Posts by Emma Hart
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And people might want to discuss the utter insanity of this decision as well.
I ran across that yesterday here, along with another example of utter insanity:
Chris Illingworth, a 60 year old from from QLD, has been charged with using the internet to access and publish child-abuse material after he republished a controversial viral video of a man twirling a baby around...
If you, like millions of other people watched the video online or on the TV news, it might be time turn yourself in at your local police station.
As far as the Simpsons video goes, it's a demonstration of the way Australia has adopted the US Red Rose position: there don't have to be any actual children involved. In fact, in Britain and the US, there doesn't have to be any actual pornography. As long as somebody says it's pornography, that's good enough.
It's not the first time Wikipedia has been an issue either:
Masturbation images on Wikipedia 'cross the line'.
This is pretty much why I've ended up taking such an extreme position on net censorship: if it can be done well, why is it always being done so stupidly?
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Simpson is the Greg Louganis of grace-falling.
I loved this sentence, absolutely loved it. And then the ruining-things bit of my brain went 'wait a minute, OJ Simpson is gay?'
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Oh, and it's not just Christmas. Weight Watchers is an RPG:
As with an RPG, you roll a virtual character, manage your inventory and resources, and try to achieve a goal. Weight Watchers' points function precisely like hit points; each bite of food does damage until you've used up your daily amount, so you sleep and start all over again. Play well and you level up -- by losing weight! And the more you play it, the more you discover interesting combinations of the rules that aren't apparent at first. Hey, if I eat a fruit-granola breakfast and an egg-and-romaine lunch, I'll have enough points to survive a greasy hamburger dinner for a treat!
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Okay, that was fun. Now do a RuneQuest version, for the hardcore gamers.
Even I have my limits. It's been a good fifteen years or so since I started refusing to play anything where it takes more than an hour to make up a character.
Paranoia. AYERGH! I had completely buried that in some dark recess of my brain.
Oh, I think Christmas works quite well as Paranoia. Happiness is, after all, mandatory.
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Ah yes, but have you downloaded the Scrooge module?
I was raised by a Presbyterian, I came with that installed.
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I'm sure people who didn't know what "RPG" stood for will be much clearer for that explanation.
Ah yes, online dictionaries. Such a great way of explaining what acronyms stand for.
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Watch the glee with which a bunch of gamers find themselves, for once, not feeling like the losers in the room, and mocking the non-gamers.
It's like feeding nerdy piranhas.
Oh go on, they're adorable. I love to rub their tummies and make their legs kick.
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Just have to make sure I don't switch to FPS mode
I'm still not sure whether there's PVP on this server. Those other bastards don't appear to be on my side...
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starting with a new logo.
Dude, wtf are you feeding that penguin?
But wouldn't it make sense to do this at the draft stage rather than, after launch?
This did occur to me, but I thought perhaps I was missing some sort of special rugby thing.
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This is fucking sublime, dude.
The A key above middle C has something wrong with the damper, and it goes 'dong-g-g-g' every time he strikes it.
My childhood piano did this, except it was the B above C. I ended up developing a slightly odd playing style that involved just miming this key every time I had to use it. If I didn't know you were already in another country, I'd suggest you suggest it.
Tell me Opera Lady was at least a coloratura.