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I have been saving this since last year. Happy Earth Day everyone.

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Hey Gambers…….. what are your biggest video game crushes…….. I’m kind of interested in seeing the overlap of people who like certain characters

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pictures for sad children - snow day

The really frightening thing about revolutions and disasters is just how imaginary all of our social systems really are. Who is the President? He’s just a person. You don’t have to listen to him or anyone else if you don’t feel like. Even a police officer only has as much power as his gun.

In the end, we make society real by believing in its reality. At the same time, however, society makes us and gets into our bones. It’s called the social construct because society constructs us. For example, we aren’t ourselves without our language, but language is never ours, we always borrow it from society. Either way you look at it (we make society; society makes us), the whole thing is a very fragile game that we choose to keep playing because the alternative is chaos.

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Are you hydrated? If not, have a glass of water.

Have you eaten in the past three hours? If not, get some food — something with protein, not just simple carbs. Perhaps some nuts or hummus?

Have you showered in the past day? If not, take a shower right now.

If daytime: are you dressed? If not,...

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Brand new lamppost.

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Every couple weeks or so I'll have a complete GUI lockup and be forced to reboot. After a couple reboots just now I was presented with only this. Apparently the bits survived somewhat in my video card for a couple minutes, which was cool, if annoying.

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Ad from N-Force magazine. Imagine if Mario had stuck with this catchphrase instead of “It’s-a me, Mario”.

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NEW VIDEO: “The DRUNK 12 Days of Christmas Challenge" - I’m stalking people who reblog - who wants a follow? ;]

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John, how do you deal with your own mortality?

Poorly.

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The Brain Scoop: Where My Ladies At?

This was an incredibly difficult video for me to write and record. I haven’t been this uncomfortable or nervous about an episode since we decided to launch the Wolf series. I did it because I know my fellow female  creators are with me: these comments are not easy to ignore, and they do have a negative impact on our desire to make videos and blaze trails.

Things can be said about women being more sensitive than men, or that men deal with these comments too, or that we should just accept that they’re going to happen.. but if I do, I’ll quit. If I accept that this is just part of the deal, this is what it is and always has been, it’s a requirement of my job to toughen up and barrel through, I won’t be able to continue. The remarks are enough to make me want to throw my hands up and retreat to a tiny cabin in the middle of nowhere. If the compromise is that I need to become desensitized, I would probably just do something else instead.

Let’s not create that kind of environment for our peers. Let’s be supportive, encouraging. Focus on the content, not the presenter. Ignoring the fact that these comments are uncomfortable is dismissive and counter-productive: let’s have less tolerance for both those comments, and the apathetic attitude attached to how they affect our community.

And, please: check out the women in the video description for more fantastic channels to subscribe to.

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Two-Fisted Poe