TychoCelchuuu

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  1. I really liked this episode - I had never heard of Review, and now I'm interested, although Googling for it is tough... - and I especially liked the discussion about women and strategy games. In addition to all the stuff people in the thread have mentioned, I think it's worth bringing up (or maybe reiterating, since it got a bit of airtime on the cast) the idea that a lot of it maybe has to do with the fact that there aren't a lot of women who play strategy games. Like, it's a vicious cycle: various features make strategy games unappealing for women, few women play them, and the fact that few women play them makes them hostile places for women, gives devs few reasons to cater to women, and sends the message to women that there's nothing there for them. The Playscape: LA episode with... Rachel Sala, I think? talked about this a bit. They went over the question of how to get more women at Glitch City, the LA space where game devs hang out and work, and the guest was saying that one of the big issues is that if there aren't any women there already, that's a big red flag for women considering it. I think the entire answer must be some complex of everything everyone's mentioned and probably some other stuff too, and it's also tough to know exactly when we've figured it out, if we in fact have figured it out. It's such a perplexing question about such an unfortunate state of affairs.
  2. I fear it may not have been a reader, since the domain was registered via Namecheap rather than Hover.
  3. The Next President

    I think the goal is to win Johnson's home state of New Mexico or pothead state Colorado and then hope for the best, as noted here.
  4. The Next President

    The Libertarian candidate, Gary Genericname or whoever, wants to get enough votes so that neither Clinton nor Trump gets 270 electoral votes, at which point the election gets tossed to the House of Representatives. I mean, that won't happen, but it's at least possible, and the way the math works I think it happens if he grabs a bunch of Clinton voters (plus a bunch of Trump voters, which is more plausible) in a couple key swing states.
  5. The Next President

    In this particular instance I'm more worried about Arabs being tortured, immigrants being barred, and other sorts of things Trump has threatened to do to other people than I am about what happens to me. That's the issue I have with a lot of this "Clinton's basically the same as Trump!" rhetoric - I can't for a moment imagine someone who belongs to a group that Trump has directly threatened with death, torture, imprisonment, or the like saying anything like that.
  6. I hope someone is able to rescue Rob from the well he fell into at some point. I would hate for him to starve down there.
  7. Quadrilateral Cowboy: Dad Baud

    HECK YEAAAAAAH
  8. Idle Thumbs Streams

    I went to bed before the stream ended - did he beat the boss?
  9. I don't know what a slack and discord is but I will go figure that out.
  10. I'm like way behind on the podcast, and I just started listening to the one from early June or something and all the talk about how great Overwatch is made me cave and buy it (on PC). I'm still learning the maps and the heroes and stuff but once I get my bearings and am no longer a liability, let's get togetha and destroy some fools! TychoCelchuu#1473 on BNet.
  11. The Big FPS Playthrough MISSION COMPLETE

    Counterpoint: the GEP gun takes up lots of space.
  12. TITANFLAPS 2

    Yeah whatever check THIS shit out: GRAPPLIN' HOOKZ
  13. The threat of Big Dog

    They're watching us:
  14. The Next President

    Realistically speaking, anyone who is the same party as the incumbent and who is likely to get elected president is probably going to be reasonably described as an "expansion of the status quo" - you just don't get very much differentiation between people in the same party until you start getting to the fringes, aka the people who aren't going to get the party nomination if it's already in good enough shape to have produced the existing president (something the GOP can't really say).
  15. The Big FPS Playthrough MISSION COMPLETE

    Getting your legs blown off in the stealth training session is a classic Deus Ex experience.
  16. The Next President

    Well, I never said to look at actions before words. I think words are helpful too. In Sanders's case the words don't strike me as super different fron Clinton, at least not in any sort of dispositive sense. I guess mostly I'm just saying that I haven't seen anything from Sanders that suggests he'd be much better than Clinton, aside from the more or less rhetorical point that he doesn't like Kissinger whereas she does. He doesn't have a record of hawkish actions because he doesn't have a record of giving a shit about much of anything outside the borders of the United States. His info page on international relations focuses more on how much the wars have cost America than on what they've cost Iraq and Afghanistan, and aside from Israel he's got nothing to say about anything else. There just isn't much for me to go on. Maybe Sanders would be International Relations Jesus or something if he were at the helm, but this strikes me as closer to wishful thinking than anything else. That doesn't mean it's false - sometimes wishful thinking is true - but the etiology of the belief is what I'm interested in, and given that Sanders has literally said he's fine with (for instance) drone strikes, I just don't really know. I do think that maybe Clinton is more hawkish, but how much of that comes from being in a position where being hawkish gets stuff done is a little up in the air. Sanders has had nothing to gain from being hawkish, but if he were president looking at a situation and thinking about what ought to be done, I just really have no idea what he'd say. To the extent that he makes decisions based on what's best for the USA, I'd prefer Clinton, I think, because honestly I care more about what happens in the rest of the world. But really I just feel like I'm speculating. Who really knows?
  17. Fuck the Banana: The Game

    > GET BANANA > FUCK BANANA
  18. The Next President

    I agree with you, but this seems like a bad reason to be against Clinton specifically, because my impression is that Sanders is no better than her along these lines, unless we just give him the benefit of the doubt because he's said very little about anything except how rich people are ruining the country. From what I can tell, he's said that he would still blow people up with drones, and unless you think that our current policy is to specifically target weddings for shits and giggles, I'm having trouble seeing how his wedding targeting proclivities would differ from Obama's and Clinton's. And certainly any of them compared to Trump along these lines seems like a win for the Democrat.
  19. House of the Dying Sun is a space sim. You fly a starfighter around and blow stuff up. Also eventually you get to recruit other ships and order them around while you fly around. Your goal is to assassinate the traitor lords. You can play it with an Oculus Rift. You can play it with a gamepad. You can play it in space. It comes out on Steam Early Access in June 2016. Links Home Page Steam Page Developer's twitter feed
  20. The Next President

    I've seen such a spread of concerns that it would be quite overhasty to suggest that it's anything close to "always the same debate." I've seen Bernie supporters accuse her of (among other things): corruption, murder, only being in the running because she's a woman, being a Republican, being best friends with Trump, being indistinguishable politically from Trump, not supporting various policies that Bernie supports (including a number of policies she does in fact support), and plenty of other stuff that I can't recall as of right now.
  21. Enemy Starfighter: Freespace + Flotilla (or: X-Wing + Homeworld)

    Yeah, it's a lot of fun. Flying around and shooting things is really exciting. It's the one thing that's made me wish I had some sort of VR - people keep saying how great it is in VR.
  22. E3 2016: Content Experience

    haha fuck sorry, that somehow got onto my clipboard instead of this: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/06/08/e3-2016-press-conference-livestreams/
  23. E3 2016: Content Experience

    http://www.vegrecipesofindia.com/sambhar-recipe-a-method-made-easy/
  24. I'm not sure if the last sentence is supposed to relate to the first, but I watched some pro tournament where a team tried an all Winston strategy and another one where a team tried an all Tracer strategy.
  25. Yeah, I knew that, but $40 is still $40, ya know? I'm not worried about it being too fast, mostly what I'm worried about is whether the game's just shit if I don't get a good team. Team Fortress 2, before it turned into an insane wacky hat thing, was fun even when it was a shitshow because one person could still do some neat stuff, and more importantly the game was hilarious and gorgeous. Overwatch looks fine but it's not exactly an animated J. C. Leyendecker illustration, and it doesn't strike me as hilarious either, so I'd have to be playing just for the competition. The game seems so team-focused that there might be a limit to how much fun I can have if the matchmaking algorithms aren't neato. If I'm a Reinhardt or whoever holding a shield and the rest of my team can't shoot, that's not gonna be fun, you know? Compared to something like BF4 where I can pretty much run around killing people no matter what else is going on.