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Had a great time hangin with folk. Thanks for doin this Squid.

Full disclosure: I'm intoxicated and have committed to that thread. But I am accepting this opportunity as a possible reason to stretch my personal policy. DAMN IT GORMONGOUS! This is why we can't have nice things. I read about Pope Joan in a book I stole from a public library dumpster before I had access to the internet and have never questioned the reading (possibly due to the interesting reactions I got while disseminating the "knowledge"). Now that you (a scholar that has studied medieval Europe) have taken a moment to dissent, I looked it up on Wikipedia. For what it is worth: I want to believe. I suppose this means that they don't have a hole in the inaugural throne where they make sure the new pope has testicles by grabbing his balls. This has become a (somewhat) disappointing day.

New Kanye http://www.ellentv.com/2013/11/19/kanye-wests-new-video-bound-2/ I loved it. Here's the thing though: I'm tired of Kanye's objectification of women in his lyrics. I think that the tendency is authentic to his vanity (the way he wants to present himself to others), but it feels like nothing more than a starting-point for personal development IMO. I love his tone. Kanye makes rap feel authentic with his skill as a producer/mixer, but the subject matter is so base that I have become frustrated with the waste of such immaculate style on describing how she looked when she walked in the club and how fuckable she was. COME THE FUCK ON KANYE. Fucking talk about something that has a five-minute walk's worth of thought to it. This song and this video are exemplary demonstrations of exquisite form with no content .

I just started playing Triple Town which is free on both ios and android. I was initially turned off by the cutesy style and what looked like a Farmville clone. Do not be fooled, if you enjoy grid-based match-three puzzle games, check Triple Town out. It's a high-score objective with a unique mechanic. This game is more similar to Tetris than Bejeweled. Placements are permanent until matches are made; this creates an anxiety of commitment. Initially, discovering the more evolved forms of matches is the motivation, but by the end of the second game, I'm playing for personal bests.

There is no doubt in my mind that multiple people have and are doing this. No individual can fathom the reality that is seven billion lives going about the world 24 hours a day. With those kinds of numbers, you can depend on everyone using every possible technology for every possible motive. It's like a Jehova's Witness told me when I informed him that there had been a female pope, "It's a big world, over time many things happen."

If they are less likely to get to know each other when sad, then the narrative becomes a bunch of survivors unwilling to get close to anyone else after a tragedy. The way they deal with never losing again is never loving again. Is there a single teardrop emoticon?

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Today I learned I had no idea.

I had a hypnagogic hallucination last night where my twitter-feed super-imposed its logic and meaning with the logic and meaning of ICE from Netrunner. Each update was a piece of ICE. I suppose each person was a server.

I think all of these things are dependent on having people you want to do them with.

Congrats.

Do you want funds?

That's fine. I'm only looking for consensual conversation. You didn't say anything offensive, I just tend to turn shit up to 11.

I'm not trying to be antagonistic, I'm just interested in this type of thing. Where do you personally draw the line at fantasy depictions of real-life unpleasantness. What determines that line? I'm sure when some people hear "sky-jackers" their immediate thought is the attacks on 9/11. A cartoon-adventure of their high-flying escapades then can be perceived as a dismissive insult to intense trauma. That's not the case for me, but I get it. I had a similar (though probably less intense) reaction when family members showed me a youtube video that they believed was actual police-footage of a DUI arrest. You may have seen it, it's from an episode of Reno 911. The police officer and the suspect create more and more complex choreography as part of a sobreity-test. They are both having a great time and the suspect is happily "well you got me." I didn't take any offense when I watched it with people who knew that it was a comedy skit, but when family-members presented it as if it were real, it kinda bugged me. I think that part of what bothered me about it is that I know that they trust the police. They work normal hours, dress rich and are always in their cars after dark. I, on the other hand, trespass as a hobby, dress like a bum, and walk around suburban neighborhoods at 2 in the morning for the thrill of it. I've been arrested for made-up charges, put in jail for 3 days because I had no money, watched a cop beat the shit out of a dude in jail for an insult, almost been run over by a cop-car who was driving atleast 35 mph into a driveway without their headlights on, had three officers pull their guns on me because they were looking for someone else and I was wearing a hoody at night, and I pay attention to police-brutality reports. So when my family was getting fact and fiction mixed up and thinking that cops are fun-loving and forgiving (as seen on Reno 911), it felt like they were saying that my complaints of treatment were exaggerated lies. I'm not saying that Police Academy 7 shouldn't be made, it's just a complex issue that interests me. I'm sure everyone has their limits. I bet Agatha Christie was a sore-spot for some in her day; and I imagine that there would be a public out-cry if a movie was made about some Mr. Magoo serial-rapist. All of the permutations and their social acceptability as entertainment is not obvious to me. It's fascinating.

I enjoyed listening. I understood more than I thought I would. Me and Capt. Hastings have only been playing since the Mario's Picnic episode and we just bought our first data-pack (What Lies Ahead). My favorite part of the podcast was when y'all were talking about instances of the theme and mechanics, synergizing. I get a very strong sense of this, but Capt. Hastings does not. She finds herself viewing the game as pure mathematical optimization. It's possible that the difference between us is that I read Count Zero and have started Neuromancer, while she hasn't participated in the fiction. Hearing your narrative interpretations of player-motives and card-abilities was fun for me because I'm constantly thinking about that stuff while I play.

Some of my friends have joined the Merchant-Marine and when they started talking about pirates (this is like 10 years ago) I was like "No way! Pirates?" The brutal nature of both the conditions which foster piracy and the no-nonsense attitude that they have adopted in order to prepare for the possibilty of being boarded or having to kill people seems to have trumped their Disney-upbringing. It's a weird thing. I certainly value the aesthetic and lore of cartoon-pirates, but I think that the homophone does neither of them any favors. "Swash-buckling Rum-Smugglers" is probably a more accurate description of the gentlemen-pirates whose plank I hope to walk. Maybe I should hold my ground instead. Take the name "pirates" from the real ones and call them "Destitute war-orphan kidnappers".

Kinda like how the reality of pirates is in conflict with the glamourous fantasy of pirates.

I want to know more about the conflicts between details and tone. I have a lot if difficulty with pacing too. Also, why are nice characters a problem?

From you list, I like "Soar and Seize" the most. But "High Jacks" gives me a pretty good idea of what I imagine you do in this game and it's a pun!

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I wouldn't listen to this all the time, but I enjoyed watching it once. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=r7ANZ8Osnz4

Comments on that video are a great read. Thanks for sharing. I also appreciate how on the Ebay page, it's listed as a "NO LONGER WORKING NINTENDO PS4".

Capt. Hastings and I went out of town. During the trip, I made the mistake of thinking that we should get coffee at at Krispy Kreme. I had assumed that bad coffee was the result of sitting in the tank for a long time and burning. This place seemed to have a lot of traffic, so it seemed safe. It was so bad. Now my tummy hurts and he coffee didn't even get me high. It makes me wonder if normal people have acclimated to bad coffee or if I have lost my ability to consume anything that is not in my routine. I can't tell who is worse off, those who drink this crap everyday or those of us who have lost the ability to do so.

Was it boring to play? or just boring to watch?

I know very little about programming, but this sounds grand. I imagine that when my toaster kills me, it will be because of the Wolfram language. http://blog.wolfram.com/2013/11/13/something-very-big-is-coming-our-most-important-technology-project-yet/