Bjorn

That's adorable!

This isn't the right thread for spoiler pyramids.

I think I pulled on the wrong thread.

Edited: Wrong picture, wrong thread.

Whatever the lady wanted to pursue, since most of the last decade has been focused on my current business.

Every time I listen to Reveal, I'm simultaneously impressed by the quality and bummed by the content. I caught up on a few others today after listening to the temp one, including the strawberry picking one, which featured an interview with a farm worker who was happy to have been hired by a new farm that not only paid fairly, but provided amenities like shade for breaks and working toilets.

That kind of describes what the part of Chewin It I listened to today was doing. Not so much looking to insert a prepared bit, but just milling around looking for something to catch. They were literally talking about LA traffic (this is another thing, every comedian who lives in LA feels a compulsion to talk about living in LA. ProTip: We don't fucking care), and it was kind of obviously about trying to get a riff going, but was just meandering. Will do!

Weirdly enough, the lady and I would professionally throw ourselves into a new business, probably within 6 months after taking some time off and doing some planning. We can't really imagine not working, we'd just rather be doing something else.

So, in my experience, I often find that actual comedians are just not that funny on podcasts. I've tried a bunch over the last few years, just today tried Chewin It with a couple of the Broken Lizard guys, and it was another flop. I don't know if it's me, or the shows, but comedy and podcasts just don't seem to be a successful intersection for me.

Fund a remake of this. Also, for reals, take a vacation. A real vacation, where I don't have to check my email, or work, or take calls or any of that bullshit. Like, just vacate.

I'm having problems finding what the criteria and requirements of use for the SDN list even is, although that could just be my google foo failing me.

Free range cat sanctuary.

One was free, and one was sold, but the download just automatically included the free one? I think. I bought them directly from...ZombieCow (was that the old name?) before they ever came to Steam.

I keep going back to thinking about the list to filter who can and can't download the Unreal kit, and am flabbergasted by its use for game development software. The only reason I can think of is that there is fear that someone could use it to develop either simulators or propaganda. Someone probably could. But that someone, who would do that, could just as easily pirate the kit, or use a "safe" name to download it. The barrier to acquire it, if you don't care about support or a legal license, is no barrier at all. So, the implementation of that list can functionally only have a single outcome: alienating people with certain names from access to a common tool for a big and popular industry. I can't think of a defensible reason that anyone would ever implement that list for this specific case.

Has a price been announced for Firewatch yet? Didn't see it on the Steam page. I'm using some reward points to buy a Steam card and was debating between the $50 or $100, kinda depends on what this costs on what I need for the foreseeable future.

I rewatched it...a year or two ago after having not seen it since it's theatrical release. On release, I remember not caring for it very much, it easily being my least favorite Kubrick movie. I liked it more this time around, but I still don't think it's Kubrick at his best. Cruise's character is, to me, by far the most boring and least interesting character in the movie (full disclosure, I super duper don't like Cruise and this may color my interpretation). It's what I often think of as a British problem in story telling (Kubrick was American, but it's a style I associate most often with the British), viewing extreme experiences through the eyes of a "normal", as a bland outsider. I don't think it works as often as it is used. As for why people don't like it, the themes running through it are male insecurity (across professional, personal, financial and sexual fronts), female sexual desire/fantasy and glimpses into a kind of debauchery that seems both fantastical and real at the same time, the kind of debauchery most people know that they could never experience but might want to, a dream that's just far enough out of reach to be aggravating to be informed of it's existence. Those are all the things I like about it, but not necessarily the themes a lot of Americans want to think about when watching a movie. It just doesn't quite work for me because I think there's a better and more interesting story waiting to be told in that material (probably Kidman's story, though I'd take the piano player as well).

I've always enjoyed the near nonsensical nature of Demon's Souls. Hatoful Boyfriend is probably my favorite name from recent memory though.

I could have worded that more clearly, but generally I think there's still a pretty clear demarcation between the YouTube/Twitch cults of personality that have developed around some streamers and organizations that have a variety of staff that will come and go over time. If Bain suddenly took a job at Polygon, I'd still say the same thing about not liking seeing devs directly hand off promotional work to him. On an organizational level, I could understand if someone had the same sentiment about Kotaku because their parent company has acted in some pretty reprehensible ways. Edited to add: On topic of X2, I'm still really pumped for it, TB notwithstanding. After last year's AAA releases left me feeling pretty meh, Xcom 2 has been a shining beacon to look forward to.

I generally think the biggest issue with fwbs is one of communication. People often have a hard enough time communicating honestly and openly with friends or with romantic partners, but blend the two with vague boundaries and expectations and not enough communication and it's a drama stew ready to put to boil.

Oh, I totally agree with you on that, it's just I think it's sometimes easy to forget that things we're aware of generally on this board don't represent the knowledge that others have. Also, I hadn't gone and looked at that tweet. It's not just directing a link to him, but he was given a preview copy, which they then advertised on their official channel. That's...got some more problems than just happening to retweet him or something. I'd rather not see my favorite devs doing business with him. That feeds the symbiotic beast that now exists between the most powerful tubers and devs.

I still wonder how much awareness a lot of people have of TB and how he's courted his audience over the last couple of years. I saw a thread the other day on the Warframe forums where someone linked to a TB video, and easily half of the people who commented had no idea who he was. I think, even being a pretty dedicated enthusiast, it's possible to have missed TB's existence. And on the dev side, they're probably more likely to know who the popular 'tubers are for marketing reasons, but that doesn't mean they have an awareness of all the actions those people have taken. Even if you were doing some vetting of who you tweeted, a quick google of TB doesn't turn up any red flags in the first few pages, and would even paint him as sympathetic with stories about his cancer.

Do you find yourself routinely daydreaming about your friend the way you would about any crush? I think if you're still in that kind of headspace, maintaining a healthy friendship could be difficult. Regular contact is going to continue fanning the flames, even just inside your head, and being in that kind of mentality will naturally affect how you act around that friend. That said, I think the friendship can be kept and survive just fine, but I'd suggest backing off a bit for a few weeks if this is someone you see on a regular basis. Even a little bit of separation can do a lot to clear the head. Keep in touch over texts or social media, but no alone time, dinners, Netflix, etc., for a few weeks. I know if I'm crushing on someone pretty hard and it's not going to go anywhere, just some space really helps get things back to a better balance in my own head. But, if you don't have that kind of crush mentality going on right now, then you're probably fine. Dude, that blows. Fuck 'em. I lost two of my closest friends from high school in a similar way (not exact, but close enough), combination of weird jealousy in their relationship plus all of us growing and maturing in different directions. It still sucks though, they're people I'd enjoy catching up with once or twice a year if that was a possiblity.