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    It isn't necessarily at the scale/detail you all talked about in the Pod, but Parkitect (a rival Theme Park Video Game that leans more towards classic RCT) has some degree of Logistics to the management of the park. Each shop in the park has a back door and needs to be supplied with their ingredients and merchandise, hauled by a worker. It's a much smaller team and is still in alpha (albeit playable) but it's neat to have multiple games of this type out there trying things out! There's a good look at some of their stuff on the devlog

    http://themeparkitect.tumblr.com/post/149337502002/devlog-update-111

     

    A previous update also talks about larger scale garbage and delivery facilities

     

    http://themeparkitect.tumblr.com/post/148987129097/devlog-update-110

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    Giant Bomb Presents is pretty cool. Austin interviewed the Her Story developer and it was a good interview. It also didn't spoil anything (afaik, I haven't played the game), so don't hold back on listening if you haven't play it yet and plan to, maybe.

     

    Also Austin proved that is officially the greatest man alive on the latest Beastcast because he actually knows what the fuck procedural generation is unlike 99% of the people who play video games. Thank you, Austin Walker. Educate the ignorant. Thank you.

    It helps that Austin is both an academic who studies games but also someone who has made his own games in the past (such as http://thecalcutec.itch.io/ascentury ). Procedural generation factors heavily into his particular studies in grad school if I recall (the changing relations between play and labor).

    I was way into Giant Bomb for a long time and in the Dan era I kinda fell off for a bit, only really watching stuff with Vinny in it (so just quicklooks with Alex for a while). I instead started watching Streamfriends (on twitch and streamfriends.tv archives) of which Austin was an early founding member (Check out their Long Live the Queen Playlist, which features Austin and Idle Thumbs very own Danielle Riendeau :D 

    ) so when he got hired on at GB it kinda got me more excited for GB than I've been in a long time. Its good to have another writer there, especially one who is even more progressive than Patrick was.

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    This article on how Dollhouse is a parody of Joss Whedon's own problematic feminism is my everything this week. 

     

    http://thoughtcatalog.com/arthur-chu/2015/06/someone-already-did-the-definitive-pop-culture-parody-of-joss-whedon-it-was-joss-whedon/

     

    The TLDR of it is that the character of Topher (who runs the tech in the titular Dollhouse) is a representation of Joss himself, doing damage and fueling the systems of oppression while also believing he's genuinely helping, stuck in a loop of self-sabotaging 'feminism' of sorts. As someone who watched every episode of that show (yes I know) it was a pretty compelling read that I agree with totally. It even seems self-aware of this notion.

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    Ad talk: Speaking of 56 hour Audible Audiobooks, I got the complete works of Sherlock Holmes, also for one credit. Turns out I accidentally stayed subscribed after the last time I did a free trial (via thumbs I think) for six months, whoops.

     

    This here link that you are looking at its highlighted in link colors and everything is the Traffic Engineer who made the city called Victoria and its really impressive and also informative.

     

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    I haven't read the mini, but I did read a lot of Hardware back in the day which is where the character comes from. Man I really miss Dwayne McDuffie.

    Oddly it doesn't actually focus on the title character all that much, instead following a transgender Police Lieutenant investigating disappearing trans sexworkers. I only got part way into issue 2 so far but I appreciate that it even tries having a strong trans hero

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    Been talking lots of comics with my friend Natalie the last few days. She recommended me a Milestone book by Maddie (formerly Adam) Blaustein, best known perhaps as the voice actress who played Pokemon called Deathwish, which featured a transgender protagonist. Like most Milestone stuff its pretty progressive and features early art of JH Williams III.

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    I've been there Grayson, I'm still not super social but I'm getting better with anxiety meds. Not really sure I have a ton of advice but maybe if there's something cool going on in Vancouver sometime we can hang out.

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    Yeah, I hope Jim Sterling and Moviebob at least raises the issue with The Escapist.

    So what you're saying is that instead of trusting the definite word straight from the source, they're believing a secondary source that largely makes things up, because it fits better with the narrative in their head?

    SURELY they wouldn't be THAT naïve?

    I doubt Jim will, he really seems content to try and play the Total Biscuit style WAIT TO SEE ALL THE FACTS from my POV.

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    Kris Graft at Gamasutra put up an interesting opinion piece regarding the identity crisis that games enthusiasts and developers are currently experiencing.  I think his calling this situation an "Identity Crisis" is spot on, it takes me right back to all those developmental psych classes I should have paid more attention to.

    The title makes me think of bad, overly angsty DC comics crossover events myself. Which is not unfitting

     

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