I am Kushan's neglected Livejournal.

You know, every time I go to type Livejournal, I always end up typing Liverjournal. Imagine that, a journal about someone's Liver.
I suppose it'd make a lot of sense, the liver of an alcoholic would be an emo and constantly want to just give up and every now and then just trying to pack it all in to spite the body around it.

But I digress. I feel the need to rant, but I've got a lot to rant about so I'm not really sure if I can be bothered at all. Oh what the hell, why not!

I just watched Evan Almighty, the sequel to the Jim Carey film, Bruce almighty.
I'd seen Bruce almighty years ago and was distinctly not impressed. I'm not a big Jim Carey fan anyway and this was probably the worst film of his I'd ever seen, and that includes Batman forever. It has a really good concept, God gives the guy all of his powers and he dicks about with them. Really good concept, plenty of scope...except instead of being interesting, it just consists of him being a knob and not actually doing very much, plus a bunch of religious Christian bullshit is thrown in for good measure.

Evan Almighty sort of took that formula, except they didn't bother with an interesting concept (God wants Evan to build an Ark...omg amazing...), doubled on the religious bullshit, then sprinkled some extra bullshit on top for good measure.
Really there's about 2 parts to the film, part 1 is God convincing Evan to build the Ark, part 2 is him actually building it. Once part 1 is over (about 1/3 of the way into the film), all of the fun and attempts at humour end. The fun parts are where random animals start following him around. And that's the entirety of the jokes in the film, they actually haven't got another single good gag in the whole thing, so they just reuse the animal gag over and over and over. By half way through the film, they even stop with that and just keep hammering you with more religious shite.

It's a fairly typical plot for Christians - God wants Evan to build Ark, Even eventually gives in and starts building it and everyone around him ridicules him for it, not a single person supports him (other than his loving, christian family, that is). Crowds gather, people mock him more and refer to God as "your God", because all Christians believe that non-Christians worship a different God. Oh but of course, a big flood DOES appear and everyone goes all red in the face for being wrong, while the good God-worshiping people were right the whole time!
Now I'm not religious at all, I don't believe in God and thanks to the enlightening facts I've learned in my new Job, I find it very hard to believe that there's anyone up there who gives a flying fuck about anyone down here, so I don't really like having this kind of shit forced down my throat. The whole point of the film is to try and give across one simple message, you can change the world with an Act of Random Kindness (They really had to think long and fucking hard on that one, eh?), which isn't really a bad message or anything, but they probably pissed more people off by taking the "haha, God is always right and if you Mock us, he'll make a fool out of you" approach that so many up-their-own-arses Christian fuckwits take. You think you're on the "winning team", you think people like me will end up with egg on our faces when we find out how wrong we have been all along, we get it already, so just shut the fuck up already and laugh when we actually ARE proved wrong, it's old, nobody cares, nobody thinks you're smart and it just makes you look like a dick, but then again you probably ARE a dick.

Now I can be a self-obsessed cock, myself. Just the other day, I went to the toilet and thought to myself "you know, my piss looks pretty good...for piss, at least", but it doesn't mean I go around saying to people "hey my piss is better than your piss, next time you go to the toilet, just think, your piss is horrible and nasty looking, it's all dark and diseased looking, whereas mine is a nice light shade of yellow, like home made lemonade, probably tastes just as good as well". That's how these Christian cocks come across, they love the smell of their own piss and want to rub everyone's nose in it so we get the full fragrance.

Cocks.

Anyway, what I'm trying to say is, don't watch Evan Almighty, it's full of Christian piss.

Are you feeling good?

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I am a (Sick) Naked Pirate.

I know I haven't updated in a while, but what better time than at 1 in the morning because I can't sleep due to a combination of illness and heat?

The last few weeks have been pretty interesting, quite a lot has happened that I neglected to mention due to me being a lazy shite. Things like going to the Museum and having a picnic with Nic, Carol (a friend of Nicci's that's now a friend of mine it seems =D), Blue, Laila, Dee Dee, Vicki and a bunch of other people that showed up.
 
The weekend before last was spent mainly in my house, although Nicci was kind enough to take me and Carol out for a meal (Thanks, babe!) on the Saturday (I think, might have been Sunday). After that, we got some crap from Tesco and headed back to mine.

Last weekend, I downloaded Tomb Raider: Anniversary and played it together with Nic. It was pretty cool, me and her work well in a team (you know, the kind of team where she tells me what to do and I do it >_>) and pretty much managed to get about half way through the game. It's a small distraction while we both wait for the next season of Battlestar Galactica to start >_<

Then, on Monday, Nicci was too "sick" to go to work. Which meant spending another day with me! =D
It was really nice, we went to the park and relaxed for a bit while polishing off a pack of cheap cookies (that tasted damn good, despite said cheapness) and overall just had a really nice day together.

Still waiting on Telco games to move their collective fat asses, all I know now is that the placement doesn't start until September (previously it was July). This has put me in an awkward position as I was counting on it to pay the rent, but hell, they haven't even decided if they want me or not. This is getting ridiculous as now I have to find a very temporary job to pay said rent and still hope they give me the position in the end.

And now I'm sitting up at half one in the morning. My throat is sore, my nose is sore as well as blocked and it's hot. I can't sleep, even though I feel drowsy as hell. This is going to put a dampener on my Job-seeking plans, although I've applied for about 10 via email today. Wish me luck with that, as well as Telco.

Also, I'm naked.

The end of another era...

It's nearly 4am and I've just finished packing up all my stuff.
I move to my new place in 10 hours.

It's a little further away from this place, but closer to the place I'll (hopefully) be working. And it's a LOT cheaper.
I currently pay £69 per week for this place, which is small, cramped and shit. The carpets are stained, the TV is broke, everything seems damaged or broken here. And it's an extra £25 per month for the internet. Which is slow and capped. What a joke.

This place I pay £55 a week (includes all bills, EVEN internet...GOOD internet, too!) and my room is a lot bigger. Even has a dishwasher. Oh, and a double bed!
So it's an absolute steal, quite glad to be moving there.

But at the same time, I'm kinda sad. Vicki has moved out and Malachy is going back to Ireland today. Dee Dee will still be nearby, but it still feels like all my friends have moved away. We'll see what the future has in store, though, I'm sure things will be fine.

Things with Nicci are still going well. Hell, they're better than that, they're the best they've ever been. I really like her, she makes me smile in places that I didn't know could smile.

I'd update about the weekend, but I'm way too tired, it's late and I've been packing all day, so good night and the next update will likely come from my new home.
Who knows, I might be a real games developer then as well, fingers crossed!

EXAMS......

................Are OVER!!!!!!

=D

So, a REAL update.

Ok, so a real update is long overdue, but don't expect it to be a long one =P

I went for the Job interview and got a call about a week later. I hadn't got the Job. Yet.
Y'see they were unsure about 2 of the candidates, sort of stuck as to which one to pick. Me or Haxel. So, both of us are getting brought back for the final showdown. Fun.

My interview is on the 16th.

And right now I'm in the middle of exams. The last one went rather well, so hopefully the next 3 will go just as well and I'll end this year with a really high grade. Currently I'm in A/B territory. But honestly, the Job interview is on my mind more than anything else. I kinda need it and it's a really great opportunity.

Other than that, there's nothing really to talk about, unless you want another 500 lines about how awesometastic Nicola is.
She's bringing me food today. Need I say more?

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Attention everyone: The code above me is important. Sort of.

Let me explain to you why this is, before you all go and post it in your own LJ's and blogs.

You may have heard of HD-DVD and Blu-Ray, the so-called "next-gen" DVD formats. Well, one of the major shortcomings that both formats have is in their anti-piracy crap. Essentially, they both elected to use AACS (Advanced Access Content System). For those of you that do not know what this is, think of it as a half-assed attempted at fighting piracy.
The idea is simple: Each disk is encoded using a special cipher. Certain keys will obviously decode the film and allow you to watch it. The idea behind AACS is that it's possible to revoke certain keys should an evil pirate get hold of it. Thus, future releases will require a different key. This means that if you own a HD-DVD player or a PS3 or whatever, you'll have to get an update in order to play newer disks.
So what has this got to do with that number up there?
Well, as you may have guessed, that number happens to be one of the publisher's keys, which would allow anyone to decrypt a HD-DVD or Blu-Ray disk, make copies, backups etc. that don't have the crappy protection. Kinda like we can do with DVD.

Well, despite the fact that these keys can be revoked and chagned at will, AACS-LA (the company that owns AACS) has decided to take legal action against anyone who has a hand in distributing the key. They've sent out all sorts of takedown notices and legal threats to the likes of digg.com, but according to google over 1million blogs and such around the world have the key somewhere on it. And I'd like to join them.

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Because DRM sucks.