The Chucksphere

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Boy am I slightly disappointed about what Blizzard is doing to my (and everyone else’s) Resto Druid(s).

Links:
Cataclysm Class Changes: Resto druid analysis
Restoration and the Tree Druid’s future
The forest and the trees
Moonkin, a history (for context)
Deforestation into Homogenization
New Resto Changes

Too lazy to write about the Lost finale, but too proud to miss a month of blogging.

Lost 6.17 The End
How SHOULD Lost have Ended?
Sci Fi oriented shows that turn metaphysical in the end like Lost & BSG. Are you OK with this?
Someone from Bad Robot’s take on the Finale *Updated*

Codeorgan is great.

Did Stephen Colbert just manage to do a much more insightful interview than Jon Stewart? The world is topsy-turvey!

I do believe I am in love with the song “Mad World.” In order to put off the paper I’m writing, here are the three versions of the song I could find, in the order in which I like them.

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3.

Man, maybe I need a “music” category. Anyway, thanks to Pandora for the first and best one and Youtube for the other two.

One week since Obama signed healthcare reform into law and the world hasn’t ended? Does the right notice?

Fuck exams, fuck south quad, fuck Monster energy drink, fuck the American revolution, fuck the university of Michigan, and FUCK all this other shit.

I just got around to seeing Bill O’Reilly’s interview with Jon Stewart. Saw both the unedited version and the cut version on the show. What struck me most about the unedited one was how subtle the editing on the shown version was. There were some major skips, but most of the scenes that were cut flowed fairly seamlessly in the edited version.

Aired clip 1

Aired clip 2

Aired clip 3

Just kidding. There is no hope here. The demands of college have pretty much determined that the most content I’ll be able to produce for any of the Chucksphere projects is the occasional emo rant or an extremely belated May Day Mystery post (I’m still working on December’s). However, I spruced up the blog by putting it on the front page, then spruced it up again by changing the pallete to something not retarded. The content, though, is still up to its usual level “inspiration.” Let’s take a look at how the Projects faired this year:

Chuck’s World O’ Wargames: LOL. Why do I still have this?

Small Island Nation: Moved to on-site Wiki, which was spam-botted into oblivion. No movement made since August.

The Wildcat Code: Hard to keep up with, due to the demands of college. Still haven’t gotten the December ad finished.

One bright spot: I now have a forum where I can voice my foreign policy opinions. I wrote a peice for the Roosevelt Institutue which made it to the front page, and there are many more to come.

This “holiday” is travesty and worthy of ridicule. All it does is remind certain among us that we’re going to die alone by giving all couples throughout the country carte blanche to be That Couple. You all know a That Couple, so you would know how much of a pain in the ass you’re all being if you weren’t stuck at the center of some romantic-holiday-induced black hole and are constitutionally incabable of seeing past the annoying-as-fuck-event-horizon.

By this point in my life I’ve pretty much given up on trying to find companionship. I got my hopes up quite recently, and poked my head out of my shell, but got knocked right back in there. Fuck You, world.

To celebrate, please enjoy these Joe Jackson songs.

MTV News has exclusively learned from Emmerich himself that “Foundation” will be a 3-D epic using technology similar to the CG motion-capture techniques used in “Avatar.” (MTV Movies Blog)

Why God why do these stories have to be special-effects extravaganzas? I mean, there are some parts that would be more demanding of special-effects than, say, an episode of Lost, but I cannot for the life of me figure out why a series that consists mostly of dialogue and exposition needs to be done in complete CGI? I think it’s a safe bet to say that these movies (there will be three of them) will probably diverge from their source material into some SFX-encrusted action-fest, like I, Robot. I’m sure the momentum of Dr. Asimov spinning in his grave right now is enough to power the entire Eastern Seaboard. (Roland Emmerich Fights Global Warming?)

If someone had asked me, I could probably have done it as a proper mini-series at about the same price per episode as an episode of Battlestar Galactica. But no-one ever fucking does ask me, do they? And now it’s ruined forever.

Ruined FOREVER.

Also, a faux text-trailor I found particularly amusing. (Courtesty of the Straight Dope.)

I just* finished my third semester of college. I am not a happy man. Those two statements are far from unrelated.

*For certain vaules of “just.” I got out on the 21st.