I'm a failed writer. I am so glad I tried, though. I learned a hell of a lot. Like everyone else says, do it anyway. Console yourself with the fact that even if you do get paid for your work, it won't be much. Most writers don't get much more than their advance. You got nothing to lose.

Holy moly, this is such an insightful policy. So many times I see a tat and think “You wanted THAT forever?”

The scientific justification given by the snickering scientists was then revealed to be a giant fig-leaf: They needed it for pornography and video games.

That’s because you don’t know them personally. All the other people who are concerned about their marital status are their friends and family. Or idiots busy-bodies.

Because you have been friends with them for a long time, and you don’t want it to be that the next time you have them over to your place, it will be separately. That’s logical. It’s only when total strangers start worrying about their divorce that it becomes confusing.

I’ve been saying this for years in order to explain how Fascism and Communism sometimes (ie Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s USSR) were on opposite sides of the spectrum, but looked so similar.

I'm playing Shadowrun for the Sega Genesis. I just discovered it on archive.org and I'm playing it in-browser. I love it so far.

The part that puzzles me is, how do people develop such stupidity without being constantly humbled by it? How in the world does such ignorance birth such towering, TOWERING arrogance?

The world is turning into a cesspool of imbeciles.

Whoa, excuse me? I was just answering your question, for goodness sake!

Unfair, unbalanced power-dynamic will probably be the answer everyone and their sophistry will give you.

Harlan Ellison would approve of how they are paying the writers. I love his rant about how people always try to screw a writer out of being paid.

Go on archive.org and play Shadowrun for the Genesis. I just discovered it and it is really fun.

You must be a genuine retard.

That is a game to be savoured, man. I can never watch a speed run of CT or FF6.

I lost my cell-phone a year ago and haven’t replaced it. I realized I don’t really enjoy being that accessible. I don't miss the thing, even though there are some old coworkers I'd really like to check in on.

My entire knowledge of the movie comes from this Mormon film critic who wrote a funny review of it: http://www.ericdsnider.com/movies/trash-h… He has a grading system and this movie got an F. Other movies that got horrible/funny reviews by him include “she’s the man” and New York Minute”.

Better than Trash Humpers?

The way she swings the club in this video is intensely bizarre. Ugly as hell, too.

I made this exact comment just a bit further above, but I think if you you had been born back then, your morality would have reflected the community standards of the day, and you’d probably have relished that sermon, and been clamouring for your own narrow conception of justice as well. Obviously, the preacher was…