Rant 763 / Keel Damn Awl!

Very strong feet and hands.








So in the last few days I've found fan-made Oblivion videos floating about on the Internet. Those aren't just any boring gameplay videos; those are porn videos made using a modded version of Oblivion.

For a very long time, I've been aware of the existence of mods that enhance the appearance of all the characters, change their clothes into birthday suits (the developers did not add in nudity, so mod creators have to make their own naked bodies) and finally, create sex animations, but I didn't expect people to start sharing videos of them.

The animations aren't perfect, especially when the voluptuous figures of the characters didn't seem to be taken into account when making them.

And gross, when the animators use Argonians.

Yes, I'm serious about Argonian porn. Scaly reptilian skin, really fcked up face... and boobs.... huge scaly ones.

There's Khajiit porn too but that's much more normal on the Internet (*cough* furries *cough*).

And did I mention the facial expressions never change? It's almost like watching someone having sex with a doll. Wait a min, wouldn't that be masturbation? Wouldn't that mean it's like watching a virtual dude masturbate, technically speaking?

This just gets worse and worse, doesn't it?

I hate you, Internet.









Despite all the clamour for a change in government in Singapore, I find that we don't actually need it. Fact is, we're doing well, relatively speaking. Prices around the world are rising, from what I can tell, and it's not just us. Can't blame the PAP for stagnant pay and rising costs because it seems to be doing a good job controlling prices already.

In the first quarter, Singapore's gross domestic product grew 23.5 percent quarter-on-quarter on an seasonally-adjusted annualized basis, blowing past even the most bullish forecast in a Reuters poll.

Singapore's central bank allowed an immediate rise in the value of its currency dollar to help tackle inflation, which it said would likely stay elevated.

The Singapore dollar -- the world's 12th most actively traded currency -- rose to an all-time high of S$1.2452 per U.S. dollar before slipping back closer to S$1.25.

The upbeat Singapore growth news helped temper losses in Asian stocks. Japan's Nikkei .N225 fell 0.6 percent, having earlier lost as much as 0.9 percent, while stocks elsewhere in Asia .MIAPJ0000PUS shed 0.3 percent.

I still think we need more non-PAP MPs but the PAP should stay in power. Most people don't actually want them gone; they just want the MPs to stop giving themselves raises and GDP-pegged bonuses when the people aren't getting any.

Unless you want to take into account my $700. Oh right, that's big. Who cares about their 8-month bonuses anyway, right?

As for ourselves, this is a great time to buy RMB because for some reason, the bank buys USD with our SGD before using the USD to buy RMB. I don't know why.

After some googling, I learnt that it is actually not possible for us to buy RMB in Singapore.

As the RMB is not a free currency that has offshore market, it is virtually not possible to buy RMB outside China.

So why can we do it indirectly via USD?

From what I've gathered, the Bank of China only allows the buying of the RMB using USD.

But another problem is that according to my boss, we can't just buy and hold RMB. Since we can't exactly choose when to pay the factories, it means a falling USD does not always benefit us.

So why can't we hold RMB?

Strange because HSBC seems to be saying we can. But BOC doesn't allow that? 

Or is there something I'm missing?

Tired of searching more. Maybe next time. Information overload while googling is serious business. And tiring too. Really.









Can't play any online games tonight. I'm currently on my mobile modem and it sucks ass. I've crashed it twice today just by browsing EDMW and Die2Nite.

My actual modem is taking a long time to warm up again. It's happened twice before, both after I switched it off to reset it.

I'm old school, so I always reset computers and computer-related electronics by switching them off for more than 30 seconds.

Apparently, my modem twice. First time, I thought it was a weird electronic one-off problem. Happens all the time, just like all those times when you had to reset your PC and everything was solved by that act.

Second time, something was obviously terribly wrong and the conclusion was that the modem was getting old.

We called Starhub, our ISP, on both occasions but it started working after we booked an appointment with their techs and we called it off. I didn't know if it would repeat itself and after an entire day without our broadband access, we were not at all keen to test that theory.

Our current solution is to get the fibre cable and upgrade to a fibre broadband plan, which is actually cheaper for the same advertised max speed.

Anyway it died because the painters had to paint the wall behind the shelf and the cables weren't long enough to let them work undisturbed. In the end they had no choice but to unplug it and other electronics there. They plugged it back in at around 4-5pm and it's currently 9.20pm. It's still booting, just like before. In the last 2 times, it took between 12-24 hours to boot. Expecting the same again now.

Tomorrow, I'll have to shift my PC out to the living room so that they can paint my room. I can't leave it here because the way I place my PC, it's in the middle of my room and basically makes moving around somewhat inconvenient. I have to walk sideways on one side, so moving around with the paint and the rest of their equipment is going to be highly risky.

This can mean I won't be able to use my PC for a large part of the day tomorrow.

Ugh.