Alien IS: Chapter 2Chapter 2: PenetrationAlien IS: Chapter 2
Sergei jammed the crowbar into the crack on the side of the elevator door. It was a large, hospital style elevator, and only had one door that slid to the side to open. The door closed toward the right. After drying off, he'd gotten to work. The only way out of the garbage room was up, which meant either the elevator or the stairs. The staircase was out of the question. It was an emergency staircase, and almost certainly had cameras in the corners, the doors would be alarmed for fires, and there was a very real chance that once inside you could get out only on a specific escape floor. The other doors could
| How anyone intends to sum up the terabytes of information sitting in our heads by typing in a small box is beyond me. So, I can give you random information. I like to write stories, though I'm certainly not very good. Practice is useful. I tend to write science fiction, some fantasy, and some realism. Mostly a lot of psychology and action involved. Russia Mafia plus Vampires, no? With enough insane plot twists and detailed technology to make it a bad mix of Tom Clancy and Hideo Kojima. I'm very active, and climb almost everything in sight. I train in Parkour, and do a lot of street climbing. Not much for fancy tricks though. I'm a gun nut. I like guns. I like to hunt, I like to shoot them, I like to clean them, I like to maintain them. And I have absolutely no tolerance for stupidity and screwing around with them. I expect no less than proper respect and use of firearms, because when you start F***ing around, someone's going to die. I've been around them all my life, got my hunting license when I was twelve, and I fully intend to instill as much safety and knowledge into peoples heads as possible. I like martial arts. They're varied, interesting, beautiful, and often pretty useless. Thus, I actually respect martial systems. In other words, all fancy BS aside, the quickest and simplest way to accomplish your goal, which should only be self-defense in my book. Amazingly enough, these seem to be taught to militaries world wide, but are seldom found on your local street. Hmmm....I wonder why that would be. Oh yeah, it's boring. Brutal, effective, will save your life one day, but it's boring. Tch, bloody hollywood mentality. I train in a hybrid of Combat Sambo (Similar to Krav Maga. Israelis copied it) and random elements from other martial arts that I appreciated. I've gone through stuff from Capoera to Judo. Karate is pretty damned useless if you ask me. Ceremonial bull. But then again, most martial arts are called arts for a reason. Well, that's my boasting/gloating bio out of the way. So rare I get a chance to do that.... |
Compensating? You bet.
[b]In-vent[/b]/in-‘vent/verb
1: to think up: MAKE UP <invent an excuse>
2: to create or produce for the first time <invented a new game>
Being an inventor is more a philosophical issue than a legal one. To be a true inventor, you must have within your mind the desire to actually create something; a willingness to look past the simplicity of everyday devices and see how they could be used in collaboration with other machines to have a complex affect. It is about being impractical, and coming up with new ideas which will benefit the world. To me, being an inventor is about taking risks and becoming one with a problem in order to find a solution.
Being an inventor is not about math, engineering, or getting patents. That is what inventors do, not what they are. Any person can do math. Any person can go to university and become an engineer. Any person can listen to their friend talk about an idea which they came up with, build that machine, take it to the government, and get a patent put on it. This is about money and patience. It is not about being within the mind-set of an inventor.
It’s a good thing that you and your father built a device and got a patent. It shows that the two of you are willing to work hard and complete something, and that you don’t want your idea taken by someone else. If the idea is entirely yours and not based on something you found or heard, it proves that you can come up with good ideas. But none of this will truly make you an inventor. Inventors have to be 100% dedicated to their work. They must accept that society may not accept them, that they will encounter failures, and that they may have to take deadly risks to make the invention work. And once you become an inventor, you must never let anything stand between you and a goal... including your school work. In some cases, even including the law. Inventing is about self-education through trial and error until you achieve perfection of the device. Putting that goal above everything, even your sanity. Never giving up until the device is perfected.
And knowing that even if your traitorous friend steals your invention or your idea and patents it, it was your idea and you are a true inventor. Your friend is legally an inventor, but you are a true inventor. Why? Because being an inventor is not about patents or legal rights. They are important things, but what being an inventor is truly about is putting your mind to something and sticking to that thing, no matter what happens.
When I became an inventor, I swore on my honor that I would never let anything interfere with my ideas and my responsibility as an inventor. I would never let criticism interfere with uncommon thinking. I would never let school interfere with education. I would never give up until the task set before me was accomplished. I also accepted that no matter how much success I had, I would never be anything better than an amateur, because I don’t believe in credentials. Being an amateur is something I can live with. Being a quitter is something I cannot.
Being unsuccessful is something I can live with. Being an arrogant, tyrannical person who goes around bragging about their credentials is something I cannot.
Having a long struggle before your invention works is part of being an inventor, no matter how much education you have or what your credentials are. Each person on this Earth is part of a collective whole, and for that reason, we must all have our differences. If all people thought alike, we would still be hunter-gatherers. If all people thought like you, we would all be writing new uses for a common idea and putting patents on it immediately before our friends get a chance to steal the idea which isn’t really yours to begin with and make money from it.
If all people thought like me, there would be too much creating, too much malfunction, too many explosions, and no qualified people. No one would trust each other and the world would basically fall apart.
As you can see, every person has their strong points and their defects. This is what keeps the world going. Every person adds a strong point and a defect, and some people’s strong points fill in the defects of others. In the end, though, the strong points and defects are intertwined and there is no isolating people’s undesirable qualities. The quality can be hidden, but that is basically the same as putting an elaborate facade in front of a dilapidated building - Behind that attractive front are the thoughts of a person you hope never to meet.
I have many defects, and am willing to admit that. Are you willing to admit to your defects? Are you willing to admit that it is not in the purity of your heart to be an inventor? Are you willing to try, fail, and come crashing back down to the fire pit countless times as I have?
Or are you afraid to undergo criticism? Perhaps you act like a realist to enjoy the popularity of these people around you who stay behind the boundary for fear of what would happen if they crossed over. Being unafraid to take huge risks is an important part of being an inventor, and if you aren’t willing, you are no inventor. You may be a professional rather than an amateur, you may have many credentials rather than many ideas, and you may have a great deal of money instead of a great deal of schematics, but those things do not make you an inventor. They make you a professional person with many credentials who is rich.
Likewise, if you are an amateur who dropped out of high school and lives on the streets, eating out of garbage cans, this jeopardization of a normal life does not make you an inventor.
So what does?
The willingness to never give up.
The ability to become one with a project to solve it.
The courage to face and stand up to realists and other critics.
The determination to try something new.
You can have any profession at any level with any rank, any number of credentials, and any amount of money, but it is those four factors that make you an inventor. To be a good inventor, you have to be good at math and engineering and getting patents, but those things are only the decoration draped over the foundation of being an inventor.
No matter what you say to this, I am glad that I took this opportunity to try to end this childish rivalry. The hatred between us constantly corroding maturity is beginning to remind me of radioactive decomposition, which isn’t something that I want to be reminded of. Instead of being stubborn, why don’t we both just admit that we each have different opinions about what a good life is, and we both forgive each other and call it even? Hatred is a corrosive substance to which the only antidote is putting it aside and attempting to settle things between you and the enemy, and it stays with you until the attempt is made.
I have today constructed the door to peace, but is the responsibility of both of us to open that door and go through it. I can only hope that since I have made the first move, you will follow me through. Our rivalry is a structural defect and nothing constructive ever comes of structural defects... In fact, progressive structural failure comes from them. There is a progressive structural failure every time one of us insults the other, spams the other’s website, or does some other immature act. Before long, the entire building will be collapsed.
So, what do you say? We both forgive each other and start over?
Or does the building collapse?
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I\'m Scrapper in the G1 Crew on DA
I'm an anti-TF-Slash activist.
If you have read the Megatron Origin Comic
THEN PASTE THIS INTO YOUR SIG AGAINST THE EVIL AUTOBOT SCUM!!
I think I might just reply to that in a Journal entry to make things easier on my eyes, and make it easier to read for anyone in the future.
If you want an actual debate over this, drop me a line. E-mail, messages, whatever.
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Okay Orthrus, you can stop spying on me now. I haven't been on the Hunted in two years. Get over yourself.
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I\'m Scrapper in the G1 Crew on DA
I'm an anti-TF-Slash activist.
If you have read the Megatron Origin Comic
THEN PASTE THIS INTO YOUR SIG AGAINST THE EVIL AUTOBOT SCUM!!
So in short, you need to get over yourself mate, not the other way around.
You made a public journal, and among 500 others, I commonly check it out. Initially I started after your last run through here to check what the hell you were up to. After a while I didn't really give a damn about it, and just kept on reading out of random interest.
What's your problem with this? Would I go nuts if you read my stuff? Or went out onto the Hunted forum?
In short, do you really think I give that much of a damn about a kid that was spamming out boards and acting like a psychopath, to actively spy on them out of fear they'll pull some ingenious, nefarious stunt?
Nein. It's called checking out Journals for the sake of reading journals. Sometimes you write interesting stuff, sometimes downright retarded stuff. I get a kick out of it.
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You can't outrun death forever, but you sure as Hell can make the Bastard work for it.
If people like you had control in the world, we'd still be living in the hunter-gatherer times. And if you want to do that, go find an island somewhere and live on it, but don't drag the rest of the world with you. As an inventor, it's my responsibility to make sure we have a strong future, and you realists aren't going to stop me just by saying I'm wasting my life or that what I'm doing is completely impossible.
As for "acting like a psychopath", maybe you don't realize it but I AM insane. And I don't mind that I'm insane. Since it seems you haven't noticed, you "normal" people all have mirror syndrome. You let society think for you instead of thinking for yourself. In this world, one is either insane but themself, or they're normal but have mirror syndrome. I would rather be myself and not fit in and have to deal with that annoying damn destructive entity in my head rather taking control of me than have to deal with never having my own idea, just doing whatever everyone else is doing like one more mindless sheep in the herd that is society...
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I\'m Scrapper in the G1 Crew on DA
I'm an anti-TF-Slash activist.
If you have read the Megatron Origin Comic
THEN PASTE THIS INTO YOUR SIG AGAINST THE EVIL AUTOBOT SCUM!!
Actually inventors must be realists. You see, someone that isn't a realist is, for example, one who believes in invisible pink unicorns and magic, magnetic field eating ducks. Arguably, anyone religious is not a realistic (Absolute no offense is meant in this statement) person, but a faithful one.
Inventors require creativity and imagination, and also require the ability to know what is possible and what isn't, and to look in the unknown to find more of which is possible. In short, if I decide to invent an air-plane, I need to look at the physics of aerodynamics, and not pray it'll work at random. That's realism. And I think that's a good thing.
If people like me?....So you're telling me that when I got lost in the woods, I didn't make snares and dead-falls?
Ok, so you're insane...you're point? Acting like a gibbering, drooling, monkey that's jumping over the room still isn't good. Do you think it's reasonable behavior?
Normality is defined by the majority. Therefore, it is impossible to be normal, so please don't bother.
Standards and the impulse to imitate is the result of an evolutionary behavior that allowed us to reach such high levels of a species as we have now. Without such behavior, we'd never have become the social animal we are today, and never have reaped the benefits.
Fine, be yourself. Don't fit in. But....don't violate the personal rights of others. Which, aside from murder, molestation, racism, and etc, include forum rules and ToS. If you want to know why we don't want you to violate those, the only real answer is 'we don't like it'. We don't like when people kill our children.
If you want to act like a loon, or a junkie, or a manic guy, we don't care. Never did. You weren't kicked out for that, but for violating rules and showing severe disrespect.
And get this, no matter how much you like it, you are just another mindless sheep. The fact that you're even writing this to me shows that. There's simply no way out of it. Aside from going to Antarctica and living on your own that is.
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You can't outrun death forever, but you sure as Hell can make the Bastard work for it.
Society is a bad thing anyway. It's a cage. It was created to keep us under control. Except "insane people".
If there's no way to be normal, how can you tell when somebody is insane?
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I\'m Scrapper in the G1 Crew on DA
I'm an anti-TF-Slash activist.
If you have read the Megatron Origin Comic
THEN PASTE THIS INTO YOUR SIG AGAINST THE EVIL AUTOBOT SCUM!!
"They're Soft"
*blah, blah, blah, blah!*
"They're Weak"
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You can't outrun death forever, but you sure as Hell can make the Bastard work for it.
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