Nixamo

I'd be more excited if he didn't have two cancelled shows as his best work.

Puzzle in Portal 2. Was doing stuff outside the testing rooms. Had to get some white goop above me so I could advance. Spent 3-4 hours off and on for 2 days trying to do a weird precision timing thing that just barely worked enough to make me think it was the solution. Brother watches me a couple minutes, says "What's that pipe at the top of your screen for?"

That pipe was the solution. I be Smrt.

Simple; fandoms can become so annoying they color a person's opinions. I'm hesitant to ever share my enjoyment of things like Dr. Who, Star Trek, Star Wars etc. because so often even mentioning a thing to a "fan" creates the expectation that I have a deep, or even obsessed, level of love for it. I don't have that sort of love for anything. I can't recite episode numbers, I don't care about the stories of one-off and background characters, and I don't feel the need to discuss the theory behind a Sonic Screwdriver. That sort of stuff just doesn't interest me.

Now, fandoms aren't all bad. I was turned onto my favorite game of all time due to stories from the fandom. However there is a huge difference between seeing the stories that come out of Dwarf Fortress and having the fandom say "Hey, look what this game does. Isn't that insane? You should try it yourself." and "OMG! X IS THE BEST GAME EVER! Look at all these totally out-of-context memes flooding your Facebook timeline!"

Unfortunately the loudest and most visible portions of a fandom are the ones who, like a couple people in the group I hung out with in college, berate and obsess over little things like me missing two new episodes of Dr. Who in a row. Knowing that these people were fans of something I enjoyed pushed me away from it and I stopped watching so that I had less reason for them to talk to me.

If this is my experience as someone who has a limited amount of people who can engage with me about things, I can only imagine the annoyance with a fandom that can come from being in the public eye.

After getting really bored and turning off the Quick Look I'd decided the game wasn't for me. As time passed and I saw both the hype and WHO was being hyped, I knew it wasn't for me.

I've used two GameStops for years and never had a bad experience. Some newer employees try to upsell a little hard, but they mellow if they last a bit. As with all retail, the customer's attitude affects the staff and GameStop people catch a lot of shit.

As a man who grows carrots, let me help:
Fresh carrots don't need peeled. Maybe not even washed off. Dirt's an interesting seasoning.

Carrots that are not fresh should be peeled. The skin gets hard to protect the core and tastes terrible.

Wrong time code?

Some got some 'splaining to do.