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I've got a spare for a regular who adds me on steam

As a GODUS backer who knew he was probably throwing his money away, I still approve of that interview. The transcript approach makes it as fair and transparent as Peter hasn't been. He could have chosen to stop the discussion at any moment, but instead kept getting more and more vague and unable to explain his falsehoods and aggrandisements. It's unfortunate that the internet has apparently amplified this into a wash of disproportionate hatred. At least it's directed at a wealthy white dude for once. The backwash onto John is as far as I'm concerned undeserved. He made some tactical blunders but the strategy was sound as far as I'm concerned. It strikes me that Peter's so far only had to deal with publishers, who don't give a fig about delivering on gameplay promises, but want to make a profit. By most accounts the mobile version of GODUS is profitable, meaning that he's fulfilled his Kickstarter obligations in the manner that he's used to: delivering financially but not in-game. This of course is a fatal error when the people who gave you your money are actually interested in the game you supplied.

As far as I can tell he's very, very carefully not saying anything. Probably the best strategy for him, though disappointing not to have some sort of statement.

I remember how much I got yelled at for disliking the spate of torture quests in WotLK. Ugh.

Wow, what a crazy idea to just have some babies frozen somewhere waiting for you. Thanks for sharing Sarah. I'd indeed seen the tweets but it's great to have this contextual discussion emerge. I'm definitely digging the new look but that might be because of my youthful adorement of Sinead O'Connor.

For what it's worth, in the book everyone survives, as I recall. I don't know about the movie because Gene Wilder creeps me out so I never wanted to see it.

That's why people like it so much.

Man. What a situation. And the end result is shit getting fucked up anwyay My sympathies. Hope there's a workable recovery option of some kind.

It's sad to be shown that someone so likeable is also so incompetent, at least at the level he's operating. Basically he should never have been allowed to rise to the level where he's responsible for anything except game design. He's the perfect embodiment of the Peter principle I think. Black & White was my rude Molyneux awakening, and I've not bought anything of his since. But the 22 cans story was sympathetic enough that I was willing to throw the kickstarter some money. I mentally wrote it off, and was right to do so, I guess. Unfortunate but there you go.

You're not your own test subjects surely? Use shifts! That's how my circadian colleagues did it anyway.

What the actual fuck. Whoever's responsible for that is your real culprit.

For me the content is what stops me from enjoying GR, it's simultaneously disturbing and extremely dull. Too unpleasant for whatever payoff there might be. I may try again at some point as well; I've certainly enjoyed Lot 49 quite a bit.

Am I missing a joke or should the title be 'Ode to'? Or am I simply too prescriptive with my prepositions there? e: Aha, it's the latter, and I just got the joke. Oops.

Thanks Sarah, that means a lot coming from you Danielle, I knew you'd get a big kick out of the sporty stuff. I assume you're familiar with DFW's tennis writing? I'm particularly fond of his Federer piece. I can definitely empathise with having trouble with a book focused strongly on the other side of the gender divide. I remember Zadie Smith's NW in particular being tough for me in that regard. One of the amazing things I've found about Alice Munro is the way she manages to bridge that gap in her writing so well.

I agree on both points. I was hesitant to put forth the second part as a guy though, because that part's inherently not something I feel qualified to say. As regards the masculinity, I think it that's going to boil down to a definitions argument, but several of the things I find predominantly masculine about IJ are: - the self-centered neuroticism of the Incandenzas - the obsession with sports - Basically everything about Don Gately - the way everything circles around the few women without really understanding them, or relating to them on a normal, personal level - the obsessive themes in general I agree that IJ is more emotionally wise than the old-fashioned reductive sense of the word masculine but I meant more that it almost entirely made me think of men, and how they can be, and act. Think for example of the Silicon Valley type of guys where there is definitely masculinity/sexism issues but not per se the lumberjack variety. I'm having trouble articulating this. Part of what I'm trying to say is the book caused me to reflect exclusively on the men I know, and how they and I relate to the world.

B-baka...

I think it's an incredibly masculine book. Only Mme. Psychosis felt real to me. I'm glad to see you're getting enjoyment out of it at any rate. It's still one of my favourite books. There's a lot of payoff for various things. Please do pop back in later, I'm very curious to hear your opinion once you've read more.

I don't think it belongs in this thread. It says nothing about feminism except to antifeminists.

The page of posts preceding yours does appear to indicate so, yes. I've only got my rogue to 100 so far, turns out I hate the mage leveling experience which means I wasted my boost-to-90. Catching up with my warrior, monk and priest though. My time's been spent checking out Highmaul via LFR (pretty interesting given that I've only ever raided Zul'Gurub before at 60), doing inscription auctioneering, checking out all the heroics and noodling around on alts.

Two posts up dude

I thought he made a rather civil course-correction on that one, but I don't have to deal with your replies all the time, obviously. I can imagine how someone doing that sort of thing all the time could get grating.

I loved those history of women's wages pages you posted! Pity you apparently have to pre-empt mockers about your reading though? I was a bit confused by that. Anyway, I'm tribuut but don't really use twitter that much except as a content feed.

One thing about D3 is that you need to set it to the maximum difficulty possible almost immediately or you'll indeed be bored out of your skull by bulldozing everything. That's of course not talking about aesthetics etc.

Revolution 60 makes me sad because while I like almost everything about its creation, the product itself has aesthetics that really, really put me off. The weird waifish physiques, the anime-ness (animicity?), the stilted animation... It didn't matter much until now but the Greenlight upvote button says 'yes I would buy this' and I don't like lying (voted yes anyway for the greater good).