Derek Coward's Noise

Author: Derek

  • A Decision Years In The Making!

    Years and years ago, I was playing Final Fantasy VII on my Playstation. I got all the way to the run up to the final battle when I saved my game and went to sleep. It was late at night after a long day and I had to go to work in the morning. I…

  • My Thoughts on Multiplayer Gaming

    I don’t like the multiplayer part of most video games and I don’t think I ever will. I never liked having to wait while the other player took their turn back in the arcade days and I don’t like not being able to log into a server in order to play a game these days.

  • Someone obviously doesn’t know me at all

    I got into a brief internet dustup with someone about something. The original Facebook post was about 47 millions people going hungry in America, but one of my friend’s friends responded with a barely coherent comment that can be distilled to “I have a job, quit complaining and go out and get yours. Man up!”…

  • A Soul-Crushing Experience

    I absolutely HATED the job that I had before this one. It was a soul-crushing experience and I felt the ever encroaching presence of death stalking my every step while I was there. I had been laid off twice before going to work there and the long drives home were two of the worst moments…

  • Social Media Has Messed With This Blog

    I used to post to this blog a lot more than I have lately. It has never been a regular habit of mine but I at least tried to get to it. My personal policy has been to have more control and take charge of my stuff. I don’t like putting myself in the hands…

  • One Example Of A Weird Voicemail Message

    I just checked the house phone voicemail for the first time this week. All of the household members older than 13 have their own cellphone and the only reason we have a land line is because our cable provider charges less for their services if you have phone service as part of the bundle. Very…

  • Did You Know… People Are People?

    Did you know that the line AFTER Mitt Romney said “Corporations are people, my friend.” was “They are made of people.”? Puts a whole new perspective on what he was trying to say. I hate having to defend the guy, but this is definitely one of those “taken out of context” moments. That said, I…

  • Netflix’s Resurgence

    A while ago, I thought Netflix was on the ropes due to the contracts with the studios that it lost and the number of subscribers that bailed after their stupid rate increases, but they continue to pleasantly surprise me with how resilient they have been when it comes to supplying content. On the heels of…

  • Quick Thought About Video Games and Movies

    I’ve never understood why some video games go through the trouble of creating an entire world, then putting that entire world in the darkest setting possible. Movies do the same thing, but I think that’s because they are still stuck in the “this will be seen on a huge screen in a dark room” mentality.

  • My thoughts on “Radical Obama”

    I read in a thread on right wing Facebook page that President Obama is a socialist with ill intent towards the United States of America. This isn’t a direct quote because for some reason, right wingers call it “the country” or “our country”, instead of being proud of being from the United States of America.…