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  1. ~Shockwave~
    League of Legends control scheme is just awful. Like, really, I can't aim with the same thing I'm moving with that doesn't even make sense.
     
    And Halo: Reach on legendary is just terrible. I got so ticked that I targeted a single elite for an airstrike. One single elite. I was that done. I'm, just like, "No, I've wasted like five clips of ammo on you. goodbye." But at least I'm moving forward. Slowly, but it's happening.
  2. ~Shockwave~

    For SCIENCE!

    By ~Shockwave~,

    Ok, so I just got an update from steam saying I can now stream games. I have a pathetic little wannabe laptop that i might be able to get the SteamOS on. (Probably not) So I'm going to attempt to run a steam game on my tiny computer. (Well, technically it will be running on my desktop.) I'm not getting any sleep tonight. But if this works, it will be worth it. Even though I will have accomplished literally nothing that's useful in any meaningful way. But I get to see the look on my computer genius dads face when I run Skyrim on the worst computer in the house. And that will be awesome.
  3. ~Shockwave~
    I can punch a piece of wood and be fine, accidentally cut myself while sharpening a knife and not notice until I see blood and faceplant into dirt off a bike and be relatively fine.
     
    But if I accidentally tap something with my pinky toe I'm writhing in pain for like fifteen minutes. What the actual heck. Of all the toes that one is the most useless but hurts the most. I accidentally kicked one of the dog crates in my house and I had to try not to limp to school today and than proceeded to repeat my mistake again.
     
    But I'm done with my first year of college and I passed Writing 102 so WOO!
  5. ~Shockwave~
    And I am so very thankful for that. My Writing class has sucked most of my motivation out because I feel like my final grade isn't under my control. Like, I could spend another hour on the essay or I could log another 15 and it would not make a difference. And that is not how a writing class should feel. Logging a solid 15-20 hours on an essay to almost get a D is stupidly motivation crushing. Especially when the reasons that I got the grade don't make sense. I think it's worthy pointing out that when the teacher asked about how well the students thought they where going to do everyone in the class looked beat down and dejected. I think that says a lot about this class.
     
    My chem class is going fine but I'm ready for that to be done. If you've read previous blog entries you probably have a pretty good idea why. It didn't progress beyond that, but I just feel incredibly stupid about what I did.
     
    The computer class is just "eh" at this point.
     
    And I need a job. I was told to reapply at sonic (again) and if I get hired I'm not going to complain because it's on a bus route and close and stuff. But I feel like being told I have a job and not getting one for reasons that I don't even know let alone have control over is dumb.
     
    Oh, and my Ex decided to show up at my church last night. Let me tell you what, that was an experience. Nothing actually happened, but I couldn't so much look her in the eye and I felt like a coiled spring for what felt like an hour but was probably five minutes. And I don't even know why I'm posting this here. Guess it can't hurt to vent, right?
     
    So yeah. Life is fun.
     
    Quick note: Blade Symphony is a fantastic game.
  6. ~Shockwave~
    My grandmother put a hole in the bottom of her sink, so my dad and I offered to replace it.
     
    Things I learned and or random commentary:
     
    When using a screwdriver to punch a hole in a metal outlet box, realize that your hand should not be on the other side of the hole you are punching out. It will hurt, and bleed.
     
    Outlets are a pain to wire in when you can't see what you're doing.
     
    GFCI outlets can be wired wrong. (Ok, technically I knew that.)
     
    If you are screwing in a screw above you, realize your face is underneath it and be thankful it wasn't a gosh darn drill.
     
    Old sink pipes are disgusting.
     
    No, I haven't gotten all the sink securer things figured out yet, I'll tell you when I'm ready to give up. It's only been like half an hour. Can we drop it now?
     
    Drills are a pain to use in a tight space.
     
    What kind of special person wires a flipping garbage disposal to a switch using a 3 way wire outside of a box? The amount of things that could go wrong is astonishing. You don't do that. especially under a kitchen sink. (Seriously, the wire pigtail fasteners where just hanging under the garbage disposal. That's so very incredibly bad.)
     
    Why is the dishwasher leaking?
     
    That about sums it up.
  7. ~Shockwave~

    I won?

    By ~Shockwave~,

    According to my youtube inbox I have won one of the raffles.
     
    This has led me to realize the horror that is the youtube messaging system. I couldn't find it so I could make sure I did, in fact reply.
     
    I did eventually figure it out after no less than 3 outdated TUTORIALS on the subject. Rediculous I tell you.
     
    But I won a raffle so that's cool.
  8. ~Shockwave~

    Bzpowerception

    By ~Shockwave~,

    I don't know what I did...
     

     
    But this actually happened.
     
    And I can scroll down and type in my quick post at the bottom of the BZP trapped in my quickpost box. Figure that one out.
     
    OH MY GOODNESS I CAN NAVIGATE THROUGH THE SITE USING IT!

     
    This tab is never getting closed.
     
    Aw... It's gone... Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.
  9. ~Shockwave~
    I'km practically obsessed with bows and swords and I can't sharpen a pocket knife.
     
    There is something so wrong with that statement. I've been trying for hours and have made literally no progress. (Except cutting my fingers.)
     
    Excuse me while I go sit in shame.
  10. ~Shockwave~

    Science is great

    By ~Shockwave~,

    My chemistry teacher had leftover liquid nitrogen from something (is this a normal thing?) and decided to pour some of it in a glass container and freeze stuff so he could shatter it. It worked for like two minutes and then the container just shattered into these large shards. (Nobody got hurt)He just kinda looked at it and didn't know what to do.
     
    I really wanted to shout a Cave Johnson quote but I didn't.
  11. ~Shockwave~
    If that title doesn't immediately set off some sort of bell in your brain you might want to watch this real quick.

    Anyway...
     
    I've always found the monomyth interesting. Why? Because it tries to link stories that have little to do with each other together, and it can be a great way to dissect the meaning out of stories, as well as a way to compare and make connections with other stories and show patterns and discuss the greater meaning of life, the universe, and everything.
     
    Just. Like. That. (I saw my chance and I took it.)
     
    And I'm going to use the hero from one of my favorite TV shows who has, quite literally, something like a thousand faces. (Coincidence?)
     
    The avatar. Aang. His story pings something like... all of the points in the cycle.
    I'm not going to type all of it out because most of it's obvious and it would take awhile.
    But the show hits most of the points in a way that is almost literal. Where the symbolic death is usually just stretching to reach that, Aang actually dies. It is one of the most literal versions of the monomyth I know of, and it's a great show even when following this formula. And it shows a great deal of character growth.
     
    More interesting than that is that the book stands to make all heroes of the same mold and find the formula that makes a good hero. But it seems like fitting a formula would be bad, as then we're sort of just copying someone's ideas. Which is probably true. It's been said that "There are no new ideas", which is probably problematic with the way copyright and patent laws work, but it seems to be true, as most heroes line up with the monomyth.
     
    For example: A person doesn't decide he's hungry and than suddenly make a weapon that makes hunting a breeze. First they would use a rock, than put it on the edge of a stick to make a spear, than sharpen it to make a better spear, than figure out how to fire it with a bow.
     
    That's generally how innovation works. And stories aren't much different. Why make a new story structure when this one works? Heck, even stories that don't ping everything on the list ping enough things to fit it. But I'm thinking it may not be that universal. There are some stories that don't start out quite right or don't have the right sort of main character. The character starts out too powerful or are obviously aware they are the hero. Some examples that come to my mind are Orion Pax, Link, Mario, Samus (that list actually came from watching a video and where just the ones I thought of.) and countless more who start out as just normal guys doing their day to day business. Until that normal day turns out to be not so normal and we end up with the stories we know today.
     
    But Aang isn't. he never wanted to be. He was called by his elders to be bigger than himself, to change the world in a way that nobody else could. On his journey he takes advice from many teachers, from Master Pakku for waterbending, Zuko for firebending, Toph(who is still my favorite.) for earthbending and the lionturtlre for energybending. he takes his skills and becomes the hero his world needs him to be. And that's what heroes do. They get called to action and put their skills to use for the greater good. Not just in fiction, but in the real world too. Which makes the monomyth significant. We write stories about things that creep through the night and the things that keep those things in check, and we do that in the real world. Stories aren't separate from the real world, they are part of it, and they link with it through philosophy.
     
    Think about it this way. You are the hero of your story. You are the main character. (Wow that got deeper than I was planning.) Everyone has a story. And I'm as guilty as anyone who says that theirs is unimportant.
     
     
     
    Huh. seems like a good place to end it. I didn't see it going there but that works.
  12. ~Shockwave~
    I don't use this blog for much, and I figured that putting it to a good use probably isn't a bad idea.
     
    So, starting tomorrow, I'm going to have a onesided discussion with myself on some random, hopefully deep subject that probably doesn't have a definite answer. I guess we'll see how bad I crash and burn then.
  13. ~Shockwave~

    METROID!

    By ~Shockwave~,

    This was posted on Lego Cuusoo's facebook page.
     
    It is glorious.
     
    Please support it. I want to see if this even can get through and made into a set.
  14. ~Shockwave~
    After slaving over that horrid essay for what felt like ages, turning it in with a mishap. and feeling relatively okay with what I've accomplished, I get a...
     
    Wait for it...
     
    58%!!!!!!
     
    The essay I turned in that was riddled with errors that was still basically a rough draft was a 50%. Something is clearly wrong here.
     
    There where apparently tons of errors, (None of which where marked) and it didn't use the PIE paragraph format.
  15. ~Shockwave~

    Writing. Again

    By ~Shockwave~,

    I'm posting a lot about this class.
    Anyway... During my computer class I submitted a nearly final draft of my essay, Just incase I forgot to do it later. Than, just now I make a few edits to it go to turn it in and NOPE. Can't do that. I'm still a good hour and a half away from the due date, but no, I can't resubmit. There is nothing that notifies me of this. And every other part of this essay was able to be resubmitted. But not the final part. Nope. This one is a solid 200 points, and heaven forbid you happen to goof up and find a mistake after you submit it. Nope, can't fix it. you're screwed.
     
    But me, being... well, me, found a way around that. And, for better or worse, I have a final essay I'm... Well, not really proud of.... But I'm sort of satisfied with the hours I've put into it. So that's something.
  16. ~Shockwave~
    I'm seriously ticked that Samus and Zelda No longer switch forms.
     
    It probably won't end up being a huge deal, but I liked that feature.
     
    Also they're playing the Kid Icarus guitar theme (The name is escaping me) Which is fantastic. I'll update if there's anything else to say.
  18. ~Shockwave~

    Writing...

    By ~Shockwave~,

    I'm doing peer reviews and am just kinda staring at the screen with no idea what to say.
     
    1. I'm in no position to give someone else writing advice, I can't even figure out my own essay.
    2. The questions cover the most hard to pin down and pointless parts of the essay.
    3. The advice my friend gave me of her own accord is significantly more helpful than this could hope to be.
    4. Most of the stuff isn't going to be included until the final draft anyway.
     
    Honestly the stuff seems to be there so my teacher doesn't have to work as hard while grading it. It's infuriating.
  19. ~Shockwave~

    That was stupid

    By ~Shockwave~,

    So there's a cute girl in my Chem class. I just gave her my phone number.
     
    I've never done that before and now I'm freaking out.
     
    I think this is the reason I never talk to anybody.
     
    Excuse me while I curl up in a ball and hate myself.
     
  20. ~Shockwave~
    Before I state what I think I want to make it clear that I do like my 360. It just has some really dumb problems.
     
    So I got an Xbox 360 for christmas, When I turned it on I was pretty much blown away by the graphics. (My other two consoles are a wii and a PS2, as well as my graphically challenged computers.) But it didn't take long to figure out that the thing was designed to have the paid service along with it. I'm all for having good online features, but some of it is being pushed to far to make the 360 feel incomplete without it. Granted, as I just stated, the only online capable gaming devices I had up until that point didn't require any sort of fees beyond purchasing games, so that's probably part of it.
     
    But I just don't understand why apps like Netflix, Amazon Prime and IE are locked behind this same paywall. And two of those already have price tags on their own. And my TV ​monitor is capable of running most of the same apps as the 360 (As are literally 90% of my internet capable devices.)
     
    But, enough of the bad. So far I've had a blast shooting stuff up with my friends via Halo and gears of war. And even my small library of games has proven that it has quite a bit of value in it. So that alone proves that Gold is worth investing in, I just wish it wasn't crippled without it.
  22. ~Shockwave~
    So I got a call from sonic asking me for an interview. Shortly after the interview I was notified that I did indeed get the job and I needed to fill out some paperwork to finish the process.
     
    This was something like a month ago. I've called them several times, filled out another application, called some more and still gotten nothing.
     
    But apparently they're low on available workers because they've done more interviews and those people are now being called in to fill out the paperwork.
     
    So yeah. I'm not thrilled about this.
  24. ~Shockwave~

    1,000!

    By ~Shockwave~,

    I just noticed I have over a thousand posts. (Though if we're getting technical this is actually the second time this has happened. Do I get an achievement for that or something?) So, yeah.
  25. ~Shockwave~
    We learned how to be paranoid on the internet.
     
    Such highlights include:
    Don't use online banking
    Don't use social networking
    Always pay with cash
    Don't have online e-mail
    If you do use online banking, make sure it's from a desktop with a wired connection to a secure router
    Don't have a smart phone
    Don't do online transactions
    Google ads are evil

     
    And my favorite:
    Use a mac, as they are obviously superior to windows based computers (This one gets thrown around a lot in the class)

    And there was obviously a metric ton of trigger words, though some where genuine.
     
    Most of this could be taken out and been replaced with:
    Don't be stupid online

    Some of the people in the class where legitimately mortified at was being said. It was almost sad.
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