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Been slacking off the last couple of months.

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I entered a competition at work and all I need to win is views on this post

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-steps-finally-choosing-your-career-hannah-carey-smyth

If you could click that link (just let the page load, you don’t need to read if you don’t wanna) you will make me extremely happy, it’s a good deed that only takes you 2 seconds!

If you could also reblog it so your followers could click it that would be even better but I appreciate even just the view thank you!!!!!

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serena is probably juiced as well HTH

marina sharapova is a well known athlete & is likely rich enough to afford some seriously potent performance enhancing drugs. i think the fact that serena williams still beat her 18 times in a row is not a testament to the quality of the drugs, but to how incredibly strong & talented serena is.

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I entered a competition at work and all I need to win is views on this post

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-steps-finally-choosing-your-career-hannah-carey-smyth

If you could click that link (just let the page load, you don’t need to read if you don’t wanna) you will make me extremely happy, it’s a good deed that only takes you 2 seconds!

If you could also reblog it so your followers could click it that would be even better but I appreciate even just the view thank you!!!!!

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all plots are bad actually

a show: *has a cool female protagonist*

me: nice

show: *introduces smirking obnoxious boy in the first 5 minutes who will be her love interest*

me: well it was good while it lasted

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Let’s talk about Scalia and video games.

There’s a ton of articles, on Kotaku and Polygon among others, that eulogize Scalia positively. Even the Entertainment Software Association praised him. Why? Because he helped get video games first amendment protection in a Supreme Court case.

During the case in question, the justices went 7-2. He was hardly the deciding vote, he just wrote the opinion. Without him, it would have passed…6-2.

With the exception of Kotaku, which does list why people disliked him on other topics (edit: Kotaku’s piece is still terrible, don’t get me wrong, they just at least toss off a “he was homophobic” before diving in and praising him), by and large these articles aren’t about how bad people are human too, or a terrible person getting something right. They’re not even a defense of him, or an appreciation by a supporter. They don’t seem to realize why people dislike him at all . They vaguely allude to him being “controversial”.

Look at statements like this, from Polygon:

“Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s death yesterday is of particular note to the video games industry, for while Scalia had been a controversial and polarizing figure for some of his opinions, he was a friend to games…Scalia was unmistakably a controversial political figure, for other rulings and also his view of the United States Constitution as a mainly rigid document whose words do not change meaning over time.“

He was disliked for “some of his opinions”. What opinions? “Other rulings”. What other rulings? What did he do with his beliefs about the Constitution? They’re not exactly obscure. It doesn’t tell you anything about Scalia or why people dislike him, he’s just “controversial”, now let’s talk about how he’s a “friend of games” for joining the majority in a 7-2 decision. Does the author not know, is he afraid to offend someone or is he just skipping past the non-gaming parts (and providing no context for the story)? Which option is worst?

Scalia provoked controversy with some boring issues that aren’t video games, so who cares?

Gamers: please realize how unimportant your hobby is in the grand scheme of the world. I’m begging you, stop caring about games above everything else. Please engage with culture. Please engage with something other than video games. Please, stop embarrassing yourselves.

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If fascism could be defeated in debate, I assure you that it would never have happened, neither in Germany, nor in Italy, nor anywhere else. Those who recognised its threat at the time and tried to stop it were, I assume, also called “a mob”. Regrettably too many “fair-minded” people didn’t either try, or want to stop it, and, as I witnessed myself during the war, accommodated themselves when it took over … People who witnessed fascism at its height are dying out, but the ideology is still here, and its apologists are working hard at a comeback. Past experience should teach us that fascism must be stopped before it takes hold again of too many minds, and becomes useful once again to some powerful interests

Franz Frison, Holocaust survivor, 12th December, 1988, as quoted in AFA Ireland’s statement on the routing of Pegida in Dublin on 6th February 2016. (via antifainternational)

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Indian Summer - Angry Son

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what would you describe your political views as?

Somewhat fiscally conservative but socially liberal.

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My 2015.

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Goodnight sweet prince.

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IS GREGOR SAMSA STILL A BAND

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