Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
We’ve learned so much about the Duggars in the past couple weeks! Of course, we now know, in grisly detail, about how Josh Duggar molested five girls, four of whom were also his co-stars on TLC’s 19 Kids And Counting, i.e., his sisters. We’ve also been learning more and more about the creepy homeschooling cult the…
In the ongoing quest to figure out if Louis CK is a disgusting pervert who sexually abuses women, some interesting new information has come to light. To catch you up, two weeks ago there was a post on Gawker that talked about an alleged email exchange and phone conversation between Louis CK and and an…
It takes a big company to admit that it’s wrong. Well, that and big losses, if Keurig Green Mountain is a reliable guide. A brutal earnings period, in the wake of a crackdown on what types of coffee could go into its single-serve coffee machines, has forced the wold’s largest pusher of pod-based java to…
Over the past week, I found myself at times so stricken by depression that I could barely move, only lie face down as if there were some great force pressing me there, leaden and slowly leaking tears. It was as rough as you might expect on the one hand, but on the other I wasn’t…
Thanks to the technified world we live in today, your options for securing your home range from “lock your doors at night” to “spend absurd amounts of money on robots that’ll scream at burglars if they try to break in.” But as long as pesky laws keep us from arming these bots with rotary chain…
I followed a whim and clicked upon seeing the advertisement below, promising me “the hottest game 2015”. The focus of my experience, stressed the ad, would be “beautiful females”, but I was just as attracted to the clear trajectory outlined in its upper right corner: “Game Starts. Choose Story. Game Setting. Game Ends.” That sounds…
One advantage video games have over movies and books is that they are the only medium where you actually feel like you’re walking in the shoes of the protagonist — a good game will convince you that’s really you galloping across meadows, exploring futuristic cities, having sex with pigeons, etc. Or, you know, just being…
Maybe you’re the kind of person who doesn’t need to be told that threatening to rape and murder women is not okay. It’s not a casual means of communicating disagreement; it’s not a hilarious riposte; it’s not a valid expression of frustration at being a sad and lonely individual. And if you know and understand…
I was milling around a videogames conference two weeks ago (Kill Screen’s Two5Six, holla!), and a friend kept saying he “kicked that” whenever one or another game came up as a topic of conversation. It took me far too long to figure out that he meant he backed the project on Kickstarter—I kept thinking, is…
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