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Racism is in the game, but it's not represented with the relationship between mages and templars. I see the mage/templar thing being much closer to a discussion about the relationship between personal liberties and public safety. As far as the religion goes, the Chantry is not necessarily the source of the magic, they are just the leaders who determine how magic is allowed to be used (they also organize enforcement of those rules). There is a lot of implication that there are different rules and rulers of magic in far off places. A real-world equivalent would be drug-use in the United States.

I saw Chris Corsano play at a house-show ten years ago. It drastically changed what I wanted to be able to do on drums.

I hadn't heard the Peter Gabriel version before, but now that I have, I can say that I don't like it. I was comparing the cover to this version. The cover evokes much more emotion from me. A clue to why this might be is that Stephen Merritt has said "69 Love Songs is not remotely an album about love. It's an album about love songs, which are very far away from anything to do with love". I don't think the women who did the cover included the satirical element.

epic hipster moment about to happen. Are y'all ready for it?

How do you all decide what to do with scripting and what to do with Playmaker?

We all vary in ability. Some people can't see well without glasses for example. Also, I don't think it's entirely the acoustic instruments that bring it out. I think that the well-known version has a lot of distraction added. Here is another example. But oh that god-awful electronic chirping; talk about a distraction

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Agreed. Without the widespread assumption that having hipster leanings is a fault, there would be little fun in claiming that you are one.

Walls of text are one reason I enjoy forums and find Twitter to be frustrating. Can anyone explain to me what the difference is between intrinsic and authentic? They seem pretty much the same to me. I'm not wanting the demarcation because I want to say that judging art based off its intrinsic or authentic qualities is unwarranted (I enjoy doing it myself), but some people in the conversation seem to dislike the idea of authencity; do you like inherency? Colour, shape, behaviour, and popularity are all relationships that the we have with the object. Art-works are formed with a synergy of the intrinsic and extrinsic circumstances. I still don't understand why you would make the distinction. Is it a matter of consistency and reliability? Aspects that can be agreed upon? Or just an estimation of how much an audience can be expected to know about the piece in a typical viewing? I'm going to change your example to something more to my liking Saying "I hate how everyone thinks that Til the World Ends is a great song" and "I hate Til the World Ends because everyone thinks it's a great song" is similar to saying "I hate how Britney's voice is auto-tuned in Til the World Ends" and "I hate Til The World ends because Britney's voice is auto-tuned." Yes, an aspect of the song is being favored or disfavored, but art does partially consist of its aspects (including the perceived views of the larger audience). For some people popularity is more of an influence on art-work than colour. I don't think that's an inferior view-point. We should just get this part out of the way, I think that the difference between my saying that something is "good" and liking something is this: -When someone says something is "good", they are saying that they are somewhat confident in their hypothesis of why other people enjoy something. -When someone says that they "like" something, they are saying that they themselves enjoy it. So you can see why I would find it odd for people to chastise hipsters for allowing their opinion of art be influenced by popularity. To me saying "It is good" is similar to saying "I can see why this would be popular". I do think there is a difference between saying "I like Til the World Ends" and saying "Til the World Ends has a beat that pulls me and intriguing sex-bot vocals." In this case, I am attempting to explain what I like about it with my reaction to what is in the song, but at no point is my reaction to Til the World Ends not informed by the broader world outside of that 3:55 of audio. Part of my reaction is what everyone else thinks about it, but in my view that is part of the song because the song is not stimulus alone, but an experience between the audience and the stimulus. I'm going to watch the video now. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=qzU9OrZlKb8 A person can dislike something due to it's popularity for reasons that are not entirely contrarian. Our time is limited. When I play the Shadowrun FPS or Super Monday Night Combat, part of my enjoyment is that I'm supporting dying communities. I don't get that enjoyment from Titanfall or Call of Duty. I don't think that's contrarian. How is saying that something is fascinating not a value judgement? This makes no since to me at all. Again, you claim that impressions based of of popularity make someone pitiful and broken while ignoring that popularity has massive influence on the actual piece of art. Do you have an appreciation of this song? http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=My2FRPA3Gf8 I think that the song-craft is amazing. But I didn't realize it until I saw the hipster version. Don't pretend that popular expectations, quantities of money, and distribution models don't influence a piece. Popularity is a heuristic for all these things. We removed the entirety of society. We removed all which is humanity.

Have you considered having the control-gauge affect direction (actual I think I'm talking about velocity. I didn't take physics)? I wonder if tacking because you need a to shoot a bunch or are bracing for an attack would create cohesion or just be frustrating.

I would love to try Playmaker out for a day or two. I have no real concept of it's advantages over scripting.

All chocolate, all the time. I like any chocolate that I can eat very small amounts of easily. Lately I've just been buying milk-chocolate chips (the bags intended for making cookies) from the grocery store. One will last me months as I eat them with my coffees.

Progress Report for Week #11 What were my goals for this week? Which of my goals did I accomplish? -I did make the platforms horizontally scalable by dragging. -The only other improvement I worked on was programming a background that is created with a loop. I made it so I can easily change how many horizontal strips the background consists of and I also made it so it creates a gradient of color as it iterates. Somewhat Accomplished. What happened? -I researched attic mold a bunch. I'm not freaking out about it anymore, I think we just need to have a few gable vents installed. there is still a question of where to place them, but after walking around neighborhoods looking at attic ventilation, I'm pretty sure that adding any ventilation will likely take care of the mold. We also drained the oil from the lawn-mower, but keep forgetting to get new oil. -I did add the horizontal scalability, but it is still not intuitive. I could just put an arrow on it, but I don't think that's a very satisfying solution. Maybe if I theme the ball-game I can choose to make the platforms look like an object that is typically capable of being stretched by pulling, something mechanical like a car-antennae. This could lead to a wider direction for theme. -Then I decided that a way to improve the game would be to add strips in the background so the player could more easily estimate height. I was had just started watching a tutorial on how to make a match-three game (which included how grids are formed by having a loop nested inside another loop (which is so fucking cool to me)), so I was like "Instead of importing a sprite, I'm going to program the strips!" I felt very accomplished once I did this. -I would have got more done, but I did not sleep well and so my mornings were spent catching up. I also just did a lot of other stuff this week. No regrets. What are my goals for week #12? -I'm becoming progressively interested in programming a sequencer. I'd like to move towards that. I've already conceptualized the basics, a loop that assigns pitch based on the y-value of the grid and assigns an int between 1-16 based on the x-value as it instantiates all the cubes. Then I'll need to write a script that does a public count from 1-16 over and over again so that all the cubes know when to play their audio-file. Then I'll do some OnMouseDown() magic to assign samples to individual cubes. -I should probably finish the match-three tutorial too. I actually really enjoy this tutorial and I don't know why. I think video-tutorials are heavily influenced by the personality of the tutor. What challenges may I face and how can I prepare for them. -Time. I'm just not going to have much free-time this week. I guess the best way for me to prepare for that challenge is to just get used to the idea that I will only be working in one to two hour pockets. Just because I can only work for a short period of time, that should not discourage me.

I watched "Kid's react to walkmans" on Youtube last night. My mind was blown. I officially know what it is like to feel old. Your depiction of lonely hipster reminded me of this.

First of all why would one assume that a dislike of the popular or enjoyment of the obscure is due to insecurities about what they like? Why is the popularity of an object off-limits whereas color, shape, behavior remains relevant? If I didn't like purple things, I don't think anyone would assume an insecurity or inner-confusion about my personal tastes Also, I don't have any desire to keep anything unpopular. If the reason for hostility towards hipsters is because hipsters are trying to keep information to themselves, then I don't have a response. I don't associate intentional exclusivity with hipsters. I can imagine some tribal-tendencies that would fuel that, but I really don't think I'm attracted to that behavior in the least. In fact, I wish you would all watch Daguerrotypes by Agnes Varda so that it will show up on Netflix or Amazon Prime or Itunes or SOMETHING so that I don't have to pay $18 for a dvd. And just to be clear, I haven't been made to feel uncomfortable once in this thread. In order to have opinions, we must make assumptions; for me, this thread is mostly about being honest and questioning assumptions. Ahem* Can we please talk about the hipster in the societal vaccuum? I want to talk about the hipster who inhabits the societal vaccuum. I think this would be the best possible thing to talk about. I think that a hipster who inhabits a societal vaccuum would feel great relief in consideration of their personal tastes, but very, very lonely. Lonely hipster would have nothing to consider, but the natural world untouched by human hands. Unless they started noticing that ants favored certain plants, then they would begin asking themselves "What's so great about that plant?"

I was thinking that any of the Civ 5 win-conditions could be the impetus for a cataclysm, given an additional 250 years. So are there going to be racists in the game or not? Actually, I've been think about authenticity for the last couple of days and it makes me wonder if the "purity" ideology is going to express the idea that multiple versions of the authentic humanity exist. I'd love to see the purity-path necessitate schisms.

I think I was both too specific and too general with that definition. I'm going to try and re-summarize my thoughts:When people use "hipster" as a pejorative,I think they are typically shaming certain qualities. -The dismissal of the norm due to its normalcy. -The attraction to the different due to its divergence from the norm. -Thinking that they are cool. The above may not actually be the case, but it's how I am imagining it. So here is why I think that self-identifying as a hipster is important: My view is that though these qualities may be limiting in the extreme, I recognize that I have these qualities and that I want to have these qualities. I see other people with these qualities and I tend to respect them. Ehen someone accuses someone else of being a hipster and the only working definition has a negative connotation, I think that qualities that I value are being dismissed and rejected without thought. Additionally, another response is this idea that hipsterism is a non-sense word without actual meaning. When I hear this, I think that the qualities I value are being dismissed even further by assuming that no one could possibly value the things I value and that the idea (that someone may think that they are cool, that pop-art is crap and that art can't be valued relevant to its divergence from the norm) is so absurd, that the only possible use is a pejorative towards someone who doesn't even think those things; no one that values the things I value exists! So when I say that I am a hipster, I'm saying that I have these qualities and that I am proud of them. Is every non-hipster a square? Yes and no. No one is anything, everyone is something. It's like asking "Is every non-conservative a liberal?". It's a perspective in opposition to another perspective, people may identify with either perspective and group based on the granfalloon. This idea that defining a perspective, naming it, associating it with a fashion, and self-identifying with it is inherently bad is one I do not get behind. I think it's cool that subcultures exist and that people identify with them.

Have you played Magicka? The decision to add attractive pick-ups is a good one. Currently there isn't a motivation to increase my speed at the expense of the shield or fire-rate.

Leak management. Brilliant.

I've recently gotten interested in the hacker sub-culture (though I am not deep in it) As I'm learning how to make computer-games, spending time on Reddit and paying attention to the news in the 21st century, I (possibly due to some apophenia) see a thread of culture that fascinates me. The social-techniques of Anonymous and the government techniques reveLed by Edward Snowden; reading some of the history of music-tracker modules and seeing free sequencers on app-stores pop up; just getting a sense of how prrogramming works on a base level and thinking about the omniprescence of computer technology, all these things seem to have a strong connection due to the inherencies of the medium that express themselves. I think it makes for a very interesting sub-culture.

But were't hipsters originally just people who listened to jazz? I doubt that every hipster in the 1940's opposed every norm. I think the idea is that they satisfy their own needs in one part of culture and a sub-culture forms. Then as it develops it's own norms over time, their perspective has more flexibility to accept and encourage ideologies that couldn't grow within square communities. I'm sure that some jazz-listeners were considered to be more or less hip than others, but the sub-culture than forms has it's own symbols and expectations. The sub-culture becomes a place for alternatives.And just because there now exists D.I.Y. Network on television doesn't meam that there is no longer a D.I.Y. sub-culture. Hmmm. I guess I don't think there is much of a difference between counter-cultures and subcultures except whether or not the sub-culture is reinforcing the norms of their interest area.

I assumed it was a heuristic for good posture.

I don't know, but I think of the hashtagavists, hackers, microtonal musicians, and occupiers as relevant counter-cultures of out time.

I don't know if it's ok to feel this way, but I think this sounds awesome. I kind of want to do that. No joke: I also self-identify with buzzards. A buzzard that eats the remains of counter-cultures sounds so bad-ass to me. I think I want to do that. I mean, it looks like it's dead anyway, no one seems to think of hipsters as more than a pejorative. " Oh clyde? Yeah, isn't he that counter-culture eating buzzard?" "That's him." "Yeah dude, he's cool as fuck." Is a conversation I may some day hear.