in Japan

so I've finally made it. after 12 hours of travel and 4 hours of navigating the Japan rail, we've made it to the hotel! I've been awake for nearly 24 hours. I am so tired but I cannot sleep because its only 6 oclock here. the heat is immense. and the humidity wraps around you. its especially bad when you're hauling 40lb of luggage up 11 flights of stairs... and then walking a kilometre and them going up more stairs. anyways enough complaining. I'm here now and happy to ne back. I just can't wait to unload some of these gifts and lighten my luggage.

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Talking Down

Just because you're in a higher position, you get paid more, and you've been working here longer, doesn't give you the right to talk down to the people you are giving work to. We are all human being and just because you make more money doesn't make you a better person. In fact you're probably a worse person. You are in a position of power so you automatically feel you must throw your weight around to prove to everyone you have the ability to. But, just because someone owns a gun doesn't mean they have to use it! Only exercise your power when you need to. If you're giving someone a task to do, don't talk down to people like they're shit! They are people too probably more noble and moral people than yourself! When shit doesn't get done and people don't do their work, then you have a reason to implement your abilities, but don't do it right out the gate assuming we wont complete the task unless you have a stern foot in our asses!

Luckily, I have a boss who is nice and she always asks us if we're too busy to work on, whatever it is, and reflecting her kindness, we almost always answer "no" because we want to do the work for her.

I guess the reason for this post is just to vent and rant about all the things that everyone hates and have said a million times before. If you're in a position of power, don't act like it, a little humility goes a long way and people probably wont hate you.

on the can again

I'm not sure what I really have to say. I'm mostly passing time so my minutes in this small room don't feel wasted. Also I haven't written anything in my blog in a long time. I haven't written anything in a long time. I used to write almost daily, either my blog or stories or novels. But as of late I just haven't seemed to have the inclination. Maybe I'm missing my muse. something to rant about a kind of person I hate or general annoyances. Nothing. I've just been wasting my time on thing worth less than my time on the can.

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Mind = Blown

1337%(π)=42

A friend sent me a message saying that 1337% of pi equals 42. THIS IS FREAKING AMAZING! But only amazing if you are a geek nerd loser.

Ruined Potential Part 1

"They were all dead. The final gunshot was an exclamation mark to everything that had led to this point. I released my finger from the trigger, and then it was over."

The first line of the first game. This series was based on story first and foremost. Cut scenes were graphic novels, the noir theme like Tim Burton's 1989 Batman. It was dark and gritty and took place in New York. The game was the catalyst for a terrific story about a cop who had lost everything searching for answers why. Max Payne was a DEA Agent working undercover, then a criminal on the run. It was personal his wife and child dead and no answers why, just a green trail of drugs.

Max Payne was one of the most brilliantly written games by Sam Lake and if it were a book, would have some of the best imagery I have heard. "The sun went down with practiced bravado, twilight crawled across the sky, laden with foreboding."

And now it's taking place in Sao Paulo he actually gets to see the sun, he traded in his collared shirt, trench coat and slicked back hair for a beard shaved head and a muscle shirt... What is he fighting for? He avenged the death of his wife and child, stopped all production of Valkyr, and took out his newest enemy Vlad (which I thought was a big mistake and had no continuity with Max Payne 1) Mona Sax is dead and no one is hunting him. How could this possibly "Not be over"?

This is nothing like the Max Payne of the past, this is another half-assed game made to appeal to the new generation of player following the "Why make a great game that might not sell as well, when you can make a s**t game that will fly off the shelves"

Who knows though right? Maybe I'm full of s**t and this is going to be the game that bring us out of the dark ages of gaming, it's written by the same guy (who also wrote Alan Wake) so perhaps it will please everyone and I'll have to eat my own words when I tell everyone how amazing Max Payne 3 is.