SuperBiasedMan

Quote I wish people realised how little this matters. The actual score or label of being a review don't make people want to buy a game, a general atmosphere of positivity about the game and an absence of criticism does. Reviews probably sell less games because they usually make some note of a flaw with the game so they don't come off as totally gushing but a let's play doesn't need to care about that.

It's possible this dude had been specifically noted as needing to improve his score or something and knew that he couldn't handle many disconnections that day.

Ok, evidently mansplaining has a specific precise usage that makes far more sense and is meant to be condesceding in a way that counters gender based condescension (ie The user of the word is being condescending in how you describe the mans discussion because he was being condescending). I feel like this is still slightly counter productive but not nearly as bad as I thought. I guess it's just a thing I see used in other contexts where it takes the general meaning of "this man is talking about sexism but he is wrong so I wont consider what he says" and the misuse bothers me. Also I don't think feminists or anyone should be constantly out to proselytise, no-one is obligated to advocate for anything regardless of their identification with the group. I just get a general sense that people unknowingly slide into adversarial positions when things like this happen because everyone is tired of debating with the opposite 'side' of the issue as if these 'sides' are fated and unchanging. So instead people prefer to generate anger and outrage, calling bullshit on things. Which certainly works when there's a lot of exposure that forces someone's hand to make some specific change (ie. enacting a less sexist hiring policy at a large company that gets targeted by a social media campaign). But an individual or a few individuals reacting with anger and outrage just become/s another strawman/men to whomever they're talking to.

Side note, I kinda hate the word mansplain. It seems to have built in condescension that makes it harder for you to get someone to listen, because people usually listen more if you seem to be receptive in the conversation rather than confrontational or just challenging what they think. This doesn't mean you have to consider what they think valid, but even if you've found out someone is sexist that doesn't mean you already know what they think. There's all sorts of different concepts and nuances they might have, and you need to actually listen to figure out the exact nature of their sexism, because that's how you can (hopefully) show it to them too. I know a lot of the time people are ass hats who wont listen even when you try to calmly explain something they genuinely don't understand but it works sometimes, I did surprisingly explain a case of subtle sexism on twitter to two dudes who at first were reacting negatively, thinking it was dumb to call it sexism. Most tweets were just getting annoyed or saying it was obvious, rather than trying to make it clear to these people who obviously hadn't realised how the inherent subconscious sexism was working in the situation.

Will the stream be exclusive for your kickstarter/patreon backers?

His pecs are fake ones that came as part of his Ryu costume he wore to mentally prepare for the fight.

Mario Kart Wagon is a Mario Kart spin off game inspired by Oregon Trail, but since it's Nintendo it plays like Mario Kart mixed with Mario Party.

Another double post, so I can post this:

NUH UH. Have you seen my gamerscore? (I don't have a gamerscore)

In a few posts I've gone from "the Farm seemed ill defined and pointless" to thinking a season 2 all about it would be great, particularly if you're a Fable that's either in power or takes over control of the Farm as the season goes on and has to decide on how to shape it.

http://womenagainstfeminism.tumblr.com/post/87346478220 If only!

I guess I didn't realise the farm was a permanent solution. Particularly since Colin said he'd escaped or something in episode 1? Or did I just make that up... As a permanent house arrest it's clearly not a good place to be. I had just thought that I was missing something about the place itself that was supposed to make the fables fearful of it. How exactly does aging work for Fables? Do they age at all?

On the note about the Farm, I really think the game handled it poorly the way it never laid out a concrete reason why the farm was a bad place. Fabletown has obvious cracks that you see as you progress through the story, but the only reason you know people don't like the Farm is their reactions. Yet you have a very good solid reason to want to send people there. It made the choice quite unbalanced for me.

The main game was pretty simple, I'm talking about 100%ing it. I kinda tried but the last optional ones were catching me a bit. I think I could have done them, but after a point the repeated attempts weren't worth continuing.

I didn't play it in co-op but I actually felt the same about the extra hard last few unlockable things. Though I also didn't bother beating the final boss, cause I was terrible and the combat wasn't what kept me interested in the game.

What's weird is that I often confuse Sean and Jake, and also confuse Nick and Steve. But when I was first listening, because I had trouble separating Sean and Jake my brain amalgamated their personalities into one Dota playing Nintendo fan on the podcast rather than conceptualising them as two people. It was an odd time.

Yep! We got our total for that a little while ago with the latest contribution. I'm gonna be able to order it whenever Blambo is happy with his picture.

"Achievement unlocked: The Nosebleed of Death"

I actually thought before that'd be a fantastic mod, making it better than the actual game (for me at least). Fewer units that are both more powerful and more precious. The concept of the countries banding together and the desperate struggle getting more and more strained all fit perfectly. ...but it would be an entirely different game to realistically even be DLC. A nerd can dream...

Sorry for the double post, but I have an update: We hit $70, woop! That's enough for just the print, but if we get another $35 we can also have it with actual thickness rather than a flat page (I believe other portraits were made this way... but if not this can be how the Danielle one shows up the other portraits). Should be able to hit that mark though the way it's going, so I think I could probably order it during the week unless Blambo needs more time for finishing touches. If someone is interested but needs time to send the donation or is delayed in any way, send me a message and I can just add to the virtual total myself and the donation can be sent later.

It's only available in specific regions, North Korea and the Antarctic I think.

"Oh, yeah that apartment you called about viewing 30 minutes ago has been taken now. Yeah that's why I didn't answer your text when you were standing outside waiting on me. Bye." Landlords are the worst people.

Now finished episode 5 of The Wolf Among Us. It was good, I did like the art style, the world and the writing... sometimes. But I think it's convinced me not to play Tell Tale's Game of Thrones episode by episode. My interest for the game dropped episode by episode and I suspect at least part of that was the 1-2 month gap between episodes.

Just finished it now, I don't really have much to say about the plot that's spoilery to be honest, which is my main problem with the game. The beat by beat story was just going from one event to another really, they offered some interesting choices and situations to try and judge what was best to do but it wasn't really coming together as a whole. It bothered me a lot that I was trying to be a "tough but fair" Bigby and it didn't seem like that really affected people's perceptions much. Certain characters were nice and understanding but I assume they'd be that way regardless of my choices, while most characters just give Bigby shit about how he's got anger issues and doesn't care about anyone. I definitely liked it, the world and the style, but I don't think it really came together as well as it could have. I'm hoping this is a teething problem they can reexamine and focus more on coherence than wider options and interesting events. I do also think I should give them the benefit of the doubt because they seemed to be offering more changes in this, ie. You could have a different plot in an episode if you went to a different place first. Obviously it overall stayed the same but allowing for it to affect how it plays out does add a lot of work.

I feel the need to draw on my cultural pride to point out that we're not British English, we're Hiberno English (basically Irish English), The distinction is important because we have many phrases to describe drunkenness. The actual reason is that we do have a non english language, so that's influenced the way we talk in English (creating things like the stereotypically irish "Oh, going to do that are ya?"). But this was all entirely nitpicky, because I imagine the same rules of your point apply. Rather than feeling like we should be homogenous people take a lot of pride in their individual region accents. Like Cork.