Swatting fatality

Swatting for those who do not know the term, is where someone calls the police and gives a false report so that the SWAT can charge their victim's residence and interrupt them, usually in a very aggressive manner.

So, it is pretty much a miracle that there had been no fatalities up until this point, during which the Wichita police shot and killed a man during such an incident. Who's to be blamed in this situation? The prankster or the police?

My answer is very simple, to borrow a page from Trump. They're both to blame. More on the prankster who did but the police also deserve some share of the blame. So on the pranksters' part (because apparently there's at least three of them involved in this), they're fucking idiots for trying to use armed people just to make another person upset, especially since they also used the excuse that their victim is armed and dangerous.

US police are extremely trigger happy, given their training and the abundance of guns in their country. So of course, they're going to assume that anyone is armed and dangerous and they're going to fire if they think people might be wanting to shoot them.

Which brings us to the second part of the blame, the police. The militarization of US police has definitely led to this situation, what with them purchasing military equipment and using it on the streets. This has given them 'I have a hammer and everything are nails' mindset and they will shoot whenever they can because they've been trained to do so.

On the plus side, one of the pricks involved has been arrested and here's hoping that he will get a punch in the dick sentence when the time comes. Hopefully, he will understand the meaning of the phrase 'murder accessory' when he's actually sentenced.

Five Nights at Trump Tower

Disney unveiled its animatronic Trump the other day and I have to say, that is one of the creepiest animatronic faces ever. Hell, even the real Trump doesn't look that creepy and that dude grabs women by the pussy.

I guess the uncanny valley strikes back but another one of the problems is that the damn thing doesn't even look like Trump himself. It's a pretty shitty design all in all, make no mistake. Maybe the person who made this thing should just make horror animatronics instead.

They might end up becoming a proper multi-millionaire on their own accord, unlike Trump himself.

Supersize Me

I remember watching that documentary years ago in college during class. It kept talking about how eating McDonalds on a daily basis would make you obese and yet I couldn't help but notice that one guy who had a Big Mac meal twice a day and still remained relatively slender. There's a huge dissonance there and the documentary never got around to properly addressing it.

Of course, years passed and scientific studies and a Supersize Me counter-argument documentary have emerged to pretty much debunk a fair chunk of the central premise of Supersize Me. I especially love how they complained that Supersize Me isn't very scientific; after all, you can't be if you're basing your evidence on a sample size of one.

So why talk about Supersize Me now? Well, mostly because Morgan Spurlock, the director and test subject of Supersize has posted a preemptive post about his own sexual indiscretions and it's...honestly weird. I mean...good for him for admitting to all this before he is fingered but some parts of me is just troubled by him saying "When will they be coming for me?"

It feels more like he's trying to preemptively stop this from being bad press, especially when he goes to the part about how he made a settlement with an assistant when she quit her job and she threatened to tell the world about what he did. It just feels...calculated, to me at least.

Now, this could just be me being extremely cynical but it just feels like a cop out. But what would I know? I'm just a guy who shuts himself in for fear of doing the same thing that everyone else is doing because he knows that deep down inside, he's just the same as every other asshole out there and that the world is a better place without him.

My other joke remains intact

In that Ajiit Pai is now drowning in the bukkake bath that is AT&T's, Verizon's, Comcast and whoever the other fucker's semen now that they have repealed net neutrality.

So now, this begins my session of Ajiit Pai is a bad guy and we need to be constantly reminded about it. And if the anti net neutrality people tries to slow down access to my site or block it, I'm just going to point out that nobody reads this site in the first place and if you do that, I will unleash Barbara Streissand on you.

And now, a reminder that Ajiit Pai is in the ISP's pocket sucking on their cocks.

Roy Moore loses

There goes my lolicon joke about America. Good to know that Alabamans have enough mistrust over Roy Moore that they did not vote for him as their Senator. Now you need to do something about your child bride laws as well as prosecute those who did molest women.

Hint hint. Put Roy Moore on trial for his alleged sexual molestations of teenagers. Hint hint.

Weighing in my thoughts on Jerusalem

I'm not a particularly political savvy person but I can say this about Trump declaring that Jerusalem as Israel's capital. Boy, he sure fucked up big time didn't he?

Really, the only ones who are happy are the Israeli government and Christians who think that this is the End Times and at this point of time, I get to say, fuck them both. Fuck the Israeli government for being assholes who illegally occupy Jerusalem and fuck those Christians who want the world to end.

News flash: there's a lot of real issues here since Israel as it is right now was only formed after WW2 and there's a fair amount of forced resettlement done to the original people who lived there. What about those people? Don't they deserve some form of retribution?

Also, no. We don't know if this are the End Times. Which is why, if you pay attention to people preaching about the End times, they always give some sort of vague answer. It'll be this generation or within the next generation. Fuck off. No one knows. You can point at signs like natural disasters but that doesn't mean shit. Earthquakes happen all the time and we know about it now simply because we have access to a more global media.

So, no. This really isn't about Trump and I'm pretty sure that this will get under his skin if he ever reads this. This is about the people who are affected and this is about the assholes who wants the world to end.

What the flying fuck, Patreon

And now, Patreon joins my shitlist of corporations after this particular news broke out and honestly, I'm not happy. It's bullshit, that's what I'm saying.

Long story short, Patreon is now charging pledgers 2.9% of the pledge +  a 0.35 cents surcharge. A shittier version of the GST if you will. Now what's my problem with that charge, you might ask. You see, my problem is that one, the charge is on the pledger. They are asking us to pay their bills for them. You know, just like GST.

My second issue is that, Patreon thinks that everyone who is pledging is American. At least, that's my take on it based on how they go about saying how everyone will be pleased with this. But I'm fairly certain that no, not everyone who donates is American and we might have unfavorable exchange rates with the American dollar. It will kill us to keep donating to creators that we love.

So,yeah. Fuck Patreon for this shit. 

Back to actual politics

And Mike Flynn pleads guilty to lying to the FBI regarding Russian sanctions and it has sent quite a few people talking because finally, this is something far more interesting than Trump being a dick and an asshole.

Realistically, I don't see this doing much towards removing Trump from the Presidency. The dude is like a piece of shit that you stepped on while mowing the law: it gets stuck to the sole and you have to work really hard to remove it and even then, there's still pieces of shit stuck there and you're never really fully getting rid of the shit.

What I can expect to happen is for most of his actions to be more heavily scrutinized by the public and the Congress. Everytime he says something regarding the Russians, we can and should ask him if he's blowing Putin because he's clearly been corrupted by the Russians at this point.

At least, I hope that should happen. This is America we're talking about. Home to lolicons who can and will run for a Senate position without any form of shame.

UFC loot boxes

You know, EA is a pretty shitty company. They killed the Ultima series with their horrific handling of Ultima 8 and 9, they killed a lot of good studios that they bought (latest being Visceral) and they're as greedy as fuck.

Case in point, Battlefront 2. Enough said. Just google Battlefront 2. I don't even have to bother linking anything. Just google Battlefront 2.

But a short while after Battlefront 2, EA released the beta for UFC 3 and well...it's as bad, if not worse than Battlefront 2 regarding loot boxes. I mean, if you buy the loot boxes in Battlefront 2, you've got a distinct advantage over players in multiplayer. In UFC 3, buying loot boxes can turn you into a god amongst men.

Apparently, the entire progression system in UFC 3 is tied to loot boxes and you can buy upgrades to your basic moves in the loot boxes. So yes, your basic punch move can be upgraded to turn you into an unstoppable killer and in a fighting game, that's a huge no-no. There's a reason why people say things like 'Basic Batman only, no items' in Injustice 2, a game which does something similar.

So fuck EA because EA is the shit and triple fuck EA because I know they're going to kill off Bioware in the future.

In short, fuck EA.