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yeah I guess I got lucky, I started playing after the first patch, and even steam integration is working fine. No crashes, but I did punch a guy out of the map once.

kinda, I mean i'd like to at least live in the city, and preferably within easy walking or biking distance to work (though really most of the city is easy biking distance to anywhere in the city). Also, idk if we need UX guys specifically, but we do need full stack guys (i'm mostly backend). I'll ask once i get up there.

Seems like finding a place to live is going to be a bitch. I'm hoping to find either an apartment, or just a room I can rent, ideally in the mission district. Are you a dev? (thats not an offer, I'm not qualified to hire anyone, esp since I'm starting as just a contractor anyway. I'll become a real employee in 3 months unless I suck though). That said, the place that I just got hired for is trying to staff up I think.

replying to the OP without reading the thread, it's p good. I'm moving to SF in about a week and a half for a job. Still gotta figure out where I'm going to live, but otherwise its all peaches. Well, Moving is stressful, but being able to shed a bunch of crap is pretty cool.

So I have long suspected, but I just got to and that made it seem like this is more than simply a mere (very well done) murder simulator. I am interested in the story now. For such a seemingly simple game, Hotline miami combines incredibly well done and compelling gameplay with what seems to be an interesting narrative. e:

I'll second or 15th or whatever for the Giant Bombcast, not an intellectual podcast, but the personalities at Giant Bomb are great, with the arguable exception of Patrick Klepeck (i'm not a fan). Almost always a fun listen though. Ask me anything about my opinions of the GB crew (imo patrick is the worst, Brad is passable, everyone else is p good/ has their place. Jeff & Vinny are the best though). e: oh yeah, just started listening to the octoberkast. Plan to listen to most of it, eventually (like last year ill skip the tedious mid night hours). I run/commute enough to consume most of it eventually. Having such prestigious guests as Idle Thumbs, Brad Muir, and most of Giant Bomb makes it extra attractive.

Just finished the game on normal, ending was weird. That's fine though, since the story really isn't very important anyway. I'll probably try a classic ironman game now. Well, at some point anyway.

Ahhhh game breaking bugs. I just was sending out interceptors to take down a thing, and before the interceptor reached the thing, a terror mission (in Lyons, France, where all terror missions are) popped up. So I did it. When the skyranger returned to base, it immediately switched back to the interceptor chasing the ship. When it got to the ship, the game made as if to show me the interceptor combat view, but instead just shows me the blank globe. Dang. I guess i'll probably have to go back to a save before I accepted that mission. Which is a real shame because it went super well.

so, I was going to join the book club with this, but i've heard a lot of talk about how its kinda mediocre. The Obama bit mentioned in the thread didn't help convince me. So I'm going to give it a pass, and join the book club afterwards. Otoh, the book club did convince me that I really ought to read Cloud Atlas, which I now have on my kindle and also that the movie is probably bad, which, having seen just the trailer, seems a reasonable assertion. Because the trailer was hella long and boring and not compelling at all, as well as not being representative of the themes discussed on the cast.

haven't (and tbh probably won't) play awesomnauts or NS2, but I did buy sleepy dawgz on sale, so ill play that at some point.

I'm still not sure what the initial intent was, because I assumed it meant "Klei made" from the start.

so, I have barely played this game at all yet (I did buy it though) but I have fallen in love with the sound track. On Giant Bomb's TNT today, Ryan Davis stated that the hotline miami OST is the soundtrack of the year and... well, I can't think of any other game this year with a soundtrack that can dispute that claim, but I'm also bad at remembering stuff. What other games this year have had really amazing soundtracks?

When I think Jeff Goldblum, the first movie I think of is not jurassic park, or The Fly, or ID4... it's The Life Aquatic. Just wanted to put that out there

The first meta-meme. Good one too.

Half Life 2 is also kind of inconsistent with that too, like if you lost the buggy by driving it off a cliff it would also reach a narrative fail-state. Would have been cooler if it just made you walk.

Yeah I watched that, looked pretty good. Patrick kept calling the machinae supremacy track butt rock though, which was weird.

they touched on it in the podcast, but its really a shame the story is just, kinda bad. It's predictable and it doesn't really even deliver on its simple premise. The level design and gameplay ofc are what I came to the game for, and they are top notch, but a decent story would have been icing on the cake. Kinda weird too since supposedly the lead writer was talking some yang about other game stories or something.

Jake's story about the first time in the bar in Dishonored was cool, because I had the same experience for a different reason. When I first went to the bar, I had UI stuff turned on, so the objective indicator was those guys so I knew they were allies, but their conversation sounded like it was about me and maybe something I wasn't supposed to hear, so I snuck around behind the bar to hear it better, and then hit the cutscene trigger, warping me to the other side of the bar and to a standing position. The fact that the NPC's in the bar are killable and will result in a game over isn't super bothersome to me, though I agree that having no weapons there would be better. I did assassinate the noble dude as he was walking up the stairs, just to see if I could and if it would say game over.

I think it definitely is, but I think juxtaposing that with the story and cutscenes of real people, or just seeing the soldiers in the sky-ranger when loading, adds enough, I guess not realism, but context, that I think about the fact that what is actually happening would be pretty strange if it were real. I don't think it's really detrimental to the experience though, since what I enjoy most are the mechanics and systems anyway.

I am really enjoying XCOM so far, but I am having an issue with suspension of disbelief. Which is super weird, because I can't think of any video game that has really evoked that for me, and I certainly wouldn't have expected this one to. It isn't really adversely affecting my enjoyment of the game either, but I'm trying to figure out why I feel that way. I think it may be that it is the real earth, and the soldiers seem like real dudes, but the situations and tactics used, by both sides, are absurd when considered against reality. It could also be something about strategy games with me that I am just noticing now since... I can't think of the last one I played that was set on earth. Anyone else notice anything like this? Curious to know if its just me.

Hello! I mean hi. Finally registered for these here forums. Been listening to idle thumbs for a while, like you do, but never went to the website before. So, now I did. This new site is pretty rad. I am the same person as the person of the same name and avatar is on SA, though I mostly only post in YOSPOS there. Anyway video games are pretty rad.

So I was listening to this over the weekend while walking around SF, since I was there for an interview (which went well I think, hopefully I get it and and move there). At one point the thumbs were talking about coffee, and a coffee shop at Folsom and 6th was mentioned, and that was pretty weird because I was standing at the corner of Folsom and 7th at the time. Thought about walking there and getting some coffee, but it was mid afternoon and I didn't really want any right then. Chris apparently has the exact same coffee taste as I though. 2 cups of black coffee a day.

Well listening to this episode and also the first one makes me feel like a prole, most of what I read is just escapist scifi and fantasy. So I finally registered an idle forums account, and will also try reading more contemporary fiction. Guess i'll start with Telegraph avenue, just as soon as I finish this Joe Abercrombie book.