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How do you kill those guys without bombs?; spike shoes?

My plan is to use Game Maker to have a circle of characters that clap during a song and take turns going into the middle. The player won't have a choice of who goes into the middle, but once they do, the player will be able to press buttons to make them use certain animations. I'm wanting it to be really choppy and simple. I'd like to use something that sounds like upbeat, greek, folky dance-music from the mid to late 20th century, but I imagine that switching out song tracks won't be hard. I might eventually add something at the beginning or end of the song that establishes place. Ideally, I'd like the game to choose a random circumstance, all of which will have to be authored. For instance, two of the characters appear on the screen and one says "This is the best wedding ever!" Another example might be two characters appearing on the screen and one saying "Let's just dance all night and forget about Alex." Here are some of the character designs: http://doodle-plans.tumblr.com/post/75481450586

An excercise that entertains me is to think of your known senses. You know; taste, smell, touch/temperature, sight, hearing. And then what you do is you ask yourself a question for each in this pattern: 1,2, 1,2,3, 1,2,3,4, 1,2,3,4,5. It's important to really examine the question too. For instance, someone might think they can skip taste because they haven't eaten anything recently, but then I won't witness the true, slightly acidic, umamious ground that must gives me my horrible breath. Then when you come around to it the second time (and every time during this excercise), examine it again. It might have changed or you might notice something that you didn't notice before; like that you can kind of taste one of your fillings. It's actually quite difficult to make it all the way to the end (much like Super Hexagon), but if you do the world can change around you. I notice that instead of my circumstances being filled with everything I need to get done before the end of the month, I'm surrounded by an overwhelming quantity and quality of details. It can be rather euphoric. Also, if you decide to walk across Canada, wait til it's going to be warmer.

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I'm old. How does google hangout work?

This is the big question. What do we need to get rolling?

I want to hear about it. I am interested.

I found this guide useful: http://www.xyonline.net/content/tools-white-guys-who-are-working-social-change%E2%80%A6-and-other-people-socialized-society-based-do

Banner Saga Factions has no story to it. It consists entirely of multiplayer matches, upgrading and adjusting your roster. Spear-persons, Wardens, and Hunts-persons are not available in Banner Saga Factions yet. It's got the typical multiplayer hardships of difficulty spikes, but matches only take about 15 minutes and (from my experience) are enjoyable more often than not. You are matched with teams with similar quantities of upgrades, but the veteran status of the other player seems to have no effect on the match-making. When I only have 30 minutes or so to play something, I'll play Factions. I stick to the single-player campaign when I am feeling like watching my caravan move over the winter landscapes.

It says a lot about my surroundings and circumstances, that I can not easily assume that such a piece is satire. Making up words to help a racist argument is uncommon where I am, but certainly not unthinkable. Openly racist comments and attitudes are the norm once you get five miles outside the radius of the college here.

A person with an exo-imperceptible disability is reminded of their circumstance while playing Octodad. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/video-games/10610001/How-Octodad-works-as-an-analogy-for-invisible-illnesses.html

What are the advantages of subforums?

I'm hoping that the dude's pen-name being "Satire" is foreshadowing how things go after the first four paragraphs. I really can't get through it, it feels like I'm in a room of noxious fumes as I try. This must... Be... My..... Kryptonite...

I can assure you that people with degrees do something with their lives; they pay off student-loans.

Why did you post this. I want to just insult it, but I figured that you may have a sincere confusion that you want to discuss. I couldn't get very far because it's so obviously angled to belittle racial injustices and the disparity of power in our society based on race.The dude says that the English language has a "supposed" racial bias, sarcastically; as if there are no racial biases in the English language. He sounds like a racist denier. Edit:I tried to read it again. I find it so incredibly frustrating. I haven't read the author to whom he is responding, but I have a hard time imagining that anyone could have been making the argument that he is responding to. An attempt to remove inherent racial or sexist biases from a language is neither silly or absolute. He's trying to make it appear as both.

This article was introduced to me as controversial. http://www.thenation.com/article/178140/feminisms-toxic-twitter-wars

I played for two hours and had a great time after I died from eating raw chicken and watched a youtube video on how to cook it. At first it's very disorientating; not knowing how to craft anything, but it's a pretty simple system. You start with a rock and you can use it to bang on trees (for wood), bang on specific boulders that look like someone is trying to hide a well-pump (that actually took me a long time to figure out, I was banging my rock on the walls of mountains for a while and getting nothing), and killing animals (for food and cloth). Then when you press tab, on the top of the screen it says "craft" and when you click it it gives you a list of everything you might want to craft including guns and ammo.If you don't have the needed supplies, it tells you. I managed to build a house, cook a bunch of food, make arrows, I even secured an air-drop and got some c4 and a metal door.It was super fun. I did a lot of Skyrim mountain climbing, but as I was having a hard time getting higher I kept saying to myself "No one is going to do this in order to find my house." The server I was playing on was perfect for me. I pressed f1 and pasted this: net.connect rusthaven.net:28065 which is a newish server. So I saw people plenty of times, I headed for the mountains after being killed buy a couple of guys who had a pistol. And then I built a campfire and waited until dawn to go and gather wood. There are a lot of plains and you can find high points and get an idea of how many settlements, animals, resources, and people are in that area. The best moment was when I saw a guy running from a large cat. At first, I hid behind a tree because I thought he might try to kill me. But then I took out my bow and arrow that I had been practicing with and killed the cat. He runs up to me and says " ..tha..thankyou." in a completely sincere way. It was so cool.

I would consider this a "success".

I think I'm going to buy Rust. This is a mistake, isn't it?

The Rebel FM podcast continues to entertain me with Rust stories in episode 202. At one point someone starts talking about a strategy of winning hearts and minds in order to find an enemy group who have decentralized. I have to keep reminding myself that I would hate this game because I would be going in solo.

@Shammack I saw that you really enjoyed Papers Please which I enjoyed for Pedercini-esque reasons (observing how a systemic circumstance can form behavior in a game and then applying the observation to deep reality). Did you have a similar reason for enjoying it? If so, then how does your form of appreciation differ between Papers Please and Prison Architect?

I wonder if you will lose your audience as they discover that game walk-throughs exist.

Oh, I don't want to shut out the dudes. I'm just talking about making the game less appealing for misogynists.

I don't have a logical reason for a possible correalation. I was going to say "Twilight themed" because I would think that the woman-hating crowd would classify it as a chick-thing and dismiss it, but then I remembered that Twilight is already kinda misogynistic and so I figured I'd go with the next series to take the young ladies book-market by storm.

I love the idea that modest clothing on the female characters would be enough to make the undesirables find another game. I was imagining something more drastic, but I don't know what; maybe a Hunger Games theme.