Month: January 2016

Christmas Carol Adaption (HWK 2)

It seems to me like I get given more and more reason to read the news every day, and at every moment. I suppose I’m missing out on a lot. I had no idea they were doing the 23rd Screenplay adaptation fro a Christmas Carol. We have had singing sock puppets, bone breaking gold pile dives and a High School Musical rip off. But now? He’s a rapper.

…Doesn’t that strike you as a bit off? We’ve seen so many changes to Scrooge, I’d be happy with the book one, but now he’s a rapper?? Some things, just don’t add up. This is one of them. How far did we stray from a grumpy old miser, to an American Rap God? We already have a musical version, but I guess the film industry think we are so hungry for this kind of crap, they’d be willing to feed up Ice Cube as Scrooge. I wonder how the writes thought that would work, must have been real hard to explain…

Furthermore, of all rappers to put in for Scrooge, you had to choose Ice Cube? Look, I get he’s popular and crap, but Ice Cube? Why not someone like, Dr.Dre, or Eminem, or Coolio? Or whoever the hell you people like now these days. Why even cast a rapper? Why not cast a well known businessman, or someone known for having loads of money? Why don’t we cast the greatest living meme of them all: The one, the only, Small Loan of a Million Dollar man, DONALD TRUMP. Makes sense right? The man’s already a sensation across the Internet after what Pyrocynical did with that “Small Loan of a Million Dollars” crap. In fact, it makes perfect sense. Donald Trump is rich enough. Donald Trump is old enough. Donald Trump is popular enough. Although I’ll bet he’s gonna give Marley a Small Loan of a Million Dollars to go the hell away. That would be interesting wouldn’t it?

Yeah sure, he’s only get presidential business on the mind, but who’s to say I can’t dream? You certainly can’t. Your just reading words on a screen. Well, I suppose you can in some ways but it a good metaphor, okay?!

The Dickensian Aspect (HWK 1)

I’m sure we’ve all hear what Poverty is haven’t we? If you haven’t, you have been living under a god damn rock at the bottom of the Ocean. Or, you don’t watch the news like I do. As of such, I don’t feel that it’s necessary to give a brief reminder on what Poverty is. It’s fresh in our minds away. However, what I’am here to talk about, are the current issues regarding Poverty, and it’s status in general. Whether it be it’s spread, of how far it is to being eliminated, I’ll give you my taste on it.

So, for starters: How far are we to eliminating Poverty? Well, as it stands, were are actually somewhat close to ending it. Which is all nice and happy ain’t it? So that’s something not too depressing. Except for the fact that the estimates are 4 years away from now. 4 years is a long time to wait, and frankly we are running out of resources, can running into more mundane or serious issues. Things like terrorist acts, Colony Collapse Disorder, North Korea etc. I could go on about these, but this isn’t about them. Don’t get me twisted, Poverty is horrible. I’ve never experienced it, or seen it, but I know for a fact that I hate it. And so does everyone body else (Except for the people who have Alexithymia, they really don’t know how they feel about it…). We want this thing to end, and right now. But really if you think about, permanently eliminating poverty seems like an endgame goal. It has suppressed us for so long, but as it stands, we have troubling concerns to deal with if we want to even get to those 6 years, like the aforementioned Colony Collapse Disorder. I’m not a person who has their priorities straight (Took me 2 weeks to get around to this, and in hindsight, I don’t think it’ll be all that good.), but at the very least, I can tell what should be dealt with later, and what should be dealt with now (In some aspects). So really for my opinion, deal with things that slow down your goal. Like Colony Collapse Disorder, and then throw all of your man power into dealing with what your original issue was. We don’t need any more delays, Gabe Newell has driven that point home with HL3 (Although I heard it exists in Steam somewhere. Confirmed?).

Okay, next topic: Why has it taken so long to deal with Poverty? Although this more of a personal question that a general question, the time frame and advancements we’ve made make this seem like a no brain answer. 1920’s America almost got close to closing Poverty’s book, but like some form of fast growing cancer, it crawled right out of the sink and proceeded to scare anyone who walked into the bathroom. If you ask me, I’d say the reason is procrastination. We have the resources, the technology (Not the Billion Dollar Man), but yet we still can’t finish this b*stard off. Why? I think I can suggest a reasonable answer: Were putting things we could be using to end Poverty, into fuelling our more mundane needs, like the development of more advanced Nuclear Weapons. 1 Tsar Bomba is enough, stay with that. We don’t need any Thermobaric Nuclear Warhead Mk2’s ravishing our landscape; It’s dead enough! Stop beating it like a dead horse. On the contrary however, we could instead be looking at a situation in which we don’t have the funds nessesary to put into ending Poverty. If that’s the case, we why did promise we would end it? Simple: If we were sane, we wouldn’t until we have definitive answers and definitive numbers. All this has lead to, is a mad display of sheer arrogance. Now, would someone care to tell me why Misanthropy exists? I think it’s very clear why.

“Give or take 10%”. I had the original idea to do 1000 words, but eh. Don’t want to delay this by another week, do I?