JonCole

Twitter is so dumb -

It's an improvement in that you can more deliberately push in the cardinal directions but it still has a propensity to hit diagonals more than one would like. In other words I don't think it fixes any real problems, just makes things slightly less bad.

Hmm, I don't recall seeing that option in-game. I'll double check. Thanks!

Guys, Deus Ex Human Revolution is still super good. Just in case you were wondering.

My wife follows this thread despite not actually participating in the forums and she had a response that I thought was worth sharing - Making the poses "easier on the anatomy" would actually be so wonderful. When I clicked on the tumblr link I wasn't really expecting to have any kind of reaction, but seeing the women redrawn to show real anatomical possibility moved me to tears because it instantly humanized them. When they are not human looking, the sexualization of their poses is easier for my brain to ignore, but when they are drawn like real people my brain instantly responds and sees the wrongdoing. As a feminist woman, it was jarring for me to realize that I had been considering these anatomically impossible renderings of women in games and comics as throwaway garbage because my brain wasn't recognizing them as human beings. Drawing women in sexist but POSSIBLE poses of course doesn't fix everything, but it's certainly a step in the right direction. If we portray women as real, possible people perhaps it will be easier for everyone to see them as such.

Also, given that most controllers nowadays have both a joystick and d-pad, if you really want more smooth diagonal progression you can just use the joystick. Having a d-pad like the one on the 360 is effectively narrowing the gap between a d-pad and joystick and I don't really see why we need something in between.

I want to make my position clear. I really don't think that anything is "driven" by teen boys. I just think that a lot of the signal boosting/echo chamber stuff that's happening on the other side is due to those kinds of trolls with no actual stakes in the very real discussion that's happening. I think that the message of "gaming is under attack" is most resonant to people with literally nothing else that they care about, namely young people. I think this is also why when you look at that anti-Anita Patreon, there aren't actually a lot of contributors despite how pervasive the people seem on Twitter. This is not an attempt to reduce or shift the responsibility. It's more just me coming to terms with the fact that a lot of people who subtweet me out of the blue to take a shot at me or whoever I happen to be tweeting at for no reason are not actually reasonable because they actually don't care about the substance of their arguments. There is a specific segment of people who are co-opting this argument so they can play a game of their own choosing.

Gamefly is running a sale on PC games, today's offerings are pretty nice - http://digital.gamefly.com/?stop_mobi=once#!/promotion/842 RE4, Wolfenstein, South Park. Use AUG20OFF to get 20% more off, making the prices pretty competitive with the best prices yet for those games.

She was once followed home by a guy... who would have been threatening had she noticed him because WHAT NON-THREATENING PERSON FOLLOWS A WOMAN WITHOUT HER KNOWING fuuuuuu

Well, I tried to play LL on my PC and it just destroyed my rig. I recently had to swap video cards with my wife because I was having some serious AMD driver issues and I didn't really feel like clean installing Windows to try to fix it. So now I'm stuck with my GTX 560 Ti 1GB from a while ago and it is comparatively garbage to what I had previously. I was actually doing okay, graphically, until one of the first areas where you really have to stealth otherwise a bunch of dudes spawn and some alarms go off. As soon as the alarms hit, a bunch of those spinning alert lights came on and tanked my framerate to probably sub-10 fps. I tried fiddling with the resolution, effects, graphics quality, etc to no effect. After I somehow managed to kill all the dudes, I shot out the lights one by one and each one I shot bumped my framerate by about 4-5 until I was done and it was back to a very wobby 30-ish. I guess I'm just going to put down the game until I buy a new video card (I figure I won't take my old one back from the wife, she actually plays more PC games than me and deserves a good card). This game is still demanding as all hell. I don't think getting that Redux upgrade is going to make much of a difference, from what I understand it really isn't about performance for PC LL.

Huh, maybe I'll give it a shot. I last played on PS3 when the game first came out, but I bought the PS4 upgrade in foresight and have yet to actually play it on PS4. Particularly if the DLC-integration isn't blatantly exclusionary in nature, as it felt last time I played a COD game long after release with no DLC.

This episode of 99% Invisible is really good - http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-sound-of-sports/ Talks about the sound design of live sports, which is a fascinating thing that I've never given much thought to. And it's an unusual episode, as it basically just is a rebroadcast of a hour-long documentary on the subject that was excerpted for an earlier episode of the podcast.

I guess I'd probably have to have the DLC to play this nowadays? I didn't buy the season pass because I bought a few season passes before that I didn't use at all.

Oh, I didn't mean to say that he/she actually successfully rendered that pose, just that an attempt was humorous. I was using it more as a lead-in to that other site, which I think is far more interesting. I think there's a direct link between objectification of women and not drawing/rendering them in a realistic fashion. That's not to say that if drawn anatomically all of those pictures would be a boon to women, but I think that if people drawing these things actually took a minute to think of the subjects of their drawings as actual human women they might not say "let's just show all of the arms and legs of a woman at once in this crazy pose just so show maximum skin". That might lead to something more progressive, where if you're not breaking the laws of nature to reveal maximum skin you might say "well maybe she could also be more clothed because that last idea was pretty ridiculous". That may just be me being hopeful, but it's all I've got since I really have no greater insight into or experience with most art.

#rolo #yolo

Someone tried to 3D render that horrible Spiderwoman variant cover and oh boy are the results... well, the stuff of nightmares: Seeing that led me to this really interesting Tumblr where the the main point is he posts completely unrealistic drawings of women and the people submit "redraws" where they try to adapt or modify the art to actually fit human physiology. The most fascinating part is that if the goal is to make these drawings look really sexy, most of the redraws are pretty much just as conventionally attractive but manage to not contort the body or misrepresent how a body is formed.

If I'm not mistaken, the nav controller pairs exactly like a PS3 controller would (they use the same driver), so the analog stick would function just as a left analog stick would in a game. I think the mouse functions just like a mouse, the driver doesn't force it to act like a stick. So I don't think this would work in games where it forces a single control method, only in ones that would let you use the aforementioned controller in one hand, mouse in the other.

They're fearful for a God of War IV where you don't use a woman's body as a tool to keep a heavy door open for you, instead you have to use a stick or weapon like Kratos is some kind of peasant who can't command human sacrifices for his progress through a level.

Well, America's hat has to be pretty wide to cover that big head of ours.

I saw a screenshotted exchange between a journo and some troll where the journo asked the troll if Roger Ebert's relationship with Martin Scorcese made him any worse equipped to fairly cover his work. The troll responded with something like, "did Ebert review any more than two or three of Scorcese's works?" to which the journo responded "yes, and he wrote a whole book about him too" which seemed to boggle the mind of the troll. I mean, I honestly think that a large contingent of the actual trolls (shit-stirrers who don't have much allegiance to the actual substance, if there is any, of the argument) are actually children/teenagers with no historical context or experience even talking about anything. That particular anecdote is more appropriate to the ethics thread, but I think it also illustrates just how out of touch some of the trolls are and how uninterested they are in engaging with facts and reason.

I believe that the thing that started this whole line of discussion was my original comment: If I wasn't clear, "[not keeping] it together 100% of the time" was my way of saying that making petty remarks and jabs are reactions that shouldn't invalidate or undermine the sentiments of these feminists. I'm not saying that the campaign should shift from substance to personal attacks, I'm simply saying that if you're under pressure and harassment at all hours you deserve a few slip-ups where you might not be so nice. That's far from "stirring the shit pot".

I'm quitting They Bleed Pixels. It's super hard and kinda feels like Super Meat Boy but not as tight and inherently fun as SMB feels. I got a foil card from playing it so I've literally recouped almost the full price I paid for it, so I'm more than happy to be done with it after lots of yelling at my computer.

It seems to me that you're saying that extreme cases of sunk costs will yield obvious and detectable results. But what I was talking about it non-extreme cases with undetectable but probably still measurable results. I don't really know how anything you said is relevant minus the very first paragraph, to which I respond that I don't really think that Patreon/Kickstarter is all that different than, for instance, preorders and alpha/beta tests. At least they're not all that different in terms of the actual exchange (sunk costs -> higher perceived value) that is happening, minus the minutiae.

Yeaaaaah... Chris Brown is a scumlord. I don't think he was married to Rihanna, though that correction isn't at all relevant to his scum factor.

I'm pretty sure the browser is a full webkit-based browser. I don't know if it's based on any particular end-user browser like Chrome, Safari or Opera, though.