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I can barely ride a bike. I just could not get the hang of turning for some reason. Any time I tried turning I would find myself on the ground. And thats just basic turning. I can't even begin to try doing things like signaling. Or going downhill, that always ended badly as well. Because I was essentially unable to ride in anything but a straight, flat line, I stopped riding bikes at all by the time I was in highschool. I am still terrified to even try riding one again.

I've been so drunk I couldn't support the weight of my own head. I was playing the multiplayer mode in Bioshock 2 and my head kept sliding forward and I kept hitting my forehead on the coffee table in front of me. I would rest it there for a second, then heft it back up to keep playing, only to have my head fall back onto the table. I won several matches online that night, proving I am excellent at games when too drunk to function normally.

You know, PCs. Those things that come with that weird Mario Paint peripheral.

Didn't they already do that? I vaguely remember seeing some sort of message from Microsoft saying my emails would now be stored "in the cloud!"

The last game I worked on was a mobile game based on a type of rodeo game. Nothing inherently money grubbing or anything. But long story short, I ended up programming a game from scratch: 1)Based on rodeo thing I had never heard of for the gameplay; 2)Targeting iOS and Android, platforms I had never worked on; 3)Using a Mac to make sure the iOS version worked (when I had never used a Mac before) 4)Using LUA, a language I had never used before 5)And using CoronaSDK, software I had never used before. It was like teaching a guy to swim by throwing him off the Titanic. (And just so we're clear, I had made these facts abundantly clear to my boss before I was ever actually started on the project. ...it didn't turn out so great.)

My friend's dad ran a business cutting down trees and shrubs and stuff on people's property, I helped him out a few times here and there. It was pretty good work. Making sure nothing fell on people's houses added a lot of tension.

I've had several different jobs. I worked several years at a Subway, I spent a summer working in a lumber yard, and I've had a couple of office jobs, one of them a government position. Every job has its ups and downs. The trick is finding the ups and ignoring the downs.

If you could remember to put the cover on those TPS reports... that'd be great....

I like these. It makes me feel kind of nostalgic for older video games. I kind of expect to turn on my parents old computer and flip through the gigantic book of CDs we had, until I found a game I wanted to play. This feels like one I would love to play. I can't think of any specifically that it feels like that I might have played, but its just got a grrreat nostalgia vibe for me.

Metal Gear games definitely have this weird dissonance between American-style espionage action, and anime-inspired characters and stylistic choices. But it all blends together in a bizarrely brilliant smoothie of gamey goodness. I would recommend playing the other MGS games before 5 to understand whats going on... but I'm not convinced I know whats going on in that series anymore.

A death of innocence through sexual awakening. The nail polish as makeup represents the sexualization of women. The baby's head is representative of youth, and by that nature, innocence. The baby's head is trapped within the bottle of nail polish, so the youthful innocence is taken away by the representation of sexuality. ...or I'm just talking out my ass right now.

This thread reminded me that I usually keep a blog of the dreams I remember having. (Haven't used it in a while, but I haven't had many I remember lately, so, yeah.) Link for the Curious

I got a ton when I went to ComicCon. So many people had 3DSes with them. Other than that, I only ever get my roommates showing up every once in a while.

That was kind of a neat game. It was a cool look at the other side of the dating sim type of game.

My mom always used to say, "Don't slap shit, it splatters." Splatters Inc it is, then.

I just have to ask, though: How do you plan on doing this if it becomes a big seller thing? Do you start working on artifical poop substitutes? Or do you start farming feces? Will you have employees on strict diets to provide consistent textures conducive to poo-candle making?

This... this is pure evil incarnate. The dark depths of your mind know no bounds, clearly. I am disgusted yet intrigued by this product.

Personally, I'd be laughing pretty hard if I recieved a packaged and it was just a boxing glove that punched me in the face. I like this idea.

Ugh. I feel like I'm having some sort of personal crisis. (Fair warning, slight rant thingy incoming.) I just haven't been feeling so great lately. I spend most of my nights (and a good portion of my days) wondering why I'm even here and what I'm doing with my life. (The big conclusion so far, by the way, is "Nothing".) Really, if I die, whats the big deal? I haven't done anything in my lifetime. The world would be in the same place it is now if I wasn't here. I have no idea what to do with my life. I'm at the point where the people around me are starting to get their lives together, starting careers and getting houses and being in stable relationships, and I'm just sitting here, with no idea what the fuck I'm doing. The one thing I thought I wanted to with my life (game programming) I just am not very good at, and now that I'm not forced to do it with school or work, I find no pleasure in it or anything and have a difficult time even opening an IDE. I feel like I need a change, but I have no idea what I would do or change. I moved out from my parents house... and all that's resulted in is a massive money drain as I desperately search for employment. Not the smartest thing I've ever done. I wonder if I wouldn't have been better off learning something different in college, but I have no idea what I would have gone for, and even now I can't think of anything I'd like to do. And now I'm so jaded about not being able to find a job, I don't really want to go back to school and put myself in even more debt. At this point I'm basically only qualified for the stuff I went to school for that I have become so disillusioned with that I don't want to do anymore, or for minimum wage sales jobs or burger flipping stuff. But as qualified or not as I am, I can't get even close to getting a job doing anything. I'm starting to wonder if there's some kind of mental block sabotaging me in subtle ways, like making my resume look like shit and then my brain convincing me its alright. But that's probably paranoid... but its my brain telling me I'm being paranoid, so I can't trust him... None of this is helping my horrible social anxieties as it is, and I find I just stay in all the time because I don't want to go deal with people. Some people have said I need to just walk up to people and start a conversation, but the idea of doing that makes me so nervous I want to throw up. So instead of doing anything I stay in my bedroom near tears as I think about how goddamned awkward I am, while instead of doing anything useful or helpful I end up complaining about it online and diving into some fucking pity party and I end up hating myself for it. Every day I try and think about my future, but I just can't seem to see a way to a better future, it all looks so fucking bleak and shitty. I just feel useless. ...sorry everyone, I just needed to spill out all the shit I can't seem to talk to anyone about. We will now continue with our regularly scheduled forum thread.

I believe it was one of the Monkey Island games that mentioned you really, REALLY don't want smell-o-vision.

I forgot I wasn't in an E3 related thread, and thought Dutch Oven was some amazing game announcement I had missed.

The thing is, I will not be buying an XBone because I am the type of gamer who would be horribly inconvenienced by this. Of all the console games I own, more than 75% of them were bought used. I lived in an area with terribly slow internet that occasionally will be cut for weeks at a time. The XBone would basically be unplayable for me. For that reason, I cannot justify ever paying for this console.

(melancholic realization) You're probably right.

(sincere response) Thats not a half bad idea.

...3D that actually works?