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"Season one" of limetown ended yesterday. Anyone still listening; have thoughts?

I used the crossbow to knock flying enemies out of the sky sometimes. When I had leveled some of my signs I would also use them (Aard I think? Or Axii) instead.

We did more diving and I made more videos. Bonus Breckon whining included.

The very very first starting area looks big but is actually small. I was level 5ish when I was done. The first "main" game area is SO, SO good, but don't be afraid to go wherever you want if you're inclined. Yep there are points of no return, but you're potentially 40+ hours away from that if you absorb the whole Witcher world.

I was inspired to start a new thread, because the "Random Thought" discussion started becoming very narrow, and I was a contributing factor to that. What is Free To Play? What do you think of when you hear the words? Do you like F2P? Do you like the model enough to spend money? What are good F2P practices? What are bad F2P practices? Are there points in size, scope, ambition, or dollars where things cross over from one to another? This thought exercise is mostly aimed towards how we perceive and would like to interact with it as game players, but if people want to jump in with business realities and economics I'm all for it.

I guess I'm just a little frustrated that this thread is full of good intentions and has educated me on more than one occasion, but right at the moment no discussion about cultural crossover or exchange ends a cycle without someone throwing down the nuclear option and calling it appropriation. I'm really wary of me going too far the other direction accidentally. This is not a "you're too PC" moment I hope, but sometimes it's like most empathetic wins. Cultures do meld and exchange legitimately. Food is a thing where that happens with an incredibly high degree of volatility, and also something I'm quite passionate about, hence the fire.

I would contend that those things are direct inputs into skill of a chef. That's kinda the point. You can't just "take a class". This is veering dangerously into how I feel about the act of cooking which is an entirely different ball of off topic. How would you feel about a Chinese chef opening a high end French cuisine restaurant?

Holy shit, that's a hell of a leap to make. I don't think anyone's taking the position that it's not ok. You posted a thing for a laugh in the social justice thread, and people had a conversation about it. Posting jokey stuff is a little out of the tenor from what usually gets posted here. I think it's fine, but it's why I asked where you were going with it in the first place. I appreciate the spirit it was written in, I just thought it wasn't entertaining. Gorm it's the opposite. My first point was that people have been absorbing food culture for years and not giving it a second thought. The opposite assumption to "no one has an advantage in food preparation" that you're arguing for is that everyone in that culture naturally has an advantage. In my mind it's the difference between understanding why soul food from an old Southern lady would be so goddamn good, and saying "these collard greens are going to be awesome, a black lady made them".

Couple of things- 1) I acknowledge that article was not for me. As in literally, it was for that woman and her audience, of whom I am not a part. However, it was just sort of a bad post. It took a lot of time to parse. That's fine, it's someone's personal blog. I write all kinds of garbage. you're probably reading some right now. 2) My comment about "all black ladies" is absolutely tangential to the point being made with regard to being outside of certain cultural settings means it's not quite right, because what you were driving towards is only black southern ladies can do this properly, which is functionally the same argument that all black ladies can cook collard greens. 3) cooking is a talent but it is also a skill. OF COURSE a white dude from Vermont can cook collard greens as well as a Southern lady from Georgia. That is to say, he has the ability to do so. People go to school for a decade to understand the nuances of food and flavors. No one would argue that me saying "I cook a better Thanksgiving dinner than my grandmothers" is culturally insensitive, even though they're women who grew up in the depression and were homemakers during the 50s, which is a confluence of Americana tradition. it may not be true, but it could be. You would hope that someone who attempts to recreate those things is doing so with the passion and respect for the culture and heritage they deserve because those things are important, but the absence of those factors doesn't mean it can't be a rockin' burrito.

There's a long tradition of things like that. Corned beef isn't Irish, Tikka Masala isn't Indian, General's Chicken isn't Chinese. We (Western white folks) are "discovering" all kinds of Asian and Southeastern street food that's cheap, sustaining, and available, and going crazy for it. I love pho and ramen! You can make anything overly fancy (a tortilla with cranberry sauce, mashed potato, and stuffing sold as a "thanksgiving taco" isn't mexican food), and ruin anything if you're bad enough at cooking it. You can also make something extremely traditional and amazing if you take the time to learn and do it properly. Conversely, not all black ladies cook good collard greens.

Yes, there is a little check box that says "record your microphone" that I didn't know I needed to hit. I recorded another test and it worked perfectly. It makes total sense. If you're recording Fallout and you want to actually do post-production, it's smart to not automatically record me yelling "CRAWL OUT THROUGH THE FALLOUT, BABY" for 40 minutes and telling the cat to get off the couch over my playthrough unless I opt in.

Quests and dialogue totally matter. I don't understand that sentiment. If you are affected by them, they matter. If you think they're bad (some people have said as much, I've enjoyed some of the side quests a really great deal same as Fallout 3), then they mattered to you. Of course, NV crashed 10 hours in irreversibly corrupting my save file and I was so disgusted I never went back. So when people talk about "NV Goodness" I assume they mean fucking broken.

Not sure what direction you're going with on this one, Bjorn.

Two random thoughts: 1) I have this feeling like I would play an awful lot of Diablo right now if I had a week off. I don't though, so I probably won't play any. That's a weird dichotomy. 2) I am really impressed with the XBox app/recording function in Windows 10. Decided on a whim to try and record a Helldivers run, hit one button and had a 1080p video on youtube less than 30 minutes after we finished.

You're 100% right. You're correct, it's silly, and I know it's silly. It doesn't change the wave of annoyance that washes over me when someone doesn't clear the microwave.

That's nothing an errant grenade or misplaced strategem can't fix! I have sort of the opposite problem. I'd like to try doing level 8+ missions, but no one seems to have an open game I can join and I'm reluctant to start one on my own. We can do that ourselves, but the random spark when no one is around is sort of a let down.

Was there a separate Nick Breedon incident? It's possible this was just a reference to an already-established in joke, but I remember a conversation about Nick getting an email addressed to Nick "Bredon" after traveling for work somewhere. Maybe he addressed it to himself? It was in the 30s or 40s of the original Thumbs run if memory serves (which it may not). I am SO excited to hear a Star Wars Rebellion 3MA. What a cool game that I loved playing.

I didn't say it was justifiable or rational, I said I fucking hated it. it really, really bothers me. I will point out that I know how immensely stupid I am right before I whine about it, and yet I know I'm not the only one.

It's the same reason I turn the lights off when I'm the last out of an empty room - my brain says it's the right thing to do. Not clearing a microwave is the wrong thing to do. It's being unkind and failing to rewind.

Yep, I'm also glad. That was the one to get. A see-saw of highs and lows is what makes the game fun. A really clean, easy run is probably more fulfilling to play, but less interesting to watch.

If you can get past the fact that I didn't realize it had recorded such low resolution, and the fact that it got all the audio except my mic, here is a video of us futzing around killing bugs.

How do you hold that?! Like an Ellio's pizza or something? I am not sure I like this development of conversation.

Woof, that sounds like a long way off. I dumped the full complement of upgrade points into the laser rifle, and then I learned at level 18 you get a really good armor piercing assault rifle and now I have research point remorse. Just like upgrading the liberator was a waste of 3 points. Those vets must have put a heck of a lot of time into the game, or are way better at finding samples.

La Famiglia was (is) a really good guild! It somehow managed to be a very successful RP guild and a very competitive raiding guild, and it's lasted (with merger) since those servers opened in 2006. I've played with them in I think 4 different expansions? It's crazy. I had the strange experience of being a SA member, and completely unknowingly starting a character on Mal'Ganis... on the Alliance side. So in the rough and tumble days of free for all world pvp with no alternatives, I was opposite the biggest, gankingest guild in north america. It was pretty fun, most of the time.

I am a lady also! Being an awesome lady doesn't magically add more barks. BTW I love this from Arrowhead's FAQ-