Wow this is the first I'm seeing of this topic and it's been up for more than a week.
 
I'm really off my game. 

They already re-cast the VA for Clarence, and stated that  they plan to continue the show despite the "creator incident". It was really just a title more than anything anyhow, all he was responsible for was the idea of making the show about a fat kid with a funny voice. They are already airing the re-dubbed episodes and it's almost impossible to tell the new VA apart from the old.
 
My favorite thing about the show was finding out that the character Jeff was based on a person that actually exists. Man I love that guy.

It sounds like the stigma society likes to attach to mental illness plays perfectly into keeping this specific type of mental illness from being recognized. Since you have already recognized how your thinking patterns are classified from a clinical standpoint, you are going to be the best judge as to how or what kind of help you need in terms of coping.
 
If you don't think you have a need to cope, I am less inclined to think its because your hypomanic state is obfuscating problems you are currently having or might culminate later down the road. For instance, you are a smart guy from a smart family used to dealing with bipolar, and you already know your brain conveys thoughts with a higher energy level and frequency than what the average person is used to processing. So if you practice communicating with lots of different people, then by virtue of your intelligence and upbeat frequency at tackling a new skill, you should be able to make up for the difference in wavelengths through raw experience alone. (When you were describing the potential disconnect people have following your trains of thought, I couldn't help but think of the analogy of "seeing the forest for the trees". Where in this case you are used to talking in forests to people who are used to talking in trees.)
 
You already don't seem to think of yourself as "superior" to most folks, so you already have avoided the common pitfall that hits most all of the famous people that share this condition with you. As long as you remain sympathetic and/or humble, I have a feeling you'll do just fine.
 
Just remember this above all else, YOU are not the problem here. It's everyone else having problems with you that is the REAL problem!

He's getting sued because there are people who benefit from everyone knowing that he is a president that's possibly getting impeached. Nobody is really ever sure why or how they will benefit, least of all the people who stand to gain the most, all we know for sure is that they hold this conviction strongly enough to put every effort towards causing it to actually happen.
 
Try not to over-think it too much, things don't HAVE to have a rationale in order to occur. That's not the America I believe in.

Mushrooms are a hell of a drug, there is just something about psilocybin that puts you in a "manifesto-y" mood.
 
Yeah, no worries. I'm a fan. I had to read all the books before I let myself get past season 1 of the tv show, but the show is actually making a lot of the more favorable character's plots easier to follow than with the books. That guy knocks Tyrion out of the park and makes it look effortless. I can see why so many folks latch onto Jon Snow despite him being essentially the same character. (I know who you meant, but 'bastard snow' is a redundant statement, that's day 1 stuff dude)

From my impressions of the issue, here are the conclusions I draw.
 
Game of Thrones is terrible as a tv show and it's all Breaking Bad's fault.
 
At least it is giving us a platform to address these issues in the context of how they impact our own world. Even if it is done terribly and fails to represent the real issues of our world, in order to draw that conclusion you have no choice but to give consideration to the issues of our world. By going that far, I see the narrative as already accomplishing its job. It's up to you to decide if the actual story accomplished that job effectively, or if the bastard just ran into the story haphazardly with no regard for anything like a bull into a china shop. I get that author intent and the autonomy over the world he creates counts for everything here. Hell, the very fact that he felt compelled to even have a 'queen shithead' character in the first place, who serves no purpose across FOUR books other than "establishing how practically impossible it really is for literally ANYONE to not completely hate her", raises a TON of red flags that I am literally in no position to even properly address.
 
Even with all the messiness introducing this kind of writing into mass market mainstream entertainment presents, I still interpret it as an awareness of intent on the author's part. The fact that he could easily be a horrible hack writer writing only for shock value as just another part of the narrative he weaves. People knew what was going on with Jerry Springer's show in the 90's, and how practically nothing about it deserved any serious amount of human attention, but that didn't stop a ton of folks from tuning in all the same. Hell, not a single one of us would even remember that specific name otherwise, and I think even something like that is a statement on society worth not forgetting.

i think -20,000 ice points is equivalent to one bitcoin
 
 
 
because if you have a bitcoin you lose that many ice points

Thank goodness, I was secretly hoping I had less than zero icepoints, but they were probably regained away from me in that huge Bitcoin heist though. Never really bothered to check.
 
It's great to see you again, it's been so long. How does it feel to have a princess movie made about your life?

The touch pad is pretty cool though. My friend has one and he just plugs it into the pc. You have to look up how to do it, but once it works you can use the touch pad to control the mouse. Works great on Don't Starve, since he doesn't like waiting for updates to hit the PS4 version.
 
I dunno, other than that, it's pretty much just an indication warning against buying early launch titles. We all know how it goes for newly implemented unusually specific input features.

I was only planning on buying a PS4 when I had the (false) assumption that they were going to fully support backwards compatability and let me run PS3 discs on it (basically when the PS3 had first came out, I had already decided to never get it because I predicted the next console to come after would be likely to play all those games anyhow). Since they feared it would allow Gamestop to cut far too deeply into their online "virtual console" sales, now I have zero interest in getting a Ps4.
 
They still have the physical capability to read and run PS3 discs, but the only way to actually access that functionality now is if someone was able to hack the console and release some kind of unwarranted software patch. I don't have a PS3 or any PS3 games, so I COULD just buy their console titles online and stream them, but my internet is barely at the threshold for being fast enough for that to work.
 
It was basically the deciding factor for me because the PS3 is where all the already released games are at, and would have given me a chance to have lots of cheap things to play waiting for new PS4 games to come out. I have no desire for paying full price for those titles since I'd only be capable of playing SOMETIMES (as in I could only play them whenever my internet connection does not hate me). The current lineup of PS4 titles is pretty decent for such a new console, but nothing really sticks out as "me wanting to buy a high-end console" for.
 
So as far as my advice goes, if you don't already have a good reason to get a PS4, or you don't already have in mind that "must play" game that you can ONLY get on the newest console, then you are much better off not looking for a reason to waste money on it. If I were to get one, it'd only be because Titanfall has inevitably ditched its "xbox exclusive" status. But even if it never had, it wouldn't have been enough to make me get a Xbox1, so it's not enough to make me want a PS4. (then again, nothing short of "the version of Spore we were all expecting before EA ruined everything" would have been enough to make me think I could actually WANT an Xbox1)
 
Maybe my mind will change on that by the time Destiny comes out, but its far more likely that I'll have already bought a PS3 by then, and I'll have far too many cheap, disposable, JRPG timesinks to play through to ever be bothered.

Is it odd that I am more excited about you liking steven universe over broad city, than I am about you liking True Detective even more the second time around? (then again I already knew that about True Detective, it's just one of those shows that works that way)
 
also finished watching the first season of Silicon Valley: wasn't sure how good it was going to be, but every single episode I watched genuinely surprised me at how good it was.
 
They are pretty good at writing characters that don't relate to most people in general, in favor of them relating to you personally. (and not in a sitcom-y way either) If you are prone to calling shows like Workaholics or Broad City as "basic", I'd be really interested in hearing your impressions of a show like this.

Well I remember paying around 12$ for rpgmaker just on the whim that I might end up using it at some point.
 
Now if you pay that much you get all this extra DLC for it with random extra stuff.
 
So to answer you question. If you don't know if you are getting any actual USE out of it, then I dunno maybe? All I know is I'm not paying 12 more dollars for a bunch of dlc stuff, but I still imagine myself maybe using it at some point given how robust and easy to use ruby is. I mean you can pay anything and still have it, so no reason not to do at least that I guess?

It would change everything if they simply let users put their own RPG Maker downloadable content up for sale instead of just the games. It'd add variety, give incentive to produce MORE non-rtp content, and people would be far more discerning about the level of quality and value they are actually getting out of their DLC purchases.
 
People paying actual money to have MORE rtp graphics? These are truly, truly sad times we are living in.

I'm only going to give you two hints about who in true detective I am referring to.
 
1.) Don't expect you are going to see my dad right away, but once you do I think you could tell immediately he is exactly the guy I was talking about.
 
2.) If I gave you any more of a hint than that, it would most likely count as spoilers. (plus I have only just started watching the series myself as of typing up this post, so ATM I can't really even GIVE more of a hint than that)
 
But yeah, if the book-club style online viewing party thing is going to turn out being a thing, I will hold out on watching too far ahead. (I do hate cliffhangers, but having access to the episodes counteracts that JUST enough for me to be indefinitely patient about actually watching those episodes)

your dad is woody harrelson

 
Ha, so the cats out of the bag eh?
 
No but seriously though, that makes absolutely no sense. Everybody knows Woody Harrelson would NEVER support online piracy no matter what the context.

Actually I have already been planning to watch illegally for a while now. Just been waiting until the season finished because I hate waiting on cliffhangers (when I can help it). My dad's really been on my case about how awesome it is, and I can already tell that no more than 5% of that praise is stemming from personal bias about most things he's personally acted in.
 
Also totally not opposed to anyone else watching illegally, and neither is my dad. Yeah he will get residuals for the upcoming DVD sales, but we are both convinced that the widespread exposure is pretty much a net gain regardless of the intentions of any individual wishing to expose themselves to this series in any manner whatsoever (illegal or otherwise).
 
I also interpret that fact as anyone on here with a decent internet connection having literally NO excuse to miss out on checking out True Detective. Even without already watching it yet, I can say with practically no lack of certainty that your only regret will be not having watched it sooner.

if I or someone made a new TV show thread would anyone wanna yap in it? true detective etc. @jamieslime not sure if it's Rude Teens enough

 
I would totally yap in it. Also I think an unwritten rule in that topic should be that discussion is only allowed about the first episode until the topic hits its second page, and then people can talk about the second episode but not the third until the topic hits its third page and so on in that fashion until enough posts are made that we can just talk about the entire season no-holds barred while looking forward to season 2.
 
It's a bit unrealistic as an expectation, but hey it's a thought! (plus if it WERE done like that then it'd be a lot easier to hide/conceal spoilers. I haven't had a chance to start watching, but it seems like the show is going to be pretty spoiler heavy no matter how far in you are)

I can only imagine how sophisticated music will become when we have reached the point where we can finally produce a robot sentient enough that it is capable of experiencing actual pain.

That is fantastic to hear. I was super excited to see this game even as I first heard and fell in love with the concept. Especially in regards to the revisiting/sequel issue. (It's a very solid first game, but you gotta admit, on a fundamental conceptual level, a platforming game about a no-holds-barred drug addled equine really needs to be something that only scrolls vertically.)

Don't sweat it. Native resolution is the only way to do those shots true justice. 
 
I am in absolute love with all that low-res texturing.

Try and add your game to the itch.io jam page if you can, please! There was previously a bug, but it works now. http://itch.io/jam/saltw-winter-2013-jam

 
I can attest to this working. Added my game to the jam page just yesterday.
 
EDIT: http://casualcatharsis.itch.io/protocol-assault 
My bad. Totally neglected to think about my itch account not matching this one at all.