Stuart

AUUGH I LOVE THIS ONE SO MUCH. Getting some Pacific Rim and Hokusai vibes from it, specifically the waves.

I've been dreaming about an awesome Dino Crisis reboot. They've been pretty rad dreams.

Well, it was more of how Colonial Marines is now sold next to games like Cabela, Nicktoons on 3DS, and a Tron Wii game. The idea that this hyper advertised, super hyped up AAA video game (that is very bad) now is displayed with those other games is very hilarious. "VIDEO GAMES" is the icing on the cake.

Took this pic today. No comment.

Absolute 100% distilled bliss in musical form. The first song, goddamn...0:14 made me slump back in my chair. http://astronote.bandcamp.com/album/astroblacked

Similar to me. Before getting into this community, I frequented the 4PlayerPodcast forums (which I've talked about a bit in this forum) and in retrospection, most of the people I met there were absolute trash. The worst kind of people, and September last year, I just decided to cut off any ties with them, specially through Steam. My 160 Steam Friend list went down to 70, with only a handful being from the old community. The handful few who actually grew up and became good people.

In relation to this, Kieth Olbermann's response is great:

Great episode, I absolutely loved that introduction. But Sean, dude, YER SPANISH STILL SUCKS. "Esta hoy?" I think you just mean "Hoy" or "Hoy mismo." I mean this in a friendly way, not in a mean-spirited way, btw. But yeah, ya goofed.Seanaman. Also, I loved how Chris got a bit New York at 4:39. "THA TEAM THAT FUCKIN' WON"

Idle Thumbs, the Novelization.

This is an important video. Please, please, please, please, please, PLEASE watch this video. Especially if you are in the games industry in any way, and are white and male (which is like 90-95% of this community). And if you're instantly put off by the thumbnail, the title, or how this dude talks, you are part of the problem this guy is talking about and you REALLY need to watch it. Seriously, please watch this video. It's something I wish people talked about and people rarely do, and this guy not only does it well, but he does it by pouring his heart out and being down to earth. Genuine.

Ey SuperBiasedMan. If you wanna co-op in DS1, just holla. Be sure to get this so matchmaking is better. http://steamcommunity.com/app/211420/discussions/0/828935269278734403/

There's also a whole discussion of him appropriating and repackaging songs by people of color musicians for the purpose of satire and parody, but I don't want to get into that right now and in this thread. Here's fancy schmancy Arvo Part. One of my favs!

Always need dem gaming towels! Anyway:

For fucks sake Thumbs, you're on a roll with making me die of laughter. Great episode.

Oh my jesus.

I just came by to say that I love how you're all writing the date in shitty Comic Sans. Carry on.

It all makes sense now.

I'm not sure to find this creepy or very creepy. I'll go with just creepy and leave it at that.

Concerning "mansplaining": The smartest thing to do if you feel you are mansplaining on issues not related to you (since you're a dude) is just let those who are most likely connected to the problem (i.e, women, LGBQT people, minorities overall) talk instead of you. Problem is, this community, though quite progressive, is mostly made up of straight, white men, so it becomes hard to quiet down and let those people talk because...there aren't many of those people around in the community. In that case, I suggest reading stuff by those people (like the stuff I linked) on the issue at hand, and then internalize what they say and understand their side on the issue rationally. Overall, this is all about being a decent human being. I apologize for my bad grammar, correcting this atm.

Thiiings.

Here are other write-ups on the Temkin thing. http://rapacityinblue.tumblr.com/post/91487926533/bokhyllen-dezlet-maxistentialist-this-is http://auntiepixelante.com/?p=2282 http://lilithbell.wordpress.com/2014/07/12/rapists-arent-monsters-and-thats-why-theyre-scary/ http://www.themarysue.com/cah-sexual-assault/ https://plus.google.com/u/0/+RyanMacklin/posts/21LDUmHhE1Q http://kotaku.com/cards-against-humanitys-creator-said-the-wrong-things-1605542083 All of them important reads. I purposefully didn't link the RockPaperShotgun article on it because it felt mansplainy, non-confrontational, and jokey. What's eerier about this is how very little people are talking about this. Specially those closest to Temkin like the Giant Bomb guys (specially Dave Lang and Patrick Klepek) and other CAH people. It's all around weird and pretty disgraceful and cowardly.

The victim's word is more important than that of the accused, especially if the accused leaves veiled threats within an essay that also denounces a serious accusation as mere "gossip". This is the victim's response: http://humanityagainstassault.tumblr.com/post/91625206355/truth

Haha, awesome!