Top 5 2016 Game Releases Fans Can't Wait To Ditch Friends For

#5 Resident Evil 7





















This franchise defined survival horror. Delivering everything from double agents and empty gun chambers to an amusing, unexpected pronunciation of herb; fans can't wait to see what's in store.

#4 Final Fantasy XV



Destiny: through exquisite narration, the FF series offers answers for questions of the ages: what is the meaning of life and where do I fit in. We hope to see both features back and in full force in the next installment.

#3 Dark Souls III



Just when people thought micro-transactions and catering to casuals was the way the industry was headed, the Dark Souls franchise introduced a much needed and hard-hitting contrast. If there is one thing we know, it's  that people will die as many times as it takes to finish what they started.

#2 Persona 5



The series that stole those long summer days and boldly challenged social norms is back in 2016. Persona taught the world that it's OK to cry when you hug your friends, pack your bags and say goodbye.

#1 Mass Effect: Andromeda



Few games weave stories as well as BioWare's Mass Effect saga. In the vast and formidable depths of the galaxy, the big choices are left to the players and even the little ones have awe-inspiring effects. Here is to hoping that Andromeda will bring the light, which will ease that bittersweet despair fans felt after ME3.

LGBT Job Hunters Scheduled to Get Hunted

A Spring career fair focused on employing members of the LGBT community is scheduled for Wednesday April 30,  from 12-3p.m. at the San Francisco LGBT Center located at 1800 Market St. and Octavia.

According to flyers, there will be approximately 22 employers at the event, including reps from high profile companies like Bank of America, Charles Schwab, NASA.

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The Center also provides crash courses in job seeking at a job club offered every Tuesday from 10-12p.m. LGBT job-seekers are encouraged to utilize an employment service specialist, available by contacting employmentservices@sfcenter.org.

Another option for getting involved is to call and set  up an appointment with one of two employment specialists or a volunteer tech start-up employer that will give up the 411.

Find a Free Condom

Condomfinder.org is a website that gives specific locations of free condoms, searchable by area code. There are at least 19 free, condom pick-up sites at 18th and Castro in San Francisco's Castro district, all of which are in a one block radius. Mission's 9th and Harrison has 17 free condom spots within a four block radius.

According to the FDA website, anyone who has risky sex should use a condom. Condoms that are used correctly reduce the risk of getting or giving sexually transmitted infections.

Latino Journalist, Activist

Wall Street Journal consumer tech reporter Nathan Olivarez-Gilez has been active in the Latino community, starting the National Association of Hispanic Journalists chapter at the University of Arizona.

Nationally, NAHJ has been active since 1984, however, Olivarez-Gilez and a few of his friends became interested in reaching out to other brown-skinned students at UofA during his undergraduate [approx 6-8 years ago] he said. The focus of the association is to increase recruitment and involvement of young Hispanics in the journalism field according to their mission statement.

Olivarez-Gilez has been hailed by the Huffington Post as the greatest Latino tech writer of all time, and has been  named one of the 50 greatest Latino voices to follow on Twitter.

Needles and Bottles Are So Last December

The Castro Country Club, a sober meeting space with at least 34 12-step meetings a week,  is scheduled to reopen on March 25, 2014 after renovations that started last December are complete. Renovations include a remodeled coffee bar, new paint jobs and wider meeting spaces.

According to the official website, the club has been around since 1983 and is a safe haven for LGBT recovering addicts and alcoholics. It is located at 4058 18th St. San Francisco, CA.

The club is currently open, housing meetings in the front of the building. Meeting types are posted at the front door. Topics at meetings range from discussion of personal experience to a sober kink meeting on Friday at 9:30 p.m.

According to a 2010 analysis by Closing the Addiction Treatment Gap Initiative, approximately 23 million Americans are addicted to alcohol and drugs. The state of  Texas has a population of 29 million.

More information about Alcoholics Anonymous or alcoholism can be found at aasf.org.

Watch That Pretty Little Face

Excessive heating and cooling of a glass pipe with a hairline fracture can cause an explosion. Meth pipes, crack pipes, bongs that aren't made of heavy, thick glass have the potential to explode.

The physics say, glass will expand when heat is applied to it. Which is true, molten glass is subjected to heat and then blown into a sphere to create a glass pipe.

Physics also say that two objects of different temperatures will attempt to find a common temp when they are brought together; like an egg heating up in a frying pan.

A pipe with a hairline fracture in the bowl of the pipe, heated with say, a lighter, becomes hot. Setting the pipe on any surface not equally as hot, quickly cools the pipe, forcing the glass to withstand an enormous amount of pressure.

The hairline fracture isn't a hairline fracture anymore.

I'ts exploded.

Reporter Gets Started At SF LGBT Center

Privacy, civil liberties, tech reporter and blogger Ryan Singel said he got started  after taking a journalism class taught at the SF LGBT center 11-12 years ago. Getting into a beat was difficult Singel said.  He recalled that he was terrified of making the first phone call to a union representative. He got over his fear and broke his first story. Singel said he and other reporters interested in creating a circle of information usually keep relationships with sources for information.

"There is people in the world who know what the news is going to be," Singel said.

Singel published articles on wired.com for a decade and tech articles dating from Feb. 2009.

Singel left wired and started working for Contextly, an applications start-up within the past three years. For blogging, Singel said he prefers wordpress over blogspot.