Of course not, it's to dish with all your fellow upper middle class bffs about the embarrassing sexual encounter you had the previous night, or talk about the latest overpriced fashion accessory from your favorite boutique in the village, or to do a boring monologue because the show's conceit is you're a writer even though it's hard to believe anyone would pay to publish this dreck
I need to sleep to consolidate thoughts, but my first impression is that by doing too many, it weakened some of the messages and they got muddled.
That's generally the impression I've gotten
Basically an interesting ambitious idea, sooort of fails in the execution, but not completely
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
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simonwolfi can feel a differencetoday, a differenceRegistered Userregular
What does a person need for travelling, anyway
I'm just going to dump my clean laundry pile into a suitcase and be done with it
maybe a toothbrush as well
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Deebaseron my way to work in a suit and a tieAhhhh...come on fucking guyRegistered Userregular
I'm just going to dump my clean laundry pile into a suitcase and be done with it
maybe a toothbrush as well
You need a belt.
You probably don't have a belt in your laundry pile.
and... socks are important.
maybe a jacket or sweater. You should totally bring a sweater for the plane in your carry on.
and a camelbak rarely hurts.
you might as well check the camelbak and belt. cause the TSA are awful.
Trending "How good will a random person tell me Spec Ops is" over time would be really interesting.
At first everybody thought it was mediocre, because first impressions were that it was a boring shooter with no distinguishing features.
Then it started getting tons of awards and everybody loved it for the subversiveness.
Then extreme backlash hit because a wave of people with no interest in the plot flooded in and thought the game was trying too hard.
And when that wave receded, the game is now looked back on in a somewhat positive light.
It went from mediocre to amazing to shitty to sort of good, and I bet it'll be considered bad if another subversive game comes out and/or shooters fade from popularity even further.
I got brought to a sunday brunch buffet all the time as a kid. In fact, that's the only time I remember eating brunch, since a breakfast/early lunch combo doesn't make much sense when I don't eat breakfast and either have lunch break at 11:30 (workday) or just eat small meals throughout the day.
I ate an engineer
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simonwolfi can feel a differencetoday, a differenceRegistered Userregular
I'm just going to dump my clean laundry pile into a suitcase and be done with it
maybe a toothbrush as well
You need a belt.
You probably don't have a belt in your laundry pile.
and... socks are important.
maybe a jacket or sweater. You should totally bring a sweater for the plane in your carry on.
and a camelbak rarely hurts.
you might as well check the camelbak and belt. cause the TSA are awful.
fortunately, as an Australian travelling to South Korea, I will not be dealing with the TSA
I have never heard of a camelbak before, but I do not think it will be necessary for this trip!
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knitdanIn ur baseKillin ur guysRegistered Userregular
It's a plastic bladder you fill with water and drink from using a bite valve.
TSA would probably assume it was filled with gasoline and shoot you on sight.
“I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
remember the devil scares of the nineties/00s
D&D
Diablo
Magic The Gathering
fucking stupid
That UN "cyber-violence" report cites a 2001 article defending Jack Thompson, kalling Pokemon "the killing game for toddlers" and D&D is satanistic. :rotate:
I'm just going to dump my clean laundry pile into a suitcase and be done with it
maybe a toothbrush as well
You need a belt.
You probably don't have a belt in your laundry pile.
and... socks are important.
maybe a jacket or sweater. You should totally bring a sweater for the plane in your carry on.
and a camelbak rarely hurts.
you might as well check the camelbak and belt. cause the TSA are awful.
fortunately, as an Australian travelling to South Korea, I will not be dealing with the TSA
I have never heard of a camelbak before, but I do not think it will be necessary for this trip!
But how will you stay hydrated and have your hands free for doing things?
They moistly come out at night, moistly.
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ShivahnUnaware of her barrel shifter privilegeWestern coastal temptressRegistered User, Moderatormod
Of course not, it's to dish with all your fellow upper middle class bffs about the embarrassing sexual encounter you had the previous night, or talk about the latest overpriced fashion accessory from your favorite boutique in the village, or to do a boring monologue because the show's conceit is you're a writer even though it's hard to believe anyone would pay to publish this dreck
I need to sleep to consolidate thoughts, but my first impression is that by doing too many, it weakened some of the messages and they got muddled.
That's generally the impression I've gotten
Basically an interesting ambitious idea, sooort of fails in the execution, but not completely
Yeah
It certainly had a couple of amazing moments that I felt were interesting and very relevant and thoughtful
But it also had others that were less so, and sort of weakened the other points. And it's not even necessarily their fault - they just chose interesting ideas that necessarily make others less powerful.
Later in the game, it becomes clear that the main character is suffering from either some kind of psychosis or PTSD or other mental disorder which is dramatically affecting his perception. Which is a very interesting idea! But then, it makes the plot points a lot less interesting - it's also a commentary on the Middle East, how it can be unclear exactly what's going on, how we build our own stories out of what we know and they may not be true. But in this case, with the mental issues present, it's a weaker point - it's hard to pull out "we don't know what's going on, exactly, and sometimes make bad decisions" when it's so much easier to stop at "crazy people make up stories about what's going on." So at one point, you give the order to use white phosphorus rounds on troops and end up killing civilians. It's clearly a war crime. But at the end of the game, when it's revealed that you have been playing an unreliable narrator the whole time, that message is weakened. It even weakens the other points of the game - up until then, it seemed like PTSD was beginning to manifest and take its toll. But at the end, it's suggested that the mental symptoms were present since the very beginning, so rather than being a story about how war can exact a mental toll on people (which is explicitly mentioned in some of the endings - 'men like us can't go home'), it becomes a story of a crazy person who was always a little unhinged.
Now, those plots are all still there. I'm still reading it as the story of a soldier who got PTSD, got embroiled in a complicated conflict, and through trying to be good, committed war crimes. I think that's an interesting story. And the other readings are very interesting too. But I feel that having them all together makes each individual idea less compelling.
I'm just going to dump my clean laundry pile into a suitcase and be done with it
maybe a toothbrush as well
Triple check to make sure you've packed your chargers.
imo don't bring any keys you won't need to get back into your place, because you'll inevitably leave them in your bag somewhere and panic when you can't immediately find them.
remember the devil scares of the nineties/00s
D&D
Diablo
Magic The Gathering
fucking stupid
That UN "cyber-violence" report cites a 2001 article defending Jack Thompson, kalling Pokemon "the killing game for toddlers" and D&D is satanistic. :rotate:
one gays invented brunch and your royalties fund our cabals of drag queen government infiltrators
two brunch is for getting literally anything as benedict including crab cakes, bagels, eggs, asparagus, spinach fritatta, whatever you want, you can benedict that shit and it will be good
three drinking is secondary to the first two unless you're a lush and even then if two mimosas gets you drunk in the morning then maybe you should just pack your weak ass bags and go back to dennys
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ShivahnUnaware of her barrel shifter privilegeWestern coastal temptressRegistered User, Moderatormod
Of course not, it's to dish with all your fellow upper middle class bffs about the embarrassing sexual encounter you had the previous night, or talk about the latest overpriced fashion accessory from your favorite boutique in the village, or to do a boring monologue because the show's conceit is you're a writer even though it's hard to believe anyone would pay to publish this dreck
I need to sleep to consolidate thoughts, but my first impression is that by doing too many, it weakened some of the messages and they got muddled.
That's generally the impression I've gotten
Basically an interesting ambitious idea, sooort of fails in the execution, but not completely
Yeah
It certainly had a couple of amazing moments that I felt were interesting and very relevant and thoughtful
But it also had others that were less so, and sort of weakened the other points. And it's not even necessarily their fault - they just chose interesting ideas that necessarily make others less powerful.
Later in the game, it becomes clear that the main character is suffering from either some kind of psychosis or PTSD or other mental disorder which is dramatically affecting his perception. Which is a very interesting idea! But then, it makes the plot points a lot less interesting - it's also a commentary on the Middle East, how it can be unclear exactly what's going on, how we build our own stories out of what we know and they may not be true. But in this case, with the mental issues present, it's a weaker point - it's hard to pull out "we don't know what's going on, exactly, and sometimes make bad decisions" when it's so much easier to stop at "crazy people make up stories about what's going on." So at one point, you give the order to use white phosphorus rounds on troops and end up killing civilians. It's clearly a war crime. But at the end of the game, when it's revealed that you have been playing an unreliable narrator the whole time, that message is weakened. It even weakens the other points of the game - up until then, it seemed like PTSD was beginning to manifest and take its toll. But at the end, it's suggested that the mental symptoms were present since the very beginning, so rather than being a story about how war can exact a mental toll on people (which is explicitly mentioned in some of the ending - 'men like us can't go home,' it becomes a story of a crazy person who was always a little unhinged.
Now, those plots are all still there. I'm still reading it as the story of a soldier who got PTSD, got embroiled in a complicated conflict, and through trying to be good, committed war crimes. I think that's an interesting story. And the other readings are very interesting too. But I feel that having them all together makes each individual idea less compelling.
Partially ^, though I do want to say I liked it overall, despite my complaint of muddled messages
Also wanted to respond to your nested spoiler
The game is intended to ask you a fundamental question: why did you go out and buy some Clancy-esque shooter? One with no pedigree, even, and mediocre visuals / gameplay? What is it about the specific genre & subject matter that made you want to impulse buy this game?
Now, if you didn't buy it impulsively when it came out, the question become mostly incoherent and then you've basically just played a mediocre shooter with no interesting pay-off. So that sucks. And the game goes further, and actually assumes that you bought it as a power fantasy and criticizes you in a very blunt manner for doing so - which can feel profound if the game made the correct prediction, but really rubs a lot of people the wrong way if they did not buy it for that reason (for example: people who just heard it was a good / affecting experience and wanted to see it for themselves).
Personally, I thought it was great, and it caused me to re-examine and ultimately change my opinion on graphic violence depicted in media & games. YMMV.
I don't often play shooters - I bought this on sale specifically because I knew it had somewhat subversive messaging, portrayed a complex conflict, and just generally portrayed how completely fucked shooter storylines can be and how conflict is a terrible thing that exacts horrific tolls, so it did rub me a bit the wrong way with that assumption, but I can't really blame it for attempting :P
one gays invented brunch and your royalties fund our cabals of drag queen government infiltrators
two brunch is for getting literally anything as benedict including crab cakes, bagels, eggs, asparagus, spinach fritatta, whatever you want, you can benedict that shit and it will be good
three drinking is secondary to the first two unless you're a lush and even then if two mimosas gets you drunk in the morning then maybe you should just pack your weak ass bags and go back to dennys
Denny's isn't where you go if you can't handle your alcohol, Denny's is where you go if you're drunk at 3am and there isn't an iHop nearby.
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I ate an engineer
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Apothe0sisHave you ever questioned the nature of your reality?Registered Userregular
one gays invented brunch and your royalties fund our cabals of drag queen government infiltrators
two brunch is for getting literally anything as benedict including crab cakes, bagels, eggs, asparagus, spinach fritatta, whatever you want, you can benedict that shit and it will be good
three drinking is secondary to the first two unless you're a lush and even then if two mimosas gets you drunk in the morning then maybe you should just pack your weak ass bags and go back to dennys
Denny's isn't where you go if you can't handle your alcohol, Denny's is where you go if you're drunk at 3am and there isn't an iHop nearby.
hmmm accurate
i think the only time we ever go to denny's at 3 am is if iHop is full up
remember the devil scares of the nineties/00s
D&D
Diablo
Magic The Gathering
fucking stupid
That UN "cyber-violence" report cites a 2001 article defending Jack Thompson, kalling Pokemon "the killing game for toddlers" and D&D is satanistic. :rotate:
It scares me when I score well on clickhole quizzes.
I feel like Clickhole suffers from a very weird sort of problem. In my mind, what happened was that The Onion spun off the two or three writers and the one editor that did the really bizarre Onion articles, and told them to make wacky clickbait.
It's not that the content is bad, it's just that everything on Clickhole is the sort of surreal humor you'd occasionally see on The Onion, while The Onion has much less of it (if any).
It scares me when I score well on clickhole quizzes.
I feel like Clickhole suffers from a very weird sort of problem. In my mind, what happened was that The Onion spun off the two or three writers and the one editor that did the really bizarre Onion articles, and told them to make wacky clickbait.
It's not that the content is bad, it's just that everything on Clickhole is the sort of surreal humor you'd occasionally see on The Onion, while The Onion has much less of it (if any).
the onion is long form existential hell
clickhole is the twitter version we truly deserve
Of course not, it's to dish with all your fellow upper middle class bffs about the embarrassing sexual encounter you had the previous night, or talk about the latest overpriced fashion accessory from your favorite boutique in the village, or to do a boring monologue because the show's conceit is you're a writer even though it's hard to believe anyone would pay to publish this dreck
I need to sleep to consolidate thoughts, but my first impression is that by doing too many, it weakened some of the messages and they got muddled.
That's generally the impression I've gotten
Basically an interesting ambitious idea, sooort of fails in the execution, but not completely
Yeah
It certainly had a couple of amazing moments that I felt were interesting and very relevant and thoughtful
But it also had others that were less so, and sort of weakened the other points. And it's not even necessarily their fault - they just chose interesting ideas that necessarily make others less powerful.
Later in the game, it becomes clear that the main character is suffering from either some kind of psychosis or PTSD or other mental disorder which is dramatically affecting his perception. Which is a very interesting idea! But then, it makes the plot points a lot less interesting - it's also a commentary on the Middle East, how it can be unclear exactly what's going on, how we build our own stories out of what we know and they may not be true. But in this case, with the mental issues present, it's a weaker point - it's hard to pull out "we don't know what's going on, exactly, and sometimes make bad decisions" when it's so much easier to stop at "crazy people make up stories about what's going on." So at one point, you give the order to use white phosphorus rounds on troops and end up killing civilians. It's clearly a war crime. But at the end of the game, when it's revealed that you have been playing an unreliable narrator the whole time, that message is weakened. It even weakens the other points of the game - up until then, it seemed like PTSD was beginning to manifest and take its toll. But at the end, it's suggested that the mental symptoms were present since the very beginning, so rather than being a story about how war can exact a mental toll on people (which is explicitly mentioned in some of the ending - 'men like us can't go home,' it becomes a story of a crazy person who was always a little unhinged.
Now, those plots are all still there. I'm still reading it as the story of a soldier who got PTSD, got embroiled in a complicated conflict, and through trying to be good, committed war crimes. I think that's an interesting story. And the other readings are very interesting too. But I feel that having them all together makes each individual idea less compelling.
I forgot exactly when spec ops came out, but it could definitely have taken a tip from season 1 of Homeland. The main character, the hero, is manic, paranoid, probably delusional. But that's not just to give the authors a "make Carrie do something crazy" card whenever they need to shake up the plot, it's because the whole story is about the national insanity and paranoia of America following the 9/11 attacks and America's willingness to act wildly out of its own realistic interests to prevent another attack. Carrie being crazy IS the message.
Spec Ops wants to do something similar I think, but its writers don't make that key connection that Homeland did. So they try to add elements, when really the best thing they could have done is kept shaving them away and keep focused on just that one core idea and really explore that all the way.
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
brunch is a more attractive meal party than dinner because it can be set at a reasonable hour and still give you plenty of time to clean up afterwards. It also lends itself to fun activities afterwards rather than everyone staring at each other blinking and trying to stay awake, which is often the case after dinner. Since it's earlier in the day, coffee is easier for most people than it would be after dinner, and can be used to fuel board games, watching a movie, walking to a park, etc.
brunch is never a regular meal, so it is inherently unusual and celebratory. drunkeness is not necessarily the aim of a brunch in one's home, anymore than drunkeness is the aim of a dinner party. However, alcohol during the afternoon adds to the celebratory feeling of the meal
it is also preferable to drink during the day as you sober up before bed and the alcohol no longer disturbs your sleep cycles.
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Rear Admiral ChocoI wanna be an owl, Jerry!Owl York CityRegistered Userregular
remember the devil scares of the nineties/00s
D&D
Diablo
Magic The Gathering
fucking stupid
That UN "cyber-violence" report cites a 2001 article defending Jack Thompson, kalling Pokemon "the killing game for toddlers" and D&D is satanistic. :rotate:
brunch is a more attractive meal party than dinner because it can be set at a reasonable hour and still give you plenty of time to clean up afterwards. It also lends itself to fun activities afterwards rather than everyone staring at each other blinking and trying to stay awake, which is often the case after dinner. Since it's earlier in the day, coffee is easier for most people than it would be after dinner, and can be used to fuel board games, watching a movie, walking to a park, etc.
brunch is never a regular meal, so it is inherently unusual and celebratory. drunkeness is not necessarily the aim of a brunch in one's home, anymore than drunkeness is the aim of a dinner party. However, alcohol during the afternoon adds to the celebratory feeling of the meal
it is also preferable to drink during the day as you sober up before bed and the alcohol no longer disturbs your sleep cycles.
I feel like both the radical gay and reasonable gay brunch has been presented.
Now the straights are left to figure out which is true.
It scares me when I score well on clickhole quizzes.
I feel like Clickhole suffers from a very weird sort of problem. In my mind, what happened was that The Onion spun off the two or three writers and the one editor that did the really bizarre Onion articles, and told them to make wacky clickbait.
It's not that the content is bad, it's just that everything on Clickhole is the sort of surreal humor you'd occasionally see on The Onion, while The Onion has much less of it (if any).
i feel like that's more a problem for the Onion tho
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SarksusATTACK AND DETHRONE GODRegistered Userregular
I did brunch one time but it was just breakfast with alcohol so it probably wasn't Real Brunch because it didn't suffuse my existence with the shared downfall of white people the previous evening.
I did brunch one time but it was just breakfast with alcohol so it probably wasn't Real Brunch because it didn't suffuse my existence with the shared downfall of white people the previous evening.
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I feel like this may in fact be the purpose of life, period.
ohhh... right.
They don't have Amazon Prime over there, right?
That's generally the impression I've gotten
Basically an interesting ambitious idea, sooort of fails in the execution, but not completely
I'm just going to dump my clean laundry pile into a suitcase and be done with it
maybe a toothbrush as well
You're so close to "getting it"
this is where one has a late breakfast:
You need a belt.
You probably don't have a belt in your laundry pile.
and... socks are important.
maybe a jacket or sweater. You should totally bring a sweater for the plane in your carry on.
and a camelbak rarely hurts.
you might as well check the camelbak and belt. cause the TSA are awful.
At first everybody thought it was mediocre, because first impressions were that it was a boring shooter with no distinguishing features.
Then it started getting tons of awards and everybody loved it for the subversiveness.
Then extreme backlash hit because a wave of people with no interest in the plot flooded in and thought the game was trying too hard.
And when that wave receded, the game is now looked back on in a somewhat positive light.
It went from mediocre to amazing to shitty to sort of good, and I bet it'll be considered bad if another subversive game comes out and/or shooters fade from popularity even further.
1) I don't know if it is really appropriate to bring children to brunch.
2) at that point why not just do dim sum?
fortunately, as an Australian travelling to South Korea, I will not be dealing with the TSA
I have never heard of a camelbak before, but I do not think it will be necessary for this trip!
TSA would probably assume it was filled with gasoline and shoot you on sight.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
That UN "cyber-violence" report cites a 2001 article defending Jack Thompson, kalling Pokemon "the killing game for toddlers" and D&D is satanistic. :rotate:
But how will you stay hydrated and have your hands free for doing things?
Yeah
It certainly had a couple of amazing moments that I felt were interesting and very relevant and thoughtful
But it also had others that were less so, and sort of weakened the other points. And it's not even necessarily their fault - they just chose interesting ideas that necessarily make others less powerful.
Now, those plots are all still there. I'm still reading it as the story of a soldier who got PTSD, got embroiled in a complicated conflict, and through trying to be good, committed war crimes. I think that's an interesting story. And the other readings are very interesting too. But I feel that having them all together makes each individual idea less compelling.
Triple check to make sure you've packed your chargers.
imo don't bring any keys you won't need to get back into your place, because you'll inevitably leave them in your bag somewhere and panic when you can't immediately find them.
All I asked was what platforms my friends were getting it on
amusing
two brunch is for getting literally anything as benedict including crab cakes, bagels, eggs, asparagus, spinach fritatta, whatever you want, you can benedict that shit and it will be good
three drinking is secondary to the first two unless you're a lush and even then if two mimosas gets you drunk in the morning then maybe you should just pack your weak ass bags and go back to dennys
@The Ender
Partially ^, though I do want to say I liked it overall, despite my complaint of muddled messages
Also wanted to respond to your nested spoiler
Denny's isn't where you go if you can't handle your alcohol, Denny's is where you go if you're drunk at 3am and there isn't an iHop nearby.
I don't even know anymore
i think the only time we ever go to denny's at 3 am is if iHop is full up
https://popehat.com/2015/09/28/revisiting-the-un-broadband-commissions-cyberviolence-report/
I feel like Clickhole suffers from a very weird sort of problem. In my mind, what happened was that The Onion spun off the two or three writers and the one editor that did the really bizarre Onion articles, and told them to make wacky clickbait.
It's not that the content is bad, it's just that everything on Clickhole is the sort of surreal humor you'd occasionally see on The Onion, while The Onion has much less of it (if any).
Got a beta key from my DICE buddy. Runs flawlessly on my rig.
I feel like I understand this guy
clickhole is the twitter version we truly deserve
I forgot exactly when spec ops came out, but it could definitely have taken a tip from season 1 of Homeland. The main character, the hero, is manic, paranoid, probably delusional. But that's not just to give the authors a "make Carrie do something crazy" card whenever they need to shake up the plot, it's because the whole story is about the national insanity and paranoia of America following the 9/11 attacks and America's willingness to act wildly out of its own realistic interests to prevent another attack. Carrie being crazy IS the message.
Spec Ops wants to do something similar I think, but its writers don't make that key connection that Homeland did. So they try to add elements, when really the best thing they could have done is kept shaving them away and keep focused on just that one core idea and really explore that all the way.
brunch is never a regular meal, so it is inherently unusual and celebratory. drunkeness is not necessarily the aim of a brunch in one's home, anymore than drunkeness is the aim of a dinner party. However, alcohol during the afternoon adds to the celebratory feeling of the meal
it is also preferable to drink during the day as you sober up before bed and the alcohol no longer disturbs your sleep cycles.
i would feel visceral shame if i was scooter
I feel like both the radical gay and reasonable gay brunch has been presented.
Now the straights are left to figure out which is true.
i feel like that's more a problem for the Onion tho
they should bring them over here
we should challenge some Western cultural paradigms about breakfast
But that's the best part.