Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Jack Thompson

What an asshole.

That's the first thing that comes to mind when I think of this prick. Ooo! There's another one! How can one man be so focused on making Video Games out to be a killer instead of the actual people going out and shooting people? He's belittling those that lost their lives! To say that it was because of violent video games and not because of a plethora of other things in the kid's life is to say that the reason I got my license plates stolen was because someone read Aladin. B...but...he stole stuff in the book! That means that people that read it automatically want to go and steal s...stuff...right? No idiot. When I play Halo, the LAST think I want to do is get guns and shoot other real people. I'd rather raise my gamer score so I can actually play with my friends later. Oh, by the way, I know that killing people in real life WON'T raise my gamer score.

Supposedly this kid who shot up the Virginia University played WoW. Well...unless he was a Hunter, none of them use guns anyways. Oh, and none of WoW depicts shooting up schools either.

Jack Thompson needs to be prosecuted for slander on an entire industry, and any downfall in sales due to his statements. I'd estimate that at...hmmm.... all of his money forever.

I'm not bashing him for having different views than I do. People don't have to like video games...they just can't use them as a scapegoat and dodge the real fucking problem! Video games didn't tell this kid in Virginia to go shoot as many people as he could! They wern't an extensive training video that told him the best way to go shoot civilians! They were games!

In the columbine shooting Jack Thompson said that the boys who shot their fellow students played DOOM. Not Doom 3 or anything REMOTELY realistic...but a game where as long as you can see a moving guy, aim in his general direction an you'll shoot at 85 degree angles up or down... Not to mention the fact that it looks like someone drew each fram in MSPaint...

Oh yea Jack... They shot up their school because of fucking Doom...

Fucking Idiot...

-Bill

Friday, April 13, 2007

Ze

"It's gonna be a fun fun winter, now,
that I've got my wool socks on,
it's gonna be so exciting, when,
it gets cold outside,

Your nose looks so damn cold, but,
my nose is so much colder,
If you can't see my breath,
Why don't you stand,
just a little bit closer,

It's gonna be a fun fun winter, now,
that you've got my wool socks on,
it's gonna be so exciting, when,
it gets cold outside."


Thank you Ze Frank for supporting the best year of my life. 2006 started off like utter shit. Around my birthday I wasn't sure if I'd be able to make it home in time for it... That was January 22nd. I was ending high school and possibly not going to college. There were circumstances that wouldn't allow for me to leave the city... It was june, I had been accepted all over the state, but I couldn't leave. I finally managed to squeek into UST here in Houston. I fucked up my first semester, as many have, and it was possibly irreperable. I had a long fight with my Dad over the winter.

Ah, the winter.

The winter started off like shit too then... Me and my Dad wern't talking and I was probably not going back to college, and I have no skills to get a job other than working minimum wage. I was scared etc etc... Anyways... pretty much all of the credit for this next part goes to Elaine.

I fixed all of the problems between me and my Dad to the point of him trusting me again. He and I got alon better than we had ever pretty much. But the one thing that waws consistant in all of this turmoil was Ze.

I knew that every weekday, at around 2pm central, that I'd get to watch an incredibly artisticly intelligent guy give me something to look foreward to. Weather it was his songs, or his analogies, or his stories, or his outrageous stunts, I always kept coming back.

Nothing he said specifically helped my situation, I'm not giving him credit for making my year the best year of my life, but now that the Show is gong, I feel that year to be over, and I feel a new one beginning now.

I know I'm a bit late because the show ended last month, but still, he was a constant that delivered every time new and innovative way to experience this thing called fun. Now that he's gone that constant is gone. That waiting period between classes is gone. That means for 5 minutes of new ideas that arn't my own is gone.

But alas, I still thank you Ze. Thank you for more than you know. I know the Show was just an experiment, but it was a success in my mind. Thank you for sticking to your word and ending the show instead of letting it possibly stretch on for too long and deminish all that you'd previously accomplished. Thank you for the ride home ze.

"This is a sad sad song about leaving"
"This is the price you pay when you purchase a feeling"
"It's where the conversation slowly fades and you start saying"
"Hey there, do you have a ride for me?"
"'Cause it's late and I've got to go to bed."
"This is a sweet sweet song about beginnings"
"These are the first few words that you say in the morning"
"It's when you start singing, "Hey, I'm only (insert your age here)"
"Hallelujah, it's a brand new day (a-chicka quack quack)"
"Hallelujah, it's a brand new day"
Thanks Ze
-Bill