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Slowly consuming media
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Dec 17, 2008
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Sometimes I deliberately play certain video games and read certain books slower than I normally would because I want them to last longer. The Halo series, Half-Life 2, and more recently, Far Cry Instincts are good examples of this. I would slowly and deliberately make my way through the game, cautiously checking around corners and looking behind every closed door. This feeling hasn't happened as much with books, but I definitely enjoyed reading Chuck Liddell's biography and Freakonomics (I have unusual tastes in books), and I wouldn't have minded them lasting longer. #entertainment
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Censored M&M's
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Dec 17, 2008
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The candy company M&M Mars can print custom lettering and designs on their M&M's, for a price of course. The one caveat is that you can't print any obscenities or objectionable content. One might ask, "What's the point of custom printing if you can't print obscenities?" But Mars is a wholesome company, and as their hard-to-find Do's and Dont's page says: "We don't want to leave a bad taste in anyone's mouth." Apparently they're ok with bad jokes.
I happen to know someone on the inside, and the unofficial word is that the company employs three old ladies as obscenity checkers. Sometimes they catch things before they're printed, other times they don't. This was one of the things that was deemed unwholesome, but before the entire batch was dumped in a pit of bubbling sulfuric acid, a few found their way into my hands.
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