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HadouKen24
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Country: United States
State: Oklahoma
Birthday: 5/23/1985
Gender: Male
Interests: Reading science fiction and fantasy, writing it when I get the chance. Watching anime. Philosophy. Nerdy stuff like that.
Expertise: A rambling library of skills, the private joy of an eccentric book collector.
Occupation: Student
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AIM:  HadouKen24
Member Since:
1/11/2004
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| As time goes on, I seem to have more and more things hanging off my
body when I go anywhere. I used to just keep everything in my pockets -
wallet, keys, palm pilot, everything. That changed when I bought my
Pocket PC. It's too easy just to clip it to my belt. Now that I have
contacts, I have a pair of sunglasses hanging off my pocket when I'm
not wearing them.
It's like feature creep. I'm upgrading to HadouKen 2.0: College
Edition. New attitude! Upgraded religious outlook! Crammed with more
knowledge than ever before! And now crammed with so many features, we
couldn't even fit them in his pockets!
Looking at the way my dad has turned out, it's not going to stop... I
guess I'd better start buying pants with more places to hang things.
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| 2145 AD, Mars - Scientists working on a teleportation device made a
grave error. They went too far and literally opened a gate to Hell.
Things are coming through.
You are the only one who survived.
You are the only thing standing between them and the resources they
need to get off planet. Good thing you've got a gun.
DOOM - the most famous computer game every created. It had only one sequel.
Until now. Ten years later, Doom 3 is finally here. Id Games hasn't been wasting its time.
I bought it last night. It's... incredible. The graphics are amazing.
It used to take weeks for a company just to make an uninteractive video
that looks this good. It's about the level of the television show
Transformers: Beast Wars. Everything looks good.
It is scary. This game will realize your worst childhood fears
about being alone in the dark. That scary dark shape over there really is a monster - in fact, it's a demon - and it is going to get you.
If you have the computer hardware for it, you must buy this game. It is incredible.
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| Yes, folks, after a long wait, I'm back blogging again.
There have been some changes around here. I got promoted at Crest, and
I'm getting ready to leave for college in less than two weeks. But the
biggest change, as far as this blog is concerned, is where I"m posting
from: my room. Yes, I got my own computer. Finally. And I've got a
hundred feet of ethernet cable hooked into the DSL modem downstairs.
Oh, yeah. The outside world won't be seeing me much until I leave for
TU.
To continue my tradition of bringing interesting/funny things to your attention: a bizarre religion known as Discordianism. (also see their unofficial holy book: the Principia Discordia
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looks like a big joke disguised as a religion. Some Discordians I've
met online assure me that it's the other way around; it's a religion
disguised as a joke. Either way, it's very funny and very weird.
I welcome your thoughts. | | |
| I have a very good reason for not updating my blog for so long.
It's called City of Heroes. And it's awesome.
It's a MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Role Playing Game) built around a
new concept: super heroes. You get to make up your very own comic book
super hero, pick what powers to give him, and take him out on the
streets to wipe them clean of the vicious gangs of villains harassing
Paragon City. It's great.
One of the best parts of this game is the character creation. It's
extremely versatile. I've seen everything from kock-offs of Incredible
Hulk and The Flash to Neo from the Matrix to George W. Bush! If you can
dream it up, odds are that you can make it.
This game is lots of fun. I'm addicted now.
Check out my character, Cantrips!
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| I watched Kill Bill Vol. 2 tonight. Just thirty minutes ago, in fact. I
liked it almost as much as I liked the first one. But that's not
important. As I drove home, I listened to the radio. That's
what is important. There was a strange song on the air about a girl
named Yoshimi who knew karate and could defeat robots in combat. That's
significant in light of the fact that a friend recently set me up with
a Japanese-American girl named Yoshimi for the formal this Saturday.
Thus, I found the song oddly disturbing.
The controversial psychologist Carl Jung coined the term
"synchronicity" to describe coincidences between external reality and
elements of the psyche. Sometimes it's trivial, something you could
dismiss as "mere" coincidence. Just like tonight. Other times, Jung
wrote, to write it off as unimportant would be irrational. Once, one of
his patients was having dreams about butterflies. He saw butterflies
all over the place for the rest of the day. He even found his wife had
hung a butterfly sculpture on the wall when he came home. Another time,
a different patient was discussing the recurrence of scarab beetles in
his dreams. Later, a servant remarked to Jung that a scarab beetle had
been trying to crawl under the door into the room.
Not all instances of synchronicity have to do with insects.
The big question is why we see things like this happen. Is it
just a coincidence? Is it that our minds simply make that kind of
extravagant connection without any basis? Or is there some subtle
connection between the mind and the outside world? Do our minds affect
the world around us somehow? Or is it the external world influencing us?
Questions like this fascinate me.
Toward the end of the movie, I had a flash of deja vu. But that's a topic for some other time. | | |
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