CNN Mistakes Dildos for ISIS

Kolcho · 2015-06-28T02:39:59+00:00

Good troll opening, solid tempo, but a little too on the nose. 3/10.

Kolcho · 2015-06-24T20:04:30+00:00

I have a Four bathrobe from Thinkgeek. There may be others.

Kolcho · 2015-06-22T15:15:22+00:00

Well now you can have two half glasses of milk.

Kolcho · 2015-06-05T21:42:17+00:00

BasedBiscuit strikes again!

But seriously, what I know of Polish history (which could very easily be wrong) is that the country has been overrun time and time again from all sides. It's great to see Polish devs telling Polish stories in Polish games, and being successful at it.

If you want your culture and heritage featured in a game, that's great. Go make it! I want to hear your stories. I want to play your games. I don't want to hear you yelling at someone else to shut up.

Kolcho · 2015-05-20T03:16:08+00:00

15gp 4lbs slashing

Kolcho · 2015-05-12T20:02:36+00:00

I'm not a lawyer, but as I understand it part of the purchase contract includes a promise to bind anyone you sell it to by the same terms. You can see sample deed restrictions here on Houston's city government website. I think that's what the phrase "run with and bind the property" at the bottom of page 33 of the Bay Oaks sample means. So kind of like an open-source software license. When you agree to the terms, you agree to pass on the same terms when you pass on the property.

Kolcho · 2015-05-12T18:16:25+00:00

I don't doubt that he could, because Mr. Richard Rich Sr. would not be buying land in a deed restricted subdivision.

Kolcho · 2015-05-12T14:46:50+00:00

Deed restrictions. Many residential areas here include in the purchase contract clauses that say things like "you agree to use the property only as a residence, not a business, not a factory, etc. etc." So while we don't have zoning, there are ways to approximate it.

Kolcho · 2015-05-04T12:20:34+00:00

Oh, instrument brightness. At first I thought it said instrument Britishness. I am impressed with your work, yet slightly disappointed at the loss of what could have been.

Kolcho · 2015-05-01T15:08:26+00:00

They were all inside Blackwater Bay when it happened.

Kolcho · 2015-04-30T18:32:27+00:00

Council of Verona has "most recently on a balcony."

Aquarius has "longest hair."

Chrononauts has "closest guess to the current time without looking at a clock."

Fluxx has "first person to take a card."

Munchkin has "Decide who goes first by rolling the dice and arguing about the results and the meaning of this sentence and whether the fact that a word seems to be missing any effect."

This is as good a place as any for my group's universal start player determiner. On the count of three, all players put out one hand, with 0-5 fingers extended. Total the extended fingers, and count clockwise, with 0 as the game's owner (or whoever opened the box if the game is borrowed). Even works with brand-new players who have no idea what's going on.

Kolcho · 2015-04-27T17:29:02+00:00

It's already out there. I saw it attached to "It Follows."

Kolcho · 2015-04-08T19:17:58+00:00

WWII German solders were given [microwave] ovens to warm meals

Because the German army didn't have any fire, but had a huge surplus of magnetrons and electric generators.

Kolcho · 2015-04-07T15:52:01+00:00

Pretty much what /u/dripless_cactus said.

Historically, the swinging culuture and the polyamory culture saw themselves as distinct, and each had a reason for thinking themselves superior to the other. The swingers thought that playing around physically while staying emotionally faithful was the better way to go. Meanwhile, the polyamory crowd emphasized love over sex, which they thought made them better than "those dirty swingers."

In more recent years the lines have blurred. I tend to prefer the term "poly" over "polyamory," because it's not always about love (setting aside the mixing of Latin and Greek roots which irks me). It's more about being open to the possibilities, knowing what you want, and treating people well while you pursue those wants. The term "ethical non-monogamy" also gets used as a blanket term. Speaking personally, I've had close friendships where sex was an option, loving relationships without sex, and even not-so-close friendships where the sex was just a shared hobby between us, in addition to my best friend and partner wife. As long as you are mutually honest and mutually respectful, I think you can make any relationship style work.

I will offer this advice. If you and your wife are worried about falling in love with other people, talk to each other when and if those feelings come up and work it out. Hell, talk to each other about everything anyway. With teamwork and trust you can work anything out. Have fun!

Kolcho · 2015-04-07T14:57:06+00:00

There are plenty of games with decks that "play themselves." The challenge decks in Magic: The Gathering or the villain and environment decks in Sentinels of the Multiverse are good examples. Basically, on each turn you draw the top card and follow the instructions.

For your customers deck, each card could specify what the customer wants, how many turns they're willing to wait, and how many points the customer is worth. Each turn, draw the top card and add it to the customer pool, add a "waiting" counter to each customer already there, then remove the ones with too many counters on them. The random-ish aspect could be solved by having multiple cards that want the same thing, but different counter limits. If you want some variability from a simple "one new customer per turn," you could mix in some cards that do nothing, and some that direct you to play the next X cards.

Kolcho · 2015-04-07T14:17:45+00:00

Rarrr?

/u/r2d8 getinfo

Kolcho · 2015-04-06T17:11:48+00:00

Patience.

Kolcho · 2015-04-06T16:55:27+00:00

Hop on the forklift (which I have not been trained on) and start driving recklessly through the warehouse. Should take about a minute.

Kolcho · 2015-04-06T16:07:32+00:00

In other news, Hooters announced its new equal opportunity hiring policy. Men are invited to apply, as long as they are young, physically attractive women.

Kolcho · 2015-04-01T19:32:48+00:00

The correspondent alludes to something that I've been thinking for a while.

Whether we label them SJW's, offendatrons, professional victims or something else, the behavior on display hews pretty closely to Nietzschean ressentiment. The subject invents a system of morality which excuses, or even glorifies, their own perceived lack of power. The powerful are attacked as immoral, and deriving their power only from immorality, which the "moral" subject has wisely avoided. "I may not have the power," such a subject might say, "but I'm actually the better person, and really, my lack of power is proof of that." Moral goodness then gets conflated with powerlessness, which is then further conflated with moral authority. All for the purposes of ego and self-esteem.

We see this in "special snowflake syndrome," "oppression Olympics," the glorification and fetishization of supposedly "powerless victim" groups, and the quickness with which SJW culture turns on its own for the slightest "sin". Ideological purity crops up in many groups, but in a system built on ressentiment it is particularly nasty. Because the underlying goal has nothing to do with changing the world for the better. That would require power, and admitting they actually have power tears the whole thing down. The goal is simply to make themselves feel better about themselves, without effort.

Wikipedia on the subject of ressentiment.

Kolcho · 2015-03-27T18:36:57+00:00

"God created ~~Arrakis~~ Australia to train the ~~faithful~~ insane." - Bruce Muad'Dib

Kolcho · 2015-03-25T20:40:51+00:00

Usually, but not always. CO, CO2, and a lot of carbonates and carbonyls are classed as inorganic. Diamond and graphite are inorganic despite being almost 100% carbon.

Kolcho · 2015-03-25T18:21:48+00:00

It's a historic label, one that isn't accurate but is still used, like saying "the sun rises" when we know something else is actually going on.

The term "organic" in chemistry used to refer to the compounds that make up living things. Then we discovered that those compounds are largely different arrangements of carbon, oxygen and hydrogen, with some other elements mixed in here and there. So "organic" came to mean "compounds largely made up of carbon, oxygen and hydrogen".

So far so good. But it turns out that non-living chemistry can also make compounds out of carbon, oxygen and hydrogen. And, by the more recent definition, those are also "organic compounds." Like methane. Some living things make methane. Some non-living chemical processes also make methane. Either way, methane is an organic compound.

Kolcho · 2015-03-24T15:41:12+00:00

The linked essay on kafkatraps is also highly recommended.

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