February 14th

Valentine's Day. I always forget this holiday exists, honestly.

A few weeks ago, one of my closer friends told me about how he disliked this day. After all, the nature of the day itself is to celebrate those involved in romantic relationships, I suppose it would be fair for the uninvolved to be less happy. I never noticed it though. The extent of this holiday for me was Elementary school kids passing around silly cards to everyone in the room. I don't think anyone could feel left out in that situation. As I moved on through middle and high school, the holiday just stopped existing for the most part. I think in high school one year some afterschool club ran a silly "matchmaking" test that you could pay a few bucks to see your results, but that's it. I can't remember any people going out of their way to make single people feel bad, or any single people going out of their way to express that they were miserable. I'm sure other schools had things much differently, but here there was pretty much nothing.

In general, it's a waste of a holiday, in my opinion. There shouldn't need to be a specific day to express your feelings to your partner, maybe an anniversary for something special, but Valentine's Day seems too much of a commercialized thing to have any meaning.

The Mass Effect 3 Demo came out today for PC, though. That certainly makes this an okay day this year.

Screenshots #1; old TF2

I'm bored and the other posts I'm working on are taking too much thought to get done quickly, so here is a small post with some random screenshots. [I may at some point do a post with Fallout: New Vegas screenshots, as there are quite a few silly looking glitches to see in that game...]

I don't really take screenshots in TF2 anymore since I mostly just play 6v6, so these are old. Except Ricky's face at the end, anyway.

My internet disconnected; bearded spy is a creeper.

Me; looking pretty hot.*

He has plans for that sandvich.**

Soldier's face so good.

...? Old computer.

*Screenshot taken by Alex Wan. **Screenshot taken by Seraph.

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