Yes, I'm mad. And with good reason.
This. It's pretty damn horrible--the actions caught in this video are ranked within the same level of atrocity as the Abu Ghraib photos and the My Lai Massacre. Among the people killed were a journalist and a driver, and some children were wounded. It sickens me. Just because they were brown people does not mean that they were terrorists. Well, it's easy to mistake a camera for a weapon, but goddamn. Trigger-happy, much? Just like in My Lai, the party responsible for the killings pretty much got away with it.
Is there no justice in the world? Apparently.
The Internet's become pretty lame. YouTube has a new, horrible format that is less "You" and more "advertiser-friendly Facebook ripoff", and net-neutrality is going down the shitter. Parliament recently passed the Digital Economy Act, regulating how digital media will be distributed in the UK. Meaning, if you like piracy and you're British, well...you're boned.
On the subject of controversial things relating to the Internet, hentai in my CNN? It's more likely than you think. Kyung Lah, a Korean reporter who is CNN's Tokyo-based correspondent, reported about Japan's controversial eroge (erotic game) market. Among one of those games is "RapeLay", a 3D rape simulation game for the PC. Now, last year the game garnered a lot of negative attention internationally and the publisher, ILLUSION, pulled the game from the shelves after several groups were enraged about the game's subject matter, with even some special-interest groups wanting it and similar games banned entirely. Just last week, there was a report on CNN about "hentai games" and the game featured was "RapeLay". The problem with that report is that it's 1) old news, 2) not relevant to the interests of the world, and 3) harbors anti-Japanese sentiment. The latter can be blamed on both Kyung Lah's suspected bias against Japan (sadly, Koreans and Japanese in general hate each other, for obvious reasons) and the fact that a neighborhood of perverted otaku in Akihabara is now a representation of Japanese people as a whole. I am also bothered that people find eroge bothersome but do not find violent video games equally as repugnant. I mean, murder simulators are just as bad as rape simulators, right? I kind of expected this type of reporting to be found in Fox News, rather than CNN. Then again, cable news is quite sensationalist.
Also, psst, Kyung Lah had an affair with some other dude at KNBC before she got fired and then started working at CNN. Pass it on.
In lighter news, MTV's "Jersey Shore". It's full of guidos and cancer. Seriously, orange skin doesn't look healthy at all. And stop making those duck faces.
You know what else is cancerous? The Tea Party movement. Protesting against the establishment for a cause is awesome and all, but if you're among one of the many teabaggers out there reading this, stop being a tool. Seriously. Do you know anything about health care reform? Or do you just protest because you blindly follow whatever these talk-radio fascists tell you to do and sincerely believe that "socialism" is this great evil that will ruin America forever? Go read this and this, calm the fuck down, and think for a change.
Oh, and Sarah Palin is an ignorant trollop. 'Nuff said.
You'd think with all of this negativity surrounding me that I'd go mad...well, even more mad than before, but I've found something that has mellowed me out:
UKULELE = LOVE ♥♥
C'est la vie,
SOURCES: CNN, Sankaku Complex, Wikileaks, /a/, YouTube, Wikipedia.
