Henroid

"Video games are art!" "Okay here's one without killing dudes." "lol wtf is dis"

The GG people booted were all female, enabling GG to accuse the Calgary Expo of sexism (though I'm sure other women there are still there). Meanwhile, some shit about "not your shield" or whatever?

Chewbacca's appearance in the new trilogy was a fucking disgrace by the way. It was arbitrary as fuck.

Wookies live longer than humans. That's why Chewie isn't graying-old-guy.

So glad the expo organizers kicked them out. From what I understand, the GG members never disclosed what their plans were nor what they were going to end up displaying / selling. So everyone take note that they had to be dishonest to get into an event - which is like an admission of being wrong / hostile. Also a good lesson about how freedom of speech works. It's a protection from the government giving out reprisals against speech. But all other consequences from anyone else can still go down. Nobody has to hear your hate-driven bullshit, etc. Also a good lesson that existing in any society automatically means participating in politics. Everything - every rule, standard, code of conduct, etc - is a politic. Welcome to life outside your homes, Gamergate.

That kind of imagery is missing from Star Wars on the whole. I love that shot.

The game kinda helped me realize that as much fun as I have with non-lethal runs in games that can be stealthed, I actually enjoy the combat quite a bit.

So some really huge, and bad, news has arrived. 2K Australia is now closed. via cnet They were the last AAA video game company in Australia apparently. According to Kotaku, the cost of business operation in Australia is being blamed for the closure, which makes me wonder if that was the problem for all other game company / branch closures in the country. Which should be a freaking eye opener for the government there (who I hear is nutty in many ways). The Marin office still exists and all but man. I wanna know what happens to all their properties.

Zoe Quinn was called to testify before the US Congress about internet harassment. GamerGate continues to be GG over it.

Technically it's not that big of a deal. So mostly dialog change I guess. But still neat.

Yeah, I've been looking at the trees more closely and the Commando does look really sturdy with a lot of levels. It's just a problem of getting those levels. I was playing him through the mission on the dam to save Roland, and couldn't damage the Constructor bot for shit (my Mechromancer made it a joke). And then I learned the game has branching paths for story missions, to some degree!

If you have the jump augmentation, an EMP grenade, and a shotgun, it's actually REALLY easy to do that part.

I only saw it via Twitter which was taking snap pictures of sites. It looks like a reddit section maybe? Here's the first thing that brought my attention to it: https://twitter.com/srhbutts/status/587679072429314048

Just a couple things I saw via Twitter. First, GaymerX doesn't want anything to do with GamerGate, and GG is doing their thing with that. Second, GamerGate is now making transgender-outing an actual thing they aim to do. They call it "truegendering." What a bunch of losers.

Am I an asshole if I stop listening right when the guy says "traditional gamers"?

Borderlands 2. I skipped the first game and just went right into this one. There's a lot of people still saying it's better than even the latest game so I wanted to see what the hubub was all about. And I found out! It was pretty fun and quirky. The only thing I didn't like about it was how bland or confusing-in-purpose some of the character skill trees were. The Psycho's trees are freaking amazing in how clear it is on how you're "supposed" to play using any of them. Mechromancer and Assassin sorta have that going on too. Well now that I think about it, the Siren is pretty clear too. So that leaves the Gunzerker and the Commando. They each have a tree that really boosts their action skill, and then... that's it. The other two trees are generic "survive" and... I can't figure out one tree for each of them. Looking at the skill trees for BL:TPS it looks like they did a much better job of defining playstyle with any given tree. Which I'm looking forward to. A lot of people seem to be down on TPS for some reason or another, but most of it seems to be based on the writing. Which means I may still enjoy it.

So, today something dumb happened. Someone working at Polygon (I dunno who yet) registered a domain and redirected it to Polygon. It was squatting on the name of an upcoming Lego game, and it was a leaked name to the press at the time. Now, all that is is dumb. But I'm not going to ask for the person's head on a pike or some shit. Goobergate on the other hand has lost its fucking shit. To the point that they're calling it "insider trading." I don't think they know what those words mean.

Remember how Zynga had a lot of people, including its founding CEO, bail on it as it started to sink? And how Don Mattrick left Microsoft because he felt he could bring Zynga up? Well Don just resigned as CEO and Mark Pincus, the original founder, has returned. Via Reuters.

There's innocents and then there's willing soldiers / terrorists / murderers, to be fair.

I guess when I think about it, Jensen was a contrarian, where everyone he spoke to he had to disagree with in some way or another.

Just watched the trailer, and I'm not happy with the direct reference to Jensen going after the Illuminati. Because we know how that shit turns out.

Really? How come you didn't like him?

Jensen's voice was actually a very conscious decision to throw back to JC Denton.

I'm a little bothered by them marketing it with the word "cyberpunk," because if that catches on it would ironically devalue and diminish the whole "cyberpunk" thing. I think. I dunno I'm a weirdo. This made me laugh too much. Also totally true.

In the wake of the latest "white racist murders black person under the pretense of being a 'cop' " I'm starting to wonder if police forces should be Federalized (in part or in whole). Because seriously, the whole "good ol' boy" or "local constable that everyone loves!" shit are fucking fiction.