Bjorn

And then is crushed by said robotic fist.

Steam categories were really, really wonky for awhile, including total resets. But it seems to have stabilized a bunch in the last few months.

Dishonored?

Yeah, there were a few heads that almost felt like they were completely virtual or something. It was definitely weird.

So Steam Streaming is now officially a thing.

11 is the clear beauty pageant winner. Also, I prefer bearded Chris. Also, also, super rad video and congrats/thanks to everyone who contributed to it!

So the police are investigating Michael Brown's stepfather, considering charges of "inciting a riot". Meanwhile, the local police do not appear to be involved in an investigation into the burning of Brown's father's church, which was burned the night of the grand jury announcement, but the circumstances around it look very suspicious (nothing else burned around it, distant from the rest of the fires and the pastor had been a leading critic of the police). The ATF is investigating it.

Jesus, what a mess to even figure out, it's all scattered around multiple timelines. Jim Sterling and John from RPS seem to have commented on it as well.

Actually, it's about ethics in video game journalism. Haha, geddit, because Carly is a journalist in a video game. Ha. Haha.

Ah, that's exactly what I was curious about.

A gger did a several thousand person demographic survey of KiA, many of the results can be seen here. Obviously it's an opt-in survey, so take with a grain of salt, but the results of it are that KiA is 90 percent male and 70 percent white. Amusingly, this was an international survey, and there were plenty of international respondents, and yet the creator still made this graph:

Did that boss...

Giving someone sharp, pointy objects, then asking them to educate Dan...well, it certainly sounds entertaining.

Star Wars x FF7 crossover announced:

Ha, I'm on it as well, with my crazy 41 followers and 189 tweets.

Because ETHICS! Obviously. Y'all can listen to Internet Aristocrat's farewell (it's only about 5 minutes long) if you want. You can listen all about his disdain for cunts and whores, and how disappointed he was when gg lost focus on just blindly attacking SJWs. Also, he quotes Hitler.

Overall I've ended up pretty disappointed in MP. I played two different sessions, and just haven't seen any reason to go back. And I had such high hopes after ME3MP.

Apparently David Gallant, indie dev who made "I get this call every day" and was fired from his day job because of it, had been threatening to withhold Steam keys from people who had previously bought his game but who he could verify were gamergate supporters. Now he's just decided to say fuck it, and not publish to Steam at all:

That spoiler makes me so much more interested in it. Fascinating idea.

Agreed, I just finished day 2, and I continue to be super impressed with it. There's a ton of good design decisions in it, and it all just meshes together so well.

You should reload a save and get the secret ending. Which I delightfully got by accident the first time I fired up the extended cut. To get it:

I'd be curious to know at this point if there's a silver lining to being targeted by the gg mob. Like I had actually forgotten about Redshirt, and I was interested in it at one point. Mitu's blog led me Danielle's positive review of the game. And any of the Thumbs having good, interesting things to make a game usually tells me that it's at least worth checking out. So that led me to check Steam, and it's currently on sale. So I bought it. This will be the fourth or fifth time gamergate has directly led to me buying a game or supporting someone in some capacity since this shit started. I have to hope that for all the bullshit people have experienced, that they've gotten something positive from it as well, whether it's new sales, new friends earned through shared bullshit, or something.

I played all the way through Among the Sleep last night while I was waiting on South Park to download (only took 2-3 hours to play). It's really fucking intense, I can see how some people could actually have problems playing it. It's in the vein of a Gone Home style exploration of a space kind of game. Though ultimately I found myself rushing through it. Each area didn't feel compelling enough to really dig into, and the hints about the story (mostly through a child's drawing) weren't interesting enough to hunt them all down. I think Papa y Yo managed to do a better job of connecting an exploration of childhood trauma with game mechanics. But I find it fascinating that we've seen several of these types of games in the last few years. Oh, seeing your toddler shadow toddling along is one of the most surprisingly affective things I've experienced in a game. It sells just how small and weak you are compared to the world. Oh, there is a DLC prologue chapter, which I think is skippable. It kind of explains things you already figured out and doesn't add much besides another 20-30 minutes of doing the same thing, but in a different house.