I must stop commenting!

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Most sites either want to beat a dead horse into meat paste, then discuss the bacteria which grow on it, they want comments that follow the tweet length and depth, or they just create a post and then the local natives develop a sort of communal word bunny hop leading to... nowhere?  I guess blogging has been reduced to faux academia, faux "Lord of the Flies", or just an extension of Tweeting.  I miss when people would sort of discussed things.  Just people, like who you would meet downtown at the coffee shop... if a little more selective.   Oh, I miss the point often enough.  I have major and minor gaffs galore.  I write when I am half asleep and can't figure out what I meant later on.  It happens.  But generally I think I am rather... typical.  I actually like to think of myself as a blue collar academic type.  Practical science meets bread and butter common sense, give or take.

Now, I do have strikes against me.  For a number of right and wrong reasons.  Anyone who has blogged, or even commented, for years knows that is the way the blogosphere works.  Some try to change their identity.  Which slays me.  I couldn't and wouldn't hide who I am for dollar or donut.  Good, bad, ugly... it's... just me.  But I am old in my ways, neither hip nor truly the better (or worse) form of academic, or just a fanboy.  I don't really have many places where I am all that welcome, to be honest.  A few places that tolerate.  Some places that even respond from time to time.

So, I have been writing tons of comments, as usual.  But now I click out rather than publish.  I still get to say what I think, it's just that it doesn't have to be any more than read by myself.  Which, is probably how it goes most of the time anyway.  The blogosphere is pretty much... for professionals (trained to be pretty liberal to get by in this 'new age'), government workers (go figure), academics, and students.  A few independent minds, which haven't been assumed by the hive mind yet, mostly.  Well, that is why the last elections have had Zero, McCain, and Romney as the candidates too.  I'll post as long as I live, at this point.  What else could I possibly put out that is any worse than anything I have posted?  But comments?  Yeah, I'll taper that back.  Some of you will get a nod, to let you know I'm still checking in.  But even then I need to keep it 128 alpha-numerics or less. 

I have gotten further in the area of the game.  I am not past the area.  I have simply gotten further along through it.  On the easiest setting it isn't quite as bad as what I was seeing.  Those battles must be on the hardest setting.  Very glad I restarted the game, setting gameplay to the lower setting near the beginning.  I don't know how many attacks it will take, once the beast is grounded.  And some of the game play I am facing isn't the same as the harder level so it is a bit confusing.  There is no way to tell how far along the battle is as the health of the opponent is not indicated in any way.  I may try to find a YouTube vid of the fight at my level of difficulty.  I just hate not having any kind of idea of how much damage needs to be delivered, maybe ideas on how the fight goes and what to look for, or how long the fight would, could, should take.  I've grounded the flying beast several times now, then fought it, attacking at least five or six times until finally losing.  Gah!  Still, not bad for about a half hour of play time.  Well, compared to two days... that commenter had been playing at my level of difficulty too.  I hope to get through it yet tonight, but I won't play more than a half hour at a time.  Too frustrating.

Later, probably good night.