Thief: Okay, now both the women characters are dead. That's no fun.
Man, just ascend already.
Willow ,'Chosen'
Natter 43: I Love My Dead Gay Whale Crosspost.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Apr 06, 2006 4:44:36 am PDT #9063 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Jesse - Apr 06, 2006 4:46:25 am PDT #9064 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I had the same thought, ita. Also, that explains why I had no idea Linda Hamilton was on the show. I have to say, though, in general I'd rather have no female characters than poorly developed/appendage-only female characters. Not that that was happening on Thief, just in general. What I'm saying is, I'm OK with all dudes. Plus a teenager.
sumi - Apr 06, 2006 4:47:51 am PDT #9065 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
You know -- it's true and somehow it didn't even bother me. (About Thief, I mean.)
Jesse - Apr 06, 2006 4:48:12 am PDT #9066 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
ION, I love the video for Mary J. Blige's "Be Without You" on so many levels. I love the fact that Mary can get Terrence Howard to play her boyfriend in a video.
sarameg - Apr 06, 2006 4:50:44 am PDT #9067 of 10001
I played laser tag with a friend's 12 year old stepson a few years ago. Well, and about 14 other strangers. It was at this amusement parkish place (you know, bumper-tubes, minigolf, scooters, video games.) It was kinda fun. They had this room set up all space-y with obstacles and stations you had to defend. Dark and noisy. C got a little bent out with me because in situations like that, the things I am not are competitive and serious. Of course, he was also annoyed with the glee with which I played minigolf badly.
TomW - Apr 06, 2006 4:58:00 am PDT #9068 of 10001
"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
We used to play laser tag a lot at my first job. My team used to annoy a lot of the other teams. They would play every week, practice all the time and take it very seriously. We would turn up once a month or so and wipe the floor with them. It was fun.
I was never sure how that worked. I don't *think* we were cheating.
There was also the time that somebody persuaded a team of the mathematicians to play. That got ugly. Confused fish, meet barrel.
sarameg - Apr 06, 2006 5:00:14 am PDT #9069 of 10001
There was a team of developers who used to play paintball against their managers. Apparently after one of the first layoffs, it got kind of ugly and was discontinued.
TomW - Apr 06, 2006 5:03:16 am PDT #9070 of 10001
"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
Tiktaalik - Fossil of an intermediate form between fish and land-dwelling reptile. Aw, it's cute and paleontologically significant!
flea - Apr 06, 2006 5:04:19 am PDT #9071 of 10001
information libertarian
We had a workplace event last summer where we hired a dunk tank and you could buy shots ($ to charity) to dunk most of the upper-level administrators. It was the best workplace event EVER. People kept hiring the softball-playing ringer; everybody got dunked many times.
tommyrot - Apr 06, 2006 5:12:05 am PDT #9072 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I've never played lasertag or paintball. I have this irrational fear that if I played paintball, things would end up like this: [link]
edit: image is rather disturbing....