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May 2, 2012

too much time on the internet.

Last night I dreamed that I attended dinner somewhere (I don’t know where), but Jane Espenson was there and she made miso soup and it was pretty good. Felicia Day and Kim Evey were also there. I have been spending too much time on the internet.

You would think that since I spent the hour prior to going to bed at the Council of Elrond there would have been an appearance from Aragorn and Co. Strange.

Possibly one of these days I will post photos of the kilt (with pleats) I am making out of some holographic Star Wars playing cards we saw at the store. Pro: It will definitely be the coolest kilt made out of Star Wars playing cards at the Dragon*Con ABC Party this year. Con: they’re Episode I cards.

I’m making an ensemble for myself out of World of Warcraft trading cards. There’s going to be a lot of Murlocs.

April 7, 2012 • 8,721 notes • idrawnintendo

idrawnintendo:

I liked this panel, so I colored it!

So true. I miss having a summer vacation

(via gamefreaksnz)

March 23, 2012

So, I’ve been working from home for a little over 4 months lately. What I do specifically is something like “internet detective.” I hunt people down using the interwebs, then call them and ask them questions, and send them fun (read:major pain in the ass) paperwork in reference to a litigation. I am in my apartment the majority of the day, Monday through Friday, as Matt is usually at work from 8:30 or so in the morning til usually about 9:30 at night. I spend most of my time alone. I have noticed an increase in talking to myself. Everyone talks to themselves at least to some degree, but its starting to get out of control. Like having full on conversations with nobody. I am starting to wonder if talking to myself is keeping me sane from the extreme loneliness of my life, or if it is indicative of a descent into madness. It is weird.

March 11, 2012 • 1 note

Q

Smallest dick you have seen?

Anonymous

A

yours.

January 21, 2012 • 1,503 notes • wilwheaton

MPAA Directly & Publicly Threatens Politicians Who Aren't Corrupt Enough To Stay Bought

yeah…. so can we stop talking about abortion and all the other not-really-that-important-stuff-that-social-cons-care-about bullshit at the debates and address this?

wilwheaton:

Reinforcing the fact that Chris Dodd really does not get what’s happening, and showing just how disgustingly corrupt the MPAA relationship is with politicians, Chris Dodd went on Fox News to explicitly threaten politicians who accept MPAA campaign donations that they’d better pass Hollywood’s favorite legislation… or else:

“Those who count on quote ‘Hollywood’ for support need to understand that this industry is watching very carefully who’s going to stand up for them when their job is at stake. Don’t ask me to write a check for you when you think your job is at risk and then don’t pay any attention to me when my job is at stake,”

This certainly follows what many people assumed was happening, and fits with the anonymous comments from studio execs that they will stop contributing to Obama, but to be so blatant about this kind of corruption and money-for-laws politics in the face of an extremely angry public is a really, really, really tone deaf response from Dodd.

Wow. Chris Dodd is not only an asshole, he’s a stupid, tone deaf asshole. And so are all the asshole Democrats who are on the wrong side of this issue because they want money from Hollywood. Guess what, Democrats? You’re finally starting to reclaim the populist mantle that could help you win back congress and keep the White House. You may want to, you know, get on the right side of public opinion you idiots.

It shows, yet again, that he just doesn’t get it. People were protesting not just because of the content of these bills, but because of the corrupt process of big industries like Dodd’s “buying” politicians and “buying” laws. To then come out and make that threat explicit isn’t a way to fix things or win back the public. It’s just going to get them more upset, and to recognize just how corrupt this process is. If Dodd, as he said in yesterday’s NY Times, really wanted to turn things around and come to a more reasonable result, this is exactly how not to do it

Not that it matters, and not that I’m some kind of rich mogul, but I’ll say this again: I have lost more money to creative accounting, and American workers have lost more jobs to runaway production, than anything associated with what the MPAA calls piracy. Chris Dodd is lying about piracy costing us jobs. Hollywood’s refusal to adapt to changing times is what’s costing the studios money. That’s it.

January 21, 2012 • 4,521 notes • wilwheaton

wilwheaton:

Good question.

(via reddit)

January 20, 2012 • 8 notes • barryschuler

Barry Schuler's Synapsis: SOPA is not about Piracy, it's loss of gatekeeper status

barryschuler:

Those of us in the tech community who are celebrating the temporary victory on SOPA/PIPA need to exhale and take a step back. The traditional media industry has dealt with piracy for decades. Napster freaked them out in the 90s, but they now understand how much revenue leakage there is via the…

January 18, 2012

January 18, 2012 • 1,011 notes • wilwheaton

Why is it that when Republicans and Democrats need to solve the budget and the deficit, there’s deadlock, but when Hollywood lobbyists pay them $94 million dollars to write legislation, people from both sides of the aisle line up to co-sponsor it?

Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian on CNBC. (via wilwheaton)

January 4, 2012 • 899 notes • wilwheaton

MythBuster Adam Savage: SOPA Could Destroy the Internet as We Know It

wilwheaton:

Right now Congress is considering two bills—the Protect IP Act, and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)—that would be laughable if they weren’t in fact real. Honestly, if a friend wrote these into a piece of fiction about government oversight gone amok, I’d have to tell them that they were too one-dimensional, too obviously anticonstitutional.

Make no mistake: These bills aren’t simply unconstitutional, they are anticonstitutional. They would allow for the wholesale elimination of entire websites, domain names, and chunks of the DNS (the underlying structure of the whole Internet), based on nothing more than the “good faith” assertion by a single party that the website is infringing on a copyright of the complainant. The accused doesn’t even have to be aware that the complaint has been made.