Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is
when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague
ritual.
-Words of Muad'dib by Princess Irulan
Dune Messiah
HANLON’S RAZOR:
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
"Why conspiracy? When incompetence can explain it." Bill Curtis, A&E
"Gabbo! Gabbo! Gabbo!" The Simpsons
The Great Twitter Lockout. On Feb 21, 2018, thousands of users were locked out of twitter. Typically, most of those lockouts were 'judgement calls'. It's a Twitlerian twitatorship.
All social media is subject to 1st Amendment rights and protections. The 1st Amendment or Freedom of Speech however does not extend to illegal or criminal speech including libel, slander and death threats.
In Canada, Freedom of Speech is protected under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. We have our Charter, let's see your Charter.
In Hyde Park in London, one is allowed to bring any printed material as long as there is not more than one copy.
The surprising thing isn't why Twitter locked out so many people. The surprising thing is that it worked even half as well as it did for as long as it did. With 330 million users, each generating multiple tweets daily and each of these tweets if you click on to it can open up a web-page with its own url. That uses up a lot of bandwidth. Twitter is a computer program that is currently buckling under it's own weight. The sheer volume of it is astounding. Twitter suspensions and/or lockouts is the new fail whale.
Try Gab. It's good. It's very good. #Twitterlockout Twitter refugees welcome on Gab. I might start an account there. David Icke has an account on Gab. Alex Jones has an account on Gab. Yeah, right. Like fuck I'll start an account on Gabber. Twitter is the real McCoy.
My social media chat room days are over. Despite fine initial intentions, this is what social media has devolved and degenerated to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMb_TEU1_oE
Gab also practices censorship to some extent.
"Ben is a great man." Luke Skywalker, STAR WARS A New Hope
Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter is a great man. twitter is a very good company. I had way more good times with them than I had bad times with twitter. I got banned for one month on twitter. But I had over 9 years of good times on twitter. One month of banning does not supercede 9 years of good times. Thank you Twitter, for the good times; for the good years. Moving from Twitter to Gab is like moving from a large city to a small town. Selection all of a sudden suffers. I tried to look for my Police friends from Twitter on Gab. I couldn't find them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St0lYRxQBAA
Jack Dorsey's Top 10 Rules For Success
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St0lYRxQBAA
There's another similar site called steemit. I mentioned it before. But then was afraid of it when I saw in YouTube comments that steemit pushes a kind of cryptocurrency called steems. It pays people who "tweet" on their website the steem cryptocurrency. This is a pyramid ponzi scheme to artificially increase the price of the steem cryptocurrency only to be dumped at some future point.
The term ponzi scheme comes from the French word for think; pensez. The scammed 'think' they're getting something.
I'll probably be fully back on twitter one day. "Of course they'll make you an example. They have to protect their insurance. They'll ask you back next term." Flatliners
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My twitter is back! -What a miracle! However, I'm suspended. @ubc20112018
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_suspensions
Everyone eventually gets suspended from twitter at some point during their career. So much so that if you haven't been suspended or locked out on twitter, you haven't been doing it right. It's trendy! There's even a wikipedia article about getting suspended on twitter. I even read of accounts that have been permanently suspended and then restored! That's one of the lovable quirks unique to twitter.
Note! Tomorrow night, Tuesday - Wednesday night at 2:30 am Pacific Standard Time is the blood supermoon. Again. When I saw it last time I thought Mars was going to crash into Earth. I screamed. That was two days after seeing Lars Von Trier's Melancholia. I have binoculars to look at it with. It will look like Mars about to crash into Earth. To really appreciate tomorrow night's supermoon, watch Melancholia as soon as possible!
Update: Unable to see moon at all. Too cloudy.
Locked Out Of Twitter from Dean Noble on Vimeo.
'Information overload. This is just another installment.'
Hello, everyone. My twitter is back! So please disregard the rest of this: Don't know if this will help. I'm locked out of twitter. After getting a snarky message, I simultaneously changed my username, password and protected my tweets. Then I tried to share a video from YouTube. That's what did it. Twitter will automatically lock out accounts if a third party app tries to access it via an unrecognized password. I didn't pre-register a phone number and don't have a cell phone or burner phone. Maybe someone can contact twitter on my behalf. If not, I'll try to start a new twitter account in a few days, weeks, whatever. Maybe it's for the best. I accumulated a lot of weird followers. Although there's gold among the dross, there are a lot of tweets I don't know if I want to see there forever. Now that I protected my tweets, would they still be able to be archived in the Library of Congress?
My twitter name was @ubc20112018 formerly ubc20112017
I always got skimpy treatment on twitter anyways. Other people put up a drawing, they get 30 or 170 likes. I put up one of my drawings and I get typically only 1 like on twitter. If that. Usually no retweets. Ergo I don't know if twitter ever really worked out for me. Maybe this is a blessing in disguise.
Google should buy out twitter. That way people can get on using their google account. Or else twitter could charge $10 a month but that would mean trouble free reaccess to accounts using only password and no cell phone. I'd pay $10 a month for twitter, but that's about it.
I wouldn't pay $60 for a burner phone to re access twitter even if I was sure I'd get an access code. As it goes I'm sure I wouldn't get an access code even with the $60 phone. If you didn't preregister the phone before, trying to register a phone number after a lockout won't work.
Twitter. You do know that twitter only publicly archives 3,000 tweets. I made 75 thousand tweets which means the first 72 thousand tweets I made are out the window. If you want your writing to remain permanent, start a blog. I already lost 72 thousand tweets, what's 3 thousand more?
"Remember when I told you it wouldn't get weird? It got weird." Dennis Miller
It's all weird in Thunderdome. A lot of my tweets were spurious.
If I'm locked out of twitter forever, that means there are a lot of people I wouldn't be more or less stalking on an ongoing basis for years to come and them stalking me too. Mutual cyberstalking. Twitter is the original cyberstalker hotel.
Tweets are incidental. The tweets I made in the last month. If I quit twitter a month ago, they wouldn't be there. If I quit twitter a year later what with my 10 tweets a day, and twitter's only publicly archiving 3,000 tweets, they likewise wouldn't be there.
The good people I meet don't do as much good for me as the trouble people I met on twitter have been bad for me. The good people, the celebrities I met on twitter write to me. A year later, years later, I'm still on welfare. Someone bad writes to me. Then I go to the Police department to report them. Every year or two there is someone on twitter I have to go to the Police department to report. If I didn't get locked out of twitter, in a parallel universe, I would avoid going to the Police department about 5 to 10 times in the next ten years.
My twitter account still very much exists in a sublimated form. My followers can see my protected tweets. Now if I deactivated my account, that'd be the worst. Twitter is changing their algorithyms once every couple of years. There are twitter accounts that are still there since 2010 like the Simpson's Matt Groening. I didn't get locked out of twitter. They simply send up a message asking me to enter a phone number. Other websites do this but they offer a skip this step option so you could go to your account. I wish Facebook and twitter would do this. Maybe they will. All hope remains. As long as you didn't deactivate your account. If you did, twitter further deactivates the account after 30 days. I sent an email to a twitter tech. I talked to a few people. They said twitter gets this problem all the time. People without cell phones who didn't pre register a number locked out of their accounts. The tech simply sends them a wormhole link to their account. Maybe a tech will get back to me.
If too many people are locked out of twitter because they don't have a cell phone and then decide to quit twitter, wouldn't it affect their IPO? Or else their MAU. Monthly Average Users.
I hope that one day when I log in to twitter I see something that only asks for my password and not a phone number. That phone number thing will be gone. Too many people don't have cell phones.
"Family is on the line. Whatever is on the line." Priceline
Twitter is on the line. Whatever is on the line.
Twitter is just another hangout. In my nearly 50 years of life, I quit or walked away from lots of hang outs, groups, scenes. Getting locked out of twitter is like leaving a small town I was once living in. In my case, a town of 1,400 people because that's how many followers I had.
It's nice to share a few tweets with someone but what. Does that mean that I now got to be stalking them for life on twitter? Well, why not? Enough people are twitter stalking enough people. So much so that it's trendy.
There's a core floating population of people who don't have cell phones on twitter. Not only that, they don't even have a computer as they post on twitter using a library computer. Twitter has to remedy the situation and allow access using only password and no cell phone. What about an biometric app, a retinal scan like in Blade Runner 2049?
I don't have a cell phone nor do I get text messages. Twitter is a sublimated cell phone text message app, it's like a sublimated cell phone that only does texts and no phone calls. Like an old phone was a phone that only did phone calls and no texts. So twitter is more suited to those who are in the cell phone text message culture anyways so I would miss being locked out on twitter less than someone who is using cell phones and text messages.
"Iconoclast." That's a word Captain Haddock of Tintin always used. To be an iconoclast is to be addicted to iconography. I've been reading a little bit about twitter, visiting chatrooms talking about twitter lockout experiences and this is what I learned: Twitter hires Las Vegas style addiction experts to make twitter more addictive. To be addicted to twitter is to be wired to the pings, the icons, microtransactions, seeing something new and the response to that even if the response has nothing to do with that something new. One winds up comparing their lives with others and gets depressed. That person has more likes, etc than I do. Being hooked on icons normally isn't a bad thing. However at worst it could lead to a distracted driving ticket. Getting locked out of twitter costs nothing. Getting a distracted driving ticket because of using twitter on a cell phone. That costs money.
Icon junkies, emoticon junkies.
You do know that there are algorithyms to artificially increase a person's view count, likes, etc. It's called bots.
People either showing off or eliciting sympathy. Posting, recording to strangers or else people you once went to school with and would never want to see again. Poor people pretending they're rich. Rich people pretending that they're poor. Lots of anger, trash talk, lots of explaining your point on the curve. We're all points on a curve religiously and philosophically.
People get baited and triggered into arguments on twitter.
I knew I was addicted to twitter when I stopped taking walks, interacting with real nature if not real people. Instead I'd be interacting with people behind a screen on twitter, sometimes a screen of thousands of miles.
Even though twitter is a free product is still should be subject to the same market scrutiny and consumer standards as a paid product. ISO 9002 ISO, International Standards Organization. Does twitter have that? Or is it just a comparatively fly by night company? For the technicos to be so negligent in responses to lock outs means as a consumer product, twitter is a defective product, not an effective product. The lockouts cause a lot of emotional duress in consumers. It's a form of bait and switch where an effective product is offered but instead a defective product is given. Even though I love twitter I reported them to CBC's marketplace. And I got a response from CBC.
I won't start a new twitter account. Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me. What. Start another twitter account and have that one be locked out too, later on whenever? Uh, no thanks. Twitter has already proven itself to be an asshole. I'm not legally required to be on twitter. Even if I died, I doubt twitter would notice, let alone care.
I might get a $60 burner phone to get back on twitter if I knew I'd get a sure response fast. But from the copious messages I read on message boards, it seems to usually be anything but. The minimum time I heard of them getting back to you is 2 days. Sometimes 4 weeks. Very often, never. Ha ha, that's ironic for a corporation whose main product is instant messages, and they're real gung-ho about that.
Compare that with Shaw Cable which has live chats with technicians who actually do things for you in real time. My live chat technician with Shaw cable activated my HD digital cable box, live, online, and in real time. And fast. That's a universe of difference compared to twitter "service".
Twitter has 330 million users, that's the population of the United States, and growing. That's too many people for twitter to be efficient. The dynamic has changed. With that many people, it's counterefficient. That's entropy.
If you do something for awhile, it's difficult to quit. If you quit something for awhile, it's difficult to go back. That's like me and twitter.
There are three kinds of people:
1. People I know and like
2. People I know and dislke
3. People I don't know.
In real life you can be selective and only talk to the people you know and like. On twitter you could be talking to people you know and don't like or else strangers.
The internet never really worked out for me like it did for other people. I don't treat things according to how they are with other people. I treat things according to how they are with me. I'd like to strangle the guy, Karl McDonald or Karl MacDonald, who told me years ago that I should get on the internet, "You'll meet people. You'll get popular. You could even make money on the internet." Nothing like that has ever happened to me on the internet. It's been a waste of time. After February 20, YouTube is cutting those who haven't reached 1,000 subscribers off of their revenue stream. I was never on it to start with. But after being on YouTube for 10 years I only have 184 subscribers. Ergo YouTube has been pretty much a waste of time for me. I wish I never got involved. What a colossal waste of time and energy. Casting pearls before swine, being exploited. My advice. If you're not already on the internet, consider never getting on it. Most likely it will be a waste of time and energy, you won't meet many people and won't make any money. I wish that guy had given me that advice years ago instead.
A diller, a dollar, a nine o clock scholar
Why do you come so soon?
You used to come at 7 o clock
Now you come at noon.
Mr Kurtz originally set out to civilize the Natives but instead was himself drawn into the temptations of the jungle. A person originally wants to take the high road on twitter but inevitably and invariably get drawn into twitter's jungle cultural morass of arguments and trolling.
Social media gives one a distorted image of themself to others and to themself. That's because language is limited. Language may have a thousand and one subtle nuances but telepathy has a million and one subtle nuances.
Without language, telepathy would have no meaning. Without telepathy, language would have no understanding.
Posting something on the internet isn't like yelling down from a high mountain. It's more like throwing needles into an ever growing haystack.>br />
Never mind this dimension or the afterlife/dream dimension. The internet itself is a weird dimension with it's own weird set of physics. How some people have inexplicably high or low view counts. It's best to steer clear of this artificial rarefied realm altogether. I got to find a way to quit the internet.
I do miss twitter. Today, I got an emoji cake at Walmart because it made me think of twitter. I had good times on twitter and did good things on twitter. There was a dog walker who had 3 dogs and got lost in the woods; Twitterous, I mean Poitras whom I tweeted about and as it turned out, she was later found safe and alive.
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'Cheap, fast and good. You can pick any two but you can't have all three.'
Briefly, it's been a week of lock outs. I reached my maximum storage on Vimeo. 6.8 Gigs which is generous since they officially allow 5. To get more gigs, I have to pay $9/ month annually, which means $100/yr. When less is more, why pay more for less? Why pay more for a bigger frustrating pile of a collection for a viewer to go through? Why pay when there are dozens of other free video uploading websites. I can even start another vimeo account.
A finite set is more collectible. That's the way it's always been. In the 1500s, a performer would perform a play at a venue for a few months and then move on to another one. Sometimes theatres closed, went bankrupt, upped their prices suddenly. As a traveler, I learned that things can change quickly. Then in the 50s an actor would do a TVshow that might last a few seasons, or in some cases just a few episodes then gone. Or a movie actor would have a movie run in a theatre for a few weeks and then gone. No VCRs or blu rays to re watch the movie or TV show again. If a person died in the 60s, that movie he watched in the 40s would have just been a memory all those years.
Entertainment recorded for permanent home viewing didn't happen until the 1980s with VCRs. In no other time in history before that has it happened.
Now we have a more permanent medium of the internet. But even then a performer sometimes has to work at different venues. Twitter automated glitch based lockouts and vimeo storage capacities being what they are. Google is more reliable. It's the majorly one. It's the megalith.
After all these years, it doesn't look like I got any traction that got me any money. I never reached that flash point. Why do something that's proven to be useless? So if I'm off twitter and vimeo, who cares? I might start another vimeo account or else I'll upload to another movie website like putlocker or daily motion.
Or just upload to YouTube. My YouTube channel is a mess. Segments of videos with no start or no end. I'll have to really go in and sweep that. Clean it up. I'll do it this year.
It's time to move to another venue. Michael Crichton and Sean Connery. Michael Crichton was the director. When filming The Great Train Robbery, after a hundred takes, Michael Crichton wanted to do one more. Sean Connery said, "It's enough. Know when to walk away." It's the same with show business. Twitter and that Vimeo channel is over for me.
Sure $100 bucks a year paid yearly in one fell swoop is nothing for someone pulling down $35,000 a year. I'm on social assistance and only make a few hundred a month and I got to pay the rent with part of that. Vimeo ought to have a pay monthly option, like ICBC car insurance has a yearly and a monthly payment option, but it's a trap. A bigger pile isn't more appealing to a viewer. If a TV show had, say, 45 seasons, only the most die hard nut would watch all of them. Yeah, once you reach the storage limit of the $9 a month plan, you got to go on to the $25 a month plan, etc. Creating bigger more confusing piles of viewers to potentially wade through. They won't! Trap trap trap.
Vimeo does have a monthly plan of $13/month, rather than the $9/month if paying yearly. I'm mulling it over. I might do it once every two or three months.
Vimeo, bless them, has one one-hundredth the views that YouTube has. Why pay for that when YouTube is free. With twitter and Vimeo knocked out, I'm that much closer to cancelling my internet subscription altogether. YouTube, primewire, hoopla and blogger and worth the money. If it was the other way around, no YT, PW, hoopla and blogger and only Vimeo and twitter, I'd certainly cancel my internet subscription. It's not worth $75 a month just to be on twitter. Otherwise, with the internet subscription from the cable company gone, I'd save some money for myself every month. Instead, I'd use the internet at the Library.
I'm not going to throw good money after bad. I'm certainly not going to pay for Vimeo. I get almost no view counts let alone money. Rather than pay for Vimeo, I'd do the opposite and sooner cancel the internet altogether. Save the money and use it for something more directly hedonistic like good take out restaurant meals rather than the vicarious thrills of the internet.
Ask not who ruined your career
Just look in the goddamned mirror
After getting only 186 subscribers after a ten year YouTube career, why so few? It's not rocket science.
1. I live in a small town. Most people in small towns, don't have a lot of subscribers or views on their videos. If I lived in London, I'd have more subscribers, more views. Maybe.
2. Content obscure and unappealing. Hack amateur cartoons. Lots of essential elements missing like good script. People prefer live action media to animated cartoons.
3. Unorganized YouTube channel. Segments of cartoons with no start or end. The same segment again but with 10 seconds of new material added. Who'd want to watch that? Disabled ratings. Disabled comments. Come for the video stay for the comments. What the hell is there to stay for if I disabled the comments? It's like I'm saying your comments and ratings mean nothing to me. Instead of being depressed why I only have 186 subscribers, bless all of them, I should be pleasantly surprised that I have as many as I do.
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1. Go to where the love is, don't go to where the love isn't.
2. Let your heart be silently drawn to that which you truly love. It will never lead you astray. Rumi
3. Run to those who adore you. Don't run to those who ignore you. Rev Run. Twitter
4. If you visit them, it's showing compassion for them. If you don't visit them, it's showing compassion for yourself.
5. That pet didn't feel that it was 100% loved unless it was with it's present owner.
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Problems are incidental. One person has ten times the problems but one third the worry. Another person has one third the problems but ten times the worry.
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The essential problem is that humans are a species with about a 115 IQ, give or take, thinking it can take on the Universe with the defective physics of this non-holographic, non-telepathic, non-teleportational dimension catalyzing with our thoughts. As humans, we rest on three pillars of knowledge forming a tripod of knowledge being fundamentalist religions, obfuscatory sciences, or crackpot conspiracy theories. The collective of human knowledge is basically a bar-stool. It's amazing we got as far as we did.
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There are two types of depression, exogenic and endogenic. Exogenic depression is depression caused from external forces. Endogenic depression is depression from internal forces.
"The cause of suffering is craving. To eliminate suffering, eliminate craving." Buddha
To paraphrase that, the cause of suffering is quotas. People set all kinds of quotas for themselves and when these imaginary quotas aren't being met, the depression resumes. Social media, the News, and the quotas they set is a source of exogenic depression. No quotas. Quality, not quantity.
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Dean Noble's Star Trek from Dean Noble on Vimeo.
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Bobby Fischer's 21 Moves from Dean Noble on Vimeo.
"A lot of chess players went crazy. It's the game. It's a very deep rabbithole. After the first 4 moves, there are 300 billion possibilities in a 40 move game. That's more stars than are in the galaxy. What that does to the mind." paraphrased from Pawn Sacrifice, 2014
"Knowledge is limitless. Your life is limited. If you use the limited to pursue the limitless, you will lose." Confucius
If AI robots are smarter than humans. In a few years we might see what chess at a certified 3500 rating looks like. The World Record is about 2700.
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Ideas for upcoming cartoons
Noisy Neighbour from Dean Noble on Vimeo.
1. Noisy Neighbour. Main character living in apartment has a downstairs neighbour who plays loud music. He goes to a hardware store and gets a sledgehammer. He then goes to a hunting and fishing goods store and gets a shotgun. He goes back to the apartment. Feeling aggravated with the music he uses the sledgehammer and smashes a huge hole in the floor. The downstairs neighbour yells up at him. The main character grabs the shotgun just out of sight on a table and shoots dead the neighbour. The Police arrive as would be expected. Cast. Ethan Hawke as digruntled neighbour. Since he gets shot the neighbour would be indistinguishable.
The Siamese Twins from Dean Noble on Vimeo.
Noomi Rapace as Siamese twins.
Jennifer Lawrence as award winning surgeon Alexa Halliwell.
Work in progress, April 24, 2018. I do have a gift for drawing.
Ethan Hawke.
2. Siamese twins. Siamese twins visit a surgeon and get separated. At first I thought of using a Husqvarna chainsaw but that's too Ren and Stimpy. The twins would be anesthetized and the surgeon would be very skilled. Using a certain surgical vector and going with a vision with the help of a medical procedures book in his office medical library he separates the twins. Previously the twins were making a living at the circus but they didn't tell anyone about the successful operation and saw no reason to discontinue their circus job since they already had an established clientelle.
One day at the circus one of them accidentally falls off the chair and separates from the other twin since their common robe was made of cotton that teared. A member of the audience stands up, points and the stage and yells, "Fraud!"
Cast. Award winning surgeon as well as the Siamese twins are all females. The Siamese Twins are Noomi Rapace similar to the type of role in What Happened To Monday. Score 1 point on the Bechdel test. The audience member would be male.
I always thought of doing a cartoon about someone winning the lottery but it wouldn't be from experience. But what. Would the sledgehammer story and the Siamese twin story be from experience either?
Update: Vaders of the Lost Ark has 21 views now.
Wrong thinking. Right thinking.
1. Wrong thinking. Anything worth doing is worth doing right.
Right thinking. Anything that's too difficult isn't worth doing at all.
2. Wrong thinking. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Right thinkiing. If at first you don't succeed, try again. Then quit. No use being a fool.
3. Wrong thinking. Better to do something and get something than to do nothing and get nothing.
Right thinking. Better to do nothing and get something than to do something and get nothing.
4. Wrong thinking. Why do tomorrow what you could do today?
Right thinking. Why do today what you could do tomorrow?
'Never give up on your dreams.' Wrong. Never give up on your dreams only if your dreams work out for you. If not then absolutely give up on them.
"And many would rather die." A Christmas Carol
The glass is half full. Even though that video had a paucity of view counts, over all, my YouTube videos got well over 450,000 views and that's with all the copyright strikes and their attendant view count suppression algorithms. Over the years I got thousands upon thousands of notifications on twitter. I wish to, right here, thank every one of you who watched my videos and who sent me any notifications on twitter. Even the mean ones. You had one kick at the can and you made it good before I blocked you. Thanks to all of you.
I looked at YouTube today. I thought I had 450,000 views. That total is now up to 583,000. That is phenomenal and nothing short of a miracle. Astounding. Thanks to every 583,000 of you.
Here's the deal. I upload to YouTube the day's rushes, in the can. When I add the next day's rushes to what is already completed, I will immediately delete the other version. Only one version of the cartoon will be online at any time. No more uploading segment after segment. That was awful.
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Lightsaber shaped electric guitars.
The new STAR WARS Han Solo movie looks pretty smokin'! At this point, I'd say it's impossible for Mr. Ron Howard to make a bad movie. All of his movies are great. Apollo 13, Rush, In The Heart of the Sea, Angels and Demons. He is one of Hollywood's best directors. The new Han Solo movie looks cutting edge and visceral. Another fine product from Disney maker of the timeless classic, Never Cry Wolf.
Flower Wars, I mean STAR WARS went from being a movie that women shunned to the point where very few women would associate with any guys who were into STAR WARS to being a chick flick. The last few Disney STAR WARS movies are basically chick flicks. One of the few movies that are a combination of chick flick and B-movie. Another famous example of this is Mask, the Conjuring 1 and 2, and the Harry Potter series. They're good chick flicks though. Some of my cartoons are chick flicks; the ones where a female is the lead character. I am one of the few crazy people who would actually get a copy of The Last Jedi and on day one, as well.
Some of the best movies ever made are chick flicks, Thelma & Louise, Monster, Kill Bill, Underworld, Avatar, Pee Wee's Big Top Adventure, etc.
What would make STAR WARS even more of a traditional chick flick is to hire a female director like Patty Jenkins directed Monster. However, I haven't heard of any upcoming female directors given the green light to direct a future STAR WARS movie.
HERmIONE - HERIONE = heroine. HaRry pOttEr = HROE = hero
B movies are now A movies and A movies are B movies, in terms of box office receipts. Talk about the returns of the Jedi.
B-movie comes from the days when movies were double features. Like the B side of a record, the B movie was the 2nd string movie which played after the main movie, opposite to a rock concert where the 2nd string band plays before the main band. Typically, the B-movie was low budget and often included creatures, aliens, monsters, interdimensional shamanic entities, etc. etc. Nowadays, any movie where you see a creature or an alien or a monster or anything supernatural is known as a B-movie, like STAR WARS. George Lucas modeled STAR WARS after popular 50s B movies like Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon.
Since they're all clones anyways, there's no reason why Captain Phasma couldn't come back in episode 9 and beyond. Just like Boba Fett came back as Jango Fett.
"My girlfriend asked me when I would take our relationship to the next level. I'm a psychopath. With people like me, there is no next level." Dexter
I shouldn't be an animated cartoonist. There's nothing I want to do to take it to the next level. Art school. A waste of time and silly. Art galleries. A waste of time and silly. Disney.
People who aren't animated cartoonists or artists of any kind never have to think about going to art school, art galleries, Disney, Hollywood. Not even for one second a year. Since I wouldn't want to think of any of that, I have all the advantages of being an artist and none of the disadvantages.
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"Live in the sunshine, swim in the sea. Drink the wild air. Ralph Waldo Emerson"
"There's science, logic, and reason. And then there is California."
Ingrid Goes West. What a great movie. I had to watch it repeatedly and liked it. It's about a social media star Elizabeth Olson, Taylor Sloane ie iJustine. Cameron Diaz would have pulled off a better iJustine but they probably couldn't afford her. Elizabeth Olson is an excellent choice for the role because she does a good job as iJustine. Aubrey Plaza, Ingrid Thorburn looks like a younger pre-Harley Quinn Brittyy44 and is the stalker to Taylor Sloane in this movie. A MAD magazine look at social media. This movie is a drama movie but also a satire movie that looks at the social media phenomenon. Instagram is featured in this movie. I never used it. But I think it's very similar to twitter. Every single actor in this movie did a real excellent job. Virtuoso performances. This movie was flawless.
iJustine is the United State's biggest YouTube star. Britty44 is Canada's biggest YouTube star. Canada/US connection.
Mark Dice talked about the fregoli effect; the phenomenon of mistaking people for others due to resemblance. Mark Dice also, at one point, had been suspended on twitter.
Brittyy44 is nothing like the Ingrid Thorburn character in this movie. Brittyy44 is a fiercely independent rock star, and wouldn't stalk anyone.
The name Sloane ends with 'ne' just like the name iJustine. InGRID, grid sounds a lot like Brit, BRITtyy44. THOR in Thornburn sounds like '4' as in 44; Brittyy44. That's all just an unsettling coincidence. Is this movie trying to lure Britty44 to move to the States? As if everybody wants to move to the States. Most people are happy where they are. Or else, one doesn't need to watch a movie to lure themself to the States, but it sure helps.
Ingrid Goes West is fine but to see the real thing, visit iJustine's YouTube channel and visit Brittyy44's YouTube channel.
This movie, along with The Social Media, Disconnect, Chicago Girl is an essential movie about the dangers of social media. It's a cautionary tale. Lesson is, use the internet but don't be obsessed with it.
Just as Ingrid Goes West is a possible parody of iJustine and Brittyy44, '1408' that John Cusack character is a parody of James Edward Garcia of MyHauntedDiary.
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Scorched Earth starring Gina Carano is a great movie. I started watching and couldn't stop. An intensely awesome movie. It's the same kind of post apocalyptic movie as Don Johnson's A Boy And His Dog.
Many planets: Humans are the result of a consortium, or else many extraterrestrial species engineering a species, humans. One planet: Humans originally came from one planet which eventually colonized many planets, this being one of them.
The hexagon on Saturn is a result of the coriolis effect, centrifugal forces. Other things in nature form perfect hexagons like honeycombs and soap bubbles.
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Brawl in Cell Block 99 rewritten
Don Johnson: This is cell block 99.
Vince Vaughn: Look all those freakin things on the wall. What is this. 50 Shades of Grey?
Don Johnson: Wrapped around your waist is an electric buzzer. Every time I press this button, you will get a painful electric shock. And as part of your punishment, I will press this at any time unexpectedly including when you eat and when you sleep.
Vince Vaughn: Will you be doing it when I'm masturbating? Although if you do that often enough, it will get to the point where I won't be able to get off unless I get an electric shock.
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Annihilation, starring Natalie Portman, swimming pool scene rewritten:
Natalie Portman: "What's that?"
Jennifer Jason Leigh: "It's what passes in this town as modern art."
Tessa Thompson: "It's the end result of a PCP experiment gone wrong."
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Cobra Kai, the new Karate Kid reboot. Excellent. Recommended. 15 stars out of 10.
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RIP Anthony Bourdain
Reknowned world chef Anthony Bourdain dies from suicide at age 61. Anthony Bourdain was a famous chef and I first found out about him in Thailand where his novel Kitchen Confidential was on the shelf of every expat bookstore in town. Anthony Bourdain was a libertine and talked often about his hippie lifestyle.
He is the last person I thought who'd kill himself. He always seemed to be experiencing life at it's prime. He was eating truffles all the time. He was dating beautiful women. I envied him.
Just like SNL's Stuff that didn't make it into print. I'll have to delete this in a few days. Conspiracy theories. Someone on YouTube comments said, WakeUpTime said, "Possible foul play involved." on this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7BOWQihC7M .
Anthony Bourdain went to a lot of places and he didn't always just talk about food. He went to a lot of dangerous places asking questions about local politics. Maybe he asked the wrong questions at the wrong place. What place, what questions, who knows? He also said something about the US President, but so did millions of others say something about the US President.
I don't think anyone did him in. People respected him too much and were flattered that someone as famous as him would be interested in their country. Like most people he probably self medicated and self diagnosed to whatever degree. He probably looked in the mirror one day and found out he had some terminal disease and being vain, he did himself in. But why hanging? He had a background in heroin and that drug was known to him. Drug use wouldn't explain his suicide. Most people who use drugs don't kill themself.
I didn't read his book because I developed ADHD over the last few years due to video games and blu ray movies. Someone in a movie said something like, The politician said it was his policies that kept crime off the streets. No. It was video games and movies that kept crime off the streets. And I wish I watched more episodes of Parts Unknown when he was alive. I'm not into food porn especially when I'm on welfare and have only mediocre cooking skills. If that. I haven't watched a lot of television lately. I'm more into blu ray discs. RIP indeed. I think Anthony Bourdain made it into heaven. The waves of love he got from his fans would lift him there.
I did watch Parts Unknown on Sunday, October 2, 2016 when the episode where he was in Vietnam premiered. It included the song You Only Live Twice.
Anthony Bourdain could have faked his death. He had the secret agent kind of personality. His travel experience would make him a valuable secret agent. But that wouldn't be the reason why. People who make $100,000 a year envy those who make a million a year. Those who make a million a year envy those who make ten million a year. Those who make ten million a year envy those who make a hundred million a year. Maslow's pyramid of needs. Anthony Bourdain spent a lot of time with really rich powerful people. People who die, their record or video sales make a lot more than they did when they were alive. Maybe he faked his death to move from the millionaires club to the billionaire's club. Maybe he didn't want to be a grunt working on a television show when he could retire with anonymity and incredible wealth and to experience near the lifestyle and luxury that heads of state enjoy. To say that Anthony Bourdain was upwardly mobile would be an understatement.
In this day and age of tablets and apps, faking one's death is just another app. Once you get that app, you have certain powers. Anthony Bourdain probably watched Breaking Bad, in that show, Saul Goodman said, "For an emergency, we can fake your death for $100,000 but know that once you do this, there's no going back.
Maybe Anthony Bourdain is a chef for the Secret Space Program which means Level 8 Security Clearance but you got to fake your death first. Wikipedia has a page of people who faked their deaths.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPj9Ag07xq8 I can hear the East Indian lady in this video saying, "Anthony Bourdain. Another death faker. In a few years, a prominent politician will come out of nowhere and have a meteoric rise. His name might be Boris Antoine."
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Steve Irwin was killed from the jab of a stingray. However, I spoke with my girlfriend about this, that maybe his wife put a hit out on him. Steve Irwin dangled his own baby in front of a large crocodile as part of his show for money. Not street. Not cool. A protective mother would think, nightmare, crazy. That psycho's lost his mind. He's deranged. He's mad. He messed up big time.
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Truth is stranger than fiction so I might as well tell this story. It will definitely be deleted in a few days. Someone moved below my girlfriend and right away he started in on her about her noise. What noise? She's one of the quietest people in the building. He complained about her stomping. No one else complained about that ever and she's lived here for over a decade. She is a bit heavy, about 300 pounds. But then he complained to the person using the shower located right next to his room when they were using the shower at ten pm. Then he complains about all the neighbours around him making noise. I went over to his room downstairs to talk to him, I said that it takes a couple of months to be desensitized to noises, the architectural acoustics in this apartment are shit, my neighbour upstairs wakes up at 5:30 in the morning, starts drinking, has friends off the street over all the time, the downstairs neighbour for a year played music at full blast and I didn't even complain to them. It's like the Blues Brothers, how often does the train pass? So often you don't hear it anymore. Even after all that, he got her a pair of slippers and insisted she wear them.
Then a couple of days ago on June 6, and this was a 10:30 in the morning. Bankers hours. Not at 3 in the morning or something weird like that. I visit my girlfriend. It must have been when she bounded out of bed to answer the door. A couple minutes later, a knock. That guy, Cregg, says, angrily, "Would you put on your slippers, please?!" That's criminal harassment. That caught me in surprise, off guard. Like Stephen King said, "For a moment things went out of focus, but then a few moments later things came back into focus, they always did." I went to talk to him again. I said why don't you get a fan or something for white noise? Even after that, he insisted on getting a carpet for her.
I never heard of that before, and she's not all that loud to begin with. It's not like she's sliding furniture on the floor every five seconds like it was for me upstairs with that party going on upstairs.
Yesterday, on June 7, I got a metallic stick from my room and I thought of challenging him for a fight. To defend my girlfriend. I didn't like her talking to her that way. And even I tried to be conciliatory he still insists on getting her a carpet. Another lady in the building said he has schizophrenia. It sounds like he's a shell shocked soldier, maybe he saw action overseas as part of the military, he does have the height and build for that. In that case, a soldier is the last person you'd want to be picking a fight with, as a civilian.
Other neighbors have talked me out of it and even I thought that if I did that, I'd probably get busted and there goes my chances for a passport to travel to England. I don't know what to do. If I fought him, I'd have to get a martial arts weapon.
There's no way to win a fight. Get beaten that's awful. But win and you send someone to the hospital and then get busted for assault, that's no win either.
Revenge. The worst case scenario is the fight escalates and you think of a scientific way to neutralize your opponent. You get in a lucky strike and the person's dead on the floor bleeding, but not before your opponent got in a lucky strike and as a result you now have a life changing injury plus a manslaughter charge on top of that. Which would end up being just a Pyrrhic victory. Not good.
The Police might get a wind of this.
There was a line in the movie Barry Lyndon where Lord Bullingdon says, I demand satisfaction. Although my friends publicly support me behind my back they laugh at me. I am here to claim that satisfaction. Or words to that effect.
Do that and see where that gets you. That might have worked in the medieval days when there wasn't a Police force as such as there is today. Do that today and you'd most likely get busted.
The situation has deteriorated. After visiting my girlfriend this morning, he was even pushing the door in of her room, shoving her. I went to his room and said, "I don't want you to be at my girlfriend's room telling what to do. That's criminal harrassment. If you bother her again, I'll go to the Police."
He said, "Go to the Police. Do what you want to do. I'll find you on the streets and I'll find your girlfriend too. I did 20 years in the pen for bank robbery and murder. And I don't want to go back! All I ask is she puts on her slippers. She weighs 300 pounds." I said, "No one else says anything about her." He said, "Everyone does. They just don't say anything. Now get out of here before I rip your ass off!" Me and my girlfriend then told the landlord. As luck would have it a couple minutes later when me and her were in the elevator, Cregg steps in. At first he says nothing. Then he says, "Why don't you look in the dictionary for the word consideration and see what you find!"
I told the landlord. I am still debating whether to go to the Police department or not. Well, if he attacks me on the street, you're all welcome to visit me in the hospital.
On Monday, June 11, Craig, aka The Slender Man visited me at 4 am accusing me of having a radio on loud. I didn't. I even invited him into my room to look. I said, "What radio?" He then said, "It must be somewhere else down the hall."
I went to the Police station, however, typical, the Police said. There's not much we can do about it. They always say that. They wouldn't say, "Oh we'll get on that right away." Then people would go to them with even trivial problems. It discourages people from going to them with problems unless it's really important. Yeah, right, like they'd discuss their operational plans with me. The Police are about levels. Regular police, undercover officers, secret police, etc.
Since he has this thing of visiting my girlfriend every day with his noise complaints, my girlfriend is staying with me now. For 3 months. Old habits die hard. If a person has 100 problems, get rid of the top problem and what was previously the 2nd worst problem now becomes the 1st worst problem. In 3 months, he will have flipped out on someone else. Or else he will have calmed down. Unless I get an all clear signal, my girlfriend is staying with me, living in fear.
Weird royal connections: radio ray means king, dio means God. Craig. Take away the C and the G and you got 'rai', meaning King.
That guy knows where I live. He might come back and try to kill me. In the United States they have the castle law. One is legally entitled to use deadly force if someone invades their home. In Canada, they have proportional force. In Canada, in martial arts stores, all swords are blunt and you need a gun licence to get a gun. However, there are ways around that even in Canada. You can pick up a lot of neat shit at Wal-Mart. The old machete factory. Machetes, hunting knives, crossbows, throwing knife, and axe. I feel better if I got real nunchucks and a samurai sword. Get a blunt one at the martial arts store causing welts and bruises rather than deep cuts.
I don't think it will come to that. I already told the Police. But who knows what they'll do.
In Canada, you need an FAC or firearms acquisition certificate for a gun firing over 500 feet a second. But you can get an airgun. I saw one one YouTube that blew apart a cement cinder brick. Imagine what it could do to someone's head. The Cybvergun Jericho 941 is the deadliest airgun. I saw airguns online. Some look like real machine guns like the Uzi or the M-16 assault rifle and can be set to semi automatic or automatic or regular.
The tiger is an animal that once a person starts hunting it, that person better make sure he gets it. If the person gives up and starts walking out of the jungle, the tiger will start hunting him.
Often, problems are over just as soon as they were started. Leave them where you find them. What goes around comes around.
Yesterday, on Tuesday, June 19, my girlfriend moved back to her place. Her neighbors from her part of the building were asking about her. Each part of the building is like a small town unto itself and when a resident is gone, they are missed. The landlord had a real good talk with that guy and he agreed not to bother my girlfriend again. I love her. I don't want any other girlfriend. She is the one. My ultimate dream is not career, cartoon animation, Hollywood or even England. My ultimate dream is to move into an apartment with her. Even if I had a million, I'd still stay in this town to be with her. I realize how much I love her.
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I want to talk about Planet of the Apes. What Pierre Boulle was really writing about. Now put together the pieces that the first humanoid ape, Lucy, came from Africa. There was an advance civilization that existed for thousands of years before the Pharonic period of Egypt. The Sphinx originally had a different more cat looking head that was replaced with a stylized looking one. And people have been breeding animals like goldfish. If they can over centuries breed a plain looking pond carp into a goldfish, or an oranda or a moor or a lionhead, they can do that with people too and they have. People is a GMO, genetically modified organism and that GMO stuff certainly didn't start in the 20th Century. It went on for hundreds if not thousands of years, breeding until recessives became dominants. So in Africa there were certain people who were born with a lot lighter skin. They were separated and selectively bred to be a slave class. But maybe they were bred for more intellectual slave tasks like computing and math problem solving. Eventually the lighter skinned selectively bred slave race rose up and rebelled and then were exiled moving away from Africa to Northern Europe and Asia but somehow later controlled the World for a long time and arguably still do.
Countries aren't divided into racial lines, they're divided along cultural lines otherwise there'd be only 5 countries. However, there are 7 continents and apart from Antarctica, they pretty much are divided into racial lines. The 6 Continental races being White; Europe, Black; Africa, Asian; Asia, North American Native; North America, South American Native; South America, Australia aborigine; Australia.
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I don't know if this helps. I got an Android tablet. Talk about the gift that keeps on giving. I downloaded a free app from Google Play store called Emulator for GBA - Free and Full Classic Games from APT Studio. It is the best emulator. It's basically an emulator for dummies. You don't have to go to emu paradise, it has 3 prime games built in, Pokemon fire red, Super Mario Bros. and Mario Kart. However, The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap, which always shows a download bar, never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever fully downloads. It always freezes at some minimal point, usually less than 50% and then stops completely. I wrote them two feedback notices because of it. Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me. Shouldn't it be fool me twice shame on you and me? Just like shouldn't everything in moderation be instead some thing in moderation? Anyways.
I have Super Zelda Adventures, Banana Kong, Lego Micro Racers to choose from but I opt for GBA emulator. Bizarre.
I am amazed I got this tablet. I was looking at a tablet at the Apple store in 2011 and they were pricey. I got mine for $30. I got the 10 inch tablet. I saw a 7 inch tablet at the pawn store for $60 last year but for some reason it didn't appeal to me. I didn't know all it could do. Well anyone who knows about tablet knows it can do a lot. It's the gift that keeps on giving. It's an inspector gadget, James Bond machine. I downloaded lots of free video games and books including Sherlock Holmes, Lord of the Rings, George Orwell Down and Out in Paris and London, 1984 and Burmese Days. I also downloaded Lego microfighters, Zen pinball, Arcade pinball, Aliens pinball which is like Metroid pinball for the DS on steroids, however, I haven't figured out how to hatch the eggs. I hatched one egg. Once you hatch a 2nd, you get a free table. It has something to do with turning the stones on the pyramid but I was only able to turn one stone to get it to match. Well, one out of four ain't bad. I got Jigsaw from Veraxen games which lets you use photos from your own stored photos, another feature of the tablet, I know, it's amazing. I got Solitaire from Lemon games. This lets you design the table and the back of card design. I used this image for the table design, the result is stunning:
It's Vancouver BC, Granville Street, from the 50s, it seems.
I got Luminosity, Trivia 360 where I recently learned about oxymel which is an ancient drink of water honey and vinegar which people in the Lord of the Rings times drank. The honey was a purifier and bacteria neutralizer and the vinegar was an astringent to kill germs. The ancients were pretty smart. I also got Galaxy Attack: Alien shooter from OneSoft Studio which is like Galaxian and Galaga on steroids. I got the Smooth Jazz app from Paradise media, I got Lego Nexo Knights. I got Middle Earth Shadow of War but it freezes sometimes at the end of a level screen but it's the more smoking than any LOTR video game on PSP. I got Pitfall from Activision rebooted. Etc etc. This machine is amazing. And for $30?
That's why I haven't been doing cartoons lately. When you get a new toy, you tend to want to play with it until you get it out of your system, initially, until the novelty wears off. I'll never tire of the tablet. It's not bad. However the Dom Perignon of tablets is a Mac-Book tablet with iOS. My tablet doesn't have iOS, just the regular system.
My tablet has a 1GB RAM DDR2 memory card, I wonder if one can replace it with a 2GB RAM DDR2 memory card but there is no way to open it. A used 2GB RAM DDR2 memory card costs $20 at computer stores.
There are tons of free EVP apps you can download on Google play. Google play works for iOS and Android. I'm thinking of downloading one except for two things, fear and not wanting to be mentally ill. If a person uses an EVP machine, that person is mentally ill, according to my landlord. However, Brittyy44 and Steve Huff use and EVP machine and they're certainly not mentally ill. Neither is Zak Bagans of Ghost Adventures, speaking of which, I downloaded Playmobil's Ghostbusters video game free. It's better than any GBA game I ever had.
I got the tablet for $30. The only other good deal I got on par with this is a twenty five cent cooking pot I got at Salvation Army in 1992. I used that thing every day, few times a day for the next 8 years. Sure the tablet was a little more expensive than that but can a cooking pot download video games, solitaire, kindle reader, etc etc? Don't download any weather apps. YouTube videos have warned that they're dangerous. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muhb_a2tvtw
You want a weather app? Stick your head out the window and look.
My girlfriend said that EVPs are errant signals from CB radio. However, my girlfriend would also refer to Anulax batteries as Harbulary batteries and I'd have to agree with her. I won't get an EVP app. You can't teach an old dog new tricks. People don't change as they get older; they double down. At nearly 50, I'm a lot closer to the age when a person would typically be expected to die of old age than a person in their 20s, the average age of an EVP user would be.
Google sent me a suspicious activities alert when I tried to log in to my google account using a library computer rather than my home computer. If I ever lose this computer plus modem, I'd be locked out of my google account since I don't have a cell phone. There are algorithms and then there are stupid algorithms. There's a new generation discovering the internet. If I were to start internet all over. I wouldn't log into or join any account. However google does recognize me on my tablet.
To keep my google account I have to stay here forever. That means no moving to England. Unless someone in England can help me get into google using a new computer if I don't have a cell phone. London is a town with all kinds of experts. Pay them some coin and they'll help you with any computer problems. These aren't just computer repairmen. They have hacking skills too. Not hacking like War Games hacking, a more general form, like recovering locked out accounts including twitter, google, facebook, etc. They use some kind of a, in computer terminology, a back door. They probably got people like that in this town too. It's just that I haven't met any.
Solved: go to settings in Google account. Allow less secure apps: turn on only if you're going on vacation or to the library.
The best apps. There are so many. Bethesda Pinball from Zen Pinball, Doom is the sickest most best looking pinball table. I got Doom because I saw the movie Doom in Dawson Creek back in 2005. Zaccaria Pinball not from Zen Pinball, has some of the best looking pinball tables ever, and a lot of free tables. Doom I had to pay $4 for on Google play. I also got STAR WARS pinball for $2.50 and I got all 3 tables of Aliens pinball for $7.50 which means I don't have to figure out how to hatch eggs to get a free table. Lego Nexo Knights let you scan shields that can be found on Google images, this showed some hidden tech that the tablet has. My tablet also has a flashlight app.
I want to talk about race car driving games on the android tablet. So far, I got Racing Limits, Police Driving In Car and Traffic Rider. You can actually steer using the tilt action of the tablet. That means it has a built in gyroscope. An electronic one, obviously, not one with a wheel within a wheel then a ball in the center. It registers yaw but not pitch. Yaw is side to side, pitch is forward and backward tilting, like with a helicopter. When you got to brake, it's better to pump the brakes rather than a singular slam on the brakes. The video game registers this aspect of physics as well! It's amazing and this is just the first generation of tilt video games. I got another one called Wings On Fire. It's a World War 1 airplane game but if you tilt up, it goes up and of course the side to side, so this one does have pitch and yaw. How did they do that?! It's amazing what they can do on computers these days.
The tilt action feels just like a steering wheel. Once you get the hang of it, it's shockingly similar to driving a real car. I had a 1974 model Toyota when I was a teenager and I remember driving a car down the highway.
One thing you don't get in these video games is centrifugal forces and G forces of which centrifugal force is an extension of.
Right now, I'm downloading Need For Speed. It's a beast of a download, 1.1 Gb. I heard good things about Asphalt 8. I might give that a try.
I hope Need For Speed includes tilt action and bumper camera, otherwise I'm uninstalling it.
On Racing Limits, I'm just about to get the city night screen.
Traffic Racer has a Volkswagen beatle. At first I opted for a red beatle which is the Stephen King novel The Shining's car. Then I opted for a yellow one which is the one in the Stanley Kubrick movie The Shining. The tilt action and the above camera view is very reminiscent of the old arcade race car driving games at the PNE in the mid 70s. I was there. I remember.
I finally got Andrea Perron's book, In A Flicker on the tablet reader app. The book is very difficult to understand. First there's the infamous traffic accident in Paris. Then a couple of researchers, walking around, going from here to there researching something called a Flicker Project. One of the researchers is called Ethan. But if you thought In A Flicker was flowery, her books about House of Darkness, House of Light is way more flowery than Aldous Huxley and with more superfluous descriptives than any Tolkien novel. She uses the word ether a lot. Very difficult to get into. 1x of narrative description of supernatural events then 20x of flowery writing. It's a slog. But she is a way better speaker and every one of her YouTube videos are very powerful and very descriptive of her supernatural experiences. In spite of her flowery writing style or maybe because of it, she is one of the very best writers in the history of the World.
Warning: Don't install Marvel pinball if you're going to clear cache and clear data accidentally. There's no reinstalling it which is bizarre because all the free apps if you uninstall it, and reinstall it, it will work again, in some cases better, with updates. And I paid $1.29 for that. Trying to reinstall Marvel Pinball was like pulling hen's teeth and even then I couldn't reinstall it. Marvel Contest of Champions. More like contest of unreinstallables. It froze and bricked my tablet temporarily. Some apps do that. When they do, uninstall. Something that's a dollar or something like that. If you lose it, is it a big loss? There are a lot of free pinball games that are as good and some even better than Marvel Pinball. Zaccaria pinball for one. Zen pinball with Sorcerer's Village is better than Marvel pinball. Maybe because it's the weekend. If I try to reinstall Marvel pinball on the weekday during banker's hours like when I originally installed it. That might work. I'll give it one more try.
Fix: Install Zen pinball. You can get Marvel Avengers pinball there. It gives you the option to pay and install. Instead of $1.29, it's sold for $0.99 there.
I'm going for Guardians of the Galaxy pinball on Marvel pinball for $2.49.
I'm also for sure going to get the Andrea Perron book In A Flicker for $3.15.
Don't get Lego Nexo Knights. Beautiful graphic but when I scanned and uploaded what, about 4 dozen Nexo shields off Google images, I guess that was too much for it's memory and it crashed.
Don't get any games that are more than 400 MB. The 1.1 GB Need For Speed would've taken 22 hours to download. Asphalt 8 with 1.5 GB takes God knows how long. I talked with someone and they said it shouldn't take that long if I have private paid for wi-fi which I do. I have to talk to my ISP.
There should be what's called compensatory hard drive technology. 10 GB of RAM for everyone. So if you have a 1 GB RAM tablet, the central server will give you 9 GB of RAM. If you have a 2 GB tablet, it will give you 8 GB of RAM. It will use your RAM memory card as a slingshot or a mirror. So rather than your RAM memory card acting as an algorithm within an algorithm, it would instead work as a function within an algorithm set within the main central memory card supercomputer.
That way, you can download a 1 GB android app in 5 minutes or less, rather than 22 hours. The long download hours as it is now is a disincentive for me to download Need For Speed: No Limits, ever.
Don't get any downloads that are more than 100 MB.
I'm looking for a good golf video game for android similar to Hot Pro Golf, Pangya and Tiger Woods PGA Tour on PSP. I haven't found any.
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Temporary posting. Very controversial.
A while ago, Prince William visited Israel. The News said Prince William would talk to the Israelis and the Palestinians in a two party approach. I thought about it and this is what I concluded. During World War 2, Egypt was under German or Nazi occupation. The Nazis occupied France, ie Vichy France and therefore all French colonies like Egypt were under Nazi control. When World War 2 ended and the Nazis were vanquished, Egypt took advantage of that power vacuum because then they were de facto independent. In a further attempt to legitimize their independence they wanted to Nationalize the Suez Canal. That brought the British into it.
When the Americans moved their embassy from Tel-Aviv to Jerusalem, that created a power vacuum in Tel-Aviv that the British may be there to exploit.
In a few decades Israel could be to come extent a British colony, either overtly or covertly. The Israel Palestinian conflict is either to make the country seem so violent that no other nation would want to colonize it or else the violence is to make the country seem chaotic and in need of good government and order. The Roman Empire, fractionlization; divide and conquer.
Actually the balkanization; the Jewish and the Palestinians going at it has been happening for centuries, internecine warfare with swords and scimitars have been replaced with machine guns and tanks. But that depends on what circle of people you're in with. For most people in Israel, the Jews and the Palestinians have lived among one another and coexisted in peace for centuries.
A lot of the countries that are British colonies actually want the British there. They are contracted management. The British provide policing and military protection as well as economic support from the country with the most endogenic economy in the World.
Graham Greene wrote the Quiet American. That was a novel about how between the French colonial forces and the Communist forces that were going on in Southeast Asia at the time, there needed to be a third 'buffer' force and that would be the Americans. The same thing is probably going on here. Between the Israelis and the Palestinians, the third buffer force would be the British.
Joe Rogan is a great guy but I worry about someone he had on his show recently. Abby Martin said a lot of things that were disturbing. She's probably a Palestinian agent. There are two sides to every story. The Israelis have their side of the story too. Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu spoke of Palestinians offering bounty money for any Israeli soldier they kill. If Joe Rogan is talking to her, then for sure the Israeli Secret Police, the Mossad would be monitoring him. The thing in entertainment is to always keep it light. Talking about a topic like that, whoever it is with, is very controversial. However, that is the old boundary. The boundaries have been moved.
Joe Rogan is going to cut it however way he wants to for himself. However if it were me, I wouldn't do an interview with anyone who talks about such a topic. I won't get into what she said, you'll decide for yourself if you want to watch Joe Rogan's interview with Abbie Hoffman, I mean Abby Martin, on YouTube. I tuned in expecting him to talk about ETs, or JFK, or DMT. I didn't expect to hear him talk about that. Well, that's life.
Abby Martin talks about atrocities committed against the Palestinians in Israel. I don't like hearing about atrocities committed to anyone. I didn't think Israel was like that. Well, as the old saying goes, "Just when you thought you knew someone." After hearing that interview, it makes me not want to visit there. Ever. Because of the violence.
Why not are the British dignitaries visiting Israel? Israel is a British creation. It was created by Lord Balfour in 1914. Then there's the British Mandate of 1923 in case there was any doubt. World War 1 wasn't about the destruction of the German Empire, World War 2 was about that and I'll get to that in a minute. Like a famous writer said, As a burglar throws a piece of raw steak to distract the dog from what he was really doing, the British-French fracas was a distraction. World War 1 was about the abolition of the Ottoman Empire. The War would drain the Ottoman Empire of their resources as they fought a two front war to defend their territories to the West from the British French Forces and more importantly, their territories to the East from the British. Gallipoli, the Isreal-Palestine Conflict, Lawrence of Arabia, the Middle Eastern front of World War 1 is overlooked, being Islamic and boring to those with a Christian upbringing. The Western Front is given more prominence in media. All Quiet On The Western Front.
Getting to World War 2, at the end of the 1800s, it is historically underestimated how much an influence the German language was in the United States. About 50% of people in the US spoke German at the end of the 19th Century. OK, maybe not 50% but it was a lot. You know how 75% of all statistics are bullshit. The current US President, his name is the Americanized form of a German name. Anyways, what couldn't be done in World War 1 was done in World War 2, for the British to bring down the German Empire which at the end of the 19th Century could give the British Empire a real run for their money, which they did, in World War 1 and World War 2.
Whatever else were the purposes of World War 1 and World War 2, one of the main purposes was the formation of the State of Israel.
*This is purely my opinion only. Agree or disagree, you have to come to your own conclusions about history.
If I had any money at all, I'd be gone. Some people in this town have a million dollars in the bank and they're planning to stay here for years, the rest of their lives. If I had even a few thousand, I'd be gone. I question my wisdom of wanting to go to England. That's because I had certain dreams which I couldn't explain why I had dreams like that. However, England is more expensive. Things aren't expensive enough in this town. I need them to be even more expensive. If I knew the set up, it'd be one thing. Why go to some place where I know absolutely nothing of what to expect? I was thinking of going to Thailand. Again. But this time, don't come back. Ever.
My will is so strong that I wrote the article of the objective vs the subjective experience of time. Some crazy but intellectual guy living in some Ted Kaczinski type cabin bangs out the break through insight on an old typewriter that leads man kind to make a time machine. That makes man kind one step closer to inventing a time machine. If I had a time machine, I'd go back into the past and save my mother and kill myself. God made the wrong choice when he killed my mother. He should have killed me. My mother was in the middle class and was on her way to starting a family. I was always in the poverty class and never started a family. Never even wanted to. All this is a problem only because I'm alive. A way to scientifically neutralize this is to modify the algorithm, tweak the physics, basically end my life in this dimension with a heroin overdose. If I could go back in time and save my mother and kill myself, I'd do it in a second. My mother's dead and I'm alive and people still expect me to go to Church. There's no God, there's just random forces otherwise if there was an intelligent God with any sense, he would have saved my mother and killed me. See, if there was an intelligent God, then he's an asshole for deliberately killing my mother in some twisted plan that's supposed to pass for God's Intellect, and why would I want to be in some weird asshole life of some weird asshole reality from some weird asshole God? If it was just random forces, then what difference would it make if my mother lived and I died?
If my mother was an artist or a writer, she would have been able to generate that into money. I never got any money for my cartoons or for my writings. What a waste of time and energy. I'd sooner have been dead than to have wasted all this time.
Maybe it's all my life I've lived in these second rate inconsequential back water towns. Maybe I should have lived in the States or England. Someone in YouTube comments years ago said food is cheaper in the States than Canada because there are so many warehouses along the highway. In the States and England, there's a town every ten twenty miles. In Canada, you can drive hundreds of miles down the highway without seeing any towns or food warehouses.
They legalized marijuana. If they had any guts, they'd legalize heroin. That way, I'd have a vector to terminate the algorithm if I feel that life is not worth my while. Even the Chinese say, I want life but I also want yi. If I don't have yi, I don't want life. Therefore it can be said that there are some things that I want more than life and some things that I fear more than death. In my equation, a good life is better than death. But death is better than a bad life. I wish I was a heroin junkie, that way, on any given day, I can decide to just chuck it all if I feel that living is no longer worthwhile. I would trade my life for my mother's life.
If my mother could see this, I'd say, "Mother, you should have lived and I should have died. God killed the wrong one. Maybe there is no God or else it's a God of random forces. I would say to that green god that steps on the tiger skin dripping blood that I would be fully willing to die and trade my life for yours. Go back in time with a time machine. I'd lean into the strike zone and take one for the team to save you. You should have lived and I should have died. You were middle class. All I ever was was welfare class. You attained success in life. I never did. Therefore, it would have been much better had you lived and I died. You probably saw your birth certificate. My adoptive father never showed me my birth certificate. That's yet another sign that you should have lived and I should have died. I would trade my life for yours. If I was in the afterlife, all these weird shit problems in life would be irrelevant. Mom, I would trade my life for yours."
I used to watch to News to try to escape the depression of the Walking Dead. But with these wretched News stories as of late, now, I watch The Walking Dead to escape the macabre dreary depression inducing stories which pass themselves off as The News. This is supposed to be what passes for mainstream culture. The human species is fucked.
I look back on my life and ask myself, "Would I want to live that over again?" The answer is "No. Hell no!" Shit towns, shit jobs, shit places to live, shit people. That's why I want to get a heroin connection. That way, the option is always on the table. I would never take that option off the table. The afterlife would be a blast! I wish I died years ago. A wanted death is better than an unwanted life.
To reiterate: I would trade my life for my mother's. Go back in time. My mother lives. Me dead. That's great.
I hope I see the Angel of Death. Then I would say the 4 magic words, "Take me with you."
