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So Bento Tentacles was pulled from kickstarter. As a person who makes games involving rape, do you worry that this might make things difficult for you? (I'm thinking about sex cops? Is the thing you get from clicking "yes" then "no" rape?)
do you really
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really not get the difference between a game about my personal non-consent fantasies and a mass-produced satire-free card game about consequence-free rape? i mean, maybe you're playing "devil's advocate," in which case STOP FEELING OBLIGATED TO DEFEND THE DUDES WHO ARE MAKING A GAME ABOUT RAPING TEENAGE GIRLS. the length to which some people are going to try and convince me that a bunch of women who live in a world where the threat of rape hangs over all of our communities every day telling some dudes who are MAKING AND SELLING A CARD GAME THAT FURTHER TRIVIALIZES THE REALITY AND IMPACT OF RAPE that they're fucking disgusting IS FUCKING DISGUSTING.
everyone keeps slinging the phrase "freedom of speech" like it's somehow fucking relevant. or like it's somehow more important than my FREEDOM to live in a world where i don't have to fear violence against myself, my partner, my community. i'm trying to defend my loved ones, you're trying to defend some entitled fuckhead who thinks rape is hilarious. is it crazy, in a world where rape happens all the time and often goes unreported, that when someone tries to make and distribute a game that reinforces the attitude that rape is a non-issue, i say THAT'S REALLY FUCKED UP, PLEASE STOP THAT? is that CENSORSHIP?? REALLY?? -
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I ask this of you because you GET IT, not because I expect you have an answer. I am looking to DETOX young game design students out of bullshit habits, bullshit games and get them playing interesting games right from day one. What should these kids play?
if you're trying to show them that games don't have to be eighty-hour gunmetal grey shitcarts, i recommend starting with no game longer than five minutes. here are some suggestions that i think will each stimulate good discussion on what a game is:
la la land 2
http://www.auntiepixelante.com/?p=264
cactus block
http://www.glorioustrainwrecks.com/node/451#comment-3591
kettle
http://www.increpare.com/2010/11/kettle/
tanaka's friendly adventure
http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=7342.0
ww1 medic
http://www.bay12games.com/ww1medic/
execution
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someone talking about porn actors with the word actor in sarcasm quotes
The DeFlorio Family Marinara Recipe From Somewhere Around Naples. aka, my ma's sauce
INGREDIENTS
- extra virgin olive oil (cold pressed or first cold pressed)
- 2 or 3 garlic cloves
- 2 cans of crushed tomatoes (I recommend Redpack brand)
- 1 can tomato paste (still recommend Redpack brand)
- half a teaspoon basil
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- little bit of black pepper
INSTRUCTIONS
Put a nice amount of olive oil in the bottom of the pot. Crush and peel your garlic cloves and drop them into the oil. Turn the heat on and cook the cloves until they begin to turn golden brown.
Add your 2 cans of crushed tomatoes and 1 can of tomato paste. Be careful at this point; it may splatter.
Lower the heat down to Medium. Smash/mix everything until it “feels good.” Add 1 teaspoon of white sugar, as this negates the bitterness of the tomato seeds. Add half a teaspoon basil. Crack fresh black pepper into it to taste.
DO NOT ADD SALT THERE WILL BE NO SALT IN THIS SAUCE.
Mix well, then let it sit. It will begin to bubble strangely and form a white foam on top. When you see this, ignore it and mix it back in.
As soon as the sauce begins to bubble, turn the heat down to Low and put a lid on it, but only halfway. This is mostly to prevent the sauce from splattering as it’s cooking. If you have a mesh screen thing, put that over the top too under the lid.
Let it cook for approximately 1 hour. Stir every 8 minutes/whenever you walk past the pot. When it really starts to boil, lower the heat even more.
You’ll know when it’s all finished. :3
imo this goes best with romano as opposed to parmesan but thats just me -
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What is your greatest talent?
i want to say being able to fit my own dick in my butt
but then i saw a video of a guy doing just that and his dick was bent at such a horrifying angle that i couldnt believe what i was seeing
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i got da munchies
make these cheesecake cookies they are the best DURING SUCH SPECIAL MUNCHY-RELATED TIMES:
- 1/4 cup softened butter or margarine.
- 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened.
- 1 egg yolk.
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla.
- 1 package of white cake mix.
Cream butter and cheese. Blend in the egg yolk and the vanilla. Add the dry cake mix 1/3 at a time, mixing well after each addition. When you're done, cover the mixture and throw it in the fridge for a half hour.
Preheat oven to 375º. Drop the batter by level teaspoons onto an ungreased baking sheet. Cook 9 minutes or until lightly golden brown.
Remove from oven, leave the cookies in the baking pan for a little while to set. Don't try to take them out early; they're very crumbly and will fall apart. -
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Your criticisms of KH2 are just nitpicks. It's not a damning flaw that the skateboard doesn't have good physics, or that it reuses cutscenes from the first game. Do you think it's unimportant that, for example, all the battles are challenge-free?
"THESIS: this is a game that has been consciously, even painstakingly, designed to appeal to people with no taste. EVERYTHING HAS BEEN CONSCIOUSLY REMOVED AS FAR AS POSSIBLE FROM THE REALM OF THE WAY REAL THINGS WORK and the way real people feel into the realm of things-dumb-kids-will-think-is-cool.
EXAMPLES: that's why the protagonist hits enemies with A GIANT KEY instead of a sword. the key unlocks chests with visible locks not by inserting the key into the lock, but by tossing the key into the air, catching it, and BOPPING IT OVER THE TOP OF THE CHEST of the chest with a flourish. every street in the the protagonist's hometown has an identical black, winged circuit-board SKATEBOARD lying around for the protagonist to optionally ride. it doesn't move like a skateboard moves. it's here because a middle-aged japanese man thought a tweenager would think it was cool to do OLLIES and KICKFLIPS in twilight town."
i added a TUTORIAL to my original answer so you might be able to understand it.
and yes, combat with no consequence in which you press the X button over and over again while a meaningless series of incomprehensible, over-animated nothings flare and explode all over the screen is absolutely a symptom of what i've already identified as the problem of the game, which is that nothing in the game has any real substance but is instead an attempt to sell a more bombastic shadow of a meaningful idea. -
So why is kingdom hearts 2 bad? I've never played it, but I know people who say it's their favourite game.
well yeah, some people are twelve years old and don't have taste yet. which is what the developers were depending on, i guess. this is a game that has been consciously, even painstakingly, designed to appeal to people with no taste. everything has been consciously removed as far as possible from the realm of the way real things work and the way real people feel into the realm of things-dumb-kids-will-think-is-cool.
that's why the protagonist hits enemies with a giant key instead of a sword. the key unlocks chests with visible locks not by inserting the key into the lock, but by tossing the key into the air, catching it, and bopping it over the top of the chest with a flourish. every street in the the protagonist's hometown - the first protagonist, the one who turns out to be some kind of dream/ghost of the second and real protagonist - has an identical black, winged circuit-board skateboard lying around for the protagonist to optionally ride. it doesn't move like a skateboard moves. it's here because a middle-aged japanese man thought a tweenager would think it was cool to do OLLIES and KICKFLIPS in twilight town.
listen to this: the game has a WORLD MAP that shows all the game's "kingdoms" hovering on islands in space, with glowing path-lines connecting them. in the middle of a line between one kingdom and the next, there's a door that represents a SPACESHIP SHOOTING level the player has to play before she can reach the next kingdom. but her spaceship doesn't stick to the star-lines: she's free to drive right around the door and straight to the next kingdom. if she does this, she'll PING off a magic force-field around the island: what she has to do is steer her ship BACK to the door, then play the level in order to make the forcefield around the kingdom go away.
everything in the game, mechanically, contextually, and emotionally is just as backwards. roxas, the game's initial protagonist, cries through the eyes of sora, the ultimate protagonist who he's somehow become a part of, when sora says goodbye to the kids whose virtual counterparts roxas (spoiler: ROXAS is an anagram for SORA X!) was best friends with in the computer simulation he thought was his life. this isn't emotion, this is some sheltered pre-teen's idea of what DIFFICULT EMOTIONS will be like. if the designers are adept at anything, it's tapping the deviantart zeitgeist.
in fact, this game smacks of the worst kind of narcissisim. you can tell that everything in the game was designed by people who think their terrible ideas are the most brilliant shit anyone's ever thought up. that must be why you spend the first three hours of the game watching clips of cutscenes from the first kingdom hearts. the first kingdom hearts, by the way, isn't a good game, but it hasn't retreated nearly as far into its own psychosis as has kingdom hearts 2. kingdom hearts 2: a bad game.
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