Sean

FWIW we are friend with those guys and like them very much.

Great point about the Oregon Trail.

Watching someone on youtube actually Lord it up with Meepo is awesome. I'll never ever play him but it's fun to watch a Meepo master.

I've always wondered about those scrambler pipes for a passenger -- I'll probably go two-up with my wife quite a bit and she is not enthused about those exhaust pipes near her right leg. I've looked at the Scrambler a bit though at the local Triumph dealer in SF.

Awesome! Welcome guys -- and glad your first impression of the site was good (DrFat32). We just did a massive overhaul and are in the earliest phases of growing it.

That's strange. I could've sworn there was a bit where she goes "Oh...that's what happened," because Lee is unable to muster the exact words about his past in terms of Ep1, so Ep3 is supposed to confirm Clementine's suspicions/worries. Did you tell her in the motor inn or did she find out later in the RV? Troubling nevertheless. Either I failed or programming failed and both stinks.

Also, I really like that mesh grill over the headlight. Good touches! I'm in the market for a new bike and the more cool stuff I see people do to their bonnies the more I'm thinking it might be it.

YEP. Those are a great addition, Killstar. I dig them a lot.

I am out of town with no DOTA'able computer and it is killing me.

Cool. I'm out of town for a week but we have some Book Club house keeping to attend to when I get back and I'll bring up announcing two months ahead.

Yeah, Cloud Atlas is probably about the biggest novel, give or take a hundred pages, we'd toss out for a regular Idle Book Club. Chris and I have talked about definitely wanting do Infinite Jest but we'd treat that a special cast and give people 2 or 3 months heads up. Month 3 hasn't been chosen yet; we'll announce it during Ep 2: Cloud Atlas. (Does that sound like enough time for people to read a book that is 300 to 500 pages?)

ha, wow -- late night forums'ing got subbes/miffy confused in my head. WOOPS.

For sure! Would've made it out to Subbes had I known.

Yes!

That looks great! Is it out/being made?

We (Doug/Mike/Jake) built one ourselves. It's called the Thumblord and it is rad.

I LOVED Assassins' Creed Brotherhood Multi. (Assbro for short) Just loved it. Will talk about it next week (wanted to bring it up on the panel but was afraid to derail the momentum on Spy Party we had going).

*Cough Cough* Some of those are for Kickstarter rewards but we've been figuring out how we want to actually maybe sell things in the coming months. Glad we'd have at least one customer!

Yeah, the blog will be more of a repository miscellaneous stuff but we'll keep it regular so be sure to check it out.

fin. Idle Thumbs Progresscast The Sixteenth Final One Pods incoming. Pax. Quakecon. Thirty Flights of Loving. Spelunky. Jake is losing his mind. Spelunky, Microsoft Flight, Offspring Fling Read the full Kickstarter update. Direct episode download. Keep the RSS fed!

You can actually hear me laugh really loudly in the background because Jake reached for his notepad, which is a telltale sign that he is writing down a possible episode title.

What.

Thinking about jumping in -- send me a message on steam if you want.

A guy at TTG has one and I can attest that it is an awesome bike. It's huge but looks and feels small; powerful as hell and a real tourer. I would definitely snatch one up given the chance.

The point I was making is that regardless of the developer referring to the easy-to-play companion mode of his game as "girlfriend mode," (which, seriously, in a very not-really-debatable-way is a silly way to describe your product if you purport to be selling your game to a diverse audience) Borderlands, (and its sequel) offer a litany of crass, sexist, superficial representations of women within the very text of the game so maybe we could talk about that within the context of the actual argument. Nevertheless, (@ ProblemMachine here) I pretty much disagree with the bulk of your points you are putting forth. For the sake of argument (welcome to the forums!) I'll just pick this one. People are criticizing him for the words he chose and not the words he could've chose. See, neither of us (Chris or I) were saying that what's-his-nose from Gearbox is a bad guy. In fact, I took the road of "hey, this guy made a bone-headed mistake and is paying a disproportionate price," (A perspective, 48 hours, I actually kind of regret). But what the bulk of your arguments here fail to recognize is the difference between overt and covert prejudice. Go dig up the Jaffe quote where the guy actually looks into a camera and says "Let your girlfriend win at this game and she will suck your dick. Seriously. She will suck your dick." There's not a whole helluva lot to parse there. Jaffe is an overt sexist and we can heap him into a pile and we, as decent humans, can give him the room to try to climb out of it. But what the game industry truly suffers from is COVERT prejudice -- which is when a good-intentioned designer at a AAA studio chooses some stupid words to describe his gameplay mode and nobody can tell what the actual problem is. The use of "girlfriend mode," is as coded as it is ultimately meaningless -- it at the same time is a flippant description for "hey, play this way with a friend who's not as good as you," as it is insidious in reinforcing the idea that video games is a medium that requires a male (or, fuck, even culturally dominant) ambassador. IE: What he meant (which, I think, you don't give us enough credit for realizing while simultaneously giving HIM too much credit for having said it in the first place) vs what he said is precisely what's at issue when it comes to the subsurface ways women are systematically marginalized in the game industry. But seriously, no sarcasm before, welcome to the forums, and while myself, Chris, Jake or whoever might take strong issue with a stance here, we welcome all sides as long as they all sit comfortably under the umbrella of respect. Now, I have to run back to the living room -- the wife and I are playing Super Mario Galaxy and this wife-mode Miyamoto was so hot on really is great.