one of my underachieving high-school classmates grew up to be a Trump supporter and posts dumb stuff on facebook every so often
these things happen
but her husband just posted a photo of her, pregnant, in a hospital bed, face contorted with labor pains, while he posts up between her legs as if to catch a football
easily worth the pro-Trump posts
I made a game! Hotline Maui. Requires mouse and keyboard.
Security guard here has a couple volumes of One Piece hes reading between rounds
nice
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I don't mind supporting the group especially since I have to do something with the credit and I didn't have any music I particularly wanted to buy otherwise.
“I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
The lights legitimately might have done a lot to keep her warm. But that's something I always consider when performers are outside.
I missed the performance but I hope it wasn't really that bad :-(
no dude it was awful.
She opened with ald lang sine which was fine...
But then it transitioned to you got me feelin' emotions... to which she audibly asked two of the dancers to help her down the stairs, started talking into the mic about how there was no backing track for this, and the music just kept playing as she half-heartedly sang a few bars every 30 seconds or so... but all her high notes were sung perfectly, because they were part of the track, not her.
Then the second song came up which was right off the album, and she just doubled along with herself for a while until she gave up and the refrain was sung by the reccording.
It ended with her saying "it never gets better than this" into the mic before walking off stage.
I'm always amazed when people pull this stuff. I saw a guy freak out in a nice restaurant because he couldn't get a table on Valentine's Day. In a place I know was booked solid by late Jan and maybe earlier.
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Chuck Finley appears to be a voracious reader, having checked out 2,361 books at the East Lake County Library in a nine-month period this year.
But Finley didn’t read a single one of the books, ranging from “Cannery Row” by John Steinbeck to a kids book called “Why Do My Ears Pop?” by Ann Fullick. That’s because Finley isn’t real.
Chuck Finley pitched for several major-league baseball teams, including the California/Anaheim/Los Angeles Angels over 17 years. He might enjoy books, but a fictional version of him checked out plenty of books at one Florida library. AP
The fictional character was concocted by two employees at the library, complete with a false address and driver’s license number.
After allegations by an unidentified person made in November, an investigation by the Lake County clerk of courts’ inspector general’s office concluded that Finley was a fake, and the county has since requested a systemwide audit of its libraries.
The goal behind the creation of “Chuck Finley” was to make sure certain books stayed on the shelves – books that aren’t used for a long period can be discarded and removed from the library system.
If they didn;'t use a Bruce Campbell head shot for the library card, I will be very sad.
So, I decided to go back and collect a bunch of my DayZ posts because some folks suggested I do so, because they are genuinely funny.
I realized, in looking a lot of them over, that DayZ has a really... really weird and unique social dynamic that I'm not sure exists in a lot of other (if any) video games. Which is DayZ's unique approach to banditry and robbery and how it's this like weird, almost but not quite consensual negotiation between the person or persons being robbed and the people who are robbing them.
I'll probably write a much longer think-piece on it at some point, but essentially because DayZ has item-damage and degradation, and you can damage the items that people are wearing and have in their backpacks by way of shooting or hitting them in those locations, there's a huge disincentive to just wantonly murdering people on sight as a form of acquiring more and better quality gear. An extended firefight is not only wasteful of your own ammo and likely to result in your own gear getting damaged if you get hit at all, but is going to undoubtedly shred the loot of whoever you killed.
So as a result, DayZ not only incentivizes ambush tactics to minimize damage to yourself, your equipment, and the equipment of your target, but it also incentivizes robbery over murder. The threat of violence is a lot more lucrative over actually inflicting violence as an optimal play strategy in the game.
But then, it sort of calls into question why anyone would consent to being robbed. In real life, people don't consent to being robbed, they do it because they genuinely fear for their life, health, and safety. But when you're playing a video game, and dying in DayZ just means you lose your gear and respawn, where is the incentive for someone being robbed to "play along", if it means they're going to lose everything anyway and just respawn?
And that's where it becomes a weird, unique social dynamic I haven't really seen in any other game. Robbery in DayZ is a dance. It's a negotiation. If you just try to take everything from a player, strip them down their skivvies and essentially leave them in more or less the same or even worse a situation than a newly spawned player, they have no incentive to do anything other than make a run for it (forcing you to kill or chase them), try to fight you and force the issue that way, or log off (which currently still just causes their character to sit idle for a bit, and essentially allows you to loot them anyway and is basically them saying fuck it to the whole thing).
But if you don't force them into that position, now you're giving them a choice. If you want specific pieces of gear (like say, their gun, or their tactical vest), or are demanding a certain service from them (demanding they give a blood transfusion because one of your mates is injured and needs blood), or insisting you only want a specific resource (food, ammo, etc.) then that puts the person being robbed in a position where their compliance with the robbery puts them in a better position than the risk of non-compliance and respawning with nothing. The easier and more reasonable your request, generally the more accommodating they'll be.
It's a weird game.
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President Trump, probably losing the provincial election to an idiot BC government which will guarantee a future oil spill on the coast, Turkey continuing to implode & Russia retaking the mantle of formidable world superpower while a former KGB assassin remains its head of state (and by overwhelming popular demand, too).
At least ISIS is probably done for (albeit at the 'mere' cost of Aleppo being reduced to tossed bricks & charred bones).
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nobody can ever record anything objectively though
REALLY GOOD SHOW!
I can
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
one of my underachieving high-school classmates grew up to be a Trump supporter and posts dumb stuff on facebook every so often
these things happen
but her husband just posted a photo of her, pregnant, in a hospital bed, face contorted with labor pains, while he posts up between her legs as if to catch a football
easily worth the pro-Trump posts
I'm midway through 2 and it's still mostly very much not my thing
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
Ditto, I respect the craft but not for me.
nice
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
We talking about Mariah Careys thing?
Heaping shit on Mariah Carey as it was dragged away clawing and screaming
Well at least it looked like she was too drunk to care
dude its new years eve, NO
I'm always amazed when people pull this stuff. I saw a guy freak out in a nice restaurant because he couldn't get a table on Valentine's Day. In a place I know was booked solid by late Jan and maybe earlier.
If they didn;'t use a Bruce Campbell head shot for the library card, I will be very sad.
No, I'm calling that one a win for the good guys.
Carey dunking the year hard as it went on its way.
*chugs caffeine, pretends that staying up til midnight totally ain't no thing*
go home
reimanms thing said like 415k so i dunno what to believe anymore also who cares i'm drunk happy new year
*kazoo*
What a year it's been.
I got a little excited when I saw your ship.
You still have a girlfriend!
I realized, in looking a lot of them over, that DayZ has a really... really weird and unique social dynamic that I'm not sure exists in a lot of other (if any) video games. Which is DayZ's unique approach to banditry and robbery and how it's this like weird, almost but not quite consensual negotiation between the person or persons being robbed and the people who are robbing them.
I'll probably write a much longer think-piece on it at some point, but essentially because DayZ has item-damage and degradation, and you can damage the items that people are wearing and have in their backpacks by way of shooting or hitting them in those locations, there's a huge disincentive to just wantonly murdering people on sight as a form of acquiring more and better quality gear. An extended firefight is not only wasteful of your own ammo and likely to result in your own gear getting damaged if you get hit at all, but is going to undoubtedly shred the loot of whoever you killed.
So as a result, DayZ not only incentivizes ambush tactics to minimize damage to yourself, your equipment, and the equipment of your target, but it also incentivizes robbery over murder. The threat of violence is a lot more lucrative over actually inflicting violence as an optimal play strategy in the game.
But then, it sort of calls into question why anyone would consent to being robbed. In real life, people don't consent to being robbed, they do it because they genuinely fear for their life, health, and safety. But when you're playing a video game, and dying in DayZ just means you lose your gear and respawn, where is the incentive for someone being robbed to "play along", if it means they're going to lose everything anyway and just respawn?
And that's where it becomes a weird, unique social dynamic I haven't really seen in any other game. Robbery in DayZ is a dance. It's a negotiation. If you just try to take everything from a player, strip them down their skivvies and essentially leave them in more or less the same or even worse a situation than a newly spawned player, they have no incentive to do anything other than make a run for it (forcing you to kill or chase them), try to fight you and force the issue that way, or log off (which currently still just causes their character to sit idle for a bit, and essentially allows you to loot them anyway and is basically them saying fuck it to the whole thing).
But if you don't force them into that position, now you're giving them a choice. If you want specific pieces of gear (like say, their gun, or their tactical vest), or are demanding a certain service from them (demanding they give a blood transfusion because one of your mates is injured and needs blood), or insisting you only want a specific resource (food, ammo, etc.) then that puts the person being robbed in a position where their compliance with the robbery puts them in a better position than the risk of non-compliance and respawning with nothing. The easier and more reasonable your request, generally the more accommodating they'll be.
It's a weird game.
In our hearts he did.
President Trump, probably losing the provincial election to an idiot BC government which will guarantee a future oil spill on the coast, Turkey continuing to implode & Russia retaking the mantle of formidable world superpower while a former KGB assassin remains its head of state (and by overwhelming popular demand, too).
At least ISIS is probably done for (albeit at the 'mere' cost of Aleppo being reduced to tossed bricks & charred bones).