What for Art Thou? - discussion on Kotaku re: games vs movies as art

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The Terrorists I Party With and Brit spooks: Yanks are frightful cowboys

I'm going with the gaming article. If you can understand why, you'll begin to understand Why.

Off to frag!

The other thing that freaks religious people out about those who do not believe in god? "We" cannot understand you at all. Take Scott Adams, for example ( Read more... )

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One of the things that drives me absolutely bat-expurgation bleeping insane about you people (you people == humanity in general, but feel free to take this personally if you're the kind of person I'm going to be not cursing about here) is that you insist that everything has to be A or Z. There is no middle ground. Even when there is. Like, for ( Read more... )

Dunno if this is profound, but I just thought of it ( Read more... )

Warning: there is some NSFW language herein, and some of it is spoken by me. In addition, there is an actual Gay Man, and I love him like my other brother. And we talk like brothers. It ... isn't always pretty. Those of you who are not regularly a part of the discussions held by the community formed around MasterNinja.com may want to bypass this ( Read more... )

So. Pantera. I lived during that time, they are one of the bands of my era*. And yet I never introduced myself until this year ( Read more... )

Did I mention that I bought 11 CDs last weekend? I got 10 of them this week - Reinventing the Steel appears to be backordered or something.

The heavier, more offensive forms of metal really soothe my rage, and I don't understand why that would be. [edit 9 May 2006] Now I know something about why that would be, anyway.[/edit ( Read more... )

So, woke up this morning to discover that the old round Honeywell thermostat was busted. How did we discover this? The chattering teeth were the first clue, and nothing happening when I cranked the heat all the way up was the second clue ( Read more... )

Gene Weingarten has some hangups. As do we all.

One of his hangups, not mentioned in the above referenced FAQ, is with the word fiance. There should be an accent mark in there somwhere. I forget where, and have never bothered to figure out how to make it show up anywise.

I sent him the following email, curious as to his response.

The wife and I ( Read more... )