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Daily tasteeness (2008-02-21)
Rock, Paper, Shotgun » The Soul of The Sims “Well, yeah, it’s some lines of code. But it’s also a precious hint as to how [Will] Wright, a man who’s had a firm hand on PC gaming’s till for decades now, views his own games.” Scratch Beginnings: An Interview with Adam Shepard ∞ Get Rich Slowly “[Nickel and Dimed] is a book that I wanted to like […]. Ehrenreich enters her experiment with the end in mind — failure — and she seems to do everything she can to make this end come to fruition.”
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Holy… oops!
From krustukles: God Hates the World. Krustukles’ comments are worth skimming, and I’m stealing another link from one of them. Welcome Home God Warrior. Ignore the anti-fat (and anti-Christian!) comments on that page, as they aren’t really relevant, entertaining, or useful, but the video there is a bit shocking. I thought folks in my family knew how to rampage… shit. This woman could give them all a run for their money. (Make sure to watch to the end and catch the editorial comments.) “I always have to be the warrior! Why can’t you be the warrior?!” Wow.
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A fat rant
The visible comments on YouTube for this comment are not enlightening — your typical array of, “Yeah, don’t hate fat people!” “Fat people are all going to die at age 30 of heart attacks!” and “Fatty fatty fat fat!” Yeah. Anyway. I think she raises some valid points. A lot of people do put their lives on hold for an arbitrary weight. Plenty of people who’ve been overweight for years or decades have no realistic idea of what their “ideal” weight should healthily be, but they get fixated on some number (usually around 130 lb. for women) and strive to hit it, closing their eyes to how they look or…
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Holy cow
I’m not surprised by the open hatred, but I am surprised that 1) the NBA was quick to snatch his fool ass out of there, and that 2) the news interviewer openly called him on that bigotry. Maybe it’s because I don’t watch television or teevee news, but I feel like America matured a big bit while I was sleeping on the media. There are always going to be bigots, but I’m always interested in the moment (whatever the hatred is toward) when the media (or the government, whatever) realize it’s bigotry and treat it as such. That seems like a massive turning point in our development, to me. For…
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Gettin’ my twist on
Here’s another one for you folks, complete with pictures and links. It’s longer, like 20-something minutes, so I won’t be offended if people skim. I just talk to hear myself talk, I think. Subject matter: Hair: teeny-weeny-afros, twists, and locs “Ugh! You and your feminism!” Research: misogyny in One Hundred Years of Solitude Knitting! Afrika Step! Role-playing: Victoriana, Palladium, and D & D Relevant links: The song played is “Silsila Yeh Chahat Ka” from Devdas, which was featured in the 8/20/2006 episode of Bollywood’s Best. I think it’s a beautiful song. Nappturality – A nice forum for information on going natural (or “napptural”). It’s been a healthy source of info…