Jacob’s Escalator

http://www.fairgamed.org/fairgame.htm

ENEMY :

SP Order. Fair game. May be deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist without any discipline of the Scientologist. May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed.

Absolute0SK (3:09:45 PM): How come they’re allowed to exist? > >
Absolute0SK (3:09:48 PM): I don’t think that’s legal.
Mavrick882 (3:10:22 PM): Anon’s get followed home, killed, raped, whatever the f*** they feel like doing to us. And Scientology protects them within the law, so if you don’t have a mask…Do one brave thing, then run like hell.
Mavrick882 (3:10:54 PM): Scientology hides behind being a “religion”.
Absolute0SK (3:11:05 PM): Religions are not allowed to kill people.
Absolute0SK (3:11:07 PM): That’s legal no matter what.
Absolute0SK (3:11:09 PM): *illegal
Mavrick882 (3:11:24 PM): Scientology has some of the best damned lawyers.

To say “algebraic expression” is vague; it can be something simple like 4x-1 or it can be a long and complex mutli-degree, rational or radical function, perhaps even an implicit equation with more than two variables. No matter what, however, algebra is constant. The procedures are always the same, no matter how complex the equation. With the mathematician’s expertise, the complexity of solvable equations increases; it’s merely a matter of confidence and familiarity with the concepts and procedures at hand. The most skilled of mathematicians can build and solve equations with several dozen variables and even hundreds of terms, given the value of a few variables. Such an equation rarely has much of a bearing in reality, but nevertheless, the skill is certainly there and it takes a lot of practice to get there.

Programming is interestingly similar; the novice programmer can write a few lines, which produce a minor effect. Sometimes they can even write one effect that depends upon user input (a variable). Given time, the novice could write their own version of the classic calculator on all computers. As a programmer gets better, he can write larger and more complex programs, ones that deal with more variable on a grander scale. The best programmers can write a program that depends on many, many variables to produce a specific result.

Is it interesting to compare these various fields to each other? Further, if they are so similar, is it surprising that I find them all so amusing? So interesting?

I think I am interested in these three “different” things because I see them as very similar. They are all mathematical in nature. Yes, I am comparing writing to math. Fiction writing, at least, is very similar to an algebra worksheet, and because of that, I enjoy it, just like I enjoy long, complex algebra problems that are simple but require a lot of work. Read More »

If you’ll recall, CommandoMan is my fictional MMBN character. He’s a powerful Navi who resembles a hacker in the Matrix, in a way - he has a few hacks and edits available that he can use against his enemies (one of my favorites being a “lock”, which prevents Navis and programs from leaving a certain area of the internet. Using this, he can force a target into fighting. Fear the Agents who get ahold of such a weapon!).

CommandoMan’s specialty is versatility, adaptability, the ability to have no weakness. He has changed as I’ve gotten older. The first few versions of CM were before I learned how to sprite; the shape was the same as the first few sprites I’ll show you, but his weaponry was a little off. He’s always had the sky-blue sword, but his other arm was a vulcannon (the MMBN name for a machine gun). He had a variety of other weapons/attacks that focused mostly on swords and artillery attacks. He was also mostly heartless in my mind.

As I got older (and better at MMBN), his weaponry changed. An awesome-looking stick I found in a friend’s backyard was responsible for the vulcannon edit below. His “folder” (a collection of once-per-battle special attacks) evolved to include various elements, so that he could counter any other elements.

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If you look across the index, you’ll find all my posts - save the Anon overview - have 4 comments except the literature one. I also logged in today to 4 comments awaiting moderation (all of which were spam).

Maybe I  shouldn’t have approved yours, grandpa…

Anonymous is a strange entity.

They have their own sort of religion, in a way. Anonymous is everyone; everyone is Anonymous. They’re a group of people on the internet who are… bored. They hide out on the internet where anonymity is easy to preserve and discuss many things. What separates them from other ‘groups’ of the internet is that they act.

If you are bored enough, search Youtube for a video on Fox News’ report on Anonymous. Be aware before you search that Fox News is - pardon my italian - retarded. They don’t know anything about the actual Internet or the actual Anonymous. (I don’t know or care if they can be trusted but I heard a comment on Youtube somewhere that stated that the Fox News anonymous they did a report on wasn’t at all related to the actual Anonymous.) Read More »

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As a younger schoolgoer, I hated English class. First it was my natural expertise at spelling and grammar that bored me; then it was the constraining styles of writing that frustrated me (Five-paragraph essays are WORTHLESS). However, as a younger student, I also enjoyed the reading portion of the class. I liked the novels they gave me to read. I enjoy childish, fairy-tale type stories, the stories with conflict and fighting and difficulties, but a somehow happy ending (or sometimes not very happy, but somehow satisfying). They also stick to themselves. They don’t try to reach out and mess with me, or point to things outside of itself.

As I’ve gotten closer to college level classes, however, things have changed. The average writer’s skill gets closer to my own, so more freedom is allowed, and I can use my skills as much as I please. Writing is a pleasure, even those boring essays. The situation has… inverted.

So has the reading situation.

College-level literature isn’t hard. It is not particularly difficult for me to understand. It’s merely intolerable. I hate it.

I like to read a story that’s only a story. I like to read a novel that’s all about plot and characters, and whose plot advances by a character’s actions, not by what happens to them. (If you can’t imagine a story that advances by events, think of tragedies - all the characters seem to just be watching each other die.) I like a story that’s told for the sake of the story, like the Dark Tower, like Night’s Dawn, like Orson Scott Card’s books and Stephen King’s books and Robert Heinlien’s (spelling…?) books, not these collages of symbols and themes. Read More »