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the aspidistra: Gamers ≠ Losers
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Thursday, February 22, 2007. Gamers ≠ Losers. The stereotype certainly exists, but I would have hoped that as those that grew up playing games became adults, the image. Of the loser gamer would disappear. Alas, my beloved hobby has a persistent image problem. Just a silly little note in my really busy week: Leafing through this week's US Weekly (cover date March 5, 2007), I see a quote from sorta-famous person Gabrielle Union in the Loose Talk section. Sayeth Union:. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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the aspidistra: Got Some Dumb Ideas? Make A Wiki!
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Thursday, March 01, 2007. Got Some Dumb Ideas? In the comment section over at Pharyngula. And in his own post. At Unscrewing the Inscrutable), Jim Downey points. To one of the recent examples of creationist idiocy: the CreationWiki. Downey calls it a “self-organizing black hole of stupid.” No one can deny that the know-nothings in the creationist crowd are passionate about their never-ending battle with reality (see also Conservapedia. The theory of evolution (or general theory of evolution.
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the aspidistra: January 2007
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Tuesday, January 30, 2007. Yet more research on the hobbit, the possibly-new species of Homo. Revealed in bones found a few years ago in Indonesia. Last time. I touched on the subject, the research was suggesting that the bones were a microcephalic human. But new research (PNAS paper not yet online) on a collection of microcephalic human brains indicates that they all share traits that are absent in normal human brains. Features on the H. floresiensis. Could be just around the corner, involving new analy...
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the aspidistra: Detroit Dying
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Thursday, March 22, 2007. I remember stories from my grandmother about a now-vanished Detroit of streetcars and downtown department stores. I've alway held a crazy hope that my hometown will one day bounce back to some of it's former glory. Experience should have taught me otherwise- once, as a teen, I saw a man lying in the middle of Woodward Avenue downtown and I and everyone else ignored him- but like all dreams mine is irrational. Is it any wonder that houses are cheaper than new cars.
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the aspidistra: Take This Job And Shove It... I Kid, I Kid.
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Friday, March 02, 2007. Take This Job And Shove It. I Kid, I Kid. Jeffrey Dinsmore links to the very funny website of loseractor. It was a bad omen. The subway doors opened at 18th St on a large group of kids encouraging a fat girl pulling another fat girl face-down along the subway platform by her hair, like she was vacuuming, except she would occasionally punch the vacuum cleaner in the head. Yaay! What I would give to go back to middle school! The occasion for Jeff’s post is a goodbye email. Videogame...
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the aspidistra: November 2006
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Thursday, November 30, 2006. A Game For The Religious And Ignorant. The real-time strategy game based on the Left Behind books has been generating interest on the web for some time and it is finally out. When I first heard about this game, I was willing to keep an open-ish mind. I love plenty of games that draw their stories from crazy, nonsense mythology (Legend of Zelda, God of War), so why not dig on some crazy Christian myths? Well, Gamespot has a review. Third Is The New Black. Nintendo dominated my...
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the aspidistra: Videogames: Metaphors For Your Life?
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Friday, March 23, 2007. Videogames: Metaphors For Your Life? The new post-9/11 drama Reign Over Me. Is getting decent reviews, but what has caught my eye about the movie is that reviewers are mentioning that Adam Sandler's isolated character is wrapped up in Shadow of the Colossus. One of my most favoritest games. Sayeth Anthony Lane in the New Yorker. And Scott Foundas in the Village Voice. In which he can repeatedly lay waste to the evil forces he was powerless to defeat in life. I certainly enjoyed th...
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the aspidistra: February 2007
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Thursday, February 22, 2007. Gamers ≠ Losers. The stereotype certainly exists, but I would have hoped that as those that grew up playing games became adults, the image. Of the loser gamer would disappear. Alas, my beloved hobby has a persistent image problem. Just a silly little note in my really busy week: Leafing through this week's US Weekly (cover date March 5, 2007), I see a quote from sorta-famous person Gabrielle Union in the Loose Talk section. Sayeth Union:. Friday, February 16, 2007. I have bee...
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the aspidistra: June 2006
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Friday, June 30, 2006. Quien es el mas metal? Hi, my name is Com$tock, and I'm a metal newbie. I didn't really think of myself in those terms until I read this incredibly detailed defense of metal against the hipster hordes of false metalheads. Got some time on your hands? This essay is one suprisingly long labor of love.). So am I a false metaller? I really love the music, man, and pretty much without irony. Bellowing about mythological entities is always going to be a little silly, no? But I don't know...
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The Traveling Brat: October 2004
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Wednesday, October 20, 2004. A Brat in the woods. Back in the California redwoods for a little relaxation. Posted by Hans Brat @ 6:47 PM. Sunday, October 17, 2004. Who loves the beach? I can drink 3x my weight in Negra Modelos. And at long last, a siesta. Posted by Hans Brat @ 4:08 PM. View my complete profile. New York Rocks 2005! Moving from Chicago to New York. A Brat in the woods.
