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With that in mind, I’d like to announce an update to the Xbox LIVE Terms of Use and Code of Conduct which will allow our members to more freely express their race, nationality, religion and sexual orientation in Gamertags and profiles. Under our previous policy, some of these expressions of self-identification were not allowed in Gamertags or profiles to prevent the use of these terms as insults or slurs. However we have since heard feedback from our customers that while the spirit of this approach was genuine, it inadvertently excluded a part of our Xbox LIVE community. This update also comes hand-in-hand with increased stringency and enforcement to prevent the misuse of these terms.
I truly believe that our diversity is what makes us strong: diversity in gaming and entertainment options, and diversity in the people that make up this amazing community. I look forward to seeing you on LIVE soon.
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Recurring themes: LGBT issues, San Francisco tidbits, ukuleles, pirates, games, absurdism. I won't really talk about myself here, but you'll get a sense of me, anyway.
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Interesting single-topic, short-run weblog about the game Mirror’s Edge, which is one of the few games I’ll pop in again a year after finishing it. This touches on a lot of the things I like about it. The author also recently had this article about the game’s shortcomings published, and I agree somewhat with it, too, especially regarding combat. But on that note, I agree with forum-poster BobisOnlyBob, who said, “At no point did I disarm anyone else, or use a single firearm against a human. I did, however, kick about a hundred men in the balls. And I enjoyed it a lot!” Me too, BobisOnlyBob, me too.
new poster design. if you play a certain ‘dungeons and dragons’, or have ever wanted to, you should come to this. location may change. but seriously.
I just like this poster, the name and the idea. Also, two notes.
One: predictably, I’m not going to SxSW this year, but if you want to get away from whatever, here’s another option on Monday night.
Two: Yes, it says 2009, but March 15 is a Monday this year, so I’m assuming it’s the year that’s wrong. So there you go. Then again, there’s no contact info, so make sure to have your party’s rogue check for traps I am a dolt, and Nik has pointed out that that’s the address, not the year. Good morning.
Mar 10
turkeydinner:giugiu:genderqueer:tiredofbeingignored:definatalie:gooseppie:imsvsims:
Husbands and Husbands
This video is only a minute long. You won’t regret watching it.
Watch what happens when a little boy named Calen meets a pair of husbands for the first time. He talked things out, asked a few questions, and things just seemed to click in his head for him.
Let’s quit with the ignorance and fear and play ping pong. (rb)
Jason: Okay, tangent
Jason: apparently my D&D DM can't stand the word "shrimping" and the meaning thereof
Jason: which didn't stop us from turning "shrimp" into a Pee-wee's Playhouse style secret word, or from bringing it into conversation during the game last night
Heidi: wtf is shrimping
Jason: sucking on somebody's toes
Heidi: OMG OMG OMG
Heidi: that has a NAME?
Jason: uh
Jason: we are living in the era of naming everything
Heidi: wow, you maybe have ruined the act for me with that name
Heidi: be careful what you teach me obiwan!
Jason: so Scott, another player, just gave a one-word response to the list: "Shrimping"
Jason: to which I'm replying:
Jason: "Hellashrimping: That's 10^27 shrimpings."
Heidi: wow
Heidi: the sick thing is
Heidi: I am now wondering how many toes there are in the world
Heidi: or for all time
Heidi: and if that's even possible
Jason: Well
Jason: ...
Jason: wait, I don't have an appropriate response to that
Heidi: I realize it's just X*10
Heidi: which X = everyone ever
Jason: more like X*9.3, or whatever the average is
Heidi: WTF
Jason: well
Heidi: 9.3?
Jason: missing toes, extra toes
Heidi: EXTRA TOES
Heidi: WHERE ARE YOU SHRIMPING
Jason: I'm guessing it trends more towards missing
Heidi: no way it's 9.3
Jason: 9.93 then
Jason: I don't know
Heidi: I mean, I'll give you a decimal place
Heidi: I am *happy* you don't have that statistic
Heidi: because if you did I would be, um, a little weirder out. or maybe just impressed
Jason: What's giving me pause is that someone, somewhere, has this info
Heidi: you know, this conversation has unintentionally spawned way too much thought for my tastes this late in the day
I was rather pleased listening to this playlist last night and this morning. Bands included: Client, Ladytron, Miss Kittin and the Hacker, Broadcast, Creme Blush, Fischerspooner.
→ 'Hella Big': Soon To Be A Scientific Measurement?
Unless you grew up in the church in the Bay Area when you were a kid and couldn’t say “hell.” Then, of course, you would say “hecka.”
“Planet Ohsnap is 150 heckameters away.” Boom, sold.
That headline is misleading, unfortunately. What’s going on is a UC Davis physics major has started a petition to make “hella” the prefix denoting 10^27 in units of measurement, but by “petition” I mean “Facebook fan page,” which is the exact opposite of a petition, really. (Nik gets credit for pointing me to this BoingBoing post on the petition.) But I’m all for it, and would sign if I could sign something real.
I would like to point to my first post on Tumblr from three years ago—a conversation with Ernie, even—which addressed this.
When I read that Max Headroom is on its way to being released on DVD—which incidentally makes me incredibly happy—I thought of this 1987 hijacking of WTTW-11’s signal by some pranksters. Kind of NSFW because of the rather-tame bare-ass crop-whipping at the end, but I have to give the hijackers (signal zippers?) props for the moving backdrop they made.
