Feminism: still excluding working class women?

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2012/03/feminism_still_

Love and Suffering

The amount of suffering in one's life, is tied to the amount of desire one carries.
Complete apathy, leads to happiness. (because nothing is ever wrong).
The greatest suffering, comes from the greatest desires.

Love is desire. Who wouldn't want to ease the suffering of those they love?
A love that does not care about the suffering of others, isn't love.
To love, one must be willing to accept suffering. It is the price of caring.

The greatest love, is the greatest desire. It is the wish to ease all suffering. To aid all. To perfect everything. It is an impossible desire. It will doom any who bear it, to suffer.

For me, to love, is to suffer. If I sought happiness, I'd find it easily, by simply abandoning all care for the world. I would rather abandon my life, than abandon my love. What I seek, is not happiness.

I want to care. I want to care so much it hurts. So, I do.
Then people ask, "Why do you hate living?"
I never really know how to answer this question. I don't know how to explain it in a way they'd understand, and I'm not sure I'd want to. If they understood, they might suffer too. For me, it seems stranger that so many are able to live with so few concerns. To live in ignorance of all the suffering, is not something I'd want. I find it amazing, that so many are able and willing to do so.

How I Unwittingly Infiltrated the Boy’s Club & Why It’s Time for a New Wave of Atheism

http://freethoughtblogs.com/blaghag/2012/08/how-i-unwittingly-infiltrated-the-boys-club-why-its-time-for-a-new-wave-of-atheism/

Infinite Relationships: Relationships without bounds or boundaries, love without limits

http://lawrence.filmsforaction.org/Blog/Infinite_Relationships_Relationships_without_bounds_or_boundaries_love_without_limits/

Fred Grimm: Stroke of luck prevented another horror

http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/12/22/3153777/fred-grimm-stroke-of-luck-prevented.html

Plotters of school killings tend to tip off someone in advance

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-massacre-prevention-20121224,0,5399322.story?page=1

Anatomy of a Murder-Suicide

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/23/opinion/sunday/anatomy-of-a-murder-suicide.html

Study: When resources are scarce, most people forfeit the future

http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/news/science/study-when-resources-are-scarce-most-people-forfeit-the-future-660243/

The Last Closet: Why I Won’t Be Home For Christmas

http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/the-last-closet-why-i-wont-be-home-for-christmas/news/2012/12/23/57097

Men, It’s Time to Stand Along with Women

http://confrontinglove.com/2011/11/25/men-its-time-to-stand-along-with-women/

These Guys’ $5K Spending Sprees Keep Your Games Free to Play

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2012/11/meet-the-whales/all/

Love is Not a Cure For Dysfunctional Relationships

http://iwantclosure.com/relationship-issues/love-is-not-a-cure-for-dysfunctional-relationships/

Why Banning Violent Video Games Won’t Address Our Culture of Violence

http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2012/12/17/1343641/video-games-newtown/?mobile=nc

The Myth of Freud's Iceberg

http://www.mgiobbi.com/2012/02/myth-of-freuds-iceberg.html

anomalies

http://www.viruscomix.com/page567.html

Illiterate kids given sealed boxes with tablets figure out how to use, master, and hack them

http://boingboing.net/2012/10/31/illiterate-kids-given-sealed-b.html

Watery Symphony of Kai

www.youtube.com/watch?v=45zLxBV_A1Q

Buy It for Me: My Life As a Financial Dominatrix

http://nymag.com/thecut/2012/10/my-life-as-a-financial-dominatrix.html

Wow.

I find it rather sad that our society is producing people who want to be treated that way. It tells me that many people are living their lives in a way that is not fulfilling to them. 'tis another source of sadness for me.

Star Wars: The Old Republic

I think Bioware should take the class stories in their big MMO, and make single player games out of them. One game for each class, priced $40 each, and I'm sure they could make a bunch of money out of that. After trying and failing to play it when it launched, I'm no longer willing to play their MMO even when it's free. I'd be willing to buy a single player game though. I certainly enjoyed Mass Effect 1 and 2, and have been interested in some of the SW:TOR class stories after reading other people's opinions of them.

Why You Shouldn’t Bust Your Boundaries To Give Yourself A ‘Competitive Edge’ In Dating

http://www.baggagereclaim.co.uk/why-you-shouldnt-bust-your-boundaries-to-give-yourself-a-competitive-edge-in-dating/

Asking the Real Questions About Sexual Assault

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/sandra-hawken-diaz/victim-blaming_b_1901185.html

50 Actual Facts About Rape

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/soraya-chemaly/50-facts-rape_b_2019338.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000008

I am a lazy gamer.

I've observed that I am a very lazy gamer. The characters I enjoyed most in City of Heroes were ones designed to require minimal effort to play, often sticking to abilities that required no attention (Toggles mostly, PBAoEs were also nice). EVE Online and City of Heroes are the only MMOs I've played for long periods of time.

In EVE Online, my preferred combat style was to deploy drones and then just wait for everything to die. Defenders were my preferred class in City of Heroes, and I loved to grab the skills from the tertiary leadership set. With a bit of math, it wasn't hard to figure out how to pull my weight on a team with minimal effort.

With some effort I was able to figure out how to make a character in Champions Online I could play in a fairly easy manner, but whenever I go back to it, I find that the gameplay gets bogged down by inventory management. In fact, I find almost every MMO I play, inventory management becomes a major turnoff for me, and a hassle that I hate.

I'm beginning to believe that the main reason I so rarely enjoy MMOs is because so much time is wasted on inventory management, running around towns, or other tedium, instead of actually playing the game. CoH and almost no inventory management, and traveling around town with travel powers was a breeze (though travel before said powers were obtained was rather dull and bothersome). Why can't I find more games like that? Where there's thought put into character building, without the tedium of item bags and constant trashing of random loot.

No, you’re not entitled to your opinion

http://theconversation.edu.au/no-youre-not-entitled-to-your-opinion-9978

Suicidal Threads

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/345842/title/Suicidal_Threads

Here’s a Devastating Account of the Crap Women in the Games Business Have to Deal With. In 2012.

http://kotaku.com/5963528/heres-a-devastating-account-of-the-crap-women-in-the-games-business-have-to-deal-with-in-2012?

Body Image: An Apology to My Thinner Friend

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kate-fridkis/body-image-apology-thinner-friend_b_1832171.html

The main reason women care so much about their appearance, is simply because everyone around them cares so much about it.