Harrison’s Highly Critical, Judgemental, Elitist Rants Presents: Strong Opinions
Life, Limb, Philosophy, Pissed off rants, Propaganda
Posted July 25, 2010 at 12:28 pm by Severed Head
Allow me to explain what I’m talking about before dismissing me as hypocritical: Strong opinions without a good foundation.
Here’s what I originally wrote on twitter: Everyone has such strong opinions on the economy, immigration and health care without knowing how any of these fucking systems work
I am so goddamn fucking sick of seeing my age post about the immigration bill and about Obama and the law and anything vaguely political. I know these people, and they are fucking dumb. The large majority of you out there don’t have a good understanding of how any of these systems work. I completely admit that I don’t understand how the economy works, or how healthcare works, or how immigration works, but I’m learning. How? Public Radio. A completely neutral news source which attempts to explain how the world works without presenting their opinion as the only option. If you get your information from Fox News, I have a difficult time respecting your opinion at all. They feed you your opinions and a completely one-sided view on how the world works. Everything becomes political, from the economy to health care, to alternate lifestyles (whatwith the gays). Now, if you know how the world works, and you’re simply watching Fox News objectively, then I can understand that, but the fact of the matter is that that’s probably not happening–it’s a terrible network to do that with. They feed on your paranoias and take small truths and blow them out of proportion using the slippery slope argument–which is a giant fucking logical fallacy.
Any of you who take one side strongly, whether it be protesting SB 1070 or shooting Mexicans, look at both goddamn sides first. Both sides have good points and their good ideas. It’s to easy to lose yourself to the bipartisan bullshit that the media is feeding you. And by media, I include facebook too. Like I said, I believe that most of the people I know who use facebook to voice their opinions and entirely uneducated on how immigration/healthcare/politics works. It’s really easy to do this. Most of the information out there, anywhere, is one-sided and extensively uses the continuum fallacy (practically synonymous with the slippery slope argument–that there is no middle ground, that your 2 options are for or against something).
One of the biggest problems that seems to cause this issue is our political system. With only two political parties, (I know there are others, but let’s pretend they don’t exist since they don’t for all practical reasons) we have politicians out there who want to make a difference. Let’s just assume, for the sake of argument, that all of them out there wish to do what’s best in the world. In order to move up in the world, they have to align their views with their political party. This makes it extremely difficult for any politician to stray away from his party’s political views, and if their terms are fairly short, and an opponent starts the campaign process as soon as one election ends, the only choice for everyone is to keep campaigning. There are a lot of flaws in the system, and we haven’t even gotten to the corruption yet, not that it affects everyone as much as you’d think. Classifying all politicians as completely self-motivated and corrupt is just as stupid as only listening to one side or closing yourself off from learning about the issues because there exists biased information out there. In order for a politician to keep an office, he has to stick to his party’s values, which drastically reduces the possibility for free thought and new ideas.
Look, we are all going to have our own opinions, and we can’t always help them, but PLEASE go educate yourselves before ranting about something which you really don’t understand!
All of these links will help you understand what the fuck is ACTUALLY going on in the world, and how to get through the shit that you’re being fed from other media outlets:
The Economy
Reading through politician bullshit
An article about immigration
Health care podcasts: 1, 2
Music, Philosophy, Pissed off rants, Propaganda, Robots, Time Paradox
Posted June 28, 2010 at 9:35 pm by Severed Head
It doesn’t get more pop than Bowie! But is is good fucking pop. What the fuck happened, music scene?
To all the Apple iPhone critics:
Conspiracies, Pissed off rants, Propaganda
Posted June 28, 2010 at 9:14 pm by Severed Head
What the fuck? You’re clearly running out of things to complain about? Your initial biggest complains:
Home Screen needs to be cleaner, multitasking, homescreen background, more powerful antenna, screen orientation lock, threaded e-mail, better video/picture quality, flash for taking photos/shooting videos, playlist manipulation, etc.
ALL OF THESE ARE SOLVED WITH THE NEW PHONES, YA WANKERS! The only big complains left are: “Death grip” non-issue, Openness (yes, it sucks we don’t allow Google Voice, I can acknowledge that, but Flash is terrible and most smart websites are adapting with HTML5, and in regards to shitty apps: fuck you, we don’t need more fart apps (as a side note, the Android app store really suffers because their lack of standards/regulations)), AT&T exclusivity contract.
My guess is the main issue with google voice would be that it breaks with the supposed Apple-AT&T contract, but I really don’t know. Still, to all of you bitching on the internet, it is a pretty fucking sweet phone and you can’t deny that they’ve listened to you most of your complaints!
Coming soon: I hated Arizona before it was the cool thing to do
Pissed off rants, Time Paradox, Website
Posted May 3, 2010 at 8:06 am by Severed Head
I know I’ve said many things on this site are coming soon, and I still have some lists of stuff I wanted to write about, but lately, Arizona has been getting a bad reputation because of the immigration laws, but I want everyone to know that we were a terrible state before that, too. I’m looking forward to writing about the main reasons why my state is terrible, quoting sources of studies to confirm that we are one of the worst states in teen suicide, suicide in general, red-light running, firearm deaths, etc.
Now More Fun gets all political and shit
Conspiracies, Pissed off rants, Propaganda
Posted February 5, 2010 at 5:57 pm by Severed Head
This kind of shit infuriates the fucking hell out of me. Bipartisan politics that are nothing more than always voting at your party’s core and never thinking of thinking for your fucking self. And spouting off the same goddamn bullshit excuses. Thank god for politifact.com, who fact-checks these ass holes.
To sum it up: Obama wanted his stimulus bill to go through, and it didn’t because of Republican’s voting against it, who condemned him, and instead, they came up with THE EXACT SAME IDEAS, and praised themselves for making them come through. I really wish they went through every fucking Republican in this one, and just called them all out. Both parties are guilty of this kind of shit, I’m sure, but this anti-Obama “Nazi” rhetoric has got to fucking stop so we can get shit done.
Harrison’s Highly Critical, Judgemental, Elitist Rants Presents: Mac vs. PC
Fun Facts, Philosophy, Pissed off rants, Robots
Posted August 13, 2009 at 10:09 am by Severed Head
Hello, I’m on a mac, and I’d like to preach about how fucking awesome macs are, and how retarded all of you people out there who are arguing with me/other mac users. Well, let me start off with the ads I’ve been seeing on television. The PC ads I’ve seen most recently will show Microsoft giving a customer a thousand dollars or something to go find a laptop. The user will go over to the macs and go “This is too expensive. I feel like you’re just paying for the brand.” Now I admit that this is true. But. That is EXACTLY THE FUCKING POINT. YOU ARE PAYING FOR THE BRAND THAT IS ASSOCIATED WITH QUALITY. Anyway, they eventually buy the PC and they’re like “Yep, found it!” or whatever. First of all, OF COURSE THEY’RE GOING TO PICK THE PC. THERE’S 50 DIFFERENT BRANDS OF PCS OUT THERE. WHICH IS NOT NECESSARILY A GREAT THING BY THE WAY. BUT OF COURSE, IF MICROSOFT GIVES THEM THE MONEY, THEY’RE NOT GOING TO PICK THE 1 OUT OF 50 LAPTOPS WHICH IS NOT A PC. This is the end of the advertisement. Now. This is just my interpretation, but what does it say to you that they don’t, for a second, talk about the quality? That they completely ignore the customer who has already used a PC. 6 months down the road, I guarantee you, that that guy/girl from the commercial has, a number of times, been PISSED at his computer. That said, they did have a series of ads of people who have used PCs for a long time. The one where they went “I’m a PC,” and showed everyone doing various things. OF COURSE YOU’RE A FUCKING PC. THEY STILL OWN MOST OF THE MARKET. THEY’RE STILL POPULAR. THAT DOESN’T MEAN THEY’RE GOOD. AND ALSO NOTICE THAT, AGAIN, SOMEHOW, THEY MANAGED TO FAIL TO MENTION THE QUALITY OF COMPUTERS VERSUS THAT ON MACS, WHEREAS, THAT’S ALL THE MAC COMMERCIALS TALK ABOUT BECAUSE THEY KNOW THAT MACS ARE FUCKING BETTER!
That said, the Apple ads are a little bit hard-hitting and not always accurate, but you know what fucking rocks about macs? They last FOREVER. People argue about viruses being available for the mac. Every few months you’ll see a story in the media about how a mac virus got out. Mostly these articles are published by the uneducated. A virus is a program that you give no access to, which invades and repopulates on your system for nefarious purposes. What all of these articles are referring to is a Trojan. Condom jokes aside/completely ignored, they are files which act as the Trojan Horse did. They can infect your system and fuck around, but only because you downloaded them, and you opened up the installer and let them free. This can be true on any operating system.
One of the main reasons that viruses don’t run on macs is because there’s not a whole bunch of backround programs open at any given time. I mean, there’s the standard stuff, but you can see EXACTLY which applications are open, whereas on a PC, that information is not readily available.
The other main reason is that nobody writes viruses for the mac. Not as many people use macs, so why bother? But the fact is that I don’t have to worry about them.
I also don’t have to worry about Adware/spyware/malware. It just simply doesn’t exist. And I know that the argument out there: “Well, you only get that stuff if you don’t protect yourself, and you roam the internet freely and carelessly.” Uh. Yeah. But that’s what I want to do. What if I want to go to a shit load of shady websites without fucking up my computer? I want to be able to roam the internet carelessly, LIKE I’M DOING RIGHT NOW ON A FUCKING MAC.
The other thing about macs that are better: Crash-proof. I’m not saying they don’t crash, or that my computer doesn’t freeze up in terms of loading times, but we don’t have a blue screen of death. Nearly all frozen processes can be force-quitted because Apple has a system design which allows for all applications to run independently of each other. That is, if Firefox crashes, the rest of the system is not going down with it. On Windows, if one thing crashes, you might as well just restart.
So, in terms of operating systems, you have Windows, Mac, Linux, or other. A lot of people might argue for Linux as well. It’s an open-source operating system that is pretty secure. I might argue for Linux too, IF I DIDN’T HAVE A JOB AND WERE NOT GOING TO SCHOOL. You see, I could learn a new operating system, and spend hours and hours and hours and days and weeks and months finding software that is close to the equivalent of that on Macs and PCs, but why bother? I’ve got fucking shit to do, and I’m happy with my mac.
The other main argument for PC users is gaming. I can’t lie, PC users have more availablity to games than mac users do. But quite honestly, I don’t want to be the kind of person who spends THAT much time and THAT much money upgrading my computer to do this stuff. I can accept those people who do, but we simply have different priorities. Mine is in music and media and all that. Time and time again, it has been shown that macs are simply better at recording music or making movies.
Now, style. If it’s not clear to you already that Vista (specifically, Luna) and XP and all of that were ripping off Mac OS X, then you’re just dumb. They are. That’s all there is to it. They’re constantly playing catch up with the new mac operating system software.
The majority of people I know who are against macs? People who have PCs all of their lives. These are the people who have never BOTHERED to question their choice. The ones who are REALLY skeptical about macs because they are “so elitist” and “cultured” and “intelligent”. GOD FORBID YOU DO SOMETHING SMART AND GO ON AN OPERATING SYSTEM THAT WAS DESIGNED PRIMARILY FOR THE USER SO THAT NEARLY EVERYTHING IS INTUITIVE. And I can understand that the operating system isn’t as intuitive to some people, but that’s because Windows make you go around and try to trick the fucking system into doing what you want it to do. OR. IT’S BECAUSE THOSE PEOPLE ARE JUST FUCKING DUMB.
Harrison's Highly Critical, Judgemental, Elitist Rants Presents: The Misunderstood 'Like' Button
Life, Limb, Philosophy, Pissed off rants
Posted July 30, 2009 at 11:34 am by Severed Head
One thing that bugs me about Facebook is all of the ass holes complaining about facebook, and complaining about stupid shit. One particular complaint I’ve seen many times is about the lack of a “dislike” button. I’ve always though that was a dumb idea. The whole point of the like button, I thought, was so that you don’t have a bunch of ass holes leaving the same goddamn comment on everything. E.g. “Nice”, “cool”, “Haha”, “lol”, “Awesome”, “Me too”, etc. The whole goddamn point is to eliminate that waste, the stupid comments people leave when they have nothing else to contribute. Unfortunately, there are still a lot of stupid comments everywhere for those of you who have a strong desire for people to see your thoughts, even if you really don’t have any. If you click the “like” button, you’re kind of pushed to the side now. Thank God.
The very idea that you dislike something generally means you have a conflicting view. If you do, this generally depends on something. There could always be the “That sucks” comments that could be eliminated, but those are few and far between. Plus, if you had a dislike button, who the fuck would click that in a lot of cases? It’d just be a dick move. I may not be psychic, but I can definitely foresee problems in this hypothetical situation. A friend of yours clicks dislike on a link you posted and offers no accompanying comment, and you get annoyed. Like, what kind of ass hole would you be to just go “Nope” or “Wrong” or “I disagree” and NOT say anything else?!
Plus, you’d have to have an “Undislike” button, and that’s just retarded.
But if it’s really that big of a deal to you to express your discontent with someone’s posting, just type in “Dislike” and hit send if you are that much of a fucking ass hole that you have express you disagree without any goddamn reasoning and that you can’t give the person the time of day to explain yourself. It’s fucking disrespectful.
The bottom line is that, if you don’t have anything to contribute, stop fucking talking. I feel that way about everyone always. If you are entering a conversation just to say “cool”, shut the fuck up, unless you’ve got a goddamn brain to back yourself up.
Letter to Jake about playing music
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Posted July 25, 2009 at 11:58 pm by Severed Head
I think maybe we should just start booking gigs here in Phoenix. I will find some that you and I can both make in terms of dates. If we get booked, I’ll really quickly record some shit and send it to you, and we’ll basically jam some songs off of that at the show since we won’t really have time to rehearse.
Just to get the ball rolling and play some fun shows. What do you think?
Posted July 22, 2009 at 4:07 pm by Severed Head
I will get straight to the point. I am way fucking sick of remakes and sequels and all of these movies whose success relies entirely on nostalgia.
I am halfway into There Will Be Brawl, a series composed of as many Nintendo references that could possibly be squeezed into a little amount of time, with no depth, actual drama, or suspense. I do enjoy seeing the different characters and the takes on each, but the quality of the writing itself is just so unbearable I thought I’d get out this rant that’s been building up for so long.
Let’s just go over some of the crap that’s been going on in the world:
Remakes of old movies (EVERY GODDAMN HORROR FILM RELEASED IN THE PAST 4 YEARS, MANY OF WHICH WERE HORRIBLE WHEN THEY WERE RELEASED 20 YEARS AGO)
Movies made out of toys/horrible, horrible television series (Transformers, GI Joe, Where the Wild Things Are)
Sequels added on after years of nothing (Indiana Jones, The Godfather (I know the third film wasn’t in our time period but you get the idea), Star Wars)
Sequels added on after years of sequels (Planet of the Apes-type stuff, Halloween, Rocky, etc.)
Now, I can see why these movies are getting made. Because people go to see this shit, and whether or not they like it, they keep watching it. People love nostalgia. Largely though, it’s holding us back. Creatively, very few of these movies have anything original or interesting to say. They are just like “All right. You know how Batman was before? Let’s make him more modern.” And that’s all. Remember in the 70s when EVERY GODDAMN CHARACTER became a disco version of themselves, and how, we look back on this and see how retarded it is? A few years from now, we’re going to look back and go “Wow, EVERY GODDAMN MOVIE THAT CAME OUT WAS JUST A FUCKING HORRIBLE FRANCHISE WITH A DARK/DEEP (but on a very, very shallow level) TWIST”… Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed The Dark Knight and some of the other films that came out, but largely, all of these sequels and films have NOTHING to say and NOTHING to contribute to society except for nostalgia.I think a lot of it can be defended with that bullshit argument that everything’s been said and done already. But that’s jut fucking dumb. Charlie Kaufman is still writing and making new films and deal with issues that haven’t been talked about before. I mean… Do we REALLY need more superhero movies? No. No, we fucking don’t. Hell, we don’t need any more GODDAMN action movies. THEY’RE ALL THE SAME AND HOW DO YOU PEOPLE NOT REALIZE THIS?! OR MAYBE YOU DO, BUT HOW CAN YOU KEEP SUPPORTING THEM?!
And it’s not just action movies. Horror movies are pretty much the same goddamn villains over and over. Romantic comedies are SO predictable, you can generally figure out the entire plot by the end of any given trailer. And not just the ending and overall arch. You can almost predict every goddamn awkward moment the “will they won’t they” couple will have.
It just seems like the film industry gets such a pass on this bullshit. If Bob Dylan rewrote the same fucking album over and over again, would he be as critically acclaimed? No. If The Beatles stuck with the same outline for an album over and over again, would anyone fucking listen? No.
All of you idiots out there need to realize what art is, and seek it out, and don’t support this stupid bullshit. Meghan Fox may be hot, and I can admit that I am not going to see the movie, but let’s not pretend that the writing stuff put 2 minutes worth of effort into writing Transformers 2. Or that anyone involved with the movie was remotely intelligent.
Also, in terms of some of these oscar-winning movies like Benjamin Button. LET’S NOT JUMP TO THE CONCLUSION THAT JUST BECAUSE THE MOVIE HAS A LOT OF SILENT MOMENTS OR MOMENTS WHERE THE SCORE TAKES OVER THAT THERE IS A BIT OF GODDAMN DEPTH IN THE WRITING OR THE CHARACTER OF SOME ASS HOLE WHO AGES BACKWARDS. MORE THAN ANYTHING, IT’S JUST WEIRD, BUT HARDLY EVEN THAT. JUST A GODDAMN LACK OF CREATIVITY WHEN YOU TURN A 10 PAGE SHORT STORY INTO A 3 HOUR LONG MOVIE WHERE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING HAPPENS AND THERE ARE NO FUCKING STORY ARCS AND THERE IS NO GODDAMN SUSPENSE AND THERE’S NOT A SINGLE RELATE-ABLE EMOTION THAT BRAD PITT GIVES OFF THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE MOVIE BECAUSE HE DOESN’T. FUCKING. DO. ANYTHING. OPEN YOUR EYES, PEOPLE.
Shit like this may totally seem deep, but when you really examine whether there’s any meaning, there’s absolutely NOTHING to be found, AND YOU SHOULD ALL REALIZE THAT YOU’VE BEEN FUCKING HAD.In conclusion, if any of these remakes/sequels didn’t include the main character or whatever it is that draws you to this nostalgically, you wouldn’t be watching it, and you would see how shitty it is, but because it will include some character you knew from your childhood, or fuck, even 2 years ago, you fail to see anything beyond that nostalgic haze.
Guitar, Lifelist, Music, Pissed off rants, Robots
Posted July 12, 2009 at 11:59 am by Severed Head
But when it comes to video game soundtracks, that is, specifically the remix/cover ones made by fans, there are TWO things I absolutely hate:
1. Adding vocals to a song with no existing vocals. If it were in a choir version or they were wordless vocals like an a capella thing, that is cool, but adding your own shitty lyrics or some rap? Fuck. That. Talentless. Shit. Why the hell does everyone need to separate the songs with vocals from songs without? Like, I hate when people tag songs as instrumental in the song title or just point it out in general. Instrumental songs are often WAY better than songs without vocals, though certainly not always. I guess it’s annoying when people demand either way. But, regardless, what’s not acceptable is ADDING YOUR OWN SHITTY VOCALS TO A SONG WHICH ORIGINALLY HAD NONE.
2. Sampling the original song. There are two ways I’ve seen this done. The song will start out with the original, and then it will EXPLODE INTO THE NEW SONG. or whatever. But it won’t do it on beat or in a clever way at all. But it just comes with a really strong amount of cheesiness, I feel. The other way I’ve seen it done is playing the original song, and then just laying down some other instrumentation on top of it. How fucking goddamn lazy can you be?
Anyway, coming soon: PSI Rockin’ Omega by Broken Harmonica, the entire soundtrack to Earthbound REDONE.