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i feel like you don't even understand the basic appeal of events like these
hint: it is meeting and conversing with your peers face to face
you are a saint and a scholar
thanks for the advice about beating metalman first. that definitely makes things easier
okay, what if you can't make it to these events
Gonna Kung Fu it up tonight
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Then you didn't make it to these events
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i miss chris...............
In retrospect, I don't know why so many of us started with Air Man. Is it because it's not really obvious that anything beats air? Or maybe it was some advice in Nintendo Power? Probably Nintendo Power. Nintendo Power is the only reason any kid of that generation ever beat Castlevania 2.
not being able to attend events like GDC and rub elbows and quote-unquote network has deeper consequences than just "oh, i didn't get to go, bummer" if you're trying to actually establish a foothold in the industry, though
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Let me tell you about video games. Let me tell you about Homestuck
oh, Ryan 8->
That's kind of how it is in every industry though. Gaming isn't worth singling out as classist and/or racist due to events like these, because geographic location has been a factor of economic mobility since forever.
that doesn't make it any more defensible
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Yes I was going to post that but the English version I'm far more familiar with
I think a requirement of having to defend yourself from allowing a problem to occur should include being able to do a goddamn thing about it. City's are centers of commerce, which includes video games. Whether that can or should change is waaaaaaaaay beyond the scope of this argument or anyone involved for that matter.
Get at me.
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video or it didn't happen
a few minutes later
fifteen years ago an indie game was a shareware pc title and people would scoff at the idea of playing them on your playstation and there wasn't any steam
It was fucking awesome.
All of that is great!
But none of it is a substitute for making a face to face connection, and having a conference in a major city is currently the best way to do that. You can do as much internet correspondence as you want, but it's not a substitution for the intangible qualities of just talking in the same room together.
We wouldn't even have conferences if that wasn't true, just formal internet chat rooms.
spark man has the best level theme. bubble man is rad and all, but it's no spark man.
Let me tell you about video games. Let me tell you about Homestuck
Maybe from the Mega Man games
but
Whinging about the existence of metropolitan centers on forums is so devoid of intellectual thought about the problem you're actively pushing the solving of it away and instead are just trying to sit there and say "There is a PROBLEM, who AGREES WITH ME? Alright thanks, I'm pretty smart."
a sane distribution channel wouldn't strongarm publishers and developers into paying ten thousand dollars per patch in the first place
have gdc in san francisco, nobody's talking about getting rid of that
but there must be some way of broadening the currently rather narrow indie games scene of people who are able to attend video game conventions