JonCole

I use it as a "read later", which I guess is like what you're talking about. Every now and then I use it for approval without comment - most regularly with feminists, who I feel deserve my support if not my opinion.

Pacific.

I don't have enough time to do the research, but here's a decent place to start - http://alternativeto.net/tag/podcast/

Oh, I had no idea they were uploading those to YT. Nice!

So, Jeff Goldblum attended a friend of his fiancee's wedding and helped them take this photo:

They're archived on Twitch here - http://www.twitch.tv/rektreational Here's their Tumblr page, with a schedule and breakdown of the teams - http://rektreational.tumblr.com/ Note Nick Breckon on Ayesee Slater and Sean Vanaman on Potato Day. Also note there is a live game happening in a few hours or so.

The people who should discuss this further are the idiots, eot and SpennyDubz.

Yeah, that's definitely annoying. For some reason people feel like unique can be used in place of novel - sure, something novel may be unique in that in doing something new it has no equal, but something is not more unique when it is more novel.

What you're saying makes sense to me in theory and definitely in your anecdotal practice, but I still think that single issues obfuscate local elections to the point that in the area I live in we often have fairly unqualified people in office because they challenged an incumbent on a single issue and got in just for that political act. I mean, theoretically you're supposed to trust officials in positions like the police, judges, and school board members to make the right decisions 99% of the time and you may need to step in as part of the constituency 1% of the time where maybe they don't handle things properly. But if the political aspects of getting into these offices are making it so someone less qualified secures the position, it's much harder to trust them with that 99%-of-the-time-they've-got-it-handled thing. This could not be more true than in Florida's gubernatorial races, where single issues frequently get jackasses like Rick Scott elected who proceeded to singlehandledly destroy everything in his path whether it was public transportation, Medicaid expansion or what have you. That said, there's probably some weird other way that we haven't discovered to handle things like this, especially when you look at California's messed up propositions over the recent years.

Well, that wasn't exactly as I wrote it considering my very next sentence was making a distinction between voting for a person who holds x position versus voting for x policy. If the big difference between one school board candidate and another is that one supports common core and the other doesn't, why am I not just able to vote on that issue separately? Then we can hire a qualified education expert rather than someone who can politicize a single issue and get hired because of it. It's honestly a big problem I have with government in general - why are politicians making laws about issues with which they have no expertise? It really irks me most when a politician makes a definitive yet wrong statement about a clearly scientific topic on which they were briefed 10 minutes before a hearing by a lobbyist who put $10,000 in their campaign coffers.

I will add you, though I still haven't found the nerve to play with real people yet. I think I will do every possible training thing until even thinking of giving it a shot.

The usage of that sentence necessitates "anyway", which is definitely a word. "anyway" is... "in any case" or something like that.

I feel like this thread will really test the limits of our tolerance for each other. That said, I estimate the zero-to-shitshow potential to be much lower than on other gaming forums.

Typically, non-political positions aren't listed with party affiliations. That includes judges, sheriffs, school board officials, and so on. It's also customary to not really disclose your party if you're running in those positions, even if you happen to be campaigning with someone who does identify with a political party. I do agree that voting for these positions seems stupid - why should I have a voice about how my city does police work, teaches our kids, or judges people in a court of law? If there are particular issues that would be sorted by picking one person over the other, the issue at hand should be a ballot initiative rather than it be a matter of bureaucracy.

In my local area, there are elections for Mayor, City Council and Sheriff. Often you'll see single-ticket style cross campaign promotion, where a prospective incumbent mayor will campaign with the sheriff of his choosing. If memory serves, most prospective sheriffs spend upwards of $300,000 locally on ad campaigns.

It's both a thing and something people like to give me some shit over for some reason? I dunno, I just listen to enough podcasts that speeding them up lets me listen to a couple more. 1.2x is pretty easy to get used to and really doesn't mess with my understanding of 99% of people, except in the case of non-Americans speaking at Skype call quality. When a glut of podcasts come out during stuff like E3, CES, or SDCC, I'll listen up to 1.5 or 1.7 because my backlog is terrible at those times.

I figured that was a possibility, good to know.

Would buying something on your society6 account also help at all for this particular request? There was someone there I was eyeing and could potentially prioritize buying now/soon if the purchase would help.

I don't really think so, considering they're also offering a back catalog that you really would not be able to rent elsewhere in many cases. You're trading the lack of infrastructure for selection and convenience. Sure, I'd love for PS Now to be cheaper than anything else. But I personally can't expect it to break a model that's prevalent and working elsewhere. Hell, most HD movie rentals online are more expensive than renting the blu-ray locally - renting a 1080p HDX version of a movie on Vudu costs $6 while renting a blu-ray from Redbox is $1.50 per day. I suspect the value may come with promotional pricing, like a monthly selection of things that cost 50% less to rent or perhaps a free weekend rental of a really long game to promote the release of a sequel.

Redbox is $2 a day + tax for game rentals, Gamefly is $15.95 a month for one game at a time. I'd say PlayStation Now is on par if not better, if only because you can buy PSN Store cards discounted now and then (they are buy one, get one 25% off or effectively 12.5% off at Target right now) and there is no tax on digital purchases.

Did I follow that right? Friendly deny kill?

If memory serves, there are Professors Oak, Elm, Birch, Rowen, Juniper and Sycamore in the order of the games.

Do you guys assign any Dota 2 functions to mouse macro buttons? I was thinking about assigning a and s to two of my six thumb buttons to potentially make last hit/deny easier, but then again those keys seem to be the best place to keep those fingers on the left hand since you use qwer for skills and zxcv for items.

I've watched pretty much every game in the Rektreational and watching regular players rather than pros actually is far more informative as I can see how some things work and don't work in different situations. Also, I've started doing the practice stuff in the game which has been interesting. Not very good at last hits and denies... working on it, though.

Ah yeah, +1 to NL. He also archives all of his supershows and let's plays on YouTube under the same name.