Slightly annoyed now because I just died from an instant death spell that did not work on anyone except my main dude. Grr... I could feel that I was getting near the next save point and was planning to save and take a break. Now all my efforts have been wasted.
It is not fair because no available equipment protects me from such spells. It is pure blind luck at work here and it screws up my day when I die because of just one spell that I cannot be immune/protected from. Completely unavoidable. Only consolation is the small chance of success.
It's pretty screwed up if there is a constant chance of losing all your progress since your last save and you cannot prevent it. Damn the game designers.
In Soviet Russia, lesbians love men!
I am very glad that I'm using 2 antivirus programs and Firefox. I was tricked into clicking a very normal-looking link that turned out to be a website that makes me download a worm. It looked so legit! Fortunately Firefox stopped it and issued a warning that it was reported as a malicious website. My Nod32 also popped up a warning.
LOL! I feel fucking safe now. At least against dangerous websites and programs.
I just found out I couldn't spell "millennium". I thought it had a single "n" like "millenia". Fact is, both words have double "n". Been relying on dictonary.com for so long my spelling sucks now. Gah!
Rule 34 is almost an universal rule of the Internet. Rule 34 is "If it exists, there is porn of it."
There is almost nothing that doesn't have a porn parody. If you cannot find it, just request for it on 4chan. Someone posted a picture of a dog next to its dead owner who was covered by a white cloth, a very sad thing, and requested a Rule 34 of it. Someone shooped (slang for photoshopped) it into having the dog humping the head of the corpse.
Extremely obscene, but it exists. Therefore, it is almost a law, not just a rule.
Of course, there are exceptions. For example, ideas cannot have Rule 34's, like the idea of Communism. So I cannot say that it's a law. But it covers every single anime, famous person and etc quite completely.
I like to believe that my constant blogging helps me maintain, if not improve, my command of written English. I don't really care anymore whether you readers read everything I type. Seriously, I wouldn't read everything I type. I talk about so many games that are pretty obscure in Singapore, so I don't expect anyone who knows me to know most of the games that I rant about.
Same with books. I don't know many people irl (short for "in real life") who reads fantasy/sci-fi. It's like reading fiction is some sort of exotic hobby in Singapore, on par with mountain-climbing and butterfly-collecting. Goodness knows how many Singaporeans have actually heard of A Song of Ice and Fire, even though it's one of the best fantasy series out there right now.
The thing is, having a good writing style is not practical. The probability of me becoming a successful writer is very slim at best. I'm an engineering student, so writing well isn't exactly a very useful ability. I've seen people who couldn't write shit to save their lives do better than me in their exams.
Then again, I'm gradually losing confidence in "practicality". I figure that the reason people are practical is because they don't see the need to do more than necessary. Let's admit it, Singaporeans are a practical people, or else there would be many more people going for Arts courses. Or professional sports, for that matter. We'd be having a soccer school like the UK.
Therefore, I can say that Singaporeans see no reason to do anymore than necessary to survive. Success is a bonus and something that the government does for them. They don't care, as long as they live without trouble.
But let's take a look at "successful people". Generally, they're willing to go the extra mile in what they do, which accounts for their success. Yes, they're also very smart in their own ways, but Singaporeans are not stupid either. They have the smarts, it's the reason that is lacking.
Why don't we see big brand names created in Singapore other than Creative? No famous fashion designers? The only famous writer here is Catherine Lim. No really famous athletes but Fandi, and I'm stretching the truth a bit here. Just being small is no reason for not producing big things. Nepal is small, but their Gurkha soldiers are some of the best soldiers in mordern times. Rome started out as multiple small villages that eventually became the Roman Empire. Blizzard Entertainment was a tiny 3-man company that became successful with Diablo.
I believe Singaporeans should stop looking at life like it's a task that they need to complete. We should start teaching Philosophy in secondary school. A very general course that introduces the ancient philosophers from everywhere. Lao Zi, Descartes, etc. FFS (short for For Fuck's Sake), I bet 80% of all Singaporeans don't know where the quote, "Cogito ergo sum" came from, or even what it means. (Answer: René Descartes)
It'd help give more children a sense of purpose in life, other than the stereotypical Confucian stuff (for the Chinese, at least). The government want students to think, but they aren't giving them a good reason to. Telling them to do something doesn't exactly make a good motivation.
The children don't know what to do with their lives, other than what their parents tell them to, if at all. What's the use of thinking if we don't see any use for it? Learning philosophy may help them find their way through, opening doors they never knew were there. Once they know what they're doing and have a real goal, they may just see the point of thinking in life.
To succeed to is do more than just "enough", to go further than is "practical".
Of course, I have absolutely no basis for everything I say. I'm merely suggesting what is already done in other countries. I have no numbers or facts to prove that it would help. It does sound good though.
This is why I call all these, rants.
I'll end this with a pic I find extremely hilarious.
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