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YOU READY TO DO THIS SHIT OR WHAT?
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“Amercia” is one reason why the Romney campaign needs a new copy editor. Here’s another.
Is this real!? Wow.
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What does it mean for life to be a game? What are the rules? How do we win?
An article (read it here) that makes the claim that straight white males play life in easy mode should address those basic questions. Otherwise it comes off as lazy and inflammatory.
After reading the article, I got the sense that the kind of game Scalzi is describing is conventional, cliched, familiar. It’s essentially the game of life as depicted by The Game of Life (aka LIFE). Reading the “How to Win” section of the rulebook for LIFE [PDF] is worthwhile, because it illuminates how Scalzi is thinking about the game:
After all players have retired, all players…count their money. Now all players turn their LIFE Tiles message-side-up…All players then count up their money, and add the two figures together (LIFE Tile value plus cash value). The player with the highest dollar amount wins.
So in LIFE, winning entails:
retirement
calculating a function of material gains and significant life events
beating everyone else per that function
Scalzi’s argument is fine if you think life = LIFE. But who does? Plenty of people probably don’t think of life as a game at all. Personally I do, and I think about leveling up all the time, but it’s always in terms of realizations and personal growth.
Maybe this is lame, but for me “winning life” means self-actualization. And ascribing a difficulty setting to that process feels like a mistake.
(via ernie)
The fact that for you winning at life means self-actualization and not:
* Staying alive
* Feeding your family
* Not getting incarcerated
* Not getting physically abused or sexually harassed
perfectly encapsulates what he’s saying.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m44ct9xQrm1qz71r6o1_500.jpg)
What does it mean for life to be a game? What are the rules? How do we win?
An article (read it here) that makes the claim that straight white males play life in easy mode should address those basic questions. Otherwise it comes off as lazy and inflammatory.
After reading the article, I got the sense that the kind of game Scalzi is describing is conventional, cliched, familiar. It’s essentially the game of life as depicted by The Game of Life (aka LIFE). Reading the “How to Win” section of the rulebook for LIFE [PDF] is worthwhile, because it illuminates how Scalzi is thinking about the game:
After all players have retired, all players…count their money. Now all players turn their LIFE Tiles message-side-up…All players then count up their money, and add the two figures together (LIFE Tile value plus cash value). The player with the highest dollar amount wins.So in LIFE, winning entails:
- retirement
- calculating a function of material gains and significant life events
- beating everyone else per that function
Scalzi’s argument is fine if you think life = LIFE. But who does? Plenty of people probably don’t think of life as a game at all. Personally I do, and I think about leveling up all the time, but it’s always in terms of realizations and personal growth.
Maybe this is lame, but for me “winning life” means self-actualization. And ascribing a difficulty setting to that process feels like a mistake.
(via ernie)
The fact that for you winning at life means self-actualization and not:
* Staying alive
* Feeding your family
* Not getting incarcerated
* Not getting physically abused or sexually harassed
perfectly encapsulates what he’s saying.
(via afishwick)
Source: whatever.scalzi.com
Stop thinking that what people so loathingly refer to as the “friendzone” is some sort of purgatory women put “nice guys” into. My friendship is not a crappy consolation prize that you’re left with if I deny you a sexual relationship– and my body is not your reward for good behavior. Thinking that simply being a “good guy,” whatever that may mean, entitles you to unlimited sex with the girl of your choice shows that you don’t truly believe women should be in control of, and have full ownership of, our own bodies; instead, it shows you think we should use them like doggy treats whenever you do the human equivalent of a jumping trick. If you treat us as humans, that’s fantastic, but we do not owe you for it.
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In similarly haphazard fashion Mr. Cumberbatch has spent the past 18 months ricocheting from role to role, in British stage productions like “After the Dance” and “Frankenstein” (for which he shared the Olivier Award this month with his co-star Jonny Lee Miller)
Benedict Cumberbatch Moves From Role to Role - NYTimes.com
Oh my! Two of my favorite british actors on stage together. Swoon.
Source: The New York Times
Skillcrush
I have no interest in anything mailed to me daily but would love to learn more & participate in this!
cleversimon.com: Wrong
A PDF of Valve Software’s handbook for new employees has been making the rounds this week. The company is famously anarchic—no job titles, no management, no hierarchy at all—and the handbook mostly explains how the fuck that actually works in practice. (If you’ve ever played one of their
This stood out to me as well.
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Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz revealed this week that the show’s 10-episode fourth season will be released ALL AT ONCE on Netflix Watch Instantly in 2013. Be sure to save a sick day for the occasion. via benjaminstein : thedailywhat
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ALL AT ONCE = THE FUTURE
As someone who binge watches tv shows Im even more excited for this.
Has anyone done this before?
Boss, I’m gonna be sick some day…
Source: thedailywhat
timoni.org: I love the internet.
It’s my fifth cakeday of coming out here, to the internet world capital, San Francisco. I wouldn’t be here if there was no internet; I have no particular inclination towards hippiedom or comp sci or biotech, but once I learned it was the place to be if you loved the internet, I was dead set on…
Happy Sanfranniversary Timoni! Indeed!
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