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http://onemorelevel.com/game/pandemic_2
i can't stop playing it
i can't get my disease into madagascar :(
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| 2008-07-12 17:26 |
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So i was watching a gameplay preview video of Diablo III for the first time i was like "oh hay this looks rly fun." then in the last four minutes or so of it, this character was introduced.
Excerpts from the character description page:
"Most believe the fearsome witch doctor of the umbaru race a legend, but I have seen one in battle with my own eyes."
"The culture of the umbaru of the lower Teganze is fascinating and perplexing to those hailing from more civilized walks of life. For instance, the Tribe of the Five Hills frequently engages in tribal warfare with both the Clan of the Seven Stones and the Tribe of the Clouded Valley, but these are matters of ritual and not of conquest. I had heard tales that these wars are waged in order that the victors may replenish their supply of raw materials for the human sacrifices that their civilization revolves around, and when I timidly asked my hosts more about this topic, I must admit their laughter made me fear for my safety."
"Alongside the primacy of the belief in the life force and the Unformed Land, the second most sacred belief of the tribes is their philosophy of self-sacrifice and non-individuality, of suppressing one's self-interest for the good of the tribe. This idea, so foreign to our culture, struck me as something I wished to delve into much more deeply."   Real nice, Blizzard. You stay classy. .
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| 2008-07-10 20:48 |
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lol he's bitter ;_;
image goes to an article
really i'm only posting it bc it's like the best bill clinton picture ever
:C
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| 2008-07-10 13:40 |
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lol
post your favorite ad imagery!
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The Nietzsche Family Circus pairs a randomized Family Circus cartoon with a randomized Friedrich Nietzsche quote.
Incredible.
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Holy shit!
William Sanders, senior editor of Helix magazine, sent Luke Jackson a rejection letter for one of his stories, reposted here, that goes as follows: No, I'm sorry but I can't use this.
There's much to like. I'm impressed by your knowledge of the Q'uran and Islamic traditions. (Having spent a couple of years in the Middle East, I know something about these things.) You did a good job of exploring the worm-brained mentality of those people - at the end we still don't really understand it, but then no one from the civilized world ever can - and I was pleased to see that you didn't engage in the typical error of trying to make this evil bastard sympathetic, or give him human qualities.
However, as I say, I can't use it. Because Helix is a speculative fiction magazine, and this isn't speculative fiction.
Oh, you've tacked on some near-future elements at the end, but the future stuff isn't in any way necessary to the story; it isn't even connected with it in any causal way. True, the narrator seems to be saying that it was this incident which caused him to take up the jihad, but he's being mendacious (like all his kind, he's incapable of honesty); he was headed in that direction from the start, and if it hadn't been the encounter with the stripper it would have been something else.
Now if it could be shown that something in this incident showed him HOW the West could be overthrown, then perhaps the story would qualify as SF. That might have been interesting. As it is, though, no connection is shown and in fact we are never told just how this conquest - a highly improbable event, to say the least - came about.
There are some other problems with the story, but there's no point in going into them, because they don't really matter from my viewpoint. It's not speculative fiction and I can't use it in my magazine.
And I don't think you're going to sell it to any other genre magazine, for that reason - though you'd have a hard time anyway; most of the SF magazines are very leery of publishing anything that might offend the sheet heads. I think you might have a better chance with some non-genre publication. But I could be wrong.
Sorry.
William Sanders
Senior Editor
Helix And then Anonymous, who would seem to be William Sanders, responded to the LJ comment posting the rejection letter with Son, hasn't anybody ever told you that public posting of a private email message is contrary to the rules both of accepted internet practice and common courtesy?
I do appreciate your efforts to be fair - certainly far more so than most of the other people in this ward, ah, group - but the fact remains that you've done something both socially and professionally unacceptable in posting it at all. So if you had any idea of submitting anything else to Helix, forget it. I won't work with people who pull this kind of shit.
I suppose this is what I get for trying to be a nice guy, and give you a little encouragement rather than the standard thanks-but-no-thanks form rejection. Silly me.
(I notice, too, the presence in the lynch mob of another person I've tried to help, and to whom I thought I'd been particularly kind. No good deed, etc.)
Of course none of these people have read the story, and so they fail to grasp the context - that I was talking not about Muslims, or Arabs, or Oompa Loompas or any other religious or ethnic group, but about terrorists and violent extremists. (That being, after all, what your story was about.)
But I don't feel any need to defend myself, or Helix, to these people; indeed I doubt that there's anybody outside their little Mutual Masturbation Society who gives a damn what they think about anything at all.
They are cordially invited to have intercourse with their precious selves. I'm sure most of them could use the practice.
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| 2008-07-04 12:55 |
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Jesse Helms died! :D :D
 Here are some quotes to remember him by: -"To rob the Negro of his reputation of thinking through a problem in his own fashion is about the same as trying to pretend that he doesn't have a natural instinct for rhythm and for singing and dancing" -"It's their deliberate, disgusting, revolting conduct that is responsible for the disease" (on gays and AIDS) -"The Negro cannot count forever on the kind of restraint that's thus far left him free to clog the streets, disrupt traffic, and interfere with other men's rights" -"They should ask their parents if it would be all right for their son or daughter to marry a Negro" (on the Duke University students upset by Martin Luther King's assassination) -"I've never heard once in this chamber anybody say to the homosexuals, 'stop what you're doing.' If they would stop what they're doing there would not be one additional case of AIDS in the United State" -"If homosexuals would only stop doing what they're doing, There wouldn't be any more AIDS" -"All Latins are volatile people. Hence, I was not surprised at the volatile reaction" (after Mexicans protested his visit to Mexico in 1986 to investigate allegations of political corruption--essentially, Helms was investigating as to whether or not there might be communists in Mexico) -"Nevertheless, if the Administration insists on funding these programs I shall not stand in the way, so long as you agree to the following conditions: 1) that no funds be obligated to any affiliate of the International Planned Parenthood Foundation (IPPF) in Haiti, including PROFAMIL; and 2) that no funds be provided directly or indirectly to any group whose programs include producing material intended to be used in a voodoo ceremony ... A.I.D. is funding programs that endorse or legitimize what amounts to witchcraft." -"You needed that job and you were the best qualified. But they had to give it to a minority because of a racial quota" (from his campaign ad) -"As for homosexuality, The Bible judges it, I do not... There is no justification for AIDS funding far exceeding that for other killer diseases such as cancer, heart trouble, etc. As for [your son] Mark, I wish he had not played Russian roulette in his sexual activity... There is no escaping the reality of what happened" (in a letter to a mother who lost her son to AIDS) -"These people are intellectually dishonest in just everything they say or do. They start by pretending that it is just another form of love. It's sickening" (on gays) -"I am not going to put a lesbian in a position like that. If you want to call me a bigot, fine" (on why he was opposing the appointment of a woman to a post in Department of Housing and Urban Development) 
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| 2008-06-20 21:26 |
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I've moved to Rochester! Now i have a fantastic apartment with my ladies :D
(Forgive me if this is old news bc i have been kind of living under a rock for the last few months, but) ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) snugglebitch has discovered Spore, which is a game in which you: CREATE Your Universe from Microscopic to Macrocosmic - From tide pool amoebas to thriving civilizations to intergalactic starships, everything is in your hands.
EVOLVE Your Creature through Five Stages - It’s survival of the funnest as your choices reverberate through generations and ultimately decide the fate of your civilization.
EXPLORE your world and beyond - Will you rule, or will your beloved planet be blasted to smithereens by a superior alien race?
SHARE with the World - Everything you make is shared with other players and vice versa, providing tons of cool creatures to meet and new places to visit. As far as i understand, you create a bunch of creatures (which you can do with the free creature creator, downloadable here), release them on your planet, then they compete for resources and evolve, and eventually develop civilizations and cities and technology. Exciting! My Spore page is here. I haven't really created many creatures yet tho. I haven't bought the full version of the creature creator but i am severely tempted. I am also tempted to buy the full game when it finally comes out in like 2 months(?). LOL WUT .
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woah that chris hanson image was way too big.
anyway, these bratz are supposed to be babies. idgi
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| 2008-04-22 01:03 |
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I saw The Forbidden Kingdom today.
Really it's not worth writing about.
But one of the previews was this:
Do i really need to say anything about it?
Like okay, maybe this could've been a nice way to make fun of cultural appropriation.
But it doesn't.
It really is as simple as it looks: Mike Meyers is playing dress-up and pretending to be a Hindu spiritual leader as a gimmick for his played out old comedy routine.
From the description, "Pitka (Mike Myers in his first original character since Austin Powers) is an American who was left at the gates of an ashram in India as a child and raised by gurus. He moves back to the U.S. to seek fame and fortune in the world of self-help and spirituality."
And that's as deep as that goes. Everything else is just Myers going "lol look Hindus sit in funny positions" or "lol look @ these hilarious outfits that some guys wear in India" or "lol riding elephants (or pillows)."
Also, lol an Asiaphile playing an Asiaphile
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I've made a couple of posts about this before; here is a series of video coverage that may give you a better picture of what has happened, is happening, in Prince William county, w.r.t. the hate-on that the white people there have for Latinos, than my words can, and the channel has some more recently added ones that aren't listed in the playlist.
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| 2008-04-18 17:20 |
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UuuuuhhooooooOAH
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| 2008-04-11 15:21 |
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brownfemipower is gone, and white feminists are to blame.
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lost_angelwings has an excellent post about the need of straight, white, cis, and/or middle/upper class people to be able to see that people of color, Trans/Bi/Lesbian/Gay people, poor & working class people can somehow be related back to their own interests before they can be bothered to give half a bicycling fuck.
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| 2008-04-06 01:02 |
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From an ad in my LJ.
Oh Gwen Stefani. Why haven't you been hit by a bus yet?
Also she has turned her Harajuku girls into perfume bottles. D:
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| 2008-04-04 23:52 |
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I have renamed my lj! lol
thnx paperhurts for the rename token ilu ♥
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| 2008-04-04 01:49 |
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OH SWEET MOTHER OF FUCK THE PREGNANT MAN STORY HIT ONTD D:
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| 2008-03-14 16:32 |
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This makes me so fucking angry.
In what fucking world does this cashier/store owner think he lives that he thinks he has a right to ask someone for their social security card because they are speaking Spanish? Richardson pulled out a membership card for Rhode Islanders for Immigration Law Enforcement, a group that seeks curbs on illegal immigration.
Then, he lifted the phone receiver and threatened to call immigration authorities, Genao said.
“He [Richardson] grabbed the phone and said, ‘I can call ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] anytime I see an illegal immigrant,’ ” said Genao. “He also said, ‘I can make a citizen’s arrest.’ ” I seriously want to cut this motherfucker. He's being protested by the National Coalition of Latino Clergy and Christian Leaders. .
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| 2008-03-12 18:45 |
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Earlier this month, Prince William County began enforcing a law, which was approved by the all-white Prince William County Board of Supervisors in October 2007, that codifies racial profiling of Latinos as being not only legally acceptable, but encouraged, as officers are directed to "investigate the citizenship status of people who are detained for breaking the law if officers have probable cause to believe they are violating federal immigration policy." Additionally, people suspected of being undocumented will be denied county services under the new policy.
Of course, you can guess how officers are going to determine "probable cause."
As Brownfemipower said, "this is not about legal versus illegal. This is about rolling R’s and brown skin and age old hate."
The police department says that "officers have been trained to investigate only suspected criminals" and "are strictly prohibited from racial profiling while enforcing the new law."
Right.
I'm curious as to when the phrase "suspected criminals" began including violators of traffic laws, who the Chief of Police, Charlie Deane, says "will be screened if the officer has probable cause to believe the suspect is in the country illegally." Again, I wonder what he means by "probable cause?"
Since the policy started being enforced, over six-hundred-bilingual students have dropped out of school. Many Latino immigrants "feel they are being forced to walk away from their homes because they cannot risk waiting until they sell. Families have been separated as fathers and mothers have been detained leaving citizen children behind to be cared for by family members or friends." The enforcement of the racist law "calls for spending $6.4 million next year and $26 million over the next five years." That is (and probably falls far short of) how much white people in Prince William value their hate.
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