Rant 500 / How Big?

This is grotesque! What the heck is that line at her crotch? Is that a giant 10cm-wide penis I spy hidden in those pants? Or is that her panty line?

For those who can't see what I'm talking about:


If that's how she wears her G-string it's probably because the largest she could find could only fit around her thigh. Just look at the lengths it's stretching to. What's the point of wearing it anyway?

I know I'm probably being incredibly offensive here but it made me laugh hard when I first saw this in my mind. What a mind I have. It's no wonder I have difficulty sleeping at night.












First Gala Net set insane prices for the Cash Shop, now Astrum Nival has decided to nerf lots of stuff that seem to make things worse. Game's still too good to leave and after some thoughts I decided that the Cash Shop really doesn't concern me.

The mount (horse) will be implemented in the future but it will require food bought from the CS to perform better. How fast it will move without that food is a major factor in my decision on whether to leave the game, in addition to the difficulty of farming CS items. That's because the mount is an important means of transportation that really speeds up travel a lot in most games (40-60% in most mmorpgs I've played).













Hypocrisy. I admit it. I have done things I have spoken against in the past. Nothing I say in defence would not be an excuse.













Speed hacks in MMORPG. Bots I understand because they do mundane, repeatable tasks for players. Hacks, I don't see the use for. It's a frickin MMORPG, which basically is just interactive MIRC! And they need to cheat!

It's like they fail in life so hard the only way to succeed in anything is to win via illegal means in the genre of computer games that most regard as the least demanding. I mean, 90% of the time it's just spamming keys when you're not chatting. What sort of "skill" is require to hit the same keys over and over again??

The idea of using hacks in a MMORPG is just ridiculous, if not plain retarded, imo.

I find it laughable when avid MMORPG fans insist that skill is required to be a good player. I beg to defer. You don't need skill to be great at those games; you need patience and diligence.

Let me state what is usually a good mmorpg player. It is one who has fantastic weapons and armour. How does one go about acquiring such "uber gear"? By working hard, killing tough monsters a lot everyday. Is there skill involved in killing such monsters beyond that which is necessary to spam the right buttons at the right time? Absolutely not. Since we don't consider spamming buttons a "skill", there is no talent required to be the best in such games.

Hence those at the top of these games are really the most diligent. They are not necessarily the quickest, the smartest or whatever, but are definitely able to withstand the mind-killing boredom involved in killing the same frickin monsters day in and day out with minimal rest. In other words, they are like the computer geek version of sweatshop workers, except they pay money to work instead of vice versa.

But why would anyone sane want to go through what I've just described? Here's a concept that may be foreign to some people - the e-peen. Derived from "e-penis", it's basically the ego of a gamer just like how penis length affects the ego of some men. The better the equipment you wear, the bigger your e-peen. When a virtual avatar is wearing shiny golden armour that takes months of non-stop farming to get, the owner will feel proud of it even though it really doesn't make much sense. But it happens somehow, and other players would look up to him as a role model. Of what quality, I don't know. Insane diligence maybe.

Me, I just play these games for the interaction. The teamwork you get in guild/clan raids in dungeons and the rewards you get when you succeed, these things don't happen in real life. Same with the RTS/FPS hybrids I play.












There was a time when I would speak against religion. That was before I realized the importance of religion. A common theme among all major religions of the world is afterlife. If you thought afterlife is not a major issue, you're completely wrong. It is THE issue that all these religion employ to make people do good. The fear of the unknown is strong in all humans, probably due to evolution. It is this characteristic that the idea of afterlife exploits.

Think about it. How many people do good only because they fear an eternity in Hell or be reincarnated as a cockroach? I'd say most religious people would fall into that category. To unbelievers, they're all being nice for nothing at all! People are inherently good? Bullshit. People are inherently fearful. They fear a shitty life, they fear disease, they fear Hell, they even fear fear itself. With this fear comes discipline. In order to prevent what they fear, they'd work harder to prevent it from getting close or happening.

And what better fear than the fear of something whose existence cannot be proved or disproved, yet could happen to everyone if it's true? It is the perfect fear to be used to create discipline. If you can just see how flawless it is, you'll stare in wonder at the simplicity and effectiveness of this idea. Whoever came up with it, he's more amazing than Einstein. You don't even need to do anything beyond creating a flawed story and everyone would be nice to each other. It can't get any better than that!

Without this delusion, humanity would be perfectly neutral instead of being slightly inclined to do good. A lot of people would not be doing things for nothing. Why get rid of religion?















moot, the creator of 4chan, appears on CNN. I'm surprised. He usually keeps to himself. When he revealed his name to be Christopher Poole some years back, many believed it was a play on the acronym C.P. which stands for "Child Porn", the only thing that's banned from the entire 4chan.

Anyway I think he's right when he said it is scary how people are discussing things they would never have said before we had things like Facebook and Twitter.

FYI 4chan is one of the most popular website on the Internet with 8 million visitors (ie unique IPs) a month according to moot. From Wikipedia, he's also pretty deep in debt as of February last year probably because few want their ads on such a notorious website.













Holy shit! The Romans did have artificial sweeteners back then! Better still, it was a lead compound! Since honey and sugar are always expensive luxuries in more primitive societies (kinda like salt before we started mining it like crazy with big machineries), lead acetate was what they used to sweeten food. According to Wikipedia, it was used to preserve fruits.

They frickin ate lead! Not just drink it (they used lead water pipes), but ate it!

Lead acetate, aka lead sugar, really doesn't look very different from our white processed sugar. It's also a white crystal and tastes sweet. They used to make it by boiling grape juice in lead pots into a thick syrup.

Makes you wonder if centuries into the future, people would discover that a random common ingredient we use today is really toxic and/or causes certain common conditions.












Now for something much more matured, yet less.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbmZ6ZB_-Wc&feature=related

Can't embed, so here's the link. How big is a dinosaur's penis? Have some prehistoric soft porn.













http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/528052

Barbershop Quartet Hits On Girl From Taxi.