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    She just called me super excited, she was offered a job at a UPS Store in Tacoma (technically Lakewood).  The woman was ready to hire her over the phone, given her experience, the recommendation from her current boss and her photoshop/design experience and training.  She'll make a decision on it when she gets to see the store and area next week. 

     

    I'm floored at how easy this is going for her so far.  I'm used to people really struggling to find jobs when they want to move.  But I've tried to really drill into her over the years that job success is often driven by your network and the respect of your peers, and that's paying off in spades for her. 

     

    I'm so glad to hear it went well!!! "Struggling to find a job when I want to move to Seattle" is exactly where I am right now, so I know how rough that can be. Congrats to her!

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    Last I heard (via twitter) he was willing to be a stand in for another team, but did not have the time to commit to being a regular member this year.

     

    I wonder how many game delays Dota is directly or indirectly responsible for these days. 

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    My friends and I hit Japonessa near Pike Place every time I'm in town. It's a little pricey but the lunch and happy hour menus aren't too bad, and the food is soooo goooooood. Get the takoyaki, they're to die for.

     

    Oh! Oh! Also Vostok Dumpling House in Capitol Hill, they do... well, they do dumplings! They're amazing.

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    I haven't yet, but if some people wanna have a few rounds of Overthrow, Pudge Wars, or really anything at all, I'd be up for a few.

    Well, I have tried one actually: Don't Click the Crab. Friend of mine insisted on me to play it.

    It was on the 4th.

    He had a few to drink.

     

    Don't Click the Crab is a classic from the old WC3 days. It's just as engrossing and complex today as it was then.

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    My friends and I went on a Custom Game bender a couple nights ago and we came away loving Dota Run and Dota Strikers, the kart racer and soccer games, respectively. They're an absolute blast.

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    To take a common example, I think the Thumbs are great folks who make an effort to be good for this stuff but they make mistakes. I'm not going to pretend they're designated good ones and ignore that stuff just because it's rare. And I apply the same to anybody else, no matter how much I feel aligned with the majority of their social justice output.

     

    But by that same token, the occasional slip-up isn't enough to alienate me from someone who has a generally good track record and means well. So much of my experience with (mostly, but not exclusively online) queer communities has ended in witch hunts against ideological impurity, and boy oh boy that's exhausting. I don't have the energy for that anymore.

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    Bisexual and pansexual have come out of the past due to the fact that bisexuality was originally a psychological designation much like homosexual was and has been seen as fairly limited to binary gender ideas - the issue being that, however, many political activist groups sprung up with bisexual as a term so a lot of older people (like myself) have clung to that term even though most (not all though) bi people tend to say that they are pretty much the same as pansexual people. Pansexual people and bisexual people have quite a considerable amount of overlap in that regard. There's quite a lot of internet squabbling about it potentially being transphobic or binary-normative to still call yourself bisexual but that's the gist of it - pansexual people just openly use that identity to say that nothing about a person really matters other than THAT person, gender identity or presentation does not matter. This is basically how it is for me, but I am older and pansexuality wasn't a "thing" when I came out at 16, so I stick with "bi". 

     

    My feeling on it is that pansexual is basically a largely unnecessary identity label, the function of which is covered by bisexual, a term which we've had for decades and has served us very well, thanks very much. Having sat through my fair share of "bisexual promotes transphobia and binarism" arguments on the internet has left a bad taste in my mouth, though, and I'm intensely uncomfortable with the implication that we need a new word to incorporate attraction to people like me, like the old word wasn't good enough or I am somehow a special consideration when it comes to sexuality. The last thing I want is to be singled out; I expect if you talk to ten other trans people you'll get similar sentiments.

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    I got Hawkmoon out of my very first POE treasure chest, it was awesome. I'm not really sure where my upgrade path is - I've still got some last-expansion boots that I can replace, but that won't get me to 33. I've already fully upgraded my Exotic helmet, so I guess I'm just gonna be running Vanguard Dragon until I get those boots and then... Prison? I genuinely don't know.

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    So basically, everything is either way too cynical or way too shiny and happy. I just can't stand how we can only seem to be focused on one thing at a time. Either capitalism sucks or capitalism is a potential tool for social change. Social change is good, unless a brand acknowledges it in which as it's bad. A politician is great because he scored a lot of points lately, but if you look at his career as a whole he probably just breaks even or gets a little bit in the green on social justice.

     

    Anyways, I'm just so conflicted and bothered by all this shit. Anyone have any thoughts on my essay?

     

    I know how you feel. I'm trying really hard to disengage as much as possible from the overwhelming mass of opinion I get during high-volume times like this. But none of the things that you said are contradictory - capitalism is both incredibly sucky and a powerful tool for social change, and the latter doesn't excuse the former - but the former also doesn't stop the latter from being true. President Obama has been disappointing at many, many turns, but I challenge anyone, when they watch the eulogy he gave in Charleston, to keep their eyes dry. I'm furious at him, and I still wept.

     

    These are complex systems, complex people. It's okay, even necessary, to have complex and often contradictory feelings about them. They're not monoliths, and monolithic thinking is necessarily reductionist. They deserve more. For me, I do my best to engage at the level that allows me to preserve my mental and physical health, and past that, hey, there's always Dota.

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    It's totally okay to be stoked! I'm stoked! But I also know there's so many other protections we need for everyone, especially where it concerns jobs and bodily safety, especially for our trans folks. 

     

    Yeah. Rami Ismail just said something on twitter that I love - It's not "celebrate, but," it's "celebrate, and." I'm not raining on anyone's parade today. I'm incredibly happy! But I'm also lucky to live in one of 12 states in which I can't be fired for being trans, for example.

     

    We've got a lot of work to do! And that excites and galvanizes, rather than discourages me.

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    Maybe due to the fact that Microsoft was, at least as far as I know, the only press conference broadcast on TV this year? Weird disparity in numbers! It's gonna be an interesting generation.

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    Oh hey, I'm moving to Seattle in a few months! I have some friends up there that I visit once or twice a year. It's my favorite city, and the fact that I'm in thrall to the green apron should hopefully make finding a job to survive on while I look for a real job easier.

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    Maybe it's because you can be considered a professional/authority in dumpy nerd land in a metal t-shirt and jeans whereas if you're dressed up as a woman at these events, you're probably still considered a booth babe?

     

    I don't doubt that a lot of "lol dumpy nerd" articles are rather mean but on the other hand, the vast difference between what women thought was presentable and what men thought was presentable at E3 was a gaping chasm and it has to do with what is considered "appropriate" for women to wear as professionals and what men can get away with in nerd job spaces. 

     

    I have to say though, it's interesting the kinds of reactions that happen when people make fun of how regular ol' nerd dudes dress. It sucks when you're constantly judged on your appearance, isn't it guys?

     

    This whole thing hearkens back to the "video game industry dress code" debate from... this thread? The GG thread, maybe? that happened a few weeks ago. It's a tremendous double standard, and I'm genuinely surprised to see that the criticism is being taken at face value 'round these parts.

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    I've started to get my first round of rejections from this job hunt. Trying not to be discouraged. For every rejection I receive, I'm applying for two jobs!

     

    ...and drinking two beers!

     

    ......sigh

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    I feel like GB is actually quite similar to Thumbs in how they're jokey, go off topic, but have insightful talks. The main difference is that IT tries to make sure there's some in every episode, while GB is more "Let's see what happens!". Jeff has had some incredibly insightful thoughts on the industry, which I'm always in awe of how much he knows/retains.

    When it comes down to it though, we're lucky to have and have had so many really good podcasts about our medium of choice.

     

    Yeah, I definitely think that's true. The level of discourse on the bombcast is much more reflective of how game journalists tend to approach games, whereas you can definitely tell that the Thumbs are game designers and think about the medium in a fundamentally different way. But when someone (usually Jeff) actually engages with some facet of weirdness in this industry, his perspective is absolutely fascinating! I just wish it happened more often.