SecretAsianMan

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  1. Hipsters

    The thing I don't like about clyde's definition is that it seems to basically be saying "I'm cool, you're not". If you think you're cool, great. If you think you're not, great. But if you think you are cool and need the rest of the world to know it by using words like hipster, then I dunno. It seems like it shouldn't matter. Saying that people who aren't hipsters are squares sound rather arrogant to me. And for that matter, I'm not even sure what square means. I can only assume in this context that because hipster is good and a square is not a hipster, a square is bad. That's how I'm reading all of this anyway. If I am misinterpreting things, someone please tell me because frankly I am lost.
  2. In general I dislike the Original Series but those look awesome and I would totally watch/read TOS in that format.
  3. Hipsters

    Fair enough. I certainly don't expect everyone to feel the same way I do. My previous statements probably came off with more animosity than I actually have, none was intended.
  4. Life

    Tomorrow I start my annual vampiric cycle and begin working nights. Working the night shift doesn't bother me (I actually volunteer for it), but the long weeks and hours do. I'm going to have to put off playing Transistor when it's released, which really bums me out.
  5. Hipsters

    There are many, many words I hate for this reason, so yes basically all words are hated by me. As for people the word hipster has meaning to, then fine it has meaning for them. I'm not saying it shouldn't. I'm saying I think the word is overused and worthless to me. To me it's a completely meaningless thing, to clyde it's not. That's perfectly fine. I'm not saying it makes either of us better than the other. It's an entirely personal opinion. Hearing someone call themselves a hipster isn't going to make me think better or worse of them. I just don't think it does anything to actually describe them to me.
  6. Hipsters

    I dislike the word hipster because it's become so overused and muddled that it has no meaning anymore because everything is hipster in the right context. As for people who identify as hipsters, I don't really care either. It says nothing to me about who they are apart from caring enough to care about this thing that I don't care about. Maybe that makes me a hipster. Maybe not. I frankly don't care because it's not going to change my opinion on what I like or don't like so it's a meaningless phrase to me. This is not a slight against clyde or anyone else really. I just think the whole thing is dumb.
  7. I Can't Go For That (Game Series)

    Really it's the legacy of those games. The names are silly now but back when they were first created it made sense. At this point it's what they've always been called and how people know them, so just seeing or hearing it is often enough to bring back those feelings. I suspect that if Nintendo tried to change them today it would upset a significant portion of the internet, but then again what doesn't.
  8. Idle Thumbs 154: Super Good

    And now I'm surrounding Jake.
  9. Idle Thumbs 154: Super Good

    Man, this episode really is super good. First time they've ever read one of my reader mails. I purposely left the reveal of the human crew member as Breckon to the P.S. so as not to spoil the story and also to make it the twist.
  10. Idle Thumbs 154: Super Good

    I'm not done with the episode yet, but I want to point out that there in fact WAS a Flintstones Kids cartoon. http://youtu.be/QYUvUJbJ8Pg
  11. FTL

    Ugh, I am so annoyed at myself. I had an awesome setup going. Zoltan ship with 3 shields, teleporter with 2 Lanius crew and reconstructive teleport, hacking, a flak gun, a vulcan laser, and a bunch of scrap left to upgrade with. I was feeling pretty good about my odds against the flagship. As I reached the exit to sector 7, I fought a rebel ship. I took it out easily, too easily in fact. I forgot that I had a med bay instead of a cloning bay and lost both of my Lanius when the ship exploded. After that, everything fell apart.
  12. The Idle Thumbs Store

    Look...at...that...horse. The big teeth, the giant thumbs... It may in fact be a moth.
  13. FTL

    I never unlocked all the ships so I'm working on trying to do that. I got close to getting the crystal one last night but I didn't get any Rock homeworld sectors. I also tried to beat the flagship with a pair of flak guns (mark I and II), mind control, a combat drone, and a defense drone II. The defense drone carried me to phase 3 of the fight, but the flak guns were just too inaccurate to finish the job. I also tried out the endless mod for a bit. It makes some events completely pointless, such as any that delay the rebel fleet, and takes the tension out of the fights where a rebel ship tried to jump away and warn the fleet, but otherwise it's fun. I had a few bad starts so I didn't get very far to see how the endgame changes but the freedom to not worry about a flagship defeating build from the beginning was refreshing.
  14. Life

    Yesterday it was like 70F (21C). Today it's 34F (1C) and it's snowing right now. This planet is broken.
  15. The Big LucasArts Playthrough

    The forklift puzzle is one of those love it or hate it puzzles depending on how you solved it. Grim has a bunch of those (like the earlier sign post one and the kitty hat one) that either make you feel like the smartest person ever or the dumbest baby ever. That puzzle for me was way back in the beginning with the door lock to get into the mail room. Took me forever to get and I felt like such an idiot after.
  16. FTL

    I will further say that the defensive drones do seem to be quite a bit more powerful than before. The only ships (besides the flagship) that regularly stymie me are the Engi ones that have a ton of drones protecting them. Those battles tend to end in stalemates because I'm strong enough to defend against their weapons, but I can't get any shots/missiles/combat drones/hacking drones past their gauntlet.
  17. FTL

    I like the drones in theory but in practice they never work for me. Probably because I don't have direct control over them so trying to time things like attacking when the shields are down is tricky at best. I think the defense drones are great but I hate getting a drone system for a single drone and passing up something like cloaking or hacking.
  18. FTL

    I was actually going to look for a mod like that. I'll probably check it out tonight. Thanks!
  19. I don't think the Avengers can exist in a vacuum, because you do need some knowledge of the characters. But I do think you don't have to have acquired that knowledge from the other movies (although it certainly helps). It seemed to me that just the casual knowledge that there's a guy who turns into a green monster when angry was enough for the Hulk. Plot wise the movie does rely somewhat heavily on Captain America and Thor, but the main macguffin is never really explained in any of them anyway. Then again as someone who has much more than casual knowledge of the characters I could be completely wrong. Either way, I thought the Avengers was a lot of fun and is my favorite (thus far) Marvel film.
  20. FTL

    I would love that so much. By far the most fun is the trip to the flagship. I like trying wacky combinations of things, but I often quit once I reach the last stand because I know these won't work on the flagship. I can have a near perfect run with a full crew, tons of upgrades, and lots of tech/weapons but it won't mean a damn thing because the flagship makes everything irrelevant. I really dislike having to make builds specifically designed to defeat the flagship from the start because it's much less interesting than just going with what the game presents you along the way. Unfortunately I've found that's the only way I can win.
  21. I'd be sad to see it go, but I honestly don't have time for the stuff I'd like to do so I'm ok with you taking it down if no one else is around.
  22. Life

    So my power went out today and I decided to do a little cleaning when I came across this
  23. The Idle Thumbs Store

    I think we need a shirt that is just a collage of Chris faces. The many great faces of Chris.
  24. I Had A Random Thought...

    In the case of the gender-neutral bathroom, wouldn't that be more of the convention center itself rather than PAX? They may rent the space but they sure as heck don't control the facilities.
  25. Captain America: The Winter Soldier

    I suppose that makes some sense, but it's still dumb because that seems like the kind of thing they would explicitly point out.