It should come as no surprise that I am writing to say that I have had enough of people usurping my day because it is happening way too frequently. Not one, but two slimy little weasels (actually one weasel and one beaton) decided that yesterday would be a good day to post a lame cartoon with a well-drawn car and cause massive upheaval in the Daily Blitz community by resigning, respectively. I have to admit I have come to expect this kind of behavior from that porn-mustachioed, DQ deep-throating lesbo-outer who claims to be our leader, but from the kick-ass-cartoon-drawing, hilarious-comment-making, undisputed queen of Fridays??? For shame.
That said, here’s this:
Also if you guys were not aware I am a blogger by profession for Autoblog Latino. Normally this would be none of your concern since it is in Spanish and unless you are really into cars (which I am not) it is pretty boring. In any case I came across an article the other day by a Canadian blogger, Clever Shark. Basically the point is the US Dollar has lost a lot of value recently, and is now almost dead even with the Canadian Dollar (which is apparently called a “Loonie.” I have to admit I was unaware.) The funny thing is(If you live in the U.S.), that cars are like 20-30% more expensive in Canada. It has gotten so ridiculous that people are crossing the border to buy a car for $10,000 less and then importing it.
That’s funny to me, but I wonder… for a guy who thinks he’s so clever, it’s amazing that it never occurred to him that maybe the Canadian cars aren’t overpriced so much as the American ones are under priced. If the American dollar has lost value, but the car prices remain the same, that just means we are paying less for our cars. You aren’t suddenly paying more. On the other hand I guess Canadian car dealerships are losing business over the border and your economy will eventually suffer, so it depends how you want to look at it.
on February 12th, 2008 at 8:40 pm #
Finally, weasel uses his nerd power for the good of nerdkind!
on February 12th, 2008 at 10:55 pm #
Actaully, Beaton is drawing readers to her site by promising an exchange of awkward, sexually tense e-mails with every gangly nerd who signs up. I hear she has a focus group now. Good for her.
Do any of us on here actually use Second Life? Weas, I’m assuming you do, since you’re writing programs for it. Is it anything worthwhile, or just myspace/facebook with more graphics?
on February 13th, 2008 at 4:16 am #
Well, it’s free, so hooray for that.
I don’t really call it a ‘game’ as much as a ‘community.’ It’s like IRC with graphics in a sense - it’s only as good as the people you hang out with there.
Thankfully there’s way more ‘things to do’ (all user-created) and way more ‘rooms’ than an IRC server has. There’s a niche for everything, from porn appreciation to applied physics.
What turns my crank though is the user created content. I can wander around and look at the massive actually-flyable airships and gawk at how amazingly well put together it is, not only aesthetically but scripted too.
SL developers are also uninvolved in pretty much everything - the only “rules” are:
- no mature content for minors
- no banks allowed in game (decreed just last week after two big ones just shut their doors and walked away)
- no gambling (US laws interefered there)
Another drawing feature to the program is that real dollars are freely convertable to/from in-game dollars. I made a few basic costumes and went to “themed” dances and have won about $100 so far. Sure it took about 6 months to raise that much but *shrug* better than paying FOR a game :P