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i dislike JRPGs because of the propensity for badly written, badly delivered plots, repetitive bland combat, sexist character design and awful music. I have many of these issues with Japanese games in general, but if the game play is fun, the Ace Combat series for example, I can overcome some of these issues.

I prefer third person since it is better at simulating how much a person can see as well as situational awareness. There are so many mechanics in FPS games that are trying to simulate what is just part of a third person perspective. I would be interested in how differently GTA5 plays between first and third person.

Tube launched drone swarms NDB: http://www.popsci.com/navy-wants-launch-drone-swarms-tubes-video and more swarm news: http://www.popsci.com/american-military-shows-cicada-drones

I started watching Halt and Catch Fire last weekend, I finished 3 or 4 episodes. Does it get better or is it pretty much lame drama tropes with a 80s computer theme?

This seems relevant to our discussion http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/05/21/408234543/will-your-job-be-done-by-a-machine

As much as I dislike how much wealth and power the 1% has, I have a hard time believing that they are so evil they would kill or enslave 99% of humanity at the drop of a hat.

Its a whole ad campaign of horribleness, nice.

again, possible, but I have a hard time believing that this would be allowed to happen. As rich and power as the 1% are, they are less powerful than they have been in the past. Plus I doubt thinking machines would accept a non-egalitarian system. The biggest flaw in Sci-Fi is giving robots human emotions, AI should be immune to greed, avarice, jealously etc due to a totally different evolutionary path and a lack of built in hormonal and evolutionarily ingrained responses.

Offensive to console gamers, no mention of sexism, oh man.

This is possible, but that scale of inequality would lead to revolt very quickly, as it has in the past.

Can't make out the text at the bottom, but it looks appropriately sexist.

The half life on playstation discussion reminded me of the part of God of War 3 where you watch from the eyes of some god while Kratos beats them. Its an odd moment of punching yourself in the face. I can't remember who brought it up but the new Unreal Tournament is in a pre-alpha stage, however anyone can download and play it. Also looks like they are keeping some of the silliness and are trying to ditch the dark FPS aesthetic that has ruled recent FPS games including UT3. Part of this may be because of the way this game is being developed by the community and the developers at the same time. I doubt the Bombing Run game mode would be included if Epic was making UT4 by itself. http://www.unrealtournament.com/blog/found-beauty-polyneutron-screenshots/

Smarter is a tricky concept, however even the most basic AI would have access to pretty much all human knowledge which would give it a big edge. The part of the "Singularity" that I am most interested in isn't that far off. Robots are getting cheaper and better, 3D printing is getting cheaper and better, autonomous cars are getting better and legalized in more states. A huge number of jobs will be eliminated by these advances. It seems very likely that all truck drivers, taxi drivers, etc will get replaced by robots (humans are the cause of 90% of auto accidents). Fast food workers could be easily replaced with robots once their prices drop enough. Take these jobs and add all the jobs that even a basic AI could do, clerical work, data entry etc and we could end up with 80%-99% unemployment. The only solution to this would be to a) A guaranteed basic income for all people. or preferably elimination of the money economy, then we all live in star trek. If the technology is robotics based they will probably be afraid of it and not know how to use it properly "You can have every email I've ever sent -- I've never sent one," he said. "I don't know what that makes me." - Probable Presidential Candidate Lindsey Graham http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/08/politics/hillary-clinton-email-lindsey-graham/

I had forgotten about this scene until I listened the podcast. When Bobby and Sally are talking, oh man it was so cool to see Bobby being an actual human. He has figured out that Betty is sick and is failing at making toast. Considering the only other time he really did anything was that camp episode, it was fun to see that actor get to do something. Totally on team Bobby now

I haven't decided exactly how i feel about this episode, but I did find some parts rather disappointing. I enjoyed the episode up until Peggy and Stan's confessions of love. That scene felt really forced. They made sure Peggy, Roger, Pete and Joan all had neat little happy final scenes, but left Don's ambiguous. Was the coke ad supposed to imply he goes back to Mccan? Side note, that smile looked so odd. I have a hard time believing Pete and Trudy will be able to remain a happy couple, same for Roger and Marie. Overall I liked the show and I know endings are hard, I was just hoping for more. Interested to see what other people thought.

Yeah there is an overwhelming need to do all the things, and there are so many things to do. I recently picked up an old FO:NV save where I am not doing any quests, I just roll into a town/city and kill everyone. Currently purging all the New Vegas Casinos. Interested to see how this affects the ending.

How long does it take to get the full map unlocked? I will probably pick GTA5 up on a steam sale so I can load it with mods and mess around.

Yeah thats when I lost interest as well. I have yet to even pick up unity or rogue as the haven't been on steam sale at a low price yet.

My girlfriend and I high fived when they started singing "Over There". It became an in joke between us ever since it was the end credits song in the episode where Grandpa Gene died (I don't know why its a joke aside from the song being very hokey). It makes me wonder how many times a end credits song has ended up in an episode of Mad Men.

The game has been "shelved" http://www.polygon.com/2015/5/11/8585293/black-glove-shelved-ex-bioshock

There was an un-lockable mode in Time Splitters Future perfect where the gun sounds were replaced with someone saying bag. There are no good quality videos of this, jump to 3:45 to hear it in mediocre quality

There actually was a violent Quebec separatist group: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_de_lib%C3%A9ration_du_Qu%C3%A9bec

Goat simulator credits now asking for PT to come back: http://www.polygon.com/2015/5/7/8567829/hideo-kojima-may-not-get-credit-for-mgs-but-theres-always-goat

I have recently started watching two streams that are on all the time. http://www.nautiluslive.org/ is a research vessel in the Gulf of Mexico that livestreams video from their undersea robots. When nothing is happening on that steam I switch over to the International Space Station stream http://www.ustream.tv/channel/live-iss-stream . It usually just shows a feed from one of the cameras on the exterior of the station, but also shows, space walks, docking and other cool things that happen in space. Does anyone else watch a good 24/7 video stream? I'm looking to have some more backup streams if both the ones mentioned above have nothing going on.

That is so great and bizarre. I love all the strange nice communities that develop thanks to the internet.