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Perfect example popped up on my news feed today, Chelsea Handler continues to screw with Instagram over their no boobs policy. Her crusade started over a photo satirizing Putin's shirtless horse photos.

I almost always listen at work, but Common Sense and HH both tend to be so dense that I find them more distracting than the typical news stuff that I usually listen to, so I'm less likely to start them up.

I'm listening to the most recent Common Sense episode, Torturing our Values, right now. I'm almost always behind on Carlin's stuff, even with the infrequency that he releases stuff.

Right! Yeah, I intended it as an entry point to a conversation, not as the end of one. So many people bristle at words like "privilege". I'm even seeing more and more of my very liberal, activist friends getting a bit tired of social justice language, feeling like that language is more of a burden than a good tool. And stuff like income inequality is very nebulous, few men see that in action in their own lives. So I've been trying to avoid using words or topics like those to discuss it. But walking around bare breasted is something so simple, that anyone can engage with that as an idea.

I'd tried that, but I must not have been patient enough with it. I suppose a good time to re-arrange would be if you're ready to stay at a hotel but still have a bunch of hours left before it makes you sleep on the street. I have missed a train because I had too much luggage, couldn't buy more capacity and was trying to rapidly sell two cases worth of stuff and didn't get it done in time.

I didn't have a super specific thought about that, it just occurred to me. Mechanically it could be similar to 80 Days, but different in that you wouldn't be racing a fixed amount of time, but against other racers who you could assist or hurt (in fact, there could be some interesting ending options if you chose to help other people win instead of going for victory yourself).

That's actually perfect though, it lets you start talking about the nature of objectification. Breasts aren't sexual, at all. Totally not needed for sex, just for the rearing of infants. Our society has objectified them. On paper, a part of the body whose primary function is the feeding of babies ought to be something that's not sexualized. That's why I think the bare chest thing is perfect. There are a whole bunch of different ways to try and dismiss it, and I'm there's an interesting way to demonstrate how each of those dismissals is fundamentally flawed.

I'd love to be able to re-visit some parts of 80 Days without having to commit to a whole run. There's got to be potential to take that experience and break it up into more discrete chunks. Has anyone ever made a good "Canonball Run" game? Like, not just the cross country car racing, but the zany interactions and unexpected experiences that happen as well.

Thanks for linking that, fascinating read, and covering an area of history that I'm pretty ignorant about (the US in the Pacific during that time period). Regarding Facebook, it's surprising how many of the articles that I post there end up coming from the Idle Forums nowadays (including this article). Otherwise I don't have any advice to give, those conversations are tough.

There have been a bunch of pieces lately trying to explain to people from privileged groups how shit works. I've been trying to think of something super simple, something you can use to illustrate at a very fundamental level the difference between how men and women are treated by society. I think the best I've come up with is to discuss the difference between how men's and women's chests are treated. A majority of states have finally made it legal for women to go topless anywhere a man can be topless, and yet women are far, far, far more likely to be arrested, ticketed or harassed for being topless (even if its completely legal). Most people don't even know that it is legal in the vast majority of places in the US. It seems like a good angle to try, as it short circuits a lot of the bullshit people try to spout in denying how sexist the US (and the rest of the world) is.

How do you re-arrange your luggage? I can't ever seem to get things to move between cases. And I've got to track down that hovercraft, I remember seeing the headline once, but wasn't in a position to go that direction. My first playthrough, I mostly ignored the news/wait option, as I thought conversating for new routes would always be the best option. But now I've realized you can get routes from the news as well, on top of all sorts of other interesting and potentially useful tidbits.

Dammit, I had sworn I wasn't going to get into any more Infinite discussions.

Hydroplaning off into the ditch is the worst. In a very similar situation as you described, I ended up going into one of those goofy, Smokey and the Bandit style spins. Ended up in the bottom of a ditch next to the interstate, but thankfully the car was unscathed and I was able to drive out. But it left me more nervous about driving for months, and driving in rain for years. I've had a couple of serious accidents with cars, and neither of them made me as twitchy driving as hydroplaning did. Rodi, glad that you and your girl are okay. Jon, that's kind of crazy to me. Had you been in snow much at all before? I've known a couple of people from Florida who managed to make it to adulthood without ever being around snow.

That's what I tell myself when I look at my Dark Souls 2 playtime.

I'm so confused looking at that wall of candy in Notch's house. Like, what do you do with that? Surely the vast majority of that candy is going to go stale. Unless you're trying to become Jabba the Hutt, it's just decoration. It's just weird to me. And even if I were some super billionaire, I could have that in my house. I have terrible impulse control when it comes to sweets. I'd gain a hundred pounds in a month.

Pssh, that's like a tiny baby wheel, for baby games. A trucking wheel needs to be like 3 feet across.

It's about time, an official Farming Simulator peripheral is in the works. Perhaps a truck driving wheel for Euro Truck Simulator is right down the road.

So the three things that 8chan will be most known for are kiddie porn, gamergate and Nazis. Fine company indeed.

Picked up the Ultimate version of this for the PS4 for the lady as a Christmas gift. We already own it on PC, but I bounced on this so hard when it was released. Like hated it, biggest disappointment of the year for me gaming. But the lady loves her Diablo, and was disappointed I would play with her (which is how much I didn't like it, I'll usually play anything she wants to play). I had heard a bunch of people say they ended up liking the console version better than the PC version. And so far I agree! Playing couch co-op on the same screen with action rpgs is the best, and so few support it. Plus a controller just feels right with them, even if KB/M is more robust. I feel very disconnected from these games just going click-click-click-click.

Out of curiosity, does the virtual console support emulator features like save states and stuff, or are you stuck writing down the weird Bingo codes like the original NES? Those codes are one of the only things I remember about Megaman. Quite a few years ago, I was cleaning some stuff out of my room at my mom's house and came across a notebook that was full of codes from games where you had to write your save state down. Such a weird time.

I agree with what SBM said. The roleplaying part of it is really, really good. Each playthrough, I've decided that I would begin it with a particular personality, but would try to react naturally to each situation. Which makes it play out really interestingly. But on top of that, the game does something that is never done. It seems to be incredibly gender agnostic in character designs. There are all sorts of characters that would have defaulted to male in any other game. It tries to be more agnostic about ethnicity and race as well, but is more handcuffed by the politics of the day on that.

Picked up 80 Days after everyone has had such nice things to say about it (it's the first mobile game I've bought in a couple of years, I never game on my phone). I'm just stupidly impressed with it. Holy crap that's good. The mutiny is one of the highlights. I just finished my first trip, at 82 days, and the absolute best moment was in New Orleans. The steamships boiler had blown, and any hope of us making London in time were dashed. We were going to just miss it, based on all the routes I had available. So I went out for a walk that night...

It's not the end of the year yet, so I'm adding the wonderful 80 Days to my list.

Kill Screen is an old school arcade term, and I'm 99 percent sure that's why they named it that.