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I bet my PC could run it but I kind of want to wait until I can play on something that runs it really really well.

Yeah first person games that use a fully animated person often "kind of" work in third person but without some correction it ends up looking kind of like a waking nightmare when cheated animations play in full view of the camera.

Also I was referring to Luuke but it's hard to communicate the number of u's verbally

I will write more later but my issues are different from the ones you prescribe to me with that (interesting but not totally applicable) history lesson on copyright and fandom. These sequels are born at the most pessimistic out of dissatisfaction that Valve isn't continuing their stories themselves, and at the most optimistic out of people's excitement to make things using things they love... And then selling them out of the storefront created by the people who made the original. I think that's different from a dissatisfied public telling their own stories in an earlier, looser era of copyright. Many of people who told me the stories I loved are still right there in the building, actively involved in the goings on at that company, and now they are choosing to sell fan made stories derived from their own creation from their own store. Half Life and Portal are both games with sequels and spinoffs and other merchandising, but they didn't feel like Franchises or Universes or other modern Big IP Designations, but now they do to me, in a way that feels really strange, because the new work is being created by the fans but sold for profit by the creator and rights holder. Other than the fact that fans get to enthusiastically play with worlds and characters they like, it seems like the worst of all worlds. Valve doesn't make the games I think they are great at making, and fans can only claim ownership of, and play in, the world if they do so through valve's store. Maybe we agree more than I thought. We do I think, except for the part where you wise saged me at the start of your post.

Idle Thumbs 245: Psyching Out That Bear You soar over a Mediterranean villa and find it so thrilling you think, "Hey, I'll build myself a new computer so this looks nicer." In the time it takes you to have this experience and this thought, a plastic robot toy built in 1985 completes Super Mario World. You remember throwing out the unused cables from your old power supply and curse. The plastic robot toy effortlessly re-programs the old Nintendo game, unlocking secrets not seen in Mario World's 25 year lifetime. The third CPU re-seat fails. As you wipe the thermal paste from your hands and start again, the robot turns off and is carried from the stage to rapturous applause. Games Discussed: Just Cause 3, Super Mario World (Tool-Assisted Speedeun), Step Mania, Bushido Blade, Spelunky Listen on the Episode Page Listen on Soundcloud Listen in iTunes

Please write this in to questions@idlethimbs.net both of you, so we can talk about it next week.

Idle Thumbs 242: A Simple Goat For many, this is the season of cheer and joviality, a time best spent close to family and loved ones. For others (like Nick Breckon), its the perfect time to dip a first toe into Dwarf Fortress and disappear from this world altogether. Plus, Chris shares his experiences with the top-down shooter Helldivers, and we take a look back at Star Wars games of the 1990s. Games Discussed: Helldivers, Dwarf Fortress, Star Wars Rebellion, Star Wars: X-Wing Listen on the Episode Page Listen on Soundcloud Listen in iTunes

Please do!

Nathan Drake smiling.

I found it really suspicious but there wasn't much time to get into it when recording the episode. Chris seemed really rushed? I was not on this week's upcoming thumbs but like you I am hopeful we get some answers.

Oh my god.

It might be Lynch and also be totally meaningless. This preview clip felt like they put it together with what they had laying around. It's a bizarre blend between behind the scenes and an actual teaser, plus the striving effects on that final blurred shot seem completely tossed in and not deliberate, like someone said "oh this might seem Twin Peaksy," put it in, and then the video went out.

its hard to know if this is a joke or not with Star Wars stuff.

Idle Thumbs 239: Trash Can Sally It seems like whenever you move, she moves. Whatever drives her, she sees to know a lot about you, but you don't know where she came from, where she's going, or how you can see more of her. You sit alone in your settlement and hope she comes by again. Games Discussed: Fallout 4, SUPERHOT, Cibele, Emily is Away, Icon Architect 1.0, Deck Building: The Deck Building Game, Grand Theft Auto: Moonbeaming Listen on the Episode Page Listen on Soundcloud Listen in iTunes

Man

Idle Thumbs 238: From Earth to Pluto Now that the mobile companion apps to our favorite hardcore economic simulators and open world roleplaying games have sucked all the time out of our lives, we take a deep dip into the Idle Thumbs mailbag. Games Discussed: Anno 2205, Anno 2205: Asteroid Miner, Fallout 4, Fallout Shelter, Agricola (iOS), TouchTone, Noby Noby Boy, Grand Theft Auto (the first one) Listen on the Episode Page Listen on Soundcloud Listen in iTunes

Yeah he produced it... I wasn't implying anything else.

I love it all. If I said anything to indicate otherwise I regret it.

Bad Robot (JJ Abram's production company) is still producing Star Trek Beyond with Paramount, though.

Idle Thumbs 236: Twenty-Year-Old Weird House This house survived three wars, countless natural disasters, and the end of civilization as we know it. If these walls could talk, the stories they could tell might change your life. Unfortunately for these walls, they'd look pretty great lining my settlement's new basketball court. Sorry, walls, Fallout 4 is here. Games Discussed: Fallout 4, Left 4 Dead 2, Portal 2, Anno 2205: Asteroid Miner, World of Warships Listen on the Episode Page Listen on Soundcloud Listen in iTunes

A live episode is something we've talked about forever but haven't had the time to properly figure out. It's on the list of things I hope we can do when Firewatch is done. Doing 250 live would be crazy but might make sense, as that's GDC week (probably). That might also make it impossibly insane to consider.

Idle Thumbs 237: Momazon Prime Fallout 4 has us in its thrall, but we still have questions. What would a Fallout sequel be like if it was set in the Middle East, or South America? If you're a Raider and your parents immigrated from Tuscany, does that make you a Tuscan Raider, or a Tuscan-American Raider? Why do you have to hold the shift key to navigate menus with WASD? What's "tatoes?" Plus, we talk about the lost Fallout sequel "Van Buren," and Chris' experience with Kero Blaster. Games Discussed: Fallout 4, Kero Blaster, Downwell, Van Buren, Fallout New Vegas Listen on the Episode Page Listen on Soundcloud Listen in iTunes

Please write in and correct me and we will read it! I'll try to remember to correct myself as well. I was more flippant with that than I needed to be, especially with my super hazy memory on the subject.

That's a link to the sub forum for all the April 2015 jam threads.

That was just a thing that people all over the internet kept saying about Fallout 3. It seems like it comes from the same folks who kept saying "the Wii is two gamecubes duct taped together" over and over because it made them feel good to say. So I was calling that back more than a specific reference to episode 4, but we are the same people now that we were then... :\