So in what I assume to be a last hurrah for Final Fantasy XI, SE is releasing both a new add-on (conveniently split into three parts for your wallet squeezing pleasure) and increasing the level cap to the Final Fantasy staple of 99. I can assume this means two things. It will take about a billion xp to get that far and someone will do it within a week.
Part of the reason I don’t begrudge people their religions is that the desire to fill up the gap between the Known and the Unknown is one of the defining characteristics of humans. We, as a species, don’t have ANY of the traditional “natural weapons”; we don’t have claws, or fangs… we have shitty senses, low physical strength, relatively poor balance… hell, we can’t even climb trees like we used to. What I wouldn’t give for a prehensile tail nowadays. No, the only things humans have going for them number three: upright bipedal locomotion, opposable thumbs and a complex frontal lobe. While the first two enable us to use tools, only the last is unique to humans; it is our intelligence that is our primary survival trait. Accordingly, our intelligence should be the facet of ourselves about which we feel the most insecurity… this insecurity should be a driving force towards learning survival lessons from the world around us. And anything that increases our chances of survival should increase our chances of reproducing, which in turn will reinforce the driving behavior in accordance with evolutionary statistics.
SO: humans, being exclusively dependent upon our intellect for survival (at least in hunter-gatherer times), should be accordingly paranoid about anything of which we perceive we are ignorant. To quote super-shady ex-SecDef Donald Rumsfeld:
“As we know,
There are known knowns.
There are things we know we know.
We also know
There are known unknowns.
That is to say
We know there are some things
We do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns,
The ones we don’t know
We don’t know.”
Beautiful, eh? Inspired. Eloquent. Mother fuckin’ poetic, even. Honestly, Rumsfeld looks like the kind of person who cheats at strip chess and thinks date rape is cool if you can forge the victim’s signature on a Love Contract… but if we could choose anyone to be the Secretary of Defense, I really, really don’t mind if we pick the guy who’s willing to break the rules to ensure victory. Just don’t play chess with him, you’ll be fine.
Hello! I’m alive! Sort of.
I just remembered my password… yay!
You know those “cartoon yourself” ads that you randomly see on websites such as Youtube, MSN.com, Yahoo, etc? Well, I came across some really good ones. This time, I figured out how to save them! Woohoo! I’m getting more techie-suave.
Hey guys, submit your photo and you can too look like this fine fella:
And girls, don’t worry, I didn’t leave us out!:
Go ahead, give it a try! You’ll love it!
Wow, it’s been a while since any of us jokers posted anything. I have a valid excuse: job hunting. I’m not sure what’s wrong with Gerry… perhaps he finally collapsed under the crippling realization that no one visits this site but the people that post here? Surely not, but if so, does that make THIS post anything more productive than masturbation? Should that be the case, then you’re not even reading this right now, so fuck it. How’s THAT for recursive philosophical reasoning?!?
ANYways, I do have a bit of a side project which is consuming signifigantly more of my free time now than it used to do… probably something to do with me no longer having an occupation where I spend all day watching four news channels simultaneously and taking notes. Literally. I AM PAID FROM YOUR TAX DOLLARS. How does THAT taste? Taste good? Like a greasy guy with a cheap suit and more teeth than a shark has his hand in your pocket RIGHT NOW? Seriously, I’m salaried… so you personally are, technically, paying ME to type this. I may also be consuming alcohol, who knows?
I DO. MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Infinity Ward on whether or not the PC version of Modern Warfare 2 is a console port.
“No, PC has custom stuff like mouse control, text chat in game, and graphics settings.”
I don’t even need a joke about this one.
Yo dog, #MW2 on console is good and all, I’ma let you finish, but the pc version supports things like mouse, text chat and graphic settings.
Ok maybe I did.
