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Today Iearned that I've been pronouncing " gin" and "gingerly" wrong my entire life.

I can tell you why I've been singing it intermittantly for the past 20 minutes.

Personally, I determine what is gross based on whether or not it's a health concern. So for instance, I think it's gross not to floss. Honestly, part of my enjoyment of peeing in the shower is that I feel as if I am committing a crime (even though everyone who uses my shower seems to be in agreement that doing so is fine).

I always take my shoes off, even in people's homes who wear their shoes in their house. I take my shoes of in my house and we try our best not to have guests. I think it's worth noting that this was not the case until we lived in Hawaii for a while. Depends on how the other people who use the shower feel about it. I don't think there is any health-issues involved. On a related note, I'd love to have a bidet.

NGUI is on sale today. This is the same situation I was in with the Playmaker sale. I feel like I should buy it just because it's mentioned as a very popular tool, though I have no idea what I would use it for. Anyone know what this can do that a 3d text child can't? Edit: I'm leaning towards saving my precious gaming-budget and waiting to see how 4.6's UI system turns out http://blogs.unity3d.com/2014/05/28/overview-of-the-new-ui-system/

I have an idea for the next Mass Effect game. A free-to-play multiplayer game within which you can buy individual, not chronologically dependent, single-player vignettes. Then when some characters eventually resonate more than others, Bioware could make a full campaigns with them.

I think I'm probably just being lazy. I just needed to cry a little bit. Still, suggestions are welcome. I think the command line part intimidated me a bit. I was thinking it would just be a matter of ticking the box on a folder's properties to "share" and then just going about your business.

I just wanted to take a moment to complain publically about how I understand that version-control is important, but I am not looking forward to taking the time necessary towards figuring out how to impliment it. I tried using Github last night and was like "whoa, whoa, whoa there buddy. A little much involved here don't you think." I was just expecting to drag some script files into a folder or something. I'm considering just making a new folder titled with the date in dropbox every time I want to commit, and just uploading the scripts.

I'll miss the Microsoft one because of work and the need to get cat-food, but for the talks after that I plan to chat on the IRC channel via browser.

That's a great idea. I'll probably join y'all tommorow.

That's interesting. I value the series for completely different reasons. The Mass-Effect games and the Dragon-Age games are the only ones that have heavy narrative elements available AND that I actually finish. I look forward to those games because I love what they manage to do in character and world development. It's fascinating to find out that the a mode I percieve as just a feature-add has a passionate following and manages to contribute a lot to it's own genre.

I'm reading through CardGameDB trying to figure out what expansion we want next (I'd really like to boost the anarchy faction). I just read the description for Escher; card seems crazy powerful. You can't do that. That's crazy. I'm actually thinking that Creation & Control is what my anarchy decks might need. Atman, Chakana, Daily Casts, and possibly even Freelance Coding Contract look like they might give my Anarchist more flexibility. I'm taking suggestions though.

Franchise iterations that I would be interested in hearing about are Mass Effect and Red Dead.

I'd say that I seek out their work and interviews and such. Mostly they provide evidence to me that people exist that can act in ways that I would like to want to act, which otherwise I would feel are unrealistic. I'm way more interested in my own survival and the survival of those I have a personal loving relationship with than I am motivated by creating a just world or helping others. But whenever I am convincing myself with internal dialogue that no one else would leave their comfort zone in order to confront an exclusionary practice, I can think of people who have done so in far more extreme circumstances than my own. Trying to get clues of how they manage to act selflessly in either a single heroic act or in an effort that they endure over a long period of time, is one of the enjoyments I gain by examining their foot-prints.

I wouldn't say I wish to be anyone else, but I certainly have heroes. -Buckminster Fuller, who decided not to commit suicide because he felt that he had a idiosyncratic knowledges that could help humanity. -Björk guðmundsdóttir, who took classical training and punk-rock love to reinvest both into emphasizing the lust within simplicity and accessibility. -Dr. Cornel West, who either has a impossible clarity in his views or a highly developed sense of the intersection of culture and compassion. Those are the first three that come to mind. Of course if one of them poured motor-oil into someone's water-supply while laughing about it, I wouldn't think it was great. My heroes are largely my images of their actions and motives rather than their reality of existing. -Major Bill Steuber, who appears to be struggling with the dissonance any compassionate nationalist faces in this documentary, exhibits heroic posture in this documentary -For similar reasons, I admire James P. Berghaier for his efforts in risking his own safety to save Birdie Africa while in the midst of a bunch of racists who were shooting guns in the name of the law. -Whisteblowers in general like Edward Snowden, Diane Roark, William Binney, Edward Loomis, J. Kirk Wiebe, Thomas Drake, Chelsea Manning, and Daniel Ellsberg who all defied one of the most powerful governments in existence because they had a clear sense of justice. It's kind of like the way the writing professor explains things to Charlie Kaufman in Adaptation. Heroic acts happen every day, we just don't know about them.

@Dinosaursssssss Holy shit. That's awesome. So if I see that hat in someone's game, I'll assume that they confessed the sins they have done to Christ and asked Him to forgive them. @ BigJKO I think your game has a really accessible format. Accessible from the perspective of the player. That is, of course, that they know that they can click on things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=58-atNakMWw

She probably lowers the speed or raises the fire rate in the public variables available in the Unity's inspector.

I've decide to buy a new straw-hat today and I've discovered a new fedora variety in K-Mart. It's $15 though and I'm used to getting them off of discount racks (in the fall maybe?) On Kauai, that was common to see. I miss the seeing the elderly ladies with those hats in their yards doing things like re-tarring their drive-ways and gardening.

I just realized that I love straw-hats. I've been wearing them for years, most people around here seem to think they are strictly for yard-work. I love straw-hats, I especially like how every culture has one. I wear the cowboy variety.

Here is the type of thing I was thinking of for the soundtrack http://free-loops.com/4557-bonanza-theme-song.html Turns out it is rather hard to find electronica remixes of Oklahoma! or Aaron Copland.

The Walking Dead, Season 1 pinball table is coming from Zen. I can think of so many puns. If the ball-lock audio-cue is "Clementine will remember that" I will lose my shit. Also, I wonder if when you are choosing to side with one person or another, you decide by hitting their ramp. A missed shot in such a scenario would be so deliciously pinball. I always tell Capt. Hastings that the way you can tell if the pinball is working is if you shout something involuntarily; you feel the missed shots. http://www.polygon.com/2014/6/4/5777242/zen-pinball-the-walking-dead-table

Just came across this via Gameological Society http://boingboing.net/2014/05/29/my-20-year-obsession-with-drag.html

A Wired article published after the Facebook aquisition summarizes the situation and enumerates the technologies that Oculus is looking to employ. http://www.wired.com/2014/05/oculus-rift-4/

I'm hoping for an Oculus launch line-up to be announced. That will keep me excited for a while. Speaking of which, did a bunch of Double Fine employees leave for Oculus? I saw some tweet the other day that seemed to imply that.