The first X-Com was one of the best games I’ve ever played. How they managed to make turn-based strategy so amazingly suspenseful was just amazing. The recent remake is pretty good, too.

Americans are assholes. and we’re totally willing to forgive raping a single woman (Mike Tyson, Roman Polanski), limited child molestation (Michael Jackson, Gary Glitter), domestic violence (Sean Penn, Chris Brown).

I git to see them live. They put on a great show, make all the electronic noises live and/or with real instruments (my biggest gripe with so much electronic music these days, especially “celebrity DJs.” is that they just hit play and then pretend to make music), have charisma, and generally do their best to have fun…

If he had those diagnoses, or at least documented symptoms, before the murder, it would (or at least should) be more. Ever hear of the mad/bad/sad theory? This guy was one of the mad ones.

It’s literally always been terrible. Horrible. It started as a shanty town and then got worse. You can get that from Wikipedia.

I know, right? Just because there are corkscrews and barbs involved sometimes doesn’t mean it’s not pleasurable. I woke up this afternoon, for instance, and our marital bedroom looks like something out of a Hunter S Thompson book. It was weird, it was good, there was definitely a corkscrew at some point, and I think…

Huh. It’s that way in pissant Nevada and has been for years. I just assumed it was that way everywhere. And it’s set up like that by the Democratic Party because they think it’s good to encourage democracy early, plus their vote will count in November anyway, so why shouldn’t they have a voice?

There is a very real possibility that a Republican-controlled House will impeach her on her first day in office. Not an indictment, exactly, but if there’s one thing Republicans love to do, it’s impeach a Clinton.

You know that Charles Manson never actually killed anybody, right? And he’s clearly mentally ill. Are you arguing for him to be released and put into therapy until he “gets better?”

Especially since peanuts are legumes, not nuts, and are a completely different allergy.

One doesn’t even have to be disabled or actually need the support animal; there’s no exemption in the law for it. There was a SCOTUS decision about this in the 90s; a teacher at my old high school was training seeing eye dogs in her spare time and insisted on bringing them to school for training. They ruled in her…

You forget about hyenas, which definitely have an alpha/beta divide, except the female is always the alpha and is three times larger than the males, which are “kept” in harems. Also, I think hyenas are weird and kinda cool, because they don’t play by anyone else’s rules.

If you got laid more, you probably wouldn’t feel that way about women. And you’d get laid more if you weren’t a total asshole.

It’s simple in Nevada: it’s a total clusterfuck. We only started having them in 2008. That one, with all the candidates, was a nightmare. We overfilled the high school and had to put the most-locally-located people (like me, who lives across the street from a fine, fine high school in East Las Vegas) in a nearby…

Do you remember the first person shooter from a few years ago called Bulletstorm? Same problem with the cussing. I guess maybe because it was a Polish developer, but they didn’t quite seem to understand how and why dirty words work in English. PoE doesn’t have the Polish excuse, though.

I have the same thoughts and problems. It’s weird that the game is TOO good, right? Like there’s not enough free time in the world to fully appreciate it.

My all-time favorite copy protection was from a Wizardry game (one of the later ones, IIRC). It was pre-Internet(s), so being told to look up a code in the code book at the start of every game meant having an actual copy of the code book. People just photocopied the code book and passed that around with their cracked…

Back in my day, video games were just a bunch of fucking words, and the only way to play a game was through reading and thinking and shit like that. But then Wizardry came along and ruined all of that smart-people stuff, and the kids these days need “pictures” and “graphics” to tell them what’s happening.

Yes. That’s what happens when you go out of your way to be famous: people insult you, make up shit about you, and generally make the famous person lose all faith in humanity.

Our local no-kill animal shelter sends someone to the house before letting you adopt a dog, but if we tried to do that for people buying AK-47s, we’d be called commies and traitors and freedom-haters.