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Friend: Oh what's that game?

Me: It's Tokaido.

Friend: How does it work?

Me: Well, you play as pilgrims travelling from Kyoto to Tokyo and you're trying to score points.

#you play as *concrete detail*#and you're trying to *abstract game concept*#board games #tokaido

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Thank you, Jon.

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Okay. So it's essay time. When the Colbert-a ended, I was a tad upset. But Jon Stewart leaving the Daily Show is legitimately distressing. Not because no one can possible replace him--I can think of several who would be amazing at that desk--but because Stewart himself was such a formative aspect on my life.

When I was fourteen and just entering high school (I am 20 now and a junior in college), I didn't even watch the news, aside from maybe catching glimpses while my parents did. But gradually, as more and more interesting and relevant topics were covered at school, and as I participated in speech and debate (NEEEEERD!), I became much more interested in learning about current events. Unfortunately, I didn't have the time, being an honors-ish student and all, to pay attention to the entire 24-hour news cycle.

So my parents pointed me towards the Daily Show, which we started recording on the TiVo because, frankly, eleven was a bad time to be up when you had to be rolling out of bed a six in the morning. I took to Stewart and his no-bullshit attitude (which has only gotten stronger in recent years) like a fish to water. Before long, my primary source of news was the Daily Show. By my Junior year, Jon had at least once been voted the most trustworthy newscaster in America (which was really amusing, considering he was still using "Wikipedia" as a running joke at the time, if my memory serves).

Watching Stewart cover the Gulf Oil Spill, "our" multiple engagements in the Middle East, and--most recently--the hilariously overwrought American election cycle has shaped not only my attitudes towards the news and journalism, but towards politics and comedy.

I've watched the Daily Show pseudo-religiously for a long time now, and I'm sad to see Jon go. For a long time, I've wanted to wind up across the table from him, more than wanting pretty much anything. Because I know that if anyone can keep me honest while laughing about it, it's Jon Stewart. Because I know that Jon is one of the greatest news anchors of our time. Because I know that Jon Stewart is, and always will be, a hero. Maybe not in the traditional sense, but he's a hero to me, and I know that his audience adores him (maybe not as overtly as Colbert's, but to be fair, Colbert actively cultivated his audience).

I just want to say thank you to Jon. For everything.

#Jon Stewart #the Daily Show #tds #the Daily Show with Jon Stewart

Apparently I impressed my intermediate fiction professor enough that he's still sending me e-mails a full year later about careers in English Writing.

#sometimes I think my writing is subpar #then I get shit like this #and from my anthro teacher last semester #who was like #'you make your argument with style and wit'#and I was like #'I wrote a paper and cracked maybe two jokes'

So I get a birthday gift from my dad.....and it turns out it's something I got for motherfucking Christmas from my mother.

#I get that you're divorced #but can you at least #i dunno #TEXT EACH OTHER #i mean holy shitting dicknipples on a razor blade you two

tell me why i should care

#this is mostly a test to see if it's a bot

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put up a black history month banner and i’ll think about it

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you know, i thought the same thing the OP wrote too tho. and before the importance of net neutrality is tossed around, tumblr gave more of a fuck about National Donut Day or something,

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There's also the fact that a lot of people don't like or desire Black History Month to be a thing, like, for instance, most black people who have been asked about it on television (Morgan Freeman springs to mind), and in general there's a lot of debate about whether or not it's a good thing. Net neutrality, on the other hand, is an objectively good thing and much more pressing issue, time-wise because once net neutrality is removed, that can't be undone, whereas the racial dialogue is by definition something that occurs over a long period of time (significantly longer than a month, and definitely, without a doubt longer than this button has been in existence).

So, from both an objective morality analysis and timeframe analysis, it's a better decision to put something up to help net neutrality than to put up a little banner about black history month (though this is not to say that both is an implausible compromise). Furthermore, I know for a fact that we'd get people complaining that "just a banner" isn't enough for black history month, as has happened on multiple occasions for various things the staff have put up as banners on this website.

#net neutrality #black history month #it's almost like net neutrality is an impending source of doom for the staff or something #oh wait #it fucking is

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So I’ve been playing the binding of isaac rebirth recently and I don’t understand anything

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holy shit you actually got down to one life that run. I'm impressed.

#for the record #he had an item that rerolled every floor #and got nine lives multiple times #and since the item's effects don't go away when you lose it #he just got more lives #which was dumb

#monty oum #sometimes I dislike not being able to feel emotions about things that don't directly affect me #I'd like to read a story in which something happens and I feel something #or play a game and feel something #or watch a television show and feel something brought on by something other than music #but I just....don't #it doesn't work #my give a damn has quite literally busted #or hear about a tragic event and FEEL something #for the love of the whole fucking a universe a man DIED #and I felt NOTHING

sometimes insomnia is nice because you can totally use that time do work. other times you wind up making iterations of Steve Irwin across multiple tabletop rpg systems hoping eventually you'll get bored and go to bed.

#insomnia #steve irwin #rpgs #i guess

anyone who claims that the universe is too complex to have originated spontaneously does not adequately understand statistics

daynaknight replied to your chat:Me: I'll have a [orders food] Cashier: Cool. You...

i dont understand american football…

Insofar as I know the rules, I technically understand it. I just don't get the culture that surrounds it.

Me: I'll have a [orders food]

Cashier: Cool. You watching the game today?

Me: What game?

Them: The...the Super Bowl. The big game.

Me: I...I thought that was next week.

Them: ........

Me: ......