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[PA Comic] Wednesday, December 17, 2014 - Southron Swords, Part Two
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[PA Comic] Wednesday, December 17, 2014 - Southron Swords, Part Two
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like this is the most i've laughed at PA in a while and that really surprises me
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
That's a sunny winter day in Washington.
All true. Highly disconcerting. A bit too bbq-like.
Did you get yours done in a van down by the river? There was no smell when I had it done t me. The Doctor and I made jokes, mostly Star Trek jokes, and a couple of times I felt tugging, like getting lightly tapped in the nuts..... Then I stay home for 3 days an d all was good.
And yes, bags of frozen peas are perfect to get down there to help with any swelling you might have.
The funny thing* was that mi wife thought it would take 2 hours, so I could see her across the street eating in a restaurant, but I couldn't leave to go get her. so I sat for 90 minutes watching my wife eat, then read a book and all I could do was sit there in pain and watch.
*Clown funny, not haha funny
It doesn't feel like Gabe- like the proportions are different. It was jarring to me too. Maybe it's the sweater plus that facial position?
Tycho - Inquisition Sweatshirt.
I want Tycho's O.O
Mine was done with a laser, so not only was the vas cauterized (after putting titanium caps on just to make extra sure), the incision itself was cauterized shut, no stitches and left a barely vestigial scar that, five years later (i got it done when I was 26) you can't even see anymore.
The laser cauterizing absolutely made a smell. I tweeted about it!
(i live-tweeted during the surgery because I was high as shit on clonazepam and bored and the doctor was fine with that as long as I stayed still)
Well, sure. If you're getting it done by The Doctor, he'll just sonic it. We're not all so lucky
You got the laser and titanium caps version? I feel like this was an option that should have been presented to me at the time.
Alas, I just had the burning flesh version with, what I can only assume to be, the Doctor's solder gun he had in his bag for a project later.
XBL:Phenyhelm - 3DS:Phenyhelm
I hope by the time vasectomies would have become an enticing option for me there's already male birth control available. I'd rather a shot or something than burning my tubes shut.
You just need to keep it under control during the procedure. It doesn't do wood.
I bet someone's response will be "How are you better than far-right shitbags wanting to silence good people for not being far-right shitbags?" Well. I obviously am, dingus.
Like, who is served by these vague illusions to a monolithic media establishment? If you think someone is fucking up, call them on it, and articulate the way it ought to be, or highlight someone doing it better. Getting people incensed with "them" and all "their" deception and hypocrisy is a recipe for generating yet more heat and yet less light in a discourse that's already pretty dark.
Not sure if parody.
*allusions
Greenlight was created specifically so that Valve didn't had to deal with going through each game, and, well, they sell Postal, Manhunt and GTA. Why this game from a small indie studio just got all of the attention? Oh yeah, we go back to "we want clicks".
there were video game news outlets that were perfectly happy to have their cake and eat it too on this one, on the one hand condemn this piece of offensive garbage with an offensive political agenda (because it does have an offensive political agenda, explicitly stated by the developers, btw, in case you think it's "just a game") but on the other hand, promote the living shit out of it as a media circus act that they can harvest sweet, sweet clicks out of
they didn't want people to actually buy the game, of course. they would have loved for the endgame to be it not being on Steam at all and to savor the delicious controversy that would come out of that decision. but make no mistake, they were perfectly willing to flog this product to rile people up.
if they had a real agenda in making it not a thing, they would've not talked about it in the first god damn place
for a lot of outlets, this was a Two Minute Hate and nothing more, ironically
But what continues to amaze me, as it did with the recent GTA thing, are the people with no financial stake in this farce who seem genuinely surprised that the general gaming public aren't treating them any better than the last wave of moral crusaders whose arguments they now repeat almost verbatim.
1. Spree-killing and wanton hate-filled violence against innocent people is literally the whole of the game and its explicit intended playstyle, as opposed to simply allowing such a thing within the confines of the game to be engaged at the player's option (which is the classical defense of such games, ultimately. "You don't have to murder prostitutes, you just can if you choose to!"). There is no way not to play Hatred as a murderous psychopath bent on violently ending as many innocent lives as possible, it's the directed way to play the game and the intent of the developers.
2. Speaking of the intent of the developers, Hatred has a very specific and open political message behind it that it is trying to state and the developers of the game are trying to put forth by releasing it. I'll quote directly from their website, lest you think I am mischaracterizing them:
"Politically correct" is always a particularly noxious dog-whistle to watch for, but there you have it. In their own words, Hatred is basically an act of protest by these guys against what they consider a trend in gaming they don't like. It was produced with a political agenda, one that is nakedly trying to be offensive and stand directly against progress in gaming as a medium.
I find that message to be just hilarious. I just can't take it seriously, sorry. And even if I did, trying to stop a game from being sold has proven to be a highly counterproductive strategy, so if I was on the agenda pushing, I would make games with my own message. Which, you know, is the thing that has proven to work.
Who cares? Why should anyone be obligated to care about, or prevented from opposing, a nebulous thing like "progress in gaming as a medium" as defined by you or anyone else? The game just looks like a tiresome and cynical exercise in trolling to me. I can't imagine why anyone would even begin to give a shit.
Well, not giving it press and a platform and making a big god damn thing about it would've been the correct route if these outlets actually gave a shit about the progressive policies they attempt to state they are behind. But they're just as cynically interested in baiting clicks and are willing to show off this thing while simultaneously telling people not to pay attention to it or buy it, knowing full well how fruitless that is. They don't give a fuck.
Funnily enough, thinking that Tycho was arguing that Steam should be required to carry porn made the conversation seem way more interesting. But it was just that stupid Hatred game all along.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
This is true. But you know, there will always be websites willing to run clickbait, and developers willing to troll for publicity, especially now that this particular example has worked out so splendidly for both parties. What you are looking at is the inevitable result of a climate of moral panic. The other potential result, where everyone agrees with you and lets your chosen proxies be the arbiters of culture, is never going to happen.