I got carried away with Discord for pretty much the entire month. I guess, after what seemed like 15 years of chat rooms being totally dead (and me always doin' a lot of reminiscing about IRC) my mind was a bit blown with the experience. I was elated to find all those internet travelers again--especially once i realized many of them were interested in roleplaying.
Like all things however, i have now lost a bit of interest. I have my own server and i log in occasionally but, for the most part, I'm back to jsut trying to write normal prose now, instead of roleplay prose. I'm also feeling a rather big obsession with planets, moons, stars, suns, and wormholes coming on lately. Been watching Michio Kaku a bit...talking with this girl in Spain....and she seems to be just as interested in the planets and moons et cetera, as me. We discussed aliens and she tried to draw some. We drew an alien that changes sex constantly and lives in a jungle of blue plants.
Naturally, once i start digging into all the outer space stuff, I'm only a hop and a skip from the great Star Wars universe! Aye i've been a fan of Luke Skywalker and especialyl Yoda for years. Shockingly tho, i never bothered to watch the new films released in the late 2010s now. So the other day I sat down and beamed up The Last Jedi. The first half made me want to scream with disappointment. Too slow, no action, and I find many scenes hard to stomach. The second half was just like old memories: BLOODY EPIC. Very good. Kylo Ren isn't the best villain (i dont like him i'll admit) but everyone else is good. The scene with Princess Leia floating thru space was absurd...but then i watched a video of that famous director Kevin Smith crying as he watched it and... meh...it seems better now. So even that scene is good. The whole thing is good! FUCK IT! I like it! The Last Jedi scores a 10/10 for me. I'm not an old curmudgeonly asshole. I take it all in stride...the imagination of a foolish child ....
Tomorrow if i'm lucky little Spanish Maria might be around to watch the very first SW film with me... a New Hope. I haven't seen it in years but it is memorized. When Obi Wan is still just Old Ben.
Spanish Maria is funny cause she really finds wormholes fascinating. In Spanish the wormholes have a name that is a bit weird (and not as famous). Agujeros de gusano. Literally: holes of worm. When talking in Spanish about it, you can tell instantly that the topic isn't nearly as famous as it seems to be in the English language. Which is kind of weird to think about. I wonder how many people, for example, in the Arabic languages, know of the wormhole concept? Or the Afrikaans language? Or Vietnamese? Who knows. I'll be accused of wild racism within minutes typing this way!
This reminds me of a funny argument i got into on Discord the other day, however. I was trying to talk about how a countrys culture is so effected by her climate. I made the point about how people in Siberia have never given the Earth a huge art movement (like Paris), and immediately I was accused of being a racist, classist evil overlord. Basically the people arguing against me seemed to want to believe that literally every single location on Earth is exactly the same as the other. No matter where you are born, you have just as much chance to become the next Leonardo Davinci, or Pablo Picasso, as anyone else. So DaVinci didn't need to be born near to Florence, Italy, a major trading center at the time, not far from Venice and Rome, et cetera .He could have been born alone in the Alaskan wilderness, i was strictly told, wrestling bears, and wound up the same Renaissance genius. If I don't subscrive to this idea, I'm a racist/classist piece of shit!
Wow. No wonder the liberals keep losing.
Lets switch topics though shall we? Lets go back to Michio Kaku, my favorite TV physicist. He was on Fox the other day (kind of weird) talking about Trumps 'Space Force'. A lot of liberals, in fact, were making great fun of Trump for saying he will create a Space Force. Aren't y'all supposed to be the science ones? Confused. Now, I dont like Trumpie for nothin' but i'll admit...even i thought it was pretty cool. I just liked seeing the phrase, i suppose, in the newspaper! SPACE FORCE! I've been imagining it for years. Now, there it is, finally in print, starting to show face. How much longer do we have to wait to meet Yoda now? Or to fly a Millennium Falcon like Han Solo! And where are my droids and lightsabers!
I'll sign off now.... i want to go heat up this Chinese food...but i'll leave you with this cool picture of Jupiter and her moons....
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