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Again, I would say "this makes you feel hollow and unsatisfied" is about as spot on as you can get in terms of actually capturing LA. A game that makes LA feel fulfilling is a game that's misrepresenting LA.

Honestly, the bigger the map is + the less stuff going on = the more it actually feels like LA. Rockstar is the best at capturing the feeling of American cities (an episode of Idle Thumbs talked about this) and part of capturing LA/California in general is to make it feel soulless, like you could cut 90% of it out and lose absolutely nothing except sprawl.

Everyone likes to joke about how vegans always mention veganism but that's sort of silly because it's only vegans who always mention veganism that always mention veganism. Vegans who don't go around talking about it don't get counted as vegans by anyone and thus they think that the only vegans who exist are the ones who speak up.

I probably have more favorite non-violent games than I have favorite violent games - your average game from freeindiegam.es or TwineHub is non-violent and anything good from either of those places is typically as good as anything violent. Not to mention stuff like Sim City, AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! – A Reckless Disregard for Gravity, almost any adventure game, Hotline Miami, basically any puzzle game, etc.

As someone who casted 100+ CoH games, played hundreds of games, and watched hundreds of casts, I was really hoping CoH 2 would be a worthy sequel, but at this point it looks like Relic fucked up pretty much everything (which is par for the course after they did a terrible job on Opposing Fronts and Tales of Valor but still disappointing). I'm not sure I'm going to bother purchasing the game, at least not at full price.

The first time this game was revealed with that big (scripted?) gameplay sequence I got super pumped. It was like a William Gibson novel in video game form. A freeform combination hacking/puzzle/adventure/action game. It was a really big deal that the protagonist had a gun and a lot of time was spent walking around figuring things out. That got me very excited. Now the game looks like Grand Theft Auto with a magical phone.

He's already way ahead of you on the rift stuff.

When a tumblr changes its username (which is trivially easy to do) it breaks all the links so I hope that this is what happened and not like, some sort of disappearance. Do you see any unfamiliar tumblrs on your feed?

Mavis Beacon is fascinating.

Trine + Trine 2, Orcs Must Die + Orcs Must Die 2, Men of War + Men of War Assault Squad.

Unity is stupendous. I don't see what anyone would have against it. As for the typing thing, it's making my brain hurt trying to decide if I should be reading the words or focusing on the letters. I tend to lose at around the mid 200s.

Oh man that's excellent. Futurama is great too.

This game has a sweet cover now:

Amusingly that guy has a twitter avatar of a game that does exactly that.

Yeah I saw a bunch (I follow some of the people already) so that was better.

I'm kind of down on games lately. Well, everything but the games themselves. The culture around games. People.

Every review hovers between "amazing" and "glowing." Some are stupendous. I was in the beta and it owned. So yes I can recommend this game heartily.

holy shit

I tend to at least slightly straighten up my workspace before posting pictures but just now I was for some reason seized with a desire to post things as messy as they actually are:

"some banjo kazooie level: “the last year at marienbad of video games” - a1reviews as quoted on kotaku dot com Whither video games conference and buffet"

I don't know who that is. But it reminds me that Starcraft has leaders. As does Warcraft. And Diablo. Blizzard games have leaders, I guess. Half-Life 2 has Eli Vance. And Breen I guess. (I'd also like to note that the definition in the OP is pretty horrible - it suggests there has never been a bad leader, which I think is manifestly untrue.) The Red Alert series has leaders. Freedom Fighters has leaders. I think the best leader in a video game I've ever played, both in terms of who the character is and in terms of how much the character is about being a leader, is the Exile from KOTOR II.

Wizard People, Dear Reader is wonderful (as is everything else by the incomparable Brad Neely). I saw a slightly edited version of A New Hope a while ago which was not much better than the original version but which did make things slightly fancier and get rid of some of the dumb changes from the Special Edition.

I remember seeing a trailer for this. I will leave this until I'm like, super relaxed because I feel like it's going to make me tense up.

That's okay I haven't seen or talked to any of those people in like, a decade.

Hey this brought back a memory! I first read this in high school and while discussing it in class one day someone asked what "tight" means (it's a term that gets used a fair amount in the book). I offered my suggestion and everyone basically frowned and said I was wrong or not quite right or whatever. I'm still convinced I was right and I even feel very (very) slightly proud of having (in my mind) correctly figured it out (because even the teacher, a very smart person and one of my favorite teachers from high school, thought I was wrong) so in order to get rid of this pride (I'm always on a quest to be less proud of myself) let's see if my high school classmates (and teacher) were just inexplicably incorrect or if I actually legitimately should feel proud. Here's what we'll do: read the book and decide what tight means, then post it in this thread or wherever. We'll see if everyone agrees with me! Here's my definition but if you read the spoiler before coming up with your own answer that defeats the point. Also don't Google it.