Zeusthecat

It's really too bad that the push towards formula has been so prevalent. So many people I talk to these days are convinced that formula is just as good as the real thing because of how strongly doctors push it in America and how we are supposedly so technologically advanced that we have figured out how to cook up a perfect substitute for the real thing in a lab. That's a great article and the science behind breast milk is endlessly fascinating.

Please tell me what you did! It's the same freaking link I used! Edit: Okay, got it now. Just had to explicitly declare it as a link instead of just pasting it into the post. It's because I said bad things about Apple. I just know it.

As I've mentioned before on these forums at one point, I just don't and will probably never understand all the hype around Apple's yearly announcements of the exact same overpriced shit that they unveil every single year (although I guess they did release a watch this year that I've heard exactly zero people talk about since it's release so there's one new overpriced thing). So I was very happy to stumble across this article that was written specifically to cater to my opinion: Link I've just come to accept the fact that I'm an Apple hater. No disrespect to any Apple lovers out there, this brand just never clicked with me and that means I must hate it irrationally because it's Apple and you have to pick a side. Edit: Dammit, can't get the link to work. I don't understand the internet sometimes. You would think just copying and pasting a link from the address bar would go to that thing and not some stupid separate comment section thing. GOT IT!!

With Unepic and Outlast finished, my Steam Backlog is down to 5: Team Fortress 2 Batman Arkham City FTL Binding of Isaac Kerbal Space Program I'm planning to put about 20 hours into TF2 before I consider it completed (I've got 10 hours logged so far) and then I'll shift my focus to Arkham City which will probably take me several weeks to go through since Destiny will probably be stealing a lot of my time. So close now. And man, TF2 has changed so much since I played it on Orange Box. It is a scary and intimidating and microtransactiony game. I kind of miss the simplicity of old TF2.

I finally knocked two more games off of my Steam backlog over the weekend. First, I finished Unepic. This game gave a horrible first impression. The premise behind the story isn't necessarily terrible (dude goes to the bathroom while playing a tabletop game with his friends and is transported to a medieval castle) but the writing and voice acting is absolutely atrocious. After five minutes I turned the character voices off and the game immediately improved. I guess terrible writing is a lot easier to deal with when you are reading it rather than hearing it spoken. I contemplated quitting this game after a couple hours in but decided to stick with it as I did find the Metroidvania and RPG elements somewhat appealing. Over time, the game surprisingly ended up growing on me quite a bit and revealed itself to be a much more competent and well designed game than I originally gave it credit for. Navigating through areas was satisfying and just challenging enough so as not to be frustrating. There was a wide variety of different enemies with various strengths and weaknesses that forced you to get creative and actually use a lot of the spells, scrolls, and potions that you might otherwise ignore in a lot of games. And the boss fights were extremely intimidating at first, but manageable once you figured out a workable strategy. There were definitely a few bosses that seemed completely impossible at first and had me considering whether I really wanted to keep going or not, but each time I pushed through and eventually found a way to crush them. Looking back, those boss fights were actually all really good. I don't normally like boss fights but they really did an excellent job of presenting a seemingly impossible situation and then giving you a wide enough variety of tools to overcome it and feel smart and badass for doing so. So I'm definitely glad I ended up playing this. Overall, the gameplay ended up being quite enjoyable despite the terrible writing and finishing the game actually felt like a real accomplishment. It's just too bad my reward for finishing was a dumb scene where the bad guys in the game go into the real world and try to sodomize a guy who says bad things about Unepic. I would normally spoiler an end game detail like that but this game doesn't earn the right to have anything about it spoilered. The other game I finished was Outlast. I'm not really a fan of survival horror but felt obligated to complete this since a friend had gifted it to me and I consider it a part of my backlog which I am so damn close to completing now. It was pretty alright. I got a good handful of jump scares throughout and the atmosphere was good and creepy through a lot of the game. Similar to other survival horror games I've brought myself to play, my favorite part of this game was the first couple hours. At that point, everything is still a mystery, things are so much creepier because you have no information to go off of, and it isn't even really clear what kind of game it is. And then, the naked men start showing up. I don't know, call me a weirdo but there is something about staring at the flaccid penis of a deranged, emaciated cannibal that just sucks all tension out of the game. I guess that's how they thought they could bring something new to the tired old "spooky insane asylum" cliche: just make all the enemies naked. It's just really frustrating because there is no good reason why they wouldn't be wearing clothes. It is stormy and presumably cold outside, plus there are other deranged people around that apparently like to castrate other patients as well. If I was a patient there and had witnessed the horrors that had been committed, the first thing I would do is put on five layers of clothes. Flaccid penises aside, this game was entertaining enough to hold my interest for the 7 or so hours it took me to complete it. I enjoyed exploring around and the tense situations definitely got my heart pumping. Unfortunately, as the mystery unraveled, it became clear that it was a really stupid mystery. Like really stupid. I'll just leave it at that.

Oh absolutely agreed. The story in this game just sucks, period, whether you are doing a violent or non-violent playthrough. And fuck that boat guy that calls the guards on you at the end if you were doing a violent playthrough. I immediately restarted that mission and murdered him before he could ever sound the alarm. Especially considering all the morally reprehensible stuff you have to do to complete the game 'non-violently'. Luckily for me, the act of playing the game was just so so good that I was able to keep my eyes from rolling out of their sockets. Story bits aside, I got immense satisfaction out of both playthroughs.

I did a non-violent playthrough followed immediately by a super violent playthrough. Highly recommended. Also, going through it a second time made me realize how non-linear the levels were, even if you were primarily going the stealthy route. There are a surprising number of alternate ways to get through a level that you never really realize on your first playthrough. The level design in this game is among the best in my opinion.

As far as revenue sharing goes, yeah, I don't think tip sharing really makes sense. Besides, is there even a way to determine what tips were intended for what videos or are they just done at the channel level? The way I see it, the revenue sharing really makes the most sense when it comes to ad revenue generated by views. Similar to music royalties racking up whenever a song is played, it gives some basis for the number of views that video generated. Considering these ad agencies or whatever are out there paying these Youtubers for giving them another avenue to market to people, it makes sense that these companies should also pay a portion of that to the game creator since the game is most definitely a critical component of any given Youtube video and is undoubtedly responsible for some percentage of those views. Looking at it that way makes it way less of a contentious issue for me. It's less about Youtubers having to share their revenue in that case and more about these ad agencies adequately compensating the parties whose content generated the views to give them an audience to market to.

Completely agreed. Ninety-three, I do appreciate your perspective on certain things but I don't think this is the place or the topic for you to start aggressively asserting your dissenting opinion on rape culture. And I find your constant insistence to not agree with anything unless you can draw a direct causality line between two things to be naive and immature. It's a complex world with countless things have countless effects on countless other things. Just because a thing doesn't have a direct effect on another thing, doesn't mean that it doesn't contribute in other indirect ways.

I'm not sure I understand the question but are you basically asking if someone would be totally fine to make a Let's Play of a Let's Play and profit off of it without having to pay royalties/license fees to the original Let's Player? That's probably not what you're asking but it would be interesting to see how Youtuber's would react if someone did a Youtube video of their Youtube video with commentary over it. Would they try to demand a cut of the profits?

There is no joke. I just keep seeing her face right next to Quiet's on Kotaku today and just wanted to share my desire to have a scantily clad religious bigot who denies marriage licenses instead of a scantily clad sexy super soldier in my super awesome spy game. You should know by now that a large percentage of my posts make little to no sense.

Unfortunately, I have not really enjoyed their latest stuff all that much so you might not be missing a whole lot (but I still want more in the hopes that they pull it back together). But they have such a deep catalog of great songs that I still regularly go back and give them a fresh listen. S.C.I.E.N.C.E., Make Yourself, Morning View Sessions, and A Crow Left of the Murder were all incredibly solid albums for me. Brandon Boyd's vocals are top notch.

All natural lashes baby! One lash falls into my cereal and two more spring up in its place.

So since this is on PC I really hope someone makes this as an alternate character skin for Quiet (but still with the lack of clothing): If someone does this, I will upgrade my PC and purchase this game immediately.

You know what I hate? When I'm eating a bowl of cereal or granola and look down at my spoon to see ONE OF MY FUCKING EYELASHES just sitting there in a shallow spoon pool of milk. I know it's my eyelash but I don't want to fucking eat that.

That's case closed in my mind. It really isn't at all an unreasonable thing to expect.

The only MGS game I played was MGS 4 and it was a pretty good game as far as gameplay is concerned. That being said, I don't get what the big fuss is over Kojima's legacy and he just comes across as a gross pervert to me. It's really hard to respect a person's work when they put such a big emphasis on boobies, even when it clashes really hard with everything else that is going on. I mean, boobies are fine and all but Jesus, the last thing I need when everything is going to shit in a game and there's all these life or death scenarios is for a half naked woman to come into the scene just to sexy everything up. It's so childish.

For what it's worth, I think I'm convinced by syntheticgerbil's argument that it is totally fair for developers/publishers/whatever to take a "royalty" cut from Youtuber's that create content based on their games. Songwriters receive royalties whenever their song is played on the radio. So it stands to reason that a Youtube personality that creates content based on another person's work should also pay a royalty to the original creator whenever someone views their video. Sure, they inject their personality and everything but the video game they are playing is a core part of their production and they would have nothing without it. Seems pretty straightforward and fair to me. Honestly, I haven't given this much thought until now and tended to take the side of the Youtube personalities. But after giving it some thought, is it really that unfair for a Youtube personality to have to pay a royalty to broadcast someone else's content to the internet?

I was actually quite happy with a lot of those comments. The hypocrisy is just so palpable and obvious that pretty much everyone has to see it.

Metal Gear Solid: not at all a dong euphemism.

http://kotaku.com/ftc-slams-youtube-group-for-deceptive-xbox-marketing-ca-1728237588 Come on gamergate. It's right there in front of you.

It also makes sense that nanomachines, like nerve endings, would be most concentrated in guy's weiners. They really should all be wearing crotchless pants if they want to get the most out of their nanomachines.

I went to an Incubus concert tonight. My second ever concert with my first being Radiohead a few years ago. It was pretty incredible and reaffirmed why Incubus is my favorite band. I wish they'd get back into the swing of things and put out a new album or two.

Man, that does sound like my cup of tea. But oh well. Probably never gonna happen.

Wow. Okay, so I have almost no knowledge or exposure to D&D or other tabletop style games so this article is super confusing. Do people just like make up their own rules and stories or is there some kind of framework they are supposed to follow? It all sounds so random and arbitrary and like a big game of pretend. That being said, it sounds totally super awesome and fun if you had a good group of people. It's kind of sad knowing that I probably completely missed out on having some of these kinds of experiences. At 30, chances are pretty low that I would find even a single person I know that would be down.