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Living, working and playing videogames in Beijing. (Formerly Violet Eclipse)

My Workout Routine

10 Go to the gym
20 Overdo workout in an attempt to cancel out unhealthy lifestyle
30 Go home achy and sore
40 Skip the gym because my stupid workout hurt me
50 Feel bad about not going recently and resolve to do a really good workout
60 Go to line 20

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What makes Nancy Drew: Lights, Camera, Curses! a girls’ game is the female protagonist. It’s not pink, it’s not cutesy, there are no magic animal friends, there is no shopping. Let me repeat that in case you were skimming. This game is not pink.
I want to call up the developers at Her and make [...]
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“Hey Stick, the psych student from the electric shock test called. He says they won’t be able to use any of your survey because it fell too far outside the normal parameters. You were way too positive about our relationship, it’s unrealistic, it seems like you’re lying.”
“Really? Oh, that’s too bad. I hope it doesn’t [...]
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I know, xkcd, I know.

Via xkcd - A Webcomic - Terminology

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East and West
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The other day*, I got paid to electric-shock Stick!
We agreed to be part of a behavior experiment that wanted couples to play an electric shock game, partly because I heard “game” and “electric shock” and I thought it would be funny, and partly because we wanted to see how we’d do in an experiment I [...]
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I don’t mean to sound like a bitter old schoolmarm, but when did it become the teacher’s job to stop lessons to provide supplies?  I remember forgetting my pen or pencil and asking to borrow one in whispers, hoping my teacher wouldn’t catch me unprepared. So usually when my teenage students announce “I don’t have [...]
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According to Isabelle, Uncle Stick is 50 years old and Aunt Meg is 10.

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Big Kids
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I dropped off my CV at some places in the local mall today. It was kind of a downer, I didn’t go to 4 5 6 years of college to ring a register, but 3 classes a week doesn’t make a proper paycheck. I decided to focus on the bright side of  a simple job [...]
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Stick said something about his NDA and official release dates, so I didn’t post about it when he came home with it. But the guys from Penny Arcade are not the only ones with Gears of War 2.

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Monday
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I’m so happy whenever I read “president elect Obama” and I feel like our bit of a battleground state really came through. Votes are finally in for my new home state of NC, our purple state went for Obama by less than 1%.
I voted democrat almost straight through, but for state senate, I voted [...]
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