Friday, April 30, 2010

The Master Legend Army

I apologize right now for the length, but there is a lot to cover. Oh boy, oh boy, you make it too easy on us ML. You have brought this on yourself. In a wonderful turn of events it has come to my attention by trolling myspace that our delusional drunk friend Master Legend himself has begun to create himself an army, that is right an army. You poor sad old man. How can you create an army if you do not know how to train or organize. You do realize you have to put down your six pack first in order to get everything going on a site, voodoo magic will not be what helps you here. Using Star Trek symbols, he lists the areas of conversation on his board as the following...(here is the forum for reference)

masterlegend.forumquebec.net/adventures-f1/

Advice, Introductions, Post your favorite pictures, Adventures, Simple rules, Survival Techniques, Recreation Room, Missions and Tactics, and FIGHTING STORIES.

I will now address the areas of concern here. Advice, sure that's a helpful area, except when it comes to getting advice from ML, because then it will be just to go drink another beer until the pain of a sad life goes away.

Introductions, you have to read this-

masterlegend.forumquebec.net/adventures-f1/introductions-t1.htm

intro's by ML and the great tool of NJ, Tothian himself.Great another way for people to boast about their imaginary tales of starting out as an RLSH. If this site does gain any momentum, although I doubt it will, beware.

Post your favorite pictures, damn, this is too easy, a way for every single glory hound that wants to take part can take part in showing themselves off in all of their spandex glory, boy I can't wait to see all of the tiny teens, and overweight middle aged men that feel that wrapping themselves up in tights is what makes a hero, just easier for the picking. But take a look at what he has on a hand drawn picture, it is obviously a naked woman to the right with quite an unsavory depiction.

Adventures, oh yes, a way to overly embellish a walk down the street into an adventure of leaping off rooftops to save a young girls life that was accosted by 2 men, or saving a child from a runaway car by using your grappling hook to swing in just in time. Look forward to seeing some of their stories, although at this point there are none.

Simple rules, for dating my teenage daughter. (RIP John Ritter)

Survival techniques, here is one, don't get shot. I guess with his infinite wisdom of the dark arts he should be able to show them that they will not need a bullet proof vest, but instead a little bit of goats blood and a chicken foot and then evil will be scared away as well as their bullets.

The recreation room-a place to tell funny stories and jokes, yeah, a place for people dressed up in colorful costumes to talk about jokes, well if that's the case they may as well just post pictures of themselves there, that should make for a good laugh. Here is a funny joke I once heard, Tothian and Master Legend.

Missions and Tactics, a way for people to tell how being untrained and completely unprepared can help you in a fight against crime, and where to post things that you pick up and read on the internet that will supposedly help, although most of them have never experienced it themselves and never will.

Fighting Stories- the cream of the crop. I have been waiting for this. Yes, a place to tell stories of fights against evil, again another place to embellish and make up random stories to pump ones ego, as well as obviously condoning illegal activities. Promoting this section directly under that title is encouraging vigilantism and encouraging people to act upon it and in all ways condones it. He wants those out there to share their actions of violence and aggression instead of encouraging those that join the site to engage with their local police force, to actively be on citizens patrol more than just a few nights a week, but instead working like the National Guard, 2 weekends a month, and 2 weeks in the summer. He should be encouraging knowledge not violence. He should be garnering respect for the authorities, and encouraging getting communities involved. Not some type of one man fight against "danger" and the "bad guys". This man is a danger, he has been allowed for too long to go out running the streets encouraging others to be just as violent of criminals as those they are chasing down.


But here is the thing, ML does not post his own stories. As a matter of fact, he doesn't post anything to even get the forums started, he simply posts a menial sentence to encourage others. There is next to nothing on this site, he hasn't even attempted to really get it together and ready for people to access it. If this is your site and it is under your name, should you not be the first one to stand up and go into detail sharing your supposed knowledge and wisdom regarding what to do in the field? Should you not be the one setting the example? If this is the example you are setting, my intoxicated friend, you are a worse example than the lazy parent that allows their children to wander the streets late at night with no sense of direction, oh wait. . .

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Fashion in Comics

I know this strays away from my normal agenda, but I found this, and I found it hilarious and quite interesting as well, maybe the RLSH should take note on what they have to say.


www.comicmix.com/news/2010/04/17/tim-gunn-talks-comics-fashion/


www.comicmix.com/news/2010/04/26/tim-gunn-talks-comics-fashion-part-2/


Oh yeah, they definitely need to take heed to these wise words.

Virus

Friday, April 16, 2010

and there ya go

priceless. this is what you get for backing something like this.

movies.yahoo.com/feature/weekendroundup-04-16-10.html

Read the article, and read the reviews.

Villainy and Disillusionment

So as of late there have been several on both sides of the fire that have disappeared and/or retired. Now I understand that personal lives interfere with what it is we all may do online, and in real life, but the question remains, does that change the person beneath? Does the fact that someone leaves being an RLSH means that they have to stop or will stop charity work? Does it mean they have to stop patrolling? See right there is my problem, right there is the problem. As a whole the idea of helping others should not be resolute to the fact that you are this persona, some cheerful guy or some dark brooding figure.

I think that whether you wear a mask or not, whether you are an RLSH or not, that helping others in the world is a very critical, important, and admirable thing. So the fact that Citizen Prime is retired, does that mean he is going to stop helping people? Does that mean he is going to just sit back and stop being a role model for youth? I can almost certainly say no, because despite the ridiculous outfit he is a good person, he is a strong individual that wants to make a positive difference regardless of a suit of armor. That seems to be a point that a lot of RLSH miss altogether. You should be doing good no matter what, you should be out there making a difference no matter what, you do not need a persona, you do not need an alter ego, you do not need to put yourselves on a pedestal and then talk about how you aren't. Look, listen, and heed these words. All of you, every single one of you that has a myspace page, every single one that has a facebook, every single one that posts your picture up on the internet, you are all frauds.

You can attempt to debate me at whatever length you wish, hell you can say whatever the fuck you want, but what this boils down to is that none of you have to put on those masks and that gear. None of you have to go out and "fight" crime. Almost none of you see there are more efficient ways. None of you have to do any of this. But you make the choice, and therein lies the flaw. You all chose to put those masks on, you chose to go out and do all of those things you do. You all want nothing but recognition, one way or another, for personal gain or not, you still wish to be known. You still want to be seen. You want your individual messages out there. If not, we would see a news report along the lines of Batman, "Masked man saves woman, disappears into the night". Now what is stopping any of you from doing this in your every day life? What is stopping you to do these good deeds just because they are right? Why is it that it must be in some form of persona? Is that not just another form of human pride and ego? Look at yourselves, look at what you are, and see that you are flawed from the very concept that you must put on a mask and a suit, no, no you don't need to. You do not need a mask to fight corruption, you do not need some alter-ego to go out and help a community. You choose to do that, chose to become that. There is no reason in the world that is good enough to answer why you put on a mask. "Fear of criminals" you say, well if you were doing things the right way instead of walking up to drug dealers and trying to fight them or tell them to leave all by yourself, there would be no fear of that, and if you keep doing that then you deserve to be shot. All of you continue to say it is not a community, that it is not a movement, that it is a group of people sharing ideas, that you are all too different to come to some standard, and if that's the case you are all worthless stupid fucking idiots. Again there is the problem, it comes down to themselves.

Again I must say, get over yourselves. You can help gather a community together, you can go out and give tips to police, you can make a difference without resorting to a complete comic ideal. That is what most of you lack the understanding of. You feel that this persona makes you a stronger person, that you can be something that you aren't in every day life. THAT IS BULLSHIT!!! If you can do it in a mask, it is no different without it. It is a fucking cloth. Look, I will never knock others for trying to make a difference, I will never get on someone for trying to improve their neighborhood, but to believe that you can go out alone, or even in a small group is the best way to do it then you are pathetic and egotistical. The only way to create change is by unifying people. Gathering your communities together. Seeing one neighborhood join together and start a community watch encourages other neighborhoods to go out and do that, to know that they are not alone, the strength in numbers. To know that their neighbors are looking out for them, that they have people that care about their well being, not just one man stalking the streets looking for dealers and thugs, and may be around to help.

You talk about apathy being a problem, well what about your apathetic nature to the apathetic, "people don't want to stand up and make a difference, they sit back in their lives complacently", well what do you call that attitude? Do you try and find ways to bring them into the light, for them to realize how much they really can help, how much they can do? Do you spend your time trying to organize town meetings, town watches, food drives, house to house donations for food? Do you really devote your efforts to creating strength, to inspire? Or do you worry about your new costume/uniform, your new mask, your new weapons and gear, or your new professionally done myspace page? What is the most important thing about what you are doing? What is the most important factor to what you do? And what is your ultimate goal? Is it to rally people together and to take charge and take control of their lives again? Or is it for you to clean up the streets, is it for you to make their lives safer? Just stop and think about what you are doing, regardless of the fact that you are probably not going to listen to me, despite countless uses of logic. Just stop and climb down off your high horses and really look at the meanings behind what you think you stand for and what you are, not how you see yourselves.

-Virus

Infecting the minds of the self-indulgent

P.S. I know someone is going to say it so I'm fucking clearing this up now, this is applied to the general populace of RLSH not those that do actually do things right, AKA Captain Black and Z and others along those lines, just to get that out there. This is for the people that still live in a little world or black and white and 4 color splash pages in their heads.