My life is ridiculous as of now, but I promise to start writing in this soon. I promise. Substance too; go figure.
Seriously. Soon.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
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Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Obama craziness
So, Obama is the new president. I have never even really cared about any presidential inauguration (especially that last guy) but I was overwhelmed with excitement today.
I got out of class minutes before twelve and once I got home and turned the TV on Barack was just about to be sworn in. His speech was great as expected and even though i never fall for clever rhetoric or take powerful speeches to heart too much I must admit even I, the cynic felt a bit emotional hearing it. I just felt like regardless of anything else, we finally had a president that cared about the right things. That said, I'm still a pessimist and not expecting this country to pull its head out of it's ass, at least not entirely, any time soon. But my perspective has drifted from absolutely hopeless to "this country just might have a chance." I hope that first of all he's elected next term as well ( I can't imagine anyone else coming out of the woodwork being worthy of succeeding him, even before seeing him in action) but I also really hope to see some changes. Not just in the obvious things like health care and our wonderful middle east situations, though those are certainly very legitimate and important concerns, but I would like to see a gradual change in attitudes of the public, and of government officials.
In that whole speech what impressed me the most was the fact that Obama mentioned various religions and then in an accepting way, acknowledged non-believers. I can't think of any president that's ever done such a thing. With the exception of some early presidents that for some reason, some truly un-biased historians never recorded. We're lucky enough to even know most founding fathers were atheists (and most people don't even know that.) At the same time, "non-believer" is a somewhat condescending term- as if we should believe. But in this society, that's still a big step so I'll take it without much complaint.
In video game news; I got Call of Duty: World at war when I got back from winter break and played it quite a bit. I finished the single player story which was entertaining enough to get through but i have no interest in ever playing it again and Call of Duty 4's story was much more engaging. Upon completing the game you're given a a cool zombie mini game that's actually quite well thought out and has some decent depth to it. Though it was fun a few times it was clearly meant for at least 2 to 4 people. When I played with my roommate it was significantly more enjoyable and the ability to revive each other instead of just dying, makes it much less frustrating and each session last much longer. Though the online was fun, I started getting really sick of it by the end of the week. I love the Call of Duty formula for online multiplayer but there just wasn't enough to distinguish it enough from the last game. It was all the same but in a different setting and with a few tweaks.
Next on my queue are Resistance 2 and Prince of Persia. There really isn't a whole lot I'm too excited for in either of them but there is literally nothing else of interest currently out, so we'll see how one of those are in a few days.
-B
I got out of class minutes before twelve and once I got home and turned the TV on Barack was just about to be sworn in. His speech was great as expected and even though i never fall for clever rhetoric or take powerful speeches to heart too much I must admit even I, the cynic felt a bit emotional hearing it. I just felt like regardless of anything else, we finally had a president that cared about the right things. That said, I'm still a pessimist and not expecting this country to pull its head out of it's ass, at least not entirely, any time soon. But my perspective has drifted from absolutely hopeless to "this country just might have a chance." I hope that first of all he's elected next term as well ( I can't imagine anyone else coming out of the woodwork being worthy of succeeding him, even before seeing him in action) but I also really hope to see some changes. Not just in the obvious things like health care and our wonderful middle east situations, though those are certainly very legitimate and important concerns, but I would like to see a gradual change in attitudes of the public, and of government officials.
In that whole speech what impressed me the most was the fact that Obama mentioned various religions and then in an accepting way, acknowledged non-believers. I can't think of any president that's ever done such a thing. With the exception of some early presidents that for some reason, some truly un-biased historians never recorded. We're lucky enough to even know most founding fathers were atheists (and most people don't even know that.) At the same time, "non-believer" is a somewhat condescending term- as if we should believe. But in this society, that's still a big step so I'll take it without much complaint.
In video game news; I got Call of Duty: World at war when I got back from winter break and played it quite a bit. I finished the single player story which was entertaining enough to get through but i have no interest in ever playing it again and Call of Duty 4's story was much more engaging. Upon completing the game you're given a a cool zombie mini game that's actually quite well thought out and has some decent depth to it. Though it was fun a few times it was clearly meant for at least 2 to 4 people. When I played with my roommate it was significantly more enjoyable and the ability to revive each other instead of just dying, makes it much less frustrating and each session last much longer. Though the online was fun, I started getting really sick of it by the end of the week. I love the Call of Duty formula for online multiplayer but there just wasn't enough to distinguish it enough from the last game. It was all the same but in a different setting and with a few tweaks.
Next on my queue are Resistance 2 and Prince of Persia. There really isn't a whole lot I'm too excited for in either of them but there is literally nothing else of interest currently out, so we'll see how one of those are in a few days.
-B
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