The Findings of the Good and Lost

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Call me casual one more time

One of the main gripes I have about the gaming community is the new use of separating labels. I recently watched a YouTube personality that I watch on a regular basis who previews a lot of FPS games and focuses mainly on COD. During the video he kept referring to games like Skyrim and Fallout 3 and New Vegas as casual games. Personally I have invested way more time into games like Fallout 3 and New Vegas and Skyrim than I have probably every COD game I've owned collectively. The reason I feel like this slightly derogatory is that I have been playing games since I was born. I was playing a Winnie the Pooh game on my Playstation 1 and it was rated C! That isn't even a rating anymore! I don't know why but the term casual game and casual gamers sort of irks me for the reason of giving labels based on preconceptions. I don't play a whole lot of COD but I do play games almost every day and invest a lot of time into modding my games to fit how I want to play and experience a game. The problem though is since I'm not honing my craft in an esports approved game I'm not hardcore enough even though I'm huge into video game journalism and learning everything I can about the development and creation processes of games. I wish that the term casual and hardcore would disappear. I understand the need to differentiate between a professional and someone who does not get paid to play a video game but the term hardcore and casual only serves to cause a rift in a community that has no purpose in getting separated. I may not play a whole lot of COD but I respect the community and I would hope that the gaming community as a whole could ban together someday and all realize that we are all just a bunch of people who enjoy sitting down and enjoying a sweet digital experience. 

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The Lady from Shanghai (1947) - Orson Welles

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A short film by some friends of mine

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The Future is Waiting

Guys I'm just going to say that I'm very excited about the future of video games. The reason that I have gotten so excited is the recent push into the realm of VR or virtual reality. Between the two biggest contenders the Oculus and now the Sony Project Morpheus. Personally I'm glad that Oculus was purchased by Facebook because now they have the funding that they need to focus on development and more R+D for the Oculus. Hopefully by the end of this year we will be seeing great strides into the VR sector of gaming and begin a new era in games. 

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So here it is: the pirate bay bundle. You can also watch the trailer if you haven’t seen it This has taken me so much longer than I ever anticipated. I’ve been stuck in the thick of this for so long that I thought I would never see the light and even when I did,…

[punkarcade]

Not sure why this is called The Pirate Bay Bundle other than it’s torrented. It seems like this person emailed over 100 game makers and asked them if they’d like their games to be bundled together into a free torrent and they said yes. I want to play every game. -LT

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Dw meme Favourite regeneration of the doctor: 9

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Imitating Academics

When I look at people sharing their faith or lack thereof its not the fact that they are impressing beliefs. Its that they begin to be offensive. Reading Cisconic on his blog on the unintelligent theist I found it an interesting read. While maybe not agreeing on everything he has to say it was a good read all the same and pretty interesting for me to read. Then the academicatheist reblogged him and decided to really teach him a lesson. The problem here is that it is a belief system. No one person can disprove a God. Yet we cannot refute scientific achievement. The problem with people like the academictheist is that being an atheist in no way makes you an academic. Cisconic could change his name to the academictheist or anything of the sort. See my problem with SOME atheists is that they have decided not to believe for their own reasons, and people often respect that decision and don't talk about their religious beliefs in front of them out of respect. But some however decide that they want to reciprocate the attitude that they so wished to escape from. We do not have to be degrading in a talk on theological or religious ideas. The instant that an insult is thrown into a discussion then the intelligent discussion is gone and it becomes one large pissing match. This is me standing up for my buddy Cisconic. So academicatheist to follow your name be an academic instead of a child trying to instigate a pissing match sir.

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Approaching the end of yet another anime and I'm getting that end of show depression.

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I feel a horrible depression setting in. Its about the time that I begin to question my relationships with people. I don't feel like I have a connection with anyone. The person I'm closest with is my dad but the thing I'm becoming depressed about is something that will probably upset him. I feel horribly alone. I don't understand why though. I have friends and I hang out with them but sometimes it only feels like I am a second choice or I feel that I do it out of an obligation to myself to be around people. I've been an insomniac for a couple of months now and I don't sleep but four hours a night at most. I'm getting depressed about my weight, I've always been self conscious about my weight but I'm the heaviest I've ever been by far and I feel like crap. I want to work out but I have a crippling social anxiety about working out in front of people. Also there are rumors going on about me back in my hometown while I'm four hours away at college.I'm without a car because it broke and now I have to buy yet another car off my parents who have sold me two faulty cars. Hopefully I can get out of this because I'm seriously about to talk to a shrink. This is the worst I can remember my depression being. The worst part though is I've only just turned 18 and yet I feel like I'm going nowhere. I guess that is the struggle as a college student, finding the drive to push forward onto a goal that has no end in sight yet. Advice would be fantastic on getting out of this impending darkness.

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Don't get locked in the rage cage

When you are bored, you come up with rumors.

When you come up with rumors, the victims of those rumors find out about those rumors.

When the victims of those rumors find out about those rumors, they summon Terry the Pterodactyl of Truth to spread truth.

When Terry the Pterodactyl of Truth is summoned to spread truth, nothing good happens.

When nothing good happens people are locked into a rage cage.

Don't let people be locked in a rage cage. Don't tell rumors.

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This movie had fantastic actors. The sets were fantastic. The music was superb. The writing expertly done. Then why can I not like this movie? Everything was done so well but I just cannot for the life of me like this film. I think it was just the fact that this movie seems to idolize the capitalist mentality. DiCaprio's character gets off with a slap on the wrist and goes to white collar jail. He gets out and continues spreading the idea that being poor is a horrible thing and that if you haven't made a name for yourself then you just need to get a job at McDonald's. They also don't show how when DiCaprio's character was selling penny stock that he was stealing the money from the poor. He stole their retirement and their livelihood. The only mention it gets is one scene where his wife asks why not steal from the rich. The only thing I see is that this is going to become a movie that inspires a generation much like Oliver Stone's Wall Street. Leonardo DiCaprio's Jordan Belfort is going to be the next Michael Douglas' Gordon Gekko. Gekko was supposed to be a bad guy but created the next generation of stockbrokers. As good as the writing, acting, score, and sets were; the overall message was just enough to leave a bad taste in my mouth.

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" It’s a sign this forest is healthy "

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Black Prince

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When a friend tapes a radio antennae to a cookie sheet, the only logical response it to craft an aluminum foil Death Helmet and mount it upon the Party Blowfish.

[azspot]

Machines are for answers; humans are for questions. The world that Google is constructing—a world of cheap and free answers—having answers is not going to be very significant or important. Having a really great question will be where all the value is.

Kevin Kelly

Machines are for answers; humans are for questions.

(via stoweboyd)

This is a key critique against the emerging machine age - which is featuring an almost total human capitulation in front of easy and immediate answers or solutions to shallow and badly formulated questions or problems!

(via futuramb)

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2015 Victory Gunner bobber