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The all-chapter unlock for Ghost Trick is $.99 on the ios app-store currently.

I think that what this is a potential tipping point for, is realizing that minorities have significant additional challenges in achieving equal opportunity. As Twig mentioned, there will probably always be people with sociopathic tendencies. However, I believe that there is the potential in us to realize how all this fits together. I think that when a community declares a person or group as an enemy, sociopathic predators will see it as an opportunity to attack. When predators see that the larger community is no longer protecting a potential target, they are less deterred from victimizing. From my perspective, this is a important reason to criticize behaviors rather than criticizing individuals or specific communities. It bothers me that the center of a community will declare than an individual is an enemy and then when that individual (or group) is victimized beyond the intention of the community, the reaction is typically "I had nothing to do with that, but I guess they kinda had it coming." The Mighty No. 9 community needs to consider the totality of their responsibility for what has happened here and take an active role in changing what types of behaviors are seen as acceptable. My hope is that this instance will help some people understand that equality does not come by reaffirming that it already exists and decrying special treatment. Women and other minorities have challenges specific to them that must be accounted for if we want to create a circumstance of equal opportunity. We can't remove tendencies of violence, oppression, and favoritism; but we can accept that they are there and create buffers.

I'm playing Ghost Trick right now. I like how the puzzles seem very limited in possible permutations. It lets me flip a bunch of switchs in the environments like some sort of fabric children's book with zippers and buttons. I hate getting stuck in point&click adventures and I haven't had that type of frustration in this one yet. The story explains the game-mechanics a bit too thoroughly in the first scene, but I get excited about the animations.

What world do y'all live in where people get competitive jobs without knowing someone who works there? I'd like to visit. I've heard that in South Korea, you put your glamour-shot on your application. That seems uncomfortable. Who actually thinks that hiring is a pure meritocracy? You are delusional.

I've decided that my favorite way to die is to be stunned and land on Kali's altar.

It's interesting that you bring up taste in movies and music changing. My taste in those has changed extremely over time.So i guess I should expect the same from my taste in games.

I would lose my shit spitefully if Steam added a new genre called "art". Oh man, that would be vengefully hilarious.

If Steam had a losted more genre-tags, would it reduce the bigotry on its forums? http://steamcommunity.com/app/229600/discussions/0/846944689687640883/

https://twitter.com/deirdrakiai/status/411576518247071745

Who decides what qualifies?

But they aren't. The existence of a new form does not remove the established existence of another. I would be very surprised to find out that there are fewer finished-games released than there were in 2009. It's just that now there are paid-alphas too.

This reminds me of why I need genres in the first place. So that I have clues about what various games have to offer before I buy them, install them and invest time in them. It's crazy to me that my best option to find out what games have any procedural rhetoric on the methods or effects of state-led welfare efforts is to first of all FIND the Idle Thumbs forums and then ask around. That shit should be in a searchable list of features. The reason I think it's crazy is that I can easily find songs, written works, or films on any given subject. I don't think its a matter of how large the pool is (when there are instances of the subjects I'm looking for being expressed in games), I think it's a matter of discoverability.

It's funny, to me, those seem like good reasons to hire her as a community-manager.

There's no question that genres have uses, or that they are sometimes detrimental. I definately think that genres are due for some refinement so that they can better communicate the context that will help a noob appreciate the product. I've started reducing based on the decisions you make and the consequential states of those choices. Games where I am choosing which weapon to use on which enemy are losing their appeal for me, but I love Mass Effect and Dragon Age because I get to make decisions like "Is genocide an acceptable solution." So that's how I an trying to define genres. What types of decisions do you make and why are the consequences of those decisions interesting.

What is an adventure game? I assumed y'all were talking about point&click adventures.

When Minecraft arrived, it was an incredibly compelling example if what PC gaming had to offer; not only because of the freedom of the mining and crafting mechanics, but also the production-model of paid-alpha. The darkness which you describe is probably just a matter of enough time passing for people to see the negative side of their wish's realities. It happens with everything that starts with a burst of excited speculation. But when I look at the totality of what Minecraft has grown into (as a product and a cultural force) I consider it to be progressive.

I was told that Depression Quest was quite good. I haven't tried it out yet though. http://storify.com/SeeBeeWhitman/depression-quest-harassment-campaign

While everyone is mourning the literal meaning of "literally", I'm still confused about the difference in meanings between "sympathy" and "empathy". Seems like "sympathy" would be literally translated from its greek roots to "same emotion"; whereas "empathy" would be "inside emotion". I do not enjoy the idea that "sympathy" is merely an attempt to claim you feel the same wa... Oh wait, I get it now. If empathy is merely the capacity for sympathy, then by saying that you empathize, you are not claiming to know exactly how the person feels, you are just saying that you are capable of how that person feels. I guess I still don't understand. Empathy is the capacity for sympathy right? So if you are sympathetic, then empathy is a prerequisite. Why would someone claim that empathy is more appropriate when comforting someone than sympathy? Is it a time-based claim? Is the idea to have felt sympathetic to theoir emotion in the past and now you are empathetic because you don't feel that way now? I feel like I am not using these words correctly.

Looks like Irishjohn may be having similar feelings.http://www.theculturalapocalypse.com/home/2013/12/11/943x0jinxu7jvnvqahlj2haqzoh2uq

It won't be long until someone successfully uses the defense in court "But I thought it was just a robot!"

Have any of you seen Thomas in Love? I started watching it on Netflix-streaming a few years back and I was confused by the fact that I sat through the entire thing. Now as I'm flailing through the cyberpunk options (I tried to watch Avalon and Nirvana), I'm actually considering watching it again. Of the narratives I've seen, it seems to be the closest narrative to what I want to do with cyberpunk. Demonstrate banal, small-hope realities of the hyper-alienated individuals in a world where Mega-corps have so much control that they rarely need to resort to raw acts of violence. But I remember thinking "Why am I still watxhing this, this is so bad." the entire time.

Wait til they put the update in where you have to take medication for your malaria.

As I listened to Pieter and Tomislav apoligize for their war-game being too similar to a puzzle-game, I'm just shaking my head going "But that's why I like this game!" It's nice to hear them respond to the criticism though because It demonstrates their understanding of the criticism and affirms that they made very intentional choices. As far as I'm concerned, they did the balancing act so well that they are now on the platform that the other end of the tight-rope is attached to and they are receiving due applause. I know far less about the World War II's eastern european-front than any of you war-gamers can imagine. Everything I know is from playing some of the scenarios in Unity of Command. I don't expect the game to express everything about that history, or for it to do so with inarguable accuracy; but as I play it it does feel like I am learning and even empathizing with the tactical decisions that seem to have been necessary (as I play multiple times in order to reveal them to myself). It's strange to me that this would be considered negative criticism, even after listening to you all discuss it with that connotation. If it becomes too painful to listen to players deriding Unity of Command for being too much of a puzzle-game, I would recommend releasing it again as one and then enjoy the complaints that although it is one of the most original and deep puzzle-games to come out recently, it leans a little too far into war-game territory.

She thinks she is a real person. Listen to the second recording, recording number 68. Here's the thing, regardless of whether or not there is a human being on the other side, her circumstances make her a de facto robot in this exchange. The possibility that a person is coerced into acting like a robot through societal circumstances is the most frightening possibility to me. http://io9.com/freakishly-realistic-telemarketing-robots-are-denying-t-1481050295