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Have wasted last night and most of this morning reading this reddit thread:

I've been playing the same game of Civilization II for 10 years

...and it's essentially developed into 1984: The Game, with three superpowers perpetually at war. Most of the world is irradiated from constant nuclear strikes, and global warming is so severe that the polar ice caps melt away every century or so.

The OP posted the savefile and others eventually discovered a solution. A solution that involves allying with the American empire (a theocracy, heh) against the Neo-Vikings (HAH!), only to turn around and wipe them from the planet. We've always been at war with Eastasia America.

I've wasted hours reading this simulation saga. NO REGRETS.

AND IT IS EVEN MORE TERRIBLE THAN YOU MAY HAVE IMAGINED!

there is no way i can talk about RE: Retribution coherently so ready yourself for painful tumblr speak. sorry :S

( Cut for ALL the spoilers, crimes against grammar )

tl;dr: this movie is awful and i loved every awful minute of it.

PS I haven't gotten a chance to write for the latest meme thing, but I'm hoping I'll have a decent amount of free time tomorrow for it.

So over at scans_daily somebody posted a 90s comic satirizing Silver Age comic plotlines and attitudes.

( and then there was this gem )

In other news, I have failed miserably at my goal of posting every day in June. In my defense, I was put on a new medication and went up in dosage on another one, and for the past week that one-two punch has left me feeling like ¯\(ºдಠ)/¯ this

but it's ok now

i figure that with everyone on the el-jays posting their seasonally-appropriate videos, memes, pictures, and writings, i should join in on the fun. here is one of my favorite videos of all time: Sandra Lee making her ABSOLUTELY HORRIFIC Kwanzaa Cake, complete with gigantic candles, canned fruit, and corn nuts she thinks are acorns.

my favorite part is at the end, after she's cut out a piece of the cake and it looks like it is about to collapse in on itself due to the weight of the wildly inappropriate candles.

when i first encountered this cake i wrote this comment:

i can't see how pumpkin seeds add anything worthwhile. like, you'd be eating this fluffy/gooey angel-food-and-apple-pie cake, and then you'd bite into a totally inappropriate crunchy, salty pumpkin seed. WHY?? they're too small to see under the sludgy icing so they don't add to whatever um...tablescape/decor thingy she is going for either?

SPEAKING OF ICING. the first time around i thought it wasn't that gross, in fact i thought 'hey, chocolate-cinnamon-vanilla icing sounds kind of nice!' but then i thought: wait, these powders cannot be mixing with the icing in a delicious sort of way. probably it just tastes like stuffing cinnamon and hot chocolate powder and frosting in your mouth at the same time and it'd be sticky and powdery all at once and you'd really want a drink but what could you drink with a cake like this?

OH GOD I CAN'T STOP THINKING ABOUT THIS CAKE

:(

Semi-homemade with Sandra Lee: Reduces viewers to babbling madness within one segment.

i have also copypasta'd some choice 'missing the point' comments from youtube, the land where rational thought goes to die:

A Kwanzaa cake? How PC can you get? This is borderline insanity.

Ugh, no thanks.. Too PC for me.

Hey everybody! Let's go celebrate Kwanzaa, the made-up holiday. It's the dumbest holiday ever invented.

:|

in the same episode she also makes a Hanukkah Cake which is kind of the same thing as the Kwanzaa cake, only 'pie filling' is now 'marshmallows.' DELICIOUS NON KOSHER MARSHMALLOWS! IN AN ANGEL FOOD CAKE! COVERED WITH VANILLA ICING! my mouth, it is watering! i cannot wait to unleash this monstrosity upon my unsuspecting Jewish friends!

it also has a topping that is supposedly a Star of David, but looks like a TV antenna made out of fake pearls. what?

HAPPY HOLIDAYS! \o/

OLD NEWS: Various colleges and states are cracking down on the distribution and use of caffeinated alcoholic beverages such as 4 Loko, on the grounds that they kill stupid people. i 100% support this crackdown, not because i am concerned with the well being of stupid people - quite the opposite, in fact. i am against 4 Loko because if it's unintentional suicide you're trying to achieve at your BADASS, FIRST SEMESTER FRESHMAN PARTY, 4 Loko is an inefficient, shitty-tasting drink that comes in a eye-searingly ugly can.

man, when i was in college everyone was drinking jager bombs, which is just jager + red bull. (i am pretty sure the people who actually over 21 are still doing this.) ANYWAY the only warnings THAT concoction (and others like it) got was a little blurb one evening on the local news that basically said 'hey maybe this is dangerous?' REALLY. YA THINK?

anyway the point is that kids shouldn't be upset that 4 Loko and/or other pre-mixed energy/alcohol drinks are getting banned because ffs, is it really that hard to go get two drinks (energy drink + whatever alcoholic beverage you prefer) instead of one, then mix them together when you want to get your coma on? it's not that much more expensive, and you'll have leftovers should anyone survive your party so you can make multiple trips to the emergency room. SCOOOOORE!

aaand bitches really need to stop protesting the not-even-happened-officially-yet ban with the whole 'but it's not as dangerous as self-mixed stuff' bullshit passing as an argument that i have been seeing on teh facebooooooks lately. y'alls are calling it blackout in a can, CLEARLY responsible drinking is not the issue here. at least with your own potentially murderous mixes, you are aware it is potentially murderous; you're not drinking a six pack of beer or whatever a can of 4 Loko is supposedly like, and thinking you just drank a smirnoff ice.

clearly college kids just like to protest shit that doesn't matter because wow, this is the biggest non-issue in the history of non-issues. boo-hoo-hoo, you might lose your cheap and nasty drink that you use as a crutch in lieu of an actual interesting personality, THE WORLD IS ENDING AND IT'S ALL BIG GOVERNMENT'S FAULT. go die in a fire pls (or i dunno, drink 4 Loko and die in a puddle of your own vomit, whatever you want to do)

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okay it's story time now!

all this talk about energy drinks reminds me of the time energy drinks nearly killed me! :Db i have told this story a lot, because it is a cautionary tale and also, in retrospect, pretty hilarious. in fact i am fairly certain i have told this story not once but multiple times to certain persons featured on AWESOME PEOPLE ONLY, and i also reiterated it at this Thanksgiving dinner because somehow the topic of energy drinks was a thing this year.

SO. in the fall semester of my senior year, i was taking, oh god now i can't even remember, like seven courses, one of which was a senior psychology seminar, and in addition to the final projects in these classes i also had to submit a preliminary version of my senior portfolio. on the surface of things, that might not sound very difficult, but in fact it ended up being a hellish assignment, as we were required to refine and critique our observations of our projects from earlier courses - in addition to a more vague 'self-assessment' which was mostly a two-page 'LOOK AT ME! GOLD STARS PLZ' cheerfest.

i was also the treasurer of the Glee Club (lol) at the time and as our Winter Concert was taking place just before finals, I had to regularly field calls and make shopping trips; i was the only one authorized to spend money and request refunds from the college bursar. FUN TIMES FOR ALL.

This meant that, despite my best efforts, I knew I was going to pull an all-nighter at some point. i tried to prepare for this eventuality as best i could, which basically meant 'buy energy drinks in case you start crashing at a crucial moment.'

THIS DID NOT GO WELL.

in my old journal, janeinpodunk, i have a flocked entry that is really just a log of my Night of Energy Drink Misery, written approximately three hours after drinking four drinks in roughly as many hours. i am reposting it here so that all interested parties can stand belated witness to my epic foolishness.

( something is terribly wrong )

This ends before the inevitable crash, which from what i can recall, began around 1pm as my senior seminar was starting. i don't remember much of what happened during that time - i know i wandered around the science building in a catatonic stupor until one of my professors gently ushered me into my classroom, where i spent most of my time trying to keep from falling asleep on my desk and drooling all over my papers. after that, i know i had a serious crisis while weighing my desperate need for sleep with the horrible reality that i didn't live on campus and would have to brave Massachusetts afternoon traffic to actually get to my bed and pass out. i know i eventually chose to risk a deadly pile up and drove home, but i honestly don't know how i got there - my memory literally blacks out when i try to remember what happened after i got behind the wheel. i do remember waking up a few times in my room trying to ascertain what time it was and if i needed to be somewhere, then going 'fuck it my brain is full of cotton' and going to sleep again.

i regained full consciousness at 5pm...the next day.

IN CONCLUSION, that is why i don't have energy drinks anymore!

i cheated like a husband on this entry I HOPE NO ONE NOTICED