Dude, I'm still alive

I play Minecraft. many of you know this. It's in my ASCOTWP, which by the way I don't like the way the computer wrote that.

Anyway, some background. Minecraft is a survival game where you start of with nothing. First you have to get some wood by cutting them down with your bare hands. Don't ask. Then you make the logs into planks, and some of the planks into sticks, and some of both into wooden tools like swords, pickaxes and axes. Then you mine up some stone and make stone tools. Then you mine up some iron, smelt it, and make iron tools. Etc.

In Minecraft, there are many monsters, such as:

Zombies. These monsters walk up to you and punch you. They're pretty easy to kill, you can do it with out a sword most of the time.
Skeletons. These monsters have bows and arrows, but they're otherwise like the zombies. They can shoot you from far away.
Creepers. By far the most annoying, these demons walk up behind you silently and then blow up, damaging not only you.
Spiders. Spiders can move very fast and climb walls, but they're less powerful than other monsters.
Endermen. The most difficult of monsters, they do the most damage, have the most life, can pick up and move pieces of the world, and can teleport. Weakness: water.
Slimes. Found deep underground, Slimes come in four sizes: tiny, which can't do damage and one punch will kill them, small, who split into four tinys when then die, mediums, who split into four smalls when they die, and larges, who split into four mediums when they die.

There are even more than that, but that's not the point. In recent times, my friends and I have been playing on servers with the modification "MineZ" which makes the game into a zombie apocalypse. Only zombies can spawn, they move a lot faster than normal, they do more damage than normal, and they have more health than normal. The idea is to survive for as long as possible.

One time I played on one of these servers and teamed up with a very nice player whose username I forgot. We had just begun to travel when a player ran by with about 15 zombies on his tail. We immediately ran with him toward the nearest city of Romero, where the zombies would disperse. When we got there, I lost sight of my ally while defending myself. Suddenly he said in the chat "NOOOOOOO" and then "You will be remebered". I finished off the zombies and responded.

"Dude I'm still alive."

"lol."

Fail. What made it even more funny is that I was murdered in the next 30 seconds of that exchange.

Sigh.

Random rants, part one

I wonder if football players and coaches care that their every move at a game is being televised, right down to the seemingly private moments on the sidelines when their mug shot fills the screen. What's up with that also? I don't want to see random photos of some guy's face on my screen! I want to see the flipping GAME. Well, not always. In fact I don't always watch foot ball. But still. They do it with baseball too, which ticks me off to infinity, since baseball is a game I do watch.

The number infinity irks me. There are only two mathematical functions which can equal infinity at all ever, and they're two that a lot of people might not recognize: summation (∑) and limits (abbr. lim). Those are both calculus functions by the way. I've noticed that not a lot of people I meet understand too much about calculus. What is this world coming to?!

Another irksome number is infinity's evil twin, epsilon (ε) or 1/infinity. It's a strange number, because if ) 0.9999999... equals one (proof at the end of this post) than 0.00000...1 must be zero, right? Apparently not. Because 5-ε<5, or so they say.

Proof:

Step one: 1/3=0.33333...
Step two: 2/3=0.666666...
Step three: 3/3=0.9999999...
Step four: 3/3=1
Step five: use "if a=b and b=c then a=c" proof format: if 1=3/3 and 3/3=0.999999..., then 1 must equal 0.9999999...

Q.E.D. :)

Current events

I don't usually talk about what any casual CBS watcher would term "current events". Political stuff I don't even talk about in person. But I'm going to give it shot. Don't judge me by this one post if you are just coming here. If you want to see what I'm all about, go to the post "I'm sorry."

Onward!

Umm, well, so I watched part of the presidential debate and I was thinking (honestly), these guys must spend like 5 hours just styling their hair for these debates! Well, maybe not Obama. I know I would so totally spend a good chunk of my day on that if I were running for president. To me, It just seems like these guys were just saying over and over the same things. Basically Obama would say: "blah blah blah taxes blah blah blah education blah blah blah $5 trillion tax cut blah blah blah Romney is bad." And Romney would say: "blah blah blah taxes blah blah blah No, seriously, I don't have a $5 trillion tax cut blah blah blah No, I don't! what do I have to say to make you believe blah blah blah No! No! No! No! No! blah blah blah thank you Mr. president."

Side note to the U.S. government: If Wait Wait Don't Tell Me can get away with that without retribution, than so can I.

Also, what's up with these replacement refs in the football? They blew that call in the, what was it, Cheesies v. Really Tall Guys? Oh wait was that last week? Oh, the replacement refs...are...gone...now...ummmm... so....

[awkward silence]

Aw, forget it. I couldn't do current events even If I decided to stop getting a laugh and actually learn about things going on in the world...oops. You didn't read that! I totally didn't fake my ignorance of the...umm...


:-(


Note: Please post your favorite, crazy emoticons in the comments! I'm trying to accumulate enough to start a dictionary. My faves so far:

Headphones:    d-_-b

Thumbs up: d->.<-b

Rockstar: \m/->.<-\m/

Snowman: c|(:-)(...)(  )

Tears of Joy: :?

(Tears of Joy isn't very good, I know, but it's cool.)