O, hai there.
by alcoholhamster on Comments
Hey everyone. I haven't really had much to say for a while, but I feel like writing something. I have numerous things to say, and I'll give you a quick list so I don't forget one while writing another. Last, vomit, Fallout, Overlord, paint, footy. I'm sure you've seen by now, Fallout 3 has been banned in Australia. Well, you know, refused classification. Because of drug use. I think that's a real shame, I would have liked to play it (though I guess they could resubmit...). I know this is going to begin a new round of OFLC-hating, but let's be serious: the legislation is flawed. The OFLC operates within a framework saying games have to be suitable for 15 year olds. Taking that into account, I'm glad they put the foot down. I know some 15 year olds (probably some of you are 15!), and it's a good thing that they are not easily able to see this kind of thing. I guess Bethesda took a bit of a risk making the game realistic in this way, and I don't really want them to compromise the game by resubmitting it with cuts. Why don't I want 15 year olds injecting on screen avatars or smoking crack pipes? Because they are nuts. My friend's sister's 15 or 14, and there are stories I can tell about her... one time, her and her friend drank all the alcohol in the refrigerator, and a heap of spirits from the drinks cabinet, photographed themselves while doing it, went for a walk at 3 in the morning, ended up at someone they know's house, and came home at 7am. Everything was documented on the camera, which her parents saw. Another time, she was meeting her mum at the record store in the mall near their house, she had been drinking in a park, and came up to her mother yelling "I'm not drunk!" so that she wouldn't realise. The main point of that is to segue into my latest binge-drinking story. Me and some of my friends decided... we should get absinthe. So you know, we got it, it's ridiculously expensive, it's 68% proof. If you drink it straight, ie. shoot it, it hits the whole of your mouth all at once. Anyway, I got pretty much s***faced off that and vodka... I drank more than I intended, because I wasn't feeling it fast enough. Cut a long story short, drunken text messaging, vomiting three times, not fun in the end. Kevin Rudd should tell kids that they'll feel like crap if they binge-drink, not raise taxes. It would work better. I wasn't hungover, but the avoidance of alcohol poisoning is horrible. I started playing Overlord again. It's actually pretty fun still, though easy because it doesn't matter if you minions all die. I started a Last.fm profile. It's actually pretty cool, because it provides me with lot's of lovely statistics about my music habits, which I have falsified. Do I say actually a lot? I think maybe I do... It was good at the footy on the weekend, because the supervisor, having had an anonymous letter sent in about how she's horrible, suspects everyone in South of sending it, so she's avoiding us and we get to do our job cheerily rather than hen-peckedly. If you have been reading Paint the Line 2 at Penny Arcade, you'll already know, but it is awesome. You should check it out if you haven't already. That's pretty much it. I have two more weeks of winter break after this one. Uni should be good, (despite the fact that the former Foreign Affairs minister, Downer, has been given a visting professorship). My Classics lecturer has written in his bio that he likes to show that 'antiquity rocks!' :P Stair out.