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TitleWhat’s Inside Skinner’s Box?
What is a skinner box, how does it interact with neurotransmitters, and what does it have to do with shooting people in the face for rare loot?
The Death of Half-Life
Valve still hasn't admitted it, but the Half-Life franchise is dead. So what made these games so popular anyway?
Why The Christmas Shopping Season is Worse Every Year
Everyone hates Black Friday sales. Even retailers! So why does it exist?
Quakecon 2011 Keynote Annotated
An interesting but technically dense talk about gaming technology. I translate it for the non-coders.
Shamus Plays LOTRO
As someone who loves Tolkein lore and despises silly MMO quests, this game left me deeply conflicted.
Shouldn’t the title say Movie not move?
PS it’s Friday here? is this comic coming?
You know this had to happen at some point.
*golf clap for moron trying to sneak a suitcase full of snakes past authorities*
We now return you to your regularly scheduled chaos.
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but I thought this was a movie.
I mean, I saw Snakes On a Plane.
and that movie had a plane with snakes on it.
Joke topic I’m assuming.
When my DM was in San Diego recently, he met a Japanese guy at his hostel who showed him the angry snake in his duffle bag. He said that he was going to take it back home with him. When asked how he’d gotten it, he explained that it just came across the path so he grabbed it. Where? At the zoo. Strangely, the airport cops didn’t seem to care when my DM informed them about it on his way out of the country.
Now seems like as good as any a time to tell you my PRE-9/11 airline security story. One vacation in college I was able to fly home (Spokane to Seattle) with a couple friends. At the security checkpoint going, the workers asked if they could re-scan my friend’s purse, but found nothing. We all gave each other puzzled looks but shrugged it off and continued on. At the end of the vacation, we were again going through security with no problems, until a very grim official asked if he could open my backpack. Suddenly I remembered and thought “OH SH**!!!”
That semester I was taking an Independent Study Biology class where I was removing all the soft parts from the skull of a very dead goat. For the purpose, the professor had let me borrow his very long, very bad-ass looking hunting knife which I had stored in my backpack and had completely forgotten about until that moment!! We were running short on time before the flight, so instead of going back to the ticket agent to check the knife, I gave it to my parents and asked them to bring it with them on their next visit (another sign this was pre- 9/11.)
I swear if this had happened a decade later, I would probably be in a detention center in an undisclosed location!!
…that can’t be serious. No-one would be that stupid.
Yep i have to agree
lmao. dunno if it’s real but it’s fun nonetheless.