Django Wexler

Right? Such a surprise!

Unrelated but my brain always tries to process DTLA as a combination of two acronyms, "Down To Last Airbender"

Although I should check on them

The printers not the friends

I have three friends with 3d printers and they're all broken

SOMEONE in the creative process was definitely high

I should try that one too. She loves the original theme song so I put it on. It's actually super reassuring to her that all the ghosts are fake

Watching some original Scooby Doo with Z. I forgot it has a laugh track. Apparently every single line is hilarious?

In Hogfather she has to fight real monsters that exist because children believe in them

Great company to be in here!

Opening graph from an article in the Deseret Standard I think?

Trying to think of how many decades of the 20th c decades would fit

Not the 10s, 20s, 30s, or 40s.

It takes a REALLY shocking amount of either positive change or really bad things happening for people afterward to admit things are actually improving. Like Great Depression/World War bad

Haha it should be

Though sometimes one leads to the other: "things were better in the past grandpa tells me about, when he was young, healthy, and carefree"

Really there are only two kinds of nostalgia.

Personal: "things were better when I was younger, healthier, less aware of the world, and with fewer responsibilities"

Impersonal: "things were better in this past I read about in a storybook"

Yeah any industry that has unique, industry specific diseases with names like "black lung" is not a great industry to support

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So they like to flatter them with "you guys are the toughest manly men" and not "you are a dangerous dying industry that should be put out of its misery"

There's this whole weird thing where coal mining is some kind epitome of manly industry. Honestly mostly I think it's political -- what's left of coal mining (which is like <200,000 people) is concentrated in West Virginia, with two senators and three electoral votes

The inability of America to admit that "family farming" is now an expensive hobby and not some kind of pillar of the national soul sometimes drives me to distraction

(Though not as much as people who romanticize *coal mining*)

"Yeah man, times were so good for farmers back then they wrote books about it!"

Reading news and found a new favorite example of false nostalgia

I feel like the way these games end up dying is that the supply of people willing to be target drones runs out because that experience sucks, and then the vets stop having fun because there's nobody to gank.

I feel like you could fix this by lowering the skill/power ceiling (that is, make it easier for newbies to beat vets) but then the vets are unhappy; what they want is to run around ganking newbs at low risk. Pleasing them necessarily means hostility to everyone else.

I like this -- I knew a LOT of grad students in WoW guilds, building bureaucratic structures that actually worked...

This was definitely me as well -- in undergrad I was briefly in the high rankings for competitive Warcraft 3 and Starcraft, and at least competent in UT and Quake, but nowadays I have zero urge to ever interact with other players.

That's funny, I have the exact opposite. Whatever I'm working on now is terrible; the OTHER thing, though, that'd be great!

This is one of those phone games I installed expecting to kill a few minutes and I'm still doing several rounds a day like a year later

Reminds me of the "airplane on a treadmill" problem which *looks* like it's about physics but is actually about ambiguity in the question

For reference, the grown ups