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  • augustaugust where you come from is gone Registered User regular
    UnbreakableVow wrote: »
    Uriel wrote: »
    Maddoc wrote: »
    UnbreakableVow wrote: »
    Maddoc wrote: »
    Look the ocean is way more interesting than the moon when you get right down to it anyway.

    There's some crazy shit in there.
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    I also would have accepted Godzilla

    Accept NO substitutes.

    Cloverfield was no godzilla.

    Thank God

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  • THESPOOKYTHESPOOKY What killed the dinosaurs? The ice age.Registered User regular
    Uriel wrote: »
    Maddoc wrote: »
    THESPOOKY wrote: »
    Uriel wrote: »
    Maddoc wrote: »
    UnbreakableVow wrote: »
    Maddoc wrote: »
    Look the ocean is way more interesting than the moon when you get right down to it anyway.

    There's some crazy shit in there.
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    I also would have accepted Godzilla

    Accept NO substitutes.

    Cloverfield was no godzilla.

    What constitutes "a godzilla"

    Is it like a Dracula

    Well technically there have been multiple Godzillas

    And that's before we bring Space Godzilla into the equation

    History shows again and again how nature points out the folly of man.

    Especially that godawful Mathew Brodric Film.

    As much as I hate AmeriZilla, the one part where the Japanese fisherman is on the boat in shock and whispers "...Gojira..."

    that was pretty cool
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  • UrielUriel Registered User regular
    I had one of the little taco bell dog plushies that went "Here lizard lizard lizard"
  • -Tal-Tal Truth is elusive It's nowhere to be foundRegistered User regular
    Paladin wrote: »
    -Tal wrote: »
    it is absolutely relevant that the most prominent successful people under the current system are white men

    If that's where you want to start, then there are way, way more relevant things to that issue than the location of conferences and conventions. A better investment would be more basic, like a computer science initiative in elementary and college classes, and mini "developer studios" in underserved communities with the technology and licenses to give alternatively educated people some background experience. Incentivizing white collar CS internships with minimal experience requirements would also be good. There are already ground level initiatives in place for closing what we call the "Digital Divide."

    See here, I picked a broad, nebulous issue, and I narrowed it down to something I could handle, which is the socioeconomic disadvantage that minorities have specifically in exposure to personal computing on a professional level. Too many people often just try to correct huge problems by attacking them in every form wherever they see it based on minimal evidence. Increasing the minority presence in the game developer scene requires you to find where exactly we're at in terms of leveling the playing field, and the solution is often on a lower level than you'd think. If you try to do everything at every level, chances are you'll fail for not giving each problem the attention it deserves.

    One of the things you learn as a professional is that you can't do everything about everything, so you need to decide how deep it is possible for you to go. It is tempting to try to learn everything at the deepest possible level, but that might prevent you from being able to look at the big picture, which really requires discipline in limiting yourself to high yield facts and methods that are not impossible for your brain to tie together. If you specialize, do it on a topic of appropriate breadth you know you can handle, and focus on improving your ability to come up with systematic questions allowing you to define what the next step is.

    In both cases, you have to eliminate the noise that confounds your brain, which can be composed of very thorough and well meaning facts and arguments but is not pertinent to the task at hand and promotes disorganization. Things can be relevant, but not high yield enough to warrant discussion depending on the defined scope of the discussion.

    you are right about school cs initiatives and the like being a more effective way of increasing minority representation in the long run, but I still think there is a relevant discussion to be had about the insularity of the indie games scene
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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Chareth Cutestory Lawyer of the SeaRegistered User regular
    I have never actually seen a Godzilla film

    But the original is pretty cheap on Amazon, I may pick it up next paycheck

    It's the only one I've ever been interested in seeing, though. Movies where he fights other monsters and shit? No interest
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  • Sweeney TomSweeney Tom It's a brand new day and the sun is high All the birds are singing that you're gonna dieRegistered User regular
    UnbreakableVow wrote: »
    I have never actually seen a Godzilla film

    But the original is pretty cheap on Amazon, I may pick it up next paycheck

    It's the only one I've ever been interested in seeing, though. Movies where he fights other monsters and shit? No interest

    If you are ever able to get the Criterion version, do so. It's worth every penny.
  • JayKaosJayKaos Registered User regular
    The original film is definitely worth seeing, yeah, even if you are a heartless beast who does not like the idea of two giant monsters wrecking a city as they battle for dominance giant monsters aren't usually your thing.
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  • -Tal-Tal Truth is elusive It's nowhere to be foundRegistered User regular
    I needed a name to post. wrote: »
    -Tal wrote: »
    the blog post posits that a major problem with the current indie games scene is that it is insular, and insular in a way that favors white men with money

    My sole argument was on the subject of people who want to go to conventions but can not for whatever reason (primarily metropolitan areas/the possibility of digital networking), as that was the subject at hand when I entered the thread. That is all I was addressing about the indie games scene.

    that ties directly into the insularity, you see

    the reason why the scene is insular is because everybody at these conventions knows each other, and that is because a very limited amount of people who make indie games are able to go to these conventions, and this leads to a narrow scene of indie game creators and people who write about them dominating the discussion about indie games
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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Chareth Cutestory Lawyer of the SeaRegistered User regular
    edited May 2013
    JayKaos wrote: »
    The original film is definitely worth seeing, yeah, even if you are a heartless beast who does not like the idea of two giant monsters wrecking a city as they battle for dominance giant monsters aren't usually your thing.

    Giant monsters vs. humanity is a thing I dig

    That's why I love Cloverfield so much, and Pacific Rim looks pretty rad

    But two monsters duking it out

    Couldn't care less
    Sweeney Tom wrote: »
    UnbreakableVow wrote: »
    I have never actually seen a Godzilla film

    But the original is pretty cheap on Amazon, I may pick it up next paycheck

    It's the only one I've ever been interested in seeing, though. Movies where he fights other monsters and shit? No interest

    If you are ever able to get the Criterion version, do so. It's worth every penny.

    Thank you for alerting me to its existence! It's actually reasonably priced for a Criterion DVD
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  • HullisHullis I'm no more a spy than you are- A doctor.Registered User regular
    Dichotomy wrote: »
    I needed a name to post. wrote: »
    Dichotomy wrote: »
    I needed a name to post. wrote: »
    interrobang wrote: »
    I needed a name to post. wrote: »
    interrobang wrote: »
    do you feel that the feasibility of suggestions like "host another convention" or "set up an 'indie scholarship' fund" or "make the entry fee to the GDC a game programmed by yourself" is unaffected by race

    Are you asking me if I'm not aware that minorities have it harder in western culture due to various socioeconomic historical reasons that persist to the common day?

    in a roundabout way, i suppose that i'm asking you if the suggestions you posted were earnest

    The GDC game programming one was being cheeky. Everything else is something that someone could do. None of them are supposed to be something that anyone could do. I am not positing that Joe who works a minimum wage job at day and codes at night and barely has enough money to feed himself can immediately turn around and drop $100k in a scholarship fund. Obviously he can not, as it is not feasible for him and his current situation regardless of what race he is.

    But Joe can talk to people over the internet, and he can try to work towards those things just the same. He could put in a shit-ton of time to try and get a bunch of people interested in organizing that scholarship fund over the course of five years, and maybe it will manifest. And he's not going to do that by sitting around whinging about how there's a problem.

    ah yes the american dream, everyone should just stop whining because hard work equals success

    "Maybe" it will manifest.

    I am implying that whining instead of action does not equal result. I don't think this is a controversial statement.

    well, it's not so much controversial as it is stupid

    what constitutes "whining"? what constitutes "action"? can reasoned criticism not be considered action?

    Wait a second I thought this WASN'T the Ender's Game thread
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  • Sweeney TomSweeney Tom It's a brand new day and the sun is high All the birds are singing that you're gonna dieRegistered User regular
    edited May 2013
    Hullis wrote: »
    Dichotomy wrote: »
    I needed a name to post. wrote: »
    Dichotomy wrote: »
    I needed a name to post. wrote: »
    interrobang wrote: »
    I needed a name to post. wrote: »
    interrobang wrote: »
    do you feel that the feasibility of suggestions like "host another convention" or "set up an 'indie scholarship' fund" or "make the entry fee to the GDC a game programmed by yourself" is unaffected by race

    Are you asking me if I'm not aware that minorities have it harder in western culture due to various socioeconomic historical reasons that persist to the common day?

    in a roundabout way, i suppose that i'm asking you if the suggestions you posted were earnest

    The GDC game programming one was being cheeky. Everything else is something that someone could do. None of them are supposed to be something that anyone could do. I am not positing that Joe who works a minimum wage job at day and codes at night and barely has enough money to feed himself can immediately turn around and drop $100k in a scholarship fund. Obviously he can not, as it is not feasible for him and his current situation regardless of what race he is.

    But Joe can talk to people over the internet, and he can try to work towards those things just the same. He could put in a shit-ton of time to try and get a bunch of people interested in organizing that scholarship fund over the course of five years, and maybe it will manifest. And he's not going to do that by sitting around whinging about how there's a problem.

    ah yes the american dream, everyone should just stop whining because hard work equals success

    "Maybe" it will manifest.

    I am implying that whining instead of action does not equal result. I don't think this is a controversial statement.

    well, it's not so much controversial as it is stupid

    what constitutes "whining"? what constitutes "action"? can reasoned criticism not be considered action?

    Wait a second I thought this WASN'T the Ender's Game thread

    This isn't, this is the Atlas Shrugged Part 2 thread
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  • StiltsStilts Registered User regular
    Sweeney Tom wrote: »
    Hullis wrote: »
    Dichotomy wrote: »
    I needed a name to post. wrote: »
    Dichotomy wrote: »
    I needed a name to post. wrote: »
    interrobang wrote: »
    I needed a name to post. wrote: »
    interrobang wrote: »
    do you feel that the feasibility of suggestions like "host another convention" or "set up an 'indie scholarship' fund" or "make the entry fee to the GDC a game programmed by yourself" is unaffected by race

    Are you asking me if I'm not aware that minorities have it harder in western culture due to various socioeconomic historical reasons that persist to the common day?

    in a roundabout way, i suppose that i'm asking you if the suggestions you posted were earnest

    The GDC game programming one was being cheeky. Everything else is something that someone could do. None of them are supposed to be something that anyone could do. I am not positing that Joe who works a minimum wage job at day and codes at night and barely has enough money to feed himself can immediately turn around and drop $100k in a scholarship fund. Obviously he can not, as it is not feasible for him and his current situation regardless of what race he is.

    But Joe can talk to people over the internet, and he can try to work towards those things just the same. He could put in a shit-ton of time to try and get a bunch of people interested in organizing that scholarship fund over the course of five years, and maybe it will manifest. And he's not going to do that by sitting around whinging about how there's a problem.

    ah yes the american dream, everyone should just stop whining because hard work equals success

    "Maybe" it will manifest.

    I am implying that whining instead of action does not equal result. I don't think this is a controversial statement.

    well, it's not so much controversial as it is stupid

    what constitutes "whining"? what constitutes "action"? can reasoned criticism not be considered action?

    Wait a second I thought this WASN'T the Ender's Game thread

    This isn't, this is the Atlas Shrugged Part 2 thread

    Who is Jon Blow?
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  • Professor SnugglesworthProfessor Snugglesworth Registered User regular
    UnbreakableVow wrote: »
    JayKaos wrote: »
    The original film is definitely worth seeing, yeah, even if you are a heartless beast who does not like the idea of two giant monsters wrecking a city as they battle for dominance giant monsters aren't usually your thing.

    Giant monsters vs. humanity is a thing I dig

    That's why I love Cloverfield so much, and Pacific Rim looks pretty rad

    But two monsters duking it out

    Couldn't care less
    Sweeney Tom wrote: »
    UnbreakableVow wrote: »
    I have never actually seen a Godzilla film

    But the original is pretty cheap on Amazon, I may pick it up next paycheck

    It's the only one I've ever been interested in seeing, though. Movies where he fights other monsters and shit? No interest

    If you are ever able to get the Criterion version, do so. It's worth every penny.

    Thank you for alerting me to its existence! It's actually reasonably priced for a Criterion DVD

    So you're okay with robots vs monsters, but not monsters vs monsters?

    Do the robots need to be piloted by humans, or do autonomous robots count too?
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  • PaperLuigi44PaperLuigi44 And when she knooooows, what she wants, from her ty-y-ype Registered User regular
    Luigi's Mansion 2 was really good. I could see the complaints about it getting long in the tooth but the tail end of that game really upped the challenge in ghostbusting. I wouldn't want to do 5-5 without all of the upgrades though, thankfully I got the last one just in time.

    And I really love that after the fifth mansion boss fight
    You're brought to the pixelshift loading screen that you've seen dozens of times now, and then it freezes and your pixels get yanked back into King Boo's realm. That was an great design decision and a real 'oh crap' moment for me.

    Also King Boo's "Remember when you trapped me in a painting for all eternity? That was fun." put a smile on my face.

    I then got absorbed in Fire Emblem until past midnight, am I to understand that my created character can be any class at a certain level?
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  • JayKaosJayKaos Registered User regular
    Professor Snugglesworth wrote: »
    UnbreakableVow wrote: »
    JayKaos wrote: »
    The original film is definitely worth seeing, yeah, even if you are a heartless beast who does not like the idea of two giant monsters wrecking a city as they battle for dominance giant monsters aren't usually your thing.

    Giant monsters vs. humanity is a thing I dig

    That's why I love Cloverfield so much, and Pacific Rim looks pretty rad

    But two monsters duking it out

    Couldn't care less
    Sweeney Tom wrote: »
    UnbreakableVow wrote: »
    I have never actually seen a Godzilla film

    But the original is pretty cheap on Amazon, I may pick it up next paycheck

    It's the only one I've ever been interested in seeing, though. Movies where he fights other monsters and shit? No interest

    If you are ever able to get the Criterion version, do so. It's worth every penny.

    Thank you for alerting me to its existence! It's actually reasonably priced for a Criterion DVD

    So you're okay with robots vs monsters, but not monsters vs monsters?

    Do the robots need to be piloted by humans, or do autonomous robots count too?

    What if the monster is on the side of humanity for vague unexplained reasons?
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  • timspork's ghosttimspork's ghost Registered User regular
    After playing Sleepy Dogs more today's will concede it as the best open world game this generation if others agree that Red Dead is the best Wild West game ever made with the possible exception of Outlaws.
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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    timspork's ghost wrote: »
    After playing Sleepy Dogs more today's will concede it as the best open world game this generation if others agree that Red Dead is the best Wild West game ever made with the possible exception of Outlaws.

    I'm comfortable with this compromise
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  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    "best wild west game" isn't exactly a cutthroat competition
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  • JarsJars Registered User regular
    you can change classes at level 10 with a second seal. the only exceptions are gender locked classes.
  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    It really should be though, it's a shame we haven't gotten more good Western games

    GUN was pretty okay though

    And, uh

    Sunset Riders
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  • AntimatterAntimatter I remember touch I need something moreRegistered User regular
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    gender locked classes

    what is this, SBURB?
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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Chareth Cutestory Lawyer of the SeaRegistered User regular
    Gun was so disappointing

    And I wasn't even wildly looking forward to it
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  • augustaugust where you come from is gone Registered User regular
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX1KN_-wDfI

    I played this game for hours

    IT WAS FUCKING HORRIBLE
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  • MrDapperMrDapper Two Sides of A Coin Registered User regular
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1eNW7GG_Q8
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  • JintorJintor Registered User regular
    Antimatter wrote: »
    g
    gender locked classes

    what is this, SBURB?

    pegesi don't like dudes. whatchu gonna do
  • TurambarTurambar Registered User regular
    Look
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    I just killed a vampire with a buzzsaw
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  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    well of course

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    buzzsaw will ruin your day
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  • UrielUriel Registered User regular
    Oh yeah august?

    We played through this SHIT.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml3ppBUzry0
  • PaperLuigi44PaperLuigi44 And when she knooooows, what she wants, from her ty-y-ype Registered User regular
    As long as my lady can be a General or a Hero, those were my two favourite classes in Sacred Stones.
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  • Duke 2.0Duke 2.0 The Neal Deal Registered User regular
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVOFibwVMw0
    I know they were mediocre at best, but comeon, Western Jrpg. Comeon.
  • MrDapperMrDapper Two Sides of A Coin Registered User regular
    edited May 2013
    Uriel wrote: »
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    BADOW.

    You were too beautiful to exist.
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  • interrobanginterrobang we can tear up this rotten world together we'll break and smash and pound it into dustRegistered User regular
    Duke 2.0 wrote: »
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVOFibwVMw0
    I know they were mediocre at best, but comeon, Western Jrpg. Comeon.

    mediocre at best?

    you wanna fucking fight
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  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    i always thought the pegasus thing was weird, cause dudes can be virgins too?
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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    PaperLuigi44 wrote: »
    As long as my lady can be a General or a Hero, those were my two favourite classes in Sacred Stones.

    Both of those are gender neutral classes, so you're in luck.

    Fighter, Warrior, Barbarian, Berserker, Priest, War Monk, and Dread Fighter are Male only

    Troubadour, Valkyrie, War Cleric, Pegasus Knight, Falcon Knight, Dark Flier, Cleric, and Bride are Female only
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  • UrielUriel Registered User regular
    Listen to that fucking music loop.

    The whole fucking game it loops those two tracks.
  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    edited May 2013
    Langly wrote: »
    i always thought the pegasus thing was weird, cause dudes can be virgins too?

    That's Unicorns, I think
    Duke 2.0 wrote: »
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVOFibwVMw0
    I know they were mediocre at best, but comeon, Western Jrpg. Comeon.

    I really liked most of these games, but I feel like the only one that really pushed the Western setting was the third one.

    The third one is also godawful for basically every other reason though so it's kind of a wash.
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  • UrielUriel Registered User regular
    Unicorns don't like dicks.

    It makes them feel self conscious.
  • Duke 2.0Duke 2.0 The Neal Deal Registered User regular
    interrobang wrote: »
    Duke 2.0 wrote: »
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVOFibwVMw0
    I know they were mediocre at best, but comeon, Western Jrpg. Comeon.

    mediocre at best?

    you wanna fucking fight

    They hold a special place in my heart and I love them, but I played them at 14 and replayed them at 19. They didn't hold up beyond the style.
  • JarsJars Registered User regular
    clerics and priests are the exact same thing with different names
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