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Sep. 6th, 2014 10:18 pm
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So, with the looming cloud of Job Interview, I'm a disaster at the moment. I was just biting my nails with nerves when I bit into my finger deep enough to draw blood, almost fainted at the damage, and am now wearing a band-aid on my right hand (the one I need to shake hands with). I'm just a wreak.

Does anyone know how to uninstall fear.exe? It's screwing up my system.

- This is why I love board games. No new technology leaving old games unplayable. I still have an old copy of HeroQuest in the house.

- I've been doing a lot of reading on what's happening over in the video game fandoms recently. I'm not a gamer, so it's been a bit hard to follow, but I like what Liz R has to say here:
The indie [game developer] scene is often cliquish and entitled. It does benefit you tremendously to know the right people, and there is a lot of incestuousness and possible conflicts of interest that come into play with game spaces, so it's not a huge stretch to make that criticism. But focusing on a boogeyman of this seemingly formless, evil master manipulator woman who uses any tools to her advantage... says a whole lot more about fear of women than it does say anything about any of the (numerous) problems in game journalism and the indie scene.

There's also some intelligent discussion happening in the comments to one of Fred Clark's link posts.

- Just found a new philosophy blog to read, and I've been reading it for hours. Must come back to this. For example, this is why I'm both a humanist AND a feminist.
Sexism, homophobia, transphobia, racism, classism, ableism, xenophobia, and many more forms of bigotry and passively allowed inequalities and disempowerments simply exist. They don't go away by not paying any specific attention to them [and] declaring oneself vaguely "humanist" and "egalitarian".

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