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We are usually "toxic" (I don't think you guys relay know what toxic is) towards each other. Very rarely are we outright hostile towards the devs, we called them out on their bull**** yes, but we are not talking **** just for the sake of it. No one likes to hear someone tell them they are wrong, but in the end we giving our time to make the game better, some more then others, but still. I think criticism is much more useful then blind praise. There are exceptions I admit, but I haven't seen those people post in a while. I'm confused. Are you quoting the right person? You're responding to a bunch of things I didn't say. You even focus on a word I didn't use.

+1 to Leferd. Oh god, I remember that guy who kept going on and on and on about the Basilisk... my precious canon! I think the lack of devs posting may have something to do with hostility (the drop in activity roughly coincided with those nasty flamewars regarding kill xp a while ago) but mostly, it's because it's crunch time. (Although honestly, I don't like posting here myself either. I read a lot, but because I have to. I only see the same angry voices snarking at each other and making it personal over and over, it's not interesting nor conductive to good debate.) You guys act like they were never around. Sawyer and others posted, discussed and answered questions quite frequently here before - much more than I'm used to from other developers, and much more than they did for any of their other games. But it's crunch time now, and for a developer that means pretty much everything is locked in - especially for a huge game like this. The worst imbalances and bugs that you guys pick up will be read about and discussed quickly internally but there's probably not going to be time for anything else. Regarding "self-imposed" shackles, publishers usually insist on NDA's and have to okay all info releases, even on message boards. Trust me, I've had to deal with game publishers first hand. Avellone was probably already stretching it back then when he was posting about KotOR 2.

Hm, I've been using Ikea products for as long as I can remember and I've never really had problems with it, despite everyone always complaining. However, I think I just had my first experience with true Ikea incompetence. I moved about two months ago (moving in with my girlfriend) and somehow during that move I lost the metal slat things that allow you to put drawers into a wardrobe that I got from Ikea. So I went there with my instructions booklet, showed them exactly what I needed and what the serial number for the parts was, and they ordered two sets that they would send to my adress. I literally saw them fill in the right information and saw that they ordered the correct thing. The day after ordering, I got a message that the package was delayed. This week I finally got a message that it was sent. Then I got a message that it arrived, but it hadn't arrived. Thankfully my name is on the mailslot so the person two apartments below me, who received the package, realized that it had the wrong number on it and gave it to me. So I finally had my package... I opened it up just now. It contains a single sky lantern.

SIlver Linings Playbook Wonderful demonstration of the fact that most sane people are just insane people who haven't cracked yet.

Cool, I'll check it out since those movies were pretty entertaining.

Sounds familiar. Is it related to the made-for-TV movies?

You're on a forum run by Fionavar.

I'm getting whatever it is that passes for Chinese food in my country. If there's one thing I learned, Chinese food is different everywhere.

Now that I know why, it does seem logical. Strange that logic can seem to go against previously held logic.

I know it's a hypothetical, but what would cause something like that? It's kinda bothering me now, like a riddle I don't know the answer to.

There's a scene in Jurassic Park where they are sitting around a table discussing the ethical implications of the park, and that happens a lot. What happens even more in that scene is the actors completely shifting position from shot to shot. Who was in charge of continuity for that one?

Regarding TB's tweet, it's completely out of context. If you see it with the other tweets in that series, he was ridiculing otherkin specifically because they co-opt and trivialize transgender issues. Calling that transphobic is a blatant and malicious lie and completely illustrates the problem with the social media call out culture that exists today. It's such a malicious, slanderous act that I considered it harassment and for the first time ever gave enough of a **** about that woman to go out of my way to report her on Twitter.

I'm not really jealous as much as I am concerned this will damage patreon itself. A lot of my favourite artists use it to get by.

It's just... I'm so proud.

True. In other news, TechRaptor has two editorials up that changed my mind on Crash Override. Probably not a good idea to support it.

I wouldn't call that conspiring. More like basic stupidity.

Oh I don't doubt that white people get the receiving end of it too - although your anecdotal evidence doesn't translate to any defined facts so if you have better sources, I'd love to see 'em. It just seems to me (and keep in mind once again, I don't actually live in America so all I have is what the media and people on the internet tell me, so I may be wrong) that it happens to black people more. Part of it could be media bias and the divide may be smaller than it appears to me but I highly doubt there isn't one since racial profiling is a very real thing and often feeds the paranoia of cops such as this.

I saw that he was black. It's possible for blacks to be unintentionally racist against other blacks.

A taser could have been fine. Can't fire a gun if your muscles can't move. On the one hand, this guy had a history of shooting at cops and "appeared" to have a handgun (the article was unclear to me, did the officers imagine it or was it actually in the car?) so I understand why the cops would be threatened. On the other hand, even if he had a handgun, thousands of americans have handguns and this guy's history was over a decade ago, so I can't understand that they would be that threatened. Can't read this as anything else but an extreme overreaction by cops whose paranoia and fear (whether racially motivated or not, though pretending race wasn't a factor is just denial) caused the death of a man for running a stop sign. At worst a horrific sign for equality in the US, at best a warning sign for US cops' obviously declining mental health. Either way, looks to me that the right to bear arms only makes life more dangerous for you if you're black.

That's one of the dumbest articles I've ever read. I'm sure even the most vehement opponent of #GamerGate will realize that it's entirely nonsense.

That's awful. Between that story, Guard Dog facing similar, and 500 animators to be laid off from PDI Dreamworks by corporate in favor of outsourcing (link), I'm more than a little bit disappointed with the human race right now.

That wall of text was surprisingly informative and well put together. I'm almost sad you wasted it on Woldan who will just brush it off. EDIT: Ninja'd by what I was talking about. What a coincidink.

Hm, I haven't found anything either. Keep in mind though that initial projections in the game industry don't often reflect reality. I'm sure we'll find out more soon.

Oh hey, that's pretty neat.

I didn't even remember there was a men thread. I remember there was a rodent and an insect thread.