Inside The Mind's Eye

More like PS Minus!?

   Was trying to post my thoughts/feelings on the PS Plus blog on the Sony website... but 1,250 characters just isn't enough to do my mind being utterly blown justice... so I'll put it here instead:

   *Shakes head* I've got something like 9 months left of my PS+ sub left, and not even sure I want to see anymore. Each and every month it just gets worse... and I truly want to love Sony -- I do, they're my console of preference... I defend Sony from all the haters, etc. I'm stoked for PS4... I'd even be a fanboy if it wasn't for the fact I won't make empty excuses when Sony drops the ball. And as far as the US PS+ goes, the ball is beyond dropped... it's in somebody else's court... the EU court.

   Now, I can fully appreciate that EU members after exchange rate probably pay a bit more than US does... but I'm REALLY kicking myself in the backside lately, and here's why. I used to have one of the original PS3s, ran like a champ, big HDD... played PS2 games. Then my old roommate (and sleaze) moved out and stole my old PS3 along with most of my games. Since money doesn't exactly grow on trees for me, I had to sit and wait and wait until I had enough *spare* money that I could comfortably spend on another PS3. At first I eyeballed up all the different packages. The packages that came with Move, the packages that came with multiple games, I was even eyeballing a GTA5 pre-order bundle for $300 (I so could have been playing GTA5 right now instead!?!?!? ARGH!)... which turns out was the same price as the one I settled on. The white PS3 500GB bundle that came with PS Plus. Why did I go with that bundle? Well, let's see... since most my games were stolen, I don't often have expendable income I can toss on games, I don't have a Vita, and I barely use my PSP... I figured, "hey, PS Plus has always had cool stuff in the past, I think I'll finally bite the bullet and go full on Plus member". Until then I'd always just been a free PS3 user. I figured with having next to no games for the PS3, as the months rolled on, I could have some nice games to play.

   Bummer part was, I did this about three months ago I believe it was... turns out Infamous 2 was dropped from PS Plus like maybe two days before I purchased my PS3... bummer. I did get Uncharted 3 which was awesome. And even though I had already played and beaten Saints Row The Third on PC, I got it for the trophies and such on PS3. Only other real big ones I can think of are The Cave (which is "okay" at best), and the Labyrinth one is slightly cute I suppose. But lately, what the heck has happened!? I will say I set myself up for the disappointment on Hitman: Absolution -- not sure what was going on there... the reviews said it was great... but between the annoying scoring system, pretty much forced linearity, and unlockables that you don't even have to pay attention to or really use to get through the game... it had pretty eye-candy I guess. But other than that, eh... I had myself all built up, thinking, "I'll go plus, and it'll be a whole new mind-blowing PlayStation experience like I've never imagined"... oh heck yes... I never imagined this.

   At first I thought, "maybe it's just the line-up"... then I started seeing bits around the net about EU's line-up (and then next month they're getting FarCry 3, Dragon's Dogma, etc!? Why is it they're getting games barely a year old, and we're getting games from decades ago!?)... yeah, that hurt right between the uprights pretty decent. I figured, "well, maybe they just rolled out better stuff for PSP or Vita that month", and then the next month, and now this month. And what the heck!? This month, seriously, for PS3... we get a 12 year old ported PS2 game (Ico) which I guess was kind of fun, bit too easy, kind of made me feel like I was playing a 3D rendered Atari 2600 game to be honest. Then the RE Chronicles HD Collection... two ported Wii on-rail shooter games... and seriously, I *love* zombie stuff, love zombie games (at least sandboxy ones, can't stand Nazi Zombies or Left 4 Dead, bit too straight-forward and non thought-provoking)... but seriously, without a Move controller, they're lame as heck to play with the regular controller. Best of the bunch I think is Galaga HD... which is fun as heck to play, I'll admit... but seriously... that's when you KNOW the grouping is bad, when Galaga... a remade HD port from a game that was big/popular back in the 80s when I was kid, is the BEST of the bunch.

   Like I said, I've got something like 8 or 9 months left on my sub... and seriously, if whatever's going on with the US side of PS Plus doesn't improve... I'm just going to get a Gamefly sub. Oh but wait, Sony says we need PS Plus for multiplayer on PS4? I'm not really a huge multiplayer nut anyways... I prefer to play solo when I can... if I have to team up in an MMO, or occasionally in an MMO, perhaps... but I can easily live without multiplayer to be honest... no sweat off my brow.

   The line-up has just been horrendous to say the least... it should say something when you can find more fun and excitement from random demos on the PS market than you can with most the games on PS Plus as of late -- I mean, I literally had to push and force myself just to finish Hitman: Absolution for at least one full playthrough... and that's sad, because I loved all the prior Hitman games.

   But a 12 year old PS2 game... what gives? There's TONS of games that could have been supplemented over the past 12 years instead... an old Final Fantasy game, or Kingdom Hearts, or Just Cause 2, or Saboteur, or Silent Hill, or Test Drive Unlimited, or Driver San Francisco, or Heavy Rain, or something open-world or sandboxy... something.... seriously. I also see a lot of posts about people getting tired of PSP games being ported to Vita, and then being given to them as a "freebie"... like it suddenly makes the dust-riddled cobweb-covered bargain-bin special that much more elequent!? o_O

RIP ToonTown

   All things eventually have to die... and that fated time has finally come for none other than Disney's ToonTown Online. Kind of ironic considering one of the most epic sandboxes of all times just released a couple days ago, in the form of Grand Theft Auto V -- literally two days ago on the 17th -- then today on the 19th, the place built for kids, but fun for all ages, ToonTown Online, turned off its servers that one last and final time, like the flatline of a heart-rate monitor. At 11:30am it happened (though, as typical, Disney said it was to remain open until 11:49am!), and then that was it -- lost to the eternity of time and space, forever; the modern-age euthenization. Mind you, not hating on GTA; the game is pretty sweet and awesome -- but perhaps representative of the days and times we live in. The popularity and excitement goes into the gritty/hardcore titles, while the innocent playgrounds are Left Behind for the Langoliers to chew up and spit back out like the "timekeepers of eternity" that they are.
   When designing it, they probably had no idea it'd have as big an impact on so many hearts, minds, and imaginations quite the way it did... and though it may have been considered a "kid's game"; don't knock it, it was loads of fun. I've always been the biggest of all kids at heart; truly too. I've literally been gaming for over the past thirty years (three decades); started gaming originally in 1983, at the mere age of five years-old on a ColecoVision (later a ColecoVision: Adam) and on a PC. I've technically and literally either played, read about, viewed every game and innovation to come along down the pike; seen most all of it as far as gaming is concerned, and although it's true that each MMO allows a customized character that's an extension of the self -- never was it more true than in Disney's ToonTown Online.
   The youthful and slapstick innocence of the player's toons, was a chance to see the true glory of the innocence of childhood, as well as allow us moldy-oldies to experience the wonder years of our youth all over again -- or in my case, get to second-hand experience the wonder years... since my upbringing was hell, crap, and nothing really worth remembering whatsoever.
   Therefore, it's no real surprise why so many of us Toon-Fanatics felt just a tiny piece of us die inside today as they closed shut and locked the doors for the final time. The Big Wigs locked up our playground... and the cogs have finally and truly won...
   I can still remember the exact outfit my main toon was wearing at the end -- Biker Boots, Pirate Pants, "Toontastic" Toontown shirt (earned with the special "secret code" GADZOOKS), Super-Toon Cape, Goggles (steampunk style), and Detective hat -- Super Butch Thundermonkey; and then scrambling at the last minute, managed to get my secondary toon, "BabyGirl Sheba" (named after our old cat Sheba), to actually "represent" our goofy nickname for her. We used to call her our little alien... because we used to have this giant fish tank, and fish would always disappear, and Sheba managed to find a way up to grab them, even though there was no way for her to get up there -- we knew it was her, because her exact paw prints would be on the edge of the tank up near the top of the front-face (siding), but the real kicker? The paw prints were always upright, not hanging down over the edge, like as if she were floating or flying in mid-air, looking at the tank from the front, and touching the glass. Never did figure out how she was getting up there, nor how she was leaving those prints -- unless she was getting a running start, catching her feet on the glass, and giving herself an extra mid-air parkour leap; but they were always her trademark.
   Anyways, for her in-game toon, after scrambling at the last minute, got her a new Fez, alien eye-glasses, and a jetpack... to go along with the dinosaur shirt and pants she had on -- to make her a perfectly themed Dr. Who(-esque) alien -- our little alien!
   Probably the Last of the Mohicans as far as true enforced and moderated "innocent" games are still concerned. Even though the game had its fair share of bots from time to time, all games do, it always upheld the beauty of moderated conversation and by default pre-written selections to communicate with everybody.
   Sure, there's still other outlets like NeoPets, Wizard 101, Pirate 101, Free Realms, etc... but there's no real protection of innocents as cursing, phishing, scamming, hating, trolling, and raging occur all too frequently on all the others, and much of it is now barely even moderated.
   But the real question is why!? Why did it have to die?? Disney has millions don't they? I mean, they just bought out both Marvel and LucasArts right!? That's right! Completely honestly, the new direction Disney is taking disgusts me to no end! And I truly feel Walt would be doing somersaults in his grave had he any idea which direction down the swirling bowl his company was being taken! Disney came out not too long ago with the blatantly bull$#!+ excuse that their reason for it was "an influx of bots that they couldn't keep control of anymore" -- oh right, because ToonTown never went through that issue before, ever, right!? Come on Disney, stop jerking our chains while throwing vinegar in our eye sockets and saying it's a courtesy (blind leading the blind!?) -- tell it like it is... ToonTown isn't making them the revenue they hoped for anymore, because they've been showing their true colors for the past five and a half years, almost on the dot even. Referring to the last big Cog HQ to release, being BossBot HQ, back on 06-Mar-08. Even back then, the big chunky updates seemed to be few and far between, but at least it was a bit easier to assume the developers were hard at work, and the big chunky updates must have taken quite a lot of code. But did they really in retrospect, looking at the final product?
   I mean seriously, it really started to show after they released BossBot HQ didn't it? In the past five and a half years, what exactly NEW and HUGE has come along? We got Mini-Golf, Racing, a few more Trolley Games, Accessories (such as hats, backpacks, and glasses) we could wear, oh and a neat little map that would pop up on the neighborhood streets by use of the ALT key -- and that was pretty much it... the last five and a half years of ToonTown can pretty much be summed up with just that... REALLY!? There's even still what looked like a tunnel under construction leading out of the Chip'n'Dales area that never actually led anywhere!! Yet, while everybody else had the brains to adopt the "free to play" structure, utilizing a cash-shop for revenue to pay for upkeep and the like, Disney went completely arse-backwards, forcing the game to remain $15/month right up until the end. Granted, there was a "semi-free" option, where you could play as [only] one (out of six character slots) character with many limitations; like never being able to really upgrade most everything, not being able to order anything from the catalog (wardrobe, bank, furniture, accessories, and other upgrades that could have done GREAT in an ACTUAL cash-shop [while making the rest of the game true free-to-play]), I don't even recall you could have a Doodle pet if you were a free player. But nope, had to keep squeezing the children for that $15/month, and never giving them more reason to keep paying it -- now all these epicly mind-blowing MMOs are coming out, and "next-generation" games and consoles, yet ToonTown threw in the towel quite early, laid down their hand of cards, and showed their truest intentions a very long time ago. I guess as a concession for Disney's blatant greed and laziness, they gave all the users of ToonTown the last month they were open a free pass, so that everything as unlocked and available.
   Along with Disney's ToonTown Online, Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean Online, and Disney's Pixie Hollow also got the axe. Disney's just being outright brutal aren't they? Axing off every young childrens' outlet!? Probably making way for that new crap-shoot project they have going on, which boasts an MMO-ish/virtual-world something or other... what's it called again? Disney Ignoramous? Oh wait, that's not it... Disney Infinity, that's it, excuse me while I fall out of my chair laughing my backside off. How well can anybody see that selling? By this move today, axing off those three titles listed above, can Disney of all people really try to sell the idea of "infinity"? I mean come on, really!?
   Not to devalue the experience of ToonTown though, Disney's ToonTown Online was a true escape, and probably the last true digital-version of a Boys & Girls Club that anybody had left. For those that lived too far away from a Boys & Girls Club, or who's parents just wouldn't allow them to go to one... Disney's ToonTown was a great outlet. Just like any game, it did have its aggrivations; like the fact that in the entire time the game ran, I still never managed to ever once catch, while fishing, a Devil Ray, or a Grizzly Bear Acuda. Would have also been nice if it offered another handful of activities and little games to partake in; again, Disney's lack of care and motivation showing its ugly money-grubbing face, along with showing the big cash-cow that it was, once a person got to have a 105+ laff toon, ("my main" was 111 - yeah, eat your heart out, the perfect "binary" [base-2] - triple "right on" \o/), there wasn't really much of anything left to do, again outside of fishing (which became more of a chore than anything, though Fish Bingo was fun now and again), racing, minigolf, repetitive Trolley games, and dressing up with accessories.
   If anybody would like to view the album and final pictures taken of our time in ToonTown Online before the doors finally shut for the last time like a lid of a coffin, can check them out right here.

Hannah Slander-son!? o_O

   First and foremost, anybody that's not aware of the Hannah Anderson kidnapping or all the soap-opera drama to follow has probably been living under a rock. But the looming question is, is it as cut and dry as it seems, or is there more than meets the eye?

   Reason for the title, is it seems there's many that would defend Hannah Anderson to the death, similar to the idea of fanboys/fangirls that hear no evil, see no evil, and speak no evil. While anybody who even remotely questions her is cast out as somebody just looking to slander a supposedly and purportedly completely innocent victim. But just how much innocence is there? And is it the same innocence of yesteryear, or has innocence been devalued by generational inflation similar to the national currency!? To be perfectly honest, one thing that's certain, is current events of the past decade or two will prove concretely that there's no such thing as a completely innocent person anymore, and that people even younger than Hannah Anderson have committed even worse crimes... so her question of innocence based on just her age are complete bollocks!

   So many strange inconsistencies loom that make no sense whatsoever. Like the fact Hannah's phone was found inside the burned house, yet she reportedly was using it to text DiMaggio thirteen times to tell him where to pick her up. Also Hannah's role post-incident, where she's going out of her way to say, "they weren't calls, they were texts" -- yet, it's been proven by many that a cell phone company can tell the difference between the two, that they're not labeled the same, so for them to say they're calls, means they're calls, not texts. Then throw in the fact that as SOON as Hannah got home, she instantly took to the interwebs to make sure to put out her own specific version of the story... which is typically the act of somebody who is either guilty or trying to cover something up -- after all, if everything is as she claims, and the facts would speak for themselves, why not let the facts speak freely without her imposition to sculpt them a certain way? Yet she's consistently in the spotlight trying to push her "version" of happenings.

   Also seems rather strange that for somebody who should be traumatized she keeps wanting to continue to talk about and focus on the occurences. I mean, let's lay it bare. She survived being SUPPOSEDLY kidnapped at gun-point, half of her family is wiped out and massacred along with the family dog, and it's speculated that she was probably even raped (the two used condoms found in the house). That's collectively THREE of the worst traumas any person can go through -- she goes through them at the age of 16; one would think she'd be institutionalized or at the very last in massive psychotic therapy... yet she's smiling, posing, getting her nails done, and taking every chance she can get to vogue for the camera! No surprise Marilyn Monroe is her hero. *facepalm* I mean, fully grown, trained, and experienced military soldiers go through even less traumas and appear to be damaged worse than Hannah Anderson comes off as!? o_O

   Then rolling along, there's not only her massively strange behavior afterwards, but her lack of grieving, even her father's lack of grieving. Since she got back, she can't help but post selfie after selfie, all smiling and posing in overly tight clothing and skimpy daisy-duke shorts; as well as continually getting together with friends and partying. Not to mention the memorial, where she was witnessed laughing, giggling, having a good time, while chugging her Starbucks in the church; don't get me wrong, it's great for a supposed victim to be able to move on and recover, but so quickly AND at a memorial where a person is meant to mourn the deceased!? Then the pictures that surfaced right after the memorial, where she's seen in the church, making the shape of a gun with her hand(s), as her friend does the same, while she's smiling/smirk-pouting in a pose, while labeling the image, "true thugs"?? Then there's the strange picture Hannah Anderson posted to her instagram showing her with her hand appearing to hold the Hollywood sign (obviously not), but the message read, "#bye #hollywood #bye #malibu #hello #river"; and coincidentally enough that's where they ended up going was the River of No Return in Idaho.

   Should also point out the one strange photo from the memorial, with her massively over-exagerated facial expression of what we're supposed to believe is sadness!? Kind of wondering if she's not a sociopath -- often times, sociopaths become so focused on themselves and so far gone, they become incapable of displaying emotions properly or correctly, and typically have to overly exagerate them in order to display them at all, albeit at times falsely display them (like over-acting while not even feeling it for the most part).

   Other oddities include the fact Hannah claimed that DiMaggio was creepy, yet she went away with him on several over-night trips between just the two of them to places like Malibu and Hollywood (how her mother even allowed that is beyond me; and what about trips for her brother Ethan!?). Seems Hannah Anderson was a bit of a gold-digger... using DiMaggio (who she knew had a crush on her and had even stated as such) for shopping sprees and trips... even to the point DiMaggio was about to lose the house that burned because of his financial problems. Perhaps Hannah knew the gravy-train was pulling into the station, and DiMaggio realized he wouldn't be able to hang on to his main squeeze of Hannah without the big green wad... for all anybody knows they could have staged the whole thing hoping to inherit the life-insurance AND the fire-insurance... it'd explain the timers on the devices used to set the fires, since it'd make it look like they're not in the vicinity when the fire starts and are eliminated as suspects as they claim, "oh, we were on yet another road-trip, it wasn't us". But then that backfires, the police and fire-department find evidence otherwise, the Amber Alert is issued, and the rest is national news.

   The FBI and investigators are also remaining oddly tight-lipped, and their reasoning is that since she's a minor they don't want to say anything that could stick to her in the future. Yet, it leads me to think they have more than they're letting on and perhaps are still trying to gather enough evidence to make a conviction. I mean think about it, just like I said above, if she's completely innocent and the facts just all speak for themselves, and she's a victim irregardless of anything else, what's there to be worried about releasing that could possibly "stick to her"? They'd just reveal what they have irregardless. Are they afraid that people are going to learn she was carrying on a sexual relationship with a 40 year-old and she'd lose all credibility for the rest of her life or what?

ALERT!!!: On a side note, anybody that's curious about this case, do yourselves a favor and completely AVOID "Hannah Anderson is Guilty" on Facebook at all costs! The page is run by a bunch of complete psychopaths. I became unfortunately banned from their page, when I simply tried to link an article on AllVoices.com that referred to the strange photo of Hannah Anderson saying, "bye hollywood, bye malibu, hello river". Reasoning? It'd appear that the author of the article put on a podcast which was mentioned in the article, and it seems the people behind the Facebook page tried to call in, and the author of the AllVoices article wouldn't answer their call because it was a blocked number; so the owners of the Facebook page got overly upset and started accusing the AllVoices article author of stealing all their facts and tidbits from their page... as the Facebook page owner was going on about how they deserved on-air recognition and props. After they deleted my linking of the article, and said what they did, I tried to reply by saying, "I thought the purpose of this page was to get to the bottom of the truth behind the Hannah Anderson story, not props or recognition??". They thend deleted that comment and banned me. Talk about sacking the messenger. The owners of the Facebook page are glory-hounds only looking to make a name for themselves, not to get to the real truth. Not to mention, it's not like the information on their page isn't sourced from other places (yet they accuse the AllVoices author of "stealing" the stuff from their page!?); I know I contributed a lot to the page, and they sacked me without even blinking... where was my "recognition"!? *facepalm* Bunch of snot-nose hypocritical loser asshats!

Their exact message was this:
"Hannah Anderson is Guilty The podcast which I advertised as an event was full of **** I covered in my own podcasts. If u have a 30 minutes dont take breaks and answer calls u said u would when I was on hold be it private number but answer it. The podcast was bull****! All info from my page give my page props dont just mention it in chatrooms mention it on air! Anyhow that's why ur comment was deleted! Bull****!
1:13am (38 minutes ago) · Edited" (Curse words censored out by me.)

That post can be seen here. (Link no longer seems to work.)

Can see the article in question here on AllVoices.com. (I also mentioned the same in the comments under the article...)

UPDATE: Just found out the "Hannah Anderson is Guilty" Facebook page has been yanked down! W00H00! Thank GOD for small miracles! Those psychotic witches didn't deserve to be running a page claiming to be searching for truth, since the only thing they were obviously looking for was their egos! ^_^

D.C. Naval Yard Massacre

News is pouring in about the horrific massacre shooting at the D.C. Navy Yard. Simply horrific to say the least. Even worse that it's yet another entry in a long and ongoing chain of public mass shootings, while being even more reason for better gun control and regulation; noting that does NOT mean taking away all weapons from all people as many extreme gun activists would believe.

Many news outlets are calling it "the worst shooting to take place on a U.S. military base", and then compare it to Fort Hood. Yet, I'm left to wonder, what exactly is the basis for that comparison? By that I mean, at Fort Hood there were thirteen casualties. While there were also thirteen casualties at the D.C. Navy Yard. However, in the D.C. Navy yard, the shooter is actually among the thirteen casualties, meaning only twelver were innocent bystanders; while at Fort Hood, the shooter went on to be tried in a court of law, stating that all thirteen deaths at Fort Hood were innocent bystanders. Now, if the comparison was being made under the ratio of military personnel versus civilian, that perhaps there was more military than civilian killed at Fort Hood, maybe I could understand the comparison... but as far as I know, they're not releasing information on the victims of the D.C. Navy Yard shooting yet, so it wouldn't be possible to be able to make even that kind of comparison?? *shrugs*

As much as I'd love to see better gun regulations put into play (note: not as the extreme gun activists think, not to take away all firearms from everybody, just better safety precautions) like psychological screenings for firearms, etc... there's still the chance it might not fully resolve all issues.

   I do have an idea that will sound crazy, but may make sense, somewhat. What about the ability to manufacturer and/or upgrade all firearms to have minimal WiFi in them, and I know, sounds crazy, but hear this idea out:

   Set it up so that everytime the trigger is pulled, a quick data packet is sent to a data server, simply logging firearm serial number (as well as a quick search to see whether or not the firearm is legally registered), exact coordinates (in three dimensions [X,Y,Z] to also note not only where at, but also to note exactly how high from the ground the firearm is, like standing, squatting, laying down, etc) the shot occured at, the trajectory of the shot in comparison to the firearm and how it's positioned, and perhaps some way of tagging ammo as to be able to register what kind of round is/was fired. Even though it may not fully deter shootings, it would at the very least, if people knew about it, make them aware that as soon as they pull the trigger, their shot is being instantly registered, the collected data would also help investigators (like in the Zimmerman case, where they weren't sure what the exact trajectory of the shot was, if he was laying down or standing up, or even how quickly/aimed the shot was fired). Also have failsafes in the weapons so that if the WiFi in the weapon is tampered with whatsoever, the gun locks up and becomes unusable (forced safety engagement). This isn't any form of "big brother watching", since there are many setups now to simply listen for a gunshot to go off and alert that a gun was fired in a certain/specific vacinity, it'd just be a more thorough means of gathering data of the shots that are fired. Again, it obviously wouldn't stop all these incidents from happening, but it would make it much harder, for instances where people do fire off a weapon, to escape or have a giant "unknown" as far as post-ballistics analysis after the fact go, while being able to have the ballistics assertained and collected as soon as a round has been fired. Not to mention the simple data gathering wouldn't at all interfere with the Right to Bear Arms. ^_^

   Just a thought... it may have certain issues, but I'm sure there'd be a way to work out the kinks over time. I mean, if WiFi can now be put into refrigerators and such, why not into firearms? Q:)

Huge double-standard!?

Okay, I couldn't even imagine making this up, in fact, my mind is officially blown. Check out the reason for this post here at: Kid's Meth-Lab Lego Toy-Set.

Or you can simply watch the video here:

   Wow, I know right!? I mean, WHAT IN THE HELL!? Everytime things go down hill, and violence or drug issues happen, what's the first thing everybody and their brother wants to blame!? Video games, music, art, etc.

   But a freaking METH-LAB toy-set -- and even though they claim it's aimed at jaded hipsters and adults... right, because every adult wants to sit around with tiny lego figures playing with a fake toy plastic super (meth) cooker!? *facepalm*

   This just has gigantically DOUBLE STANDARD written all over it. All these political movements to do away with and strike down gaming and the art found in gaming... but hey, we'll just turn a blind eye while our kids have mountains of toy guns and plastic super-cooker meth-labs to play with to keep their imaginations busy.

   Really!? Is it too late to stop the world and get off!? I really think I missed my stop quite a ways back and really feel like I don't even belong here anymore. If the world were to get anymore jacked up, we'd all need a V8... not that it isn't massively crooked enough already! >_<

Communist News Network!?

   Dear Journal,

   For such a long time I'd hear over and over that CNN was controlled by the government, and pulled crooked news. For the longest time I wanted to not believe it. But over enough time, there's just so much writing on the wall that one eventually just can't purposely ignore it anymore.

   First and foremostly annoying was their use of the Disqus(ting) system! Most ignorant and annoying commenting system ever to grace creation in this world. Totaly anonymity, no user controls, but very easily tampered. At first I thought, well, all commenting will have its annoyances, but Disqus takes the cake. As an example, often times during the Zimmerman/Martin case, CNN would close off commenting on an article, and if you watched closely, they'd remove posts in defense of Trayvon Martin, while blatanly inflammatory, derogatory, and uncalled for posts favoring George Zimmerman, or outright insulting the deceased Martin were left to remain. Eventually they'd re-open commenting, allow some new posts, close commenting, and repeat. I've also noticed, you can say something as civil as possible, only reflecting on the article, not directed at anyone, perhaps paste a little snippet of info or quote... nothing that would violate any rules, and yet, any hateful/ignorant people reading that didn't agree would vote down AND flag as inappropriate. There's been at least a half dozen, maybe a dozen, that I actually tested by reading them off to somebody before posting, asking how it sounded, and if any of it seemed like it could be taken out of context or misconstrued. They said nope, they sounded great, and there was nothing wrong with them, as I also agreed to that assessment. I'd post, and either quickly or over time, they'd end up being removed and vanishing from the Disqus(ting) comment section! And then of all people to hire onto the CNN legal staff, they actually hired on Mark O'Mara!? REALLY!? Now, any article that comes out dealing with either of the Zimmermans or Trayvon Martin, the comments are instantly locked as soon as the article is posted -- yeah, that sure isn't a communistic, erm, I mean, "conflict" of interest, now is it!?

   Then, if one pays close attention not only to Communist News Networks articles, but also to other news sites, one will witness major disparities. First of all, they very disgustingly on September 11th -- a day that's supposed to be the anniversary of EVERYBODY that passed away in the terrorist attack -- had an article showing off and boasting the FIRST person to die that day. Really!? Is a terrorist attack now the same thing as a forum or message-board!? Did the bozo shout, "FIRST", before he croaked!? The article starts out saying how special the guy is, points out how much more he succeeded at in life than any other victim, and how much more potential he had than any other victim... and outright made the impression that, the other 2,976 people that died was slightly bad, but this guy passing on was just horrendous. And seriously, boasting that he went out FIRST!? What's he get, a gold Special Olympics trophy? Maybe a retarded "special" achievement on Hacks-Box Jive (XBL slam for those that don't get it)? Did he get a little gold-star sticker to go on his casket, oooh, always knew blowing up in a giant fireball had its rewards... a STICKER, yay! *facepalm* Not to mention, there weren't enough remains of anybody to actually perform an autopsy to determine cause or time of death; furthermore, if a person actually does a Google search on the clown's name, there's STILL conflicting stories of just how and when he died. From stabbed, to throat slit, to shot -- doesn't sound that convincing to me... in fact, in a court of law, if there were multiple versions of how something transpired, it'd be chucked out and called pure speculation. And then there's Communist News Network, singing this man's praises... again attempting to make yet another martyr for the modern day to divert where everybody's attention should be at -- while shamelessly plugging the business the guy started, along with the guy's book, where it could be found, how much it cost. I mean seriously, the entire article was speculative opinion and a shameful sales advertisement/infomercial... and yet it was the top headline story for over half the day on that day, front and center, the link for it even read, "2,977 died, but he was first!". Just how much VANITY does society, or at least Communist News Network, need to turn 9/11 into a race!? Perhaps that's it... maybe the messenger at CNN needs to be sacked, he keeps getting the memos mixed up. Now CNN is sadly under the impression that 9/11 was a marathon... tune in next year to find out who made second place! I mean seriously, what was the message behind the article, "Congratulations dude, you won"!?

   Not to mention the big biker rally that took place that same day. Literally - nearly 2 million bikers all rolling into Washington D.C. for a special 9/11 tribute. Problem is, think I read/heard the law had an issue with that many bikers being in one place at one time, thinking it was a powder keg ready to go off. So in turn, what happens!? Every other news network covers the story, gives them mention, and yet on Communist News Network -- not even a peep. Really!? Not a peep!? Almost TWO MILLION bikers in the same place at the same time... and not even a word!? *facedesk*

   There's many other glaring issues, you just have to watch (not that hard) for them to see them. It's just a real shame too. I love Anderson Cooper, Nancy Grace, Piers Morgan, and Erin Burnette -- just a shame they're under the CNN umbrella! Even sadder that there's not that many news websites out there that really compare in scope. USAToday is kind of neat I guess, then there's ABC & NBC, but their "commenting" is either Disqus or just as convoluted! Perhaps Facebook needs to make their login page into something similar to Yahoo or Google, with news on top, current events, stocks, and other information while being customizeable. That way as people check their social network, they can click to the top and instantly see current events and updates. Why not? A lot of news sites are going with Facebook commenting anyways -- to help clean up the massive derailing, mud-slinging, etc... giving people in the comments the ability to block/ignore, etc.

Z-baby strikes again!

   Dear Journal,

   There's those times in life we wish that we could just wish away certain people. As of late, Georgy-Porgy Zimmerkiller is one of those people.

   After he got away with profiling somebody due to the color of their skin, hunting them down, and cold-bloodedly killing them -- aka: murder... a court trial which is now proving itself to have been thrown and tampered with, managed to come up with calling him "not guilty". Even though at least half the jury have confessed that they feel in their hearts that he truly and legally got away with murder, that the wording of the law made that possible, and they're working to fix it so it doesn't happen again. Was also proven at the trial that Zimmerboy studied law, even though he lied about doing so, but knew enough to stage the crime and weasel the system -- doesn't help that his "daddy" is also some big ranking legal official that I'm pretty sure is yanking strings somewhere.

   Now, as if that wasn't enough, Mr. Skinhead is back on the attack, with his wife now in danger. Personally, I think it's only a matter of time before he goes racing the freeways in a white Ford SUV with a whole crew of police officers on his tail. This bozo has already had problems with another ex that attempted to get a restraining order against him. He's also had legal issues in the past for assaulting an officer. Now he has murder to add to that list; and if there's any real justice in this world, stalking, assault, and battery can be added to the list.

   This man's a menace, a racist, an egomaniac, and a narcissist. Some ignorantly and stupidly derranged people in the world seem to view this man as a hero (nothing like being blatantly blind to the truth), but all he really is, is a massive zero!

   It's also now coming out, from the medical examiner in the case, that they were pressured to throw the case from the start, and was also intimidated to change their testimony; then later for asking questions, they fired him for it. Seems the real truth may very well be that Trayvon Martin was actually shot in the back, not the chest.

-- Yup, our justice system is about as iron-clad as a stick of butter I tell ya! Not to mention the equivalent of a brothel at rush hour... more holes than a person could ever dream of! >_<

UPDATE!!!: Well, yet another hole has been found in the Zimmerkiller case where he **murdered** Trayvon Martin. One thing that ALWAYS bothered me, is that if Trayvon did everything Georgy-Porgy claimed -- slamming his head, punching him in the face, and smothering him, Trayvon's hands should have been a veritable PETRI DISH of DNA... but yet there was ZERO Zimmerslayer DNA found on his hand, just as there was no DNA found on Zimmerthug's gun that Trayvon supposedly had his hands all over. The Zimmerboy supporters all claimed, "well, the rain washed away the DNA". Which is odd, because there's actually studies that show water can actually PRESERVE DNA, and often times DNA can be stored over time in cold water, (and again, they blatantly disregarded the lack of DNA on Zimmerbaby's firearm, which I highly doubt "laid out in the rain"). But what's the hole you might ask? A news article today out of Oklahoma showed divers testing sonar equipment in a local lake, where they found two submerged vehicles, that match descriptions of cars that went missing in '69 and '70. Keeping in mind that's 43-44 years they've been submerged in water, it's been reported that they QUOTE "will use DNA to identify the bodies". So let me get this straight... bodies can be trapped at the bottom of a lake for over FOUR decades, and DNA can still be found... but because Trayvon Martin laid out in the rain for 20-30 minutes... every single scrap of possible DNA from his *attacker* was utterly washed away!? Right, I call a big BULL!@#! on that one!

LINK:CNN Video talking about two vehicle submerged for 40 years, using DNA for identification.

First step of many...

   This is actually a repost, since Google is so dumb, it managed to delete the first/introductory entry while I attempted to delete another blog post I started and decided I'd wait on for now. Yay, stupid technology that has no !@#!ing clue! Ugh!

   Dear Journal,

   After much pondering, I've managed to finally figure out what's been bothering me about the comments on the interweb. At first I felt I needed to find an outlet that had the proper user controls for blocking/ignoring -- but after thinking it through, it's dawned on me, there's no intelligent life to be found out there (on the net). Not to mention, I've never really ever given a crap what people think of my opinion or who I am, so why then was it getting so troubling to read a news article and say my two cents, only to have some snot-nose chicken$#!+ spineless coward hiding with no nuts anonymously behind a computer screen while they'd run their mouth and purposely attempt to mud-sling and push buttons!? Or why was it such a pain to watch a gaming video on YouTube, mention something about it, and instantly be labeled some form of elitist, fanboy, or clown that didn't know what they were talking about!?

   That's when it finally hit me... I don't care what anybody thinks. Go ahead and think I'm a cynical arsehole -- but hey, I really don't care, LOL! Everybody has a right to their opinion, and I could crap on whatever that opinion is. The problem wasn't the conversation as much as it was the REFLECTION. I'd read articles, see videos, witness things, and just had the normal reactions, then needed some form of voicing those reflections and insights. So for that very reason, I've decided it's time for another web-journal, AND... if you're reading this, buckle your seatbelt, strap the !@#! in, and hold on for dear life... because you're now Inside The Mind's Eye... and I could care less if the roller-coaster car that you're riding in ever makes it back to the station!

   If you happen to be a reader that agrees with my insight or viewpoint, then fabulous, birds of a feather. On the other hand, if anything I say happens to offend you, well then, all I can really say is I have a 3 step process for you to follow:
1) Cry Me a River
2) Build me a Bride
3) Get the !@#! over It!!

Seriously, you think anybody on the interwebs cares that you disagree!? All I can seriously suggest is that if you don't like it, don't read it... go find something more your speed... perhaps a pop-up book or a Mad Libs, aye? ^_^