Malcador

That was hilarous http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/01/toleranux-satirical-linux-fork-mocks-calls-for-open-source-diversity/

You could always call in to work and say you are observing Martin Luther King Jr. day. If anyone argues with it you can call them a racist. My company would shrug that off. I am sure some one in the NY office is bitching that this day off is a loss of revenue for the economy and is stupid. Will mean things will be slow though, so I can catch up on my reading.

Today I wished the weekend were three days long. Well or that I didn't have to work for that matter

Weird for EU to be sore at the US over Russia. I was under the impression they were the ones who pulled the US in, in the first place when Ukraine started to fall apart. But I may likely be wrong.

GTA-style game in the 40k setting would be cool. At least the law enforcement response would be epic in some cases.

No one, but it's usually unsaid when I am being told I am a dumb sheep or whatever by One Who Has Seen The Light. I don't really mock people who suspect conspiracies, sometimes the presentation is good and at least attempts to answer some obvious questions of the purposes and/or causes (Hastings' death for example is one I don't label people as loons for having).

Yeah, and naturally you are an unshackled free thinker. Ho-hum. I suppose it can be some elaborate operation to make people hate Muslims or just have them as the enemy-du-jour, but it's also pretty believable that it's just some terrorist act. Not like heinous crap doesn't happen for reasons other than what's on the face of it. As for the guys looking like GIGN or RAID minus POLICE logo - so what, exactly, they wear black and got 'tactical' vests ?

More Diablo 3, amusing how messed up some of my characters are. Seasonal crusader has 200k damage and 10 million toughness, DH has 800k damage but no healing.

That's why GG won't win, ridiculously easy for Sarkeesian when utilizing outside media. She should be grateful for this, I tell you

If only people could multitask.

Okay, like what though ? If the cop wasn't actually killed, then kind of weird to add in one faked cop death to heighten outrages after 11 others are already dead. I suppose one could say it is all faked to inflame hatred of Muslims or perhaps frame ISIS (because they need more crimes on their bill), but the currently accepted interpretation is simple enough to be true. The constant tone of a man who has seen the light is pretty grating though, especially as proving that is next to impossible. Ah well. It is a curious phenomenon in that offending some groups is okay and others not. Ideally, they all should be okay to do (everyone should HTFU, to borrow an EVE-ism).

It does seem that way when the application of respect is inconsistent. Add that to a violent act inflicted upon people that didn't, and the needle sinks in a bit deeper. So going back to the suggested faked video of the cop getting shot, what is the ultimate end then of doing that and how does the affect any other details of the attack ? Or is that all there is to it ?

Is a dumb joke, think Yatzhee meant it as a slight in any case as complexity in games is bad to him or something. Much ado about nothing, but that seems to the meat and potatoes of games journalism these days

No longer current, naturally, but eh.

Depends, will we be paying him $300 an hour to consult us on this ?

Hah.

Ah not bad, I need (well "need") a new laptop, current one as a wonky power jack and a dead battery. Only really use it to pass time when I am downstairs, so it is hard for me to justify to myself blowing a grand on a toy I won't use much (my PC though, I am ok with blowing 2.5 grand on ) My mom cracked me up today, still laughing a bit over it. Were talking about books for some reason and then she stops and says that she used to read a lot, names authors then said she stopped when she had my sister and I. Then concludes with "You two ruined my life"

2.5 million stretch goal - Scrap the game and make a linear first person shooter with massive setpieces and an overabundance of QTEs instead. Nah. Action FPS-RPG with TWO branches.

Not really, but on the forums specifically typing nasty words isn't that much harm. It serves as a "I am racist" sticker on someone though, and that's helpful to learn. Only real harm that could cause would be someone like Bruce being offended, perhaps. But anyway, is a moot point, as you are no fan of the Codex as you've brought up several times already. Haven't seen much moderation on Codex. But then again never seen it here, despite people stamping feet about oby for example

Get a desktop, you filthy casual. What specs ?

Indifferent, no. But years of playing games online have taught me a righteous crusade on people typing mean things is a waste of time and is the intention 80% of the time. Mark the person as being of suspect contribution to things after a point and then move on. I suppose it may slide back down in background noise in a post. Hardly akin to ignoring someone being beaten or suffering any real harm. I was expecting a lot worse than I saw when I registered there, it's not an amazing forum but nowhere is and reading some posts and analysis of games (I read other than RPG forum, mainly) is sometimes interesting. Also they have some funny emoticons. I like the Inclooooo-sive one best.

I haven't really seen much homophobia other than liberal use of ****, in my time there. Lots of racist stuff in GD though, but such people seem pariahs outside of it, heh. Not that big a deal to me, if people want to advertise their bigotry, by all means they should go ahead.

Luckily no one does that here, so is just the nice base layer of ice to march on sometimes. Is pretty manageable once you just keep your eyes on the feet, some people still haven't caught on to that. Today was a fun day, urgent issue raise by a client whose report was jumbled and then they go silent as we try to find the root cause. We help those who help themselves. Well, we would, if I had my way.

The Adventure forum is slightly less hostile than I had expected, and that forum is pretty level headed, at least.