[#0065:] it's just that the save points are quite far apart in this game (but i do love you, baby)

[muskruid]

Instead of installing new and confusing search-functions they should start developing the internet-punch button. They'd certainly get alotta mileage outta that one./rant


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12. whatever tickles your fancy

Well, I couldn't really figure out what I wanted to do for this slot, so, some stupid never goes amiss, right? I give to you, one of the best Dutch commercials ever. (I know, I know, over the top stereotyping. It's still funny.)

13. a fiction book

Apparently Zane Grey's Riders of the Purple Sage is semi-famous, who woulda thunk it? Not sure if it's the copious amounts of TMI, the holy run-on sentences, Batman, the purple prose or the undead horse of motherfucking doom that does it, though. Maybe all of the above. I know it is for me.


14. a non-fiction book

Haven't read any non-fiction lately, at least not in paperback format. But I am planning on buying A Lifetime of Secrets, a PostSecret book, primarily because of this:

When I give PostSecret presentations at college campuses, my hope is that people I have never met will be inspired to change their lives through the secrets and stories being shared. Not long ago, at one of my talks, it was my life that was changed, and the secret that inspired me came from a stranger in the front row.

I began my presentation by handing out blank postcards to everyone in the auditorium. I invited each person to anonymously write down a secret on a card and then pass it on. For the next hour, the postcards circulated and were read silently multiple times. At the end of my talk, I asked if anyone would like to stand and read the secret they were holding at that moment. A man in the front row stood up and haltingly read:

I wish I could apologize to my younger brother for the way I treated him growing up.

He sat down and exchanged a long look with the young man next to him. After more volunteers read aloud some of the other secrets that had been passed around, I collected all the cards. The man in the front row handed me the postcard he had read from, and the two men walked out together.

His postcard was blank.

I have witnessed many times how the courage of sharing a secret can be contagious. When I realized that the man had been pretending to read someone else’s secret and that the person he had left with was likely his brother, I was inspired.

Growing up, I was not an ideal older brother. As an adult, I have wished for an opportunity to apologize for some of my actions but did not want to open old wounds. I have not shared this secret with my brother . . . until now.

- Frank Warren on A Lifetime Of Secrets

15. a fanfic

From Me To You: a story in emails is an epistolary Star Wars shortfic that is nicely in keeping with the light-hearted tone I'm shooting for here. It's basically a rewrite starting from ESB and running through ROTJ, and it's funny and heart-breaking. That ending still guts me everytime.


16. a song that makes you cry (or nearly)

Tripod - Gonna Make You Happy Tonight
turn the lights down just a little bit lower
turn the lights down low
turn the lights down low
it's just that it helps me feel like I'm in a spaceship

This song totally made me cry. Laughing. (Yes, I'm lame like that.) :D:D:D