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There doesn't seem to be an Waypoint forum, so I guess this is the place to talk about it here? I enjoyed episode 39 about We Are Chicago. I haven't played the game, but the discussion brings up a lot of interesting subjects for me. I was especially intrigued by Austin's frustration with the role of the mother as a moral authority. Again, I haven't played the game, but I think that the way a piece of media can put a spotlight on a character's monologue is an interesting subject when the character portrays an unrealistic (even damaging) view that is still true to that character. Are they a voice for the enlightened author? Or are they an honest depiction of that character's sensibility. It's an interesting debate that I'd like to see happen.

I like Frost a lot too. I've won a lot of 1v1 situations while dead. On defense, I tend to use Frost, Kapkan, Mira, or Mute. Mute is probably my favorite defense operator because I like to guarantee a safe spot in a room I'm defending. I also really enjoy those moments where I deny all the drones access to the objective at the beginning of the match. On attack, Hibana has pretty much replaced Thermite for me. I don't enter the objective room unless I absolutely have to and Hibana allows me to subvert the orientation of the defense that the defenders have created with their reinforcements, without allowing them to rush me. I also use Twitch a lot. I opened a Mira window with my Twitch drone last night and that was exciting for me. The rest of my team died while I was fucking around, but I took one of them out before the other four got me.

I've never played a ranked game. Do you have any favorite operators?

I got the year2 season-pass because I still hadn't unlocked 4 operators from the last season and it was totally worth $30 for me to get the next eight operators upon release. As a bonus, I got enough credits to purchase an operator with the season-pass and so having three new-to-me operators and a two recently released maps relit the R6Siege fire in me. I had 3 boosters that I never used from when I first got the game and so this weekend I activated one of them for an xp-binge. I think I played about 10 hours of the game yesterday (it was super fun) and I'm close to unlocking one of two operators I still don't have. I tend to think that the boosters are kinda gross, but now that I've used one, I think they do have an appeal. On a day off when I want to just play the shit out of R6S anyway, I can activate a booster and double my xp for 24 hours which makes playing the game all day feel like an event. I doubt I'll buy boosters, but I thought it was a neat opportunity to see the appeal when I get 3 of them for free. Rainbow 6 Siege continues to be a game of frequent amazing play, not always performed by me. I choke a lot, but it's fun.

Is there some sort of penetration-damage characteristic that I'm missing. These knights are big problems for me even when my characters are higher levels.

Ok so I didn't like this game much at all when I first played it, but I continued to play it for some reason and now I like it a lot. I haven't beaten all the story missions btw. At first I hated how fighting against enemies three levels above you was impossible, but now I'm fine with it as I'm treatinh this game as a hero-management sim. I just play it a every couple of days and do whatever special-missions there are and maybe a couple of training missions or whatever and I'm mostly just trying to manage the tactics-game in such a way that the characters I want to level up most get the killing blows. Every once in a while I level up enough to do a new mission and get some quarters for the bobble-machine. I didn't understand the pace at first, but now it's just mostly tactics-lite with characters as rewards for progression. I don't think this game was designed to be played through within a single week. It's a weekly-mission structure.

So if I buy the physical copy for PC on Amazon, is it just a code that activates on Origin? I was going to try and wait on this because I bounced off of DA:Inquisition so hard, but I realize that even if I have become incapable of playing a game like this, it's a mistake I'll have to make myself.

I'm interested in discussing the gist of what's going on with the Pepe meme right now. I have no attachment to the meme itself, but I'm fascinated by how it is being batted around politically. Here are some articles, I'll include brief descriptions or quotations: How Pepe the Frog Became a Nazi Trump Supporter and Alt-Right Symbol Here’s How Two Twitter Pranksters Convinced The World That Pepe The Frog Meme Is Just A Front For White Nationalism The alt-right is more than warmed-over white supremacy. It’s that, but way way weirder. ...and the explainer from Hillary Clinton's website. I don't have a thesis or anything. I just think that this is really interesting and it evokes a lot of ideas about signifiers and political implications of internet-culture/identity.

Yes, I understand that this is satire, but it's largely the tactic that this satire is dismissing that interests me. https://medium.com/@Freequincy/right-wing-dove-squad-how-trash-dove-became-the-symbol-of-the-alt-right-c7794b84a48d#.l9duoxivj I think the ability of a concerted effort by a small group to repurpose symbols in what is effectively a smaller internet of social-media giants is worthy of discussion.

I love the honesty in the FAQ.

I'm playing this as the game equivalent of a mama-cat taking her kittens out to teach them how to hunt.

I just published a game where I used your music. https://clyde.itch.io/tunnelgame-february

"Active Fingers" love it.

I shoulda started a thread for it specifically. My review of the beta is: the single-player is not very interesting.

@TinKelp @Synnah @Spenny @Jake So it's true, I did in fact open the wrong file. Multiple times even. I checked my archive and the two games are right beside each other. This is both an embarrassing realization, and an inspirational one. Thanks for your enthusiasm and patience solving what was for me a riddle. It's kinda funny that I was more willing to assume that Spenny was fucking with people than that I clicked on the wrong file... multiple times.

I'm starting to to think y'all are right about me downloading the wrong game. I'm not at home so I can't check yet, but those screenshots look similar to what I played. Regarding @Spenny streaming the development, I started thinking that this was part of the plan. If I did download the wrong game and for some reason continued to think it was another game, truly this will be a sad story of a modern idiot. I'll update y'all once I get home. Glad I asked!

I don't k ow anything aboutbit except for some e3 demo I watched or somethibg where everyone on stage pretended to be coordinating the assasination of some dude who dissolves bodies and it looked like JSOC meets the A-Team Beta is live right now btw.

I'm in the Ghost Recon Wildlands Beta for PC, I'm currently downloading it. I have 3 keys to give out if anyone wants them. I think I need to be friends with you on UPlay in order to send out the invite. I'm ferrofluid.

I think this article about what I assume is the inspiration behind Ana's Lunar New Year mask is purdy interesting. http://www.korea.net/NewsFocus/Culture/view?articleId=122081

I think Facebook can take the hit.

@Dewar I had some trouble with Steam VR at one point, but I went through the Steam VR setup again and it works very well for me. I think the archery game in it is super fun.

Cool. What engine are you using?

First impressions after playing through the training twice (once on keyboard/mouse, the second time with a xbox controller) and then playing about an hour of the practice/bot match: I think the controller is way better for this game. I was expecting it to be more focused on the creeps than it is. It really seems mostly like 5v5 Bushido Blade with build-up abilities. The defending, parrying, guard-break stuff is not too difficult to get used to, but I feel like the relationship between them is not snappy (which is fine, it just makes it more difficult for me to understand what is happening. I have this difficulty with wrestling-games). I like how much positioning matters in the the team-battles.

More on the privatization of the U.S. government (video). https://www.democracynow.org/2017/1/24/jeremy_scahill_on_trump_team_a