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If you want a serious discussion you'll have to have something serious to discuss instead of laughably uninformed drivel and opinions dressed up as fact.

Only a Sith deals in absolutes.

My favourite consequence of this is that an Afrikaans word for dreadnaught is 'durfal' which means 'daredevil'.

Blergh. Fixed.

Unfortunately there's now severe doubt about the validity of the scientific work here. That's not to say that the method doesn't work, but ouch.

I don't know, I think there's not necessarily a dichotomy there. Like, all those things can be true at once (and already are to some extent).

I prefer the feminist perspective.

Cool I've been done for a while but I applied it to insect wing & fish. http://bit.ly/ThesisDaanReid

Huh. Do you know SRD/MPCD?

I love ToMe and I'm not going to feel ashamed about that. Most roguelikes could do with even a fraction of the creativity that game has.

What belt? Once someone brings up minimum wage all bets are off.

It's super weird to hear the Thumbs discussing fish schooling, which I spent most of my master's and PhD on. Sent in a mail about it. Probably too long to read again. I guess now I know how Gormongous feels.

Man, you people make good photos. That forest/heath of yours is absolutely amazing James.

Unless the challenge is adorable little girls, it's not likely to be in my remit

The MSI was amazing, my favourite League tourney in quite some time. The Korean teams are actually beatable since the giant exodus, and it's made for a much more interesting international scene. The EDG game 5 comp was very anti-leblanc, they knew Faker was undefeated in competitive on that and baited them into it, then built a comp to crush it. Wonderful stuff.

Congrats mington. I'd definitely stick with trying to work normal hours, it's not like those extra hours are actually adding much to your net work done anyway if you're actually working all the time. There' sonly so much juice in th eol' battery. Post a pic yof you looking miserable at your new desk!

It worked for Ron Swanson.

I think a battle.net column would be a good idea

Just finished Zadie Smith's White Teeth. I had some trepidations because I found N-W depressing as hell but was intrigued enough to give this a shot, and I'm glad I did. So much more positive, and I'm a sucker for generational/growing up novels.

Well, I'd say that if Bone Clocks is about the conflict between Horlogists and Anchorites, a gigantic chunk of the book (for example the Crispin chapter) is entirely superfluous. The superfluous bits are then my favourite ones, making it an even worse failure of a book. Overall I enjoyed my time with the book but it felt like a hot mess to me in a way that none of Mitchell's other books did.

I've finally gotten around to Bone Clocks and I found the fantastical stuff much, much more irritating there than in Thousand Autumns. The way there's an entire 'chapter' basically just dedicated to exposition and an ultimately not very interesting battle acting as a giant roadblock in between otherwise excellent character work was just super irritating. In contrast, in Thousand Autumns a lot of this stuff was handled via the introduction of a new location and a bunch of characters took a lot of the sting out of what is to some extent the same problem. I also think I'm just more tolerant of mystical mumbo-jumbo in novels set in the past rather than the present, unless it just goes all-out alternate reality instead of trying to get all secret society about it. As a parent of young children the themes of societal collapse and loss are very, very hard to read. Well done though. Finally I think the single-character focus on Holly does not work nearly as well for me as the bigger distance between subplots seen in Ghostwritten and Cloud Atlas.

Goddamn internet libertarians and their neverending need to argue on the internet. 'works at Google' who saw that coming

Haha, Matt Lees: https://twitter.com/Jam_sponge/status/596598544859078656

Yeah, precisely this. Awful person.

The source being someone hounded to their death by the authorities somehow seems super appropriate there :/