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"How dare you, sir,"

Das Boot?

Ja! That certainly didn't take long. Your go.

That user is this guy! 

Alright, this is probably too easy, but...

of a Nickelback album."

, so now my age

My ultimate stress relief track (supposed has some science behind it: https://www.inc.com/melanie-curtin/neuroscience-says-listening-to-this-one-song-reduces-anxiety-by-up-to-65-percent.html ).

Lots of great tracks listed in here.  Thanks for sharing!

As for me, I recently got a new vehicle, and now I have access to a functioning CD player while I drive.  I also have AUX capabilities, but I found some old CD books while moving and have been going through them.  They are mostly mixed CDs I made myself, but I've been revisiting a lot of old memories through them.  I recently listened to this track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r99HxSSgzsw

That song reminded me of another from a fantastic movie I watched recently, so I listened to that as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtFCNu9x1IQ

And that was how I went down a rabbit hole...

Listened to that Sigur Ros album constantly back in the day! My wife and I put it on every once in a while now, too.

That second track is interesting.

"It just so happens

try your hand at

"This is random, but

Did you know the Offspring singer, Dexter Holland, has a PhD in molecular biology? Always found that tidbit interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexter_Holland

I had no idea, though I'm not surprised. There are a great deal of celebrities out there who have high degrees in various fields. 

Yeah I'm not saying there aren't, but I mean... look at this guy. 

Somewhat mysterious and sombre background music to work to (tones of David Lynch, Kid A and Lowroar). It's a nice misty morning here in the Emirates, so these tracks are a perfect accompaniment. 

(Jim Guthrie)

Did you know the Offspring singer, Dexter Holland, has a PhD in molecular biology? Always found that tidbit interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexter_Holland

But seriously who can resist throwing a rock at the griffin? 

That one pic looks like the singer from Aqua. 

The appearance of so-called "twitch-thots" along with other camgirl services has given rise to phenomenon such as FinDom and other forms of abuse that is harmful to the viewers, which happen to be primarily young lonely men, because those happen to play a lot of videogames. (Because the majority of women tend to view gaming as a negative thing rather than as a fun hobby, oddly enough.)

I think this is very revealing. There's a really interesting article written by psychologists in the 80s called The Metaphorical Logic of Rape, which I should warn has disturbing content. But I implore anyone with an interest to read it, because it's fascinating and relevant. Saying that women are "abusing" men by being sexy on a gaming website isn't literal. Just like when we say a woman is "a knock-out" we don't literally mean she knocked us out. But an unwitting consequence of these linguistic choices is that they allow us to significantly re-configure sequences of events in reality.

- I'm not sexually attracted to woman A - woman A is DOING SOMETHING to me with her sexuality.
- I'm not choosing to watch this Twitch stream - the women running this twitch stream is ABUSING me with her sexuality.

The woman becomes the instigator, and men's actions - arousal, harassment or, more mildly, a refusal to believe in girl gamers - become much more reasonable reactions. Instead of holding Person A responsible for their actions, it seems much more reasonable to hold Person A's victim responsible. After all, the victim started it. The bad girl gamers ruined the reputation of girl gamers. The bad immigrants ruined the reputation of immigrants. The women haters and racists are no longer instigators of abuse, they're simply reacting.

This is all perfectly logical, and can be presented cooly and clearly by someone like WHAM. But it diverges from reality as much as Jack's conspiratorial mutterings. And it's much more dangerous, because it sounds so reasonable.

Ali, you raise some good points here that remind of the book Reading Lolita in Tehran, where a girl's sexuality is widely interpreted --and in some cases condemned-- across a spectrum of opinions.

I have never played a Twitch game, so I'm not entirely clear on the social dynamics first hand. Is it common for adult women to look to play games with young boys in return for money? Do people build businesses around this model?

Forget about the X-ray glasses if you want paladinhood, or save before you use them and then don't use them.

Haha oh really? I didn't know that.

Trial by Fire is by far my favourite text adventure game of all time. It had so many side stories and interesting narratives that hung from the main plot. Plus the player had such freedom, which was sort of rare(ish) in games of that time. For example, other Sierra titles of the era like Space Quest 3 had you really stuck if you couldn't figure out how to get the junk spaceship repaired (which I never did until I wrote to the hint line; just months and months of walking around the dump with nothing to do). Trial by Fire was just this open world of exploring and character building. Brings back good memories!

Thanks for the heads up! Yeah his old AGS stuff was a creative use of the engine.

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