My Views On The World

Note: I'm going to swear now. Not in the mood to *** everything again

Is fucked

Poverty, War, Famine, Destruction, Death, Shitty music. Like the iconic R.E.M song stated "It's the end of the world as we know it". In the past years it's become ever more apparent that this saying is coming true. Our pathetic nature as human beings is going to be the end of this world. Cynical disposition made by Marko Swanepoel.

Let's start off with my favorite ranting topic and probably with the least priority on this list. Music. It's a massive shitbowl. Look I love music I mean I LOVE it. If there wasn't music in my life, I think I would have been lying dead in a pool of blood right about now. It's stopped these suicidal tendencies I've had since I've been young. Don't worry it's all gone now. That part of my life is over and done with. I've just come to accept everything that has been thrown at me. Okay I'm getting off topic, back to music.

I lost hope...here

Like I said the entire music demographic has faded. You probably know I love metal and I'm conditioned to be more biased against it. I'm now leaving that biased nature and focusing on Music as a whole. In the days of Micheal Jackson Hip Hop was cool. Great rhythm and great lyrics. These days the fucking tweenie masses just need another fix on some faceless generic ass job who can sing the same as 1 million other people and that just got lucky.

It's fucking disgraceful that the youth I am in are getting their lives controlled in such a manner. I ask someone if they listened to metal. They say "O no that's all satanistic crap in which they scream a lot." I will now give you a video from a CHRISTIAN band:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxFiu5Yy2Os (can't embed sorry)

You see? It had screaming yes, but the lyrics are actually meaningful and I'm still trying to figure them out. Simplistic bullshit like Mr. Beaver and the lot just make me want to shoot myself in the face. WHAT.THE.FUCK is so cool about it? Some girl singing she wants to take her shirt off and kiss a girl in a club while breaking up with her boyfriend is just refuckingtarded. It's all good in a club man I'm all for it, but when I'm just sitting there smoking and contemplating then I don't want to listen to that shit. I'll rather listen to Parlotones even just to have some substance.

Who looks cooler? REALLY??

It's a birthing ground to many social problems too. Teenage sex gets justified by Hip Hop artists. Sure metal induces violence, but hell it's not as bad as having a fucking kid because Jacko forgot to wear a condom because Lollipop by Lil Wayne was playing. Metal is in the wrong sometimes too. Sending the wrong message and whatnot, but there are alternatives to Black Norwegian Metal and that's rock or alternative. Really anything is better than mainstream rubbish. Don't get sucked into the system ,be unique. Have your own musical taste and not what society demands. If you love the Hip Hop rubbish being churned out be my guest I won't judge you even though you judge me because I listen to metal. I'm as much as a Satanist as Justin Bieber has talent. Sorry for raving so much on Justine, but I don't know anyone else really.

I keep thinking what's going through their minds...

And doesn't the camera man have a fucking Bar One somewhere? 

Okay I dabbled a lot on that topic. Now I will focus on the ignorance of the people. Look, the world isn't your perfect little garden in the back yard like you make it out to be. There are some atrocious things in the world. I ONLY searched for hunger in Google for that picture and I have now seen shit I wish I didn't see. Imagine you suffered like that? Beside the typical "hungry children in Africa" agenda, there are fucked up people and I mean fucked up. I've seen the bad side of the Internet. Some of the shit I've seen will make you think differently about the people around you. It's truly horrifying to say the least. These were all accidental mind you and I'm a curious soul. I rather be clued up in shit rather than not knowing anything about something I'm dissing. I've even listened to fucking Justin Bieber although it wasn't my choice.

I've even researched Satanism just to know what's going on there. Some interesting stuff - read screwed up - I've learned too. They believe in God, have Sins and rules and all that jazz.  Ignorance is bliss like they say, but to me ignorance is hell. Not knowing is worse than actually knowing what happens. I wish people can be more like this, but it's a dream that won't come true soon.

Right on to a serious matter for me. Degeneration of our youth. Starting with bad spelling:

Sure u r m8

 I've covered this before and I'll give you short description. This is one of our most STUPIDEST downfalls. Teens get so used to using a skewered version of the great communication medium called written language it's becoming a habit of sorts , almost next to breathing. I can't bring myself to spell badly because I see how stupid it portrays the person I'm talking to. Sure it's cool if you're in a hurry, but if you won't take 2 fucking minutes just to make your words understandable then I'm not interested in talking or listening to you. "OOoOo HaaAAIII !!!!! Hw r u? im gud i gues" FUCK RIGHT OFF

Next issue- Lack of uniqueness:

And still girls date them

 Us young people don't admit it, but peer pressure sure changes a person. I've been at this phase. Tried getting all the snazzy clothes and gelling my hair to look cool. That lasted I think a day. I've realized I wanted to "fit in". Wanted to become "like everybody else". This wasn't me. Fuck that I won't displease myself to please others. The sad reality is that teens are really like this. Like these guys on top. A wild guess, but I think at least one of them didn't want to be like that. It's forced and it's pathetic.

I hate seeing a group of teenagers walking together and they all look the same. Flip-flops with a short and a shirt so tight I'm not even sure if they are wearing body paint and included is that ridiculous mohawky hairstyle . And that's all 6 of them. It's nearly impossible to have the same fashion sense AND to be in such a close group
AND be all the same. If you are one of those guys then:

Next- Rebelliousness

Scenario: I'm writing a test. Not just any test, but an important test. Suddenly these two guys start communicating with each other from across the room. They do some kinda monkey sign language and then boom they start making FUCKING noises. I'm talking snorting obnoxiously loud, humming, whistling, coughing extremely disrespectfully, making noises with their chairs and dropping things on purpose. The teachers have no idea who it is and when they asked one of them if it was them then they reacted in the most disrespectful manner I know of.

Now I don't know if these two asswhipes were beaten as children, but to go to such great lengths to "impress" people, intending to piss of people or gaining attention is PLAIN-FUCKING-STUPID.  Sad fact is that many teens act this way. Usually it's a combination of the 2 things I've mentioned above with some other elements thrown in. This royally pisses me off because there are so many other ways to gain attention, but in a good way and not the kind in which 98% of the people think your a ponce.









Now on to more serious matters. The world as a whole. Conflicts are happening all over the place, people are dying, sickness is rapid and the world is being destroyed. I'm no Green Peace assjockey, but how the fuck are we going to live 20 years from now if it's looking like this already:

Sad reality: I'm giving a contribution to that

We are screwed. It's getting hotter and every thing's falling apart. It almost makes me want to change my lifestyle, but we are so comfortable in our little existences that we passively don't care. Me included. War is breaking out because we want these lifestyles. People are getting murdered for something so small as oil. No human life deserves to be taken. I'm secretly (not anymore) a pacifist which means I believe violence is never the answer. I can act all tough, but it's just an act. It has to stop and if it stops can you just imagine the peace? No assclowns trying to bliksem each other because "he looked at me funny" and the like. I want peace for the world, but that won't fucking happen.

Religion pisses me off in that department too. Muslims (I think) going all martyr for something they don't truly knows existed. Terrorist fighting for their "people", but just like to go into a blood rage and kill people. Priests doing unforgivable things that they think is justified by some bogus explanation (talking about pedophile Catholic priests). Stupid Christians warping their religion into something that's rewarding to them and having the nerve to believe in it. It's truly sad and I urge you to read my "Why Christianity is on the back burner" to learn on what I think about Christians. I'm a Christian if you didn't know.

Don't you just want to be there?

 Okay depressing shit out of the way (long way) I'd like to emphasis the beauty that is in the world. Yes I do have a warm side. Nature is beautiful. What has been created is beyond your understanding and mine. It's truly brilliant. Looking at that waterfall just makes me at peace again. If the end of the world is coming I hope it doesn't destroy this. I want people to appreciate what God has given them (or universe if you're an atheist) while it's still here for us to enjoy. Put away your fucking phone for 2 minutes and just look at it.





 People can be good too. Legends like Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King and even Jesus are examples of what human nature can be. Fighting for what you believe in. Fighting for your uniqueness and your people. Standing strong against oppression. Human nature sure needs more of this.

Just stop and look for a second at your surroundings. Take note of the small things and enjoy them like music, nature, warmth, art or anything for that matter. Like Zombieland said "Enjoy the little things".

 And with that I'd like to close off. Be yourself and stand strong for your own values. Don't be something your not and keep smiling. I know we can change the world...somehow

If you read the entire thing then thanks.

That is all. Go stare at a waterfall

I'm bored

Yes I said it. I'm as bored as a guy can get. All my 360 games are done and I'm playing Sims for C****t sakes. So out of sheer boredom I'm giving you some funny pictures. Hope it works because the image editor has busted my balls in the past.

Wow it worked nicely. Hope you got a giggle :) That is all.

What it's like to be fat

I ain't talking about this kid

So this has been on my mind for some time. People are very quick to judge us fat people. Look first thing we know it's our own f**king fault. If we haven't eaten so much we wouldn't be in this chubby nightmare. BUT in cases like mine we can't really help it.

To get it out of the F**KING way before anyone makes smart ass comments like "Go jogging" "eat Healthy" "kill urseldf lololol" I eat 3 main meals a day with 3 in between snacks. Breakfast is usually all bran cereal, lunch is brown bread with no butter, dinner is usually spaghetti, greens and roast or braai on good days. In between I eat fruit. I walk 2 km a day home in the blazing sun with a jacket and a bag and I sweat a sh*t load. I drum for an hour straight so f**k you if you think I need exercise and no I won't play f**king sport because I hate it.

So that is out of the way let me give you the short and sweet (bad word choice) of being fat. It f**king BLOWS. Skinny people have the ignorant mindset that us fat people can do everything they can. No we can't climb a sand dune. No we can't run for 4 km's. No we can't go on a f**king jungle gym. No we can't climb on your back....ponce. 

You see in my condition I have an extremely slow metabolism. I eat minimal and I work out. Some skinny people I know eat a sh*t load and just sit around on their phones and they stay thin. My metabolism doesn't process food as fast as other peoples so I'm stuck with this ridiculous body although I do my best to get to the optimum weight and it usually ends in fail.

So now I have to just live with it and Lord does that suck. Here's a list of what I can't do:

-Can't run long distances

-Can't wear tight clothes

-Can't swim without a shirt (I can, but don't want to)

-Can't climb anything

-Can't jump high

-Can't dance

-Can't sit on weak chairs

-Can't wear pants without a belt

-Can't do activities like wrestling and martial arts

-Can't stand for long because my knees get f**k sore

-Can't do teambuilding activities

-Can't use proper drumming techniques 

Those are just out of the top of my head. Other things include I'm tired as hell at the end of the day, I never get clothes I want, sport is a no go, I struggle to get up stairs, my back hurts all the time.

Now skinny people imagine you were in my shoes. Those things at the top you can't suddenly do. Now imagine you have a 80 kg sack of sand on your back while dealing with not being able to do all those things and dealing with those problems I mentioned. Wouldn't your great life suck then? Have some sympathy before you start with your ridiculous suggestions on how I can get thin. 

Some fat people are in the wrong. They don't do anything to change their situation and just sit around becoming ... well fat. Those people I want to give a massive bitch slap because they are giving the fat demographic their stereotypical status. 

Now not to get all f**king depressing, but people making fun of me need to go to hell. I have feelings too even though I portray myself like a cynical friendless misanthrope in these rants. If you say "O his fat ass is too big to get on the climbing rails" I get hurt man. And if I wasn't such a pacifist I would have beaten their face into the ground.

I ain't saying it's ALL bad to be fat. I can make jokes with myself, get hugged a lot in winter by girls to get warm, put things on my stomach and hide crip notes under my pens. And sometimes us fat people get lucky

Anyway that is all. Go eat your f**king pizza 

The inner workings of my Mind

Now some of you might wonder what really goes on in my twisted mind. I'm actually a very complicated person. There are strange factors that play a role in my everyday living and some factors that are just downright weird. Hopefully you'll understand me better after this.

1. I hate people, but also love them

Strange huh? You know introverts and extroverts? I'm a mixture of both. I love being on my own and just thinking about and doing stuff instead of going out to parties. BUT when I actually go to parties I'm suddenly very happy. I like interacting with people and you might call me a people person of all things. I'm almost always the center of conversation when chilling with friends while deep down I'd rather be alone.

2.I always try to impress people

Whenever I do something, anything for that matter, I always try and impress someone. Whether it's playing drums or writing on this blog I always want people to take notice of me. I want to be famous at one point in my life. To have people listen to me and admire me is what I strive for

3. I always want to be better than other people

If I see a drummer I instantly think "O I  can top that" when in truth I actually suck compared to them. In games too. When I see a friend closing in on me in regards to rank I do my best to top them no matter what which is actually pathetic. There is always this niggel in the back of my mind telling me "I can be the best" and that usually flatlines as fast as it happened.

4. I see things others won't because I'm a realist 

When someone else looks at a teenage couple they think 'Awww they are going to be together forever...lolololol" when in my mind I think "Sheesh that's the third one this month. This bloody relationship won't work out worth a shit because they frankly hate each other, but don't want to admit it. The guy has been known to cheat on his girlfriends so what's stopping him from doing it again.". Shit like that. 

5. I see the stupid in things.

Mainly in mainstream music. Has anyone that listens to this ever looked at the lyrics? It's LAME. Also with my religion. When people say "You have to be a better person because God told you to and you need to reject everything evil because that might dissatisfy him" or whatever. I usually think " What? So I need to change who I am and lose all me uniqueness because God told me to? I won't worship a God that is judgmental you can forget about it" 

6. I'm very deep

Stuff like poetry and great stories touch me. Don't call me gay because it's something the world needs to see more. I can close my eyes and listen to instrumentals for hours while making up stories in place of lyrics.When I play a game with a great story it can sometimes move me to tears (which happened BTW) That's why I don't play multiplayer because I'm a sucker for great stories 

I see the beauty in things like a summer rain or a delicate flower and while I almost never show it because it conflicts with number 2 on this list. It's sad that I have to hide it because I love expressing my feelings and I never can because society has labeled people like that to be "gay" and "lame" 

7. I'm a procrastinator

If you don't know what a procrastinator is , it's basically someone who puts things off most of the time. That is me. If I can do my math homework tomorrow morning I will. If a project needs to be done I'll wait for the day before before I complete it. It's actually a frieken sickness. If I take no interest in something I usually leave it for the last minute.

8. I am EXTREMELY self-conscious 

As some of you might know I'm fat. I take massive embarrassment in it because I take what other people think of me seriously because of number 2 again. I never want to be seen without a T-shirt because I'm ashamed of how I look. I won't even take it off in front of my own family which proves how bad it is.

If I have a pimple as big as the moon I'm hiding behind a wall. If I even think my crack is showing I will pull up my pants to avoid embarrassment. In short I will do anything not to be embarrassed at all. Even when someone asks me to stop swearing my face turns red. This is why I hate school so much because the teachers embarrass me in front of my peers and why I hate stages. If I dance for any occasion at all I keep wondering if I'm jiggling too much or I may look retarded so I prefer not to dance at all. It's engraved into my psyche and I can't stop it no matter how many times people tell me "your perfect just as you are" and shit.. 

This is the main reason why I don't want to do things that people want me to do like f**king rock climbing or ice skating 

If you put it all together you may see I have a very complicated mind and personality. Just thought I'd share. That is all

The Fall of Thabo

I hope this bloody thing is wrong

This is has been bothering me for months now. I've noticed my life has gone completely to shit in a time frame of about a year. It's becoming so bad I can't keep it off my mind anymore so I thought I might as well spill it on my pointless blog.

This all started about a year ago as I stated mainly when we moved from Ladysmith. Before that life was an absolute blast. I went to rAge and jammed Guitar Hero an entire weekend and had what I consider the best time of my life. I played Halo 3 every night with a woman I knew very well (Tanya Snyman) and we talked about all types of things. If I had problems she would always cheer me up and vice versa.

Target Practice was still going strong a while before that. All my great friends were still in the clan and we chatted to early mornings sometimes. We were like a band of brothers, never gave up and never left a fellow brother hung up. All the guys loved me and I was quite good back then. We played some clan games and I always kept morale up and we won most of the time.

My friends at school (LHS) were also brilliant. There was always a party at my house on Weekends and boy did we party. We played Guitar Hero pissed drunk, had sleep over's, pool parties, birthday parties you name it we did it. I had one great friend which I still consider my best friend in my life and his name is Wessel. I remember we had a weekend to just chill and just the two of us because my family went to Joburg. We ordered Scooters the whole day and just jammed games till we couldn't anymore.

No-one was exceptionally good at games back then. We all played CoD 4 and W@W and we had a damn good time playing. There were one or two guys that were legendary and were respected by us players.  There were some conflicts, but we just shrugged it off.

It was a great time, a historic time, a rememberable time.

Now it gets f**king depressing. Get your tissues and I'll get my razor blades. I'll be sorting the shit storm in a timeline.

Before the move:

Target Practice kind of broke up. Everyone left and the clan was torn apart. All my friends moved on or something and to this day I don't hear from them at all.

On the move:

I left without saying goodbye properly. I assumed my line would be up by the first month I moved to Pretoria. It was also pretty kak saying goodbye to all my buddies and leaving the little town. I underestimated how great Ladysmith really was...

Just before we moved into the new house:

First few weeks were all good. We stayed in a bed and breakfast and we had quite a bit of money so I was buying a few games and a few metal albums, watched a few movies etc.

 

Right when we moved in:

It was hard work to move everything into the house, but I was used to it already. Once everything got settled I looked forward to starting a new life in this new metropolis. Then it hit. On Christmas Eve R55 000 worth of shit got stolen and we didn't feel safe at all after that. I slept with a butcher knife under my pillow and that is not a joke.

The consecutive months after we moved:

We had an alarm installed so we felt some safety. Insurance paid out and we had some new stuff. My mom and I went to Telkom to find out if we can get a line installed. They said there aren't any lines in our area. My heart sank as I came to realize I wouldn't be talking to my buddies any time soon.

We decided to wait and see if they will install lines in our area before going wireless. A few months passed and we became tight financially because of debt. No wireless internet then. 7 months passed after that. 7 f**king months people. For a person that's entire passion and friendship laid in a simple thing like internet this was a big f**king deal.

So with no internet I decided to make the best of the time I had at school. Man was that a f**k up. It was absolutely horrible to even go to school sometimes. Why you ask? Well to put it quite frankly people were f**ked up.  Remember all those sappy American Highschool flicks with the cliques (Jocks, nerds, homo's, lonely people, stupid people, necrophiliacs) it was exactly like that.

For me this was totally new. On my first day some assclown asked me if I think I'm big (In actual Afrikaans words: Dink jy jy's groot huh?) in a very arrogant way. I thought WTF because this has never happened to me before when I went to a new school. Everyone just made friends with me and I made friends with them. I had nobody to sit with on break time for a whole week...

One day I read my Metal Hammer magazine in class and some guy took interest in me. I started hanging out with them, but that went to shit pretty soon too. After about 2 weeks I came to realize nobody really listened to me at all. I was literally just standing there eating my sandwich. F**king pathetic. They were partying every weekend which I was never invited to, smoking dope and being asses so I decided to leave that group.

Then I met some other people that are in the supposed "Nerd" group. They are cool guys, but a little too goodie tooshoe for my liking, but nonetheless I chilled with them because I didn't have another alternative. They are my friends today, but I still miss not being able to smoke, drink, and talk kak etc. with them because they are TOO well mannered.

You see I always say the people in my school are either too f**ked up or too well mannered. I am in that grey area and so far I haven't met someone that is in that grey area along with me. I had those types of friends in Ladysmith and I miss that more than a fat kid misses his cupcake.

After the aforementioned 7 months I finally got my iBurst. Boy was I in for a surprise. People got SO good in the games I played that it's not even funny. I was getting killed in ways I didn't even know existed and 3/4 of the match I was dead. The Xbox community was so broken up I didn't even feel to make a contribution.

These days every time I enter a game there is always one assclown ruining it for me and I usually get pissed and switch my console off. I get my ass whipped every time I play and that pisses me off. And the iBurst UberLag doesn't help my fucking case either. It's like I was stuck in a teleporting machine jeez. Overnight people suddenly became D-bags. No meaningful conversation in sight and it was all serious like we were playing a fucking clan match.

Present day:

Well basically I'm playing Halo all by myself because every time I join a game with a buddy it LAGS like crazy and the communication is fucked. I hardly go out anymore because no-one cares to invite me. My love-life is virtually non-existent because it's all about who is in 1st rugby team and has a six pack and all the great girls are taken not that I had a chance anyway. I have no contact with old friends and I wonder if they know I'm still alive. I'm wasting away in my room doing nothing meaningful with my life. I don't even care to write anymore because all I think is "no-one is going to read and understand this anyway". I am piss poor and can't buy anything for myself

So in conclusion my life had faded from a bright burning star into fuckall. If you're the religious type I would ask you to pray for me because it had never been this bad.  If you're not religious please just think about me for a minute and understand that I went through hell this past time.

That is all. Please stop crying

My impressions on Reach so far

As of right now I've played Halo Reach for about 8 hours. I will now give a detailed analysis of how I think it's performing so far.

When I started the Campaign I thought f**k it and started on Legendary on my own. Hell did that bite me in the ass. The difficulty is ungodly hard and frustrating at times. The weapons just don't work on the bastards. I go out for 2 seconds, get 2 headshot rounds with a DRM on a Elite before being crippled and man raped by grunts of all things.

Those guys that brag and say " o dat waz eazy... got it in a day lolololol" are fucking lying. I can't count how many times I had to reload because some Elite surprised me around a corner and kicked my bolloks in. The weapons are pretty much useless against them and you die so quick you can swear your character is made out of 1 ply toilet paper held together by spit. 

BUT in the end it comes down to basic trial and error and after some attempts you know exactly where to go and so on. I'm at the 5th mission and I got to that in about 4 hours. Which is not bad at all considering I haven't played Halo in almost a year..

The other 4 hours or so I've spent on Multiplayer and damn is it fun. Even running on iBurst I won 5 of the 6 games I played which is brilliant. I still need to discover all the various modes and so forth, so I think it will only get better and if I can play with some locals it would rule completely.

What pisses me off is that I wasn't able to get this on release day because now everyone is going back to their regular gaming titles and now I'm all alone again. Pretty much sums up my f**king gamer life so far. I always get major MP titles late and when I eventually do I'm massively weak or I have some major catching up to do.

Overall this game makes want to have a gamerasm because it does things right in all my favorite areas. I LOVE customization, check. I LOVE point based ranking system, check. I LOVE addictive multiplayer with a lot of people online, check.

That is all. Feel free to invite me for a game @ MG THABO 

My articles so far...

I've been writing for about a year now maybe I don't know. Some of my stuff has been published on major websites and I'm pretty proud of that. I want the 5 or 6 of you that actually view this blog to look at them if you want:

2 from News24games- What is Kinect and why should we care? and Guitar Hero Warriors of Rock Preview

1 from Xbox-360.co.za- Rock band 2 Review

I know it ain't much, but over time I'm gaining A LOT of experience. My writing skills aren't at the level where they are suppose to be, but it's slowly getting there. I'd like to thank Craig Richie (editor of News24games) for being my mentor in the magical world of gaming journalism and teaching me the fundamentals of writing. It's a long road and the first steps have been taken. Hopefully I'll be driving a Ferrari down that road in the future.

People are too easily offended

Has anyone else noticed this but me? I'm talking about when you say something people find it so bloody offensive that they never talk to you or hate you with their entire soul. It's been a passive attribute to our world and frankly it pisses me off.

As with all my other posts, I now give the obligatory examples. I'm fat, don't try to sugar coat me and say crap you don't mean (i.e. "It only matters what's on the inside, no-one cares about how you look" [go to hell] ) People try to mock me about it to look cool and boost their pitiful self-confidence and guess what I do? Make fun of myself so that it blows in their face and I laugh my ass off with the people he tried to impress. 

Now if another fat person gets the exact same mocking they take massive offense and go crying in the corner, tell their mom, write in their diary about how their life sucks and open a class-action lawsuit against the offender. Which is gay. Preposterously stupid and unnecessary.

Same with racism. If you say something even remotely relating to the color of their skin, it's a direct insult from the 100th ring of hell. I even see it in teenagers. They weren't around in apartheid days (neither have I), we have no grudges or buried hatred for each other. If someone called me a vanilla face I'd laugh my ass off.

Another factor which gnaws my goolies is when I accidentally swear in front of a girl. Massive pissy fit followed by an arm folded walk of pissed off fail. So I swear a little and the following weekend you make out with a complete douche bag of epic proportions and suddenly I'm the one with no respect. F**k off.

Things that are brilliant i.e. shows, games, movies, books etc. get either censored or restricted because of what? Moaning Martha can't handle the fact that a tidal wave plunged an island and by coincidence her husband died of a swell the size of a Pritt stick while he was drunk on acid? Now us unoffended people, who outnumber them 2000 to 3 billion have to miss a brilliant movie containing about a 10 second reference to a tidal wave. 

As well as the age old violent games debate. Us gamers have all heard it. For example the infamous GTA franchise allows you to bang hookers and the like and "that is massively offensive to our children and what if they shoot their dad in the face and rape their mother with a chainsaw lolololol". Um.. which parent gives their 12 year old child permission to play a 18+ game in the first place? Parental epic fail.

I might come across as the one that is easily offended (you intellectual people would have had your 1000 word essays ready by this time explaining that), but I'm the opposite of that. I'm extremely pitiful to the naive fools that take offense in everything for no bloody reason and it irritates me.

That is all.

By the way...you suck. No offense 

  

Why Christianity is perplexing

This has been a matter that I've thought pretty hard about in recent days. Just to get it out of the way I am actually a Christian and I believe in God and the not. I just can't force myself to agree with some of the things that other Christians try to say. It's downright ignorant sometimes and with a slight hint of arrogance.
I give examples: I have a lot of atheist friends. They are the most caring and understanding buddies a person can have. Then one night at church the priest that was giving my Sunday School class stated that all people that don't believe in God are going to burn in hell for all eternity and they are evil people that need to be saved. My English teacher also said that people that don't believe in God are fools
I was downright disgusted by those comment. In the Bible it states that God loves all his children and your sins are forgiven by Jesus that died on the cross. Now your going to hell because you don't agree with the practices of a certain religion? Isn't that just a tad bit unfair?
And all this "Jesus died on the cross so that all our sins are forgiven" I also have trouble with. We have the ten commandments right? If you break one of them you will go to a very hot place that everyone is trying to talk about. They were given in the OLD TESTAMENT people. Before Jesus and the crucification.
I also don't understand this "God has a Plan for us all". I saw some appalling photo's about poverty stricken people in rural parts of the world. Children starving to death at age 5 and babies being raped by their fathers. I also see all the evil people (murderers, torturers, cannibals and all them happy people) on TV and the like. Now you come and tell me that that is God's plan? Endless suffering and death? There is no justification to this madness.
What I believe (and strongly at that) is that the world is shaped from the choices we make. Hitlers Mother and Father chose to have a son. They didn't know he was going to be a whackjob. I chose to not brush my teeth this morning so my breath stinks. Stuff like that. We should just make the right choices and not put the blame on God because his plan involved Little Timmy getting run over by a lawnmower on the head.
I also believe something kinda sad. I think the Church is trying to control us. Our kids are being brainwashed into thinking they must do everything according to the Bible. Every other outlandish influence is considered evil. That is what happened to James Hatfield and he hated his parents for that.
I mean I wear skull t-shirts. I like the style and it's a reference to my Metal passion. Why can't I wear it to Youth? O that's right , it is infested with the spirit of Satan or something. Sure if I walked in with a pentagram with a goats head it might be f**ked up, but I know that, but what's wrong with an art design ? I don't feel the need to hide it
I still believe in God and Jesus though. SOMETHING had to make the universe and everything. I even believe in evolution to a certain degree. No way in hell did the entire universe get made in a few years (the universe is 6000 years old as stated in the Bible). There is also no way it got made from a massive explosion that was made from nothing. So there has to be en entity that created something that out minds can't quite comprehend.
Anyway that is all. Use it , don't use it

Not Having Reach is Killing Me

No I can reach just fine thanks to these massive arms (self praising rules). I'm talking about the much anticipated Halo Reach. Being a Xbox gamer I have no choice but to take notice of the Halo franchise. I've played Halo 3 MP to death and the campaign ruled in co-op. Now Reach came out and I'm left sitting with my dick in my hand again because I have no money to buy it.

And that sucks. That is all

Come back when I have it. 

Why Spelling is Important To Me

Right it's ranting time. I've recently noticed a sudden drop in almost 95% of teenagers spelling ability. Quite frankly it has gotten to the point where it downright pisses me off. I'm not talking English spelling and grammar PhD grade, but normal everyday words being slaughtered in a vain attempt to look cool...or something. I've done it for comedic purposes on my status's and notes and I've spent more than 2 minutes thinking of how to downright abbreviate or misspell a word that it is hardly readable anymore. The sad reality is that most teenagers consider this the norm in their everyday lives.



I mean is it really necessary to be so bloody stupid that you can't spell basic words like "Again" or "Bored". I timed myself on a keyboard and it literally took about 7 milliseconds to include a E in bored as apposed to bord that most teens spew out. We're not all perfect in spelling including me and I've used spell check on this note, I'm not going to lie to you. But is it absolutely necessary to spell SO bad that it could have been used in ancient wars to encode secret messages for craps sake.



There is almost no excuse to spell this bad. I was on Mxit a long time ago and I asked this girl what she was doing she said and I quote "nm jus lib im bord". Now me , who was in a bad f**king mood, asked here why her spelling is so frieken bad. She said "o im buzy". Now after that I did not know what I did. Laughed my ass off or suddenly cried of utter hopelessness. She just stated she is laying in bed for f**ks sakes now she tells me she is too busy to type out basic bloody words.



And this "o im afrikaans so i dont tipe good english...lololol" excuse is also stupid. I'm Afrikaans bred and I can spell better in English than my mother. I've actually became better in English as Afrikaans because society demands me that I use English as it is an international language. O and in case you wondered, that's why I type everything in English instead of Afrikaans



I'm really concerned for the future of our generation if this continues. I looked at a friends Essay once (yes an Essay that counted for marks) and out if the first sentence I found about 7 mistakes. The sentence was about 15 words long. He even went so far as to abbreviate "You" into "u" out of f**king instinct or something. I'm already seeing it in ads these days where they are butchering the English language to appeal to the Tweenie masses. I want to poke my eyes out with a butterknife whenever I see that LG Chatterbox on the TV.



I blame it all on Text Chats (MXIT) Some people gave me the excuse that they are talking to too many people and don't have enough time to type out whole words. I asked them how much they had and the answer I got was around 5. I was talking to 14 people back then and I typed out full words.



This entire dilemma was actually born from pure laziness with a tiny dose of peer pressure. When I started using Mxit everyone typed out nice clean words and as time creeped on spelling bad suddenly became a fad. It wasn't moderate , it was insane. I was stuck thinking WTF is going on here every time I got a reply.



Some abbreviations I have no issues with (WTF, HTF, STFU) They make your life easier and everyone knows what they mean. Now there is an abbreviated version of just about anything and that makes my soul want to burn.


Thanks for reading and please hand your essays in at my table.



PS: If your one of those clowns that are going to pick out single words that I misspelled and make a comment into your own stupid joke for erotic pleasures, go eat your liver

Why I Hate Mainstream Music

As most of you already know, I'm a devoted metalhead. I live for the absolute chaos and mindf**kery that is accompanied by metal. Why? Because it's the only genre in existence that can stretch my mind further other than shrink it. Whenever I hear a Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga,Whatever song on the radio and your close to me, you might hear me screaming "WTF IS THIS SH*T" in a very macho way, like Leonidas screaming "THIS IS SPARTA!' Before sending the Persian messenger back to Hell.



Recently I didn't have much time to listen to my musical passion because of being swamped by schoolwork and problems. Whenever I watch Mnet Series there is always a Soundcheck between episodes. Usually it's the f**king people I've mentioned above (Which I will now be calling Twats). This went on for a few weeks and I've came to the realization that I've literally become dumber. I'm not making this sh*t up. My writing skills which were top notch became noticeably bad, my spelling suffered and I've had issues remembering stuff.



I also became really apathetic about life. I didn't care about waking up and I felt like I'm just living a hollow existence. I felt like I was a dot on the horizon of life. No uniqueness. Just another damn fish in a massive f**king pond. i didn't care to pursue my musical passion. I didn't care about playing Guitar Hero. I didn't care about my friends. I didn't care about my life. This all may sound very over-exaggerated, but it's the truth



After that little episode I've started listening my classic metal again. A big smile grew on my face as I listened to wondrous guitar solo's and marvelous drumming. It was like life made sense again. My world wasn't an upside down fairytale with no happy ending in sight anymore. The lyrics touched my heart. There was a light for me.



Okay enough of the sappy sh*t let me give you cold hard facts. Lets look at extracts of lyrics from 2 heavy hitters in both the mainstream and metal world. Metallica and Justin Bieber (ugh)



Justin Bieber's "Baby":

My first love broke my heart for the first time,And I was likeBaby, baby, baby ohhhLike baby, baby, baby nooLike baby, baby, baby ohhI thought you'd always be mine mine



Analysis : Well basically he is talking about a girl that broke up with him and he thought she will always be his first and only love. Coupled by the word baby 9 times



Metallica's Dyers Eve:

Dear MotherDear FatherEvery Thought I'd Think You'd DisapproveCuratorDictatorAlways Censoring My Every MoveChildren Are Seen But Are Not HeardTear out Everything Inspired

Analysis: James Hatfield's mother and father were Christian Scientists. Their belief obligated that everything must be in order and anything from the outside is considered a sin and evil. Even medicine which his mother needed dearly was not appropriate. His hate for his parents grew over the course of his childhood because he was always being watched by them and living in the hypothetical bubble. Hence the word "Dictator". The lyric "Always Censoring My Every Move" suggests that he couldn't do anything of his own accord and everything he wanted to do was considered by his parents as a sin. "Tearing Everything Inspired" suggests that everything that inspired him (Music) was also rejected by his parents.



Okay so I wrote 2 lines for JB's lyric and 6 for Metallica's. Who is better? Thought so



Also on a side note. James Hatfield's lyrics are studied by English majors in certain universities. And Justin Bieber? He's hair is getting studied by 12 year old girls



Hip Hop from the Twats is so simplistic and repetitive that it's not even funny anymore. There is no lyrical substance to expand my mind to. Sadly we live in a world where metal music is considered Taboo by the majority. Radio stations, Television, music stores, films. Everything rejected the majesty that is on offer by the genre.I walked into a music store and to my surprise they actually had a metal section. The width of the display was about 6 CD's across and had about 3 rows. 18 Cd's. Meanwhile right next to the display, the Hip Hop section had about 100 cd's on display. Confirming that my people and I are a dying breed.



I once knew a dude who listened to mainstream his entire life. We played Rock Band on a regular basis and I always picked metal songs to play. At first he rejected everything about it. Brushed it off as "Satanic" and stupid. He didn't have a choice but to play it as I ruled the song picking duty (LOL). After a while he started listening the lyrics and came to the understanding that there is actually a marvelous beauty to the music. He begged me to burn him copies of my metal collection and I was obliged to give it to him. These days he is a big metal head and never listens to the shite he listened before.



Now my last point. Give me one Hip Hop song that was considered a classic. I'm talking about when the song comes up people would say " damn this song rules" rather than " tis sht iz old u shud get da new album by X...lolololol". if you ask me to give you a Metal/Rock song that is classic I would be on stand-by with my 20 page list.



I'm not saying leave the mainstream circuit completely. We all have different musical taste, but give the Metal/Rock metal genre a try rather than being forced to listen to shit that is pointless because "thats what everybody does". I've given Hip Hop a try (forced not at will) and I can truly and honestly say that....it's utter rubbish. I've given other genres a try and I can safely said I've came to love Jazz, Grunge and some Electronica



One more thing. Who the f**k listens to this shit on their earphones when you hear it every f**king 5 minutes anyway.



Peace out and I hope my Metal brothers and sisters keep defending the faith



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