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I'm in a similar position, but have different sensitivities. The torture in Pan's Labryinthe was too much for me and I just can't handle an hour of being incredibly tense. I'd say Black Swan is the upper limit of what I'm willing to watch.

I ended up getting Buck because it was faster for knocking out this week's bonus challenges. FYI press Shift+F2 and click on "Challenges" while waiting for loading or when dead or whatever. Arm some challenges for bonus XP. Those extra 250's add up, let me tell ya. Anyway, the real reason I wanted to post is because of the match I posted below. I hate people like me, but boy it was fun. Video won't be available for a few hours, but I'm going to bed and I couldn't wait to post.

What I'm suggesting is that if she moralized in the way Austin was suggesting would be better, then the game-makers may be in danger of using her as a mouthpiece. The moral perspective that she expresses (as it was explained on the podcast) doesn't seem unlikely to me for that character. Again, I haven't played the game.

What version do you have? I thought that even the starter-pack gives you 4 operators to work with when you first start. Also, I'm curious if there are any particular operators you want to unlock next.

I just got into the For Honor beta and the email message says I can give keys to three people on my PC Uplay friends-list. I'm not home right now but I think my account name is ferrofluid. If you want a key, add me and tell me here that you did so, otgereise I'll just assume you are one of these people that just randomly add people after playing with them. The beta runs from the 26th through the 29th. I know very little about it.

I'm trying to decide between Blackbeard and Buck. Any opinions?

Danielle is playing the single-player right now and it is making me more interested in the game. https://www.twitch.tv/waypoint

I really enjoyed the discussion SyntheticGerbil started in the Life thread, but I'm late to the party and I hope a separate thread will encourage the discussion more. There was some posts before this one, but it's a fine place to start. I think of conspiracy theories as modern day mythologies; it's folklore. Of course people can take it tok seriously and get find themselves living in a root-cellar holding a shotgun and a short-wave radio, but I suspect that's a confluence of challenges that they need to address in their personal lives. Don't let them ruin it for all of us. One thing that strikes me about comspiracy theories is that there's this incredibly obtuse funnel between agency and influence; one group controlling it all. As if a group has an easy time agreeing on anything. I kinda like the idea that there is a secret-society that thinks it is controlling everything in its delusion of grandeur and that they happened to be at CES buying the largest television display so tha they can put a giant map of the world on it with some blinking dots and have skype calls with people in dark rooms. Someone HAS to be doing that right now.

I find it challenging to balance between my desires to have depictions of these subjects in fiction so that folks can have personal responses, and my concerns that the fictional representations will affirm oppressive norms. Based on Patrick and Austin's description of the game and the role of the mother, I think there maybe more value in depicting a flawed ideology in the matriarchal authority (especially if we are supposed to share the perspective of the protagonist) rather than use her representation as a microphone for academic solutions to social problems. I'd be really interested to see how it was received if the academic perspective was presented in the game by another character who the protagonist sees as irrelevant.

Thanks for the stub. This is a good point. This has really gotten me thinking about how ideas of morality are presented by characters. Now I'm remembering how much I enjoyed the moralizing characters of Dragon Age:Origins. I like the idea of having numerous well-realized characters with passionate views based on their own fictional experiences that they express vocally and with actions.

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.