A Sad Type of Smugness

A couple months ago, or rather during the presidential election. I had cause to be disheartened. President Obama won and what I thought and knew were important were swept aside by the ‘Forward’-ness. One thing that got me was a former acquaintance of mine posted “We won suckas, Benghazi whaaaat?!“

At this point I realized what kind of people made up my Facebook acquaintances and quietly purged her and all others. There isn’t anything more insulting to me than to see something like that. The current hearing is just a vindication of what they thought of as a non-issue, I thought was an issue of great importance. An Ambassador died. Not just a staffer. And the Democrats claiming that under the Bush administration, more than 300 Embassy workers were killed. Not to belittle their deaths, but most were in war zones such as Iraq and Afghanistan, and would also include PMCs used as security when US forces or DSS wasn’t or were not available.

And it didn’t involve a dead Ambassador, and blaming the attack on a film that ‘incited’ a spontaneus act on September 11th, 2012. What’s worse is that the gaming community lose one of their own. One of those killed was well known in EVE and other games as a shrewed diplomat. He met his untimely end by al-Qaeda backed insurgents. Now that the hearings are underway, the Democrats, having long dismissed this as a non-issue and covered by Newtown and Boston, were blindsided as it stopped being the domain of the right wing media. CBS opened the door for the rest of the news media to start asking uncomfortable questions, and they have no way to escape as many people have documented the attempted cover up since then.

This is justice being done, as much as they complain, they need to answer the uncomfortable questions. Being roundly defeated not only in gun control measures, but in terms of the economy and the sequester, they’re being beaten and economy is great in mostly Republican-held areas, this is a party that just suddenly realized that mid-terms are next year, and they need to stave off another ‘shelacking’.

With heavy heart I can only cheer on their ineptness, knowing full well that four men lost their lives due to bureaucratic mismanagement and campaigning holding a greater priority than their lives. I did not get disheartened, and in this grim time we can regroup, reload, and reengage.

Crying Yuuka, by gatau on pixiv, edited.

A Dearth of Posting

Hi there, seems like I’ve not touched this blog in months.

I’m dearly sorry for that.

First off, how am I?

Truth be told, I’m a swirling ball of emotions that can have me go from joyous and happy, to mad and raving, to sad and depressive, and then to quiet and contemplative. Usually ju7mping from one mood to another as the time goes on. I thought I’d touch on a few topics today and most likely separate them primarily into the following:

My Life, Politics in the Wake of Boston and the Failure of the Gun-Control Legislation, Anime, and World of Tanks.

Let’s get cracking shall we?

Reisen on a Computer, drawn by itsutsuki on pixiv.

Quick Thought: The Centurion 7/1 Tier 9 UK Medium Tank

So, I normally have a bunch of tanks I have in my Garage that comes and goes as I please. So far though only four in particular have withstood the test of time and me being low on credits. The M4A3E2 Sherman “Jumbo”, T26E4 Super Pershing, the Pzkfw V Panther/M10, and the T29 Heavy Tank. The Cromwell and Comet fell out of use and their crews awaiting redistribution to future tanks, and is the similar story elsewhere. The Centurion I was fun, but was increasingly annoyed at its inability to really do much damage in anything above its own tier. So with that, we get to the meat of this little quick thought.

 

 

Quick Thought: The Dark Side

So, I finally went full blown stats-person and installed XVM. Using ENGiAND’s XVM config, and what’s funny?

The entire night I was playing random battles with my Centurion 7/1 just to test if XVM was working as well as trying out different configs (Roughnecks is too cluttered, as is Grandpa’s, I prefer ENGiAND’s), and every single game regardless if I survived or not, I won.

What. The. Hell.
This is the same Centurion 7/1 I was joking is always singled out by artillery in every single game I was in, as well as me taking a bit of a learning curve to learn.

 

The hell…

 

Girls und Panzer: A Battle Without Retreat!

SPOILERS ABOUND

Disclaimer and Explanation

Since Episode 12 was more or less spoiled to me by the internet, I’m just grabbing screenshots and putting my general impressions on it.

Hence this is why this is categorized primarily as a Quick Thought. An actual liveblog where I go over the episode scene by scene will follow when Commie releases their subs, my understanding of the Japanese language completely inadequate for the task at hand.

Maybe not, I’m a bit lazy.

So therefore, I give you what is hopefully NOT the last episode of Girls und Panzer, but just the end of Season One. We can only pray for a Second Season. Hopefully focusing on A younger Darjeeling…with Earl Grey…and her delicious, delicious Crommy.

Girls und Panzer: A Fierce Battle!

So, after a few month hiatus, Girls und Panzer once again graces the computer screens and televisions of many world-wide. Well I say world-wide. And breathes new life into World of Tanks forums in all server clusters. Well according Katyusha, it wasn’t really, but more “Goddamn MM”.

Quick Thought: A New Pope

Pope Francis has been named as our newest leader of my faith. While I’m a tad disappointed that we do not have a Filipino or Vietnamese pope, the fact we have a non-Itallian, and a non-European pope heralds change.

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And already, the atheists and haters are jumping in and saying all the usual things. Those without a faith to abide by don’t understand it and mock it. Those who abide by a different faith is so blinded in their own ignorance and join the above. Is this truly how a respectful and modern society goes about in recognizing the freedom of one’s religion? Or is ‘respect’ a moral that has slowly eroded to the point it is not the norm anymore?

Criticism is fine, but to say ‘all Catholic Priests are pedophiles’ or ‘all Catholics are ignorant’ and cite exceptions to the norm rather than the norm itself while defending their own examples is plain hypocrisy.

If you ever wonder why I don’t like you after you rag on the Roman Catholic religion and outright insult members of my faith, you know why. If you try to make exemptions to me saying “you’re not like most Catholics” then it’s an even bigger slap in the face. Then again, morals have long eroded in much of the previous generation and this one that to be seen with morals nowadays, implies you are a lunatic or have an ulterior motive.

Quick Thoughts: RWBY “White” Trailer

There is no doubt one of the things I am looking forward to, yet never truly blogging about, is Monty Oum’s new series, RWBY. I’ve already talked a bit about Red, and White was released a week or so ago, and so in typical train-of-thought is constantly moving and distracted, I’m merely gonna do a quick thought on White rather than a full blown review. (How can you review awesome?)

Quick Thought: Parenting and Today’s Generation

For context, read the comments on Miguel’s post here. Also read RU’s douche of the week entry on America’s Youth.

Now, where was I. Oh right, parenting.

Quick Thought: Food and Cooking

I think I’ve made it clear here and on facebook that I like to cook. I think it was because I wanted to be self-sufficient, and maybe a bit of my romantic side coming out and I think every guy should be able to cook something past pasta or simple foods. So my best foods, or rather, staple food would often be Japanese-style curry, chicken adobo, and various other Filipino dishes. This being the Lenten season, I kinda went and bought some salmon (at the protest of my wallet) and at first. didn’t know what to do with it.

Should I slice it into sashimi? Bake it and wait? Or do something else?