discardia

Why does shooting Zombies invoke so much enjoyment?
Out of all the games I’ve played, my favorites usually involve a shotgun and a host of undead.

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Read it here.
The backdrop, of course, is one we know well, a story we’ve heard ad nauseum at this point. Physical sales are decreasing (~20% Y/Y). The “two hit songs for $17 at Best Buy” business is over. Digital sales are increasing (~40% Y/Y) but it’s not making up the difference. Not only is digital […]

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I got the distinct feeling yesterday that I was back in school.
I was sitting at my desk, typing furiously away at what eventually turned into a ten page single spaced project proposal, and felt as if I had something due in period 7 and if I didn’t get this shit done, it would affect my […]

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You have two choices for President. And ONLY two choices.
One is a crazy left wing socialist that will tank our country with taxes and horrible leadership.
The other is a crazy right wing clone of our current anti-christ president and will tank our country by single-handedly losing wars and sinking the economy.
WTF.
Who falls for this […]

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No man should be elected on the principals of fear.
Any man proclaiming doom, has doomed themselves to failure.

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Sometimes the only difference between breakfast and dessert is which direction the sun is headed.
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As I looked into the well lit food case at Starbucks… I pondered how the hell dessert became breakfast.

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As I get older and, hopefully, more mature, there are a few things that are becoming more and more evident.
One, people, as a group, rarely have the ability to get things done. Put 30 people in the room and very few people will be able to cogitate the big picture, fewer people […]

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I went to the dentist yesterday.
Sitting in the torture chair, my gums bleeding from the dental rape cleverly labeled as “cleaning”, I was going to ask my dentist for a dental tourniquet.
But the word tourniquet was not in my vocabulary.
I had some vague memory of the word, it was on the end of my […]

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As a party in many human relationships (my marriage, my family, my coworkers and my friends), it is sometimes a bit unsettling to compare it to the many online relationships that I have.
It sounds dirty, but it really is innocuous. I am an administrator for a gaming community online… the community is focused primarily […]

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Every week my loyal and long lasting blackberry pearl appears to have a new quirk.
One week the vibration stops working, instead, just issuing a high pitch squeal.
The next week, the phone refuses to ring, although the profile has not changed.
Most of the time a battery reseat fixes the issue. I need a […]

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