Champion rework: Sejuani, the Winter’s Wrath | LoL – League of Legends. Riot games reworks ones of their tired old “chainmail bikini” character designs. (Her piggy gets a Badass Makeover, too.) Riot’s been doing a lot of Good Work with League of Legends lately, it seems. I’m still totally terrified of the MOBA genre, though. Even if it does seem really fun… ∞ permalink » comment? » 62 words posted in: Gaming, Meanwhile, on the Internet..., league of legends, riot games ..read more

Where Apple says “You can’t do that because we think that would suck,” Microsoft and Android usually say, “You can do whatever you want, even if it sucks.” They give users more control with endless possibilities to create problems, and it’s up to the users to tolerate or fix any resulting problems themselves. Google and Microsoft are platform libertarians: you’re generally free to do much more, but you’re on your own when it breaks. Anti-Apple Anger. This is specifically talking about Apple versus Android/Microsoft, but it really could apply to a lot of things. Well, minus some of the t ..read more

Poverty is a hot topic for politicians, but it seems like every time they open their mouths about the subject, stupid falls out. There’s a huge part of me that wants to grab them by their orphan skin lapels and scream reason into their preciously oblivious brains, but the logical side of me knows it won’t matter. There are some things they will just never understand. 4 Things Politicians Will Never Understand About Poor People | Cracked.com. Things like “most poor people aren’t drug-addled moochers, but people employed in exploitative, underpaid service jobs”. ∞ permalink » comment? » 93 wor ..read more

Solitary in Iran Nearly Broke Me. Then I Went Inside America’s Prisons. | Mother Jones. Absolutely brutal indictment of the US’s prison system, specifically the way solitary confinement is used. Long and difficult read, but definitely worth it. ∞ permalink » comment? » 37 words posted in: Meanwhile, on the Internet ..read more

I like looking at my body when it’s getting strong, and staying strong. I like reinforcing in myself the idea that beauty is strength, and strength, beauty. If I’ve been hitting the gym regularly, I enjoy seeing how ripped and powerful I look. If I’ve had to take a break (like I did when I had surgery), I enjoy watching my definition gradually returning, watching my muscles start to pop back out through the softness. Fashion Friday: Workout Clothes. Greta Christina on the personal power of gym vanity (and I use that word in the best possible way). … I really should go to the gym more. S ..read more

Corset still monstrously uncomfortable. Queensland humidity not helping. FML. ∞ permalink » comment? » 9 words posted in: Life ..read more

The Wall Street Journal Doesn’t Think Anyone Makes Under $100k a Year | The Contributor. I do like that they’ve at least tried to look like this isn’t all about rich white people whining by adding some rich people of colour into their graphic. You’ll have to excuse my lack of shedding tears for the plight of people in the top tax bracket. You’ll also have to excuse my anger at the normalisation of wealth crap like this helps promote. (For the record, Australian median household income, when adjusted for purchasing power parity against the US dollar, is roughly the same, trending slightly ..read more

From the mid- 1980s to the mid-1990s, the CDC conducted original, peer-reviewed research into gun violence, including questions such as whether people who had guns in their homes gained protection from the weapons. (The answer, researchers found, was no. Homes with guns had a nearly three times greater risk of homicide and a nearly five times greater risk of suicide than those without, according to a 1993 study in the New England Journal of Medicine.) But in 1996, the NRA, with the help of Congressional leaders, moved to suppress such information and to block future federal research into gun ..read more

Just a few “Isolated Incidents” – Gender & Gaming. Great visualisation timeline of sexist incidents in gaming in 2012. Potentially useful to pull out next time a dudebro tries to tell you you’re being “too sensitive”. ∞ permalink » comment? » 35 words posted in: Gaming, Meanwhile, on the Internet ..read more

Two seats left, awesome! (Seats at the premium are in pairs.) … on opposite sites of the theatre. Oh, lonely nerds. ∞ permalink » comment? » 19 words posted in: Life, Movies & TV ..read more