Don't Steal Quotes - Give Credit

Disclaimer: If you're easily offended by profanity then, this article is not for you. Please close the window and have a nice day.

I have been on Twitter and Facebook for some time now and it absolutely pisses the fuck out of me when people use quotes without crediting the brain behind the quote. If the quote was from an anonymous individual then please just state at the end of the quote "Author Anonymous" or something to that extent.

Stealing quotes is not cool. It is tantamount to plagiarism. If you want to come up with quotes, make your own; no matter how shitty it is, at least people will know you wrote it. The reason I am saying this is because, when you steal a quote, although you want to make yourself look articulate and intelligent but in reality it is far from the truth because half the shit you write on Facebook and Twitter is either a) grammatically fucked up, b) is beyond your vocabulary or c) you're simply not intelligent enough to come up with something that deep. Through one's writing, you can say a lot about an individual including the level of maturity. For example through my writing, you can tell that I may have a chemical imbalance which is kind of true and I have no qualms about it. I use shit loads of profanity of which you can deduce that I am foul mouthed as hell. Good deduction I must say, Watson.

If you would like to use a quote from someone who is far more intelligent than yourself, please give due credit. That way, you would look more like a learned person who reads a lot rather than a douche. You could also pinch a quote from somewhere and credit the author but at the same time not know the meaning of it but that would make you a bigger turd because you have no idea what you're talking about... a whole different ball game which I may save it for later.

It is incredibly simple to find out if a quote was stolen. JUST GOOGLE IT, when in doubt. If I wrote a quote, it would be simple to find out because my punctuation and grammar to a certain extent is rubbish. I am not proud of it, but at least I am consistent.

If you want to be original and not sound like a wasted douche, do more reading and less plagiarism. There are some nice quotes out there but at the same time, the authors need credit. Some of these people dedicated their lives to something important and when their quotes are stolen, you have just discredit them because more stupid douches out there think that your sorry arse came up with it. It does not matter if what you said is intelligent or not; as long as it makes sense. I have seen so many posts on Facebook and Twitter that are grammatically suicidal but it still makes sense and I respect that because the author is trying to be genuine and at the same time be original. People are smart enough to interpret your writings and at the same time, they're smart enough to sniff out the idiot in you.

P.S. I do not have the IQ of Einstein nor Stephen Hawking but I have the IQ of a regular person to identify plagiarising douche bags!

Angry Birds – A simple game that caused a frenzy

I believe the peeps at Rovio are probably laughing their way to the bank at every release of Angry Birds. The game that began with the release for Apple’s mobile platform the iOS in 2009 and till date has sold about 12 million copies. Each game’s initial download costs about $0.99 which translates to almost $12 million or RM38.5 million. Since then the game has been released for other mobile operating systems such as Android, Windows Mobile and as well as desktop operating systems.

The game has taken off so much that there are plush toys that are now being irritatingly placed in the backseat of cars as well as ornaments in office cubicles. The game is also to have been confirmed to be made into a movie; however, the birds already made an appearance in the animated movie Rio. Big brands are using angry birds to promote their products and there is even a five part essay by ISKCON on yoga describing how to get rid of bad elements in the body using Angry Birds as an analogy. The essay is called: "Angry Birds™ Yoga – How to Eliminate the Green Pigs in Your Life" was written by Giridhari Dasa (ISKCON, Brazil) –Note: I am not an ISKCON fanboy…

So there you have it Rovio is minting money out of its games, copyrights and products. Read on to see what is the game all about and some basic gameplay techniques.
The game is a “physics” based game where you have an array of birds that have to destroy these green pigs. The birds come in different size and shapes and each have individual capabilities. The pigs however do not have any abilities except to sit there and wait to be slaughtered.

The story begins where the birds have their eggs stolen by the pigs and the birds get extremely pissed and fight the pigs to rescue their eggs. Sounds easy, no? Not exactly, the pigs do not exactly sit in a group protecting the eggs; instead, they are placed in “structures” ranging from wood, glass, concrete and even ice. Therefore, each bird in the game has different abilities whereby one may be good to destroy stone the other for glass, etc.

We shall look at the ability of each bird below.







The red bird: good to shake the structure of where the pigs are. Shoot the bird towards the structure to shake it and if you’re calculation is good, you might be able to make the structure fall and at the same time destroy some of the pigs.







The yellow bird/woodpecker: these birds are the best for wooden structures or any part of the structurethat has wooden material. Shoot the bird to severely damage the wood or to penetrate it to destroy the pigs that are protected by the wood. This bird comes with an extra feature whereby if you tap the screen after launching it, it will make the bird accelerate causing maximum damage.







The blue bird: this bird is the best for glass and ice structures where it will damage the ice or glass upon contact. This bird also comes with an extra feature where when tapped after launch, multiplies itself by three therefore releasing 3 birds towards the structure causing more damage and carnage :)







The bomb “shitting” bird: look, I don’t exactly know the names of the birds and naming them just as I think is most appropriate for the bird. This bird has the ability to excrete bombs in the shape of an egg when tapped. So when you launch the bird, let it go to the desired spot where you would like to drop the bomb and tap; voila, you have destroyed the structure and potentially one of those greedy pigs!







The boomerang bird: this is the bird I like the least because I think it looks dumb and also it is hard to manage. This is a special ability bird as well because when tapped, it makes and about turn and damages the structure if you tapped at the right time; otherwise it would be a wasted effort if the bird just falls to the ground.







The black bird: I love these mofos. These birds are actually bombs. In a concrete structure, they will be the best to use. Just launch the bird to a specific location and they explode or launch it near a desired location and tap and it will explode. How cool is that!!!







The Big Red bird: another one of my favourites. Don’t let the look of this bird make you judge it because it is fat. This guy can cause total damage to a structure and if it hits a pig, imagine a fat guy like me sit on a two year old!







Pig: This is your taget!

The objective of the game does not stop at destroying the evil pigs but also optionally require you to collect 3 stars by earning more points which could be done by causing more damage or to use lesser birds to complete the objective (each bird that is not used, earns you 10000 points extra). If you collect 3 stars on all the levels of an episode, you will be rewarded with new levels.
Overall, Angry Birds is an excellent game which could get you fired if your boss catches you being unproductive because you’re fascinated with killing pigs. This game could be an alternative to cow tipping; it is less dangerous, you do not harm an animal physically although the temptation is greater because our caveman gene has not left us. Not too sure if PETA, SPCA are going to be too happy though, although I am pretty sure that they themselves are having a good time with this game :)


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Sexy = My Blog

Before I move on with the article, I realized that writing sexy with lower case is much more sexier than writing sexy with uppercase; writing sexy with uppercase simply makes the word SEXY look like an acronym for something e.g. Super Easy Xylophone Yodeling (I don't know what it means... Be creative)

Okay, back to the subject matter. So yes, my blog is now sexier because it had got a facelift. I did not design the template, it is a rip off from blogger. I have not found the time to design for my blog yet but I am pretty sure I will do it before the world ends. Note: my mother always says that "procrastination is the thief of time" no worries, I have nothing valuable on me. Take what you can ;)

I certify that my blog is sexy due to 2 criteria:

1. I do not believe that there are any bodies out there to give a sexy certification for blogs.

2. Only I out of the other 5 readers I have think that my blog is sexy.

Talking about people who frequent my blog, I realized through google analytics that I have a reader from California, US of A who has visited my blog several times. I used to think that the Reader was lost or accidentally switched the browser default page to my site. Only today I found out that the reader from Cali is my wife's friend. Which is of course a good thing because at least I am convinced that my content is palatable. And to my wife's friend, you know who you are ;) thank you!

I started this blog some 6 years ago for the fun of it and later used it to keep track of things that I do on a personal level. It is only lately that I decided to make this blog more public to explore my capabilities as a writer. If all goes well, I might even invest in my own domain. This really depends on you guys out there to spread the word and the love.

If you have recommended your friend to this blog, I thank you in abundance!

Cheers!


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