matthias_wave: Just what it says - Drow are not good eating (Default)
Not going to go on at length about the recent shenanigans with LJ. You can probably see thoughts analogous to mine on the matter in any of a kajillion posts that've gone up recently, or any of the comments (which must be approaching 20,000 in total by now) put up on the various news and release posts related to r88. Some of the comments on the latter actually are mine, as are the three feedback submissions, one technical support request, and one suggestion submission that have been sent in to LJ.

I'm just going to contribute two things if there's anyone on my flist that hasn't seen them:
This post regarding what [livejournal.com profile] igrick thinks of all of us English-speaking users (because we're all Americans, of course)
and this one about why everyone's complaining the new layout gives them headaches.

That said, I'm leaving. Not as much because of the changes themselves as because of LJ's handling of them and its position as the end a downward spiral regarding its treatment of its users. Any continued presence I have on LJ is going to be for the benefit of RPs I'm in that don't move; my personal journal, as little as it gets used, will be moving over to Dreamwidth. I'm matthias_wave there, too, so anyone else hopping over there, feel free to add me! All the old stuff here's getting imported over there if there's anything you can't bear to lose for some reason (not that I'm deleting this; it's not as if anyone else is likely to want this journal name).

... That's more length than I'd planned on, but oh well. Thanks for putting up with me, friends! Hope to see you again later!
matthias_wave: (ain vero)
Okay, this is beginning to annoy me. Since around one o'clock this afternoon - maybe longer, but that was the first chance I've had to get on line since early morning yesterday (yeah, I stay up way too late) - I've been having problems with three sites:

1) LJ itself - most pages seem to take somewhere between ten minutes and half an hour to load completely. It seems to stall out on the ads. A couple pages load at the normal rate, though - I've only seen it in two communities so far ([livejournal.com profile] dramadramaduck and [livejournal.com profile] kingdomdressing)
2) Plurk completely refuses to load.
3) Some pages on Neopets also take ages to load.

Now, for a while, I had this problem where Plurk and LJ would occasionally do this, but that a) went away if I quit and restarted Firefox; b) didn't happen at all in Safari; and c) stopped happening once I fixed the thing that was preventing me from upgrading Firefox. So far I've tried restarting Firefox - no luck. Switching over to Safari didn't work either. Nor did restarting the whole computer. The fact that it's three different sites makes me hesitate to blame it on the sites themselves, especially Neopets (which has never done this before even when this happened normally), but the other options are either my computer or the dorm's internet connection, and I'm slightly mystified as to why either of those would have screwed up in the time I was offline.

Has this been happening for anyone else?
matthias_wave: Just what it says - Drow are not good eating (Default)
The Tea Party movement has apparently reached new levels of stupid. The Oregon branch appropriated Anonymous' slogan (the general name for the near-hivemind that trollers originating from the /b/ boards on 4chan sometimes show). Unchanged. And then Anonymous spammed their Facebook page until they took down the slogan and had to blank out their wall completely.

As I remarked (it should be at the very end of the comments at time of posting, somewhere on page 4):

Re: the "How could they do this?" comments - I'm assuming sabotage. Someone suggested the slogan without explaining what it meant.

Of course, that doesn't address the fact that the slogan has absolutely nothing to do with the Tea Party, or how they apparently failed to notice that Anonymous is capitalized. Or the fact that, as someone pointed out, Legion (capitalized) was the name of a group of demons. That were exorcised and put into pigs. Which immediately drowned themselves.

On second thought, that's a great name for them, considering what they've just done XD
matthias_wave: (Omnes arx vestri sunt nobis habentur)
 I'm kind of vaguely terrified of going back to school, because I wasn't able to avoid having early classes and I know I don't wake up to alarms anymore. And I have a freaking electromagnetics lab at eight in the morning.

The Persona plot that's starting at DDD made me realize two things. The first is an interesting parallel - Shadows in P4 have yellow eyes. Yellow eyes are also used to indicate Darkness in Kingdom Hearts - all Heartless have yellow eyes, and apparently travel in the Dark Corridors causes it if you aren't protected (by the Organization's cloaks, apparently - there's supposedly a scene in Re: Chain of Memories that says this). That gives us DiZ, Xemnas, Xigbar, and Saïx that have done so, though Saïx's eyes might just be for more werewolf parallels.

The other is that Gourry Gabriev is badass. Seriously. This is a guy with absolutely no magical power - the only one of the main characters that doesn't - who stood up to the Lord of Nightmares. A being who is one step above God. For those of you familiar with Dr. Who (which is how I figured this out, Zelgadiss was talking to Ten), think of the Eternals. For anybody who speaks D&D, think something at Overdeity levels. Ao, or the Lady of Pain, or something from the Far Realm.

Completely unrelated to the rest of the post: I has a new icon. It is Latin for "All your base are belong to us." Literally: All-citadel-yours (pl)-are-by us-owned.

Also, anyone know what a good fandom to transplant someone from FFIV would be? Cecil's been hanging around my brain and I need a male character at [livejournal.com profile] permanent_way ...

I've discovered a fanmade World of Darkness game called Genius: the Transgression. Which is about mad scientists. And there's a PDF set up like a typical setting book. And it is generally awesomeness. I should see if there are any others like that...
matthias_wave: Just what it says - Drow are not good eating (Writhing and Reeling)
Concerning transportation, cursing, and a play by Tom Stoppard called Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth.

This could get long )
matthias_wave: Just what it says - Drow are not good eating (Writhing and Reeling)
All right. I already play someone at [livejournal.com profile] permanent_way, but another muse has decided to camp out in my consciousness. Which is irritating because she isn't even fully put together yet.

See, it's Erika, one of the Gym Leaders from Pokemon. Not only would this involve either watching the episodes of the anime or finding the bits of the manga that she shows up in, but Permanent Way requires that all characters be played from a different canon.

And I can't decide where she'd be from, though she insists on going there. The possibilities that present themselves are Code Lyoko and Kingdom Hearts.

Of course, in the former case I'd have to go rewatch at least bits of Code Lyoko, if not the whole freaking thing...

*needs Muse-B-Gone...*

Oh dear...

Apr. 7th, 2009 08:02 pm
matthias_wave: Just what it says - Drow are not good eating (Writhing and Reeling)
I've been on a Discworld kick lately - as in rereading the series. I've just finished rereading Interesting Times.

And Pretty Butterfly - as in Twoflower's daughter - has decided to encamp in my head.

... How does one tell a snarky kung fu revolutionary girl that one really doesn't need any more muses at the moment?

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