Trust the experts until an expert mildly disagrees with you.

Nothing is more frustrating than the automated waiting message telling you that they have a website.

My man, if the website was working for me, I certainly wouldn’t be waiting on the phone listening to automated messages and elevator music.

I think we are (unfortunately) about to get some new evidence on how much previous diversionary war/"rally around the flag" effects were driven by selection bias.

Any measures of risk-aversion in your surveys? I'd just be curious to know if that has any correlation with Trump support after controlling for the obvious variables.

2. This combination of unpopularity + economic trouble creates incentives for escalation: adventurism abroad (Venezuela) and repression at home (prosecuting political opponents).

AKA "gambling for resurrection."

Definitely worth it for the history of games perspective alone. It’s the first 3d shooter with a real narrative that I remember.

Also, even if you’ve played HL2 already, the recently added developer commentary is very cool.
www.ign.com/articles/hal...

Yeah, but we gotta still call it “putting on your whiny pants”.

So, next step… faculty meetings?

I built a sff pc running SteamOS, basically a homemade Steam console, a month ago because I didn’t think this was happening anytime soon. Oh well.

Figuring out YIMBY messaging is forever cursed by the fact that NIMBYs are a hard to estimate mixture of “severe misunderstanding causes my NIMBYism” and the reverse.

Just to be clear, I personally think this was a bad trade.