SEVERAL THINGS

1) TODAY I MET JOHN BARROWMAN. He is one of those people that I have to say is indisputably gorgeous despite my sexuality and also amazingly funny, has a great singing voice. TOTALLY BY ACCIDENT WE RAN INTO A HUGE CROWD STANDING OUTSIDE THE OPENING HE WAS STAYING AT JUST HAPPENED TO BE IN THE AREA BY CHANCE WTF.

2) my life still sucks.

2.5) CAUGHT IN THE WEB OF CONSUMERISM is going to stay with me forever ty pedro; isha.

3)
THE FAMILY TREE MEME

fffff thanks to knackster, I got the chance to execute a text adventure game thing that I've been planning for a while. Thank you a million times over for the awesome tool for making text adventures!

It's done in less then a day when I could be putting it off for years again. It also looks a lot fucking classier too.


Once Lycos stops cocking around (what do you mean it doesn't exist) I'll be able to show it to you. FINALLY.

Those of you who knew me back in...sophmore year may find this familiar.

( DISCLAIMER: I aint responsible for yo stomach. ALSO ANYONE CAN PLAY THIS AND UNDERSTAND IT. )

I can't paint with anything I can't feel physically in my hands.

Keep going or stop...? I see unfixable mistakes but I might be insane.

Fun facts;

1) Yesterday, the Large Hadron Collider made its first collisions.

2) Yesterday was the 150th Anniversary of the Origin of Species :V

Happy Awesome Discovery Day, folks.

I've wanted to talk about this for a long time and it's time I put my opinion out there.

Fact. If you got your dog, from a pet store, or a breeder that did not show and CHAMPION EVERY SINGLE DOG in your dog's bloodline, or one that did not health test, you should be ashamed of yourself. You have supported the backyard breeding industry. The exception to this is obviously a shelter, rescue, or humane society. YOU ARE NOT SAVING DOGS IF YOU BUY THEM FROM PET STORES. YOU ARE SUPPORTING PUPPY MILLS. LET. THEM. STAY.

While the documentary PETA (AND LET'S NOT EVEN TALK ABOUT FUCKING PETA, OKAY, DON'T BELIEVE A WORD OUT OF THEIR ANIMAL MURDERING HYPOCRITE MOUTHS) put out touches on some problems it does not mention the ideas of health testing, nor does it mention how responsible breeders are annihilating genetic diseases due to their devotion and love of shaping a better future for dogs. Speaking of that documentary;
http://blacksheepcardigans.com/ruff/?p=568 PLEASE READ THIS. BOTH PARTS. Why the Kennel Club should NOT parent breed clubs and why basically everything the documentary said is wrong.

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS HYBRID VIGOR IN DOGS! MUTTING UP LINES WILL NOT MAKE THEM HEALTHIER! Breeders have screened animals for years and bred some dogs specifically for sets of genes that may CARRY but not EXPRESS PROBLEMS. MUTTS DO NOT HAVE THIS SCREENING! AND NO CROSS-BREEDER DOES IT!

Oh, and about PETA: in 2008 PETA adopted out under .3 percent of its animals in PETA-owned shelters.

http://www.petakillsanimals.com/petasdirtysecret.cfm

"PETA rakes in nearly $30 million each year in income, much of it raised from pet owners who think their donations actually help animals. Instead, the group spends huge sums on programs equating people who eat chicken with Nazis, scaring young children away from drinking milk, recruiting children into the radical animal-rights lifestyle, and intimidating businessmen and their families in their own neighborhoods. PETA has also spent tens of thousands of dollars defending arsonists and other violent extremists.

PETA claims it engages in outrageous media-seeking stunts "for the animals." But which animals? Carping about the value of future two-piece dinners while administering lethal injections to puppies and kittens isn't ethical. It's hypocritical -- with a death toll that PETA would protest if it weren't their own doing. "

PETA kills animals because it has other financial priorities.

7 things you didn't know about PETA:
http://www.petakillsanimals.com/article_detail.cfm?article=134

Okay I wanted to talk a little more about Pathologic really because it's something you should play.

First off THIS is the game you are looking for not the other one that i've never heard of:





Okay so Pathologic has two goals. 1) Find the truth. 2) Survive. These goals are seperate and equal throughout the game. That is, surviving will not help you find the truth and finding the truth will not help you survive. While you are inquiring as to the nature of things you must also remember to eat, drink, sleep, and not strain yourself.

The graphics aren't the best, but they do create the appropriate theme of a town diseased in more then one way.

The atmosphere in this game is truly intense.

The story is split into the three healers that arrive in town, the Harpusex, Devotress, and Bachelor, and each has a different plot entirely. You gotta play all three to truly understand what is going on.

IDK ASK ME QUESTIONS ABOUT IT THIS IS A REALLY HARD GAME TO DESCRIBE. The closest I can think of is that it's basically an oldschool adventure game fully realized in 3D.

11:14 AM - Staring blankly at document. Decide to make bullet points.

11:27 AM - one body paragraph done, no intro, no conclusion, totally stumped. christ.

11:35 - help meeeeee

11:58 - back on track. ffff. 1000 characters, 17 lines. Max is 4000 and 47 lines.

12:18 - 1,288 characters but it's a lot better structured now. Am running out of things to say about myself. HELP.

12:20 - 1776! Starting to be structured! Go me!

12: 56 - Coffeeeeeeee....brains.....staaatement.....

12:57 - REALIZATION THAT BATTERY POWER IS DYING OHNO.

2:43 - Sob. 2,068. HOW DO PEOPLE TALK ABOUT THEMSELVES. Am eating instant coffee from the can. Fastest way to get caffeine to bloodstream. ya rly.

3:44 - Took a break since last time.

3:47 - I really wish cameras had a setting that would change all or certain settings to a predefined value that you setup once, this way every time when you turned your camera on you would not spent the day shooting at ISO1600 or on small JPEG or something stupid that you didn't notice.

3:51 -
I would take one shot as good as this in my life and I'd be able to put down my camera and feel good about myself until I died.

3:57 - Alec Soth did this interview and he talks about "what's the point of making photos in a world where there are 2 billion images on Flickr" which I think basically boils it down, why do you make pictures?
For me it's because this is the way to tell my story and show you what I see. I don't care what you get out of it because you're only ever seeing what I see and you can never know what I know or tell what I was thinking or know the whole story like I might have.

3:59 - “the photographer is in effect voyeur by nature"

So a lot of people have been asking me about horror games they should play and it comes to my attention that yeah yeah

WE'VE ALL PLAYED SILENT HILL

AND FATAL FRAME

AND RESIDENT EVIL.

This post is not about that. This post is about horror games/levels that you've probably never played and why that's a crying shame.

- Penumbra series. This is a game that pretty much entirely lacks combat in any real shape or form whatsoever. It's hard. It's frustrating. You will die a lot. And you will piss your pants. I am a big fan of games that lack real contact besides your protagonist when it comes to horror. In Penumbra: Overture you never meet anyone besides yourself; and your only human contact is through a radio with a mysterious man called Red who doesn't seem to be all there. It explores a deserted mine; mentioned in a letter left by your father, that you become trapped in. Something happened here. The atmosphere in this is AMAZING. It's claustrophobic and creepy and leaves you with a sense of helplessness and despair that I love. PC. First-person-ohgodwhatisthatRUNAWAY

- Robbing the Cradle from Thief 3. This goddamn level has been nominated for most terrifying in any videogame ever and it's pretty obvious why. Okay, the schtick is boring, blah blah orphanage insane asylum blah. It's all in the execution of the slow dawning horror of the Cradle and it gets me every time. In Thief, the ability to take out/down guards is always counted upon. So when shit like unkillable, unavoidable enemies show up it kind of shakes your world. Too bad this is the penultimate level of the game because I wish more people played it. PC. First-person adventure.

- Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem I love this game. I love mindfuck games. I'm not saying any more. Don't look it up. Just go into it with an open mind. And if you do play it keep in mind the fun crap all happens when your sanity is low. Gamecube. Action-adventure Silent Hill style fetch quest exploration puzzle game.

- System Shock 2 is fucking amazing and a classic and you should play it NOW. FPS. Old ass PC.

- Scratches is a tale about a horror novelist who goes to an abandoned house to find inspiration for his book. We all know how that sort of set up ends. The beauty of this game is the atmosphere, the pacing, and the things that shift just outside your field of vision. PC, I think. Point-and-click adventure.

- Pathologic is honestly where I lose all words. Your three playable characters arrive in town. They don't know each other. Their paths barely interact over the course of the game until late game. Everything seems normal when they arrive.

Then everything goes to shit on day two. A horrifying, deadly disease breaks out. The town is quarantined on day five. On day six the army moves in and begins burning people in the streets. Not bodies; people. At the same time, three ruling families make their movie. Everything begins to occur at once. Plans laid for centuries come to the fore.

This game is hard. You will trade your gun for food because your character will be starving and you will have nothing else. You will master the nightmare economy of a disease-ravaged town or die brutally, unforgivingly, and quickly. You will trade your food for medicine because your infection-ravaged systems have no use for things you vomit back up anyway. You decide what you need most to survive. If you're wrong? The game keeps going. Survival slips away, and with it the truth. Because you see Pathologic runs on a time frame. Everything happens at a set time, and if you're not there it keeps on going. THERE IS SO MUCH GOING ON IN PATHOLOGIC. You will not figure it out the first time. You will not even finish the game the first time.

Play this.

PC. First person adventure.

I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream is an adaptation of Ellison's short story about a mechanical brain with such an unending hatred of humanity that it annihilates it - then keeps five people alive to torture forever. Why? Why me? Well, perhaps if they were good people... PC, Point-and-click.

The Void/Tension is a creepy game about the afterlife, freedom, and gender. PC. Point and click...sorta. You'll see what I mean. These are the people who made Pathologic. It's not as brutually unforgiving, but it is quite good. It plays like Okami, if you know what I mean? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M30G5KMjzk

Killer 7 is made by the same acid-trip-without-acid-needed mind that created No More Heroes. It's a good story. Gamecube. FPS.

I figured I'd throw this up here once again.

http://listography.com/nathair_aonad

FIRE ALARM

4:30 AM

FUCK YOU MOTHERFUCKER.