Omegle

Sometimes, I get bored. Sometimes, this boredom will lead me to Omegle. This is a nice place for me to chat with people about pretty much anything. They often want to talk about sex, but you learn how to dodge this.

I use their question feature, as it helps skip to the interesting part of the conversation: having something to talk about that isn't "asl". Someone suggests something for the other two to talk about, and they watch the scene unfold.

Now, I'm getting royally annoyed at something FAR too many users are doing. They have mistaken omegle, a website for people to chat at random, for somewhere for people to post their username for another chat site Kik. I have never used kik. I don't intend to. I did not come to omegle to chat on kik. If I wanted to chat on Kik, can you guess where I'd be? What's that? Kik? Why, I think that sounds about right!

It has gotten to the point where any users who actually want to talk about something interesting have to wade through a sea of kik users trawling along for someone to talk to. I don't know where they could find someone to talk to on a random chatsite!

It may be good for some people who actually want to chat on kik instead of the place they came to. Probably helps them shift through convos so they find someone as braindead as they are. But for the people who want to talk about the given topic, it's less than useless. It's a large obstacle that zerg rushes users relentlessly.

It gives nothing to talk about! What can we say other than "god damn it, get off our site!" or "sure, I'll have a clean chat with you on this other site, totally random but clearly legit stranger!"

Someone probably set up a kik exchange website somewhere. Search kik exchange. It's just an idea. If not, give it time. But one thing for sure is omegle wasn't made to be a username exchange for another website! It was made for random conversations and bolstering some random american politician who claimed he would legalise everything whenever you mentioned Obama or Romney. That annoyed me too.

I can't say omegle should be perfect. I can't say omegle ever will be perfect. Too many penises in the video chat. And no, moderation won't work. It just means there's one group of people who want to see naked men and one group who hope they won't see a naked man but probably will eventually.

But we should at least make an effort with the question section. The questions will still be dumb, but we'll have something more interesting to talk about than posting a seventeen-thousandth kik request. Or the fact that you're sexually aroused of whatever gender and looking for a chat of some form.

I hope you learned something. And if you're someone who posts your kik username on omegle GET THE HECK OFF OMEGLE AND FIND YOUR OWN WEBSITE TO RUIN!!!

P.s., it makes no sense to say your sexual orientation and ask for a clean chat.

Villains

I can't speak for everyone, especially after that court hearing, but it is widely accepted that villains make the story what they are. In a literal sense, they provide the antagonist of the story, driving through the conflict and actually making a story exist. In a figurative sense, they're the most profound and watchable characters with the best lines, songs and overall impact.

My favourite character in Snow White was the Queen. She was just so vile when she walked past a skeleton in her dungeon reaching for a jug that's just too far, then kicked the jug onto his dry remains with a cruel taunt and laugh. The most interesting, or at least popular, character in Batman is the Joker. Heck, my personal favourite portrayal in Wicked, a story about the wicked witch, was the Wizard, who filled the role of antagonist.

And this leads on to my main discussion point. Ever since wicked, people have been trying to humanize the villains into sympathetic characters by showing things from their point of view. People leap at the chance to show why the queen, a woman so vain and petty she lead many murder attempts towards a twelve year old, is secretly tragic.

In their defence, some villains benefit greatly from the portrayal. Wicked, for one, shows it can be done, and done spectacularly. Most villains need some form of drive to make them characters at all.

But there is a film coming next year called Maleficent. I am not looking forward to it.

Maleficent is a wondrously evil character, deciding at a baby's christening when and how she will die and using the full forces of hell to ensure it will happen. When things are gently nudged astray, she turns this chain of events into a similarly sinister life for the child AND her loved one. Her motive? No invitation.

Let's face it, that's not her motive. Until that christening, she was in a state of cold war, waiting for a reason to attack. The invitation was her "we have found nuclear weapons in Afghanistan".

The movie is going to make her, according to wikipedia, "desperately seeking for acceptance".

Another think I'm not looking forward to is Starkid's upcoming musical Twisted, a Wicked meets Aladdin story. Since Aladdin's sort of arrogant and while the city's full of cut-throats and thieves, the sultan is morbidly obese.

Except the guards follow Jafar's orders. If the city is a violent place where thieves run amok, that is purely because he was too busy manipulating the sultan. The only time the guards actually make any progress in tracking a notorious thief, it's because Jafar is planning on using him to conquer the world.

We like villains for being villains. We may like the villains, but we like them as an opponent more than an ally. The more we support the villains, the more we don't want the heroes to win. They're the conflict of the story and if they're in a good mood, we're not and vice versa. It just sucks to be watching a film and the moment where you once went "F*CK YEAH!", you now go "No, Jonathan!".