Roderick

Congrats, and make the best of it!

Signing up for that beta is like buying a bar of Willie Wonka's chocolate. A rare chance, but also exciting! In retrospect, they would never have called it the Steam Box. Boxes belong to Microsoft. Machines are not yet used. Though the obvious missed chance is 'Steam Apparatus'.

Good! Discussion ended! This has only been somewhat frustration and tedious.

Nachimir, that's a very truthful analysis of what is happening in gaming culture right now. I feel like I'm in that place too; trying to develop the language to deal with an increased awareness of this issue. Mind you, I always identified with being a feminist, but now that it's being (thankfully) pushed to the forefront, and I need new tools to correspond with the much larger playground.

SteamOS, that sounds REALLY SEXY. Consider me interested! I wonder if it'll be solid enough to replace Windows. I mean, I know it's based on Linux, but I don't know a damn about that. A free OS with the Valve seal of quality. This could be huge and seriously impact the reach of Windows. I may be caught up in the excitement though.

UNF five hours until the thing.

Yeah, the snapping pictures mechanic was pretty broken, hopefully remedied here. I don't dislike the bloom. I never found it an ugly effect, though it can be misused.

While watching the movie, the thought of it being a sequel in an infinite cycle of BSG-like loops occurred to me as extremely plausible.

I have just finished an epic, two-and-a-half year co-op playthrough of Tales of Vesperia (we played e few hours every month). My friend and I were bullshitting all the while through the game, making fun of its insane dialogue and often generic locales and characters. But boy, did we have fun. After all that time, closing the chapter is even a little... sniff... touching. Well, there's always Xillia to go to.

And some other dudes on Twitter who said the same!

I do like those raffles, by the way, it's a good way to put something up without having to go into politics or choosing who gets it, or it becoming a race of who reacts the fastest.

Thanks for pointing that out, I have no idea why it switched the links.

You're right, they aren't all of them replaced, and neither are some other cells in the body. You got me. My cute side note has diminished in argumentative value.

That sounds like an ideal world, captain.

Treat everybody differently, but based on who they are, not on whether they happen to have a schlong or not. Thus, don't infer anything about a person based on gender. First get to know someone as a person, then you'll know how they want to be treated.

What is man but a collection of wildly fluctuating precepts and modes of behavior? I have come to believe that it's only because of a strong belief in our own 'unity' that we can tie the absurd changes in who we are together into the concept of a single identity. If you compare objectively how you were in your adolescence, teen years and childhood, it would be like looking at three different people. But we are storytellers and so we can weave these disparate entities together. We also recognize the actions and thoughts that may have changed us, and consider that normal and healthy. And it is normal and healthy. Change is what defines people, which is why it is absurd that in our society we seem so stuck on 'not being hypocrites', i.e. never ever changing our minds or doing something contrary to what we did or said before. But people are perfectly capable of rising in the morning and completely reversing their mode of thought. It is only when you see people as immovable and unchanging that you can continue the windmill-duelling quest of holding them to things they thought in the past or even yesterday - frustrating though that occasionally truly is. Tangentially, this is also why everyone should be afraid of becoming a politician: a person who is by his own political association not allowed to ever change his mind. What a tragic existence! As soon as you'd engage in the natural behavior of adjusting your views according to changing circumstances, within or without, you'd be labelled untrustworthy and a flip-flopper. More insights on change: did you know the body replaces itself largely every few years? There's hardly a cell in you that's the same as the ones you had ten years ago. All of this raises the question of Theseus's Ship: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_theseus if all parts of an object are faithfully replaced, is it still the same object? Or in the words of today's most relevant philosophical force:

Ohhhhhh that's the best.

A zinger, from SecretAsianMan, for you.

I discovered that Dual Destinies is actually going to cost 25 euros in the EU and will arrive that same 24th of October. It's like everything is suddenly all right in the world.

It's pretty intruiging... I'm looking forward to the announcement in a few days!

Well, there's this angel and he's doing stuff and there's a certain amount of gravitas involved.

Well, the Polygon review springs to mind as one that laid bare some deep concerns with the game: http://www.polygon.com/2013/9/10/4714292/the-wonderful-101-review Not saying it's the only one out there, but I've read it more.

Hm, most of the stuff I read about it was pretty critical and down on it. Bad controls, not very fun, lots of wasted potential. Where did you hear it was super great?

Congrats, guys! Campo Santo, it's like Camp Santa, except with o's!

Dutch pride! Really cool idea too, very gamey. It's like Tetris, or outfitting a spaceship with the right module.