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It is meant to be the point of it, I just don't think global conspiracies are a great or interesting lens by which to examine it. There's just loads of potentially interesting stuff missing. You're right though, the idea of people no longer owning themselves through consumerism is weird and worth extrapolating from. I think Stand Alone Complex is doing a much better job in general. Thanks for the recommendation, really enjoying everything about it with the exception of the Major always looking like she's on the vice squad and the frame lingering on her ass. It really doesn't need that kind of otaku bait to be incredibly interesting

Wasn't aware of it until your posts; thank you.

Own both of the films, love them

Completed this the other night. The last levels felt kind of weird and rushed, especially as they started using horror conventions. Some nicely done bits, but they weren't all that hard. Maybe because I typically stockpile stuff in games. Took down the third boss with a grenade, , combat rifle, then a typhoon when he jumped over a wall right by me. I'd read that you can do a takedown on him as he hops down from a wall, but I guess there must be some finicky timing and positioning on it, because I tried it a few times and each time he reversed it for an instant kill on me. At the end of the game, I tried out each ending. Liked that they're all . I thought the fiction didn't really plumb the issues it was dealing with amazingly. Never mind ; the idea of hacking a single person is really interesting and horrible. (EDIT) Likewise, the things that might make someone accept those risks. Why weren't the augs in Deus Ex having to contend with malware on an everyday basis, let alone espionage and hacking? It all had to be SIMULTANEOUS SUPER DRAMA WORLD CHANGING EVENT. There was a ready audience for conspiracy theories in the late 90s when the first Deus Ex was made, I think most people have moved on a bit now though. Syndicate looks like it's going to explore this kind of thing a lot more provocatively than DX:HR did. That said, I did really enjoy Deus Ex. Beautifully built, and quality stealth gaming

I gather they had to try this a lot. There's one of him sniping eagles too. xE4uzGaQDQg

Well Ben, that's the machines lulling you into a false sense of security.

James, you are correct.

I checked the Skyrim thread but don't think these have been posted yet: rt5aUdijAN8 Cb1VCkj-OFc

Here it is on vimeo, and here's the main developer on Twitter. Until they have a version they're happy to release, having a beta seems to depend on knowing him.

Maybe the Venus Patrol version will be sent out in time?

This thing still needs a human operator, so is just practicing with grapes for now: p1GVXsDtnRM

Yeah, the bosses are a massive shame. I've been reading FAQs specifically for them because they're so annoying. I only got through that one by keeping a few praxis kits back to get the dermal upgrades just before.

That is quite beautiful. If I had my own house, I would absolutely commission one of those to live at the end of a hallway

I'm not putting that out there as a cutesey rape reference. It's that all of that shit, from their copywriting to gilette adverts with jet fighters or american football players exists very close a really unhealthy zone where masculinity and power are equated rather than just somewhat related. You can express the missing components with a term as basic as "maturity" or high falutin' as "Apollonian drives", but regardless, it's a lack that's abysmal and pathetic. It's why IGN pull quotes make me both giggle and despair. I used to think it was a problem specific to gamers, but there are so many other parts of adolescent and adult male culture that suffer in the same way.

My only gripe with the first one was "Batman doesn't kill people. He just hits them really hard in the head". Or gets a ring out beside a huge drop.

Gamer Grub is branching out: Cashews of Chaos They are nuts, described as having "EXPLOSIVE THRUST". Almost as if the product itself were a big, hairy rapist.

I actually enjoyed the strafe locking of the controls. Tricky, but made immediate sense to me.

I'm ambivalent about iTunes. It may help that I'm running it on OS X; have never tried the Windows version. I quite like the way it organises music. I dislike that it keeps album art separately to the mp3s though; that's caught me out at least once while changing computers. There have been times where features couldn't be turned off, IIRC like the genius sidebar at first. Sometimes, I just want to get to some music quickly, but it pops up saying "Connecting to iTunes Store" when I try to click on stuff the first few times. It seems like it should be such a trivial thing, but that the first thing a music application does is get between me and my music enrages me. It's really poor UX, and that surprises me coming from Apple ¬¬ "buy once, download, fuck off" isn't the case for apps (used to have an iPhone); it remembers what you've previously bought and allows you to redownload. I've always bought music from other sources to itunes though.

We were really nervous about that expectation; people kept ringing the office the week before the Festival to quiz us about it. We also wish we'd had the budget to do that, because it would have been brilliant. I didn't get to be very involved in the tent stuff that day, but was pleased to see the glyphs that popped up on the lighting strips. Also the Zelda Zine, which was curated by Cory Schmitz with Lee Nicholls from the GameCity team. Amazing response to that; this was the queue outside Page 45: Apparently just a little bit bigger than the one they got for the last Scott Pilgrim book It was lovely to see some of you, and sorry I was in such a rush most of the time. Edit: I didn't have time to take any, but here is proof of at least some.

I keep my lady pushing strictly legal, thank you. That was the end of HellRunner up North, which had several hundred metres of bog to go through at the end of a ten mile cross country run through wooded hills. The lady falling is my friend Helen, and just before that part I was wondering why a photographer was on the opposite bank, away from everything else. It was because the course builders had put a shin height log in there. Helen still tells everyone I pushed her just to wind me up though. :tup:

Where is this forums like button?

Something very strange happened last night. I chatted up a cute girl very confidently, and got her number. I never do that, but a few things changed it. I always seem to do okay with women, but have extremely long dry spells where nothing happens. My interests don't exactly help me to meet more women: video games, hackspace, mountain biking, snowboarding, martial arts. I'm pretty much constantly surrounded by other guys. So, even though people say I'm confident and extroverted, I tend to feel shy when it comes to girls. Unpacking it last night: 1. Reading here, I think in the feminism thread, the thing about "Men fear women laughing at them. Women fear being raped by men". That's been rattling around my head ever since and puts my fear in a context that makes it seem ridiculous and self-indulgent. 2. The knowledge that I'd been wanting to chat her up all week while we were both working on the festival, but had made nothing more than brief bits of small talk with her. I wanted to wait because technically I was or could be her manager until the closing party, whereas there I could take my staff badge off and make it clear she was talking to me as an equal. I knew if I didn't take the chance and she disappeared, my self-loathing at lacking courage would far outweigh any disappointment at being knocked back by her. 3. She'd smiled and flicked her hair around me all week, but when I made brief small talk with her she kind of clammed up and I thought "Oh, she dislikes me". It started to click with me during the week that maybe, because I tend to be quite direct and to the point, girls that like me can be a bit intimidated. They misinterpret my directness as me not liking them, and I misinterpret their response to that or shyness as not liking me. It leads to me sometimes finding it difficult to tell the difference between girls that don't like me and girls that do. How I feel about this realisation can only be expressed by my mouth forming a large O shape. 4. Being a bit drunk. During small talk earlier in the week, she'd clammed up a bit and seemed emotionally distant. I assumed she didn't like me, and I'd misinterpreted the positive signs she gave. Only later did it occur to me it might be shyness. At the party, other guys had been trying it on with her all night including one who took her by the hand and led her onto the dance floor. Every time I saw something like that, my heart sank and I thought "Well that's that". At some point I'd been dancing with friends and it was fun, but found myself increasingly distracted by the girl, so marched over and asked if I could have a word. At first she seemed to have typical cute girl defenses in that "Yeah, whatever" way they sometimes respond to an approach, but as soon as I mentioned something she'd said about herself earlier in the week her face lit up and she said "You mean you were actually listening when we spoke before?!", with a big grin and eye contact. It felt easy to be talking to her from there. The young guy who'd been trying to chat her up for the past hour or so, and was still standing there, looked a bit taken aback

Oh, you would not believe. Due to various crises, my cast iron plan to get seven hours of uninterrupted sleep last night turned into two hours of crap sleep. Festival seems to be running fairly well though I'm in the organisers office. It's Zelda Day. Right this very second, the tent is filling up with girls dressed as Link. I'm going to try and make it to the drinks for a bit this afternoon. I'm glad they're in the Malt Cross, the Trip is way out; the Malt Cross is damn fine and a stones throw from the giant tent in the market square.

m.gamblinglambs.com:29265 has been a bit neglected too. Rossaluss operates it with a whitelist. Not sure how robust it would be, because I don't think it's a $60 a month server.

That's pretty much the state I was in at 4a.m. two nights ago Here is why. I'm a producer on GameCity this year.