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Actually in British English a billion is a million million, not a thousand million. It's in American English where a billion is a thousand million, and because Americans actually have use for the word 'billion', that meaning has crept into other dialects.

Yeah, I like it too. DmC was a pretty neat reboot, and like you I really enjoyed the Bad News level, which I think is the only time I've genuinely enjoyed a mook fight phase in a boss fight. My housemate is an avowed DMC fan, and he's quite certain that people don't know what they're talking about when they say that this game has a lower skill ceiling - it's absolutely more accessible, but the system's well balanced with plenty of depth, and what's supposedly been lost is completely unimportant.

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So I occasionally have a problem where I like a word I've only ever read and get the pronunciation hella wrong. I had this problem with brazier, which is not pronounced like an item of underwear, it turns out. Anyway here's my new source for pronunciation help:

The Secret World has quests that require out-of-game sources, and frequently that includes people who've worked out the puzzle beforehand. You could work it out yourself, but often it involves remembering that there's a shop in London with the name you're looking for and sometimes it involves a level of research that's not feasible to expect of a solitary player.

Guys the only real music is made by people who can't afford to do music all the time, everyone else is being fed to you by a machine that wants to feed music to you Andre Rieu is the Machine

I look askance at people who tab with spaces. You're wasting daylight. Then again, I also look askance at people who refuse a good IDE.

I do like the base 12 number system, but there's still a lot of arbitrariness going on with US imperial.

I have stopped paying attention to the terminology. GG blocker blocks GGs, right? But yeah, the idea was more or less floating around to have a shared block list but Harper made it useful. You largely don't have to deal with GG much any more with the autoblocker on.

They saw a target and went for it, but that doesn't mean that they were doing it for any other reason than they'd make a scene.

Randi Harper is freebsdgirl - she made the GGBlocker that made it almost impossible for Gamergate to get anywhere. She works at Kixeye now which is a game developer who I don't really know, but she is clearly a legit code slinger.

I use 'science' as a verb and adjective Speaking of actual science, though, David Dunning (best known for his work with his graduate student, Justin Kruger) drops bomb after bomb after bomb about how we make shit up and call it facts, somehow also making Jimmy Kimmel seem insightful.

I live here and have made furniture out of ideas that I let lie fallow too long. I can't do projects that longer than about 2 weeks - including assignments, which is a bit of a problem because I've failed a few courses because I had nothing done. Supposedly the solution is milestones, but I don't respect milestones because I just made them up so I can always just move them.

I get the feeling that he decided Kickstarter was most successful as a straight nostalgia play, and he's at least half-right. I think Kickstarter is a way to leverage trust, and for games the very quickest way to trust is to make a game just like the games everyone 'knows' you can make.

I've only listened to the two singles from Taylor Swift's latest album, but they struck me as being less about sex and more about the Taylor Swift media narrative, which will inevitably sound like it's about sex because the media narrative is all about how she's a maneater who dates men as grist for the songwriting mill. But then I'm playing the game here where I presume a celebrity is much smarter than they act until proven otherwise, and Taylor Swift's a good subject of that game because her recent videos seem super self-aware.

I don't know if this comparison works, I don't think Aurini's fat or gangrenous enough to be Cosmo Lavish

52 Tuesdays is a pretty interesting film. It's about the strained relationship between a women who's transitioning and her teenage daughter, who agree to dedicate every Tuesday a year to each other. It's about change and being in very dark places, and what's beyond that, so even though things don't go as well as you'd hope there's still a sweetness to it.

This is my opinion as well. I think it is a bit samey and the mini-missions don't really feel like they're particularly relevant to the final assassination, but AC2 made it far less ambitious in order to 'fix' that, mostly by taking the same gameplay elements and wrapping them in a storyline so you can't see what's coming.

Here is a character from Far Cry 4, incidentally. The profile has been edited by dipsticks, go through to the official website to read more about this character in Far Cry 4 who is very definitely distinct from anyone who was previously a guest on Idle Thumbs

The presenter is, in fact, the real Jordan Belford. I think the key to Wolf of Wall Street, like Gone Girl, is assuming the camera can't be trusted. It's more obvious in Wolf of Wall Street because Belford appeals directly to the camera and we see things in a representational style that would never have happened in reality, like Belford being arrested in the middle of his sales pitch, which continues to air as he's led away. Belford is celebrating his success, because he's an amoral dickweasel, but the film itself is about how Belford managed to get away with it for so long. It's a film about the audience in a really clever way.

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Oh my, I thought that was the premise! They were being so open about it. My apologies. fuckin' tumblr

If I was the kind of man who posted very long smilies, I'd be posting that one of a guy shrugging. That was my reaction! Maybe it's not worth taking into account because you can't please everyone, but it's not like I'm trolling on Neogaf about Idle Thumbs either. I mean, we're coming off an episode where Nick virtually cheated on his superstar girlfriend, and the next episode opens with Sean shouting the ad read and the dateline from the next room, so frankly this episode would have to have some very high highs to be one of the really funny ones.

It turns out someone's swiped all the names on Twitch I usually use that aren't ever taken. I'm taking this as a sign.

I will say that if Tumblr is any indication, and it probably isn't, Sleepy Hollow has some of the better scenes I've seen.