SuperBiasedMan

One thing that may or may not help you Twig. You are already treating women differently whether you think about it or not. It's just good to actually consider how you're treating them like you're saying. (which IS an increased mental load, I know) I don't personally see it as not a walking on eggshells thing so much as an actually looking where I'm going thing.

I would love if the UI etc. was designed to reassure you that your actions were those of a benevolent assister to other planets, but your actual in game actions are devastating to other peoples. Also just occurred to me, does this have aliens? Biodiversity in science fiction always sucks but I could imagine this pulling it off much better.

The time doesn't offer any particularly direct comparison, but the assumption is that a dinner is likely a nice event but a fleeting one. You eat every day (multiple times I hope), so even getting a nice meal isn't going to be a hugely standout event. By contrast, a good game will generally stick out as being a special experience that's not offered elsewhere. Most people play a relatively low number of games so games are generally a more unique experience. Of course I'm generalising and explicitly saying this is true of good games, not ones you consider bad. Because if you think a game is bad and not worthy of it's price for that reason, that's a flaw with the individual game, not the system of games pricing. And paying for something you turn out to not enjoy happens all the time in other areas too.

As I've understood it, the term is meant to describe the overall intended feel of the game. A disempowering game doesn't power you up to be a super hero, it's actually pitting you against the game world and portraying your position as a fragile, precarious one. While a game that wants you to have powers/abilities that are strong to use is feeding a power fantasy. In Batman, the fact that they occasionally take away some of the power they have given you doesn't really matter. The overall game is making you feel powerful because it's a superhero fantasy.

I think these are valid reasons to decide that a purchase isn't a fair exchange to you, but I think it's a far more stringent argument to say the prices are outright unfair as an overall judgement. Pricing is way more complicated than that. Also a year or so back I could relate to the sentiment of keeping up with gaming discussion. But now I've fallen so far behind it's just a fact of how I interact with a medium and I never expect to be contemporary with my playing. I end up vicariously experiencing a lot of games through other people's discussion, or getting to them years late. Some day I'll actually play Dark Souls...

I think there's a sentiment that feels like the games are over priced beyond what's reasonable or fair. So people feel like the grey market price is the more honest one, and won't consider that they may have illegitimate sources.

My phone basically has constant Internet so I basically talk to people on Facebook chat. I also had a long distance relationship online for years that's very extensively recorded on Facebook and Skype. I should probably try to get some sort of back up them. I'm also a programming nerd, I'm sure I could do some silly mess around data wrangling with it.

By 500 installs is that talking about registry changes or what?

I'd guess they're trying to just strip out some possibly useful tech? I'd be surprised if it had anything to do with the Ouya name itself.

For anyone who genuinely worries about how to get 15%. 12.99 Divide by ten (ie. Drop a zero off the amount). 1.29 Then halve that 0.65 Multiply by three 1.95 And that's 15%. Hopefully that makes it clearer? Also just estimate anyway, doesn't need to be exact as long as you don't turn €13 into 13c.

Welcome! Based on your avatar and other post here, you may be interested in our cartoon thread where we've discussed Steven Universe quite extensively. There's a lot of good spoiler chat in there.

Is that how it works? That seems like the opposite of what I'd have expected. But I could see it happening if people straight up didn't think fast food should involve tipping.

To contribute to that end, we don't habitually tip here in Ireland so 20% seems like so much. It's (or at least feels) kind of expensive to eat out too, so that's not going to help it. But to give an idea, my mother sometimes tipped a euro for a twenty euro meal when we went to lunch. And even then she tipped because we specifically knew the waitress, so €1 was a good bonus to give a family friend.

I like how they begin saying "bear with us, I know this sounds ludicrous" even though I alread believed the ideas behind the rumour.

People, it's pronounced You-ber. Like You-stream and Yo-you-t-you-be.

Ok I guess I have some small advice. Skype may be a hellhole of bad quality, but if you're both willing and use computers too much, then you might be able to casually skype as you browse the internet/do whatever you do on there. That was a lot of the quality time we had together. Obviously that was different for us because it's what we started off doing anyway, but it is still nice and takes away the idea that you have to constantly be in conversation. If you're doing that, just be careful you don't accidentally feel tied to the computer and end up using it too much just because you can talk on there. Hopefully the moving nine hours away means that regular phonecalls aren't going to be prohibitively expensive for you. I'm a long range PUA.

I hope that next time Chris talks about Fallout Shelter, it's because he maxed out everything he conceivably could and that actually triggered a special endgame event. It could be themed around him being a terribly controlling human being for the sake of optimal survival, or it could be about an even more impressive society of super people swooping in and decimating Chris's people despite all his efforts. Also for some reason when you talked about the baby being born into a world of super people I imagined it as one of those movies about the average Joe chosen one. Even though he's surrounded by super competent people, he's the schlubby guy that learns to accept himself and save everyone despite statistically being the most useless member of the society by a huge margin.

Yeah I was long distancing my girlfriend for basically the first 3 years of our 4 year relationship. I don't feel particularly qualified to give you any advice but there's definitely a way through it.

Contributes to isn't the same as being the entire cause of. PewDiePie handling these factors better doesn't mean that they're not still affecting both of them but the two people have dealt with it in different ways.

This is exactly what Baseball speak sounds like to me.

And don't forget, the basic idea of what TB is saying is that these games are dysfunctional for lacking a feature that he thinks they objectively need. It all ties back to the entitlement of the not a game argument. These are people that don't just expect games to mold to their ideas of a game, they intend to actively pursue it. He legitimately does see this as a protective measure for consumers against dodgy games and thinks that not implementing a higher framerate is merely a case of lazy devs and there is no justification for it.

I got over 99% in that game and still didn't quite figure out how the combat worked but had a bit of an idea.

Probably Crypt of the Necrodancer Team Fortress 2 Spelunky Crusader Kings 2 I played 1343 hours of those 4 games in total according to Steam's unreliable numbers. That dwarfs the 571 recorded hours of every other game I own on Steam combined. Although since TF2 makes up 988 hours of that, it alone has more hours compared to every other game including the others from my staple list. (TF2 -> 988, Everything else -> 926)

I've splatted the toons and it's pretty good. It moves so fast and fluidly and it's a great game for not actually relying on aim that much. (and I don't just mean with the paint roller). I'm kinda bummed about the splatfest blocking me from playing other modes though cause I can only play for today, when visiting my parents to use my brother's Wii U.

I'm being sincere for once! Some people don't care if a sausage/game is actually quite gross/bland if it's pleasing enough to consume.