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I'm unclear on whether or not she is supposed to be or is stated to be actually neurodivergent or whatever. If its a matter of people making their own assumptions and not Telltale's intent and then that becoming 'canon' then I agree with superasianman and gormongous I think. If not, then I'm just not convinced it's really an issue with that part of the character. I'm also not blaming or really saying anything about telltale in general at all. I've only played a small part of the first season because it was on sale at some point, and all I know is my couple of hours with it. I can only talk at all about this event in particular, and in this case the helpless person being who she is bothers me more than any possible mental condition, as described. For me it was a "Oh, of course she's young and not white." sort of disappointment, even in light of Clem. I don't have the same sort of connection to clem or the game as a lot of other people, I'm not saying anything about the work in total or the people who made it. Also just to be clear.

I only played a small amount of the first season, but my experience hadn't inclined me too feel so generous. But I might have had a particular plotline, I don't know. I just don't see an "anxiety ridden person" being overcome by those circumstances as troublesome as young hispanic woman being the person filling that role. It's not that she was killed (that's fairly irrelevant to me, everything plot-wise is plot and if a character is unneeded or unwanted its fair to eliminate it. A writer has to actually write a thing, no matter how it comes out, and like I said, I'm guessing its just the guy talking about the decision being a jerk, and the studio's decision was based on player feedback and the need to get the story where it needed to go, and not ablesism, or racism or whatever.) I'm just more bothered in this particular instance, once brought to my attention, it is again a young woman of color being the person helpless in a situation of danger. I don't mean to say anything broadly about the studio in general or the person who wrote whatever, but it was a bigger thought in my mind than the ableism thing.

If the game actually states her as having a condition (which, having not played ep2, I wouldn't know.), isn't it reasonable to assume that regardless of her immediate situation, she probably isn't on the medication she would be prescribed for a serious mental/anxiety issue, it having run out? I'm fitting of the (completely non-medical and entire social, the only one there is) definition of 'neurodivergent', and I don't know that I would be terribly able to deal with ordinary life without medication, much less even the very least of an actual breakdown of society and zombies. Is it ableist to portray disabilities as they are? I haven't played this episode at all and have no idea of the story or anything, but so far it seems like game devs being so enclosed in their "design and player enjoyment" mode that they don't notice the social statements they're making in response to player response and 'good balance', and not like the studio is actually portraying an ableist position. I could be entirely off base, but portraying someone with actual anxiety issues as being a puddle in a zombie apocalypse? I once cried for almost an hour because my phone wouldn't turn on and my girlfriend was driving long distance. If being unable to answer phone calls can do that to me, I don't find it at all 'ableist' to portray a 'neurodivergent' (a term I could talk about for hours) character breaking down under extreme pressure. It seems far more problematic to me that it's a young hispanic woman in this role than anything else, and the neurodivergent part is just topping on the "weak person" role. Edit: "Just saying," is a stupid way to begin. I'm sorry world.

No, poop twice, once in an obvious spot and once in a hidden spot. Then, after they clean up the first poo, they will think its just a residual odor and ignore the second poo until it is far too late. This also has the added benefit of gaining respect/fear/disgust from your future roommate, hopefully making them inclined to be better roommates.

I have the same on the coupons for Pixel Piracy, Drunken Robot Pornography, and Fist of Awesome. Same amounts and discounts. Please god take them off my hands. Also, not games, but I noticed I have a couple of excess steam backgrounds from the game Marauder (Possibly Man of Prey? Maybe subtitle, maybe different translation.). Don't even know why I have them, but they aren't worth much on the marketplace despite being pretty sweet. I think they're pretty sweet. Also please take off my hands.

I'm definitely getting that vibe, but could you pull a particularly damning quote or something? Its long and I'm getting tired of reading that guy's bullshit.

Well, the entire premise of the video is "We have no fucking clue what chocolate is and further no real concept of what cocoa is even used for." and that commenter who says she worked with people in the same area who grow the same thing completely denies that's true (and as a farmer from a long line of farmers, I completely agree. It would be incredibly unlikely for a farmer (especially the landowner in the video) to not know what the crop they're growing is used for, or what the end product is even called. What is the first question you would ask if you were one of the laborers when asked to pick these weird inedible beans and didn't know what they would be used for?), and further goes to mention more than one domestic brand of chocolate, and even the cheap alternative to chocolate references it in its name (Chocomax). I'm not saying everyone involved has an idea of the depth of the western worlds obsession with chocolate, or have necessarily eaten chocolate of any quality, but they sure as shit know what it is and why they spend day after day in the sun working with it. At the very least they'd be curious why anyone wants to buy this disgusting little bean, and so much of it. I don't really know how it can be interpreted other than as a not terribly realistic depiction of the understanding of laborers even at the base of our production cycles and a probably realistic depiction of the conditions of those people's lives. Any 'message' beyond "FEEL BAD FOR THEM" is probably less a direct point and more of just reality. Our production chains are indeed unfair and horrific. We don't need to also portray people at the bottom of it as ignorant to get that point across.

If the carpet is fairly dry, the stench isn't too bad, and you access to a vacuum with decent suction, I'd try spreading baking powder over the affected areas, letting it sit a day or two, then vacuuming it up (I don't know how widespread the water was, but for areas you can limit walking on it works.). I recently moved into a house more or less ruined by the previous tenants without the landlords noticing, and had to spend a couple weeks in an above-the-garage sort of thing that just reeked of cat piss, mold and weed/cigarette smoke. The baking soda trick worked well for the cat piss and mold, and that seems like the sort of issue you're having. (Also personally tear out walls and remove moldy sheetrock and insulation, and be effectively homeless for a week or two. It's been a fun time, but a long story.)

Its pretty weird to me, as a guy who's listened to Idle thumbs for years and the KOL guys on podcasts for (grossly) most of my life, to see a video of them camping together. The people I listen to as I go to sleep are joining forces, going to secret retreats in the woods to plan their nefarious aural implanting, and also play netrunner.

No video, but on the first time I've ever made it through city of gold and was all set up for Yama, I beat Olmec fairly easily, with a lot of extra bombs up top, and a 1-3 jetpack, and was riding him down to that door, and somehow missed the hit box (although I had the 'Press Z to enter' cue) or it didn't register my keystroke (I about broke my finger pressing it as I sank.), and I rode Olmec down into the lava. I about cried. An Olmec run is pretty rare for me at this point, since I am not terribly good at platformers, and I lack the patience to continue playing a run after I drop below 2 hp or run out of bombs or whatever. I just hate the struggle because its just dexterity for me at this point, and I don't know how to improve. Really, really frustrating run. It was also the first time I died to lava I guess, since I got the journal ding and popup. Ugh.

They're just on a weird hiatus I think. Pretty sure they only want to record when all of them are in the same room, and I don't think that's happened in a bit. Might also be a bottleneck in the release, since they rely on the video games hotdog people for editing and posting episodes, and that's been a hold-up before. I don't think its gone forever though, but I might be wrong.

I previously had a fairly complex category system that I'd developed sort of organically over the years, with most things grouped by (fairly specific) genre and things I find myself going back to grouped by "How it feels/what I'm looking for". The only ones I remember in specific are the opposing "FPS power fantasy" and "FPS Realistic" categories, with stuff like counterstrike: go, L4D 1-2 and COD in the first group and things like the STALKER, Arma and Operation Flashpoint games in the second. I would frequently bounce between the two categories to keep frustration down during particularly rough times in "Realistic" games. I also had a "garbage pile" for things that were either terrible or that I had no interest in but acquired in bundles or whatever. Now I just have broad genres, with just a "Favorites" for stuff I play frequently.

Oh my god I see this literally hours after I finish re-organizing like 250 games after I lost a steam library. I'm going to explode. I'm literally going to explode. Depressurizer is the right name. Edit: Real great new page. Just gets better.

Not to make this anymore political, but I can only really deal with this by hoping that the shittiness of your employer's beliefs determining things about your healthcare helps push people more towards a single-payer solution down the road. But man, that was a hard one to wake up to.

Oddly, that didn't bother me at all. Its not so much the heights in the first one, but the speed he was going and the precision landings he was making. Would have been a terrible, terrible mess if he missed one of those landings. I've had to climb radio towers (we possess one at the family farm for line-of-sight radio communication over the horizon. It has a hunting platform at the top, which in SD, once you get over the tree tops (such as they are) is incredibly windy at times.) for repairs and fun, and its not really that bad. They're nowhere near that big, but once you get to the height where the falls going to kill you regardless, it gets much less frightening. For me at least.

That is earnestly the single most terrifying thing I have ever seen.

I'm pretty sure the jumping jacks were a donation request, but its still seems pretty obnoxious to do that in front of a guy speedrunning a game, especially after he asked you to be quiet.

The misery mod team has a compilation of the problems with the areal kickstarter up on their website, if anyone doesn't feel like dredging through comments on KS. http://www.miserymod.com/?page_id=1911

Further down in the T&C there is this: No later than August 1, 2014, Sponsor will hold a random drawing for alternative entries received, using the same odds as applied for corresponding day’s actual regular drawing (determined by the number of point-scoring team members on that day’s winning team). Sponsor will award prizes to each such alternative entry winner. Sponsor will contact each winner via email to the address registered to the winning account. The decision of the Sponsor will be final and binding in all matters. I don't know how they would match the odds for the mail-ins to the corresponding day's online odds, but it appears that team color has nothing to do with whether or not you're eligible for the drawing, so it actually seems like a better chance? I'm sure the more 'system-gaming' steam users are taking advantage of that.

It is a legal thing in the US at least, to prevent implications of gambling. Providing a non-purchase route to enter the contest prevents it from being a lottery.

Completely agreed. There is very little so far to suggest this is on the up and up, and the 50k goal for hard copies on PS4 and Xbone is literally impossible unless they have outside funding, which if they have they should probably mention, since it would bring at least some legitimacy to the project. It's tough to tell if they're simply scam artists or just complete idiots with no idea of how games are made at a broader level. I'm a tremendous fan of the stalker series (I even made a special trip while in Germany to hunt down the german special edition of CoP. I wanted that box and lighter damn it.), and seeing that legacy just get dragged through the mud pisses me off, as does this sort of shit only making Ukrainian (or just Slavic generally, not like people care about those distinctions here) businesses and people seem more shady to Westerners, which also pisses me off as a Ukrainian American. They've also been throwing shit at the Misery KS team for calling out the problems with their project without actually responding to their (usually earnest) questions, which is just piddly-ass childish bullshit to me. When I really think about it there is nothing to defend here yet. Stop backing this shit and giving it legitimacy, it's insulting to the devs, insulting to the fans, and only reduces the possibility of a serious Stalker spiritual successor if this turns into a bigger KS scam thing and tarnishes that name.

Man, that is a perfect distillation of the biggest failure of the prequels, not a weird opinion. Brian Herbert is like an Ur example of missing the point. Also, that robot doesn't just throw the baby since it's crying and annoying, he wants to study her reaction to her baby being murdered (robots aren't aware people like their babies, right?), and its the death of some random nice aristocrat's baby, not the decades upon centuries of horrific physical and mental abuse. Nope, its the death of a single infant, whose mother, wouldn't you know, is also a distant ancestor of basically half of the important people in the later books.

Dune and Star Wars are essentially both just versions of the hero's journey, but dune does really excel at it in a subtle enough way that it took me a couple of reads to pick up on it. Dune's universe is enough of a presence in the story that the action feels driven by reality instead of a necessity to reach a predetermined plot point. I read the Butlerian Jihad as a middleschooler on a spring break cruise ship (Might be fun for some, miserable for me) when the only other options were various rooms shoved full of drunk college kids, and I didn't mind it then, so if you're ever essentially trapped in a small cell for a week I would give it a shot. Just don't think too hard about why anyone is doing any of the things they're doing or how obvious and dumb EVERY SINGLE NAME is and you'll be alright.

Well, hopefully enough idiots switch over to that team that people on the other teams have a higher individual chance of winning something? As a pink team member I firmly support everyone but me leaving for red. This entire sales event seems so weird and stilted that I can't help but wonder if this was just an experiment for valve in how to artificially create competition out of a ordinarily non-competitive system, and the sale part is just a nice bonus. So many recent steam initiatives (Tags, trading cards and badges, greenlight and early access) are focused on weird community data gathering that I have to imagine that there's some sort of statistics goblin deep within the bowels of valve just surrounded by monitors flickering between sales data and trading card prices and TF2 hats, licking his eyeballs and taking it all in for unforeseen dark purposes. But then I like goblins, so what can you do? Also, anyone know if Kingdoms of Amalur is any good? Its possibly going to be on sale for $5 (I assume since its in the same voting category as $5 skyrim it'll win), and I've been hurting for a decent low complexity RPG recently.

I played a lot of the source mod version, but I haven't tried the standalone yet. I remember there being a lot of military guys on voicechat back in the day, so even pub games had a bit of tacticalness to them. The sound design was also really good, especially the sound of a distant firefight. How's finding a game? I remember there being about 5-6 servers that were consistently populated and somewhat moderated for aimbots and such (was a serious problem back in the source version, I'm hoping the standalone gave them the chance to do whatever it is you do to prevent that.).