What's this? Snow? Lights? Stampedes? Suicides? It must be CHRISTMAS SEASON!!!! Why one day is celebrated for a season, I don't know but I don't care! Like most people, I have a love/hate relationship with Christmas. For the record, I'm agnostic so the whole celebrating Jesus isn't the reason why I love it. I mostly celebrate Santa, shiny things, commercialism and food which makes me the perfect candidate for the Christmas sucker.
What I love most about Christmas: the lights. It sounds super lame and small minded (hello!) but nothing makes me feel more bright inside than seeing twinkle lights along a frosty window. There's something so calming about it that helps you forget you're surrounded by people crying over getting a 2% latte than the non-fat they asked for. Besides lights, I also love the family time. I know family time scares a lot of people around the holidays, but there are some family members I like seeing and for some reason the only time to see them is around Christmas... strange... it's nice though that we are forced to see each other at least once a year or else who knows when you'll see them next.
Things that blow about Christmas is the obvious stuff. The stress that it brings! Christmas arrives and then sucks out your hopes and dreams with cold bitter anger and then you wonder why you're pushing a small child out of your way to get to a store before it closes and telling a Grandma to "shove it" while going insane listening to the same Christmas carols over and over in ever store, mall and restaurant! MAKE THE MADNESS END!!!!! Ahem... too much?
The stress of getting presents shouldn't be stressful. I enjoy getting gifts for people (when I have the money) because it gives you that time to stop and think about the person and what they would appreciate. I am noticing that there are less people at the mall - THANK GOD for online shopping! One thing I do want to say to parents; when it comes to getting gifts for your kids, keep their expectations low. I keep hearing from stressed parents, "what am I going to tell my kid if they're sold out?! My kid HAS to have it!" My God, get a hold of yourself man! First off, they won't think Santa doesn't like them because he didn't get them a Wii. You need to tell your kids that Santa is focusing on the kids in Africa who don't have fresh water. Guilt those spoiled fuckers into knowing that they have it good and Santa doesn't need to bring them shit! Expect one gift kid and be glad you have running water, food in your stomach and a warm bed to sleep in you little twerp. Then, when they see they have an abundance of gifts on Christmas day, you best believe it will be tears of happiness streaming down their cute little faces. It will be a Christmas miracle!!! You're welcome...
It all doesn't matter anyways. The good, the bad and the perverted Santa is only around once every year so try to find the best way to cope with it. The main theme is to bring happiness around you and be with the people you love. You can't go wrong with that right? Except I will have to choke a bitch if they eat my turkey leg.
<3 Tarangela
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Hero Protagonist Dev Blog #2
I’m going to have to utilize a system of index cards to keep track of people (NPCs) in Hero Mission.
I’ve been doing landscaping on the world map and it’s getting a little boring because I want to start filling in the spaces with villages and events. So I’m switching over to playing with the mechanics. So I built a village… not a town or a city. Tents and one hardwood cabin. Every tent has a family, some tents have a story. Every resident has a name. Most residents have a name. Read Moar
Friday, October 19, 2012
Does sense exist anymore?
If you're like me, you probably feel like the world is going mad. MAD I TELL YOU!! Everything contradicts each other and people seem less and less connected and more and more stupid. Was this always around and I'm noticing it more now or did something happen and it's been getting worse? From the Presidential Debate, to Honey Boo Boo, to sticking our noses where they don't belong, it all leaks down to entertainment. Sick sick sick entertainment.
One big example of the freak show of course is the Presidential Election coming up for the U.S. Why does a Canadian girl like myself care? I don't. I just find it very very very entertaining. That's what it is anyway isn't it? The debates are initially there to talk about the issues, but what's the point when the candidates are changing their minds on their opinions and making up facts as they go along? If THEY don't care, it won't matter who wins anyway. Half of the civilians can't even vote so what is the point in any of this? What they're doing isn't working so either find a way to make it work using different tools and ideas or go home and watch the country sink into the ocean.
Who here doesn't know about Honey Boo Boo? This poor kid that was born into a family of trailer trash savages and will forever be tormented for life and probably die of a heroine overdose at age fifteen. The worst thing of all is that people watch this show to laugh at a six year old and her family. Yes, her mother is fucked. Yes, Honey Boo Boo is a disturbingly funny child, but bringing her on talk shows, talking about her to prove how retarded a SIX YEAR OLD is, I find abusive. I get that the mother wants to make a good buck to feed her kids (KFC - had to slip that joke in) and live, but to use your daughter to get ahead I think is child abuse. We as an audience should also take full responsibility as well for even giving this fat idiot a chance to have this show. The mother is probably thinking the audience is far more stupid than her, which is sadly true.
It seems like gossip and invading people's homes with opinions (I get the irony that I'm blogging about my opinion, thanks) is beyond out of control. We have social media to make us feel like our voices are much more important than anyone else's. Something that ties all this together is the pure hate people have for their lives. I'm going to pull a Romney and make up a statistic that I think is correct, but I'm going to say 90% of people hate their jobs. They hate going to work. They spend a minimum of 40 hours a week doing something they despise with people they can't stand. Big companies have thousands of workers and a lot of rules. CEO's also hate their jobs and are stressed out as well. They work probably (another Romney guess) 60 hours a week min! Why can't we change the rules? Why can't work be fun? I love that a lot of new companies (run by the younger generation) are including fun and excitement for their teams and look what happens, people love going to work and they are proud of their job and feel fulfilled. What a concept!!
I'm not saying you should ONLY play at work, I'm saying if you incorporate fun, productivity goes up and your company will blossom. Do you know how many jobs I had that I hated and I bad mouthed the company to anyone and everyone? I wish I was paid to bitch about the company, I would have gotten paid more. Imagine if I LOVED the company I worked for... Everyone would want to be on board with your vision. Who knew?! Bosses, welcome to 2012. Things are changing and you're driving your company into the ground if you don't get with it. People are starting their own companies more than ever because they are realizing that they are spending their time with miserable jerks and doing work that they don't give two shits about. Open your mind and creativity. What would Honey Boo Boo do? Wait... scratch that last sentence...
<3 Tarangela
One big example of the freak show of course is the Presidential Election coming up for the U.S. Why does a Canadian girl like myself care? I don't. I just find it very very very entertaining. That's what it is anyway isn't it? The debates are initially there to talk about the issues, but what's the point when the candidates are changing their minds on their opinions and making up facts as they go along? If THEY don't care, it won't matter who wins anyway. Half of the civilians can't even vote so what is the point in any of this? What they're doing isn't working so either find a way to make it work using different tools and ideas or go home and watch the country sink into the ocean.
Who here doesn't know about Honey Boo Boo? This poor kid that was born into a family of trailer trash savages and will forever be tormented for life and probably die of a heroine overdose at age fifteen. The worst thing of all is that people watch this show to laugh at a six year old and her family. Yes, her mother is fucked. Yes, Honey Boo Boo is a disturbingly funny child, but bringing her on talk shows, talking about her to prove how retarded a SIX YEAR OLD is, I find abusive. I get that the mother wants to make a good buck to feed her kids (KFC - had to slip that joke in) and live, but to use your daughter to get ahead I think is child abuse. We as an audience should also take full responsibility as well for even giving this fat idiot a chance to have this show. The mother is probably thinking the audience is far more stupid than her, which is sadly true.
It seems like gossip and invading people's homes with opinions (I get the irony that I'm blogging about my opinion, thanks) is beyond out of control. We have social media to make us feel like our voices are much more important than anyone else's. Something that ties all this together is the pure hate people have for their lives. I'm going to pull a Romney and make up a statistic that I think is correct, but I'm going to say 90% of people hate their jobs. They hate going to work. They spend a minimum of 40 hours a week doing something they despise with people they can't stand. Big companies have thousands of workers and a lot of rules. CEO's also hate their jobs and are stressed out as well. They work probably (another Romney guess) 60 hours a week min! Why can't we change the rules? Why can't work be fun? I love that a lot of new companies (run by the younger generation) are including fun and excitement for their teams and look what happens, people love going to work and they are proud of their job and feel fulfilled. What a concept!!
I'm not saying you should ONLY play at work, I'm saying if you incorporate fun, productivity goes up and your company will blossom. Do you know how many jobs I had that I hated and I bad mouthed the company to anyone and everyone? I wish I was paid to bitch about the company, I would have gotten paid more. Imagine if I LOVED the company I worked for... Everyone would want to be on board with your vision. Who knew?! Bosses, welcome to 2012. Things are changing and you're driving your company into the ground if you don't get with it. People are starting their own companies more than ever because they are realizing that they are spending their time with miserable jerks and doing work that they don't give two shits about. Open your mind and creativity. What would Honey Boo Boo do? Wait... scratch that last sentence...
<3 Tarangela
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Hero Mission:NoF Dev Blog... I think...
I’ve been cruising the RPG Maker community for a while now and there are a lot of cool people out there. But some of the ones making the games are kinda douchey. What I mean by that is some of them covet certain scripts they didn’t write and won’t link to where they got them from. There are others and of course forums complaining about them. I hope I don’t come across this way. I’ve seen and played a few demos just to get a flavor of what users are making. I’m not going to judge any of them. They created their vision and I hope people play it. That being said…
Sunday, September 30, 2012
SACKED
Unfortunately development of Sack Assassin's has come to a pause.
It will continue but not any time within the next few weeks. I have set up a tumblr (IamFN2K.tumblr.com) which I use for real time updates specifically for my contributions to YMB Arcade. For now, the focus has shifted to Hero Protagonist which you can read about on the tumblr on YMB Arcade.
Sorry ... J.G
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