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The $100 tier is the value (HAHA), because with the GEMS and Char slot it's like ~65 worth of stuff depending on the exchange rate.

Fox has basically spent the last 10 years stoking racial animosity, as the entertainment wing of the republican base it's basically their political platform. A racist notion of "moochers", "thugs", "not angels" when that's all just codes. All white people (of which I am one) are to some degree complicit in this.

the biological explanation of the most ridiculous "double jump" in games.

Man, I've been mesmerized by the idea of some people working in a lab trying to figure out why their AI is sentient but not knowing. I also feel like it's so enticing an image it has to be a bit of a hoax!

I'm finally catching up, and I glossed over the last page or two, but I also wanted to say that all these posts are awesome. I personally find attempts to give a concrete LORE explanation to the corporeal existence of "Bob" to be a little unsatisfactory. There was some posts about "if this wasn't Lynch would it be good?" To which I'd say NO WAY. One thing Lynch does exceptionally well is imbue significant meaning in otherwise mundane things. It's one of the lasting qualities I've retained from the show. Not everyone can point a camera at a ceiling fan and imbue it with menace. Applying a deeper meaning to the events of our lives, when they can also be seen as merely the repercussions of another persons base actions seems so central to the quality of twin peaks. Lynch is so good at the implied mean that he also acknowledges that manipulation in the form of copious red herrings. Acknowledging that the implied meaning is just a psychological necessity and it really isn't there. EDIT: I think Lil is a good example of a Lynchian red herring and seeking meaning. EDIT 2: she's wearing red with a red wig for goodness sake! I wish I was better at philosophy, because Leland/Bob seems to be a nice representation of my totally rudimentary understanding of Lacanian "mirror stage"/duality stuff. Twin Peaks is just rich with, even FWWM. Idealist Coop's idealized Twin Peaks vs darker Chet and miserable Deer Park. I wonder if Teresa's numb arm is a parallel to Mike freeing himself? Teresa failed to turn herself around and it led to her, where Mike cut it off and survived? One last thing. The pink room band. I feel like that HAS to be a reference to The Birthday Party? The grinding repetitiveness, the filthy sexiness, the lasciviously gyrating cowboy:

oh, I think there is plenty of room, in that ME's world is sufficiently Star Trek-y. You have a lot of races that have a storied history. I think you could start a cool thing from the end of the 3, with the rebuilding. You could easily run it down a path similar to Ian M Bank's Culture series, like Player of Games, where the player, another Specter person is sent to solve X crisis in the name of the council. blah blah. The Krogan cure the phage and strike out for revenge. Lots of room!

I'm sure like Castlevania this thing is already fully funded in house. If Sony put it on stage they've already committed money, and the Kickstarter is just for advertising you pay them for/evangelizing.

Yeah, I've only ever received the "error trying to join a game" message.

when i hit it at 1pm GTAV was showing for 29.98! I should have grabbed it, because it seems to have been fixed when the servers crashed.

things i'm looking at: GTAV - nice price, but i'm torn about supporting that thing Sunset I DONT KNOW IRGHT NOW

the DLC heavily relates to one companion. All 4 are pretty uniquely scoped, 10-20 hour adventures with a narrative through line. i also agree with Azniac, it's neat that when you get to the strip there is a HUGE plot of land that is basically just farmland. I think one or two quests might cross this huge space, but it's mostly just there to build the world.

haha, oh man. i like the idea of ICP (not to swat low hanging fruit, but i meant that it's just really blaze FUCK YOU cultural spite) being a defacement on human culture. good paper.

the best stuff is often pretty flawed in some obvious way!

Hatred is more like Insane Clown Posse. I'd be willing to take some rhetorical ride for something more transgressive, like open season on cops/bankers/us military. Violent civil uprising set to some abrasive shit. Actual brick throwing, face smashing maniacs. Like reverse CRIME FIGHTERS.

I feel like we should also flat out reject the "don't cover it" angle, because in a way you're saying there is actually a desire for fundamentally racist game, and if people just didn't know that it was available it would be ok. True progress would be people know there is this hateful thing, and still rejecting it. An absence of coverage has not hurt white power groups from recruiting or quietly growing, worldwide. If you have Facebook, and have access to news, you can see white supremacy and the devaluing of POC lives is going pretty strong in lieu of any hard conversations. (none of this is meant as a direct attack against you mr zeus! 1 luv)

Also "ironic cover" and "pretend it's about" to me seems like aggressively missing the point, or maybe more likely an unwillingness to engage in any kind of deeper criticism. The idea that it's the presses fault that people had a reaction to a game about a white guy gruesomely executing non-white civilians is both nonsense and in itself offensive. Jerry's opinion boils down to "you're dumb for caring about something", which also explains a lot about their whole deal.

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Long windiest not-actually smart guy ever?

I ordered the controller and link because my brain is broken and the urge to not "miss out" overwhelms any semblance of sense I might have. I've got a medium beefy PC so I think this could prove useful and in the darkest, most shameful depths something clicked and said "maybe you'll get a badge for this?"

Also, a nice illustration of this is the granularity of the endings NV has, compared to 3: http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout:_New_Vegas_endings http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout_3_endings

Man I want to +1 Max Ernst's post super hard. I really think New Vegas, and particularly the 4 DLCs taken together are masterpieces. (I of course went No Gods No Masters at the end, even though it really bummed me out to have to turn on some of the people I really liked) I enjoyed 3, and I'll probably enjoy 4, but they're kind of like cover bands, all the gloss little of the heart. NV tries for meaning in a way I don't feel 3 does. Also, just on a worldbuilding level I'm a little worried about setting it in a metropolis, because I think it misses the point/heart of Fallout as an expression of the postwar midcentury exurban/suburban fantasy to turned disaster.

Fun as always, though when you guys were talking about how Life is Strange seemed out of time, I kept thinking how "90s kid" is a thing people do now, and how the game could be doing that (though it's easy to bet against). One of the weird things about modern, now life is how seamlessly nostalgia has been integrated into current milieu. There are a lot of flavors of 90s revivalist stuff, though I'm mostly familiar with music. The one I find particularly baffling is semi recent emergence of the London record label, now genre of dance music known as PC Music (https://soundcloud.com/pcmus) (http://releases.pcmusic.info/). (Did you miss Orchestra Hit? It's back!) Which has brought the return of brutal early Photoshop filters, and cheesy stock art, as retro pastiche, but it's not seemingly far enough away for me to register as actually old.

Book: he Flamethrowers - Rachel Kushner One of my favorite books in recent memory. The story of a young female performance artist coming to NY in the 70s, and meeting less than great men. It's a triumphant book about a woman who often feels, and is made to feel less than triumphant while trying to engage in the excitement of youth. I don't mean to say she's some sad sack, quite the opposite, resolute and bold, but it effectively communicates the subtle ways people chip away at her agency. Music: Waxahatchee - Ivy Tripp This will be a favorite of 2015. Sometimes hauntingly dark/beautiful singer songwriter stuff, sometimes a bit 90s fuzzed rock. Samples of both: Potty Mouth - Hell Bent 4 Boston women. Kind of Riotgrrly, kind of fuzzed out Dinsosaur Jr,kind of slackery, but just oozing cool. Pharmakon - Abandon or Bestial Burden One woman noise assault. Totally menacing, rhythmic, synthy crumbling and shrieking In School - Praxis of Hate Four brooklyn women. Raging hardcore, fast, smart and mean. ep G.L.O.S.S. - We're From the Future demo Olympia women, trans and cis. hard, distorted and ferocious. demo

Great show! I've been meaning to write to ask about game industry secrets, though I'd extend it to the inability to talk about stuff that was worked on. I remember a few incidents on Thumbs where Sean recalled his time at Disney, though I remember he did get into the Epic Mickey stuff. I always found it a little odd (generally, not him). Like all that work Obsidian did on Aliens RPG (allegedly finished it?) and how tight everything is held. On Tone Control I also recall a fair amount of "oh, this cool thing I worked on but isn't happening but I can't talk about." I can grasp some concept of trade secrets, but this seems a bit beyond that? It sort of reminds me of repeated refrain of wondering what all the Diablo 3s looked like before the one they released.

I think it's basically impossible to compare a modern thing to a classic thing! The classic thing isn't born classic. Road Warrior has the benefit of history, and success, and it's developed cache. Also, I don't doubt there wasn't a lot of post processing, but MMFR by all accounts leaned as hard on practical effects as possible in a modern era.