March 1st, 2010
There it is, there's the CRAPPY NEW PAGE. AUGH!!
This unscheduled hiatus has turned what was already going to be a tedious flashback into a GLACIAL one.
Edit: Stupid Blogger, double posting. I'm so switching to Wordpress.
There it is, there's the CRAPPY NEW PAGE. AUGH!!
This unscheduled hiatus has turned what was already going to be a tedious flashback into a GLACIAL one.
Edit: Stupid Blogger, double posting. I'm so switching to Wordpress.
posted by madsniper at
9:52 PM
64 Comments:
Heh, we'll just call it White Noise's little ice age.
liketrai--trying something new and liking it!
Snipes! ::glomps::
Hi! :3
well, if you have the time, you can try and make up for the missing pages, but really, it had to happen at some point. so, I don't know, lets just hope it won't happen again soon.
and the new page is really nice !!
Hey, it gives me more time to work on my White Noise Hiatus song... Hopefully I'll have it ready by the next time you're out for a while. ^_^
You silly twisted drake.
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You guys wouldn't have it any other way. ^_^
Looks pretty awesome to me ^^
Don't mind the wait too much, the chatter on the Cbox was pretty funny!
Gruedified -getting eaten by a grue
@Diem, Hai!
@Illithi, I would love to hear that.^^
@nayalo, I was considering that. Though I'm definitely going to try for a big buffer at the very least, that way the next time I can't find the will to lift a stylus, I'll have several weeks worth of updates to fall back on.^^
Ha! Finished it!
I'm dreaming of a White Noise Update
Just like the ones I used to know
Where the chats are manic,
and addicts frantic
To see new posts on the blog
I'm dreaming of a White Noise Update
With every shoutbox post I write
May your days be zaney and bright
And may all your Noise Updates be white
I'm dreaming of a White Noise Update
With every shoutbox post I write
May your days be zaney and bright
And may all your Noise Updates be white
That's fantastic, Ilithi! :D
Mein Gott...
1) Ilithi is a genius (this we know)
2) The page rocks
3) I'm not waiting for the next update. :3
declist: A list of decathlon contestants.
GAH WTF TYPOS
I'm now** waiting...
>.<
Illithi.... you win five internets. That is awesome XD
Spaceman, you had me worried for a second there. XD
Yeah, just wait 'till I get around to recording myself singing it...
No promises on quality, though...
That's okay, Ilithi we'll still enjoy.
Yay a new comic.
I was just going to read the comments but I couldn't resist:
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In random news, Topeka, Kansas has renamed itself to Google, Kansas.
I KNEW IT
GOOGLE IS SLOWLY GOING TO TAKE OVER THE EARTH
It's only a matter of time before we start seeing government bodies with 'Google' appended to them.
Soon enough we'll all live in Google Empire... which will of course control the world.
Well it was either Google or McDonalds, which would you rather have?
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Lulz tiny head.
Wordpress is SOOOOOO much nicer :P
@Slade: At least McDonald's is tastier and more filling, even with all of Google's bytes...
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Danton:
That's only because Google hasn't entered into the fast food business yet. McDonalds, at least here in the States, only sells varying flavors of grease-soaked cardboard, with a side of fries.
Stica: Mario's walking stick.
Google Burgers. It will destroy McDonald's, Wendy's, Burger King, Whataburger, and all other fast food chains within a single quarter.
Heed my words people!
Oh my plaster porters and cardboard knickers!
Did someone just praise the heart attack station of the USA?
What is this world coming to!
Maybe they're not from the States and don't realize that, unlike in countries abroad where they can't get away with it, McDonald's doesn't actually sell real food here at home. Various flavors of greasy or deep-fried cardboard, with a side of fries or hashbrowns. And maybe some chocolate.
This will make you angry. And want to shoot things. With pain guns.
Oh no they did not...would anyone object to my using my teeth on these people's stomachs and innards?
I do believe that there is a point where 'dressing sexy' becomes 'asking for it' but still; these arseholes take it a bit too far.
There are times and places where 'dressing sexy' becomes stupid (aka 'asking for it'), yes, but that is still no more the fault of the victim than parking a sports car in the the worst neighborhood in NJ and having it get jacked your fault is the fault of the driver.
A crime is still a crime, and it is the fault of the criminal for committing that crime, not the fault of the victim, who should have no need to take precautions against being the victim of an illegal act (it is stupid not to, yes, but that doesn't change what the law is and the protection it is supposed to afford).
Blatant and idiotic sexism FTEL. Not an Epic Fail, an Epic Lose.
Oh I'm not arguing for the legality or illegality. It's wrong no matter what, and I would never say they deserved it even if they are lacking in common sense.
I'm personally more pissed off at these pamphleteers.
Yeah... I'm not sure who to be more pissed at, really. And I do not know of anyone that I know personally who has been raped. As outraged as I am at this, I would be even more offended/pissed/etc. if I did personally know someone who had been raped. This is just... grrr... I want to sit on these people and bite off body parts.
Oh I know someone who was raped, I would have no qualms about finding these people and hanging them by their own intestines.
*wants to inflict black snail brain death on these people*
And so lies the problem of my religion. Or rather, the extremists who claim to follow it.
As a Christian, that article angers me because, when atheists, agnostics, people of other religions, etc. look at Christianity, THIS SHIT is what they see.
I don't mean to be judgmental (ok, I am being judgmental, but I can't help it) but I seriously question these people's faith (and sanity).
In short, I implore all of you to know and understand that we are all not that crazy! (including myself)
*wants to rant for hours but will keep it short*
I know exactly what you're sayin, Spaceman. It's hard to hold on to faith when these people are the loudest.
Well it's not really *my* faith I'm concerned about. It's how people who do not share my faith view Christianity when, as you say, these people are the loudest.
IMHO, over-zealous Christians have done more to hurt the public perception of Christianity than any other party.
(PS confusing wording is confusing)
I think everyone knew what I meant?
Wow, that's just... wow.
There are no words. I can't believe people actually believe that shit! WTF, man!
Well what can you do Diem? There are radicals in every following. For better or worse they're usually the most vocal.
Well, their faith isn't really in question, since they undoubtedly have a lot of it. What they have faith in, and the basis for their moral ruleset/operating system, however, are open to questioning.
Don't worry, Spaceman, while I don't hold those beliefs any more due to divergence in world views and perceptions of reality, as well as personal issues and beliefs, etc. etc., I was raised Lutheran, and I'm well aware of the good that Christianity, and religion in general, can do. I strongly disagree with a lot of the principles that it teaches, and I don't like much of the structure of organized religion in general, but many of the base moral principles that are taught and encouraged (after discarding the out-dated Old Testament rules like killing your wife if she isn't a virgin, stoning rape victims, etc.) are still very respectable and valuable.
As with anything, though, it's the vocal minority that tends to get the most attention. This isn't always a bad thing, as vocal minorities don't always diverge drastically from the general population of a group, and often just represent the distilled identity of a group (especially when the vocal minority covers a broad spectrum of 'radicals'). It's when the vocal minority shifts towards an extreme fundamentalism that is radically divergent from the general populace of a group that they become a bad representation of the group (in the former circumstances, they're just a somewhat stereotyped representation of the group). Any time you develop fundamentalism, especially militant fundamentalism, you always have problems (whether or not it's from a vocal minority).
As for why people believe this shit... It actually wasn't that long ago that these kinds of beliefs were the norm, especially in the more deeply religious cultures. Shameful as it is, most human cultures that have existed have been oppressively male-dominated, often very brutally so, for 99% of human history. The stories of girls as young as 8 and 10 marrying men 30-50+ years old coming out of the middle east, were actually much more common-place prior to the modern era, and such treatment of women was far from exclusive to the Middle East. Western civilization has tended to be more lenient towards in many respects than other civilizations through history, but even then, that's only speaking relative to those other civilizations. Even in the West, women were severely oppressed as just a part of how things worked.
You know Ilithi, if you keep this up you might convince me that there is a point to strong, well written pieces on the internet.
Your points are quite sound on all counts. I think those involved in the discussion already know my views on religion so I won't go into that all over again.
Sadly, somewhere along the line males realized that they were stronger than females and we ended up in the current mess of sexual repression that we're only just (speaking in a historical context) coming out of finally.
Well that's basically what I meant, Ilithi. When I said I was questioning their faith, I meant I was questioning what their faith was in.
What I find so mind-boggling ironic is that, while it obviously lowers women to objects of sin (and thus implies that men are somehow inherently better), it turns around and immediately condemns men for having complete and utter lack of self-control.
While it's hard to prevent lustful thoughts when you see a scantily-clad attractive female, the idea that we'd be so consumed by our desires that we'd have to go rape her is absurd. Yet that's the standing implication.
So basically, according to this pamphlet, women cause men to sin, and men cannot do anything to stop this sin from happening.
So not only does it enrage me, it also confuses me because it seems to condemn both men AND women.
While I do believe that every single person is a sinner... I don't think that focusing on how and how often we sin is the point of that belief. So going around pointing out peoples sins is asinine pointlessness. Not to mention, who are these people to concern themselves with other's sins?
I'm gonna stop before I continue to repeat myself and/or start bashing my head against a wall.
Spaceman,
It's not condemning men for having no self-control, it's excusing men by saying that these actions are beyond their natural ability to control, thereby placing all the blame for said actions on the women who dress 'inappropriately,' because, as men supposedly lack the natural ability to control their urges, they cannot be blamed for what they cannot control, and so the sole responsibility for preventing those actions lies with women, and so any time the action isn't prevented, it must have been something the woman did.
It is a very barbaric and medieval mode of thinking, albeit somewhat clever in the way it creates a catch-22 to dump all blame on women.
As for males being stronger than females... I am ~95% certain that is solely due selective breeding, in what is effectively the single greatest eugenics program in human history. I strongly suspect that, the further back into history you go, the less difference you'll find between male and female physical strength and endurance, etc.
It's only the nature of human procreation that has given males any 'natural' physical advantage over women, in that it is more advantageous for primitive societies to protect the women, who would often be either pregnant or caring for one or more young children (and, also, it is easier to generate an increase in population with a dominant male over several females, compared to an equal number of both genders, or a dominant female over several males).
Some may feel squeamish about eating it, but rabbit has a fan base that grows as cooks discover how easy they are to raise — and how good the meat tastes.
Sadly, some more bad news. Because this is really, really, really bad...
Actually what I always find amusing is that a number of pre-Abrahamic religions (so called 'pagan' religions) place females on a standing equal to or higher than males until the advent of an Abrahamic religion sets in.
As for strength, of course it's selective breeding. Until the last few centuries that's all it's ever been. We've only relatively recently gotten to a point where natural selection doesn't apply anymore.
Heh, I apply this to your latest article Ilithi:
"The planet is fine, the people are fucked."
Yeah, many Native American cultures gave women equal or higher standing to men, too.
The tendency towards male dominance is certainly no more 'natural' than a tendency towards female dominance, there are just certain advantages and disadvantages to both that, under the right circumstances, can become decisive over time (speaking from an evolutionary/survival/expansion perspective here).
As for the people and the planet... Yeah, sure, we're not going to be able to do anything to blow the planet away until we get into the range of Star Trek tech and firepower (where a handful of ships literally CAN blow a planet away in a matter of hours), but that's not the point.
Even if you put aside survival of the human species, the issue here is biodiversity loss. We seriously have the potential to send the planet into a rapid climate change that would cause a mass extinction event that could potentially rival the Permian Extinction.
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I'm not sure that I see a problem with another mass extinction. The planet will continue to function in one form or another. We might be the catalyst for the next mass extinction, yes, in fact I think if there is going to be a candidate we're probably the best currently.
However life will continue. Just not as we know it, we'll have killed off most of the lifeforms we're familiar with and something else will replace them. It's sad, horrifying, but true. And for better or worse humanity isn't going to bother stopping itself.
Oh, life will certainly continue, and will probably evolve again, even if we somehow manage to wipe out ALL life on the entire planet.
Such an occurrence should be avoided by any means available, however, if for no other reason than the fact that WE would be gone (and the rest of the life that we do know is worth preserving in its own right).
I do think that humanity can change, and we're already heading down that road, though we may have passed the point of no return for serious, painful and even devastating climate changes from our actions. Getting off fossil fuels is going to be a slow and painful process, because of how dependent we are on them, and how many tens of trillions of $$$ are invested in those industries, but it's not impossible, even if new tech currently in testing/prototype stages doesn't completely revolutionize our energy system and make fossil fuels obsolete effectively overnight (see the Polywell fusion reactor as a prime example - with this, which is looking VERY promising and is currently being funded by the U.S. Navy, we could see the first prototype commercial reactor going online as early as 2020).
Well I salute your optimism (and yes I know of that reactor).
And honestly I don't think humanity has reached the point where we could wipe ALL life off the earth. All major life perhaps, but there'd still be a good deal of life left over.
Oh, yeah, killing all life on the planet is pretty much far beyond our capabilities right now (though we could make a half-decent try at it).
No, you'd need something like Star Trek-grade firepower, where 20 ships can bombard a planet for a few hours and reduce it to its nickel/iron core (DS9 "The Die is Cast").
Ingieste: What the Italians do to their food.
Dodongo dislikes text.
*ME2 Spoilers*
You can lose your entire crew, wipe out your entire squad, and die in the Suicide Mission, and still beat the game. Joker's the only one left, and it's very tragic, but it shows a very interesting side of him, because he apparently takes up Sheppard's mantle, because you see him reviewing Reaper data. It will be interesting to see how things play out in ME3 with that ME2 ending. I haven't played through the game to get those endings (there are two, one you blow the Collector base, the other you leave it intact for Cerberus), but you can find the cutscenes on Youtube.
The different upgrades you get for your squad and your crew also apparently effect who survives to actually get on the Collector base. For example, Tali dies in the fight with the Collector drones if you don't get the ship shield upgrades she provides (assuming she's not on your squad fighting the drone section that boarded in the shuttlebay). The loyalty missions also apparently determine whether or not they actually survive the suicide mission on the Collector base (though I'm sure other things come into play, as well, such as who all made it to the base, etc.).
In the romance options, for male you have Miranda, Jack, Tali, Samara, Kelly and Morinth (the Ardat-Yakshi daughter of Samara who you track down in Samara's loyalty mission, where you get to choose between killing Samara or Morinth - the romance option with Morinth kills you). I always choose the romance option with Tali, because she's the only one I'd actually be interested in for real (and Tali is just absolutely awesome), though I was tempted to romance Jack in my first play-through, because it seems like you can really help her heal a lot of wounds by taking the paragon route there. I didn't, though, partly because I like Tali better, and partly because the "falling in love with the dashing commander heals all her problems" is a rather pathetic, cheesy romance novel gimmick (with more than a few sexist overtones). Not that it couldn't happen for real, but the trope is heavily over-done in romance novels that over-emphasize gender roles with a submissive and/or demeaning role for women (and for the record, I held those opinions BEFORE my femi-nazi roommate moved in
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That, and Tali is just frickin' awesome.
Legion is way cool, too, and absolutely hilarious at times. Take him on the Citadel, and talk to the pencil-pusher desk clerk outside the C-Sec security checkpoint.
"Geth do not infiltrate."
"Sir, I recommend leaving your synthetic assistant at home. They're not allowed on the bus trams anymore."
"... Geth do not intentionally infiltrate."
(and speaking of the Citadel, yes, Sir Isaac Newton is THE deadliest sonofabitch in space!)
Tali, Legion, Joker and Garrus are my four favorite characters in the game. Thane is pretty cool, as well as Mordin (GILBERT AND SULLIVAN!), too. I respect Jacob, though he's not as cool as Thane and Mordin. EDI's fun, as well as Grunt. Miranda kinda rubs me the wrong way in some ways, just personality conflicts (and all the comments about what she wears are rather poignant), and Jack isn't the kind of person I'd hang out with normally (though I very much want to help her heal her wounds). The two Cerberus engineers are hilarious, too, and Kelly is cool, in a Yeoman Rand sort of way. Zaeed (battered old veteran merc you can pick up with some of the DLC) is rather interesting, too, and has some interesting stories to share.
Also, as a friend of mine often says, Mass Effect (1 & 2) is the best Star Trek game I've ever played. Few things, aside from universe-specific background/story stuff, that I would change to make ME a Trek game. I really wish someone would wise up and give them the Trek license.
Bored Ilithi?
I'm always bored. Unless it involves fire and explosions. Or flying.
Oh, btw guys, do me a HUGE favor: If you ever get a job in some kind of parts dealer company, do NOT give your irate customers the contact information for your suppliers. Send them up the latter in your own company, and let the top-level people in your company (even if that's you) liaise between them and your supplier. Giving your irate customer your supplier's contact information so that they can call them and bitch out the guy at the bottom of the totem pole will NOT help you get the parts your irate customer is ordering any faster.
Thank you.
Also, if you ever get a job which performs a critical function at your company, such that your company cannot function at all without your job being performed by SOMEONE, make sure that other people in your department or general area are trained in how to do your job, so that if you decide to call off sick for a week, your co-workers don't end up busting their ass the whole week long trying to do your job AND theirs, while also trying to figure out how your job is actually done. Thanks again!
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Speaking from personal experience, Ilithi?
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Yes... yes, I am... Had one of the dealers for one of our larger customers flub entering an order last week (put it in through one system that was specifically for a different type of part), and finally called yesterday wondering why he didn't have his part yet, and after I figured out what went wrong and explained what he needed to do, he gave his irate customer my contact info. So I had to get bitched out by a man who 'moved mountains in days' and couldn't comprehend that, while what he needed was just a small plug, the logistics of parts supply is VERY different from earth moving, nor could he comprehend that he didn't have his part yet because the dealer flubbed entering the order and that I hadn't even gotten the proper order yet.
And we've had three people in shipping (out of, like, five people in the dept.) out all week, on top of already being backed up. I don't have to cover for them myself, other people down there do, but I do have to deal with the customers who call wondering where their parts are, because they were supposed to ship the day before or last week, and then I have to tell them that they haven't shipped yet... Yeah, yesterday was a fun day... TGIF.
I would like to take this moment to point out that White Noise has an awesome ComicBOX ad.
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