Tracer

If you ever want to bullshit about metal and share songs, bands that you find, message me.  I dig your taste.

So...instead of making a blog post every time I find something cool, I'll just make updates to this thread.
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12/24/2016
The Walmart bargain bin strikes again. For twelve dollars I got The Outsiders and the original three Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

12/26/2016
Picked up a gamecube today. It came with a connectable LCD Monitor. I only had to pay sixty dollars for it. I am going to pick up Zelda: Windwaker later on today. I'll browse the other gamecube titles while I'm there and see if I find anything worth picking up. I'd love to find Twilight Princess, MGS: Twin Snakes, Luigi's Mansion, Resident Evil, and Soul Calibur 2. I also picked up Kill Bill 1&2, Starship Troopers, and American Psycho.

12/26/16 update: I also picked up Resident Evil Zero and Splinter Cell.

12/28/2016
A friend of mine had Twilight Princess and Luigi's mansion for the gamecube. Twenty bucks got me both of them. I also found a copy of Smash Brothers Melee in an old dresser in my basement, oddly enough.

1/4/2017
I found seasons one and two of Ren and Stimpy in a collector's box set for ten dollars. All of the episodes are uncut, including the banned episode "Man's Best Friend".

My better half really pulled through.

I got a couple of kick ass shirts (Slayer and Black Sabbath), The Exorcist novel, Diablo III for PC, Cards Against Humanity, and her parents got me some restaurant gift cards.

I am pretty stoked about the novel. I saw the film twenty years ago and it horrified me. To this day I can't watch it. So I am excited for the book.

You get anything cool?

It drives me insane. If you don't know what a word means, don't fucking use it. Or at least look it up before you use it.

I believe that people sometimes do that just to try and sound more photosynthesis.

I found this shirt for five dollars. Good game, Walmart. Good game.

Thanks to your temporary prohibition of politically charged threads on the site, I learned what the word "moratorium" meant. I had never heard that word used before, so I looked it up. Today at work I had an opportunity to use that word in a conversation and it appeared to make a point I was trying to make sound more convincing to the guy I was engaged in debate with. I assume that because it's a word that isn't considered an "everyday" word to most people, it made me come off as more educated.

So, tonight I will do a shot for you.

Blegh...not a fan of the South. Seeing some extended family is cool though.

When you're all sitting there and wondering to yourself...how did it come to this? Narcosynthesis...inside four walls my friend they took away your freedom!

It's okay though man...it's cool. I've filled my cup at a public water fountain before. It wasn't the greatest...but it quenched my thirst adequately enough to get me through the day.

The sun was high in the sky and the humidity was also high. I was made of sweat and itchy things.

What would I do without those over there?

Pfft...you act like you'd even stand a chance at knowing the truth.

Spiderman, bitches.

I am being 100% honest when I say this.

Human laziness and dependence on technology has reached the boiling point for me. People don't even want to bother speaking to each other anymore, or even take the time to write a letter to a loved one. Instead, they turn to the emotionless text message or email, all for the sake of ease.

Humanity has fucked itself with innovation.

This effort to make life easier has only made us lazier. Not just physically lazier, either. Look at how things like caller ID have turned us all into people who are too lazy to talk to certain people. Thank God we aren't required to have those difficult conversations anymore! Now we can just ignore it, and continue to lose the ability to converse with people we rather wouldn't talk to...making us more socially absent with each ignored call. Or even more modern innovations like Snapchat...limiting the user a ten second period to convey an entire thought. It isn't teaching people to think faster. It's teaching them to think smaller.

All of the innovations alone are not a problem. They're all just drops in the bucket. But when you take all of the things in life designed to make our lives easier or more convenient, it becomes a pool that we have drowned ourselves in.

For one year I'd love to see humanity lose their mind without their cell phones, high speed internet connections, automated services...all of it can be tossed in the flames as far as I'm concerned.

I'd love to see people forced to deal with eachother or do for themselves instead of relying on some machine to do it for them.

It isn't constant for me. Sometimes I find solace in the idea that one day all of my problems will vanish.

Then other nights, the idea that every second experienced is one second closer to the end of being sends a chill down my spine.

I need to stop staying up so late. I'm always the only one awake in my house at this hour, and silence makes for horrible company. With nobody to talk to, I am left with my thoughts. For me, knowing that the reaper has been slowly approaching me since I was conceived is absolutely horrifying. I picture it like being in a long, dark hallway. On one end is me, and on the other is the hooded personification of Death. I am screaming and begging for Death to stop walking and take a break from his steady approach. But he doesn't acknowledge my plea. He just keeps coming toward me as my surroundings grow colder with each passing second.

Tick tock. Tick tock.

I am bored at work and I don't need to go to the bathroom.

Got a new job that I'm starting in a couple of weeks. No more security. I keep gaining weight at this job because I do absolutely nothing here. So I found a warehouse job with a work schedule that is more convenient for me. Same pay rate though.

Anyway...any other warehouse workers here that can give me some heads up or advice in regard to what I'm going into?

This is probably drunken stupidity...but I also find it quite mind blowing.

I just had a very mundane experience...I looked at the corner of my bathroom where the ceiling meets two walls and thought to myself...wow, nobody else will ever experience this, and I will never experience that moment again.

Fuck, man...I witnessed a literal once in a lifetime event, and it was something so simple.

All moments are once in a lifetime. Cherish them.

I am incredibly bored at work and I don't need to go to the bathroom.

Anyone here going?

So the bastards that run the gym I go to told me today that I can no longer wear my workout shirt to their gym anymore.

Shirt here:

Spoiler:

Left: Front
Right: Back

Don't think about being itchy...otherwise you'll become itchy.

I came to the realization that I allow my passions (namely law enforcement and sometimes controversial social and political views) to come up in almost all of my conversations on here. The only person that that really negatively impacts is me, because it has screwed me out of otherwise possibly positive interactions with several members here, namely people like PureSlime, Tritnew, Yuki, Dethtoll, and Esselfortium just to name a few.

I feel that this has also lead to a lot of people not taking even my non politically charged posts seriously.

This is something I think I can work on. Maybe people don't treat me shitty because of my beliefs, maybe it's because I always seem to find a way to bring them up to a forum of strangers who really don't give a shit and just find me annoying because of it.

I'll start saving the soapbox for the politicians and my views for people who care to hear them.

In an attempt to humanize the members of doomworld, I propose a discussion on things that have been weighing on our minds lately. What's been bugging you? Problems at work or with your significant other? Feeling guiltt about something you want to get off your chest? Let's hear it.

Lately I have been hating my job. Not the normal shit that makes people bitch about their job. I have actually been stressing about having to come back. I mean literally every week there are new policies being created by our idiotic supervisor (who LOVES displaying his power over his employees) that are literally just more things to keep us busy for the sake of being busy. He also bitches about random shit when everything is going along smoothly just so he can remind everyone he is in charge. Example, yesterday. I used to wear my old safety vest while working inside posts because I felt it made me stick out more and I liked how it looked. It was a normal mesh safety vest, nothing special. Last week I purchased another safety vest. This one looks great. Black nylon with lime trim, several external pockets so I can keep things like my PERC card, ID Badge, flashlight, mini screwdriver set, and bandages handy. I even got my last name embroidered on the front pocket and "security" embroidered on the back. Looks great. Well yesterday he says, "Yeah, you can't wear that inside anymore.". When I asked him why, he goes, "I want my guards to have a more professional look.". So I asked him what looked unprofessional about it. Then he just says, "I'm worried about warehouse management thinking it looks unprofessional.". So I told him how the warehouse management have complimented it and given me nothing but praise for it. Then he just said, "Well you're not allowed to wear it inside anymore."

Way to just fucking write me off, asshole. Everyone thinks he just felt intimidated because I looked like I outranked him when I wore it.

For years I've been putting off making a readiness kit to keep in the trunk of my car. I have always told myself, "Next paycheck for sure."

Well, yesterday I finally went ahead and did it. Here is what I have so far:


In the top:

•Matches
•Cotton Swabs
•Toothpicks


Inside

•Steril gauze
•Medical Tape
•Antiseptic Ointment
•Burn Ointment
•Tweezers
•Fingernail Clippers
•Knife
•Flashlight
•Batteries for flashlight
•Lighter
•Matches
•Mini screwdriver kit
•Pens
•Sharpies
•Fork
•Scissors
•Painkillers
•Spare phone charger
•Latex Gloves
•Notepad
•Duct Tape
•1 Quarter


Items to be added:

•Mini sewing kit
•Garbage bags
•Safety Vest
•Road Flares
•Blanket
•WD40
•Can and Bottle Opener
•Zip ties (Thank you MrGlide)
•Nonperishable food (Thank you MrGlide)
•Thermometer (Thank you Deadwolves)
•Universal Charger (Thank you Deadwolves)
•Compass
•Candles (Thank you Technician)
•Life Straw (Thank you yukib1t)
•Whistle (Thank you TheCupboard)
•MREs (Thank you The Cupboard)
•Bug Repellent (Thank you Fraggle)
•Whatever else I think of (and write in the notepad)

Being prepared is important because you never know when an emergency will strike. Do you have a readiness kit in your car or home? If so, what do you have inside?

Sex Ed was always one of the most amusing classes for me. Mostly because my teacher was a nervous wreck the entire time. That only added to the humor. The best part of that class was the infamous "anonymous question box".

Here are some of the funnier questions I remember.

(For the faint of heart, I will place spoiler tags around the questions, as a some of the over sensitive types might get "offended")

So again...WARNING: THE FOLLOWING IS ABOUT SEX. IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO READ ABOUT THAT STUFF, DO NOT HIT SPOILER AND THERE WON'T BE A PROBLEM.

Years ago I worked at a gas station. My boss and I loved to fuck with the customers. So one day I asked her if I could blow on my whistle as hard as I could whenever I sold one of our cookies. She said sure, not knowing that my whistle was a traffic directors whistle. It was loud as fuck.

So I get this customer to agree to buy a cookie. When she looks into her purse for her money, I blow the whistle right in her direction. She was so scared she lost her balance and almost fell over. She grabbed her head and looks at me all shocked. I remained stonefaced. Then she says while still holding her head, "DID YOU NOT HEAR THAT?!" To which I responded, "Hear what, ma'am?". "That loud chirp!". I then leaned in, "Ma'am, are you okay?" I whispered. She looked around, and to the dismay of her and myself, nobody else cared enough to react. So she was now convinced that she heard a loud ass sound that nobody else heard. She then said frantically, "Uh yes...I-I'm fine. Have a good day." She left the store looking around like a crazy person probably thinking she had lost her mind.

Mine wasn't. I originally wanted the name IconOfSin...but this fucker who hasn't made a post in twelve years already had it.

Has this happened to anyone else? If so, post their profile URL and what SHOULD have been YOUR username here for shits and giggles.

This blog can really be used to address a potentially bigger issue. So many profiles on here that have been inactive for over a decade. Doesn't that cause problems? Probably not...but dammit, so many of the cool names have already been taken!

It's funny. Some of these people I see five days a week, I have their last names, the cars they drive, and their license plates embedded in my memory. But they're still strangers. It didn't really dawn on me how emotionally detached from society I am until a few moments ago. I was letting a guy out of here and he goes, "Have a nice day."

"Have a nice day". It seems so simple. Anybody should be able to do it. Not me though. To me, having a nice day is something that happens on accident and rarely at that. These people don't know the dread I feel even stepping outside or hearing my phone ring causes me. I don't even know why I feel that way, I just do. Whenever my phone rings my immediate thought is, "Oh my God...bad news". Probably my shitty boss again telling me that I am required to come in early, and I do it because I feel that if I don't he won't let me request a day off with a few months notice again. But of course, he doesn't anyway. I bust my ass here, sacrifice off days, come in early and stay late...but it's still "fuck me".

I have come to accept monotony with occasional bad news as normal. Good days are dumb luck to me anymore. Spending time with my three close friends, my girlfriend or my dad are the only things that seem to distract me from this long enough to keep me sane. Too bad I can't do that more than once a week...once a week if I'm lucky.

They're the only people who I feel really respect and get me.

In no particular order, I seem to get along with these folks the best:

nxGangrel, Joe-Ilya, Tritnew, darknation, RUSH, MetroidJunkie, TheNerdTurtle2, Fraggle, 40oz, deadwolves, doomkid, Kontra Kommando, and even though I haven't seen him in ages, SuperCupcakeTactics.

I'm sure there are others, and sorry if I missed anyone.

So how about you guys? Who are your doombros?