Jake

You're probably fine, but might want to bow out for the really late stuff.

I really don't care for them and don't consider them a real part of the show but I don't know chris' opinion. (I know a lot of people in the world really like them but I am not one of them.)Also, this thread has me excited for the first episode.

NOOOOOO it was me all along.

Up until the last minute it wasn't that, I believe, but I know now that they published the platform name on the box of all of them.

A kickstarter creator's nightmare laid bare.

That's like saying you won't watch Alien because sci-fi video games exist.

Oh man, that is good. Your hat library becomes the seeds to generate traits/personalities of your robot nemeses. Seems fine. I have a lot of Sam & Max attire in my TF2 library so I imagine that would bode well.

Homestar Runner's been around for a long time, and one of the recurring characters is a bad flash animator (he's Strong Bad's housemate who Strong Bad seems to think is some sort of computer animation genius), and his work shows up in a lot of music videos. (To elaborate on Reyturner's post.) So yeah it's a really old joke but it came from when it was a new joke, and is now just sort of a character trait and part of the aesthetic at times. I used to not like it much as a gimmick but now I like it a lot - it places Strong Bad and H*R in an era of entertainment that is now over. The series has always been obsessed with dicking around with old technology and old aesthetic styles, and now their "he is bad at flash" joke is instead "this is the aesthetic of 10+ years ago on the Internet," and it seems like they know it.

Strong bad is also tweeting now. It's good.

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I'd always assumed that was what was supposed to be happening with that spiral trail - the flux capacitor got jerked around. That scene is the best part of BTTF 2 so I think we have to let it by.

Back to the Future 1 implies so much weird looping timeline stuff that they just pave over in BTTF 2. I mean... it seems implied if you watch BTTF 1 separate from the others in the trilogy, that the reason Doc and Marty are friends is because Marty met Doc in the 50s, that their friendship exists as an inevitable self perpetuating loop in time. There is probably some other more convoluted explanation you can come up with, but it feels to me like they are friends just because they always were. The feeling of the Chuck Berry loop is the same to me -- Marty knows the song because it exists in his time but his going back in time ends up creating the structure that leads to him knowing it as an adult. Of course the movie ALSO has people fading out of photographs and stuff, which implies changing events, so who knows. The rules Doc lays down on the chalkboard in the second movie don't really track with a lot of good, subtle stuff they imply and do in the first film, though. (Or rather, if you backport those chalkboard "multi dimension" rules to BTTF 1 I think it makes it a significantly worse film than when you treat it as its own isolated story that doesn't really try to codify how any of it works.) Back to the Future (1) is one of those movies that as a kid I liked in part because it was part of this epic three part story, but at this point I much prefer to look at it as it was originally presented -- as a single film that had no plans for sequels or continuity or a universe or mythos or reason, and was concerned with being a thrilling and interesting story in and of itself, not how it slotted into a rule system.

I meant that in the last season of Bufffy, Buffy herself turns into the mentor character to train a bunch of younger women but it also kind of falls apart both within the story, and AS a story.

The last season of Buffy! But that part was bad.

A few of us in the back were being abducted. That was from the Devs & Bevs event at PAX.

I don't know a studio in the US that doesn't provide benefits, at least for salaried employees. I am sure they exist and are probably more common than I think, but in my experience it is generally an expected thing to have included in your employment package as a developer.

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Nobody taped it, at least not officially and not in any unofficial phone cam recording capacity that they told us about later.

Let's just narrow focus to the important part of this post: fuck everything this has to happen

Idle Thumbs 176: It's an Itchio You wonder what your destiny may be but stop; that's not important now. With focus you will master this. With precise, uninterrupted attention you will ascend higher than you ever have before. You will see the two thousandth course. You will diffuse the bomb. And you will master the lore of the blade. But then things shift - the color changes, difficulty recedes - and you're left wondering what would have happened if you hadn't knocked over that blue vase. Games Discussed: Desert Golfing, Screencheat, Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, SwingCopters, Curtain, Eidolon, Blades: On the Edge Listen on the Episode Page Listen on Soundcloud Listen in iTunes Subscribe to the RSS Feed

It was me not Sean

It is content which could be donated to a media museum or academic archive or public domain or have its rights otherwise released in a non-monetizable way, though, as opposed to packaged up and re-sold. It was honestly an angle I hadn't thought about at all until Anita brought it up on the cast, so whoops on me.

What did I do!! edit if it WAS something bad Sean did it.

And it was Disney World she went to.

It turns out that Danielle and I both know too much about Disney parks to be safe. It's a bad time.