they thought i was joking, apparently

deathtokoalas
hey kids.

this game is what you call unpaid job training.

it's just like how the first person shooters are actually unpaid military training, except it's for those of you that are fucking hopeless with a gun in real life.

ThiefGuard
Or maybe its just for entertainment? You ever think of that? Instead of randomly swearing for no reason? Well guess what? Your statement is invalid because you're a retard!

(note that thief guard had a phillip banks icon)

deathtokoalas
yeah, well, everybody knows what the correct come back for uncle phil is. we know why you like the game. you're just drooling over those burgers.

and i'll swear as i see fit. we're not all fucking bourgeois bastards from bel-air, you know.

Bread Man
You seem like a wonderful bucket of sunshine.

deathtokoalas
i get my tan from standing in the english rain...

Yargle Barg
You look like a female Professor Snape.

deathtokoalas
you know, i was in that precise age group that harry potter didn't appeal to, as i was just a little too old to read children's books seriously and not quite old enough to read them ironically. i don't know the characters very well.

i agree with the people that are expressing outrage, but there's a bit of privilege in the argument and it's producing a touch of circular logic. "why not wait to have children?". for most military families, the military is the only option they have to generate enough income to raise a family. it's the only way they can afford a house and the only way they can afford to go to school. now, it's true that, by the time they're done training, they're stripped of compassion and converted into subhuman monsters that cannot be deconditioned properly and ought to not be anywhere near children in the first place, but what drives somebody to stand up and consciously make this decision, to stand in front of their families and state "i aspire to murder in cold blood", is generally the level of desperation that is brought on by the extreme levels of poverty and inequality that exist in america.

america's leaders are bloodthirsty tyrants, the bulk of whom deserve to be strung from lampposts and spit upon like the fascist scum that they are. but, the soldiers are mostly victims of a system that creates them and gives them few other options to live a life of prosperity.

that doesn't mean they should be allowed to reintegrate. that child should have been taken away from these lunatics, placed in protective services and put up for adoption. mom should be banished to an island...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIHnhBDOzjM

to spin inside dull aberrations (overdub mix)

i've included the raw mix to document what the track sounded like in 2001. so, i've included an overdub only mix as a counter to it to document what was added in 2014. paste the two on top of each other to get the cubase output of the track.

created over august and september, 2014 to augment track written late in the summer of 2001.

http://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/overdub-mix

see, i've been through a referendum or two and here's the thing...

they're only not rigged when the state expects the result they want. remember: the uk is a "democracy", not a democracy.

lucien bouchard blamed it on "money and the ethnic vote". he was half right, but it's a good thing for the country i live in that he was more racist than rational. if he had figured out what *actually* happened, there could have been a real mess on the streets of montreal.

salmond has quit, indicating he's no less naive.

and, you have another victory for "democracy" at the expense of democracy. but, in this case it is really truly for the better.