Updates!

UPDATE

!!New!!:Zippy  Fan lyric videos!

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New mod videos

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6/02/09

Added some non game mods in the modding section. Added a new section in the writing and wut area but have not updated the individual pages yet..I am lazy…

Mini update

Drawing section updated!

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05/23/09

COTLOP: What is a Lord of Power?

New UT04 beta mod:Hellfire Cannon beta:pre alpha

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Updated:05-06-09

New pictures: http://zippydsmlee.wordpress.com/cotlop-zippybook/cotlop-pictures-and-images/

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Update:04-02-09

New section added to the COTLOP section, Synopsis and bios, no bios yet because I still don’t have it sounding right.

http://zippydsmlee.wordpress.com/cotlop-zippybook/

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1/2409

Made a Aniem fanlyrics page for my fanlyric musings, you can find the link to them here or in the creative writing page.

http://zippydsmlee.wordpress.com/fanlyrics/

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1/13/09

Updated Creative Writing page, have 3 “lite draft’s” up,  story, setting and character musings.

http://zippydsmlee.wordpress.com/writing-and-wutbits/writing-projects/

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Older updates

Zippy plus CRC (copy right circumvention)

Zippy plus CRC (copy right circumvention) Well I have come to realize/find out (ah ignorance how blissful you are) that personal use is pretty much done since anything related to copy circumvention is illegal under the letter of the law. Despite that I would still say that under its combined sprit (CP, fair use and even the DMCA) it’s not so much about circumvention but personal use that its fair to circumvent protections for personal use. But even if it’s illegal now(for a few years actually) it’s basically un-enforced…and that’s makes me wonder if its un-enforced why is it even illegal when the real crime part of it is still a crime IE the distribution of the content.

Even if I believe that nonprofit based distribution should be legal to offset infinite CP and the power of the CP conglomerates one thing needs to be dealt with at a time. Personal use needs defined more than profit in copy right moving forward, personal use is where the line needs to be drawn in the sand and etched in stone. Personal use should be defined as anything done in the presence of the private end user in their limited to public private life.

Fair use is pretty much personal use but fair use pertains more in my laymen’s sense of things. Fair use is mostly about parody and how the conmen consumer can distribute CP/TM works via news or commentary which can allow for clips of various types (mix clips of a video with a song or a video of real non CP/TM people with CP/TM works in or around them). Limited as in as few people in public as possible mostly for portable media players and what not and not broadcasting/public performance or distribution online or off.

The minute a piece of media gets into the hands of the end user all rights of the CP owner end but distribution and invasive connections to the games online servers. This will allow for user made patches, fixes and end user protection against corporate over sight (IE all the stuff they miss focusing on limited anti consumer schemes) distribution will still remain the privy of CP owners lest until the system realize CP as it was meant to be is dead and fair use and public domain watch words for criminals. I still think the best thing moving forward is to give a corporate infinite copy right that specifies profit not distribution, allows for nonprofit non revenue gaining, meaning that costs of running the service with low paid or no paid labor at all levels of the organization compared against notional averages, if you are a private individual you can spend your money for distribution as long as you are not making a profit off it. This will allow nonprofit organizations to spread anything they deem educational or beneficial to society not to mention be able to run nonprofit based donational drives that can be used to buy up CP for the purpose of making it public domain. It will help corporate focus on real crime IE illicit profit and questionable organizations and get them out of the pants of the conmen end user and consumer.

It comes down to one sentence “If it’s not making profit it should be ignored.”

(god this palce chews up stuff from word 07…..)

Zippy plus taxes V2

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Sure it will never happen but here are my thoughts(starts handing out rotten tomatoes and fruit)

All goods and services are taxed at 45%, states are allowed 5% sales tax on top of that but no more, all income and property taxes end with property tax traded for a vehicle tax, the only people that have to fill out forms is those that become a business and sell goods or services regularly(monthly). Auction or used item sites like ebay and amazon they can easily be charged 45% on what they charge for users to sell items, sense there is a tax on the fee itself the sell of the item through the site should not be taxed as the item has already paid a tax on it once already.

Distribution
County’s get 1%
Citys get 9%
States get15%
Fed get 20%

Now if you reverse this order

Citys get 20%
County’s get 15%
States get 9%
Fed get 1%

city’s and counties would have so much money they could manage their populaces EASILY letting the fed get back to real issues like basic infrastructure and defense of the nation with cities being rich enough to handle disasters,health care and infrastructure. The futher you take moeny away from the palces that need it the less gets done to improve things.

THis also allows the cities to do some of the tax revue legwork making it cheaper to run the IRS.
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Vehicles would be taxed based on gallons per mile at 29MPG or less its 5% yearly thats 50$ for every 1000 of blue book value if its a verifiable work vehicle its 0.1% or 1$ for every 1000 of blue book value.

At 30MPG or higher its 2% or 20$ per 1000 of blue book value, at 40MPG+ its 0.5 or 5$ per 1000 of blue book value, at 50+MPG its 0.1% or 1$ for every 1000 of blue book value .

Tractors,mowers and framing equipment are exempt,Any recreational vehicle would be taxed at 0.1% for tag processing.

All vehicles require a tag for identification out of date tags are fine for storage but you may be fined up to 5% of the total cost of the vehicle if you are caught without a tag, the tax you pay on the vehicle pays for the tag.

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A recreational tag can be bought for any vehicle(muscle cars and antiques as well as 4X4) at the low tax rate but that vehicle is not street legal, one could create a law where if its 10-20 miles from either its trailer or garage its not a fineable offense but a warnable one.
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This would replace property tax which is nothing more than government bullying you into paying to won your land, that or ensure those who make under 150K pay no property tax(it goes against their savings meaning gov will have to pay for them in the long run) or are over the age of 75…..but in all property taxes just need to be abolished…..
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Corporate would be under the same tax everything they buy or rent is hit with a 45% tax no costly tax code no loopholes just a straight tax on what is consumed and if the business employees people in the US you can subtract 0.0001%(or 1% per 1 thousand people in the taxable area thats city or county) from that up to 40%.

If a business employs a few thousand workers its worth it not to tax them in a consumer tax system.

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For the poor
Now about the poor you can use the debit food stamp card system as tax exemption badge you that gets you tax off just about everything but rentals (car rentals are ok) this would be for those that make under 20K families or individuals. Now if that dose not quite work for individuals have it set up if you are in shcool you get the tax exemption if not and don’t have a kid or disability and make more than 12-16K a year then you just have to the the tax.

For families under 55K and under you get exemptions on food,gas(and utilities primarily power over 100$, water over 30$,sewer over 10$ and land line phone over 30) and purchase price of a vehicle but not the yearly tax that helps roads,pays for tags and acts as a sin tax against gas guzzlers.

If you have children in school or collage an exemption badge could be created to lower or remove the tax paid on some items for school, these could be put out like coupons in booklets that can be handed out during tax exempt drives or festivals the schools do to raise money for their individualize school.

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We have the technology to tax sales to take the burden off the common worker and the rich that get taxed coming and going even if the IRS dose not shrink in size a consumer tax just makes perfect sense.

Zippy + “Profit rights”

Once I again I go off into the breech of thought and the gutter of grammar.
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The way copy right works to stop the free trade of thought and ideas is staggering and anti productive. One could say they do not want any new content made they merely wish to create a stagnate environment to milk from. The main trouble with the scenario is that free distribution of even media that has been forgotten by their rights holders, the other issue is in the age of easily traded data one cannot block the trade of thought and yes I am equating media with thought.

With the advent of the 100 year copy right tis clear the copy right system is broken and with the way they harass consumers with the “commandment” to protect their copy right its clear its antiquated.

So how do we foster the health of an industry while protecting thought? Well first you remove the term distribution from copy right altogether. The main reason for it is its simply unenforceable, the second reason for that is due to the nature of the modern world and the properties that come from a healthy and imaginative populace this will easily displace any harm done by giving the industry of rights holders more choices to chose and pick from, another reason for it is out of print works that’s the rights holder refuse to do anything with this will only get worse over time as more and more properties are bought up and archived to never see the light of day that combined with ridiculously long term copy right makes for a even worse situation .

But enough of that back to my question “how do you foster a healthy media industry without government fascist media police”? Well you change the nature of copy right from a distribution based system to a profit based one. Distribution is replaced with “profit”, illicit profit crimes such as selling media without a license becomes a crime equitable to selling drugs, and this is the same for sites that “sell” services through normal revenue means or through advertisements, I would like nonprofit and or donation based fan driven services to be highly protected from corporate trolling.

By focusing on profit and business you allow for permanent copy rights that can be sold and traded by their conglomerates like any other contractual sale, selling off the rights gives the new owner full rights over the profits derived from the property and allows for better vaulting of properties as when the fan base can build itself back up via open source means the rights owners can use much of it to release new media of that property and sell it to an interested market instead of ignoring it until things are prefect and suing people that are trying to enjoy the media and show others it at the same time.

There really is no down side to focusing on profit and for profit(business), letting personal/privet and educational use the media as they see fit as long as they do not sell it.

I can see chilling effects as used sales could be “taxed” since it’s a profit based setup and a profit based copy right system doses no different in resell and sell it would not be difficult to place a 1-5% charge for resell rights or simply make it a exemption as it is now. Another would open ‘nonprofit’ parody more while tightening up ‘for profit’ parody how this will play out I do not know but I am sure the industry will test a lot of things under a new system.
Shareware, open source and such will not change much if at all because of the profit nature of business and selling, any distribution outside it will happen regardless of it being protected or not.

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A rant to the side…..

While thinking about this I am reminded of music licenses for film and TV, why must one pay so much up front to advertise for the music that’s only a part of the experience? Why not base the contract on profit via standardized rates 5% the first year or so,1-2 after that in that way everyone makes a continued profit off it without any huge hiccups that are seen in Anime licenses where a the song owners can rape any project for domestic release. Again looking at future profits off it is far more effective and allows the domesticator to push song sales via normal merchandising channels IE sell the CDs through their store or retail outlets or as DLC online, through profits will mostly go to the song owner.

Speaking of songs and other original content creators get milked on their should be a basic rule that content creators get 10% of all profits from the content they make for life, this will hopefully lessen the rapeage they undergo as big content farms them for all their worth and gives them so little.

FO3 mods

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UPDATE!!!!!

12/08/08

Newest version with big overhaul over 50 files!!

http://zippydsmlee.wordpress.com/test-1/zippylabs-presentsfo3-energy-pistolrifle-tweaks/

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New update using the newest version of fomm, older versions included!

Got a small mod made with the help of the fomm utility.

Starting off with energy pistol and rifle.

http://zippydsmlee.wordpress.com/test-1/zippylabs-presentsfo3-energy-pistolrifle-tweaks/

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Alright I updated it with a new mod for smaller damage boost, so there is 3 kinds in this 1 ups damage 6 or 8 points,middle ups damage 8-10 points the last one ups damage 20ish points but halves the clip and makes the weapon costly to repair and buy.

ack! there seems to be a probly with the mod,fomm ate what I was doing that or I cut and pasted the wrong thing, damn kitty bwains!! I’ll fix it in a bit..and add a low engery mod to it that offers a slight boost in damage.

Gaming moving “ferword”?: Disc/Data to Hard drive

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Gaming moving “ferword”?:  Disc/Data to Hard drive

Going to try as badly as I can to muse on game related issues with a bit of humor and a ton of bad grammar, I dub these “articles”(and the world of writing sighs)”Gaming moving ‘ferword’??”

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Scarping the odd title and going for a better sounding one.

Zippys gaming moving forward in reverse.

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And today we start with “Disc/Data to Hard drive”.

If you have been hiding under a non technological rock you might be surprise to know you can buy and download (IE DLC/download content) some last generation games to your console this is nothing too exciting in itself but will lead to some real inserting developments in “current” gaming.

Not discounting the WIIs virtual console but reselling us old games we might own and not developing a add on device for current hardware is a wii bit annoying even if they could do both and charge us out the ass for the “experience” like most of the industry dose for current games of grand anal carnage(IE 50$ flawed and crappy games) but it seems they are focused on bigger shinier probes what with Securoms march on consumer rights but PC DRM is for another day me thinks.

With the WII leading the way in reviving the dead Sony and MS have followed suit and I do discount everything on live but the Live focused games on the 360 its clear MS made a mistake on locking the hard drive and then getting out the anal probes to rob of us money when they offer a hard drive for 2 or 3 times the cost of a normal drive…

But I am regressing and before I start whining about RROD I shall kill the demonic trud that has formed from something crawling up my ass and dieing and move on.
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Move along DRM move along…

Moving on to DRM which is the corner stone to how they sell products to the us the fuzzy masses who buy into half the poo they sling and some of us just point and laugh at the poo like the sad lil retards we are..but enough about me already….

DRM is part of the authentication of the selling process thus part of the sale and it has to change, change to a coherent non “rent” focused system we the consumers need 2 receipts one for the consumer to be stored any way the user wishes to store it(Defaulting to the consoles HD in a easily copyable file format, USB card,Mem card,ect,ect) and one on the account you cannot move to sell digi media as a normal and trusted practice until you protect the consumers investment into it, this does not mean you get rid of renting it just means it’s another layer of protection and authentication for both parties in a digital transaction.

Allowing the DRM to do this with a authentication check when you download it and random authentication checks per week/month will be all the protection industry needs as unlike on the PC you can permanently disable the online access to the unit/account.
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Household account

Now with a per system authentication system things can become crazy for households that own more than one unit so you’re going to need a account system that can have multiple consoles per house hold verify it by IP range and either charge a flat fee per unit or a 1/8th -1/4th rate for each additional unit thus allowing people to spend more money on games, units and accessories not to mention countless micro transactions.
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Buddy system 2.0

Also a buddy system to rent shared time for a small fee would be good so you can go over to your buddy’s house for the weekend and can’t take your unit and what to share the cool stuff on it, by initiating it on your end and sending a invite to your friends unit you can turn on a share setup allow the other unit full access to whatever your unit has even allow you to copy off games onto a portable device pug it into your buds unit and through authentication will work on his unit, to prolong the rent time your buddy or you can pay for more time to rent “shared” status.

Take the above into consideration and allow people to transfer stuff to and from their consoles for a small fee if under a buck money can be made here if you apply the right mindset to the process.
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Shared distribution.

Now that you have a proper receipt system with authentication that links to not only the system but the account it’s tied to you cannot only sell new whole games from your digital store but allow retail games to fully “download to disc” allowing for quicker loading and other features. Again this does not mean you cannot rent items, in fact renting a whole game for 10$ to start and 5$ a week after the first week might replace clumsy retail altogether but you have to understand the process it’s not going to be perfect even now people can buy a unit leave it offline and play any illicit copy they want without opening the console up (yes that’s you MR high attach rate 360) but what you want to do is remove those who break the rules online while giving those who play in the rules more features and value at less cost to them.

Now just because you give consumers the right to re download their purchases does not mean it has to be free a small fee of a buck or less would help keep the gears of the network greased.
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Final thoughts

People are willing to pay for extra worth while features why else is live gold subscription so damn hot, we need more features at better costs what I would like to see is consoles not having locked hardware like the 360, that you have your units attached to your account and allowed a easy system to trade/give and “share” the stuff you have bought or rented but for a fee of credits, the credit system is quite a interesting setup you gain them (specials,gimmicks, new game purchases,subscription plans,ect,ect)you buy them you should be able to share them, with maybe a 10% fee as you need to lessen “free” credits as much as you can thus having smalls fees on this and that balances out the whole system.

With a proper credit system a free account can buy demos,downloads and other items as they go with a subscription you get credits and a lot of free content, of coarse this is mostly the PSN model but if you mix in alil LIVE and have a 2 or 3 tier system but lets not hack up the speed for multiple tier levels for them to nickle and dime us to death with.

A solid network thats free to all console owners with a small fee of 2-5$ for unit/account transfers blocked units will require a Ccard and home address thats not the same address as the old user, that or a 50$ fee reconnect perhaps a mix to balance things out.

Unit/account linking is not inherently bad if one has a house hold of multiple units they could be put on with 1 flat fee and share most content between units , a constant flow of some profit is better than irregular profit and that is the mindset the industry needs to comprehend not the “as much as you can get as fast as you can get it” quagmire.

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Cheating at control, a rant.

Also since games are rushed in development and console makers are all the more wary of cheat systems we need more and varied cheats to re balance the supposedly finished product.Cheats offer not only a crutch to finish a mediocre game but add FUN to an otherwise stale product.

Control is currently the biggest demonic turd for me no matter how much I try to shat it out it lingers and smells….could be BO but I can’t tell anymore…but really not every gamer plays the same and full control mapping is something basic all devs need to understand it can turn a clunky horrid game (insert game here or  Manhunt) into a fun stealth killing spree (A port that strangely offers more button mapping like Manhunt on the PC with extra button mapping) and I am not saying port all your crappy titles to the PC just allow for full button mapping since games 10 years ago had them and new consoles and games are light years more advance in comparison… most of the time…and if you got balls that are not saggy and limp add in mouse and KB support most consoles know a days know what a mouse is it’s the software that refuses to use it….

Politics Neo con meat puttees and the inept hydra of the left.

Politics Neo con meat puttees and the inept hydra of the left.

Warning I lay into Right first the left 2nd and give lil love to either, and why yes I know I cannot write

Ah Sarah Palin you so remind me of Saint Ronny (R. Reagan) and he who shall be ever called .W…oh wait Dubya…  I generally do not get into political rants as they make any normal hack such as myself a uber hack..but the Neo cons have sent me into hard “regression” on this its put me down laying in a fetal position from it and the dims have me so disgusted I can even suck my thumb so all I can do is hold my head and hope the world goes away or implodes.

With that lil bit done with lets cover what the 3 meat puttees have in common they are all clueless on what position in government they are in as well as constitutional matters they all have this glow of clueless charisma and energy of a 6 year old child has and they all back an ideal that is neither spiritual or conservative but use both as fleshy guise or suit to parade in front of the masses telling them what they want to hear..

I am not the only one to see it I know more than a few republicans disgusted with their own party for not being the party it was before Saint Ronny came into power during the mid 70s and start of the 80s is when the Neo con movement set the ball rolling down the hill over anyone that got in their way using not only religion as a means to a end but the poor as a reverse psychology outcry to say the poor are the reason why we suffer and thus we must give all of our money to the rich for they well feel the need to share it back with no regulation or oversight to force them to…. Hate to tell you they didn’t get rich by sharing it and without forced means they will never share it with “US”  easily they have also degraded not only social programs that worked in the 80s but the constitution itself during .W’s regime.

One of the fundamental problems with the Reapers as I call them because they are a bunch of robber barons and reapers reaper the benefits from tier position and jobs while they ignore everything they can get away with like rules..laws…ethics… but I digress where was I ah yes one of the fundamental  problems is their good old boy corrupting capabilities once you are one of us you are us..one of us…one of us….nom nom nom…oonneee off uuussssssss….. aerhem…as I was saying the inability for independent people to be respected in higher levels of the Reaper party Ron Paul is a good example of this but there are others the part rules with the Neocon fake conservative iron fist you are either with us or against us and outsized until we can replace you. This makes the Reapers a vile and viscous lot add in their willingness to use religion and small mindedness to herd the witless masses to “get’er’did”  is downright scary and what’s worse the opposing party that with the reapers have a lock on government is about as in contempt of the process.

So IMO the reapers are far more corrupted and dangerous than the ebile liberals they oppose hell talk radio is a breeding ground for lies and mistruths making any slant the entertainment news media(because is all entertainment news these days) has look like someone leaning on one leg even.
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News at 11:Liberal fascists 24/7

I so love it when they pick on general media and use the broad term liberal for everything it’s like a *looks left, looks left again* a conspiracy!!!11

The trouble is most people are liberal IE they want more personal freedoms and rights despite and laws that regulate any damage done to others outside that plus the supposed conservatives look all the more worse when any contraction or meaningful dirt is tossed upon them it just makes the media look more biased than what it is and what is it you ask? An almost neutral party looking for scandals and dirt that it can air and get away publishing on the minimalist of effort for the most results/viewers. There is a slant but its station by station and it’s just that a slant not propaganda like conservative talk radio and before you say anything I used to listen to O’rily and others before they went full blown propagandist the only real eble liberal propaganda is mostly in film and maybe 2 TV stations on a couple shows and from what I have seen dose not repeat the same lies and innuendos a million times to keep the bluster up.

So if you want a real biased hardcore slant in media look to the supposedly conservative outlets (insert crappy Russian authoritarian communistic accent here) they shall fill you with propaganda 24/7 comrade!!
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Great hydra is kinder to lesser man…mostly….*SQUISH*

And now the Dims turn for the bashing, why do I call them dims? While the reapers act like a bunch of spoiled businessmen making money of anything hey can in office the Dims act like a bunch of elitist rich kids who do not have a clue as to how the real world works. Ad that is a common problem in government we have created a class of noble bureaucrats that seek to further government for their own needs.

But les keep focused on the Dims, The Dim party has been mostly for the “lesser’s” of society since the civil rights movement  the problem is they have spread out their interests into sub groups of lesser society not realizing the common ties and bounds amongst them making them virtually inept via infighting over petty sqwalbes.

The far left also have (and godwin be damned) PC zero thought Nazis I am lumping in all those in the left that think their lil small minded fairness rules and trains of thought that break various levels of logic and reason into this category. They are as viscous and petty as the Reapers dark lords (see truthful doctrine act) come one people after the degradation of rights under .W do we need another draconian piece of law to remove more rights from us and move us that much closer to an authoritarian state?

In the end government as it is doomed to fail, if we had proper oversight and regulation to protect the populace from a bloated and stagnate government and industry then maybe we would not be here but the trouble is government creates a new class or cast of citizen the bureaucrat and without strict and stern rules to govern them it will bloat in corruption and stagnation imploding on its own fermented juices…
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What dose zippy think
ZOMG!!NARF!! gee brain what shall we do tonight!?!?!…………………………….

Aherm…….. Well personally I think the dims have run the better campaign for 08 Bamy’O has done well enough even if he is a bit of a suit I believe his speaking skills will be most handy since .W cannot speak his way out of a paper sack over all his lead his party by walking alongside it a stark contrast to Mcsame being lead by the dck by the necrocons and their VP pick Impalin. If they had the balls to deal with either Ron Paul or let Mcsame run his own campaign I might have overlooked their dickeray with government and voted Republican but no they wanted a corrupted and stagnate campaign based on a handful of single voter issues so I have voted Bamy’O to flush government of as many necrocon dark lords as possible let’s hope the witless sheeple lords of the Dims do not manage to screw up worse than the dark lords have…just because one changes to a lesser evil does not make that lesser evil use lubrication…..

A slight single voter rant Abortion/Guns is something that has to be handheld by the state/region with loses guidelines from above. Gay marriage is a civil rights issue that has to be mandated from the top down akin to how blacks were forced to be normal citizens of society, however it does not have to be called marriage forcing all states to adopted civil unions and the rights beholdant to them is the best maneuver for now that can be done and this has to be done to make them equal members of society because of how laws are done they cannot get the same benefits of normal couples.
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A rant I wrote out covering a bunch of this I thought I’ll stick it here for the lulz!

Zippyisim: The right to bear bias

The right to bear arms is for well maintain militias, the only reason we do not have well maintain militias is because the states are no longer sovereign entities under the republic of the nation. Thus in order to let people keep their weapons without question or effort in properly re wording it SCOTUS has declared  that militia means the populace in this case.

Which brings me to wonder if we still have a right to over throw government and I can only think we do if we win otherwise we are nothing but terrorists and malcontents or worse yet “liberals” but then who are the terrorists the fundamentalist dictators or the liberal marksests.  The problem with exstreams is there is no middle no balance only endless power grabbing.

One may be right in calling most media basis to the left but one would not be so wrong to call most on the right corrupted by a higher authority  that is neither spiritual nor conservative. The left party is merely a shadow of itself being multi headed and inept but the leadership on the right has sold out completely where as the leadership on the left is nonresistant at best as corrupt as the other at worst, so both have been corrupted by power and furthering the decline of the constitution in order to create a noble class of bureaucrats to serve the rich and influential through taxation of the populace.

The populace for its part does not care as mindless sheep going about their day to day activities not realizing that they are the ones letting them self’s be herded off the cliff because they are too busy to care  they do not have the time to focus on government and make it work and because of that government may decline and become an inept aristocratic leaning  nation where the rich lead the many and the many are content because they think their votes count for something in a corrupted and  fake republic.

Government does not have the power to stop its own downfall when its already hurled itself off the cliff of no return, we may yet still be footed upon solid ground by the cliffs edge but without hard and stern reforms in government to protect government and the populace we are damned to collapse because no one is protecting either and because no one is protecting the nation we will fall.

Chronicles of the Lord of power setting and history

Chronicles of the Lord of power setting and history

Believe it or not this is a abbreviated version, still adding and developing it.

History, setting and the Forces of existence.
In the beginning there was not but Darkness a being of endless pain and suffering writhing and trashing with nightmares and fevered dreams of creation. After a great period of time after small expanses of creation founded pockets of stable time and dimensional energy were destroyed from the fevered dreams of Darkness the pockets that where destroyed merged together and created a conscious that after time fended off the encroaching darkness to create a proto universe that everything is based from.

By the time Darkness awoken from his long nightmare he came to the realization that this “creation” is noise and obstructs his rest and so he reached out to decimate it but before he could end time once more his hand was stopped by his pale mirror image and as the celestial giants fought time, energy and matter was shattered and returned to its primordial state. With no winner they rest as they lay time starts up once more and creation begins again and each time they fight everything is destroyed and returned to near nothingness after countless battles they realize they are equals and this scuffle is nothing but infinite and infantile attrition for them both tired of the endless fighting they decide to raise a army from the substances that arise around them and when one wins this war of creation shall lay claim to everything.

In the Coming eons as people across the universe and budding parallel dimension’s raced to the stars from the puddles of much and rim they evolved from started the first period of the War of Creation known as the War of labor, birth war, first breath war, newborns war or still born wars in parts of darker existence. This time period covers the shared attrition long before the earth bore life noble houses raised their respective races into warring factions, based around the 5 key elements of power, scattered across creation loosely focused on the real meaning of the War of Creation they seek to fulfill their own needs and desires but even in the infinite void of space such childishness will wane in time.
The noble houses of old have declined in power and now a new period in the war of creation has begun with no sub name most “participates” now are focused on the true meaning of the War of Creation to expand Lightness or Darkens reign across existence.
In order to balance the process and gain greater paws Lightness and Darkness have settled into their place in the scheme of things sitting in the misty void around a chess table they play multiple games of chess one at a time to vaguely but directly  involve themselves in existence. Pawns are easily gathered the rest of the pieces however feel the calling and are sent to a trail to see if they are worthy to become more than a pawn in this game for existence, if they fail their life could end or become fodder for the cause of darkness and their world could become a new battle ground for the war of creation even if it’s far away from the front..

The Lord of Power is such a pawn a earthling taken from the remains of his life and manages to pass his trail by a hairs breath only to break under the unforgiving bureaucracy of Light Forces going AWOL after most of his LF training, later becoming a Warrior of Creation a cross of private detective and mercenary to do odd jobs for Light Forces and even creation itself even being forced to do work for darkness. He also hears the calls of others is compelled to find them and aid them with his endless kindness which leads him on a wandering journey throughout all of creation running from his past and suffering to learn about life and understand himself once more.

But Lightness and Darkness do not work alone even if their hands go mostly unseen in existence great organizations have sprung up around them. Light Forces is both the governmental body and army of creation they both defend most areas from encroaching darkness and protect lesser races from advances or influence from anyone or anything as they believe that lesser races must earn the right to join them and that gaining power to quickly may corrupt them and send them to darkness. They run government in counsel archetype with the greatest races severing on the counsel and the lower ones merely being ambassadors with lil power outside their own race. While government is busy managing the day to day Light force and its generals truly rule over all in “white space” as Light forces needs authority to fight darkness anywhere even within itself even if they are quick to shine light on darkness near them everything else however is mired in bureaucracy stagnating the good they could do for creation.

Dark forces is a lose confederacy of worlds and peoples who either hate the light or Light forces or love fighting these darker beings only respect power and authority and their rules and laws mirror it. Their government is a military based one using their great generals as lead members of parliament. Unlike Light forces their greater generals rarely enter into conflicts as they have grown lazy with power they control fleets of millions and are rarely needed on the battle field this changes when the Son of Darkness appears and turns Dark Forces on its head while becoming the Lord of Powers most vicious and chaotic nemesis.
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Characters

Lightness
Creation and existence colluded into a absent minded yet kind being, time has only made it more senile or perhaps merely seeing all that there is will make one slower on the intake of new information he is the whimsical and benevolent creator and first protector of light.  Lightness rarely shows himself to others as he is part of the light that comes from the stars and those that feel his presence wish to protect those stars from being devoured by darkness.

Darkness
Darkness came before creation it is the culmination of the decay of all things and thus is insurable to all things raging in its own exsiccate it merely wishes to show all how transparent life is and return all to the quietness of the infinite coffin. Those that have seen Darkness himself are changed and go mad or become devote to the ways of darkness but it is strange how the manifestation comes to each being as darkness is not chaos yet order in the shapeless abyss.

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Lord of Power/Power Lord/Stranger
Removed from his home world before being drown in absolute despair from sorrowful events in his life he is sent to a fantasy world to learn about his powers to earn them to become a special member of Light forces, creations own army.
During his trail he learns about his abilities and the fundamentals of the world and its fight against darkness. Even though it’s discounted from the universal war of creation it’s a starting point for him, his task is simple defeat the darkness that plagues the world. As he arrives he is injured forcing amnesia on him but allowing him to grow in power faster as he relearns about himself n this new setting.

Eventually he returns to being himself a slightly shy and ditzy man who’s absent mindedness is 2nd to his kindness but that is put to the test as he enters into the universe and the bosom of Light Forces to learn more about his new place in existence only to run from the bureaucracy of light forces going Awol being lost for a time when he returns from his wanderings he gains an assistant a sibling made of wire and metal the AI he created is a sentient AI who took the appearance of a 6 foot tall blond female android. By this time his powers are still unstable but has found ways to compensate for it though gadgets and weapons. He has gained issues with himself but has found a place in existence he is comfortable with… A detective a mercenary a wonderer he goes to were creation calls to protect the balance of existence later he gains the title Warrior of Creation, but before that his given title is Lord of Power.

Sandy
In a last ditch effort he puts all effort into repairing the AI subsystem to use some cobbled together repair drone. Since his powers are still new to him he has to plug himself into the computer to program the AI he falls asleep in the process bringing Sandy into being. Sandy will be his AI “twin” throughout the rest of the series although without all of his self loathing and incompetence, where he is ugly she is elegant where he is dim she is intelligent where he is insufferable she is bright and content the only thing they share is a warped sense of humor a sibling rivalry kind of friendship a kindness and caring for others they are both good natured personalities at both ends of that spectrum.

DOL:
The Dragon of Light is the collimation of Lightnesses wit and humor a general in Light Forces and liaison between Lightness and LF and other races. He appears to be an old hooded man with reptilian features and a perverted sense of humor, he proclaims though he is just in it for laughs but it is hard to beg his true intentions sometimes oft bored and annoyed with Light forces and what they have become.
DD:
The Dark Dragon is a huge planetoid sized monster with lil sense of self or inelegance it’s the culmination of Darknesses rage and anger and like its master can sleep for millions of years, popping up now ad then in history.
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Races
I am going with a Human kin race theme most races share humanoid appearances and similarities in basic genetic structure. Currently only have 3 unique races with large drafts covering them.
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Books and general plot points
Book 1 Covers the Lord of Powers prologue and his trail and the 5 key elements of power in a fantasy and magic based world, Book 2 covers his introduction to Light Forces the core home worlds of Light Forces, and him going Awall in the last half of the book all in a sci fi setting, Book 3 covers being crashed on a ruined and deserted planet, taking decades to repair the ship.
His first calling and vanishing happens when they get the ship ready for takeoff this may be where book 4 starts as e as a mini adventure being a amnesic wander on a sparsely populated desert world and sandy taking the patched ship into a LF automation dock that’s been under attack by DF b.u.g.s(bio usurper gnawing ship) basically bug like biological drones sent from a  nest in a large asteroid, she manags to talk her way in and get enough supplies to deal with them she all the parts can to build and refit a almost new ship and a android body built to her specifications.

After that another fantasy world and a new kind of dark plague to deal with past that a few yet to be wrote out encounters before he finds his earth and hides there for awhile only to have dark forces come out of nowhere I have the ending I aint sharing !
Beyond that at least 1 or 2 books before the Son of darkness shows up and another 1 or 2 to end it, FYI light fantasy novels have 2XX-4XX pages I am looking at 200 pages a book with at least 5 books.

The main themes are mainly fantasy and sci fi so wherever the Lord of Power wanders that what the setting will be.

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In Development

General tech
Uniforms (have made a draft for LF/DF uniforms)
Ship tech (has a draft)
Weaponry (a basic draft for LOP weapons)
Settings (by the book )

All writing projects (bad or not), quotes, characters, weapons, ect copyrighted by ZippyDSMlee/Lee Jarvis dsuejarvis@netzero.net.

Flood control not draconian limits that exacerbates the problems with the game industry.

The industry needs to forget about strictly control copies shared by friends and households but focus on mass downloading and illicit distribution. Using the activation system as flood control would do them more good and install tokens and hard limits.

5X2X3 5 installs a day or 10 a week or 30 in a month or 5X2X2 ending with 20 a month is a much better process that is easier to manage for the DRM provider as the data is purged every 3X days.

I am still not buying a game for more than 20 can not install and play offline, online only has to go and useing a simple automated phone in process or dialup friendly key generation site(IE you put in your install key if its valid it will give out a validation code). While the game is running it can check the key now and then to confirm everythign is on the up and up if tis bad it locks the game up. There is a beauty to the simplicity that comes with non evasive protection schemes and makes newer less polished products more worth while to the more jaded and knowledgeable consumer.

IMO the industry can not afford to lose because its us old farts that keep plugging money into the industry while the new kiddies might outnumber us they could leave for a different hobby at any time making any sweeping change in fads and trends could lead to destroy the industry.

COTLOP:Staff Of Darkness.

Huge ass crappy picture alert, only 300KB in black and white but huge non the less.

http://zippydsmlee.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/cotlop-sod.jpg

I am well aware the chain sucks and so dose the wood look on the last one…still its a start

Alil Bio info on  it

The Staff of darkness is a separating staff in its basic modes, it can go for yards and miles its meant to be used to snare, subdue, crush demonic entities. The blade is used for cleaving and storage of souls. The runes on act as a archaic control system, the more runes the more power it controls.

However this staff is cursed with every level raised madness seeps in corrupting the user, only pain or lust can sate and slow the encroaching darkness.

But because of the cruse it has far more power than a normal Death enforcement weapon. The staff of darkness is built from a mostly purged but corrupted and cursed dark scythe an agent of death used to bring justice to” balance destroying” entities.Over time the weapon gt more and more corrupted and before it could be destroyed some fool went and stole it and used it to try and take over the universe but it eventauly ate him. Begin filled with so much chaotic engery the lord of power was only able to reforge it using a peice of his own soul as a catalyst to make it manageable. He could store it but it already devoured a few planetary systems by absorbing life force and souls. Hell in order tog et it not only didthe Lord of Power have to get to the weapon itself but inside tis pocket dimension to subdue or destroy some of the chaotic begins within it.

Mode Zero(If you will)  is a simple carry rod mode, soemtiems its unstable and neds to be banaaed up with seals on it I have it banaged up but not with the seals on peices of peaper I want to use Kanji seal tags/charms but have yet to find any.

Mode 1:Staff mode that can separate into endless amounts of controllable  chain.

Mode 2: Blade or scythe mode, this mode spews out small amounts of chaotic influence but can drain energy and cleave souls and cut through denominational walls at full power. The blade is multi positional and can be combined separating staff or chain mode.

Mode 3:The true scythe mode that drives the user to insanity, the weapon is hard to control in this mode and can not be separated but you still can make chain grow out of it through mini rips in space.

Mode 4:The final mode is the darkest scythe mode the black  rune staff becomes enveloped in gnarled wood like bio matter everything on it becomes warped sending the user into the lowest depths of madness.