How to be a Writer

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Early on, you won’t know how to spell anything without doing it in an embarrassingly phonetic way. All your dedications will be deadikated to your family, and jaguars will run with other jagwires...


Short Stories
Wallflower

All Gone Wrong

Drew

Poetry
In the Club

Broken Heart

Games

Mission

Curses

Clarify

The Ballad of the Wiggly Clan (Pt 2)

The Ballad of the Wiggly Clan (Pt 1)

Hate & Chances

Tears

Tired Hands

Cold

Truth

Hurting Myself

Wind

Fire

Relapse of My Promise

Thine Eyes

Fright

Telling Myself

Ode to the Fallen/Remembering

The Passing of Nikolaus

Separating Myself

What I found

Prose / Essays
How to be a Writer

America was Founded on Religion, and Other Lies Told to You

A Future not so Far

Tolerating Society

Humorous Literature
Twas the night before Christmas (MMM.com edition)

The Ballad of Will and Kolby

Happy Face Pony

Music Articles
Atreyu - Congregation of the Damned

Yoggi's Albums of the Year - 2009 Edition

Marilyn Manson - The High End of Low

Two Tongues

Bleeding Through - Declaration

AmazonMP3.com - The best thing that has ever happened to digital music

Yoggi's Top 2 Albums of 2008

Metallica - Death Magnetic

Nadja - The Bungled and the Botched

36 Crazyfists - The Tide and Its Takers

Noodles - The Best You Never Heard

Say Anything - In Defense of Genre

She Wants Revenge - This is Forever

Akercocke - Antichrist

Agalloch - The White (EP)

Atreyu - Lead Sails, Paper Anchor

All That Remains - The Fall of Ideals

Parkway Dirve - Horizons

Bleed the Sky - Paradigm in Entropy

Mushroomhead - Savior Sorrow

Atreyu - A Deathgrip on Yesterday

Dresdin Dolls - Yes, Virginia

The Angelic Process - Weighing Souls with Sand

The Birthday Massacre - Walking with Strangers

Insomnium - Above the Weeping World

Parkway Drive - Killing with a Smile

Jack Off Jill - Clear Hearts, Grey Flowers

Band Overview: Thrice

Movie Articles
I Love You, Man

Smart People

Step Brothers

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

Meet Joe Black

The Man From Earth

The Air I Breathe

Children of Men

Smokin' Aces

300

Blood Diamond

I am Legend

The Last Kiss

Transformers

Stranger Than Fiction

Game Articles
Crash 'N The Boys: Street Challenge

Brawl: How to pick up a lot of basics QUICK

Who says video games don't help you?

Brawl: Be diverse, it could win you a tournament

Brawl: A good move at the wrong time is a BAD move

Killing Floor

Brother's in Arms: Hell's Highway

Further anti-MMO Rantings and Quake Live love

Resident Evil 5

Why Fighting Games Take the Most Skill / SF4 and SSBB Thoughts

Quake Live is Going to Revolutionize PC Gaming

Blizzcon, a first hand experience

Dual Game Review: Braid & Castle Crashers

First Thoughts: Too Human

Metal Gear Solid 4 Review

A Plan to Fix PC Gaming

Indigo Prophecy (Fahrenheit)

Let's Talk Fighting Games, Let's Talk Smash Bros.

Audiosurf

Crysis

Metroid Prime 3

The Console War and why it's a Joke

Graphic Art
Oryan - Photoshop Colorization / Shading

Ocean Wallpaper

A Few Signatures

Some Ads and Signage

Rants
BALLS!

Taking a game's bad story seriously is freaking stupid

Epicurus and the existence of God and Good & Evil  

Microsoft's Hilarious Attempt to Debunk Internet Explorer "Myths"

Rupert Murdoch is a Moron

Study shows that 20% of all statistics are made up

That one time when I almost killed all of my friends at once

Creationism?

Sara Palin... /sigh

Affliction Brand Clothing is so HARDCORE!!!

Never mosh on asphalt or oogle a trailer whore's tatoo

Take your Windows XP and get a room, jesus

Hooray for Internet Explorer!

The Bible: fiction!

Rawr! Conservative Gay-Phobia!

Intel's "Mistake" (Racism?)

The Night of Debauchery

People who can't take responsibility for their own actions

Expel Dane Cook from the Human Race

A Night of Strange Coincidences and Sexual Tension

Shut Up About Vista Sucking

Marine Recruiters

Uncessarily Inspirational Music for My Everyday Life

Foreign Bodies?

The Random Party at My Cousin Jesse's House

Tech Articles
Razer Mamba Promises "Gaming Grade Wireless" with a Twist

Blackberry Storm - Overview

Android and the Google Phone

Is that new video card really the best bang for your buck?

Review: Microsoft Zune 2.0 80GB

Early experiences with Windows Vista 64-bit

Review: Toshiba Gigabeat 60GB MP3 Player MES60VK

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Today at 10:50:18 AM by MetalMusicMan in Misc
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Murray, then, had to fight to be heard as both an Atheist and a woman. Even today, that is no small achievement. Four decades ago, the idea of an Atheist -- and an Atheist woman, to boot! -- daring to speak out and challenge the cultural assumptions of the mid-twentieth century was simply unheard of. In 1964 Life magazine referred to her as "the most hated woman in America."

This lady is just plain awesome.

"The most hated woman in America."


September 02, 2010, 07:03:55 PM by MetalMusicMan in Tech
This is absolute genius on Microsoft's part, and kudos to the Double Rainbow guy for making some money on his ever popular double rainbow meme.

"Double Rainbow" -- Windows Live Photo Gallery
 


September 02, 2010, 03:06:04 PM by Alt-F4 in News
So anybody that knows a little about Stephen Hawking knows that, although he has never professed to be religious, he has invoked the word God many times in his books. Now he, probably the greatest mind of our time, is saying the very idea of God is redundant. Thoughts?

God did not create the universe and the "Big Bang" was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics.

"Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist," Hawking writes.

I, for one, may buy his newest book when it comes out next week

Additional info from Reuters and Yahoo news.


September 02, 2010, 01:03:29 PM by MetalMusicMan in Gaming
Totalbiscuit from the WoW podcast "Blue Plz" and CynicalBrit.com commentates these games (he's wearing the top hat, lol).  I'm not normally much for competitive Starcraft, but these are pretty fun because of the commentary and how well it's all presented.



September 02, 2010, 11:30:40 AM by MetalMusicMan in Misc
Gotta love the Amazing Atheist.

America: Mosque or Mausoleum?


I'm so tired of all of the ignorant people everywhere complaining about the Mosque near ground-zero.  It's their right to build it, and Muslim =/= terrorist.  

I'm not really sure how people can be so confused as to think such stupid things, oh wait-- ignorance is bliss and hating something is a lot easier than understanding it.  Except that if you truly tried to understand something different, *GASP* you might agree with it!  We can't have that, now can we?  Nope, so we'll just discriminate or kill all of the gays, jews, muslims, atheists, and all of the other non-Christians out there out of fear.  That sounds like a better idea.

I'm pretty sure that by Christian rule, despite being an atheist, I would probably have a much better chance of "getting into heaven" than any of the dumb Christians hate-mongering over a Mosque and accusing every Muslim of being a terrorist.


September 02, 2010, 08:48:22 AM by MetalMusicMan in Tech
Leave it to Google to figure out that a Spam-filter could be used to automatically sort mail based on relevancy and importance.  If you're worried, don't be-- activating this new feature doesn't remove your "normal" inbox, it gives you both options.

Gmail Priority Inbox


September 01, 2010, 03:24:12 PM by MetalMusicMan in Street Fighter
A lot of people have complained about the Xbox 360 controller's crappy d-pad when used for traditional fighting games such as Super Street Fighter 4.  It seems that Microsoft has listened to the community and come up with a new, alternative design for the Xbox 360 with a vastly improved d-pad.

Updated D-Pad Controller

What do you guys think?  Do you think that this will make a difference / satisfy Xbox 360 pad users?  I'm kind of intrigued, myself.


September 01, 2010, 12:57:07 PM by MetalMusicMan in Street Fighter
One of the Youtube comments for this was "do you see Street Fighter like the Matrix code, only with frame data?" lol.

SSF4 Guile Combos


September 01, 2010, 11:39:38 AM by MetalMusicMan in Movies & Shows
Man, these are really well made for shorts under 5 minutes long.  I really like this one.

Episode 3: Final Exit


I really liked this one a lot because when I got a bad concussion a few years ago, I dreamed that I was being attacked and I attacked the nurses who were trying to sedate me in real life.  It was like my body was attacking the people who were trying to help me, and then I felt like I died when they finally sedated me or whatever.  It was really crazy.