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Well considering there's a paper-trail (well, links you can view) of GamerGate folks conspiring to mass-spam advertisers, I'm willing to bet whatever 'victories' they've had will be overturned. In this tweet is a link to GG planning to be a shitshow. https://twitter.com/tonitonirocca/status/517427996823920642 I don't doubt Intel would reverse their decision once they get informed, and/or find out they were just spammed by the few. Edit - Advertisers pulling from content makers usually only means something when they act without prompting. See: Rush Limbaugh. People don't have to write in to advertisers to convince them to pull from his show. He does something, and advertisers respond immediately.

GamerGate supporters imagine themselves to be many things. The foremost problem being that they think their consumerism alone is what keeps the video game industry alive. Which was Leigh Alexander's original point; no, they aren't that, and yet they're still included. But any time I tried to point that out, it turned into hating on Leigh and no longer having a discussion on the misconception. Also I've been meaning to say this for a long while but this is my visual impression of the GamerGate folks:

Now for the counter-campaign where Intel is informed of who they catered to and what cause their action supports.

That's why I cast it into doubt, but the thing it will do is continue to make these chucklefucks do what they do.

Sadly it's only a tweet with this image. No idea how true it is or isn't. https://twitter.com/Aclippinger/status/517346738680504321 Also just noticed this tweet. Look how many people are in agreement with "don't argue sensibly." https://twitter.com/Sargon_of_Akkad/status/517353376305016832

Get ready for some noise by the way because Intel is the first company convinced to pull ads from a site. Supposedly. The GG people claim to have gotten Intel to pull their ads from Gamasutra.

I like the one-life-per-round, short-round structure (with goals to achieve beyond killing the enemy team) because it enforces strategy and team work while also enforcing urgency to engage. I haven't played TF2 yet. I may someday. I did play the original TF mod some, but it felt like a slower paced UT (in that rather than dying within a few seconds of spawning, I'd die within a minute?). At the end of the day, to each their own. My friends that played Quake 2 a lot were into the rail-guns-only, hook-shot-mod matches. I was into playing the game for real with the various guns.

The funny thing about football is I see two opinions about what constitutes a good game: - A game with a low low low score from both teams like the one you described, OR - A game with a very high score from both teams I'm not sure where I fall in this. I think to me a good game is when you can at least tell both teams are trying, not getting a ton of penalties. Which on that note, the Raiders haven't had a good game in a while. (Actually not true; their season opener this year, they had NO penalties in the first half and I was proud as hell of them even if they lost the game in the end)

I'll let you know after I speak to my mother post 2016 when a different president takes office.

CS hits this perfect stride for me when it comes to playing an FPS game online. It's fast, but not as crazy as your Unreal Tournaments get. And the round-by-round structure, rather than having a respawn time, helps that pacing even more. I haven't played it in years but now I've got the itch to do so.

"We'll play, it's gonna be fun." Famous' last words.

OH MAN a sports thread. This isn't me being sarcastic. So being a person that grew up in the east bay my home team is Oakland. The Raiders aren't doing so great this season. If anyone didn't see it, this past Sunday we went to LONDON to play a game against the Miami Dolphins and lost terribly, making our record 0-4 for the season so far. The result though? A last straw. Yesterday our coach was fired (he had two seasons in a row of 4-12 records and just wasn't bringing it), and we have an interim coach in place while the owner finds a new one. Coupled with our starter QB (who wasn't that great) getting injured, the rest of our season is gonna be interesting.

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Okay good, I'm not the only one who noticed that the guy's tone changed when Leigh joined the conversation. And she did so without slinging shit; she mentioned that people were missing the point she made in her " 'gamers' is dead" piece (which is one of the thing I've fought hardest to clarify with GG supporters).

Tegan have I ever mentioned you're the best? TotalBiscuit to me seems like a guy who will be contrarian to the popular (or maybe 'right' / fair opinion) for its own sake, while trying to avoid being one of the fanatical crazies / assholes about whatever is going on. Its a means to gain an audience. And it's not new at all; if anyone listens to talk radio for the last 30 years you could probably finger some personalities who have built their career doing the same thing. Which is why I take extra special issue with it, because TB has grown up in a world where that kinda crap has been and continues to get called out. He should know better.

I think that since informed enthusiasts were really the only ones that understood what Early Access could result in and entails, Valve figured enthusiasts would be the ones to know how to seek out Early Access content if they desire. I think the more general consumer wouldn't be as informed about the possible problems, so they don't need it shoved in their face. I mean, maybe? That's not really my view on why, it's just a super lame guess with a bunch of generalizations.

The cop should be penalized for not having his camera on. And frankly, this goes to show that if his side of the story is true, the camera would confirm it. But since it was off, it means he was doing something he didn't want to have recorded. Or maybe it was on and the police are just withholding the recording.

The music sells it. So good.

That's pretty much my take on it; it actually better fits her origin (well, according to the Animated Series from the 90s) of just styling herself after Batman. It's more home-made and not like, super-funded nonsense. Way, way cooler.

These days when I see "RPG" used to describe video games it's referring to a set of mechanics. And it isn't really a genre unto itself anymore, unless specifically prefixed with that all-important "J" in the front (which makes them more as Chris described). It's a supporting structure to games rather than the defining point. Taking the latest The Elder Scrolls games for example, they're 'open-world action-RPGs' (I'm basing that genre description on what most people I know tend to refer to the games as). The 'open-world' part being probably the most important point to describe why / how you experience the game, the 'action' defining the pace, and the 'RPG' being the support to all that. Getting video games to the point of absolute free-form expression on the player's part is... quite the undertaking. There's always boundaries. Dialog is probably one of the biggest hurdles to overcome (and now I'm remembering that guy Chris mentioned years ago on IT that was trying to make a procedural dialog generation system; whatever happened to that?). Tabletop games have rules dictating the mechanics of how you do things, but that's it. There's few restrictions in the way of what you're allowed to do, let alone why. It's all about your dungeon / game master being able to adjust. They're really superior in that way. Another post ending note: "Genre" is a bad term for describing what kind of video game video games are, too. All of the rhetoric involved with video games is wrong.

To be fair though I think someone looking from the outside in (on video games) would find a lot of terms to be as poorly descriptive by name alone. It could be argued that "FPS" and "RPG" mean nothing at face value unless you understand what the letters stand for, and then what those words together mean. Even "open-world" and "linear" would have to be explained, among others. That said I'm sure there could be a better label for "this game doesn't really give you second chances and is hard as fuck." I wouldn't know what word to use though. Also, LOMA > Lords Management.

Chris 'Andy Kaufman' Remo.

I don't get caught up in being terribly critical of time-travel stuff, because at the end of the day if something is just fun and enjoyable I'm pleased. If I had to give critical thought to time travel, it would be that Dragon Ball Z (of all things, stick with me for a sec) is an example of it being handled best - you don't time travel within your own line, but leap into alternate dimensions / timelines at the same time. It's better at avoiding logical errors.

It's the end of an era - Playstation Home is closing in March next year. This November will mark the last content update (paid for I believe), and December will be the last time anyone can download from / on the service (whatever that means, which is weird because:). Until closing time, Sony will be publishing new content for free. I don't know anyone that used the service that had a positive response to it. I remember years ago they would talk about added functionality to games like lobbies where you and your team could devise strategies, but the reaction that got was, "Hey, why not put that kinda content in the game itself and not twist our arms to use this service?" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/226579/After_six_years_PlayStations_virtual_world_is_closing_its_doors.php

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