Trick Weekes

My dudes. My billionaire pals. The wealth tax is for YOUR well-being, not ours.

It's confusing for a tourist like me -- how does it work with this sport? But it usually makes sense.

Slopestyle snowboarding WANTS people trying cool tricks.

For luge, a crash can easily be lethal, so of course have rules that reward consistency over one standout run and some crashes.

It's been fascinating seeing different rules for each sport and reverse-engineering reasons for them.

Snowboarding had "use best of 3 tries", which encourages folks to risk it all for one good jump.

Luge uses "total time of 4 runs", which encourages playing it safe -- one crash ruins everything.

You were right and funny and you should say it.

Speaking as someone who designed, revised, and managed one of the most vilified (and monetarily successful) systems in a major mobile game, and then watched a successor system which incorporated the social media feedback we got absolutely crash and burn… this article is worth your attention.

An army marches on its manly masculine feelings of righteous anger and patriotism and nothing else, Bree.

The drunk uncle theory.

You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

Love to see her go for something even when she didn’t need to.

I literally saw a post two weeks back in which a guy with two jobs was flagellating himself because he was short on rent, lamenting that had he donated plasma more, maybe his rent would be on time. This system is deeply fucked. Earth is a pleasure cruise for 1000 people and we're all just the staff.

Want to start reading Superhero comics, but are intimidated by the massive lore/hundreds of back issues? I got ya.

Here are a few hints:

1. People will kill me for saying this, but the lore doesn't matter (except to folks like me). Or, it matters less than you might think. Don't let it stop you.

I’ve started treating comic runs like convention panels, where I care less about the topic and more about who’s on it.

By contrast, my drive for completionism has led me to be grumpy at heroes I normally love.

I have a very simple and straightforward two-step plan to Save The Video Game Industry:

Step 1: Globally eliminate the concept of a classed society and redistribute all surplus resources among the populace, permanently enshrining social ownership of the means of production.

Step 2: Ridge Racer 8.

Deflategate for rocks!

Let me tell you a tale of how completely the normies have been mobilized. My 14 year-old niece has done School of Rock for the past 5 years; last summer she was part of their touring band, and the kids loved playing together so much that they decided to keep doing it. (1/?)

Yeah, our grass is visible but not back. And it’s supposed to start snowing again after a week of above-freezing temps.

Me Day 1 of Olympics: Okay so they gotta jump far on skis? Hah, they look like flying squirrels!

Me now: Well, she passed the K-Line, and the gate compensation is gonna get her some points, but I don’t know if it’ll be enough to make up for the lack of a Telemark landing.

HAL JORDAN: In brightest day, in blackest

BEASTIE BOYS: NIGHT!

HAL JORDAN: No evil shall escape my

BEASTIE BOYS: SIGHT!

HAL JORDAN: This is awkward because when I invited you I thought I was messaging Beast Boy from the Teen Titans.

It’s always good to remember when you read an article or see a post about how a brilliant CEO single-handedly turned an ailing company around and made it successful that it’s a lie and that’s literally never how or why that actually happened.

“How do we share our family recipes well enough for people to make them in real life without completely breaking the fourth wall with real-world measurements?”

“Remember how we literally have Friday and Tuesday?”

Trick it's Dragon Age, ALL the hats were funny

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I guess the Avvar come out reasonably well as far as not having dark nastiness lurking in there, and their religion is, “We’re growing spirits into gods, and also there’s a good chance that the Lady of the Sky is Mythal in a funny hat.”

Which I felt was roughly on par with what other religions got. Everyone’s religion is wrong about something — the elven gods were assholes, the Stone is remnants of Titans — but none of them are completely based on nothing.

I recall going back and forth with the writers on Veilguard about how much of a definitive stance to take on the Chantry. We never wanted to say, “There outright is NO Maker,” but we’ve been saying, “The Chant of Light got this part wrong either accidentally or on purpose,” since DAO.

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Why are they all wearing their old Purity Ball dresses?

I think about how when they sang La Marseillaise they were still in the midst of a war they did not know they were going to win.

Screencap of an email from Netflix saying “Remember this?” And it’s Shadow and Bone, the fun fantasy/heist show that got canceled on a cliffhanger.

This is like when Disney+ listed The Owl House under “Disney Favorites”

I did a fun interview!

The cover of ‘CONSORT OF FIRE’ by Kit Rocha. A red hour glass on red scales. At the top it reads: "A primal scream of queer joy!" -KATEE ROBERT, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author

ANYWAY- Back on my reading bs, this time with a romance novel I was recommended: THE CONSORT OF FIRE by KIT ROCHA

This one sounded interesting because…. Look friends it says it’s about a misunderstood god and im a sucker. Just a full on sucker. I have a type. Im sorry. Also a poly romance i think?