People Need an IQ of at least 115 to Post Online

There are a lot of creepy things on the internet. Idiots are sending out chain letters that still claim Barak Obama is not an American citizen. You would think that someone with an above average IQ (over 115 if we're talking about over 1 standard deviation) would automatically think these sort of things are bullshit. I mean look: he was a Senator before becoming President. Why weren't you all going crazy then?

But, this is not the topic of my post today. Idiots are running the internet and it is a horrible sight (no pun intended). Pages are being written by complete idiots, blogs are written by complete idiots, and news articles are written by complete idiots. There are so many things on the internet being written by a good deal of people within the 34% of the world with an IQ from 85-100. It's statistics.

My favorite example of the idiocy of the world is something I've run across recently. As an experiment, a few people I know changed a wikipedia page slightly. In this article, they claim that an acid derived from a flower is an essential part of soap products. They edited this February 20, 2010. As of October 26, 2010, that part no longer exists, but not because someone erased that small phrase they added to an existing sentence, someone took out the entire paragraph that edit was in. It took ten months before the blatant and unverified lie was omitted, and they removed it by accident. Obviously the people who patrol these articles don't know anything about what the plant does.

Recently, the Onion wrote an amusing little article that FoxNation published on their own site and touted as news. Of course, they gave credit to the Onion via a small link to the original presumably. As most of my readers will know, the Onion is a satire news source that comments on the goings on of the world through humor. In fact, for the Midterm elections, the Onion tweeted out tips for electronic voting machines, many of which obviously were bad ideas (one was something along the lines of "pay attention to the smudge marks to pick the most popular candidate"). When I had read the small article on this event, the FoxNation page was already removed, but still.

I have stumbled upon a small WikiHow instructing readers on the "proper" way to become a nerd. Now, I am a nerd. It would be fair to say a number of my friends are nerds. Upon reading this article, it was almost completely apparent that the authors (as it was a large collaboration of people) don't know anything about being a nerd. They kind of just assume things are what they are and then wrote it down. Someone claimed that hardcore computer nerds don't use Internet Explorer because it is "mainstream" and that nerds only use Firefox and Google Chrome because it's not mainstream and that it is improper to call those browsers by their full name. I have many problems with this. Someone else claimed that nerds dress up in expensive business suits. So do Business majors and most of those people would hurt you for calling them nerds.

This article was just so deluded and drew upon the stereotypes of every nerd v. jock movie of the 80's and 90's that the people who wrote this article wouldn't be able to tell you how the nerd was when they arrived on any school campus today.

• Firstly, nerds don't use Firefox and Google Chrome because Internet Explorer is mainstream, but because IE sucks. Also, IE used to have the most viruses because everyone used it. Now, the viruses have started to spread to other browsers, but the other browsers are also more user friendly and customizable.
  
• No one, in real life conversation, says "I use FF" because that sounds like you are on some new drug or perhaps you created some new slang for a pharmaceutical agent your doctor prescribed for your asthma, you fucking faggot. (No offense)
• Nerds aren't hipsters. We don't look for things no one uses and then say we are apart of a small collective and thus better than anyone else. We are the poor saps who alpha and beta test games for free because we worship the developers or the series. We have no sense of superiority over people beyond knowing the random shit we know.
  
• Nerds don't care what they wear. My friends think it's hilarious to watch the expression on people's faces when they walk into places with blazers on. That's their thing; not all nerds buy expensive business suits to wear.
• Not all nerds do the whole taped-up glasses thing. That used to be because people broke the nerd's glasses all the time and those things are expensive.

Being that this was a WikiHow, any attempts at changing the obviously outdated and hurtful information were useless and any decent information edited to the page was reverted back to it.

The internet is a horrible place. I'm not even talking about the popular imageboard that the news had demonized for a little while. I'm not even talking about all of the child pornography that has found a home on some off-shore server because it probably can't exist on an American server without some trouble. I'm not even talking about all of the sites that encourage people to make drugs in their basement - it's the internet. I'm talking about all of the lame-brained people who think they have the right to shoot off lies and untruths simply because they don't know any better. So unless the government wants to fund my crazy "Fact-Checker" program where I gather a ton of my friends who have tolerable or acceptable IQs, I think it should be mandated that people with an IQ of at least 115 are the only people who are allowed to publish text and essays and articles on the internet. I'm not robbing the internet from any of you.

What I'm suggesting is that there should be a group of people who know their shit and who will be willing to get paid to go through the Wikipedias and the wikipages of the world and fact check those as the first stage of this mandate. After those have been done to an appropriate and tolerable level, new information will be written by these intelligent, smarter-than-average people. Everyone else can still post on forums if they have problems or if they want to whine about their closeted boyfriend named Ember. Forums, imageboards, chat boards, video game chat rooms, etc. are for everyone who want to discuss related things. Online documents and articles will be written by the truly intelligent people who will be paid to research and write.

This will apply to blogs too. If someone wants to talk about all of the sex they are having, go ahead. That blog will be listed under the general blog directory for anyone who is interested in that sort of stuff. If someone wants to read about an opinion regarding politics, everyone can write those. The people who write those with IQs over 115 will simply get their own directory for an "informed opinion on politics" because I simply won't tolerate nut jobs who believe the Congress gets off by hiding stuff from us mixed with the literate and well-read bloggers who really tell the story. I've accounted for the people with crazy high IQs and are also conspiracy theorists. Those people will be listed in their own little directory (as they are only a very small fraction of people) and mostly left to do whatever they want.

It is a sad world when anyone can go online and write something and someone will think it is good or true or undeniable. No one caught that fairly discreet untruth on that Wikipedia page, and if no one changed the format, it would probably still be there today. The internet was created as a means to share information. How can we share information when every other user-contributed thing is false or obviously not as good as it could be and the people who patrol those pages won't let a change be made? The internet was created as the network to collaborate ideas and pornography. I guess one out of two isn't too bad.

Irony

My life is a giant, ironic joke.

For example, I started this blog during the spring break of my Junior year of high school. Still single, the idea was to glamorize my life and make myself sound more exciting. I blogged more often then than I do now, when my life is exciting and I do have a sex life. I've defeated the purpose of this blog, firstly by hoping to keep this thing anonymous but only giving the link to friends and then by refusing to kiss and tell.

Secondly, throughout a fairly lengthy period, I was given emotional advice by someone who shouldn't even be allowed to give advice with anything outside of hard facts and logic. I follow them today simply because they've become a habit. I'm doing very well with my emotional life.

I've always thought myself to be completely independent. I'm not. I'm a scared little girl who craves attention. I've gotten used to the level of attention I normally get and without that, and especially pumped full of varying levels of estrogen and progesterone, I'm a walking time bomb. I get irritated quickly, I very often crave sympathy and when I do not receive the amount I find satisfactory, I make myself a victim and try to get even more sympathy from other people. My life is grand, but I still do this to myself and others.

My favorite irony is the part where I take advantage of being a woman, but bitch at every other one who doesn't understand the complexities of life. I don't comprehend the entirety of life and I still rant about other people. I will often compare myself to a guy, claim I'm more boyish than I am a girl, but when it comes down to it, I would love to dress up, make up, look pretty and hear a guy stutter out a compliment. And maybe that's why I am a boy most of the time is so the shock I get is real and definitely there all the time.

On the plus side, I'm okay with that. In fact, I'm totally okay with everything in life right now.

The exciting thing is my brothers are finally about ready to start driving themselves. This means I can be more selfish with my scheduling next semester and move closer to moving out. On one side, I look forward to this. On the other, it's a bit scary. I know that with the advantages, I would work my ass off just to be able to stay independent, but I don't want to take advantage of other people. I've been living off of people for the entirety of my life. I guess it's kind of my life goal to give something back to them.

Card-Carrying Hypocrites

Girls, women, females, whatever. We are the largest hypocrites in the world. Like, we live a double standard and then expect everything to work for us because we are the "weaker/fairer/whatever sex." Well, dears, I have news for you!

Firstly, the feminist movement as been up and about; the radical ones call men pigs and tote science around almost inaccurately and say females would do fine and be able to repopulate the world without men. And then they expect every guy they cross to be chivalrous and when they don't do that, they freak out. When the men are chivalrous, they feel emasculated. The lighter ones dump this superiority complex onto men and whip them into obeying it. When men try to level things out and make the relationship something more of an equality, the women freak out, withhold sex, and condition males to be douche-y tools.

Secondly, with fashion and modesty constantly being redefined to be more revealing, females jump on the opportunity to make men squirm. And then they are all up in arms about rape statistics, and have to carry Mace or pepper spray. I'm totally into the idea of personal defense, but there is a point where eventually, you're pretty much asking for trouble by wearing the things you do and walking around drunk people. And since these girls are always freaking out about who might be a potential rapist, they are at a constant level of being ready to pepper spray the hell out of someone. They are on this level to the point where they are ready to "defend" themselves in widely public areas or small enclosed spaces where it is not only dangerous to release an aerosol, but an aerosol of a heavy irritant might as well be fucking illegal.

This leads to more points, but the main one is the large double standard on how people are perceived. Girls seem to freak the hell out when a strange male over the age of maybe 15 talks to them or attempts to ask for help. Yes, American culture dictates as little communication between strangers, but we are in an area where American culture has been diluted. Mexican culture is extremely comfortable talking to strangers. In fact, Mexican culture seems to dictate a friendliness where Americans would consider that too close and too personal. And girls don't get that. And most of those artsy girls think they are so refined and cultural. But any single female would rather drop dead than ignore some fairly attractive male that might be asking for help or just sitting across some form of public transportation from her. Most girls, if they are the quiet and bookish type, will secretly hope the guy starts conversation.

Oh, and girls looking to sabotage a relationship and then win the heart of the guy of said relationship always compare herself to the girlfriend. ALWAYS. This motivates them and they seem to find justification from this. Afterward, when they achieve the relationship, they do not want to hear a word about any other girl that came before them. Well, you spent a great deal of time comparing yourself to the girl, why can't he get a say in what you might have been deluding yourself over? Even girls who don't sabotage relationships compare themselves to old girlfriends. They find faults or analyze the reasons for the end of those relationships and then compare those traits to herself in some self-esteem-boosting bit of "I was better than that whore" fun. And then the guy brings up something that he wishes you could do, because the last girl was just like this. And you freak out. You've been comparing yourself to the list all along and once someone else starts, it's now unacceptable?

I'm no saint. I'm a hypocrite is lots of places. I know I don't really do any of the double standards listed here, but I know I'm just as big a hypocrite as the next person. I know how to dress modestly, but still look rather good, I know how to have conversations with strange people in public places, I know how to not freak out on a guy simply because he's equalizing the relationship. People who don't know how to do these things bother me. I suppose there are people out there who can't stand bad qualities I have, and that's because they don't have these qualities and they think people who don't understand are idiotic, but that's not my point. Sure, some girls really are lacking intellectually. Statistically, that is true. Sure, there are some of them that are so feminist they make no sense in their demand for "equality." And those people are just completely extreme. But the point here is, we are all hypocrites because we don't realize what we are doing and try for the "best of both worlds."

Facebook: The Double Edged Sword

Facebook is great. I can post silly things about what's going on in my life and very little people will actually care because they just pass it over and probably wonder why they are friends with me. "Oh right, she's that weird chick from high school who had no friends until like senior year." I've made bold claims on Facebook: I've insulted particular religions, I've cemented friendships and enemies, and I've freaked some of my friends out. I can't make bold claims about my sex life, however, simply because my mom is my friend on Facebook and eventually, it will get to her that I really like sex. Or that certain things would be better with some sex. I can't make bold claims about my sex life because someone will bitch about how I'm a huge whore or something and there goes half of my social life. Someone will want to take that opportunity to bring up a grudge they've been keeping or something and I will have to try to make new friends on top of all that will happen. I can post some pretty ludicrous things and I can make claims that no one will understand, but when it comes down to it, I'm censored. This bothers me.

The only reason I wrote this blog post was because I wanted to say "Earth Hour would have been completely easy (and so much better) if it was a straight hour of sex; too bad it wasn't this year." Yeah, can't really say that on Facebook.

I Don't Game

Recently, I've started playing Starcraft again. Not even like the newest one is coming out and I would love to catch the story, but this game is like 10 years old and I totally remember watching people play this when I was a little girl. The surprising thing is, this is like the third time I've ever tried really getting into it and this time, it's working. Like all the other times, it was because everyone else was doing it. This time is because I seriously think the game is pretty fun.

I've realized that I'm getting used to doing everything on a touch pad. I deeply dislike using mice and if I have to (read: Desktop PC), I try to do as little as I can with the mouse.

This leads me to my next point: I do not play shooters ever. I think it's the combination of my inability to keep a relative calm while playing shooters and the fact that they just don't seem nearly as fun as real time strategy.

But, this all leads me to my title and probably the main topic of this post: I Don't Game. Well, I didn't use to. Well, I did and then I stopped and now I'm doing it again. I guess growing up with three brothers, I watched them game more than I gamed. Then with the advent of party games (Super Smash Brothers, Mario Party, and eventually Warcraft 3), I started to game more. It simply wasn't as fun with two people, so my brothers persuaded me to start playing some of the more easy games. Eventually, I got into the harder games too. It got to the point where I played Nintendo games (because those were mostly for kids) and massively multiplayer online roleplay games because most of them were Asian and in beta test phase and totally free. And that's how it stayed for a while until I stopped. Which very conveniently coincides with me being in this current relationship. And up until just recently, I didn't game. Up until recently, it didn't seem fun. But it is. I just never got to the point where I enjoyed gaming because it is fun; I had always enjoyed the company.

So there: I'm an on-and-off gamer.

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Purple Lightsabre

So Samuel L. Jackson had a conversation with his agent on the role of Mace Windu in the Star Wars film by George Lucas. (Or I would suppose. That's how most actors get into movies right?) I imagine it went something like this:

What do you mean I don't say "muthafucking?!" What's this movie's target audience?

And why would I want the part?

What do you mean I'm the only black guy?! So I don't get to say "muthafucking" and I'm the only person keeping the movie from being another racist Hollywood film? Fuck that shit. So what's the incentive?

Okay, what's the color of my lightsabre?

No. I want it to be something fucking different. Like purple. It'd be like a dick joke.


And that's how Samuel L Jackson got to have a purple lightsabre in the Star Wars movies.

Last year

Last year, I totaled the most posts in January + February. This totally had everything to do with the fact that James started his blog and said he would try to post everyday. It happened for awhile, but he just fell out after a bit. I kept up with him, because, hell, I'm a student with more time and no money. Let's see how far I can go with no one to compete with, but with so much of nothing to talk about.

I've been watching this comedy show on TV called Community. I guess the reason why most people watch it is because the "main" character is kind of attractive and Chevy Chase is in it. Tch. I watch it because Donald Glover is in it. The most recent episode featured Jack Black (who I thought worked nicely as a dysfunctional community college student), and it didn't seem as nicely done as their previous stuff. Black kind of threw off the group cohesion and left more to be desired. Also peeking their heads from the clouds of fame was Owen Wilson. Looks like Community might have gathered up enough fan base for at least another season. Woot. The real reason I caught this episode on TV yesterday rather than on Hulu like in the next week was because DC Pierson had a small part in the episode. Cool, and obviously very reminiscent of the type of geeky artist that he is.

Since I mentioned Wilson, I watched most of "Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou" recently. It was a nice, fun, quirky little piece (well, not little), that looked very independent (claymation type digital effects, eccentric subject, etc.) for the star-studded cast list: Owen Wilson, Bill Murray, and Jeff Goldblum just to name a few. Highly recommended for a few good laughs. Very "distraught artist" and very enthralling story-wise.

Since I'm discussing movies: Watched Psycho the other day. Caught about half of the original Alfred Hitchcock one and then the 1990's remake. The remake was shot to be almost identical to the original, and followed pretty much the same script. The movie was kind of slow: the girl they focus the entire exposition on was killed before any real climax. But, considering this is a 40's film, I can see it. Good suspense movie, not quite horror genre.

I've been getting more and more into rap as of late, but only if it's musically brilliant.

Anyways: Off to reading people's blogs!
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