CodexArcanum

Ah, the open-mouth reverse blow! But will it be enough to save your palette and tongue from the burn?

The idea that a country needs (~~to exist~~) to be ruled by a single individual is completely unfounded, and perpetuated by people who are either fools or foolish enough to think they have a shot at the throne. Early on, there were proposals for the USA to have a king, a president, and many other ideas including no executive branch or having a tribunal. I could see a good case for splitting the executive across 3 persons with equal and asymmetrical powers.

Assuming you do a ranked choice vote for all 3 at once (or 1 at a time in rotation, like Senators) it should be extremely difficult to compromise the office by, say, buying one deeply indebted former TV host and running them for president.

I was wondering why HW3 was "controversial" and apparently I didn't realize:

1. It's been released.
2. It's worse than the first 2
3. Because Gearbox is publishing it!

Thanks Randy! Fucking grease weasel ruins another great franchise.

https://theemptypage.wordpress.com/2013/05/20/critical-perspectives-on-waluigi/

I, We, Waluigi: a Post-Modern analysis of Waluigi by Franck Ribery

Waluigi is the ultimate example of the individual shaped by the signifier. Waluigi is a man seen only in mirror images; lost in a hall of mirrors he is a reflection of a reflection of a reflection. You start with Mario – the wholesome all Italian plumbing superman, you reflect him to create Luigi – the same thing but slightly less. You invert Mario to create Wario – Mario turned septic and libertarian – then you reflect the inversion in the reflection: you create a being who can only exist in reference to others. Waluigi is the true nowhere man, without the other characters he reflects, inverts and parodies he has no reason to exist. Waluigi’s identity only comes from what and who he isn’t – without a wider frame of reference he is nothing. He is not his own man. In a world where our identities are shaped by our warped relationships to brands and commerce we are all Waluigi.

There is apparently a sequel post now as well.

Because it got 7/10 average review scores and didn't sell as well as GTA. Then GTA3 (and its immediate spin-offs and eventual sequels) came out and started breaking all time sales records. So retroactively, GTA 2 was "a mistake" for not being GTA 3 two years early.

But like the guy says, the point of the article even, is that you don't create run away successes without experimenting on the formula to find what's good, without "failures" like GTA 2 to learn from.

As a person who occasionally makes confessional asides "to the camera" I find it amusing to rhetorically ask "Chat" about things. "Ugh, I don't wanna cook tonight. How about it Chat, we ordering pizza?"

Sadly, the Hilbert Hotel is slated for demolition which is why it's on Sisyphus' path. After that whole "everyone moves to double their room number" debacle, Hilbert had to process a fraction of the infinite guests' refunds because they didn't feel like changing rooms to one several million hallways down. And a percentage of infinite guests refunds is still infinite, so Hilbert is in infinite debt now.

Theseus, meanwhile, has been trying to justify buying a new ship for ages but his crew is adamant about right to repair, so he's looking for an easy exit.

They make them, my girlfriend has been obcessed with the couple pairs she bought, never wears anything else.

Wayoun, Tuvix, and Jellico?! Who made this call and what's their @startrek.website user handle?

Ah, a classic! For today's lucky 10,000: http://www.longestjokeintheworld.com/

The Internet is the great template of failure for our entire society, synecdoche, the part stands for the whole, Conway's law.

Capitalism has no place for revolutionary ideas, it was only once global communication was intimately tied into commerce, propaganda, and surveillance that it had "value" and could become the cornerstone of the new economy. If we had been a decent civilization, the government would have seen the power of what was brewing in the halls of academia and the military (they did) and acted to enshrine that power for the public good, probably as part of the library system or the post office initially (they didn't).

Imagine that world for a moment: where instead of fighting an all fronts battle for the ability to exist, The Internet Archive was the model for how the Internet was run. Where wikipedia didn't have to beg you for $3 every few months and wage a never ending shadow war to keep nazis from rewriting history, and was instead a well-maintained part of society, voted on and up-kept for the public good.

Alas, advertising was the only way to stay relevant in our world and the government is riddled through with fascist termite damage, shaking in the ever strengthening winds.

I really enjoyed BK at the time, terrible voice recordings and all. I think it'd probably be a bit tedious to play now but a remaster would still be fun. Tales of Symphonia (mentioned at the top of the preview) was also a banger that did get a later port, and it is a bit tedious, haha. Maybe I just had a lot more free time back in the GameCube days?