I hate exercise but I try to walk 1.5-2 miles every day (and I also suffer from depression so I know how hard it is to be motivated). But what I find works is to start small. Just walk for maybe ten minutes, then after a few days up it to 15, etc. The other thing I do is separate the walks. I do one mile in the…

Oh, of course! I meant the third parties more. They've had a chance to shine before Nintendo bombarded us with the first party stuff but the third parties just sort of whined and complained instead of finding creative ways to work with the system. So now Nintendo will sell based on their stuff and the third parties…

Plus, if they were creating new, and most importantly, FUN, games just for the WiiU then maybe, just maybe, those hardware sales would rise. It's hard to justify buying a console if the publishers are outright refusing to develop for it. They're kind of forgetting it's them that ultimately are going to get the…

Excuse me, I'm going to go pee my pants from excitement now.

I was at some of the Bioware panels at GaymerX this past weekend and one thing that stuck out to me is that, all the negative that we see online sometimes isn't the majority. The majority is the neutral crowd who play the game, have fun (or not sometimes), and move on. But the people crying the loudest and saying…

I agree with you that people want what they already had so when an experiment maybe doesn't go as well as they'd hope (not counting the money grabbing mobile games), people immediately start the vitriol that the game isn't the same game they already played.

It was a complex situation, for sure. Good teachers often had just as many reviews because people liked them so much that they had to tell others. Bad teachers (or at least bad reviews) were dominant in a lot of general ed classes I noticed. Middle-of-the-road teachers did have the fewest reviews but were usually…

It was also very easy to see who was a slacker who was whining and who was legit. If a professor had mostly good reviews but a small handful of people complained that they couldn't do extra credit/the class had too much reading/the tests were too hard without having gone to class/etc. you know those aren't reliable. …

It's a toughie because I want to say my 12th grade AP English teacher but my 11th Grade AP English teacher was also good. They were married so that had something to do with it. Either way, they were some of the few teachers at my high school who actually cared. They forced us to actually apply ourselves and to keep…

A valuable tool in college if you were smart enough to parse out the real reviews from the slackers.

I think Mike Brown runs the company I work for. If not, he must have given our GM a lecture on how to run a business in the worst possible way.

Like how right now in the East Bay you could swear it was November but the calendar says August.

What about when your meager PTO is just taken from you? To quote our holiday list:

I heard a rumor, that may not be true, that Nintendo held back on the first party offerings so that the 3rd parties could shine at launch. Which, clearly they didn't shine so I guess 1st party will have to pick up the slack?

It was less intense here (only since I've been here. Before I got here things were worse). However, the guy I worked under sent a lengthy, rude, incredibly entitled and belittling email to a new hire to explain to her how much better he was than her/the rest of us so he gets priority on everything. The new girl had…

Had I not called a doctor after my most recent breakdown due to depression I'd have probably hid myself in the house like him. Hopefully he can get the help he needs to get things on the right track.

Much like with card games, someone will buy a bunch of boxes of blind packs and then sell the individual tiles for a markup on the interwebs. So unless they do the card game system with rarity tiers, you'll probably end up paying he 5 bucks plus shipping for the one you want.

I played KH2 after finishing Days (which, Days really only serves to enhance a few scenes in 2) and still found it to be as fun as the first time. But with the BBS and 3D stuff I sorta don't want to play 2 again since it won't have all those newer aspects to it. Hopefully 3 incorporates parts of BBS and 3D.

For insurance you go to accounting who will either try to answer it from the info they got from the broker or you just have to call yourself. They also have the W-2s so they're like HR Lite. The Drive-Thru Only version.

I guess I win since the company I work for doesn't have an HR department!