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 On 12/06/2015 at 06:26 AM by Super Step See More From This User » |
It's official. I am addicted to Facebook. Specifically, reading and posting about politics. Which ... is the worst way to be addicted to Facebook. Also the least satisfying. And most contentious.
I have it blocked outside of Incognito on Chrome ... but I decided to modify my website blocker to allow Incognito and ... well I just argued with my older brother about abortion and he's the one buying my Christmas gifts this year. So now I'm just being impractical.
Thing is, I am subscribed to soooooooooooooooooooooooo many news and politics sites and have more saved articles on there than unfinished Steam games. I need help. Come on, Tami. You're basically the only Pixpal I allow on my Facebook. You gotta stop me (no, that is not an invite to the rest of you to add me on FB; quite the opposite in fact).
I hope I'm not bringing Facebok here in any way. This is my refuge from speaking with people I know. I come here to avoid others and really at this point myself on that site and just vent anonymously and talk about entertainment. To be honest, while I'm all for legal action being taken against legit psychopathic trolling where there's tangible harm being done to the person on the other end, I think there's something to be said for anonymous venting. Lack of privacy and having an archive of every bad thing a person has ever done is kind of evil in a lot of ways. Sometimes it's better to just let people say horrible things to get some anger out and let it go.
I remember when I was bored at home in my teen years I did pretty much have a stereotypical troll life. I went on ultimate-guitar forums throwing out crazy ideas and diatribes just to guage reactions. I never did anything ban-worthy or legitimately harmful, but certainly said some stupid shit. Sometimes it was self-aware, sometimes it wasn't, but it was nice to just let loose and see what stuck to the wall without the nagging feeling someone would find out what moronic things I'd said later and decide not to hire a person who "was tired of all the hate towards cocaine and loved Pauly Shore." I'm also a big advocate of comedians in clubs being allowed to say ANYTHING they want, barring actual violent threats towards audience members. Having an outlet for rage is important for peace in my view.
Anyway, I beat GTA V recently. It gave me my first "games as art" experience when I became seriously uncomfortable shooting at cops and playing the robber. That's a scene I'd have yawned at in a theater, but that hit me because I was controlling it. That is something only a video game can do. From there, especially after Trevor showed up, the game reverted to its cartoony, satirical roots and I was laughing at the dark humor through to the end. In a sick way, I ended up caring for the messed up trio you control, but only becuase the people they're shooting at are depicted as worse than they are. I totally get where mothman, Casey and others are coming from with not enjoying or endorsing these games, but please understand that for me these games have always been R-rated road runner cartoons, just with digitized humanoid figures instead of animals. I've never witnessed actual shootings and I hope I never do. But it's a series that trolls our culture in ways it needs to be trolled. It has inspired me to be less like Jimmy, the fat lazy son of Michael who literally has entitled tattooed on his neck and never leaves his video game ready bedroom ... by playing GTA V for hours in my bedroom and saying to myself "at least I'm not that kid." It also lets us be the trolls we'd never be in real life and there's something to be said for that.
After all that's happened recently, controllers not guns say I. Harmless trolling not actual violence and abuse say I.
ah, it's cool, we all have things we regret. I was once addicted to political shit on the internet too, but I have since left that behind. I very rarely post anything political now.
Are we friends on facebook? did you request a friendship and did I deny it? I don't remember, but there's no telling what I'll do sometimes.
hey you haven't said much / announced anything about your new job. What's the story with that?
I'll be an adjunct professor in the spring at my alma mater. Teaching kids Photoshop, Indesign, Premiere, Final Cut and Audition.
Awesome man! im happy for u.
Fuck you. We're friends on FB. I somehow miss all of your political stuff though. Probably because I'm never on facebook.
Yep... I did a lot of trolling in my teen years. You aren't alone there. There was a chat site I used to go to with different accounts for different persona's that would get a reaction.
And nice. I pretty much agree with your gta analysis. Either that or I just woke up and missed something I can argue about due to tiredness. But meh.
Oh yeah. You don't count, you're more offensive than me..
I played some GTA V. I got stuck in one of the Trevor missions. The game is completely humerous. You can tell that from the first moments of playing the game. Clearly, those who take it seriously have never actually played it and seen the clear comedic angle it has. However, I do cringe at doing things like roberies. But then again, I've done similar things in other games, but maybe not ones so closely based on real life. I don't mind stealing cars though. I'd steal every car in GTA. One of my favoriet "bad" things to do in gaming.
I feel about the same. You know you can skip missions though?
Hum? Maybe I didn't know that. Something to remember when I return to it.
You have to try a few times before it gives you the option, but I skipped one or two sections I was getting annoyed with. When Michael fights the Chinese and one other.
At least you have that going on your FB. It seems that everyone follows radio stations that post memes seen on Reddit. My new game on Facebook is blocking that content, and the stuff that one friend posts. They seem to want to share everything on the internet which is annoying as hell. I get that you want to keep Facebook life and Pixlbit life separate. I have a similar rule too and I have my FB rule of You Invite Me First.
I liked GTA V, but I really didn't enjoy Trevor's Missions. At the time I thought it slowed down the story of Michael and Franklin, but I did like the tie in with the biker gang from GTA IV. At some point I will get around to and finish it again on PS4 so I can use that space on another game.
Hey congrats on the new job! Photoshop class was always fun. The funny thing is when I took it at SDSU, the classroom was in the Music Building on the other side of campus from the Art Buildings which was odd.
I only follow the radio station I used to run, which I only ever updated when we got new music in and the GM only updated w university stuff, as well as the local Dallas station and a station in Houston my friend works for. She actually is on air, Phyllis at The Buzz in Houston if you're curious. The Dallas/Houston ones post those memes, but I rarely see them now. I like that FB lets you choose preferences on posts you see. I might make a seperate FB for Pixlbit friends and join the 1up club there again, but ... they kinda got mad at me for posting my blogs there last time. lol Haven't been back since.
I thought Trevor was the more interesting character, cause I felt like Mickael and Franklin were too derivative of movie characters. Trevor felt like a character of the GTA universe to me.
Thanks! I never took a dedicated Photoshop class, but we did use it a lot in my digital photography class ... sophomore year of college. Yeah, I better get to relearnin'. lol Our Mass Comm. dept. shares space w the philosophy dept. and we're right next to the music bldg which is also across campus from the art building. Though the FINE arts building (theater kids) is just two buildings over.
I didn't know there was a 1Up group on Facebook. I think other than the handful of folks here from 1Up and maybe one or two I follow on Instagram/Twitter I haven't kept up with anyone from there. I thought a couple of people there thought way too much of themselves and the folks I follow now are the interesting ones.
My deal with Photoshop is when in doubt, YouTube will have a tutorial. Also Lynda.com is supposed to be really good. I haven't checked out that page in a while.
Yeah, i looked up tons of youtube stuff for audition and i've heard good things about lynda.com.
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