It's been an age since I had one of these posts, February 2014 to be exact so 7 and a bit years later, let's do another!
Welcome to Bits N Pizzas - Where there's not enough rambling for a post with the lot but enough for individual slices..
TWO TRAILER PARK GIRLS GO...INSANE TRYING TO WORK OUT TWITTER
So apparently 'lying down in a puddle of coolant while trying to work out where it was coming from while under the car' is not a normal weekend activity in my office. Who knew?
— Words By Shield (@by_shield) May 10, 2021
I don't think even if I spent a year working on it that I'll ever understand Twitter. When I first got into it I likened it to a busy bar where everyone's trying to talk loudly to themselves while hoping they'll still be heard by the rest of the place jabbering away.
Nowadays I find it more akin to yelling instructions directly into the face of a force five hurricane and waiting in vain for the world to explode into rapturous applause. Because I watch my carefully thought out Tweets get a mere glance by 50 or less in the place while one that just reads 'Mmmm taco's' gets retweeted within an inch of its life and quoted for all eternity. At first I thought it was my account, spurned by the Twitter gods (for whatever reason) and doomed to lay in the digital dusts of obscurity. But no, deleting my original account and starting again continued the head scratching so deep, blood started appearing.
What hasn't helped is following the myriad of other authors who seem hell bent on spending so much time there, they'll never actually finish what they're currently working on, getting lost in the world of 'Describe your writing day with a gif!' and 'What is your main character's favorite color?' (I'd participate but in the terms of my latest story it's hardly important..)
I haven't sold a single thing there, never met anyone from it and haven't suffered any fear of missing out on anything. Sure I've tweeted heaps to woo the algorithm but since it isn't as poignant as expressions of love for Mexican food, it's failing to fire. Last I spent a day waxing lyrical over the 90's which went nowhere.
I mean I'll keep yelling (sorry, I mean Tweeting) but I'm really starting to wonder why..
WHY DID I SLEEP (LIKE A NECRON TOMB) ON MECHANICUS?
No seriously, why has it taken so long to discover the pure enjoyment of my little band of Tech Priests, servitors and other menials plundering Necron tombs for long forgotten tech? After dying (a lot) I thought it might be on the tough side of things until I actually put more than a casual second into strategy thought and not rushing forth to whack everything with my power axe. Once I had that figured out the game became tones more fun.
Not to mention how rewarding it is to turn your weedy little priests from puny flesh bag blast catchers to scuttling weapons of war, tearing up one side of the battlefield to the other with angry servo skulls, chain axes and all sorts of heavy weapon blasting away with mad abandon on anything crawling out a nearby tomb.
Being a Warhammer 40k fan I thoroughly recommend it!
THE CHAT I FAKED MY WAY THROUGH HAS REALLY DRIED UP
Sigh, ever since Supercoach for me came to an end (and the discovery that all my players not currently playing can't be absorbed into any of the teams still in the conversation) there's been a supreme lack of me pretending I know what I'm talking about.
Other coach: You must be happy with Lever's performance over the weekend?
Me: Oh god yes, what a machine! Boy am I glad I selected him to play! Go you good thing! Goooo Lever! (This statement was generated by a quick glance at his score through the app and a quick nod of agreement, with no actual knowledge of what he did all weekend at all.)
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| Jake is thrilled being part of my team obviously. |
But now I don't even have to pretend my way after the weekend.
Anyone: Almigo, did you catch the Hawks game?
Me: No, I mowed. Grass looks good though.
I never thought I'd be sooo keen on a football season to start all over again..
FINALLY NO LOVE FOR THE NAUGHTIES?
We had a recent quest on the radio station I work at to work out the greatest decade for music out of the 70's, 80's, 90's or 00's (aka the Naughties).
The 80's won the search (no real surprise there) with the 90's coming second, the 70's third and then right back at the ass end of the voting came the 00's with just a paltry single digit in the percentage points.
Was the music of the 00's really that bad? (*Takes a quick look at what I have in my music list on my phone from that era to check*)
According to the following, it's a no from me:
Finger Eleven - Paralyzer
Franz Ferdinand - Take me out
Art Vs Science - Parlez-vous Francais
Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood
Lily Allen - Back to the start
Eminem - Lose yourself
Eminem - Til I collapse
Fatboy Slim - Weapon of choice
Chemical Brothers - Come with Us (although only while writing this did I find out about this song's 70's origins.)
Metallica - St Anger
Powerman 5000 - Bombshell
Royce Da 5'9 feat Busta Rhymes - Dinner Time
Artic Monkeys - I bet you look good on the dancefloor
Kaiser Chiefs - I predict a riot
Inxs - Afterglow
Avalanches - Frontier Psychologist
See? Plenty of banging songs from the 00's to appreciate and still listen to religiously 2021.
Yes but how many of the ones listed above do you play on your radio station?
Er...maybe 1 or 2? Ahh right, that explains it. Moving on..
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