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If you're interested a mild spread of contemporary rock and rock adjacent music: I uploaded a mix of my favorite records of 2014 last year! Two mixes actually, one that is safe for general gatherings, the other was blistering hardcore nonsense. i tried to balance both mixes to be half women. Didn't totally succeed, but got close-ish. It's here, with band descriptions: https://www.idlethumbs.net/forums/topic/9836-music-of-the-year/?p=334408 Unrelated, having listened to a few Culture novels on audiobook, I can't believe nobody has made an RPG from these. It's just perfectly suited, for everything, not the least of which is the scale of the books create an option to make things fairly episodic and self contained (one SC Agents adventure), but also with the option of being a huge sprawling franchise (the goings on of the Culture non-Empire).

Maybe there is some theoretical unicorn case of a person who can change their racial identity, but with Dolezal I don't think you can ignore the privilege, evidenced by suing Howard for discriminating against her for "being white." She "turned off her blackness" when it behooved her. I'm disappointed that the VF person didn't seem to ask her if she still identified as black when suing on the grounds of being white.

I guess I'd prefer not disgusting and filthy. I'm sort of old and tidy, but my flexibility will probably increase with my desperation to not have to drive from San Antonio every day. If you hear of anything I'd be most grateful.

I'm starting to panic as the reality of my move is setting in. First time living outside of New York in like 30 years. Ack. That set, if anybody on the off chance knows of a clean Austin, TX apartment I could sublet Oct - Dec, I'd love to hear about it!

Yeah, There is an effective bummer around the point where you meet house, because there is no nice way to get out of it, where you just oppose the Legion or Legion and House. I went NO GODS NO MASTERS, and was kind of capable of rationalizing the attack on the Hoover dam, until I had to put down the old timers squad, and then felt bad. I think if I had to let any other faction go, it would be the BoS because they're terrible to Veronica and Christine (and sort of in general).

I think his actual contribution to PoE is a bit limited to overall world building stuff, and writing most of Durance and Grieving Mother. There is a quote from him that says he wrote a lot more for them, including mental dungeons (like psychonauts!) but those bits got cut. I'm digging PoE but I think you're right. I imagine it's a problem trying to launch a whole D&D world thing in one not huge game. haha.

i wonder if there is a first amendment case to be made somewhere in the LPs, specifically using hacked ROMs? i personally am not familiar with any of the youtubers, but i'm imagining a glitched/hacked thing as potentially being an "original work" the way some sample base music or collage can be considered original work. i wonder if somebody takes this to court if they wouldn't reach some sample like arrangement?

Yeah this was fun. I wish it was longer. One of my favorite design peeps. You can hear his frustration, but I was definitely a bit bummed to hear he stepped away from Obsidian, which is obviously nutty thinking about somebody you don't really know. I wish there was a bit more talk about Mask of the Betrayer, the NWN2 expansion. I think it gets a lot of the Planescape stuff right in the exact same way. One of the few games of it's style with robust dialog choices, specifically choices that imply intention, adding a bit of granularity to similar text strings. For me it's neck and neck with the best Black Isle stuff.

Haha, yes! On the Denglar the villain tip: One of my favorite versions of this was Ultima 7. Origin was having trouble with their new owners in EA, and of the main plot thrusts of U7, is the Avatar's beloved virtue system, to moral code to the land of Britannia, is being undermined by a new church, The Fellowship. The fellowship is a populist movement, with some easy answers, and The Avatar spend most of the game following their two hands on missionaries Elizabeth and Abraham, and as you close in on them, you need to shut down these 3 stone generators that happened to be shaped like a square, a circle, and a triangle, which was EA's logo at the time: http://www.mishes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/video game06.jpg

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i JUST got to the SR part of the podcast, so I assume it was covered, but it might still be worth noting out that it's made by the original Syndicate team!

I don't think I know many/any nati kids, but I know a lot of Clevo people, and it is GROUND ZERO for crazy bad behavior. In general Ohio is a weird rock Mecca. That article is fun, but I OBJECT to the dings on the Surface Pro 2. I love mine! underrated devices!

sorry peeps, i didn't mean that to be judgmental or anything! i apologize if i came off that way. i was coming more from a perspective of a concern for people who are counting calories with certain expectations. i feel like that can create a failure state, or set unreasonable demands on yourself, where i believe people need to work on changing their mindset. both are hard, but i feel like "dieting" is more problematic, because you're not adjusting your core behaviors. it takes some forcing at first, and i can totally see out data tracking helps with that, but i've found that once you establish healthy patterns the behavior reinforces itself. it's definitely hard!

unless you're at triathlete levels, exercise like all things in life is about forming good habits. maybe i'm being ignorant because I don't fitbit, and I can see how the data might be nice, but I think if you're getting a strenuous workout in 3-5 days every week, making sure your diet includes fruits and vegetables, you on a good path to physical and mental well being.

i feel like even the shakiness is a minor issue since they can probably mount a laser pointer on it, or the camera would be mounted like an FPS with a reticule, so that even as it bounces around you could wheel it in line. also, i'll assume one of the hard parts of killing is sticking your head out to do it, and this just alleviates that.

I've only read the first 3, but I really liked CP as a rollicking space adventure, but thought it lost a bit of steam in the final 3rd, when they got to Schar's World. I think it's a good entry to the series (as far as I know) in that it's pretty straightforward, compared to Use of Weapons. CP is kind of Mass Effect, where Player of Games is later Star Trek TNG but with DS9's Section 31 stuff.

Was this posted already? I remember Jake made the joke on the podcast, but it was too simple not to already exist: America 2020, Year of the Gunswarm

Maybe it's because i'm sort of close to boston punx peripheral to the story, but the story of these hardcore kids' Yankees Suck t-shirt empire that turned into a ridiculous gang war with edge dudes beating the snot out of all fenway sausage vendors is kind of blowing me away: http://grantland.com/features/yankees-suck-t-shirts-boston-red-sox/

Oh man, I wish that collection was Region 1! It's gotten better in the last few years, but for a long time there was no consumer release of anything besides SS/LJ. There are few now on amazon. I've somehow never seen Level Five, which is like a combination of two of my favorite media things. Sometimes I like the idea of something out there rather than knowing I've seen it all. that rivette collection looks great too!

"server" only matters for 1 of the 2 PvP modes, "world vs world" all players are in one big mega server that shards based on population density. it's pretty easy to merge into the same shard, unless you or they are in a capped map. (people force the maps to cap around a lot of events)

cool article. i wonder what kind of financial turnover they get? according to piketty fortunes over 50 million have a return around 10% or more with good management. I wonder how much of that money is invested? it would be kind of foolish to just leave it in a money market account, no? that said, trying to deliver the Space Sim and FPS at the same time seems just way too ambitious. i feel like a more arcade style EVE would have been "easier" to deliver, as much as any game is, and then leave space to expand it.

come play with US! well, me or merus. we're on opposite sides of the globe so there is little overlap.

I just watched the latest FF video. Good as always, but one thing jumped out at me. I've never played the God of War games, but they're a CENTRAL example in every one of her videos, and usually the grossest version of that specific issue.

I'm moving to San Antonio next month! Though I've always had reservations about supporting this. Ack.

My fiancée had a similar set up when she get her offer, and she believed it invaluable! I think she had 2 published articles. Some of that stuff like database building, and she was the tech support person for a year for her department she spun into being part of her public history work, and her new department wants to build that program. All I'm saying is that this can be good stuff that future departments value! She taught a supplemental course on her research database. I also know how BRUTAL the market is. It's so much a matter of fit. She also hired a resume consultant, which she felt helped a LOT crafting some parts of the CV and the interview prep. Also, having the degree in hand matters a lot. edit: she also took a mercenary approach to job preparation, volunteering for things, like helping organize/run a search from her tech spot. getting on some kind of grad student governing body. which amounted to party throwing, but everything was designed to check some kind of box. She regards her advisor's other students as one of the most brilliant women she's ever met, but believes those little things (particularly publications/conference panel organizing) added up better than some raw scholarship. edit 2: she also applied for every tenure track position that she felt she could make a case for, excluding non-city Alaska, and one in central Missouri that was 3 hours from the nearest whole foods. Also, as you mentioned those skills are tremendously useful to collections/libraries, and I'm sure you know a lot of people in the field especially professors are super deficient in those areas.