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What the **** is going on here? Google may be switching to a fact based algorithm. Let's hope it kills Gawker. http://techraptor.net/content/is-google-switching-to-a-fact-based-algorithm

I suppose one could make a joke about how much money Tim Schaefer needs to make a game, but it seems even he doesn't know that.

Have you been hitting the acid again mate? Bit of humor.

How is Israel trying to get the goyim to work for it news?

Fallacy of relative privation. Not a very good train of logic, because ultimately all issues but one will be considered unworthy. And video game journalism ethics are more important than banning "bossy".

Not really. To make the combat better you would first have to fix the interface. This would require a pretty fundamental reworking of the game. I'm playing the sequel now and even Obsidian did not try to do it -- they fixed some minor issues which reduce the degree to which the interface is annoying by quite a bit, but the core of both interface and combat is basically the same. There are few mods that improve the experience. While they do not change the combat itself, they increase the difficulty (lets face it, difficulty is a joke in vanilla KotoR) and add additional high level force powers, which while fundamentally look the same as original ones, they do have some different effects and animations which is always nice to see replaying the game. IMO those mods are essential and I would not be able to play through both games again without at least those improvements. Link? If I were to take this quote out of context, I honestly wouldn't be able to tell which Bioware game we're talking about Mass Effect Mass Effect 2 Mass Effect 3 Dragon Age Origins Dragon Age 2 Dragon Age Inquisition Star Wars The Old Republic Jade Empire Neverwinter Nights Baldur's Gate

She tried to create a meme and made a sock puppet account to troll on twitter. http://youtu.be/LEyJX2rDfMs I figured some of you would like this.

Unfortunately it's a position with little demand in proportion to benefits, at least in the case of legislators.

There's a video out there of porn stars reading their hatemail. It's a bit more extreme than most stuff I've seen. EDIT: Foul language, but otherwise SFW.

People who are outspoken feminists getting rape and death threats definitely constitutes as an unwelcoming environment for feminists, in my opinion. Self-identified gamergaters in the appropriate *chan sites talking in great detail about bombarding them with those rape and death threats constitutes as GG being responsible for it. (Not in the collective responsibility sense - ie. every gamergater is personally responsible for the actions of those individuals -, but in the sense of "some people who are gamergaters do send those things".) Anyone on the internet with an opinion gets rape and death threats. Or, maybe that was just me. At the very least that's been my experience and has always been my impression of the internet. That's been my experience as well. Although I find someone threatening me with "**** your ass till it ****ing bleeds" more funny than anything.

Well from what I've read/heard, you're looking at over 40 hour weeks with relatively low pay in highly demanding positions so that isn't a farfetched possibility.

I'd say the interview Malc linked is relevant here. Perhaps it's elitist of me, but I'd take Jade Raymond's word on how the videogame industry is over that of relative outsiders. Archive for those who don't want to give Polygon clicks: https://archive.today/wBqeF

https://www.crowdrise.com/ZeroBiscuit/fundraiser/jeremyharding Thought some of you guys would be interested in this, seeing as most of you are TB fans.

https://opengamingalliance.org/press/details/core-gamers-are-expected-to-drive-record-growth-for-pc-games Sort of off-topic, but we PC players seem to be driving sales quite a bit. It's projected that the game industry will grow $9 billion over the next four years.

For some reason 'tep's avatar reminds me of Trotsky.

We don't need it. IMO it would be nice to see more interesting and varied NPCs, but expecting that from AAA games is a bit...strange. And no it isn't odd. People play games differently, just do whatever works for you.

I can certainly get behind that and have experienced people worrying on my behalf (who watch a lot of TV news incidentally), more than I worry myself. But as someone looking at GG objectively, I do see a lot of sensationalism on all sides - from fairly straight forward feminists agendas and/or misogyny, to big business corruption and nepotism... and while I can certainly understand the conclusions being drawn, I have to say that they often done so on rather flimsy evidence. And the entire debate seems to have been hijacked (and allowed to be hijacked) by the loudest 'I see a conspiracy!!' types. As a 'pro-GG', do you feel your platform is being taken over by the same kind of hate-infused narrative (from other pro-GGs)? edit: or rather, I guess my question is - what do the majority of 'pro-GG' see the issue as? From your perspective. In what way? Don't get me wrong, the conspiracy-happy crowd is definitely amidst GamerGate, but I would hardly say they've hijacked the debate. For example one little conspiracy I saw was that this was all a plot by that Common Core education system to integrate gaming into education or some crap. Read it, thought it sounded ridiculous, still is. You don't ever see that little conspiracy theory being the cornerstone of discussion though, because it's ridiculous. The stuff that does get discussed is, for example, Mark Kern's comments against the journalist actions and hopes that other devs will speak up and back him up. Yeah, I don't pay attention to the conspiracy stuff tbh. The nepotism we've found, like Patricia Hernandez shilling for girlfriends and roommates, is more than enough to be pissed off about. In related matters, Bobby Olivera is taking a break from heavy drug use to threaten dox a woman. I'd report him if I had a Twitter, but I think a few of you do.

What you are describing is essentially cultural marxism, which is about as far away from fascism as possible. The issue essentially boils down to people, cultural marxists, who have no interest in gaming as a hobby, seeks to use it as a political platform.Don't you have to be a Marxist to be a Cultural Marxist? A lot of these progressive activist don't seem to be Marxists. Not really. Actually the few Marxists I've talked to tend to dislike Cultural Marxism and Identity Politics, seeing it as a distraction from class issues. Make of that what you will. Then why call it "Cultural Marxism"? The same reason Social Darwinism is named what it is I suppose.

What you are describing is essentially cultural marxism, which is about as far away from fascism as possible. The issue essentially boils down to people, cultural marxists, who have no interest in gaming as a hobby, seeks to use it as a political platform. Don't you have to be a Marxist to be a Cultural Marxist? A lot of these progressive activist don't seem to be Marxists. Not really. Actually the few Marxists I've talked to tend to dislike Cultural Marxism and Identity Politics, seeing it as a distraction from class issues. Make of that what you will.

I mostly stick with single player because most of my friends have hectic schedules and I don't trust anons.

In semi related business, #solution6months is a drive to get people interested in game development. According to Jennifer D'Aww, it's been very successful in getting women interested. Check it out for yourselves. http://www.gamedev.life Disclosure: I have no ties to this at all.

Guys have you not been here since day 1? Don't engage obvious bait.

It hasn't as far as I know.

Perhaps it's the fatigue and acid talking, but between this and the SVU episode there could be something happening. Not quite sure what it is, but I don't see many taking it well when their audience is treated as actually ISIS and publications react that hostile to petitions bas innocuous as Kern's.

Yesterday I was lucky enough to engage in several nsfw activities and am now wondering if I'm going to be throwing up or going insane.