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Okay, so on The Daily WTF, they had a picture I laughed at for about a minute non-stop.

( Stupidity is hilarious )

**Edit**

I just got a craving for shrimp. Like, good shrimp, not the crap I had yesterday.

Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!! ^.^

In light of the PS3 hype, since my stomach is acting up and it's almost 5 in the morning and I can't get to sleep due to my stomach.... /rambling

Anyway, I decided to go to ebay and see all the crazy shite happening there. A few of these make me giggle lots:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Sony-PLAYSTATION3-PS3-Video-Game-SYSTEM_W0QQitemZ290051811908QQihZ019QQcategoryZ62054QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem - for the console. Look at the buy it now price. That makes me laugh.

http://cgi.ebay.com/PLAYSTATION3-A-PREMIUM-DOMAIN-FOR-SALE_W0QQitemZ320049209823QQihZ011QQcategoryZ11153QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem - for a domain name. What the hell why would you pay that much for a freaking domain name?!?!?!


There's a few other of those domain names, though they're lower on the list. Many of these PS3s are being sold for around 3,000. At least the ones that have a good "buy it now" price (aka the price of the console) are up around the $3,000's.

Yup. Just what everyone expected. ^.^


***EDIT***
I was watching this for a few updates of the numbers: http://www.nexgenwars.com/
It seems that for every two PS3's bought right now, about one 360 is being bought. I wonder if people are just buying them at the same time or something. More than likely yes, but I also wonder if it's because 360 people are just bying them to spite the PS3 people. That would make me laugh.

I don't normally do venting posts to this magnitude, but I feel I must today.

This, as you can tell by the subject of my post, is about the math test I took today.

( I'll cut so if you don't want to read you don't have to )

This prof is really making me angry. X(

I was scrolling down my friends list just now, and I saw about 4 different icons that were variants of the "I'm in your base, killing your doods" quote. I just find that so amazing that people have no imagination to come up with their own witty quotes so they use their own variants of one real popular quote, which, let me add, gets VERY annoying after a while.

Okay, that is all.

I'm afraid of what I'm going to get on my Advanced Event-Driven Programming test (AKA VB test). =| I'm also afraid this VB project won't be done on time and that will really make me sad. That's a lot of points. D;

Besides that being due tomorrow (technically today since it is Tuesday) I have math homework to do for Wednesday (though technically it can be turned in Friday, but we're having a test on Friday so I'd like to have it done on Wednesday, don't see that happening). Thursday I have a Java test. Wednesday and Thursday I'm finally meeting in the library with my 110 group, and who knows if the one kid is gonna even show up since I've only gotten two emails from him this whole semester. NEXT Tuesday I have a Java program to turn in, the 110 presentation, and an econ test. Yes, something big for each of my classes next Tuesday. Oh what fun. =| I can't wait until next Wednesday. Can it be the 15th yet? D;

Today is looking much better than yesterday was.

I hope that goes the same for others. *nods*

Now it's time to play some DDR, and then eat.

Have a good All Hallow's Eve Day everyone.

And for the rest of you, happy Halloween. ;)

This semester sucks ass.

That is all.

"PS3 Canadian Commercial - The Wait is Over" on Google Video
For those of you who've heard me talk about this, here it is. The Canadian PS3 commercial that makes me roll because it sucks so much. I'm sorry, it sucks. I don't care what you crazy fanboys/fangirls think. This commercial is one of the worst commercials I've ever seen. Especially since the market they're going after is all wrong (due to most of the games on the Sony consoles having T and M ratings). Sad thing is, kids won't care, and neither will their parents.

I've decided that my livejournal is going to be pseudo public. Reason being is I really never liked going to all the different "blogs" I have to tell people the exact same thing, so I just decided to import my LJ to them. Figured it would be easier. So yeah, if you have me on more than just LJ, you'll probably see the same thing from me a couple of times.

Jack Thompson being accused of contempt?

Enjoy. It made me laugh harder than the letter that is the cause of this action. I figured some of you might find this amusing, as well.

**Cross-posted (with words modified) to girl_gamers**


Stuff that is random:

Death By Caffeine
Check to see how much of your favorite caffeine beverage you'd have to drink before dying by all the caffeine.

I died by Bawls and my total was 153.5 bottles. Man, that's too many. I couldn't drink that much without exploding halfway there.
Green tea for me would be 307 bottles, Cherry Coke would be 361 cans, Mountain Dew would be 223 cans, Vault would be 175.5 cans, and that's all I thought to be fun to check besides actual energy drinks.

***This post as been edited, scroll to the bottom to find out why.***

If you don't care to read this, don't. This is the letter he sent to the Florida judge after losing his latest case against a game named "Bully" made by Take-Two Interactive.

( Jack Thompson's angry letter )

I also was looking for an article that stated TV violence versus game violence, but I ended up with This

The reason I was looking for an article on TV vs Video game violence is what Jack Thompson said about TV vs video game violence. This is the thing that I believe is the stupidist and outlandish thing he said having to deal with the actual issue and not what the judge "refused" to do for him.
"Video games don’t come on tapes, Judge, and you don’t watch them. You interactively play them, which is why they are so behavior modifying."
While he may be on to something there with interactivity, that is not completely true with video games vs TV. At least I don't believe it is. They both seem to desensitize the same way as the other. TV violence is no more or less harmful than gaming violence. The only difference between the two is on TV you're watching a character beat someone up. In a video game, you're pushing buttons to beat someone up/stab them/whatever.
The bad side to this is, I can see him in the future condemning Nintendo for training kids how to truely use guns instead of just hitting buttons because of their new controllers, and showing kids how to wield knives and swords and such. I better not give him any more ideas, especially since wielding those weapons in-game with a gyroscope controller is NOTHING like wielding those weapons in real life situations.

The line in this case study that caugh my attention the most is:

"Differences in observed physical aggression, parent reports of aggressive behavior, and perceptions of a mean and scary world were not statistically significant but favored the intervention group."

I've read many case studies on this for a paper I did last fall semester, and many of them came up with this same result. One of the case studies gave an actual percent difference for about 4 different case studies done the same way, and it showed that the difference was between 2 to 5 percent. Not enough to justify that violence comes from watching TV and/or playing video games.

Some of these studies also showed that violent tendancies were very inhernet for at the most a half an hour after watching TV/playing video games, then dwindled back to the normal state of the person at most an hour after playing the game. This shows that TV/video games do not have long term effects on those they studied (around 16 years of age).

There are other points that must be made with this as well. If you didn't read the case study I posted, here's some of the ideas in it.
-The children were 8 and 9 years of age.
-The intervention group went through a 6 month program for the children to not watch TV, videos or play video games.
-The intervention group did, in fact, decrease aggression.

Taking all of this in, why are these children already very aggressive at this age? I will let you answer that yourself, and I will keep my own opinions to myself.

In defense (aka against these findings), I will say first, that most of the other tests I speak of are run on people between the ages of 16 and 20. I will also say that due to the way kids are very impressionable until their teens (hence the TEEN rating on certain things), I believe certain games should not be played by children because they WILL give a long term effect to them. This is also the reason that daytime TV "doesn't have much violence" (or shouldn't as they say). This doesn't mean to get rid of all games not able to be played by children, it means get the parents and stores to make sure kids cannot buy games that are over their age. This isn't showing fault of the gaming industry, this shows fault to parents, and sometimes game stores (though most places I know do check) for selling anything to kids who's ages are under the proper age restriction for the game title. Then again, the game stores cannot be blamed for this either due to the fact that the ESRB restrictions on titles are not enfored at point of sale, though, as I said, most places I know will check.

To be honest, the only thing I see wrong with this picture is that at point of sale, the restriction doesn't matter. I think that should be changed, and that's it. If it didn't hurt the movie community, it's not gonna hurt the gaming community. All kids have to do is get their parents to buy it for them, really. Hopefully some of them will wise up and realize, oh, my kid can't buy this for a reason. More than likely that won't happen though, but such is this country today, parents not having time to actaully interact with their own children due to their 4 jobs they need to have to support them.


And with that, I'm done.


**This post was edited due to people not understanding words I typed. I put important words to the subject in bold of my own writing, and reworded a few things to make them sound a little more clear to my own thoughts since I apparently was not clear enough.**

( A computer with a superiority complex )

Finally! Pictures of apartment and such!

( Look at the awesometastic pictures! )

So, guess what everyone? I have some awesome news!

( Just to give you more anticipation, I put behind a cut. =D )

Everyone in PA or around PA. Come to Pittco!

Go to pittco.org for more information!

I got this from my roomie in my email. I thought I'd share it with you all. ^.^


( The next Survivor Series )

My new journal. It is friends only. I'll get a fun banner up soon. My old journal, angelicrinoa is now there if anyone needs to message me about anything with the rp group that I'm running.



Anyway, comment here if you want to be added. Most people from my other journal will probably be added back. A few might not be (for reasons like deletion of journals and inactivity and such.)