The Gamer's Quarter

daphaknee · Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 4:58 pm Post subject:

yeah you just download something and it does the work for you

its not really like making a playlist at all

dhex · Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 7:48 am Post subject:

web 2.0 kinda creeps me out. i must be getting old.

speaking of creepy:

http://www.tsa.gov/blog/2008/08/keep-your-lap-top-in-if-you-have.html

and predictable and sad:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/20/AR2008082003956.html

dhex · Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 10:32 am Post subject:

http://community.feministing.com/2008/08/how_to_raise_a_feminist_son.html

despite some of the tone of the piece, it raises some obvious questions about raising children for anyone. it is a topic of particular interest to people with fringe beliefs, religious or political or otherwise.

my only real criticism is that "toughening up" is not a bad thing! being emotionally vapid leaves you open to massive amounts of manipulation by anyone even mildly skilled in fucking with others. (i.e. a lot of people)
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dhex · Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 10:42 am Post subject:

ignoring the universality of "rough play" with boys (or girls with sufficiently high levels of testosterone) at even very young ages, i do think yelling at people - or even going out of your way to correct people - who make the assumption that her son will be like 90+ % of all other males on planet earth and seek out women to mate as he grows up with is probably more damaging than "so you got a girlfriend yet?" being asked of a five year old. or at the very least, it's pretty fucking weird.
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dhex · Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 1:29 pm Post subject:

http://www.positiveliberty.com/2008/08/selfishness-egoism-and-altruistic-libertarianism.html
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dhex · Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 7:58 am Post subject:

http://orwelldiaries.wordpress.com/

neat idea. quality varies on the day being presented, of course.
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dhex · Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 8:09 am Post subject:

stanley fish, in pointing out the obvious, sometimes exceeds his carrying capacity.
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dhex · Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 12:14 pm Post subject:

http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stories/85075/nypd-traffic-agent-hit-by-car-is-laid-to-rest/Default.aspx

the baby died after eight days in nicu.
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Man that's such an awful story.
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dhex · Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 8:52 am Post subject:

on the positive side, dozens of people rushed over to actually lift the bus off the woman (she was knocked by the first impact into the path of the bus).

that's heartening, especially since my nyc experience where helping hands have been needed was definitely mixed.

speaking of mixed:
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=3553475

there's obviously more to the story than "he's too good" - there's a lot of whiny parents out there, too.

but still. sad.

or it could just be this:

kirkjerk · . Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 1227

dhex · Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 10:12 am Post subject:

"little league harrison bergeron" seems appropriate.

in lighter news:
http://newyork.citysearch.com/review/7087707

read the review for "I was HORRIFIED at their RUDENESS"

i love grassroots, so this makes me love it more. i have had zero.0 problems there in, dear god, a decade. i don't know what i would have to do to get on their shit list.
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dhex · Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 11:34 am Post subject:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/education/24evolution.html?pagewanted=5&em

man that teacher is all sorts of patient. good for him.
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ryan · . Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 999

http://crymod.com/thread.php?threadid=35022

http://www.veoh.com/videos/v15614307QHyrSB46

A medieval town made in the Crysis engine. The first link goes to a forum thread with pictures, the second goes to a video walkthrough. The images are much more impressive since the videos shrink it down and are too compressed.
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dhex · Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 3:17 pm Post subject:

holy shit. that looks amazing!
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Redeye · . Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 986 Location: filth

"anime eye" contact lenses

japan
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dhex · Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 8:20 am Post subject:

well, it's relatively painless for body modification...so that's something.

skull cracking at the dnc:
http://www.ep.tc/intro-archive032.html
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dhex · Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 8:26 am Post subject:

not really related:

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dhex · Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 8:56 am Post subject:

who knows? i'd think, though, that it was a mixture of the two. i'd probably be less blase about creationism if i lived in a place where it was common and up front, or i had kids in a system like that. as it is now, i only have contact with scientifically illiterate liberals, who are comical in their own right. (idiots with superiority complexes)

speaking of superiority complexes, i was watching some french news show on cuny tv and they had a clip of a russian tv broadcast about saakashvili that not only pulled some awesome hitler-related post-production (screen goes black and white and loops a few seconds of video so it looks like he's thrashing back and forth) and apparently some phrenology (i.e. his eyebrow ridges and forehead indicate he's insane.)

now, i'm sure it's all western propaganda and the like but i feel like that family guy bit where the two gyllenhals (sp?) are arguing with each other about who's more offputting, and the father comes along and says "kids, kids...please, you're both just terrible."
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dhex · Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 9:25 am Post subject:

http://www.aclu.org/drugpolicy/medmarijuana/36496prs20080820.html

is there perhaps hope in dope after all?
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seryogin · Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 10:50 am Post subject:

Man, the Georgia war was a goldmine for comedy.

It would've been even better if they wrote "Im in ur bas, stealin all ur shit."

Seriously, I could log onto a military forum every morning for the last ten days and see some American bitch about Russians rocking Marpat camo (the now not-so-exclusive camouflage of the US Marines), American shades, and riding humvees. I mean, damn, that was some GTA-style shit, Niko Belic would approve.

On a more serious note, media coverage of this shit was complete crap from all sides, though the American press was especially reprehensible. I can't imagine what they were talking about on that show, since I've been watching the Russian news all week and have seen nothing more insidious than what usually comes out of Fox news.
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Scratchmonkey · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 1439

Most of the American media have been along the lines of "OH GOD RUSSIA THEY WERE EVIL ALL ALONG THEY WERE JUST PLAYING ALONG AND NOW WORLD WAR THREE OH GOD", mostly

kirkjerk · . Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 1227

I know I'm just a stupid mushy moderate liberal, but the inability of the US Administration / press / pop-culture to acknowledge the existence of a Russian Point of View of the events of the past decade and a half or so is kind of nuts!

It's like they can't see past a Neocon "Woo hoo Reagan won us the cold war!" mentality, stuck on seeing Russia as just this post-Soviet robber baron mess...

This page I find a bit alarming: http://english.pravda.ru/topic/topolm-96
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seryogin · Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 12:32 pm Post subject:

Man, yet another event that can be summarized by that Simpsons episode where the American UN rep says "Soviet Union... Didn't you guys break up?" "That's vat ve vanted you to think"

Man, I can't wait to see the "New Cold War" articles that the weeklies are gonna start printing again... damn, just when that fad seemed to be dying out. I guess being "tough on Russia" is going to become the new "tough on terror" talking point for the propaganda factories. Makes sense, all in all, since Al Qaeda has turned out to be a one hit wonder (at least in the US) and now everyone in the West can go back to hating Russia, a nice familiar narrative for everyone involved.
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seryogin · Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 12:50 pm Post subject:

Redeye · . Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 986 Location: filth

seryogin · Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 1:32 pm Post subject:

dhex · Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 1:39 pm Post subject:

i knew that would bring sergei out. good to see you.

as for the source, who knows? french tv is like that. you know, french. with frenchness.

also why the living fuck would you read military forums?
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Redeye · . Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 986 Location: filth

dhex · Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 1:51 pm Post subject:

dude that's like hanging out in a guido bodybuilding forum. even if they're right...it's still ginos talking about curls.
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seryogin · Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 1:58 pm Post subject:

They post pretty cool photos. Some dude had a whole collection of scans from Chinese book on the Sino-Vietnamese War of 1979 (those were great; his assertions that Vietnam invaded China were not). The commentary on the site, though, was pretty dumb.

I've been trying to avoid the whole the "new cold war" topic, since that may lead to articles from the economist being linked (it was bad enough that Newsweak gave last week's cover to Zbignew Brzezinski; man, what's next, bringing Jimmy Carter out of retirement).

Damn, I've always thought that Red Eye was an Aussie, this blows me away.
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dhex · Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 2:08 pm Post subject:

Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

seryogin · Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 2:17 pm Post subject:

Well, the only stuff I've read is their Russia coverage, which isn't so hot. A few smaller articles I've read seemed a bit too mired in wishful thinking. The whole thing seems a bit too Tory.

In any case, they're probably good for other stuff.

also, the exile is back, they're online only (some of the war nerd's new stuff is superb).
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dhex · Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 2:18 pm Post subject:

they've never struck me as particularly tory outside of the leaderboards; i can't really comment on their in-depth coverage of uk politics since i'm not a uk politico and therefore don't really know the lay of the land. there's nuance that i'd be missing.

unrelated:

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dhex · Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 2:34 pm Post subject:

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&articleId=9113642
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dhex · Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 2:56 pm Post subject:

the next person who uses "pop" to describe a layout's appeal is getting their eyeballs gouged out.

on the plus side i got to write a standards manual that explicitly said "using comic sans is grounds for immediate termination and revocation of us citizenship."
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

this website doesn't pop enough for me dhex. recommend something new.
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-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932

"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!"

dhex · Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 7:33 am Post subject:

it's all fun and games until i put out someone's eye, shapes.

seriously though i want to find whomever it was that told people "pop" is a good synonym for "make it better without any input from me whatsoever" so i can kill them. dead. maybe while o fortuna plays.
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dhex · Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 9:17 am Post subject:

mccain picking paulin, i'm now leaning against crazy and thinking jesus, that's a great way to split off the angry women who are mad the national figurehead won't look like them on the dnc side. i'm thinking it's going to be a close race.

i am looking forward to the grumbling from the usual suspects about how paulin isn't a real woman because she's not a left-winger in the next three hours or so. (by looking forward to i mean "deeply saddened by")

anyway, jerkoff identity politics aside (is there any other kind?) i'm stuck in a mild dilemma, since ny generally goes blue harder than an asphyxiation buff with a aqua belt around his neck and his junk shoved in a jar of smuckers blueberry jam, so i don't think mcforeverwar is going to pull it off but i think barr is kind of a dick, too. unless it's close, i guess i could do barr - a good damascan is hard to find - since everyone else on the ballot, well...

this is one of those places where i can honestly point to the city council ballot and say "they're all a bunch of fucking socialists" and not be exaggerating.
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dhex · Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 10:19 am Post subject:

ask and thou shalt receive:

http://www.feministing.com/archives/010705.html

edit: i have to share this from the commentariat:

dhex · Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 12:10 pm Post subject:

speaking of hit and run, the whole HURR HURR A GURL HURR HURR thing is really getting on my nerves.
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kirkjerk · . Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 1227

dhex · Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 7:03 pm Post subject:

it is the historical use of the vp, to be sure.

it's all about abortion, anyway. for better or for worse, that's everyone's dealbreaker.
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Redeye · . Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 986 Location: filth

dhex · Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 11:14 am Post subject:

it may come up, but i'd be surprised.

obviously it is at least a peripheral issue, seeing as over 90% of prenatal screening positives are terminated.
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dhex · Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 11:23 am Post subject:

http://www.positiveliberty.com/2008/08/in-muted-defense-of-gridlock.html

dar on gridlock. i don't necessarily agree, but i wouldn't be too surprised if he were right, either.
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

http://coilhouse.net/2008/08/30/kowloon-walled-city-the-modern-pirate-utopia/
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