Category: Random Musings

http://www.cinemassacre.com/2011/01/26/stop-snowing/

So, Jimmy Rolfe has been complaining about snow… and you know what? I can’t say I blame him. I used to complain about snow all the time. Now we get less of it these days. In fact, in the past couple months, there’s only been a couple snowstorms at most around my area with only a few scattered snowfalls roughly a centimeter worth.

Hooray For Global Warming!

By the way, how cute was it that he brought up one of his old “Bullshit” videos covering weather? Especially since the near-ninety-second video is sandwiched between two thirty-second ads for that oh-so-worth revenue? Gag me…

You know something? This gave me an idea… we’ll see if it materializes into anything.

Folks, appease your inner common sense and vote for John Cena on the Mashable Awards. I implore you to do so, because we don’t need another Spoony victory where he berates his fans again as was the case last year. Besides, I already have a really nice visual lined up if Cena wins.

So let’s give John Cena another award that is completely useless. Let’s give him a Mashable Award!

It’s the right thing to do.

I recently had a weird dream last night where I was whacking people with a hammer and crazy killer cats trying to rip my legs off while I was playing some strange video game of sorts. No idea as to the significance of this, but I sort feel like I’m fishing near a pond with no fish.

I honestly don’t know why… so please, don’t ask.

(2023 Update: The above video is the original version of Review #06 – Adventures In The Magic Kingdom, which was originally submitted as part of a contest of sorts and some differences from the recut version. It’s included here for the sake of added context to this blog post, but the recut version is the “proper” version in the video review cycle.)

Prestigious interwebsite Busy Street has taken some interest in the contest and updated their post with the following review of my little submission.

Not to sound ungrateful for the high score, but… 45/50? Really? Not bad, but I figured a couple points lower.

Anyway, here’s my humble reply.

And then, the response to my little comment:

But either way, this review was better than judekhanzo’s – you might actually win a copy of Sacred 2: Fallen Angel.

No more comment.

(2024 Update: In case anyone was wondering, I never did win that copy of Sacred 2: Fallen Angel… not that it would’ve done me much good since my crapbox at the time probably couldn’t run the bloody thing.)

Apparently, the one game they won in this series was played by another team wearing Canadiens jerseys, because they went back to being shut out again yesterday. Oh well, time to shine up the clubs.

That’s gotta hurt.

That’s all I’ve gotta say.

But I have to say… even with that major beating, Price shouldn’t start next game.

Or any game.

Ever.

Wow. Hockey talk. Go figure.

I’m not a big hockey guy, but I enjoy a good game when I can.

So le Canadiens de Montreal win their playoff series in seven games over the Pittsburg Penguins. Le Habs go on to the Conference finals for the first time since 1993. Hey, 1993 was also the last year they won a Stanley Cup… reading too much into this? Yes, I am.

Of course, with the Canadiens victory comes a riot party… and idiots looting stores.

Maybe you should just watch hockey games not taking place at the Bell Centre at home.

Oh… and a message to Heritage Minister James Moore, who boldly declared his beloved Canucks to be “Canada’s team” – Your boyz didn’t last long, did they? So there goes “Canada’s team” off to the golf courses while the Blackhawks move upwards towards something. At least a certain President is happy that his hometown team is going somewhere.

And a message to Gilles Duceppe, who declared Montreal to be “Quebec’s team” – and I’ll be doing this in broken French – Bizarre vous diriez que la considération de l’équipe manque à présent dans les francophones. La seule raison vous dites Montréal est l’équipe de Québec est parce qu’il n’y a aucune équipe Nordique pour vous pour accorder ce titre.

The latest edition of Eric “Asalieri” Tellah’s Masterpaint Theater features his interpretation of a Twilight fanfic called Never give up, if you still wanna try (no, that’s how it’s written out) by CheetahBlackCat. And well, it was rather funny.

What wasn’t funny was the aftermath, in which a bunch of people left some rather hostile

I read some of the story in question and it is poorly written. I can sort of understand that the person doesn’t speak fluent English, but using that as an excuse for why your writing is below par can only take you so far.

Anyway, among the more hateful criticisms, I posted the following review on her page – carefully worded so that I don’t come off as dickish but still critical.

“I have to be honest – I actually read through the first couple chapters before I gave up and lost interest. The story does nothing for me – either because it’s a Twilight fanfic or because the writing is generally poor. A combination of the two would be more accurate.

“I can understand that English isn’t your first language and so I can tolerate some mistakes in moderation and for generally short stories. But for a long epic such as this, that simply isn’t a good enough excuse for generally lackluster writing. If I were to jump ahead to one of the later chapters, I’d find the same problems that were prevalent in the earlier bits: some words not being capitalized when they should, improper use of punctuations, grammatical issues, just to pick out a couple general issues.

“People enjoy your story and you know what? Good for them. You’re producing something that’s garnering some interest, but the thing is some people can overlook poor writing if the story works for them and others will crap all over you regardless of how good your story is. Having a bunch of people proclaiming “your story awesome, please write more LOL” while saying NOTHING will not help you get better and only serves to make you not try harder to improve upon your work. It’s nice to have since it shows some interest in your work, but if someone points out some flaws in your writing and offers some constructive criticism, you should at least try to use the criticism to improve upon your writing style because they took the time to give you some advice in hopes that it’ll help you get better. That’s a good thing to have.

“As for the more hostile people out there? Just ignore them. Lashing out at them isn’t going to make them go away – it’s just going to encourage more of the same attitude and quite possibly make things worse.

“My intention is not to discourage you from writing. In fact, I read your other story and I enjoyed that one for the most part, but it did have some of the same problems that plague this one. The only advice I can give you would be to read some other stories, see how they’re written and structured, and compare it with yours to see if there’s any way to improve upon what’s already written. Just because a lot of people like your story doesn’t mean you can’t make it better and improve upon it.

“I hope this was helpful. Good luck and take care.”

Now I anxiously await the backlash… or actually, no I don’t.