MrHoatzin

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    When I played this game 30 years* ago, the pixels didn't spin or glow… It seems like a kind of thing that is engineered to eat quarters. Have you considered how you could refresh/revisit/evolve the old school mechanics somehow?

    * I did not play this game 30 years ago. This kind of gameplay is not my cup of tea, maybe you were going for something pure and simple that is beyond me, in which case feel free to ignore me.

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    I read somewhere that in Soviet Russia as universities were coeded in the initial liberal wave, women went into medicine in disproportionate numbers to men. After a couple of generations, medicine did become a primarily female domain—degrading its value in society. Eventually tractor drivers' (generally a male domain) trumped doctor's salaries. Arbiters of value and worth in societies tend to be those in charge, so dudes.

  10. Posted · Edited by MrHoatzin

    Not really! Interpreting your question with the stress on identify—as if I am expected to relate to a Platonic ideal of sorts—I don't know how anyone can. I find myself in some sort of muddy middle ground without a name. For me to identify on that level I feel like there needs to be some sort of culture for me to embrace and I don't think there is. Also, that kind of question seems engineered for a No Real Scotsman style argument/threshold-seeking that is somewhat antagonistic to messy middle grounds where culture and nurture and whatever intersect.

    Edited for clarity.

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    Also: Undoubtedly we have gay and bi-sexual members here. What do you think of this whole argument? Have we missed the mark?

    Well, for what it's worth, I thought I was being plenty obvious there in spite of the cruft of plausible deniability. :shifty:

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    A bi person can easily choose to ignore half of their impulses. The sensation can concievably be that of chosing to be gay. Maybe the notion of western macho straightness as cartoonily manifested in bar-fighting douchbag bros could be a culturally-mandated supression of some relatively vague homosexual baseline. We could all be open to it under correct cultural circumstances, only the culture around us falls into crazy absolutes and histrionics on either side of the spectrum.

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    Aaagh, I never come here because I am a horrible person—HAPPY BIRTHDAY EVERYONE!

    I like that we polled the money together for the pixelated bass, but not enough money to actually remove the watermark. ¬¬

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    I was way too dilligent with the photography to the point where the game got super crazy easy and extremely un-system-shock-2-like by the time I got to the factory bits—and cranking the difficulty up made all the big daddies aggressive which was not fun either. So I lost interest. Also, anticipating System Shockiness, I kept using the wrench all the time and hoarding ammo for the really difficult battles to come—to the point where I could never pick up any which was also kinda annoying. I should totally replay the game, knowing all these pitfalls.

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    When we went to Serbia last, I brought back all my Legos. I haven't thouched them yet, but it is good to know they're here. The most important part of my collection (and the reason I lugged it across the world) is the plotter Technic set which comes with a ton of gears and two motors. I've been meaning to make automata and some mechanical paintings/sculptures and have had a hard time visualizing the most eficient way of doing them, so Lego. I may have to make some custom gears but by and large that set delivers. This for example:

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    Before I set out to grab my old bricks I looked at what the current Technic offering is like and it seems the focus has completely left the mechanical—there are all of these sensors and motors and programming and robotic stuff, but they really don't make them with as many gears as they used to.

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    Saw a bumper sticker the other day that said something like "Central Catholic Gives My Child The Advantage" and my first thought was, "DAYM LADY—way to advertize your kids flea problems."

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    It was not an ad hominem attack, it was a one-sentence summary of your stance (and its implication) in service of dismissing the premise that you can be impartial on the topic to begin with. This is not a dis of your intelligence or whatever—this is a feature of your privilege.