Everything posted by Hurlshort
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The Weird, Random, and Interesting things that Fit Nowhere Else Thread
I've never understood the appeal of Bill Maher. True story, I once got in trouble when I was 12 for carving my initials into a chair at school. They had an administrator talk to me, then they had an on-campus police officer talk to me. I was suspended. At no point was I put into handcuffs. I was not interrogated for an hour and a half. Honestly it's like there was a complete lack of common sense among all the administrators and officers involved. You can expect a 14-year old to lack some common sense. Bringing a briefcase clock to school wasn't a great idea, it looked suspicious, and if I was his teacher I probably would have told him to let me keep it in my class and have him pick it up at the end of the day. I've had students bring worse things to school. But the adults involved in this situation all showed a remarkable lack of empathy. It's a 14-year old kid.
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Republican Presidential Debate
Yeah the whole outrage over Trump not saying anything is really just a smokescreen. There are plenty of policy issues to nail him on instead. I do love the McCain response though. It's clearly a different situation, given he is really face to face with that woman, but it shows what a stand up guy he is. He had my vote until he chose Sarah Palin as his running mate. What a terrible turn that was.
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Republican Presidential Debate
There is a surprising amount of people who think Obama is a Muslim. It's like the plot of some crazy movie where Obama is going to laugh maniacally and roll out Shariah law across the land for those people. Pretty funny stuff, but you can see why they are terrified I guess.
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The Funny Things Thread
STEM is the hot new acronym in education, it means science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
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SW: The Old Republic - Episode VII (J.J. Strikes Back)
Got to Rishi for the first time with my Jedi Knight, this is one of the better planets I've seen in the game. The storyline is pretty fun as well. I just hit 59 and I'm hoping to finish up the story before the new expansion hits.
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RANDOM VIDEO GAME NEWS
Don't forget that Microsoft turned Shadowrun into a mediocre MP shooter too. Thankfully that was rescued by HBS.
- Reactionaries tries to ban progressive technology
- What you've been drinking lately.
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Republican Presidential Debate
Over the summer, I started jogging without a shirt on to get a bit of color, since I'm blindingly white. It was a bit embarrassing though, so I found myself running at a faster pace, as if I could outrun the shame. I may have told this story already.
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Republican Presidential Debate
Chris Christie was pretty good. Although he is clearly a more moderate, which means he has a great chance of winning the general election but no chance in hell of winning the primary. Huh.
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Journalism and Bias in the Gaming Industry
That is awesome.
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Journalism and Bias in the Gaming Industry
- I'm a Level 2 Evoker?
There was a brief time where they were handing out custom titles like candy, but I think that was just a result of the excitement from the Kickstarter.- Democalypse 2016
Hmm, doesn't really look like it will help me.- Modern Slavery in America
- Modern Slavery in America
- Divinity: Original Sin 2, coming to Kickstarter on August 26th
I thought they announced it as an October release?- NFL 2015 Season
- Modern Slavery in America
Nope. I make a point of avoiding chain stores. The point remains, even if neither of us buy our groceries there, many people do. I'm not really sure what you point is though. It is hard to find a chain store that doesn't have some sort of connection to a horrible vendor. It is unrealistic to expect them to have perfect oversight AND manage to get products to stores at the lowest prices. I do support consumer driven protests that bring this stuff to light, of course, and you tend to see the chains cut ties with vendors with this type of reputation pretty quickly once the consumer protests start rolling in.- Modern Slavery in America
- The Funny Things Thread
Pomegranates are pretty funky looking.- Modern Slavery in America
- RANDOM VIDEO GAME NEWS
For me, BF shines when I'm riding with other people in a boat, chopper, or jeep. I haven't seen enough of the vehicles to say if they are going to capture that in Battlefront.- RANDOM VIDEO GAME NEWS
I don't believe so, I think there are some exercises you can do single player but there is no campaign. Honestly it looks exactly like what I would expect Dice to do. It is Battlefield with Star Wars. I have no idea what you guys are down about. Those aren't bad games by any stretch. The Battlefront games were actually pretty lackluster.- RANDOM VIDEO GAME NEWS
I'm not quite sure why you guys are so down on it, looks pretty decent. Although yeah, it does seem like Dice has lost the magic from BF2 and 2142. - I'm a Level 2 Evoker?