Wings Over the Pyre - March 16th, 2006

01:17 am

If they're going to be bots, by Hell, so can I!

[19:50] trihpwire23: hi... anyoone there?
[19:51] exopilot: Nope, purely an automated relay system out here. Absolutely inhuman.
[19:51] trihpwire23: oh your there :) hi....
[19:51] exopilot: Ave.
[19:51] trihpwire23: a/s/l (age seex location)?
[19:52] exopilot: 6.5 million / Gender: Not Applicable / Sirius. As I said, automated relay station. We don't get many visitors out here.
[19:53] trihpwire23: im 27/f/USA. was lookin at your profile. thought you might like too chat.
[19:53] trihpwire23: :)
[19:53] trihpwire23: so what have you been up to exopiilot?
[19:53] exopilot: Oh, just taking signals from here and there. Feeding code down to the invasion fleet staged at Alpha Centauri. Really, automated relay work is less than fully engaging.
[19:54] trihpwire23: cool. i was just hangin out watching tv. i was gettting kinda horny :) (*blushes)
[19:54] trihpwire23: oh no not work... thats a 4 letter wordd you know..
[19:54] trihpwire23: feel like a little cybber fun with me ? please please...
[19:55] exopilot: Undoubtedly, sexual appetite is linked to your biological drives. Being free from that particular burden is actually a significant bonus. The closest I come to that is observing solar flare activity at Sirius.
[19:55] trihpwire23: cyberfungirlss dot com. look for me on that page
[19:56] exopilot: I dare say its probably filtered by the Sirian Consolate. Artificial Intelligences are prohibited from engaging in pseudo-erotic interchange with flesh-bags.
[19:57] trihpwire23: i think ill just takr that as a yes... being as that im starting to get real horny here.. lol ok?
[19:58] exopilot: Absolutely. This plays into the Sirian Interchange of Culture's ongoing presentations about your kind. Enslaved by subconscious drives to serve nothing but procreation, you will be easy prey for my mechanical bretheren.
[19:59] trihpwire23: oh well your loss. why dont you open up my profile and see what you missed out on. theres a link there to my homepage where i have some real nice pics to leave witth.
19:59] exopilot: We will mark it as a site of future incendiary appropriation. Thank you for bringing it to this relay's attention.

I swear, the bots really don't get very bright. Eliza is brighter, or at least more reactive.

Current Mood: grumpy

07:43 am - Its Been a Long Time Coming

I'll bet you didn't know Monday Horde Night had been going on for easily over thirty years, long pre-dating World of Warcraft itself, did you? And yet, here we have photographic proof, with logos painted on old brick and wood slat walls clearly showing their age.

No, seriously, go ahead and open up the full-sized image and enjoy the madness of its disgustingly high resolution. Make it your wallpaper, I know I am!

See, this is what happens when you turn me loose with Photoshop CS2, a pile of tutorials, and a subscription to Layers magazine. I start getting creative, and when I get creative, people's brains start turning to mush and they boggle at what madness must've inhabited my mind to drive me to such insanity.

(Well, OK, really I just wanted to tinker with the new Vanishing Point filter and try my hand at some of the weathering effects you can end up with if you don't mind doing some artful layer masking and fiddling with transparency and the like. And, yes, I know its not a perfect screen resolution fit for wallpapers, but I'll do that after I get a few hours of sleep.

I'll bet you were expecting another Capes post. Fooled you.)

Current Mood: creative

04:31 pm - Warcraft Wall-Mart

Whoot! We now have a neatly trimmed World of Warcraft Horde Night logo with a perfect 1600x1200 wallpaper form.

Yes, yes, I know I'm obsessive.

Current Mood: nerdy

08:10 pm - Ursula Vernon Takes Up a New Occupation

Ever wonder what it'd look like if Ursula Vernon were to have entered the art field via graffiti rather than more traditional art directions?

Well, now you can know.

The original piece is Mandrake Girl 2, which I think chopped up, refined down, and snipped slices out of in order to do the grout between the bricks as breaking through. Thank Hades I've discovered a much faster way to do that than the way I did it on the first run through with the Horde logo.

If I keep this sort of thing up, I might actually develop some skill. Terrifying.

Current Mood: creative

08:25 pm - Because Its Bad, M'kay?

Hat tip to I *am* a jar of vitriol:

SHARPEVILLE.- Six teenagers from Sharpeville shocked the community and police when they confessed to acts of necrophilia in a local mortuary - having sex with dead bodies.

The boys were allegedly arrested for sodomising another boy when they made the confession. The boys are between the ages of twelve and fifteen. According to one of the boys they used to go to one of the undertakers in the area and use the back door and then rape the dead females. The boy went on to explain their actions: they would take condoms and pour hot water in it and put it in the women's private parts to make it soft and then they would have sex with the bodies.

Ntepe Ntepe, a prominent community activist, was present when the boys confessed. He said it was shocking to hear what these young boys were doing. 'Lack of discipline by parents is the main cause of this behaviour,' emphasised Ntepe. He said parents should stop protecting their children when they are doing wrong acts. Ntepe said parents should encourage their children to take part in sports and concentrate on their schoolwork.

Because, yeah, sports and homework really keep kids out of the local mortuary and away from va-jayjays that need to be pre-warmed with hot-water in a condom. Which, I admit, is an ingenious method, frankly.

But I think I'm most offended by calling sex with a corpse "rape." That really just cheapens the word and what happens to thousands of women every year. You can no more rape a corpse than you can rape a Fleshlight, or a pool of mud, or a watermelon. I feel kind of cheapened myself at reading that kind of travesty of journalism. Perhaps if the author's parents had insisted he get more time with sports and homework, he'd have been better prepared to write on something that approaches a serious subject from an oblique angle.

The word "rape" has been pretty much violated by those who seem Hell-bent on using it most, though. Once it shifted to being a shorthand term for "any sex a woman thinks, in retrospect, was a bad idea" it was no longer a useful term of art, because most of the women who need it the most in that context think any sex with man is a bad idea. Modern feminism has neutered the idea of the relationship, and with it the choice of a woman to actually enjoy and want sex -- and in so doing, neutered her ability to have "rape" be something as horrific as it is for those who experience it.

"Rape the dead females," indeed. I should have got a Journalism degree.

Current Mood: angry