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"Thank God for Media"

"Films are the only thing I've got. It takes away the horrible drudgery of family.."

- Homer, Simpsons.

I was just loading up Halo there whilst listening to Rammsteins "Amerika"
when I realised how crap everything would be without entertainment.

I'm talking about TV, music and film here. And don't forget books. Life really would be a drudgery if the only book was the Bible, the only newspaper the Daily Mail, if TV didn't exist and if no-one had heard of the internet let alone gaming. Life is bad enough, same day in, day out, so long yet so short. Media manages to improve my petty life drastically.
There's nothing better than watching a decent film, curling up with a good book on a Winters night or listening to some good tunes as you blow the hell out of people online.

Yet people don't appreciate this brilliance. From those that conduct smear campaigns against the gaming industry, people that complain about TV and those that try to ban certain music. Why can't people just sit back and enjoy what there is? Seeing a naked woman isn't going to corupt a childs life, running someone over in a game won't turn you into a serial killer and listening to music from certain artists doesn't make you get a Tec-9 and pop your school chums. Other factors, like a corrupt and twisted scoiety and narrow minded bigots cause this. But this post isn't a rant against those people and I've strayed from my original message.

What I'm trying to say, in a roundabout way, is that media shapes the world and improves people's lives. If you don't like something turn it off, turn it over or ignore it. Just because you don't like something doesn't mean its crap. (I'm expecting something here).

Anyway yeah. Crank up the sound, turn on the TV and slot in a DVD. Life is crap, but enjoy its perks.

and only 20% of what I make goes near ejay as if that matters.

It's about the end product not what you make it on, idiot.

Oh and if you think it's all drum and bass you need to examine your genre's a bit closer since I'd say out of 21 tracks about 3 or possibly 4 could be classed that way.

Because we all know that making your own drum and bass tunes in ejay then trying to sell them on the net isn't vapid at all, is it?

Tribbers is just someone wedged in Stone Roses crack who likes to sneer at people who have wider and less watery tastes than he does.

I was thinking of making a similar topic called 'Yay! For Escapism'.

Games, movies, books anything that doesn't involve queing for a bus!

I prefer games over movies because they're more interactive and once I've seen a movie twice I'm usually done with it for about 5 years. With well-chosen games you generally get more hours of enetertainent to the pound than with a movies.

mattributé wrote:
> Flock wrote:
> Label me at your peril you long haired teenage grunger.
>
> Bast.

Great, it's been a long time since anyone called me that, too bloody long.

Flock wrote:
> Label me at your peril you long haired teenage grunger.

Bast.

mattributé wrote:
> Old school flockhart was more of a goth. Flock is far more street,
> whilst keeping to his goth roots.

Label me at your peril you long haired teenage grunger.

Old school flockhart was more of a goth. Flock is far more street, whilst keeping to his goth roots.

Ms NY wrote:
> Flock wrote:
> Life isn't crap, it's what you make of it, without all this
> technology
> we might actually have more of a life. Etc.
>
> Marvellous Flock.
>
> And.. um.. what ever happened to old Flockhart? I'm sure you never
> used to have that old attitude! Unless you did and I never noticed.
> Meh.

I've always had it, just sometimes it's more visible.

mattributé wrote:
> Yeah, I'll be busting out the Your Mum jokes soon.

I dont much like anyone at the moment so go ahead. I'll be looking for idiots to rip apart in the meantime.