- My my, how times have changed... or not
tygerversionx- December 28th, 2014
A random LJ post to remind myself that this is still here. The random behavior I exhibit sometimes.
- Birthday matters, Valentine's Day
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- February 14th, 2013
Well my birthday passed along without much happening due to my back pain. Spent most of the day completely out of consciousness, which was obviously needed. I was tired earlier in the evening, but am now awake and am not doing a good job of trying to go back to sleep. I hate nights like this. The back is pretty much under control, but I don't know where the undefined annoyance feelings are coming from. Sigh.
- Young Justice cancellation
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- January 29th, 2013
This is my way of expressing my rage and disgust that my favorite cartoon show, Young Justice, is being cancelled.
Posted via LiveJournal app for iPhone.
- Piers Morgan Fright....
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- November 23rd, 2012
I'm becoming disappointed in Piers Morgan and his refusal to even get close to some of the cuter animals (even if they're predators) on his show with Jack Hanna tonight. I understand I'm a trusting fool who will allow my "awwwww, CUUUUUUUUTE" instinct to override common sense, but all Piers seems to be asking of every animal is "now, how would THIS one kill me?"
- Fighting the inner "WANNITNOW!"
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- November 23rd, 2012
I will fight my desire for a Wii U until there are at least a few more games out I actually want for it. I will fight my desire for a Wii U until there are at least a few more games out I actually want for it. I WILL fight my desire for a Wii U until there are at least a few more games out I actually want for it.This may all change whenever Bayonetta 2 (oddly enough a Wii U exclusive) comes out.
- D'awwwwwtters.
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- November 23rd, 2012
D'awwwww. Cute otters all trying to figure out "What's going on out there??"
- Selfish Thanksgiving Thanks
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- November 22nd, 2012
First World Problems Thanksgiving Day Thanks Thing: I'm thankful for Persona 4 The Golden for PS Vita, because it brings Persona 4 to a portable system, and I've already found that distracting, engaging, and fun when immobilized for a while. Plus it's been a while since I've been at the beginning of the game, so I'm reliving some really silly favorite moments all over again.
Now somebody do the Xenosaga trilogy for Vita. PLEASE???
- It's beginning to look a lot like ...
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- November 21st, 2012
Thanksgiving is apparently the time where we put up Christmas lights around the office.I didn't plan the placement, but at least I helped put them up. It still seems too early. Possibly because my brain still thinks it is at least 3 months earlier than it actually is.
- P4 Golden
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- November 21st, 2012
Mini-review of Persona 4 Golden for PS Vita: Everything looks sharper, and neater, plus additional content, plus ... it's portable! Yay! (And this is only from me getting to the first couple fights.)
- Journalism, bombs, and other rant-esque things...
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- November 21st, 2012
Okay, so I've woken up about the time in the repeat in AC360 where they replayed the explosions that happened in Gaza where Anderson ducked and there was the big flashes of light and then when they had audio running you could hear the booms, too.
This is where I get rant-y about the role of on-site journalism. Because I've seen in comments sections "Why do journalists go to the edge of beaches when a hurricane is coming in? What do they expect to happen when they go into a place where rockets are falling and exploding? Shouldn't they expect it's not safe? Why is this news?"
While I can agree the whole "let me be right by the ocean when the wind or a wave can carry me off my feet" thing ... (it annoyed me during Sandy) ... the whole "why do journalists go into a war zone and aggrandize their close calls with bombs in the background and why do they even look surprised?" line of questioning annoys the hell out of me more.
This is probably my own journalism degree that annoys me, because it seems the people that ask that don't get it. They go to these places because they want to show us what's really happening. There's a difference between being told there are a lot of bombings going on and being SHOWN by journalists what being near one of those explosions is like. I don't think situations like that are self-aggrandizing "look how brave I am" pieces. Yeah, they're being somewhat cavalier about their lives. But it's a hell of a lot easier to understand the magnitude of what's going on (at least in my mind) to people when --- on camera --- you see the fireball, you see the journalist shaken and possibly fall, and you hear the huge boom as the explosion happens.
I think there's a generation of people who have never been close to that kind of danger, and if a journalist is knocked off their feet, a journalist you recognize and have come to know over several years, you start to get personally involved in a situation. It's not just cold "oh, Hamas and Israel are lobbing explosive stuff at each other again" numbers. It gives at least a chance that the viewer will go "oh my god, this is seriously happening to people, every single day."
But then those comments show up and try to discount the footage, or the journalist, into a "well, you deserve it for going there" situation. And I see that as part of the problem such journalism is trying to fight against. They're doing what they can to present the problems in a way that shows how it affects human beings. Even if there's a chance they'll get hurt. They're trying to make people care about the news instead of just absorbing it and putting it aside.
Here are the rants that you get from me in the middle of the night when my back hurts and I feel like some people are being intentionally dense.
