Some things we know and don’t know about the missing girls.
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YOU DID NOT JUST DISS “THE MISEDUCATION OF LAURYN HILL” AND “CAR WHEELS ON A GRAVEL ROAD” WHAT ARE YOU ONNNNNNNNN gtfo of my tabs
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I love The Billfold, which is answering the question “Logan, Where Have You Been?”:
Mike: You really needed to earn more money. That was the whole point of getting this other job. It was kind of crazy that you were working a full-time restaurant job and blogging on the side and still struggling to make ends meet. It was unsustainable, plus not very remunerative.
Logan: Yeah, we’ve never talked about how much money we’ve made with the site, but it isn’t enough for two people to work full-time. Maybe it will be one day, but I needed to be making a lot more money now. Maybe there was a way I could have made it work—a more lucrative second job, I’m not sure. But by the new year, I’d decided I needed to step back and find a full-time job.
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Flavorwire is running a short fiction contest.
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I think that a huge problem is people who read comics and don’t understand the point of superheroes, which is to be the best version of yourself. You love Captain America? Well, you know what Captain America would never do? Go online anonymously and shit on a girl for having an opinion.
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What people really order at Chipotle. Note: Mallory has feelings about this.
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Oh, honey. No. I hate you so much, and I know I’m just being trolled, but it WORKED, goddamnit.
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I will not play your board games, imagined or real.
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Our own Gretchen (not Weiners) on why “fetch” never happened.
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Just a nice piece about how important science fiction is:
Brueckner laments that researchers whose work deals with emerging technologies are often unfamiliar with science fiction. “With the development of new biotech and genetic engineering, you see authors like Margaret Atwood writing about dystopian worlds centered on those technologies,” she says. “Authors have explored these exact topics in incredible depth for decades, and I feel reading their writing can be just as important as reading research papers.”
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Tags: feminism, link roundup, the internet
I have a novellas worth of opinions about what Captain America would and wouldn’t do
Between CBR rebooting their forums and announcing a much stricter moderating policy, and Ms. Marvel being funny and sweet and sensitive and true and POPULAR, and various big-name authors in the comics community speaking out about the need to remember that women are human and act accordingly, I’m cautiously optimistic.
I would also like for Chris Evans’s personal trainer to come on here and tell The Burn what kind of hell Evans gets run through to look like he does as Cap. Because, I mean. Dang.
Dang is really the only word for it.
Someone on Tumblr said he had the shoulder-to-waist ratio of a Dorito and I can’t stop thinking about it and laughing.
I just had to stifle a snort/laugh at work and now my sinuses hurt, THANKS
I just snorted coffee up my nose, ow ow ow lol
I saw someone actually overlay a Dorito over his figure and yes.
In case anyone else wishes to inhale beverages
Chris Evans has turned out to be quite the fella. But I can’t not think of him as JAKE WYLER from Not Another Teen Movie. In basically every roll he plays. It’s my fault though, not his!
Captain America: No, no, no, no, anyone but him! Not… the Winter Soldier! Guys, he’s got a half mask and a bionic arm! Aw, look at that, he’s got a red Russian star on his uniform, what is that? Guys, there’s no way he could be prom queen!
We can fix him. He is totally fixable, just give him to us we can do it.
when the first Captain America came out my Australian friend wanted to go see Green Lantern, because Ryan Reynolds was in it, and I convinced her that Captain America would be a better bet even though she didn’t know who Chris Evans was. Through the first bit she was skeptical…and then she got it.
The internet’s (totally valid) interpretation of Captain America as a social justice hero is one of my favorite things.
DEMOCRAT WHO PUNCHES NAZIS … I have bookmarked so many feels about Captain America. I never in my life thought he’d be the superhero I loved best, but wow. Yeah. I… really wanna grow up to be Captain America. He wears a BIG BRIGHT FLAG because the bad guys WILL THEN SHOOT AT HIM he’s so great.
But only as Chris Evans he’s usually drawn as too much of a gorilla Nice Guy for me.
Totally and utterly valid. His entire point is FREEDOM. For everyone. And as Steve Rogers, he was a fine arts student. In New York. From a poor family. I’m just saying he would have known and associated with a lot of non-rich, non-white, non-male (and in all likelyhood non-straight) people. He’s not going to suddenly be all “Freedom for some! But only those whom I deem valid! And it’s not going to be the types of people I grew up around!”
He grew up in a strongly gay neighborhood in the 40’s with a single immigrant mother! And he was super into a lady after (and probably because) she punched out a dude for being sexist!
I have been doing some serious thinking lately about the idea of superheroes working on the “small scale” – not everything can be saving the universe from invading alien forces, right? The idea of a superhero saying, “guh this problem in my neighborhood: I WILL MAKE IT BETTER” – it’s intriguing to me.
(The pitfall/danger being, of course, stomping all over everyone’s rights w/o meaning to)
So true! Captain America would NEVER threaten to rape or harm anyone and would be utterly disgusted by anyone who did.
I wonder if the people who make vile comments, supposedly in defence of comics, ever consider what their heroes would think about them.
::curls up in a blanket in this thread and sighs happily::
::slams through doorway:: AHH I’M LATE I DIDN’T REALIZE WE WERE TALKING ABOUT HOW GREAT CAP IS COME BACK EVERYONE
I love Cap, for all the excellent reasons people have said above. I said this on Twitter a while back, but I was in the hospital recently (for appendicitis, I’m fine now) and when the pain was bad, I thought of the first Cap movie, and skinny little Steve yelling out “No! Keep going! I can do this!” during the transformation sequence, and I grit my teeth and got through it. So in case you needed proof that I’m a hopeless dork, well, there you have it.
This is beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Also who are you on the twitter?
AWWW ::blushes:: I am @Sedna_51!
Since Toastess Nicole copped to quoting both Dune and Buffy during labor, it’s safe to assume that this is a welcoming space for self-proclaimed hopeless (Toast-proclaimed supendously badass) dorks.
A number of my friends have found Evans’s comments about coping with anxiety useful. “Shhh,” the man says, and he has a point.
I love that and I love him. It’s a huge relief to see someone well-known and respected talking about anxiety and related brain stuff in such a matter of fact way- yes, he struggles with anxiety, yes, he’s seen a therapist (and talked about it as a completely normal thing to do, not a Big Effin Deal or stigmatized in any way), yes, he sometimes wishes he could turn that part of his brain down. Huge. Huge, huge, huge.
CAP! CAP CAP CAP. I love the campiness of the first Cap movie and think many more superhero movies should take it into account! Enough with the serious Dark Knight-style stuff, superheroes are people in spandex suits running around punching things. GET INTO IT.
Also, I am super into Cap’s “so wholesome it’s almost gay mid-century fitness/porn magazine” situation. Ahem. I can’t help queering everything I see, sorry. I also appreciate the number of butt shots Cap gets. When I watch with my friends we yell “BUTT” every time one shows up.
That said, I even thought the Cap 2 uniform was too grey and dumb-looking. I was much more comfortable when he changed near the end.
It’s a big action movie about DOING THE RIGHT THING and has a MUSICAL NUMBER in it AND it is STILL CANON that Steve is an artist. In Cap 2 he speaks FRENCH.
I only want 2 things in the future for Cap, one we get to see him drawing again and two HE FINALLY GETS TO DANCE.
*whispers* …with Bucky
Oh my God, the musical number! That was the moment I fell in love with the film.
It has all these elements that you’d think would be really cheesy but it’s just really good. He doesn’t have to be dark or tormented (and Peggy didn’t have to be kidnapped/murdered!) to be really compelling to watch. I knew very little about the character before the film but after seeing it and the other marvel films I’ve actually started reading comics because I like the characters so much.
And if he learns to dance I will cry so much. Not normal crying either. Proper ugly crying.
Did everyone else ugly cry at the scene with Peggy in it with Cap 2? When she recognizes him again, and you can see his face just crumple even as he’s smiling at her with tears in his eyes? oh my god I’m getting teary-eyed just thinking about it now. PEGGYYYYYY. STEEEEEVEEEEE.
What no boardgames are the bessssssssssst let’s talk about them! I just spent my paycheck on a bunch of new games including Saboteur and Resistance and I’m very tempted by Concept as a fun break-the-ice party game (there’s only so much Apples to Apples you can play)…
I would totally play Cones of Dunshire too…
Boardgames are ABSOLUTELY the best! My collection is small (travelling doesn’t really lend itself to board game hoarding), but at the moment we’ve got Bang!, Settlers and Dixit. I haven’t heard of Saboteur or Resistance, but my birthday is coming up…
The more board games the better!
And after I introduced our friends to Bang!, three have now bought their own copies. Bang! is the bestest (especially when you get the Italian/English version, and try to say everything in Italian)
Bango!
If you’re looking for fun, small, easy-to-play games I definitely recommend Love Letter – it’s eensy and so fun to play!
PLUS ONE MILLION FOR LOVE LETTER, what an amazing amount of fun you can have with 16 cards and a viciously competitive group of friends.
Yeah, board games are awesome! I like the King Arthur version of The Resistance better than the sci-fi one, which one did you get? Another great party game if you haven’t tried it is Space Team, which is an app for iPhone and Android but plays very much like a board game.
I like the mechanics of the King Arthur one better (Merlin! Morgana! everyone!) but I like the sci-fi theme more – it’s easier to make up your own fake missions. Like, ok we’re going to go blow up the Wal-Mart now, we hate evil corporations that want to take over our government versus… I’ve got nothing for Avalon. We’re going to pull some swords out of stones and I need two other people to come with me? Obviously I need to read some Mists of Avalon for inspiration.
Totally valid point. I just ignore the theme in favor of the cooler mechanics but I see where you’re coming from.
Space Team is the only iPhone game that’s ever made me laugh until I cry. It’s great to play at parties when no one else has any idea what’s going on!
Fluxx (the card game) is also a good option for this.
REMEMBER TO WORK TOGETHER… AS A SPAAAAAAAAAAACE TEEEEEEEEEEAM
Space Team! That game is glorious and amazing. It is also a game that (for me, anyway) is fun to watch other people playing because or involves lots of excited yelling of silly things.
Haha, so when I say I ‘bought’ Resistance, I actually bought a laminator and a bunch of wooden tokens so that my partner could make us a custom version based on the rules cribbed off of Boardgamegeek. Sooo we’ll probably going to end up with a mish-mash of what works best!
Trivial Pursuit foreeevverrrr!! Just don’t buy the “party” edition; we did, and it sucks. The questions are too easy and the game goes too fast and it’s no fun. Stick with the classic version.
Genus II for the hardcore Trivia Pusuit-ists.
I think I might be Trivial Pursuited out… we invented a version called ‘Trivial Rampage’ to make the game go quicker but I think I’ve memorised all the answers on the version down at the pub…
I only have a version of Trivial Pursuit from the 1970s, so none of the world-record questions are correct anymore, and the answer to a lot of things is “the Soviet Union.” Makes it kind of fun to guess what the correct answer would have been, though.
Moar board games! I’ve started asking for a game for xmas each year from my parents. Which is awesome because I’m slowly building my library and it’s something we all can enjoy over xmas break. I want to hear about everyone’s favorite games.
SO MANY FAVOURITES!
The Battlestar Galactica boardgame is probably my ultimate favourite, but it’s not for everyone and takes quite a while to play. Dominion is a great deck-based game that can be as aggressive as you want depending on which cards you sub in and is pretty quick to pick up even for newbies. Articulate is probably my favourite party game and can accommodate huge numbers, which is always handy. Then there’s the classics like Settlers of Catan and Agricola for your good ol’ resource management fun.
We bought the Battlestar Galactica game a few Christmases ago, and made the mistake of having a few eggnogs while setting it up. The ‘nog was strong, the instructions were about 15 pages of teeny-tiny font… we were simply too befuddled to figure it out. Now I just use the game tokens as tree ornaments.
Oooh! Oooh! Have you played Pandemic? Or Gloom? I LOVE board games, but have such a hard time getting people to play with me, generally.
Yes, we own Pandemic, though just the base game, none of the fancy expansions. I haven’t heard of Gloom but I will check it out!
I am lucky in that I have a lot of geeky friends who will gladly sit down for a games night – in fact this thread just inspired me to set one up for next week, yay! Have you tried looking on Meetup.com (I don’t know if that’s still a thing, but I met a great gaming group on there a couple years ago when I had just moved to a new town)?
I love both of these games and also have a hard time finding people to play with. I even went to a boardgamer meetup and the only game I was able to weasel my way into was Apples to Apples. Maybe you have to fight your way up the ranks or something? I have no patience for such things, so back to the drawing board, I guess.
We played Saboteur as a family over and over and over again on Easter, it was the BEST TIME.
Yay! I’m glad to hear a personal recommendation since I was just going off of reviews online! Usually I don’t buy games unless I’ve had a chance to play them but it looked so good (and so affordable) I had to!
Get thee to youtube! There are plenty of people who review games but there are also folks who post videos of gameplay so you can get an idea of how the game actually works.
Yessssss. Have you tried Eclipse? Great, deep mechanics AND easy to grasp that a newcomer can happily play.
Eclipse is craaaazy, but really fun!
I haven’t tried/heard of Eclipse before – upon checking it out it looks great, but WHOO BOY is it expensive! Why you got to be like that, boardgames?
I know. Arkham Horror will never reside in my house due to the expense :(. Though I find Eclipse to be the leanest 4X game I’ve played: i.e. deep by streamlined!
Board games forever! I am so so into Betrayal at House on the Hill. It’s a coopertive game until one person betrays everyone else and the rules change everytime! So much fun.
Eclipse, King of Tokyo, the Game of Thrones board game, Trivial Pursuit, Pandemic, Last Night on Earth, give me them allllllllll
Yay KoT – I bought it recently and love it as a quick intro game on boardgaming nights!
I love love love games with hidden agendas/betrayals – the Battlestar Galactica boardgame is probably my favourite ever for that, but Resistance is a close second!
Oh gosh, the Battlestar Galactica board game is great fun, and you don’t even have to know the show!
I really like betrayal games, too. It adds an awesome element of deceit.
I love Betrayal!
Betrayal is one of my all-time faves!
I love Betrayal! I generally don’t enjoy cooperative games, and I hate cooperative games that are basically unwinnable, but somehow Betrayal is still super fun, I think because one of the players becomes the antagonist. More “cooperative” games need that mechanic.
the amount of Apples to Apples a sane and healthy adult can play is NONE
Haha, I see you’ve been talking to my wife…
Disagreed. I think about half an hour once every two to three years is ok.
Of course, that would be easier if the people who pressure everyone to play Apples to Apples were capable of ending an Apples to Apples game less than two hours after starting it.
Agreeing with Mallory on this one. Once you are an adult, there are so many less bad version of this game, like Game of Things and Cards Against Humanity. (Worth noting that it is recommended that any potentially triggering cards be removed from CAH, though)
cards against humanity is the anthony bourdain of apples to apples
Now I must check it out immediately.
I must admit that I am not a huge board game person because I hate to lose (but don’t like going for the throat to win) and also because I get upset when they deviate too strongly from their internal metaphor. Also I find that they often impede conversation.
BUT, having said that, I have been playing more of them since my circle has lots of gamers in it and one that we all love is Rise of Augustus, or as we call it, Roman Bingo. Enough strategy required to be challenging/interesting, enough chance to keep it exciting, easy enough to learn that you don’t have to spend an hour on a teaching game to bring new people up to speed.
That and Ticket to Ride are the two things I will always say yes to playing.
German board games! Settlers of Cataan & its 8 million variations! (Including the one where you get to *shake plastic spaceships* because, well, they are plastic spaceships and you get to build onto them and then you shake them to see if you win space battles!)
Although most of the games in my house right now are actually card games (Dominion!) but they come in very very big boxes like board games so that kind of counts, right?
I was just coming here to say DOMINION, FUCK YEAH.
My favourite games are the massively silly ones where I can draw my entire deck of cards every turn, which makes me feel like I have all power!
Ehhhh the definiton of ‘board game’ is very flexible, I find – certainly half of ours seem to be card-based but that just means they’re actually portable!
I love boardgames, but my friends only ever want to play Cards Against Humanity, so my boyfriend and I just play games by ourselves. We’ve especially enjoyed Carcassone and the 2-player Agricola (which is really really fun! The guy at the board games store sold it as “you build houses for little wooden animal. Who doesn’t love that?”). Anyone have any other recommendations for 2-player games?
Dominion is our go-to two person game at the moment, Bohnanza’s pretty good, and when I asked my boardgaming friends for more recommendations I was told: Netrunner, Funghi/Morels, Caverna, Race for the Galaxy, Guillotine, Le Havre, Castles of Burgandy, Mr Jack, Last Night on Earth, Eldritch Horror.
This is a helpful thread as well.
I am so excited to buy more games now! Thanks!
“Authors have explored these exact topics in incredible depth for decades, and I feel reading their writing can be just as important as reading research papers.”
This woman is a gold-medal enabler, and I love her.
Why yes, yes I will go read some Ian M. Banks and Octavia Butler rather than finishing this research summary that is due today! Thank you, Smithsonian Mag!
“For journal club this week, I will be presenting Dune.”
Now I’m starving for Chipotle and there are none within a 3-hour drive of me. WHY.
There’s none within an a plane-flight away from me. Well, I guess I could in theory take a Eurostar, but the plane is quicker. JUST OPEN IN AMSTERDAM GOD.
(I always get chicken soft tacos and have always got chicken soft tacos since I was 16 in Denver.)
Most male comic books fans completely ignore the lessons from those characters in favour of artificially locking down their community so no-one who isn’t exactly like them can join.
Also they dissed Mermaid Avenue, which I really liked. California Stars was my wedding song, sadly not sung by Wilco but by our pretty lame band, but still – great song. Why they gonna hate? Is it because haters gonna hate? Can it be that simple?
California Stars is my go-to serenade when I want my L.A. transplant girlfriend to fall in love with me all over again. Good choice 🙂
I can listen to California Stars 800 times in a row no problem; it’s almost as good as Ativan
I used to have at least a modicum of like/respect for Noah Berletsky, but he wrote a useless, condescending review of some of the best albums of the 90s (including one of my all-time favorites, OK Computer) so I’m done with his stuff now.
Chipotle does not have queso, therefore they are dead to me.
YES! When it comes to Americanized fast food burritos, Moe’s > Chipotle. Because 1. no cilantro in the rice, and 2. QUESO.
I am Team Qdoba on this one, because I am a fan of cilantro and queso and also the only Moe’s is over by the mall and parking is TERRIBLE.
I once looked up the calorie count of my favorite burrito, which obviously has queso and sour cream and then more cheese because duh, and it was over 1,600 – I don’t remember the exact number because brain was too busy making my face go D-: D-: D-: to process numbers. I have just barely cut down on my intake since then.
I have an irrational hatred of moe’s stemming from a hated super Christian classmate said she preferred them for their more lady like burrito size options. I replied I liked my whorish chipotle burrito, and have avoided moe’s henceforth.
I feel like a disgusting person for even mentioning it, but Taco John’s (a shamelessly terrible Wyoming-based chain) has a thing where they put a ton of tater tots in a soup of queso and then cover it with a pile of taco fillings. It’s like that KFC bowl except slimier and vaguely “mexican.” It’s both nauseating and completely beautiful.
You know, I was prepared to eat my homemade brown rice & black bean burrito bowl for lunch today, to be satisfied with the chipotle-lime kale I put on top, and even to especially enjoy the sliced avocado I brought in a separate baggie*, but now I won’t be happy until I have a side of chips and queso to go with it.
*bringing a garnish for an office lunch is, to me, the height of culinary complexity
Down with Chipotle – Up with Qdoba.
This is blasphemy and you should feel bad*
Signed,
A person who made the mistake of being stranded in a place with only a Qdoba and no Chipotle and regretted that decision almost every day of her life before making a brave and wise choice to move and correct the situation.
*I mean not really, obvisously, but maybe just reconsider…
:dives into pool of queso::
Sorry I can’t hear you through all this delicious cheese-sauce.
(I am in the opposite situation. I have Chipotles and no Qdobas and I am sad and bereft and also moving.)
This is why Moes will always be far superior to me. Unfortunately the closest one to me is too far away to visit over lunch, and everyone in this office is still too in love with Chipotle for my liking.
I’m so excited to discover there are other board game haters in the world.
I hate board games SO DAMN MUCH. Why do adults think this is a Fun Thing To Do? Can’t you just let me drink in peace? Look, I invented a game, it’s called “Don’t Roll Your Eyes So Hard You Fall Off the Couch.”
That being said, I do take a perverse pleasure in the memory of the time my college roommates forced me to play Cranium so we had even teams, and my teammate and I beat everyone in about 25 minutes.
I don’t hate them, but I find them in general to be about as exciting as brushing my teeth.
I am really, really confused by this statement. I cannot understand not liking board games, and am trying to come to terms with this.
Even as someone who likes games, I do know that board games in and of themselves do not equal fun. Different people enjoy different types of games. There are some games that my friends like that I do not like at all.
Additionally, when playing games you need to have the right people for both the game and your style of gaming. If you’re not super-competitive, for example, friends who are can ruin the whole experience. If you take the game seriously and others are mainly focused on conversation, that can be frustrating as well.
But if you find a game that you can really enjoy and a good group of people, mmmmm, that is some sweetness!
I don’t play them a lot, but I’ve enjoyed some of the games I’ve played and am definitely down for trying more. Just not Dominion. Jesus, that game. My ex was super into it and kept trying to get ME into it and it just was not happening. I remember one particularly long/boring game where I started intentionally making bad choices just so I could lose and the game would end.
There is little worse than someone forcing you to try to have fun with something that is totally not fun for you. 🙁
Doing anything you do not like to do is not fun. I mean, I don’t much like watching movies, they are too long and I get bored and I want to pause the movie and go do something much more interesting, like… reading a book! Making muffins! And one of my partners does not like watching TV because it is too short and there is not enough time in it for awesomeness, unlike movies which he thinks are great. And don’t even let us start about people who think that spending two hours pruning roses is the greatest satisfaction in the world equal only to rolling around in bed, versus people who spend five minutes in the garden and then are like ‘ewwwwwwwww I am messy must shower now’.
It Takes All Kinds.
That’s what it is. I have tried some of them, I just don’t find it a fun activity. I also dislike being forced to play them, which is inevitable when someone brings out a board game anywhere.
What is it that keeps you from saying, “No, sorry, not my thing!”? I mean, if someone pulled out their stamp collection or wanted you to help them floss their teeth or something in the name of Fun, I am guessing you would not mind telling them ‘No thanks’? (I am not saying board games are inherently boring; as noted below we play a lot of them, nor trying to Judge Stamp Collectors or anything, but I think if you don’t like an activity it can be an awful lot like teeth flossing.)
I do say “No, thanks”, hence the being forced to play thing. I’m not judging people who like board games either, they’re just not my thing.
I feel like I could fake an interest in someone’s stamp collection more convincingly than in playing a board game though. 🙂
For me it’s on par with saying “I hate movies” or “I hate books”. Yeah, people gravitate to different mediums, and unlike most other ones board games require company, so you can’t control the pace (although you can play some co-op games, like Pandemic, by yourself). But there’s such a huge variety of games out there that the idea that none whatsoever appeals to a person confounds me.
So, for me, one of the things I dislike is that I find they tend to stifle conversation. You keep getting interrupted by the discussion necessary for gameplay, and if I have a bunch of my friends in a room, I want to actually TALK to them.
I also tend to get frustrated if I don’t understand the mechanics of a game, or if what seems like sensible strategy based on the metaphor/story behind the game isn’t actually appropriate strategy.
So usually what I do is let my friends who like to play board games play games, and I will sit and work on a crochet project and make snarky comments and eat snacks/fetch them for other people. And then play TTR and kick everyone’s ass (b/c I have the mobile version and know all variations really well).
The only truly great boardgame I have played is Scribblish. Oh and Fart. (It’s not really a board game though.)
I always WANT to be a person who likes boardgames, but then they’re SO LONG and I’m like, “Ugh, get out of my house.”
Board games = BORED GAMES ahahaha. But seriously – I like SOME games but not most games. I would rather do just about anything than play a board game. Also, I hate most card games, COME AT ME.
That Salon article about the 10 albums from the 90s is trolling, it has to be. The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill? OK Computer? Metallica’s Black Album? Foo Fighters? Ten? Screw you, dude, that’s a solid day’s worth of nostalgic shuffling for me. Screw you wholeheartedly.
That Brian Michael Bendis piece is fantastic and I hope every gatekeeping nerdbro that reads it feels overwhelming shame well up from deep within them.
BENDIS
Sure, there are people who look like Captain America who read comics, but there are very few people in the world who look like Captain America.
<3
Yeah that was for real awesome. I am so happy and proud to see a person with so much power in the comics community making those statements. I would like to be his buddy!
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What, no CharDeeMacDennis in the made-up board game article?? It totally has a board! They even nail it to the bar to keep Mac from flipping it over, and in my experience, flipping the board is a key element of board-game play!!!
Also included in most real life board games – the Level Three emotional battery and humiliation. At least with Monopoly.
Also, where is True American from New Girl? (The apartment is the board it totally counts especially if we’re including friggin’ Tool Time)
I love The Billfold too, and have missed Logan dearly. I am definitely more of a Logan than a Mike and now sometimes feel intimidated by the Having Their Shit Together-ness of the current staff. They’re great but while Megan’s advice about selling stocks is something I hope to use someday Logan’s pieces on depression and money were some of the best “personal finance” advice I’ve ever read. And though The Billfold is killing it overall, I’d enjoy some more money coverage on The Toast.
Also, I know we say this about every website that isn’t here but the comment section at The Billfold has gotten way more affluent and dudebro heavy. I’ve all but stopped commenting there (save various check-ins) because of the anti-union bootstraps comment replies I’ve gotten.
Yesss. I read the billfold daily but the comments have taken a weird turn, that I don’t feel is reflected in the articles? I wonder if it’s just that money stuff attracts weird bootstraping dudes to feel like they need to share their opinions at us.
There is a decidedly libertarian bent to those comments, lately.
as someone who contributes and comments and loves The Billfold, I sometimes wade in and fight with people, and sometimes I’m just completely perplexed. I have written rants on my tumblr based on some of the weird shit from The Billfold.
But I would also like to see more money coverage here! Personal finance fo life!
The Toast should steal Logan and have her write under a pseudonym here! This is clearly a brilliant plan right?!?
I love the Billfold, but it can be such an orgy of mansplaining (I am probably thinking of just one or two contributors and commenters, but still).
I gave up on it a couple of years ago after being yelled at in the comments for planning to move to [city with all the jobs] before having a job, because it wasn’t fair to potential roommates.
I’ve said this before, but I had to stop reading The Billfold because my ex is all over the checkins with updates about spending the weekend with his girlfriend. I miss it, I am sorry to hear that the comment section has gotten worse.
I tried reading the comments at the Hairpin recently and hoo boy have they gotten terrible. *wraps The Toast in protective saran wrap*
Dumpster Bro: “Plus, I can freely exercise my obsession with feng shui — a major point of marital contention between my ex-wife and me. Our home foyer was the epicenter of the dispute — why did we need another vase on the coffee table? Wasn’t it obvious that flat surfaces should be devoid of all but one object? We never signed a peace accord on the issue.”
Ahahahaha that is some A+ trolling.
The Awl commenters are taking that Chipotle article SO SERIOUSLY. I just really want some chips and guac now.
“This crap passes as journalism?”
what
” Your sample size is too small to draw realistic stats from!” …ok.
I LOVE it when commenters on humor/entertainment sites complain about ‘shoddy journalism.’ lol wut
Hahaha I thought the same thing about those comments. Chill the fuck out, bros, have a margarita!!!
Oh my god, I know. People have some strong opinions about Chipotle opinion pieces.
Okay, Chicago Toasties who DON’T hate board games, shall we start a Board Game Night? Flaco’s Tacos in Wrigleyville has some pretty large tables, suitable for boards, and also good food.
LET’S PLAY SOME GAMES!
YES! OH GOD, PLEASE, YES!
Might I also suggest Guthries when it gets warm because you can order in Thai Food to the back porched in area, and it’s just far enough away from the hell that is Wrigley that you almost forget about the cubs and you can walk to Jeni’s after…
YES! I LOOOOVE GUTHRIES!
But gawd, do you think it’ll ever actually get warm again? I’ve almost given up hope.
Patience, padawan. This may reminds me of 2010 May where it got blisteringly hot and remained that way, long into October.*
*I am not a weather person at all. I just dislike extreme heat/humidity, so I try and prepare.
Also I could be down with the board games! We could also play at Simone’s sometime if people want to be southish, they even keep some around.
Margaret Atwood should be required reading for EVERYONE
“Lauryn Hill brought class, a sense of history, and resolute high-mindedness to ’90s hip-hop and R&B.”
DAS RACIST
This might also be a good place to mention that I co-host a weekly board game night in New York called Board Games & Bars. It’s exactly what it sounds like. We’ve been on hiatus because my co-host and I are both on the academic calendar, but we’re going to revamp in mid-May. Let me know if any NY toasties wanna get on the email list!
I do!!
Send an email to [email protected] and put in the body of the message that you’re from The Toast! (this goes for anyone who is interested!). Yay, new members!
Nooo, we were there for 6 months, and didn’t find anyone to play games with. I wish I’d heard of you guys last year =( It sounds like the funnest thing ever.
Oh no! If it makes you feel any better, we didn’t start until April of last year, so you may have been here before we started up anyway. 🙁
Oh well, c’est la vie. If I’m ever in NYC again, I’ll get in touch.
EVERYBODY IS WRONG TODAY.
1. It’s Marshgammon, not Mashgammon.
2. Board games are awesome.
3. If I ran into Noah Berlatsky on the street, I would fight him.
4. I go to Chipotle more often than a person probably should, and I never see anyone ordering burrito bowls. Is it because I live in a fat part of the country?
5. Guacamole = tossing your money into a trash can? And what, cookies are a punch to the face and hugs are ebola?
I’m not a huge guac’ fan, so grain of salt and all that, but I think the problem is just that the guacamole at Chipotle is especially not good?
This. I enjoy Chipotle, but their guac is not very good. Of course, the first time I ever had guac, my boyfriend had made it fresh, and that is still my favorite (because he does not do silly things like add onions to it).
HERE HERE.
OH MY GOD THAT SCIFI PIECE COULD HAVE BEEN WRITTEN BY ME. Like, I read Wired, and like every issue there are SEVERAL PIECES about shit scientists are doing and I’m like, “THIS IS A TERRIBLE IDEA HAVE YOU NEVER READ ______!?” and obviously they haven’t. A scifi course should be MANDATORY for all science majors. Because I would like not be killed by a human brain they are putting in a computer, thanks.
Also I think Salon is just, actively trolling all of us at this point.
Why does the high-minded Music Critic have to poop all over Mermaid Avenue? I love that album and now I’m gonna take my beloved and battered Mermaid CD and put it into regular “hate the local radio station, what have I got in the car?” rotation.
I think someone in a thread above has it right, and he’s just totally trolling us all. Listen away to Mermaid Avenue, and I’ll queue up my Radiohead and Lauryn Hill.
I hate that fucking dumpster professor – he and his girlfriend were the subject of that “The Craziest OKC Date Ever” Salon piece that went viral last fall where they met up at the airport and couchsurfed around Europe for three weeks with only a fucking fanny pack between them. And I was like I HATE THESE PEOPLE and I googled them and found out he was a professor who lived in a dumpster even though he has a child and also spends his time cavorting through Europe with a 23 year old while taking really twee Instagrams to show everyone how “crazy” they are and I was like OF COURSE.
I had to read the article twice to make sure this was REAL LIFE because this dude… it’s like he is playing an eccentric shitty dad on Girls.
Also, bonus round, the comments are filled with rational people reading him to filth about appropriate ways to talk about a personal project in a public forum without shit talking an ex. OF COURSE.
<3 u Chipotle. Louisville FINALLY got it’s first one about a year ago and it’s a 5-minute walk from my office. That was a good day, the day I realized it was there.
I ate at that Chipotle 2 months ago! It gave succor to 2 vegetarians when the Ethiopian place a block north was closed.
I’m veggie, too, and Chipotle is a place I can suggest for lunch without my omnivore coworkers getting all wrinkly-nosed.
Cosmic Wimpout, anyone?…
Speaking of trolling! Let’s all shit on Tal Fortgang a li’l bit.
My favourite games are the massively silly ones where I can draw my entire deck of cards every turn, which makes me feel like I have all power!
http://thehairpin.com/2014/05/the-dad-vibes-pie
That post seems necessary for the next link roundup.
I used to have at least a modicum of like/respect for Noah Berletsky, but he wrote a useless, condescending review of some of the best albums of the 90s (including one of my all-time favorites, OK Computer) so I'm done with his stuff now.
I think someone in a thread above has it right, and he's just totally trolling us all. Listen away to Mermaid Avenue, and I'll queue up my Radiohead and Lauryn Hill.