So I did NaNoWriMo for the first time! And I cleared it. Pretty proud of myself!* I'd gone in honestly expecting to give up on it by day four, but then I kept on going for as long as I could, and it turns out that was one month. This is a big thing for me, because I have a really bad habit of not finishing things I started, so when I actually do, ( Read more... )

Hi, folks, it's been a while since I spoke out in defense of free speech when the Popular Internet Comedy Guy controversy erupted. No, not that time, the other one. No, before that. Yeah, you got it ( Read more... )

Pet peeve of mine: I watch a show, play a game, whatever, and afterwards I'm still scratching my head about, say, a plot point or a character's motivation. Maybe I zoned out during a vital line of dialogue, maybe I misinterpreted or forgot an event, maybe I'm a bad armchair psychologist. It happens. So I go ask around online, admit that I couldn't ( Read more... )

So I signed up for NaNoWriMo! I've been wanting to do it for several years, but November's always been a busy time for various reasons (usually that November is often college exam time). Right now I am... still looking for a job, which is not an enviable situation but at least leaves me with free time. My situation might change until then (if I get ( Read more... )

Stop me if you heard this one.

Someone writes about a harmful trend in media, such as, for instance, the misrepresentation of mental illness in video games.

Then, someone posts this nugget of wisdom in the comments:

( Ummmm, this is FICTION, you know?? No one has ever had their behavior quantifiably influenced by fiction! )

I've been playing Pokémon Y lately, and while I thought I had every 3DS friend code in the universe, it turns out I might not! So let's fix that.

Mine is 2793-1050-0825.

If you have a 3DS and haven't added me already, feel free to even if you don't play Pokémon, because why the heck not.

"Huh, Pop Culture Thing implies something kind of messed up about Minority Group when you think about it ( Read more... )

So you probably know about the recent Popular Internet Comedy Guy controversy. It's only all over the Internet. In case you've been living under a rock, Popular Internet Comedy Guy made a joke, on a public forum, that upset Minority Group. Then, Minority Group started a bullying campaign targeted at Popular Internet Comedy Guy, with the unspoken ( Read more... )

See title. Holy crap!

And it's going to look like this:

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Am I allowed to rerun LJ entries? Because I've reread this one recently and thought it was pretty great. (Though it's much shorter than what I usually write, and half of it is me quoting other people... Maybe that is why it is great??) Some good comments, too.

I even went and fixed the title! Turns out "unredeemable" isn't a word.