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I'm going to bet on the evil magician to triumph. Also, from a pure, regressive, schadenfreude standpoint, having their backers get ripped off is a bit delicious. I know it's petty.

I just want to say the The Silken Goku is a GREAT episode title referring to a critical thing.

Good lookin' out! I'm copping those lps.

In school my pals and I got really into Super Street Fighter II, and I had one friend who I particularly delighted in beating, because he got really salty, and he always tried to stick to cheezy styles, so I declared a challenge that I would beat him 100 times in a row using only light punch.

recently finished! All the Light We Cannot See: I quite enjoyed this, and it was the sort of sweet WW2 love story I thought I was getting with Narrow Road to the Deep North. It will make a great Oscar bait movie in that it it heavily features the triumph of spirit, and is comfortably, but not cloyingly middle brow. You're spared the ugliest aspects of WW2, given that one of the 2 main characters is a Hitler Youth achiever, though they are often alluded to. I suppose children were probably less aware, and the girls father deliberately shields her from the worst of it. The Peripheral: Man, I love William Gibson, and I think this is his best sci-fi work since Neuromancer. A feel good story of a kind of class rebellion in two different dystopic futures, one further out. It takes one of his signature moves to an extreme, where people often speak in their own vernacular and he doesn't bother to explain it, as one wouldn't bother to explain what a cell phone is to contemporary. Anyway, sections of it are practically in another language, but it's still really trim, and fast. I also loved Pattern Recognition, Distrust that Particular Flavor, and Zero History, but they're a bit different.

I think the truth is that "doing good" often leads to general improvement of the broad social situation. Since this is a feminism thread, I think it's uncontroversial to say that true equal pay, unrestricted access to health care, and effective child support is both a social good and an fiscal "good." By my understanding any city that drastically pushed up its minimum wage has seen results as more people have more money to spend on goods. Thor comics appealing to a broader range of people helps Marvel, and also helps comic shops, and in turn other less traditional artists (as people grow out of Thor comics). The "problem" is that this doesn't benefit the rich who make their money on investments and rent seeking, rather than selling goods as was the model 60 years ago.

I feel like acknowledging that the commercially right thing to do is to diversify a bit is a kind of success. At least in the game world, that is half of what we want, right? I guess that's like acknowledging the symptom rather than seeking a cure, but it's a start, which is also part of how I'd respond to Argobot's concern over the lack of nuance. 1 luv to the Thumbs comic fans, but Thor probably isn't the best place for literary nuance, but if it's a foot in the right door. Also, for ass whooping women in stuff, have you seen Chocolate? Thai action movie from the makers of Ong Bak with a female lead, Jeejee Yanin, who is just nuts. Story is absurd: "autistic girl learns martial arts from repeatedly watching kung fu movies", but as for physicality the actress does a great job emulating famous fighters, Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan's Drunken Master. It's on Netflix streaming.

I agree with a lot of what the Thumbscast and A-bot have to say about this. I can agree with the idea that Peter is a serial overpromiser, but I'm also curious what people expect to actually happen. In the course of developing a game, if a feature isn't working what should he do? He can't know that they won't be able to solve some problem before they start, and the nature of kickstarter isn't one to allow for indefinite development. Should he just push some busted feature live to fulfill the promise? Also, I think it's funny that he was pilloried for saying that the nature of kickstarter practically begs you to overpromise, as that seems like a basic statement of fact. Everyone expects "stretch goals" but all that stuff was deliberately left out of the original pitch. When projects start getting successful, I've seen so many shoot for the moon. Have the vultures started circling around Star Citizen yet? They're like 30 million deep and their promising are exponentially greater.

Yo, I've seen the posting on twitter, and say that I subscribe to the sort of unscientific theory that attitude plays a role in healing, and that your attitude has been nothing short of heroic. I truly hope things continue to go smooth and quickly. Also, you'll never see me commenting on women's appearances on forums or what have you, so forgiveness, but you look badass now.

How many people posting about its "failure" and all that have actually played Godus? It's not this totally dysfunctional broken thing.

I didn't like that interview too much. It's pretty ironic to open an interview who's central conceit is that the subject is grandstanding, and that is wrong, with some serious grandstanding. Also, I must be defective in the brains, because I updated my Godus today, and played a bit, and still kind of enjoyed it. It's not great, sure, but it's got a nice tactile feedback with the audio cues, and it's pretty soothing. Game people are just so entitled. If 22 Cans has some revenue source for a new game, of course they're going to move people onto it. I would like Godus to be finished, but we can understand that people aren't going to work for free on something that isn't generating revenue right? We can call it a fuck up, and choose to withhold future money, but realistically what does anybody expect them to do right now? (Ruling out making it 2012 again by science or magic) In that regard, I think the mobile F2P port is clever, because it might mean resources to keep people working on it.

[from interview] I think Double Fine have gone back and asked for more money because development is a very, very, it’s a very confusing and bewildering time, and it’s very hard to predict what will happen. I don't think DF asked the public for more money on a KS project?

i played about 15 hours of GODDUS before the last major overhaul, and I thought it was really fun, and soothing, if a shade simple/exploitative. the clicking had a great tactile response, but there was SO MUCH CLICKING. either way, i did those 15 hours in like 4 sittings, which is so rare for me.

I will read that interview later, but I think there should be some settling conventional wisdom about the types of projects you can actually kickstart. Narrow focused "remakes" are actually looking like good decisions, because the people involved should already know what problems need to be solved. To try and develop a brand new systematic engine with a one time, low cash infusion seems so much more likely to fail.

I kind of soured on SVU a few years ago as I came to regard its concept in a different light, but aside from that it took a notable nosedive in quality circa "The Stuckey Incident." Also, The few clips I've seen here and there looks like really bad video footage? I guess you got to cut costs somewhere.

I loved GR, but I think "not getting everything on one pass" is a totally acceptable and likely expected outcome. Or at least how I explain the extent of my retention, har har. It's deliberately dense, and it's one of those books that people often read with a reference guide. I think of it as a lifestyle book, deeply nested with reference and allusion. There no reason you couldn't read it many times in a life.

I agree that it should be considered both attempted murder (2nd degree, right? likely will result in death, but not premeditated death), as well as terrorism. I don't think we'll ever see that attempted murder part. Actually, I don't the answer to this, but I suspect the state would be loathe to describe the use of the SWAT team as murder, and I also think they would be loathe to admit that simply deploying these officers carries a tremendous risk of wrongful death.

Thirded! Yeah, it took a little googling, but there was a woman named Ann Kittenplan playing THE GREAT GAME. no spoilers. And to tag onto Osmosich's post, one of the first stories in A Supposedly Fun Thing is also an autobiographical narrative of his early jr pro days. That whole book is amazing, and super Thumbs Friendly, with an amazing section of David Lynch. (another point for Argobot's favdom?)

ETA wasn't a boys school was it? I'm wracking my brain, but I can't remember. Though as a sports academy the players would be a bit segregated by gender anyway, nevermind typical 80s adolescence.

99% chance of San Antonio. So if anybody knows anybody that needs an Art Director / jr. Creative Director type, in 6-8 months, give me a holler. 12 yrs experience, print/web/mobile/project & personnel management

http://www.youve-been-chosen.com/ #chosen #pro-choice The time is near. They are watching. Your power is rising. Cologne, Germany. You’ve Been Chosen. Watch the new “Nightmare” teaser from BioWare. Sign up for the latest updates. BioWare chose a fairly 90s font. Also, I don't think there is really any info. I was just staking the territory.

Oy, life. Soooo, my girlfriend/basically wife beat all the odds and got a few tenure track professor offers, one at a really good school, which is all awesome, and an achievement. now it looks like i'm going to have to move to TX. i'm freaking out. I've been at my job for about 12 years, and I've really soured on my situation, but I'm also super nervous about leaving. hah. oof.

he's a professional telescope polisher.

dropping out of life in hawaii for 3 years would be really sweet. it doesn't take much to get by there!

Infowars is Alex Jones' total nonsense conspiracy site. He's a long time hack, and professional conspiracy theorist. An unfun Art Bell.