This is not the game you are looking for
I’m not very fond of these two day weekends. The winter holidays spoiled me with 3 day weekends along with my sons school enabling the lengthy time spent away from the grindstone. The downside of the latter is that I use up all my PTO, but the additional day of sanity is worth it. — I just hope we don’t get sick!
Yesterday was spent impatiently fidgeting on the sofa sounding child like as I asked my son, “Can I play Batman Arkham Asylum yet?”
“No– be patient”
“But I am patient!”
“You aren’t.”
“That’s because I want to plaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!”
During my ‘time out’, I had a chance to think of the next game I wanted to get:
I wound up going to the neighborhood Gamestop to pick up a copy of DOA 4. Since finally getting an Xbox 360, I wanted to find a fun fighting game that would allow me to kick the butt of friends around the area and DOA has proven to be a decent game with fluid movement and breathtaking atmosphere [no- not the DOA girls]. I was so excited to find that it was reduced to the low price of 12.99, picked up, ran home and I practically tore it out of the case when I discovered they put a DOA Xtreme 2 disk instead of DOA 4. For those unfamiliar with the game, the Xtreme versions are when they take the DOA girls, put them in skimpy bikini’s and place them on a beach volley ball court. :-\ No wonder the girl who took my purchase looked at me funny.
Back into the car- I rushed to the store to find out that the person who brought in the game for resale had brought in the wrong disk. DOA 4 did not exist there. I traded it up for a Soul Caliber IV and as the guy was ringing me up, I asked, “Now this isn’t going to be the Soul Caliber bikini version… is it?”
“Noooo- I don’t think they’d make a game with Yoda in a bikini”
“Good, I also think that might be illegal.”
I did bring home the right game, however, due to the visual of Yoda in a bikini I can’t bring myself to play it yet.
Jonathon had more game testing to do [the wonderful part of the new consoles is the ability to download demo games and even some full version games for free]- It was like his birthday all over again, only better… in comparison to this past one at least.
While he was doing that, I logged onto to FSTDT for my daily dose of fundie stupidity. One in particular led me to a religious thread on Gamefaqs [why they have a religious section on Gamefaqs is unknown to me]. I’m flipping through it and I haven’t really been a voyeur in forums for religion in years, especially after I became a non-theist. Previously, although I wasn’t a theist or Christian etc., I did spend my times on forums about Buddhism, Wicca, Paganism and La Vey Satanism. That of course was many many years ago while I was still trying to educate myself on the various religions- why people believed certain ways and in a way I was still deprogramming myself from the cult like upbringing I had from being raised “non-denominational” evangelical raptard Christian.
Back to the story at hand… [sorry for trailing off]. I came across a thread inquiring if any Christians believed in evolution. Most non-f*cktard Christians actually do believe their deity did have a hand in evolution and see the evidence towards that theory and their idea of a creator do go hand in hand. On this particular thread it was created by a YEC [Young Earth Creationist] and they ignorantly bashed the concept of evolution at every turn, sounding like a complete idiot towards every atheist, agnostic, Christian and possibly other [I assume some people were probably Hindu and Buddhist as well, but it wasn't stated].
Example of stupidity from the original poster:
Calling atheism a religion. Fact: Atheism is as much as a religion as not collecting stamps is a hobby. An atheist is quite simply one who does not believe in a god, any god. He kept insisting that ALL atheists followed a dogma, that we all believed the same thing, that we’re a ‘type’– and many people constantly tried to correct, “The ONLY thing that atheists have in common is their LACK OF BELIEF in a deity.” Period.
Page after page I read feeling mesmerized by the ignorance and watching as it went from him discussing evolution to attacking atheism, going off topic even after everyone tried to get him to stay the course. He’d scoff at the debaters ‘lack of evidence’ despite them giving examples and sources. His stupidity became hypnotic.
One of the things that had me shaking my head and almost drawing a comic for was this:
The moron’s argument was that the book he’s citing is 2000 years old!! It has to be true!!! It’s two freaking thousand years old!!! [let's forget about all the lost literature due to burnings and destruction of civilizations over the course of those 2000 years-- What? They didn't run it through a printing press and make copies? Sucks to be them!
So after he's laughing at everyone for not believing in a TWO THOUSAND year old fable, he's presented with a poll and other resources dating back about 10 years and dismisses it, "Seriously that's from 1997- that's outdated!" :-\
It lead to the other clichés:
Moron: "HA HA HA I can't believe you guys believe that something happened out of nothing. You guys are idiots!" [paraphrasing]
Poster: “Okay then, who created the creator?”
Moron: “I can’t believe how stupid you are. No one created the creator. It’s too complex for us to understand.”
Poster: “So basically he just happened out of nothing… and you just believe that.”
Moron: “Well yeah.. the bible is 2000 YEARS OLD and it says so right in there!”
After that I finally got to play the game for about an hour, then I watched horrified as I stumbled across “Toddlers and Tiaras aka Strippers in Training” and then finished off my evening on Netflix with Penn and Tellers “Bull Shit”.
Bull Shit is full of profanity and gratuitous nudity- which I’m not a big fan of either, and although most of the things he was debunking, I already knew– it’s a decent watch. I think the only episode I saw that seemed sloppy and poorly executed was the one from Season 6 about ‘The Good Old Days”.
So that’s my weekend up until now. Currently I’m sitting on the sofa, fidgeting and asking Jonathon, “When can I play?”
“Be patient.”
“I am being patient!”
“Then stop asking…”
“But I want to play noooooooooooooooow!”
