Firstly, you know how sometimes parents forbid their kids from playing videogames and/or watching TV when their grades go down the shitter? In most occasions, this isn't a solution to the actual problem, but it's a quick and easy solution. Kids usually complain or hold their breath in anger, but 16 year old Cory Ryder decided to be original and hired a hitman. As you can read in the article, he even stole money from his sister's piggy bank too, in order to pay the guy. I'm not sure if I should laugh or cry. Thankfully, the kid was caught.
Secondly, if you're into media in the least, you've probably already heard about the Hollywood Writers' Strike. Cynics around the world proposed a collective "Hollywood has writers?!" but that's besides the point. The first big casualty of this strike is the action-drama show 24, which will not air at all this season. A major disappointment for fans of the show, but personally, I've stopped caring about it since last year's disastrous season. Alright, maybe I'm being too harsh, I would have liked to see how much of a revamp this season would be. But I'm still not hyped about it in the least.
Thirdly, a 13-year old girl in Mascoutah, Illinois got detention for... hugging two of her friends. Apparently, as the school student handbook suggests,
“Displays of affection should not occur on the school campus at any time. It is in poor taste, reflects poor judgment, and brings discredit to the school and to the persons involved.”
This is obviously open to interpetation, but I'm sure it was written with situations like kids making out and groping in public view, not hugging. Smiling is a public display of affection too, why hasn't anyone gotten detention for that? Not that I'm against kissing in public, mind you, but I could understand a rule against it in a school with specific "moral" (let's not start defining morality right now) rules. But come on. Detention for hugging someone? These people giving out such punishments need to get laid more often, quite frankly.
Lastly, and the most outrageous, downright frustrating news of the recent days is this: In the near future, all mages in World of Warcraft, regardless of specialization, will get Iceblock as a trainable spell!
What.
WHAT?
Revolting. Shocking. Scandalous, even! THANKS FOR LETTUCE GNOMES BLIZZ.
In all seriousness, it just shows that Blizzard cannot balance this game for both PvP (Player Versus Player) and PvE (Player Versus Environment), especially since the day they decided they want WoW to be an e-sport. And this talk suggesting that this change will happen with PvE in mind is just bull. People playing mages have complained about their survivability in PvP forever, and instead of coming up with something original (while also neglecting that mages have always been designed as glass cannons instead of survivability monsters like druids or paladins) they just decide to bite the bullet and give them complete invulnerability for a certain number of seconds every five minutes. Shut up about Cloak of Shadows already, it's fine.
*Phew* I really wanted to get that off my chest. Hey, if a man can't rant on his own blog, then what? Anyway, it's changes like this that make me think that at times not even the people at Blizzard are sure where they're going to with their game, or at least that at some point in the early/mid designing parts, they had no idea how it would evolve in the process. Which is kind of understandable, since MMORPG's are a very special kind of gaming genre, but still not the way to go if you're really trying to brand your game as an e-sport.
The PASOK presidential elections are on Sunday, in which even 16-year olds will be allowed to vote. Interesting, that. Still not quite sure what to make of it. I just hope they'd get over with it already, it's all a big publicity stunt, and we all know George Papandreou is going to win in the end.
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