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But I’d done an internship with the editor back in my college days and he basically headhunted me and, well, back then, $20,000 starting salary for entry-level journalism wasn’t bad, even if it was poverty-level. ![]() It was a weird placement since I came out of college a raving lunatic leftist (not a seminarian, no, but I was raised very religious in an extremely conservative town in Iowa, and a lot my worldview is shaped by my early, zealous vestment in that garbage fraying and eventually falling to pieces). I started out as a really entry-level editorial assistant at a small business magazine. Was that something you had gone to school for or had you always had an interest in business? How did that background feed into the formation of the Hangdogs? Your site also states that you worked as a business journalist in the early 2000s. Great game but the story, the performances, the characterizations – and the chance to shoot these shithead All-American Klan-y proto-Nazis in their New Jerusalem in the sky – that was the first game I ever played that when it ended, it was like a great novel ending: You were sad that it was over and you sort of missed the characters being in your life on the regular. HANGDOGS THE GUN SONG LYRICSX SERIESAnd the Fallout series is just training for a few years from now so that’s important and, my dear sweet Jesus, Bioshock Infinite. The Borderlands series was off the hook, and hilarious on top of it, and the Saints Row series just got funnier as it went along. FPS – or third-person – are probably more fun, though. I think I got up to Civ6, which is addictive as shit, but then I stumbled into Medieval: Total War and now I kind of feel cheated if I can’t array an army on the battle field to settle shit properly with those dick Germans or Byzantines or whichever. HANGDOGS THE GUN SONG LYRICSX FREECreators free to create without worrying about some dumb gaggle of churchy assholes gasping just make better stories.Īs games go, I’m (into) first-person shooters and Civ style strategy games. ![]() HANGDOGS THE GUN SONG LYRICSX TVI mean, Bab5 is garbage-y episode to episode but its story arcs were BIG. Farscape was just sheer optimization of television storytelling.īut then storytelling’s just gotten better, hasn’t it? It’s a function of shedding the shackles of censorship for “wide audiences” that broadcast TV monopolies and basic cultural puritanism impose. And at that point, other people were doing better things. DS9 got better the darker it got and by Voyager, I lasted like two or eps and clapped out. A lot of the stuff that came after, I loved that it came after, but it was mostly garbage. A lot of metaphors in that hamfest shaped the way my brain developed. Random questions first your website says that you are a Star Trek fan, which Trek is your favorite flavor? You also mention playing Civilization 4, do you just play games about geo-politics and religion, or are there others you occupy yourself with from time to time? ![]()
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