Nachimir

Yeah, I don't think it got too bad. Divided opinions, but its not like we were all flaming each other or something.

I liked the look of this but hadn't paid it much attention. The quicklook has put it on a list of games I'll definitely get; it reminds me of a lot of things I liked in other games from Warcraft III onward.

It's about QWOP.

Oh dear. There is a bunch of stuff wrong with male stereotypes, but these guys are not the people to examine it. I hope they go way overboard and start throwing terms like feminazi around; at least then it'll be obvious to everyone but the converted. Other news: Republican Mike Callton can't deal with hearing the word "vagina", so state reps Lisa Brown and Barb Bryum have been banned from speaking in the Michigan House of Representatives.

Having watched a bunch of videos, that Christmas songs one is by far the weakest. I wouldn't describe her views as extreme though. Edit: In some videos, I find her stretching a little, but often the criticism I think of is the thing she then talks about next. "Baby it's cold outside" is super skeezy. The expression "slip someone a mickey" dates back to well before the song was written, and even if that line is interpreted as the best case of a man trying to get a woman really drunk so her resistance will break down and he can fuck her… that's still creepy. Manipulating people into doing things they don't want to is a non-trivial thing to do to others, and never just a bit of fun.

A song where a woman doesn't want to sleep with a man, and has said no, so he keeps trying to get her drunk, and it's implied he might have spiked her drink, isn't extremely skeezy? I'm going to watch a bunch of videos from her site to see if I agree with you. I suspect not though. I think it's easy for a lot of people to confuse rape and rape culture with each other. This piece is really excellent:

:tup: I've shied away from talking about this all week. So many responses have been awry, and there have been some truly excruciating "I don't really see the problem" conversations going on amongst guys elsewhere. Game: Might be good. Default rape tropes and Ron Rosenberg: Problems.

Just goes to show how much of it is UX. A bunch of people I know bought laptops with Vista on. I found it a nightmare to work with when helping them on stuff, none of them liked it, and most of them wiped it and installed XP within six months. Win 7 is a very different experience. I like it because it's the first version of Windows I've installed that hasn't incessantly nagged me about this that or the other.

Agreed; even if teenage boys aren't the dominant demographic for videogames now, there's still a lot of marketing inertia toward them, and some are growing up to be the very worst kind of misogynist man-child pricks. The more intervention and the more alternate voices there are, the better.

You can tell they're a small team with a limited budget, but the more I looked at this, the more it grabbed me.

Your proudest moment was one hour and twenty-four minutes long? (Joke. Links to specific times don't work with embeds. ),

I've been trying to pin down what Apple marketing feels like. This might be it: Someone you fundamentally loathe smiling in a really disconcerting way whilst giving you a handjob.

Yeah, that's why I can't watch. They already have by far the best design and production values; why do they have to be such fucking pricks about it?

I think that might be doable, but would probably require a very large battery. Either that, or the user has to spin it up like a powerball between swings. An easier but just as clunky way to create inertia would be to stack weights on the top of the controller, like a dumb bell. Maybe all such realism would just be a hugely technical and non-rewarding drag though. A lighter controller lets a player take the part of a much stronger and faster character.

Flash memory is not cheap or plentiful enough to make me want the new Macbook Pro, but with that screen resolution and no optical drive: nearly. I never bother watching these things and just read summaries later. How did they make fun of competitors? (I agree about that being pathetic).

Vampire's Kiss was pretty incredible and weird. I do wonder how many yuppies watched it in the 80s and actually empathised with Nick Cage's character. The scene near the end, , was really nicely done. I have some misgivings: If the film is seen as being about mental illness, then it reinforces some appalling stereotypes about mentally ill people. If it's about white privilege, then it's kind of excellent. Partway through the film, I was thinking . Anyway, I was not disappointed; it's chock full of quality Nick Cage losing his shit.

JAW are working for Oddworld Inhabitants, they don't (or at least I doubt they) own the games. It may have been that there simply wasn't the budget to address that stuff, rather than a lack of will.

I don't know Unity, but the amount of slightly-more-user-friendly tools out there has definitely begun to look like a threat to the bigger engines. Most of the smaller developers I know are going for smaller tools, and some years ago I heard rumbles of Epic wanting to make something work in terms of modding and consoles. The current console generation *cough*Xbox*cough* aren't very well built for allowing users to publish and download things from each other though. How it would pay for itself, I have no idea, but I could see an editor this powerful working with tech like OnLive or Gaikai too. If revisions can be made this fast without requiring a personal server farm, and the user isn't having to watch progress bars for minutes at a time, why not?

Dropped laptop like big idiot. Result: Broken wifi card one day later. Lost most of a working day to researching and trying to fix. Opened it up, reseated everything, and it worked again… for about an hour. There's no obvious damage, so it's probably cracked a tiny bit of solder somewhere. I might try to reflow the PCB with a toaster oven. USB tethering on new Android phone works like a dream. I could just depend on that because it keeps the phone charged too. This has stressed me out because it's happening at the same time as a bunch of other stuff, and I absolutely depend on having a functioning computer to work, but it all seems really trivial compared to Subbes and Shammack's lives at the moment. Hang in there, both of you.

That's excellent, Korax. Thank you.

Shammack, will the studio help you to find housing? Some companies really support employees to move to them. Even if you end up in a motel for a week, around the studio is probably the best place to ask.

Obviously, we need a Speedtree thread. I'm most excited by the way you can drop in and out of the editor. Having to wait for a level to rebuild, then load the game to walk around in it, was by far the biggest and most time consuming ball-ache of mapping with older versions of Unreal unless like some people you didn't bother building on the grid.