Posted August 7, 2010 at 3:27 pm by Severed Head
In the Future we will have such short attention spans that this will be the future of gaming.
Posted July 15, 2010 at 11:34 am by Severed Head
Posted July 9, 2010 at 5:40 pm by Severed Head
Just read this, and I laughed because it’s so straight forward:
However, there are a few situations in which your loan may be discharged and your repayment obligation cancelled or forgiven.
You die.
You become totally and permanently disabled and meet certain additional requirements.
There are some more, but I thought I would demonstrate how straightforward “You die” was hahaha
To all the Apple iPhone critics:
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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!
Now More Fun gets all political and shit
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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.
On budgets and My Fitness Coach 1 vs. 2
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Posted January 30, 2010 at 4:02 pm by Severed Head
First, the budget part: Here. Obama is getting a bad rap for shit he just plain didn’t do. That’s right. Fuck you Republicans who want to misdirect blame because of the public’s poor perception of how an economy works.
Now. My Fitness Coach 1 vs. 2:
The first one was good. Unfortunately, there is no way to turn down the music so I can listen to my own music. That is, if I turn down the music, it turns down the instructions as well, which is a bit annoying. On My Fitness Coach 2, you can turn down the music all the way. Unfortunately, it still provides you with a beat on how stuff must be done, and it not only does this, it makes you use the Wiimote in order to judge that you are in fact doing this on time. Why the fuck would you take away music but still keep you on the beat? The whole idea is to let you listen to your own workout music. Good workout music is the thing that has helped me most in motivating myself to exercise, personally.
In conclusion, fuck My Fitness Coach 2 and Republicans.
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?
Harrison’s Highly Critical, Judgemental, Elitist Rants Presents: Drugs, Alcohol, Religion, etc.
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Posted May 31, 2009 at 8:55 pm by Severed Head
First of all, let me get this out of the way if any of you are wondering. People are all fucking stupid.
There.
You know why kids who go to Catholic school are fucked up? It’s because they’re raised by people who make certain behaviors taboo. Drinking or drugs or candy or video games or sex or what the fuck ever. Simply, when people are repressed, socially, politically, or otherwise, they end up lashing out, eventually. People who don’t drink who suddenly start drinking do stupid fucking shit and burst out and get drunk. Nearly everyone does. I personally RARELY hear of anyone who starts off drinking light and knowing his or her limit. No, they start off pushing their limit. (This applies to driving too. There’s a lot of ass holes out there slamming on the accelerator to make it to a fucking red light. If this isn’t a perfect metaphor for the folly of this American society, I don’t know what is) And I’m not saying people shouldn’t drink, but they need to practice restraint. Moderation is the key to ANYTHING being good. Our society emphasizes two extremes: instant gratification, and this religious bullshit of nearly everything enjoyable is related to sin.
But here’s why getting drunk is stupid. It’s one thing to drink to get a buzz to relax a bit and get out of your head. It’s another to kill brain cells and act out and deal with your problems, emotionally or socially, with a bottle. People call it social lubrication for a reason. But once you start depending on that for social interactions, you’re fucking pathetic. Plus, let’s be honest. 90% of being drunk is acting like you’re drunk. Alcohol can affect your system, but only as fucking much as you let it. Not only are YOU the one choosing to imbibe more alcohol once you’ve already caught a buzz, YOU are the one deciding to act like a fucking idiot at a party to get attention. And the thing that bothers me most? People embrace this behavior. Everyone does. People enjoy a drunk. At this age at least. Once you get older? Not quite as much. Want to know why? Because it’s fucking pathetic.
Now, I’m all for the idea that life is about your interactions at people and that, while we’re here in our short lives, we should enjoy it, but personally, the large majority of people I know drink in order to be someone else. They’re almost repressing an alternate identity, and then when they drink, letting that personality come out to become the drunk version of themselves where it’s acceptable to act on impulse and do stupid things.
Largely, drinking is self-destructive. So are drugs and any other form of acting out. Sex with strangers or people you just met. etc. This doesn’t seem apparent to a lot of people. This is because, going back to earlier, our society emphasizes this instant gratification bullshit. AND YOU ALL GIVE INTO IT. There are a few good ones out there, but let’s be honest, THIS BASIC PRINCIPLE IS HOW OUR COUNTRY JUST GOT FUCKING FUCKED. People don’t want to put in the goddamn hard work to make money these days, and some ass holes making money on buying and selling stocks made some decisions that fucked us, the general public. I don’t want to get political here, because I don’t think it’s a political issue. Stupid people got into too much debt, putting trust into companies who are supposed to keep one’s money safe, but DIDN’T because they were too busy fucking around trying to make a quick buck. And I mean. I can understand where these bankers and stock traders who fucked our shit up are coming from. They don’t want to work hard. They want to take the quick, easy option, and make lots of money. Nearly everyone who comes into my store wants a new condition book for a used price. Everyone wants to be on the winning end of a good deal, yes? But when it comes down to taking the easy option over the hard option, the easy option almost always wins. The hard option might take a bit longer to pay off, but that’s not what we want. Well, let me tell you this, kiddies. If you keep taking those easy options, you’re going to fail, and you’re going to be pathetic. Andrew W.K., not exactly a great philosopher, someone who preaches partying and instant gratification, outside of his music, does have a really great idea. I remember watching an episode of his show where he said “Nothing easy is ever good, and nothing good is ever easy.” I don’t like maxims that use “nothing” and “ever”, but looking at my life and everyone’s around me lately, it has never seemed more true than right now.
Adam Carolla has a podcast, and with nearly every guest that comes on, Adam asks “What’s your story? How did you get to be successful?” You know many of them said shit like “Well, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time, and I got lucky?” NONE OF THEM. IT TAKES FUCKING BLOOD, SWEAT, AND TEARS TO GET TO ANYWHERE REMOTELY RESEMBLING THE TOP. Do you think it’s any coincidence that Brian May and Paul Gilbert, arguably two of the greatest and most successful guitarists, who get to do whatever musical projects they like without worry for money or approval from critics, don’t do drugs or drink heavily? IT’S NOT. And I want to be at that level, personally. I’d love to have complete artistic freedom, playing music with my idols, or able to play with any musician I want. As my old chemistry teacher said, it’s the American dream to aspire to mediocrity. Well, I say: FUCK THAT SHIT. I’m not going to settle. I’m sticking to my fucking morals and my beliefs and my work ethic, except that instead of just sticking with that stuff, I’m going to keep making it fucking better. A lot of you know that I’ve worked harder and fucking harder each year for my life. I’m doing two majors at college, and two of the hardest fucking majors, I might add, and I’m doing it in just a bit more than 4 years. I’m not going to sit on for 5 years of college and hope everything works out, I’m fucking making it work out.
And you think Paul Gilbert and Brian May and all these great musicians are naturally that way? Of course not. I read this wonderful article by my guitar instructor talking about some of the great musicians of all time, the classical composers. Do you think they just got more inspired than everyone else, and that’s why they’re so good? No. They put hours and fucking hours into their craft. They worked their goddamn asses off to get to a level of musicianship some of us can hardly comprehend. This shit takes fucking time and hard work. And now their music is still being played today. More than half the shit on the radio is never going to be heard from again 100 years from now, but people are going to keep listening to and playing Bach forever.
And let me just add, by the way, that most of you people out there who really need the help don’t fucking accept it. My beliefs and my ideas about alcohol and drugs go against nearly EVERYONE’s I know, and I hardly exaggerate. I have a few friends and a wonderful girlfriend who agree with me and who curtail these stupid behaviors, but I must emphasize how few these people are. And it’s hard. It’s hard for me to maintain certain friendships and seeing them go down this road and not giving into the ease of mediocrity. It’s fucking hard as well. So why do I do continue to be such a stubborn ass hole when it comes to drugs and alcohol or being lazy? Because, like Andrew says, nothing good is ever easy and nothing easy is ever good.
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Posted January 3, 2009 at 12:33 am by Severed Head
August – Present: Our dishwasher has had a few inches of water in it since the first time it was used. This wasn’t noticed until much later, when there were more pressing maintenance issues to address, and since then, it has been a string of issues, so a maintenance request was not put in, as this was not as important to us, and with the delayed reaction the maintenance staff seems to have, we figured we could live with this, moreso than the other things.
September through late November: Our A/C began leaking shortly after moving in. Shortly after putting in a maintenance request, it was fixed, but left with a large hole in our ceiling. Upon contacting the office, we were told that someone would be in to fix it over the next few days. A few weeks later, another request was put in, and a few days after that, the air conditioning was turned back on, and the hole was covered up. Within the next day, it was leaking again. Again, we told the office about this, and a few days later, the air conditioning was fixed, and, again, a hole was left in our ceiling, as we were told that someone would be back shortly to fix this. After waiting about a month, as this was not a terribly pressing issue, we called upon maintenance again, and they closed it.
October – Present: Our light in the bathroom stopped working. The issue was not a burnt out light bulb, as many working light bulbs were tried. A maintenance request was put in for this as an electrical issue, but never addressed. Approximately a week later, after tinkering with the light a bit more, I was able to fix the problem, but nobody had come. Within the last week, the light stopped working again. No request was put in for this yet, so I can understand why it hasn’t been addressed yet.
Early December: Our toilet has been clogged multiple times. Having used plungers and augers, it would still not unclog, so a maintenace request was filed online. This was not addressed until a few days later, when they did something to unclog it. Unfortunately, they did not do a good enough job, because, by the end of that day, it was clogged again. Again, plungers and augers were used, and they did not do the job. An online maintenance request was put in, and the “emergency maintenance” phone line was called, and within a few days of not having heard anything or having our toilet fixed, we put in another maintenance request online. Finally, two days later, it was fixed, and we haven’t had any problems with the toilet since.
Mid-December: One night, while cleaning dishes our kitchen sink had begun to drain slowly, so we turned on the garbage disposal, which had worked previously. It cleared the kitchen sink of water, but later, it was discovered that the water had simply moved to the bathroom sink. The bathroom sink started to flood with water and small bits of food, and the area under the sink flooded a bit as well. Eventually, the water level in the sink went back down, and a maintenance request was submitted. It kept filling up and draining for about two days, and then simply stopped, with both sinks partially flooded. After a few more days, the bathroom sink began to overflow onto the floor, and the “emergency maintenance” line was called. It was at night, and we had received no response to either of our requests so far. The next day, it began to overflow wildly, and the emergency maintenance line was called again. Someone came nearly instantly this time, and the problem was fixed.
Early November: This appeared to be a issue throughout the whole building, if not the whole complex, so I’m sure the office was aware of this, but for many days, both our air conditioning and heater were turned off. This made it difficult when, during the days, it was hot, and, during the nights, while my roommate and I were both trying to sleep, it was very cold.
Mid-October-Early January: This is not a maintenance issue, and it was never brought up to the office, so I can understand why this was not addressed. Our upstairs neighbor was playing his music very loud one night in early October, so I went upstairs to try to talk to him, trying to be as friendly as possible. After introducing myself, he snapped at me and said “So you want me to turn down the music or what?”. I said “Yes, thanks”, and he did. Since then, he had played his music very loud multiple times, but I had never confronted him about it again because, over that period of time, I overhead him screaming at whom I can only assume was his girlfriend, as well as the sound of slamming doors, and loud thumps. I had heard evidence of his anger multiple times, including him screaming at someone on the phone, and another incident of him yelling at another man to leave his apartment, calling him, as he was leaving, “A stupid f**king n***er”. The issue of him yelling at the other man happened on the 29th of December. It didn’t occur to me to notify the office about these incidents, and I apologize, but I didn’t want to get them into this as well.
Tonight, Friday the 2nd of December, he played his music particularly loud, enough so that it was shaking our apartment. After about an hour, I decided that I was fed up, and called the police to file a noise complaint at about 7. Shortly afterward, I heard him banging violently on the rails, which I have heard him do many times before. About 40 minutes later, a police officer came to talk to him. I had not been outside in a while, but the officer told me that the man upstairs had thrown a “bottle of alcohol” down onto the ground in front of our door. He said that the man definitely did not like any of his neighbors, and he told me that I should not confront him to avoid starting a fight, as he was intoxicated. I overheard a bit of the conversation, and he expressed hate toward many of his neighbors, including some racial slurs toward specfic African-Americans, as well as Hispanics who live in the area. As the officer also said, apparently, the music could be heard from the parking lot. A few minutes after talking to the officer on the phone, the man came and knocked on my door. He knocked for a few seconds, then paused for about thirty seconds, repeating this three or four times afterward, getting slightly louder each time. I did not answer the door. Eventually, he got frustrated and said very angrily under his breath “Motherf**ker!” before leaving.
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Posted October 17, 2008 at 9:58 pm by Severed Head
FINALLY. 12 YEARS OF WAITING.
That is, Earthbound 64 was announced in 1996, but delayed and delayed and eventually cancelled.
Then, they finally went HEY LET’S JUST FUCKING MAKE THE GAME FOR GBA ALREADY SHEESH. This was a few years ago.
After continuing to be patient for a few years, the Earthbound community finally went “HEY NINTENDO OF AMERICA WTF” and then made their own Mother 3 translation ROM patch which was released JUST TODAY
CELEBRATE, EARTHBOUND FANS!
THE MOTHER 3 FAN TRANSLATION IS HERE