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Looking at the blurry image, I'm pretty sure $3,500 says "Single Player Challenge Survival Mode". Hard to tell on the earlier ones (they seem more blurred, and I think some have clever names rather than saying exactly what they are).

I can't help but worrying as well - even if I was wanting to play multiplayer - that you'd only ever find MPers who wanted to play Jason, and rarely any who'd want to play the victims camp councilors.

It seems interesting, yeah, but multiplayer not for me. Maybe if they have single player as a stretch goal.

I see MK II and I'm thinking someone is talking about Mortal Kombat II. I see Mk II, I'm thinking Mark II.

Yeah I saw they listed VP as an inspiration after I read further. Might be enough to convince me to pledge to an indiegogo campaign.

It looks a lot like VALKYRIE PROFILE to me, both in having to traverse maps and the TALES-ish combat. I liked Skullgirls a lot, so this interests me as I thought the first VP game was one of the better games to come out at that time (the sequels I played were, IMO, rubbish).

Sounds like they got a traditional development deal and decided they didn't need the kickstarter, if I'm reading it right.

I love this picture so much. So I believe this picture is from a TLC UK thing (documentary? show?) that talked about Furries. In the article they talk about Furries being connected to Etherians. That's a term I haven't heard before, is it like a UK term for Otherkin or is it related to Meade Layne's alternate universe theory that UFOs are from another dimension (Etheria) or something else (like I'm mishearing "therianthropy" somehow)?

That is correct. Or rather, I can eat pizza and spaghetti...but it has to be sans any kind of sauce with anything even vaguely tomato-ey in it. Personally, I like pizza without any sort of sauce, while I'm perfectly amicable to spaghetti cooked in other sorts of sauces, such as garlic and olive oil and other things. Going for the pre-Neopolitan pizza. I can dig it. I won't be joining you there, but I can dig it. Hasn't worked for me personally, though it is sound advice. I keep starting side-projects for this purpose, but once I've kinda designed the ideas and what the product will be and such I run out of interest. I have a hard time doing it on anything other than whim nowadays. So what exactly did you want to do with graphic arts/games that you aren't getting in your job? At this point, I don't even know anymore. I always enjoy seeing a finished product, but the process of getting there... when I was learning new things, it was super interesting. Now that I know how everything works and can do it, it's just become a slog. I think I enjoyed learning about how to make a game more than I actually enjoy making a game. And that made me think I was really into game development. EDIT: I give up on the quoting system. So essentially what you want is diversity? A challenge? Have you considered trying to find some kickstarter (or similar indie venture) to volunteer with?

I like it, too, but I mean, c'mon, it's a supermarket fruit juice...you get what you pay for. *Except salsa where it is not the primary ingredient - unlike most supermarket "salsas" - and only specific, weaker-flavored (IMO) tomatoes: too strong or too much of tomatoes and you ruin the salsa for me. Blah. I put tomatoes AND ketchup on hamburgers. You can't be too careful with your tomato taste. Insurance Sales Agent, Pharmacist and Lawyer. Things that do, indeed, not appeal to me in the slightest. Hasn't worked for me personally, though it is sound advice. I keep starting side-projects for this purpose, but once I've kinda designed the ideas and what the product will be and such I run out of interest. I have a hard time doing it on anything other than whim nowadays. So what exactly did you want to do with graphic arts/games that you aren't getting in your job?

I tried original V8 (I've probably tried the others but don't recall) and I love tomatoes. Tomato soup, raw tomatoes, etc. But somehow when they mix it up with real vegetables (tomato being a fruit and all) and I don't know, it just never really works for me.

I'm saying that I don't assume people-plants and/or plant-people are automatically concerned or care about the same things that people-humans do.

Instead of finding a different career, maybe try to work on a personal project that might renew your interest in the graphic arts or video games? I know of a couple of different commercial artists, for example, who created side comic strips as a way to remain connected to the things they love about art that they weren't getting in advertising or marketing. Bartimaeus - V8

Ah, if that's what they mean I wouldn't have put it that way. EDIT: The addition of non-person is what makes that the most ridiculous. Non-person is an "inclusive" term for those who claim they were born as the wrong species or even item. Otherkin. Furries. Those who identify as a dragon, or a plant, or a ****ing hoover. Because that kind of person needs to be included, instead of sent to a goddamn institution. If this is what they meant, then surely they're showing their human-centric bias in their thoughts? If I am a plant, then I care not for your human emotional structures like shame, surely...?

"non-person"?

I hate k-pop and dont have a clue what this clip was about but any skimpy clothes on anime girls are + in my book Apparently the main characters in Genei Ibun Roku X FE - besides being Mirage Masters, able to summon "Mirages" (souls of warriors from other worlds and based on Fire Emblem characters) so they can fight evil Mirages - all belong to a Talent Agency so that they have to be Pop Stars AND save the world. As I understand it.

I am immediately changing my lesson plans and putting Bugs in as a central character. That may be the one time Bugs didn't get lost at Albuquerque.

I see Trigger and I think "Roy Roger's horse". Sad, but true.

Does it have to "trigger" a lived event to be considered triggering? I recall watching the infamous Budd Dwyer suicide footage and then stupidly showing the person next to me without giving them sufficient context. They freaked out and broke down crying. I figured that would count as a "triggering". Or maybe tumblr has rotted my brain. Idk. I don't claim expertise; my understanding is that, yes, the trigger would be for a lived event, however the context may be vastly different than you expect which may make it difficult in broad situations (which is where I understand the concern of moving trigger warnings to general population arises) to understand what might actually trigger someone. A victim of rape by their father may be triggered by discussion of rape, sex, fathers, father-child relationships and things that remind/connect to their father or their rape. But also by talk of siblings (if father raped them), mothers (if there's knew and did nothing), etc. But to be triggered one must have some unwanted, unpleasant experience that one isn't ready to cope with reliving. Often on the internet what I see are people trying to stop discussions that could trigger rather than have triggered, so my experience (limited and anecdotal as it is) is with those not triggered trying to protect those who could be (rather than are/have been) triggered.

Won't someone think of the Fembots?

For a second there I thought they'd just stranded the pair on the alien world.

So...that article is unreadable to the average person. I don't even know what a trigger warning is. I'm interested in knowing more about the case, but there is no actual information in what you posted. Essentially, as I understand it, Sienkiewicz had a mentor who used a graphic novel that had adult content in a class as a required reading. A student complained that the content "triggered" them and that the teacher should have not used that text because it was triggering. Based on the complaint the teacher is suspended until the investigation complete (even though Sienkiewicz said they'd been fired he also said a suspension in a piece he quoted so its a bit unclear exactly what happened). I've seen no follow-up on this other than the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF) was looking into it. Trigger warnings are generally speaking specific to the idea that it will trigger and emotional/mental flashback to a traumatic event not, for example, warnings of graphic content (which would be a regular warning). The Vietnam Veteran who finds themselves back into the jungle when a firecracker goes off or the rape victim who re-experiences the rape when presented with sexual imagery or what have you is the kind of thing a Trigger Warning is designed to prevent. As far as I know - and anyone with more knowledge than me can correct me - trigger warnings started in Higher Education, specifically with Feminist groups on college campuses who in "safe space" discussions wanted to make sure that they didn't force rape victims still suffering from PTSD from reliving their rape due to the "safe space" being a place for open and frank discussions. Thus a request is made that if someone wants to discuss something that might be triggering (for example a member discussing their own abuse), then as a courtesy to other members of the group they should give warning that such triggering discussion was forthcoming so that those who weren't ready for such discussions could opt out if they wished to. It is further my understanding that their use outside of "safe space" discussions (like on the internet or in a general classroom) is highly controversial even among those who advocate for their use in "safe space" discussion groups. EDIT: Poor sentence structure, amid other problems.

October 12, Anniversary date of Columbus' arrival in the Americas (October 12, 1492). A US Federal Holiday. I believe it used to be a Federal Holiday for several South American countries as well, but I think these have been changed to things like Discovery Day (Bahamas) or Day of the Americas (Belize?) rather than to be specifically about Columbus.

No sport is inherently safe, of course. And Football in particular has gotten to be a game for bigger players (one of Grom's links has an "average" comparison of star defensive backs which seems to show how much bigger the guys now are). But like the modern equipment being a response to injuries with the old equipment, there needs to be an investment in research to improve the current technology. I'm sure it exists already, in fact, but its also possible that they may not be able to make it safer just with equipment without rules changes.

So sad. No wonder you've invested so much thought space to drone deployment.