jennegatron
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Idle Santa 2015 - Giftees sent out! Get gifting!
jennegatron replied to N1njaSquirrel's topic in Idle Banter
Mine went out today and should get there Tuesday! -
Dropsy is the world's first Point and Click Hugventure
jennegatron replied to ewokskick's topic in Video Gaming
My GOTY has been ported onto the iPad! Maybe check it out? https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dropsy/id1024136131?ls=1&mt=8 -
(Also I'm sorry to anyone who doesn't understand the little star of Bethlehem version I did. I included my star based source material as a pdf in the zip folder with the game. also apologies to my meow voices for making you complicit in my crimes against song-manity.)
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It's a play! A tragic comedy! THE LAMENT OF ROAST BEEFY O'WHEEFY! HA AH! I don't know what budget you're working with, but get him some nice chocolates or a bottle of wine or something. Those are great secret santa gifts because they're almost never unwelcome, and you can get someone something nicer than they would otherwise buy for themselves as it's hard to justify dropping like $10 - $20 on a handful of nice truffles or something
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Will do! I tried to add that into the readme, but understandable that no one actually reads the read me.
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Ty spenny. I had a lot of fun making it, even if i couldn't solve some of the problems that really impact playing it. Also, I hope everyone who plays this isn't too disappointed that there isn't an actual singing of little star of bethlehem. Finally, I would recommend NOT selecting a song and picking dibs's voice for nice treat. I would like to add in all the other goofy meows that super_jogurt did as well. I hope I get a chance to do that.
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Damn it, but computers have become really complicated
jennegatron replied to Erkki's topic in Idle Banter
Yeah, the mental labor of research and assembly is what keeps me from building something myself, and instead going for a pre-built machine. Yeah, i'll pay more part for part, but like I am paralyzed by the choices available to me as is, I don't want to have to make a million more choices about what each part is going to be. -
If you try and run this and only get a flash of a command line come up and it just goes away immediately, please let me know what operating system you're running and if it's 32 or 64 bit. I was only able to test this on 2 separate windows 10 64-bit machines, so I have no idea if it'll run anywhere else, and had someone on windows 7 64 bit be unable to get it to run.
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We have a water cooler. I don't really know why. Some people don't like the taste of tap water. It's nice that you can instantly get hot or cold water out of it, but it seems kind of silly.
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Damn it, but computers have become really complicated
jennegatron replied to Erkki's topic in Idle Banter
I bought a pre-built machine as I was on a fairly limited budget and wanted something fairly low to middle end that could run the stuff I wanted to play. The only AAA titles I really play are the Blizzard free to plays & WoW, so I was mostly interested in getting something that could run current re-releases of old games. My existing laptop couldn't run Grim Fandango and I figured I needed something a little beefier. It's only ~6 months old now but runs MGSV competently and still has a deliciously short boot up time. I got the Lenovo Erazer X315 for the pretty deeply discounted price of $500. Specs inside the spoiler tag. This was one of 2 models available and I went for the cheaper one without the 8gb SSD -
[Release] Gingerbread House Decorator
jennegatron replied to War Trout's topic in Wizard Jam 2 Archive
holy cow that's so cute. -
Official Giant Bomb Thread Mostly for Complaining About Dan
jennegatron replied to tegan's topic in Idle Banter
Yeah SAM, I bet iv would be fine actually with more authentic Chinese food. It's the fried meats covered in sauces palatable to Americans that make me want to vom. Cilantro is the grossest. -
I did a very poor job of keeping this updated, and only worked on it for about 4 days of the jam. I couldn't figure out how to make it so that if you push the keys too fast the cats don't just repeat the same sound over and over. It's not perfect, but I'm pretty proud of how goofy it turned out. Thank you all for being so great. http://itch.io/jam/winter-wizard-jam/rate/47182
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Official Giant Bomb Thread Mostly for Complaining About Dan
jennegatron replied to tegan's topic in Idle Banter
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If I, a white woman made some super bad collards for myself (which I'm almost positive I would make them poorly, as I have very little familiarity with them and am all around a poor cook) that would be mostly just me making bad food. When you add in the aspect of someone selling those collards for money that complicates things. Additionally by buying collards in the first place I may be participating in a trend that over all drives up the prices of those greens as demand increase (see: quinoa.) You can never strip the conversation of race out of literally anything because it informs EVERYTHING. You can't strip things of cultural context, because words and actions mean things. Nothing is that easy or cut and dry. Instead of getting insulted when someone says something i did was thoughtless or racist, especially if that person is a Person of Color or another group I do not belong to, instead of getting defensive, I should take that under consideration and at the very least think about changing my behavior going forward.
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Well this essay was talking about a restaurant staffed by white people that clearly had no experience preparing at traditional southern/Black/soul food dish. (I do not know the race or ethnicity of the actual kitchen staff, only the wait staff described. Those sorts of jobs are often times not filed by white people, but it seems clear that the recipe as well as preparation diverged from what was a traditional high quality product) There's a difference between preparing a food of your own culture or even another's and 'discovering' it and serving it with little to no prior familiarity. Of course the demographic best at making collard greens will likely be older black women. They have had the longest to practice and prepare a dish that had been looked down on as "gross" by much of white America. That's not to say there aren't people of all backgrounds to competently make any cuisine, including collards. It would be like me deciding because I've had like 4 latkes in my life that I'm an expert and will now sell them despite not being Jewish, and having no idea how to make them.
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Ugh ugh ugh, to compare a black woman describing traditionally southern & black food being co-opted by white hipsters to gamergate complaining about all the wimminz stealing their gamez is so insensitive and ridiculous. The article was both humorous and reflects on a larger trend of white people taking cultural touchstones from Black People & culture (and other People of Color) and doing them poorly while making money off of them. No one would argue that white people are physically incapable of making good collard greens. Don't be absurd.
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Additionally, there's been a gentrification of historically black food (like collards for example) or many cuts of very cheap meat that have now become popular to serve in upscale restaurants like pig/beef cheek. Young white people "discover" food that's been eaten by Black families for generations, often because it's the only food available to poorer people (which Black families have been and still are poorer on average than white families.) Those foods then become trendy, and price out those who traditionally relied on those cheaper foods and then White people prepare those foods on average, way worse than a traditional southern cooking approach would prepare them.
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Official Giant Bomb Thread Mostly for Complaining About Dan
jennegatron replied to tegan's topic in Idle Banter
It's very easy to not eat Mexican food in California, you are still allowed to eat like salads and burgers and stuff. also there are so many different types of mexican & other latin american cuisines! man, i love mexican food. -
Idle Thumbs 240: Mikami's Iconic Hat
jennegatron replied to Chris's topic in Idle Thumbs Episodes & Streams
My sister & I used to just play the Tomb Raider for the playstation tutorial over and over again where you practice tumbling and swimming because the game was too scary for tiny children, but who doesn't love some light gymnastics? -
I'm only as familiar with Pollyanna & Anne of Green Gables as touchstones in children's literature aimed at girls. I never read them as they're super old and lacked the charm of Mary Poppins to me to get me to read something old when I was little. Pollyanna is useful to know about as that name because a short hand for a goody two shoes with unfappably sunny outlook on life, usually denoting someone naive.
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All the ones I can think of are just orphans that got sent to rural locations and brought joy to the townspeople (Pollyanna & Anne of Green Gables) rather than sick children cured by nature. (The Secret Garden, Pollyanna & Anne of Green Gables all came out between 1900 & 1910, so i think it is certainly a trend of idealizing the power of positivity, friendship and nature.)
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I did not enjoy the final season of Parks & Rec, & loved the rest of it. I also love 30 Rock, and totally recognize that the cringe worthy laziness Tina Fey's shows have when it comes to People of Color. Truly ludicrous. There's an honesty and affection that Parks & Rec felt for Pawnee was genuine and came through, as where the way Kimmy (or Kenneth the Page on 30 rock) are a joke because of where they're from, rubs me entirely the wrong way.
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I liked Kimmy Schmidt alright. I thought it was funny, but was not in love with it. I'm pretty anti-Midwest/Indiana jokes though because in media they (almost) always come from a snobbery coastal attitude that everyone that doesn't live on the Eastern Seaboard or in California is a fat idiot with no culture, and it leaned on that too heavily for my liking frequently.
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This is how I always hear Lennie.