@Auspice said in RL Anger: all I heard was Dune Its the work of Brian, not Frank, count me out of interested.

In conversation with an older lesbian friend of mine about the importance of David Bowie re: representation for her generation: "My dad once tried to make fun of Bowie by telling five year old me he was a 'queer' because he wore glitter makeup and ladies' clothes.... I'm not really sure he took the interests of the average five year old girl into account when presenting this argument."

@Jaded Oh, I know.

@RightMeow said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.: Me: I don't appreciate you didn't do your job at all yesterday. T: … T: Or that you were late getting into work. Me: You mean getting that thing done at another area so you can get paid? T: … T: You shouldn't have snapped. Me: You should try doing your job.

@Warma-Sheen said in General Video Game Thread: @Thenomain said in General Video Game Thread: We need to stop expecting the world. I feel like that's not just people coming up with unrealistic expectations, though. That's the company promoting and trying to create hype and pitching their product as though it is the world - then struggling to meet the raised expectations they created. That's their problem, not ours. To quote Yahtzee Crowshaw: "Stop pre-ordering." Both Cyberpunk and Bloodlines 2 went on presale like a year in advanced based on little more than fancy trailers. Good on their marketing department, then! While I am a strong proponent of public schools focusing on critical thinking, "A fool and his money are soon parted." It felt less like your usual presales and more like late-term crowdfunding / market testing. If they get a lot of presales, they keep working on it. If they don't, they fix as much major stuff as possible and release it as is to the smaller market. I don't expect this out of CP Projekt Red. They have proven themselves, and it's now their trust to lose. The same being true for Larian Studios (Baldur's Gate 3). I don't know Hardsuit Labs (Bloodlines 2) but even if the game is a train wreck I will probably get it as long as it has even moderately good writing. Same with Outer Worlds. I don't expect it to be great, but I expect it to be fun. Shadowrun Returns? Not great, but refreshing as hell. Battletech? Not even all that fun after the first twenty missions, but I'm glad I played it. And sure, every company wants to make sales, but no one wants to make the video game equivalent of the Fyre festival. Which is possibly why Hello Games continued working on No Man's Sky until it's the game they wanted to make, as opposed to the timeline that Sony wanted them to adhere to. No Man's Sky is closer to the kind of game where the marketing outright lied, and there was almost a successful lawsuit out of it, but even there the suit was denied because people need to stop expecting the world. -- @Jennkryst said in General Video Game Thread: @Warma-Sheen said in General Video Game Thread: And sure, every company wants to make sales, but no one wants to make the video game equivalent of the Fyre festival. Why not? Star Citizen keeps bringing in ALL the cash. I laughed. Hard.

@sockmonkey today was my friday!

@Ganymede said in Good or New Movies Review: I saw “The Killing Joke” not that long ago I bet that was a good concert. ETA: oh the movie

@Auspice Learning how to unwind has been one of the hardest lessons for me to learn. Usually, at best, I just distract myself from my stress by playing video games. Actual relaxation is hard. Personally, nature helps a great deal, assuming sufficiently not-horrible climate.

https://twitter.com/JCareyAuthor/status/1185264420739584002 Dunno which to put this in (TV or movies), but... Lionsgate acquired the rights to the Kushiel books. They haven't decided if they're adapting it into TV or film yet. Carey JUST announced it on her Twitter.

@Jeshin Hey. I don't know if this got lost in the shuffle (shuffle, noise, vitriol), but I never minded the idea of anyone saying, "Hey, this thing is awesome and we want to feature it." I think it's a great community-building idea, and I hope you keep doing it. Even if people disagree, they will know what you think is good. The big explosion over ideas was because of the prerequisites. That is all.

@Auspice I'm not going to lie. I kinda wanted to helicopter it. However, I'm down. Let's do this.

rephrases that to "'Everything' is free in the Epic store until Oct 03." and spoils the joke. But does make it easier to grab. So is Metro: 2033 Redux.

@Cupcake said in The 100: The Mush: @Booriley Was this meant for the Apology thread? The apology thread has a 50% chance of just turning into a shooting gallery for bitter cunts.

@Bobotron said in The State of the Chronicles of Darkness: @tragedyjones Right. I skimmed that and honestly didn't think of Hunter or Mummy. :/ Sorry for forgetting someone's favorite game lines. I only know because it was pointed out on the onyx path forum, honestly.

@Coin said: Maybe it was a good run, maybe it wasn't, but we tried. Good enough for me. Fair nuff.

In contrast, I care where what behavior goes. It's a utility thing.

Altered Carbon, as a major inspiration for Eclipse Phase, has re-ignited THE ITCH.

Since some people have expressed interest in checking the game out again, I thought I'd share this link here. It's where we try to keep an updated list of 'staff wanteds' because people often ask what the game needs or doesn't need. This is more general, if a player is interested in doing something really specific that we'd like to have for a plot or what-not, then we can talk about that! Just mail or page Asherat or Yeshua and we'll hash out details. https://www.kushielsdebut.org/index.php/CharGen/XP_Bonuses