Tuesday, 24 September 2013
Tuesday, 20 August 2013
My Fears For Darren Young and why we may NEVER totally 'okay' gays or/and the tran community
Well, here we are again. The down from the high yesterday.
Person now which I'll go in to deeper details in the other blog, I'm closing in on being self employed and living the non conformist life style. This of course comes with huge costs and did advantages as well as its strengths. It comes with the territory of non conformity. Being an polyamorous straight self employed asperger's syndrome black brony, I've writing my own destiny, for now. It may last for a few years, it may last three great of my life. One thing is for sure, the way of life society expects me to live, I'm done with. And I'm so far happy with my decision.
Darren young, another young black man also happy with his decision to public announce he is gay has automatically made him my new hero.
Allow me to repeat this: I PROUDLY SUPPORT GAY AND TRANSSEXUAL RIGHTS. ANY SEXUAL TERMS OR INSULTS WE BANTER OR USED AS EMPTY INSULTS NOT DIRECTLY AIMED O INSULT EITHER COMMUNITIES.
The sudden rise of gay athletes is amazing and an sign of an bright future I am excited to be a part.
However, I found this morning and over the past few weeks that even though as person I do accept others I do often find myself trapped in automatic closed minded-ness.
L
Let's talk in 'rasstling' kayabe sense. Darren Young before his historic announcement was an HEEL, an wrestling bad guy so to speak. He comes out and turns almost instantly face. Admittedly I have an issue with this. Although I'm not sure why.
Two years ago CM PUNK then heel did an extremely honest shoot (monologue, if you will) about the state of the WWE and how it treats every other wrestler apart from its golden goose, former WWE champion, John Cena. CM Punk is quoted in saying he would like to believe 'the company would be better once (wwe chairman Vince McMann) is dead but then it be taken over by his stupid daughter and his son in law, (part time but once full time legend Triple H). He was automatically fired.
Later we found out it was a 'work' (working of an angle. A part of the story telling. Normally for an wrestling feud) but the statement in my mind has always been clear: speak out against the system
And the system will destroy you. Ask DMX or YouTube search his poem about 'The industry'. Also Google where DMX is now.
What Darren young did was amazing, no doubt. But my fear is somewhere, someone at titan towers... Doesn't like it. Maybe they don't like it to the point where Darren disappears off our screens for awhile. The wrestling industry is notoriously traditional in it's way of thinking or life. Th chairman Vince is well known for being bias against smaller fatter wrestlers in favour of Greek mythology like bodies. Sexuality in the past has rarely been mentioned although gay wrestlers in the past have been afraid to voice their beliefs. Until now.
Darren spoke about now being the right time. But why then off an airplane, no press conference and seemingly unscripted? An rebellious work? Doubtful.
I personally can't help but feel Russia 2014 winter Olympics plays a roll.
Darren is (I believe) the third sports athlete to come out this year. Jason Collins and Robbie Rogers are the others. There of course seems to be a lot of people not wanting the winter olympics to happen at all. Although I am not one of them. I personally would like to see this MOTIVATE the gay and trans athletes in to winning more and pushing themselves more to the limit than ever.
I have been deeply sadden by the aggression Russia has shown to the GBLT community. The the hight of my sadness being Anton Krasovsky, an respected Russia News Anchor coming out LIVE on TV and intermediately being fired. An career, gone. Because of his right to be free.
I, find myself running into bigots often. Getting hate mail about my views on gay and tran people, questioning my own sexuality. I tend to throw a small bit of resistance up, repeat that I am an straight male 'despite' being tran-friendly and then annoy the hate and block if need be.
Even as a brony, I often run into hateful people.
You would think that would be the point. Everyone coming together to fight a good fight for an good cause. But no. It's not cool to talk about ponies. Ever. Yet it's fine to thumbs up the actions of the idiots on Geordie/Jersey Shores and other trash TV.
God knows I try to be pony like but some people in the world make it extremely hard for me to stay so. Sadly I confess to counter trolling to trolling of my own. The trolls say one of my good friends have lips like 'an tranny' and how much they wanna fuck her (real smooth calling her an tranny, btw. Again, I support trans but I know what the implement was) I'd half say this is illness based but then again if I was ill I'd like to think I'd still do the same or intelligently counter.
My fear with Darren Young is the WWE catapult him to heights he may not be able to cope with. With all due respect to Darren, I don't see him as an upper card. I'm not sure he does, either. Him being happy I took as an general comment and being apart of the Prime Time Players stable for over 3 years the evidence would suggest that.
I hope WWE use Darren how he was treated before and not try to use his sexuality as an angle or an way to heighten his career if he is not comfortable in that situation.
Because at the end of the day if we CANNOT accept bronies, the future for GLBT community, racial, religious and people afraid to be themselves are probably not safe either. It's an fucking shame we live in the 21st century and we still have to fight for our right to be free to express ourselves the way we wish to.
Person now which I'll go in to deeper details in the other blog, I'm closing in on being self employed and living the non conformist life style. This of course comes with huge costs and did advantages as well as its strengths. It comes with the territory of non conformity. Being an polyamorous straight self employed asperger's syndrome black brony, I've writing my own destiny, for now. It may last for a few years, it may last three great of my life. One thing is for sure, the way of life society expects me to live, I'm done with. And I'm so far happy with my decision.
Darren young, another young black man also happy with his decision to public announce he is gay has automatically made him my new hero.
Allow me to repeat this: I PROUDLY SUPPORT GAY AND TRANSSEXUAL RIGHTS. ANY SEXUAL TERMS OR INSULTS WE BANTER OR USED AS EMPTY INSULTS NOT DIRECTLY AIMED O INSULT EITHER COMMUNITIES.
The sudden rise of gay athletes is amazing and an sign of an bright future I am excited to be a part.
However, I found this morning and over the past few weeks that even though as person I do accept others I do often find myself trapped in automatic closed minded-ness.
L
Let's talk in 'rasstling' kayabe sense. Darren Young before his historic announcement was an HEEL, an wrestling bad guy so to speak. He comes out and turns almost instantly face. Admittedly I have an issue with this. Although I'm not sure why.
Two years ago CM PUNK then heel did an extremely honest shoot (monologue, if you will) about the state of the WWE and how it treats every other wrestler apart from its golden goose, former WWE champion, John Cena. CM Punk is quoted in saying he would like to believe 'the company would be better once (wwe chairman Vince McMann) is dead but then it be taken over by his stupid daughter and his son in law, (part time but once full time legend Triple H). He was automatically fired.
Later we found out it was a 'work' (working of an angle. A part of the story telling. Normally for an wrestling feud) but the statement in my mind has always been clear: speak out against the system
And the system will destroy you. Ask DMX or YouTube search his poem about 'The industry'. Also Google where DMX is now.
What Darren young did was amazing, no doubt. But my fear is somewhere, someone at titan towers... Doesn't like it. Maybe they don't like it to the point where Darren disappears off our screens for awhile. The wrestling industry is notoriously traditional in it's way of thinking or life. Th chairman Vince is well known for being bias against smaller fatter wrestlers in favour of Greek mythology like bodies. Sexuality in the past has rarely been mentioned although gay wrestlers in the past have been afraid to voice their beliefs. Until now.
Darren spoke about now being the right time. But why then off an airplane, no press conference and seemingly unscripted? An rebellious work? Doubtful.
I personally can't help but feel Russia 2014 winter Olympics plays a roll.
Darren is (I believe) the third sports athlete to come out this year. Jason Collins and Robbie Rogers are the others. There of course seems to be a lot of people not wanting the winter olympics to happen at all. Although I am not one of them. I personally would like to see this MOTIVATE the gay and trans athletes in to winning more and pushing themselves more to the limit than ever.
I have been deeply sadden by the aggression Russia has shown to the GBLT community. The the hight of my sadness being Anton Krasovsky, an respected Russia News Anchor coming out LIVE on TV and intermediately being fired. An career, gone. Because of his right to be free.
I, find myself running into bigots often. Getting hate mail about my views on gay and tran people, questioning my own sexuality. I tend to throw a small bit of resistance up, repeat that I am an straight male 'despite' being tran-friendly and then annoy the hate and block if need be.
Even as a brony, I often run into hateful people.
You would think that would be the point. Everyone coming together to fight a good fight for an good cause. But no. It's not cool to talk about ponies. Ever. Yet it's fine to thumbs up the actions of the idiots on Geordie/Jersey Shores and other trash TV.
God knows I try to be pony like but some people in the world make it extremely hard for me to stay so. Sadly I confess to counter trolling to trolling of my own. The trolls say one of my good friends have lips like 'an tranny' and how much they wanna fuck her (real smooth calling her an tranny, btw. Again, I support trans but I know what the implement was) I'd half say this is illness based but then again if I was ill I'd like to think I'd still do the same or intelligently counter.
My fear with Darren Young is the WWE catapult him to heights he may not be able to cope with. With all due respect to Darren, I don't see him as an upper card. I'm not sure he does, either. Him being happy I took as an general comment and being apart of the Prime Time Players stable for over 3 years the evidence would suggest that.
I hope WWE use Darren how he was treated before and not try to use his sexuality as an angle or an way to heighten his career if he is not comfortable in that situation.
Because at the end of the day if we CANNOT accept bronies, the future for GLBT community, racial, religious and people afraid to be themselves are probably not safe either. It's an fucking shame we live in the 21st century and we still have to fight for our right to be free to express ourselves the way we wish to.
Thursday, 15 August 2013
Next Gen Consoles = THE DEATH OF CoD?!
It's hard to believe the Xbox 360 is almost as old as my daughter.
Then again it's hard to believe if I want to in a year's time I can have my pancreas removed. So much as changed since 2005. Such high lights include receding hair, being out of the 20-30 category in questionnaires and beginning to read books about growing plants and what to eat to avoid high cholesterol.
One thing that has not changed is my LOVE for video games and all what is nerdy. Seriously. My clothes will drop off if I have an back and forth conversation with an woman who knows her rpgs from her mobas.
During my time at drama school my time playing video games and spending time with my then girl friend were mutually exclusive. Some time for me meant popping into my bedroom while she watched her soaps and I played PES 3.
My God, that game was the shit.
To THIS day I still can remember the epic battle I would have with hardest level cpu opposition. I remember losing an game in Europe 5-0 one leg, walking away from my PlayStation 2 before I smash the son of a bitch and new DVD drive and then coming back next leg to win 7-5. To THIS day, I've never had such an epic come back.
Sadly come back was the thing that happen when the Xbox 360 was released in Europe in 2005.
I remember being PES 6 hoping for an similar experience that made me act like an crack addict who smoked a pipe and then took sleeping pills after wards.
Sadly as kinda fun as that game was it didn't have the team name, stadiums or even the option to edit the squads in the game. The only fun that was to be had was in the game's master league mode which since new gen, now current gen in my mind seems to have got worst and worst.
Converting current gen favourites in to Next gen gaming is an simple concept but rarely one that is lasts both generations for long. Even the one mighty skate board games such as Tony Hawk's have failed to keep last gen's audience sniffing glue, smoking pot and eating munchies while nodding one's head like one of those plastic dogs in moving cars to the status excellent THPS sound tracks.
Interestingly enough Activision's current golden goose seems about to suffer from the same fate.
Call Of Duty: Ghosts is the tenth game in the game's franchise and frankly possibly the one with the biggest task on the gf (game's franchise).
But only does it have next gen to cope with (which I'm sure with the game's new engine will ofc handle with easy. That would be the problem) but also the exclusive content contract with Microsoft which the average gamer seems to believe that that's a company that doesn't give an sloppy seconds fuck about the average gamer.
The Xbox one's launch mentioned a lot of things. But what stuck out to three still considered niche market despite the games (such as call of duty modern warfare 2) grossing the highest opening weekend even beating movie history movie openings such as the Harry potter films and even the dark knight's seemingly impossible high box office sales for tactically nuked (see what I did there) the company decided to seemingly deny its company nerd roots and appeal to an larger media based market such as tv and music services.
The phrase that sticks out of my mind from that launch show was "we want this system to be the new water cooler."
I almost immediately put my Xbox 360 for sale.
Another problem CoD has is the overly bad ass it's great Fiercest competitor had become since its announcement at the beginning of this year; Battlefield 4.
Now an quick disclaimer; I am NEITHER an CoD or BF fan boy. If I'm honest, I'm a fan boy of Alice Morgan from Luther, Hayley Williams and Dita Von Tease. But more than that, I am a gamer. With frankly a raging hard on at the mention of Alice and Dita.
Woof.
Every thing from the 12 minutes of footage released with one of my favourite songs as an intro (total eclipse of the heart) from the intense for fights and direction of the scene/footage with the humour and respect which is slowly installed in to the audience... Even the tease of the introduction of female soldier characters had frankly made battlefield 4 scrap with CoD:G one of the most one sided fights I have ever seen in my life.
It's like Rodney King verses the LA police all over again. Spoiler; Rodney gets the shit kicked out of him.
This better advertising campaign had been going on all year. And consider both games are being released late November, CoD fans are being extremely concerned with the little coverage and footage they have seen.
Another reason why I'm worried is an personal one; the fandom itself. You only have to search YouTube for CoD to find childish, trolling, counter trolling our an mixture of the 3.
This fandom is notoriously one of the worst communities in the video game online world. Only league of legends community welcomes 'n00bs' with add much hostility as an old southern central republican American would treat an black family lost and asking for directions.
Thing is with this part of the argument CoD:G is 'fucked. Fucking fucked. Super fucking doomed' is more about parental control and common scene. An essay to discuss its self.
And frankly the fact is the an new series in the franchise with the originators of the franchise WITHOUT its former magic makers.
An huge part of the first CoD' s original appeal was its summer Hollywood block buster mentality. At the time, games wanted to be just that, games. What the first CoD bought to the table was big budget movie theatrics without condescending it's audience as many of that generation of gaming felt in to the trap of.
With Robert 'Trolling' Bowling leaving infinity ward, Jason West and Vince Zampella leaving, sueing Activision and then setting up 'Respawn Entertainment' with battlefield developers EA taking an LARGE chunk of IW staff with them and how disappointed the community was with modern warfare 3... I feel a little worried of the new breed of IW taking the stage.
Maybe this is an old man's worried. Maybe I should Fuck off back to PES 3 and my commodore amiga.
But on the other hand there seems to be enough writing on the wall to see that this title could be do or die for the 11 year old franchise.
Then again it's hard to believe if I want to in a year's time I can have my pancreas removed. So much as changed since 2005. Such high lights include receding hair, being out of the 20-30 category in questionnaires and beginning to read books about growing plants and what to eat to avoid high cholesterol.
One thing that has not changed is my LOVE for video games and all what is nerdy. Seriously. My clothes will drop off if I have an back and forth conversation with an woman who knows her rpgs from her mobas.
During my time at drama school my time playing video games and spending time with my then girl friend were mutually exclusive. Some time for me meant popping into my bedroom while she watched her soaps and I played PES 3.
My God, that game was the shit.
To THIS day I still can remember the epic battle I would have with hardest level cpu opposition. I remember losing an game in Europe 5-0 one leg, walking away from my PlayStation 2 before I smash the son of a bitch and new DVD drive and then coming back next leg to win 7-5. To THIS day, I've never had such an epic come back.
Sadly come back was the thing that happen when the Xbox 360 was released in Europe in 2005.
I remember being PES 6 hoping for an similar experience that made me act like an crack addict who smoked a pipe and then took sleeping pills after wards.
Sadly as kinda fun as that game was it didn't have the team name, stadiums or even the option to edit the squads in the game. The only fun that was to be had was in the game's master league mode which since new gen, now current gen in my mind seems to have got worst and worst.
Converting current gen favourites in to Next gen gaming is an simple concept but rarely one that is lasts both generations for long. Even the one mighty skate board games such as Tony Hawk's have failed to keep last gen's audience sniffing glue, smoking pot and eating munchies while nodding one's head like one of those plastic dogs in moving cars to the status excellent THPS sound tracks.
Interestingly enough Activision's current golden goose seems about to suffer from the same fate.
Call Of Duty: Ghosts is the tenth game in the game's franchise and frankly possibly the one with the biggest task on the gf (game's franchise).
But only does it have next gen to cope with (which I'm sure with the game's new engine will ofc handle with easy. That would be the problem) but also the exclusive content contract with Microsoft which the average gamer seems to believe that that's a company that doesn't give an sloppy seconds fuck about the average gamer.
The Xbox one's launch mentioned a lot of things. But what stuck out to three still considered niche market despite the games (such as call of duty modern warfare 2) grossing the highest opening weekend even beating movie history movie openings such as the Harry potter films and even the dark knight's seemingly impossible high box office sales for tactically nuked (see what I did there) the company decided to seemingly deny its company nerd roots and appeal to an larger media based market such as tv and music services.
The phrase that sticks out of my mind from that launch show was "we want this system to be the new water cooler."
I almost immediately put my Xbox 360 for sale.
Another problem CoD has is the overly bad ass it's great Fiercest competitor had become since its announcement at the beginning of this year; Battlefield 4.
Now an quick disclaimer; I am NEITHER an CoD or BF fan boy. If I'm honest, I'm a fan boy of Alice Morgan from Luther, Hayley Williams and Dita Von Tease. But more than that, I am a gamer. With frankly a raging hard on at the mention of Alice and Dita.
Woof.
Every thing from the 12 minutes of footage released with one of my favourite songs as an intro (total eclipse of the heart) from the intense for fights and direction of the scene/footage with the humour and respect which is slowly installed in to the audience... Even the tease of the introduction of female soldier characters had frankly made battlefield 4 scrap with CoD:G one of the most one sided fights I have ever seen in my life.
It's like Rodney King verses the LA police all over again. Spoiler; Rodney gets the shit kicked out of him.
This better advertising campaign had been going on all year. And consider both games are being released late November, CoD fans are being extremely concerned with the little coverage and footage they have seen.
Another reason why I'm worried is an personal one; the fandom itself. You only have to search YouTube for CoD to find childish, trolling, counter trolling our an mixture of the 3.
This fandom is notoriously one of the worst communities in the video game online world. Only league of legends community welcomes 'n00bs' with add much hostility as an old southern central republican American would treat an black family lost and asking for directions.
Thing is with this part of the argument CoD:G is 'fucked. Fucking fucked. Super fucking doomed' is more about parental control and common scene. An essay to discuss its self.
And frankly the fact is the an new series in the franchise with the originators of the franchise WITHOUT its former magic makers.
An huge part of the first CoD' s original appeal was its summer Hollywood block buster mentality. At the time, games wanted to be just that, games. What the first CoD bought to the table was big budget movie theatrics without condescending it's audience as many of that generation of gaming felt in to the trap of.
With Robert 'Trolling' Bowling leaving infinity ward, Jason West and Vince Zampella leaving, sueing Activision and then setting up 'Respawn Entertainment' with battlefield developers EA taking an LARGE chunk of IW staff with them and how disappointed the community was with modern warfare 3... I feel a little worried of the new breed of IW taking the stage.
Maybe this is an old man's worried. Maybe I should Fuck off back to PES 3 and my commodore amiga.
But on the other hand there seems to be enough writing on the wall to see that this title could be do or die for the 11 year old franchise.
Sunday, 30 June 2013
Saturday, 21 July 2012
I think everyone should go watch Dark Knight THIS WEEKEND. Here's Why.
Friday I overslept again.But managed to do my normal tasks. Check my snail mail. Check my phone to see which loan company is trying to offer me a loan despite me having shit credit and asking them to leave me the fuck alone. And then I checked my facebook.
To be honest, facebook is more a place to forward pictures and post statuses to piss people off but that Friday was different.My friend posted a status saying there had been a shooting in Colorado. Now everyone remembers the Columbine High School shooting in 1999 and I thought this may of been a copy cat or an similar style shooting.
I was sadly mistaken.The shootings took place in a cinema that just happened to be showing Dark Knight Rises.What's sad is there's rumors that suspect dyed his hair red (which is odd as the character is known for his trademark green hair) and called himself The Joker, arguably Batman's most famous foe.
This reminds me of a similar case in Britain.On the 12th of February (Side personal note: 2 days before my birthday) 1993, a boy was taken from a shopping centre, mutilated, murdered and left on a railway track. 2 boys 2 days afterwards were charged with the boy's murder. What was blamed? Horror films (which the press called at the time 'video nasties') such as Child's Play 3 which I believe was banned for some years after the murder despite Minister of State saying there was no strong evidence that the murder was linked to film(s) mentioned.
As soon as I knew it was on opening night of Batman, alarm bells rang in my head.It's human nature that we demand justice after such a heinous act. However it's also human nature to assume the worst in a group of people.I'm worried that the media will blame the film or/and hollywood for such acts of violent despite the hollywood machine spitting dull writing, unoriginal ideas and drying franchises out to death. But that's another story.
An trailer for the upcoming film 'Gangster Squad' which would normally be shown has been pulled due to the trailer showing a scene where mobsters firing into a movie theater from behind the screen.I doubt this scene will be included in the film's final cut, now.
The movie 'Neighborhood Watch' is now 'The Watch' after the Zimmerman/Martin shooting and trial.
Gotham universe fans have been patiently waiting for this weekend for 3 years.In light of such a terrible event, I ask of you to support this film as best you can. Show the world Gotham city universe/Batman/DC/JLA fans have no part of the suspect who is trying to ruin this film's opening weekend by his actions. We will ignore him but remember those he has slayed.
Please guys. Go and enjoy this movie. Write a review of what you liked, what you didn't like. This film has had so much bad press this week. Let's show the world we're not angry people. Go and enjoy but please keep those who died, injured and the family of the above in your thoughts and prayers.
Also please forward this message.
Let the world know.
Thank you.
PS, if there's spelling mistake and grammar errors in this, please do not be a troll. I'm trying to be sincere in this note.
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