MrHoatzin

That was in Arizona, and she wasn't a "girl" so much as a congresswoman. In other news, Arizona announced a state gun yesterday. Normal, faggot states have official state flowers and birds and girly shit like that, but Arizona is more manly than that. At least they waited a month after Giffords was shot to declare the official gun of the state. Arizona is the only state in the nation where you can carry a gun legally just about anywhere, like in a western movie, perfectly legal. If you want to hide said gun, you have to have a permit, tho, but if the other people see it, it's fine. Bar brawls must be a lot of fun. Argh. Why do people huff and puff and act outraged when I say this is some crazy fascist shit? There is no better word to describe it than fascist. All of the Republican/Tea Party sweethearts had roving bands of thugs accompanying their candidates, curb-stomping and "arresting" people they deem as annoying, as if this is the Weimar Republic or some shit. This land has gone off the deep end.

Assholes the lot of you.

So what is the deal with Bukkit?

Look no further than Carcassonne. It is also cool with more people playing. The expansion packs can keep it fresh if you want to spice it up.

Because as everybody knows, they're always there, waiting for the vigilant stewards of Jesus's preferred economic model to blink—and before you know it Marxist Sharia is the law of the land.

Neat! Professors with guns will come in handy when Rick Perry outlaws institutions of higher learning as hotbeds of communism or something and sends in the national guard. Argh, don't get me started on how fucked up Texas is. :(

Argh, so this will be like Willy Beamish? Fake walking around?! Goddamn, I really hate that shit. I like to be in my character's shoes. It turns a potentially immersive experience into Menu Hero.

I don't think I've ever pushed myself too far without sleep. There was this time I stayed up painting all night, and when the sun came out I went to IHOP or something for breakfast and the colors of the world were throbbing in the morning sun. Trippiest shit I've ever seen without the help of drugs.

Ok! Unexpected, but a good message, I guess, for the kids... or not... or uh, something? Why?

I don't think they care. I've complained on their forum before to absolutely no answer from anyone official.

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I think "evil" is a useful shorthand word here.

I would imagine Valve has crunched the numbers on this and decided that in the long run it would probably benefit them in some way...

Stroke?

vZ5P6RUvbVM Here's my take on a transcript: Well, a very, very heaveay, ah, heavy, dur beartation tonight. We had a very derrse, derrison bite... let's, let's go ahead tarra tazon lshko the bit had a pit.

I wish there was an easy way to ask Steam if a game will run on my machine.

Hah.

I do now, superficially, having wikied the dude. Why exactly should I know about him, tho?

Hey, you're right, that does simplify. Thanks. I feel like I should've noticed that... It's been a while since I've had to dick around with math... the process of coming up with that equation was far more trial and error than I thought would be necessary. It's a humbling experience to not be able to envision mathematically what it is that you want to take place. I guess the 1 - ratio does make some sense—as I don't so much need the ratio of side lengths as the ∆ ratio of side lengths, but I have not entirely internalized the logic of it. And yes, the second container, the one that has the village, the kid with the dog, and the wall with the poster are in the 1:1 layer, so it doesn't slide relative to the window/body/narrative. As for the text legibility, I disagree about the need for a different typeface. Georgia or Arial will just not cut it conceptually. I initially wanted to use some sort of Blackletter, but opted for more legibility, hence this one. You don't have to be scrolling as you try to read, you know, you can just stop and read... then continue scrolling. As for the fuchsia background, I tried giving the narrative block a simple background of its own, but it looked tacky—it nerfed the impact of the background in a way, made it less daring and relevant as a part of the composition, excluding it and pushing it back rather than having it tie everything together like a passe-partout should. The first page will not have much text anyway and the background color is arbitrary and will change on the following pages. I'd say the usability is merely brought to the very edge of permissible insanity, rather than completely thrown out the window here. Are you on a Mac, by any chance? I noticed that the font is especially fat on Snow Leopard (but not on Leopard or iOS, somehow), but it looks fine in XP. The exclamation mark is particularly weird because the spacing between the dot and the stem is hard to notice, so ! ≈ |I1. Other than that the typeface is fine.

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An atomic number is a number of protons in an atom. It is a demonstrable fact. It is what makes zinc zinc and iron iron. What purpose could espousing demonstrably wrong facts about the natural world serve? It hampers the transfer of ideas and our understanding of the world if someone can just decide some things are the way they are in their little imagined world and this shouldn't be brought into question because it is their opinion. There is nothing in the definition of opinion that shields it from critique. And people at large and on the internet use it as a kind of magical word that allows them to believe whatever they want, whether their belief is testable or not. NOW, ALL OF THIS IS COMPLETELY MOOT! You guys are skimming over what I am saying and latching on to a perception of an aggressive tone—which is really not there! Trust me on this one! My crime is that I started with a rambly tangent that had no direct bearing on the content of Snooglebum's post. I appreciate his critique, I have internalized it, I have thought about what he said at the very beginning of the project—in fact, it was this contrast between a fairy tale and it being written in a kind of anachronistic contemporary fashion that I found really appealing and worth playing with in the confines of Hobo Lobo—and I have considered where I am taking it, anew, again, now that he brought it up. He had a valid observation on his hands, I said as much! How am I being rude here? What that rambly tangent does have a bearing on is the way he wrapped up what he said. I've been through a couple of hundred art critiques in my day, and all I am saying to Snooglebum here is to not hide his thoughts behind flimsy, guarded language. Of course it is his opinion. It is on art, it is not on testable facts of nature. And yet opinions on art are not the same thing as taste, though. One can critique art on many other levels than simply I LIKE IT or I DON'T LIKE IT. That is what he did after I asked him to elaborate. Tacking on that it is just an opinion made me think of all the dudes in the internet who use that magical opinion word to wall off their thoughts from further critical inquiry (thoughts they're not entirely sure in, or sure they want to witness being critiqued). Either way, there is no need for it. It makes you seem insecure. This is advice on how to critique things here, not an attack on Snooglebum or the content of his critique.

Didn't someone randomly make that and send it to Jake, or am I misremembering my veegee cross-stitch history?

There are such things as wrong opinions, tho. Labeling something as an opinion does not mean it is magically immune to criticism. That said, I think yours is a valid one. No need to put that last sentence there and dilute the content of your words. ANYWAY, the tone is not something I have failed to consider. I may rethink it again, however, at least for the narrator. Regardless, I am trying to avoid a highfalutin fantasy style. I actually wrote the story down in the exact words I used to summarize the story to my wife.

Pb-nRL6Gk1A I will try to look for data. I wish I kept notes about these things. I feel like am pulling stuff out of my ass when I know that I have encountered these graphs somewhere... That PDF OssK linked, as far as I can tell from a quick glance, just shows a difference and relative averages. If nothing else, it should illustrate that time spent at work doesn't necessarily directly relate to increase in productivity. In any case, even if US doesn't turn out to have shitty relative productivity, it is still at best middling relative to the rest of the industrialized world. Also, it is a unique artifact of the American education and popular culture that you automatically side with the poor oppressed businessman and his family rather than the dastardly, lazy worker who's after a free lunch. You need to stop thinking about it in terms of a zero-sum game.