Random Musings of an Unhinged Mind

Sorry consoles, love is over

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 09:43:39 -0400

Sorry consoles, love is over #gaming #consolefail #ps4 #xbone

Xbox One:

Daily online checkins if you want to play anything

Big Brother, Kinect edition

Buy a game used? NOPE PAY US TO PLAY. Bring a game to a friend’s? NOPE PAY US TO PLAY.

Playstation 4:

No online multiplayer without paying for PSN Plus (nice move…

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On the Appointment of SenatorsCanada’s Senateis supposed to play...

Wed, 29 May 2013 18:01:12 -0400

On the Appointment of Senators

Canada’s Senateis supposed to play an important role as the house of “sober second thought” — a…

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tinyorc: This is one of the most accurate things I have ever...

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 00:34:37 -0400

tinyorc:

This is one of the most accurate things I have ever seen.

Philosophical story idea

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 01:03:44 -0400

What if when we die, our minds continue on for an infinite period of time from our own perspectives, even if from the outside it seems like function has ceased immediately? Kind of like mental relativity. Could this perhaps be the source of the concept of the afterlife — an eternity of our mind’s own making?

I just had an interesting discussion about this and similar ideas with another guy here at Ad Astra, and I think this one might be a good idea to work with to create a story. Could people brought back from death (or the brink of death) have seen this infinite time of the mind and remember maybe some of it? Where do the people in everyone’s personal heaven or hell come from — rather than be the actual souls of other people, perhaps they are simply the mind’s image of those people from the perspective of the “deceased”?

I might try something with this. It certainly seems to be an interesting concept to work on.

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hecatesheaven: its my tsundere ordinator video but in valentine...

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 14:45:01 -0500

hecatesheaven:

its my tsundere ordinator video but in valentine format

Oi Vehk

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA...

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:40:55 -0500

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

If you watch love backwards, it's about two people who really hate each other and slowly become best over time friends.

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 15:02:25 -0500

Insist on the Plot: The World Is Ending, Better Play Some VNs

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 03:17:49 -0500

Insist on the Plot: The World Is Ending, Better Play Some VNs:

insistonplot:

Spoil yourself this apocalyptic holiday season with English VNs about the world ending or similar dystopian things. They also make a good study guide for end of the world survival. But because the end of the world is suffering, none of the games here are complete~

Worth a look at some of these.

Oh shit I remember this guy!

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 17:24:29 -0500

Oh shit I remember this guy!

The Visual Novel Random Idea Generator!

Sun, 02 Dec 2012 04:06:43 -0500

Following on the heels of my earlier mad science, I’ve gone and built an entire generator for visual novel ideas. After a bunch of derping about with Firefox, Firebug and jQuery for slurping, and PHP and SQLite for developing, I’ve put together the Visual Novel Random Idea Generator (Mk I)!

This fun little toy lets you choose a number of elements (defaults to five) that are randomly selected to challenge you to create the plot of a visual novel. I’m planning to add the ability to post ideas and vote on them some time in the near future, although chances are I’ll only give the ability to do this to certain people I know or are involved in the EVN scene. In the meantime, however, feel free to roll them dice and see what kinds of crazy stories you can make.

Note to self: important things should be phoned in, not texted.

Sat, 01 Dec 2012 00:32:54 -0500

Note to self: important things should be phoned in, not texted.

Visual novel plots for derp and profit

Sat, 01 Dec 2012 00:09:00 -0500

My new hobby: Picking five random tags from VNDB and creating a visual novel plot based on them.

I used random.org to create a list of numbers between 1 and 1605 (the ID of the most recent tag at time of writing), and used those numbers in order to come up with the tags to use for these plots. I skipped deleted tags (like “chicken sandwich”) and meta tags (like “other elements”) since the first case are typically deleted for a reason and the second case are typically unusable. The result? Each plot gets a separate set of random tags that I have to piece together into an idea for a visual novel.

Let’s give some a shot.

Monster birth, office, timid hero, priest, succubus heroine: A timid guy meets a priest to exorcise a demon from his office. The demon happens to be a pregnant succubus who gives birth during the exorcism. The baby monster latches to the guy, thinking that he is its father. Like this, his new life begins…

Transfer student hero, protagonist’s boss as heroine, butler hero, perverted friend, support character with multiple personalities: The mistress of a young butler introduces him and a recently relocated classmate of her son to the erotic mysteries of an older women. The two must keep their ménage à trois from the lady’s pervert son and DID-suffering husband.

University student protagonist, angel heroine, divine beings, kemonomimi heroine, youkai: During a trip to a local temple, a first-year university student trips over a girl. She reveals herself to be an angel sworn to protect the temple from troublesome gods and monsters. Unfortunately she has nowhere to stay and asks for the student to let her move into his dorm. Unsurprisingly, the troublesome beings, including a kappa, trickster goddess, and cat-girl follow them and also move in. Like this, his supernatural harem life begins…

Unnamed protagonist, road trip, graphic violence, tactician, past: In the wild west of the 1870s, a lone gunman wanders the ranges, searching for clues to his forgotten past. A former army captain occasionally appears and helps him discover clues, but whenever he appears, lives are shattered and towns destroyed as he lures dangerous elements to fight the gunman.

If you come up with anything interesting from these sets (or any tag sets you generate yourself), share them!

I don’t fucking even… Tumblr, this is why everyone...

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 11:26:40 -0500

I don’t fucking even…

Tumblr, this is why everyone hates you. Seriously, what the shit.

Left-wing conspiracy my ass - Ford clearly in the wrong.

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 15:32:38 -0500

Today is not about left versus right, it’s about ensuring that elected officials realize that no matter how many votes they get, they are NOT above the law. Ford is lucky that he is getting a 14 day stay on judgement, and that he wasn’t barred for seven years from politics.

This is not something that could be written off as a simple screw-up. Ignorance of the law is not protection from it, willing ignorance doubly so. And that claim can’t even count, seeing as Rob Ford has in fact declared interest in other matters before and held off from participating in debate and voting. Nor could the claim that the amount was too small to be of interest or concern, given the big deal that Ford made about it in council. This was a clear case of conflict of interest, and the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act says that an official found to willingly involve themselves in one gets unseated.

Ford is always welcome to run again in the next mayoral election, but I’d much rather see someone with more sense and decorum in the mayor’s seat, even if they’re of an opposing political stripe from me. Bumbling blow-hards like Rob Ford are the last people who should be the chief magistrate of any town or city.

"Gaza is a window on our coming dystopia. The growing divide between the world’s elite and its..."

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 13:56:08 -0500

“Gaza is a window on our coming dystopia. The growing divide between the world’s elite and its miserable masses of humanity is maintained through spiraling violence. Many impoverished regions of the world, which have fallen off the economic cliff, are beginning to resemble Gaza, where 1.6 million Palestinians live in the planet’s largest internment camp. These sacrifice zones, filled with seas of pitifully poor people trapped in squalid slums or mud-walled villages, are increasingly hemmed in by electronic fences, monitored by surveillance cameras and drones and surrounded by border guards or military units that shoot to kill. These nightmarish dystopias extend from sub-Saharan Africa to Pakistan to China. They are places where targeted assassinations are carried out, where brutal military assaults are pressed against peoples left defenseless, without an army, navy or air force. All attempts at resistance, however ineffective, are met with the indiscriminate slaughter that characterizes modern industrial warfare.”

- Chris Hedges (via azspot)

demiurgent: dontbearuiner: gorgeousanon: *spits coffee...

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 13:50:47 -0500

demiurgent:

dontbearuiner:

gorgeousanon:

*spits coffee everywhere*

Well played, internet.

Well holy crap

Hahaha oh wow

“Here’s what needs to be said about Anita, you will...

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 13:36:00 -0500

“Here’s what needs to be said about Anita, you will never hear this from anyone else:

She’s absolutely right about women’s depiction in pop culture. But guess what? The same argument could be made for men, children, the elderly, races, religions,nations, fucking everything. Do you know why? Because pop culture is shit. Intrinsically and utterly shit. There are scarce few realistic depictions of real human life in art and media and it is non existent in pop culture. Your parents didn’t want you watching too much TV or playing too many video games because they will teach your the wrong lessons about life and give you false expectations. Pop culture is a product meant to be marketed to and audience. It is not art. It has nothing to say. Any explanation of a work of art must be found in it, not taken to it.

And this is why people are upset with Anita (and many so-called feminists). She is not a feminist even though she might call herself one in a twist of irony so poignant it makes me weep. She does nothing to enfranchise women. Nothing at all. She assaults male sexuality, assigns blame, and tried to garner guilt as do so many modern ‘feminists’.

Anita is upset that she doesn’t have a product marketed to her and is insulted when she tries to break into a male demographic and find it does not cater to her particulars. She comes off as a blowhard and self centered cunt.”

— Anonymous (Source: https://boards.4chan.org/v/res/163305920#p163312354 )

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