jennegatron
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Every Tuesday I would make my boyfriend round up his friends and we would go play pub trivia when we were still in Oklahoma, and I miss it all the time.
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ugh. i love cats so much.
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I guess I should have said that I didn't need to be Katie. It worked for me even though Katie is not a real character. You know almost nothing about Katie except that outside of a couple old assignments you find where you figure out that Katie is a diligent student to be contrasted to Sam's more creative rebellious self & that she only writes postcards home, but makes pretty much no effort to call. I loved Gone Home because it was about sisters and leaving home to find out your younger sister had changed into her own person, but it isn't one of my favorite games. What I meant more to me than the game itself was getting to share it with my own little sister and talk about it. I think Firewatch does succeed in making me feel like Henry the character has made choices (outside of my control) that matter, as well as the choices I made playing as Henry mattered, which is something I didn't feel was true about Katie in Gone Home.
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Agreed SBM. Maybe it's that pretty much every single authored character (not avatar) doesn't look or act like me because I'm not a white man, and a video game's power fantasy isn't aspirational for me that this didn't bother me. I almost never feel like I am the person I'm supposed to be playing as. The only exception I can think of is Cibele, and not much else. It's interesting to me that people bring up Gone Home so much. In the case of Gone Home I felt like a big sister, because I am a big sister, not really because Katie, the character, did much to make me feel that way. I would be kind of surprised if men who played Gone Home really identified as a Katie, the big sister, rather than a big brother or just an intruder on an existing life. But the story isn't about Katie. It's about Sam and it's about Lonnie. You don't really need to be Katie for the story to work. I felt like Henry in this game because the game taught me that Henry was a little bit selfish, and a little bit sarcastic, and a little lonely. I could role play as that person easily. Henry was his own person with his own motivations and thoughts and feelings that didn't always match what I would do, but I could easily put myself in his shoes. Probably because most of the media produced and consumed expects me to relate to a male protagonist that I have little to nothing in common with.
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Yeah, the screen goes from full to letter box in that moment to help draw your attention to it, and the direction of the game and the choices made re: music and stuff is supposed to draw your attention to it, but it's a pretty banal conversation if you listen to it again. I spent the whole time trying to draw her attention to the fact that she left her radio open, but didn't confront her about it as I didn't think she actually said anything too incriminating. It does kind of sound like she's saying that you don't know what you're doing (to be fair that's true, even if she's not actually saying that.)
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Regardless of how my professional life makes me feel (bad), I get to come home to my best friend & my cat every night.
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Delilah is just having a mundane conversation with someone, and if you go back and listen to it again, that's clear. She's in charge of more than just you, and is just talking to someone else. Delilah & Henry's relationship mirroring online relationships makes sense even given the 1989 setting, because what's actually being represented is a short but emotionally important relationship (at the time) but looking back it wasn't as meaningful as you though. This could be a friendship with someone before they move away, or a summer romance. I really liked that it spent all this time letting the characters voice conspiracy theories (that mirror what players probably thought) but it's all actually explainable. At its heart it's a fairly low stakes relationship story.
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Idle Cook Club - Veggie Feeds-me: My Body Is Ready
jennegatron replied to SuperBiasedMan's topic in Idle Banter
I can see how the crunchiness of the un(der)cooked pepper would be weird. Sorry it didn't work out the way you wanted sucks2Bme, but at least you got philly cheesesteaks out of it, and that's really the best outcome of just about anything. -
He tries to make them feel like they're part of an experiment because they start talking about some sort of conspiracy, and it's easier to sell people on a notion they've already entertained.
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Idle Cook Club - Veggie Feeds-me: My Body Is Ready
jennegatron replied to SuperBiasedMan's topic in Idle Banter
Late entry into the bean challenge we ramen with green beans & pork. -
Yeah, I'm inclined to think that Ned just didnt want to confront the physical reality of his son's death anymore than he already had.
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Ned had the boombox disassembled on his table. Maybe he stole equipment from the research facility to make the alarm? I don't know. I don't love the alarm being picked up for no explicit reason in the game, but it doesn't bother me.
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Basically, what I've read (and am convinced by) is that Ned hid the keys explicitly so they wouldn't be found, which is why the alarm is there. But the alarm is also the thing being picked up by your wave reader, unintentionally leading you directly to that backpack & key. He set up the alarm so that if someone did find the key and then found Brian Ned would have a head start on trying to deal with that. The other explanation is that Ned set up the alarm to lead you to the keys so that he could trap you in there to kill you, but I think that's pretty silly as 1. i don't think Ned is a killer and 2. there are far easier ways to kill Henry than locking him in a cave to die.
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Sometimes you think to yourself "did I miss something? I feel like the end asks a lot of the player to put it altogether themselves" and the answer is yes, yes you did miss something. You didn't find the bunker and it's actually kind of impressive you managed to put as much together as you did. I watched my boyfriend finish his playthrough this evening. It was cool to see some different dialog choices made. Also seeing the bunker answered a lot of the questions I had.
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Upon finishing, I had a bunch of questions and an initial feeling of the mystery not hanging together, but the more I think about it the better it works for me.
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SgtWhistleBottom: I'm still kind of processing everything, but I think the actual site was biologists tracking wildlife (maybe bears?) because a bunch of the documents do refer to mating habits and things like that as well as the tracking collars only making sense with some serious research funds behind it. The reports about Henry & Delilah are signed by "EG" (Ned being short for Edward), which makes me think that he's just gone crazy in the woods by himself and has been stealing stuff from various sites and made those reports, and the actual tracking equipment was being used for actual science.
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I asked her to come back to Boulder with me and she just kind of blows you off by saying she has stuff to do and that you don't actually want her there, but maybe she'll come by after she finishes some other stuff in Wyoming.
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
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TAZ is my favorite podcast running. You will need to go back and start from the beginning as it's a very narrative campaign that Griffin is running. I would recommend finding episode 1.5 (this is a re-edit of episode 1 that takes out a bunch of the 'wait, which die to I roll again?' stuff) If you enjoy strict adherence to the rules, this probably isn't the show for you, but if you like some creative story telling & a bunch of goofballs playing D&D together you might like it.
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Idle Cook Club - Veggie Feeds-me: My Body Is Ready
jennegatron replied to SuperBiasedMan's topic in Idle Banter
If you are fundamentally opposed to a stuffed pepper, or make it frequently, or are allergic and you would like to stuff another similar food item that's fine. I'm looking for a stuffed fruit/vegetable/fungus tho. No making calzones!!!! -
Idle Cook Club - Veggie Feeds-me: My Body Is Ready
jennegatron replied to SuperBiasedMan's topic in Idle Banter
It's my turn! your mission should you choose to accept it, is stuffed peppers. You can go stuffed bell peppers, it could be chile relleno, it could be jalapeno poppers. Vegetarian, vegan, just a bunch of meat stuffed in a pepper, doesn't matter! : ) -
Sorry. I'm just too good.
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Idle Thumbs 248: The Bear's Black Heart
jennegatron replied to Chris's topic in Idle Thumbs Episodes & Streams
rip birthday bear -
So, Oxenfree comes out Friday (1/15) and I am likely going to buy it that same day and play it! http://store.steampowered.com/app/388880/ It's from some people who also left telltale and have a dialogue choosing mechanic. It is scary in a thriller way, from what I gather and I am very excited. I got to play a little bit of it at Day of the Devs back in November and was definitely feelin' it at the time, so I'm glad to dive in deeper. http://www.hardcoregamer.com/2016/01/11/supernatural-adventure-oxenfree-is-out-later-this-week/186891/ http://m.ign.com/articles/2015/12/29/oxenfree-one-of-2016s-most-honest-gorgeous-and-weirdest-games here's some previews, and that IGN piece has some gameplay footage as well.
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Hearthstone: Because what Magic really needed was F2P mechanics
jennegatron replied to Problem Machine's topic in Video Gaming
I mirror Griffin's reaction