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[Cherryish]

Originally Posted by unfrufru

um where are u getting the latest diary entry from? cause mine keeps coming up with scods australia day one.

Heres the actual address for the diary: http://www.3pod.com.au/podhome/diary.htm
But if that doesn't work, heres the full entry:
(Sorry if this is OT)

"Diary Entry 15
By Gatesy

When I was a kid I thought Flynn was really cool. Not Errol Flynn- he wasn't very street. I'm talking Flynn- the 'real' main character in the breakthrough sci-fi- classic TRON. TRON was a massive pansy but Jeff Bridges' portrayal of a super cool, headphone wearing, video game arcade owning, wise cracking, girl getting 'software engineer'? … now that's street. Well it was to a nine-year-old. Yon and Scod gave me TRON on DVD for Christmas a couple of years ago and I almost cried. That's how nostalgic I feel about it. Of course when Scod gave me a 'Breakdance' movie poster for Christmas a few years earlier I DID cry. Scod loves TRON but Yon has never seen it. He doesn't like the graphics.

Now I've loved video games ever since the Templestowe swimming pool/squash courts installed a tabletop 'Ghost Gobbler' game next to the KISS pinball machine. Talk about a changing of the guard. Man, the only reason I missed BJ And The Bear and went swimming on a Friday night was to check out this amazing bit of grouseness. Mum and Dad gave me 50c a week back then, which I had to save for something important (something important meant something I didn't want). 'Ghost Gobbler' was a Pac-man rip off, and like Pac-man...was really fucking hard. I was so jealous of the teenage rabble that circled the tabletop with money I didn't have for an awesome game I couldn't play.

Now at this time ATARI was huge and everyone wanted one.. I mean everyone- not just the geeks. In 1981, primary school was divvied up into 4 groups- the kids who played chasie, the kids who didn't, the girls who 'performed' handstands against the art room wall and the boys who looked at their underpants, giggling like school girls. When I grew tired of checking out Tracy's underpants, I'd play chasie because I had magic sandles that made me run fast and see, like really far. I'm getting sidetracked but the point is when you're that young there are no geeks, sportos, skegs or bogans- just snotties. Little snotties running around beautifully confused, breaking arms and stuff. Every snotty loved these amazing new video games. ATARIs were for everyone- except maybe the girl ones. They liked horses… and handstands. My problem was that none of my friends had an ATARI… Adrian had an Intellivision. That was pretty cool. My oldest friend in the world George had a Hanimex Family Entertainment System. Nobody cared, it was something. I bugged my Mum and Dad for months - ATARI, ATARI, ATARI !! What did I get? Well Mum and Dad always did their homework and wanted the best for their kids. They realised computers were going to be huge and everything they bought for their kids had to have some sort of educational benefit. There was only one games machine that had a computer keyboard element in 1981… The Dick Smith Wizard. Yes, back in the day before Dick Smith championed locally made peanut butter and breakfast cereal, he brought out a games computer that was pretty ace, but it was no ATARI. My sister and I had two of the four games available- Space Invasion and Tennis. They were better than any ATARI game but the Dick smith Wizard was NO ATARI!

You see, Dick Smith wasn't a role model. He wasn't cool. Real people never were. While he flew around in a helicopter, my main man Flynn was being sucked into a computer and forced to survive the merciless world of the MASTER CONTROL PROGRAM. Flynn fully rocked. As a kid it was difficult to pretend to be Flynn without pulling out a frisbee. And instead of deflecting pulses of energy, you kind of had to throw your information disc to a friend. A game of 'deadly discs' was more or less.. Frisbee really.

The kid in me still likes to imagine what it would be like to exist in one form or another inside a computer. In the movie TRON, programs existed in human-like form in a software company's mainframe. Nowadays I guess they would exist in the internet. Shit man, that's fuckin' scary. The world of TRON was more or less a police state- 'programs' being jostled around by big burly underlings of the MASTER CONTROL PROGRAM. The world of the internet would be utter chaos….

Sprawling cities of perversity and anarchy, hastily slapped together by Microsoft code, governed by the corrupt and retarded. Stressed emails shoot about electronic arterials at lightening speed, constantly being held up in spam-jams. Cyber-roadrage. For the legitimate emails, the frustrating irony is that the freeway rest areas are covered in billboards advertising weight loss and penis enlargements. The online game stadiums are filled with holographic worlds where the game config files that spawn, die and respawn constantly wonder whether or not they have freewill. A couple of radicals believe the game files are being controlled by greater entities. Ah, the 'do you believe in the Users' debate rages on. Every second dwelling is a porn site with every picture, movie and story exhibiting a 'you'd all be dead without us' attitude. MP3s, tabs and lyrics all wait to be picked up and downloaded at the various clubs that litter the downtown areas. Yazz's 'The Only Way Is Up', is a drunken slag at the end of one of the bars, constantly yelling at MP3s that aren't there. The huge collosiums that stage the various 'forums' are savage and unforgiving places. Younger 'posts' that make the fatal mistake of proclaiming whether or not someone is 'hot' are ripped apart limb from limb by the self-righteous older posts. These full-time professionals are inflexible and venomous and believe that destroying these posts is 'the right thing to do.' -just like the nazis. Deep underground, lonely and afraid, hide the thousands of fan fiction stories. Contorted, twisted and ashamed to show their faces, they live in the hope that one day someone will erase them, putting them out of their misery. The horror… The horror…

Now if I was to be sucked into this mental online world, I'm not sure where my place would be. I'd probably get a nice quiet number-crunching job in a banking site. We can all be certain that I wouldn't be hanging out with TRON- what a massive poof.

I'm tired now and I'm sorry this diary entry took such a long time to get on to the site. Be cool and enjoy the Comedy Festival. It's tops."

[unfrufru]

thanks for that cherryish, couldn't get the link to work still on mine

[timtim]

oh dear. thats really scary that the fights are being brought out into the 'real' world. i hope your toe isnt forever screwed from the crazy teenybopper, unfrufru
and poor gatesy, well tripod really, i can only imagine how they feel

[Munchkin]

Originally Posted by Gatesy

Now if I was to be sucked into this mental online world, I'm not sure where my place would be. I'd probably get a nice quiet number-crunching job in a banking site. We can all be certain that I wouldn't be hanging out with TRON- what a massive poof.

How dare he!!! TRON went on to defeat the Shadows and Vorlons and rule the galaxy!

[Nick]

I think that Gatesy was having a bit of fun, as well as making a stand. I think he mentioned nazi's because of Godwins Law.

But I can understand him having a go at some of the calls. I think the kid who wants to lose her viginity to Gatesy and the one who steals beer bottles is kinda freaky - but otherwise some of the kids on there aren't as bad as some other people.

But this is just what I think.

[SR]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAAAHAHAAHAHA

*points and laughs at Gatesy*

Come on, he should have proved that he was a bit more with it by invoking Snacky's Law instead. I think it's more appropriate than Godwin's.

Besides, Godwin's Law is SO 1990s...

[Beckslee]

this has made me want to go home and finally watch the TRON DVD that I've had sitting on my shelf for ages.

Someone should tell that man not to write when he's sleep deprived and hung-over it gets all weird

[Gutter Monkey]

Originally Posted by Cherryish

But if that doesn't work, heres the full entry:

Thanks for putting the diary quote into perspective, it makes much more sense when read in context.

[_MBG'sBellybuttonfluff_]

Originally Posted by Beckslee

this has made me want to go home and finally watch the TRON DVD that I've had sitting on my shelf for ages.

Hey Bec, didn't you buy that on one of the melb mosh meets? I remember that. You guys spent ages in that dvd shop! :p

[Sugarbabe]

Originally Posted by Beckslee

this has made me want to go home and finally watch the TRON DVD that I've had sitting on my shelf for ages.

TRON PARTY!!! I almost went up to jb hifi to find it when I read the entry

[Beckslee]

Originally Posted by _MBG'sBellybuttonfluff_

Hey Bec, didn't you buy that on one of the melb mosh meets? I remember that. You guys spent ages in that dvd shop! :p

nope I was taking a copy back because I'd bought it before christmas and then my parents had bought it for me

yey for tron party, I think I'll watch it in surround sound next weekend when my parents are away, it had better be good otherwise Mr Gates is getting beaten

[cookie]

I'm kind of a lurker at that forum, and from what I've seen, the regulars are becoming so overprotective of their tiny piece of webspace that theyre ruining it for everyone. The majority of new posts nowadays arent from those little "Gatzi is sooo hot!!1" teens, but actually from the regulars, complaining of those posts. They are even going to the extent of creating new Tripod forums, where "teenyboppers" can be blocked.

Does the Tripod forum FAQ not say;

Q: Do Tripod care if we say how hot and sexy they are?
A: No, they love it. They are human after all....(well, part human part cyborg)

I wish they'd all get over themselves. They've no doubt frightened the poor Podboys away.
Sure, some of the teenybopper posts have been known to get a little vulgar and out-of-hand, but is it so hard to just ignore them?

Oh, and who could forget the newest phase sweeping the forum as of late; the whole "correction of spelling and grammar" fiasco. Ugh, I've had enough.
Thats why I'm here at Mosh now, people. I've just made the official switch from Mosh lurker, to Mosh member. Thanks for having me here.

[Beckslee]

Originally Posted by cookie

Sure, some of the teenybopper posts have been known to get a little vulgar and out-of-hand, but is it so hard to just ignore them?

actually it is, being inundated with weird posts and people who don't read posts properly, is what made me leave

what's really bad is they are starting to infect the KOP forum with their inane ramblings as well.

[cookie]

Originally Posted by Beckslee

what's really bad is they are starting to infect the KOP forum with their inane ramblings as well.

Hmm, I've noticed that as well. Heh, don't get me started on that Katherine weirdo...

[unfrufru]

Originally Posted by cookie

Hmm, I've noticed that as well. Heh, don't get me started on that Katherine weirdo...

i seriously want to bitchslap that girl. how big a moron can one be