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| Wednesday, December 27, 2006 |
| Ninjas, Emotions, and Nuclear Weapons. |
So I get into the queue to join a group for Maraudon. Arlach does, I should say. And I get into a group with another paladin, a warlock, a priest, and someone else. Basically the paladin and warlock turn out to be friends and morons to boot. The priest leaves, and so does the other guy. Finally, some level thirty-three priest joins the group. By this time I was soloing some elites on the purple side outside the entrance to the actual instance. For some reason they wanted me to come help them summon this level thirty-three, so I said screw that. They booted me, and I queued up for another group.
Eventually I ended up getting a group with a druid, a rogue, a mage, and another priest. We finally headed in, orange side, and started to get it underway. Long story short, this group was amazing. The druid was bear tanking and was doing a damn good job. We cleared out orange, dipped back into purple for the Celebrian Diamond, and finished up sceptres for myself and some of the other folk. We kept goin' in purple, and were just before the bridge to the princess when the rogue and mage had to take off. So, we managed to nab up a warrior and another mage. Finished off the princess, hopped down to rotgrip, and proceeded towards the goblin.
Let me expand a bit here. I've been hitting Maraudon with Arlach for no other reason than to get him a particular sword that drops from this goblin. The goblin is literally the absolute last boss in the whole damn place and if you start way over in orange like we did, it's a long fuckin' haul. By now, with all the switching and waiting and bullshit, it has probably been four or five hours that I've been in here.
We kill the goblin, we get some crazy adds, the goblin dies, then we die. He didn't drop the sword, but he did drop the other thing I want from him. A shield that is obviously pally loot. It has intellect and mana regen. So I say, hey, I'll just need that since we're dead and done anyways. I click need. The warrior says "so will I." so he clicks need, and wins. Sigh. The moral of the story is that ninjas and/or dumbasses suck.
So that's done, and now I head on over to the internets to see what I can see. Over on andy's blog I see a new video he posted. I watch it, and I am soon enraptured by its content. An in depth look at the Hiroshima bomb. Interviews with survivors, moment by moment descriptions, and a rendered reconstruction. Basically, it helped me grasp the awesome power of an atomic weapon. If this video didn't make you feel somber and thoughtful, you didn't understand the implications.
Let me say this. That type of weapon, in a heavily civilian-populated area, is mass murder. It's not a strategic military objective, it's not an acceptable loss, it's not necessary, and it's not right. People died because the leaders of their country did some bad things. Let's say I live in zone Q. I'm a regular dude, pay my taxes, do my job, heed john Q. law. Zone Q fucks up land X. I don't know why. I was born in zone Q. I live here, I do what I gotta to live happily. Joe Schmo, from land X, comes to my house and shoots me in the face, because my country fucked up his. Does that seem right to you? Cuz it don't seem right to me. Not one bit.Labels: games, internet, life |
posted by JavaBomberman @ 12:51 AM   |
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Ninjas suck. More importantly, nuclear weapons are basically inexcusable. I'd make some smart-alek comment about "except against asteroids" or some crap, but no. There's really extraordinarily few conceivable applications for which these things could ever rightly be used, and we certainly haven't experienced any of them on this planet yet.
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You linked the Rogue brewery site. Therefore you win.
However, Nukes!= evil, the same way hammer!= evil. No tool is evil. Even the Grind-up-Puppys-o-matic isn't evil. The application of any tool is subject to moral debate, and one so powerful and indiscriminate as a Nuke is bound to tread some extreme gray matter. But, I say (as I did on Andy's Blog) Nukes rule. mankind harassing the most primal energy source in creation and unleashing it is downright fantastic.
Also, those Japanese bastards sure got what was coming to them...
*walks off*
In America
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I agree with you fully poke. You'll notice I never said that nukes were evil. I realize I mispoke on andy's blog when I said I didn't like nukes. I dislike the use that modern man has put to nukes. If we could, say, shoot nukes at a planet and blowup a bunch of our friends and family in order to stop an alien robotic menace from finding a key bit in the search for our homeworld... ADAMA OWNZ.
And yes, as a concept, digging around in and busting open one of the most basic bits of our very existance is, as the kids say, fucking bitchin'.
And as we all know, nukes are no match for a pistol at your side, kid.
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I think it's brilliant that we (as the human race) unlocked the atom.
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Yeah, note that I never said they were evil either. Just dubious, awesome in theory, and prone to much Fudd-deafening argument of funness.
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Ninjas suck. More importantly, nuclear weapons are basically inexcusable. I'd make some smart-alek comment about "except against asteroids" or some crap, but no. There's really extraordinarily few conceivable applications for which these things could ever rightly be used, and we certainly haven't experienced any of them on this planet yet.