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Saw an interesting game kiosk ticket thing today at Timezone, with two Fruit Ninja and one Flight Control game(s) arranged in a pyramid-type layout. Very weird to see. Had no idea they were branching out, especially considered that Halfbrick and Firemint are completely different companies. Perhaps it was prior to Firemint being bought by EA?
Future Music Festival was a shitload of fun yesterday. Heard some AMAZING music, namely by Alex Metric (check out
his remix of Sabotage for epic epicness, along with
Under Control by Freeland), Die Antwoord and of course, Aphex Twin. There were others that were merely "okay", but they were the highlights and definitely worth the ticket price. Great weather for it, too. Shame there were far too many dickheads either throwing up, passing out or just unable to stay upright. Glad I stayed completely sober for the whole thing... it was too nice a day with too many great acts to ruin it to the extent that those had ruined theirs.
Two day week! Thursday begins my Melbourne F1 experience, so fucking pumped. Glad I get to spend it with my brother, too
Bought some lawn-type shit today. Big four-pronged fork thing (same size as a shovel, but forky), metal rake, garden broom and lawn seed. More excited about it than I should be.
The katter party ad. What the hell. It isn't anti-gay marriage, its just anti-gay.
Awful.
Link? I need a good SMH moment today.
Wow. I'm hoping this statement was said just for the hilarity of being 'internet bastard.'
I thought they did a job job of showing 4 different people using drugs and finally succumbing to substance abuse. Each one was a story that doesn't usually get used as the stereotypical drug addict story or end in the typical fashion. Each one had a different reason, each with good intentions at the heart. Drugs are often used for forgetting that past, for not having to deal with the present, for those that can't see a future for themselves or don't like what they see if they can.
The character that I feel the least sympathy for is Harry. His existence and ultimate end was entirely of his own doing and seemed to drag the rest of the characters with him. The rest of the cast seemed to be making poor decisions based upon misguided good intentions and trying to better themselves and rid their past of demons. I'm not saying that I agree with the actions of the characters but I can understand how they arrived at those decisions.
For reasons that I shan't get into on a forum, my personal experience is that very few people "get what they deserve" when drugs are involved; the punishment for said substance abuse is usually met upon those that love them and those whose lives with which they intersect.
More good people than bad become addicts. They often then become that which you would no longer have sympathy for and would consider 'just punishment.' It's hard to make that separation, though, of what you once knew and that which they have become.
Well said, dude. If fapp is one of the many people who (perhaps through naivety, maybe otherwise) views all drug users as bad people then fair enough, it's not often easy to overcome prejudices like that but the movie's definitely a lot deeper than just having an "everyone got what they deserved" moral. At least from my point-of-view and life experiences, anyway.
I'm lucky enough to not know anyone go down the path from one extreme to the other, but I think that is more luck than anything else and could definitely sympathise with anyone who does.
Actually, I've not seen Requiem since I first tried any illicit substances... perhaps with a less-naive perspective it would become a different movie than what it is in my head as I remember it.
Anyway, just saying that I appreciate your post
(fake edit: and follow-up post, too. Perhaps even moreso.)
I would kill to get picked for jury duty.
Hmmm, maybe there's a plan there.....
What's up, bud-dy? Maybe go for some grind-age then wheeze the ju-uice? Spend some time in a Bio Dome?
