Someone hacked the camera in DragonBall Fighter to show that they did this with the models to get them to look cool during particular cinematic angles used during super moves.

I'll entertain the spirit of the question.

Most "good choices" and "bad choices" are fairly easy to figure out. Would you want this thing done to you? If no, then do not do that thing. That's going to cover the vast majority of cases.

There are some exceptions. Sometimes one might need to balance the needs of the many against the needs of the few. Sometimes one might be presented with a set of all-bad options. Those situations are vanishingly rare, and usually limited to circumstances where group consensus can help one determine which choice is acceptable to the greatest number.

But it's not always easy, and it's not always clear. I actually had a version of this conversation at a wedding with a guy who had his master's degree in philosophy and another guy who was a devout Christian who was suffering a profound crisis of faith because his toddler nephew had just died of a brain aneurism.

The crisis-experiencing Christian asked me "Isn't it scary when there aren't clear answers?"

And my answer was "Yes, frequently. I often wish that there was an obvious or comforting answer to the terrifying conundrums of reality. But there often isn't, and it's my job as an adult to figure out what to do in those situations. Work out the moral calculus of what kind of world I want to create, try to work towards that world, and try to cope when reality won't cooperate in the ways that I wish it would."

Sometimes it's a cold universe out there, and you've got to build yourself a fire out of coherent philosophy to get through the night. Relying on dogma is a lot like a shot of brandy; it might make you feel warm for a while, but eventually the cold will get to you, and you've got to have that sustaining fire or else you're going to freeze to death.

Broken Land

Well something certainly broke.

By IGN Staff

There's been a long tradition in the PC gaming world to make cheap rip-offs of pre-existing games. How many atrocious real-time strategy games did Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty influence? If there were no Castle Wolfenstein would we have had Extreme Paintbrawl? And so on... Now we have The Broken Lands, a game not only inspired by Diablo and its sequel, but pretty much a discount knock-off of the series...only it's not even worth the pennies it cost to press the disc.

Fucking brutal.

Counterpoint: my place of business hired a person who was a regular customer that I found distressingly attractive, like "Oh no, that hot customer is back, okay don't be weird, give them their space."

Once I worked with them for a few months I found out they were a total space cadet. I didn't suddenly find them un-attractive, but I definitely revised my estimation such that their presence was no longer a problem.

Also known as the Hitch move.

You're not entirely wrong. Any conversation with them would inevitably drift off into the weirdest tangents, and they would happily continue their side of the conversation, even if the person to whom they were speaking had to walk away or start doing another task. They weren't bad at the job, but they weren't great either, and they were consistently odd, and not in a fun quirky way.

I remember the first four being good. I seem to recall liking Ender's Shadow, but that may have been nostalgia for the original. Didn't read any beyond that.

What's crazy is that those first four are deeply about how important empathy is, even for thinking beings that are so drastically different from ourselves that that seem utterly alien. And then, yadda yadda yadda, you should only borrow them from the library or buy them from a used book store.

They're not really that strange, but I'm infuriated by questions phrased like "Have you ever thought about stealing anything?"

Even if I'd never in my life before that moment thought about stealing anything, because you have asked me that question, now I have. You may as well ask me whether not I've ever imagined a pink elephant.

I went to a Nerf tournament and humans vs. zombies game at a college campus a while back. The Nerf hobby has some interesting intersections. On the one hand, there are some legitimately competitive teams who drill and practice and have standardized uniforms and blasters and everything, so there's some organized sports types in there. On the other hand, it overlaps with the gun hobby, seeing as it's playing at being a gun fight, and it uses a lot of the same accessories. On the other other hand, it seems to be a very queer-friendly hobby; definitely a lot of flags being represented that weekend.

All of these disparate groups had a great time with each other. Huge range of demographics, all having good wholesome fun, making new friends, using their bodies and their minds, expressing themselves while also respecting the rules and structures of the game and the college campus. It was beautiful.

At the end of the weekend, the college Nerf club, which had been running these events on campus for years, came out and tearfully announced that this would be the last such event, because the college administration had announced there would be no further blaster events permitted on campus. Nobody got hurt that weekend, but presumably the administration was afraid of getting sued if someone did.

And just like that, a beautiful mechanism for bringing together lots of strangers and making them into friends and comrades disappeared in a whiff of imaginary liability for a theoretical accident that hadn't actually happened.

And we wonder why young people are addicted to social media and video games.

It allows one to play 45 rpm records, which have a big hole in the middle, on the turntable most people had at home which was designed for 33 ⅓ rpm records, which have a small hole. The shape forms a gentle spring to create tension inside the 45.

Hey, it's not just an Italian symbol!

Try to live your life in such a way that you don't create a human being with a large portion of their personality shaped by how much they don't like you.

Relevant as ever:

University of Maryland, Baltimore County

I recall hearing a similar system being used to chase geese away from airport runways. The dog has a great time and the geese don't get sucked into jet engines. It's win-win.

Ask Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema if Democrats were really "in power." Republicans have been willing to shred the Constitution in order to get what they want, but it works primarily because they operate virtually in lock step with one another, even if they sometimes allow one member or another to vote No on some horrifying bill or another, so long as that No vote won't change the end result.

Democrats have the opposite problem: in recent memory they've only ever had the narrowest of majorities in Congress, and they're a bunch of cats on a good day, so there's always a few Democrats in vulnerable seats that will break with the party in order to maintain their "outsider" image with their purple district voters. Add on that Democrats for the most part don't want to shred the Constitution, and it's very difficult for them to achieve their goals.

And add on that most media in this country is owned and operated by billionaires and it constantly pushes the narrative that anything to the left of Ronald Reagan is basically Karl Marx, and you've got an electorate that is on balance very suspicious of things that, to a reasonable person, would obviously make the world a better place, like universal healthcare, free pre-K education, police reform, immigration reform, and so on.

The Democrats that do want to make the world a better place are essentially trying to play honest baseball with unreliable teammates, shitty coaches and managers, opponents who are 'roided out of their minds, and umpires who won't call objective balls and strikes. Even for the ones who are trying to improve things (and they do exist!) it's an appalling situation.

Five-card stud suddenly takes on a new meaning.

Auralnauts are geniuses. Jedi Party is basically the only way I can bring myself to watch the prequels ever again.

"The enemy's gate is down."