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I have it preloaded, but I lost power in a snow-storm and it isn't scheduled to be back til Thursday. I'm in the U.S. and I can sometimes play games on voice-chat between 1pm-9pm GMT on weekdays. If you don't have anyone you want to play with on PS4 and those sometimes are good for you, I'd be interested in doing some co-op on PC. I have no idea if the server-connection would be good enough if I'm on the east-coast of the U.S. and you are wherever you are.

The second "Really?" We are both gullible and it is fun for us to fool each other, but it can feel like a betrayal if it goes to far. The first "Really?" we are allowed to embellish the lie. But on the second "Really?" we say "No, not really." I find that this constraint makes the joke much better. I think it encourages us to see how far we can push that one and only opportunity for embellishment while maintaining a sliver of belief in our mark.

So I joined the D.S.A. because it seemed like something I should do and then I panicked a bit because I don't actually know what socialism is. For the last couple of days, I've been watching a bunch of Youtube videos and reading documentation on the D.S.A. website. It has been a good use of my time, but it's harder to find concise and clear info on socialism than I expected. Y'all know how I am with this type of thing; I like to document the process of learning on small, public forums and crowd-source critique/reference-suggestions. Here is a nice audio thing that gives you an idea of what the D.S.A. is. Here is a video I found helpful. If y'all know of ones that helped you understand socialism, please share them here.

I just saw The Greatest Showman. I'm struck by how much I disliked it while feeling empathetic with the decisions made in the movie's making (I haven't read anything about the production, I'm just talking about what I see in its presentation). Something felt wrong. It made me like La La Land less.

Is the shallowness of the characters an acting problem or a writing problem? I don't have the tools to figure out why I dislike it so much; if I describe any part of the movie to myself, it sounds like something I would love.

I'm playing through Blood Dragon for the first time while I wait for 5 (I got it for free at some point). The first mission was a slog and I don't think the way they did the neon aesthetic, cut-scenes, or character design holds up in 2018. I'm going to play more though. I'm looking forward to seeing how much things have changed since 3 by butting these up against each other.

Chris mentioning the drummer matching the cadence of a rant makes me think he may enjoy MonoNeon's work. This is one of my favorites.

I'm intoxicated. I enjoy the forums, but I have a rule on the internet, I don't publish or reply when intoxicated. Except now. Intoxication has it's own benefits, but I suspect that the benefits of intoxication are complemented by context that mentions said state. Hence, this thread. This is where everybody knows your name. Sober people are welcome to post, but be aware, that some of the posts here are hibited. Is this against the rules? I'm a bad boy, but I'm nice. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=8d5QEWdHchk Top is so cool. He is (like) the personification of high-class. He's the one drinking champagne in the car and the one who says that it's a "bootiful night" at the end.

Yo, wasted. Chimay is the best high imo.

This isn't really the same thing but last night I watched Moana for the first time and one thing that struck me was that I was waiting for Captain Cook to show up and he never did. It was a bit of a relief to just have a story about an indigenous people's mythos instead of the story having to be about colonialism because an indigenous culture was featured.

I feel like Star Trek might have done some episodes where the crew thinks they know how sentient beings should behave, but eventually come to understand that a different set of values or traditions can work; but I can't think of any specific episodes. But in general I agree with what Patrick R wrote.

I think there is a tendency to idolize the past. 20 years from now people will feel like nothing is as authentic as Facebook groups once were. That isn't to claim that you (particularly) don't need something that Facebook groups aren't offering. As far as finding what you are looking for, I suggest trying to make it. It's not that you will necessarily create an interesting space, but I suspect that the process of creating it and promoting it will bring people out of the wood-work that have similar sensibilities and they might know where the real stuff is happening.

This year's CES has announced multiple 180 3D consumer video cameras. This is exicting imo. One's I've heard of thus far: -Lenovo Mirage Camera -Yi Horizon VR180 ------------ Also I played with King Spray again today to make a graffiti asset for a game. It turned out great and man that app is so much fun to use.

I watched this movie for the second time last night. I liked it the first time, but I enjoyed it more the second. Kylo Ren is easily my favorite Star Wars character ever. He is so interesting as a villian. To be honest, I watched the movie the second time in order to pay attention to and it did not disappoint.

Dune (I've only seen the movie) would pass as Star Wars for me. Good example.

A big part of Star Wars for me is the aspect that feels like serfs fantasizing about being royalty (with an element of ancestry to it) and that meaning something in the context of religion, morality, and power. I don't get that from something like Space Balls or those series you mentioned.

This makes me want to look through fan-edits and mashups of the Star Wars films (that hopefully include material from other stuff) until I find something that continues to use the characters, aesthetics, and political fantasies of the series, but doesn't feel like Star Wars anymore. It would be interesting to find the limit in order to see what I think the essence of Star Wars is. Lately I've been thinking a lot about Dracula and Nosferatu and examining how that aesthetic was formed and what its purpose has been. After watching The Last Jedi, I'm starting to wonder about how those thoughts can apply to it.

Some people tend to treat Twitter as a personal space, but I will follow people generously if I feel like my online social-time is too slow. Then I will reply to their tweets if I have something relevant to say regardless of whether or not they follow me. This pisses some people off and a few of them will act indignant but I just unfollow them and go on to greener pastures. I've ended up having a lot of meaningful interactions with a sizable amount of folks who were interested in communicating over time after I initiated this way. This tends to work much better with accounts that have smaller amounts of followers and they have to be cool too. One promising way to find them is to look at game-credits for itch.io games (Soundcloud would probably be similar). My mutual interests tend to be game-jam type stuff so the folks who are more receptive to my methods of initiation tend to actively promote events or smaller groups that they are participating within. There is a lot of small social projects that are starting up with very few members all the time. For instance, I just joined an Experimental Games Reddit group because someone I followed on Twitter retweeted it. That Reddit group then has its own Discord it was advertising so I joined. I end up running into people I've already seen in other Discords or on Twitter and at this level of fame (very low, but still producing creative content) they tend to be appreciative that someone noticed that they exist or that someone found something they made interesting. Some people will be dicks though, I don't mind I just unfollow them; It's just their way of saying they aren't interested. Don't let that stop you from meeting the people who want to be met.

Have any of y'all successfully mitigated mouse wrist pain? If so, how?

So between the excercises, the trackball, using a Xbox Controller more, and paying attention to which hand I use for opening doors; inflamation is much less of an issue. Still I'm interested in more solutions. Has anyone had experience with whether or not the Steam Controller agravates wrist-pain? I'm considering buying one for FPSs

@plasticflesh Mount & Blade: Warband does this. NPC factions are constantly trading territory, marrying one another, and trading. So the open world game develops a history that includes you and continues on.

The idea that open world games become less as you strip them of missions is kinda interesting.