Random Ramblings

Magnopolis

2006-03-11T00:13:00.000-08:00

Humans should be the ones dominating machines... Or so Koju thought. It doesn't really matter that he knows almost nothing about machination and how integral they have become in the lives of so many today. He just thought that it didn't feel quite right. Machines were there to help people, he thought. People were not supposed to live for machines. What should have been the case was that machines would help make things easier, but people could live on even without them. What is really the case now is that people make their living repairing machines, that entire conglomerates can go bankrupt if their machines simply refuse to work for a few seconds, that even gardens are equipped with an atmospheric monitoring system to ensure that plants have enought carbon dioxide and generate enough oxygen among other things. Well, at least now houses lock you out if you fail to pay your rent, but what really triggered a machine revolution at such a scale was what baffled Koju.

It couldn't have always been like that. Above all Koju could not believe that humans allowed this development to go out of control. Do people really want everything to be done for them by machines?

Then there's the street gangs. Koju could understand if a group of people gathers to steal their latest piece of hardware from some shops, but its the group of people who're denouncing the Robot Renaissance that is confusing to him. He thought, why act only now? He suppose all these people probably only wanted some attention or some other reward. How far do they think they can live without machines anyway. Heck, some of them even gathered in online forums before demonstrating on the streets.

As Koju blew the bubble gum he was chewing, he began to wonder if Magnopolis is really such a good place to live in after all. Maybe he should try a different environment.

Just as he got down from his bench however, a sound could be heard from inside the house. It was Mrs. Anders.

"Koju, time for your Weekly Repairs! Let's check out how that new logic circuit is functioning alright?"

Slouching, Koju simply whirred back into the house without actually replying.

Wow...

2006-03-10T23:02:00.000-08:00

Its amazing to note that...for three months...I've not touched my blog! w00t!

Well i guess its because fo a conflict of interests in setting up a blog...

as well as coming up with a story outright...lol

Well, recently I discovered the fun that is Magic: The Gathering. Yes guys, I only discovered it recently. Its fun. Alot of fun because it allows you to basically come up with unlimited strategies against your opponents, if you have the right card. So a game of magic can as much be about card balance as about luck. Its important to balance the mana, the creatures and the other non-creature spells so you can do something every turn, and react to something every turn too. You might be tempted to put that huge creature in your deck, but what happens if it does not show up? Is a single card an integral part of your deck? Is your deck built based on cards or a plan? These are all things that are very interesting in a game of magic. As I speak though, its Dissension Prerelease is coming very soon, on the April 22nd in fact. I'm having my eyes on Rakdos. Hopefully Red's agrresiveness can combine with Blacks sacrifice/necromancy to come up with something fun.

I've been reading too. There's a really short book that I've just completed, called In The Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami. A novel that, beyond its tale about a serial murderer, is also about moral and cultural corruption. Most importantly, it makes you think twice and reflect about the kind of world we're living in right now, and also look and change and question whether this amount of change at this pace is really beneficial or not.

If you've been playing Magic's Mirrodin Block, you'd have noticed a concentration of Artifact creatures. Again Mirrodin question whether progress is really such a good thing after all.

Well...seeyah soon! I'm gonna be in trouble if I don;t come up with a storyline soon. lol...well not like it really matters.

Test Post

2005-12-04T06:02:00.000-08:00

This post is to test the Blogger on Word program.

Finally! My Blog is open!

2005-12-04T04:13:00.000-08:00

Yup, this is it. I'll use this blog to write about some things I've seen or done, as well as to rp a little, review some games, and generally be very crazy. See you guys soon!