If I ever found myself needing to write a nonfiction story, it would have to be about a couple of friends of mine ( Read more... )

Who just redid his icons as ponies? Oh yeah. I went there.

Maybe I'm missing something but isn't 'ignorance of the law does not make you exempt from it' supposed to be taken literally? How exactly is it that people can get reduced or omitted sentences for having mental handicaps? How is an unawareness or inability to process right from wrong supposed to be any better than a flagrant disregard for authority ( Read more... )

It used to be that loyalty was the most important thing. It was rewarded, if not expected. People would work the same job their whole life, stay married, and usually not move from their home area. Now, staying with a job 5 years earns you an achievement, there are shows and cultures based around polygamy, and I’m constantly getting neighbors from ( Read more... )

Splice was a great movie. Really…REALLY messed up. But, awesome ( Read more... )

Games used to come with instruction manuals. Even in the days where games had 2 buttons. This system worked well from 8-bit to 16-bit games, but around 32-bit things started getting complicated enough to need in-game tutorials. And this too, was fine. Even though most of them treated you like this was your first game ever, it very likely COULD be ( Read more... )

http://animals.icanhascheezburger.com/2010/10/04/funny-animal-videos-new-favorite-drink/

Too cute! Mer, Woman, and probably Roy will approve XD

http://gizmodo.com/5632105/the-real-stuff-white-people-like

This is a great read. Tells way more about our 'culture' than anything you can find in real studies. Stolen from Mer, but all is fair on the Internet.

http://actinglikeanimals.com/2010/09/07/funny-animal-videos-cat-parkour/

Awesome cats. Mostly for Roy/Woman I believe XD

This is just...wow. My computer can BARELY run FFXIV. 6gb DDR3, i7 920 CPU (2.66ghz), and a GTX295 video card. I can't sustain 20 frames per second to save my life. Not even when I lower the resolution to like 1280*800. Here's hoping they do some last minute tweaks to better optimize hardware before launch cuz...this is horrible!