Irrelevant Useless Me Generation

I blame the parents and the eduction system. They give prizes to kids for participation. so Now they all think they are relevant to everything in life.

Why you don't actually matter 90% of the time, so shut up.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

-Mark Twain

Recently I've seen this as a reply on some forums and chat rooms, facebook posts and tweets; It irks me, to no end.

I Ask the question: Who here is a Doctor? and get answers, I am not. Sorry, I'm not a doctor. Too bad I'm not a doctor.

When I was a lad, if your teacher asked such a question and students replies in the negative, you would get berated by the teacher for wasting her time. "I didn't ask who WASN'T a Doctor, I asked Who WAS - 50 lines, I must not waste the teachers time."

These days, the teachers hand out prizes to kids for 'being at school' or 'running the race' so that every kids grows up with some sense of worth, useless worth. 

You are worth nothing, you don't matter to 99.99999% of the planet, the faster you get used to the fact that your opinion, your ideas, your world is a small little bubble of your own perception, that can be shattered into a billion pieces with .. no wait.. thats the problem.. no matter what life throws at these people, their perception will rarely be shattered.. sure maybe a crack might appear in yours after you read this, and you might see the reality beyond, but 99.9999% of the planet, after reading this, would say "You need therapy" LOL.. because what I write here? now? this is my little bubble.. and it doesn't matter back.

Changing someones mind is a very hard thing to do. You either agree before you read, and this blog will only reinforce your opinion or you don't and you'll be offended (or just ignore) everything I'm writing.

So next time you see a question: Hey are you relevant to this question? ask yourself before you respond. If I'm not relevant, Why should I say anything at all? I'm just wasting time writing, so that they waste time reading and I show the world I'm an irrelevant useless dope. 

As I get Older, Losing my Hair

I was on the bus the other day, grumbling how the youth of today have no respect, and thinking about how old people have been grumbling about this for centuries.. yes, I'm that old.. ;P

Image from brotherhoodofthegame.com

So, I figured.. hang on.. is it possible that people have been losing respect for the elderly for such a long time? have we gotten worse and worse? is it even possible?

Maybe sure, maybe in times gone by, the youth of my grandfathers day would bow politely to their elders, address them with 'sirs' and 'madams' and over the years, we've lost that.. well, I often greet the elderly with respect.. but, again, as I think about it, I don't remember doing this when I was younger.. not as much at least.

So, maybe as we get older, we have more respect for our elders, and as we notice the world through these eyes, we notice that youth do not have this, and we begin to believe that the youth of today have less of it, than we did.

As to the rest? I think its more about fear. The times of sirs and maams were times when you could be run over in the street and no-one would think twice, well tsk tsk, life is like that, sorry but I can't be worried about every little street urchin who gets under the wheels of my carriage.

So maybe instead of sirs and ma'ams out of respect, it was more, if I dont say the right thing, they might just run me down out of spite.

Then again, maybe its just "Oliver" or "Dodger" that gave me this idea of Victorian times, and no-one had any respect for their elders back then neither. 

CRaPaGe

To All you Kids,

It has once again come to my attention that you are all a little uninformed about the state of affairs when it comes to things.

So, as per my responsibility as an adult, I am here to inform you when you do things that make you look stupid.

Making up words is fun, and you get the limelight for your cool, hip, knarly, bad, good, wicked, don't have a cow man, cowabunga, lingo.. but at the end of your high-school years, you'll probably forget them all anyway, and look back nostalgically in your grey years at the bodaciousnesss of your youth.

And I am aware that language changes, words change meanings, being gay isn't so happy anymore, and rainbows don't have gold at the end, mostly because people stopped using the word in one way, and began to use it in another, and fogerties like myself remember a time when we were gay about that.

But, and this is one hellova butt. But, when a word is being used, by a community.. and not just a tiny little niche group.. but pretty much a whole chunk of geek internet.. its understood that they OWN that word.. its not available to go dilly dallying with. You can't just start saying that twitter means to have a coffee, mostly cause twitter will sue you into the stone age.. when I was born...

No, No, No.. if you want to use language, and not sound like a complete spit-wad, google it.

no, better yet.. Wiki it.

I give you CRPG, or in my day, Crappage. Computers hard a hard time making decent plots, and since ROLE play games are all about plots.. it sorta pretty much didn't really cut it. No Sir Re, It did not. hence, Crappage!

Now, skip forward 10 years, and people started making better computer games, and they got better at pathing, and scripting and such, and so the CRPG games got better, and some american nincompoop went and named them RPVGs, roleplay videogames. Video.. where is the Video in a Computer game? Hmm? but thats a different Rail for another day..

No, a Roleplay Game pretty much started to mean a story based game, and that was fine..

Then you lot came along, with out your beatings and gruel to keep you in line, you think its ok to smash words around without any respect.. and worse yet, you write blogs and make U-Tube videos about it.. Gak makes me sick.. so now there are so many litttle twerps out there writing videos about RPG Games.. Pfft, its like ATM Machines and PIN Numbers.. idiots.. but when I see a nice link about 'top 10 selling RPGs or Best RPG battle systems.. I expect to come across an insightful article about how someone made a great review about roleplay games.. Not a damn Computer game.. who gives a fly about the battle systems of Computer games.. you can't take the time to pick the best skill for a fight in a damn computer game, they just go to fast to make the right decision.. everyone alive knows that button mashing rules 80% of the time.. wheres the skill in button mashing..

sheesh.. damn kids...

RAA Promoting the competition

Dear RAA

I got an email from you the other day, about Travel and the RAA.

 I though to myself as I opened up your page, this will be good, I'll see some cool place to visit. Instead I saw a bunch of Advertisements, obviously paid to you, by some companies, to promote their countries, their tourism, and not ourAustralian Locations.. Hello? my brain said.. Isn't its the Australian Automobile sending me their adverts?

 Why is it that you ask asking me, an Australian, who is a paid, paid, member of your organisation, to travel overseas, by plane! to enjoy my holidays? Surely I would sign up for Qantas Travel, if I wanted to travel by plane, not automobile?

 It felt like a slap in the face. Yet, as a entrepreneur of the world wide web.. a.k.a I read it. I am aware that it costs mere cents to have some troll-robot scan some adverts and pop them into your website, and earn a little cash on the side, costs you nothing, and you get something in return.

 So imagine my further surprise and shock, when I get an RAA magazine in the mail, with a whole slew of overseas travel articles in it.. Oh My Gosh, Oh My Gosh, I was shocked.. now you are spending my hard earned dollars, paid to you to promote All things Royal, Australian, and Automobile to your membership readers. Wow, oh Wow, what a slap in the face, what corrupt crazed slobbering fat cats sit in your board rooms, deciding how to spend our collective memberships, in order to advance your own adjenda..

 Ooh I seethe with anger at how such decent and white coloured companies have fallen into the gutter of greed and deception. The public, so brainwashed from their television sets, unable to distinguish drivel from direction, to see how you have betrayed them.

 Yours sincerely

 Rattled Rails.

Introduction

Remember when Old Man Simpson would write letters to companies to complain,

Remember this was a meme from a time gone, when old people would actually write to complain,

As a Young Lad I would laugh, and feel pride in these people, for pushing against companies trying to take over our lives.. and vowed, when I got old, I would do the same.

So, I'm getting old.. time to do the same.