Undead Astronauts

ah muslims… i know it’s crass to take pleasure in laughing at and denigrating other ppl’s culture or religion b/c i know it can so easily go both ways at the extremes. but sometimes things break through, if this is indeed not a joke. (and no, i’m not jumping on a bandwagon just b/c some muslims want to put a community center/mosque near ground zero. i have no dog in that fight.)

recently, there was a fatwa issued by a sheik in the saudi justice ministry that concerned women breastfeeding grown men. b/c of strict rules governing interaction between men and women, an adopted son was not allowed to be in the same room alone with his mother. he was adopted after growing too old for breastfeeding, which is the only exception by which a grown man can be in private w/ a woman.

other inconveniences would include a grown man who was hired to do some continuing housework in an occupied house. his presence would necessitate all the females vacate the house if no male family member was home.

so in apparent response to these problems, the sheik’s fatwa allowed the women of the household to breastfeed the grown, unrelated man so that he could be in their presence without them fleeing the home.

hmm.

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this week’s episode is the season finale. i didn’t realize it was going to be a seasonal thing, but that makes sense since they’ve only scratched the tip of the iceberg in terms of plot.

finally we see the main team gathered up in to a group… but we don’t get to see them dance! argh!! we also don’t get to see the enemy camp’s composition. it would’ve been nice if they also showed the opposing team gathered. hopefully they’ll have more plot on tap (har har) next season.

new trailer about gw2. the art is phenomenal, i mean just really fantastic. but i have to wonder about the mechanics. how can they have a persistent world w/o all the issues of kill stealing and what not? how small are these servers that npc’s will actually remember u for an extended length of time, much less have your actions affect the extended world in a persistent manner? i remember how they accomplished this in gw1: u simply progressed to the next instanced zone where everyone knew u. but they’re saying these places are persistent. i’m not sure i believe the hype.

how difficult will it be to switch servers to play w/ friends? and most importantly, will they still have dodgeball?

here’s this week’s episode. it doesn’t further the plot unfortunately, and the dancing is uneven. the unevenness is on purpose of course, but still kinda slow.

late posting this b/c i’ve been traveling, but this and the past two episodes were great. this has to be one of my favorite episodes and not just b/c of harry shum jr., although of course that just makes everything better. it reminds me of rpg’s and what happened when u failed to identify an item before equipping it.

“Earlier today, Blizzard Entertainment’s partner GomTV revealed plans for an easily accessible worldwide league called the “Global StarCraft II League” (GSL). GomTV is planning on having monthly tournaments culminating in a main tournament and world championships for both the GSL 2010 and GSL 2011.

There are a total of 600,000,000 won (app. 500,000 USD) in prizes planned for the year 2010, which is the most amount of money in the history of e-sports. The winner of the monthly tournament will be given 100,000,000 won (app. 85,500 USD), and runner up and semifinalists will be given 30,000,000 won (app. 25,000 USD) and 10,000,000 won (app. 8,500 USD) respectively. The players will be divided into upper and lower league depending on their performance in the 2010 league for the 2011 league.”

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=141496

The Guild is a comedy web series about a group of online gamers, and how they interact online.

Here is a Bollywood style vid.

For the fun.