MrHoatzin

The side view is really exciting to me. It is surprising platforming adventures such as this one haven't caught on. I remember in grade school filling notebooks with these elaborate diagrams of puzzle caves. I thought of them as platformers as they were inspired by The Lost Vikings and Commander Keen (and trap-laden tombs of Indiana Jones)—but it always stumped the tween me that I couldn't fit them into the platforming genre since there was not much platforming going on. They were just elaborate trap mazes with unique solutions behind every "room".

There are no good American candies for the spoiled European palate. They use peanuts and shun hazelnuts and mix chocolate so that it tastes like paraffin, on purpose.

Just buy 20 dollars worth of diapers at HEB and tape the receipt to the package. I am super weird about presents, giving as well as receiving (they have to mean somehting), that in these sort of cases I just buy a thing and try to spend as little time as possible thinking about it.

So Luftmensch, do you want to do art art or just get better at craft art? Because you're plenty good at the craft bit of it to stop caring about just getting better. Start making things you want to make and get better that way. Hang out with the local art scene and befriend competent people, then draft them to critique your work. Do you primarily work digitally? Cause if so, you should probably drop that habit. Knowing to paint in oils and acrylics and draw with all kinds of old-school media has had an infinitely bigger positive impact on my Photoshop skills than other way around.

Now the whole of Norway will have to deal with sanctions imposed by Apple. SEE HOW ACTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES?!

Aw man, the mac version doesn't have a Goldbloom mode, boo.

The cartels throughout the series are portrayed very, very cartoonily. At best they've made them weirdly vague—why would they call themselves "the cartel"? Why wouldn't the operators on the US side of the border differentiate between different cartels that are warring just over the fence?—at worse, they really didn't do their homework. I am guessing that they're just being vague because describing the real deal is a huge bummer and may also be dangerous.

Way to take the fun out of toblix's objectifications.

Ooh, maybe I should try drawing naked pasty dudes. I am pretty sure it is seasonal affective emos in my case. I don't feel like doing shit either.

Or take it to a tailor.

Jeez, you guys! Listen to it as if it were a dramatic monologue, or sort of tragic vignette or something.

So many of the conservatives in my field of view are total fascist cartoons. Rick Perry is my governor for fucks sake, reigning Texas for a record 12 years now and unlikely to be voted out of office any time soon (thought Texans might be embarrassed by his presidential campaign, it remains to be seen whether anyone will remember what a flake he is by 2014 when he will be running for his 4th term). Old-world conservatives are a completely different story. I dunno.

Aww, really? Man. I dunno. So much of the right wing bullshit is completely over-the-top insane and disingenuous, and this lady seems a lot more earnest and rational than a lot of the partisans on the right. I listen to this vid and I wanna form a coalition with her. Plus that bit about adding a B to her new Youtube channel in memory of the then recently dead Breitbart was kinda heartbreaking.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLoqti0lzAw A super poignant (mostly video-less) vid of a lady who had a really bad election night. I want to hug her and tell her it gets better. Kinda long but worth a listen.

I like how the filling slowly oozes further and further down the roof every time we see the pizza.

Meh.

At the same time, I don't think it is far fetched that someone as ballsy and powerful as Valve is right now would do something like that. Newell has been saying some extreme things about Windows 8, and I am excited to see where that leads us.

It is true that I am talking out of my ass here. But I am not pre-hating his altruism for destroying my favorite movies or whatever. That is a bit of a straw man. I put more weight on his decisions surrounding Lucas Arts. Lucas has been responsible (in The Buck Stops Here kind of way) for a lot of really stupid disappointments of my childhood—on top of the fact that I consider his judgment in matters of art to be super suspect and his successes accidental. All the best shit Lucas Arts did happened before he took interest in the company. It is a kind of common knowledge that at some point he kicked out most of the creative peeps from Skywalker ranch and kept lawyers and such around, keeping Skywalker Sound as a token. So for decades this dude's been cool with being surrounded by people who threaten the AGS community for a living. He obviously takes his own judgment to be unimpeachable. It is unlikely it ever gets challenged in any meaningful way. On top of that, it is super fashionable nowadays for powerful people of the West Coast liberal flavor who don't know shit about teaching kids to take on Thinking Big about Fixing Education—which has resulted in charter schools, standardized testing, and holding teachers accountable—pseudosolutions universally reviled by everyone who actually deals with the realities of beating enlightenment into the heads of kids. If Lucas turns out to be the savior of all education from the likes of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, I will gladly eat all the hats you can throw my way, but for the time being I choose to be a flippant dick about it. Sorry. Let's see how this shit plays out. My best hope right now is that he somehow manages not to do more damage.

So basically he moved the money from the pocket labeled Slush Fund Whatever to the one labeled Philanthropy Etc. For all we know, that money will be used to promote stupid privatized education on the corporate model of data-driven accountability, Bill Gates style. And when he rolls over and dies, control over all that money will probably go to the lawyers he's been collecting at Skywalker ranch—like some sort of a cat lady.

Nah. Jayel just exported one of the images with one color profile and the other with another—and we're only noticing it now because browsers are only now starting to honor color profiles.

¬¬¬ You are talking about the color profile issue, right?

What browser you using? Looks like color profile misfiring (...if that is what you're referring to...) but as far as I know only Safari supports color profiles in pichurs and there is really no reason to use Safari unless you're like a die-hard Apple asshole of some sort.

It was a styrofoam apple that I cored and wore like a clown nose—which only kinda worked, it was too heavy, so I also affixed it to the brim of the bowler. For the leaves I used some other fake plant's leaves that I cut to look like apple leaves. EDIT: And um, I keep spamming with no faces to show, so here's some stereoscopic fun in our front porch/yard:

Sal and I went as to this amazing rad party at the site of the famous Hot Wells Hotel and Spa ruins—her dressed as a blackface jumping spider and I as Magritte. Unfortunately there are no good pictures of either of our costumes, hers because she looks like she is in blackface and mine because the bowler hat and suit were swallowed by darkness in the only photo that has showed up tagged on facebook... but man, the party was fucking awesome!