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I guess I've never seen it as any form of protest, just humor? Not like the most refined or nuanced, but just something said for a laugh, not particularly better or worse than the aggregate of other shit that ends up on coffee mugs and t-shirts that get a chuckle out of people. Maybe I totally missed the point of all the ironic misandry. I know that might tread close to the "can't y'all take a joke" type defense which is super gross when it's deployed in favor of rape jokes and whatnot, but it does sometimes feel like it's hard to find any jokes that someone can't take offense at with completely legitimate reasons. I guess I see some middle ground where it's okay to listen and acknowledge how people feel about humor, but also acknowledge that the joke works for a lot of people as well and shouldn't necessarily be done away with.

That was my reaction as well. But I played Conker with my kid when she was probably...12 or 13? It was probably terribly age inappropriate, but I just remember us both giggling our way through it and generally having fun with the gameplay. One of the best parts of having a kid is you get to gleefully indulge the parts of yourself that never grew up. Also on the topic of Rare games, Viva Pinata was the first 360 game I became legitimately obsessed with. I still think about firing it up some days, because I think there were a couple of super rare animals I never managed to attract or breed. It annoys me that a PC version exists, but there is no legitimate way to buy it right now since GFWL shut down and not all the games available on it were moved to other services.

What criteria or definition are they using for that database to define serial killer? There are at least a couple of different law enforcement and academic definitions, which are significantly different than what the public concept of serial killer is.

I think most people just use the random thought thread for that as well.

I'm more on board with Ninety-Three on this. The line between "Kill all men" and the persecution and murder of black men in our society is at best tenuous to me. I'm not going to say that there's nothing there, because I'm all to familiar with having discovered previously unknown blind spots in my own thinking before, but I struggle to follow the logic train that connects them. To some extent to me, it feels like the over-extension of trigger warnings. TWs have a useful and valuable role to play, but they can also be extended to the point of ridiculousness. I think the same kind of overextension can be applied to humor. Being able to laugh is fucking valuable. And sure, jokes can be worn out, in poor taste or pushed to hard, but we have to be able to find ways to laugh, and the ironic misandry has been a way for some people to do that.

Goldblum: The Water Ballet

I think it would feel like quite the different game solo versus co-op, much like Terraria. Solo seems like it would be frustrating to me, unless the speed that the enemy competitor works at is scaled down. The AI hasn't felt like a real threat in co-op, more just like a slowly creeping time limit, but if it's the same speed alone, failure could probably be a real possibility. If you see us on playing sometime, drop us a line. I think you can mix local/online in it. The lady loves it bunches, and actually wants to play it more often and longer than I do (which is the rare role reversal).

- left/right: walk around - up: ruminate - down: smoke Now I really want the ability to ruminate and smoke in ever platformer ever.

Only if it ends up with staggered releases across last gen, next gen and PC. I bought it twice at full price because I was too impatient to wait for the PC release.

I don't buy many new AAA games, so going back to last year I'm pretty sure it goes: Dark Souls 2, Dark Souls 2 and Bloodborne. I'm a sad, sad man.

My father-in-law gave me a copy of that and raved about it, and I felt like it was a real chore to get through. Probably the only reason I did is that it was a gift from him.

Using caps to capitalize is weird! I disabled my caps lock key years ago and use it to bind a custom command to now, since I use that command several dozen times a day and might want to use caps lock a few times a month.

I'm not even sure I agree with you there. While predatory business models bug the shit out of me (like many mobile games which depend on a small number of whales to support them), stuff like Destiny or the seemingly endless DLC chains of something like CK2 are...what they are. Games as service are a thing now, and I'm not convinced it's bad. Games are fucking expensive to make, and developers need to both earn profits and have steady income streams. The way games are financed and sold has gone through as much upheaval in the last decade as any industry ever faces. Not every solution is going to be perfect. Even modest games can end up with budgets of a million dollars or more. To contrast that, you can build a modest, but rather nice, golf course for $2-$3 million, with a yearly operating budget of maybe a million or so. Big indie games have budgets like that now, AAA has budgets multiple times that. Obviously that's comparing apples and oranges, except that it is about delivering hobby as a regular service, which is what things like Destiny, CK2, EU4, etc., are doing, but trying to do it without a subscription model. It's an a la carte buy in. Given the costs to build and maintain a modern game, I'm not even sure that $100+ a year is unreasonable for a game that someone will dump dozens or hundreds of hours into.

Source Source Of course there's no connection between race, gender and class....nope.

Wow, congrats on all counts!

Looking at the hobbies other friends of mine have (hunting/target shooting, golfing, various car/truck related hobbies, travel, fishing, gardening, sewing, knitting) gaming is at least on par, or even cheaper, than many of those hobbies. Even something that seems inexpensive like knitting can end up having a person spend hundreds and hundreds of bucks a year on material. The golfers I know all spend thousands a year on memberships, green fees, equipment and drinks/food while playing. A guy I was hanging out with this weekend does a lot of competition target shooting, and said spending a couple of grand a year on ammunition wasn't unreasonable. The lady is a huge gardener, and spending at least a thousand over the course of spring and summer on new plants, pots, seeds, replacing broke tools, fertilizer, extra water usage and other stuff is not abnormal. I think people often underestimate just how much you can spend on a hobby when it isn't their hobby.

Fucking hell, do want!

Haha! The "speakers in a truck" type guys are who he learned the schtick from. Guys like them just kept moving from city to city. He started working for them and did it for a couple of months in Kansas City, and when they were ready to move on, he didn't want to go, but he just bought a van and started buying his own shit wholesale. The speaker thing had an entire pitch behind it. They'd say that they were professional audio installers who hooked up bars, restaurants and other venues, and they were on their way to an install and realized they'd been loaded with an extra 4 towers and no one had realized it, so like, there was no way anyone would notice (or if they were almost sold out for the day, they'd say they had 2 left over from a job). They'd say that bars would buy these speakers at $500 a pop, but since they only had about 30 minutes before they needed to get to their install job, they'd sell them right now for just $250 each. Half fucking price man, how can you pass that up? Having speakers like your favorite bar uses man, but just half the price. If I remember right, the speakers actually cost like $125 each and they had a whole fucking warehouse full of them.

From what I still know about the newspaper industry, being at a small newspaper is going to be much better than many larger newspapers. I was in and out of journalism for years before finally being done for good, but all the people I know who are still working and happy with their jobs are at smaller outlets.

For some people, thinking they are getting something through an illicit/black market/stolen channel actually convinces them they are getting the best deal possible. So some people will view grey markets as the best option simply because they are grey. A friend of mine made a living for awhile selling shit from the back of a van that was all completely legally sourced, but he'd sell it like the shit was hot, and it was ridiculous how many people thought they were getting away with a great deal because of that. Humans are dumb.

I'm generally that way, unless we crack open a bottle of wine with dinner, which often leads to a second bottle for some reason. But it's only with wine when we're just sitting around shooting the shit after dinner.

This is what happens when you spend a weekend in the country in Missouri, someone breaks out a homemade flamethrower. I've got a couple of badass videos I may upload once I'm closer to stronger internet.

I feel like I'm suddenly spamming this thread, but I have to share this.

Best. Layover. Ever.

So my daughter is thinking about moving out to Seattle in the fall, probably in 2-3 months depending on money, job, housing, etc. I know at least some of the folks on here live around there, or have in the past. Anything you would advise a young person about moving out there? Parts of town to look for decent housing, job market, meeting new folks, etc?