Adobe Flash Fail

Don't worry, this is just an image; not actual flash on the site.

It feels fairly frequently that Adobe wants us to update our Adobe Flash plug-ins for our browsers; at least for FireFox for me. But honestly, I find that each of these updates they give us ends up breaking something else with Flash. What's up with that? Is Adobe even checking the updates for the recent browser versions before releasing them? Seriously, I've skipped the past 5 or so updates because one of them would crash my whole browser if I tried to access my webcam to go on a webcam chat. Another time, it would stop any and all videos I try to watch after one minute or something and won't let me continue watching them. As for the latest update that it asked us not even a week ago, it's not as bad as stopping the video, but the videos lose audio after a minute. What the hell, Adobe? Get your updates straight for FireFox already.

Demotivational Post

It certainly does seem like I've been updating a lot less frequently on this blog for some reason. I shouldn't be any busier than any previous months since the start of 2013, and yet my posting frequency is only decreasing. Why is that? Well, the simple answer is that I am not sure what I should talk about. A lot of things that I had to say have already been said on the blog. I try to bring myself to be more productive, but I end up being too tired from the morning job schedules. I'm wondering whether if this could be a sign of depression causing a lack of motivation on my part to be as productive as I could be. Honestly, I wouldn't doubt it. It's nearing half a year since Firion had passed away, and I certainly don't have much to look forward to each day. And yet, I am still being oppressed by the undeserving cats in this house who are still being pampered by everyone else when Firion never got any attention at all. This isn't a healthy situation I am in, but what else is there for me to do but to shut myself away in the sanctuary that I've made in this room for Firion, all by myself?

First Impressions - Wii U + Nintendo Land

So it certainly took me a while to get around to setting up the Wii U. After all, it would have to be set up in the living room, and that place hasn't been cleaned in seemingly forever. Unfortunately, it came upon me to do all the cleaning, which I was fairly against doing since most of the dust that I found behind the TV and in the TV stand consisted of huge clumps of cat hairs and other thick layers of dust. Also considering it's spring pollen allergy season as well, stirring up these dust clumps is one of the last thing I'd like to do. Regardless, I had no help in vacuuming, wiping, and cleaning up the TV stand what-so-ever. My hesitation for cleaning up after the cats can be best understood if you've read my rant about them here, and my gripe against them for completely ruining Firion's life. I haven't exactly expressed my full feelings about Firion's life VS undeserving cats, but that's an ugly rant that I've omitted writing about in full detail, and neither is it the point of this post. The point HERE is my reason for why it took so long to set up the Wii U that we had since launch day.

Poll - Blog Content for 2013

It's February 1st, so it's time to bring up the results for another poll!

What do you want to see more of in 2013?
Video game reviews - 3 votes
League of Legends guides - 2 votes
Other - 2 votes
Other gaming content - 1 vote
Personal content - 1 vote
Better blog layout - 1 vote
Smartphone app reviews - 0 votes
Message forum - 0 votes

Total votes: 4

How U Mine 4 Fish?

A few days ago, Vicki dragged me to a carnival when I was still tired from work, and had work the next morning as well. You already know how THAT is. But what's more, I found out that she is awfully loose with her money if she knows she has money. That rule also extends to money that isn't her's as well. Why? Because her friend Jamie wanted to play one of the carnival games where you try to throw table tennis balls into jars to win a goldfish, and despite my objections to winning a goldfish that I would have to get a tank, air pump, and filter for to take care of properly, she had me give her a dollar, a grown woman who's older than me and has had a job (albeit a low paying one) for a very long time, just because I would be the one keeping (and ultimately stuck with the responsibilities of) the fish. Well, guess what? I won a fish.

Having a job: A Blessing or a Curse?

It's been about a month since I've started working at Benton Express for Infiniti, and learned quite a lot about myself. I'm definitely hard working, take pride in the quality of work I do, and a good team supporter. It just seems to be the kind of worker I am. However, I have also experienced my limits at a warehousing job at a Ross warehouse, albeit I was horribly unprepared. 

The day before working at the Ross warehouse, I was doing a more strength-based work at Benton, unloading all the boxes from the truck trailer. It is much more physically demanding than the other positions at Benton, and I was feeling a bit sore after that. After I got home, I wanted to rest, but Vicki dragged me out to her usual volunteering at PetSmart, then to a birthday party immediately after. That's pretty much my entire day outside of home, keeping me from doing my daily routines as well as from blogging like I am now. This kind of thing happens nearly every weekend now, which is why my posts have been intermittent lately. 

Finally hired... ?

Recently, I finally got to go to a temporary agency to sign myself up for some temporary jobs to do. Quite a bit of paper work to do, with a lot of the same questions being asked repeatedly. But all in the hopes of finding and getting into some decent jobs, even if it's for some experience, I went ahead and signed up for any jobs for any hours, even with physical labor jobs. I'm not very picky, and seeing how hard it's been finding a job, anything would be good at this point.

Finally though, I get a call and was asked whether if I could do a job that's at 4:30 in the morning, loading up trucks. Although it was a short notice, given that the job was for the next morning of when they called, I had to take the opportunity to work somewhere. Of course, I was tired, but given my sleeping disorder, I probably wasn't going to get any decent sleep anyway.

Poll - Rooms

I'm... not entirely sure now what really inspired me to ask this question for the poll, but the results are in.

Which room do you use more?
Bedroom - 5 votes
Other - 1 vote
Living room - 0 votes
Family room - 0 votes
Both living and family room equally - 0 votes
Living and family room are the same room (where you live) - 0 votes
None, I live outdoors - 0 votes

Pardus Rant - War in Artemis

Oyyy... This is like... what, the 5th war that the Federation has been in out of all 5 wars we've had on this server? I was thankful that we didn't have this 5th war during Christmas season like how we had the previous 2 years, but still, I was hoping that we can sit by the sidelines and watch a war between the Empire and Union for a change. This time, I'm not even in a fighter ship either, so I'm having to pick up the slack on traders while everyone else is out there, getting war medals.... or getting killed. Whichever. Regardless of me mostly staying within FHC, I've picked up a shield and packing some missiles in case I get attacked, or to participate in ambushes or something, if I'm available. It certainly does hinder my trading capabilities though with how much space these equipments take up.

Rage - Broken Telemarketing Machines

I've been getting a whole bunch of telemarketer calls on my cell phone lately, and it's becoming quite the nuisance. Most of them are for some college education at some low-ranking, for-profit colleges that I wouldn't even bother with, especially after my experience at the college I went to for a computer science degree.

While I'm at it, let me make this clear here. I have no money to pay for today's ridiculous tuition fees for college education, I absolutely hate being in debt so forget student loans, and the last thing I'd get a loan for is for mediocre education again. Seriously, what good is a degree if you can earn it without learning much in the field? How is that stupid piece of paper going to prove what I am capable of in order to get a job? I plan on just doing what artists do and build a portfolio of my works to show people that are interested in hiring me instead of a piece of paper showing proof that I spent a lot of time and money for.

Regardless, there is one place that's really been pissing me off, and it's this number. 407-218-5912

Whoever it is or whatever it is, putting that number up here wouldn't do any harm as far as I can tell because it is some machine that calls people up, I'm assuming. Except it's broken and has no pre-recorded messages to play when people answer. Just absolutely stupid. No matter how fast you answer, or call them back, they never say anything. Someone needs to hunt down this machine and smash it for everyone's sake, since Google searching this number shows that other people get these dumb calls too. Well, here's another page complaining about the number.

I wish I can get back to sleep now...

Rant - RNG Swings

I have always had a problem with games that are heavily luck-based. From my experience, they tend not to favor the player, and usually, there's very little that you can do about what the game rolls with its Random Number Generator. The sense of having a chance of win or loss is a good thing, but when the stakes are too high, and the situation of this risky gamble is forced upon you, the games tend to lose its fun IMO.

Frequent Changes in Food Business

Upon starting this blog, I asked several people, "What sort of thing would you like to see me write about?" Naturally, video games was one of them. Another topic was things that happen in my life, like a journal. Both of these are what mostly dominates my blog currently, and honestly, I'm happy with that. But one of the other topics that was suggested was reviews of restaurants that I went to. I can understand this request, but it wasn't one that I was too keen on, as from my experience, many restaurants tend to undergo many changes in a matter of months. Usually from better to worse, since the restaurants I'd be going back to are ones that I liked, until they change things that I enjoyed about the place. Well, I figured, I can always just talk about what changes I have witnessed in several restaurants I've been to and how I felt about them.

Rant - Holiday Monopoly

Holidays are nice. Your everyday routine of daily life gets spruced up for a day with something eventful and usually something pleasant. These events are usually held within a community of people to partake in traditional activities that is supposed to be fun. However, there have been greedy communities out there that seems to try to monopolize the holidays to themselves by competing with other communities for people's participation, and these greedy communities tend to be online, avatar forum sites, like Gaia Online.

S.P.A.Z. - And Bounty Hunters

I should have checked out what the update was earlier when I saw Steam update Space Pirates And Zombies on Tuesday. Turns out, they released an update for the game that now includes a... 4th.. ? Faction? The Bounty Hunters. I'm still in Chapter 4 though, so I don't know what influence they have in the game in earlier chapters, but bounty hunters are proving to be a neat addition to the game.

Rant - Parasitic Infestation

What personal blog is complete without a long rant about something that bothers the writer to the point of... well, blogging about it? So upon many requests, I'll be talking about the cats we have at this house. Unfortunately, this isn't exactly the most pleasant of my posts, despite the topic. You may not want to read on if you have a particularly carefree view of cats, and wish to maintain ignorance of what troubles they cause to people in favor of their cuteness. This post also contains strong language, so for those that are easily offended, I'm sorry to let you down with this post. As for the title, the TL;DR version is fleas. Of course, that's far from the only problem I have with cats, but enjoy your ignorance for those who wish it.

Also, here are the results for the latest poll.

How do you prefer playing FPS games?
Keyboard + Mouse: 3 votes
Controller / Gamepad: 0 votes
Motion Controls: 0 votes
Other: 0 votes
No preference: 0 votes

Feels like maybe my blog is geared towards a certain group of people to have everyone voting on the same response. Then again, 3 votes is hardly a wide sample. Are people not seeing the polls on the side?