How To Force Yourself Onto The Local News...

On July 15 2012 01:59 starcraftmastersix wrote:
why is there a bunch of seaweed on the carpet in the first picture?

On July 14 2012 22:12 MtlGuitarist97 wrote:
Dunno if this counts, but I post so much on the b.net forums people recognize my account when I play them in StarCraft :D

On July 14 2012 22:07 Aerisky wrote:
Well-said. With the advent of modern-day media, fame is something rather miserably easy to attain. Congrats on the win also esgthebear

Hm for me...I've been on the news in 2nd grade I think, reporters interviewing us and our teachers and we showed them our hermit crabs.

I've also been in my local newspaper once for being part of a research program during the summer of one of my high school years. Got an article for working in a biochem lab at UC Davis and was really surprised when school started again because apparently some of my teachers actually read our town's newspaper, which is really small.

Also have performed at Carnegie Hall as part of a music competition/festival thing.

I think I actually may have more completely random small moments of fame actually, but those are three I can remember.

As always, great job and enjoyable read Maybe break up more paragraphs, sometimes it hurts my weak little eyes ;__; but otherwise of course amazing blog again!

On July 15 2012 13:13 9-BiT wrote:
I was in the newspaper for getting top8 at the pokemon world championships. Sure enough I was tough shit in middle school.

On July 15 2012 23:49 surfinbird1 wrote:
Completely agree with the fame and tv bullshit. I think it's appalling what kind of talentless hacks are parading around these days. For shame modern civilization, for shame!

On July 15 2012 23:48 Aerisky wrote:
Hmm will in a nutshell, pokemon actually has a formula behind it. So each pokemon has base stats and you can also increase each pokemon's stats by training it by defeating certain pokemon--these trained stats are called EVs, or earned values. Each pokemon has a set amount of EVs (for example, for attack) which it gives upon being beaten. It's sort of complicated to explain in one go, but it's not too bad. There are also IVs, for inherent values, I think, which are random for each pokemon and also boost stats essentially.

Basically, yes, it's balanced. You get tiers of pokemon called Ubers, Overused, Borderline, Underused, and Not Used in order of power. And each pokemon's inherent abilities, moves it can learn, effectiveness against other pokemon etc, creates a competitive environment with a metagame and everything.

Also noticed you semi advertising this blog entry. If it was supposed to be meta for "forcefully making yourself famous" in a way, GG

On July 17 2012 07:30 NoodleFish wrote:
great read. And so true! Everyone wants to be famous, but nobody wants to really put in the effort.

For me, I ended up being the first person in my country to repolymerize non-distilled, depolymerized polytetrafluoroethylene as a research project during my final year of engineering at university. Took months and months of work. Sadly I'll never really get credit for it since I was working under a lecturer's supervision (something to do with a contract I signed when applying for varsity), but I still feel good about it :D

On July 15 2012 13:13 9-BiT wrote:
I was in the newspaper for getting top8 at the pokemon world championships. Sure enough I was tough shit in middle school.

On July 17 2012 09:38 Facultyadjutant wrote:


Holy fucking shit!!

Dude you got to elaborate. I dreamed of entering those after seeing the trailer.