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If RPG geeks talked about cookbooks like they did about rulebooks

High-sterical.

Posted: 12:15 a.m. by LordOrcus I’m so mad that there’s a new edition of The Better Joy Cookbook out. Thanks for making my old copy obsolete, you greedy hacks! For five years now, my friends have been coming over for my eggplant Parmesan, and now I’m never going to be able serve it again unless I shell out 35 bucks for the latest version.

(Actually, if you get real cooking geeks talking about cookbooks, they will offer sometimes ranty critiques, especially for how certain books change over editions. But, joke-spoiling reality aside, as someone who has read the negative hyperbole over new editions of game systems, this article really hits home.)

[h/t +Daniel Swensen]

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Will three-word coordinates trump addresses and lat-long coordinates?

Okay, this is actually very clever: map out the world in 3x3m (roughly 10x10ft) squares. Algorithmically create a three-word code for each of those — figure.heat.museum or match.shutting.petted or holds.cheaply.fussed — and now, all of a sudden, people can get to anything.

This works great in areas that lack street addresses (a relatively new development in the world’s history, and something often missing even in certain areas of first world countries), or where the street address is misleading (“Meet me at the back door — takes.chimp.rice”) or imprecise (“We’re on the bridge at repaying.dodgy.statuses“) or non-existent (“We found a good place to picnic — trophy.mappings.communal“). And the words are easier to say and remember (and validate) than strings of latitude-longitude.

Apparently Mercedes is going to be incorporating What3Words coding in their voice-controlled satellite navigation system, and there are other companies looking at it for a variety of other uses. The biggest issue I see at the moment is that it is a proprietary setup — you have to license the algorithm/API from the company, so it’s not at all clear that you will be seeing it in Google Maps (or other mapping tools) any time soon.

But conceptually, it’s awfully cool. Maybe Google will buy them instead of the service.




what3words | Addressing the world
what3words is the simplest way to talk about location. We’ve divided the world into a grid of 3m x 3m squares and assigned each one a unique 3 word address.

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Planets as People

These are cool — some are spectacular.

Originally shared by +Doyce Testerman:

Via +Bill Garrett – Planets as people. Beautiful.

https://imgur.com/gallery/137rk




Planet Girls plus the Sun and Pluto by Phill Berry
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Some clever (and not so clever) kitchen / cooking hacks

Watched this as a family, including with my “all cooking is a hack” chef wife, and agreed:

About 15% “hmm, that’s clever, will have to try it”
About 30% “oh, I’ve seen that before”
About 10% “oh, that’s been disproven”
About 45% “why would you bother doing that?”

Your numbers may vary, but it’s worth a watch to pick up at least one potentially useful trick.

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An auspicious start to our evening out

An auspicious start to our evening out #47 #chirp

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The Fantastic 80s

A lot of Sturgeon's Law here, but some amazing classics (across the breadth of what qualifies as "fantasy"). In addition to the ones Harold Chester mentions, Ladyhawke and Baron Munchhausen are at the top of my list.

Originally shared by +Harold Chester:

Some great movies, including The Princess Bride, Time Bandits and Big Trouble in Little China.




The 80’s, Where Fantasy thrived.
The Internet’s visual storytelling community. Explore, share, and discuss the best visual stories the Internet has to offer.

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Personal Cosplay

Ayup. Pretty much.

Okay, waiting for the t-shirt.

(h/t +Doyce Testerman)




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Prisoners in Glass Houses

Heh.

Originally shared by +Kirill Grouchnikov:

http://ravenmontoya.tumblr.com/post/43357106271

 

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On GamerGate

Yeah, what +Yonatan Zunger pretty much says here.

If you want to have a discussion about ethics in gaming journalism (which is a legit discussion I've seen running around in gaming circles for many, many years), please do so, but I'd do it as far from the #GamerGate penumbra as possible, because a rotten core within that movement have poisoned anything associated with it. I mean, you can have an interesting discussion about the problems of immigrant labor and its effects on American culture, but if you do so with a #kkk hashtag, you're starting with four strikes against you.

If you want to have a discussion about the good old days when women knew their place in gaming, and it was being a bitchy gaming widow, please have it somewhere else.

Originally shared by +Yonatan Zunger:

It's come to my attention that I haven't yet made a public statement specifically about #GamerGate. But as it's come up in a few threads, at this point, I think it's about time that I made my position on this matter absolutely clear.

"GamerGate" is a lie from beginning to end. It has exactly three parts to it: it has its core, which is and has been from the very first day about allowing and preserving a "gamer culture" which is actively hostile to women (among others), and preserving it by means of threats, harassment, and violence towards anyone who ever suggests that it should be otherwise.

It has its bullshit layer, which is that it is about ethics in journalism. If it were about ethics in journalism, then you would see people talking about actual ethical questions in journalism, and you would have seen it from the beginning. But from its first days, its only ties to this notion were the use of bizarre (and provably false) accusations from Zoe Quinn's ex-boyfriend to accuse game journalists of being in a cabal to destroy the "gamer culture" of its core layer, and one listserv thread (as covered on http://goo.gl/3B0wcc) where professional journalists did, indeed, have a serious discussion about journalistic ethics: about whether the newsworthiness of this blog post outweighed the potential harm to its subjects. But rather than portray this as journalists doing what ethical journalists do, Milo Yiannopoulos instead portrayed this as a conspiracy by journalists to support the Secret Feminist Cabal. That is, his article itself was bollocks from beginning to end, as has been the entire argument.

And it has its fellow-travelers, people who either actually believe the bullshit layer or do so vocally and disingenuously in order to confuse others and add a shroud of legitimacy.

How do I know that this is true, and that there is not a legitimate discourse mixed in with the violence and so on? That I am not unfairly tarring all of GamerGate's proponents with the same brush?

It's really simple. I have not once seen a proponent of GamerGate actually distance themselves from the hatred and violence, or excoriate it, or say that it is fundamentally wrong and that they do not agree with either its means or its ends.

What I have seen is lots of people coming up with ways in which they, too, are being harassed, and so claiming a false equivalency. I got to watch an excellent example of this on one of my own threads earlier today; there, one of its proponents argued that the movement being called a bunch of scum (as it had been by someone else) is a form of harassment, and perfect evidence of how “there are trolls on both sides.” Yet he elides the difference between that and people being chased out of their homes, people waking up every day to death threats, to real and meaningful impact on people's lives. This is not a serious argument: it is an attempt to lie and to confuse the issue.

The other argument I have kept hearing is “I never distance myself from acts I have never associated myself with.” That is, people claim that they are under no obligation to distance themselves from the acts of the rest of GamerGate, even while they hoist its banner. Sorry: when a movement is known, first and foremost, for its violence, then to associate yourself with it does associate you with its acts. You cannot say “I support al-Qaeda. They’re really about the US military presence in Saudi Arabia,” or “Hey, the KKK has done a lot of great community service work,” and not thereby associate yourself with everything those organizations are really known for. Sorry; you lie down with pigs, you’ll get covered in mud. You keep doing that, and people will have every reason to assume that you like it.

The fact is that there is no meaningful way to "recapture" the GamerGate tag for anything honest, both because it was never tied to that in the first place, and because it has become far too polluted to do so. If someone actually feels like having a conversation about ethics in journalism, they should by all means do so — depending on what they say, I may even support them in this. But they should not do so in the company of villains, because that simply obscures any real discussion they might want to have with filth.

This is not behavior worthy of human beings. It is vile, it is violent, and if there is anything legitimate at all inside GamerGate, it needs to get its ass out of there right now and clearly separate itself from the bloodthirsty mob. Because right now, anyone who walks around with that label is painting themselves as being open supporters of it, and anyone who supports that is someone that I wouldn't piss on if they were on fire.

 

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Neil Gaiman thinks the "Fake Geek" twaddle is twaddle

“Fake geeks”? Gaiman isn’t having any of it, as this excerpt indicates:

‘Some people haven’t read/seen/done as much as others. Some people haven’t been around as long. Some people wear T-shirts without knowing everything about what the T-shirt represents. But they are still real, and (and this is the important bit) everybody starts somewhere.’

It’s somewhat comforting that the whole “fake geek” “fake geek girl” and even the loathesome GamerGate thangs are signs of how our geekly hobbies are spreading and going mainstream — they are the signs of people who have gotten too comfortable in their little clubs and coteries, and resent the Outsiders (especially girls!) climbing into their clubhouses.

That’s the future, though. And that’s a good thing.




Neil Gaiman Has No Truck With Any Of That “Fake Geek” Nonsense

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Tweets from 2012-01-26

  • Kitten gleefully pointed out I was wearing Marvel Comics lounge pants & a Disney t-shirt while I lectured her on Middle-Earth history. #geek #
  • Blackouts are startling. Ends of blackouts with alarm going off are heart attack-inducing. #