Slow Days

The heat has finally his SoCal. It's a real doozy (it's hot in my room nearly 100% of the time, save the early hours). It's been a real pain to fall asleep since I'm constantly laying around in my own sweat, and my parents don't want to turn on the AC during the night (and our AC sucks anyways). I have a tower AC unit in my room, but I only use that during the day to save electricity. The summer heat makes me extremely lethargic and apathetic to pretty much everything.

 

Nonetheless, recent events in the past few days have made me feeling the crappiest I've ever been.

 

The manga site that I frequent had been recently ordered a cease-and-desist order from a coalition of Japanese and American publishers. Public reaction to the whole incident has been entirely negative. Some people might note that this was warranted, even necessary. It's not warranted, especially since the case was that 95% of the mangas ordered to be removed are not available anywhere outside Japan. So essentially, the entire manga library was sacked, and hundreds of users are not happy about it (the thread on this reached 50 pages with over 21,000 views in this very day's worth of time).

 

Facebook, for me, has been mostly a lurking tool. I don't speak much, and I have only about 40 friends on my page. Which brings me to friends, and people, in general. I really wish people would stop judging books by their covers. I'm not exactly the most handsome guy; actually, I'm pretty portly. Most people come off thinking that I'm some sort of stupid and/or retarded and make snide comments as such. It doesn't earn them my favor, and people who do that sort of thing earn an eternal spot on my blacklist (which means, they better have a good memory, in case they end up working for me). As such, my social standing pretty much sucks. Sometimes I even wonder why I have a Facebook.

 

Games have hit a real slump recently. I'm literally sitting at my computer all the time, playing some games, but most of the time sitting here on Firefox browsing and lurking my sites. I know I have a pretty bad case of internet addiction, but when your parents are always relegating you to house arrest (and I'm close to 18, so this is getting pretty stupid), what can you do? I've been playing Heroes of Might and Magic V: Collector's Edition and Warzone 2100 (a real old RTS from yonder). I re-installed Thief: Deadly Shadows, but hardware problems have caused some unusual situations that prevent me from playing it.

 

I desperately want to be allowed a credit card so I can buy games like Metal Drift off of Steam (check it out, they've got a tournament going on), and Perimeter and Ground Control 2 off of GoG, and not to mention that I intend to get TERA and the Warhammer 40K MMO in the future as well. Being on house arrest and financially strapped don't make good combos.

 

Here's the Metal Drift tournament video:

 

-Delta