election night

[egypturnash]

I probably have better things to do than idly refresh election results pages. But cnn.com managed to sum up this stuff so damn succinctly: here's what's needed for majority, here's the change. So far it's looking like nothing for the Republicans, which makes me happy. I voted about how you'd expect a pink-haired transsexual in a polyamorous relationship to vote - Democrat in races involving a Republican, and mostly Green in races that were not, because I feel the Democrats have really let the Republicans frame the terms of their debate way too much, and drifted far enough to the right in their pursuit of those just to the left of the current GOP's base that they're quite possibly to the right of me.

The voting involved filling out huge paper ballots, too. Hooray for paper trails.

Meanwhile, I've started fooling with Hash Animation Master. Installation and a couple tutorials, so far...

Comments

Animation Master

[yaochi.livejournal.com]

Some pretty neat things have been done with that program...

Killer Bean

Animator's Apprentice

Boids

Alien Song

and more

Re: Animation Master

[eriscontrol.livejournal.com]

Holy ass, that eye is mesmerising.

Re: Animation Master

[(Anonymous)]

*gazes into a handy mirror*

Eye guess eye agree .....

Re: Animation Master

[yaochi.livejournal.com]

That was me, I just can't get LJ to stop killing my cookies.

Re: Animation Master

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

I wonder if there's any code lurking in it that's survived since the days it was an Amiga application.

[eriscontrol.livejournal.com]

Good on you. But what I'd really like to see is a hard atheist president. Maybe a gay president. Hmm.

I wasn't registered to vote because I didn't know what to do or how to do it. Shame on me.

[postrodent.livejournal.com]

Amen to that. Also, I'd like the political axis to orient itself libertarian vs. socialist rather than plutocrat vs. plutocrat/theocrat. If we ended up with libertarian socialism, I wouldn't weep too much. ;)

[eriscontrol.livejournal.com]

Libertarians seem to be what the Republicans once were and generally claim they still are (except with the added religious baggage). Socialism is tempting. Very tempting.

One of the less important but still-present things that pisses me off about the current parties is their respective stances on video games. Nearly fucking identical! I especially have it out for (Hillary) Clinton and Lieberman in the democratic party, because it's the major party that otherwise makes me the least nervous, but they hate video games and people who play them as much as any republican.

I'd love to go tell them in person about all the terrible, violent video games that I played in my life, like Mortal Kombat, Resident Evil, Doom, Grand Theft Auto (all of them), Quake, Halo, Conker's Bad Fur Day, several of those generic World War II games… jesus goddamn christ, I could never bring myself to hurt or kill another human being. I hurt animals like a fucking Buddhist hurts animals. You don't leave these games with anything that you didn't have before you started playing.

[postrodent.livejournal.com]

Hear hear on the lack of difference between the parties. Nobody in the political mainstream, for instance, seems to question that we need more cops, more jails, and more drug law enforcement.

As for video games -- I don't see anything terribly repressive happening there. We're talking about _business_, and in this country business wins out over moral panics. The game companies seem to have formed up a decent lobbying group, and they don't want to have to march their games through a government censorship office.

[eriscontrol.livejournal.com]

For once I am in favor of the big business (actually, no, that's a lie. Just in favor of something they're doing). Of course nothing repressive is happening yet because we haven't given the major parties enough time to form into the Grand Unified Überparty and establish a dictatorship wherein they pretty much fuck everyone in the ass who isn't part of their little inner circle! ;) Do you believe that? I don't really. Yet!

Huh. I guess Lieberman isn't a democrat; I thought he was, but I stopped paying attention to him when I realised he was a nut.

[doctorpinkerton.livejournal.com]

Dare I say, you NEVER seemed too concerned with such things before! Well put, Peg.

BTW, how well does AM run on your computer?

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if it's my boyfriends that politicized me, or living under six years of the "Weekly Unpleasant Surprise" regime. Especially after the way the Dems have been bending over backwards to look "moderate".

Also, well, my life in general used to be more centrist-compatible. I've declared myself firmly on the side of the Freaks.

AM isn't the fastest thing I've played with by a long shot, but I've fooled with much more sluggish stuff. It's far from realtime in the editor so far, but it's acceptable. Plus my system's been pretty loaded during these initial tests.

[barberio.livejournal.com]

I'm not really sure if this is the result you're looking for tho. There are a lot of indicators, not least of which Lieberman's return to senate, and the far too many passed gay-marriage-bans, that the Democrats will be tied closer to 'conservative values' than we want.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

See the original post. My goals were (a) do my part to keep people who are actively on the "same side" as Bush out of office, in favor of those who at least have to pay lip service to being the "other side", and (b) fail to support them in favor of a party that might actually be in the same political space as me, when I'm given that option.

And in Somerville, MA, I was given that option for about half the ballot.

[normanrafferty.livejournal.com]

Ooh, Animation Master. I'm way overdue to tinker with that.

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

Ohohoh! Compare it with Blender! Blender is FREE! And all that entails! :)

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Says the girl using Maya.