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I didn't like Rollins for years, mostly because I knew some super fried stoners in high school who fucking idolized him, and any conversation about music with them would immediately be turned to Rollins, "Did you know, that like, Rollins, is like, single handedly responsible for like every good thing in music since like the early 80s." :fart: :fart: So yeah, I couldn't think of Rollins without thinking of those guys for years. Then someone drug me to one of his spoken word gigs, and that was a lot of fun and I've thought he was cool since.

That's the game dev version of, "When I was a kid, we walked both to school, uphill, both ways, in the snow! And people respected their elders and worked hard for hard tack and shit they were served for dinner every night!"

I haven't actually got around to playing Papers Please, in spite of having owned it since not long after it came out, so I don't really have a frame of reference for comparing it to this.

HEY! I wear a trenchcoat and like to pretend I have special powers.

A douche serves absolutely no function whatsoever, and is potentially bad for someone. Enemas are, as far as I know, generally safe (barring people who go for wacky coffee and wine cocktails). And there are probably more women and straight men who receive anal than there are total numbers of gay men, just from a raw numbers perspective (several billion compared to a few hundred million). So yeah, characterizing anal as gay is just silly.

Is this the Citizen Kane of Papers Please style video games? Seriously though, a game that's about running a newspaper is like a perfect game for me. More stuff on it here.

A haberdasher may indeed be a hat salesman, though a proper haberdashery ought have a wider selection of goods as well. Selling one good does not preclude one from selling other goods as well. Would you say a grocer is not a bread seller because she also sells fruit.

I have to say, I always thought charging cradles were a bit silly...but I really like the one my daughter bought for the PS4. It saves having a cable draped anywhere, and the dock sits nicely hidden in the shadow of a speaker. Plus if you get good about putting it on the dock each evening, you always know where a controller is when you're ready to play.

I was going to crack jokes about gamergate, but this is way cooler. Leigh Alexander is leaving Gamasutra to be one of the co-founders of a new gaming news site called Offworld (part of the Boing Boing network).

I have almost bought it a dozen times, so I'm glad to see someone here recommend it.

My general rule is, "Does the word or phrase have a current or historical context of degradation, and are there people currently who find it hurtful and offensive?" If yes, it's probably better to avoid it, if no, then cool. So lots of people might find fuckstick to be offensive, but they can go sit in shit for all I care, because there is no context for which it was ever a labeling word whose purpose was to cause harm. If people directly affected by those words want to reclaim them, cool, that's their decision, but I'll still generally avoid them unless I know I'm a hundred percent in a context where it's not only okay, but better to use potentially offensive words. As in, I have friends who would rather be called queer to describe their sexuality, and other friends who proudly identify as sluts, but I wouldn't use either of those words with company I was unfamiliar with. I curse like a sailor, both online and off, and am often a pretty cynical person. While it's taken some time and work, modifying my own language use really hasn't been that hard, particularly if I've saved someone else some unintentional pain or awkwardness in the process. And selfishly, no one will ever notice that I never use certain words, but I probably would have been looked down upon by some had I used them. It's an all around good thing to be really conscious of the words you are using.

Retard is a word that I've had to work really, really, really hard to scrub from my vocabulary. And I still screw up occasionally. But I've tried to understand the number of people who get hurtfully labeled with it and other shitty words, whether they be developmentally disabled, have a learning disability or some other reason, and tried to understand how those kinds of words and labels affect them. That's an awkward sentence, but I'm struggling to explain this.

Tim was equally amazing and awkward as hell.

No.

I'd kill for a PC release. I'd probably still play RB if I had it on PC, and not 360.

Fecal loading sounds like someone is prepping a poop cannon.

You could always talk about poop, that seems to cheer you up.

I love how competitive the Big 12 is over the last few years, and it isn't even consistently the same teams. ISU and OU have both been really good for a bunch of years now. But Baylor, Texas, OSU, KSU and now WV can all have great years as well. It makes it harder to get a high seed going into the tournament, but it also means that our teams that do get in are really tested and confident in themselves, having already played some of the best teams in the nation. KU will lose this conference championship streak eventually, it has to happen. But I just really want them to at least tie UCLA's record 13 consecutive championships. Every year has gotten more nerve wracking as we get closer to it.

I definitely agree on this, the buildup is neither healthy nor useful, and I recognize that there there aren't necessarily good ways to persistently vent or criticize with having undesirable or unintended consequences. But it's still why I have personal discomfort with how things like this play out.

My earlier comment, and concern to some extent, is the dogpiling that goes on. Yes, people should be able to criticize feminists, including Wu. But my impression over the coffee thing is that the dam broke and people's pent up frustrations or issues with her all got dumped that day, which is not productive. It's like when you're having an argument with someone, and the single issue you were arguing about suddenly becomes a litany of all the wrongs you've caused each other over the last year. That seems to be a thing that happens too often, when the last straw is placed and it becomes open season an airing all the complaints, criticisms or issues people have had with a specific person. So it's not so much criticizing her decisions in this case, but my perception that people used it as a diving board for a bunch of other stuff. Are there any other metaphors I can cram into this post?

Yeah, swing a couple of games different directions, and it could have been a 4- or 5-way tie for the conference champion, which I'm sure would have been a first.

I'd like to see it go to console just so they make more money and more people get to play it.

Steam Streaming requires two computers, the Link is a cheap, dedicated device ($50) that takes the place of the second, receiving computer.

Would it be too meta to make a Haberdashery Simulator with Source 2 and release it on Steam?

KU outright won the Big 12 Conference Championship tonight, the 11th in a row. My daughter was in elementary school and couldn't have cared less about basketball when this streak started, and now she's an adult screaming right next to me as we cheer them on. And much screaming there was at this game. Overtime, injuries, trailing most of the game. Fucking nailbiter.