Random non sequitur posts catch-all thread

Even when I actively dislike the gameplay, I generally "try" a game for at least 2 hours before giving up. An hour's basically just navigating the UI and familiarizing with the gameplay mechanics. That's not nearly enough time to really get a handle on what's going on.

Oh, I have plenty of time, I just spend a good chunk of it in World of Warcraft rather than other games. XD

I went into that application jag not really expecting to hear back from anyone.

I ABSOLUTELY wasn't expecting to hear back from Good Morning America, of all places.

LarryC wrote:

Even when I actively dislike the gameplay, I generally "try" a game for at least 2 hours before giving up. An hour's basically just navigating the UI and familiarizing with the gameplay mechanics. That's not nearly enough time to really get a handle on what's going on.

In that regard, I really like the Steam trade card system. I keep playing until I max out the cards I can get. If I'm not enticed by then I move on.

It's an excellent cutoff point, usually around the 2 hour mark.

Prederick wrote:

I went into that application jag not really expecting to hear back from anyone.

I ABSOLUTELY wasn't expecting to hear back from Good Morning America, of all places.

F*CK. YEAH! Good luck Pred!

Prederick wrote:

I went into that application jag not really expecting to hear back from anyone.

I ABSOLUTELY wasn't expecting to hear back from Good Morning America, of all places.

You do have to defeat Al Roker in a shirtless oiled wrestling competition to get the job, though.

MeatMan wrote:

I'll admit that with my limited gaming time, I rarely finish games, but unless I just don't like the game, I play it way more than 1 hour. Case in point: Dishonored. I really liked the gameplay. I didn't finsh it, but I played it for about a dozen hours before moving on to another game on the pile.

What really helped with my gamer guilt was creating categories for my games. I now have: New, Current, Played, Finished, and Trash. Not having to look at the games I quit partway through or that I never intend to play has helped a lot, because I absolutely quit playing games when I stop having fun.

A fly just landed on my monitor screen and I tried to shoo it away with the mouse cursor.

fleabagmatt wrote:

A fly just landed on my monitor screen and I tried to shoo it away with the mouse cursor.

Not quite as cool as the X11 app, but: http://webneko.net/

I wish I knew about nappy wipes when I was a bachelor. Those things are awesome. We no longer have kids who use diapers, but we still use 'em. I always have a personal stash in my purse.

So today I got to make rather hilarious small-talk with a female ultrasound tech and her female student while she was performing an ultrasound on my testicle.

That seems even weirder when I type it out.

Spoiler:

Everything is okay, turns out it's not cancer, thanks for asking. :)

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For future reference the story sounds cooler if you describe it as getting a hummer from two medical co-eds.

Minarchist wrote:

So today I got to make rather hilarious small-talk with a female ultrasound tech and her female student while she was performing an ultrasound on my testicle.

That seems even weirder when I type it out.

Spoiler:

Everything is okay, turns out it's not cancer, thanks for asking. :)

You only have the one?

It was questionable whether I would remain with two for a short while, but they are still a pair. My two-year-old son only bag-tagged me in the one, though.

When you bring your kid home from the hospital, they should include a cup/jockstrap in the take-home kit.

Minarchist wrote:

It was questionable whether I would remain with two for a short while, but they are still a pair. My two-year-old son only bag-tagged me in the one, though.

When you bring your kid home from the hospital, they should include a cup/jockstrap in the take-home kit.

Noted.

I've got baaaaalls of steeeeeel.

SixteenBlue wrote:
Minarchist wrote:

It was questionable whether I would remain with two for a short while, but they are still a pair. My two-year-old son only bag-tagged me in the one, though.

When you bring your kid home from the hospital, they should include a cup/jockstrap in the take-home kit.

Noted.

My kid is at this height right now, such that if I hold her against my chest with one arm under her arms, in an otherwise comfortable position, her perpetually kicking heels are perfectly lined up with my joy department.

Minarchist wrote:

So today I got to make rather hilarious small-talk with a female ultrasound tech and her female student while she was performing an ultrasound on my testicle.

That seems even weirder when I type it out.

Spoiler:

Everything is okay, turns out it's not cancer, thanks for asking. :)

Ha! Awkward conversations with medical folk are the best!

Last week, I was at the dentist. Hygenist was doing her thing in my face-hole. She asked me about the book I was reading, that I'd carried in. It's "Snuff" by Chuck Palahniuk. I told her it was a seriously messed up book. She asked "Is it about drugs?". I replied "No, porn".

She didn't talk much after that.

Jonman wrote:

Hygenist was doing her thing in my face-hole.

Giggity.

Jonman wrote:

Ha! Awkward conversations with medical folk are the best!

Last week, I was at the dentist. Hygenist was doing her thing in my face-hole. She asked me about the book I was reading, that I'd carried in. It's "Snuff" by Chuck Palahniuk. I told her it was a seriously messed up book. She asked "Is it about drugs?". I replied "No, porn".

She didn't talk much after that.

First rule of porn club...

LiquidMantis wrote:
Jonman wrote:

Ha! Awkward conversations with medical folk are the best!

Last week, I was at the dentist. Hygenist was doing her thing in my face-hole. She asked me about the book I was reading, that I'd carried in. It's "Snuff" by Chuck Palahniuk. I told her it was a seriously messed up book. She asked "Is it about drugs?". I replied "No, porn".

She didn't talk much after that.

First rule of porn club...

...when you recognize your mother, it's impolite to scream?

Gravey wrote:
SixteenBlue wrote:
Minarchist wrote:

It was questionable whether I would remain with two for a short while, but they are still a pair. My two-year-old son only bag-tagged me in the one, though.

When you bring your kid home from the hospital, they should include a cup/jockstrap in the take-home kit.

Noted.

My kid is at this height right now, such that if I hold her against my chest with one arm under her arms, in an otherwise comfortable position, her perpetually kicking heels are perfectly lined up with my joy department.

My four-year-old double-tagged me this morning. I think he was trying to get my attention, and - apparently - when he waves his hands at shoulder height, it connects with my jubblies. There I was, talking to my wife and watching my oldest get super-excited about his first day of grade one, then WHAM! WHAM! suddenly the world lost much of its colour...

It's a survival instinct, guys. They know that if you have more kids, it could mean less attention/food/etc for them, so they try to knock your nuts out of commission.

Don't they know that every sperm is sacred??

Mine!

Grenn wrote:

Mine!

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I guess I'm fortunate that my wife kneed my balls into insensitivity long before the kids came along.

Mex wrote:

Looking at the site it doesn't even make up that much of the discussion, I just noticed it when someone told me that I was saying " {transphobic slur}" and that wasn't a nice word to use, and I couldn't tell if they were joking or serious. It's just a word I learned years ago and let's just say I definitely don't mind the good um, whatever the proper word is, trans I guess.

Yes they were serious, it's a derogatory term.

If you don't know what to say, the best thing to do is listen

Man, I feel like a caveman on GWJ... Between the transgender, grape culture, Penny Arcade is evil(really? The webcomic guys?), women tropes, gender politics... I don't want to offend anyone but clearly my life experience is so different, I can't even participate in those discussions, or bring anything to them. Even trying to joke about it is probably going to make someone feel bad.

Looking at the site it doesn't even make up that much of the discussion, I just noticed it when someone told me that I was saying " {transphobic slur}" and that wasn't a nice word to use, and I couldn't tell if they were joking or serious. It's just a word I learned years ago and let's just say I definitely don't mind the good um, whatever the proper word is, trans I guess.

I feel weird mentioning it because maybe even mentioning that it makes me feel weird means I'm a bad person.

edit: I don't mind the issues being discussed, I guess the weird feeling comes from me being so out of that whole discussion about gender this and that and the proper definition of biological sex and... just not much interest in it honestly, I'm just a guy, yet I'll offend people, and I honestly don't want that.