Many Kickstarter pledges receive nothing in return.

It’s an “investment” in the same way that buying a can of soda is an “investment” in pepsico. Which is to say, it’s an “investment” inasmuch as you are willing to stretch the definition of investment to cover any exchange of money for the promise of goods / services.

Yeah, Lozzle is in the right here - Kickstarter is not an investment platform any more than buying a can of Coke is an investment in the company. If one applies the loosest possible definition of “investment” to it, then, sure, you can sweep Kickstarter up in that net... but at that point you’re so far gone in…

Another guy was calling me from Afghanistan, driving a military truck when he called. The guy was super friendly, and I always thanked him for his services over there. He was getting ready to come home after his tour, and had $36,000 cash in hand, and wanted a particular truck in stock, which was in the showroom,…

Also, put me in charge of stuff!

fiance, not finance

I’m sorry? I had a hard time? Reading that? It seems like he’s mad? I’m not saying he’s mad, but he seems that way? Like he comes across as maybe being upset? Did you do something? To upset him I mean? What did you do? Why is he upset? What did you do wrong?

I had written up a post that said EXACTLY THIS, but deleted it. People get very defensive about Austin.

Your husband lets you use the computer? Isn’t he worried about bears?

But are you a Republican or a Democrat white male politician? A quick test you can do at home is see if you are aroused at the thought of a truck stop glory hole.

THANK GOD FEMINISM IS OVER AND WE ALREADY WON

the incredible changes that the new makeup of the council will wreak on city government.

I’m the last person to take the side of man- and woman-children needing their parents to do things for them. But I made some pretty stupid decisions when I was in college, and having someone tell me that those were stupid might have been nice. I do not fault a mother for being protective of her daughter in this case.

I definitely get the point, and it’s a good one. Still, when one is criticizing an industry for being tone-deaf, it helps to draw an analogy that is not itself tone-deaf.

Well shut my mouth then - I didn’t realize that. Sorry for misunderstanding!

You, uh, DO know that ecstasy (E) is still MDMA and always has been, right?

You’re a good goddamn person for coming back round and sharing this, though. Most people would have dropped a rude reply and moved on.

Setting up your scripts so that your team could kill monsters twice their level - while you AFKed - was the fun. Then again, I’m a developer.

I thought exactly the same thing.

It’s very quick-paced, true. But there’s a plan, and oh god it all comes together.