Rant 182 / This Is The Internet, Where Dreams Become Virtual Reality

Spore is turning out to be a disappointment. I've played a little in Space Age so far, and it's quite interesting. But what is disappointing is its shallow gameplay from the first to the City Stage. City Stage was so easy! Make tons of money asap, spam cars and rape your neighbours with your cars. When planes are available, repeat above with planes instead of cars. After conquering more than half the cities in the world, the fourth ability should be available, which converts ALL cities aka the World Domination button.

WTF? That is the lamest bullshit I've ever seen in a game. Though the idea of an "I Win" button is rather old, the game designers who thought it'd be great to actually implement it are some of the worst retards ever.

Anyway, City Stage is the greatest failure in the game. Even the arcade games at the cellular stages were not as lame, even if they were rather easy.

Space Age is the part where complexity actually comes in, I think. There are at least hundreds of solar systems, each with at least one planet. These can be colonized using expensive Colonization Box (or something like that) which can be bought at any friendly civilizations.

Plus there is trade. You can get spices from your planets which can then be sold to anyone, including your home planet. How fast these spices are produced depends on your planets' Terrascore, which basically represents how productive they are. Terrascore can be improved by using Terraforming stuff, which I have yet to learn.

I'm still exploring the galaxy, scavenging for relics and fossils to be sold for money, which I need to buy Colonization Boxes, or whatever they're called.






If people make decisions before they rationalize them, does it not mean that it has always been our subconscious minds that rule the world? Does it also not mean that the voices that we picture as our conscious minds are mere tools pretending to be more than what they really are?

What is typing this then? Is it my conscious mind doing it under the control of a silent entity? Should I fear it? People fear the unknown, after all. It is an inborn instinct within humans.

Or should I worship it and call it God? People worship the unseen, after all. It is an inborn instinct within humans.

What if this is really schizophrenia, induced by those fucking shrieking voices from the banshees who don't know enough to STFU when it's past 12am?

Wateva.






For a whole afternoon, my download speed from my room hit 80kbps! What on earth happened? I was surprised, but did not do anything about it, in case I do something to interrupt this phenomenon. Now it's back to 2kbps though. But still, I can play ZM right now with decent, smooth ping. WTF?





If people are desensitized by the multitude of news of death everywhere around the world, is it time for pictures of actual events to be revealed in the media, other than the internet?

If words do not induce the right feelings, will pictures do the trick?



Does this adequately illustrate the disgust I feel for the denizens of the abyss of the net? Though I was not involved in that, finding this screenshot was enough to make me rethink how twisted people can get when there is no law to hold them back.

This is anarchy. This is chaos. This is what it means to have true freedom, the holy grail everyone is searching for. And it is not what they expect it to be. It is dark. It is what it feels like to fly in a sky together with the doves and the eagles and the vultures. It is every man for himself. The weak is weeded out. The strong are the pragmatic. Morality is but a figment of your imagination in a world where the law has no influence.

This is the Internet, where dreams become virtual reality. Where the innocent reveal the demons within. Where the truth truly lies.

Ever wished that everyone would just stop wearing a mask and be who they really are?