For the love of God, somebody take away her money

I know I'm being a bad outrage-spewing person, but this news doesn't really irritate me the way, say, that Paris Hilton's DUI situation did. I still think it's loathsome and vile that a seriously coked- and boozed-up person with money to spare got behind the wheel of a car instead of, I dunno, sending minions to drive her or whatever, but this just kinda makes me sad. It's addiction that does it, really. This girl has got Problems. With a capital P, even. I dunno why she wants to spend her twenties wasted off her ass, but if she really wants to and can support her addiction, couldn't she at least stay off the roads? Sigh.

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Speaking of addictions, though? I watched Thank You For Smoking. Aaron Eckhart just looks...weird. I can't even really look at him because his face is at odds with his chin and his chin is fighting his awful hair. He doesn't look quite human. He looks like what you get when you watch Conan O'Brien and he mashes together two celebrities' faces into one. Also, the movie wasn't bad, but it's really aggravating to see the scum of the earth be the hero. Anti-heroes, fine. Unlikeable protagonist with no real change or character development or proof of humanity? No thanks.

Less sure than ever about his being Harvey Dent in The Dark Knight. Otherwise, I quite liked the restained fury of Maria Bello's character. I didn't like A History of Violence at all, but I've liked her since I saw her defending her right to be viewed nude below the waist without that raising the NC-17 threat level on her picture in This Film is Not Yet Rated. I'd have to see more of her to know, but I wouldn't object to that.

This is so embarrassing

But help?

I have these old, old games from back in the day, and, in a fit of nostalgia, I tried to throw on Amazon Trail II last night to monkey around with (to, you know, beat the low, low scores I got as a twelve-year-old). I'm just not having any luck getting the picture to show. Anyone, help?

And, yes, I've tried changing compatibility in XP. I've tried to set the thing to 256 colors and see if it was happy. Next, I suppose, I could try just copying files over from the CD to my computer (copy protection? From 1995!? I think not!). But I'm like losing already to this stupid game, and that shit won't stand, goddamnit.

HELP!

This is why all my icons are VG Cats icons

Including the one attached to this post!

Transformers?

I'd like y'all to notice that it's the girl kitty who's making the SAME COMPLAINTS I DID about Transformers the live-action movie. PEOPLE ARE NOT IMPORTANT! THEY ARE SQUISHY FLESH CREATURES! THERE ARE MOTHERFUCKING ROBOTS TURNING INTO CARS ZOMG!!! WHAT THE HELL IS WITH THE PEOPLE!!!!

About the only time the movie got it right, re: the ratio of robot to human time, was when Megatron, temporarily down, flicked a pesky fleshling away with finger and (probably--it wasn't shown) killed him for being as annoying as a bug. BECAUSE THAT IS HOW THE PEOPLE SHOULD HAVE BEEN TREATED WHEN THERE ARE TRANSFORMING ROBOTS ONSCREEN!!!!

In the future, save money: hire no-names for the price of a sandwich and invest ALL the budget in the CGI on the robots. Yes, this is how the sequel should be made.