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I've already read Immunity, 10:40, The Bees and All the Birds--borrowed them from the library--I enjoyed them so much I wanted them in my library.The rest I'm saving for my train ride to Cincinnati, during my stay in Cincinnati and on my way back to Sacramento. Chances are I'll add 2 or 3 more books to that pile. When I read, I usually read 2-4 books at a time; my process of being able to juggle that many books is by feeling out where there's a narrative break in whatever I'm reading. Right now I'm reading Three by Sarah Lotz, Acceptance by Jeff Vandermeer, Palace of Books by Roger Grenier--collection of essays on literature-- and Something Rich and Strange by Ron Rash--a collection of short stories.

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Well, here you go: https://archive.org/details/internetarcade May recommend Black Tiger https://archive.org/stream/arcade_blktiger/blktiger.zip?module=blktiger&scale=2&keyboard=arcade Came across this from Polygon.

Updated my first post a bit. Right now I'm re-reading The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories by Horacio Quiroga. Quiroga is a Argentina writer--some have thought of him as Latin America's Poe, but I think that's a bit too much-- whose short stories focus on the macabre, weird and magical. One of my favorite stories in this collection is The Dead Man, in which Quiroga crystallizes the final moments of a dying man; an intense and heartwrenching read because Quiroga shows how world around the man is unresponsive to him dying. Another favorite of mine is Juan Darien, Darien is a tiger/boy and because of his nature, is hated in his village. Then there's Drifting which we read about the final moments of a man trying to survive a venomous snake bite or The Pursued which delves into the theme of madness and we're left with more questions than answers. The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories contain some of Quiroga's best Weird and Magical and Poe-like stories.

I agree with Fleishman comment. Not only talking over her, but constantly interrupting her too. Fleishman, with all due respect, just keep quiet and let Wu talk. I agree, but as it goes on, Wu moves away from that depoliticizing. Sadly, that's towards the end and she doesn't move away from it totally. Then again, Wu has almost always been like that since I first come across her work.

Wu did a two hour special with journalist Glenn Fleishman to address all the accusations leveled at her http://5by5.tv/isometric/26

And they've arrived!

Saw it, but right now I'm too tired to write about it. I fucking love it though

Colm Tóibín's Nora Webster is one of my favorite novels of this year. It's an exquisite character study and exploration of someone trying to re-building their life after a terrible loss. Tóibín really shines when he's just writing about the plainness and rituals of everyday life: there's sublime, almost transformative quality to it; and he does it with such deftness and delicacy that I'm in fucking awe of it. These moments, especially come out whenever we read about Nora changing her hair or buying new clothes or watching a movie with her children. "In the days that followed, however, the weather did not change much. Sometimes in the morning the sun burned through the haze more quickly; other times, the day settled into a sort of windless greyness. It was always mild enough to stay on the strand and they never changed the spot they had found in the dunes on the first day. Sometimes Donal came to find them, and walked down along the strand with his camera. All their efforts to encourage him to get him into the water, however, failed."

Resurrecting this thread Jeff Vandermeer--Weird fiction writer/editor and one part of the Weird Fiction Review--wrote for the Atlantic in the power and attraction of the Weird: "Here, in what is actually our infancy of understanding the world—this era in which we think we are older than we are—it is cathartic to seek out and tell stories that do not seek to reconcile the illogical, the contradictory, and often instinctual way in which human beings perceive the world, but instead accentuate these elements as a way of showing us as we truly are. Unruly. Unruled. Superstitious. Absurd. Subject to a thousand destabilizing fears and hopes." http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/10/uncanny-fiction-beautiful-and-bizarre/381794/

I will say the Navy Seal and its aftermath is intense, but that's about it.

A Hijacking is amazing!

Oh god! I LOVE LOVE LOVE that cat autobio.

Ito's The Thing That Washed On Shore is a great weird short story. I really love Ito's short stories; actually, Ito and Nakayama have cartooned great horror/weird short stories.

Well... I just bought almost two hundred dollars worth of books from Amazon....

I'm definitely on board with Danielle Riendeau & Sean on Sci-fi. I have such a love/hate relationship with it, as in, that it's hard for me to find books that really connect with me; movies not such much, I think that's because I can see people and infer emotions and story from their acting. I like my sci-fi to be in the background that doesn't call too much attention to it or as narrative spice that never overtakes the story or is given an interesting spin. I think this is why I'm a big fan of New Wave Sci-Fi, especially a big fan of the feminists that worked in this wave: Ursula Le Guin, Joanna Russ, Alice Sheldon, who wrote as James Tiptree & Octavia Butler. Russian Sci-Fi also took it to different heights: as an actual fight against the Soviet/Russian machine and to explore new territory without all the bullshit that comes with it. If you're interested in new stuff to check out, Danielle and Sean: The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years by Chingiz Aitmatov Dhalgren & Babel-17 / Empire Star Samuel R. Delany Lilith's Brood & Kindred by Octavia Butler The Female Man & To Write Like a Woman: Essays in Feminism and Science Fiction by Joanna Russ Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy The Crystal World by J. G. Ballard The Left Hand of Darkness & The Dispossessed Ursula K. Le Guin Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree Hard to Be a God & Roadside Picnic by Strugatsky Brothers Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

Actually, it's about ethics in gaming journalism.

The Dissolve looks at 30 American Indie horror films http://thedissolve.com/features/the-dissolve-canon/797-the-30-best-american-independent-horror-films-of-a/ & D'Angelo discusses the Blair Witch and so does Faculty of Horror http://thedissolve.com/features/movie-of-the-week/800-the-blair-witch-project-15-years-beyond-the-hype-a/ http://www.facultyofhorror.com/2014/10/episode-20-its-very-hard-to-get-lost-in-america-these-days-the-blair-witch-project-1999/

On the media did a cast on GG http://www.onthemedia.org/story/codemning-gamergate/?utm_source=local&utm_medium=treatment&utm_campaign=daMost&utm_content=damostviewed

For gaming: Usually when I'm working-out or work or on the run, I listen to podcasts that match that style: Ladies of Leet, Isometric and Spawn on Me When I'm in a relaxing mood, I usually put on Virtual, Select Button and A Life Well Wasted Non-gaming podcast (and I listen to a lot of them): Stuff Mom Never Told You Faculty of Horror Fugitive Waves | The Kitchen Sisters Futility Closet The Factual Opinion Stuff You Missed in History Class Love + Radio On The Media You Must Remember This

Hey Canadian peeps, may I ask for a favor? If any of you can get me Descant 164 Cartooning Degree Zero, I'll pay you back and for the shipping. I've been dying to get my hands on it.

Stuff Mom Never Told You does a podcast on Golden Girls http://www.stuffmomnevertoldyou.com/ Life is great

It was just the guy, friend and me. I party hard where ever I go. Nah, there were five or six other people there.

Ah, apologizes for the misunderstanding

I'm further into Evil Within and there are sections and chapters in the game that can be seen in a Silent Hill 2 or 3 game mixed with RE 4 action chapters; it's just a weird mixture of two vastly different types of survival horror game. I'm really like it.