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I think its entirely possible to have negative review from someone who is not a troll. I think negative reviews that consist of "I hate it; you suck" probably aren't from serious critics, either, though.

That really just seems like stooping to the same level. Also isn't the Gamergate movement trying to clean up gaming journalism? Doesn't that mean you will be ruining people's livelihood? I'd think that what GG wants would be for ethical reforms that are followed by game journalists. Presumably the only people who'd have their livelihood ruined would be those who want to continue a culture of bribery and cronyism and reject the reforms. Would we really worry about ruining the livlihood of a politician who took bribes rather than worked for their constituents? Should we be worried about a (theoretical) journalist who only cares about getting money from a game company in exchange for his/her next positive review? I will say - more often than not - both sides of this issue have fallen into this category, IMO.

Seemed very much like that Alan did feel that way, which is why I wanted to quote his response. He probably won't have time to respond, but I think its a valid question regardless.

We know they did vet the tombstones. What I don't get is, specifically, what the problem with this tombstone is. Are we saying that in-game characters can't be transphobic? Homophobic? Racist? In other words (even though this is backer content) why does an in-game character being clearly transphobic* (to the point of killing themselves - not the trans in question) translate to Obsidian as a company, individual employees - or even the backer who made that content - being transphobes (or anti-trans) themselves? Because this kind of corollary logic (it exists in the game, therefore the makers of the game support this) is pretty unsupportable, IMO. Spoiler for POE: *I suppose this is transvestite phobic since the guy was able to find out she was a man. I haven't played PoE long enough to know whether the setting supports transexuality or not to be honest, but if magic can make someone a woman, I'm not sure how you'd find out she had ever been anything other than a woman. **Obviously I don't think this is true, but this is why I think this kind of argument is a slippery slope.

I liked Prometheus but I'll admit that it has some problems with it - some significant. I don't see it as the horrible violation of the series that many do, though (hey, I'd already seen AVP2 by that point, which is IMO the nadir of the related films so far). I watched IT FOLLOWS (2015) over the weekend. An interesting indie horror film. It plays against horror conventions, instead concentrating on a rising dread and creepiness factor over excessive gore or multiple jump scares. I can see some people going "that's supposed to be scary?" just because it is atypical in its way, so appreciation of the film might hinge on how hooked the viewer gets into the nightmarish quality of the narrative and central conceit. Also saw Airplane! (1980) for the umpteenth time - "Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue."

PoE a little last night. Can't wait to get back to it.

Mostly trying to inject some humor. Or some solipsism. Whatever.

Ditto. I might not have pledges as much if I hadn't planned to play the game, but I love what Obsidian does and would have been willing to pledge even if the game didn't appeal to me necessarily.

Well, can you prove that Russia is actively involved in Ukraine and Nigeria is holding elections? Posting news articles doesn't prove it, all that proved is that there are people CLAIMING these things are happening, but there is no proof they are. Heck there's no objective proof that Russia, Ukraine or Nigeria even exist. I can't even prove you posted the response I'm responding to, nor can you prove I posted this. Solipsism FTW!

If memory serves me, this was a segment of the original Banana Splits Adventure Hour.

The Irwin Allen shows always had the best themes (courtesy of Johnny Williams):

Checkmate!

Same. And this: Oh, hahah - I haven't seen those titles in ages!

My weekend as a kid in the 70s usually included this: and this

Okay, so I liked Moonlighting, but I can't say I ever liked the theme song for it.

It was a fun cop show - watched it re-runs a lot.

I'll just leave this here then...

http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/70877-and-now-a-sneek-peek-at-the-making-of-poe-documentary/ The sneak peak at the Making of POE Documentary. EDIT: It portray's Obsidian's situation as pretty grimly at the time of the kickstarter.

Yeah, it strikes me as odd too. Me I'm just happy we're going to have Obsidian around given the stark tale of the documentary snippets, much less the game (which I will also be happy to play whenever it is that I play it).

If it wasn't for us there wouldn't be a game. So I guess we always have that over the plebs.

Not Voltaire. IIRC both of Voltaire's most famous equotes are misattributed as he never said the 'defend your right to disagree' one either, that was a... biographer? I think. (Ironically the best sourcing for the first quote is supposedly a white supremacist convicted of child pr0n offences) Evelyn Beatrice Hall in The Friends of Voltaire (1906) as a way to illustrate Voltaire's beliefs.

Who knew I'd live to see the day where an academic paper quotes one "Pariah Pottymouth" in its contents... :D