Malcador

Like who ?

Need more RAM to enjoy Planetside 2. They should never allow skins, trying to tell NC from Vanu in a night fight is ridiculous. I did rather enjoy my squad storming a building with grenades and dynamic entry only to find we wasted a friendly squad. Whoops.

I'm going to need evidence for either of those claims. I came to a very sad realization today. In the distant annuls of a few months ago, something truly despicable happened. And I hope we can all agree that's what happened. Several women were harrased and sent death threats. It was a big thing, I think we all remember it. The talk dominated much of the game discussion. There were very loud people who even sought to justify it. A few people decided that things should not really be going down that path. That being a gamer doesn't have to be about that. That we all have a responsibility to put an end to it. That developers, the tech industry, and we the consumers should not tolerate a voice of hate being the loudest in the room and allowing them to tarnish the reputation we have as a whole. And instead of trying to be better, which is what we should have all moved to do, some people double downed on that behavior. They were offended that anyone call into questions the culture or ask them to do anything. They tried to marginalize people who asked us to be better. There were accused of immorally conspiring to ask us to have better standards. It's just so disappointing. Yes, because the people telling others to be "better" really went about it in a way that had any realistic chances of success. Who could have known that snark, condescension and the usual Twitter echo chamber dogpiling would not actually be persuasive. Interesting that you see it that way, but oh well. It's all been rather entertaining, people wringing their hands and actually being upset that the industry is affected by this and that anything of value was lost (Brice ? Frank ? anyone?). But it looks like it has ended. About the only thing that may change is that people may learn Twitter is useless for discussion. Well, and Quinn, Alexander and Wu's Patreon accounts, perhaps.

How could it be depressing ?

IGF buckled, shame. In amusing news, the Dorito Pope announced game awards - http://variety.com/2014/biz/news/videogame-industry-rallies-around-first-game-awards-exclusive-1201352339/

I guess it will be TF2 but more accessible.

Eh, I will get interested once there is a 7-11 Slurpy version

Entertaining in a way to read the stuff the say. Also they are fantastic troll victims as they're easy to provoke.

Hah, this keeps on giving. So why exactly should we care if Brice left the industry ? Doesn't seem like a huge loss.

Battle Tech was the tabletop game that led to Mechwarrior, I think, anyway.

She's mental, best to leave her alone.

Just as long as the dragons realize they can fly so use that.

Yes its called privilege blindness and is not uncommon for people who live in first world countries. You think you have a really bad deal with your governments and social situation, but in fact you don't One should not feel okay if one is being beaten with a wooden bat rather than a steel one.

Oh dear, insensitive. I did like seeing one guy's reaction to being doxxed and threatened, he invited the people making the threats to act on it and gamble that he wasn't armed. Quite an amusing discussion, that was. And yes, Quinn and Wu going "Woe is me" over some other lady's death was pretty dumb (as was the point made before).

They're Poles not Russians, man.

Rather surprised I've not seen one of those already.

Well, that's nice I suppose.

Well, the Force is, the users aren't always so.

Beats Attack of the Clones, at least

I know we should ignore this, but it's amusing.

Bah, who needs the sun. This time change is irritating, I'd prefer to come to work in darkness and go home to some light.