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My initial thought as well, kind of. But hey, it's pay-what-you-want, charity is involved, I think this might actually be a Cool Thing. Not sure though, implications, long-term, mh?

Mh, I am rather confused as to why there is any confusion at all. It was pay-what-you-want with clearly labelled benefits - ability to vote, old and new prototypes, stream and summery-videos - for those who joined. My, that sounds wonderful - 123,45 $. Cool, but I'm poor - 1 $. Not interested - 0 $. And actually it doesn't matter how many people pay how much, because that is not the point, but money is still cool, and as Chris said, the pay-wall weeds out the spam. Pretty clear, pretty simple, in my eyes, and not at all sinister or questionable.

Wonderful idea. I managed to narrow it down to 8 pitches - Autonomous, Kaiju Piledriver, The White Birch, Bragging & Fighting, Milgrim, The Knockover, Black Lake and Spacebase DF9. Now to decide...damn!

This is most probably a very long shot, but does any of you Thumbs happen to be stuck with a male S-size Backer shirt but would like to have an M? For me it's the other way around, I thought M would be my size, but it's a bit too big, so I'd like to swap.

(Not to open this old can of bees again, but I too find it a bit stupid that it's again three blokes doing bloke-stuff. With the three-people thing they must have thought about including a woman, but they decided otherwise. Mh! [i hope for the big reveal - a woman - in the 3rd trailer.]) The trailer looks great. As a sandbox it probably will be a fantastic game. I have the feeling though that I can't get into the whole criminals and their violent ways - Rockstar Style - shtick anymore. As kind of well written as it will most probably be, I doubt they will manage to make it really interesting or fresh. (I don't know, it's like if after Reservoir Dogs Tarantino just would have bothered to make sequels in different towns and times - mh, okay, it still is and wants to be GTA, so I guess it's a stupid analogy. What? Rambling? Who?)

A very wonderful gif about a dog, I might add.

Ah, yeah, right, thanks...äh...I think I remember there being such a movie. I do remember (vaguely) that I wanted to see it, I think there was a promising/misleading trailer - featuring the booming Terminator theme - and I probably saw it, in the cinema even, I think. Two kids in a bunker, or was that the third...probably explosions...damn...

Not to re-derail the thread, but you all made this 'T4' up, no? - I honestly can't remember. There is this one with the female Terminator and then...all I can think of is Transformers - wait, was Shia Leboeuf in Terminator 4? (Yeah sure, Google, but where is the fun in that.)

Me too, but at home.Quick question: Would installing Windows 7 on my old 1,6Ghz/1GB netbook make a noticeable positive difference/be advisable? I use it mostly for Word, FTL, the internet and Boardwalk Empire.

After the text adventure, not much longer - five minutes, if you take the easy (and obvious route), I'd say.I got stuck in the text adventure, had to look up some clues - no more roadblocks after that. Silly strange game, sadly my netbook seemed to struggle with it, made some stuff agonisingly slow. At least I guess it played slower for me than it should have.

Mh, I was pretty impressed by the video, even a bit moved, and then reading that expression the way I understand it and I guess people tend to use it as a comment made me angry. And struck expletives are the cowards way of dealing with this kind of anger.Gosh, I already said I'm sorry, what else... kidding

Cool.Excuse my rough tone then.

Is this your way of expressing awe or are you really this fucking condescending?

I finally got my stuff! The poster is a great print, very solid, the T-Shirt fits nicely (it is quite long though - it's like American men have very long upper bodies, or they just prefer it that way, those silly people), button, sticker - this made my day.

Thanks! Cool!

What does it say?

They use Moai with some tools by their in-house toolmakers (yeah, I totally know what I'm talking about) for better allowing the artists, writers, people to put stuff into the game, see how it works, and change it without a programmer sitting on their shoulder.I mean, go read the Programming Updates in the forums, written by programming-folk - they know how to use them fancy words.

You are a cool person!

Mh, as there is the option to slackerback The Adventure now, I'd say all talk (and no show) is allowed, to water the mouths of the undecided, to lure them in.Glad the thread is back - I wanted to talk about DFA, but the backer forums are a strange place with strange people, I prefer the silly thumbs-folk. Besides the fact that I seem to be one of the unlucky few whose reward-shippment got lost somehow - Fangamer is sorting that out right now - this whole experiences is one of the best internet/game-things ever for me. The documentary is great, the input in the forums by the DF and 2PP people is very interesting, the game seems cool. I'm happy! And yeah, the last episode was tense, even kind of hard to watch from a fan's perspective - Mr Remo as comic relief notwithstanding. Nonetheless very much appreciated that they show those sides as well.

Regarding linearity in games, I'd say 'To the Moon' is a great quite-recent game to look at. The gameplay itself is linear for the most part, only some small places are optional, you mostly follow a given path, but the story it tells is very much non-linear on several layers. I don't spoil the story, only speak about it in very (!) broad terms without mentioning any particulars, but if you know you will play the game tomorrow I think it's best to go at it with the fewest information possible. You should play it!

For one thing, boy, I was a bit nervous you'd be angry or something. (Yeah, I don't do forums a lot, I still get nervous.) Good stuff! Oh, and comment negatively, being critical and all is good, and I'm sure you can manage to do that without it sounding like you're whining. The alternative version, you did that, no? You can move around with the arrow keys, very cool. BUT: zooming is cheating I'd say, and goes against the spirit and intention of the comic.

XKCD is awesome! This comic is awesome! (Better navigation would be nice though, but I guess it's part of the experience.) ! (Hobo Lobo is cool.)

Sorry for the 'back-from-the-dead' - didn't want to open a new thread and just in case you didn't blablabla... The recent XKCD-comic is very incredible in a mind-blowing way: http://xkcd.com/1110/

Transition? Neutered? I don't understand. Is there some horrible radio-version?

I was (?) like this as well. Save, look the one way, load, look the other way, load again, first way was better, should have saved that try. And keeping all the shit, later somebody might need 5 pieces of broken furniture. Now I learned/force myself to roll with my decisions - and look up stuff like 'do I need those 20 trinkets that clutter up my inventory in a later quest?' while playing.