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Maybe it's the sort of wasteland survival rpg of Fallout but set on a frontier alien planet or something. Outer Worlds just makes me think sci-fi or something.

This won't be cancelled. The risk to profit margins are much better and the mobile demographics have entirely different expectations. More will buy the game to partake in the flavor of the month than to be a patronage to a developer with prior clout. Blizzard corporate though is clearly out of touch with the core fan-base and the culture of their own conventions.

If a Pazaak game was made I'd be enthralled.

Algroth, your capturing of The Wind Rises is melting my heart, I don't think I could have ever said it so well. Speaking of Aronofsky, he has actually cited Perfect Blue as an influence.

This is a very interesting and revealing post which I am not sure you may be aware of, I have heard this before but not on any forums. I just need to clarify something Do you share this worry and other members like Shady are you guys worried about this as well? I just need to know what about Trump concerns people the most so I can confirm I have the right information which should ameliorate most real fears or sense of anxiety After Trump won I stopped frequenting most of the SJ forums I use to visit, I didnt do this because I stopped believing in SJ or human rights or suddenly I felt the world was a dark place ...no Trump is just a man and he isnt evil but rather capricious, impulsive, strategic , patriotic and committed to his delivery of his promises he made to his base. I left the internet SJ world because I realized parts of it had become corrupted and many of us had been manipulated. I have learnt much about Trump since then which I will share with you a little later as I have work to do. Oh and my impending post should be seen as positive but please let me know what is bothering anyone about Trump? This is one of the most peculiarly worded inquiries I have ever received. So my post is revealing but you don't say why, and I you're not sure if I'm aware of what it reveals, but you don't ask me right out? Also that my post mirrors something you've heard before but specifically not on forums, but you proceed to wax about "SJ" forums and why you fell out of touch with them? Obviously progressive liberal ideals differ from radical revolutionaries beliefs both on tenets, just-processes, and while failings of a forum's microcosms are relevant to the times, it is a bit of a tangential acknowledgement while acknowledging and pinpointing the issues with Trump and the movements around him. Then you've also learned something about Trump and when you get around to sharing it your priming us to see it as a positive? Priming, is in general odd. Look, I'm happy to be self-aware and meta so you can just ask me straight out if you think you are reading into something from my post. It's just strange how coy your inquiry is. Why are you trying to confirm you have the right information? What is that information? It's like you're playing poker with how you keep referencing your cards, but not putting them on the table. To your one somewhat direct question, 'm surprised you don't already know from the last 2 years at least some legitimate existing concerns over Trump that leave people bothered. I see that you have work, so I'll just wait for you flesh out this vexing post of yours before I try to predict what it is that you're asking. (I need to sleep, then I work as well, so you have quite a bit of time to clarify.)

It and variations are said expressively to mean he is degrading aspects of America. People often talk about how he (along with the GOP and Trump's constituency) are subverting American democracy and rolling back progress that finally extended the constitutional rights to minorities and women. With Trump displaying little awareness nor acknowledgement of the worst of his fans, nor of the fears of real American citizens who have concerns and needs. I think people are absolutely right that Trump's messaging and style leverage certain sentiments is dangerous and is adding more damage to an already strained partisan divide. It's clear Trump just wants to win and will work with whatever demographic of America that he feels he can win alongside, with the externalities of his own actions (emboldening populism, nationalism, and ethno-centrism as examples) being less than an afterthought,

I feel like MCA just sort of "polices" what he sees as ideal corporate culture while having no candor when talking about how his other employees get caught up in it. It's not the first time he's complained about Josh benefiting from his own hard work and enjoying some allowances, only to bitch about some aspect of it, but then give the caveat that he isn't blaming Josh. Sometimes I feel MCA likes Josh but is super jealous of how Josh has managed to navigate corporate culture while he hasn't (and further allowed himself to get burned by it.) Also, as other's have noted. A lot of MCA's posts do come off as if they were drunken ramblings. I just don't see why you'd be so untactful when leveraging so much gossip over other people's professional livelihoods, but if you were drunk...

I literally just watched Perfect Blue for the first time two nights ago. It was indeed great, but I was very uncomfortable for a lot of it. I have to say I really enjoyed where the film ended up. The soundtrack was especially up my ally, late 90's dark synth with some occasional breakbeats is my weakness. I also knew nothing going in, and agree the less you know the better. Last night I watched The Night Of The Hunter (1955). I had heard it was a pretty ground breaking and ahead of its time film on some cinematography channel looking at lesser known films. I'm sure film buffs are more familiar but I can't remember ever hearing about it myself. Likewise I knew nothing going in, I'd recommend doing the same. I will say it has one of the most sublime scenes that I've ever seen in film, but so much of it so striking I'm sure something else will jump out at different viewers. I can't recommend this film enough, and I think you'd enjoy it Bart. Blazing Saddles I've seen twice in the last two years. The first time I loved it, the second time I wasn't as much of a fan. I think it's an incredible landmark film, ahead of it's time socially, but is held back by how it's not really tough enough on the people it's clearly portraying on the bad guys. I know part of the humor is in the nasty racists basically getting a light pass, but it's more just how comfortably the n-word is used that I don't think could be done in a modern movie that was attempting to do the same deconstruction of racism. I agree Bart, it's not just the words appearance, but there is something I think that is a bit off in the usage. The movie's primary comedy is in a backwards society at the edge of progress and industrial revolution, but really doesn't drive this perspective to it's ultimate conclusion. It doesn't drive home any deeper message so it can feel a bit exploitative of liberal comedy without really committing. You might think I'm asking for the film to be more on-the-nose, but It's already such an on-the-nose sort of film it's just weird from a modern perspective seeing go so all out, but then get distracted. I think the cop-out end really distracts, between the awful towns people being saved, breaking the fourth wall, and how most progressive jokes were treated as throwaway gags. Gene Wilder intentionally took a back seat during production to setup jokes for Cleavon Little which was great, and made for the best moments. The Wind Rises is probably my favorite Ghibli film and I've been awaiting for you to get around to it. I personally think it's his magnum opus, though I've only seen it once so maybe I should re-watch it. Certainly animation wise it's the studios most mature, but beyond that I loved the blend of human complexities that really tied together many different parts of a persons lives, as well as the interaction of different people during different parts of their lives. Plus it's historical grounding and the sort of redemption of an individual against a complicit involvement in something awful is all very striking and powerful to me.

That's a great way to put it. I hadn't really noticed the gambler's streak in him before. But he basically is gambling with populism for political influence. I don't think Trump wants to destroy America or make it ethno-centric. I just think he isn't in politics to serve others, he is there to continue is high-risk game of trying to win ever bigger. It's why he'd be richer if he had just invest in indexes all along, but he has to be big gambler with his every move in the spotlight.

I think I speak for everyone in saying, I can't wait until he grows a beard for season 2.

Can we ban this person?

Wow, that's old as hell, but I always get a chuckle out of it.

Only a fool would find a need to tie this violent Trump supporting terrorist with Democratic values, someone who opposes the Dems would know that the enemy of their enemy does not necessitate that they are on the same side. #JustSonicThings

One day...

Well I guess some people see it as an insurance policy against the apocalypse. I shouldn't talk though, I am eyeing a $5k road bike. Yeah, I payed shy over $1100 for my road bike.

Red Dead Redemption 2 Companion App Files Hint at PC Version

Ship combat has a lot of the problems that early pokemon games had and have only just started solving, and their entire game is based around the same sort of encounter and trade of of blows that is just a mini-game in Pillars.

I find there is a lot of value at the heart of faith traditions, just not the faith part. Or at least the conception of one's faith as being virtuous and that one's own perception is infallible enough (despite rampant fallibility elsewhere) that they can find conviction in their faith off of emotionally buttressed experiences. Using faith with a grain of salt strategically based on likelihood is a totally different relationship with the concept. The self-righteous atheism that "frees one's non-existent soul" from risk of judgement and recasts all morals as relative and consequentialist runs into it's own risk. But the skeptical atheistic scorn and articulation of the follies of religion seems to be the only thing that can edge itself enough into (some) people's minds that they can shirk off the faith systems themselves. If a religious figure offered you enough sugary spoonfuls of wisdom that you can repeatedly add your own arsenic and not even taste it, then you have exactly the problem most faiths run into. Even if you are religious/spiritual, there should be an acknowledgement of the risk to attributing virtues incorrectly; unfortunately that very policing of detritus often leads to a rigid fundamentalism when some seriously pursues what they have preemptively decided the will follow. A sort of crystallized tyranny emerges as a system, from the faithful behavior that is followed. With a lot of the sweet sugar becoming even more desired to mask the arsenic that one's own community produces. Being social creatures, the impetuous spasms to act out prescriptions in the social realm have a particularly insidious way of both overtly and subtly of punishing those who and that which interferes with the receptors of the sweet taste buds. At which point such a person can't help but make their own higher level derived interpretations of the world based on the lens that they have opted for on faith, for it becomes necessary to identify the source of the arsenic once it's been tasted. With Burma, Uygur internment camps, Yemen, the Levant, and others while geo-socio-political externalities may drive the initial conflicts, it's the reactions done through the lenses of the populace that metastasize as amplifiers in the feedback loop. Much like the middle east and the pervasive reflection of Islamic identity, I can't see much holding back America's powder keg other than a run-away over indulgence of consuming a diet of self-aggrandizing American identity which is ultimately based on the achievements (some of which better called crimes) of other individuals who happened to bear an American nationality by the time of their death. I can't help but feel a lot the behavior is driven off of fear. Fear of the world, fear of the divine, fear of the other's world, fear of the other's divine. However there is no easy solution to fear, so there will be no easy solution to these identities of faith.

I've been meaning to check it out. Have You In My Wilderness was one of the better albums of 2015, and probably my favorite that came to my attention from outside my primary music scene. For once the Pitchfork-cult hyped something appropriately.

I think RDR1's code was extremely fragile and juryrigged, further saved at the last minute by a lot of hacks and work arounds that further broke the systematic software architecture that one would ideally write. With a lot of this hackery going towards performance tuning for consoles, particularly the Xbox version which had better profilers provided with it's dev kit.

I'd rather have a kitchen remodel for that price. I just don't get spending a lot of money on something you rarely use unless it's an insurance policy.

I really like Santa Monica so maybe this loss is cancelled out for me. I wonder if he will still get to compose, or if he is handling more of the technical/managerial side of audio production. If they are looking to replace Bear McCreary as composer, I think Justin Bell would be a great follow up for the God of War series. In the mean time this is a big loss for one of my favorite IPs/Devs, though I'm excited to see who will join Obsidian next.