went to Western Forest to get a new tree, the spirit making sure Grouchy knows it was to cheer him up specifically, and have been captured by Gargamel. Now being caught by Gargamel is something the Smurfs deal with several times a WEEK, but it's implied that now they are doomed and can not escape. Worse the spirit then leaves Grouchy to not just see his friends in mortal peril but tangibly IN Gargamel's house, the whole "we can't be seen or interact with these visions" rule gets thrown out and Grouchy is now in danger too. Grouchy only awakens when he is SECONDS away from plunging head first into a cooking fire.

So yea we have a miserable guy being shamed and terrorized as punishment for being miserable and a little bit selfish basically being told that unless he puts a decoration on a Christmas tree the "special needs" Smurf with wreck everything and his whole family will be captured by their worst enemy and be killed! Even Scrooge didn't get it THAT bad! And an easy solution to cheer Grouchy up the whole time could have been for his "father" to ask him what was wrong and tell him "well the present I keep trying to give you CAN do the same-thing that the gift you keep asking for can".

Fursuits maybe a highly creative and visible part of the fandom, don't get me wrong. But is anyone else just a little tired of the Fandom being described as "People who like to get together and dress up in animal costumes"?
I recently watched one of these top 10 lists on Youtube, ok it was a top 5 but you know the kind of video I mean. It was the Top 5 Furries in Video games. And the list included the main characters from Hitman, Saints Row the 3rd and Super Mario!? How in the f*%K is Mario a furry? Wearing an animal costume does not make a character a furry! The list ignored characters like Sonic the Hedgehog and at number one listed some indie game about nameless furry characters killing each other by impaling one another with random objects. Really dozens of games include furry protagonists, you could easily do a top 10 or top 20.
Furry costumes will always be a part of the fandom, and I am ok with that. But dammit there is more to the fandom that fursuits and porno!
Is my understanding of the fandom to inclusive? I thought it was about the love of anthromorphic animal characters and the many many ways one can express that that.

after everyone got pissed over the changes to youtube the voices of reason pointed out "you just use your google+ passwrod for youtube now, no big deal". And I accepted this. Which it turns out was a false assumption. Like most websites Goggle+ lets you stay logged in from one computer for a few days, it's pretty standard for e-mail sites and the like. Eventually your automatically logged out. Today the log-in time on Goggle+ ran out but my log in time on Youtube did NOT run out. SO I was logged into Youtube but I needed to long into Google+ Again to get the comments system to work! Will you have to log in to a separate account in addition to your g-mail account to access your in-box next?

So again I must ask, WHY!? Why do you need to have 2 separate accounts, a Goggle+ and a Youtube account before Youtube functions fully? What is the point of this redundancy!? It would be like having to log-in to my e-mail every time I wanted to watch my TV! Or like having to pay a fee to be able to pay for bus fare!

The entire idea that my Youtube account only partly works until I'm signed in to my Goggle+ account is so.. so... irritating. Adding a extra step for no good reason, I'm sure they have a reason but it's gotta be stupid, is annoying!

As some maybe noticed Youtube recently changed policies. A new idiotic policy change makes it so if you log in to yourtube you HAVEN'T REALLY logged in unless you ALSO have Google account and are currently logged into it at the SAME TIME. Now I hear people saying "but a Google account is free what's the problem?" and yes that seems like a logical argument. Hell I HAVE a Google account (though for the life of me I don't remember when or why I got it). The issue is if I have a account for Youtube why the rotted hell do I NEED an account for a separate service to USE IT? Shouldn't all the functions of my Youtube account work when I am logged into it? If your going to make Youtube accounts dependent on Google accounts should you just fucking MERGE THEM? It's just so dammed idiotic! Haveing some kid of "sub'account" for Youtube is a freak WASTE!

Dang it my code should bet it should be 3695-0253-4135