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Sorry I must have missed it: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CB8QFjAAahUKEwiXrNvTypDHAhWTEZIKHQB2D_U&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcourses.cs.washington.edu%2Fcourses%2Fcse456%2F15su%2Fresources%2Fstrybrd_the_simpsonsway.pdf&ei=_ErBVZe-LJOjyASA7L2oDw&usg=AFQjCNFkyRijiMr4eZxiqMBOOlFXBoFTmw&bvm=bv.99261572,d.aWw&cad=rja God that link is painfully long, sorry. Some of that stuff seems obvious on retrospect but I really like how concise and well explained it is. It's also funny how Simpsons dropped all of those tips eventually. Although I was wrong, it was actually by Chris Roman with a few notes from Brad Bird. Brad Bird did some other King of the Hill packets though with similar tips. There's still some episodes that are great in Season 5 but strangely, as much as I like Conan, he brought a sort of an irreverent insanity to the table that I don't feel helped The Simpsons.

Recently saw some comments on Polygon on how 4-6 hours for Infamous First Light priced at $15 was a rip off. Around $3/hr. is way too expensive for some I guess.

If you have no room for more soldiers for Mother Base in Peacewalker you start getting codecs of men falling overboard. But once you finally see it during the final Zeke fight with SPOILER there's no way 350 men wouldn't fit there. It's even bigger than before now.

Holy shit how did you kill 273 people?! Are there even that many in the game before The Sorrow? Did you keep getting alerts and killing all of the newly spawned troops?

Yeah the reptilian joke. Maybe I was just having an an acute sense of deja vu earlier, because now I'm not feeling it so much.

I agree. The Homer goes to college one is particularly bad.

I feel like this joke happened here before the last time something was bleeped. Am I crazy?

Stranger's Wrath on hard mode and only capturing bosses, not killing, was intense as hell.

Facebook has your messages everywhere and will sync them, and Skype automatically makes a log of everything on Desktop, not sure about phones or tablets. Also congratulations Mangela, and sorry to hear about that gormante, just reading a news post now. Can't believe it was just because the driver was busy looking at her phone. Christ.

Fuck! And you have health insurance right? I have no insurance. I need asthma inhalers and they are like $80 now without insurance for a 30 day supply. Also I need a perscription which means (when I had insurance), I had to go to the doctor every few years to have the doctor make sure, yes I still have asthma. Since my asthma isn't bad they try to always push some useless bullshit daily medicine on me like Singulair along with the inhaler. My mom's a physical therapist assistant, so the past few years she has had a nurse friend at the hospital and he runs and gets people cheap pharmaceuticals from Mexico everytime he visits his family. So now I get 6 packs of inhalers every time for $15 and stockpile them. They are also the good shit, before they banned the usage of CFCs to deliver the medicine (which is partly why an inhaler cost so damn much now, some patent or other).

I like that he sounds like one of the nihilists in The Big Lebowski.

Minesweeper for 8 already makes you pay $10 a year for no ads. They beefed up the game but there's no reason to ever pay that twice or more. Obnoxious.

Thanks for that Wheeljack, this is all stuff I wish I understood more and arguments with people against minimum leave me kind of lost for words. Oftens it's just trying to remember stuff I've heard on why it's necessary (adjust for inflation, for instance) and then just being told they were making x dollars in high school and it's ridiculous that fast food workers or whatever want to get paid the same as their first career job. What you got paid 5 years ago just doesn't really matter in my opinion. But yeah definitely a moral thing, I agree. There's no reason in this country of excess that we can't move that wealth around. Ultimately I wish I could get out of here because of the healthcare system. I don't like the idea of going bankrupt and having your life financially ruined if there were some kind of major medical issue.

I think it originated as jury rigged, that's how I always heard it. However recently I learned there is a super bad racist version of it that people have long said because my wife had to fire a crazy white girl from her work for saying it. In middle and high school every damn preppy rich kid called things ghetto and it annoyed me to no end. Partly because I didn't have nice things so I was sometimes subject to this insult and partly because having a shitty old binder or backpack is hardly a thing to equate to living in a ghetto.

I can see how raising could be a bad thing but it's not fair for people who didn't have parents that were already wealthy and could not go to college or whatever and not be able to afford their own place, groceries, etc. (alone) even though they may work like 50 hours a week. If you aren't skilled enough to be in a career job you basically require someone else to be in your life to help pool money, whether it's a roommate, best friend, your family, or spouse. I think that's sad because it makes it so you can't build up your life or create savings without already having a bunch of anchors in your life in the first place. I don't really have these problems but while going back to school it's hard to not feel like a big mooch sometimes, like I failed, even though I'm trying to fix it. So I guess really even if it makes bad economic sense, raising the minimum wage might at least fix parts of some people's lives who are less fortunate. I don't see why we can't easily do this sort of thing since the wealth disparity is so high here and a lot of people have a gross excess of money they throw away on $7 frappacinos. I always see the argument against raising it that being cashier or something is a transition job and that these people are stuck here because they don't work hard enough or something and that it's up to them to better their life instead of crying about minimum wage. I can't stand when someone says that, upward mobility these days is so limited.

I don't think you should drink that. - I find it odd you guys save text messages, but it makes sense, like keeping letters. I think my phone deletes stuff after 30 days, never bothered to change it. I suppose I live in a strange world where I communicate with almost everyone through Facebook messaging instead of texting besides when my wife needs something, which logs your stuff until you delete it.

They don't fall below minimum wage, they will make at least minimum wage by law if the tips do not cover it. This is not to say that our minimum wage in this country is fair, because I don't think so at all, but waiters are still in the same boat as everyone else working wage slave jobs, they just get paid in a ridiculously bad way. If the federal minimum wage were raised to like $10-15/hr. in some places in the country that might pay out better than actually getting tips and hopefully we could do away with this obligatory tipping.

But then I'm paying to perpetuate the wage problem as tipping being a given and not actually being a thing to acknowledge good service. I'm already annoyed I'm conditioned to just tip for adequate service, and I figure that's enough. Like this all came up with takeout receipts and stuff and I give a minor amount even for that even though there's no point. And again they still get the minimum wage made up should they fall below. People don't have to work as waitstaff if they don't want either. Unless you work somewhere super fancy, it doesn't sound like a particularly lucrative job anyway. Also if something goes wrong, I have docked tips or not paid at all if really bad. I don't make a ton of money myself, even worse in recent times, and like I said bad waiters generally get more money than people who work slightly above minimum wage at jobs that are often harder. Also tne place I hate tipping is Alamo Drafthouse. The food is way too expensive and bad and it's not like the servers actually do anything a regular waiter would do since they can't talk if the movie and just take your order off a piece of paper, but it's set up in such a stupid way. Also don't tell my cousin, she's a waitress at a Drafthouse in town.

Oh maybe I missed that, I thought you had to go into the recently met users. It's in there too.

A lot of games I play don't really have sectioned out levels so I don't know how to answer that. But I guess I will pick Rayman 2's Cave of Bad Dreams. There's not as much exploration as many of the other levels and it's pretty twitchy, but it was a fun diversion (it's a back track level, though required) and I generally like levels that ebb and flow with linear chase parts to open parts. Rayman 2 is still so amazing to me even though the controls and such are pretty dated. Oh yeah and the end where you can choose to keep the gold and get the fake out Game Over had me cracking up first time through. Yeah that was my favorite level (and sticks with me as one of the best) even though I'm not the biggest fan of Psychonauts. I think I heard on one of the Double Fine podcasts that something wasn't working or it was a initially very different and it was almost cut. I don't remember where I heard this so I might have it wrong. Maybe someone else can enlighten?

I finally found where I got the two year thing. It was a Forbes article I had read a while back: http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2015/07/10/free-windows-10-charges/ but it looks like the article now has a bunch of updates and edits on it as new information was clarified. It looks like whatever happened was either confusion was cleared up or Microsoft backpedaled, either way, it seems like there is no reason not to update now and updates are free for the supported lifetime of the OS.

Am I correct in reading that they got rid of that caveat that you only get updates for two years and then you have to buy it?

I don't know where to share this, but I will do it here. I work/help at that video game camp I did the promo video for some weeks part time, usually it's fetching things, helping kids with Photoshop/animation, or playing a game with them during free time. During free time at the end of a session two weeks ago, I ended up joining in on the Luigi's Mansion minigame in Nintendo Land. Myself, two sixteen year old boys, and a 10 year old girl and boy was the line up. At some point the non ghost players were coincidentally walking single file in a line down the hall and one sixteen year old boy says to the other, "we look like the human centipede." I kind of chuckle and they laugh, we keep playing for like 20 minutes more. One of the older boys leaves to go to something else and another one of the camp counselors shows up and joins in. We probably play for about 10 minutes more until we happen to be in that single file line again and the 10 year old boy stands up and shouts in the cutest little boy voice, "Huuuumaaaan centipeeeeede!" The other counselor was trying to stop laughing so he could tell the boy not to say that but also could not explain why he could not say that. I think I should probably explain to the counsler the context of why that happened at some point, but I like it the way it is.

Even that system seems really bizarre. I was trying to get a waiting job at the high rollers lounge and the Sam Houston Race track with my friend in high school and he was showing me around and they had some machine to enter in the numbers and basically he and his coworkers said to just keep the number low enough to not draw suspicion. I didn't get the job, not sure what happened there. My first job I worked at a health food restaurant for $5.15 or whatever minimum wage at the time and was one of those half ass servers who bring the food to your tables, but otherwise stay behind the counter and make the food and don't fetch drinks (though I would if someone asked). It was a tiny place and run really badly. I always laugh thinking about it because whatever tips we had, even if it were like $2.75 over four hours, the owner would include himself in the tip share. I can still imagine the guy diligently breaking up pocket change and paying himself. When I worked at Starbucks earlier this year all my tips got autoreported to 50 cents an hour and I guess I couldn't be bothered to report that sometimes they went up to like 90 cents an hour.

I too hope one day people can do away with that bullshit. A popular pub here in Austin did away with it years back. Couldn't find a copy of their sign but http://www.austinchronicle.com/best-of-austin/year:2011/poll:critics/category:services/black-star-co-op-pub-and-brewery-best-tipping-policy/ Basically they just pay the employees more. Also I really hate hearing server complaints about bad tipping to continue to guilt us all. Like okay, the chef was slow, the food was bad, whatever is out of your control, that's fine, but I am still supposed to tip you 15% because of you as a person for existing? The other thing that is silly is bad waiters who make minimum tips still make more than a lot of others working shitty wage slave jobs because they still get reimbursed up to the minimum wage, should they ever fall below. Plus when they have tips, they usually under report them all anyway, paying less taxes than others with a set W2 who have no choice.