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JacobkoshGamble a stamp.I can show you how to be a real man!Moderatormod
@Pony I thought the CCA was effectively neutered in the 1970's after refusing to Greenlight a (requested by US Government) Spider-Man story where drugs are involved.
@jacobkosh i am playing Dragonfall. tore through it this weekend.
here is the current state of affairs
I decided to free APEX (i totally predicted that that's why it was letting me come for a visit) because the deal sounded good. too good, i thought, but i did it anyways.
then, i was unable to convince Vauclair to abandon his project through conversation; i don't even know if you can. but after escaping the firedrake pit i am now in the vents, and APEX just contacted me saying he wants to take control of the Firewing project to remove all collateral damage - but also control the F-State.
THIS IS PROBLEMATIC.
i would like it if fewer AIs were distressingly amoral.
at least this guy isn't a total psycho or anything. so far.
i am curious as to whether you end up actually fighting him in the matrix, if you try to kill him. when i worked with him, he aided me as the Monika persona.
Like, here, I'll give you the TL;DR version of The Canyons: Everyone in LA is an asshole, what a bunch of shallow assholes, there people are rich garbage. There, you've seen the movie.
LA people sure love to make movies about how shitty LA people are, and like - I try to be open to all examination of the human condition but holy shit navel gazing ahoy
like would the world really be worse off if we didn't have The Canyons, or 2 Days in the Valley, or Hurlyburly
And I think it was kind of playing on the idea that all LA people are navel gazing shallow assholes and only think about themselves. I'm pretty sure it was self-aware of that. It's just that that almost guarantees that your movie will suck out loud.
@jacobkosh i am playing Dragonfall. tore through it this weekend.
here is the current state of affairs
I decided to free APEX (i totally predicted that that's why it was letting me come for a visit) because the deal sounded good. too good, i thought, but i did it anyways.
then, i was unable to convince Vauclair to abandon his project through conversation; i don't even know if you can. but after escaping the firedrake pit i am now in the vents, and APEX just contacted me saying he wants to take control of the Firewing project to remove all collateral damage - but also control the F-State.
THIS IS PROBLEMATIC.
i would like it if fewer AIs were distressingly amoral.
at least this guy isn't a total psycho or anything. so far.
i am curious as to whether you end up actually fighting him in the matrix, if you try to kill him. when i worked with him, he aided me as the Monika persona.
I freed APEX because I was trying to play a good guy and my policy was that thinking beings shouldn't be chained up
but on a second playthrough I dunno if I will or not. remember how very early on Green Winters comments that Monika's blind spot was the F-State, and all he had to do to manipulate her was to mention that the project might be important in that context? I think the game kind of cleverly sets it up so that if you play a certain way, if you try to be an ethical person, an AI wearing your dead friend's face and waxing rhapsodic about freedom kind of ends up being yours
I don't think freeing the AI is the worst possible choice but it is immensely grey
the new version apparently has a few addition ending permutations as well so it's possible that my opinion on this is going to shift soon. right now I've just finished Doc Ekzibel's run (this was one of the new missions, along with the companion missions and the Lodge audition) and am getting ready for the big Aztechnology hit
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to give into it." - Oscar Wilde
"We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
@Pony I thought the CCA was effectively neutered in the 1970's after refusing to Greenlight a (requested by US Government) Spider-Man story where drugs are involved.
not so much neutered as
Marvel called them on their shit and they were basically proven to be completely toothless in terms of being able to do anything except literally decide whether or not to put their stamp on something
and that stamp only mattered insofar as if it mattered to advertisers (which, increasingly, it did not as comics advertising revenue continued to plummet in value anyway and advertisers were caring less and less about the CCA) and retailers (which, outside of newstands and supermarkets and so on, was mattering less and less as the primary profit for comics was coming from specialty shops that didn't give a shit about the CCA)
it was a death spiral from there into the 80's and so on
by 2001, Marvel was like "Why are we even bothering with this shit?" and stopped, and made up their own ratings system
it took DC ten more years to do the same in keeping with DC's general theme of not adapting to change in things
@Pony I thought the CCA was effectively neutered in the 1970's after refusing to Greenlight a (requested by US Government) Spider-Man story where drugs are involved.
not so much neutered as
Marvel called them on their shit and they were basically proven to be completely toothless in terms of being able to do anything except literally decide whether or not to put their stamp on something
and that stamp only mattered insofar as if it mattered to advertisers (which, increasingly, it did not as comics advertising revenue continued to plummet in value anyway and advertisers were caring less and less about the CCA) and retailers (which, outside of newstands and supermarkets and so on, was mattering less and less as the primary profit for comics was coming from specialty shops that didn't give a shit about the CCA)
it was a death spiral from there into the 80's and so on
by 2001, Marvel was like "Why are we even bothering with this shit?" and stopped, and made up their own ratings system
it took DC ten more years to do the same in keeping with DC's general theme of not adapting to change in things
Modern DC gives me a sad on multiple fronts.
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ChanusHarbinger of the Spicy Rooster ApocalypseThe Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User, Moderatormod
well i'm up too late
huzzah
Allegedly a voice of reason.
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ChanusHarbinger of the Spicy Rooster ApocalypseThe Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User, Moderatormod
i got a new laptop today and it's all 1920x1080
and that is just like
whoa
Allegedly a voice of reason.
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ChanusHarbinger of the Spicy Rooster ApocalypseThe Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User, Moderatormod
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJR2Q45Jvz0
foxy brown is both foxy and brown
Jacob were you even trying
here is the current state of affairs
then, i was unable to convince Vauclair to abandon his project through conversation; i don't even know if you can. but after escaping the firedrake pit i am now in the vents, and APEX just contacted me saying he wants to take control of the Firewing project to remove all collateral damage - but also control the F-State.
THIS IS PROBLEMATIC.
i would like it if fewer AIs were distressingly amoral.
at least this guy isn't a total psycho or anything. so far.
i am curious as to whether you end up actually fighting him in the matrix, if you try to kill him. when i worked with him, he aided me as the Monika persona.
And I think it was kind of playing on the idea that all LA people are navel gazing shallow assholes and only think about themselves. I'm pretty sure it was self-aware of that. It's just that that almost guarantees that your movie will suck out loud.
On the black screen
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
but on a second playthrough I dunno if I will or not. remember how very early on Green Winters comments that Monika's blind spot was the F-State, and all he had to do to manipulate her was to mention that the project might be important in that context? I think the game kind of cleverly sets it up so that if you play a certain way, if you try to be an ethical person, an AI wearing your dead friend's face and waxing rhapsodic about freedom kind of ends up being yours
I don't think freeing the AI is the worst possible choice but it is immensely grey
the new version apparently has a few addition ending permutations as well so it's possible that my opinion on this is going to shift soon. right now I've just finished Doc Ekzibel's run (this was one of the new missions, along with the companion missions and the Lodge audition) and am getting ready for the big Aztechnology hit
he uh didn't really reach the same heights as his dad
You fucking people and your damn talking about games.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
omg who to root for @spool32
God damn internet, that's the fucking weirdest sentence to parse.
oh because jack kirby and kirby
i see
If you think being a runner ain't work you're mistaken, chummer
and
take care due
On the black screen
one of my friends who is not black has that movie poster on his living room wall next to a poster for bedtime for bonzo
people are so confused when they are confronted by those simultaneously.
I want a shadowrun character who thinks he's judge dredd
Too hot
Too humid
Too cold
Too loud
Too quiet
NNID: Hakkekage
a wizard did it
You are now legally obligated to call me Master.
"We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
not so much neutered as
Marvel called them on their shit and they were basically proven to be completely toothless in terms of being able to do anything except literally decide whether or not to put their stamp on something
and that stamp only mattered insofar as if it mattered to advertisers (which, increasingly, it did not as comics advertising revenue continued to plummet in value anyway and advertisers were caring less and less about the CCA) and retailers (which, outside of newstands and supermarkets and so on, was mattering less and less as the primary profit for comics was coming from specialty shops that didn't give a shit about the CCA)
it was a death spiral from there into the 80's and so on
by 2001, Marvel was like "Why are we even bothering with this shit?" and stopped, and made up their own ratings system
it took DC ten more years to do the same in keeping with DC's general theme of not adapting to change in things
Too heavy
Too light
Too black or
Too white
Too wrong or
Too right, today or tonight, cumbersome
Too rich or
Too poor, she's wanting me less and I'm wanting her more, the bitter taste is cumbersome
Master Brofist
night y'all
Modern DC gives me a sad on multiple fronts.
huzzah
and that is just like
whoa
that's a thing
i'll [chat] all by myself if i have to