2020 Miscellaneous Links: Untitled Moose Game

[SnowFire]

"The very fact that no sabotage has taken place to date is a disturbing and confirming indication that such action will be taken.”

Human beings.

Cid: I added that quote to the Wikipedia article on DeWitt myself back in 2007!  Nice blast from the past.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_L._DeWitt&diff=128531259&oldid=128164447
(Good book, if you're ever curious in reading it.)

For whatever it's worth, while internment was a crime, and this is not an excuse, the Japanese government of the era deserves some blame too, and were not helping the Nissei's case.  The Japanese government didn't recognize dual citizenship and did in fact demand eternal obedience to the Emperor or some crap.  The US was just racist idiots for BELIEVING that this kind of proclamation would have much effect.

[Captain K]

I...what?  I have so many questions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCUvx2BExZI

[DjinnAndTonic]

I...what?  I have so many questions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCUvx2BExZI

That... answered all my questions, but now I'm afraid I'm on a watchlist somewhere...

[NotMiki]

I'm not a racist but



Some of my favorite popcorn is caramel I'm just saying maybe it doesn't need to be in with the cheese?  Maybe everyone's happier if the cheese popcorn and caramel popcorn stay with their own kind?

Seriously what the fuck is this shit

[Grefter]

They do that at Bard on the Beach.  It is better than it seems bro.

[Cotigo]

"popcorn mixin is wrong"

"its ok hipstrs r doin it"

[Grefter]

I salt my own popcorn with my own salty mustard.

[Cotigo]

in what world is mustard that color

[Grefter]

I think the more pressing concern is why your jizz is bright yellow.

[Cotigo]

http://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/2000_1000/576ae6ee1500002f001bad5e.jpeg?cache=chcvqr6prr

[SnowFire]

http://speculativechic.com/2016/12/21/this-isnt-my-story-on-female-video-game-protagonists-and-the-lack-thereof/
http://speculativechic.com/2016/12/22/why-this-man-prefers-to-play-games-as-a-woman/

Random blog posts from some good friends of mine that I remembered in a conversation with Tide on IRC.  Just a note of frustration that Bioware & WRPGs are still beating out JRPGs on this note pretty handily, still, alas.  I won't complaint when the JRPGs have all non-avatary characters who are interesting and not blank slates, but when they *do* make avatars, they're often gender-locked and crappy, a few shining examples (Robin?) otherwise.

[Shale]

Who wants to play Frog Fractions 2?

[dunie]

2017.

Give me your undercuts, your messenger bags, your androgynous “dapper” clothing. Give me your commitment to environmentally friendly transportation, your $8 cider (the only gluten-free option at the bar) and the password to your Etsy store where you sell cloth menstrual pads screen-printed with astrological symbols. Your coffee mug stamped with the words “Male Tears” — give it to me.

http://nyti.ms/2iQv7vO

[Cotigo]

I was slightly more tickled by

Now you straight people carry your own reusable bags back to your Prius after comparing artisanal brands of sriracha mayonnaise. That is super gay.

[Anthony Edward Stark]

When society collapses (presumably some time in the next 18 months) and I am your new Immortan, mixing sriracha into mayonnaise will be illegal. If you're lucky you'll get away with just a crucifixion if it's your first offense.

[Captain K]

Suck it FFRK, the only popstar you get is Yuna.  Exvius master race.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcoubpSwlEk

[Captain K]

The phone wallpaper is hilarious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03bAayBtcb0

[Captain K]

Super Mario Odyssey is looking a little too real.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih323XXu_3w

[dunie]

Betsy DeVos's hearing, full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRBNkMM0-pM

Institutional education is one of my three greatest interests. The media is most certainly blowing out of proportions her comment about guns and grizzly bears, but her comment is no less a point of contention as schools and children are increasingly militarized and legislation also pushes for heavier penalties for "disagreeable children." Her example was the worst she could use in defense of granting communities more authority in protecting student communities.

But, the whole hearing is eye-opening to those unfamiliar. Al Franken's getting a bit more airtime for his criticisms, but watch the whole video or have it playing in the background while you work. Three and a half hours.

[NotMiki]

To me by far the most damning thing about the hearings was her apparent unfamiliarity with federal civil rights laws respecting special needs students.  Even if she were politically opposed to the federal government strong-arming the states on this, she has to has to has to fucking know how it works.

[Grefter]

To me by far the most damning thing about the hearings was her apparent unfamiliarity with federal civil rights laws respecting special needs students.  Even if she were politically opposed to the federal government strong-arming the states on this, she has to has to has to fucking know how it works.

Only if she has to do her job well.

[Shale]

Speaking of not knowing how your department works, Rick Fucking Perry.

[dunie]

So his hearing is today. Noted.

If "employers" were only as forgiving as this Congress, more folk in the US would have jobs. What do you call that, a jello ceiling?

[Shale]

I almost wish I could be there for it, but (a) I spent all day yesterday in the Scott Pruitt hearing and I'm sick to death of the inside of hearing rooms; and (b) I'd end up arrested for kicking a former governor of Texas in the crotch.

[dunie]

Wow, really? Props to you, because those things seem like living graveyards on TV at least.

*snort* His hearing's on now on CSPAN, so I'll let you know if someone gets to his crotch.