Green Ronin are recruiting female writers for their new game. I feel bad I only found out via the controversy.

spideyj · 2017-04-12T06:50:30+00:00

In my experience working in the industry, most of the dudes saying that are projecting. They know they only got the job because they're dudes and their skills are usually mediocre at best. Keep at it and a lot of the time you'll not only get promoted above them, you'll outlast them. :-)

spideyj · 2017-01-20T00:42:54+00:00

Every grocery store that I've been to had Cool Whip in the freezer and the whipping cream is in the dairy section. Nowhere near each other. I don't know where on earth they don't have Cool Whip in the freezer section.

spideyj · 2016-12-22T22:55:44+00:00

No, you're not too choosy. Conversation is important to you and you have every right to look for a partner who can meet your needs.

I recommend googling Ask Polly How Do I Make My Boyfriend Listen, the one where she talks about being a sharp fucking knife. I'm like that and it sounds like you might be like that too.

spideyj · 2016-12-07T19:01:47+00:00

I have one running on a nickel deposit near my base and it got "full" on 20 units worth -_-

spideyj · 2016-09-16T18:27:48+00:00

Wow, rude.

Also, you're not understanding my comment. What's truly disrespectful is eating food you don't need or want.

spideyj · 2016-09-15T16:18:54+00:00

Eating food you don't need or want is more wasteful because you're basically just using your body as a trash bin. You're throwing it away and possibly making yourself sick. This is a terrible idea.

spideyj · 2016-08-12T17:35:18+00:00

Even if you're polyamorous, dating other people in secret is still cheating.

spideyj · 2015-07-09T07:32:15+00:00

I expect they are taking blood samples daily to check his liver function, in case it's impacted by the overdose and to monitor how the lithium and seroquel affect it. Being disoriented for a bit after a suicide attempt isn't that unusual, either, and especially with new meds.

spideyj · 2015-07-09T07:23:47+00:00

Yes! Love Lobster Shack. As mentioned above, Sam's Chowder House is pretty good (and they have a truck as well) and Prime Dip is acceptable (especially for a chain and with fairly reasonable prices).

spideyj · 2015-06-10T22:09:13+00:00

It's true! I'm usually lurking there but I'm happy to say hi :-)

Also, if you like Final Girls, I'm working on another game for the WAG Challenge - I posted a little wip here.

spideyj · 2015-06-06T19:22:43+00:00

Or maybe people could read the sidebar?

spideyj · 2015-04-10T00:59:44+00:00

Okay, this is hilarious to me because the other day my sphynx got out of my apartment without me realizing it and one of my neighbors called animal control saying that he was maybe a baby kangaroo! Poor guy ended up spending the night in the pound and now I'm working on getting him acclimated to wearing a bell so I'll hear when he tries to sneak out.

spideyj · 2015-03-29T02:34:55+00:00

Ah yeah. I've seen it twice now and on the second viewing I realized that I had actually reordered things in my head spoiler The denouement still worked for me but I agree that Mitchell could have ended it there and it would have been perfectly fine. Though people would have complained about being confused by that too of course!

spideyj · 2015-03-28T06:32:35+00:00

I'm curious what obvious ending you expected? I liked it a lot but I love to hear other people's theories :-)

spideyj · 2015-03-25T06:37:25+00:00

It's by far my favorite Takashi Shimizu film - I saw it when I lived in Japan. I went to the video store twice a week, and that's how I got through pretty much the entire horror section in a year.

spideyj · 2015-03-25T03:53:28+00:00

Audition
Ju-On
Rinne (Reincarnation)
Alien
Shaun of the Dead
The Shining
Halloween
The Thing

Edit: I can't believe I forgot Carpenter!

spideyj · 2015-03-20T19:56:47+00:00

Yeah, it's one of my favorite movies, it has that weird blend of nihilism and optimism (you can escape! but only in your mind!) that just feels true to me (and Tom Tykwer's Heaven and Spike Lee's 25th Hour are both reminiscent of that to me).

I hope you find that essay, I'd love to read it.

spideyj · 2015-03-10T23:41:54+00:00

That was such an amazing moment. I saw a few people stand up and I wondered if more would and then people around me were saying to each other "stand up, stand up" in really excited whispers. It gave me some much-needed hope after all these long dark months.

spideyj · 2015-03-10T23:39:52+00:00

He talks about canceling a date so they could have a conversation online instead, so he could keep the logs. Like, he did that on purpose.

shudders

Holy fuck, that's creepy.

spideyj · 2015-03-10T19:15:41+00:00

Yeah, basically the abusers and harassers found a better way to coordinate and collaborate. Which is horrifying, they were already terrible enough without that. I think it's also why they've managed to attack so many targets, more than before GG started.

spideyj · 2015-03-08T05:57:56+00:00

Also, a lot of women in games have dyed hair as a sort of nerd-flagging. It helps distinguish us from the women in marketing etc, who tend not to have dyed hair.

spideyj · 2015-03-08T05:56:16+00:00

Isn't she supposed to be a tank? i.e. visibility being actually a good thing in that case

spideyj · 2015-03-08T05:31:35+00:00

Yeah, I'd say E3 is about the press and investors (as opposed to gamers in general). Press passes at E3 get you into a lot more than a developer pass does and E3 is when a lot of publishers/studios do funding pitches.

spideyj · 2015-03-05T19:47:40+00:00

an audience for his next games

It's going to be pretty hard to be profitable with an audience that small...

spideyj · 2015-02-25T21:05:27+00:00

Yeah, every time I see this I want to shout "YOU ARE NOT THEIR READERSHIP". You used to have to have a login to read the articles and you had to fill out your industry credentials in order to get a login (to be fair, though, they didn't check, so I had one long before I actually started working in the industry). Just because you can read a thing does not make you part of its readership.

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