On the latest, no-we-ain't-going Jo'burg summit, Toren Smith writes:
One can only look at the professional whiners, NGO-ticks, worthless EUnuch bureaucrats, aid parasites and other assorted riff-raff gathered in South Africa like a vast glob of idiocy and wish those black market nukes were just a little easier to come by.
As of 2000, Mr. Smith was President of the translation/localization house Studio Proteus. He lived in Japan for some time, but either never got 'round to visiting the Peace Memorial Museum, or was constantly confused about why the locals didn't find his jokes about nukes funny.
He continues:
The sight of pompous liars like Mbeki, who took a stable, relatively peaceful, and prosperous nation and turned it into a economic basket case rotten with crime and paralytic with corruption telling us to clean up our act is sick-making. Yes, there's no more apartheid in South Africa. Except now the blacks there have a lower life expectancy and a reduced per capita income, among other miseries. Don't get me wrong--apartheid had to go, but the reality is that the end result has been a worse life for the average South African black, including a nearly doubled chance of being murdered by members of another tribe.
For a minute there, I was getting him wrong. It almost sounded like he was saying the lives of blacks were better under apartheid.
No, wait, that is what he's saying. Oddly, I got that link to Kim (old boy in the next entry) from Toren's site. Can you figure out what these two have in common?
Update: Any San Francisco readers who aren't headed to Toren's for a quick, full-contact "diversity training seminar", let me know how the PS2 Online Launch Party at the Metreon goes.
Oh, and any Windows users out there want to tell me if the Kingdom Hearts site is worth rebooting for? You maybe want to make sure the kids ain't in the room. I got a feeling Square + Disney = Even Worse Crack for Children than Yu-Gi-Oh.
Yes, I'm a hypocrite. Sue me.
And I'd look for the guy who basically called for the West to re-colonize the lesser races, as we're incapable of running countries on our own, but am in a shitty enough mood as it is now.
Missed the seminar, sorry to say. Couldn't get a cab.
Only for you will I tread Disney space...
1) I HATE Disney music.
2) Pluto & Donald Duck next to anime characters is sick & wrong.
3) the trailer froze up my dialup 1/2 through.
Laura, I have several white friends just for the purpose of flagging down cabs for me. Didn't you get the memo?
Chu Chu, sorry to do that to you. I won't mention how one trailer I saw had Donald & Pluto casting spells. . .
You had the Mario RPG Square put out for the SNES, right? Meaning it's perfectly legal for you to run the ROM on an emulator? I seem to have come into possession of a copy, and would be only too happy to provide it to you. It's slightly less sick and wrong. Slightly.
I too missed the seminar, but I would have um helped flag that cab.
One almost wants to invite such types across the bay to Berkeley just to see their heads implode at the idea of so much mindless liberalism.
Seethe.
Jessica, heads imploding is such a waste. I remember this one time I was driving through Raccoon City. . .
Never mind. Pick a nickname, hon. I forget the name of the woman on "Jack of All Trades," but that one's still free.