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That seems like kind of an unnecessarily harsh characterization of the arguments others are making here. Personally, I think some good points are being raised by clyde and others and it's been a really interesting conversation to read. Ultimately though, I think I do tend to agree with your point of view. At the end of the day, when you consider what Valve is (a storefront), I think it is perfectly reasonable and within their rights to take some steps to ensure that there is some minimum standard of quality present in all of the products they sell. This is literally what every store that sells anything does. It will never be perfect and there will always be bias and some really good or interesting things may not make it onto the store. But in aggregate, I think Steam and customers will be better off with some type of more aggressive curation that prevents tons of shit permeating the store. I think it is slightly unreasonable to expect that they should sell anything and everything people submit, especially with the seemingly exponential increase of the amount of new games released on Steam each year. They are a store, not a junkyard, and the problem is only going to get worse as more and more games flood an already saturated market. On Jim Sterling, that's cool to hear that he isn't a shithead. He sounds like a decent guy. But I don't think I can ever bring myself to watch his stuff because his brand is so goddamn off-putting. I do wonder though if he has found such great success due to or in spite of his style.

I've never actually watched a Jimquisition video prior to clicking that video above and I have to say, that guy is somehow so much worse than he looks from his video thumbnails. His "style", if you can call it that, is so far past terrible I don't have words for how bad it makes the insides of my body feel. Is he going for like "serial killer nazi pimp" with that incredibly stupid outfit?

More of my cat purring. She is seriously the sweetest goddamn cat.

http://www.polygon.com/2015/1/14/7545635/harvest-moons-story-of-seasons-has-a-sublime-new-trailer It's no secret, I'm a huge Harvest Moon fan (Magical Melody on Gamecube is one of my top 3 F-GOATS). So naturally, I'm excited for this game. The Streetpass functionality and being able to visit friends' homesteads and share resources all sounds like like some pretty cool stuff. So... anyone else excited for this?

Wait, is this seriously a name Ganon has had in a game? If they are gonna play it that loosely, I vote for Ganakin Dorfwalker. Did you know he built Navi?

Out of curiosity, I've been checking Amazon over the last few weeks to see if there would be any WiiU price drops... and $250 for a used/refurbished WiiU is the best I've seen. It's the strangest goddamn thing considering how often those $250 PS4 w/ game deals keep coming up.

For Twitch panels, I used this website: https://nerdordie.com/free-resources/customizable-twitch-panels/ . It let's you do some basic customization of the colors and size and spits out some really nice, consistent and professional looking panel images. This is a pretty popular resource that a lot of streamers seemingly use and it's much quicker and easier than trying to make your own. For information like follower count, subs, donations, popup alerts, etc. StreamLabs (formerly Twitch Alerts) seems to be the standard: https://streamlabs.com/. It spits out a bunch of .txt files in a location you specify that are constantly being updated with the latest data. You can then set up text with various effects in your streaming software that is linked to these files. In OBS, it is as simple as adding a new text source and linking it to the desired file rather than putting static text in. Then through filters you can add scroll effects and such. I'm not sure I'm the best person to give advice on pre/post/away stream screens since mine is just a dorky looping video of my cats having a boxing match, but I handle it by setting up a few extra scenes in OBS, linking the video file (with the video source volume muted), and layering some images and scrolling text on top. When I need to toggle to one of those scenes I just click the appropriate scene in OBS and it switches from my game feed to one of the alternate scenes with a simple fade effect. I've been constantly tweaking this presentation stuff and trying to make improvements little by little so I'm definitely also curious to hear what others around here recommend.

Oh man, I just Google image searched 'joy con' and scrolled down just a bit to find... Ronald. Fucking. Reagan.

To be fair, people do call Nintendo out on their shit, but everyone seems to be so weirdly enamored by them that they ultimately get a pass where other companies would get eviscerated for some of the shit they do. In addition to the things you mentioned, there was the Tomodachi Life controversy, the initial outcry that this Zelda would be yet another entry featuring a straight white male, and plenty of other things along those lines. I mean, it is interesting to see some of the same people criticizing Giant Bomb for their lack of focus on political issues in here gushing over how amazing all this Nintendo shit is when you could argue that Nintendo has a long track record of being just as problematic in those regards, and maybe even more so.

So looks like Virtual Console won't be available at launch and all they are saying about it is that they will share more details "in the future". And there is already a game that is larger than the 32 GB available on the Switch which, to be fair, is only going to be an issue if you aren't buying physical carts (and aren't downloading much DLC). Nintendo is fucking weird man. There are so many things about the Switch on a fundamental level that are just being handled in the strangest way. I'll still probably get one at some point down the road but I think I'll be happy getting my Nintendo fix from my WiiU for quite awhile still.

I finally saw Trolls with my kids. It was dumb, enjoyable, and extremely predictable. On paper, it should be the worst movie but I found it oddly charming. I normally don't like musicals but this one worked for me because the musical numbers were generally decent and there was a fair amount of winking and nodding at how ridiculous all of the singing was. And it definitely helped that the art style was utterly gorgeous. I think my daughter nailed it when she said "This movie looks like Yoshi's Wooly World".

Ooh, vocal cats are the best! Our other cat Pima is a fat cat and she just constantly lets out these little irresistible fat cat grunts. Even when a cat lets out an angry growl where they are clearly saying "don't pick me up", it's hard to interpret it as anything other than pure cuteness.

I totally respect that position and it has a lot of merit. Most frozen burritos are bullshit and they either maintain a frozen core or end up exploded and burn the fuck out of your mouth. But the two specific types of El Monterey burritos I mentioned transcend all other frozen burritos. Not only do they have the best goddamn flavor I've ever tasted in a frozen burrito, the instructions tell you to just open one end of the package and throw it in the microwave with the plastic and everything so it ends up cooking perfectly. If you ever decide you can't resist a frozen burrito any longer, those are the ones to get.

Yes. Well, I microwaved them and everything. In case that was a trick question.

My diet has consisted of 66.7% burritos over the last 5 days or so. El Monterey egg, cheese and jalapeno burritos for breakfast. Random shit from Sprouts for lunch. And 1-2 El Monterey bean, 3-cheese and jalapeno burritos for dinner. So actually more than 66.7% on some nights. But tonight I mixed it up for dinner and am having a Lilly B's organic bean, rice and cheese burrito. I really like burritos.

Anna is a fucking trip. I am having a really hard time figuring this show out and it is in large part because everything she does seems so random and she just doesn't give a fuck about anything. Even when she blacks out she just wakes up and is like "Oh, I blacked out again and I'm all bruised and bloody, eh fuck it, I'm gonna just wander around town now and make everyone as suspicious as possible, and maybe crush a dying deer's skull with a rock". And I actually really like that aspect of it and think she's a fantastic character. It's just slightly annoying that she and everyone else seems to know something more about the shit that is going on than what the show is revealing to me, if that makes any sense. I'm guessing there is some kind of big cover up with key residents of Kettering where people are being sacrificed to a government organization in exchange for economic security and those people get flung into some trans-dimensional bullshit and are trying to communicate with time traveling moths... or something that is not at all what I just said. And the owner of the mill is the creepiest looking dude I have ever seen.

My wife is making me watch The Kettering Incident. I'm 3 episodes in and I think I like it? But it also kind of feels like they are purposefully withholding way too much information from the viewer and there is so much random shit happening that makes it all a bit hard to follow.

Such a shame that this thread has been neglected for so long! Here is a good video I recently recorded of our newest kitty purring her freaking head off. Her name is Winter and if you so much as touch her, she immediately starts the most violent purring I've ever heard. (you might need to turn the sound up a bit to hear it)

I just finished listening to the E3 2016 episodes and I mostly stand by what I said previously about these convention episodes. It's hard to put my finger on exactly what rubs me the wrong way about them but I get this weird sense that a lot of these game developers think they are celebrities or something and just have a way of being overly boisterous in a desperate attempt to sound cool on a podcast. Maybe I'm being a bit harsh but this whole "we're a bunch of cool dudes hanging out and partying and everyone listening is probably so entertained by our antics" thing just annoys me way more than it probably should. Two notable exceptions though. A McElroy or two or three were on one of the episodes and those guys are legitimately entertaining. They just seemed like honestly funny and entertaining people and that whole segment was a joy to listen to. I think I need to check out some of their other podcast stuff. And Cara Ellison is absolutely wonderful. I had heard her on a podcast before and really enjoyed her perspective but kind of forgot about her until I heard her again on one of the E3 episodes. But glad to be reminded of her once again because she is very entertaining and her sense of humor is right up my alley.

Getting Vivecraft to work in single player or in a multiplayer server is super easy. Just download it, install it, and start playing. If you don't have Optifine you will need that too but they walk you through everything you need to do on the Vivecraft site. The mod is even completely up to date and I've recently used it with Minecraft 1.11.2 in both single and multiplayer. I highly recommend it!

Something looks very very wrong with those horses.

Well fuck everything. This is pretty great though!

I'll attempt to clarify since you are obviously referring to me here. I was really put off by her initial appearance on the show. I thought she was very rude and belligerent and it definitely gave me a more negative impression of her than of most other guests they've had on the show. I don't think that is an unreasonable reaction to have and I assumed that this 'lasting legacy' you keep referring to is just other people having the same opinion I did based on that appearance. I would think any guest who comes on a show and acts kind of shitty like that would have a similar 'lasting legacy', like David Jaffe, who was even worse (especially considering he was sober and still came across as a massive prick) I don't really know much of anything about Leigh Alexander beyond her two appearances on Giant Bomb. She apologized on her second appearance and that was cool. But I can understand people having a negative impression of her if they don't know who she is and all they are going off of is that one appearance. And sure, a whole bunch of those people who have a negative opinion of her probably do because she is a PoC. I'm not disputing that. But saying that that is 100% the motivation for everyone lumps me into that group by default and that is, quite frankly, bullshit.

I'm just talking about my personal reaction to the episode she appeared in. I'm not at all plugged in to how the community at large reacted to any of this versus how they reacted to dumb shit other people did and I even made it clear that I was giving her the benefit of the doubt. Thanks for the unnecessarily hostile response though. That was real cool!

Eh, it was pretty bad though. But she was really wasted and did come back on a later episode and apologize so she at least seems like a decent person with some level of self awareness who just acted kind of dumb. David Jaffe on the other hand... there are very few people in the world that have managed to irritate me as much as that guy.