Cheerleading Practice

Just like back in this journal, I've noticed a cluster of unusual events happening on game shows today, so I'm gonna comment on them all.

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( Been a while since I last used an LJ Cut, hasn't it? =P )

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And there you go. See ya next time!

Today is my 22^nd birthday!!! ^^


^^^^^That's a view from outside my house. Look at all the snow outside! Don't you think that this is a nice birthday present? =P

The reason why I chose this particular user name is because the way LiveJournal presented the registration form to me made me think that I couldn't use "A-l-e-x-99", which is the user name I wanted.

Now, as for the etymology: I'm Alex, I was born in 1988, and began cartooning in 1999. Alex + 88 + 99 + an underscore. Simple, huh? :)

Do you know what a weeaboo is?

Because you're acting like one, only with the Brits instead of Japan!!!

Between this post and this latest entry in your incredibly fucktarded "British are Better Than Us" series, I'm beginning to think that you are becoming what is known as an "Anglophile". Both posts, and the comments after each, smack of mindless praise of the United Kingdom.

And this constant bashing of NBC really, really, REALLY reminds me way too much of Golden Road.net's constant bashing of Fremantle Media. Am I to assume, then, that on July 4th of this year, I'll be putting THIS site on Encyclopedia Dramatica, too!?! Will THIS site shut down over something really stupid two years after they did, and will Drew Carey refer to YOU as a "telephone pole screamer"!?!

I sure hope not.

BuzzerBlog, please quit jumping the shark. Now.

So, apparently, there's been a falling-out over the cancellation of NBC's Jay Leno Show. Rather than just let Jay go the way of Johnny Carson, NBC decided to instead try Jay at 11:30 P.M., with The Tonight Show coming on at midnight. Conan O' Brien got sand in his vagina over this, and it looks like he might be stepping down. And it looks like Jay might be reinstated! Keep in mind that Jay Leno said in 2004 that he was going to retire in 2009, and that Conan would be the successor. They had five years to get any sort of mess sorted out, and it's becoming clear to me that they didn't do it!!!

Bitch, please.

Can you imagine if this stuff happened on TPIR!?! It almost did. On Bob Barker's last episode, he said that if CBS needed him to stick around for just a few more episodes, he would've done it. Can you imagine what would happen if CBS followed through on that offer?

First off, they'd be so busy taping Season 36 that they wouldn't have had as much time to audition new hosts. Second, assuming they would've still picked Drew Carey, and assuming that he would've still started on October 15, 2007, that means that that month with Bob Barker would've been incredibly awkward. You don't just change hosts in the middle of a season except in case of emergency (like what happened with Johnny Olson and Rod Roddy). Finally, Drew would have had more pressure on him, and he wouldn't have had the "practice time", so he probably would've ended up doing even worse than he did in that crucial first month. And we probably wouldn't have a Season 38 today.

And, to extrapolate even further, can you imagine if this Jay Leno/Conan O' Brien drama happened on Wheel of Fortune in the late 1980's? Remember, Pat Sajak quit the daytime show in 1989 to do a primetime talk show, just like with Jay. And I think his show was cancelled while the Bob Goen version was still active. That episode where he appeared to "pass the torch" to Bob Goen would've taken on a whole new meaning...

Moral of the story: When you say you're going to retire from something, then, under normal circumstances, that means that you are GONE FOREVER, never to return again!!! If you read this journal and are planning on becoming the next Bob Barker or Jay Leno, please remember this!!!

And please, people, don't get me started on Brett Favre...! >_<

(sigh) The contestant said "Switch".

Drew repeatedly said that she wanted to switch!

Lanisha began switching!

Amber, however, insisted on revealing the fucking price!!!

And Drew declared a technical win because of it!

This, by the way, isn't the only time that Amber has been a model for Switch. I think she's handled switches before.

So, W.T.F. happened!?! D:

...but not the Let's Make a Deal and Wheel of Fortune episodes that followed! >_<

On TPIR, the third contestant, who played Any Number back in 1979 and won only the piggy bank, played Any Number again today and won the car! And during her Showcase Showdown, we got to see a small clip of her last episode. However, it looked very awkward the way it was presented. Then again, I guess I have to forgive R. Brian DiPirro for this, since something like this had never been done before on the show, and he had no precedent. Marc Breslow, Paul Alter, and Bart Eskander couldn't help him! :(

And the Golden Road.net boys said that Fremantle Media would ruin the show once Bob Barker left.

I didn't know that actually respecting the past, something Bob does not do, ruins game shows. That's a new one on me! D:

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I think the 2009 version of LMAD may have set a record for Zonks on today's episode. And nearly every contestant did poorly, with the highest-scoring contestant in the main game winning "only" a $6,500 spa. Naturally, she went for the Big Deal and ended up winning the Medium Deal, which was (I think) over $7,000. I find it strange that the last two episodes I've watched have had cash inside the LMAD Vault being the Big Deal instead of the usual cars.

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And I can't believe that the three U.S. military guys on today's WOF couldn't get "Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa". The first two solves involved each contestant pronouncing it "Regis PhilBURN", and the third solve, which was on a FULLY REVEALED PUZZLE!!! :O :O :O, had the contestant in the blue spot, who kept hitting Bankrupt a lot, pronouncing "Ripa" as "Rye-puh". That's, what, the third time in WOF history that a fully-revealed puzzle was blown!?! WhatAnIdiot, indeed! >x(

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I'd really love to know what alignment the planets were in today to produce such standout episodes on three game shows in a row that, for me, all come on the same network (WOF syndicates to WDBJ-7, Roanoke, Virginia's CBS station). Either way, it was freaky! D:

(sigh) Moments like this make me wish it were still 1994, when I was only 6 years old, Bill Clinton was the president, America was doing very well, the Internet hadn't yet taken off, and things seemed so much simpler.

Remember this journal? I "responded" to a Writer's Block question coinciding with the release in theaters of the movie of the second Twilight series book, New Moon. Since I hadn't seen the movie, I didn't really answer the question, but I instead gave my opinion on the incredibly fucktarded fans of the series. Lately, however, I'm starting to believe that their rivals, better known as the "Anti"'s, are becoming just as bad, if not worse.

At the time I wrote that journal, I hadn't been to Encyclopedia Dramatica in over a year. In October 2008, after doing some touch-up to the Golden Road.net article, I was banned for who-knows-what reason by a douche bag named "WhiteMystery". This was my second ban from the site, all for doing something that I didn't really know was against the rules (supposedly on both that site and Wikipedia, you can't change a large section of the article without permission from a mod; I deleted the "Notable Quotes" section of the article, which had a lot of quotes, and placed it in its own article). Another mod unbanned me, but WhiteMystery then banned me again for supposedly "E-mailing him a bunch of butthurt emo bullshit", or something like that. I said, "Fuck it."

Well, since writing "Twitarded LiveJournal is Twitarded", I have started visiting Encyclopedia Dramatica again. But I've taken great care to avoid articles that I've been closely connected to, such as Golden Road.net's article, and those about DeviantArt, especially Snapesnogger and MDetector5, and this website. One of the first articles I visited was the one on Twilight. And, as it turns out, TwilightSucks.com has an article, as does its founder. However, I am not pleased.

When I first discovered TwilightSucks.com, circa May 2009, I thought that it was a very reliable source for Twilight criticism and information. At the time, the general public truly was under attack from the terrorist menace of a rabid fanbase, and that site had the proof in its "Fangirl Encounters" section (but not "Bullshit Encounters"; those stories were proven false). Like I said in the previous journal, I quit keeping up with the Twilight fantard news when AnnaLeeJones3 quit YouTube (and I bet her Khan/Minh Soupinousaphone-like parents wonder why Asians of their kind are made fun of in popular media... -_-;). At the time, circa July 2009, two YouTube users named Viperhor and NuttyMadam were on a violent rampage.

Well, it seems that in four months, a lot has changed, and not for the better. Apparently, after TS.com successfully defeated one of those two YouTubers (I forget which), the site jumped the shark severely. First off, it seems that ol' Mars had a little bit of troll's remorse, and turned to the Dark Side. That, and it seems that "Mars Defden" isn't really her name, and she isn't really Swedish. Also, a Nyxbel Hawthorne decided to retaliate against a fantard, and went way too far. And the members of the site in general are getting somewhat...malicious, even going so far as to attack other anti-Twilight sites, and even sane fans! Back in the summer of 2009, we the Antis were facing a very legitimate threat. But now, the Twitards appear to have backed off, and it's the Antis who are the threat. Now THEY'RE the ones voicing bad opinions, and THEY'RE the oppressors.

And here I am, stuck in the middle with you.

No. Just no.

I thought this kind of mentality died out with the Puritans in the 1600's.

Some people say that I'm like this with the people that are the villains in my superhero comic, Life in FCHS, but they're only half right. Not only do I grow to resemble the "bad guy", but they grow to resemble me. This actually ends up being a good thing; despite near black-and-white differences in personalities and beliefs, the bad guys end up going from near-perfect recreations of old Superman villains to almost ordinary people that can have ordinary conversations with me.

I don't see TwilightSucks.com, Mars Defden, or AnnaLeeJones3 doing any of that (in the latter's case, it gives "yellow peril" a whole new meaning! xD). Do you? Not likely. They're becoming like the "bad guys" in the wrong way, and they seem to have become just as obsessed with hating Edward Cullen as the Twitards are with loving him.

This isn't good for anyone. To paraphrase Alex Davis just after Golden Road.net's shutdown in July 2008, I think everyone, Twitards and Antis alike, needs to remember that in the end, it's just a book series, only the vast minority of fans are Twitards, and the books aren't having as much of an impact on people as you think. They aren't "encouraging misogyny" (funny how misandrists are the only ones who make that charge...) or dragging down the value of books, and Stephenie Meyer didn't keep someone more deserving from their chance at fame. You're just reading too heavily into it, and should probably take a break.

Please, go take one. Now. Because it's the only way to get us at the Pubs of St. Clair to be your friends again! >x(

You're pathetic.

Go die in a fire.

In no particular order:

• I Feel Love
• She Works Hard for the Money
• Girls Just Want to Have Fun
• Time After Time
• Edge of Seventeen
• Let the Music Play
• Gonna Make You Sweat!
• I Kissed a Girl
• Disturbia
• Umbrella
• Please Don't Stop the Music
• Poker Face
• Love Game
• Paparazzi

Play all of those at once and I might orgasm! xD

...they asked, to the hardcore Anti who at one point visited TwilightSucks.com frequently and wanted to register. That is, until his favorite user, AnnaLeeJones3 abandoned her YouTube account because her Asian stereotype parents forced her to over something really stupid!!! (LOL, another Asian girl. I swear to you guys, I so totally don't have yellow fever! Remember, I said in the previous journal about iJustine that I stuck to Let's Plays and YT Poops, and last I checked, SMW Central and related communities are Caucasian-dominated! D:) Oh, there was also ShmeiliaRockie and her "You are Bella" series, but I don't like her hairstyle in newer videos. ._.

Keep in mind that I have never read a single Twilight book or seen a single Twilight movie. So how, then, can I be a hardcore Anti? The fanbase. Simply put, Twilight has the most violent fanbase since European soccer fans at the 2006 World Cup!!! As noted at TwilightSucks.com's "Fangirl Encounters" forum, fans have been known to beat the shit out of people even if they didn't voice a dissenting opinion!!! Even if the opinion was NEUTRAL. Even if the opinion was SUPPORTIVE of the books and of Stephenie Meyer, but still had criticisms (i.e. "I like this book, but..."). If they hear you say anything other than "ZOMG Stephenie Meyer is the best EVAR!!!111!!!111!!!1" or if you don't agree with this video, you won't live to see tomorrow, simply put!

Also, Stephenie Meyer herself is like these fans, reminding me of Snapesnogger in the process.

While that in and of itself does little to endear the Twilight series to me, there's also the bad reviews on Amazon.com to consider. The general consensus is that the series bitch slaps feminism in the face by making Bella Swan completely dependent on Edward Cullen, and Edward being an abusive boyfriend. Both characters are also Mary Sues, and Steffy (or "SMeyer", if you insist) spends way, way, WAY too many pages describing Edward. Yay, purple prose! D:

So, yeah. Technically, I didn't answer the Writer's Block question, but oh well. If you want me to answer it, you'd better un-fuck up those fantards and help Steffy get her shit together. That, and help her drop 100 pounds; DAMN, she's fat!!! D:

It's more likely than you think! On the show's ceremonial 7,000^th episode on November 5^th, this popular YouTube user was a contestant! She blogged about the experience here.

iJustine was the first contestant called of the First Four. She was almost banished to the so-called "First Four Breakfast Club", but escaped! She won a $1,499 spa, played Double Prices for a Rolex watch worth $6,775 and won, went to the Showcase on 90¢, and won her Showcase!

She's one of the "YouTube Celebrities" that you often see on the "Featured Videos" section at the bottom of the "Related Videos" section of most videos. Most people dismiss those people as cheap, overrated, egotistical bitches, likely due to a bad first impression that LonelyGirl15 left in 2006. I don't hold contempt for ALL YT Celebrities; I have been known to watch CommunityChannel and Michelle Phan on occasion. (LOL, I think I have yellow fever! xD) But I tend to stick to Let's Plays and YT Poops, and I also dismissed iJustine as a Macfag. Maybe, after this, I should give iJustine a second chance; I might gain a new respect for her! ;)

Other highlights:

• Lucky Seven being played with $7,000 instead of $7
• The last three games being the first three games ever played.
• Double Prices on the stage and a video screen being used as a backdrop (and that weird music cue!).
• The black dude in the first Showcase Showdown staying on 30¢
• Both Showcases being based on the first episode's Showcases
• Drew acknowledging that this was Rich's 1,001^st episode, and the graphics guys even putting up a "1,001" graphic at the bottom of the screen!

It really says something about our society today when an Internet celebrity wins on a game show that existed long before the Internet. I bet there will be some people on Golden Road.net throwing a hissy about it...as usual! Either way, happy 7,000^th, and here's to 14,000! ^^

Abby Sciuto, of NCIS.

I just have an...affinity...for the darkness. Plus, her actress is almost 40, and she still looks hot. Gotta love that! xD

Donald Bellisario made a wise choice in casting Pauley Perrette for her role; if you look her up on the Internet Movie Database, you'll find that her prior credits involved lots of dark movies and roles. If she should quit the show or die, it would be hard to replace her. Of course, as we all know from prior seasons, Donald typically tries not to; he instead opts for killing the characters off! D:

It's annoying as shit. -_-;

I was always taught that censorship is wrong, and that this country was supposed to be a censorship-free society. So, naturally, it always pisses me off when someone's face gets fuzzed out on TV, or their voice gets altered, or their name gets changed to "protect the innocent". Similarly, K-92's habit of bleeping out people's names in some segments is why I can't listen to Danny and Zack's Mornin' Thang. Also, I will never use a juvenile and domestic relations court if I can avoid it, and I will never work for my mom's job, or any other "child advocacy center". I feel many of this country's privacy laws go overboard, and that they are at direct odds with the public's right to know, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Constitution's 1^st Amendment.

That's why I have no compunctions about revealing my full name, my age, the city and state where I live, and an approximation of its location. I don't feel that saying that I'm Alex St. Clair, that I'm 21 years old and live in Hardy, Virginia, in the U.S., and that Hardy is located in northeastern Franklin County near Smith Mountain Lake will do me any harm. Likewise, I don't feel that keeping this information private will protect me; the vast majority of rapists and stalkers out there are someone the victim knows, and anyone who is determined enough to do me harm would've already found out my exact home address/Social Security number/whatever without me revealing anything at all!!! And finally, even the toughest privacy laws still will not prevent a total idiot from blatantly posting his password/Social Security number/bank account number/whatever on the Internet. In that case, they're asking for it! xD

Also, friends-only LiveJournals give me the same resentment I felt back in 2005 when Golden Road.net made its previously-public Golden Gallery members only as well as various forums members-only beginning in May 2006. Likewise, friends-only LiveJournals remind me of all those forums on IGN.com that could only be accessed by an IGN Insider subscription. The people behind those dipshitted options said that it provided "incentive" to register or subscribe; however, I feel that it coerced people into registering an account just to continue using what they previously could use without an account. When I registered for GRN in late January 2005, I felt like I was "forced" to register, like Marc and ClockGameJohn held a gun to my head or something!

This is completely different from, say, requiring people to register so they can post in a forum, or write a review, or upload their art. Requiring registration in those aspects is a good thing, because no one wants spam in their forums, and attaching a name to your review/art/post/whatever helps add credibility. But, providing "incentives" to register by requiring someone to register just to view images or see certain forums will probably work against you rather than for you, as the accounts registered could end up being "empty" lurker accounts that do nothing at all.

IMO, making a LiveJournal friends-only is the same thing as a private Golden Gallery. The typical policy on most LiveJournals of this kind is that you have to give the user a comment so they can add you to their friends list. To me, that's pretty much saying, "This is a tiny sliver of incentive for you to suck my cock/lick my pussy!" I mean, we all know how Snapesnogger liked to abuse the closest thing DeviantArt has to privacy features (the comment hiding and user blocking features)...imagine what she would do if she were a user here and this were her main site!!! D: And, making a LiveJournal friends-only makes some of the people feel like I felt when I registered for Golden Road.net: they'll feel coerced into commenting on your journal, and they'll feel like you put a gun to their head.

Coercement is wrong. You should never coerce people into doing things for you; it should always be voluntary. Why do you think there were so damn many draft-dodgers back in the 1960's and 1970's, and why do you think the Selective Service Act is still hated today, by people like me who are too young to remember!?! Why do you think Christianity, the Republicans, and their links to each other are hated? Why do you think that the so-called "Twitards" are hated?

Well, that's why I hate friends-only LiveJournals.

So, don't make yours one of them, dipshit!!!

Also, as I believe I said in a previous journal, I feel that Golden Road.net jumped the shark when it made its Golden Gallery members-only. The members on that site who are being made fun of right now, like Steve Gavazzi, FPGWillyT, and WarioBarker, are very egotistical and self-aggrandizing. And I think that's because making the Golden Gallery members-only somehow made them feel like they were special, and that they had a sense of entitlement. A friends-only LiveJournal, IMO, does the same thing, both to the journal owner and the friends who are allowed to see it. The Encyclopedia Dramatica entry on Snapesnogger that I provided in a hyperlink above shows you all the bad things that can happen when someone gets a sense of entitlement...and that's just DeviantArt!!! I can only imagine the awful, awful things that Encyclopedia Dramatica has documented on certain users of THIS site...! O_O;

So do the right thing. Support the 1^st Amendment (or whatever similar laws you might have in your country if you don't live in the U.S.), support decency, and support people friending you for the right reasons. Don't make a friends-only LiveJournal!

This has been a public service announcement from St. Clair Publications. ^^

FINAL NOTE: So, how long will it be before I'm banned from THIS site? -_-; Getting too much into DeviantArt's politics ended up being my downfall from that site...and now here I am talking about THIS site's politics... (sigh) Looks like the time bomb starts ticking now... ;_;

So, I'm currently busy getting my hack ready for the next C³, and hopefully a submission to the site. Part of that cleanup involves upgrading old music in my hack that's been deleted from the site with new music that's still available. One level in the hack, which is a lava level, used a remix of the Super Mario 64 Bowser Levels theme which is now deleted (and, in the future, I plan to make my hack's seventh world a volcano-themed area, so levels there would use the theme, too). So I go to the Custom Music section and find this upgrade by Jimmy52905 (currently known as "SMW's Dreaded @8"). I download it and try to apply it to my hack.

Here's the thing, though: when I went to the level in question, my hack acted like Warner Music Group got YouTube to fuck with it. I find out I need this thing called an "N-SPC patch" as well as a so-called "sample bank" in order to make it work. So, I go to the Patches section, and find two files called "More.ASM" and "More.BIN". Further investigation reveals that my version of AddMusic (Romi's/RevX) already has this file. So I go to apply it.

First I use the addmusic.exe hackname.smc -se option. Nothing happened.

Then I XKAS'ed the patch. Still nothing.

After a while, I just said, "Screw it,", inserted another song, and moved onto the sample bank thingy. Using SMKDan's SMWS, I was able to successfully apply the sample bank. However, applying the sample bank caused pages 0x2 and 0x3 of my Map16 to glitch the fuck up!!! After a little investigating, I went to "File > Uninstall hack" and removed the RATS tag that SMKDan wanted me to insert, as well as the bank itself. Just to be extra sure that I wasn't applying the tag in the wrong place, I went into Translhextion and jumped to the offset. And there was sufficient free space. I inserted the RATS tag at three different spots that I was assured had enough free space, and the same goddamn thing happened!!!

Removing the RATS tag didn't undo SMKDan's damage completely, either. The "blank" Map16 tiles were using palette 0 instead of palette 4. So I have to go to a blank Map16 page, press F2 to make Map16Page/Map16PageG.BIN files, and press F3 to insert them. Since page 0x2 of the Map16 editor is a "tileset-specific" page, this process took quite a while.

Then, earlier this afternoon, I load my hack into ZSNES only to find out that nearly every single level in my hack that uses a No-Yoshi level intro CRASHES AFTER I PRESS B TO ADVANCE THE LEVEL BEYOND THE INTRO!!!

So now, I have to start all over again!!!

As I write this, I've transferred every single level of my hack, as well as the overworld, functioning Map16, and ExGFX into a new ROM, and I've just now finished re-inserting all my custom music, blocks, sprites, and GOOD XKAS patches!!! Thankfully, since I try to be a vanilla hacker, I didn't have much custom stuff to reinsert.

But...here's the grand irony. When I reinserted my custom music, I did the "addmusic romname -se" thingy again...AND THIS TIME, THE N-SPC PATCH ACTUALLY FUCKING WORKED!!! But, SMKDan's SMWS tool STILL fucked my Map16 up.

And the music itself!?! A total fucking piece of shit. The "Bowser'sDomainFAIL" track I got when I loaded up the level for the first time was so loud, I almost thought it would damage my hearing. And when I applied the sample bank file to it to make it work, it still had incredibly dodgy volume and sounds. It definitely didn't sound like the .SPC preview file did in WinAmp. Also, many of my sound effects got overwritten with Super Mario World 2 sounds for some odd reason! Now I have to go look for a new song...

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Fucking seriously. If I could, I would go to Roanoke and sue SMKDan's, Jimmy52905's, SNN's, Romi's, Aika's, and the N-SPC makers' asses off at the federal court there!!! You people are so fucking lucky that the nature of what we do on this site absolves you from any kind of damages or legal liability!!! You fucking TORPEDOED MY GODDAMN HACK in the name of more realistic custom music!!! I sure hope you're happy.

BECAUSE I'M NOT!!!

First off, how in the bloody fuck was I supposed to know that N-SPC could only be applied to a virgin ROM!?! The commentary in the actual patch, as well as AddMusic's instruction manual, the entry for the More.ASM patch in the Patches section, as well as a thread SNN started in Advanced Hacking in which he offers the More.ASM and More.BIN files on his personal site MADE ABSOLUTELY NO MENTION OF THIS!!! Therefore, I am to assume that it can be applied to any ROM regardless of how hacked it is. AND OBVIOUSLY, I WAS WRONG!!!

Second, did SMKDan or anyone near him even so much as BOTHER to open up Lunar Magic to do a simple cursory check to see if anything there glitched up!?! I should be so lucky I don't actually use Map16 pages 0x2 or 0x3 for anything. What if I had!?! As FuSoYa says in that warning at the bottom of the dialog box that appears when you hit the Poison Mushroom button, "If the level makes heavy use of these objects, it may become mangled beyond recognition!"

This was a lot of effort that I had to go through just to get a fucking SONG to work in my hack, and it ended up being all for naught!!! And, as you can clearly tell, it made me mad!!! When you insert something into your hack, you should not expect to have to transfer shit to a new ROM later!!!

So, to Jimmy52905, SMKDan, and possibly others: FUCK YOU AND THE HORSES YOU RODE IN ON!!!

And now, I am done. -_-;

If I had six months to live, I'd immediately grab a knife or a gun and speed the process up.

There's no point in delaying shit. Just get it overwith, I say!

Next question. -_-

Today, Drew Carey will have been hosting The Price is Right for two years!

It's amazing how far he's come in those two years. Go back and look at that first episode from October 15, 2007, and compare it to today's episode. It will likely be no contest as to which one is better!

Here's to Drew! (clink)

Right now, as my dad watches the Baltimore Ravens play the New England Patriots, he sounds like a Brit watching an American watch Manchester United play Real Madrid!!!

Oh, teh irony. D:

This is a tough question for me to answer, as I've never really MADE friends with opinions that are uber-right wing, misandrist, or uber-sympathetic to PETA. I tend to steer clear of those kinds of people. The people who ARE my friends either have opinions that are in line with mine, or are really moderate and/or quiet about their beliefs.

Of course, "politics" is more than just Democrats and Republicans. "Politics" drove me to put an entire Price is Right fansite on Encyclopedia Dramatica! And, after that, the politics of that certain website and the game show it proclaims to be a fan of drove another Alex, as well as a Cory Anotado and even Drew Carey himself to join in the bashing long after I left my mark! D:

You could also say any fandom in general has a political bent among its most radical members.

• The Star Wars fanb01z who hate the Special Editions and prequels...
• Animé fans who have a blanket hatred for dubs...
• People who like Nintendo the way it currently is or hate Sonic the Hedgehog the way HE currently is...
• Supporters of certain DeviantArt users...
• The so-called "Twitards", and possibly Stephenie Meyer herself...
• "Copyright hounds" like Warner Music Group, the RIAA, and the MPAA...
• Many Wikipedia editors, particularly those involved with its "biographies of living persons" policy...
• "Indie" music fans and those who hate radio and mainstream pop...

...sound to me, in general, like Rush Limbaugh, Bill O' Reilly, and Ann Coulter in their litany! And I probably wouldn't want to be friends with those kinds of people.

"Politics" is everywhere, even where you think it isn't! ;)