volterator

My Apple Music For You mix was all sexy pop music on Saturday. Today it's all grinding sludge rock. Get it together Apple Music.

Here's another pack of low-grade morons who oughta be locked in portable toilets and set on fire...

Where are these goofy fucking boys' names coming from?

Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft

with this sort of 90s, Canadian singer-songwriter Death metal

"Game creators who’ve spent any amount of time conducting playtests have learned that playtesters’ opinions aren’t what a playtest seeks to elicit. Playtests aren’t focus groups, in other words. Playtesting a game is useful if you want to see what kinds of experiences are produced from playing your game; those experiences can be just as varied as individuals are, but the more vocal about opinions someone is, the less likely they are to communicate about the rawer levels of their own experience, their own reactions."

"This player’s view of games is a familiar but I’d like to articulate in a slightly less familiar way: it’s a portrait of a game as a machine that a player cranks in order to generate certain types of expected gratification: challenge and mastery, less a matter of learning useful or transferable skills than an inculcated feeling of having improved and overcome; novelty, the sensory experiences of something he hasn’t seen, heard or read yet; acknowledgement in the form of reward. It’s not a stretch to imagine that these are the payoffs he was look for. On top of that, he extends his preferences in games to All True Gamers; he declares that developers who don’t cater to these preferences are disrespectful, gouging, worthy of anger."

Thing is, I'm not a wealthy man, but I still just threw a 64gb iPad down two flights of stairs and, when that didn't work, smashed it repeatedly into the ground like the hominid at the start of 2001 until the screen started working normally again. The case doesn't look so hot, but it's working as intended.

bears heavy on my mind

MIGRATIONS O F THEIR TYPE
WERE SUCH GOOD PLANNERS

AND NOT SMUG

My
God

I
Don't
Think

I

Can

Last
Here.

http://grooveshark.com/#!/s/Dead/4oaGXB?src=5

but that's only patriotism. The best song I've ever heard is still this:

I listen to podcasts constantly when I am walking around, which I do constantly. I find my days are more meaningful when I don't listen to anything when I constantly walk around, because I compose in my head discussions and essays and conversations that don't exist otherwise. I don't listen to enough records either. I am tempted by the new releases section on Spotify to listen to just everything. I think what needs to happen is a rota system. On Mondays I listen to podcasts, Tuesdays nothing but Skeptoid, Wednesdays and Thursdays nothing but new music on Spotify. Friday and Saturday at some point requires me to listen to Kermode and Mayo's Film review.

I said once that I'm supposed to know everything, and it's powerfully clear that I know nothing whatsoever. So instead I'm going to try and do everything I can to fill my dead time walking with new things.

One of the things that bugs me about Manchester is that it thinks its music is good and worth celebrating. Still, there's always The Fall and I don't know their music at all. Maybe I am giving that a try.

Honestly though a city where James sells out and Pixies don't has serious self-esteem issues.

A
A
Barrowcliffe, Mark - The Elfish Gene
B
C
C
Dierbeck, Lisa - One Pill Makes You Smaller
D
E
E
Fforde, Jasper - Shades of Grey
F
G
G
H
H
I
I
J
J
K
K
L
L
M
M
N
N
O
O
P
P
Q
Q
R
R
Sapkowski, Andrzej - The Last Wish
S
T
T
U
U
V
V
W
W
X
X
Y
Y
Z
Z

I might move slower than continental drift, but I do eventually do what I say I will. That said, I do have two TVs in this house. I didn't pay a single penny for either of them, and that's why.

In 2015,

vertigoranger resolves to...

Admit my true feelings to

theweaselking.
Start a narcissism fund.
Lose ten author cults by March.
Take evening classes in quiet.
Eat more public libraries.
Give up answers.

From a less self-satisfied time in my recent life. This.

Big 5
Openness
47%
Adventurousness
36%
Artistic interests
2%
Emotionality
59%
Imagination
14%
Intellect
48%
Authority-challenging
78%
Conscientiousness
23%
Achievement striving
60%
Cautiousness
63%
Dutifulness
19%
Orderliness
93%
Self-discipline
12%
Self-efficacy
53%
Extraversion
17%
Activity level
83%
Assertiveness
71%
Cheerfulness
23%
Excitement-seeking
11%
Outgoing
19%
Gregariousness
22%
Agreeableness
71%
Altruism
20%
Cooperation
63%
Modesty
87%
Uncompromising
89%
Sympathy
98%
Trust
79%
Emotional range
92%
Fiery
93%
Prone to worry
85%
Melancholy
75%
Immoderation
72%
Self-consciousness
69%
Susceptible to stress
89%
Needs
Challenge
90%
Closeness
28%
Curiosity
24%
Excitement
92%
Harmony
52%
Ideal
2%
Liberty
47%
Love
51%
Practicality
54%
Self-expression
97%
Stability
56%
Structure
36%
Values
Conservation
20%
Openness to change
28%
Hedonism
4%
Self-enhancement
82%
Self-transcendence
64%

lamentations

This one, meanwhile comes back differently.

Big 5
Openness
77%
Adventurousness
57%
Artistic interests
35%
Emotionality
38%
Imagination
75%
Intellect
77%
Authority-challenging
87%
Conscientiousness
5%
Achievement striving
5%
Cautiousness
14%
Dutifulness
8%
Orderliness
26%
Self-discipline
7%
Self-efficacy
67%
Extraversion
47%
Activity level
19%
Assertiveness
42%
Cheerfulness
30%
Excitement-seeking
46%
Outgoing
38%
Gregariousness
39%
Agreeableness
35%
Altruism
13%
Cooperation
36%
Modesty
9%
Uncompromising
41%
Sympathy
93%
Trust
47%
Emotional range
81%
Fiery
79%
Prone to worry
52%
Melancholy
77%
Immoderation
70%
Self-consciousness
40%
Susceptible to stress
55%
Needs
Challenge
57%
Closeness
49%
Curiosity
16%
Excitement
9%
Harmony
33%
Ideal
68%
Liberty
75%
Love
51%
Practicality
60%
Self-expression
19%
Stability
13%
Structure
81%
Values
Conservation
6%
Openness to change
100%
Hedonism
99%
Self-enhancement
32%
Self-transcendence
69%

i hate the 90s

Due to a chance encounter with IBM's Watson via io9, have decided to analyse a couple of my posts and post the results below. Blogging metadata! Love it. This post comes back as follows.

Big 5
Openness
64%
Adventurousness
41%
Artistic interests
4%
Emotionality
46%
Imagination
49%
Intellect
68%
Authority-challenging
83%
Conscientiousness
52%
Achievement striving
56%
Cautiousness
90%
Dutifulness
33%
Orderliness
87%
Self-discipline
24%
Self-efficacy
67%
Extraversion
7%
Activity level
90%
Assertiveness
15%
Cheerfulness
15%
Excitement-seeking
7%
Outgoing
12%
Gregariousness
6%
Agreeableness
42%
Altruism
15%
Cooperation
63%
Modesty
74%
Uncompromising
79%
Sympathy
91%
Trust
65%
Emotional range
77%
Fiery
80%
Prone to worry
55%
Melancholy
50%
Immoderation
53%
Self-consciousness
83%
Susceptible to stress
56%
Needs
Challenge
18%
Closeness
56%
Curiosity
17%
Excitement
38%
Harmony
43%
Ideal
27%
Liberty
96%
Love
63%
Practicality
45%
Self-expression
83%
Stability
100%
Structure
39%
Values
Conservation
15%
Openness to change
81%
Hedonism
24%
Self-enhancement
70%
Self-transcendence
43%

reflection

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Supplementary, my dear Watson

Numbers!

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