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You are inferring that I'm saying that the term is generic for any sort of slave driver. I It most certainly is specifically directed at white people. It's etymology stems from it being a descriptive label that marks out someone who indulges in enslavement. Do some people now connect the term to the color of a literal cracker? Sure. But in my experience the misconception mostly starts with white kids (naive by definition) that think people are poking fun at them being pasty, when it's often used to mark someone out as being participants in systemic racism. So really you've just gone and made up some intent that I didn't have in writing, and there was no attempt to form an argument. Mainly I describe a fact on origins. Hell, I even went on to describe people using it explicitly as an insult, so the context was right in my post over what the fact I was mentioning was related to. edit: I -> It

A "it should be obvious that it depends on the place" sort of scenario. A double standard and it's inverse can exist in different locations.

Btw, cracker doesn't refer to skin tone. It refers to white people cracking whips. "Cac" is a pretty common black slang that at least a few years back was extremely common to run into in liberal dens around the web. Meaning "Cracker ass cracker." It's also used to sort of disguise language but also get away with it. I've been in arguments with people who say you can't say "n-word" because it allows you get put the real word in peoples minds, but you also can't say the actual word even in reference because it's "not your word to say" and it's even triggering in mere reference. (This rule in reference to white people that is.)Then these people go on to talk about cacs and dismiss any equivalent claims about language misuse. These sorts of allowed pejoratives are rife within communities that operate under a caste system of identity politics.

As proved recently backers hold the right to withdraw support. We hold your toes Obs to the fires of sacred immolation! Don't get burned!!! More seriously. I would very much like this change. Cosigned.

Yeah, I have Annihilation on my radar, as with Isle of Dogs. I think that is about it. But I am interested in Gilliams next movie as well.

Every second you are making choices. Like to breath or die. Now you can choose to run or walk.

Any significant none-Marvel movies coming out this year?

Not my picture, but it was too good not to share.

Last time the gov shut down it was a Republican political tactic to get leverage on the budget they wanted. Don't give the walking cheese puff the credit.

The release is Spring, no longer Q1. So I'm expecting mid to late April.

Shutting down the govt is a Republican strategy because they don't want to fund a variety of public services that the Dems would gladly sign a check for. I'm only surprised when Republicans or Conservatives double down on this whole the Dems wanted to shut down the govt. Yeah, it was a bipartisan impasse that brought it to a head, that much is true. But you would think the small govt folks would feel less shame about a govt shut down as a tactic, instead of trying to appease the Dems that find it shameful by trying to then turn the shame back around on them. You don't care what the dems think of anyways, just admit that this is what your party finds necessary when your party isn't getting it's policy in play. The Republicans don't need their dirty tricks defended when all of politics is just a series of dirty tricks, at least find some backbone in playing dirty. As awful as I found the Dems to become over the last decade, at least they have a spine when it comes to being sleezeballs.

Or see Star Wars, saved in the edit.

As far as the government shut down, that is always the Republicans. They just blame the Dems for making them do it.

I like the idea of a puzzle-centric iso game. Would consider backing.

As a backer I think it's completely permissible for you to withdraw your support. I however, don't think the expectations you formed at backing were properly formed nor tempered with respect to software development. Obsidian is gracious to allow someone like you to withdraw support, had the investment been a larger non-critical sum of capital, I would not consider your reasons valid to seek reclamation on your investment. Personally I find your reasoning irrational, and had your investment been non-critical I would consider your action to be considered vindicative, and likely in breach of contract as those investments would be further guarded against an eleventh hour turn-tail. So you really should be thankful that Obsidian is gracious with their backing model.

http://www.pcgamer.com/age-of-empires-definitive-edition-gets-a-new-release-date/ Feb 20th

Huh... they look like a nice little AA developer. Surprised I've never heard of them. I've seen that Jack the Ripper game before, other than that I've literally never caught wind of anything they've done.

I keep forgetting about Greedfall. We haven't seen anything of it have we? I find it's usually hard to get excited from a project like that, especially if it's not an established studio.

The combat in the game looks great, like a nice mixture of Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines and the newer Castlevania games. Not a bad thing With some souls thrown in as well.

This is a good life decision.

I'd imagine they had less of a vision pinned down early on though. Pretty typical for early concept art to stray a lot from the final product, and this really doesn't even look too far off other than it leaning into high-fantasy design cues.

Just went to watch some let's plays of Fable. Not the games I remember. F-- Would not revisit.

Must be decedents of Napoleon.

If only I was a kid right now, I can only imagine what it would be like seeing something like this.