ravenshrike

Of course you're not getting paid. I killed the Commissar responsible for sending out payments last week in a fit of rage because he tried to pay me in Euros. As I only accept Rupiah, he had to be dealt with.

Yeah... the 72 hours following Baldwin's tweet dubbing it GamerGate was in NO WAY WHATSOEVER a coordinated media blitz against standard gamer identity. Had you exactly read the articles that whipped you into this frothing rage, you'd have seen pretty much all they contained was "hey look at this, Leigh Alexander said this thing and now people are upset". It's called news reporting. But you're welcome to see it as an attack against your identity. Yes, yes I did. Well after the fact incidentally since for various reason I was mostly off the 'net for about 5 months which overlapped the period in question. And in the first article by Alexander, I was called "obtuse ****slingers, these wailing hyper-consumers, these childish internet-arguers". The entire screed was an attempt to force identity politics(An utterly poisonous and vile piece of groupthink) on gamer culture so that all the little people can be pegged into their small divisive holes. It was a part of 12 articles posted within about 8 hours all on the same subject. And yet somehow this WASN'T a coordinated attack? Pull the other one. Not to mention, anyone who takes anything said on twitter to be indicative of the thoughts of an actual group like virtually all of the twelve articles did either directly or through general reference to the Zoe Post, especially since both the Goon Squad and GNAA bragged about being involved in the Zoe Post and Gamergate, is an idiot. Unless you are checking twitter histories and sign up dates, trolling must as a matter of course be ignored. The same applies to forum posting, and there's less of an excuse there since it's even easier to check on most forums.

I chalk it up to the beginning of the whole thing, where the GG side was calling for dialogue and discussion while the aGG side was calling us a hate group who didn't deserve a voice. If we're talking about botched first impressions, let's not forget that "ETHICS!" wasn't really an issue for gamergaters until gamergate actually became a thing. So, based on those early days, the "beginning of the whole thing", as you put it, "hate group that doesn't deserve a voice" was actually not that far off from the truth. Sure if you equate GamerGate with BurgersAndFries, which I don't. For me, and for most of who I consider GamerGate, the first shot was the Gamers are Dead articles. Yes a lot of the BurgersAndFries people were early GG supporters, but it would have disappeared without those articles. You mean the articles that literally don't exist in the form gamergate is so fond of painting them as (Ie. "an organized attack against gamer identity by games journalists")? Because, well, "gamergaters aren't a hate group, they just failed to interpret correctly a body of texts even a high schooler should have no problems understanding" isn't really making the movement come across any better. Yeah... the 72 hours following Baldwin's tweet dubbing it GamerGate was in NO WAY WHATSOEVER a coordinated media blitz against standard gamer identity. It just spontaneously occurred. Just like the recent media blitz against Sad Puppies was in NO WAY a coordinated attack against them because after all, major media installations regularly trumpet about the state of populist(what the Hugo actually is) SF/F literary awards voted on by less than 2000 people at a con with less than 5000 people on average. They also regularly court libel in doing so which is why Entertainment Weekly didn't rip down their spoonfed libelous pile of dog **** faster than you can type William Randolph Hearst. Wait, no, that's EXACTLY what they did.

There are people working on companion AI. They're called modders. In all seriousness, in every game in which modding the AI has been possible, the best AI's were always made by modders. As for things like portraits, there is almost certainly a list of things they wanted done that were not essential to the game which will be rolled out in subsequent patches along with other bug fixes.

That's my concern, a person could use this bill to discriminate against any group of people that they have some personal issue with and then claim they not discriminating but rather its there "religious right " to do this and they would be protected from being sued due to this bill Well, they could claim that. They would lose horribly in court given the actual law, but they could claim that. The most that this law could do, to use an already existing situation, would be to allow a bakery to not bake a cake with writing on it celebrating being gay or having a same sex little wedding topper on it. They also, arguably, could not be forced to deliver the cake to the wedding reception. That would be the extent of the 'protection' under the law. They could not refuse to bake the cake without writing/decorations, and they could not refuse people from taking the cake wherever they wanted.

Which makes it marginally less safe than caffeine. Still perfectly safe to consume the amounts that people were exposed to on a regular basis.

Given that even if safe to drink, it probably tastes like the ass of Michael Moore after a weeklong Mexican/Chinese tequila bender I am unsurprised he would be loathe to drink it. Its perfectly safe to munch on DDT as well. Doesn't mean it tastes good.

NO CAPES! ... ... I'm sorry that was just something that needed to be said. I'll just go away quietly now.

I feel the need to point out that Gamergate didn't occur until the day after the term was first coined by Adam Baldwin. The Zoe Post or alternatively Quinngate was solely a linked matter and would not have materially changed Gamergate no matter what it was actually about. Gamegate is, in the end, about the nature of journalism and whether collaborative mass posts J-list style to push an ideological message are at all acceptable. The analysis of both Twitter posts and Google Analytics bears out that the community significantly concerned with Gamergate is much, much different from the community that was significantly concerned with the Zoe Post.Of course, none of that changes the fact that Zoe Quinn is an utterly amoral person who lies, cheats while in a monogamous relationship, mentally abuses her partners, and is willing to selfishly capitalize on the loss of a treasured figure to pimp her game which whitewashes and ultimately trivializes the very disorder it is supposedly about. I'm not sure what the purpose of your post is, ravenshrike? You seem to be saying "Zoe isn't as important to GamerGate as the thread intro makes her out to be" (which, to be fair, is entirely true, I don't give one flying hoot about Zoe) but then you proceed with "let's talk about Zoe and how terrible she is". Either way, I much prefer to talk about actual review practices. *blinks* The point of my post, inasmuch as it can said to have a point, was entirely encapsulated within the first paragraph. My usage of of course was as what the English would consider a bastardized discourse marker to refer to a tangentially related topic.

It sounds like she should be on Wall Street. *rimshot* But seriously though, is this a Bravo reality show? It is one thing to say the game is terrible, which I'm sure it is, or criticize the amount of press it received. But all the personal stuff is gross and only lessens the one engaging in it. In order to discuss the Zoe Post at all one must discuss the personal because the entire thing initially was that she slept or promised to sleep(the timeline and with who specifically she slept with are muddied. Although it is interesting to note that none of the men accused of sleeping with Quinn have denied it and that around the time the Zoe Post was made legal action was occurring.)with people for publicity. That being said, of all the actions I noted above the only one that really gets a reaction from me is the way she attempted to manipulate Robin Williams' suicide.

I feel the need to point out that Gamergate didn't occur until the day after the term was first coined by Adam Baldwin. The Zoe Post or alternatively Quinngate was solely a linked matter and would not have materially changed Gamergate no matter what it was actually about. Gamegate is, in the end, about the nature of journalism and whether collaborative mass posts J-list style to push an ideological message are at all acceptable. The analysis of both Twitter posts and Google Analytics bears out that the community significantly concerned with Gamergate is much, much different from the community that was significantly concerned with the Zoe Post. Of course, none of that changes the fact that Zoe Quinn is an utterly amoral person who lies, cheats while in a monogamous relationship, mentally abuses her partners, and is willing to selfishly capitalize on the loss of a treasured figure to pimp her game which whitewashes and ultimately trivializes the very disorder it is supposedly about.

Unless it was remade on the Creation engine and Obsidian was given an 14 month dev cycle along with 6 months further support contract it wouldn't be worth dealing with all the bugs a conversion would uncover. And the Gamebryo engine is fugly enough that it would not at all be worth doing a remaster on. Hell, even the Creation engine is borked, especially the way Beth has it structure save states.

Any *right* wizard or sorcerer should have mage armor, stone skin, blur, protection from arrows, mirror image and a lot of other things that allow him to stay in the center of trash mobs group and killing them being almost invulnerable. The only way you have a caster abusing prot spells that badly in BG is by tagging the rest function after every fight. Played as if you have a competent DM ready to bitchslap you for pulling that kind of cheap **** makes the life of your caster much more precarious.

Wouldn't that assume the same party formation, target choice, and item choices though? Unless the only save scumming they're really trying to avoid is lockpicking and mid-battle save scumming. Which would make sense.

Technically speaking, most RPGs pigeonhole you into neutral evil at best. They rarely ever reached chaotic evil.

So, here's m question, why do the soccer animes never point out how every other soccer player fakes injury as much as possible in order to draw fake fouls on their opponents.

So do bored human teenagers in PoE tip these godlikes when they're asleep? Will there be a cutscene or option to participate in the tipping? When playing a Moo'n godlike can you be tipped as a random encounter?

Well, my optimized playthrough will be 2 meat-shields if I can't get away with 1 and the rest casters. Of course, at that point I'll have already beaten the game on at least 2 playthroughs, but still.

Wut? This game hasn't enjoyed a particularly fast development cycle. I'm not complaining, but I don't see this. I could see quicker development. Maybe only by a month or three, but given the familiarity with the engine, even if they upgrade to 5 there could be time saved. Not to mention that much of the outright world building is already done and expanding the lore should be quicker than coming up with everything in the first place

Actually, it's kind of funny,but if you look at various demographics like education rates and per capita income adjusted for inflation et al, people in 'failed state'(When in reality it just effectively devolved into a bunch of small city-state entities controlled by various warlords) Somalia are actually better off than they were in non-failed state Somalia. Hell, I'm sure current day Zimbabweans would be happy with an actual failed state than what the have now. Yeah, no. **** no. The human slave trade is ****ing huge, just ignored until, apparently, it looks good on Twitter given the recent hashtag horse**** going on. Personally I'm in line with Correia's take http://monsterhunternation.com/2014/05/08/operation-pouty-face/ I'm really in favor of the 'hire mercs to slaughter them all approach' as their entire group is founded on the principle that western education is evil. Among other things, their original leader stated that the world is flat, Darwinian evolution is wrong, and that rain doesn't come from evaporated water. Given their obvious girl kidnapping tendencies, introducing them to the concept of survival of the fittest using bullets would be most pleasing.

Horse****. The current froufrara over the Hugo awards at Worldcon and the bat**** response from the SJW contingent shows that political correctness is alive and kicking. Link? Which politically correct BS 'controversy' do you want? The Jonathan Ross one or the Larry Correia one? Didn't actually know about the Ross one until just now when I googled Hugo awards Worldcon controversy, but still. http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/mar/06/neil-gaiman-fans-jonathan-ross-hugo-awards http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/04/28/hugo-awards-science-fiction-reading-politics-larry-correia-column/8282843/ And this is the post that actually kicked off the Correia controversy. http://monsterhunternation.com/2014/01/14/sad-puppies-2-the-illustrated-edition/

Horse****. The current froufrara over the Hugo awards at Worldcon and the bat**** response from the SJW contingent shows that political correctness is alive and kicking.

Unless the boobscale is more exaggerated than I think it is, not having seen the image in question, it wouldn't introduce a structural defect to the scale. Just be slightly more complicated to construct. Whereas the boobplate would have seriously impacted the structural integrity of the armor.

Huh. Y'know, given the way disease spreads wouldn't without either a magical or technical permanent solution for all STDs long lived cultures like those of elves or Asari all evolve to be pretty straitlaced?

For games if it runs on 7 you can almost always(I can't actually think of an exception) get it to run on Vista, and it will probably run on XP. You may have to to some rerouting of files with hard links in the latter but it can generally be done. 2000 and ME you start to get really finicky and it's pretty certain to not run on '98.