The Ups and Downs of Growing Up

I’m sure you’ve all seen this recently. Kids are growing up faster. Wether we like it or not, the age of mental maturity is going down at an alarming rate with no consequence for physical maturaity. It is actually approaching the age of maturity perceived and required of boys and girls in old times. You’ve all probably seen the news in the past months. Teenage boys molest other teenage boys. Rape is a common thing around the age of 14. Kids bring knives to school. 10-year-olds get kitchen knives and stab 6-year-olds. And the one that bothered me most was the brutalness of kindergarden children.


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It’s Draw Bat-Girl Day!

Well, it was 3 days ago. Some bloke started it all. His buddy tried too. Then some others did it and voila: In two days you have over 500 bat-girls. Some are really sucky but some look really cool. (Kudos to the Dark Establishment for bringing it to my attention) Of course, I can’t draw to save my life. But I have Hero Machine. And thus, the result:


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News Flash: Extra! Extra! Read All About It!

Today on the Less Interesting Times we have a new and refurbished edition. Coming to you live in five. The top stories are as follows: Over 2,000 kids in Israel last year arrived at the brink of hospitalization becuase of parent abuse. Somehow, not enough people see it as severely and the situation continues. What the fuck is wrong with people? We’re talking about a child of 3 to 7 years old who is beaten by his father or mother to the point where serious medical attention is needed. Does it not strike anyone as particulary wrong? Because it sure pisses the hell out of me.


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The Stone

In the modern Hebrew society, I don’t know if the custom is originally Jewish or not, it is customary to place a stone on a person’s grave as a show of respect. If I am not mistaken, that custom is evident in Steven Spielberg’s famous film – Shindler’s List. It is even evident on Schindler’s grave itself, in Jerusalem, for it is covered with piles upon piles of stones. I only mention this because today is the one year anniversary of the death of Asaf Nomkin. Asaf was my friend. We enlisted together. We trained together. We served together. One year ago, he was found shot dead in a tent in the Balish training camp. They said it was suicide but to this day I still can think of any reason a person like him would want to kill himself. I won’t bother you with the “Same blood, same mud” or “He such a good and happy person” speeches because I’m sure you’ve heard all of them before. But just think back to all those speeches and all those words and forget that you thought they were bullshit. And know that for this man, they were all true. Asaf was a true loss to humanity. I can say for certain that him leaving made the ‘Contentment’ and ‘Humorous’ averages in the world drop significantly. Forget about everything else and just remember him. He was truely extra-ordinary. And so, according to tradition… Asaf, this one’s for you.


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The Weirdness of Geek

Here’s a letter segment I cut off of a discussion on the Dark Dungeons e-mail discussion group… “Yesterday I was talking to some neighbors and the topic of “Lord of the Rings” came up. I took the opportunity to mention my hobby: RPGs. The response shocked me. They said to me “Hey isn’t that for nerds and weird people?” I ended up showing my neighbors some of my D&D books and explained to them how the game works, then I asked them if they still felt it was geeky. They said “No”. I think the major problem we gamers have is that we are closet gamers. When asked at work what our hobbies are we choke up, feeling that if we revealed what we do for fun we will be ridiculed or scorned. WE seriously need to get out of the closet. There is nothing wrong with our hobby, trust me there are much worse things we can be doing.”


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This Isn’t Over Yet

You Are A: Chaotic Good Human Barbarian Alignment: Chaotic Good characters are independent types with a strong belief in the value of goodness. They have little use for governments and other forces of order, and will generally do their own things, without heed to such groups. Race: Humans are the ‘average’ race. They have the shortest life spans, and because of this, they tend to avoid the racial prejudices that other races are known for. They are also very curious and tend to live ‘for the moment’. Primary Class: Barbarians live outside the ‘civilized’. They have tribal goverments, and are often nomads. What they may lack in refinement is balanced by there strength of individual character and ability to survive.


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Compulsory Update

I’ve been running a game for the past week at The Orc forums. That’s the first game I, myself, am totally responsible for. It’s an attempt to recreate the Troubled Moon. So far, it’s doing slowly. I’ve gotten everybody around the starting town and so far I’ve got five players which is a very good start. I’ve also managed to get the Chest as a center subject and gather everyone around it and the fact that Dorus is in prison (i.e. Obstacle number 1). Well, everyond except Dragoran and Nihau’s characters which will soon encounter the Hunter and the Wolf (i.e. Obstacle number 2). Other than that, life’s pretty ordinary. I’m settling in my new job. Not a bad year to be put in that place in our department store. Hannuka plus a New Year weekend. Which means I’ll be busy. Taking over a position instead of a very appreciated worker and the stock count thrown into all of it, on a saturday. Great for me. But I’ve found a Chronicles of Narnia quiz. See how well you remember the Narnia world (Or how long ago have you read the series and how badly you need to read it again). There are also other quizzes there.


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Fathom (Non-SI Measurement)

If you’ve recently watched King Kong than you’ve probably wondered what the hell was that sailor in the begining talking about when he kept mentioning the word ‘Fathom’. Either that or you’re an English proffessor or bored like me and have done this before.


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The History of Gaming Lawsuits.

As far as videogames have been available there have been lawsuits over it. From the earlier lawsuits of plaiglarism and copyright infringement, through the battle over liscensing and programming conditions, all the way to the game-related murder trials of the last years. The 1up Gaming site presents The History of Videogame Lawsuits And when you’ve finished reading that. Dig into this.


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Dental Work

I had to go the Teeth Woman today. No, not the dentist and not the tooth fairy. It was an appointment for her to clean my teeth and teach me how to brush them. Well, it’s never too late to learn something new. :-)


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