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hashtag activists are definitely not relevant, and CERTAINLY not a culture in any way. They're just assholes grabbing for attention on the internet. I would know. I spend a lot of time spewing garbage on twitter, but I don't pretend it stands for anything. They're functionally equivalent to two guys in a bar 10 minutes before closing time who found a corner and are telling each other that like, the government just doesn't GET it. Are you Ford Prefect or something?

I am really intrigued by the last 30 or so seconds describing a run in with Robert Khoo. Is the alternate universe where he wasn't with PA and thus not polite, or did you not actually run into him?

Oh my my my. What an incredible classic. I remember playing this in the high school jazz band. It was one of my all time favorites, and I still probably didn't appreciate it as much as I should have. Which reminds me: Arturo Sandoval.

I love jazz! I admit that it's a failing of mine that I don't know much about modern jazz. Probably the only contemporary jazz musician I know anything about is Wynton Marsalis, and through that Ellis Marsalis. Joe's Cool Blues was definitely influential to me when I was about 13 years old. Great album. I am mostly into instrumental, and I guess the stuff I'm into I'd call "classic"? Diz and bird, Miles Davis, Dave Bruebeck, Coltrane.

Following your question with a question, why are you judging or feel compelled to judge the art work of 5 year olds? I love jazz. Should we have a jazz thread?

Could you stop judging 5 year olds for long enough to figure out why I'm upset with you for judging 5 year olds?

I didn't say kid's art was GOOD. I said it was COOL. It is awesome to see kids being artistic, having visions, and translating them to a physical medium. It's creative, and it's valuable for its own sake. If you are going around evaluating art from children like it needs cultural value outside of the fact that it was created, maybe you need to take a look at how you judge things. When I find something that is neat and cool that no one knows about, you know what I want to do? Share it. Cool things are not treasures to hoard. Look at this forum! It's full of people sharing all the funny and clever and cool stuff they found.

The point in time when you start liking something relative to when it started existing has no intrinsic value. Kid's art is cool because it's kids translating the things in their head out into the world.

Go Flyers. People are blaming the rookie who took a high stick penalty when he lost his footing, but 1 shot in the 3rd period is more indicative of everything else!

This is a really self-indulgent way to try to put a name on something that's not actually a group in any cohesive fashion and kind of repulsive to me. I love jazz! I am not a hipster.

No it's the exact opposite of that, actually. The stereotype of the new pejorative basically means aggressively disliking or disregarding something that's gained common popularity, while being surrounded by things that are cool and popular (ie: bearded, scarfed hipster with iphone, starbucks and expensive designer glasses). If you can play the "liked it before it was cool" card that's a bonus, but that's certainly not something that came into its own with people calling themselves or being called hipsters. See: every 12 year old asking their dad if they've heard of this cool band Led Zeppelin. It's essentially just the concept of yuppies from the 80s transplanted, but more flannel.

Like if Jake was at a party and mentioned he worked in the games industry and someone told him excitedly that he should play The Walking Dead. At least that's how I take the question.

I didn't play any Freedom Cry. While that makes sense from a meta perspective it's a bit sad. This is a minor spoiler with regard to how AC4 built its world around Abstergo making a game company: I think it's pretty funny and fascinating. AC games are some of the few where I've been intrigued enough to search out all the extra bits and pieces. They also make it worth your while.

I always heard it called a kettlebell, but yeah. There's one set of a dozen kettlebell swings in one of my workouts, so I'm thinking about like a 5-10kg kettlebell. 300 kettlebell swings is an awful lot in that frame of reference! The program I'm following has 2 no-freeweight workouts in it a week. Twig if you want to try some bodyweight stuff - pushups (do half pushups, knees on the ground butt in the air if you can't. If those are too easy, 3/4 pushups with your knees on the ground but your body stiff) sit ups/crunches bodyweight squats burpees (I can remember my first grade gym teacher calling these squat thrusts. He was the only one I've ever heard do that) lunges glute bridge (shoulders on the ground, knees in the air. clench your butt. It's pretty much what it sounds like) jumping jacks! we're talking like 5-10 of each. maybe pick 2 sets of 3 of them or something? Do jumping jacks in between sets. :3 I am not a trainer, but it's not hard to work up a sweat and get some quality exercise making your body move around. It also won't be screaming pain forever.

Holy shit. That is a lot of exercise.

Stretching feels really good and is very relaxing. That plus work with a foam roller and flexibility exercises is good stuff.

In Assassin's Creed 4 you're a beta tester, and also literally every desk has an animus (and you hack into people's animii). You (THE PLAYER) are extremely good at pulling Cool Memories out of the Animus. If you're following the story or care, that seems like a relatively important part of it. It IS extremely ~META~. To answer Chris's question, in this fictional universe AC: Liberation is the ONLY game this company has released. Also the name of the game is Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag. e: this has been sussed out 90 seconds later.

Oh yeah, totally. All the feedback I got was positive though, so it was a bit of a letdown. I was feeling anxious today when she didn't jump at the idea right away. Went to the gym, she got back to me, oh well. Felt sad, made a post, we talked a little more and it's fine. Made dinner, enjoying some (a) whisky, come back to discussion agreeing how physiologically strange human beings are. My mindset going on a date is I PLAN to have fun. So the fact that I had a good time doing a fun thing is not surprising. I'd enjoy having her as a friend, but I don't think that sort of thing works from her perspective. Which is not to say it's never happened before, just that I don't think that's where her headspace is. I've been on dates where there was chemistry and then it didn't work out and we ended up being friends. At one point I was the low rent version of Good Luck Chuck where ladies would go on a date or two with me, have a great time, and then reunite with a previous boyfriend to "try and make it work". Like, 3-4 women. This really happened, and basically in succession. It was weird, let me tell you.

Learned today that while we both had a great time going out for drinks this weekend, one of us did not have a great enough time to attempt it again. Ah well! C'est la vie, therefore a post.

The stormtrooper helmets were conceived to resemble German WW2 helmets. That it's taken to more concrete conclusions in works beyond the movies is not incidental. All this talk about Nazi aesthetic and Luftrausers being essentially about the crazy conceived stuff from "the other side" has been making me think about My Tank Is Fight for a week. One of the things in my brain that pushes back against the "they werre real people not outsized science fiction" is the Germans really did have some completely insane ideas about technology in various stages of testing and reality. The Allies also had some crazy stuff, but in my mind they aren't even close to stacking up. http://www.somethingawful.com/news/my-tank-fight/

I feel schizophrenic throughout this whole conversation because I've been all over the place. I don't find the question of whether they should be made or not interesting either, because they should have been. If they're properly considered and executed in a way that represents things in a thoughtful way, then they should be made. If something's there that shouldn't be or is gratuitous for its own sake that's a different story. I also don't think Luftrausers discussion is inflaming the world. It just happened to dominate this week's thread because it's an interesting, serious topic that can potentially have a lot of nuance.

Just so you know (and of course the only time I'm ever going to bring them up I can't find the specific ones), as with all published papers and studies there are also published criticisms of it. One of the more interesting counterarguments I read is they were 20 year olds being paid to act out. They were done in more detail than I'm putting forward here of course. Does that invalidate the research? Certainly not, although it's something to take into consideration. Does it actually play into your point? Possibly, depending on the point of view.

I can relate to this.

This was going to be my comment. I have been told that it is much more important to be judging how you feel and feel about your body than just the mass of your body. Do you feel good? Do you feel good about yourself? Are you having fun? If your body weight should come down w/r/t equilibrium, it will. I've said to myself that I wouldn't care if I weighed 300lb if it was a healthy 300. Weight gain/loss are just symptoms. Good job, keep at it!

Oh man, congrats. Whisk(e)y is always something that I feel demands my attention, but then when I get to it it's just "Maker's Mark is the thing we have". And it's a fine drink, it's just not special or particularly interesting as they go. Learned today that I am perfectly fine nursing Stella Artois for an entire afternoon. If it's 80' and there's a ballgame on with good conversation, I don't need something bold or complex to make the drinks work. Cold, crispy Stellas are everything Ray Smuckles thinks they are sometimes.