Busy busy

[feuervogel]

I requested exam 2 in the teaching German course to start Friday, so I've been doing that for 2-3 hours every day since, about as much as I can manage before my brain leaks out my ears.

This time I'm asking a million questions about the test questions, because last time I did so poorly (barely passed), and I want to do better. You only get 3 exam retakes, see, and there are 8 modules.

I haven't written anything in about a week, but that's OK. After I've wrangled this shit in German, my brain is done.

I'm reading through this year's Hugo nominees so I can vote. I'm putting my opinions here. Right now I'm reading Throne of the Crescent Moon, and I have to say I'm not impressed. It's generic epic fantasy set in a pseudo-Muslim culture. I'm about halfway through, though I considered giving up around chapter 3, because I was just that bored. I decided to keep going so I could have a fully informed opinion. It's still not urging me to run out any buy the rest, I have to say.

Dude I know from COUP who worships Bill Gates thinks my criticisms of the XBox One are completely irrational and unfounded. Riiight. This is the guy who liked this fucking show so much that he bought a Midori hand puppet. So I'm going to go with "he's a fucking dumbshit who doesn't know what he's talking about" on this one. Also because every time I respond with actual evidence that MS is doing seriously shitty stuff, he stops responding.

Comments

[kirin]

Aw, Midori really wasn't that bad a show at all - especially considering the extreme creepiness potential of the basic premise, it was a model of restraint. Just kind of sweet while also kind of weird.

But yeah, he's not exactly unbiased when it comes to MS himself. Some people *have* gone a bit overboard in the hate-pile-on as always happens, but yeah. TBH, though, he's clearly coming from the same "this is a done deal" mindset that I was talking about - if I could find that darn article I was talking about earlier I'd link him to it. Tried googling several keyword sets and it didn't come up, though.

[feuervogel]

In my last response to him, after he called me irrational, I suggested that his enduring love for all things Microsoft may be affecting his rationality. But he has *still* never responded to anything where I spell out exactly what is wrong with MS's actions, and that it's not just paranoid knee-jerk hate. He's a fuck.

He said on one of William's E3 posts that he's all for people not owning the shit they fucking well paid for, so yeah.

Did you try the site:gamasutra.com magic words?

[warpig1979.livejournal.com]

things that are never, ever, ever worth your time: console advocacy. unless you're somehow getting a salary and health insurance out of it.

[a-nightengale.livejournal.com]

I've read two of this year's Hugo noms for best novel: Captain Vorpatril (obviously) and Redshirts. I'm part-way through Throne of the Crescent Moon myself. I'm liking it so far, but it hasn't grabbed me by the lapels and DEMANDED that I stop what I'm doing to finish reading it.