05/27/2000
I'm sure you all know by now -- Tonight was Andy's last show with Conan. And what a show it was. I feel kind of depressed, but really, it's Andy's choice and if he thinks it's what's best, then more power to him.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, Andy Richter has left Late Night With Conan O'Brien. After seven years together. It's going to be hard to adjust to it. Although this kind of thing always is. Like Kate leaving The Screen Savers, although Patrick is awesome, Kate and Leo had this "thing" ... Whatever that means.
I know I can't be the only one here that was on the verge of tears at the end of tonight's show. Conan and Andy were both holding back... These kind of things get to me. But I wish the best of luck to both Andy and Conan.
Sigh... I still feel a little down. I thought writing that would make me feel a bit better. Don't get me wrong, this isn't the same kind of "down" you get after watching something like Grave of The Fireflies. At least, I don't think it is.
Today (yesterday, whatever) I was watching my sister, Sarah, chat in an AOL chat room... And it failed to overwhelm me with surprise. I have not been in any kind of chat room/channel/anything for three and a half years. I actually thought for a minute that it could have gotten slightly, oh ever so slightly better then it was. This, folks, is not the case. It has gotten worse. Sure, three years isn't that long, but it seems like it'd be long enough.
One thing has changed though. From what I saw, there seemed to be a whole lot less AOL "proggies" in circulation. I saw two, maybe three people using a fader and/or a waver. I'm thinking that the people are so stupid they can't figure out how to work them or the programmer's just aren't programming any more (AOL Add-ons, that is). I didn't see one Hell Raiser ad. Nor Magenta. Not even a Fate macro! Amazing. They used to be everywhere. I'm guessing the programmer's, Cronos, RedXKing, Magus and Fungii have gotten over the whole AOL thing. That or they just aren't giving the programs out to anyone.
I have nothing against those programmer's or their programs, in fact, it was these very people that inspired me to start learning a little VB. The main one being Neon (who I don't think was nearly as popular, but he was the only one I ever talked to on a some-what regular basis).
Okay, enough about the programmer's.
I also saw a lot less of the word "lamer". I don't believe I even saw it. Not once. There seemed to be more cussing. The one thing that seems to have remained the same is the non-existant conversations.
The chat room(s) looked like this pretty much the entire time:
worthlessosanso: press 69 if u a femael
dumbidiot: 69696969969669669696966999696969696
dumbidiot: 6
dumbidiot: 9
dumbidiot: 696
dumbidiot: 96969
dumbidiot: 69
Online Host: dumbidiot has left the room [scrolling]
foolthatisstupid: everyone a/s/l [Age/Sex/Location]
nsyncrulz: 17/f/sc
fatassedmoron: 15/m/fl
nsyncrulz: 18/f/sc
iliketheboobies: NE1 HOT GIRLS HAV N E NAKED PICTUERES
ihavetheboobies: im me ilike
That's how it was... The whole time. Maybe with a little "hi" thrown in here or there.
The only conversation that I saw during this long period of time was that of Sarah's. And she was doing the only thing you can do with these people... Mess with 'em!
So she started going off on her brother who sacrifices a lizard every night trying to ressurect his green iguana, Ooklah, that he had lost the previous year. Her brother thought that he was, of all people, Jesus Christ. And everyone he knew believed him. Therefore he must be the son of the virgin Mary.
After a little while, this seemed to get on the Christian's nerves. They said her brother was satanic and that she was sinning for telling people this (??). She didn't give up though. There was, believe it or not, one person that knew she was being sarcastic (not that it wasn't obvious). Or, at least, openly admitted to it. Who, by the way, was "a real punk rawker because he's in a 'band' that you've never heard of.". He was the least moronic of them all, but moronic nonetheless.
Yep... So that's it. By the way, if you haven't figured it out, all those names, except for one, are fictional.
If I get bored enough, I may go into a chat room... Or anything similer and just log it.
Money sucks. I hate it. I wish it would die a slow, painful death. Then I wish it would do it all over again. I would then proceed to piss on it's grave. I'm sitting right here with a gem of a game known as "Vagrant Story". That isn't the problem though... I'm missing out on another excellent game right now -- Perfect Dark.
I will buy it, but I despise not buying a triple A title on the day it's released. But hey... Vagrant Story only cost me $26 (not counting the ten I put down for it earlier) when Perfect Dark would have ran me around $56, I believe. But you can't have it all at once, I suppose. And just my luck, Legend of Mana has actually been pushed up. Just great. Any other time I would have been happy, but now I may not be able to get it on it's release either! Better late then never, I suppose.
I must say though, Perfect Dark is a game everyone needs to own. It's pure brilliance. Jesse even agree's... And he's a console-turned-PC gamer! After playing two or three hours of this game, I seriously can't wait to get my own copy. And my respect for Rare has shot up considerably. And I'm one of those people that NEVER lost faith or respect for Rare or Nintendo.
I'm not going to say anything other than it's a great game.
And that, people, ends today's... Thing... This section needs a new title.
-Jonathan 'Rare on Dolphin...Mmm...' Ward
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