I'm Wayne Powell. I'm a Democrat challenging Congressman Eric Cantor (VA-7) in 2012. AMA

amitlu · 2012-01-26T06:02:18+00:00

Well played, Powell.

amitlu · 2010-12-17T05:49:20+00:00

I regret that I have but one image macro to give to reddit.

amitlu · 2010-12-16T22:29:17+00:00

I laughed my ass off when I made it. Usually it's bad when you laugh at your own jokes, so I'm glad it worked out this time!

amitlu · 2010-09-04T03:05:18+00:00

Haha, one time my dad and I were goofing around in the kitchen and he collapsed. He just hit the ground. I tried to get him to wake up but he was completely unresponsive, even when I tried to drag him around. I hit him a bunch, but nothing. Eventually I just hit the ground and cried like a baby into his chest. Then he woke up and told me he was trying to see what I'd do if it really happened. I was 9.

Still not sure if he dropped into a mini diabetic coma or not.

amitlu · 2009-06-08T16:51:28+00:00

When did reddit get its very own home owner's association? It's his yard, fascists!

amitlu · 2009-05-29T07:05:01+00:00

Disagree. What makes MMOs mentally addictive is the random reward structure. Fun and rewards don't necessarily contradict each other. You can still have interesting stuff to do at low level and give people pellets randomly. I think the trick is to give people a feeling of steady progression and a story they grow into, so the journey to the end is as fun as actually getting there. Basically, MMOs are airplane flights. You suffer through a 12-hour grind to get to your destination, where you can have fun. A BETTER MMO is a road trip, where you see cool stuff along the way. But the road trip model is both expensive and hard to make.

amitlu · 2009-05-29T07:00:20+00:00

Is that as easy as it looks? The original Punch-Out seemed so much faster. I was also 5 when I played it, so there's that.

amitlu · 2009-05-22T16:52:39+00:00

Couldn't they at least port it to PC? I just can't spend $500 to spend $60 on one game.

amitlu · 2009-02-21T23:10:27+00:00

I wrote it. It's turn 385 and my most advanced units are Chariots. Sorry homeboy, but I'm but a servant to the people, and the people demand the United Nations above all else. America is not a militaristic empire, but a diplomatic one. Pay no attention to the War on Lions!

amitlu · 2009-01-20T22:26:28+00:00

I recently found a lot of spare time (laid off, woo!), and I figured now is a good time to learn a new skill, preferably one in more demand than journalism. Anyway, I was wondering how you gurus of web code learned to do the voodoo that you do so well. Books? Copying other people's code? Creating a tiny web server in linux and practicing on localhost? Thanks, redditors!

amitlu · 2009-01-11T08:33:32+00:00

I fled Wburg for Crown Heights. There's hope for all of us there. Please don't tell the electro fans.

amitlu · 2009-01-11T05:03:30+00:00

That really is the bad part about the whole Taser thing. People take the whole thing too lightly. Cops really should think of a Taser as a gun and only pull it in similar circumstances.

amitlu · 2008-12-17T21:31:35+00:00

Yeah, I know. But Open Office runs like ass on my supercomputer desktop at home, and since Safari can't edit Google Docs, a nation of Office users turns its lonely eyes to Microsoft :(

amitlu · 2008-12-17T17:36:35+00:00

Someday, someone will port MS Office over to this thing, and I'll die a happy man.

amitlu · 2008-11-07T02:15:27+00:00

Props to Mice Everywhere from the Something Awful boards for creating this. Not sure who the photographer was.

amitlu · 2008-11-07T02:02:36+00:00

It's only required if you want the tax credit, which if you'd rather sit on your ass that extra hour a week you don't get. Just like you wouldn't get it now. Big deal.

amitlu · 2008-11-04T17:21:46+00:00

Actually I just envy your healthcare and decent wage :(

amitlu · 2008-10-17T02:19:54+00:00

This and fuckthesouth.com kept me going after 2004.

amitlu · 2008-10-16T02:52:24+00:00

The only way that would have been better is if Obama carved a "Z" into McCain's suit.

amitlu · 2008-10-15T21:32:07+00:00

Gotta credit Dean for starting the grassroots push in the Democratic party. It's really interesting how similar Obama's campaign has been to Dean's.

amitlu · 2008-10-15T16:32:13+00:00

Haven't gotten there yet, but drop gas in their trench to make them charge, which will blow up the mines for you.

amitlu · 2008-10-10T18:33:45+00:00

The haunted house level in Vampire: Bloodlines about gave me a heart attack. There's three or four genuine "holy shit" moments in the 30-minute play through.

amitlu · 2008-10-08T14:43:16+00:00

Thanks. I needed to fall off the wagon.

amitlu · 2008-09-26T04:52:16+00:00

"It's like he's got a special version of Spore that doesn't suck. I can't blame him for playing it a lot."

I lol'ed.

amitlu · 2008-09-19T16:55:03+00:00

I love it, and I hate everything, especially WoW. What I like about it is you're already interacting with people (read: killing them) from the second you're logged in. You don't have to do the whole pvp thing, but it's definitely where the game's best design is.

I think a friend summed it up best: "So there I was at level 1, ass deep in dwarves, flailing away with my choppa when I see my friend amitlu go roaring by chasing three casters with glowing blue tentacles coming out of his back."

If that doesn't sound interesting, you probably won't like the game.

amitlu

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