DanJW

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  1. Same here. Loved how tight the script was, the last 30 seconds exempted (was a bit much, that one). Some psuedo-feminists are probably going to go bonkers over the depiction of

    Irene

    ...

    Yeah that was my one gripe; I was disappointed when she was introduced as a

    dominatrix

    . It has become such a cliché whenever a writer wants a morally ambiguous, strong yet alluring woman or is both a love/sex interest and an antagonist. Obviously she has to be some kind of

    pseudo sex-worker!

    It is a bit troubling from feminist perspective, yes. However as the episode went on I felt that they justified it in term of the plot.


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    Here's my pitiful haul. The Steam gift is Half Life: Episode 1 (with Lost Coast), if anyone doesn't have it already. I doubt I'll be able to earn any more achievements before it's over. Are there any easy ones for free or cheap games? Having given away Hoard, I might now buy it anyway for the achievement if it is simple to get.

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  3. PSS: Seeing that people are willing to cheat the system and used the Humble Bundle to get a mad amount of coal, does anybody stand a chance?

    Well, it's essentially a raffle, right? How many pieces of coal are in the system? A million maybe? How much coal do the cheaters have? A few hundred? more? In any case a few hundred or ten in a million isn't that big a difference in fraction. Even if you have one coal it is entirely feasible that your coal will be one of those picked out of the hat.


  4. I tried to get the Team Fortress 2 achievement and discovered two things:

    1) it is still pointless to try and get random-drop achievements in TF2. After playing most of the evening the only gift boxes I even saw were dropped by me, when I died. The same achievement in CS:S took me about 10 minutes.

    2) it reminded me how much I missed the game that TF2 was when it first came out - a nicely paced game that required real teamwork and strategy, instead of this chaotic random-seeming UT-style war of dumb attrition. It made me sad.


  5. See this massive Reddit thread for every imaginable piece of information on the guy.

    Internet justice is being served, and internet justice is the best justice.

    This is the most fascinating game news since Limbo of the Lost.

    Here's the best coverage I found. The Avenger Controller makers just put out a massive press release (finally).

    But even here some things are weird. The new PR consultant they have, Moisés Chiullan, says:

    “We have to move forward and take care of Avenger’s customers,” Chiullan said. “I can’t worry about the fact that there isn’t a bus big enough for me to throw Paul Christoforo under. The internet did that for me. I think they set him on fire too.” He continued, “I just hope that people will have the common decency to leave his wife and child out of all this. They didn’t send those emails, Paul did.

    Who talks like that in a press release? And the appeal for Christoforo's family seems a little non sequitur and more like something he himself would say.

    I am checking for updates far too many times a day. The guy is just so lacking in genuine remorse (as Krahulik said, there is a difference between being sorry and being sorry that you got caught) that the schadenfruede is almost totally guilt-free.


  6. Organic pod things, Ridley Scott involvement. Is it something to do with the Alien franchise? I don't really have as much affection for that as most, but it looks to have some decent actors in so I'm cautiously optimistic.

    It started life as the prequel to Alien. However, during pre-production Ridley Scott decided that it had "become its own thing" and dropped the alien franchise part. It is probably set in the same 'universe' though. Will we see a xenomorph in it? No-one knows, although it is likely that it is about the 'navigator' race, the fossil of which was seen in Alien. Looks good either way.


  7. Yay! I saw Tim Minchin live last week at the Uncaged Monkeys: Night Of 200 Billion Stars tour. The whole show is absolutely amazing, comedy and science blended perfectly. If anyone has a chance to see it next time they tour, do so without a second thought.

    Highlight of the show for me was this video put together by Adam Rutherford to commemorate the end of the NASA shuttle program. It works better on a massive screen in a theatre, but turn the lights down and music up loud. There were tears.

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    OK so that wasn't very comical. Show finished with Tim Minchin, being accompanied by Brian Cox on piana, singing this Christmas song which brought laughs as well as more tears.

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  8. Pssst. Sadly it's not.

    Really? I... um. My brain can't accept that. I cannot believe anyone would say those things without irony, or get televised saying it. I'm not using hyperbole here, I actually cannot believe it. You might as well have just told me that you laid a golden (made of horrible fascist gold) egg. Even if I saw the egg and a video of it coming out of you I still couldn't accept it. Or this.


  9. Ugh. What depresses me the most about the video is the lack of civilians or anything that looks like public space. It is all soldiers and military compounds.

    Yet another strike against the idea that they are "just changing the PoV". The thrilling thing about Syndicate was that the inter-corporation wars took place in public, with the potential for massive civilian casualties or at least disruption. Here we just have corridors.