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apple cider, those are cool! are those physical paintings/drawings or are you working digitally? i've been considering something like that, because i've wanted to get better at using my surface pro as an art tool.

i never play the lotto, but i ALWAYS put money in the office pool when it happened, because i can think of few worse (non-criminal) nightmares than all those assholes winning and me having to go to that job the next day.

I WANT TO BELIEVE http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=592479968 Somebody needs to go to that black pin location. That is where the only copy of Half Life 3 is. Valve did their own Once Upon a Time in Shaolin

Is there a thread talking about the weird ARG aspect of the new steam sale? http://www.pcgamer.com/something-strange-is-afoot-in-the-steam-winter-sale/

Excellent! New Years delights!

also has anybody downloaded Totally Toadz to check for Frog Fractions 2 status?

Man is that the billionaire's nightmare or what? Having George Lucas invite you over for a private one on one viewing of his brutal wooden love stories. does he fill those with frivolous cgi critters? do the actors have to try to avoid bumping into the invisible greenscreen furniture?

"oh, i'm not gay, i'm just culturally gay."

I would feel similar to Twig, and the following is not something I feel overt pride for, but having recently moved to Texas it's been made most apparent that I'm culturally "italian new yorker"

It's been a few years, so at this point I mostly remember what really resonated with me. I do remember thinking that HH was weaker in a lot of the mission structure, but I really liked The Burned Man's story, and the sad stories of the various high level Legion (and ex-) people. Also, I thought the park was a scenic change of pace.

sigh. i just want to post how much i love FNV. i'm like 10 hours into F4, and i'm enjoying it, but I liked the writing and tone of FNV so much more. The F4 audio diaries are pretty decent though, better than the dialog i've experienced.

the first time they used sabotage was such a bummer, standing out in a movie i consider to be wall to wall bummer, i can't believe they brought it back. maybe sabotage is now a star trek staple, where playing sabotage and doing sick stunts replaces "live long and prosper" or "dammit jim." i can think of few things more relevant to the 24th century explorers than a 1994 rock single, despite it never being a #1 hit. it must be something that is rediscovered, like when mozart died penniless.

man, it is so goddamn weird how flagrantly psychology works sometimes. this is why he's always on about "cucks?" good god.

True true. The populist, but generally invented "traditionalist" idea is fairly consistent with conservative political thinking.

I don't know if I have this fully formed idea, but part of me is struggling with the american political conservative aspect of GG, because conservatism even in it's current unhinged state is pretty moralistically christian, where GG is (to me) into objectifying women (ie the DOAXXX thing). i know it started as a kind of moralizing prudish campaign against a woman, but i don't believe they're interested in promoting prudish morality. misogynistic, not puritanical. i think they succumb to the worst conspiratorial aspects of mindset of modern conservatism, but i don't think the young people are viable republicans. campus libertarian dinguses maybe.

My 2 favorite totally rudimentary GTA related games are as follows: Vice City: Maniac Surfing/Steel Horses. Jump onto the roof of a car holding the bat. He will target the nearest person, which is always the driver. when you swing he sort of kneels down and wails on the roof, and the driver totally panics and floors it as though you attacked him. You don't fly off, but it's a little slippery. The game is to stay on the roof while the driver flees endlessly in terror and causes way more trouble than you did. Sometimes continuing to beat on the roof makes the person drive more frantically. Also, it doesn't always get you star, or rarely more than 1, and the driver won't obey the cops. GTA 4: Totally rudimentary but something about just sprinting into people was endlessly hilarious to me. He would shove them, sometimes curse, and they have great rag rolling. Rarely the person would want to fight, but mostly they just ran off in terror. The main game versions are to sprint down the street and try to bump people into oncoming traffic, down stairs, or off a subway platform into an oncoming train. The visual of this always cracked me up. Unrelated. MMO GUILD NAMES! SWG Imperial Mercantile Federation (first mmo! we sort of RP'd an attempt to take over a servers economy by manipulating HQ resource availability) WoW: BloodCult of Oktopos (a hordey backronym of the forum the group migrated from) Spawn More Overlords (the spinoff 40 person raid guild of BCO, since we were an invite only forum guild and didn't want randoms) The Stench (pvp offshoot guild/ bigtime forum loudmouths(never with the isms though) i posted strictly in character of an actual 2nd tier new york hardcore semi-legend. sidebar, his girlfriend was on project runway at the time) Fear of Smell (shameful venture into alliance raiding on a different server) Age of Conan Free Barbarian Ringtones (we lasted a month)

Haha, understood, and in that sense I totally agree with what you're saying! I think I failed to make the connection that I think DF is one of those rarefied companies that can realize those improvements. Also, I also agree with Udvarnocky about the gameplay being part of the narrative. So much of the charm is in the level concepts, and I believe they can continue to deliver that.

I don't know if I agree with this, because some of my favorites are sequels because of narrative improvements! Monkey Island 2, Baldur's Gate 2, Mass Effect 2, Neverwinter Nights 2 (and MOTB which is kind of spiritual PST 2).

I think the finicky/unpolished nature is part of the charm! That might just be me though. My favorite movies, music, clothing, and games all have some unfinished edges. I think it's incredibly rare to be able to create something wild and unique on a large, highly polished scale. You either have resources to polish it for a mass audience, or you need to tamp the personality elements that might alienate potential users. Funds are tight, but I'll back it for sure.

Pillars of Eternity: Really liked it. That Adra Dragron, and to a certain extent final battle were pretty hard. I kind of cheesed the dragon with kiting and bows. I appreciated that most of the NPC's stories were exercises in disappointment, and was caught a bit off guard by the narrative twist at the end. I really liked Eder, particularly his barks when you had the pets out. "should we get the dog another dog so he's not lonely" or something like that.

I bought SB and would say I'm loosely disappointed (though I actually played SB a bit, unlike a lot of games I've thrown money at and never even downloaded). Though, if the game was not selling enough copies to cover the salaries of the people working on it, are they obligated to keep working on it? If a publisher gives somebody money on speculation to make a game and pulls the plug when it's not up to par, do they owe the publisher additional labor for a good, finished game? You can't infer disappointment in having to cancel a game? Would you honestly feel better if you saw how much it probably hurt the people who believed in it to have to walk away?

ah, cool, thanks! I remember playing it through a 2nd time and found a lot more stuff to do. To the old computer!

There are just the three (PSS, Scar, Iron Council), and I think I liked Scar the best. I don't think he can do much wrong though. Also, I like Embassytown best of his work.

i mean, you can just as easily read that as "there has been a lot of talk about the portrayal of women, and we don't think our game will sell well in that market" which is inherently political but not explicitly. also, show the me company that won't sell a legal product they believe they will make a ton of money. it's so silly.

I'm in a spot where I want to be spending zero dollars for a little while, and I should thank valve for their new system, because I'm not checking it as obsessively as I used to. Snark out of the way, as I've posted a million times before I think the meta sale stuff is fun, and miss it. Also, my memory is that most games maintained the same sale price, though some percentage would spike in flash sales, but that was not the majority game or timewise.