This is when your seasonal affective disorder kicks in and you buy that light that promotes fake vitamin D, combats your SAD and simulates palm trees.
The Sad Puppies set out to combat what writer Brad Torgersen had attacked as the Hugos' tendency to reward works which are "niche, academic, overtly to the Left in ideology and flavour, and ultimately lacking what might best be called visceral, gut-level, swashbuckling fun", and what writer Larry Correia told Wired was "boring message-fic winning awards".
Their personal war, which turns into mortal combat, is the sadder for having no heroes or villains.
In order to combat the world's sad barrage of boring penis pics, Los Angeles natives Lauren Brenner and Stephanie Pool have developed a photo customization app called Rock That Cock.
Effective visual masking has been shown with 33 msec targets of happy or fearful faces [4], [6], 30 msec targets of angry faces [5], [21] and 20 msec targets of happy or sad faces [26], [27], or combat/non-combat stimuli [28].
I mean, how sad is that: I see soldiers in combat fatigues and go all gooey, like ET wanting to go home.
General Waverly is leaving combat duty, and everyone is sad, BECAUSE HE LETS THEM SING AND DANCE INSTEAD OF SLOGGING AROUND TRENCHES AND GETTING KILLED.
What is most disturbing is the sad fact that Mr. Spielberg has done so much to combat prejudice and bias against Jews but refuses to see the harm that his upcoming film can wreak on Italian-Americans.
"It is a combat death, of course, and a very sad loss," US Defense Secretary Ash Carter told reporters during a trip to Germany.
Sick of all the sad online swindlers posting Facebook photos of themselves in combat fatigues and boasting about "seeing action", the real veterans decided to publicly shame offenders.
