Spring break is coming to an end and I realize that I haven't done a single productive thing all week... life is good.  Apart from that though; to tell the truth there isnt really anything else to say.  I'm really tired... but as it's one of the last days I have the opportunities to do this, I'm not even planning on going to bed at a reasonable time.  So here's one for all those late nights spent in amiable boredom, doing nothing, just enjoying whatever petty hobby you spend your night time hours with.  I for one, am going to use this night to the fullest... or do absolutely nothing.  Either way, this is The Albino, signing off to fight the forces of sleep with caffeine and mildly addicting, late night internet games.

I already typed this up once and the thing glitched, however I will persevere.

Why are the fanboys, generally the loudest, most vocal of an interest
group's supporters, generally the least informed? It seems as though
some find it their duty to distort facts, create bitter rivalries, and
devote their entire lives to what amounts to nothing. The gaming
industry is widely known for this tech-racism, but it seems to have
afflicted every other part of our lives as well... music, other
technology, our friends, what we wear, the list goes on and on. Self
expression is great, I love that, but when you refuse to accept the
merits of something simply because of a brand name or a certain label
then your self expression has lost all validity and you've descended
into pig-headed ignorance.
What really makes me shake my sandwich,
is the total lack of information that many people spew to prove a
point. America has gotten to a point where it's not who speaks best,
it's who speaks the loudest that really counts. We follow the crowd,
accepting the first assertive voice as our guide on everything. We no
longer examine the doggerel being pushed down our throats, we nod our
heads and except everything at face value, there's no objective
scrutiny. This has devolved into more of a rant than a blog, but I'm
sick of people bending the truth, I'm sick of the way people refuse to
think for themselves, and I'm just sick of the **** that we have to put
up with every day of our lives.
Our society is afflicted with
diarrhea of the mouth and constipation of the brain, and this imbalance
is taking a toll on our country. People need to think for themselves,
they need to become dependent upon their own thinking skills instead of
taking the nonsense that people are spewing on every street corner.
We're moving closer everyday to the society that's described in Fahrenheit 451, people
are reading less, accepting everything at face value. We're moving
slowly, inexorably to a world where instead of thought, we have
acceptance, nub belief in whatever mouthpiece is being used loud enough
to catch our attention.
Things need to be judged on merit, which
the average person now seems incapable of doing. We need to move away
from interest groups controlling our government and our society; but
more importantly, we need to regain control of our minds.

This is the Albino, fighting the good fight.

This morning I had the pleasure of reading PC gamer, and as I was flipping through I noticed on article on the safegaurds that publishers are putting on games to prevent pirating.  As it turns out, these programs not only protect against piracy but they also protect against legitimate users.  Personally, I've never had this problem, but according to the editor these programs can really screw up you system ( he mentioned a program called StarForce specifically).  It seems to me that these bugs in protective software might end up costing the gaming industry more in lost sales than the actual piracy itself.  Developers really need to work out the problems with this kind of thing before they start losing their consumers.

Also in this article, they had a really cool anti-piracy program that actually let the pirate play the game, but slowly degraded the experience.  If the pirate was a hot shot sniper, the game's protection would slowly deteriorate his accuracy until his ability was totally neutralized.  Anyway, thought that was pretty cool.