Misery Loves League of Legends

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So with the new season of League of Legends kicking off earlier today I figured that you could all use a short break from having me bitch about animal rights, so here’s me complaining about League of Legends instead. Yeah, the game is pretty legit, isn’t it? It’s got fish people, dog people, chipmunks, and tentacle monsters. Really, the lore is just an excuse for the designers to make and do whatever they want. Want steam-punk? No problem, because Piltover’s  got you covered, boy. Scientific experiments run amok? Zaun. Pirates? Bilgewater. Vikings? Sk- I mean, Freljord.

Naturally, I somehow stumbled across porn of this guy before he was even released.

 

This bit of diverse insanity allows for there to be a pretty colourful array of characters, even if they’re usually not quite the most original concepts we’ve seen. And to be honest, not every character is really all that great either. Finally, we’ve reached to this point of this post where I can bitch about Blitzcrank. Or as I like to call it, the entire reason why I’ve written this past there being a new season. The design of this character is incredibly dumb both visually and mechanically. This character revolves around one spell. Grab them. Burst them. All right, you did your job. I mean, I’ll bitch and moan every time I face a thresh about how overpowered they are but at least he’s got a cool look and on top of that a kit that isn’t just based around landing a measly hook. We’re talking AOE displaces that can rake enemies towards you or push them, teleporting barriers, scaling armor, his basic attacks have range, and he has a box of slows. Lets face it, this is a lot more interesting than HURR. Grab. Knock-up. Shock.

 

o__________O HURR

Think I’m done yet? Hell no, I also hate Annie a lot too. She has one skill shot and the only thing you really need to watch is that you face-roll the keyboard and land her AOE every fourth cast. Naturally, because she sets people on fire alive I compare her to brand. Actually, he even kind of has the same passive. Except where hers is a universal stun his might be a bit more bull shitty because the fourth spell improves magic damage and empowers an ability. Sear for example, stuns enemies. Where I’m going with this is that he’s mechanically more interesting. He’s not “Hurr, face-roll stun” because the fourth spell you cast will have a different effect than the other and two of them are skill shots. So uh, yeah, fuck Annie.

But all complaining aside I’m excited for this season. Mages for the most part might have gotten the short end of the stick (emphasis: for the most part) but I’m hoping that this year it’ll be a good time for Nasus, Wukong, Kennen, Fizz, and the countless other adorable characters that I like. Hope y’all have a good season and try not to be a dick that ruins games for people. If I start having trouble on that end I’ll probably start bitching about that too on this blog too.

 

Misery Loves Word Games

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Following my previous post I still don’t have much of a clue with what I’m doing, but fortunately this time I’ve got a few pictures for you guys to look at.  Don’t expect much of a change though, because all you’re going to find here is still whining and moaning about how people suck. Oh well, I’ll try and get straight to the point from here.

In my previous post I practically ended it with saying this:

“If I’ve learned anything it’s that this kind of shit is acceptable but a line gets crossed pretty quickly once someone might possibly be self-righteous.”

And more or less this post is going to continue from where we’ve left off. So yeah, you can basically do any shitty thing to an animal but you’re bound to make a lot of enemies if you say hurtful mean things to a person regardless of whether they’re warranted or not. When some sadistic prick kills animals for fun and then posts pictures of it online with a shit-eating grin of his “accomplishment”the legality of that photo is pretty much solely dependent on the animal in question. Fair to say, you can pretty much get away with doing anything to a Wolf. Place a trap down and just leave a wolf to suffer in pain until it dies? There’s absolutely no problem with that at all so long as it’s in the right place at the right time. That’s neither seen as negligent or animal cruelty and those mean animal rights activists are bullies for insulting and threatening them.

Q_Q But what the fuck about me being called names online?

 

Boo-Fucking-Hoo. An animal had to wait in sheer torment for it’s miserable life to end and yet the greater wrong here is name-calling by some random person online? Wow, what a self-centered piece of shit. How can anyone lack this much self-awareness?

Now, lets change the animal from being a Wolf to a dog. If you beat a dog then you go to jail. Okay, it’s acceptable that there’s consequences to abusing an animal but hopefully you’ve picked up on what’s wrong here. This is committing an act that’s objectively less abusive, cruel, and violent brings a far greater punishment than another. This is a lot like allowing a rapist to walk free and telling people to respect their criminal behavior while throwing the cuffs on a guy that at worse maybe grabbed a girls ass once or twice. The societal outlook on these two behaviors are completely disproportional.

Factory farming is kind of the same way. Between supporting an industry that thrives on suffering and misery and some vegan telling someone that what they’re doing is immoral it should be blatantly clear which one of the two genuinely warrants criticism. Throwing the word “self-righteous” at a critic simply isn’t a valid justification. In fact, you know what? It wouldn’t even matter if the guy killed and ate people. No matter how stupid and hypocritical their own particular position is their criticism of your own character doesn’t just magically vanish. The act that’s being commited is still immoral and cruel and there really isn’t much of a valid defense for it.

And it doesn’t just end there either. We can go back to my earlier point about how fucked up and disproportional our outlook is. Beat a pet pig? Jail. Slaughter? Mmm . . . bacon. Don’t get me wrong though, I know exactly what these guys are thinking. They’ll probably say some nonsense along the lines of “The difference is that one of them is bred to be a pet and the other Hurp. They’re property used for different things” Because you know, that’s totally an intellectually honest and non-sociopathic way to look at another genuine living creature. As property. Every time I look at my cats? Yeah, they’re not family, they’re property. It’s totally all right to slaughter animals because they’re owned as property to be slaughtered – and this totally isn’t circular reasoning to argue that it’s all right to raise animals to be slaughtered because we raise them to be slaughtered.

So for anyone reading this that might be white trash I guess I’ll spell it out one last time: Whenever someone says something mean or hurtful towards you that may include death threats? Yeah, that’s not half as bad as, you know, literally killing an animal. Wolf or dog, pig or pork,  it doesn’t put someone in the wrong to point out that what you’re doing is wrong or in the worst case of scenarios, to point out that you’re a piece of shit.

mmm . . . bacon.

Misery loves company

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I really wish I could follow that up with something else that’s jovial but really, I’m in a pretty bitchy mood at the moment. The title sums it all up perfectly so anything past this point is probably being redundant. You see, my facebook is pretty much divided between being cutesy stuff that I share with my small circle of friends and family and the rest is usually a  barrage of animal cruelty.  I’m talking about poaching, animals being set on fire, dog-fighting and other wonderful stuff to that effect.

You know, that’s the kind of shit I can almost handle though. The world accepts that this shit is wrong. Or at the very least, it’s no revelation that setting an animal on fire might make you into a bit of a dickhead. What pisses me off the most is when it’s legal. Factory farming, whaling, (and oh boy, the people bitching about the latter without any sense of self-awareness is ceaseless) fur, hunting. Yeah, these are the ones that really test me. Animal rights as some vague nebulous statement is something everyone can rally behind, no matter what kind gun-toting nutjob they are. . . but once you ask someone to adjust a behavior or two then well, they suddenly don’t seem all too fond of animal rights. They’re for animal rights so long as you let them engage in the animal cruelty of their choosing. The hunters are for animal rights so long as you let them hunt. The people who wear fur are for animal rights so long as they can wear fur. The people who eat meat are for animal rights so long as they can eat meat.

You know what they say about throwing stones in glass houses, don’t you?

So, I’m really not getting what the expectation here is supposed to be when everyone that’s for animal rights doesn’t seem to see any transgressions being done against animals. Cows being treated like objects, caged, chopped up and sold? If I’ve learned anything it’s that this kind of shit is acceptable but a line gets crossed pretty quickly once someone might possibly be self-righteous.

This actually felt pretty therapeutic for me but my mind is beginning to feel like a garbled mess so I guess I’ll make this the last paragraph. This probably wasn’t very focused but meh, I’ve got a million things to whine and moan about and it’s taking me a lot of restraint just to try and keep it to this.

Have a good night and don’t be a cunt that kills animals for fun.