"Pride"

So there's been a slight political war going on in my hometown. People want a "pride" flag flown over at town hall. Naturally with a Republican mayor and quite a bit of right winged politicians in office, their petition was denied. I just drove past and they were protesting outside the town hall.

The mayor reasoned that the American flag is flag that includes EVERY American. Doesn't matter if you are gay, straight, lesbian, etc. Since I'm on the conservative side of politics, albeit not super involved in politics (a story for another time), I agree with the statement. I mean why would think that being different with your sexuality requires another flag aside from the American flag? Are you not American? And if you still want your flag to be flown so that you can be "represented" and not "oppressed", why not fly a black power flag, or some flag to represent the various ethnic groups? What about us Asian folk? Or the African people? Why are you so special and not counting yourself as included in the American flag?

We'll see how this turns out for this town that was against medical marijuana.

People Are Too Entitled

Inside jokes. Know 'em? Good. Because some people sure as hell don't.

Why am I expected to check where memes and posts come from before making an inside joke? It's not my fault your head is stuck too far up your sorry ass and you think it's directed at you.

It's not my fault you messed up and now you're incredibly sensitive to a joke that wasn't even about you.

Sit down and stop making everything about you. Learn to laugh, learn to take a joke. You got a problem with me? Then I'll just cut you out of my life. You think you're so good that you *have* to teach me something, but are afraid you will get cut out? Maybe that's a sign that you've been absolutely useless in my life and have no further purpose to be around. Goodbye to all of you who can't take a joke and who can't understand that the world doesn't revolve around you.

Update: "The Way I Am"

So my accuser of making an idol out of relationships and I had a falling out. Claimed he was protecting me because he "was watching out for my feelings". Then he followed up with something about protecting himself and another mutual because of my "outrage" that I "always do" despite it only happening once before.

I mean technically, I've had outrages before, but not more than once since meeting this person. So it's unfair to say that my behavior is always going to be outrages after one incident.

Anyways, there were some word exchanges in which I was "f'ed up" for using his words against him. I mean I straight up told him that it wasn't fair he called me out on making it an idol, when it was the same thing he did. He said I'm the messed up one for "twisting his words and throwing it back at him".

I'm sorry, but if it weren't true and you were truly innocent of the action, then I wouldn't have had anything to say. I would've been a bit hurt that I was accused, but if he were innocent, I would've just sucked it up.

Another friend of mine said that people are hypocritical sometimes to teach lessons. I get it that there can be lessons from a mistake, but that would only really make sense if there were clear minds and no running incidents or experiences before making claims. That didn't really make sense.

Basically, I'm saying it's fine to use a mistake as a teaching point as long as you weren't in the middle of it at the moment. Because I don't think it's fair to call someone out on something if you were caught doing the exact thing you said to avoid. Does that clear it up? If not, oh well haha.

I guess at the end of the day, I'm still a bit immature, and I've still got lessons to learn. But I will not stand for anyone who tries to shepherd me in my faith who seemingly has the "holier than thou" mindset. I know that the best shepherds will inherently have more knowledge and wisdom rooted from God's Word and almost indefinitely have spent more time with the Lord in prayer and in Scripture, but to ever use that as a reason for justifying so called "tough love"? No, that's not okay.

I'd never want someone to try to lead me further in my faith who has the mindset of, "Oh I've spent more time with the Lord, so I know what's best for you". Excuse me, but no, there's only one person who knows what's best for me, and that's not even me. It's the Lord God Almighty. You can be a guide and maybe you're being used by the Lord to guide me, but the moment you claim something of that you in particular know what's best for me, that's where the line's drawn.

So one less friend, but that's okay. Maybe it's a wake up call to spend more time with God, but it's a shame it came down to this in order to bring it to my attention.

The Way I Am

Okay so the title kinda makes it sound like I'm making excuses for my behavior, and maybe I am. The point of the matter though is that I'm kinda upset, but not 100% upset. I can understand where the thought process is coming from, but it's the hypocriticalness (is that a word?) that's getting to me.

Basically if you've read a lot of my posts or casually perused through my posts, you'd know I'm back to crushing on a girl I thought I was done crushing on (after some misinterpretations and jumping to conclusions oddly enough). One, eh, friend/acquaintance/idk what I really want to label him as because I don't want to cast him out because that'd be immature, but simultaneously I don't really want to associate with at the moment, said to me that I'm making the whole idea of a potential relationship into an idol.

See, that's understandable for him to say because I do talk a decent amount about her, but that's also because my hopeful side wants to see all the good and whatnot. I mean can you blame me? 15 previous crushes, 7 rejections, the numbers aren't in my favor. I probably shouldn't be keeping track of these statistics, but here I am.

Side note, I am kinda glad that I wasn't ever in a relationship yet because I now see I wasn't ready for a relationship, and I don't even know if I'm ready now. But we'll see how all of this goes.

Where was I? Oh yeah, how all of this is bothering me, and the hypocritical aspect. This same person who told me I was making an idol out of it also is an emotional wreck because of a girl he likes and the way he sees he *goofed* (family friendly version) up his chances. He's not in a good spot, and of course I want him to get better and realize that this shouldn't be the end of his world. But he's all messed up and emotionally unstable. He's doing things he regrets and realizes that it's not doing him any good. Yet he also calls me out on making idols out of the idea of a relationship with a great girl???

Excuse me, but what? While I may be hopeful, and probably a bit obsessive or at least overly infatuated (same difference lol), I'm not an emotional wreck right now. Sorry to be so blunt or to be mean or abrasive, but it's the truth. Why do you dare call me out on making idols when clearly you've done the same and look where it's gotten you?

I'm done ranting for now.

I am vengeance, I am the night....

Rando post coming up, so buckle up (or suit up, hehehe):

Just completed 100% in Batman: Arkham Knight on New Game+ (the game mode that replays the game but set to Knightmare difficulty either Google what Knightmare difficulty does to Arkham Knight or sift through to a very old blog post for when I beat the campaign).

It was a mild grind to find and solve all 243 riddles (Riddler is a PITA, but that was to be expected for a 100%, since most games that track percentages also have tedious collectibles for you to hunt down, i.e. Assassin's Creed 2 getting all those stupid feathers). But since it wasn't the same exact task for each Riddler trophy or riddle, it went by pretty smoothly. Had to scan a couple things that was a legit riddle, had to navigate a race through Gotham City, had to use my gadgets efficiently and effectively, some were out in the open, etc.

It actually made the last 6 hours of grinding through the game feel really fast and I actually don't believe that I spent 6 hours hunting all the riddles. Must be good game development.

I mean the task is indeed daunting. When you realize that you can't 100% the game until Riddler is apprehended and that he won't fight you until you solve every riddle, to which it's added right from the get go that you find out 243 riddles exist in total, you get discouraged. It's why on my regular game mode that I don't have all of them solved. Why I'm technically in the low 90% for completion (I only solved at most 30-40 lol). But I would count it as made up for that I did it in the Knightmare difficulty as that Riddler fight was challenging to make sure I don't get too ambitious with striking that I get struck from not countering or from hitting Catwoman's robot or Batman's robot (depending on who I'm playing as lol, although I will admit Catwoman is really fun to play as, maybe because it's a sight for sore eyes. I mean don't get me wrong, Batman in the v8.03 Batsuit is amazeballs, but after 100 hours, you get kinda tired).

I'll work on adding photos of screenshots to this post eventually. Mobile doesn't like it when I try adding photos, so I gotta use my computer.

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