Mog and Chips

    And already feeling better.

Of course the “why haven’t you got a job yet” and “ZOMGYOU’LLUSEALLYOURMONEY” rants despite the fact I’m budgeting to compensate for that is annoying and tiring. I broke the internet on my comp by following windows troubleshooter (Tried to mess with the IP address so I could be on the net at the same time as other comp in house, it crashed, deleted the network connection by itself while thinking its still about, and Belkin software can’t find my Belkin card. Joy.) At least I didn’t break everyone else’s in the process.

I also got USB working with my new, more expensive but crappier motherboard. I couldn’t give to shits about USB2.0, I want more slots! …they look cool =P I’m probably not going to fill 3 PCI slots but I’ve only got two RAM, so if I upgrade I can’t just add, I have to replace. But at least now I can use USB key instead of running through a large amount of CD-Rs just for the digital skills tutor to not turn up ¬_¬.

Dunno whether I’m eating badly (ok, AM eating badly, but don’t know whether it’s that specifically) or whether its food poisoning or side effects or whatnot, but I’m feeling a bit like I haven’t eaten in weeks, but I don’t feel like eating either, and my legs feel weightless and energyless. It’s not really motivating, though it’s probably just a deficiency of something. Or tescovaluefooditis =P Or the random stomach cramps, which I have absolutely no idea what’s causing it (stomach stomach cramps, not like “take it like a woman!” stomach cramps. Although it’s quite possible the former is caused by medication for the latter O.o)

Moodliness is better though… maybe cos it’s just brighter here but I’m definitely feeling better. My addiction to downloading modpacks and addons to games has ceased from lack of internet =P Actually feel like doing some work sometimes, even if it does mean looking at ye olde racist cartoons. (seriously, look for “scrub me mamma with a boogie beat” (I think) or just most of the banned cartoons on YouTube, it’s such a shock, it’s no wonder most of my older relatives are racist with cartoons like that on every day). It’s quite interesting, the uni course, but we’re repeating a lot of the stuff we did in film studies last year (Woo documentary theory! Feminist theory! Vladimir Propp for the 700th time!” Mildly annoying that we can’t state anything that’s simply common sense without backing it up with a quote from a book… especially when the essay’s about why there are so few books!

Lots of Disney bashing, and now I see why =P I never looked at aladdin deeply enough to realise “all the goodies have american accents… the baddies all have arab accents” or knew that the original words to Arabian Nights were “where they cut off your ear if they don’t like your face, it’s barbaric, but hey, it’s home!” =P Everything concerning another culture has an ‘american victory’ so to speak (which in fairness is the ‘good’ victory from a viewpoint of this culture, since western culture doens’t approve of arranged marriages, sexism etc) with the semi-exception of Mulan, where she does her feminist bit, then goes back home to be a housekeeper. Oops. (Though I dunno if there was an original tale, kinda thing). Also Disney is a little to blame for the animation = kids making it fairly difficult for me to get a job in something half decent, but that’s a censorship issue too from the 30s (betty boop wasn’t allowed a short dress anymore and became a thouroughly boring housewife because it was a moral ideal etc… it died in a few years I think) and TV from the 50s putting animation in the kiddies slot where it has been forever after until recently (south park etc). Bah.

And what do I see on TV (of which I have been deprived of for 3 months) when I come but adverts of some of the most awfully rended kiddie 3D film. Good grief it’s like they’ve never heard of a bump map (it gives things ‘texture’, while other maps control colour and specularity etc) , or they’ve got that”oooh, shiny! Lets make everything shiny!” addiction (kinda like newbies in photoshop with lensflare =P)

It’s almost as bad as the 200…1? Care Bears 3 movie. That they did in 3D. Not only many years after everyone that liked carebears is grown up, but butchering it in 3D =P

Also I’ve got someone following me around at college that won’t leave me alone. Lovely person, but a Japanophile (or Waponese). which just gets damn annoying.

There are other contries in Asia apart from Japan. Ink done in an Asian style is not exclusively Japanese. In fact, it’s not asian or japanese at all since I made it up and didn’t even look into the asian style, so it just coincidentally looks like it. *eyetwitch*

Anime’s a form of animation, and it can be good. It’s not the only form of animation, and not the only one that’s good.

I don’t know the characters from YuGiOh. Stop talking about them like they’re real people. In fact, it’s an unhealthy obsession in general, since it gives me the great impression it was created for merchandising opportunities and those alone (to her credit, I don’t think she does collect the cards. Or she hasn’t attacked me with them)

“It’s Japanese” is not the only (or in fact, any) criteria to say something’s good.

And the dogs ’s twitching on my foot O.o (she’s having REM sleep I think)

There’s also a guy on our course with epilepsy that gets everything free - he’s getting a mac from the college, photoshop, softimage (which we haven’t even touched yet), the works. It’s probably photosensitive since strobe lights triggered it, but surely that would cause difficulty in being an animator at all, since you have to deal with TV/monitors and usually from short distance?

I know it’s a disability, but if he didn’t brag about it, it wouldn’t annoy me so much.

God, that was long. It’s not even my comp (since I broke the wireless and all =P). Thanks for the support from everyone that commented on my earlier blogs about the roachhouse (oh yeah! I found a new place. All shiny sparkly new, no roaches. Then my landlord emailed me saying I could stay if I wanted to.

Aaaahahahahahaha. Haha. Ha… No.

Also, the dog is now snoring. At least she’s not farting anymore. =P)

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