tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73954958169130479492024-02-07T14:28:54.612+07:00Infernal EraserWhere reality, fantasy, and sci-fi collidesIsaac Pendragonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06776568367529189586noreply@blogger.comBlogger52125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395495816913047949.post-71085120808652942232015-02-03T14:45:00.000+07:002015-02-03T14:52:13.164+07:00The Fantasy Will Live On<div style="text-align: justify;">
I woke up this morning at around 5 am to do my morning prayers, and also to finalize my <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvS1JjlnpO8&list=UU8oUg1LJ_ZF26ALRSxrUaYw" target="_blank">10th episode</a> of <i><a href="http://freebirdgames.com/to_the_moon/" target="_blank">To The Moon</a></i> video on Youtube before going back to bed since I was also recording at 2 am before that. And I thought I'd open my Facebook while I was at it.</div>
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Then I saw <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7_YxT-KID8kRbqZo7MyscQ" target="_blank">Markiplier</a>'s <a href="https://www.facebook.com/markiplier/posts/835569429842696" target="_blank">post</a> about something that I just couldn't believe. That is, until I checked out the official page of <a href="http://roosterteeth.com/home.php" target="_blank">Rooster Teeth</a>, the creative production studio responsible for award-winning online videos, in case you have no idea who they are. And there it is, the headline that I don't want to see <i>this</i> soon:</div>
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"Our friend, inspiration and co-worker Monty Oum passed away yesterday afternoon at 4:34 PM surrounded by people who loved him very much."</div>
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I fell silent right there. I mean, I was aware that <a href="http://roosterteeth.com/news/entry.php?id=5427280" target="_blank">ten days ago</a> Monty suffered a severe allergic reaction during a simple medical procedure that left him in a coma, and has been hospitalized ever since. But I believed that everything was going to be alright, and he would just get back up and start being awesome again as usual.</div>
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For those who are not aware, or simply don't know about the guy's name himself, Monty Oum was an American web-based animator. He was known for his crossover fighting videos, starting with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL-mR79GErU" target="_blank"><i>Haloid</i></a>, a video of Master Chief from <i>Halo</i> series destroying an entire Covenant batallion, having a skirmish with <i>Metroid</i>'s <a href="http://metroid.wikia.com/wiki/Samus_Aran" target="_blank">Samus Aran</a>, and then teaming up with her to fight the incoming Covenant reinforcements. This video alone gained him amazing popularity, and put all heroes in action movies to shame mainly because of one scene: a <i>motherfucking shotgun kata</i>.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">If any of you male viewers didn't get a boner from this scene, you're impotent</span></div>
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He made another series called <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHA3opXjcd0" target="_blank"><i>Dead Fantasy</i></a> afterwards, a story where the characters from <i>Final Fantasy</i> series (plus <a href="http://kingdomhearts.wikia.com/wiki/Kairi" target="_blank">Kairi</a>/<a href="http://kingdomhearts.wikia.com/wiki/Namin%C3%A9" target="_blank">Naminé</a> from <i>Kingdom Hearts</i>) are duking it out with the characters from <i>Dead or Alive</i> series for some reason that nobody gives a damn about because it's awesome. But seriously though, if I get to see hot chicks fighting with sweet badass moves and cool CG effects, to hell with the plot. The series got postponed after episode 6 though, and Monty said that he would continue them one day. One day that will never come in the end.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">But in no way I'm saying that he hasn't done enough yet</span></div>
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He then was employed by Rooster Teeth Productions to animate for their <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/show/redvsblue" target="_blank">Red vs. Blue</a></i> series, a story about the neverending conflict between the 'Reds' and the 'Blues' in the <i>Halo</i> universe that is filled with comedy and other shenanigans. It was made entirely by using the game mechanics from the <i>Halo</i> series, until Monty came along and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ke9wtbzGjCI" target="_blank">wreak havoc</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KroSvId-8P4" target="_blank">with sheer awesomeness</a> for the rest of its seasons.</div>
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And later on, he made his original series, <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUBVPK8x-XMhCW2fW7ZYlD9MHjvmT8IGK" target="_blank">RWBY</a></i> (pronounced 'Ruby'), an anime-style animation series about a fantasy world where 'magic' exists in the form of Dust energy, and the Hunters who fights against the forces of darkness called 'the Grimm' with exquisite weaponry. I mean "exquisite" because all of their weapons could transform into a melee and into a ranged version of it, or both.</div>
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The series also has only reached Season 2, with a cliffhanger ending and some new characters just got introduced near the end. Now with him - the main director and animator - gone, and not to mention he also voiced <a href="http://rwby.wikia.com/wiki/Lie_Ren" target="_blank">one of the character</a> himself, I don't know if Rooster Teeth would continue the series or not.<br />
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Nevertheless, there's nothing else we can do now except to offer our deepest condolences for his passing. I may not be an animator myself, but I deeply appreciate creativity, and his works has always been one of my favorite of all time. He single-handedly made me compare every CGI generated combat scenes in any movie with his own, and he also made me recoreograph every battle scenes for the stories in my head.<br />
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The world has lost a great talent. But even then, his works will live on forever.<br />
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<i>"I wasn't dreaming when they told me you were gone,</i></div>
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<i>I was wide awake and feeling that they had to be wrong."</i></div>
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Isaac Pendragonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06776568367529189586noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395495816913047949.post-46622308795701075602015-01-10T21:33:00.004+07:002015-01-10T21:36:36.641+07:00Steamrolling the Holidays<div style="text-align: justify;">
It's been a week since the Steam holiday sale has ended. How are you Steam gamers doing, got anything good? Beaten any of your new games already yet? I hope you're holding back, because that would be a lot better since another sale season won't be around pretty soon. Besides, your wallet and/or your credit card need their well earned rest.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The almighty Lord was pleased with thy generous offerings</span></div>
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<a name='more'></a>For those who are not aware, for some reason, <a href="http://store.steampowered.com/" target="_blank">Steam</a> is an internet-based digital distribution, digital rights management (DRM), multiplayer, and social networking platform developed by Valve Corporation. Steam provides the user with installation and automatic updating of games on multiple computers, and community features such as friends lists and groups, cloud saving, and in-game voice and chat functionality. Basically, it's one of the best ways to fight piracy by selling game softwares with no physical form, in cheap prices.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Which is an even better method compared to the futile attempt at permanently sinking the Flying Dutchman</span></div>
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Now, the Steam sale periods are the times when several games that are being sold at steam gets a very high discount rate, ranging from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indie_game" target="_blank">Indie</a> games up to the <a href="http://gameindustry.about.com/od/glossary/g/Aaa-Game.htm" target="_blank">AAA</a> games. It is a period that gamers would look forward to, yet fear at the same time; it could be a deviously unintentional trap if they're not careful. Here's some of the reasons why.<br />
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Firstly, there are the Early Access people; the guys who would always try to buy new games as soon as possible. The problem is, new games that got discounted are still expensive, with the discount only ranging around 10-20%. Sure, some do get a discount up to 50%, but their original price was around $50 to begin with, and if you wait longer the price might actually go down to the same range. So the decision on whether or not you should buy the game should be entirely be based on if the game was really worth it to begin with.<br />
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If they're some game of the year material or simply highly recommended by people, then by all means, go ahead and buy it if you have the money to spare. If they're not, or you just think that it would be a waste to throw your entire saving for your children's school just to buy one game, then you should probably not do it.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">"I'm sorry, son, but you still have years to go, while <i><a href="http://store.steampowered.com/app/241930" target="_blank">Shadow of Mordor</a></i> can't wait anymore"</span></div>
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And then there's the sense of belonging that we as a human being has; the soul of a collector. Although this time it's not in the form of cards, <i>Pokémon</i>, or cute anime girls, it doesn't even have form at all anyways.<br />
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There are people who wait for that time of the year to buy games that they have beaten or owned before just for the heck of it, and they would feel a great amount of pride for doing so. Just like, you know, a collector. Also, the nostalgia they'd feel when playing old games that they loved will be worth the money spent.<br />
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Then there's the type of people who has the same reason for waiting the steam sale as the Collector type mentioned above, but with a different purpose; they do it for Redemption. These people finally come to realize the guilt of playing games made by people who worked so hard for it without giving them any money.<br />
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Just admit it, every one of us has played pirated games before, each to a different extent on their own. We do it because we couldn't afford to pay for the original version of it, or there's just no easy access to get one in our area. With the steam sale and its low prices, we got offered the chance to cleanse our sin by buying the games that we once pirated.<br />
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And finally, there's the type of people that are so prone to the steam sale that they'll drain their money just for the heck of it; the Impulsive Buyers. The ones that would just buy anything as long as it's cheap, even though deep down they know that they probably wouldn't be able to play any of the games that they bought in the near future.<br />
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If we try to reason with them, they might claim that they won't get another chance to buy games with cheap price again. Unless, I don't know, waiting for another year for an even lower price? But then they might also say that they probably wouldn't be able to spend as much money as they could this year, so they just have to do it now.<br />
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But I can't see any of these people having wrong purposes, all of them are just normal human traits, although they do have bad potential if they were left unchecked. And since that was my first experience with the Steam holiday sale, I also did several things that I mentioned above without proper planning beforehand.<br />
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I hope you enjoyed your new year holiday with all the new games that you bought!</div>
Isaac Pendragonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06776568367529189586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395495816913047949.post-21539710775552632042015-01-01T18:12:00.000+07:002015-01-10T23:49:59.357+07:00Where We're Going, We Need a Purpose<div style="text-align: justify;">
2014 is over. Sadly, it went out with tears of griefing people instead of celebration and happiness, no thanks to the recent AirAsia <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-30630330" target="_blank">aircraft accident</a>. My deepest condolences to the victims and their families and friends.</div>
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But the year has passed and it's the start of a new one, we can't turn back the time and save those people. All we, the people who are not directly involved in their search, could do for them now is to pray for them to be found. If there are survivors, I hope they would be rescued immediately. But as for the deceased, I hope that at least their bodies could be found, and may they leave this world in peace.</div>
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<a name='more'></a>And now, there must be a lot of people who have their own '2015 resolutions' out there. Some might say that they will just go with the flow, but that is also a resolution in its own way. There would also be people trying to be funny by mentioning their monitor resolution, which in turn will be met with frowns and sympathetic sad look from people around them.</div>
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While some people would say that making a new year resolution would make you look like arrogant dicks, the claim only becomes valid when you're nagging that resolution to those around you; and once you're done rubbing it off to their face, you would ask about theirs with a condescending look while preparing to shoot down their hopes and dreams.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">"Hey guys, this loser thinks that he could have more raise than I've ever had!"</span></div>
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So, as surprising as it is to hear (read) this from some lazy bum who spends ninety percent of his days sitting in front of a computer and is in love with an imaginary girl, you do need a resolution to be made real - a target, if you may. It doesn't have to be something so <a href="http://mashable.com/2014/12/31/new-years-resolutions-selfish/" target="_blank">noble</a>, or something that would change your life forever, but it needs to be able to give you a <a href="http://www.vox.com/2014/12/29/7434433/new-years-resolutions-psychology" target="_blank">sense of accomplishment</a> when you finally reach it. And also, make sure you keep it in a realistic way.<br />
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I do wish that I had started everything that I have been doing a lot earlier last year, but I don't want to have any regrets either. What has been done cannot be undone (or in my case, the other way around), the only thing I could do now is to make sure that it won't happen again this year.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">To be fair, I didn't get a 26 years ahead of time <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096874" target="_blank">heads up</a> for what I should have accomplished this year</span></div>
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As for my target this year, I wish to be able to help support the basic needs in our house, mainly the electric bills and the internet because that's what matter the most. And get this blog to entertain (at least around) ten thousand viewers by the end of the year. Also, to give two thousand people another place they could hang around at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/isaacpendragon" target="_blank">on YouTube</a>.<br />
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Is it realistic? It sure sounds like it. I barely played games merely just to have fun anymore for the past month, so I should be able to pull those off once I could manage my other, less tempting distractions. What about you? What are your targets for this year? If it would make you a better person than you are last year, then I sincerely wish for you to achieve those targets.<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Happy new year, everyone. And thank you for reading after all this time too. Let's make this year better!!</span></b><br />
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Isaac Pendragonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06776568367529189586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395495816913047949.post-83764559985018202452014-12-27T08:07:00.000+07:002014-12-27T08:15:33.608+07:00How to Spot a Game That You Should Not Play<div style="text-align: justify;">
Now that I'm back in high spirits again. Let's continue our journey through my rambling and potentially misleading opinions that are (personally) still a lot better than the recent news media activities. Today I want to talk about video games, but not in why would people play one. Most importantly, why people <b>wouldn't</b> want to instead. A lot of game makers got too focused on the things that they should be doing for the game, but forgetting about the things that they should avoid in the process.</div>
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Let's start with the basics, shall we. First, let's discuss the simple question: what is a "video game"? I'm going to go ahead and politely steal from wikipedia because I don't have the talent on describing things: A video game is an electronic game that involves human interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device. The word video in video game traditionally referred to a raster display device, but it now implies any type of display device that can produce two- or three-dimensional images.</div>
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So why would people play video games? If you're honestly asking that question because you actually don't know the answer, then I'll asume you got hit in the head so bad that you lost half of your common sense. It is obviously to have fun, why else would you waste your precious time staring at a screen pressing buttons and not getting any notable reward for it?</div>
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<a name='more'></a>Aside from just having fun, there are also those who play video games for other fulfillments within their anxious souls. Some prefer multiplayer games that allows them to have virtual fun with friends that most likely they'll never meet in real life. Others do it to satisfy their urge of competition, the joy of overpowering another in a duel, or just some mere achievement comparing.</div>
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There are also people who do it for career, despite everything your parents keep saying about there's no way anyone could make money by playing games; making videos of their gaming experience for other people to enjoy, or going professional and join a competitive team. And then there are those who use it as an escape from their daily lives and the problems looming within.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Others do it to deal with their loneliness, but let's not judge anyone, okay?</span></div>
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One might think that with all these things people can achieve by playing video games, anything would be fine as long as people can play it. And that's where some developers got it wrong and starts to just focusing on the profits they would be getting.<br />
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Like I've mentioned before, people play video games to have fun, regardless of what other objectives that they have in mind. That's the core of everything that makes a video game a 'video game'. Who cares about anything else when you can play it and come back smiling everytime, like you just looked at your first boobies. But nowadays, some devs just skipped this very important part faster than us clicking "I agree to the terms and conditions" in EULAs, and deleted the 'Fun' part of the game in place of things like 'more features' and 'realistic atmospheres', which in turn makes the game no longer worth playing anymore.<br />
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The first violator is the kind of games that are simply way too hard. They're either near impossible to beat, or the game simply <a href="http://www.cracked.com/article_21730_the-6-biggest-dick-moves-in-history-video-game-design.html" target="_blank">hates you</a> by throwing <a href="http://www.cracked.com/article_21764_5-video-game-puzzles-clearly-designed-by-hateful-people.html" target="_blank">ridiculous puzzles</a> at you. And sometimes the reason is that the controls are so screwed up that you can't make a progress without losing several hairs out of frustration. But still, the reason why I mention this one first is because despite of the stress build--up the players would experience, it's highly entertaining for others to see them <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DNQU_d4uwQ" target="_blank">failing and getting angry</a>, the taste of successfully clearing a stage would also be ten times more satisfying. And if the player is a chronic masochist, then everything is okay. So it's still an acceptable flaw.<br />
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The second one would be glitchy games, the ones with shenanigans that makes you feel like the game was rushed to the market and there are bits here and there that looks unfinished. Sometimes the glitches are harmless or simply <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4isKBz1Dpo" target="_blank">hilarious</a> to watch, or downright <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToKIkw3LIoQ" target="_blank">creepy as fuck</a>. But other times they're just downright unforgivable; like when the NPC you're supposed to talk to about a quest got glitched out of their original position and ended up being buried under a tree or something.<br />
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The case only gets worse in multiplayer games, because sometimes the glitches are game-breaking elements. And there are people would do pretty much anything to win, even if it means to get into places where no one else could reach them. Sure it's all fun and games when it happens in single player, but it would be taking the fun out from everyone else in multiplayer.<br />
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Speaking of multiplayer, let's go on the third and final violator; the Pay to Win games (aka P2W). This violation usually comes from Free to Play MMOs, which means that you're free to play the game but there will be stuffs that you can buy via in-game purchases. So it would be like getting free vanilla ice cream, but you need to pay for the extra toppings.<br />
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But some devs abused this system to the point that it made the game nearly unplayable for the free players. They would make the normal rewards ridiculously low, while giving out promotions in the form of in-game items or currency for each purchase of their cash items. Or making the item enhancements near impossible without their item protection special items, and even with that the chance of success is still very low.<br />
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There are also those who take it even further. Some games provide equipment upgrades that could be bought by spending points earned in-game, however the points earned for each playthrough is miniscule compared to the price of the upgrade itself. Yet the game also give out an option to just buy the upgrade by using real money, making you significantly more powerful than your opponents without any notable efforts.<br />
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Sure, games like <i>Diablo 3</i> had their <a href="http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/13354139/diablo-iii-auction-house-comes-to-a-close-3-18-2014" target="_blank">now-closed-down</a> virtual RM (real money) market, but the game is still a PvE (Player vs Environment) based, so the ones that would feel cheated are only the demons from hell, and the guys who actually spends their real money to buy more decent gears for their game character doesn't have a lot of friends anyway. However, it's a whole different case when this happens in a PvP (Player vs Player) based game; it would completely ruin the game for the free players.<br />
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Once the game reached these conditions, then there's just no point in playing it any further. Any efforts you should be making to gain some progress can be skipped just by throwing money into it, And those who are actually suffering the hardship of grinding and item gathering would completely lose their will to keep playing after seeing those rich players walking around smugly with items purchased with real money; getting into raid parties that they could never attend because they couldn't afford to craft that legendary set equipments, or being annihilated by superior firepower that comes from real cash.<br />
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So here's my message to game developers out there: Keep your games fun to play. Balance out the difficulty, fix any bug and glitch you could find, make the players feel rewarded from playing your games. And if you really have to put cash item services, please keep it within accessories, fashion, or other items that wouldn't disturb the balance of the game at all. </div>
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My phone got stolen last week. And I had to be honest, it ruined my mood so much that I just couldn't think of anything funny for a few days. Probably because this is the first time some damn thief was able to steal something from me when I'm going out, or at least the first time I got targetted.</div>
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What really got me angry is that the incident happened so fast that I didn't have time to react. I was on the bus at that time, and got both my hands in each of my pockets. The bus hit the brakes to stop, and the momentum caught me off guard a bit, so I get my left hand out to grab the railing above because there were no soft, squishy boobs to hold on to. But when I put hand back into my pocket, my phone was no longer there.<br />
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I do suspect someone though, one elderly man who was so reluctant to have his pockets searched. Although my phone was not there after my search, I'm sure that he moved it somewhere in his own bag before I realized my phone was gone. Was I being too suspecting? Well, if you've ever ride in a bus here in Jakarta (which is totally not an enjoyable <a href="http://livinginindonesia.info/item/transjakarta-busway" target="_blank">experience</a>), you'll come to agree that at least 80% of the passengers are assholes, which would become evident right away the moment you see how they... "line up".<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">"What's that? You want to pass through? Well, fuck you and everything you love then, we're staying right here"</span></div>
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<a name='more'></a>After the incident, I decided to plan up some methods to make sure that this thing won't happen again in the future, and I guess I'll share them with you in case you're also wondering what to do to prevent any soulless demon in disguise from pilfering your valuables. The basic ones would be not to dress up like an obvious above middle-class, and never get your phone out in the bus. The rest are some brainstorming results that I made up.<br />
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Here we go.<br />
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<b>Method #1: Put your phone/wallet in your backpack, and carry it in front of you</b><br />
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This is one of the most effective solutions that could be applied easily and is recommended worldwide. Since your pockets are empty, your hands are free to hold your backpack and/or grabbing the hand rails and/or boobies. Keep in mind that you should also position your bag zippers where you can see it clearly, and make sure you also secure your valuables somewhere that would not be easy to grab should the defenses be breached in some way.<br />
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The problem with this method would be if your backpack is too small, which would make it look a little bit silly. But I'm pretty sure anyone would prioritize on safeguarding their personal belongings instead of trying to look good in public. Besides, the moment you use that God forsaken hell-hole called "a bus", your personal image no longer matters.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">One day, this would give more fashionable vibe and less I'm-carrying-a-gooddamned-baby look</span></div>
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But what if we're not using a backpack at all? Well, let's look at the second option that we have.<br />
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<b>Method #2: Put your hands in your pockets, never remove them</b><br />
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My phone got stolen because I gave the thief a window of opportunity with his cursed sleight of hand. If you make sure that your hands stays there, no matter what happens, they would not be able to make a move at it.<br />
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Sure, this method has some risks, mostly concerning safety because you wouldn't be able to hold on to anything beacuse your hands are occupied. So positioning is the key here, make sure you're able to find a spot to lean on to protect you from falling down when the bus hit the brakes.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Unless you could <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_D3VFfhvs4" target="_blank">defy the laws of gravity</a>, then you're totally fine</span></div>
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There is another method if you find it too troublesome or dangerous, which is fair because positioning in the bus during rush hours and closing time is virtually impossible.<br />
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<b>Method #3: Use earphones</b><br />
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Some of you might find this counter-productive, as it has the potential to distract you from your surroundings. But let's look at it this way; if you're using earphones with your phone (cable, not bluetooth), you'd still be a harder target, because you would notice it right away if anything happens to it. They would need to unplug your earphone from your phone, and the music would be stopped abruptly.<br />
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You'd still need to safeguard it from time to time though, because this method has some weakness too. The thief might be smart enough to grab your phone first without you noticing, and then unplug your earphone once he had it secured. Sure, people would have noticed this from happening... If they're paying any attention at all. When my phone was stolen, I was not in a very cramped position, yet nobody saw anything happened.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">One logical conclusion pointed out that everyone was secretly masturbating back then</span></div>
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If you want an even more practical method, then maybe consider this one.<br />
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<b>Method #4: Just bring another phone</b><br />
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No, I'm not talking about smartphones, I mean the cheap, ugly ones that even thieves wouldn't want to get their hands on them when placed in the open. Such as a badly damaged phone that still works, a monochrome phone from early 2000s, or a Blackberry. Admit it, it's a piece of crap.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Ewww, gross</span></div>
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I do understand the disadvantages of not carrying your smartphone around in this time period, nobody's going to help you take stupid selfies with <b>their</b> phone and sends them to <b>your</b> phone, even your friends. I know I wouldn't.<br />
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Still, there is a method that you could take as a last defense.<br />
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<b>Method #5: Have a remote alarm on your phone</b><br />
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This method is only for your final act of defiance to show that you will never submit to the pillaging heathens even when your phone is no longer in your posession. By using some kind of a remote alarm, you could still track your phone from the alarm sound, and from the sign of a very panicked passenger.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Pictured above: an alternative</span></div>
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Or if you're also implementing method #4 while still carrying your smartphone for some reason, you could also call the number of your lost phone by using your other phone that was - hopefully - not stolen as well.<br />
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If all else fails, there's the final method.<br />
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<b>Method #6: Put your phone and/or wallet inside your underwear</b><br />
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Okay, let's just stop this before any more weird ideas shows up.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">From iPhone to iSore, in one single step</span></div>
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This might not work as intented, but it's actually viable if you want to try it out. Although if the thief <b>still </b>make a move for it, then you would have a whole other different problem.<br />
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You could also not taking your phone at all, so you could focus on protecting your wallet from the thieves and your butt from molesters. But it might not be a good idea for the long run, because we don't know when you would need to make a phone call, especially since the era of payphones is pretty much dead by now despite what Maroon 5 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRaWnd3LJfs" target="_blank">wanted you to believe</a>.<br />
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That being said, hopefully you would be more vigilant in taking care of your personal belongings during your travels. Because even a nobody like me could have his stuffs stolen.</div>
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2014 Steam Christmas sale is coming, so I hope you gamers have some money left to spare for the outrageous discounts and didn't spent too much on the last sale period. I had to admit, several of the price were so low that I bet a lot of you bought games that you might never play anyway. Might want to remember this the next time you want to tease girls for buying a lot things out of impulse. But I do hope that you at least got your hands on <i><a href="http://store.steampowered.com/app/4000/" target="_blank">Garry's Mod</a></i> (<i>Gmod</i>) among other things.</div>
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"What is it?" you may ask. Well, <i>Gmod</i> is a physics sandbox game using a modified <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_(game_engine)" target="_blank">Source engine</a> from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valve_Corporation" target="_blank">Valve</a>, where you can do literally anything you want. There are no goals or objective that you must do in order to play it 'properly', the game will just put you in a map and gives you tools and other stuffs to play with and have fun with all of it, the rest is completely up to you.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Or Buzz Lightyear, depends on your preference, really</span></div>
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The favorite ones are "Prop Hunt", where you play hide and seek with one team can disguise as any prop available and the other team hunts them down. "Trouble in Terrorist Town", where you play as Terrorists from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-Strike" style="font-style: italic;" target="_blank">Counter-Strike</a> (seriously, do you even need that link?) but there is one (or multiple) traitor among you that must kill everyone else. "Hide & Seek", which is basically your everyday hide and seek game minus the law of gravity, and those who got tagged will turn into the seeker. And "Murder", which uses the same concept as TTT, except that there is only one murderer and one detective with a gun, the rest are helpless bystanders.</div>
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I've played all of them, but my favorite is Prop Hunt, mainly because it doesn't require much communication to play it unlike TTT and Murder, where communication is the key to deduce who is the backstabbing bastard within. And there is also the fact that I'm just too shy to talk to new people in-game. I rarely talk in <i><a href="http://tinyurl.com/ld7evwm" target="_blank">Planetside 2</a></i> as well despite having played it for two years now. I keep telling myself that I'm just roleplaying as a war scarred veteran soldier who got hit by a debris on the head and is now a retarded mute who can't aim for shit.</div>
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And the game is just too damn fun to play, if you could handle the lag (goddamned Indonesian internet). I could relive that feeling that I would get when I was playing hide and seek as a kid, even multiple times than that. For example, I couldn't help snickering like an idiot when I disguisded myself as a lamp and the hunters keep passing by right next to me, and I almost pissed my pants laughing when I got chased all over the map as a little tin can with bullets flying all over me.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The tension is so high I could get a boner</span></div>
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If you want to know what the game is like, there are lots of famous Youtubers play it with their friends like Vanoss does, such as <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYH8WvNV1YEnJC5Ky2_5Hau1x39JSwrpS" target="_blank">PewDiePie</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3tRBEVW0hiAcksNiILvUOWUbVQXwGbuH" target="_blank">Markiplier</a>. And there are the ones whose channel are filled with <i>Gmod</i> fun stuffs, like <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/SeaNanners" target="_blank">SeaNanners</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/TheMrSark" target="_blank">Mr. Sark</a>. Especially Nanners, he's pretty much the king of prop hunt, in my opinion.<br />
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I highly recommend you guys get this game if you haven't already, it will be worth your money. I'm also quite surprised that in my first five hours I met several Indonesian people in the game. The fun factor goes sky high when you're playing it with friends, so try to get them play together with you as well... and please invite me too, I have no friends :sadface:</div>
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So the <i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1340138/" target="_blank">Terminator: Genisys</a></i> trailer has been released quite a few days ago. I'm sure you guys have seen it already, but let me embed it here in case you haven't because you've been wasting your time doing something else instead, like having a life.</div>
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And with that, I'm going to write some point of view about it as a fan of the <a href="http://terminator.wikia.com/wiki/Terminator_franchise" target="_blank"><i>Terminator </i>franchise</a>. A little bit of warning however: it will be filled with opinions and assumptions. It is obvious, of course, since that's the purpose of a trailer aside from giving you some tease like the <a href="https://twitter.com/myakkomyako/status/540485949822468096" target="_blank">recently popular</a> open chested turtle-neck sweater on <a href="http://www.pixiv.net/" target="_blank">pixiv</a>. But I just want to make it clear, nevertheless.<br />
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<i>Terminator Genisys</i> takes the timeline of <i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088247/" target="_blank">The Terminator</a></i> prologue - which makes it the aftermath of <i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0438488/" target="_blank">Terminator Salvation</a></i>, but with less <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000288/" target="_blank">Batman</a> - where the resistance are starting to win the war and Skynet cheats by sending its Terminators to kill Sarah Connor (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3592338/" target="_blank">Emilia Clarke</a>), the mother of John Connor (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0164809/" target="_blank">Jason Clarke</a>) - the leader of the resistance - in order to make him never existed in the first place. Kyle Reese (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2541974/" target="_blank">Jai Courtney</a>) volunteered to be sent back in time to protect her. John Connor agrees with the plan, because he knows that's exactly how it is supposed to happen, and sends him off with a very heavy hearted blessing. Hey, how would you feel when you're sending some guy back in time to have sex with your mother so that you could be born?<br />
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That's the scene where the <a href="http://terminator.wikia.com/wiki/T-800_(The_Terminator)" target="_blank">first Terminator</a> hitmachine, T-800 (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000216/" target="_blank">Arnold Schwarzenegger</a>), is about to be sent back in time. Notice how the lack of fabric around its body, exposing all the organic muscles and its firm butt. And then here's the scene where the resistance are sending Kyle Reese.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">"Uh, guys... Could you look the other way?"</span></div>
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If we're taking the same logic as the Terminator did, then Kyle also enters the time machine buck naked, and have his entire comrades stare at his flailing junk as he is lifted off the ground. Talk about humiliation.<br />
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There is the theory that any clothes or weapons the traveler is carrying will be destroyed, so if he's wearing/carrying anything it would be simply destroyed in the process. But if that's true, then why would he need to strip everything save the underpants before that? He could just go in there and be done with it right away. It's not like he's coming back to retrieve his clothes later on.<br />
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And then the trailer also shows us Kyle being chased around in a clothing store by the <a href="http://terminator.wikia.com/wiki/T-1000" target="_blank">T-1000</a>, the Terminator that is supposed to appear on the <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103064/" target="_blank">second movie</a>. Sarah shows up in a paramedic truck, presumably stolen from the <i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947" target="_blank">Game of Thrones</a></i> set, and saves Kyle instead after knocking the machine away and uttering the franchise's <a href="http://terminator.wikia.com/wiki/Come_with_me_if_you_want_to_live." target="_blank">first iconic catchphrase</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">"Thank God you're not naked anymore. Get in!" - Sarah Connor</span></div>
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I'm not sure what happened here, it's either Skynet mixed up the schedule for the Terminator deployment with the laundy pick-up, or the series has experienced too many time-altering events that it somehow changed the past as well. It turns out Sarah already knew about the future war, Skynet, and the Terminators. Most likely she also knew that the guy she just saved is going to bone her anytime soon. As for the supposedly first Terminator, well...<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">"I don't have <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q73gUUr8Zlw" target="_blank">the one-liner</a> to kill you with yet"</span></div>
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Somehow there was already another T-800 hanging around, waiting for it to arrive to dispose of it (fucking spawn campers). And judging by the trailer, this one has been around for quite a long time, protecting Sarah Connor since way back before all of this Terminator thing. We were shown the T-800 carrying a rocket launcher and (presumably) a young Sarah Connor at a lakeside forest, reminiscing his role in the <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088944/" style="font-style: italic;" target="_blank">Commando</a>. Not sure what it's protecting her from, but the forest was a mess.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Probably from <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080761/" target="_blank">Jason Voorhees</a></span></div>
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And then after several scenes that includes the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY8IA3WF-Ts" target="_blank">law of weight differential</a> from the <i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1596343" target="_blank">Fast Five</a> </i>and the movie franchise's <a href="http://terminator.wikia.com/wiki/I%27ll_be_back." target="_blank">second iconic catchphrase</a> from the Terminator, the trailer ends. Which brings me to some questions.<br />
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First, why the reprogrammed Terminator has already been there? Did the resistance watched the movie franchise and thought about the one thing that supposedly 'super intelligent' Skynet couldn't come up with, which is to send their Terminator way back ahead in time? This might be the most logical reason, because it's a lot better to have a backup for Kyle when he finally arrives to his time period, although it changed his role from "badass soldier protecting Sarah Connor to the very end" to "some grunt struggling to stay alive long enough to pork". Besides, the guy looks incompetent enough in combats outside of the bed.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">"Derp"</span></div>
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But then there's the timeline problem. Kyle should have arrived at the period of time when the first Terminator arrived, however it has been disposed of long before. And the one that exists on his period was the second Terminator, the T-1000. Did the arrival of the reprogrammed T-800 in the earlier past <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect" target="_blank">altered</a> the whole timeline?<br />
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The trailer said that "The rules have been reset", and Sarah said that they could stop the Judgement day. Are these the effect of the T-800 early arrival as well? Does it mean that now they could prevent Skynet from going ballistic or being created altogether without any notable consequences? Like, you know, if there is no Skynet, then there would be no war, and then there would be no time travel, and then there would be no Kyle Reese in the past, which means no John Connor.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">It's hard to digest, I know, take your time</span></div>
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I never did a trailer review, but this one amused me enough to do it anyway. It looks cool, and I'm probably going to watch the movie when it comes out, mainly to see what the answers for the questions actually are. But all this <i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1877832/" target="_blank">Days of Future Past</a></i> thing is a really tough method to approach with, hopefully it won't end the franchise with a big disappointment.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">"I'll be back, I forgot my haird dye"</span></div>
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Let's do a quick count; Who among us here who plays, or at least used to play, First-Person Shooter games with their mouse Y-axis inverted? Raise your hand if you're one of them, I'll wait.</div>
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Yeah, I used to play FPS game with the inverted mouse option ticked on, and I totally was not able to play it otherwise. Believe me, I tried a lot back then, but the only thing I get was increased miss rate and death counts. It really caused some problem when I'm playing with my friends and switching players each time one of us dies, even more than when someone's eating some cheese potato chips.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Little did they know that I always masturbated beforehand</span></div>
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Pulling back the stick makes the aircraft go upwards, while pushing it down makes it go downwards. So in order to emulate (simulate?) that sensation, default flight simulators controls inverts the Y-axis for the mouse, thus making old timey gamers feel more comfortable playing FPS games with the said control method.<br />
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Does it mean that people using inverted mouse settings have better skills since they are more closer to reality than the 'normal' players? Nope, it's just the same. The only difference is their natural habit to do it. This is why nobody ever bothered to learn how to use inverted mouse unless they really have to or have a gun pointed on their head, there's nothing special about it. And if you're wondering how do we feel when trying to use the normal setting for the first time, try playing the <i><a href="http://www.bossastudios.com/games/surgeon-simulator/" target="_blank">Surgeon Simulator</a></i>, or at least play using the inverted mouse setting for a bit; that's exactly how it is.<br />
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The first flight sim that I play without using the inverted mouse setting was <i><a href="http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/freelancer" target="_blank">Freelancer</a></i>, and it's because that there was no option to turn it on <a href="http://www.gamesflightsimulation.info/freelancer-invert-mouse" target="_blank">in the first place</a>. But the game can be played in third-person view, so there was less problems then because I don't need to think to pull up my "neck" in order to look up. And the combat was <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUcMsPt68Ws" target="_blank">basically</a> to "follow the red dotted circle and shoot at it", which makes it really easy for me to cope with.<br />
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The one game that finally got me off the inverted mouse habit was <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Nest" target="_blank">Dragon Nest</a></i>, an MMORPG with a non-targeting combat system to maintain a complete control of the player character. So, unlike the usual MMORPGs, you need to actually aim your attacks and not just pressing multiple skill buttons like a rythm game. It is feature that I honestly prefer more, really.<br />
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The game has no inverted mouse option, but I was enjoying it so much that I just keep going, despite stumbling a lot at the first time. As time passed, I managed to actually convert to the 'normal' mode. But the consequence is that I can no longer play with the inverted mouse option on, so the game managed to rob me of my 'unique' trait that separated me from other gamers. And since I'm quitting the game, maybe I should say thank you for it.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">And especially for adding a cute loli character in my pool, and introducing me to a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4GlvOHk0Y4" target="_blank">very talented singer</a></span></div>
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So by the end of the day, people using the normal setting and the inverted mouse is basically the same, they each just play differently than the other. I hope you 'inverted' comrades never felt bad about your 'unique'ness, and know that you could actually adapt to normal if you really want to.</div>
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If you're familiar with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massively_multiplayer_online_role-playing_game" target="_blank">MMORPG</a> genre, then you must have at least know about <i><a href="http://iro.ragnarokonline.com/" target="_blank">Ragnarok Online</a></i>, like pretty much half of MMORPG players do. It was a very big hit back in its time, and it also proved that once again, Korean MMO games rule the world.<br />
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But the game came out here in Indonesia during the time when I was still in High School, and I was an overly secluded kid back then, so I couldn't play it anyway. The main reason that I didn't want to play it was because it's a pay to play game, and when I thought about it and adding the money I would need to spend to play in cyber cafes, I wouldn't be able to hide it from my parents at all.<br />
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If I wasn't allowed to play games for more than 4 hours in a whole week, them finding out that I play MMO games outside of our house would have been like them finding out that I'm doing drugs. If you think that I was exaggerating things, let me tell you that they were so angry when they found out that I was playing <i>Counter-Strike</i> every Saturday. Now imagine how many heads will roll if I got caught playing games that I also need to pay to play each month.<br />
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It became free to play after a while, however. But something else still stop me from playing it; the way my friends became completely addicted to it. Some of them started to become... disconnected from the rest of their friends, few started skipping school just to play it. I knew I would end up worse bceause of my lack of self-control when it comes to playing games (I'm a lot better now, but sometimes I would still lose it), and the only thing I can imagine that would happen to me if I became like that was that I would be kicked out of the house after I got circumsized for the second time.<br />
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A few years after I graduated, <i><a href="http://www.playragnarok2.com/" target="_blank">Ragnarok Online 2</a></i> was released. And since I never got to experience the first one, I joined up in the game during the stress test period. And I found the game.... severely lacking, especially when I compared it to <a href="http://rf.lytogame.com/landing/" target="_blank">the ones</a> <a href="http://www.lineage2.com/en/" target="_blank">I played</a> <a href="http://econline.gungho.jp/">before</a>. So I ditched it right away, just in time, because my country got kicked out from the service despite the "South East Asian server" title. The server itself has already <a href="http://ro2.playpark.net/" target="_blank">ceased operation</a> for quite a while, serves them right.<br />
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The original <i>Ragnarok Online</i> is still around, in case you're wondering, but now there are even more reasons for me to stay away from that game. Today a lot of the players there are only bots, and <a href="http://www.lytogame.com/" target="_blank">the publisher</a> doesn't give a shit about it because it's still making money for them. So I became the rare case of a veteran MMORPG player in my country who have never played any <i>Ragnarok Online</i> in his life.<br />
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But then rumors started sprouting around the net about a game that was made by people who were in charge of the original <i>Ragnarok Online</i> production, the guys who didn't want to be responsible for the shitty sequel of the game that they loved.<br />
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<i><a href="http://treeofsaviorgame.com/" target="_blank">Tree of Savior</a></i>, a new upcoming 2.5D MMORPG which was initially known as <a href="http://mmoculture.com/2011/05/project-r1-imc-games-took-notice/" target="_blank">'Project R1'</a>, to symbolize the game as the <a href="http://mmoculture.com/2013/11/tree-of-savior-first-game-details-revealed-for-spiritual-ro-sequel/" target="_blank">spiritual sequel</a> of the original <i>Ragnarok Online</i>. Not much is known about the game yet, because it's still on the making. The only information comes from the <a href="http://blog.treeofsavior.com/en/" target="_blank">development blog</a>, <a href="http://www.tosbase.com/" target="_blank">fan base sites</a> and the trailers. Even the game was discontinued for some time before.<br />
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There seemed to be a limited party formation with a four player limit (I'm not entirely sure about this), along with a lot of classes that <i>Ragnarok Online</i> players would feel familiar with. And in the trailer, there were no other players outside of the party within the dungeons, so it looks like that it uses instance dungeon system.</div>
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There is an open world, according to <a href="http://mmoculture.com/2014/05/tree-of-savior-first-qa-for-spiritual-successor-to-ragnarok-online/" target="_blank">the Q&A seesion</a> with the devs, although the maps are zoned so each new areas must be loaded. And despite what the game looks like, it's not using a point & click gameplay method; It uses more of keyboard button mashing instead. So it would probably be more similar to <i><a href="http://www.elswordonline.com/" target="_blank">Elsword</a> </i>in terms of gameplay.</div>
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The game graphics looks so classical that it actually became more beautifully artistic compared to the more advanced MMORPG games we have today like <i><a href="http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/" target="_blank">Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn</a></i> and <i><a href="http://tera.enmasse.com/" target="_blank">TERA Online</a></i>. And due to the large number of available classes and subclasses, the range of skillsets that you can get in-game would be potentially large as well, so get ready for some headaches in building your character later. But it's business as usual, isn't it?<br />
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The players can choose their avatar freely, and would be able to customize them during the character creation and later in-game by non-gender specific costumes and accessories. It probably won't be as sophisticated as the character creation system in <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLw-kiFpyXc" target="_blank">Phantasy Star Online 2</a></i>, but I'm pretty sure they would provide option for the important ones such as hairstyles and face.<br />
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Oh, and speaking of gender, the classes are not genderlocked, so you can play as female warriors or male clerics. This is one of the better news for me, because I like to play as a female character in games, especially RPGs. Hey, I'd rather constantly see a cute girl on-screen than some dude flashing his butt when using skills. This is, after all, an "MMORPG" (Many Men Online Role Playing as Girls) game.<br />
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It's the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teachers'_Day" target="_blank">national teacher's day</a> here in Indonesia, which is commemorated on the same day as the formation of the Indonesian Teachers' Association, the <i>PGRI</i>. That means, (most) schools all around the nation would actually have their teachers to be treated right for once in a while.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">"I can finally eat three meals a day today!"</span></div>
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As for me, I find that having a ceremonial activity to dedicate our appreciation for teachers just for this one day is a weird thing to do. Now, don't get me wrong, I respect teachers a lot. And even though there are some of them who are incapable of doing their work properly, to the point that they were actually some <a href="http://isaacpendragon.blogspot.com/2014/09/not-shadow-of-chernobyl-but-stil-stalker.html" target="_blank">bat-shit</a> <a href="http://isaacpendragon.blogspot.com/2014/10/persistence-is-futile.html" target="_blank">perverts</a> in disguise, having one day dedicated solely for their existence is actually a good idea.</div>
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However, I can't shake this dark thought that despite of all that praise for teachers flying around the whole day, things will just go back to the same as it was before; Most of them would return to their work the next day as underpaid, unappreciated heroes who personally help build the entire society that we have today.</div>
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Here in Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia, a lot of teachers are so underpaid that they won't be able to support their families, and sometimes themselves, if they don't find something else to increase their income. This condition also applies to teachers in most countries, even in <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/10923967/OECD-teachers-overworked-and-not-valued-by-society.html" target="_blank">England</a> and the good ol' <a href="http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2014/04/09/teachers-american-salaries%20/" target="_blank">'Murica</a>.</div>
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The ones outside of Java have it <a href="http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2013/04/27/non-permanent-teachers-gorontalo-underpaid.html" target="_blank">even worse</a>, with a monthly salary even a lot lower than my previous job could offer. And I won't even talk about the ineffective <a href="http://www.globalindonesianvoices.com/8813/new-2013-curriculum-for-new-school-year-in-indonesia/" target="_blank">curriculum</a> that we have today, because then I would have to talk about politics again. And I've said this a lot of times before: I hate my country's politics.</div>
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As for this year, Indonesia's educational attainment is <a href="http://thelearningcurve.pearson.com/index/index-ranking" target="_blank">ranked</a> at the very bottom worldwide. We're right there along with Brazil and Mexico, where a lot of people are saying that the education there are bad enough. I'm not an education oriented person, and I might never will be because I never liked studying at school anyway, but this is really sad.</div>
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But there are still great teachers out there here in Indonesia, which would also fall into the category as one of those smart people I've <a href="http://isaacpendragon.blogspot.com/2014/09/give-us-more-good-news-please.html" target="_blank">mentioned before</a>. My teacher in Junior-High taught me that copying is fine, as long as you can make something new out of it. In my third year during Senior-High, one of them was so strict about her grading, but she's making sure that we won't be surprised about the even more unfair grading we would experience in college later.</div>
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The most notable ones in my entire education life would be my advisor lecturer who is not only a bright person, he's also one of the few in my campus who is totally dedicated for education as a whole and is actually concerned about the student's welfare. Hell, I've never met anyone outside of my friends and family who would send a happy birthday message to me and the rest of his students, every year. I guess his unofficial title as "the most favorite lecturer ever" given by the students is not just for show.</div>
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Nobody would want to be a teacher if they desire the salary, it would be a very bad news for them that they would quit pursuing that goal. But then again, in countries like Germany where the teachers are actually overpaid, their education is still inefficient when <a href="http://m.theepochtimes.com/n3/943159-why-finland-korea-and-czech-republic-get-the-most-bang-for-their-educational-buck/" target="_blank">compared to</a> other countries.</div>
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The one thing that would make anyone decide to be a teacher is their <a href="http://www.philstar.com/campus/featured-articles/2013/06/19/956007/teachers-keep-idealism-despite-low-pay" target="_blank">idealism</a>. If they truly desire to actually help transforming younger generations from shitty annoying brats into extraordinary educated gentlemen, they could become a great teacher in any condition.</div>
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In my opinion, our current goverment has been going on the right path by focusing on the infrastructure of our country, that is pretty much a big pile of rotten shit for the past decades. Here's hoping that once they're done with that, they would focus on the education to make sure that we get more happy high-quality teachers and students.</div>
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If you've been lurking around the internet and/or especially Youtube, you should be familiar with the title <i><a href="http://store.steampowered.com/app/319510/" target="_blank">Five Nights at Freddy's</a></i> (<i>FnaF</i>). It is a point-and-click indie survival horror game that became very popular in only a few days after its release, with mostly positive reviews all around. Its second installment, <i><a href="http://store.steampowered.com/app/332800/" target="_blank">Five Nights at Freddy's 2</a> (FnaF2)</i>, was released around a week ago, and horror game fans swarmed all over it thanks to the success of the first <i>FnaF</i>.</div>
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So what's this game is all about that it earned so much fame in a short time? Let's go through the plot first. You play as a security guard in a family restaurant called 'Freddy Fazzbear's Pizza', a family restaurant where "kids and parents alike come for the entertainment and food". Their form of entertainment comes in the form of special animatronics mascots, 'Freddy' the bear and his friends, programmed to please the crowds. </div>
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Sounds like a fun job? Probably. It's just a bunch of kids, nothing an adult can't handle. There might some of them who would play around with the animatronics, and it would be your job to make sure they don't do any damage to them. The game is set on the time when iPad has not been created yet, so there's no method of making annoying kids docile in one move.</div>
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But no, it turns out you're positioned on the night shift from 12am to 6am, and your office sucks so bad it looks worse than a college student dorm room.</div>
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Still, it's just a nightshift, some of us had been there before. The only challenges are usually related to hunger, sleepiness, and urination problem. But as soon as you start your first night, the previous guard before your shift begins calls you from the phone, welcoming you for a bit, explaining your job, and giving you some heads up about the.... anomalies that happens during the night.</div>
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According to him, the animatronics moves around during the night, something about their servos locking up if they shut it down. And since they're programmed to entertain a crowd, they would be automatically attracted to the only source of sound within the restaurant - your office.</div>
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He told you that the animatronics wouldn't recognize you as a person after hours, they see you as a metal endoskeleton without its costume on instead. And since it's against the rules, they would stuff you inside a costume should you get caught by them... a costume filled with crossbeams, wires, and other devices, especially around the facial area.</div>
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In <i>FnaF</i>, your only means of protection from the animatronics are your camera which can be used to pinpoint their locations within the restaurant, and the electric doors (plus the lights) on your left & right side that you should close when they start poking their face in front of your office. All of them consumes power, the more you use them the faster the power will drain. Once the power is out, there's nothing you can do but to pray that it's almost 6am before it happened.</div>
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In <i>FnaF2</i>, you will have unlimited power for your camera and lights for the ventilation shaft on your left and right, but your flashlight which you can use to ward off animatronics that appears in the front hallway has limited power. Also, you won't have any electric doors to protect yourself, but you get a Freddy mask instead which you can use to fool any (but one) animatronics that shows up in your office, making them think that you're one of them and leave you alone.</div>
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The game received a lot of praise for its simplicity and the atmosphere that it creates. The feeling of not being able to run at all from a certain death, with only limited options to avoid it for a short duration, makes the game very intense. Once you start panicking, which you most probably will, shit hits the fan. The fact that the animatronics <i>teleports</i> around randomly doesn't make it any better. </div>
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There is also an eerie <a href="http://freddy-fazbears-pizza.wikia.com/wiki/Story" target="_blank">backstory</a> of the game that adds the spice to it, and made fans discuss endlessly, which indicates a good story. There was one false rumor spread around by some fans (inputing a certain year number in the Custom Night mode) that made the game creator shut it down by making the game <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix6-c1bb0S0" target="_blank">crash with a jumpscare</a> should anyone attempt to do it.</div>
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The promotion for this game is also one of the reason why it gained so much popularity. With famous Youtubers like <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/PewDiePie" target="_blank">PewDiePie</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/markiplierGAME" target="_blank">Markiplier</a>, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/yamimash" target="_blank">yamimash</a> playing this game on their channel, the public got so interested in this game that they want to play it themselves. And that's not even taking in the account of other people who spread the word themselves.</div>
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It's already more than a week since my last post, time sure flies by so fast when you're not paying attention to it. I'll just go ahead and confess that I got hit by a mood swing that made me lazy to do practically anything productive for all these days.<br />
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But it was <a href="http://isaacpendragon.blogspot.com/2014/11/a-tribute-to-command-conquer-rts-legend.html" target="_blank">not entirely a life of sloth</a>, I was actually learning something as well in some of those days which does not involve anything academic. My uncle, the one that's closest to me, came around a week ago to talk to me about a job that his in-law has, and he thought that I might be interested in it or at least I could learn something from there. His description of the job was a little vague, but at least it wasn't a part-time job on becoming a gigolo.<br />
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Feeling that I could actually get something from this, I finally showed my uncle what I have been trying to work on all this time (this blog and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/isaacpendragon" target="_blank">my Youtube channel</a>), and he was actually excited to see them and encouraged me to go meet his in-law to discuss more about it. Which I did, because I actually need some help over here.<br />
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The meeting went smoothly, we managed to be able to hold natural conversation about both his business and my work. He suggested that when you're just starting a project, you should be <a href="http://www.inc.com/jeff-hoffman/do-one-thing-better-than-anyone-else.html" target="_blank">focusing</a> on one or two things at first. This is in order to make it easier for you to manage your work, and it will create a brand that will make people recognize who you are.<br />
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Most start-up business failed to do so and tried to do multiple things right off the bat, which results in them <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/eliportnoy/2014/05/07/doing-everything-is-not-a-startup-strategy/" target="_blank">not being able</a> to keep-up with the vast competition, and people won't really recognize them as a brand. For instance, if you want to open up an online store for adult's clothing, you should make people recognize you as a trusted seller in adult's clothing first before you start to open up another line in adult's toys business.<br />
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Once you've decided what you should be focusing on, try to find <a href="http://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/competitive_advantage.asp" target="_blank">the uniqueness</a> that you're strong at. For example, emphasizing on services to gain more customer trust if it's a commercial business, or putting more effort in jokes and references if it's a content business. This factor goes to a personal level, because it is also important to find your own (poisitive) uniqueness and emphasize them in order to draw more people into your circle.<br />
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And then make connections in multiple medias, such as making a Facebook page or a Twitter account for your business brand. This is essential for quick advertisement, since in this era of information, we can no longer underestimate the power of social media. But of course, we need to make sure the steps that we take are not <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/nealrodriguez/2011/08/10/ten-myths-about-social-networking-for-business/" target="_blank">misguided</a>. Joining up in forums related to your business would also be a good idea.<br />
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These are the basics that I've learned just from one meeting. There are a lot of other things that I've learned after only two visits to his office as well, which I won't be able to share the whole lot of them here. I'll try to go back there tomorrow, and hopefully I will learn even more.</div>
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Quick, what is the first genre that comes up in your mind when you hear the word "PC game"?<br />
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Results may vary, there's no right or wrong answer. Especially when literally every one of them can be related to a PC game, be it action, adventure, strategy, RPG, sports, visual novels, erotic games, etc. You name it, the PC got it, even the ones that makes you wonder <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s00rR2T6zWY" target="_blank">"what the fuck am I playing?"</a>.</div>
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As for me, I would go with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_strategy" target="_blank">Real-Time Strategy</a> (RTS) games. Two reasons, the first one being that it is <b>THE</b> only game that you could play properly on a PC. Sure, there has been some versions of it released for consoles, but I didn't enjoy playing it there at all. How the hell can you manage multiple squads, constructions, resource gathering, and unit micro-management all at the same time with a goddamn joypad?<br />
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The second reason would be a personal one. RTS games were my first PC game genre that I played way back when I was still on my 6th grade. My brother, who was on Junior High back then, started playing <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warcraft_II:_Tides_of_Darkness" target="_blank">Warcraft II</a></i>, and I watch him play it as usual.<br />
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It was a magical experience to me, seeing my first RTS game ever, almost as exciting as my first time seeing nude girl pictures. I started trying it too after a while, and even though both of us were using cheat codes that time (hey, we're still dumb kids back then), I really enjoyed those moments.<br />
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Later on, I came across another RTS game that really got me into the genre while I was visiting a computer exhibition. One of the visitors there was playing <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_%26_Conquer:_Red_Alert" target="_blank">Command & Conquer: Red Alert</a></i>, and I was so entranced looking at the game that it became the first PC game that I bought to play initiatively instead of waiting for my brother to play and get myself interested to play it as well like I usually do.<br />
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I never regretted that decision, for it became the one game that I kept playing on PC aside from the SNES games that I play on the emulator. Sure, I play other games too, when <i><a href="http://www.ign.com/games/starcraft/pc-2159" target="_blank">Starcraft</a> </i>came along at 1998 I got hooked to it as well, but <i>Red Alert </i>was the one that really got me going for PC games until today. And also the one that got me fascinated with tanks, like I mentioned in <a href="http://isaacpendragon.blogspot.com/2014/10/hell-hath-no-fury-like-tank-scorned.html" target="_blank">a previous post</a>.<br />
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I even started learning how to hack a game code because of it being difficult for my age (note the 'dumb kids' part above). For instance, I could make an Attack Dog launch itself as a V2 rocket, or make an Artillery fire a volley of mortar shots, or make all tanks armed with a mounted machine gun.<br />
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That's right, when kids my age was playing around with their Game Shark, I was learning how to change a game from the inside. And when I finally upgraded my computer the very first game that I brought along with me was <a href="http://cnc.wikia.com/wiki/Command_%26_Conquer:_Red_Alert_2" style="font-style: italic;" target="_blank">Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2</a>, the sequel of <i>Red Alert</i> that has nothing to do with its predecessor's timeline, but it was still a lot of fun nevertheless.<br />
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I was really disappointed when <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westwood_Studios" target="_blank">Westwood</a> finally <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/articles/ea-consolidates-studios-closes-westwood/1100-2909852/" target="_blank">closed down</a> after they released <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_%26_Conquer:_Yuri%27s_Revenge" target="_blank">Yuri's Revenge</a></i> expansion for <i>Red Alert 2</i>, thinking that it was the end of franchise. Thankfully, <a href="http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/games/war3/" target="_blank"><i>Warcraft III</i></a> was released soon after, so I got something to play around with.<br />
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But then EA got the game license and announced that they will be releasing <a href="http://www.ign.com/games/command-and-conquer-generals/pc-479092" target="_blank">another <i>CnC</i> game</a>, which turns out to be a not-so-subtle political propaganda based game meaning to bolster the USA's standing to the world for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%93present)" target="_blank">Afghanistan war</a> and the threat of China becoming the next super-power country. I mean really, all the Chinese and GLA generals looks so menacing, while the USA's looks so heroic instead.<br />
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I still played it and its expansion though, because it did offer a new kind of gameplay compared to the usual <i>CnC</i> franchise. But it was like playing <i><a href="http://www.ign.com/games/fallout-3/ps3-901269" target="_blank">Fallout 3</a></i> when you have been a fan of the original series, or when watching the new <i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1234721/" target="_blank">Robocop</a></i> and comparing it with the <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093870/" target="_blank">first movie</a>; you feel guilty enjoying it, thinking that it would have been a great thing if they could just change the title so that it would not stain the franchise name.<br />
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However, EA tried to make it right by releasing <i><a href="http://www.ign.com/games/command-and-conquer-3-deluxe-edition/pc-823989" target="_blank">Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars</a></i>, a sequel for <i><a href="http://www.ign.com/games/command-and-conquer-tiberian-sun/pc-3851" target="_blank">Tiberian Sun</a></i> from their original <i>CnC</i> series universe (<i>Red Alert</i> series is a spin-off) and I have to say that they succeeded in doing so. The game returned to its original mechanics, and it has a solid gameplay overall. <a href="http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/command-conquer-3-kanes-wrath" target="_blank">The expansion</a> also got mostly positive feedbacks from players.<br />
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Then they released <i><a href="http://www.ign.com/games/command-conquer-red-alert-3/pc-718380" target="_blank">Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3</a></i>, which became pretty much the next best thing since <i>Red Alert 2</i>. It has pretty much everything I could've asked for: Solid gameplay, three balanced factions, and over-the-top ridiculousness. And since most of the actors they hired in the past <i>CnC </i>series have bad actings already (except for <a href="http://cnc.wikia.com/wiki/Joe_Kucan" target="_blank">Kane</a>), they decided to just make it look like a comedy instead, since might as well, right?<br />
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But it appears that it was the end of EA's magic for the <i>CnC</i> franchise; The <i>Red Alert 3</i>'s expansion, <i>Uprising</i>, <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/reviews/red-alert-3-uprising-review/1900-6206585/" target="_blank">didn't attract enough good feedback</a> from the players. After that, there was a <i>Red Alert </i>version for iOS which probably nobody even bothered to notice (have you seen the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umnm3UFy9Pg" target="_blank">crappy gameplay</a>?).<br />
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And then came the plague in the form <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_%26_Conquer_4:_Tiberian_Twilight" target="_blank">Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight</a></i>. The game was <a href="http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/command-conquer-4-tiberian-twilight" target="_blank">so bad</a> compared to its predecessors that it might have made hundreds of hardcore <i>CnC</i> fans commit suicide, or at least caught a diarhea for several weeks. The only reason I beat the game was because I am a fan of the <i>CnC</i> series, and I also really wanted to uninstall it right away.<br />
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Seriously, it really became... something else entirely, there was no base building, no resource gathering, no nothing. You just play as a walking War Factory, deploying only to pop out vehicles to a given limit, and then return to the walker mode again to press forwards to your objective. I already forgot what the game was all about today, and I don't plan to remember it.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">It became <i>Transformers 4</i>, in all of its <a href="http://isaacpendragon.blogspot.com/2014/06/me-dissapointed-me-angry-grimlock-hate.html">glory</a> </span></div>
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It was all downhill from there. After the catastrophic <i>CnC 4</i>'s release, the team was <a href="http://kotaku.com/5406830/confirmed-ea-closes-pandemic-studios-says-brand-will-live-on" target="_blank">laid off</a>, which killed the progress for the <a href="http://www.polygon.com/2013/10/29/5043244/ea-cancels-free-to-play-command-and-conquer" target="_blank">supposedly upcoming <i>Command & Conquer: Generals 2</i></a>, although it might have been for the better in my opinion. And then there's the <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_%26_Conquer:_Tiberium_Alliances" target="_blank">Command & Conquer: Tiberium Alliance</a></i> browser game that was based on <i>CnC 3</i>'s lore. Yes, a Real-Time Strategy legend has been reduced into a goddamned browser game, putting it in together among <i>FarmVille</i> and its cronies. I would have forgiven it if it was at least as good as the <a href="http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/Kancolle_Wiki" target="_blank">one phenomenal browser game</a> we have today.<br />
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Currently, there has been no news at all for anything related in the hopes for a new <i>Command & Conquer</i> game, which saddens me a lot since their last releases were the worst ever, almost made me wish that they just <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCAGUlWfCRM" target="_blank">ended everything there</a> with <i>Red Alert 3</i>. Personally, the only one that could really satisfy my RTS hunger for the past few years is only <i><a href="http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/StarCraft_II" target="_blank">Starcraft 2</a></i>. That's why I'm really looking forward for the <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlHCTYwDt4k" target="_blank">Legacy of the Void</a></i> sequel, with high expectation.<br />
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Since I missed playing <i>CnC</i> so much, I installed <i>CnC 3</i> again for nostalgia purpose (I already played the first and second <i>Red Alert</i> again last year). And I remember how much I enjoyed playing the series, since I got hooked to it so much that I procrastinated during the whole last week, hence the late updates.<br />
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Ah, humans. Our magnificent species that reached the top of the food chain with our intelligent brain that can actually think of new ways to adapt and survive, and our multipurpose limbs to craft tools that have never seen before and to do mini-parkours across the mountains. Oh, and also with the suggested help of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triassic%E2%80%93Jurassic_extinction_event" target="_blank">one big asteroid</a>.</div>
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We have strived so much throughout the millenia that it might sound weird that we used to live in caves drawing stick figures on the walls while not masturbating in our free alone-time, and got totally freaked out when we "created" fire for the first time. I mean, really, we've come a long way indeed.</div>
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There are even times that our advancements seemed to be impossible at first. Like those first times when we discovered electricity and was able to control it, when we made a flying machine, when we made the first working computers, when we discovered the internet before cats took over it. It almost felt like we were guided by a more advanced alien race in our innovations, especially for the last two.</div>
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And yes, I'm one of those people out there who are so hoping for our first commercial use <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoverboard" target="_blank">hoverboard</a> in 2015. Although the chance for it to happen is already slimmer than my chest meat due to <a href="http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/4-reasons-well-never-get-real-hoverboard/" target="_blank">various reasons</a>, one of which was about the impracticality of it.</div>
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The <a href="http://www.urinalsensors.com/" target="_blank">urinal sensor</a>, which is a passive infrared sensor that identifies when the urinal has been used, by detecting when someone has stood in front of it and moved away, and then activates the flush. This system has already become a common use in new urinal installations, as it has, in-fact, <a href="http://www.map-testing.com/assets/files/hillsborough~study.pdf" target="_blank">reduced</a> the general water usage.</div>
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"So why did you say that it's impractical?" you may ask. Well, I won't see any problem with it if I live in western countries, I would be considered a weirdo right away if I do anyway. However, this nifty little gadget found its way to Indonesia, where it would prove to be more of a problem than a solution, at least according to me.</div>
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You see, Indonesia has the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_by_country" target="_blank">largest muslim population</a> in a country to date, and muslims have this customary called <i><a href="http://www.askislampedia.com/wiki/-/wiki/English_wiki/Istinja" target="_blank">istinja</a></i> regarding taking a dump. Basically, it says that we should always wipe our wiener after taking a piss, or we risk our prayers not valid because of the 'taint'. A logical custom, if you ask me, I mean why the hell would you leave your dick stained with your own urine odor? That's not even mentioning the amount of bacteria that's left behind.</div>
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With the urinal sensor installed, we would have no easy method of wiping our gentle ding-dong unless we bring tissues everywhere we go, which men rarely do. So more often than not, people will opt to use the bathroom stalls instead of the urinals, preferring to face the wrath of the bidets that would spray their ass. And those who just have to go right then right away will do some weird dancing ritual by tiptoeing to the side of the urinal that they just used to trigger the flush sensor. The rest would just hold it out until they get to a better place to spray the goodies.</div>
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I know that this invention means well, especially the fact that it actually did its job on reducing the excessive water usage on urinals. But in the end, it's not really effective to use it in this part of the world, because it became a new problem instead. If only there is a way to combine it with the manual button and make it the default installation...</div>
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Finally free from my Technology Infrastructure take-home exam. It was probably the worst exam I had experienced yet ever since I took my Master degree. We were tasked to form a company strategy from a scratch for an imaginary airline company regarding the Information Technology department. The test required a lot of stuffs to explain, such as the current status of the industry, the application to be used and why, the structure for the IT department that we would create, and a Gantt chart that we never have learned at all before.</div>
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I was so proud of my work that I would love to share it to you guys, but I know you don't want to read seven-pages long of something that doesn't interest you nor do I want to write them all over again, so I'm going to summarize it in one picture. Because, you know, they said a picture is worth a thousand words.</div>
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So anyway, I also decided to go and watch <i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2713180" target="_blank">Fury</a></i>, a movie set in the final months of World War II with the main focus of the titular tank, <i>Fury</i>, and its five crew members. The crew was led by Don 'Wardaddy' Collier who was played by Brad Pitt, which means this is <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361748/" target="_blank">the second time</a> he's leading a band of crazy-ass sons-of-bitches in WW II, minus his <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krtnt191Drg" target="_blank">totally fake Italian</a>.</div>
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It was all thanks to <i>Command & Conquer: Red Alert</i> that I got so attached to them. Even now, whenever I play RTS games my army would consist mostly of tanks (and air units), and I would hop in a tank <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXYMhTBJo0g" target="_blank">whenever I got a chance to</a> in <i>Planetside 2</i>. And I'm sure that even <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OGvZoIrXpg" target="_blank">the movie trailer</a> could make a <i>World of Tanks</i> player get a sudden boner.</div>
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Now, I have already established the condition before that I don't do movie reviews much, unless <a href="http://isaacpendragon.blogspot.com/2014/06/me-dissapointed-me-angry-grimlock-hate.html" target="_blank">I want to diss at it so badly</a> because it was so damn horrible and someone made me watch it, so I'll make it brief; The movie is worth to watch in cinemas, it shows great combat scenes and gives the general idea of how much war actually sucks in real life despite all of its glory (they didn't claim that "war is hell" just for the heck of it).</div>
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That's about it, I don't want to risk spoiling anything from the story because I do believe that there is a special place in hell for people who loves spoiling stories to other people, especially when they're good stories. All I can tell you is that you should be expecting a <i>Saving Private Ryan</i> meets <i>300</i>.</div>
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The movie made a point about human morality, which also made me question the morality of the fellow audiences in the theater with me by that time. One douchebag who was sitting right next to me was obviously mentally challenged because he don't know how to put his phone on silent, so there were several message alert tones throughout the movie, and one goddamn phone call.</div>
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And then some others giggled at multiple moments which were totally not funny in any way, ruining the mood of the scenes. I mean, why else would you snicker at a hanged dead body unless you're a psychopath? Some even happened during the scenes where we were supposed to feel sad or tense watching them. Really, what is wrong with people these days?</div>
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But nothing tops this one particular fat guy who were totally laughing his ass off when a Nazi soldier got mauled by a tank machine gun. I'm so glad he's not right next to me as well, because I bet he was hysterical during the last climatic battle. I get it, Nazis are bad, but what the hell man?</div>
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Thankfully the movie itself managed to distract me enough to forget about them... Until it abruptly stopped playing for a couple of minutes due to technical problems, during the final battle. Apparently, it's true that when it rains, it pours.</div>
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I'm sure I'm not the only one who's annoyed by these kind of things. It's okay to do those shit when you're watching a movie all by yourself, but doing them in a movie theater where people actually paid to watch a movie to get a full experience out of it is just plain evil, because you would ruin the very thing they were seeking in the first place.</div>
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I had a brief nightmare last night. It's not something that I want to remember, ever, but I did anyway. Let's just say that it's about alien infestation and dead cats, and that's it. I know that some of my readers are cat lovers like myself, and the internet practically <a href="http://www.newrepublic.com/article/politics/101283/cats-internet-memes-science-aesthetics" target="_blank">worships them</a>, so I'm going to spare everyone the details.</div>
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And as for the cat part, it's because I happen to view my Facebook timeline at the wrong time and see a post from one of my Junior-high friend (ex-friend, because I unfriended her right away), who apparently has shit for brains, shared a picture of a dead cat - which, again, I will spare you the details - while claiming how horrible it is. Totally oblivious to the fact that she's actually praising the work of the sadistic soulless demon who had done the deed by sharing the picture.<br />
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This case of 'retards sharing disturbing pictures in social media' has been happening for quite a long time, and I believe some of you has experienced this kind of thing too. As much as I hate spoilers for movies/anime/manga that I'm following, nothing is worse than this. Even us perverts only share R-18 pictures among ourselves.<br />
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"But this is a terrible thing that's not covered in the media!" they reason through their rotten lips, "everyone needs to know about this!"</div>
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Well, <i>they</i> might think that it's fine if they have only around ten friends (which is a lot for douchebags like them) who have the same, rotten way of thinking like they do. But think about what would happen if one of those friends share that picture, and he/she have more than 100 friends, and what if one of those 100 share that again, and again, and again.</div>
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Hell, even just commenting on that picture would make it show up on your friends' newsfeed, thanks to the highly effective Facebook stalking feature. There <i>is</i> a reason why most media wouldn't publish disturbing things, but I don't think they have ever thought about that.</div>
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"I've apologized for the disturbing picture," they reason again, this time through their asshole, "and the article that comes with it is worth to read"</div>
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Well guess what, you imbecile, nobody gives a fuck about the contents of an article when you put a disturbing image as the cover. If for some reason you <i>really </i>need to share that article to your friends, copy-paste the link to it, <i>warn </i>them about the disturbing content, and for God's sake <i><b>delete that goddamned image preview</b></i> before you post it. That way we would at least have been warned beforehand and need to click that link before being served with that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypophobia" target="_blank">trypophobia</a> picture you've been craving to see together with everyone of your friends.</div>
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"But this is a proof of our God's almighty nature!" they resort to their religious, yet twisted, view, "are we not allowed to preach about our righteous faith?"</div>
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No, not this way. This would only makes those who have the same religion as yours (according to your ID) look bad and as wretched as you are. I don't remember any religious teaching that requires us to look at a disturbing image in order to increase our faith in God, there's something completely wrong with you if that's what you need, regardless of your faith. For the love of God, stop it, and go fuck yourself while you're at it.</div>
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"We're just sharing our opinion, and we do it this way because we like being visual" they give yet another reason, this time while wagging their snake tounge, "what's your problem?"</div>
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If any one of your friends have this kind of mindset, then I'm sorry, they are beyond help. Seriously, it's like finding a dog poop on their lawn, commenting how dirty it is, and then they pick it up, carry it around everywhere so they can shove it to their friend's face anytime they see them, while saying "I found this on my lawn, disgusting right? Really, dogs these days".</div>
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Now I know that this is the internet, which makes it even more lawless than the wild west and the carribean pirates combined, but we can still make our own safe sanctuary by not doing such dumb thing to your friends, and filter those who think that it is a good idea. Because there are people who could get offended or disgusted by it, which might be a surprising fact to those retards.</div>
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I should add that I literally woke up in tears after that brief nightmare, hugging my pillow and telling myself that it was just a dream. See, that could happen to one of your friends too, so please be ethical in your social media postings, and everything's going to be fine. If you <i>just have</i> to post a dead cat on your timeline, this one would suffice the category.</div>
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Remember <a href="http://isaacpendragon.blogspot.com/2014/09/not-shadow-of-chernobyl-but-stil-stalker.html" target="_blank">my previous post</a> about the Working Across Borders course we have in our campus and its shenanigans? Last week the course had ended with everyone being happy about it, since the exam was a bit vague and it took a lot of brain crunching to get it done.</div>
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And yes, the 1ecturer did got replaced with a motherly businesswoman who embraces the concept of democracy, since she totally agreed with our proposition to make the exam not to be taken in class, although that did make it harder than it probably should be (see the 'brain crunching' part above).</div>
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So what about our dear Mr. Stalker? He got kicked out after his second day, thankfully. And after his repeated failed attempts on wooing my clasmate, he finally backed down.... But not before attempting yet another desperate call just a week after he got suspended, right before the class started.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">"<a href="http://rpgmaker.wikia.com/wiki/Hello%3F_Hell...o%3F" target="_blank">Hello? Hell...o?</a> It's meee, Mr. 'Creep don't answerrrr'"</span></div>
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"Wait, there are other girls in your class?" you ask. Yes, my class has four in total, all of them are still in their 20s. Good thing he didn't switch targets right after he got kicked out since there's nothing more to lose. But I still believe that he is an intelligent man, because he did became our lecturer, so he's sure not going to go and send them messages like he did before.</div>
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That one was sent to the youngest out of the four girls in our class. I don't know why would he be asking her contact number right of the bat, even though he already have her goddamned <i>e-mail address</i>, aside from the obvious reason that he will be harassing her with messages just like he did to his last "victim".</div>
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That was for the one from Laos, the only foreigner in our class that stick around until she graduates later, unlike the previous ones that went back home after one semester. And she was the one that got pissed off the most when she heard that our classmate got harrased by this guy, she even ditched his final class (like I did as well).</div>
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He might have not tried sending her the email had he known that his reputation towards her is probably lower than a dirt, although it might actually get him more excited because of that. I mean, he did say that he <i>will </i>contact her (instead of <i>might</i>, or <i>probably</i>) when he's in Laos, which means he's not playing around with his perversion.</div>
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"But maybe he only meant to be nice to you guys" you might ask, "it might be that he wants to properly apologize as a friend". Well, now you tell me why he didn't even bothered contacting the guys? If he really only wanted to 'deepen our bond' as a former teacher, that's a liiittle bit too selective right there.</div>
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Oh, and I did mentioned that we have four girls, right? He only harrased three of them and didn't try to go for the fourth. I'm not 100% sure, but it has to have something to do with all three of them <i>are not married yet</i>.</div>
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Here's some random facts about me, which are totally not important; The first thing is that I'm quite tall for your average South East Asian. I'll let you take a guess on the height.,,</div>
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Alright, I'm standing on around 186 centimeters (that's around 6 feet to you Americans). And I've been told that it's a very tall height for most people, at least around here.</div>
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Okay, my weight is... hovering around 60 kilograms (again, that's around 132 pounds to you Americans). It's 59.3 by the time I post this, to be exact. Most of the time it's less than that, and sometimes it's a bit heavier. But it never went further than 58-62 kilograms.</div>
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My weight has been like this since at least 10 years ago, and there was nothing I could do to improve that (it's not like I was trying to anyway). And this doesn't mean that I don't like to eat either - I'm actually a very gluttonous eater. I eat more than what average people do, and I also love to get some snacks after a meal.<br />
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There was the time that I have been suspected to have tapeworms in me, yet I've taken medications for it and there was no sign of it or anything else happening, so we decided that it doesn't seem to be the case. Besides, the thought of having some parasitic creature residing in your body for years without any major implication is actually pretty weird.</div>
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The weird thing is that I used to be a freakin' fatty when I was around 5 years old, but for some reason I gradually lose weight until there was no trace of it anymore. Now I can see my own ribcage whenever I take a deep breath, and my height makes me look even skinnier compared to shorter people with the same weight. Based on the <a href="http://www.diet-turunberatbadan.com/2011/09/berat-badan-ideal-pria-wanita.html" target="_blank">ideal weight table</a> that I found on the internet, I should at least be around 75-80 kilograms, so I guess I have malnutrition (or maybe I'm breeding little dragons in my colon, who knows).<br />
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But apparently, I wasn't alone. There are <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7838668.stm" target="_blank">other people</a> like me <a href="http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/well-good/7212357/Why-some-people-don-t-get-fat" target="_blank">out there</a> who are able to retain their skinny figure no matter what they do. We could eat an entire course of McDonald's for days, and we would still be slimmer than <a href="http://www.eminem.net/slim_shady/" target="_blank">Marshal Mathers</a>.<br />
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Several people told me that I should do exercises that focus mainly on body building, because if I only do walking, it would mean that I'm <a href="http://www.livestrong.com/article/514698-how-to-get-skinny-from-walking/" target="_blank">burning more calories</a> in the process, so I would actually get thinner. Yet I used to go to my campus' gym back in my final year of bachelor degree days, and I don't see any difference at all even after several months.<br />
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Some of us feel less confident about themselves because of this weird phenomenon we have, but I decided to just not give a damn about it. So what if I am a permanent skinny male? That means I could eat with a lot lesser restrictions compared to the normal people who are afraid of getting fat if they eat too much.<br />
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It's the perspective that counts. To me this is not a curse; it's a gift that could make other people jealous of. So I just embrace this condition with pride and hope I won't suddenly get heart-attack from high cholesterol because there is <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/im-not-fat-high-cholesterol-385712" target="_blank">no Oh-shit-I'm-so-fat-right-now early warning</a> of it.</div>
Isaac Pendragonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06776568367529189586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395495816913047949.post-17482555075190693942014-10-05T15:36:00.003+07:002014-10-30T12:52:13.373+07:00Behaviors, Emotions, and Well Wishes<div style="text-align: justify;">
I had a meeting last week with my group in college to plan for our presentation (that we already did on Thursday) at a quite fancy restaurant, in which I didn't order any food even though I didn't need to pay up either. It was the usual group meeting for me; watching the rest of the group having a lively discussion, agreeing and commenting every decisions they made. Just the standard being actively passive method.</div>
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It's not that I don't want to contribute or anything, I just couldn't do it at all (would you expect someone who's been properly conditioned to sit down and shut up in his entire childhood to express their opinion freely?). Especially when every other member of my group were the most influential trio in our class batch, while I've been the class ghost since elementary school.</div>
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Anyway, after we finished our group discussion, we proceeded to leave the restaurant. On the way out, there was this some idiot looking little girl not-really sitting on her chair with her parents staring at us, and then she screamed "Oh my God!!" when she saw my face.</div>
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Now I'm not entirely sure what exactly happened, but I consider 3 possibilities. The first one is that my massive concentration of dazzling acne around my face amazed her so much that she wet her pants, the second is that she suddenly got the urge to spew her bladder all over the table and just realized it only too late, and the third is that she managed to identify me as a real ghost instead.<br />
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But regardless of the reason, that was just plain rude. Even more so than pointing at the face of someone you didn't know. However, I've learned to let the matter go and just deal with it with a cool mind, like imagining throwing that kid from the 3rd floor and see whether her parents would yell the same thing or not.<br />
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Still, since she's still very little, I do believe her ethical problem did not come from her own; I'm more certain that she simply didn't recieve <a href="http://everydaylife.globalpost.com/bad-parenting-affect-children-5074.html">sufficient guidance</a> in her own family. Or maybe their parenting method is not going well (like mine <a href="http://www.parentingscience.com/authoritarian-parenting.html" target="_blank">did</a>). Or her parents bad behavior rubbed off to her. All of which they probably would <a href="http://www.empoweringparents.com/blog/accountability-and-responsibility/should-you-admit-you-are-wrong-to-your-child/#" target="_blank">never admit</a>, forever.<br />
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This is one of the reason why some people seems like they were born an asshole, and sometimes they're a total saint. Aside from the most obvious factor that is the <a href="http://www.education.com/reference/article/environmental-influence-children-behavior/" target="_blank">environment influence</a>, like from school, or friends, or TV. That's why you would find someone who would honk like madman when the traffic lights is telling you to stop, and also someone who would feel so guilty when they simply didn't reply to your Facebook message.<br />
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I know it's hard not to get mad straight away at people who mistreats you, even I would still hope the idiots who crowded the entrance to the bus that makes it hard for people to get in and out fall down to their demise under a passing car tires. But at least I could think about this thought when I have calmed down, and realize that their douchebaggery might not be entirely their fault.<br />
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I also realize that I could be a pain in the butt too at times. I can only hope those that I've wronged would understand. And since the time is also <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eid_al-Adha">appropriate</a>, I would love to apologize to them as well. Eid Mubarak~</div>
Isaac Pendragonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06776568367529189586noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395495816913047949.post-66394241326521027762014-09-26T16:30:00.002+07:002014-12-08T09:32:58.286+07:00Give Us More Good News Please<div style="text-align: justify;">
Hey guys, did you know that Indonesian people <a href="http://id.techinasia.com/orang-indonesia-berprestasi-bidang-teknologi-kancah-internasional/" target="_blank">are actually smart</a>?</div>
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No, I mean it. Aside from the famous people - like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._J._Habibie" target="_blank">Mr. Habibie</a>, our aeronautics expert, or <a href="http://www.jaist.ac.jp/is/labs/matsumoto-lab/en/aboutus/anwar.html" target="_blank">Mr. Anwar</a>, the 4G inventor - which are pretty much known around the world, we also got the young ones coming out on top of the intellectual race and they're pretty much nobody compared to the big shots out there before they managed to came up with something awesome.<br />
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<a name='more'></a>Even my friend was <a href="http://patents.justia.com/inventor/aisar-labibi-romas" target="_blank">one of them</a>, he was one of the inventors for this 'Apparatus and Method for Manufacturing Display Device' thing <a href="http://www.google.com/patents/US20140048195" target="_blank">here</a> that I have no idea what it's about, but I think it would be better if its called 'The Obsidian Relic of Zest' or something.<br />
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Recently we got two of our students who managed to get picked for a <a href="http://home.web.cern.ch/students-educators/summer-student-programme" target="_blank">Summer Student Programme</a> at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERN" target="_blank">CERN</a>, the European organization for Nuclear research who operates the world's largest particle physics laboratory, where they would spend several weeks to experience the completely different environment of a world-class laboratory and interact with the high-leveled nerds from around the world.</div>
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"That's some great news!" you might say, "I bet those kids became what everyone was talking about for weeks!". Well, they did... If you paid attention to the news article, that is. And we all know that most of us only read the columns that we are interested in and skips the rest. To be honest, I wouldn't even know about them if my <b>one</b> (yes, only one) friend didn't post the news on his Facebook timeline.</div>
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You know what news that totally beat their popularity? It's the recent incident in which a primary school teacher <a href="http://www.globalindonesianvoices.com/15785/is-4x6-the-same-as-6x4-this-primary-school-math-made-controversy-in-social-media/" target="_blank">failed his student homework</a> because according to him, x*y is not the same as y*x, despite having no other variables other than numbers. This has spurred a lot of controversy even <a href="http://www.republika.co.id/berita/nasional/umum/14/09/23/nccv22-garagara-6x4-dan-4x6-profesor-itb-berdebat-dengan-profesor-ui" target="_blank">among experts</a>. Let me remind you again that this is only a numerical problem. With no other variables. On a primary school level. Thus any form of arguments that claims their difference is not valid.<br />
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Yes, the majority of our people are more interested in stupid news like that, unfortunately. It's more or less reflected on our retarded politics that I have sworn not to talk about anymore, like for example, did you know that we just got the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/26/world/asia/parliament-in-indonesia-deals-a-setback-to-reform-.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0" target="_blank">right to vote</a> for <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-29372492" target="_blank">regional leaders</a> <a href="http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/news/house-passes-regional-elections-bill-scraps-direct-voting/" target="_blank">taken away</a> from the people? Even though this is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1FFVWEQnSM" target="_blank">supposed to be</a> a democratic country?</div>
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And it's not a weird thing apparently, since studies say that we are <a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/wired-success/201012/why-we-love-bad-news" target="_blank">naturally more interested in bad news</a> compared to good news. It's like how the media prefers to publish discomforting news and focus on the tragic side of the story, to the point of <a href="http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/syrian-civil-war-videos-used-online-propaganda-israel-gaza-conflict-1457571" target="_blank">totally making it up</a> just to gain popularity. Of course, this would sometimes cause the good news that are actually worth knowing got drowned under the hype of the news we couldn't care less about, like anything from Kanye West or Kim Kardashian.<br />
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One day, my friend asked me this: "Have you ever felt so annoyed you feel like stabbing someone?"<br />
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I told him I'd just write it off whenever that kind of thing happens, since I could <a href="http://isaacpendragon.blogspot.com/2014/06/me-dissapointed-me-angry-grimlock-hate.html" target="_blank">rant however I want</a> without actually hurting anyone. Although most of the times I would just go on a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXYMhTBJo0g" target="_blank">virtual killing spree</a> to ease that bloodlust.<br />
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<a name='more'></a>I'm sure some of you guys have experienced this before; someone comes up to you and accuse you of doing something which you did not, and refuses to believe nor willing to hear your explanation about it. Psychologically, this comes in line of '<a href="http://sparkster.hubpages.com/hub/Cognitive-Dissonance-I-Dont-Believe-It" target="_blank">Cognitive Dissonance</a>', a phenomenon when you learn about something that completely contradicts your current belief. Response on such phenomenon may vary, some would accept the new facts, some would defy them to the very end.</div>
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This kind of thing has been happening for a long while, but usually I just suck it up and let it go. But this one from my uncle was just pure ignorance on his part. He claimed to have been following my posts on my Facebook, and commented about my blog post shares. Here's the summary of the exchange we had.<br />
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Him: "Yes, I've seen most of your posts, it's just about video games right?" *with a condescending sneer*<br />
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Me: "No, they're not, I haven't even posted one that is entirely about one. Did you even read any of them?"<br />
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Him: "I did, but I don't understand a word of it, so they got to be about video games. Why don't you write something useful, like a compliation of the <i>hadists</i> about marriage or something. That would probably help you to get hitched"<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Alright, but first just let me do some maintenance on this device I have</span></div>
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At which point, I made my best non-offensive 'what the actual fuck' face, while my cousins properly commented that if I ever do that, my friends would start asking if anything is wrong with me, fearing that I have lost all faith in my life or I'm joining/starting a brand new terrorist cell. I mean, seriously, when <a href="http://isaacpendragon.blogspot.com/2014/03/suddenly-serious-post.html" target="_blank">I've been writing</a> <a href="http://isaacpendragon.blogspot.com/2014/07/another-serious-post.html" target="_blank">personal disagreements</a> about my own religion (hell, I even <a href="http://isaacpendragon.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-internet-is-not-just-for-porn.html" target="_blank">commented</a> that porn is not that bad) and then suddenly I go all religious and post enlightening stuffs that are way too serious, people <i>will</i> know that something is wrong.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Pictured above: Something is <i>mildly</i> wrong</span></div>
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And I'm not saying that posting about video games is shameful, dear God, no. You will never going to hear about that from someone like me who spent years in total playing video games (I'm looking at you, <a href="http://www.elderscrolls.com/" target="_blank">Bethesda</a> and <a href="http://www.dragonage.com/" target="_blank">BioWare</a>). It's a completely okay topic to discuss, especially now that the eSports era is starting to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0wEW6NAPuE" target="_blank">bloom beautifully</a>. Problem is, most of the older stuck-up generations still see it as a useless time wasting activity.<br />
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While it's true that my GPA from my early college years were destroyed because I played video games way too much (at least 12 hours a day), that doesn't mean I'm still doing it the same way now. Besides, that's what you get when you isolate your kid from the outside world and still prevent them from having fun in their own goddamn house.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">And my main form of entertainment back then is no longer recognizable by this generation</span></div>
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These days, I prefer to <a href="http://www.cracked.com/" target="_blank">read</a> and write stupid stuffs like this instead of replaying every single campaign from <i><a href="http://cnc.wikia.com/wiki/Command_%26_Conquer:_Red_Alert_3" target="_blank">Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3</a></i> like I used to do, even <i><a href="http://watchdogs.ubi.com/watchdogs/en-us/home/" target="_blank">Watch Dogs</a></i> failed to keep me up at night because I'd rather sleep than going for another mission. And before you ask, yes, I enjoyed <i>Watch Dogs</i> very much. The point is that I now have a different priorities compared to 10 years ago, it's just not the same anymore.<br />
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Yet the stereotype lives on until today. For some reason any efforts I put up to be a better person just goes by under that image of me in their eyes. Even in my own house I can practically do drugs in my room and my family would still think I'm only playing video games in there. Sometimes I thought, why bother then? If that's what they think I'm doing while refusing to believe otherwise, then <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/isaacpendragon" target="_blank">that's what I'm going to do</a>.<br />
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See, that's what could happen when you keep denying other people's attempt to do good things. There are people who commit crimes because of that very thing, because since trying to be a good person only gives them more harm than good, they might as well go down the path of the dark side instead.<br />
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Another example is when my friend once got busted for having a porn video in his flashdisk by the rest of the class, and that event stuck with him ever since as a joke material. Sure, it seem to be a harmless joke, since none of us actually mean it to be offensive, but sometimes he does get irritated by it.<br />
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He told me once that he actually didn't like the way the rest of the class keep associating the incident to him, saying that it's not that big of a deal and wonder why does everyone else keeps remembering it. And it's true, when you think about it, is there even any one of us here who never carried around porn in their flash drive anyway?<br />
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So let's not keep our stereotypes for other people for too long, unless they are totally okay with it. Like for instance you can claim that I'm a pervert and I'll just laugh it off with you while we masturbate together (just kidding, I'm okay on my own). If they show any sign of being annoyed, please hold back on the claims, even if it's meant to be a joke. Then again, if they were only hiding their annoyance, you should at least get the idea by putting yourself in their position.</div>
Isaac Pendragonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06776568367529189586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395495816913047949.post-69653929827596034002014-09-23T16:52:00.004+07:002014-12-05T19:29:45.868+07:00Personal Page Up<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So I made a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/isaacpendragon4884" target="_blank">personal Facebook page</a>. Yay.<br />
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It does look empty now, which is pretty obvious. But I do hope that it will be filled with more stuffs later on, I want to make sure that I could at least contribute to the internet community, especially to those first people who supported my page. Even though all of you have been a friend of mine for quite a while.</div>
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So let's talk about the purpose of the page for a bit, shall we.</div>
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One of the reasons I made the page is to turn my pen-name into something more, like a real person. This way I could feel more attached to it, and hopefully be more productive in the future. So when I manage to make interesting stuffs, I would feel twice the pleasure from it. And if I slack around, I would personally feel guilty.</div>
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The second is to create some kind of responsibility. Now that I could see the people who actually supported me instead of thinking that the page views are just from random people I don't even know about (I got several European viewers for some reason), I would try harder to create more content.</div>
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There are also other purposes for the future, like forming a community that could be used to share stories, ideas, or simply to just hang out with each other. But most of all, it's to make it easier to contact me in case there's something you need to ask or suggest to me, and still keeping my profile as the writer instead of the guy you barely know.</div>
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That would be all for the public announcement. There will be a new post tomorrow as well (hopefully), that one got stuck on draft for some time, since I'm having a hard time translating a rant to a normal blog post that doesn't sound too personal.</div>
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Oh, and I'm also currently doing a Let's Play video for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioShock_Infinite:_Burial_at_Sea" style="font-style: italic;" target="_blank">Bioshock Infinite: Burial at Sea</a>, and yes, I know it's an old game. Will upload the first part tonight after I prepare the next episode which I will play after I get back from campus. Stay tuned to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/isaacpendragon/" target="_blank">my channel</a> should you want to watch it for some refreshment.</div>
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So for this last semester we got this subject called Working Across Borders, a one credit subject that is supposed to be about how to maintain a working condition when you're abroad. Like for instance, learning the country's local language, studying their culture, trying to read their <a href="http://italian.about.com/od/italianculture/tp/italian-hand-gestures.htm" target="_blank">hand signals</a>, or trying not to laugh on their <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SVsxKCLmC4" target="_blank">unique way</a> of communicating, stuffs like that.</div>
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As for what I was personally expecting from the lesson, I would love to know more about how to reach out to the majority of the people despite the cultural difference, learning what they all would love to get and what they don't. Because this blog, for some reason, have more foreign readers compared to the ones from Indonesia (probably because of the language used, quite a surprise there). And I thought it would be nice to know about this subject should I be working within foreign community.</div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">However there is a huge problem that comes in the form of the lecturer himself. First of all, he's very loud, which is quite normal since I've been seeing a lot of people that are louder than him. Not to mention </span><a href="http://isaacpendragon.blogspot.com/2014/03/some-free-management-session-for-you.html" style="text-align: justify;" target="_blank">we actually had someone</a><span style="text-align: justify;"> who was as loud as he is in one of our past subjects, and he gave us all terrible grades too.</span><br />
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Second, he talks <i>very</i> fast, which I actually symphatize because I also talk fast. I know exactly how it feels like when you finally managed to form a sentence in your mind, speak it out, only to have your listener saying "huh?" and asks you to repeat that same thing at least three more times... which sometimes ends up with the listener smiles awkwardly because he had no idea what were you saying, or they would ask another listener to repeat what you just said.</div>
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But all that sympathy got drained to the moment he displayed the third problem; giving us a mountain of tasks to do. Okay, I know I'm a lazy-ass bastard, so you might think I was just being one right then. But at least I know how much assignments you should be getting for a goddamn <i><b>one</b></i> credit, I spent six years in bachelor degree and almost two years here in master, I am fully aware that there is something wrong with that quantity.</div>
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And of course, it should have been manageable, considering the fact that I've been in worse situation (hurray electrical engineering, hurray military training). Yet our dear Mr. lecturer broke every form of respect I have for him by, erm, stalking one our classmate. Yes, she's a girl. No, I shit you not.</div>
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It looked like a harmless self-introduction at first, small talks, exchanging business cards. So I thought he might probably offer a place for advices to my friend who runs her own business, probably showing his good side at last.</div>
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Seriously, how could you message someone you barely know, in the middle of the night, while asking some trivial thing like that? He didn't even give up at all on the next day. Naturally, my friend didn't bother replying. And since he's keeping it professional, he stopped messa- oh, wait.</div>
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He actually used <i>two</i> numbers in his attempt to contact her (notice the date and time). Of course, my friend didn't reply to that as well, and she's starting to get creeped out. But the peak of it all happened on the last weekend.<br />
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He actually asked her out for a coffee. it's not even 7am yet. As one of my friend pointed out, it kinda gave out the impression that she's the one he has on his mind right after he wakes up in the morning. And since we only met him once at class, that is creepy as fuck.</div>
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I've been single for 26 years, but I have never been that desperate in my entire life. Even if that was not his intention, it's just plain stupid. He's supposed to be teaching us the ethics and methods on working with different culture, why in the hell would he be doing this then? People keep saying that <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nijikon" target="_blank">those who loves 2D characters</a> more than real people are freaks. But hey, at least we would never creep out a lady by stalking them.</div>
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Now I just hope that guy would never gain access to the class roster data to find out my friend's address and went all <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDpipB4yehk" target="_blank">Jack Nicholson</a> because she's been ignoring his messages. To my friend, may I suggest locking your windows, and close the curtains from now on. Installing window bars won't hurt too.</div>
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I had two events to attend on last Sunday, one of which was the wedding reception for my friend the renowned closet pervert, and the other one was for my cousin is going to go to England to continue her study this month, so we had a farewell party for her. Both were scheduled at the same time so I had to leave early from the reception to catch up with my cousin's. Of course, I left after eating every single food that I can fit in my stomach beforehand. Cheers, buddy.</div>
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When I joined up with my cousins, they were having their own lunch at <i><a href="http://www.bakmigm.com/" target="_blank">Bakmi GM</a> -</i> it's a noodle restaurant in case some of you foreign readers don't know about it. Quite tasty too, if you can handle the somewhat expensive price (for me, at least). I actually wanted to eat some as well, but decided to hold out since I'm aware of the price.</div>
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And before any of you asks; No, I'm not going to do a review of the <i>Guardians</i>. The only times I would do a review would be to help people who are not sure whether or not they should watch a movie that I watched because the rating was only 'pretty good' or somewhere in the middle, and if the movie was a complete disaster that I can't help but to <a href="http://isaacpendragon.blogspot.com/2014/06/me-dissapointed-me-angry-grimlock-hate.html" target="_blank">rant as much as possible</a> to vent out my disappointment of wasting my time watching it. If it's so damn good, then I won't risk spoiling anything by making even a small review.</div>
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As for <i>Guardians</i>, the only thing I have to say for you guys is to watch it if you haven't already. That's an order. What? You don't like that kind of movie? What are you, some soulless old geezer who has no idea of how to enjoy anything anymore? So you think you're too good or too old to watch a movie with a talking racoon and tree in it? You damn racist. What's that? You prefer the <i><a href="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/transformers_age_of_extinction/" target="_blank">Age of Ex-stink-tion</a></i> over the <i><a href="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/guardians_of_the_galaxy/" target="_blank">Guardians</a></i>? I'm sorry, then you're beyond help, I hope we never see or know each other, and please don't breed, ever.<br />
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After the movie, we were at a loss of what to do again. Almost went for Timezone for shits and giggles, but then we decided to just hang around the food court for hours, it's more fun that way since we got even more shits and giggles. Especially since the toilet was near enough should we decided to be more literal.</div>
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We mostly talk about nostalgic stuffs, joking around, the usual stuffs we do when we get together. Reminiscing about the dumb things that happened in the past, like why in the hell did my cousins wasted time and money to take ice-skating lessons years ago despite having zero intention of going pro. It's like taking a major in electrical engineering but ending up with a job in marketing or entertainment.... Wait a minute, so it's not that weird then.</div>
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And in the end the talk was about building up the future. Some of them were about finding proper jobs that pays well, how other people made so much money when they're still young, how school fees gets higher and higher every year, and when to have a child so they'll complete their education before retirement.</div>
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Right then, I can't help but wonder how much they've grown up now. And they're even more adult-like than I am. Even now I can't say exactly what I have in mind for my life on the next five years, and those kids have been talking about when is the latest age they want to get married and how much they should be saving up before retirement. I felt the odd bittersweet mixture of proud and sad at the same time.<br />
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And it's not just them; when I think about it, the whole day was about people growing up. My friend who got married? Now he has his own family to think about, more responsibilities, and a huge task of being a good father later on. Imagine preparing for when the time comes when your kid goes to school for the first time, or learns about the opposite sex properly for the first time, or gets to see porn for the first time; he's on that road now.<br />
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<i>Guardians</i>? The main turning point was <b>[MINOR SPOILER ALERT: Skip to next paragraph if want a 100% enjoyment when watching the movie]</b> when the good guys decided to protect an entire planet instead of running away like criminals they are after getting beaten up so badly by the main villain. Which makes each of them finally come in terms with everyone within their band of complete misfits and working together as a team instead of trying to kill each other.<br />
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It has been an important message for me to man up some more and try to do what's right. Now that I somehow have and audience here in my blog and my <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/isaacpendragon" target="_blank">Youtube channel</a>, despite the small number, I believe that there are a number of people willing to actually acknowledge what I'm doing. And I don't plan to let them - you - down, I will keep trying to provide more reading materials for you guys to learn from, laugh at, or simply making you feel relieved that there is someone dumber than you out there.<br />
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I got my writing habit, I got the internet connection, I got my precious darling in my head, and I got a brain full of erotica and stupidity. Technically, nothing should be able to stop me from doing it, aside from my personal financial problem and laziness. I'm now even more aware about the time I should be spending to give a shit about life instead of spreading my own shit all over it.</div>
Isaac Pendragonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06776568367529189586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395495816913047949.post-55326681048796836852014-08-27T23:05:00.000+07:002014-12-08T09:33:22.805+07:00Appreciation and Greed<div style="text-align: justify;">
Some of you may wonder why I didn't make a post about the last <a href="http://www.animefestival.asia/afaid2014/" target="_blank">AFAID</a> like I did with the <a href="http://isaacpendragon.blogspot.com/2014/03/a-journey-to-temple-of-idols.html" target="_blank">Toy's Fair</a> a few months ago. Well, first of all, for you Indonesian readers, I'm sure your own Facebook wall has been filled with your friends' posts about it, so I figured that I won't add anymore hype in it - especially if you didn't go there but was really looking forward to, then I would be just adding more salt to the wound.</div>
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Besides, the whole thing was really awesome that I just have no idea how to describe the entire thing in words, and any attempt that I do would reduce the impact so much that I won't be able to convey the fun I had back there. Although to be honest, I had a hard time trying to make it into a not normal diary, so I became a little bit lazy to do it. Let's just say that I was really happy and satisfied.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Pictured above: Really happy and satisfied</span></div>
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<a name='more'></a>Instead, I'm going to share the experience and the thoughts I had related to the event, since you've probably heard about everything else by now. The first thing was about the creators who opened their booths for the exhibitions. They are actually nice and not exclusive to their own kind, contrary to the popular belief. Especially the guys from the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/SquashAlternativeWorks" target="_blank">Squash Alternative Works</a>, the circle that <a href="http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=667109" target="_blank">one of my best buddies</a> joined up. I even made <a href="http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=5206721" target="_blank">a new friend</a> there, one of their artists whose art style I have been fond of for a while.<br />
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Simply by hanging around their booth, I managed to learn about appreciation for the work of others; The stuffs that I was looking forward to buy were sold out, just as I had feared (you guys owe me a <a href="http://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/Hibiki" target="_blank">Hibiki</a> pin, goddammit). And there were several people who got their merchandises (posters and artbooks) signed by the artists around the booth, one of them even actually went and asked them personally, and boy do they <a href="https://www.facebook.com/SquashAlternativeWorks/photos/a.932822410077618.1073741831.573961322630397/932822390077620/?type=1" target="_blank">look so happy</a> about it.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">At which point I jokingly point out, and sincerely hope, that those autographs would sell for millions later on</span></div>
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We rarely see appreciations in visual arts in everyday life, people tend to look down on the visual artists, some even go as far as ridiculing their profession. Sure enough, their line of work won't earn as much as, say, an engineer working for an oil & gas company. Their stress level regarding work deadlines might even be more or less the same. But I've never seen people who look so happy in their line of work as much as these guys do.<br />
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There's also the case where a lot of people would steal their work and claim it for themselves with no credits whatsoever, like <a href="http://nekoroid.com/2014/08/afaid-2014-x-bootleg-x-sampah/" target="_blank">some certain multiple booths</a> during the event. Yet there's rarely a case where the artist would push the matter to the culprits and demand some royalties, they would only go for credits mentioning or some mere notification at best.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">While others might ask whether they <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czb4jn5y94g" target="_blank">look like a bitch</a> or not</span></div>
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And it's not just visual arts, when was the last time we actually appreciate what other people have done for us? Not the kind of 'thank you for doing your job' kind of appreciation, I mean the 'thank you for helping me out, I mean it' kind. Without us realizing it, sometimes our gratitude towards others were just for formality, like it's simply their job doing those favors for us.<br />
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The second thing I learned was about greed, the lust of simply buying everything available as far as my eyes could see was very strong. Thankfully, I have my guardian angel called 'monetary deficit' to remind me that I don't need most of the stuffs displayed, and that I am an idiot for thinking otherwise.<br />
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There's also the gambling booth where you have to pay a certain amount of money for a chance to win a figure which is at least 5 times more expensive than what you spend, I saw people actually trying their luck more than once there. I didn't bother trying though, I never believe my own luck whenever I try to do those kind of lucky draw thing.<br />
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And then there are actually people who would just buy a lot of things that it would go for millions of IDR (hundreds of dollars to you <i>bules</i>) in total on a single day. Some of them are just <a href="http://teh-nca.blogspot.com/2014/08/buang-buang-duit-yuk-di-anime-festival.html?m=1" target="_blank">rich kids</a> whose parents have no idea whatever the hell they were doing around that place.<br />
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Yet if I have the same amount of money, I would still hold off from doing so. I mean really, if you have so much money that you wouldn't have any problems spending that amount for merchandises, I bet you would use them for other more useful things instead, amirite?<br />
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In any case, greed is never a good thing, I don't care no matter what <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Gekko" target="_blank">Gordon Gekko</a> told you before. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo1aOgWjNmw" target="_blank">Most of the times</a>, it will cause you more harm than good. Greed for money/materialistics is the easiest case to take an example from, since there's a lot of those already. And then there's the greed for religious devotion, which would lead people to leave their own family behind to pursue their overzealous faith. There's also the greed of knowledge, where people would stop at nothing to learn everything they can about the world, even though some things are better left unknown, like why would two girls use one cup.<br />
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Oh, there was also the annoying experience about a certain stranger who was retarded enough to have bought the ticket for the Anisong concert and yet decided to spent the whole goddamn time during the show playing with his smartphone, but I'll just leave it at that because I can't explain things that I don't understand at all.<br />
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That being said, I learned a lot from the event, and I do look forward to become a volunteer for the next year.</div>
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