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October 2005

October 31, 2005

Up All Night

So I have been up all night and I’m not that tired. Saturday I spent an amazing day with Kelly. She’s a very cool girl. Still packing pretty much. Trying to save enough money for the XBOX 360, but I don’t think that is going to happen seeing as how I don’t have a job. I have fixed a few layout problems, but I am gonna take a break for a bit. I have a new HTML tutorial I’ve been working on and I fixed my Halo 2 Stats page and that should be back up soon, and I added poems. I might redo that page to make it database driven. I think for the next few days I’ll concentrate on the tutorial though.

October 25, 2005

Doom

[Edit] I have the first tutorital up in the tutorial section. It is mainly for those confused with the concept of programming, so I hope it helps some people out.[/Edit]

I never really liked first person shooters, so when I got Halo I thought okay its fine for a first person shooter. When my brother bought me Rainbow Six 3 last year, I never got into it I didn’t like the way it was played, plus for some reason I could never connect to any online games. So I found a gift certificate a few days ago and yesterday I went and bought Doom 3. I was a fan of Doom when I was younger, why not have the latest one? So I played it last night offline, since Xbox Live was offline for 24 hours. This morning I played it online, and either the guys I was playing with sucked, or I am just really good because I was leaving everyone in the dust with my kill to death ratio. I had 50 kills and the closest second was 25 kills. I might have a new section up tonite if I can, I just need to make the logos for the section.

October 22, 2005

The Story So Far…

So there are four yes count them four new pages in the Spiderman section. These four pages basically retell the story of Spiderman up until this point, and when the new movie comes out, it will be updated to reflect it. Along with the story I have provided screen shots of some of the pivotal points in the movie.

As for the house, the people decided to buy it so we think closing will be sometime around Thanksgiving. It will suck moving so close to the holidays, but it should be okay, I suppose. I plan to go to college in the spring, and I need to make sure I can make all my credits transfer.

Other than that, nothing new has been going on. I have some problems with my Halo 2 Stats section, but I am working on it. I also am working on getting better horoscopes from Astrology.

October 19, 2005

Viva La Video Games

I’m 21 years old. I have had a Nintendo, Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo, Playstation 1 and 2, and an X-Box. Plus I frequently play games on my PC. Back when I started playing video games, the games were really mild, nothing to give a second thought about, everything was mainly running and jumping, nothing that would cause any concern. Then in 1989 a video game called “Pussy City Pimps” came out, and it still wasn’t anything people made a fuss about. Even though the characters in the game walked around with their genitals hanging out, the game didn’t cause much of an uprise because it wasn’t that well known. Sixteen years later, video games with adult themes have been driven into the spotlight. Recently games like the Sims 2 and Grant Theft Auto: San Andreas have been in the news for mods that showed the characters simulating sex. Many groups are saying that these video games shouldn’t be allowed to be sold in the USA, saying they promote violence and turn people into killing and sexual machines.

One group even called the Grand Theft Auto series a training camp for cop killers. Now I’ll agree with them up to a point that they shouldn’t be sold to kids, and maybe they need to take the same precautions they take with porn, but it is my constitutional right to play violent video games. I mean I have been playing video games since I can remember. Back in 1996 I got the Playstation and along with it Resident Evil and Grand Theft Auto. I played them for hours at time, did it make me want to go out and kill cops, and shoot people in the head with a shotgun? No. I will admit that I wasn’t raised in the most stable environment, but that would put me at risk to be affected by these games right? I wasn’t. Now if I wasn’t affected by these games at 12 then what adult in their right mind would be affected at all?

A lot of people say that adults could be affected by these video games, but if adults are that feeble minded, why not disallow violent literature? Sure some adults are, just look at those who followed Manson, but do we really need to be babysat, by other impressionable adults. Now I say impressionable adults because the majority of the people saying this malarchy are from religious organizations. Now I have my own beliefs, and have experiences to back them up, but what about the adults who only read one book of faith, and base their entire belief structure around that and don’t even pick up any other book that might open their eyes a little bit more and see that all the religions have the same basis.

I’ve always wondered what would happen if you gave one of these impressionable adults a copy of Mein Kemf and told them to read it. I wonder if these people would be going out hating Jewish people because of World War I. If you believe that people are this impressionable, that they need to stop the sale of video games, because people will die, maybe it is because you are that impressionable. Maybe if you are one of these people who say video game violence will make you want to kill someone because everyone is so impressionable, maybe it is just the fact that you are so impressionable. I mean a video game being the cause of a school shooting and then the media blaming video games, without looking at other forms of violent media could be to blame, but because you are so impressionable you hear one thing about video games being evil and you are right on the bandwagon to bring them down. Forget the fact that the news has more violence on it everyday than one video game does.

I mean Canada has the same video games there that we do here, people are more likely to own guns there too, but they don’t have anywhere near the amount of school violence, or any kind of violence that we do here. I mean could it be that way because in Canada the news doesn’t constantly fill the screen with stories of death and horror, like here in America?

I am now going to bed, so that I can wake up tomorrow (later today) and blow up wraths, warthogs, ghosts and my fellow man. We live in America, the home of the free, the land where Church and state are seperate, and the land where our fantasies of blowing stuff up and killing our fellow man are met on game consoles. God Bless America, God Bless Video Games.

October 18, 2005

Selling Snags

So the people the buying the house decided they wanted all these things done to it, things that if they were done it would bring up the value of the house 40 thousand dollars. The verdict is still out on if they are going to buy it or not, which is very annoying seeing as how my mother is pending on getting approved for the place down in Delaware, but on the up side, I was approved to live there.

So Kelly was having even more problems with her computer and came over the other day. It was nice haha. I helped her as much as I could with her computer, then we went to Outback. It was a good day.

I am still trying to get this layout into css style, and away from the tables. I am almost there, I believe.

October 11, 2005

Inspection Done

So the people buying the house came to inspect it today. He seemed to find a lot of things wrong, but normal for a house that is 20+ years old. After the inspection was over, the couple still seemed interested in buying the house. So when we went to Delaware last weekend, we told them we were interested in a house there. Three bedrooms, two baths, ceramic tile, just built. We need to get the park’s approval, but otherwise it is the house we’ll be moving in.

I tried updating the site with div layers, but even with help from Lissy, it didn’t turn out the way I wanted it to. So I fixed some other problems, still working on a few things, I hope I get some new sections up soon. If you have any ideas, register for my forum and tell me there.

October 04, 2005

Offers Coming In

So Friday was the first day the house was on the market, Saturday was the first day we showed the house, and someone made an offer. We accepted the offer, and if everything goes according to schedule, then we close on November 15th. Then we go to Delaware.

So with this going on, I withdrew from my classes, which in turn terminated me from employment, and had me resign from the Computer Science Club. I think it will be the best choice. I will apply for Delaware Tech for the spring semester, so I don’t get that far off track. We’re going to sell most of the furniture, so I need to get going on those ads.

Looks like I’ll be busy in the coming weeks. I am still working on the layout, I don’t know when I will be done, or if I will ever get it right.

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