Made me laugh

This made me laugh. Maybe because I'm a tremendous faggot? You decide:

One Year Later

So, here we are. One year later.

A) Bought a house. Just picked one off the shelf. It was slightly premature, though. Houses around me are selling at a good 70% of what I paid for mine, and while I did get a tax "bonus", I gotta pay it back over the next 15 years. Had I waited until Jan 1st? All that bonus would be mine to keep forever. Oh well.

I DO like it though. It just demands an awful lot of attention. Maintaining and furnishing appropriately is turning out to be much more expensive than I anticipated... and take far more work. It's one thing to think about how things happen, it's another to actually do them.

B) BUSY work. I'm quite fortunate to have a good job in this economy. Real good. I'm making LOTS of money, too, more than I thought I would before age 30, so it's hard to complain. So, without a legitimate claim to complain, I won't.

C) Life is just sort of slowing down. With all the hectic stuff going on, the ME time is diminishing quite a bit. When a year goes by and I don't have more than just a few weeks memories of Me Time there's something wrong.

Eh, why bother.

Dumbasses

Some dude/dudette has been spending ALL DAY with his PSP trying to snag a picture that I'm hosting since Google Images picked it up. They give up around 1am and tries on their computer until like 3am. Which picture?

This one of a Liru Tentacle Monster. Awesome pic or awesomest pic? Who knows.

But still... I'm shocked out of everything tried they haven't thought of just, well, you know, asking. Or even following a proper referral link to get it.

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Dead Blog is Dead

Yeah, well, so what?

Anyway, here are a bunch of gaming terms that I hate.

1) SKU. Fuck SKU. Cars don't do SKU, and there's a metric fuckton of those. "Hay, guess what? The new BMW X-series now comes in an optional 5 liter engine!" or "Hay, guess what? The new BMW X-series now has a new SKU with a 5 liter engine!"

2) RTM. Read the manual? No no, release to manufacturing. You only get to say this if you (a) are a game developer, (b) are a game project manager, or (c) work in a disc replication factory. Otherwise? IT MEANS READ THE [FUCKING] MANUAL.

3) Shmup. Shoot 'em up. Shooter. Shmup sounds like the poor slob you just spilled soup on.

4) Squeenix. Square-Enix. If you really need a shorter version, try Square, since it headed the acquisition.

5) Shiggy. He's not your pet dog and you aren't having beers with him on occasion. Shigeru Miyamoto in English. For the love of GOD.

That's all for that.

Anyway, check this shit out. It's called Drawball. Basically it's a big shared oekaki board. I tried it. I suck at art.

Last, I got new jewelry. A circular barbell. It's fucking huge. I'm nervous about wearing it in public. I think it might make an indentation on my pants. That's be kinda lulz.