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Actually, today really sucked. But I'm home, about to do some gaming, and listening to this... So the song is beginning to ring true.

As long as it doesn't get in the way of this, I'm a happy camper. It'll be nice to boot up GTA IV without logging into three separate services. Plus I'll have my home button back in that and Dark Souls, which means I get to take screens again.

http://store.steampowered.com/tag I feel like I was just recently in a discussion talking about how Steam needs this. *poof!*

RT has been pretty funny over the past few days (the interview with the mayor or Sochi this morning was super awkward), but it often turns to sadness after the initial chuckles. It really sucks that they're so helplessly crippled by corruption over there. You would think that they could at least create a believable facade in Sochi, what with all the preparation time and the insane amount of money (WAY over budget, I might add) that went into constructing it. Instead of sate-of-the art facilities and accommodations, they're wowing the world with colossal failures of even the most basic kind (safe/running water, electricity, rooms without sheetrock laying around, etc.). I don't think anyone saw the dog issue coming... And all this on top of the gay "propaganda" laws, and those Occupy Pedophilia cretins gaining more and more steam... It's kind of tragic. Speaking of, I was here yesterday. A professor invited us, and I decided to show up, and wound up staying & handing out flyers. I would have felt like a bit of a phony marching (since I was invited almost as a voluntary assignment), but was happy I could help in some small way. I do feel that it's important to highlight the active role that government has taken in provoking the sort of sentiment that is leading to unchecked violence against homosexuals over there. Also, since seeing How To Survive a Plague on Netflix some months back, I've had a newfound respect for the meaningful change that (not exclusively, but largely) the homosexual community was able to achieve through protest right under my young, unsuspecting nose. Whether it's letting them die in emergency rooms, failing to prosecute people for violence against them, or creating laws that aim to affiliate homosexuality with pedophilia and other rape, it seems that modern man has a bad habit for abusing LGBT people, and they don't think twice about it until someone points a bright light on them and holds it there.

I don't think that's an unreasonable request. What would be unreasonable though, is if we start using that as a pretense to let LE get in peoples' faces and/or cars; which it kind of already is. If I had a nickel for every story I've heard that began with cops "smelling pot" when someone is pulled over... I see a lot of this idea from pundits and writers, that legalization presents a problem in the form of stoned drivers. The thing is, I don't think the sentence "Damn, I'd be the illest pothead if only it wasn't illegal" was ever uttered. In other words, pot smokers have been doing their thing despite the law for quite a while now, and the decision whether or not to drive stoned has always been left at their discretion. Since we all don't know someone whose family has been destroyed by a stoned driver, I think it's kind of silly to start acting like this is suddenly a problem to be bracing ourselves for. I'd be open to any serious studies on the topic (a brief search didn't yield much conclusive, in my opinion, and I believe the lack of research in itself says something on the topic) that might say otherwise down the line, but I'd hope that those studies also include every possible medication, emotional state, physical state, and model of vehicle that could possibly stand a slightly higher chance of experiencing an accident. Not JUST a study on pot, but a study on driving that includes pot and any other number of legal and illegal factors in regards to accident rates. While I do think that there is potential for someone with marijuana to cause a slip up, I don't think that it's significant. I'm more concerned about the elderly, personally, or people who work 14 hour shifts. Frankly, as I see more and more giant touch screen displays on peoples' dashboards, I just don't want to hear about the dangers of potheads on the road.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/03/online-gaming-steam-ddos-attack-ea-origin I guess it isn't just me.

Shazam! Big thanks to JayC for dropping both elbows on me! Cheers, and a most merry Festivus to you as well!

What can I say, I decided to combine the magic of Christmas with the time-honored internet tradition of telling "first!" I'm very competitive about gifting.

@HH Yeah, it is a little bit uncomfortable on the drums. Simple-ish, but the tempo is awkwardly broken up by the cymbal strikes. If not for that, I'd actually recommend it as a training tune for people who are looking for a 2nd-step in disco beats. Awesome song though, especially for anyone who gets all sappy when it snows the way I do. @StaySick I can admit to both of those guilty pleasures. The second one is rougher, since it's the only thing preventing me from being able to say that I just don't like Blink songs. I'm not sure why people seem to hate that Comeback Kid song so much.... I'm guessing they hate the band. I don't really know them, just had that tune sent to me one day and noticed the awful like:dislike ratio on it. Whatever peoples' beef is, I like the song, so fuck em.

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My bad, I had a message in most of the ones I sent out, but there were a couple where I wound up accidentally sending quick. Yeah, I'm PristineSneakers.

Also, Amazon has those $30 1-year PS+ subs right now. I was about to run to Gamestop to get two, but I this works. Actually, it doesn't, I'm getting an error trying to complete the redemption and apply the card... But still, theoretically it should work. Hopefully this clears itself up later without me having to contact anyone.

Vita bundle in the gold box ($175). I almost wish I needed one in my life.

Awesome, I'll prob get those out tomorrow. Yeah, a great deal of my PSN friends are just some random invites from some gg's that we must have had at some point, or people I teamed up with for a trophy or something. the ones I kept most likely had some nice trophy counts, as I like checking up on stuff like that with active gamers. A decent number of irl friends (a few of whom haven't even logged in in an obnoxiously long time) too, as well as some people I'd call acquaintances. I'm not nearly as popular as my friends list would lead one to believe though.

I just did it for Resogun and Contrast about an hour ago, US store.

Congrats on the PS4, man. I'm totally not burning with jealousy over here. Does anyone know if the friends list cap expansion has been implemented? I'd imagine it happened on or before the PS4 release, but I'm not sure. If so, I'd like to start sending out some long-due invites in here.

Not that I'm surprised at all, but it hasn't even been a full day and it seems like the people who are normally just very susceptible to a favorable spin have taken control of things and have already spun it for themselves. They don't even need to wait for the pundits to get creative anymore! Aside from the expected complaints about Dems' overreach of power and the expected threats of how this will backfire in the future are some things I didn't even quite see coming.... "Time to dust off the militia" and such. I know, they're just very vocal... Still though, that stuff scares the crap out of me. Not that I think for one second that anyone is really going to do much more than talk that way, but I'm starting to worry that that train is just picking up more passengers as it rolls along.

Not so much in terms of policy maybe, but policy hadn't really become an issue (for me) until now. As far as their software goes, they seem to have had their finger on the pulses of the people who used it. I know that throughout the course of my relationships with gmail and Chrome, there have been a few occasions on which I've had minor issues with their structure that were resolved fairly quickly, and beyond my satisfaction. I think more disappointing than that though, and what I may have incorrectly lumped in with their consumer relations, was that they used to seem to focus on user experiences, and trying brand new things that would let more people have more access to resources, where now they seem to be moving in a different direction. One that I think most people knew was coming, but that doesn't really soften it for me much.

Yeah, I hate to be such an entitled video game cunt, but I'm feeling like it's time to use this current smiling (and satisfyingly pandering) face of Sony to its maximum potential and add that to the wishlist of things to send in their direction. @Jack Unfortunately all of us youtube users have + accounts now. They're really going about this terribly. It's amazing how nearly overnight the shift in this company was. They went from listening to dictating in a heartbeat. I'm really annoyed about the dishonesty of the approach as well. None of this shit is being done to stop trolling, and if it is, it's the most counterproductive solution in history. Every time I saw an article that framed their changes as such made me want to find the author and spit in their cereal.

I'm joking... I think. Ethan's answer is the correct one, but I'm sure someone out there would have given this answer with a straight face.