>Life Goes On

Things happen for a reason, I suppose. Some folks may believe in coincidence, but in my experience, there is a connected reason behind why something happens.

Let’s suppose that your father dies of Lymphoma Cancer when you are only 14. Or let’s even say, your father dies of Agent Orange related complications when you are 8. Why does one person get to have more time with their father than another? Should you feel bitter every time Father’s Day rolls around, and you can’t buy your dad a card? The only gift your dad ever gets from you is a bouquet of flowers, and a new coat of carnuba wax on the headstone so it will repel the water and snow for the stormy months. Why do children have to experience a loss of a parent before they are grown? These are very deep questions that don’t necessarily have an answer, really.

So, let’s try a different scenario.

Let’s suppose your child passes away before you do. That’s not the way the circle is supposed to go. So, why does it happen? Every birthday and holiday since their death is marred with heavy sadness, anger, and more sadness. It’s not fair to lose your child, but it happens to people every day. Most of these people find comfort in the Compassionate Friends Support Group, because they all have something in common. Even people who don’t have any children come to these meetings to support their friends. I’ve been to one of these candle lighting ceremonies to celebrate the life of my niece who passed away. I also said a prayer for some dear friends that I know who have lost a child.

No matter if you lose your mother, your father, your sister, your brother, any family member, or even a friend you care deeply about. It’s an extremely hard lesson of life to go through. So, once again, why does it happen?

There’s got to be a reason why. True?
I guess some of us are searching for that answer. Some of us may have part of the answer, and are still searching for the rest of it. And perhaps you are tired of looking for the answer, but vow that this lesson will make you a stronger person. You tell yourself that you will persevere. Life’s too short, and you need to take what you can from that experience, and apply it to your life in a positive way.

For example. If you lose your mother when you are 31, then you have spent 31 years with your mothers guidance. Some people may decide to take the lessons they have learned from their mother while she was alive and apply them to their lives in a positive way. Let’s suppose your mother liked to knit and crochet. You decide to emulate your mother by picking up where she left off. It gives you a sense of peace, and a feeling that your mother is somehow nearby.

But… NOW, you have all these knitted things in your house. What do you do with them??
You could give them to family and friends. You could donate your items to a charity, like the Relay for Life. Helping raise money for Cancer Research. Because that is something that took your dad away from you when you were 14, right? Right.

So, you’ve had the negative experience of your mother passing away, and you’ve turned it into a positive experience by taking your skill and using it to benefit a huge group of people in need.
It makes you feel good to do that, and you are honoring your mother and father at the same time. Huge bonus there, right? Right! This could very well be the connected reason behind the ‘why’. Who knows, but it may sound good to this individual.

I do admit that if all the answers to my questions concerning life’s events were available to me, it would sure make life a whole lot easier to get through. However, I feel the things that are easily attainable in life, aren’t always the most rewarding. Working hard to get what you want is far more rewarding than having what we want just handed to us.

Every one of us has been dealt an unfair hand in life from time to time. And I mean everyone.
We can all relate to hardships. Not a single one of us is unique in that manner.
But, we take from that experience what we will. Whether you choose to make it positive, or negative, it’s all up to the individual. Life can be cruel, and life can be rewarding, too.

But above all else, life goes on.

>Open Thread

Homemade cookies please the overlord. And being that San is one who created the overlord who reigns over all things Uru, she makes awesome cookies. Today she made some cookies from a cookbook called “The Skinny Bitch” that were super yum. Chocolate Toffee crunch. Plus some chocolate chip oatmeal cookies of her own making.

But I’d have to say her white chocolate macadamia nut cookies and chocolate pizza are to die for.

>My Knowledge of Opera Attributed to Bugs Bunny

“What’s Opera, Doc?”

Featuring Bugs Bunny (Mel Blanc), and Elmer Fudd (Arthur Q Bryant)

Elmer: Be vewy quiet. I’m hunting wabbits.
WABBIT TWACKS!!
(thrusting spear) KILL THE WABBIT! KILL THE WABBIT! KILL THE WABBIT!

Bugs: : Kill the wabbit?

Elmer: YO HO HO! YO HO HO! YO HO…

Bugs: Oh mighty warrior of great fighting stock
Might I inquire to ask eh… what’s up doc?

Elmer: I’m going to kill the wabbit!

Bugs: O mighty hunter, ’twill be quite a task
How will you do it, might I inquire to ask?

E: I will do it with my spear and magic hewmet.

B: Spear and magic hewmet?

E: Spear and magic hewmet.

B: Magic hewmet?

E: Magic hewmet!

B (spoken, disparagingly): Magic hewmet.

E: Yes, magic hewmet, and I give you a sample!
(exit Bugs at warp speed)

B:BYEE!

E:That was the Wabbit!

cue overly obese white stallion & love music

E: Oh Brunhilda, you’re so wuvewy.

B: Yes I know it, I can’t help it!

E: Oh Brunhilda, be my wuv!
dancing & prancing
Weturn, my wuv! A longing burns deep inside me.

B: Retoirn my love! I want you always beside me!

E: Wuv wike ouws must be …

B: Made for you and for me…

B&E: Return, won’t you return my love … For my love is yourrrrrrs.

oops! Shoulda glued on that helmet!

E: I’LL KILL DA WABBIT! AWISE STOWMS!
NOWTH WIND BWOW! SOUTHWIND BWOW!
TYPHOON! HUWWICANE! EARTHQWAKES!
SMOG!!!!!!!!!!

WHITE WIGHTNING! STWIKE DA WABBIT!

gasp

What have I done? I’ve killed da wabbit!
Poowr widdle bunny!
Poowr widdle wabbit. snivel sob

Well, what did you expect in an Opera? A happy ending?

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>Another one has seen the light

>

Whil wrote:

With “Spring” only some varying number of months away (depending on your optimism), I thought now might be a good time to start a list of all the things which must happen with Open Uru.

1. Someone must create an Age with toilets. This should be self-explanatory. Figure it must be called Dunny for a reason, right?

2. Someone must create an Age filled with machine guns which shoot nothing but rose petals and candy. No one would mention this feature. Instead, Uru is billed as a next-generation fantasy first person shooter. New players to “Uru: Blood” get charged a $25 monthly fee and are locked into a three year deal. Meanwhile the regular players get regular checks.

3. We must put the face of an Uru character on more pieces of merchandise than that of President Obama. People have put his likeness on everything now from plates and coins, to swiss army knives and underwear. Sure, we’ve had Myst ballcaps and Uru t-shirts, but the point of merchandise is to be as tacky and disturbing as possible. To remedy this, Dr. Watson’s likeness will be made into a cake mold.

4. There must be at least one Age made of solid gold engraved with the cure for cancer. If an Age like this isn’t made, Open Uru will be a horrible failure and Rand will be personally responsible for a kindergarten class in Spokane crying itself to sleep.

5. There must be at least one Age made up of a flat plane covered in poorly-textured cubes. This Age must have the contrast in lighting of Second Life. It must also crash every player who links into it. After all, what will our other Age writers aspire to?

6. The community must have at least one fight. Preferably one where someone gets banned and the reason somehow involves the statement “Payiferen’s sand is ‘light pumpkin.’” Without such a pointless battle, honestly, how will we be entertained?

7. Someone must use “The ending has not yet been written” another million times. Seriously, folks, this cow can still be milked for some more optimistic glory, why should we try looking for a new slogan?

8. We must have people constantly berate the community’s optimism. Because, apparently, after nearly two years of not listening to any criticism, the solution is to listen to every half-thought-out idea that you, your friends, and your dog have come up with for making Uru a success.

9. The community must never allow any changes which violate the sacred core of Uru. No idea should be even considered if it means doing something different or interesting. Cyan gave us Uru so we could lock her up in her bedroom and keep her safe, not let her into some dirty park where she could get mud on her lace.

10. And lastly, the community must acknowledge that Uru can never, ever, be a success. We must because “real” fans of Cyan say we must. After all, they loved the original Myst games so they must know what they’re talking about, right? And they’re being so complex, they’re either geniuses or my broker. Yes, yes, Uru will be the greatest if we just put in an expensive fee system, port it to everyone’s favorite platform, and buy shares in Citigroup. Thanks to the massive incompetance of two teams of developers with years of experience in the field and the utter foolishness of both a well-established game publisher and a game distributor who belonged to one of the largest media conglomerates in history, Uru was a horrible commercial failure. Nevermind any inconvienient possibilities that might have occurred, this community would be better off it they just bowed before these prophets of the pellets and listened to their every word.

Hear hear brother!!!! Praise Rand and the holy ways of Cyantology! So glad you have seen the light sir. I give your report a B+

Source: http://whilyam.wordpress.com/2009/03/11/demands-for-open-uru/

>Please pass this message along.

It appears Wutt Evah has made both of his blogs private. Since he has done so. I will post his exact message here in this entry.

Wutt:

Dork Vader: “Come over to the Dork side, and we can rule Uru together”
HaXx Slackwalker: “No I will never be like you”
Dork Vader: “HaXx! I Am Your Father!”
HaXx Slackwalker: “No, it’s not true! It can’t be!”
Dork Vader: “Yes, search your Open source. You know it’s true.”
HaXx: “NOoooooooooooooooooooooooooo!”

Overlords, Guild of Guilds, Loud Farters, Oh My!
They never apologise. They can do no wrong. And will stab their own in the back just to save face.
Uru, the game that never dies! Open sourced to a bunch of morons who wannabe game developers. Take the Wonders of Myst to an all time low. Yes, a band of rag tag half wit HaXxors who couldn’t hack out of a wet dream. Claiming community is number one, while paranoia runs ramped amongst the masses.
Secret Servers, and hidden forum areas to give them a sense of importance they otherwise couldn’t have in the real world. All the while sitting on their laurels allowing others to do the work for them.
I’m proud to say I am no longer amongst the ranks of these sycophants. Who feign superiority whilst relying on the imagination of others to bring them through. Their half assed measures often lead to unfinished projects and good intentions that amount to nothing. And I’ll be damned if I’m gonna spend my last days on earth wasting time on such unoriginal people.
Good Bye, and good riddance.
And that’s the rest of the story!

And now that I have gotten that out of the way, I have a response. If anyone would happen to talk to him please relay the following message. He will understand what I mean.

Remember when I told you about that certain person being invited into our group by his two friends? The person you made a really big deal about? The last time I spoke to his two friends was the night they requested that he join us. They never came back since then and I never heard from you know who. Did you know that if I didn’t warn you about it you’d probably still be talking to us? In a way I regret telling you about it, but in another way this lets me know what kind of friend you really are.

>In other news…

A new blog sprouted out of nowhere. It is called “You are Uru and yer stupid”

Since Wutt didn’t enable comments on his blog, I offer my blog as his answering machine to his current post. So if anyone has any comments for Wutt/D’neile/Admiral Vega. Feel free to respond. I’m sure he still reads here.

No one is really upset about it. If anything we’re worried about him. He has health issues and his latest behavior has been rather erratic.

>And we have a Co Author!

I’ve really been slacking with the blog. But tonight I come to my descision for Co Author of the week. The community wants it. So I’m going to give it to them!!!!

San_San!!!!

It has been super depressing trying to blog. What happened to the loyal fanbase that stayed and stayed waiting for Uru? You’d think with Open Sourced Uru coming people would be holding tight. But noooooooo.

>Readings

Some places give palm readings, tea leaf readings, tarot card readings and much more. I have a different service to offer to everyone!

I can give you the following for free:

Spaghetti readings

Cheerio bowl readings

Alphabet soup readings

Animal cracker readings

And if you would like I am selling tin foil hats. Act now and you’ll get a free pet rock absolutely free!

Come in today and you might be lucky enough to spot me with my tinfoil hat on with a bowl of sacred cheerios in my next attempt to channel the Cyantology frequency…