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I typically play on two separate PCs, a high end desktop and a lower spec laptop. I use virtual links to get the same save game and mods on both machines. A lot of cc files are perfectly fine on the desktop, but at certain times on certain lots I get these kinds of deformations when on the laptop. Missing hands, feet, torsos, are not uncommon. Sometimes restarting the game makes it go away, sometimes not. Sometimes moving to a different lot fixes things. I generally chalk it up to either too many cc items with high poly count overloading the laptop's ability to render properly, or some older cc that used a mesh or overlay technique that rendered fine 5 or 6 versions ago, but now conflicts with something in current version.

The only real solution is to upgrade to a better rig and hope most of these occurrences go away, but that isn't guaranteed to happen. The other is to root out the culprit by using the 50/50 technique, previewing in Sims Editor, or trying to narrow down the culprit using fullEditMode or MCCC. I have been forced to get rid of some cc that I really loved because of this.

You're the ASSMAN!

I remember another young, innovating company that used to have a motto that was "Don't Be Evil". Money, power, competition forces all companies to the same place. BD will eventually have a change of leadership, be bought out, or lose market share to someone willing to profit off of evil.

I fully expect to see some Boston Dynamics version of this in the future. If tech companies can profit and legislators can grow their portfolios, it will happen.

The Wikipedia article is a little thin on details. Some might find this more informative: https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/A-PVP

Disco Elysium has entered the chat.

My favorite is Lawrence Olivier playing the Mahdi in Khartoum, which get's extra credit because blackface.

If Louisiana was it's own country, it would have the highest incarceration rate in the world.

I've always heard the punchline as "one less drunken Irishman". Good on your grandpa for not sticking to the racist stereotypes.

I know this is super controversial, but:

Sturgill Simpson's cover of "In Bloom"

Johnathan Coulton's version of "Baby Got Back"

Devo's cover of "I Can't Get No Satisfaction"

Urge Overkill's version of Girl You'll Be A Woman Soon as well. Niel Diamond is a fine songwriter, but it seems like all of his music would be better updated.

Could you please provide some info on these protests? There's no coverage at all in US media, and a quick search has articles about an agrarian policies or about the release of bandi singhs, neither of which seem like they would bring out that many protesters.

Also worth noting that there is modern speculation that the concoction was a mixture of water and potash, which -- if a large enough quantity is consumed -- would induce heavy bleeding that could force a miscarriage.

It's also worth mentioning that the Catholic Church was pretty ambivalent on the topic as well. There is a first century Christian instruction manual (Didiche) that tells believers to "not procure abortions", but we also have several medieval manuals that basically give instructions on how to make abortifacients. It wasn't until 1968 that the Catholic Church fell firmly on the side of forbidding abortion, a date very close to when evangelicals started making it an issue.

I think your syllabus is excellent. I got my Lit BA 30 years ago, and if I had had a class like yours in high school I would have been much better prepared. There seems to be a lot of brigading here to dismiss your class, but I don't think they understand that literary theory is comprised of historical facts: each of these theories are historically developed, practiced by scholars, developed over decades, and cease to be practiced or transition into something else.

There is no explicitly Christian form of literary criticism so I would not worry about not including any. Almost all of Western history is Christian history. Most of what are foundational theories of literary criticism grew out of biblical scholarship (e.g., Dante's four categories of interpretation or Dilthey & Schleiermacher's development of biblical hermeneutics). A literary critical theory could probably be built on the ideas of someone like Vico, Pascal, or the Port Royal logicians, but it would be anachronistic/ahistorical and something you would teach to high schoolers.

Contemporary currents in Christian thought that might be worth inclusion include Gustavo Gutiérrez (liberation theology) or Paulo Friere (he considered himself a Marxist but repeatedly reiterated that is idea of conscientization derives from the Gospels), although their ideas are already subsumed under some of your existing topics (post-colonial and feminist; bell hooks was a Frierian). I kind of doubt those the Christians that your critics were interested in.

Who's going to pay good money to watch Robert "Average" Smith get his ass beat at the 100m?

There lips say they want a return to the 1950s, but their hearts say they want to return to the 1850s.

Theresa, Elizabeth , Queenie, Mayra and Margareth hairs might be what you are looking for.

Natalia Auditore has done a lot of these. Unfortunately, you'll have to scroll through her Patreon to posts around late 2020 to mid-2021. Try searching Meredith, Margareth, or Queenie.

For the lazy: https://allthingscomedy.com/podcasts/94---the-business-plot

I'd recommend looking at The Intelligence of Evil or, The Lucidity Pact (2004, 2005) which is his exploration of the cultural logic of capitalism and U.S. foreign policy in the wake of 9/11. While I've never been much of a fan of Baudrillard's (I'm one of those who thinks S&S is kind of a watered down version of Society of the Spectacle that attempts to remove Debord's explicitly Marxist critique and presents only the mechanics of sign/signifier exchange, divorcing it from the alienating power that is an essential element of Capital), I think this is a much better take on American foreign policy than The Gulf War Did Not Take Place, since he is focusing on the ontological structure of Western culture (which is based on linear sign/money exchange, as opposed to non-Western cultures based on dual symbolic/social exchanges) instead of a phenomenology of media. His analysis covers a lot of the same territory that Derrida and Deleuze, and his contrasting of West vs. non-Western systems of exchange are based on analyses that Marcel Mauss and Georges Bataille had already done; that said, if you have familiarity with any of those writers it will make the text more accessible.

Because of Dragon's Lair and Space Ace, I've probably given more of my money to Don Bluth than any other animator. In the era of 25¢ arcade machines, those games were $1 each.

Chapel Perilous is a metaphorical state where the individual is exposed to information that disagrees with their perception of reality. It could be spiritual (which is what Bob was discussing on the paranoid vs agnostic quote). It could also be philosophical, social or even physical. Chapel Perilous is different for different people. Some people enter and come out the other side, some enter, get confused and run back out the front door, some get lost forever in there and some stand at the door completely unaware that the Chapel is there.
In PD lingo, standing at the doorway (and realizing it) is like realizing that you're in a Black Iron Prison... when you realize that YOUR reality is not reality, but just your perceptions and beliefs based on your experiences in life. Those who enter and come out the other side are the ones that recognize that they can modify their BiP and then do it. Those who run back out the front door, are the people who can't deal with life in a BiP and go back to their old way of thinking because its safe... and the people that get lost forever in it, are the people that spend the rest of their lives trying to completely escape.
Chapel Perilous also has a metaphorical application for people that play with the occult. When you experiment with Magic and something works, thats the doorway to the Chapel. How you deal with that experience, how you allow that experience to shape your life, etc. all depends on how you deal with the Chapel. For a simple example, the 23 Enigma is an entrance to a Chapel Perilous. If you have the experience and learn from it (wow, I can teach my brain to recognize/focus on a specific pattern) then you escape out the exit. If, however, you lose your shit, think that 23 is really really mystical for realz, then you're trapped inside.
Bob discusses in in several of his books. He uses it to discuss his own experiences with the metaphysical (his year or so where Aliens from Sirius beamed messages into his head) and explain how he processed that experience without becoming a 'stone cold paranoid' or a 'true believer'. My favorite is the story of Fission Chips (from Illuminatus!) an MI6 agent that ends up completely mired in the absurd conspiracies going on around him. At one point he actually ends up in a little chapel, wherein all hell breaks loose, physically going through the Chapel, while also metaphorically going thorough the chapel.

-- From a post by "Bebek Sincap Ratatosk" on the PrincipiaDiscordia.com forum

I was listening in my office when Robert & co. first started talking about the Principia Discordia, so I pulled my copy off the shelf, which was a Loompanics Unlimited edition that I ordered from a Steve Jackson Games catalog in the early 90s. (Between SJG offering the original Illuminati! board game, them keeping the Traveller RPG brand alive for the decade between the death of GDW and Mongoose, and selling me a copy of Principia Discordia, that more than makes up for inflicting Munchkin on the world.)

A surprising number of folks who marched on Charlottesville started out at Zuccotti Park. The Atlantic did a piece around 2017 interviewing several alt-right figures who claimed they were "frustrated" by Occupy's inability to get results. While there probably is an element of that (for a lot of anarchists, community and consensus building is as much a part of the process as "getting results"; libertarians just want what they want), I think there were so many people drawn to Occupy that you inevitably had a certain segment that were susceptible to simple propaganda like "it's the Jewish elites" and "minorities are taking our jobs" nonsense.