Ben X

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  1. Steam Curation!

    http://steamcommunity.com/groups/bgb/curation
  2. A Super Fun Quiz for everyone!

    tbh I'm not sure 11 is an Amiga game at all, never mind the one I guessed - the quality sounds too high. It just sounded like that game's style...
  3. Feminism

    Why is it that self-proclaimed Social Media Experts never fucking understand social media?
  4. The microphone on my wireless bluetooth headphones doesn't work properly with Windows 7 (recording on Audacity or Sound Recorder comes out really distorted) until I use them on a website like clyp.it, at which point I'm asked in a little drop down bar in Chrome for permission to use my microphone; once I've said yes to that, everything starts working properly, including the installed software. Is there some way to give this permission without going to the website?
  5. Movie/TV recommendations

    I finished the first season of Utopia (UK) - loved it! Looks great, dark and tense but not too grim, a nice gradual unfurling of mysteries and characters. The one thing I thought didn't really get explained very well towards the end actually
  6. BioShock 2

    Looks like this is the thread for Minerva's Den postings. Here's a very short retrospective/recommendation by RPS: .
  7. A Super Fun Quiz for everyone!

    Stabs in the dark - 11 13
  8. "Ethics and Journalistic Integrity"

    Yeah, that plus the Google one. This would explain your initial *grumble*, Cine..! Edit: also, I fucking hate "hehe". It's "hee hee" (or possibly " heh heh" depending on what you're trying to convey).
  9. Life

    I've just had another problem with Plusnet. I got an email from them a while back warning about a rise in line rental costs, advising me to renew before they come in. Sound advice, so I call up to do so and the guy told me to call back nearer the time in order to renew. Turns out he advised me to call back a day after I should have done and so there was a month in between our two annual payments that wasn't accounted for and therefore we got charged for at premium. Thankfully, when I called back to query this, the person I spoke to could see from the guy's notes that he'd made the mistake, and she refunded us. Plusnet is just a bloody nightmare. Apart from anything else, it really grinds my gears that we have to pay £15 line rental a month in order to have the privilege of paying £25 for internet a month (though as far as I can tell this is a pretty standard grift).
  10. "Ethics and Journalistic Integrity"

    I think the only really problematic bit of Mike's (full disclosure - I have met him once or twice at indie events) post there is "no one is saint or misogynist". Edit: as pointed out in the Fem thread, saying he doesn't always agree with Anita is potentially troubling, but I bet if one were to push him on that they'd get a more specific and considered answer than the two related in that thread...
  11. Life

    quod erat demonstrandum
  12. Life

    I just googled "QED gif" and used the first one that came up (even though it isn't the correct QED abbreviation)!
  13. "Ethics and Journalistic Integrity"

    It only really hit me while reading these summaries that it would have made a lot more sense, even outside of rape jokes and disingenuous motivations on 4chan's part, for TFYC to have a mascot designed by a woman for their Female-Empowerment Game Jam.
  14. A few people are saying on the comments that it's a joke, so you're probably right.
  15. Feminism

    There were only a few bits of her auto-tuned; his stuff wasn't, was it?
  16. "You don't know anything about this hat, idiots" says man referring to his trilby as a fedora..
  17. Life

    jif is pronounced jif, gif is pronounced gif.
  18. Life

    I got £150 into my bank account.
  19. Life

    My (very long) complaint letter to Plusnet after they took over 6 weeks to install my internet:
  20. Elite: Dangerous (Kickstarter)

    Dr Wookie response post in 3...2...1...
  21. Hooray, thanks tabacco!