geogaddi Posted April 24, 2011 Posted April 24, 2011 I'm going to be in the southeast this Summer; Virginia, actually. I'm going to be in a town that has a smaller population than the either of the two universities I've been in (<30k), but has a median income of about $85k (evidently, a ton of lawyers live here and take it as a suburb of DC). Also, the asian population is like 14.3%, which is nearly triple that of Philadelphia's (5.5%), but since the place has literally 1/60 of philly's population, the number of asian people in philly alone outnumbers the number of ppl in Fairfax about 3.5:1. UPenn is also located on what seems to be a "thin asian line" (replace "asian" with a color for obligatory casually racist humor) in philly, so the proportions here are kind of jacked. Obviously this means that I'm going to get caught up in small-town intrigues while working on MMOs; it will be a fascinating study in the themes of being a stranger in a crowd: on one hand, the place is utterly un-metropolitan compared to the places I have been used to living in, with cultural divides that will drive me into isolation. At the same time, my daily work will be involved in systems where there are a few hundred thousand people actively socializing and playing. The town is not a terribly high-tech one compared to tech villages like the universities or Vancouver, but it does contain many educated people due to its proximity to DC. This schizophrenic life will be described in the upcoming magic realist novel, "40k Years of Solitude". you are legend
TheSlyMoogle Posted April 25, 2011 Posted April 25, 2011 Actually Fairfax is a pretty cool place, and if you're lucky some fighting game tournaments will pop up while you're there. One of the first tournaments I ever went to was in Fairfax. Was a lot of fun, and also alcohol :p
MrDolphin Posted April 25, 2011 Posted April 25, 2011 Man, Portal 2 commentary is pretty cool, but some of the bits get reeeeeal technical. Probably a lot more interesting for someone like Gabe.
rtl42 Posted April 25, 2011 Posted April 25, 2011 I'm going to be in the southeast this Summer; Virginia, actually. ... working on MMOs is this part of your course work for the university?
BagLunch Posted April 25, 2011 Posted April 25, 2011 is this part of your course work for the university? It's an internship. Not strictly required, but industry work is always good.
geogaddi Posted April 25, 2011 Posted April 25, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj6O8WJ3qtE Pitohui: Type- Poison/Flying Ability- Poison Point
rtl42 Posted April 25, 2011 Posted April 25, 2011 (edited) It's an internship. Not strictly required, but industry work is always good. i see, good luck/have fun with that! Edited April 26, 2011 by rtl42
Saru Kada Posted April 25, 2011 Posted April 25, 2011 lol pitohui yuan: did you get the very last developer commentary box in chapter 9? I had to do that section twice to get it, I forgot about the trolling
BagLunch Posted April 26, 2011 Posted April 26, 2011 Headlines in cnnsi.com's NBA section: "LOWE: Styles of Spurs, Magic exposed in first round TRUTH & RUMORS: Duncan decline being exposed" Are the headlines being written by stream monsters now
BagLunch Posted April 26, 2011 Posted April 26, 2011 http://www.tasofro.net/dynamarisa/index.html EDF EDF
BagLunch Posted April 26, 2011 Posted April 26, 2011 http://i.imgur.com/kjgmj.png Fulfilled a life goal of citing a certain work by Acclaim in an academic setting.
ghostgoodboy Posted April 26, 2011 Posted April 26, 2011 so is Jack Layton actually good? not Canadian enough to know the politics here. "I won't stop until the money is in my bag."
Saru Kada Posted April 26, 2011 Posted April 26, 2011 hahaha nba jam, acclaim, 1994. great reference jack layton's a pretty cool guy and seems to know his stuff. he's also managed to turn the ndp from lol-stealin'-liberal-votes to actually having a respectable share of the vote in the last couple of years he's been in charge of the party. not sure how well he would represent canada on the international front, though if you're confused as to what exactly the difference between the ndp and liberals are, just remember that the ndp are actually left while the liberals put the "centre" in "centre-left".
rtl42 Posted April 26, 2011 Posted April 26, 2011 all you have to know is Stephie is a crook, and Gille-Douche doesn't care about you if you don't live in Quebec.
rtl42 Posted April 26, 2011 Posted April 26, 2011 okay am i doing it right at least this time? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mqm-PAAlzw
MrDolphin Posted April 26, 2011 Posted April 26, 2011 Layton is awesome. http://www.flickr.com/photos/scotteh/2939330287/
ghostgoodboy Posted April 26, 2011 Posted April 26, 2011 Taiwanese anecdote : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlgpgMa6qfQ&feature=share
rtl42 Posted April 26, 2011 Posted April 26, 2011 hm... looked funny, but i have no idea what they were saying lol. well i guess now Jack gets the "nerd/geek" vote.
BagLunch Posted April 27, 2011 Posted April 27, 2011 okay am i doing it right at least this time? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mqm-PAAlzw You should use the FKO music for when Shepard punches somebody... like the reporter.
rtl42 Posted April 27, 2011 Posted April 27, 2011 You should use the FKO music for when Shepard punches somebody... like the reporter. now there's an idea.
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