The Gamer's Quarter

dhex · Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 10:35 am Post subject:

same goes for if you ever make it to nyc.

anyway, i got the book, thun! thanks for the buttons as well as the impatient squirrel drawing.

how many pieces is this series going to run for?

There might be a good chance of this in 2009, if I can somehow finance a trip to an illustration show/comic convention.

Glad you got the book (finally). To answer your question: I'm not entirely sure of the final page count, but as an indication, Issue #1 covered what I had labeled "scene 1" in my notes. Urgh. I could see this being another 100–200 page endeavour, plus the associate materials (adventure game, and an exhibit of sorts next month).
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dhex · Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 5:10 pm Post subject:

i've heard it said that a good man is hard to find.
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dhex · Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 7:34 am Post subject:

though not if you're the uk gov't, apparently:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1077788/Government-unveils-Big-Brother-plan-Now-want-snoop-phone-email-text-message.html

i wonder how much of this is bullshit, just due to the sheer amount of data involved; a kind of fluffy show of force a la blind alleys and double-crosses one finds in intelligence services.

i wonder how much of my wondering is blind, stupid hope.
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dhex · Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 8:16 am Post subject:

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1008/Voting_for_Obama_anyway.html?showall

holy poopstick.

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dhex · Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:56 am Post subject:

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

that is indeed very, very strange. treating a very specific religious/ethnic "radicalization" like a street gang is kind of "interesting"?
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Scratchmonkey · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 1439

Heh, Ed Balls.

Edward Testicles (pronounced like Pericles).

Eddie Goolies.

dhex · Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 2:34 pm Post subject:

goolies?

that's a new one.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7674775.stm

hurd durf

"The biggest civil liberty of all is not to be killed by a terrorist."

Someone should revoke his, then.
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dhex · Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 7:52 pm Post subject:

i do not believe that word means what he thinks it means.
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dhex · Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 4:44 pm Post subject:

http://origin.denverpost.com/harsanyi/ci_10739667

but you just gotta vote! it's important! it's impooooorrrtaaaaannnnnttttttt!
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Swimmy · . Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 990 Location: Fairfax, VA

Yeah, way to miss the point. Even if the last generation weren't any smarter or informed than ours, it would only stress the point. Were the last generation's leaders that much better than ours? Minus Bush, I'm pretty sure they're of equal, bad quality.
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dhex · Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 10:24 pm Post subject:

it varies, i think , depending on time and personage. extraordinarily shitty people in the wrong place can be blunted, just as they can wreak havoc in the right places.

bush as a shitty updated version of fdr still sucks it though.
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dhex · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 8:10 am Post subject:

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/T/THE_INFLUENCE_GAME_HOUSING?SITE=OHCIN&SECTION=AMERICAS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

kirkjerk · . Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 1227

While there's probably a surplus of ignorance all around, some of those thing in the article about dumb americans are more like factoids. Like, I remembered only the last name of PM of England, (and from a glam politician standpoint he's no Tony Blair) but more to the point I think I know that the Liberal party has been strong for a while but now seems to be losing ground, possibly in part as a hangover of Blair's lapdog-ism.

I remembered Condaleeza Rice (sounds delicious) but forgot the title "Secretary of State", oddly.

More important than stuff like this is a rough understanding of the system, and the legacy of checks and balances. not that i think we're swimming in smarts about that.
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dhex · Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 9:05 am Post subject:

well yeah, it's all about factoids. the actual concept of that genre of article is really a factoid about a set of factoids and OH MY GOD MY HANDS THEY'RE HUGE

anyway, i'm far more worried about financial stupidity on the micro level. people not knowing how to do basic math, or run their lives in any meaningful way. that's a lot more important than remember which rumpled fuckhole runs which slate-grey hellhole.

on the macro level it's sort of the way things are at this point. we'll get small government in our post-apocalyptic scenarios, or if the paranoids are right and the entire system is run by baby-raping pedophiles and it somehow all comes out. crowds of regular, decent americans stringing up civil servants and congressional aides in the street; UN limos tipped over and burned; the night sky lit up as local politicians are cast into the fires, still desperately grasping at patronage jobs to spread back in the home district.

now if you'll excuse me i must change my pants.
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dhex · Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 9:35 am Post subject:

ok in all seriousness who the fuck decided to bring back the fairness doctrine paranoia routine? the fairness doctrine is dead, not UNDEAD UNDEAD UNDEAD.

the entire fucking political landscape is just going to play musical chairs, with republicans playing the part of jesus on the cross and...damn. it's exhausting to consider.
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dhex · Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 10:07 am Post subject:

http://www.furious.com/Perfect/freakshow.html

two-parter from almost two years ago.

it's funny how as the essay begins i'm able to hang on in there, but by the time it ends i'm thinking that i can't ever get those twenty minutes of my life back. it is an odd view of cultural flow that has little to do with cultural flow as it actually exists, but rather the last twenty years of the imagination of the leading forces found in the *cultural*studies.* culture, for lack of a better term.

it's an interesting impersonation of "small-town values"; everyone gets to be the local pastor and busybody wrapped up in one. don't want to be hanging around with the wrong kind, after all.

obviously i think much of what was written was increasingly ridiculous, but i would think that, of course.

"Although none of these NWA acts don the equivalent of minstrelsy's burnt cork blackface (yet what are we to make of the men's flagrant, flamboyant hirsutism?), the cool pose of their anachronistic identities, misty mountain hops, tribal markings and peasant garb is still alienating."

if you've never done acid or hung out with fuckups, that's probably true. i have a lot of back hair; i would like to ask the author what that means, though the question would only be taken as an insult.

what i will never understand - be this a mental issue on my end or a transmission issue on their end, or some combination thereof - is this insistence that the performer/singer/actor/comedian/whatever automatically has to be identified with in some fashion by the audience. has to - no exceptions. doesn't anyone just listen to music? hear it with their ears? no doubt - we can call this the palin effect for contemporary jazz points - there are folks who go see bands only because they wish to fuck/be/fuck again the person on stage; that seems like it sucks, but perhaps i have intellectualized music to the point where sound is sound and sound is all. that may be true. hell, the least interesting critique of 90s idm was "but they just stand there" - go to the fucking ballet if kinetics is your interest.

i don't like rock theatrics, and am actively annoyed by the "hello seattle" crowd banter. i like a silver mt. zion a lot, but ephrim's personal interests aren't very interesting to me, personally. you're asking a crowd of young left wingers in their 20s for their input, then being saddened that everyone sounds like a shitty bumper sticker. of course they do! it's a soundbite environment, and they're soundbite people.

a shorter version of the second page, really, is "joanna newsom: be black and less cool. or at least asian. and gay, if you can fit that into your schedule."

total side note: musicologists, i would like to find out what modern metal really has in common with the blues; especially in its more extreme forms. i hear this claim made constantly, and as i am not a musicologist (IANAM) i can neither understand it nor refute it. obviously i cannot hear it, either, but i'm also not a huge metal fan when it comes down to it, nor am i well-versed in the blues.
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extrabastardformula · . Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 295

pentatonic scales
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dhex · Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 9:02 am Post subject:

that's it?

or is that a big deal?

i feel like i should know this stuff but i do not.
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dhex · Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 2:11 pm Post subject:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/22/nyregion/22slope.html

we walked past the row a little while back, and i remember being impressed that they hadn't been torn down.
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extrabastardformula · . Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 295

Not just pentatonic scales. Call and response was another thing that was taken from the blues. But really it was more like blues influenced Cream, who influenced Black Sabath and a lot of funk influencing groove metal. There's several generations between them currently.
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dhex · Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 8:48 am Post subject:

ahh, so it's more like the "808 kick in early hip hop came from african drums" type thing?

in other awful fucking news:
http://reason.com/blog/show/129620.html

scum.
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dhex · Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 8:50 pm Post subject:

hoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooookaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

that was my reaction to that orson scott card thing, too.

it's great everyone has lost the last moorings of sanity.
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dhex · Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 9:05 pm Post subject:

http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/robertbellaire/gGgKqn

well that's something that makes me frown slightly.
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dhex · Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 5:31 am Post subject:

in a venn diagram, straightforward does not necessarily exclude stupid.
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I wouldn't call it that either.
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dhex · Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 8:51 am Post subject:

ships pass in the night!

that is the glory of the mind, and the beauty of tall fences and high powered, easily used firearms.
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dhex · Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 8:59 am Post subject:

author unknown:

"When you wish upon a star, you are borrowing the government's economic plan."
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dhex · Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 2:56 pm Post subject:

http://www.reason.com/news/show/129710.html

oh tim cavanaugh, why can't you keep a job?
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Redeye · . Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 986 Location: filth

I did a google search on "Joe The Morlock".

I didn't think I would find anything except maybe the basic reference.

Too bad the links aren't any good. At least there's a guy out there who appears to really have the name of Joe Morlock.

I'm pretty sure it's a real person.
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dhex · Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 5:30 pm Post subject:

/raises hand

what the hell is a morlock?
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dhex · Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 5:31 pm Post subject:

in more serious news, man i'm sittin' on some freelance. fairly easy money. big bills, too. but i just can't bring myself to work on it for more than 20 minutes at a time.

bleh.
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dhex · Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 7:34 am Post subject:

ahh yeah ok.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/credit/view/

pass this along to anyone who doesn't know what a credit score is and how it works.

i'm proud to be a deadbeat, myself.
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dhex · Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 7:50 am Post subject:

dhex · Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 11:40 am Post subject:

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=3977319944317874561

worth watching.
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dhex · Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 7:44 am Post subject:

http://www.templeton.org/market/
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dhex · Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 7:33 pm Post subject:

it's out at coffee with the noble savage.
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dhex · Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 12:02 pm Post subject:

i have this bad habit of making fun of meyers-briggs nonsense when it is not appropriate, but i just plain don't fucking get the appeal. especially when it's people i know who are deeply atheistic or at least anti-religious, big on "rationalism" and first in line to make fun of psychics and other charlatans.

it's fucking confusing, is what it is. fucking confusing as all hell.
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dhex · Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 9:37 am Post subject:

dhex · Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 11:37 am Post subject:

http://www.positiveliberty.com/2008/11/oh-theres-an-election-soon-whos-running.html

mr. ridgely lays it on down.

i tend to agree with him. if the lines are not too long (they were fucking long this morning, hence my not voting yet) i will walk in there and pull for bob barr, though this makes me feel less than good, to say the least. if mccain were in danger of taking ny (ho ho ho) i would pull for obama, but mccain will be handily spanked even by the handout loving racist rednecks who live in upstate new york, most of whom will get over their irrational fear of a black planet.

thankfully i've never been one of those let's go to a bar and watch the election come in types so i don't have to worry about going to a bar and watching the election come in.

if i were single, however, i would totally be there because you'd either get drunk nerdy wonky girls who are ecstatic that their god is now symbolic king of the little people or depressed that evil incarnate and either way that spells drunken make out times and perhaps even a little bit o' sex in the bathroom. total pain in the ass, perhaps literally, if the lady is under 5'11" but the sheer berzerker quality is totally worth whatever UTI you're likely to pull down.
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