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I wrote the following after reading one of these hand wringing pieces about my generation on NPR that frustrated the hell out of me. It's self indulgent and angry and kinda clumsy, yea, but if you can't write like this in your twenties, when can you?

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That Yoko remix album from 2007 is still one of my go-to jams for a least a few songs.

I stopped watching Family Guy because the creators treat all of the characters like shit. Yea, Meg is a punching bag, but all of the characters go through awful things for cheap laughs which don't matter by the time the commercial break is over. It's impossible to care about what happens to anyone on that show.

Seriously, they can't talk about how fucked up our state is. Only WE can talk about how fucked up our state is.

Dude, take some time off from the internet. You are drinking the MRA kool-aid hardcore.

And it's such a shame we live in a society where you're obligated to watch and listen to everything she does.

Maybe it's a little of column A, little of column B.

You need to check your perspective if Miley Cyrus is able to rustle your jimmies.

Well, playing video games for a living certainly doesn't do your body any favors. I'm not predisposed to weight gain but I'm already feeling negative affects from my 12 hour a day office job I took a year ago.

What is that gif from?

From my perspective, she's never made the south look good. But then, the food my cajun grandmother made puts her disposable, butter drowned, funhouse mirror take on southern soul food to complete shame. (Which was, as I've come to find, one upped by the food my black friends' grandmothers made for them.)

And as we know, strip clubs are not IN ANY WAY guilty of promoting dehumanizing cultural norms concerning male/female relations. Nope, no room for societal criticism or self reflection at all. Everything is fine. Sexism is over.

My problem with that video is that she thinks Sarkeesian was criticizing the female characters themselves and not the creators who wrote them into marginalized roles. It also falls into the trap of not recognizing that exceptions to the rule are just that: exceptions. Sarkeesian showed clips of dozens of games that

I totally get why this could bug people. That said, I like the song. I'm not gonna claim its great music or track of the summer or anything but it's catchy and dumb in all the right ways and I usually like Rihanna songs. Rihanna turned it down (or at least her reps did), Miley took it.

Tywin, Roose, and Balon need to all move into a single castle to raise the leftover orphaned Stark kids as a way to make amends.

I hear the Playstation Move controller works great for first person shooters and there are attachments like the MOVE Precision Shot 3. And since PS4 will support existing Move hardware, its not a bad investment. But you will need to use the the secondary joystick in your other hand to move around as most console

Real talk? Props to Nintendo for FINALLY putting Peach back into a A-List Mario game as a player character.

The main part that resonated with me was the part about policy. It's actually trivial for PRISM to do what we all fear they're doing if you ignore the bugfuck insane scale of it. And for most people it doesn't matter. Today. But how would you feel if this story was broken during a crazy evangelical cowboy fascist

And how does our state "protect" black people in high crime urban areas? By locking them up in disproportionately high numbers and shipping them off to one of our many dozen for-profit prisons across the state. Meanwhile the communities have fewer and fewer men to work and support families, driving young kids to try

Pass. I consume more than enough fiction filled with ironic, self-aware, meta side-eyeing.