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Ah, damn it, I just had to. Even though I'm pretty sure this game won't be Torment, and I'm not yet convinced Brian Fargo knows what he's got himself into when taking on two projects of this magnitude (game-size, legacy, peoples expectations). And the whole 'fans as publishers'-thing, mh, waaaaaaaah - anyway, I'm in, and already enjoying seeing that number grow. 601, 602, 603... Edit: The setting does sound very interesting, the potential to kind of include everything a creative mind can think up is quite intriguing. To handle this boundlessness well, again, different story. 613, 614, 615...

Yeah, congrats! Now Idle Thumbs is officially Bafta-approved.

Mh, either that or it is 'code' for all the explanations that are given in this thread (and in at least one case right after the use of said word) about how she gets sexualised in the game as a whole and seemingly in the violence-bits as well which, together with the cultural context of women in media and the mix of violence (against women) and sex and all the other things we talked about in many threads here, are the part that makes it 'problematic'. Oh, and I don't see it as proven, or black, or white, just something that merits talking about.

I did not know that. Thanks! Google even told me the name of the building - oh Google your omniscience is scary.

Can't you just ignore* and/or finally kiss each other, the tension is unbearable. *I mean the forum-function, not the exercise in self-control. (What, who said anything about helping?)

I thought I knew the building, but instead of asking I cut it out and searched it via tineye - to my surprise, it worked. I thought computers weren't smart enough for this yet. Okay, it is a very famous building and this is a full clear frontal shot, but still, my backwater-self is surprised.

Yeah, good point, the fact that it is Lara Croft who's made to suffer sets the violence in a different context. But even detached from her legacy the way they seem to have chosen to portrait her enduring emotional and physical pain looks quite problematic - see, she has character and all, she is nerdy and then shocked and horrified and cries over a killed animal, but yeah, now look at her butt or down her cleavage, and we make you, we fixed the camera and we rather let her shiver than give her a jacket, and all the time she is just one shower away from being the prettiest girl at the prom. That video you linked to is properly creepy, as are the comments following it.

Oh, thanks for the info, I didn't even bother to try the demo, having a shitty netbook myself. Just had a short go, and it really ran fine - any idea whether it slows much with more stuff happening on screen? Instantly liked the look and feel of the game.

This is absolutely not of the comical video kind, but as this is our collective video-thread – I'm floored, this is very powerful, poetic, beautiful, sad, tragic, happy, powerful.

Hey, I think your link is broken. I'm pretty positive you meant this:

Where's Ken Levine? I can't find Ken Levine. There should be a Ken Levine. Maybe I'm just blind. Ken Levine!

Thanks people! Errant Signal I just wanted to check for a minute and stuck with for the whole show (wuhu, 13 minutes) - great. My Drunk Kitchen was actually one of the shows I heard about on Nerdist but couldn't remember - she seems nice and funny, but somehow I seem to have a small problem with this getting-drunk-for-entertainment-shtick (which is the point, yeah, I'm not even sure why, maybe it's me being a hypocrite drinking alcohol regularly and still having a problem with the role it plays in society blablabla). BriTANicK I knew, very fantastic, sadly they seem to release new stuff only quarterly. Life in Transition does sound fascinating, but apart from me really not needing make-up-tips I don't feel like I can stomach the emotional heaviness it probably has right now. Yeah, The Guild, I watched that before for an episode or two - not sure why I didn't stick with it. I have to check the other shows too. Some stuff is really not up my ally, but wellwhatevernevermind.

(Remember when we used to not write in the FIGCE-thread but in here to talk about fresh and new indie games?) So about 'Jelly no Puzzle'. I'm a bit amazed that a game with such a simple set of rules continually manages to be so hard to solve - including red herrings, lots and lots of 'oh this would be easy if it wasn't for the position of this one block'-situations and this creeping thought you know is not true that this particular level is just broken, a bug and really unsolveable (until it clicks) - without resorting to just throwing bigger levels or more objects at the player. That is probably what makes a puzzle-game of this kind 'good', I just haven't played those in some time, so I was surprised.

Jelly no Puzzle By: Qrostar (a person named Tatsunami) Available: Free from the Qrostar-site in a tiny 2,1MB .zip-file. Synopsis: A puzzle game. Very simple mechanics, clear set of rules, very simple looking levels - but actually very (!) hard to solve. Lots of problems in the vain of the fox, goose and bag of beans river-crossing-puzzle, but with blocks of jelly, and only kind of. (I just beat the *********, and feel very smart and handsome now.) More: Rock Paper Shotgun wrote about it some days ago.

Though I (still) don't have a working and able PC to play it, I'm very happy about the news. Some day I will have and then I can play it. And it's great for DF, I guess. What about the rights - does Double Fine own them now and is the sole distributor? The trailer was without another publisher, I think, so...? Was it again Dracogen? Anyway, great!

Some years ago at a party my consciousness went away for maybe a second while I was trying very hard to lean against a wall. Probably had something to do with the pot in conjunction with the alcohol-energy-drink-mix, but who knows. Luckily I was around friends who caught me, or I'd have fallen flat on my nose. Scary, but not too much, as there was an obvious explanation, and it never happened since. And yeah, I_smell, what Armchair General says. Sounds scary.

Klick on your name in the upper right corner -> 'Manage Ignore Prefs' -> put in a name under 'Add a new user to my list' and check some boxes -> 'Save Changes' and you are set.So yes, you can. But should you? Is it the right thing to do? .

You all R2D2rs away from getting banned for derailing, you know that?

Cool! It just looks like they put comic-eyes on one of the ISS-arm-things, no? (at around 0:22, staring back)I've been to our local planetarium a week ago and it was a very nice trip - into space and back to a time when East Germany was called the GDR (...old socialist-style building). And it has a funny website. I want to go there more often, even fake-space is exciting.

Some time ago I bought 'The Acme Novelty Library' by Chris Ware as a present (after someone here mentioned 'Building Stories' - thanks for that) and just judging by the few pages I read and by the details on the paper-cover-thing ('Printed in China, because it's cheaper' in tiny print, etc.) alone it is a fantastic (and big and pretty) book!

That is presumptuous and rude.

Thank you TychoCelchuuu!

One of those problems might be that they can't lock their problem outside the door or keep it in the garage or just not be a cyclist 98% of the day, or 100% for that matter. Why are we talking about bicycles again? Because you made a stupid comparison and actually stand by it on the shaky grounds of superficial similarities. And you seem to agree that there is indeed sexism and it might or probably or even sometimes definitely does hit women a lot harder than men but you still argue because semantics or controversy or, ah yeah, you are "just arguing for keeping biases in mind."

I'm still not sure you are not just trolling Luftmensch. Sure, conversation is good, but when you start with 'I get harassed on a bike as well' it is hard to take you seriously, and your wording (and emphasis) - "and [sexism] might cause acts of dickery in itself, and it probably causes acts of dickery to be disproportionately expressed agains one group or the other" - seems rather inflammatory. Thanks!

yeah Mh, sadly yeah!