Mythbuters Sucks: Curving a Bullet Myth

What stupid asshole said you could curve a bullet? If you're stupid and an asshole, it was probably you. What I think is a real shame is that Mythbusters touched this Hollywood bullshit twice! What is the biggest problem with this myth? Aerodynamics. What are the aerodynamic properties of a bullet? Well it's not a boomerang, you fuckertards! It's like a cone or a cylinder with a rounded top. Basically, its a lump of material. It travels in the direction you propel it. Questions?

Load a bullet into a gun and then fire it. How much energy is being imparted on the bullet? The fucking explosion inside the gun put lots of energy into the bullet. It' pushed out a near perfect straight tube. Bullets travel in an arc. Gravity pulls them down as they travel forward. Do you need a picture? We're only dealing with an x and y coordinate, so you shouldn't have any trouble with this one, but jut in case:

What other forces affect the bullet? Air Resistance, Wind, Rock & Roll, and the Power of Friendship!

OK, so the trajectory of a bullet is not perfectly 2 dimensional in reality, but it's close enough, right? Now, what real-world force as opposed to an imaginary force do you suppose it would take to make a bullet TURN on the Z axis and then turn again and continue its flight? Gee, I can't think of one. Let's make one up! We'll call it Dark Force. That's how cosmologists roll! You can also call it The Angelina Jolie Force, Hollywood Magic, or Bullshit. Let's see this force in action!

Now, once you apply Dark Force to a bullet mid-flight, it turns, right? So to make a bullet deviate from it's original trajectory, you have to apply Dark Force to the bullet after its left the gun! But that just makes  it go off in another direction! This shit doesn't seem to work at all, you might say! Not so fast, says I! You can apply Dark Force to the bullet a second time to make it resume it's original trajectory!

And that's what it would take to make a bullet go around an obstacle or a comrade and resume it's original  trajectory! There's no way you can make a bullet do that by waving the gun around as you fire it! Any questions from the ultra-scholars and turbo-geniuses in the Mythbusters audience? I didn't fucking thing so!

Pokemon X Version Review

So I bought Pokemon X recently in anticipation for the new Moon/Sun version. It was cool. The last Pokemon game I played was Diamond but only for a few hours.

Graphics  - Meh.
This new version was a bit sparkly-er and shiny-er than Pokemon Sapphire, the last version I beat and I'm totally not into it. I like the oldschool stuff and this newschool psuedo-oldschool stuff, at least in this Pokemon game, doesn't do it for me. The only complaint I have is the camera control in Lumoise City. It was weird. Also I turned off Battle Animations almost immediately because I don't have the patience so I barely saw any of those.

Audio - Boring/Uninteresting/Unnecessary
Speaking of turning aspects of the game off, I turned off the sound because I don't care to be immersed in my video games anymore.  I like to have Youtube up or something. When I did get curious about a new bgm, I would briefly turn up the volume and be completely underwhelmed. Maybe it's just not my taste in music?

Gameplay - Nerfed yet Oddly Still Challenging Somehow
I really want to comment on this, but what review would be complete without the 2 above, subjectively valuable categories. I want to say superfluous categories because I feel like using a cool vocabulary word, but it doesn't quite fit. The game felt oddly hand-holdy.That's a word now because it's on the internet, deal with it. The NPCs gave me more free stuff than I've ever got in a game ever. The NPCs designated as my avatars' friend gave me 10 pokeballs in the first dungeon. I also got lots of free medicine in the game. I got TMs from everyone! Maybe it's because I picked the girl character and everyone thought I was hot? They also gave me 3 starter pokemon in total in this game! 3 Starters! The game was scripted to give me unlimited chances to catch this games' legendary Pokemon who I immediately sent to the PC and forgot about!

I got an EXP.Share very early, and this time the EXP.Share didn't fuck around! In other games, your EXP was divided evenly and every Pokemon in my party got jack when you used this thing. In this game, my main Pokemon still got 100% EXP and everyone else got 50% EXP. That means, if I had a full party, every Pokemon was worth 350% EXP! That's massive! Everyone is being swap trained for free, but my main Pokemon isn't taking any penalties! You know what else? I got an Amulet Coin (item that doubles your money) early on too! When I beat the game, I had over 1 Million in Pokemon currency. That's ludicrous. I'm pretty sure I could get away without buying anything in this game.

What else, no trainer in this region is dedicated to having a Pokemon team. Most trainer battles make you fight 1 Pokemon. Some make you fight 2 or 3 and in rare cases 4. What? That's different! Usually, trainers have more Pokemon than that. They must be too broke to buy Pokeballs because they keep losing their battles, except when I win they give me a year's earnings if they have a job earning minimum wage! Even the Elite Four was Nerfed. They each had 4 Pokemon! That means when you count the Pokemon Master, I only had to clear 22 Pokemon at the end of the game instead of 26!

Still, somehow I remember having to load my game over and over again. I think it had more to do with my skill level though. I still don't know all the types in this game. I barely learned half the original types from gen one. I actually felt pretty confident against Gym Leaders, Rival Battles, and the Elite Four. My biggest problem was Team Flare though, because my best and only fighting Pokemon was the fire starter, who was a combination Fire/Psychic type, and Team Flare only ever used fire and dark types! Bastards!

The dungeons and routes and puzzles were generally not memorable for me. Interesting, but I didn't care. I see those things as the less interesting parts of Pokemon for some reason. Things to hurry up and finish.

Story - Megaevolution is Bullshit
So the premise of this game is a weird one. In this game, your Pokemon PhD sponsor sends you on your quest to help him learn about Megaevolution. I never figured out Megaevolution and I didn't care. It only ever came up twice except for the tutorial part. I think Megaevolution is the flimsiest goddamn thing ever. You get a ROCK and a ROCK BRACELET and you build of bond of (guess what!) FRIENDSHIP (mind fucking blown!) and you can use a magic bullshit power to increase a Pokemons stats by a lot! Where the fuck did this come from? Is this even legal in the Pokemon league? Yay! I got a rock, let's go Super Saiyajin, Pikachu! A FUCKING ROCK and MATCHING BRACELET! ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR FUCKING MIND, Gamefreak? It's obviously a gimmick and it wasn't worked in very well. I ignored it because I'm awesome.

So you also have some friends who all seem like a bunch of losers too. The only one I liked was the fat one, Tierno, because he stole something.

Screencaps taken from a letplay by TheJWittz

In the two top panels, you see Trieno just give you this stone i.e. hiding evidence. Later, you're asked where you got it. You say Trieno gave it to you and he flips right the fuck out! You know why? 'Cause he fucking stole it! He's a goddamn thief! That's why he's lying in this scene! That makes him the most interesting and mysterious character in the game. All the other friends were boring. There was Shauna who was a goof-off with no goal in life. There's Trevor who has helmet hair. Then there's the neighbor who serves as your rival and is CLEARLY not as good as you by a lot! These characters are all color coordinated like the power rangers, which I guess is cool.

There was also this thing about this really tall guy. He ruined my parade at the end of the game. Asshole.

Fuck Team Flare.

Anyway, that's about it for Pokemon. My favorite pokemon is still Pikachu. Bye.

Being Contrary to PC Culture

Someone on social networking site number 22 posted this image made out of text:

Under no circumstances is an absolute statement; my
pet-peeve and the last about this image to upset me.

What's socially acceptable or allowed is irrelevant to what actually takes in place the human mind. I do my best but it's our nature as humans, and for others in their conditioning, to objectify other people. Please try to be patient and understanding with those of us with diverse and contrary perspectives. I ask that you please consider not to judge and shame us as well. I would also like to let you know for the sake of getting along, I don't often hold the popular opinion, so please bare with me because it's my objective to be kind and helpful. I want to let you know that this statement sounds like it's trying to police or enforce an idea or standard and I don't appreciate that, even when I agree with the idea. People are allowed and able to disagree. In case it's not clear, let me explicitly state that I agree with the ideal presented here, that people should be allowed to wear what makes them happy etc., etc., but I find the method of sharing this idea to be somewhat reprehensible.
     First, I think it's a contradiction to tell me this is a friendly reminder when it feels like a pre-emptive, passive-aggressive way of controlling my behavior. Instead of teaching the value and relevance of an idea and then respecting others' intelligence and allowing them to arrive at their own conclusion themselves like mentally competent adults, we instead state  the idea bluntly and subtly communicate that others' compliance is expected and imply consequences if otherwise; This statement does so heavily. It's a friendly reminder to be obedient of a taboo that was recently invented and has not been universally accepted or understood.
     Second, I think it's more detrimental to teach people that it's OK to impose their beliefs on others and to make veiled threats on their social acceptance than for them to make the mistakes you set out to warn them against. This is also about respecting people's autonomy. People do not need to be reminded what is accepted, allowed, and appropriate all the time. That is insulting. Please understand that I value intellectual and psychological diversity and freedom. I need to feel safe to disagree in order to have a genuine relationship. I believe it my one of my ancillary responsibilities to consider others well-being, but I do not think it is the same as preserving your well-being at all costs. You have the right to ask others for their due consideration with regards for your needs, but please keep your expectations minimal because you will encounter resistance and conflict. Let people be themselves and let them have the right to be wrong. Have some faith in your ideas; if they are good ideas they will successfully permeate the deepest parts of the culture and they will do so without coercion. You don't have the legal right to tell others who to be, what to think, or what to do, that's fascism. If you disagree with someone or don't like someone, you may, and you may choose not to associate with them. If you do a *fair job to communicate your point of view and if the other person doesn't accept it, oh well. That's life.
     Third, there's something arrogant about this statement. Other people can wear whatever they want regardless of who they are, but under no circumstances am I allowed to say, think, or feel X. That is not how I talk to people I am on friendly terms with. These are not the words chosen be someone having friendly and respectful discourse with an equal. This choice of words shows indignation and is lacking civility. Why do you think you have the right or authority to say what group X is allowed to do and what group Y better not do? You're assigning your own values to these ideas, which is what we all do, but then you impose your perspective onto others.
     In conclusion I dislike both versions of our culture in which people are made to feel shame or be sexualized by others, and the version where we respond to mistreatment of ourselves and others with resentment, condescension, and force. Our ideas are valid, yours are not; accept our point of view or else. I also dislike our collective mentality to immediately discourage even polite descent and be closed off to intellectual discourse. For this reason alone, political correctness is an ugly ignorance but it also ignores logic and reasoning if it's contradictory to it's narrative. It tries to make everything black and white when it's not. It demands conformity. It has a decisive us or them mentality. It's self-righteous and self-aggrandizing. I hate it.

*I thought this needed some elaboration. What do I mean by fairly communicate? I think I should make the effort to directly communicate with people and be genuine. This gives me the opportunity to be heard and the other person gets the opportunity to learn what it's going to take to get along with me when they make a choice to have or continue a relationship with me. An alternative might be to keep your values secret and not give the other person the resources to respect what's important to you.