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I know it’s completely missing the point…
But reading @Scalzi’s response to GamerGate jerks just demonstrates how few companies run the media world and how important it is for us to maintain an open internet so that people can express themselves without being gated by companies that, as a whole, tend to be conservative (not in the political sense, in the business…
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Unacceptable
This is completely unacceptable and these people are complete jerks for doing this to Sarkeesian.
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A thought while in the pool today
I’d love to see either (or both?) Quentin Tarantino or Kevin Smith take on an updated film adaptation of Catch-22. The dialog is so important in the book and those guys are masters of dialog.
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Watching Netflix on Fedora 20
These instructions are from this site, but I don’t trust sites to stick around. Make sure Netflix is setup to prefer HTML5. This is in Your Account-> Playback settings. I have the latest nss (has to be equal to or better than 3.17.1) Need Google Chrome (you can PROBABLY do this on Firefox with a…
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Last.fm Listening Trends 2014 Q3
I continued listening to artists alphabetically on my computer and randomly on my phone. 1. Childish Gambino (92 listens) – Came across his music in my alphabetic romp. Currently conflicted. I enjoy the verbal jiu jitsu, but find a lot of it whiny (after hearing for the 15th time) and just so overly aggressively sexual…
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Strange Dream
Last night I had a dream that combined Games of Thrones and Perl programming. Like it was in the GoT world, but we had to do some Perl programming to defeat the Lannisters.
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September Video Games
Poker Night 2 (3 hrs): Before going on my recent business trip I wanted to take a small break from school work so I played PN2 the night before my trip. I reached the point where I’ve heard all the in-game dialogue so many times that I don’t even listen any more. I can generally…
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Review: American Gods
American Gods by Neil Gaiman My rating: 4 of 5 stars If you take Terry Pratchett’s Small Gods and combine it with Scott Snyder’s American Vampire, Vol. 1, you’d have a pretty close approximation of what this book is about. Given that this book has been out since 2001, I’m not going to bother with…
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WTF ADOBE?!?
Adobe is doing some pretty despicable stuff – logging EVERY book (whether or not you are using Adobe Digital Editions) and sending it back to a server. (Here’s the guy who first discovered it). Why is this an issue? Because the books you read can be used to discriminate against you or, in some countries,…
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Review: Pwned
Pwned by Shannen Crane Camp My rating: 3 of 5 stars In my first status update I was unsure of whether the book would catch on with me. I’d bought it as part of a bundle, and it wasn’t the book that sold me on that bundle. The concept was interesting, but I wasn’t sure.…
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Scarlett Dancing to I Fight Dragons
I was explaining bands to Scarlett and she wanted to see an example. The only concert movie I had was from the I Fight Dragons Chicago show. I put that on and she rocked out; And asked me to dance with her. The first video (blurry because she’s so close, I think) she is spinning…
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Review: I, Zombie
I, Zombie by Hugh Howey My rating: 5 of 5 stars That was extremely intense. I don’t think I’ll ever look at zombies the same way again. I got this book as part of some pay what you want bundle. I never would have bought it on its own – I’m not a big zombie…
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Review: Mogworld
Mogworld by Yahtzee Croshaw My rating: 4 of 5 stars This book is Simon Peg/Nick Frost meets World of Warcraft. I can’t remember if I got this in the same ebook bundle as Jam or a different one, but I chose Jam of this one to read first because it sounded like I’d enjoy more.…
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Review: Chrono Trigger (Boss Fight Books, #2)
Chrono Trigger by Michael P. Williams My rating: 5 of 5 stars This book is exactly what I hoped it would be. It is a deconstruction and reconstruction of the plot; it is an examination of what made the game so special. And it is a chunk of the author’s autobiography. Unlike the author, and…
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Review: Borg Like Me
Borg Like Me & Other Tales of Art, Eros, and Embedded Systems by Gareth Branwyn My rating: 4 of 5 stars (This ended up becoming almost more like a blog post than a review, but let’s call it new Books Journalism – a riff on new games journalism, which is really just Gonzo from the…