It's a revival! Or not...

So, I got a laptop ... a month ago. And it's taken me that whole month to get back, find my login, find my password, change the look of the blog and formulate just exactly I wanted to write about for my latest blog entry. Well, let's see, what's happened...

Well, in the past eight months, I did my BMQ (Basic Military Qualification), which I graduated from in May. Then I did my SQ (Soldier Qualification), which I graduated from in August, then my CQC (Close Quarters Combat), which I finished up a whole week ago, and am now awaiting my BIQ (Basic Infantry Qualification), which is in a week. A lot of training, eh? So, I updated my blog, I updated my site, I started a new duel, I began writing again, I've read a few novels, I made a bunch of friends and I learned a fair amount about the profession I signed up for. Not all bad, right? Well...

There was some new guys added to my platoon at the start of CQC. When I graduated from SQ, I ended the course with 28 people, having started with 33. I knew these guys since basic. We grooved, knew each other and our own limits. We understood each other. Well, we added 12 new guys to round the number out to a nice even 40. Well, these new guys don't exactly groove with the rest of the platoon. Sure, some of us get along with the new guys better than others, these new guys have caused pretty much nothing but problems.

In the past week, we've: gotten in a fight, been marked by the MPs as shit-disturbers, toilet-papered a hallway, broke a cinder-block wall, broke the windows on two doors, smashed apart one closet locker, been marked as shit-disturbers by our course Warrent, been marked as shit-disturbers by the base RSM, have had our electronics confiscated during the week, and flipped several beds, frames, mattresses and all.

That's in a one week period. I hate to think about how things are going to go down for the next eight weeks of course. This is gonna suck. Hard.

Changes

So I changed the layout of SI and made it an exact duplicate of the new layout for Juryrigged. Not too bad a layout, I think. Hope you all like it and what not. I'm still working on coming up with some updates, although then again with my rather hectic schedule, that might not be likely. I've still got a lot of training to go through, so we'll just have to wait and see.

 

- W. Visarett

Overused and Overdone

Ok, Waffles is back for awhile, and it seems with his return that My Spastic Inhibitions are also coming back. So, another post to breath some life into this blog;

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In the world of Role Playing it is inevitable that ideas will used more than enough. It seems creative, original plots are faded into the past. You would think that clichés might be bad, but as Clovis taught me, even a horrid cliché can be turned into a wonderful masterpiece with enough innovation. This brings me to the topic at hand:

I see more and more of a flurry of overused ideas that are just crap. I know the value of said ideas depreciates over time, but these writers need to at least match the former glory, yet the quality falls well short of the bar. I really think this might be the reason the wars at Vets bore me. It’s the same old thing over and over again.

I was even nearing the annoyance point back in my hay day, so these wars that the Emperor gets dragged into these days are just overused and overdone. Maybe someone will pique my interests and actually make something somewhat original or at least up to par.

~Corbs