Bladen Force

You heard me.

I figured that in their struggle to save the world from tyranny, I’d lend out a helping hand.

You see, I’m a veteran of many battles against Wikipedia and its exclusionary nature, so I decided that I’d help out the Protomen by archiving the ongoing battle raging against the forces of evil. Keep an eye out for more updates to come. I’m going to start by archiving the deletion reviews, debates, etc. so that we can have accountability against them.

It’s been a while since we’ve actually done one, but I’ve been fervently working towards the semester from hell, and I’m burned out and horribly fatigued from just trying to survive it. Exams are coming up and everyone is stressed out, so it’s the perfect time for a BladenCast.

I haven’t planned on exactly when we’re going to do it, but it’ll be coming up soon. If you want to ask questions and have them answered in the cast, shoot an e-mail to

This made my day. If you do not understand why, then you’re obviously not very far in Computer Science or in Computer Science at all.

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Basically, I passed a pointer to a function and asked another function to read me back that pointer. Instead of a segmentation fault, I got whatever bits of memory were still in that pointer. I lol’d. APRIL FOOLS APPARENTLY.

If you guys are reading this, then you figured out the secret hidden on the page.

Maybe “DREAMCAST” was a little too obvious, but it was all in good fun.

Yes, I realize that none of the links work correctly. just use “http://www.bladenforce.com/wordpress/” instead of just the http://www.bladenforce.com/ when writing URLs. Full functionality will be restored when the prank runs out.

I’ve got a permanent link to the April Fools Day page,

http://www.bladenforce.com/april/08/

Update: I’ve uploaded the video to YouTube.

Update: CBS has pulled the interview from its streaming video service.

You know, I personally have to agree with the mother. I think that she was trying to teach a lesson to her sons that they should be more respectful of her and her wishes, and the government decided to get involved. It is the same kind of stuff you see in the rest of the liberal media today. Parents try to actually act out their parental responsibilities, and the government moves in and tells parents that they aren’t allowed to discipline, teach, or otherwise do anything with their children outside of shelter, clothing, and other basic care under penalty of having their children taken away from them. I truly believe that this is a case of liberalism at its finest: the boys were raised in public, government schooling, the government refused to help her and instead of sending the boys to seek psychological evaluation, they threw the mother in prison for trying to teach her sons some respect! I find this morally reprehensible to the utmost degree. My own mother has done a lot for me over the years, and I’m twenty years old now, going on twenty-one. I don’t have many more years left with either of my parents, so I try to cherish as many as I can get. These boys need to straighten up, grow up, and begin to understand that the world doesn’t revolve around them, and they certainly need to understand that their mother won’t be around forever to take care of them. You don’t really respect and cherish something until it’s gone, and by that time it’s too late.

As the dozens and dozens of Bladen Force fans have are no doubt aware, the website has been severely lacking in updates except for dead authors and cats. This is mostly due to the general malaise and apathy that I have been stricken with. Generally being depressed and filled with apathy isn’t very healthy, but I digress.

I’m not in a very healthy mental or physical state right now, and I’ve been having trouble bringing myself to the pencil and paper except for a few sketches and tidbits. Let’s hope that I can snap myself out of this rut I’m in.

R.I.P.

Milton

March 1998 – December 31, 2007

He was hit by a car this morning on the road on Hwy 39. No idea who or what hit him, but it wasn’t a nice picture to look at. I think I’m going to be haunted by that image for the rest of my life. I don’t think it’s completely sunk in yet, all I feel is bitter rage, sadness, and confusion.

I just felt like wishing everyone who reads Bladen Force (Not sure how many that actually is) a Merry Christmas and if they aren’t Christian, or just don’t celebrate it… Happy Holidays (Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, something else?). So… yeah…

Happy Chrismahanukwanzakuh to everyone!

GR

However in my thread, and in my /b/ folder, he lives on!
DRILLING A HOLE TO PIERCE THE INTERNETS!

R.I.P.
Anonymous

October 1, 2003 – December 6, 2007

Well technically, I should say Kytri is a pioneer, since she’s the one that first keyed me in to Comicpress and Wordpress, but it turns out that Scott Kurtz has joined the Comicpress collective and is now serving the hive. In all seriousness, I’m really glad too, because the old layout was nice, but it had a really high latency between loading comics, whereas Comicpress is nigh-instantaneous. The whole site is a whole lot faster, which is the same thing I noticed when Bladen Force upgraded to WordPress. Welcome to the hive cluster, Kurtz.