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My experience is that long strategy games are off putting to most people who don't already have the intent to play them. I run a games night based around shorter games that don't take an amazingly large amount of concentration; someone bought Battlestar Galactica along once and it fucked the whole room up by pulling in spectators and creating a massive brooding well of alternating silence and debate. Usually, people turn up, make friends and get a bit noisy, maybe scream at each other a bit if they're playing Lifeboat or Saboteur. That night though the room was more or less silent. New people turned up, went "Ohhh", and left.

Gah, sorry. Not going to make it tonight

Yeah, King City found an outlet and was reprinted as larger individual issues and then a collected volume. It was brilliant, one of the few things I've collected as issues. One of the problems with its first run was apparently that the small page size Tokyopop went with screwed over a lot of the tiny details Brandon Graham puts in. He makes scenes feel quite empty while actually packing in a lot of stuff to notice; it's cyberpunk, but feels like a lazy suburb rather than a metropolis.

None of the delays to Kickstarter projects I've backed have bothered me. I don't back things with an expectation of everything running perfectly, and don't put in any more money than I'd miss if it went wrong. The way people running campaigns talk to backers sometimes bothers me though: I thought the wording on the Wasteland 2 update was really weaselly, as if the only way it could be more full of smiles and "OMG you overfunded us this is the best thing ever and the game is going to take longer" is if it had my little ponies and sparkles.

LoW is a beautifully presented game too I love the way the lord you draw defines your playstyle; I've played this a bunch of times and don't think I've followed the same strategy more than once. The buildings, ambassador and lieutenant give it enough variation to feel varied/modded without being overcomplicated too.

Civil partnerships have been possible for a while, but they were kind of like a second tier thing. Those partnerships can now be made into marriages if the people in them want to. It's just the clauses relating to trans people that are weird, and put their rights in the hands of their partner, who might not be co-operative or supportive in the event of someone realising or making known they suffer gender dysphoria. On the Russia thing: I understand what you're saying elmuerte, but that was quite an antagonistic way to agree. I think you're right: There are people in most if not every country that would try to get those laws in place if they were given the opportunity. Plenty of the conservative party here voted against same sex marriage. Everyone else is right too though: What Russia have done is significantly different to most other countries in that they've not only proposed, but enacted those exceptionally brutal laws.

Congrats on forming babby Zeus!

Jesus o_0 Speaking of "Western Liberalism": Same sex marriage made it through all the legislative barriers in the UK Unfortunately this bit: Is disingenuously worded. Trans people are still not granted the autonomy and rights everyone else has by default

I found that difficult at first, because I sometimes find the "Heeeey, we're doing bad acting *wink*" trope unpalatable, but Skipper The Eye Child won me over to it forever.

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Second hand Gamecube unboxing: http://imgur.com/a/sneoW?gallery

Supporting UDK was a really good move to get developers making stuff for it. Yes, I think that and the projection from Dead Space would both work. Ether One deals with it by using floating text, which looks stylistically odd but works pretty well.

Failure is fun Patters. During the rocket deathmatch in the prison, I spawned in the middle of firefights three times in a row. The first time, right in the middle of an explosion I hope this is regular. I'm going to pick up a gaming headset before next week.

That was fun. Thanks everyone. I've hidden all of the networking stuff in this spoiler:

I won't have voice, because without a headset all you'll hear are the fans on my laptop.

Thanks to toblix' X-Treme generosity, I'm going to be around for this. ISP might throttle me since I downloaded the game today, but if they do and it's fucking up things for everyone else, I'll bow out and join next week.

I still haven't seen it, but I thought the bit in the trailer where a giant robot is using a ship like a baseball bat communicated very well that it was going to be a dumb film. I'm looking forward to it a lot, which took me by surprise.

Oh god damn it. I was going to pick this up if it was massively discounted, but was out or asleep for that entire period. Have fun.

It's worth getting one you can buy with a stock ROM rather than carrier/manufacturer shitware.

Going "Oooooh, you're so gangster" This is from Twitter:

I almost hope that if you switch while two characters are next to each other, it zooms all the way out then back in again.

The fighter jet zipping over the end of the tiny multiplayer preview was enough for me. As I said on Twitter: "Grand Thumbs Auto II: GTA V: I" will be enough to sell it to me.

Likewise. So sad, but it's amazing to see how universally respected and loved he seems to have been.

Glad to hear that, I_smell My friend Catherine moved to the Netherlands to study, and found speech really frustrating at first. She'd be trying to practice Dutch in shops and so on, but if people picked up the faintest flaw in it, they'd switch to English immediately. In the end though, I think that resulted in her accent becoming perfect.