Mangela Lansbury

yes hello new year is a thing hello happy that

I have huge misgivings about Fates and Furies because it looks like it comes from the MFA school of flowery prose over everything else school of novel writing that seems to be SUPER in these days, but I ordered it anyways on faith because I am looking forward to this.

Do you mean something like Giovanni's Room or something like The Last Herald-Mage Trilogy?

And his love for Finn brought him back...! So romantic!

How's Mark Kern's League for (Straight White Male) Gamers coming along?

Sorry, but Finn and Poe are definitely going to get together.

He does say that, but if he knows that much and doesn't know the name they gave him, it could just be part of the brainwashing regimen!

I was going through my old gaming stuff at my mom's house so I could tell her what to do with all of it earlier today. It's been in a chest here for some 10 years, and I haven't wanted or needed any of it, so I figured it would just be me going through a bunch of stuff and being like, "Get rid of all of it!" That happened a bunch, but also I found out that I have some games that go for a lot of money on eBay. Does anyone have any experience with selling things on eBay? I don't even remember what this Demon's Crest game is, but I have the game with the box and instruction book which I guess goes for a lot on there. I also have Final Fantasy 2, which sells for like 50 dollars for some reason? I don't know. I have old games that I can sell for decent money, I guess. I won't regret it since the actual physical games themselves mean nothing to me (except that Adventures of Lolo I've got in the original box with the booklet, but I'm keeping that), but I have no concept of what it's like to sell old games (or anything) on eBay. Does anyone have any experience with that? Is it something I should pursue with these things? tl;dr i have old games that might be worth something and i need to get rid of them, how does ebay work

I went to see this again today with my family, and I think I might have assumed a wrong thing about the plot? I thought General Ginger said something about how his clones were perfect, and that Phasma made such a thing out of taking off the helmet because of some kind of clone code of customs or whatever. And that one Stormtrooper recognizes him on a busy battlefield and yells, "Traitor!" so I assumed it was because he would know exactly what he looked like because they uh... all look the same? And Finn makes those awkward jokes about, "This is what a Resistance fighter looks like. I mean, not all of them, obviously. Some of them look different." I thought it was pretty openly stated that Finn was a clone and the Stormtroopers were a new clone army, but my sister very vehemently disagreed with me! Am I wrong?

excuse me, i believe they got paid in exposure which is really priceless if you think about it

On top of the internet making fun of PTSD, it makes fun of simply giving a damn. The internet has a storied history of making fun of people for just caring -- memes like "u mad, bro?" are basically making fun of people for giving a shit about a certain topic. White man triggers are abundant, and they're also shitty.

I got my gift and it has a lot of chocolate "sharing blocks" which I guess is British for king size. Such judgmental, delicious candy. It also had Wolf Hall in it, which saves me from having to get a book for my holiday trip home. And some tea, which is nice since I was out and kept forgetting to buy more at the store! I took a picture of everything, so I'll upload it when I'm feeling less lazy! It is a nice package and I like it. Thank you!

Yeah, when the assumption is made that you are either male or female, and whatever your birth certificate says will be accurate for your entire life, that is reflected in the capabilities you build in your software. Overcoming that has been challenging, but once it's robust and fully tested we hope to sell the solution back to the people who distribute the software so it can implemented on a much broader basis until they come up with an in-house solution to the problem themselves. Please note that I don't have any idea what exactly is involved in the technical implementation since I'm just one of those obnoxious people who looks at impacts and opportunities for growth, then helps to manage the projects to grow into those opportunities.

The first project that I've had a large role in goes live on January 4th! I am excited and nervous. It's a change in software across the institution to try to ensure that transgender patients are never called by the wrong name, and that people use the correct pronouns when talking to them. It was a trial getting the obnoxious software we have to chart in to give us this capability, and it's still not a solved problem (you have to actually enter the chart to see the workaround we used to display preferred name and pronouns, so if you just use the quick-look feature for something like scheduling there's still no notice -- and so, there's still some margin of error, but at least it's been minimized to mostly interactions over the phone), but we're going to continue working on it. But I got an e-mail this morning that hospital leadership was happy with the results of our pilot program, so it's being implemented everywhere. Yay!

Would you say that the music choice is a sort of... sabotage?

As an aside, the last two posts from Chris and Argobot, which are both to some extent a kind of mea culpa, are what make me comfortable posting and talking about these kinds of things here. Participants are largely willing to say when they've spoken too quickly or out of turn or whatever, and that's so rare in online discourse. That matters, and it's valuable, and I hope that other people recognize that and continue to be comfortable talking about complex issues here. Gormongous, you always provide a valuable and thoughtful historical perspective, and I hope you continue to contribute to these discussions.

Collard greens taste great when prepared a few different ways. There's the classic soul food preparations, a more rural poor kind of preparation, a slow takes forever bored farmer preparation, etc. They're most closely associated with soul food, and therefore impoverished black communities, but the history of collard greens is nuanced and complex, just like everything else. I guess preparing them as a bland green mush (which is somehow possible and freaks me out since they're so damn easy to make well) is just being a bad cook. I don't know that it is appropriate response or oppressive. It doesn't make me feel bad about my poor, white rural family members who live in towns of 1,500 people in South Carolina, who eat collard greens because that's what the farmer up the street grows so they can get it by bartering. It just makes me confused -- how bad a cook can you be??? It's like when General Tso's Chicken got popular. Sure, it's not Chinese food, but Chinese-Americans sure loved it. And I've known Indians who love a good Chicken Tikka. It's not as simple as, "Someone who doesn't look like they have have a history with this cuisine is making this, and therefore it's bad," which in my mind is just as bad as, "Oh, you're from Panama? I bet your burritos are divine!" Food is a nuanced, complex thing.

GamerGate is, to me, a kind of post-modern political movement. They don't seem to stand for any one identifiable ideal (except arguably the status quo), but rather they tend to stand against what they interpret a perceived enemy as being for. But also I try not to really pay much attention to them anymore, so I could be way off.

Oh, you don't need Home Alone? What's it like being dead inside?

More than 300 hours if you include the 20 movies! Don't sell it short! Also, he won't watch Cyborg 009 or Sabu and Ichi's Detective Tales, so he deserves that fate.

This is like saying that every season of Murder, She Wrote is the same: Probably true, but not really the point! It's just silly fun and solving mysteries! Except the movies, which are about explosions.

I'm sorry, but I don't understand why Case Closed isn't first priority on your backlog?????

to that end, what purpose does importing the game serve? They're providing market penetration for an unlocalized version of the game, further showing that localization is unnecessary since interested parties will buy import the niche game anyway. I never understand the point behind behind all the grandstanding.