HOLY SHIT DUDE THAT SHIT WAS FUCKING EPIC!
Blog of Unimportance 2: Electric Bigaloo!
After a while of having an unvented spleen, me and Otaku Scum (previously known as Captain ADD) have decided to restart the whole tenuous blogging nonsense. Think of it as Blog of Unimportance 2. But not like an underwhelming sequel like Temple of Doom. Think of it as a blog that's arguably equally as good as the previous one, if not better, like Godfather 2. Or perhaps you can think of it like a sequel that's just as shithouse as the one before it, like Transformers 2.
Also, if your a student of either Fort Street High School or Hurlstone Agricultural, you might wanna check out The Fort vs The Farm, where the two schools battle it out in a humble game of Team Fortress 2 for an awesome prize of absolutely nothing but bragging rights.
Either way, there's no Megan Fox here to be found, so consider this post terminated.
Also, if your a student of either Fort Street High School or Hurlstone Agricultural, you might wanna check out The Fort vs The Farm, where the two schools battle it out in a humble game of Team Fortress 2 for an awesome prize of absolutely nothing but bragging rights.
Either way, there's no Megan Fox here to be found, so consider this post terminated.
Game Theory: A Stunning Revelation.
I don’t like Left 4 Dead. There, I said it. For the 2 of you reading this blog, Left 4 Dead is a game made by my favourite video game developer, Valve, which revolves around you and 3 other people, be it your friends, complete strangers, or bots, getting from point A to point B. Luckily for your testosterone filled hormones, there are x amount of zombies in between point A and B, along with y amounts of “special” zombies, each with their own unique ability, that also are controlled by either bots or humans. “Hold on,”, you may find yourself asking me. “Aren’t you basically describing about 80% games in existence”. Well, if you could let me finish, the things that separate L4D from the >9000 zombie games out there are the:
- Heavy co-operative play designed levels, that require you and the 3 other survivors to cooperate as a team
- The AI “Director”, that decides where and where hordes of zombies spawn
- The fact that it’s made by Valve.
Everyone seems to love L4D. I can understand why. Who wouldn’t like shoving hot, hot lead up a zombie’s face with 3 of their best friends? But to me it just kinda seems repetitive. To help me with explaining why I think it’s repetitive, I’ll compare it to another loved Valve game of mine, Team Fortress 2, which I've managed to spend over 200 hours on.
Team Fortress 2 is comparable to a game of chess. Each team starts of with an equal amount of players, and each time must simply complete the objective to win. There is a numerous amountsof objectives, including Capture the Control Point, Capture the Intel (Flag), Capture the Control Point While At the Same Time Defending Yours, Kill the Other Team or Capture the Point, or Capture the Control Point by Push an Explosives-Filled Cart Along A Track That Unorthodoxly Leads To a Hole Full Of Oil Drums and Other Explosive Properties That Just Happens to be Right In Front of The Enemy Base.
Aside from Arena mode (Kill the Other Team or Capture the Point), the way you get to completing the objective in TF2 attributes to it’s addictive nature. The unpredictability of what classes your opponents have chosen, Sentry placement, etc which forces you to alter your tactics accordingly makes sure that no two games are the same.
Left 4 Dead, on the other hand, has fairly linear level design, unlike TF2's open levels with multiple pathways.An example of a gameplan in TF2 is Capture Capture Point A first while a Scout keeps people at Capture Point B busy, and finally capture Point C while the on the strong momentum. Going to Point A to Point B while shooting x amount of zombies is all L4D has to offer on all levels. It’s far too repetitive. Sure, the special infected and the Director try their best to catch you off guard, but they ultimately fall flat in offering the same amount of unpredictability in TF2.
If only there was some combination between the two...
...excuse me while I clean up the mess I just made.
There are a lot of other gripes I have with the game, but that’s for another time for another article.
And yes, I’m aware of L4D2. And Survival Mode, which I'll cover soon.
I don't know who made the Team 4Tress pic, so if anyone wants to claim ownership they can.
Response to a response: Shuffling Videos
Having received misguided (albeit constructive) criticism for my shuffling video rant, and because I'm running short on ideas, here is a response to said criticism, which can be seen here.
Dear Anonymouse,
I never criticised people based on their skill at shuffling, nor did I criticise their intentions in making these videos. I have no intention on learning how to shuffle, because to me, shuffling is but metaphorical feces on pop culture, primarily for the very reasons I get into in this and the previous rant. The main critisism I had for the hundreds of thousands of them was that the vast majority of them were basically carbon copies of each other.
Not all shuffling videos are necessarily bad, this one is a perfect example of a shuffling video done right. It's decently edited, has watchable quality, has video descriptions and titles that don't look spelled by a dyslexic without a caps lock/shift key, and furthermore, IS ORIGINAL. Unlike
this one, this one and this one. Unfortunately, most shuffling videos are akin to the latter three, and a very small percentage are made with as much quality as the first one.
Lastly, your arguments seem to contradict each other. You say that people make videos to receive critisism, get popular, etc. You then say that you do not edit a video if you deem is as unimportant, and random. I fail to see the logic in this. Why would one not put any effort into something they want to leave an impression on people? I may have read this wrong, if I did, writing your comments more coherently could help.
That is all.
Dear Anonymouse,
I never criticised people based on their skill at shuffling, nor did I criticise their intentions in making these videos. I have no intention on learning how to shuffle, because to me, shuffling is but metaphorical feces on pop culture, primarily for the very reasons I get into in this and the previous rant. The main critisism I had for the hundreds of thousands of them was that the vast majority of them were basically carbon copies of each other.
Not all shuffling videos are necessarily bad, this one is a perfect example of a shuffling video done right. It's decently edited, has watchable quality, has video descriptions and titles that don't look spelled by a dyslexic without a caps lock/shift key, and furthermore, IS ORIGINAL. Unlike
this one, this one and this one. Unfortunately, most shuffling videos are akin to the latter three, and a very small percentage are made with as much quality as the first one.
Lastly, your arguments seem to contradict each other. You say that people make videos to receive critisism, get popular, etc. You then say that you do not edit a video if you deem is as unimportant, and random. I fail to see the logic in this. Why would one not put any effort into something they want to leave an impression on people? I may have read this wrong, if I did, writing your comments more coherently could help.
That is all.
Shortie: Shuffling videos.
People, quit posting your unoriginal, poorly edited shuffling video. Honestly, what do you expect people to think when watching yours?
"Oh hey look at this shuffling video, the guy who uploaded it didn't bother to edit out him/herself turning the camera off nor did he/she use proper punctuation or grammar in her video description and name. It's so rad, I think I'm going to favourite it and tell all my friends about it who likewise will also favourite it."
Honestly, I've yet to see a shuffling video that doesn't revel in its own pretentiousness.
That is all.
"Oh hey look at this shuffling video, the guy who uploaded it didn't bother to edit out him/herself turning the camera off nor did he/she use proper punctuation or grammar in her video description and name. It's so rad, I think I'm going to favourite it and tell all my friends about it who likewise will also favourite it."
Honestly, I've yet to see a shuffling video that doesn't revel in its own pretentiousness.
That is all.
It's back! (Kinda)
Due to legal reasons, I've was coerced into deleting the blog. Several weeks went by, and I would be lying if I said I missed writing to the blog. It was a bitch trying to coming up with intelligent, quality posts every day, let alone (heaven forbid) keeping the blog original.
Being the selfish prick I am, I was only thinking of myself. Then it hit me. The reason I made the blog in the first place.
The readers.
Sure, I (I will be the only one writing for a while) only had a handful of readers, and and a smaller, four-fingered handful of frequent commenters, but creating satirical posts that entertained and made people at the very least moderately entertained was the reason this blog was created. I'd get giddy whenever I see the counter of comments increased by one (though I'd sometimes mistakenly get giddy over one of my own comments).
Thus, the blog has been revived. However, the amount of content that I write will not be as consistent as it once was. It may go days without a new post. It may go a couple of hours. Keep in mind that no matter how small it may be, I still have a life to live.
So jump out of your chair, and do a little dance. Be happy that we're back. Then don't come back again.
Being the selfish prick I am, I was only thinking of myself. Then it hit me. The reason I made the blog in the first place.
The readers.
Sure, I (I will be the only one writing for a while) only had a handful of readers, and and a smaller, four-fingered handful of frequent commenters, but creating satirical posts that entertained and made people at the very least moderately entertained was the reason this blog was created. I'd get giddy whenever I see the counter of comments increased by one (though I'd sometimes mistakenly get giddy over one of my own comments).
Thus, the blog has been revived. However, the amount of content that I write will not be as consistent as it once was. It may go days without a new post. It may go a couple of hours. Keep in mind that no matter how small it may be, I still have a life to live.
So jump out of your chair, and do a little dance. Be happy that we're back. Then don't come back again.
A promotional video, Meet the Spy, was supposedly leaked yesterday a week early from Team Fortress 2 creators, Valve. It's quite epic, even for the non-tf2ing crowd, and because I'm currently going through a creative blank, here it is.
Meet the Spy.
Meet the Spy.
Less Than Divided By Three.
Our favourite administrator Midg3y has decided to leave the blog, and take all of his posts with him. To make things clear, this is not because of any conflict between him and the rest of the Unimportant crew, but for personal reasons he would like to keep private.
Thanks alot for everything Midg3y, the site certainly could not be what it is now (however small it may be) without your help. You will be sorely missed.
Thanks alot for everything Midg3y, the site certainly could not be what it is now (however small it may be) without your help. You will be sorely missed.
Top List: 5 Games Renamed To Attract More Search Results.
After seeing people add (at times irrelevant) tags to the description of their Youtube videos in a pitiful attempt for people to stumble upon , I thought I could rename games in a similar fashion!
5. Guitar Hero : World Tour: drums metallica vocals totally not like Rock Band
4. Super Smash Bros. Brawl: nintendo awesome samus donkey kong mario samus and mr game and watch tentacle rape.
3. Batman: Arkham Asylum: joker heath ledger dark knight heath ledger villians heath ledger did we mention heath ledger
2. E.T: The Extra-Terrestrial: actually you know what why are we bothering lets just bury this in some landfill somewhere.
1. RapeLay:
5. Guitar Hero : World Tour: drums metallica vocals totally not like Rock Band
4. Super Smash Bros. Brawl: nintendo awesome samus donkey kong mario samus and mr game and watch tentacle rape.
3. Batman: Arkham Asylum: joker heath ledger dark knight heath ledger villians heath ledger did we mention heath ledger
2. E.T: The Extra-Terrestrial: actually you know what why are we bothering lets just bury this in some landfill somewhere.
1. RapeLay:
Introductory Post Of Unimportance
Okay so I saw this blog and I thought: "This place could use a meddler." A meddler, that's what I am. Meddling with people's lives, their pets, their families and, so it would seem, their blogs.
You may not see me around that much, being the uncreative meddler that I am, as I'll probably just be editing people's blogs (meddling, as it were). But fear not, I'll be around, lurking... leaving not comment unread, not post un-meddled-with. Stick around... Please?
You may not see me around that much, being the uncreative meddler that I am, as I'll probably just be editing people's blogs (meddling, as it were). But fear not, I'll be around, lurking... leaving not comment unread, not post un-meddled-with. Stick around... Please?
Reading A Post Of Unimportance.
Everyone knows how to read. But do you know how to read a post from the very blog your reading right now? Some of you already do, but I say those of you who don't deserve a guide. Just follow these 2 simple steps!
- Ignore the text of the actual blog, where you want to click on is the comments.
- When posting a comment, ignore the message asking you to try refraining from posting as Anonymous, and post the most offensive, incoherently written sentence you can. Because we all know using colourful words to insult someone is insightful., witty and hilarious.
What Is This, I Don't Even-
Big news post today. The following updates to the site have taken effect as you read this.
- First and foremost, if you're wondering why your comments aren't coming up instantly, it's because me and Midg3y have decided to review comments first before being published. This is as a result of the constant flaming we get from trolls. However, it is only temporary, since we all know about the proverb about troll feeding.
- We now have a Twitter! Follow us at http://twitter.com/Unimportance
- We are in the process of getting a domain name, i.e www.blogofunimportance.com. There are a few technical hurdles we must jump through first with out domain hosters.
- The podcast has been delayed until Saturday, May 23. This gives us time to fix up technical problems we had when we were originally going to record.
- We also have a new contributor, iAREtehL. Expect his first post soon enough.
- Thanks to you guys, we have made $12 on our thousandth view! Thanks guys!
A Sexy Comic, By Captain ADD
Here's another comic written by me and drawn by the excellent Captain ADD here, it was originally supposed to be made for a Getting Schooled segment about teacher incompetency, but that segment probably won't come into fruition for a while. So, enjoy!
Getting Schooled #2: Social Networking (Part 1)
Social networking (i.e Facebook, Bebo, Myspace, etc) are essential to any secondary schooler's social life. It's where people come to say colourful things to people that they wouldn't say to them personally, both offensively and complimentary. When combined with instant messengers, social networking can rank up anyone in the lower parts of School's social hierarchy. However, social networking and the interwebs in general can seem quite intimidating, so I've come up with this handy-dandy guide on how to make your profile/page/whatever a success.
Step 1: Creating an E-Mail account
Both instant messengers and social networking sites require email accounts to use, so the first part of this guide will cover creating an email account. You can use Hotmail, Gmail, Live, AOL, Yahoo or whatever else you feel fine with, it's the name of your email, however, that is important. You want a name that's both pretentious and personal, so you can follow these guidelines:
Stay tuned for the next edition of Social Networking, where I'll discuss the wonders of instant messaging!
Step 1: Creating an E-Mail account
Both instant messengers and social networking sites require email accounts to use, so the first part of this guide will cover creating an email account. You can use Hotmail, Gmail, Live, AOL, Yahoo or whatever else you feel fine with, it's the name of your email, however, that is important. You want a name that's both pretentious and personal, so you can follow these guidelines:
- Before you start making the address, you need to be in the correct mindset of spelling. Remember: You want to use the least amount of letters possible, and maximize the amount of numbers.
- Your address needs an intro, or a "prefix", so to speak. This "prefix" can be used to either describe you, how great you think you are, or how unoriginal you like your email addresses to be. Examples include "lil", "pro", "baby".
- Always include your nationality someway in your email. Use it in the most pretentious and over-confident way you can. And always, ALWAYS, spell it using the least amount of letters and the most amount of numbers as you can, making sure to replace the Ss with Zs. . Examples include "azn", "cro8an", "ozz1", "fil0", and "v13t"
- Now for the nitty gritty of the email address: the "body", this primarily describes who you are and what you do in more detail than the intro or the nationality. If your a boy, try to include as much sports as you possibly can into your email address. This includes naming your particular choice of sport, or perhaps your favourite club of said sport, like "soccerboii", "parrarulz", "liverpooldood", etc. Alternatively, you can include a hobby of some sort, not taking into account your skill or involvement in said hobby. For example, "shuffl3r", "gu1tarisT" "Sn1p3r". Girls, however, must make use of their e-mail bodies to make it as か わ い い as possible. Not being a girl, I don't think I can give much help here, so for those 0.2 or so females reading this guide must use their own sense of kawaiiness to decide if thier email body is kawaii enough.
- Finally, your e-mail address needs a close. For the close, people like to use numbers, like their year of birth, or some random number they picked out of their deep recesses of their minds, while others like to use animals, or perhaps even their own first name. A popular close for girls can be "princess", though the spelling of it can be varied.
- Keep in mind that this scaffold of an address is very flexible, and thus can have 2 intros, 2 closes, etc. Also remember to seperate your address particles by using underscores, dots, or hyphens, perhaps even a mixture of the three!
Stay tuned for the next edition of Social Networking, where I'll discuss the wonders of instant messaging!
The Offical Podcast Of Unimportance!
After days of pressuring Midg3y, we have decided to make a fortnightly podcast, each episode going for around an hour each.
To help fill out said hour, we need you guise to come up with some questions, so ask away!
Watch this space for the iTunes link to the podcast.
To save your time on teh almighty interwebz , here's the latest Fred episode.
...god I hate Fred.
To help fill out said hour, we need you guise to come up with some questions, so ask away!
Watch this space for the iTunes link to the podcast.
To save your time on teh almighty interwebz , here's the latest Fred episode.
...god I hate Fred.
Response To A Response: Swine Flu
As I have received negative comments towards my swine flu rant, I shall attempt to retort them.
Dear Anonymouse #1 and #2,
At the time of writing, outside of Mexico, the swine flu has only managed to kill one toddler. And only one person other then that (in the US) has been hospitalized. Why? Because unlike the pitiful health care in Mexico, developed countries have managed to successfully treat those infected with the virus.
My empathy towards the victims of the flu virus was never mentioned in my original rant. I never said I don't care. People die every 6 seconds. Dying of the flu isn't any more significant or tragic than someone dying of anything else. There are many more victims of various diseases to be empathetic for. For example, HIV. Do people still remember this? In 2007 alone, 270, 000 CHILDREN died of HIV. If you do the math, that's more than 4 times the amount of child mortality due to HIV DAILY then the amount of people who have died of the swine flu as of today, 2nd May.
My original rant wasn't about the Swine Flu not being a problem, because among the plethora of global issues today, it is. It was that the media was blowing it WAY out of proportion. Perhaps people should worry about the bigger picture, and more serious death-causing events like; drugs, car crashes, cancer, rather then having to make a bigger than needed fuss about the Swine flu.
Dear Anonymouse #1 and #2,
At the time of writing, outside of Mexico, the swine flu has only managed to kill one toddler. And only one person other then that (in the US) has been hospitalized. Why? Because unlike the pitiful health care in Mexico, developed countries have managed to successfully treat those infected with the virus.
My empathy towards the victims of the flu virus was never mentioned in my original rant. I never said I don't care. People die every 6 seconds. Dying of the flu isn't any more significant or tragic than someone dying of anything else. There are many more victims of various diseases to be empathetic for. For example, HIV. Do people still remember this? In 2007 alone, 270, 000 CHILDREN died of HIV. If you do the math, that's more than 4 times the amount of child mortality due to HIV DAILY then the amount of people who have died of the swine flu as of today, 2nd May.
My original rant wasn't about the Swine Flu not being a problem, because among the plethora of global issues today, it is. It was that the media was blowing it WAY out of proportion. Perhaps people should worry about the bigger picture, and more serious death-causing events like; drugs, car crashes, cancer, rather then having to make a bigger than needed fuss about the Swine flu.
Movie Review: X-Men Origins: Wolverine
X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Which from now on will be known as X-Wolverine for the sake of convenience, and to prevent confusion) is set roughly 20 years before the events of the original X-Men movie (If you haven't seen it, I recommend watching it, then watching X2, as you'll enjoy this movie slightly more if you do. You don't have to bother watching the third one, it sucked.), and focuses on the grizzly past of our lovable anti-hero, Wolverine. As such, many of the main characters from the first three X-Men movies are not present in this installment, with the exception of Wolverine, Sabretooth and a few cameos (which I'll get to in a minute)
*Skip this paragraph if you want to see this movie fresh (it does not however, contain spoilers)*
The plot is faithful to the source material, while at the same time creatively connects to the flashbacks and characters of the first 3 X-Men movies. And this is one thing that this movie does right, while other adaptions such as Dragonball: Evolution do wrong. Having read Wolverine: Origins, I like this retelling of Wolverine's past better than the comic, which is a rare thing for me to do. Another thing that this movie does excellently is the character develpment of Wolverine, as he transforms from a nobleman to the badass anti-hero we all know and love. There are several unfortunate events that occur to Wolverine that make him a tragic anti-hero, a feat rarely done in comic book adaptions. The special effects are also excellently done, with the stunts pulled off excellently and the CGI used appropriately, this is one of the first times where fake-looking CGI actually helped me enjoy a movie, as it gave me a comic book charm that few other movies have. What makes them especially great is that they are both used in the right places, having the right balance between CGI and pyrotechnics /costume. Stunts are brilliantly pulled off, and all other general aesthetics of the movie look great. The main symbolic theme of the movie, "Unleashing the Animal" isn't done as well as themes such as Watchmen's "Who will watch the Watchmen?" or The Dark Knight's "We are all corruptible", though it pulls a valiant effort.
X-Wolverine, however, is not without its (many) gripes. The movie's whole plot is seemingly made to include as many different X-Men characters as it can, to appease to the fanboys. This would of been fine, if the modifications to the source material's plot were original, but ultimately fall short of not being predictable. There are far too many unnecessary plot twists and characters that make the movie feel rushed, not to mention it tries way too hard to connect with the previous X-Men movies.
My main issue with the movie, however, is that they RAPED GAMBIT! Gambit is supposed to be a badass, charming, Cajun-accented character, but in this movie he's portrayed as an annoying, emo, Southern-accented nuisance. Not to mention he gets far too little screen time. Honestly, I'd rather of have him missing from this X-Wolverine altogether than have him portrayed in this way.
The two villians, Sabretooth and Stryker, are both too cliche and don't exist alongside each other, instead clashing with themselves. Both Sabretooth and Stryker, especially the latter, had opportunities to be tragic villains, but instead are just cliche, cold-blooded villains that do things to Wolverine out of spite. Team X was pulled off perfectly, with the right amount of members, and the right mutants chosen. It didn't feel like Team X was too crowded, nor lacking in numbers, not to mention that they were fun to watch. The allusions and references to the comic book series, though plentiful, were sometimes pulled off awkwardly and unnecessarily. When it comes to the 10th or so time that something is coincidentally a reference to the comics, it gets a bit awkward.
X-Wolverine is a very awesome looking movie, though its major gripes and shallowness prevent it from being as enjoyable as I had hoped. If you watch it like a saturday morning cartoon, this movie will rip your face off and throw it into a pool of relentless violence, and like the masochistic person you are, you will enjoy it. However, if you treat it like recent successful comic book adoptions such as Watchmen and The Dark Knight, it will leave you disappointed and wanting more. X-Men Origins: Wolverine is the best at what it does, but what it does, it ain't pretty.
*Skip this paragraph if you want to see this movie fresh (it does not however, contain spoilers)*
The plot is faithful to the source material, while at the same time creatively connects to the flashbacks and characters of the first 3 X-Men movies. And this is one thing that this movie does right, while other adaptions such as Dragonball: Evolution do wrong. Having read Wolverine: Origins, I like this retelling of Wolverine's past better than the comic, which is a rare thing for me to do. Another thing that this movie does excellently is the character develpment of Wolverine, as he transforms from a nobleman to the badass anti-hero we all know and love. There are several unfortunate events that occur to Wolverine that make him a tragic anti-hero, a feat rarely done in comic book adaptions. The special effects are also excellently done, with the stunts pulled off excellently and the CGI used appropriately, this is one of the first times where fake-looking CGI actually helped me enjoy a movie, as it gave me a comic book charm that few other movies have. What makes them especially great is that they are both used in the right places, having the right balance between CGI and pyrotechnics /costume. Stunts are brilliantly pulled off, and all other general aesthetics of the movie look great. The main symbolic theme of the movie, "Unleashing the Animal" isn't done as well as themes such as Watchmen's "Who will watch the Watchmen?" or The Dark Knight's "We are all corruptible", though it pulls a valiant effort.
X-Wolverine, however, is not without its (many) gripes. The movie's whole plot is seemingly made to include as many different X-Men characters as it can, to appease to the fanboys. This would of been fine, if the modifications to the source material's plot were original, but ultimately fall short of not being predictable. There are far too many unnecessary plot twists and characters that make the movie feel rushed, not to mention it tries way too hard to connect with the previous X-Men movies.
My main issue with the movie, however, is that they RAPED GAMBIT! Gambit is supposed to be a badass, charming, Cajun-accented character, but in this movie he's portrayed as an annoying, emo, Southern-accented nuisance. Not to mention he gets far too little screen time. Honestly, I'd rather of have him missing from this X-Wolverine altogether than have him portrayed in this way.
The two villians, Sabretooth and Stryker, are both too cliche and don't exist alongside each other, instead clashing with themselves. Both Sabretooth and Stryker, especially the latter, had opportunities to be tragic villains, but instead are just cliche, cold-blooded villains that do things to Wolverine out of spite. Team X was pulled off perfectly, with the right amount of members, and the right mutants chosen. It didn't feel like Team X was too crowded, nor lacking in numbers, not to mention that they were fun to watch. The allusions and references to the comic book series, though plentiful, were sometimes pulled off awkwardly and unnecessarily. When it comes to the 10th or so time that something is coincidentally a reference to the comics, it gets a bit awkward.
X-Wolverine is a very awesome looking movie, though its major gripes and shallowness prevent it from being as enjoyable as I had hoped. If you watch it like a saturday morning cartoon, this movie will rip your face off and throw it into a pool of relentless violence, and like the masochistic person you are, you will enjoy it. However, if you treat it like recent successful comic book adoptions such as Watchmen and The Dark Knight, it will leave you disappointed and wanting more. X-Men Origins: Wolverine is the best at what it does, but what it does, it ain't pretty.
The Swine Flu Is NOT As Serious As the Media Portrays It To Be
If you've been living under a metaphorical rock for the past week or so, a "pandemic" of a particular strain of the influenza virus, the swine virus, named after the original organism which contained it. The biggest difference between this and the common cold is that flu shots are ineffective against this strain. Having broken out and killed several people in Mexico, and infecting a few in the United States, you'd be hard pressed to watch a news program and not have the swine flu mentioned within the first three stories.
So, flu shots are ineffective against this disease...
BIG
DEAL.
People are treating this as if its some killer pandemic that will cause the eventual demise of everyone on the planet. The media may have you think otherwise, but just because flu shots are ineffective against this particular disease DOESN'T MEAN MANY PEOPLE ARE GOING TO DIE. The virus is not in any way more harmful to you than the common cold, but people seem to think that the apocalypse has come.
Our bodies don't have immune systems for no reason. They're designed to fight off diseases such as this, and drinking your orange juice and getting plenty of rest WILL get it out of your system. It's just like your average flu. The only people who should actually be concerned about this disease are the elderly, the very young, and people with another disease affecting their immune system such as HIV-AIDS.
Which brings me to another good point. People are freaking out over the swine flu, yet no-one seems to care about AIDS anymore. What happened? Did they find a cure? No. HIV-AIDS still continues to kill millions every year, and when compared to ALL kinds of influenzas, seems like a much bigger thing to worry about.
Remember a few years back, when the SARS disease was affecting countries such as China. American media seemed to be reporting about SARS significantly less then about the swine flu, yet the SARS virus killed around 700 people, and infected 8000. Yet, so far, the swine flu has infected 40 people, and killed 1.
And that 1 person who died was a toddler. I'm not saying this toddler's death is not a saddening event, but it was a toddler. Whose immune system hadn't fully developed. The toddler might as well have died from the common cold.
Quit Listening To Fox (Faux) News.
Not Pictured: The Swine Flu.
So, flu shots are ineffective against this disease...
BIG
DEAL.
People are treating this as if its some killer pandemic that will cause the eventual demise of everyone on the planet. The media may have you think otherwise, but just because flu shots are ineffective against this particular disease DOESN'T MEAN MANY PEOPLE ARE GOING TO DIE. The virus is not in any way more harmful to you than the common cold, but people seem to think that the apocalypse has come.
Our bodies don't have immune systems for no reason. They're designed to fight off diseases such as this, and drinking your orange juice and getting plenty of rest WILL get it out of your system. It's just like your average flu. The only people who should actually be concerned about this disease are the elderly, the very young, and people with another disease affecting their immune system such as HIV-AIDS.
Which brings me to another good point. People are freaking out over the swine flu, yet no-one seems to care about AIDS anymore. What happened? Did they find a cure? No. HIV-AIDS still continues to kill millions every year, and when compared to ALL kinds of influenzas, seems like a much bigger thing to worry about.
Remember a few years back, when the SARS disease was affecting countries such as China. American media seemed to be reporting about SARS significantly less then about the swine flu, yet the SARS virus killed around 700 people, and infected 8000. Yet, so far, the swine flu has infected 40 people, and killed 1.
And that 1 person who died was a toddler. I'm not saying this toddler's death is not a saddening event, but it was a toddler. Whose immune system hadn't fully developed. The toddler might as well have died from the common cold.
Quit Listening To Fox (Faux) News.
Not Pictured: The Swine Flu.New Comic, Courtesy Of Captain ADD
Well, check out that there comic. It's sweet, isn't it? You can check out more of Captain ADD's work here. Excellent work, Captain ADD, I hope our writer/artist collaborations churn out more epicness sometime in the near future.
Perez Hilton Needs To Grow Up
For those of you who don't know, Perez Hilton is an openly gay blogger and television personality. Being somewhat popular, he was chosen as a judge for the Miss America 2009 beauty pageant, which some would say is a stupid idea having an openly gay internet blogger as a judge for a female beauty pageant. Miss California, a finalist, was asked about her view on gay marriage during the question part of the pageant a question by Hilton, which can be seen here:
In response to this, Perez Hilton posted a vlog expressing his hate over not the answer in question, but Miss California as a person,, using colourful language to insult her, only because of her slight intolerance towards gay marriage, calling her answer the “the worst answer in pageant history”. Judging from the scoring and many interviews with the judges, this question alone cost her the competition, as she would have won if it wasn't for this question.
Now, honestly. This makes Hilton just as bad as Miss California. Everyone is entitled to an opinion, and while Miss California disagreed with Hilton on gay marriage, she was very polite and as politically correct about it as she could possibly be without changing her opinion. She didn't attack gays. She didn't attack same-sex marriage. She answered the question exactly as it asked, “Vermont recently became the fourth state to legalize same-sex marriage. Do you think every state should follow suit? Why or why not?”
The question WASN'T "Agree with my view on a very controversial issue or it'll cost you your hopes and dreams of becoming Miss America". Hell, even I don't agree with Prejean on her views on same-sex marriage, but that doesn't mean I'm going to hate her. That doesn't mean that I think she's a prejudiced, minority hating person. I'm not going to go ahead and whine on the internet about what she is. Why? Because she didn't spread any hate or prejudice whatsoever.
What did you expect, Hilton? Honestly, when you come from a right-wing, Catholic family, OF COURSE YOUR GOING TO BE AGAINST GAY MARRIAGE. Prejean GREW UP against gay marriage, but that doesn't necessarily mean she's prejudiced against gays. This makes YOU the intolerant one here, Hilton.
It's ironic, isn't it? The fact that Hilton is so greatly against any kind of intolerance towards gays that he himself is prejudiced against anyone who disagrees with his views.
Grow up, Hilton. Act your age, and stop being so hypocritical. EVERYONE is entitled to an opinion, and just as Miss California respects yours, you should respect hers.
Besides, that wasn't the worst answer in pageant history...
..this was
If you want to see Perez Hilton's video, here it is:
In response to this, Perez Hilton posted a vlog expressing his hate over not the answer in question, but Miss California as a person,, using colourful language to insult her, only because of her slight intolerance towards gay marriage, calling her answer the “the worst answer in pageant history”. Judging from the scoring and many interviews with the judges, this question alone cost her the competition, as she would have won if it wasn't for this question.
Now, honestly. This makes Hilton just as bad as Miss California. Everyone is entitled to an opinion, and while Miss California disagreed with Hilton on gay marriage, she was very polite and as politically correct about it as she could possibly be without changing her opinion. She didn't attack gays. She didn't attack same-sex marriage. She answered the question exactly as it asked, “Vermont recently became the fourth state to legalize same-sex marriage. Do you think every state should follow suit? Why or why not?”
The question WASN'T "Agree with my view on a very controversial issue or it'll cost you your hopes and dreams of becoming Miss America". Hell, even I don't agree with Prejean on her views on same-sex marriage, but that doesn't mean I'm going to hate her. That doesn't mean that I think she's a prejudiced, minority hating person. I'm not going to go ahead and whine on the internet about what she is. Why? Because she didn't spread any hate or prejudice whatsoever.
What did you expect, Hilton? Honestly, when you come from a right-wing, Catholic family, OF COURSE YOUR GOING TO BE AGAINST GAY MARRIAGE. Prejean GREW UP against gay marriage, but that doesn't necessarily mean she's prejudiced against gays. This makes YOU the intolerant one here, Hilton.
It's ironic, isn't it? The fact that Hilton is so greatly against any kind of intolerance towards gays that he himself is prejudiced against anyone who disagrees with his views.
Grow up, Hilton. Act your age, and stop being so hypocritical. EVERYONE is entitled to an opinion, and just as Miss California respects yours, you should respect hers.
Besides, that wasn't the worst answer in pageant history...
..this was
If you want to see Perez Hilton's video, here it is: