So I have been doing the whole Myspace thing for about 8 months now. For the most part it’s been fine. I managed to not make a disaster of my profile page like 90% of the rest of Myspacers have. I enjoy browsing the bands and film maker’s sites there are listed. Cheese It even has their own Myspace page for pimping of the Stupid Hobbitsess Videos (though I think the Youtube versions get more hits). The concept of Myspace works very well and I enjoy checking it and keeping in touch with friends.
That being said….. Why are there so many [bleep]-tards on there?!?!?! Let’s go over a few bullet points about Myspace shall we?
If I have not met you in person, or at least know you so well that I talk to you on a regular basis, I have no need to add you as a friend. This is important because I regularly get invites from people that are “LOL yur in a costume that’s cool! Be my friend” Or the less offensive ones of “Hey Club buddy, I do that too!” Sorry, even though the 501st is a tight knit club, there are still 5000 of us out there and that means probably a good 4900 that I haven’t met. I like the 501st all well and good and you may be like me but, but let’s be honest, if I met me on the street at random, I may not be inclined to talk to me. ESPECIALLY do not send a friend request without a message as well that says “hey, I am so and so.” Just getting random requests does nothing for me.
If you post this Bulletin, Hot Women will have sex in your back yard! Snopes is your friend! Back in the early days of e-mail, people would send out the standard “Open this e-mail and you will instantly get $50,000 in your bank account” types of e-mails. These have migrated to Myspace in the way of Bulletins! Apparently there are millions of Sick kids with Bill Gates’ money that want to send chain messages to the world! It’s fake, really.
Spam Spam Spam, Myspace Messages, Spam and Spam. Yup, the spammers have found their way into the myspace message system. Not surprising really, but they come in three flavors, one less entertaining than the others.
You have a new Myspace Message! It’s Viagra Just for You! Apparently Belinda on myspace is concerned with the size of my member…..ship status and thinks I need enhancements! Nothing new here, just the usual spam mail. This is the boring one.
You have a new Myspace Message! Hey there Handsome! Now Belinda is sending me a message because she thinks my myspace profile looks cool and so I must want to hang out with her cause, like, you know, the picture I have is so totally hot!. She has hot pics of her and her BFF (Jill?) on an isolated island together where they had to sponge bathe each other. I should check out the link she sent. This would be fine and dandy if I hadn’t gotten this message on the Cheese It profile page. Which has no pictures, or any personal information.
You have a new Friend Request! Lillian wants to be your friend! Wow, this incredibly hot babe who is wearing next to nothing wants to be my friend! Her profile looks pretty standard……….. and she only has one picture up………….. and her about me section says something about a profile on another site that allows naked photos! It’s amazing that she would pick ME to be her friend! She must really like me! Oh… wait, she has a few other friends… The list if growing…. Now there are comments? People are actually accepting her friend requests? Not only are they accepting, but leaving comments like this person is REAL! I feel bad for the girls whose photos are being used for this, because there are only like 5 photos that get rotated and all have different names. I don’t know which is sadder, that spammers are using photos and accounts to do this, or that there are morons on Myspace that fall for it because either 1: they want to add to their list of 679936320 friends, or 2: they actually believe this person is real.
So over all, myspace is not bad. There are just so many people registered that it brings the average IQ of myspace down to that of a 3 year old. So please people, help bring this average up. Flag the spam as spam to help Tom Identify the bad guys. Ignore/Deny the spam friend requests. And please, if you honest and truly know me, feel free to add me as a friend, but if we have never met, try getting to know me first!
So apparently I have gone missing from the blog in the last week. After the release of Stupid Hobbitsess last week I kind of took a breather. It was nice to step away from the PC and just relax! I did play a little on the 360, but hey, can you really ask me to completely unplug? So here is a run down of the last week.
My shoulder is killing me now because I went a little overboard on playing pool. It has been a long standing tradition to go and play pool for lunch every Tuesday. I have been doing this for about 2 years now (maybe even more). Well, last week on Friday it was a slow day so we decided to go again. Then on Saturday, Paul calls me up and asks to go shoot pool. Then Sunday Andrew and I have started a tradition of going to play pool and eat brunch. So in one week’s time I was playing pool 4 out of the 7 days! Towards the end there it showed too. I was worn down. 
Interesting note and something that maybe you guys can explain. Why is it that teenagers feel the need to argue even if they know, and have been proven, they are wrong? Seriously! There was a shot in pool where the 9 ball was sitting near the side pocket. It was very close to the corner bumper of the pocket and from the angle I was shooting at, it would have caused it to hit the bumper and roll out, instead of going in. So I shot for something else. Andrew asked why I didn’t go for the 9. I explained why I didn’t and he didn’t understand, instead saying that it would have gone in. After explaining again, he still didn’t get it. So after the game was done I re-set the ball in the exact location and lined up the cue. He then spent the next 10 minutes trying to sink the 9 to no avail. Even now it claims that “it should have gone in” even though he proved to himself that it wouldn’t. WHY???????
Ok, I have been asked enough about my opinion on Spiderman 3 that I will do a full up post about it (as opposed to the one I did a while back). So, a little back story on my spider fandom. I Love Spiderman. I was into photography and science when I was in school, I was the geeky kid and every time I tried to Microwave a spider and get it to bite me it only ended in a messy microwave. With the exception of a few years of black out, I have been collecting Spiderman comics for a long while and I am fascinated with the Black suit. I loved it when he got it, I loved it when Felicia gave him a new version of it that wasn’t all angsty. I even followed the 3-4 Different origins of the costume through the different media forms. (Cartoon, Video games, Movies, Etc.) I actually own 1 Spiderman Costume and will have another one shortly. 
Spiderman 2 was amazing. They already established the characters, so there was no really awkward introductions. They brought in Doc Oc, who is another great villain. Even approached the idea of Spidey having issues with his powers. You really felt was he was going through and saw the pressures of the costume. The side story of Harry having father issues was a tad distracting but forgivable. (In the comics, since Goblin didn’t die, he was in jail, everyone knew who he was and Harry knew he was a bad guy). One scene I wasn’t fond of was the subway thing where Peters mask was off and everyone did the whole “We won’t tell” thing. BS. There would be about 30 Cell phone camera flashes going off and J.J. would have front page stories for a month! And, of course, they kill off the bad guy, again.
The black suit. This is where I am a little touchy. I realize that we can’t do the whole Secret Wars thing for the movie so an asteroid as an origin is fine, they even used it in the cartoon. The look and feel of the symboite was even good. I loved how it mimicked his old costume even! But that would be where the good stopped. One of the benefits of the black suit was that it could mimic clothing. ANY clothing. Peter would just think of something and bam, that’s what he was wearing. No need for new clothes, no need to duck in somewhere and change! This way he was always wearing the suit and it could bond with him. The symboite LOVED Peter, it loved being (the goddamn) Spiderman. It gave Peter the extra strength and made him a little extra angry. It didn’t turn him into the lead singer of My Chemical Romance! (The shot of him pulling the hair down into his face made me groan)
Now, Venoms origin was dead on! Eddie Brock hated Peter (and wasn’t all that fond of Spidey) and the whole bell tower church thing was pulled right from the comics. Topher Grace even did a pretty good job of portraying Eddies arrogance and attitude! I am willing to forgive some of the relationship between Peter and the Symboite being left out because of time. When I say that the black suit loved Peter, I meant it. It was a bond. Like that of a girlfriend you had been dating for a very long time. Those feeling don’t go away even if that person was slowly trying to kill you/drive you crazy. In the comics, Peter went to the bell tower because he knew that the sonics of the bells would drive the suit away……at the cost of his own life. The bells of deafening, and the sound was also killing Peter. When the suit leaves him, it realizes this and drags Peter to safety BEFORE bonding with Brock. But that’s ok, time constraints kept that out. The reason that this is important is that it becomes leverage in the future fights with Venom where Peter uses this love to Defeat Brock. In the comics Peter actually invites the suit to come back to him and it causes inner turmoil in Venom because it had already fully bonded with Brock. But I digress.
Last point of criticism, Gwen Stacy. WHY OH WHY WAS SHE IN THE MOVIE???? Gwen was one of Peters first girl friends. She falls in the timeline while Pete was still in school. He was on again off again with Mary Jane and started seeing Gwen while MJ was with Harry. They were quite serious. Green Goblin kidnapped her and threw her off a building. 
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So, a funny story for you. We all know about the water heater disaster from last weekend. Well, ever since they finished up with all of that there was this strange noise like air in the pipes coming from the tub faucet. (also a new drip). On Wednesday evening I asked them to come take a look at it. The office told me that it would be the next day. Since I could still take a shower with no problems, I figured that was cool. Well, that night it was pretty warm out. It was pretty warm inside too. A little too warm. Hmmm Maybe I should turn up the AC. Wow, it’s blowing out air, but it’s not cold. Lets crank it up some more. Nope, not doing the trick. [Sigh]. 
When I got home I went into the bathroom to check the tub. No more noise and no drip! Unfortunately, the cold water knob now doesn’t work!!! Not sure how you would miss that one. 
So over the last few days I have copious amounts of free time, sort of, while the workmen were trouncing through my apartment. They needed to completely rip out all the padding, dry the carpet, replace the padding and clean the carpet. The first two were done on Monday during the day, the last on Tuesday. This means that I had to sit and watch them do all this. Given that the entertainment unit was still hooked up, I managed to get in some web swinging with Spiderman 3 the game. There are so many reviews out there that are mixed feelings (kind of like how I am about the movie) so I am not going to bore you with the “this part could be better” crap. The coolest part about the game is the web swinging through New York. They rendered out a full Manhattan Island and it looks amazing. You can go down into the subway, ride a train, sling shot from the Bugle to Central park and it all is spectacular!
When Spidey encounters bad guys he has to do his standard hyper agile fighting style and that comes across in the game. Too many times I went through some button mashing and came across a move that I shouted out “Holy CRAP! That was cool!” The missions are interesting and help move the story along, but aren’t so long that you get tired of them. It’s nice because they are broken into parts. Each part advances the story line but isn’t too long, so you can do part 1 of this mission, and part 3 of that one. 
There are a series of missions where you have to take Mary Jane for a “Thrill ride.” Now don’t get your hopes up, it’s a E rated game. In these missions, you basically are a shuttle service for MJ. She has an important appointment that she has to get to and instead of calling a cab (or getting that two timing rat Harry to fly her on his magical snowboard) she has to ride on your back. This wouldn’t be so bad if you were going straight to where she needs to go. Nooooo She wants you to Swing Low, close to the ground, then Swing High to the top of that building, now go really fast! The whole time she is screaming out what she wants you to do but yet you have a time limit and have to get her there before the clock runs out. But wait, there’s more! Along the way you collect hearts, when you do what she wants you collect hearts, and there are these big hearts you grab on your way past. If you don’t fill up on hearts before you get to the end point, you fail. So it’s bad enough I have to be her shuttle service, but now if she doesn’t love me enough by the end point, I fail. 
