Herp Derp Mass Effect 3 (Spoilers)

So, I just finished Mass Effect 3 and even if 90% of it is fantastic, the ending is just a slap in the face for long time fans. A big fuck you to Bioware for ending this amazing trilogy with such stupid irrational nonsense. It basically goes like this:

I control these synthetics. They are my solution to the problem of the created rebelling against their creators. Herp.

My goal is to prevent organic life from being inevitably destroyed by synthetic life, because synthetics are the superior form of life and we definitely need organics around! If there were no organics… well… it just wouldn’t be right. Derp.

We could try merging organic and synthetic life. That never occurred to me in the last 50 billion years. Hurr hurr.

All endings were such a disappointment. They were so bad that I spent at least an hour doing this:

Anwyay, back to StarCraft 2.

Awake / To Build a Home

NBC’s upcoming drama “Awake” seems to be something worth watching when it airs next month.

The trailer features an amazing song by The Cinematic Orchestra named “To Build a Home” which immediately became a new personal favorite. I was lucky enough to find it on Grooveshark!

To Build a Home by The Cinematic Orchestra on Grooveshark

Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica.

Dwight Schrute: Did you ever watch Battlestar Galactica?
Guy: No.
Dwight Schrute: No? Then you are an idiot.

Dwight was right. When I started watching Battlestar Galactica for the first time a couple of months ago, I had many doubts about it. However, those were instantly washed away as the series proved to be compelling, engaging, extremely realistic, emotional and well acted. I will never fraking forgive myself for not picking up this television masterpiece years ago.

Favorite 1: Apocalypse (Live)

Favorite 2: The Shape of Things To Come
The Shape of Things to Come by Bear McCreary on Grooveshark

A sometimes overlooked aspect is a soundtrack, which in the case of BSG proved to be very powerful in setting its dark and tense tone with its haunting, tribal-like drums and other percussion instruments, as well as a very melancholy score with vocals. It truly surpasses anything in sci-fi television, or indeed ANY television that has come before. It is, just as the original series “Star Trek” music was, dramatic and memorable, and perfectly tailored to each scene; but it is far more grand and far more eclectic in its style. This it what happens when you get a really talented composer, and give him broad leeway to exploit his talent.

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Day Trading

Day trading refers to the practice of buying and selling financial instruments within the same trading day such that all positions are usually closed before the market close for the trading day.

I’ve been day trading stocks in a consistent basis for the past couple of weeks on TD Ameritrade. Needless to say, it’s a very dangerous and thrilling activity. I’ve made a lot of (expensive) mistakes so far – as expected – but this has only pushed me to educate myself thoroughly on the subject.

I’m going through 3 books – n00bish books, admittedly – that range from the psychology of trading to more extensive technical analysis details:

I’m particularly fond on Turner’s book. It explores the mindset and psychology of the market – why price action occurs, breakdowns, breakthroughs and how a day trader can benefit from this. It also goes through a rather lacking area of mine: Discipline.

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I love my Kindle Touch

Amazon finally got it right – I’m in love with my Kindle Touch 3G and have already consumed 3 books since I got it a week ago. The reading experience is far superior than on the iPad 2 or any other e-Reader I’ve ever tried.

Oh Hai!

A couple of weeks ago I migrated the backend of 360 Live from SQL Server to MongoDB. Having a Linux box running was the perfect excuse to setup WordPress and start blogging again.

Let’s see how it goes.