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Kept it simple since it's a regular workday - meat & potatoes. Fried potato wedges in a skillet with some chives, sweetened and boiled some chopped carrots and grilled a piece of chicken filet and dumped some peppercorn sauce on it - the sauce came from a jar, but it was still tasty as hell.

Well, I meant genuine as in using all the muscles an actual smile would rather than just lifting the corners of your mouth. My bad.

Static vs crafting and the (lack of) ease of modding the game were the last topics. Leave your inquiries here.

Next part coming up: http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/69903-dragon-age-inquisition/

If you haven't already, look up "Duchenne smiling". I think it's fascinating that a genuine smile will actually feedback to your brain. It's like your brain goes "oh ****, the face is doing the happy thing, did I miss a cue? Better put some happiness up in here!" - in fact, it's been theorized that people who put Botox in their faces actually become unhappier because it's harder to genuinely smile.

Although correct in the "specific definitions and history" side (so essentially, completely correct), modern usage of sex-positive and sex-negative as a term regarding feminists is closer to "likes sexy stuff and is open-minded" and "puritanically hates sexy stuff" respectively. At least, that's how it's used by all the idiots on both sides in the context of the #GamerGate debate anyway (I've already had this discussion with some of them). Essentially if you think Bayonetta is a sexy power fantasy, you're sex-positive and if you think women are only sexy to attract men and therefore Bayonetta oppresses women, then you're sex-negative. Neither side in #GamerGate seems to be smart enough to care about specific definitions so it's kindof colloquially grown into that. Everyone on the internet seems to be really stupid.

I played more New Vegas than most cRPGs, but I didn't finish it. I'm hoping I can still be patient enough for PoE.

I really lost the patience for long RPGs. Pretty much occassionally I will replay KOTOR 2 or BG2 but I haven't finished a new cRPG since Mass Effect 1.

I like to read, play video games, watch movies and shows, draw, play guitar or write. I'm not really good at any of them except for watching movies and shows, which I'm an expert at.

That's pretty accurate. I thought the actual encounters and dungeon crawls were pretty cool (although Sarevok broke most of them), but there was too much of it and the story itself and the character writing, which to me was the meat of the game, wasn't anything to write home about so it was something of a let down.

You should pick up a relaxing hobby like painting.

Well, DDP Yoga isn't exactly regular yoga - it seems to be designed to add some cardio and muscle to yoga. It gets MY heartrate up, but I'm not sure how it affects people who aren't sedentary and unhealthy most of the time. It seems to be helping a lot of people (I subscribed to them on Twitter and I saw a stroke victim saying it was helping him regain mobility in his affected side). I haven't been doing it long enough to say what the long term benefits are, but I feel better (energized and more flexible) and my physical problems, mainly my back and my wrist, are improving. In fact, I get the idea that my wrist is regaining mobility. So there's that. Honestly, that's all I can give you. I've been at it for a couple of weeks. I really enjoy doing it, though, which is more than I can say for weightlifting and treadmills which bore the motivation and drive out of me, personally.

That was hilarious and very true. Anyway, I've started doing DDP Yoga and it's been great so far. If the weather would clear, I'm going to start running. Not as new years resolutions, by the way, since a number changing is a terrible reason to do something. I want to do these things.

Giant lol at you, Bruce, for using the colloquial implication of sex work and then pretending you were making a point. It was an interesting move to be sure to go from "but didn't you guys say sex work wasn't degrading so I didn't insult his niece" to full blown "sex work is degrading and demeaning (which also means I was insulting his niece)" but looks like it didn't work. I also like the part where you have a problem with Volo, and respond by attacking his niece instead of him. I recall that we had a discussion about trolls before in another thread, when someone claimed trolls just attack people's weaknesses and are therefore not sexist. I pointed out that trolls will often attack men's female loved ones, such as their mothers or girlfriends, showing that they consider the man's greatest weakness to be the women they care for rather than their own actual weaknesses. You heavily condemned the practice and supported my viewpoint at the time - very surprised to see such an inherently sexist act from you, Bruce. Although, as for apologizing to Volourn, what is this, couples therapy? We're on the internet, scrubs. Also, we dealt with the GTA discussion before. Bruce lost last time, just go and quote that. In the meanwhile, let's talk about actually interesting things such as the personal accounts of harassment or Liana K's intriguing view about digital colonialism.

I think you misunderstand, the Bethesda dev is the "social justice degenerate" telling the pro-freedom of speech people to f off.

Saw this one on deviant art and I thought I'd share.

http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1sjmk7n Cainejw, Another #GamerGater (significant one, contributer to #NotYourShield, writes for Medium) writes an article about their harassment. I guess GG learnt a lesson about victimhood.

Good god, some of those things are bloody awful. Anyway, how's the Reddit situation? Still banning consumer rights arbitrarily? This is why #GamerGaters lash out - because the people looking down on them are the worst ****s imaginable and somehow they have enough clout to get entire avenues of communication and rights closed off to silence them.

I'm just going to quote this so this typo is immortalized forever. Is it freudian? I don't know, but I like to imagine it is.

"Gamerghazi followed me around the internet, spreading the lie that I pretended to be black." Ghazi sure seems to hate minorities.

I didn't mind it so much but I'm still bother by the poor writing and the fact that nobody thought that having the first 15 minutes or so, be a narration info dump for a system that's pretty self explanatory was a good idea. A waste of screen time in order to quell what I think was the filmmakers' fears that people would be confused. Well, it is the same audience that claimed ad nauseum that Inception was hard to understand.

"Spoiled white people who survive on begging" seems weird?

Did that really warrant a serious response?

Yeah, it's too bad that Kluwe and Cernovich are both idiots, yet those are the types looking to get into fights over this. I'd be much more interested in seeing TB, Oliver Campbell, Jenn of Hardwire, Georgina Young or Brad Wardell debate over it because those are people who actually care about ethics in games journalism as opposed to Cernovich or Baldwin, who just want to bash feminism. But the fact of the matter is that the smart people aren't picking fights, they're creating meaningful change. Which is probably a pretty clear and scathing commentary on how many frustrated walls of debating text I've written on the topic. Time to stop posting and write some well-meant rebuild initiative e-mails.