Wolverine is not outclassed

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I was watching Wolverine Origins the other day and it occurred to me the real purpose of the wolverine. In the final episode with the fiery Phoenix, most of the other heroes are immolated and destroyed despite their varied sets of powers but Wolverine is the only one that can approach Phoenix.

Phoenix is the symbol of eternal death. Knowing that she could go at any minute, it's a wonder that anyone would want to stand next to her or have anything to do with her. She is the only level 5 mutant and despite her immense power, she is cursed with being too selfish. People say that with great power comes great responsibility but I believe, with great power comes even greater hunger. That's why Oprah can't keep her mouth shut about people for example, or why Quadafi must feel like a pencil, or why people that explain global warming, like to get paid. It's not wrong what they do, it's because they do it that their appetites grow.

So is it better to be lazy? Well if you are a type 5 Demon then yes. Oprah this means you.

More importantly is the image of Wolverine. He is a mean cynical person capable of love but very picky about it. He can heal all wounds. He is only a type 1 mutant so he is undetectable or found unimportant by the type 4 ones. He is the symbol of everlasting life, of indomitable will. Whatever his scars, they heal. He is the only person that can stop Phoenix once she relents to the people that hate her. The two are symbols of everlasting life and everlasting death. She has love and wants more. He has none but wants what is not his. The two are corrupt of course. Regular people settle and repress through TV and children most of what their gonads tell them.

I wonder at terrorists sometimes. They must be so clueless... people must think, but religion is like that. Whoever is doing the interpretation is basically putting his bias in it. In fact news is like that. They interpret what is happening and suddenly that man with the rifle is shooting back and the police say they are going to "take care" of it. God help us cuz someone heard shots and it's a mess out there.

The truth of everything is that we live in a complex puzzle wth X man Y man and Z man running it all probably. If we get too full it's time for a war, if we have too much money, it's time for a shortage or for house prices to go up. If we have too much gay people or incest or people in the streets doing drugs not giving a crap about the law, then it's time for AIDS.

It seems terrible to think about. I had to think long and hard about Tiananmen Square when it happened and I saw students, like me at the time, trying to take down that government because it was not "free". I wondered why the US would not step in and help these students who were seeking democracy or an escape from tyranny.

But people did not revolt despite their children's death. Old people really really know what is best and to start out its better not to know that. Maybe Chinese students should not read about American government. Indeed that is perhaps why we should not like communism. Even though it is a perfectly good way to run a government, if we start trying new government systems like Russia did, if we refuse to go with what we got, the "backup" government is who will rule, and that's a scary thought.

Our system of government is not what gives us our strength and riches. It is our faith and trust that yields not only loans for better houses and cars, but charity that defines what we are choosing to do with the excess of what we have earned.

Our system is failing only because other governments, instead of installing a system of trust and faith, have decided to accept bribes and pursue money hoarding as a way of ramping up their coffers. Any why not? Our own mechanics show us how to take people for all they are worth. Our own doctors are out there showing us how they can lose weight and get paid. Our own lawyers are selling their services, "for the people" despite their lack of focus on what they are charging and what their success rate is.

It's perhaps mean to think that some people are out there just criticizing everything people do, like I do, but it is not so much the people as the ideas that need criticism.

If we are going to take jobs overseas, shouldn't we require companies to pay minimum wage overseas and keep the same level of competitiveness alive. Those people may be better programmers but hey at least pay them for that. That is a level playing field. People here can at least take comfort knowing they went to MIT not to make a million a year but to at least be able to outclass some BFE programmer that is willing to do his job for 1/10th the pay.

I guess it's obvious I have a lot of time on my hands and no money to go get beer.

Tom Cruise - idea for Collateral2

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In this idea for a TV Series, Felix is the bad guy and the DA lawyer wife is the good guy leaving Max in the middle.

Max is now married and doing cab work mostly supported by his wife's job's money which makes for a very "useful" cab company to the DA's office. In an odd twist, his boss might actually do "useful" work for Felix at the same time.

Vincent has been found out. He survived the lucky hit from Max's weapon which was a police weapon and used rounds more meant as stopping power than killing power. This weapon from the "nice" cop that asked Max to sit down cuz "these things happen" after the cab is wrecked.

He and his wife go back and, in a supreme measure of compassion, take his body back to Felix who, knowing Vincent's background and the people he works for, saves his life.

With his ID made, Vincent now has to work for Felix and others but is still unknown to the cops. In the movie, Max and Vincent have to agree, quite impossibly that both are doing good things for the right reasons. Max is taking people to and from of their jobs, while Vincent is taking people in and out of their jobs and, is keeping his indifference as a shield to his obvious lack of morals. Even though Vincent is never around, he now has a problem with Felix and shows up often due to Felix knowing his secret.

The twist comes after that as Felix "the cat" is as cold blooded as he is evasive. His recurring theme is of course the Santa Claus argument where "you better not cry".

Vincent, "the undead price guy" is mostly about money but likes to find people that are respectable, ironically since he is not going to hope for someone to respect him. He retains his friendship with Max and perhaps steps into Max's life when his "problems with people" become too much to bear.

Max is the hero. Armed with his beautiful and powerful lawyer wife he has to take all the reins and keep them all together in some impossible way. He is still "Collateral". His wife knows that there is someone terrible out there and a recurring theme for her is the reality of her night in danger, as she proceeds to understand what her job stands for.

Felix is allowing them to live in the same city with his lawyer wife who is also under threat but is no longer in danger since she was the last witness that was left alive, but was not actually a witness for the case from the movie..

I believe Vincent, or Tom, should almost never appear except as an impossible "angel of death" that reminds Max of the necessity to put a "downpayment" on progress once in a while. He could do like the season finale which would allow the intensity to be there that would come from a Tom Cruise appearance.

In a perfect world, everyone lives, Max thinks. He believes that if he can just be lazy, there will be no trouble so he tries to stay lazy. Ironically, when he is not lazy, trouble comes, mostly from the usual place, Felix but not always. Maybe akin to Dexter, which is a complete rip-off of the Mr. Brooks movie btw and which as a TV series would have had Costner at least alive somewhere instead of where he is now which is offscreen, Felix could, from time to time, try and help Max from real other-world threats that present themselves from out-of-town folk that are new to the area but that have "ambitious" intentions for some of the people of Los Angeles.

On a side note, there could be a middle-aged fat but attractive black lady that comes across as arrogant and demeaning who noone can stand, and use her as a comedy relief.

PS. I think this is a new method for me to express myself and my interpretations and instead of using FFXI as a backdrop, I am just gonna rate movies once in a while. The next one I post is going to be for Dark Honeymoon. Sadly, now that I am watching Direct TV, I don't become the characters in the movies so much anymore so my focus is probably going to be a lot less drawn out. That's me though, 110% at the start and then poof, on the ropes middle of the first round. I usually write better when I have had some scotch anyways but I am almost out of money so who knows when I am going to have my next bit of scotch..

Famous is as famous does

I have put down Hohito for a while. I am finally beginning to want to create again since losing my job. It is a right awful thing to lose your job. You never feel it was your fault. I wonder at it a lot. Still people are like trees; you either reach for the sun or you will stop growing and die.

My thoughts lately are about the bar since that is where most of my money goes. I am there a lot and there are people that have come to see me there as a regular. Still, I find myself most of the time wondering about the future. Next week my brother in law is playing and that is when I will see my sister perhaps. I don't talk to them much although it is for the best since most of the time my mood is melancholy and makes for not such a good time among friends.

I have DirectTV and although I am spending a GREAT deal of time watching commercials,(which I totally swore I would never do when I stopped watching television several years ago) I feel that I am more a part of regular society somehow.

I would like to post pictures of the game but I'm not going to play it for a while. Last time I was partying with a bunch of JP this one person from my linkshell SizeDD, Siolorae, came and messed my party up. I passed leader to her so that we could avoid a gigas and then she decided not to give leader back when I asked, and then started to invite someone else when I disbanded the party. When I ranted about it in the linkshell someone actually stood up for her even though they had no idea what had happened. It makes you wonder what the hell is going on in that linkshell when they harass someone in groups like that.

It's obvious to me now that the game is corrupt. Evil people not only play out their fantasies abusing people in real life, they do it in the game all the more often and with less scruples. It is time for me to take a break. All day long while I was playing I would receive tells advertising RMT despite the chat filters. It's clear to me that the game is corrupt even at the GM level. I have filters up and the /tells show up all day long. I send emails to SE and get no response. It is sad to have to give up my character which took me so long to develop but I have to put it down. Maybe more famous people will take up the torch and stop RMT from their evil.

I don't mind a little "behind the scenes" business as long as people agree but if that includes "reavers" doing what they want because they are a bunch of "I do what I want" types, then I am out. Promoting risky business is good policy for the sake of keeping things exciting but if that means I am condoning tyranny and torture, well then I was wrong. So now that I am writing again, I am gonna vent.

I might go back to the game but if they can't keep the RMT out or from harassing people, well, the game is obviously not going to be very much fun. And if they can't stop it in FFXI then they certainly can't do it in FFXIV.

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