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I wonder how difficult it would be to make desirable options for everyone, no matter how you wanted to play. For example, "one mopey guy" as the male on male romance can have a lot of conclusions drawn from it, but I think "everyone can kiss!" is an equally undesirable design decision. I guess the answer to my question is "it is very difficult". I'm not even sure something for everyone IS the right answer. The spectrum of sexual preferences certainly should be represented, but I also think having The Strong Type and Bookworm and *sexual stereotype 3* for everyone is probably bad. Did I just write the same thing 2 different ways? I don't think so? Maybe just used the same paragraph to describe different things. It's a confusing conversation.

In many ways, that is me. I played SO much League of Legends in 2012/2013. For whatever reason, I haven't played that much this year. But even if it released those years, it's not a GOTY candidate in perpetuity. And fatally flawed games don't get honorable mention, especially when games of a similar type were objectively better. No one does the never give an inch thing like Brad does. I wish Alex had fought him HARDER on that point, because so rarely am I in complete lockstep with him, as much as I like him. I've been listening to old Best Of bombcasts, kinda want to go listen to old GOTY discussions, but man Ryan was such a good host. The thing in 2015 I'm looking forward to from GB is a whole year of Vinny and Alex actually Doing Stuff. They never really got rolling properly last year.

I am SO MAD at Brad Shoemaker.right now. There are times when I like Brad's absolutely stubbornheadedness, because I find he and I often align. I was fully behind Alex this year. Destiny doesn't deserve to be a Top 10 game because no matter how much you liked running back through the skinner box, there is no world where that deserves to be rewarded (plus Reaper of Souls, a better version of what Destiny was trying, got thrown unceremoniously into the garbage). I'm so sad about Patrick. I wondered if his GOTY video maybe was hitting a little close to home.

After binging incredibly hard on HH this summer, I thought I would really appreciate Common Sense. I think outside of a history buff and historical context, his politics niggle me a little bit? I know he's attempting to be either apolitical or spreading the bashing around to all sides, but it rubbed me wrong. Also you'd THINK I would have noticed HH show up in my new podcasts feed. Too taken in with GOTY stuff I suppose.

You're thinking about this too hard. That's also a pretty clear sign the joke needs adjusting.

Oh wait, the small plots are allowing me to do OTHER professions?! This changes everything. The character I picked to play was a gatherer and I thought those wouldn't be useful to me. Also I have like 7k gold somehow?! This is the most money I've ever had when I wasn't saving up for something. Is there some big purchase I should be making in this expansion? Epic flying isn't even worth it because there isn't any flying you can do in Draenor right?

Well shoot. From lamenting that I wasn't ready to experience the expansion to hitting the limits of the trial in less than 2 days. Cool, thanks WoW. Now I want to buy you. :[

In the vein of Eve, I have realized this conversation would not be complete without World of Warcraft. It's not a direct connection, but so many of the seeds sown by games like Minecraft and Portal are in World of Warcraft. On top of that, it's a game that's continued to best itself (usually) for an entire decade.

Prosecco is as good or better than champagne, and generally cheaper. There, I said it. Drink prosecco!

Happy Christmas, Gentile Thumbs.

So I've finally broken down, and I activated the 10 day trial on my main account. The thing that's dumb is I didn't buy Pandaria, so the furthest I got was Almost 86 from a 10 day trial I used for that. So, I have no characters at the previous level cap. I guess I still have the interesting journey through the 85-90 content, but the character I was interested in playing is Level 80. This is just silly.

Car selfies. I know I've been a little vitriolic towards the common dating profile, but I put my money where my mouth is and made a profile openly sarcastic towards those cliches. I'm sure it doesn't work for everyone, but if it works for someone that reads it we're already that much closer to hitting it off properly. I have received messages from people who know that we'll never actually meet for whatever reason (distance usually) that complimented me on my profile and its writing. You just need to be you and actually have fun and talk to people and enjoy yourself rather than presenting your Significant Other application to the online job site. Because let's be real, a date is an interview.

No pictures, but I made latkes and applesauce to take into work tomorrow. Happy Hanukkah!

You could tell it wasn't real because there was acting.

I am comfortable dressed to the nines but also in a pair of sweats.

LIVING LIFE TO THE FULLEST!

It is absolutely used in the realm of American jock culture, so if you're not exposed to that or don't care about sports enough to have old sportsballers yell at you on TV about sports it's not likely you've come across it.

Miffy you know the way to my heart. To your point, Jackie Chan had been doing crazy fight choreography for decades before Phantom Menace came out. Even just in the 90's, you had Twin Dragons, Rumble in the Bronx, Legend of Drunken Master, hell Rush Hour was released in 1998. It's not all that fluid balletic fight and direction, but there's certainly some crossover.

I meant to heavily edit my post, and then I worked all day and came back to see the web page with the editing box open, I hadn't written anything, and lost my train of thought. By "work out" I mean "resulted in marriage" or the common law equivalent. What I was trying to say is if you meet someone and you like their smile and you get coffee and decide not to pursue, that's the online equivalent of sending 2 or 3 messages back and forth. It's that the "oh we just got coffee" doesn't FEEL like a failure like an aborted email conversation does (to me). I almost met someone at the gas station the other day. We had a conversation across the pump. I totally should have asked for her name and number. I thought about it. C'est la vie. A LIFE OF REGRET. I've had a couple of years worth of long term relationships through online dating. I'm in the same position as Griddlelol, which I sort of touched on. I don't have this large social web to draw on where people are always trying to match me up. I actually find it strange that people are so weirded out by online dating. There are so many advantages to it over just throwing blind darts in public, unless you don't know how to type. I can remember a conversation I had a few years ago. I was in a relationship at the time where I met her online, one of the other participants was engaged with someone he met online (he's about 5 years older), and another was married to someone he met online (15+ years older than me). The last guy has been married since before the internet so he doesn't count. I also think it's an easy out because people don't know how to write, to just say "LOL I DON'T KNOW WHY I'M ON THIS SITE I DON'T GET ONLINE DATING TEE HEE." Man I could write a novella just on all the shit that peeves me about what people put in their online dating profiles.

The way I see "twee" applied in usage today is basically in line with what the definition actually is. I think it's picked up a couple of connotations because it's almost always used to describe certain GROUPS of things. The descriptor is correct, though. Also... wow, I have never heard or seen yoke used that way. Definitely not a common colloquialism. The only usage I've ever seen for that outside of an actual yoke or the yoke of oppression is to describe someone as all muscle-y. "Yoked up". Usually football players.

How frequently do in-person meetings work out, though? A statistically significant portion of relationships (at least in NA) come from online dating. I've been a member of online dating sites for quite a while. It doesn't feel like it's "better" than randomly meeting someone. It also doesn't feel worse. I wish I knew all these places that I could "go out and do stuff" to meet women. I belong to multiple sports leagues, I literally worked in a bar. I've acted on and off since high school. All the women are either taken or gay. Internet at least they're looking, too.

The other side of this is if it's not her story, whose story is it to tell? I realize I'm viewing this from the position of white privilege, and I can't view it any other way, but I think if a story is attempted to be addressed straight up and done with journalistic integrity (any story, not just this one), any journalist should have the "right" to tell it. If one thinks the story is worth being reported, then it should be told. It just has to be handled the right way. An aside because people have brought up being "other", it's sometimes weird to me being Jewish in America. I'm a white guy that doesn't look Jewish (if you know what I mean, you know what I mean). So 95+% of the time I'm the regular, privileged, white, middle classish male, and then this tiny percent of the time I'm an "other". Adnan to me doesn't feel like an other like I guess he does to many people. His religion makes him relatable to me, frankly.

I heard about Serial a few weeks in, when it was already established and popular. As I had it explained to me, I was turned off on it for the same reason I am really against television shows like Hoarders. Without having listened to it, the premise as explained sounded like exploitation of people's lives in the service of entertainment but hiding in the guise of education or journalism (or I don't know... therapy? for Hoarders. What a repulsive show). It didn't even have anything to do with any specifics of the people being portrayed. Having listened to some of it, I THINK it's trying to operate on a level above that, but even without the cultural and racial undertones that surround it, I'm still a bit uncomfortable with the offering as a whole (or at least the idea of it) for that reason. I am all for journalism and discovery, but sensationalizing aspects of people's lives for someone else's gain really rubs me the wrong way.

Goofus and Gallant and the Timbertoes are cornerstones of my childhood.

Echoing your fancy HUD. It's very X-Wing reminiscent.