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I'm getting a distinct Wing Commander vibe, here. Which incidentally, is a game (series) that hasn't aged too badly. Provided that you can tweak DOSBox to have it run at non-breakneck speed, of course.

Xenonauts 2 just launched a Kickstarter I don't see how this is good news. When they announced the sequel I figured they were in good enough shape to fund the project, but I guess the original wasn't as successful as I thought. Oh well. Can't be worse than giving money to Paradox.

So now you probably know who's going to be developing RPGs for Paradox now. That's the not completely terrible part of this news. The rest... yeah. Oh well, at least I got my Kickstarter money's worth, via GOG key. The odds of either being the case again with HBS, not so good.

You're right. No such thing as a focus on gender studies or similar. If anything the focus is on... business degrees. Note also the decrease in math and education degrees conferred. I guess that even casually mistaking the twatterverse for the real world is as good a sign as I'm going to get that I should get the **** off the internet.

Yep, I have very little doubt that it'll suck. Hasn't Al Lowe basically disowned the series since Magna Asterisks Laude? From what I gather, the glittering gem of hatred that is the comment section is mostly about the self-important tone of the article. EG are kinda annoying with the virtue signaling though so not really surprised at the reactions. It begs the question why people stick around if they hate the editorial line, though. @Chilloutman: dude, you owe it to yourself to play at least Love for Sail. The last true Leisure Suit Larry game.

The tech industry was born from a culture of technical excellence and focus on the hard sciences that arose from the US being the #1 destination for brains migrating from Europe in the first half of the 20th century, and which only intensified after WWII, in the wake of Operation Paperclip and East European brains fleeing communist regimes. Snake oil salesmanship wouldn't have amounted to anything without eleventy billion imported super geniuses. The guy who invented the modern architecture that computers are based on to this day was a Hungarian. With the current focus on disciplines like "gender studies", the general decline of education, as well as the advance of utter irrationality as an acceptable and accepted state of mind as embodied in the tangerine in chief, it's only a matter of time before you lose your edge. As for why the world is saturated by American brands... I guess you have a point. The one true greatest American invention is marketing as a science. Good job? edit: can't into English

It's already doing well—gotta love the comment section unanimously tearing them a new one.

They just keep teasing ...and on that (teasing) note, how about a Tyranny grand strategy spin-off Man, for a company I despise, I sure pay a lot of attention to them. And, um, Spachulk Deathwing EE is now out, free for owners of the regular edition. Judging by Steam forum posts, it's still trash. smh

You are making a completely irrelevant point. Sex in context = fine. Gratuitous sex = OMG unacceptable! This is a ridiculous distinction—sex is sex—especially considering that the "context" in question is the antics of a psychopathic drug addict and it's placed there for obvious shock value. Because Trevor's life is a totally sensible reflection of real world people and events. But yeah, I get your meaning. GTA is art for connoisseurs who can appreciate its exquisitely deep nuanced satire of something or other, hentai puzzle games are for losers. Ok guy. And by the way, I've never had a single example of such a game pop in my Steam feed. I'm guessing you'd have to go looking for them specifically, much like you used to have to walk into the "adult" area in video rental shops. Opt-outs are fine, of course. I want one for shovelware, though. That **** triggers me like like nobody's business. Quite the knack for extrapolation you have there. The argument was about marketing and perceptions as they are received by portions of the consumer market, that different context are judged differently by different people whether sound or not. It was an example of two different contexts of adult content, pulled straight from something that got a pass and something that didn't. The emphasis was further on outward marketing that would enable consumers to make those judgment calls vs. games where such content is a minor proportion which is not even marketed. Happy trails. What? No, seriously. What? "different context are judged differently by different people" is an argument that needs formulating? Do you use purposefully obfuscatory grammar and meaningless syntagms to confound or just randomly pull stuff out of the thesaurus? The point of contention was that sex in certain games would get a pass, whereas in others it wouldn't. Then you went off on a tangent about "context" as if somehow that makes the sex in games less sex, because fleshed out game world or something. And now you're going off on yet another tangent about marketing and judgment calls. What on earth does that have to do with pulling some games but not others based on complaints by a bunch of Christian fundies from "Morality in Media"? In fact, if anything, that's Valve taking the ability to make value judgments away from customers. If the problem is games using any remotely sexual elements as a marketing ploy, we're going to have to do away with a lot of stuff, you see.

You are making a completely irrelevant point. Sex in context = fine. Gratuitous sex = OMG unacceptable! This is a ridiculous distinction—sex is sex—especially considering that the "context" in question is the antics of a psychopathic drug addict and it's placed there for obvious shock value. Because Trevor's life is a totally sensible reflection of real world people and events. But yeah, I get your meaning. GTA is art for connoisseurs who can appreciate its exquisitely deep nuanced satire of something or other, hentai puzzle games are for losers. Ok guy. And by the way, I've never had a single example of such a game pop in my Steam feed. I'm guessing you'd have to go looking for them specifically, much like you used to have to walk into the "adult" area in video rental shops. Opt-outs are fine, of course. I want one for shovelware, though. That **** triggers me like like nobody's business.

I haven't exactly been keeping up on the latest developments in anime pr0n games, is the sex the centerpiece of the games or just plain fan service? Are the mechanics (if any) designed around the dirty deed? Is it actual pr0n or mostly just ecchi? Honest questions, asking for a friend and all that.

>adult content in a sensibly contextualized manner >GTA5 A very fleshed out world, with functional strip clubs which is a small part of the total game. You're confusing GTA's accentuate caricature of America with it's grounded context. Sure. The context being some meth head cranking it up to 11 and that somehow makes it "sensible". Because it's a "deep" critique of the drug and underworld culture of 'merica or something and not just over the top crazy silly fun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iNOLo1YaSk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDnj4SgUvq0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws6MShLRKhU etc Totes contextualized now. Being one of the biggest (if not the biggest) publishers around has nothing to do with it. Tbh I was just going for an easy zinger, low hanging fruit and all that. I still find it amusing that people manage to glean deep meaning from wherever.

*shrug*The grand strategy games Paradox sells are effectively board games (albeit extremely complex) - might as well keep up a similar monetization scheme. As a MTG (aka "cardboard crack") player, I'm not fundamentally opposed to the concept of ongoing monetization and expansions. It's mostly just the low effort, piecemeal, crap value DLC approach that I was deriding with that completely made-up remark.

Imperator: Rome is the next grand strategy game from Paradox A DLC is said to be planned for each and every one of the tribes present in the period, as well as several dozen "cosmetic" and music addons.

Celiac disease is a bitch. I was on a gluten-free diet for a while because I suspected I might have that (mom's a sufferer) until tests came negative so I can sympathize. And being a lifelong undereater I know exactly how bothersome it is to constantly force yourself to eat more calories than you otherwise would. Shakes aren't a great choice for that unless they are the "mass gainer" sort, and those are overpriced garbage anyway. Maybe gluten-free ice cream. Bananas and peanut butter are awesome too.

>adult content in a sensibly contextualized manner >GTA5

Twitcher3. It's a no-brainer, really.

That's 83 graphics man, it's in the upper left corner clear as purple crayon. It's not even the graphics really, it's the attention to detail. Stuff like getting covered in mud/dust when going prone, your vest changing depending on your loadout, etc. The game is full of little details. You see those night vision goggles on the helmet? The character actually flips them down when you toggle NV/thermal. They even commissioned a set of narcocorridos to tell stories in the game. Maybe this sort of thing is common in AAA these days, it's been a while since I played one, but I'm quite impressed.

Having way more fun playing dress-up in Ghost Recon Wildlands than a grown man should. Get out of here stalker pinche cabrón Forget about El Sueño, we are cutting our losses and pulling out!

It is technically the third sentence he mangled. But we all know that since you mods can edit your posts without having the "edited by" note show, you will no doubt remove all evidence, in yet another example of abuse of (editorial) power by the privileged class!

And more on this—I found a mod that makes AI pilots (and your own, too, based on Guts) eject when the going gets tough. I don't have the game installed myself, but figured someone here might want to give it a whirl. That's a Newspeak I can get behind.

Nope, no standalone patches, though the main game installer now shows "1.0.2-277R", which is the latest non-beta release. Just install Galazy*, point it at the game, wait until it's done updating, and uninstall it. I'm guessing they won't bother throwing a standalone installer together until they have assurances from HBS that it's going to take them a while to release another patch. Anyone knows if they are moving away from patch files altogether? That's another possibility. *feels pretty appropriate too, what with the crappy download speeds and all

It's weird to see the AI just run around in circles waiting for me to finish them off after destroying all their weapons Ostensibly they can't have AI pilots eject because that would net you a pristine mech to salvage and that would trivialise the game etc. This is a problem rooted in the simplistic salvage mechanics (which hopefully they'll improve in expansions much like they did with cyberware in Shadowrun), and also shows a certain lack of awareness of how the game currently plays. You can get 3/3 salvage really easily if you abuse LRMs with ++stability damage and leg called shots, much easier than you could damage a mech to the point where it would make sense to eject, without accidentally coring it. So we get the absurd situation where that Panther without arms and a broken leg just limps aimlessly for two rounds until he decides that life like this just isn't worth living and attempts suicide by Atlas II in the end. The jump animations are unskippable because they hide a load screen, I've read, much like the infamous elevator rides (you can skip the docking animation, just not the jump proper and undocking)... Anyway, beta patch been released a few days ago: At least they are trying.

To mount anything on the scale you're thinking, you'd need a fully mobilized economy, which the US currently lacks. We haven't gone full Orwell yet. I'm sure China would love for the American economy to become fully geared for war, so as to give them an even bigger slice of the global trade pie. So realistically, what you can expect is Iraq Redux with another several thousand starry-eyed young American men coming back home in body bags or horribly maimed, another relatively prosperous country destroyed but far from subjugated, and the doomsday clock running ever closer to midnight as the russkies become more and more paranoid at the inexorable advance of the Freedom Tide. It's just a matter of time, too. Make your bets, gentlemen.