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Yes, you have a skill for choosing evokative narrative-compositions.

Sorry if this post is offensive, but I'm going to make some assumptions because this is a potentially volatile situation. Does she have more of a plan than buying a one way plane-ticket? If she doesn't have a place to stay planned ahead or a friend that she is going with she could end up in an incredibly vulnerable position. If she's under 18 and alone, she is going to have a really hard time signing a lease and based on what you've said about finances thus far, she doesn't have enough for more than a night's stay at a hotel. Even if she is over 18, if she is planning on showing up in a city alone without a deposit for a lease than she will be depending on the kindness of strangers which makes her incredibly vulnerable to their requests. Obviously I have no idea what is going on in this scenario. For all I know she could be planning to wwoof in order to get some experience to write her third novel, but without any planning her chances of success are minimal and potentially disasterous. That doesn't mean that she doesn't have options. If she has very little money, then she may want to consider staying with a friend within driving distance. This would allow you to help her out of a bind. If you are having to sell your 360 at a Gamestop in order to make enough gas-money to get her to the airport then I doubt you can afford to buy her a plane-ticket back or wire her some money if things go bad. But if she is staying with a friend nearby, that will provide at least a little bit of breathing-room from your parents and it will be harder for them to extort money from her.

I've had one guy ask me where he can get shrooms when I bought a audio cassette-deck and one guy show me his trunk full of bondage-gear when I picked up a roll of leather for a friend. They weren't bad people or dishonest, but being the prude that I am, it would have been less awkward if I had just expected that they might deal or desire taboo items in addition to the initial deals.

And be prepared for them to offer or solicit for drugs and/or sex and related paraphernalia.

I'd want one if It had any back-support, it was cheap, and they offered free delivery. I love designer furniture, but it's a rich-person hobby. I've seen some furniture from the 60's and 70's (not in person) that looked like it would be super fun to lounge on.

I cannot imagine a pawnshop would give you $110 for an xbox 360. I'm not good at negotiations, but all I do is predetermine what I am willing to accept before the encounter, tell them what I want for it and then leave if they aren't willing to give it to me. All of this may change if they have something that I would be willing to take in exchange. For instance, if the pawnshop had a bass guitar I was interested in or something. Places typically give you less value if you want cash.

If she is 18 or older then just help her when you think it's appropriate and don't lie or be disingenious to anyone involved unless there is a threat of violence and you think that trickery may help someone avoid harm.

That was exactly my take-away from the experience.

I've been thinking about something along these lines recently. I was listening to a Video game podcast made by people who are younger than the podcast-members I typically listen to. They seemed obsessed with establishing that they have a foundational knowledge of games from the 8-bit era. It made me realize that there is this popular. idea that in order to be a viable critic, you have to be atleast 30 and having played games since you were a toddler. Of course this is an absurd notion. I want to hear detailed accounts of playing Little Big Planet 3 from someone whose first platformer was Spelunky. I know that you may be older than me and grew up on the moon, but your introduction reminded me of this.

I think there is a difference between being struck by how attracted you are to a pedestrian, and ogling them. It may be worthwhile to consider that distinction.

This makes you a liar.

I'm currently making a 2d game with parallaxing in Unity. I'm not sure how it compares to the other engines, but you just kinda place the sprites on a 3d plane and lock the camera. Of course you have to figure out how to fix all sorts of problems, but I haven't gotten permanently stuck yet. This thread may be useful to you. https://www.idlethumbs.net/forums/topic/9285-pretend-i-dont-know-the-first-thing-about-making-games/

I'm starting to see a other-player-dependency spectrum in both competitive multiplayer games and cooperative games. On one side of the spectrum you have games like Peter Molyneux's Curiosity where you know that other people are playing and somehow influencing the game, but your gameplay-decisions aren't really informed by how they are playing the game. On the other side of the spectrum, you have Lords Managements where you are painfully aware of what your team is doing, though you may have no control it. When I watched a gameplay video of Velvet Sundown, I knew that it would probably be a waste of my time because that game looks completely dependent on strangers playing the game well. When I play Titanfall, I don't really care what my teammates are doing even if they are feeding in Attrition and I barely notice what other players are even doing while I farm grunts. When I play Insurgency, the spectator-mode between spawns sets a tone where you want to play well and the way that people on your team are playing influences the decisions I make in my next life nearly as much as my last life does (because you are watching them attack certain positions and witnessing why they succeeded or failed.

I have seen that one. Dark Days actually creeps me out more than the one I linked about the camp in New Jersey and the one I watched last night on Netflix about a tent-city in Nashville, TN. The one on Netflix does te best job of highlighting how a tent-city isn't providing a shelter as much as it's providing a sense of ownership and a chance to be useful to others. I can imagine that being immediately classified as a homeless person by people who are not homeless makes a person feel like shit; having an opportunity to provide usefulness to a community that perceives itself as equals could help these people rebuild their self-worth.

As pitiful as it sounds, I want virtual friends to play with. My Mass Effect and Dragon Age parties are the closest they've come. Listening to their banter was more interesting than typical online co-op discussions I've had and it's far more convenient to set up.

I've thought about this stuff for a long time, but I recently watched that made me interested because of the complexity of details; the adorable art-couple who will no doubt use any government assistance to save more birds, the alcoholic who dies in a fire, evoking both a sense that the police must enforce building codes and a humane attempt to help by distributing fire-extinguishers; just the general sense that these people have a lot to offer and seem to have found more community in homelessness than many find in well paying jobs. Warning, there is this odd anti-semitic segment in the middle of the doc.

I'm kinda interested in the possibility of accepting homelessness as a viable lifestyle. I like the idea that poor people can live rent-free by their own means (with government resources still available to them). I'm probably glamorizing it too much, but I am womdering if a cultural acceptance of tent-cities could lead to a communal village that some could choose without being harrassed by the community of land-owners and renters.

Lately, I've been thinking about hobo-camps. There was one in Portland, Oregon that the city gave their blessing to if they moved 7 miles from downtown. But now they are 7 miles from potential jobs and essential services. I wonder if hobo-camps could possibly sustain theor own food-supply or sanitation. The reason that I'm interested is because I think it's important to have a viable community for those who have lost everything but their freedom. Ideally it would be a community in which they can find their own limits and what they are and are not willing to work for. In my utopian fantasies, tent-cities will birth more inclusive economic and social-systems. I'm particularly interested in how the tent-city in Portland has a no-children rule in order to avoid having building-codes enforced. Safety-versus-liberty is always an interesting subject for me.

The part of the advice where she points out that he doesn't seem particularly interested in any of the women in his examples really stands out to me. When I was single, I defaulted to a similar demeanor as the guy that wrote in. But when I became interested in someone, I became a bit more willing to risk being a potential jack-ass. Sometimes I was, other times it was a necessary step towards a mutual relationship. Anyway, the dude in that letter would make a great Mr. Darcy if he is presented with a little more confidence in his refusal to contribute to the oppression of women. That would be a sweet obstacle for the main lady to have to overcome in a work of fiction.

I wonder how much of the scarcity-loss is just due to me being older and the many resources which I can now use. Like you are saying, there is a lot of niche stuff available once you know how to look for it. I think that buying games could still be an adventure if I tried to do something out of my usual routine. For instance, these are probably availiable online, but if they required at minimum a phone-call, aquiring one might get me high again. http://gameological.com/2013/02/the-pirate-hacks-of-africa/ You don't like jazz? You fear jazz.

Are they animated?

Due to the internet, the scarcity of inconvenience has been lost. It used to feel like there were games in the official channels of distribution, and then there were games that were more similar to contraband. I don't know how to torrent but from what I've gathered getting a pirated copy of the Sims 3 is very similar to getting a pirated copy of Hotline Miami. Where the separation now lies between buying something legally and pirating it, that difference in alignment used to be between buying a Nintendo game or getting a bunch of diskettes in a baggie if a game that you've only heard rumors of. Buying something like Xeno Clash used to feel like finding a copy of Codex Seraphinianus at a flea-market or buying a mogwai from an antique-store. Now it's just downloading it from Steam like any other game. This situation is certainly more fair and generates a more accountable, homogenous culture, but it doesn't have the same seediness.

[i posted something, but then I changed my mind]

Besides his amazing interview with Palmer Luckey, this is what I know about HipHopGamer and why I like him. Then I saw this during the 2013 Sony Press Conference. (I can't believe that was a year ago). https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=DmoZAPDV3ew#t=7033