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Well, I don't know every single interaction that something does, obviously, but I'm not going around installing deletebootini.exe or anything. I haven't had any problems of the sort that UAC is supposed to prevent, and almost everything I do requires you to run it in Administrator anyway, so. (< Slight hyperbole. A lot of games/game installers are real annoying about Admin rights.) (How did we get here?)

Questionable browsing practices. (Just force of habit by this point.)

Fair enough. Faith in humanity slightly unfucked.

Of course not. However, I do know what everything I install does and what it accesses. Not being stupid happens to be incredibly effective in making sure your computer doesn't spontaneously die.

And yet this is what I've done with zero hitches.

Ah. I'm not sure he's ever been a studio insider, no. But he knows his stuff well enough that I'm not bothered by the veteran comment.

Other than games obviously, which would cause it to flip out in plenty of ways by themselves, a fair few. Gods forbid anything wants to connect to the internet. Basically, if something ran on your computer, UAC would reach out and slap at it until you told it to go away. Anything at all.

Any single time I want to do something on my computer.

Running G4 and hosting their only remaining thing pertaining to video games, XPlay for what, a decade? More? Pretty sure he was in the industry prior to that as well.

It's never done anything useful for me. Ever. It always pops up at the worst times, I've got my own security in place.

I suppose. If I could get two wishes, they'd be no-one goes hungry and everyone playing DotA is nice forever, so.

I do that when I'm low on sleep, I apologize. Look, I'm not trying to imply that men don't have feelings, but what I am getting at is that people who post in places like /r/mensrights and seriously believe what they're saying are completely out of their gourds. Entirely, utterly batshit. Like I said earlier, yes, men are portrayed unrealistically in games as well, typically as 95% muscle 150% suave/gruff as the situation calls for, and that's bad as well. However, there's no matriarchal conspiracy to make all men whatever insane theory they've come up with lately. I apologize for the inconsistency, it's basically just me trying to be funny late at night, and I'm bad at that when I'm fully rested. I'd much rather this topic just close.

Care to extrapolate? Do you, perchance, agree with /r/mensrights?

I think you're finding meaning that isn't there, but whatever.

I can't speak to their intended theme, but what I took away from it was the story of some guys making a labour of love and doing what they want to do and how that isn't always an easy life, but they got through it and this cool stuff came out the other side. I wouldn't say there were any, eh, scolding overtones? I just mentioned the internet being shit because of the typical response a small dev team gets when they don't do things to the internet's satisfaction. It doesn't feature particularly prominently in this.

Making indie games is not always parties and fun times, is the impression I got from it. Sometimes you talk to Microsoft for seventy hours to get your shit on their shit. Or stay up three days in a row trying to fix a game destroying bug, but everyone hates you anyway because you're not doing what they want and the internet is a shitty place.

Daily, daily I ask the woman I live with to pass the salt. She's always so polite about it, it infuriates me! She's oppressing my right to be an incredible jackass.

They genuinely think they're standing up to a corrupt matriarchal society. It boggles my mind.

Any rational arguments will be shouted down by people genuinely espousing "mens rights", Don't get me wrong, the portrayal of men in video games is pretty stupid as a whole, but these people are idiots. http://www.reddit.com/r/mensrights Have a browse. If you haven't ended it all after the first 10 topic titles, run.

Oh no, there is plot armour galore in the Sword of Truth series. Gods forbid you shouldn't get a particularly weird name though. Bob? Dead in a chapter. Shalanroasj? Most powerful wizard ever.

Terry Goodkind is really, really into teaching young adults self confidence by killing everyone in his books.

Osmosis.

I went on Craigslist (*shudder*) and looked. To be fair, someone may have created a replica of it on actual Craigslist.

I love me some Sess' but he looks haggard as hell. I guess that's probably E3's fault though.

Actually (I am about to be super jingoist and I apologize), the reason that Brazilians are hated in the F2P/DotA-like realm of the internet (some of them are actually quite good), is that many of them cheat, hack, abandon games and curse in incredibly broken English at anyone who does anything they don't like. They're basically pariahs in the international DotA community, and while they definitely have a large contingent of jerks among them in DotA1/HoN/LoL, I'm not really sure how it ever reached the point it has. The internet, I guess. I will point out that my earlier post about being jingoist in this thread was inspired by a game I had an almost duplicate of yesterday, where-in I solo queued DotA 2 (my first mistake), picked a support character with a stun (my second mistake) and took the lane with our teams hard carry. Who then turns out to be some manner of heavily accented South American fellow who calls me a "fuukein idiota" when I don't response to his pings in real time. The nice part is that the game yesterday ended up going really well and we were all laughing and cursing in voice chat and good friends by the end of it. So they're not all bad, but reputations are (usually) not idly deserved.