Neat stuff (non-lulz but interesting things)

[StolenToast]

Double post because. Just because. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gaym...body-games

Also do Ellen McClain and her husband attend all the cons? o_0

But if everybody games why do they need a separate con?  Aren't most cons already very LGBT friendly?  The project says that online gaming is bigoted, but thats just the XBL talking...

Cool idea nonetheless.  Any event focused on being good people is fine by me.

[rumsfald]

But if everybody games why do they need a separate con?  Aren't most cons already very LGBT friendly? 

Not everyone plays on easy mode.

[StolenToast]

[quote author=StolenToast link=topic=1507.msg251937#msg251937 date=1344906104]
But if everybody games why do they need a separate con?  Aren't most cons already very LGBT friendly? 

Not everyone plays on easy mode.
[/quote]But I do get a crushing sense of guilt that everyone else in the world hates me and that everything I do is wrong on some global scale...  :-[

[Saxxy]

i wonder what corresponds to New Vegas's hardcoremode + very difficult...

jewish african-american lesbian with huntington's disease?

[kaese]

Double post because. Just because. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gaym...body-games

Also do Ellen McClain and her husband attend all the cons? o_0

Intriguing but too bad it's in SanFran.
I think Ellen McClain & Sniper VA are just listed as guests for the 2013 con. That's usually how it works with guests--usually they are invited back if they are well-received by the con-goers.

[rumsfald]

[quote author=rumsfald link=topic=1507.msg251940#msg251940 date=1344908436]
[quote author=StolenToast link=topic=1507.msg251937#msg251937 date=1344906104]
But if everybody games why do they need a separate con?  Aren't most cons already very LGBT friendly? 

Not everyone plays on easy mode.
[/quote]But I do get a crushing sense of guilt that everyone else in the world hates me and that everything I do is wrong on some global scale...  :-[
[/quote]

It's not about guilt. I was trying to explain (because you asked) why some people would want a separate con. Just because most cons look LGBT friendly to you doesn't mean they look that way to everyone. Some folks might want a separate con where they could let their guard down a bit more, or focus on their issues a little bit more.

[StolenToast]

[quote author=StolenToast link=topic=1507.msg251953#msg251953 date=1344919180]
[quote author=rumsfald link=topic=1507.msg251940#msg251940 date=1344908436]
[quote author=StolenToast link=topic=1507.msg251937#msg251937 date=1344906104]
But if everybody games why do they need a separate con?  Aren't most cons already very LGBT friendly? 

Not everyone plays on easy mode.
[/quote]But I do get a crushing sense of guilt that everyone else in the world hates me and that everything I do is wrong on some global scale...  :-[
[/quote]

It's not about guilt. I was trying to explain (because you asked) why some people would want a separate con. Just because most cons look LGBT friendly to you doesn't mean they look that way to everyone. Some folks might want a separate con where they could let their guard down a bit more, or focus on their issues a little bit more.
[/quote]Well thats all good.

[CaffeinePowered]

i wonder what corresponds to New Vegas's hardcoremode + very difficult...

jewish african-american lesbian with huntington's disease?

Jewish ancestry, outspoken atheist, get it right nerd, and check your privilege

[Saxxy]

[quote author=Saxxy link=topic=1507.msg251956#msg251956 date=1344922902]
i wonder what corresponds to New Vegas's hardcoremode + very difficult...

jewish african-american lesbian with huntington's disease?

Jewish ancestry, outspoken atheist, get it right nerd, and check your privilege
[/quote]

but i love my privileges.  It gets me so many wonderful things

[rumsfald]

First-order retrievability.

[at0m]

First-order retrievability.

AKA 5S http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5S_(methodology) we use it at work all the time.

[Dr. Zaius]

http://panoramas.dk/mars/greeley-haven.html

[kaese]

http://panoramas.dk/mars/greeley-haven.html

It's very surreal every time I see pictures of the surface of another planet. To see that Mars has dirt and rocks that look like ours here on Earth. I guess what really amazes me are the many similarities between two places tremendously far apart from each other.

[CaffeinePowered]

[quote author=Dr. Zaius link=topic=1507.msg252605#msg252605 date=1345706451]
http://panoramas.dk/mars/greeley-haven.html

It's very surreal every time I see pictures of the surface of another planet. To see that Mars has dirt and rocks that look like ours here on Earth. I guess what really amazes me are the many similarities between two places tremendously far apart from each other.
[/quote]

Well, technically all the planets coalesced from the same gaseous nebula, so I'd expect them to all be of similar 'stuff', pics from Venus/Mars/Titan all look somewhat similar to earth because they all have an atmosphere. Any rocky planet with an atmosphere is going to have some qualities you can tie back to scenery on earth.

[Saxxy]

[quote author=Dr. Zaius link=topic=1507.msg252605#msg252605 date=1345706451]
http://panoramas.dk/mars/greeley-haven.html

Mars has dirt and rocks
[/quote]

That's just a theory.

[StolenToast]

[quote author=Käse link=topic=1507.msg252606#msg252606 date=1345711968]
[quote author=Dr. Zaius link=topic=1507.msg252605#msg252605 date=1345706451]
http://panoramas.dk/mars/greeley-haven.html

It's very surreal every time I see pictures of the surface of another planet. To see that Mars has dirt and rocks that look like ours here on Earth. I guess what really amazes me are the many similarities between two places tremendously far apart from each other.
[/quote]

Damn that's cool!
[/quote]I'm guessing the blue is from the atmosphere, or is there really a ton of blue rock on Mars?

[kaese]

[quote author=Käse link=topic=1507.msg252606#msg252606 date=1345711968]
[quote author=Dr. Zaius link=topic=1507.msg252605#msg252605 date=1345706451]
http://panoramas.dk/mars/greeley-haven.html

It's very surreal every time I see pictures of the surface of another planet. To see that Mars has dirt and rocks that look like ours here on Earth. I guess what really amazes me are the many similarities between two places tremendously far apart from each other.
[/quote]

Well, technically all the planets coalesced from the same gaseous nebula, so I'd expect them to all be of similar 'stuff', pics from Venus/Mars/Titan all look somewhat similar to earth because they all have an atmosphere. Any rocky planet with an atmosphere is going to have some qualities you can tie back to scenery on earth.
[/quote]
I am aware of that, and that's what is amazing to me. So similar yet so foreign.

[Kor]

http://www.slideshare.net/aaronross383/s...ay-weekend

Not even finished reading it yet, but this is how you want corporations to run. It's a lengthy read, but satisfying all the same.

[k0ala]

What PSY is really rapping about in "Gangnam Style"

[zaneyard]

I know a few people here like steampunk