Problem Machine

A big part of Dumbledore's backstory involved him being good friends with a wizard who turned out to be a bad dude and making some questionable decisions because of it, so I don't know that it's entirely extraneous to the character. Then again, it could have been a witch just as easily, or she could have never said anything and let people believe that they were just good friends.

My take on that comment was that on first glance (and second and third) that FC4 art looks like a white guy sitting on a desecrated holy artifact with an asian man kneeling in front of him staring worshipfully at a live hand grenade. As it turns out, it's not a white guy (which makes it only approximately 80% as awful) -- but it's a completely invented asian guy who totally looks like a white guy. It's not an actual person whose idiosyncrasies and appearance just happen to have lined up in an unfortunate way: It's a constructed character, and the way he was constructed, particularly in the context of that initial image, is pretty gross. Or maybe Sean was talking about something else. Dunno!

If their intent is to actually support victims of harassment, I think it's a grand decision.

I think its base difficulty is higher (some of the new room/enemy layouts are devilish) but much more breakable. Then again, I dunno, original was also pretty breakable, if less dramatically so.

Blank card works on runes?! Wow.

Each time you beat it you unlock a new item/facet of the game. After a certain number of times, new things will start happening.

Getting server not found on that video, but I got Soy Milk + Libra earlier today and it is pretty insane. edit: Nevermind some dumb connection stuff on my end Ah, yeah, I'm lucky I didn't run into that poop problem. I think you might have been able to hit it if you moved as far away from it as possible, since the combo seems to go over nearby obstacles but still hit far away ones.

Oh my god the guillotine. Never again. I'm not generally prone to motion sickness, and yet somehow a top-down 2d game made me feel slightly motion sick. edit: In my first challenge run, I got soy milk on basement 1 and then libra on basement 2... which apparently increases your lowest stat to match your highest stat (maybe?), so I had soy milk firing speed with essentially max damage. Also due to some weird quirk the tears were firing in such a way that if I stood close to an obstacle they would go over it, so basically a slightly weaker form of spectral tears. It was not a difficult run.

I don't think the dickheaded insistence that research trumps and gives license to disregard lived experience is something that can be resolved with more research, though.

Haha excellent. I got Tammy's head on Azazal a bit ago and went through just instantly clearing rooms with his wheel of death. Good times. I love how Tammy's head goes from being close to worthless to completely game-breaking depending on your build.

That doesn't seem quite accurate, based on their words as quoted by Zoe Quinn. Don't get me wrong, though: They're still jerks.

A problem I've run into more than once when trying to make a expressive sad game for a jam is that trying to get in that headspace just makes me really depressed and feel less like working. I don't know how people get past that issue, but it's torpedoed a couple of projects for me.

Ludovico technique + brimstone + guppy. An infinite stream of flies for as long as I hold the beam on them. Also, holy shit is guppy's paw insanely powerful. The fact that it got a huge nerf with the hp cap in Rebirth and is still so potent is remarkable. You can basically just quadruple your health bar in the end-game

Those are good words TychoCelchuu.

That's why I mean you can't beat yourself up if you fail to meet your expectations. Just chalk it up as a bad day/week and carry on next day/week. That's why I work by time and not by "I have to get this thing done today", though: If I say the latter, then days where the thing ends up being too hard or I end up being too tired/lazy/depressed/whatever create a huge morale hit. I think the only way a game a week thing would work for me is if I just admit up front that most of those games won't get finished and proceed from there.

Good to know, thanks!

I think it still counts as a conspiracy to cover up a murder even if it wasn't a conspiracy to commit one.

Afterwards I watched this run of Northernlion's, and it put my ipecac suffering in a bit more perspective.

Pretty much everyone has this problem I think. For me the best solution is just to try to work a bit every day and make a habit of it, and not be too hard on myself if I don't get as much done as I feel like I should, since that will just make me more anxious and unproductive. I don't think there's any one-size-fits-all solution though.

I think conspiracy theory-style writing can maybe be forgiven in the face of, you know, a conspiracy

Ipecac + Loki's Horns

The broad fallacy underlying a lot of discriminatory thought is the conflation of properties of the group with properties of the individual. Even if we take it as given that women have different aptitudes from men, and that those aptitudes are somehow coincidentally perfectly mapped to our societal prejudices, that still doesn't mean anything when it comes to an individual woman and an individual man. Because variances within the group are far broader than any statistical trends, judging an individual based upon the statistical properties of the group, unless it's a truly overwhelming and obvious trend to the point that it becomes tautological with the grouping itself (ie the trend for 'black people' to have dark skins), is both unethical and illogical. Men as a group are statistically physically stronger than women, but some women are stronger than some men. If heavy lifting needs to be done, perhaps we should consider the healthy bodybuilder woman before the sickly young man who struggles to keep his weight up. Arguing against the premise of those statistical variances is also valuable, don't get me wrong -- but hardly necessary as a premise to dismantle the idea of discrimination.

I'd noticed there seemed to be a lot of variance in how long it took to get going, interesting that that's how it works. Taurus is a quality fucking item even without that, though, since the only rooms that don't last long enough to trigger it are the ones that are so easy you don't need it.

Just finished my first dark room run, and boy was it something else. I had a promising run to start with, antigrav tears plus a bunch of damage, but went ahead and rerolled it in a die room anyway and holy shit. Ludovico technique + tech 2 + common cold + infested tears + 3 dollar bill + money = power... which was awesome, but not nearly as awesome as it became once I got technology 1 and my ludo tear turned into a FLOATING CIRCULAR LASER OF DEATH. I beat the lamb without getting hit once -- I actually got homing tears for that room, which made the circle distort into whatever shape it needed to to cross over its target as many times as possible, which was a pretty interesting effect. Man, the item synergy in this game is awesome.

Game looks pretty cool, even if GG's supporting it is 100% baffling.