nobdy crs man its da inernet

Yep. I bet you know what this is about.
OK, I'm just going to ask, how many of you type like that? Let me see a show of hands.
Yep, that's what I thought. Can I ask why?
Do you really think nobody cares?
Well, here are my thoughts.

When you type "lyk dis" it looks really immature. How is anyone supposed to know whether you can even spell? Actually, I'm willing to bet you probably can't very well. Why is that? No practice. Then when you're writing things down, people think you're stupid, because you make so many mistakes. Make yourself look intelligent, and impress people instead. Type everything correctly, and use proper capitalization and punctuation. This also avoids confusion; if you spell stuff weirdly and don't punctuate or capitalize, it's hard to tell what you really mean. On top of all of this, it's really hard to take someone seriously if they're always typing "lyk dis n al lyk nobdy crs man its da inernet your dum", obviously.
One should always, always, always type like they are writing a school project or something. It looks very mature and professional. You never know who could be reading what you write (over your shoulder, an email that gets forwarded, etc.); maybe it's someone you want to impress like a teacher or employer, and their opinion of you is seriously harmed by the fact that you can't seem to spell.
Now, the one argument I've heard (I'd like to here any more if you have them) is "but it's so much faster to type like this!"
Know why that is? Because you're used to it. Sure, it's abbreviated, but if you're a skillful typist, it hardly makes a difference. For me, I can actually type real words faster, because of habit. You're also more likely to make dumb mistakes and not spell correctly if you're used to typing in "Internet-ese." These are the most annoying mistakes, too, that everyone hates:
Mixing up "there", "their", and "they're"
Mixing up "than" and "then"
Using punctuation improperly (like quotation marks for emphasis...?!)
Saying "it's" instead of "its" and vice versa.
Messing up possessives and plurals, like saying "Theseus' sandals" when it would actually be correct to say "Theseus's Sandals", because there is only one Theseus.
There are tons more similar things, but you get the idea.
I do, on the other hand, think that things like "gonna" and "gimme" that aren't actually words are acceptable, and you don't have to analyze your sentences to make sure they don't contain any tiny grammatical errors. Friendly communication is still informal, so it shouldn't be treated formally.

Anyway, now for another thought I have about Internet communications, which is sort of weird. I'll show you what I mean. Say you're in the middle of a conversation, and you type to your friend (in MSN or AIM or whatever) "Well that's good, you could use the exercise!" (this is going to be a bad example, but hopefully you'll get the point). But they you realize they may take it wrong, like you're calling them fat, and just don't say anything and erase it all before pushing "send." I think this isn't right, for whatever reason. Personally, I would say "Well that's good, you could use the exercise! ...Oh, wait, don't take that wrong. I'm not calling you fat." Just like someone would if they had said it in real life, because in real life you can't be like "oops I shouldn't say that, I should actually not say it... except I already did." See? Doesn't work. So I think doing that online is sort of dishonest and inhuman. Communication should stay the same through phone conversations, real life conversations, and online conversations. It just seems so much more real, personal, human, and honest, or whatever.

OK, well now I'm going to talk about... lesse... music. Music is good. Specifically, video game music. Do you know how awesome some music from computer or video games is? If you do, yay! Otherwise, I think I'd better explain it. Firstly, computer and video game music nowadays (and way back when, too, even though there was less sound quality) can be just as cool and interesting as any other type of music. It can be lots of different styles, and it can be emotional, or suspenseful, or just plain fun to listen to. Video game music is interesting because it's not just something you listen to. It sets a mood and fits in with what's going on. It's like when someone writes a song about... I dunno, a cold wintery day or something. And then in a video game, you're hearing that, and experiencing the cold wintery day at the same time. So you get to feel the music at a whole new level.
If you know of some songs from a computer or video game that you like, you should look for them at www.ocremix.org. Now, you may think "Wait, that's illegal, isn't it?" but I don't entirely see it that way, because, for starters, I own every single game from which the music I get comes. So the company did receive their compensation and everything; I'm not stealing anything from anyone. Also, these aren't the original songs, they are rearrangements. They also give all the copyright information and credit the original composers. On top of all that, industry people are often contacting them and letting them know how cool their website is! In fact, I was reading in a Nintendo Power magazine, and there was this interview with the people responsible for Contra 4. One of them said "If our music makes it onto OC ReMix, we'll be happy." Wow! Unfortunately for them, that hasn't happened yet, but give 'em some time. The website is still growing, a lot.

Now, what to talk about next, hmmm... Ooh, I was just thinking about something that I guess would be interesting to talk about.
So a long time ago, from when I was maybe like six to eight years old to maybe... I dunno, probably less than a year after that, but oh well. Anyway, there was me, Andy (as in my brother), Alex T., and Andrew D... We used to do these fun little recorded weird things on tape (back when, you know, people used those), like some kind of ridiculous radio show. We came up with all these hilarious characters, and it was really fun. We ended up trying to make them into animations on the computer some time later, but that never worked out because we got bored with it and it was just Andy and I at that point... Anyway, it was one of the funniest, best fictional universes I've ever used or encountered, because we all had all these weird people who all had hilarious ideas, and we combined them all into the funniest thing ever. It was so much fun to come up with stuff... I really miss a lot of those characters. Well, all of them, really.
I've also come up with lots of other weird people and places in the past when I was younger and used to write all these "books." This is funny, because I started writing right when I learned how to read. I could read, so now I wanted to write my own books. This was when I was really young, like maybe even just four or something, so I don't really remember much of it, but this is just what I've been told by my parents. I kept writing, and I wrote dozens of "books," maybe even around fifty or more. They all had these really goofy characters and stuff, even the ones that were supposed to be serious; I look back at those and thing, "Wow, that's some pretty ridiculous stuff." It's cool, because it seemed like all of these books I had written had been lost, except then we finally found it in a box that was mislabeled "Andy's Treasures." We never really looked in there for some reason, even though even Andy didn't know what was in there. Anyway, it was fun (and pretty embarrassing) to see all this stuff I had written, and it made me kinda sad in a way, because I wish I could do something like that again. Some day, I'd really like to gather together all of those universes into one big crazy setting for something. I think it'd be best as a computer game or something, and of course it could branch into all kinds of things.
Unfortunately, my project list is maxed out right now. I need to really get motivated to finish 1999, because once that's done, all the rest are just ongoing things (I want to make Fafnir-Cola really long and cool; I won't be done making stuff with Egoboo until... well, never; and Ring of Eshara has always been by "big project" so it's not going to be done any time soon). It should be OK as long as I still devote one day of the week to everything, like I've been trying to get started doing (This will be the first full school week, so I'll probably be starting with this tomorrow).

Well, I guess that last bit was just a bunch of scattered stuff, but whatever. This is a nice, long post for you all. Of course, there still aren't many people reading this regularly, but whatever. For both of you, then, since it seems to be just Ben and Evan right now, although I can't imagine why, since there are lots of other people who I thought would want to read.
I think I mention the fact that only two people read this in every post, which is kinda silly, since I'm trying to convince myself I don't care. I'm starting to realize I might be lying to myself, but like I said before, I'm at least having a little bit of fun with this.


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