Excuse me while I offend everyone.

Communication over the internet has always been severely hindered by sarcasm and the difficulties in conveying it. Countless bulletin-boards and forums have been thrown in to chaos over and over again thanks to a poorly-flagged snippet of sarcastic text, and yet little has been done to remedy this major problem. Worse yet, it seems as if online communication is the only form of communication that has difficulties in conveying sarcasm. Even textual communication in an offline format seems to get along well with sarcasm, being able to convey it with ease to even the most ignorant of readers, which of course completely baffles my tiny mind.

Yet online communication, regardless of format, continues to struggle with sarcasm. Maybe it's due to the impulsive nature of internet communication that thickens everyone's minds and dulls the senses, who knows? Now, of course, sarcasm could be easily flagged with the psuedo-HTML "sarcasm tag" or we could bring the sarcasm mark back into use ([!]) but all that does is ruin the delicate humor of sarcasm. It seems as if there is no solution to this baffling problem.

Now, why do I bring up this tired, old internet subject? To call out someone else, of course! I was thoroughly enjoying myself, making pointless little comments on random blogs when I came across this. I didn't bother to look through this person's blog to see what could be possibly offensive to me, instead I decided to make this tepid little joke:

Originally posted by Desu:

I AM VERY OFFENDED

To which she replied:

Originally posted by SqueakeyCat:

if this offends you, then i wonder just how much YOUR BLOG offends everyone else on Opera. You have been reported to the TOS team.

Have a good life OFF OF OPERA

Jeez, right out of the gate you're resorting to personal attacks AND threats of getting me banned? Lordy, at least pick something more substantial to get me banned over, like that picture of a bare-nekkid mannequin I have in one of my albums or the fact that I directly link to my very NSFW website, sheesh.

After that little quibble she quickly blocked me from her profile and when on her merry little way.

Just to make things clear, I don't usually call out folks on here, because most people here don't need to be called out and also because I'm generally too fucking lazy to even bother. What can I say? I guess I just felt froggy today. I suppose since this is the internet I'll have to make some personal attacks.

Hey Kimberly! Typing in all capitals makes you look like an idiot, ahahahahahahahahaha[!]

Also, Club Penguin is a fucking stupid "game".

Originally posted by ninabritney:

Well said. You go girl!

Since I've finally returned to my.Opera to update my dreadful dark skin, Gin, I've decided to update my pointless little blog as well. I've been pretty busy lately moving government property from one room into a little Cold War-era box truck and then into another, slightly more secluded room. When I haven't been doing shady work for school disticts I've been ramming a little spaceship into various brightly colored blocks to the tune of disco hit classics.
Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood has never been so siezure-inducing, and that's really saying something.

So of course I've completely forgotten to water the metaphorical plants and now they're looking all sorts of sad (the metaphorical plants in this case are Junkuchan and any internet projects I may have been working on). Hopefully no permanant harm has been done and everything will get back to normal soon enough for me to completely forget about everything again so I can wander off like a blissfully ignorant lost child.

I can already see something I forgot to fix, goody.

Gin has been updated yet again and now plays well with Opera 10.50 Pre-alpha, although attempting to get Gin to play well visually with Windows Aero is giving me terrible nightmares and will probably continue to do so into the far future. At the moment Gin looks merely okay if you disable the menu bar, however I would prefer it to look AWESOME, not merely okay. Even better, I haven't the slightest idea what Gin looks like on other OSes, quite frankly I don't even want to know.

Once again, I'll try to update this more regularly, mostly for my own sake so I can look back at it in a few years and laugh at what an idiot I was, then hang my head and shamefully weep for countless hours while I stare down the bottle of some cheap vodka. Good times.

Oh great, spell-check isn't working either.

Seo Tatsuya is a damn good artist.

EDIT:
http://www.danluvisiart.com/artworks/

Can't forget this guy, either.

Yes, blogs are pretty fucking stupid, and I'm including my own in this, so don't worry. Of course, I don't need to tell you this, I know you know that blogs are stupid, everyone does. They're about boring people who do boring shit, and for some unknown reason they want to share it with the world. Now, that's not to say that all blogs are boring as shit, however most of them are pretty damn boring. It seems that most blogs are about "love"; wherein someone proves that they are a clingy, insecure fuck who's a couple of weeks away from getting dropped like a stone for someone who isn't so batshit insane, then the blog turns into an insufferable emo whine-fest . If it isn't about love, a blog is typically about pseudo-intellectual bullshit that everyone ponders but no one has known or will know the answer to, yet some 13 year old with an overinflated ego will gladly answer all of life's questions with frightening assuredness, right before he bitches about how unfair his parents are. Then there's the whole copy-paste culture of blogs, where people share "interesting" links, snippets of the news, and really shitty Nickelback song lyrics to make up for their astonishingly dull personality. Seriously, no one likes these types of blogs, stop doing them, I know how to use Google and social bookmarking sites too; and trust me, I'm not going to click your goddamn Google ads, bite me.

There are many, many more types of blog themes out there which I don't have the time or the intellectual range to write about, you know that and I know that, and they all suck just as bad. The blog format really just needs to be abandoned, and I don't mean switching the format up so that you can only write one goddamn sentence at a time, that just makes it more boring. No, journals need to become personal again, so that you will be the only one who gets to laugh at your stupidity and trivial problems.

I honestly hope you didn't just waste your time reading this; cynical, whiny blogs are by far the worst types of blogs in existence, I don't even need to give any goddamn examples, they're just that bad. Web 2.0 needs to get obsolete and it needs to get obsolete right fucking now, there's way too much data out there already, it's just downright depressing.

So apparently I was invited to a SUPER SECRET Opera group (I'm going to assume it's SUPER SECRET to avoid any unwanted bullshit) that promotes upcoming releases of Opera. It was probably an honest mistake on the part of some wayward mod, but who knows? Maybe Opera wants a vulgar, self-depreciative asshole pimping their product; I haven't the slightest clue.

Also, it seems as if I haven't been updating much recently, much to my chagrin. Maybe I can fix that, because I absolutely love writing about myself and inflating my ego; it just gives me warm, fuzzy feelings inside. I can't really think of anything in particular at the moment, I'm sure I'll come up with something though, maybe.

It says it all in the title, that was the hardest test I have ever taken, it made the ACT look like the (Insert State Initial Here)EAP for fuck's sake. At least I passed it, somehow, by pulling the answers out of my ass. The test itself was 40 years old, and NO ONE seems to know anything about it, god damn Air Force voodoo. Hell, I just took it and I don't know what the hell it was about.

Browsing my.Opera is always fun, there's such a much more colorful and varied mix of folks on here, and they all seem smarter than the average bear. I always tend to click on random pictures of animu girls (don't judge me) in the hopes of finding some like-minded weeaboo. Sadly, almost all of the people who wear the mask of an anime girl are usually flaming perverts who enjoy dumping their softcore collection, who could've guessed?

One of the finer points of my.opera is the way a user's page looks when they're banned:

Now, most banned user pages are either extremely overt or nonexistent. Small sites or larger, "edgy" sites tend to take the most overt approach possible; slapping a big, red "USER WAS BANNED FOR THEIR BULLSHIT" across everything said user has ever contributed to the site, utterly obliterating any sort of clout they may have had before they pulled a dumbass, there may be a neat little reason why under the angry red letters just to further invalidate the banned person. Nothing makes you more of an irrelevant bad guy like "Banned for uploading drawn kiddie porn" under every single post you have ever made. Of course this depends on the community you attend, you may be lauded as a hero and a martyr depending on the folks you rub shoulders with.

On the other end of the spectrum are the massive sites and the professional sites, they don't want the trouble and they don't want to associate their community with such riffraff. Once you are banned on a site like MySpace or the like you become a nonperson, and for good reason, a dumbass in a large community can become a martyr in an instant, handle things wrong and you could have a rebellion. Nailing a man to a cross in a small community usually won't spark even a bat of an eyelid, nailing a man to a cross in a huge community will make the man a martyr. So how do you combat this? Simply make them disappear, a person who never existed can't cause a post-ban uprising, so to speak. Delete all their posts, their pictures, and the internet will forget about them, peachy.

So, wait, what the hell am I babbling about? Internet communities? I guess this really IS 1984 week. Anyway, back to Opera's little ban page, it has something so many other ban pages lack, a dose of subtlety and HUGE amount of things left unspoken. The light blue and the serene imagery suggest something downright sinister behind the scenes. When you're banned from somewhere else, you are either silently cast out or dragged to the stocks to have rancid vegetables thrown at you; when you're banned from my.Opera you're taken out back with a .22 and shot down like the rabid dog you are. So much shame, sadness, and sinister subtleties in one god damn ban page.

Bravo, Opera, you've scared me shitless.

So yeah, Junkuchan was hit by a saviorchan clone, awesomesause. This is a perfect time to get back to Junkuchan's roots, so to speak. So more manga, more doll joints, more boat lights, and more all around goodness.

Stay tuned.

So, I decided to poke around and find out a little bit about these anti-sec fellows and their intentions, and I found this:

http://romeo.copyandpaste.info/

Now, I thought that maybe I was wrong and they wanted to keep the exploits private so they could disclose them to the developers. Maybe I was wrong about this petulant "movement", maybe it was just misunderstood and misguided. Nope.

~ Fuck full-disclosure
~ Fuck the security industry
~ Keep 0days private
~ Hack everyone you can and then hack some more

Yup, they're a bunch of pricks, just as I had suspected. Never has the hacker cliché been so throughly reinforced. What this tells me is that they want to participate in defacement en masse of any website they can get their grubby hands on, a trait common in the script-kiddie community that they so thoroughly despise.

Further on down the page is their little mantra, it's pretty generic self-entitled bullshit, but two lines caught my eye:

Take back the scene.
Never sell out, never surrender.

Take back the "scene"? "Never sell out, never surrender"? Wait, do you think you are some indie band, taking back the "scene"? I mean, I guess I could understand "selling out" by getting a job or something, but how the hell do you surrender on the internet? You're not fighting a war; new servers can be bought, new IPs can be found, no one's going to kill you via your computer. I mean, unless your toaster is connected to the internet:

Don't fuck with Schneier.[/COLOR]
Then I got to their little collection of text documents, I'm going to have fun reading those, maybe I'll do a series or something on them.

Finally, I got to their "Rules of Engagement", back to the whole war thing, I guess it makes them feel more "epic" or some bullshit like that. One of their rules made me chuckle:

Don't get too cocky.

I love irony.

I'm going to come back to this blog one day, realize I was one unfunny fuck, and laugh. That is if Opera isn't bought out by Apple and its installer bloated to 113 MB for no reason whatsoever. I'm going to send out a preemptive fuck you to Apple.

And how the hell did he get in my music folder? Goddamn mp3 gremlins fucking with my mind again, it is pretty nifty sounding music though.

I've seen the 365 group, where members have to take one picture a day and upload it to Opera, hell, it's one of the only groups on Opera that are actually active, but I wonder if anyone would be willing to do the same thing only with blog posts on Opera? Is there anyone around here that is really that interesting? I would be willing to do a daily post if I wasn't so goddamn boring and unfunny. Of course the posts have to have some substance to them, not just "lol i tuched a girl today" or some similar bullshit. Yeah, I know it's a boring post; you can go eat a dick, you goddamn critic.

Yeah, I was bored, I probably could have put more effort into it but that would require actual work.

Why do you even exist? You are a useless little piece of shit taking up valuable real estate on my keyboard. Take the hint and go the way of the turbo button on my old PC, you useless sack of shit. I swear to god, one of these days I'm going to take a screwdriver to your cheap plastic ass.

I can't stop flipping the thing around in various ways (and failing horribly in the process), I feel like such a gangbanger.