Binky The Rabbit

More Don't Starve. 6 attempts at Maxwell's door. Well, I've learned more about the game now, but good xmas gravy, this game is unforgiving.

Don't Starve. This time, I found Maxwell's door. I didn't realise I had to have no sanity to lower raised obelisks. So, once I got to that point, I got destroyed by the cold, the dark, and the hounds. Dannng.

Gads! The secret's out! I become a rabbit after dark. Then one morning, I found I hadn't changed back. No one knows that it was me, but I've only just managed to escape. Hopefully the stuffed toy will keep people fooled for a few more days.

rVLLQEM9-Ew This album is on my wishlist.

Granted, but your cat now lives in a perpetual state of purring. I wish my laptop was more powerful.

^And that, is why you're a wonderful man, AP <3 OT: Try thinking diagonally. ---- Help! I have no face!

Every major LPer announces that videogames don't matter, and become sport vloggers.

I see what you're getting at. Fair play if you don't want to be considered a 'gamer' - I wouldn't exactly call myself one either. Gaming certainly doesn't define my life, however I think it's perfectly valid for others to be defined by it if that's their choice. I think the point you're trying to make is more directed at the in-fighting ("This game/platform is the best and you're a nub for thinking otherwise"), and the presumptions made by people not involved with games ("Y'all a bunch of sad nerds who need to get a life"). It's not fun being chucked in a box and being judged without an opportunity for rebuttal.

http://routenote.com/blog/the-10-best-free-daws-available/ See if any of those appeal to you. I can't say much as I use a friend's copy of Logic 9.

Dammit, I was planning to attend, but completely and utterly forgot x( Suggesting people submit their own gameplay for twitch is a neat idea. If my laptop can hack it (I tried recording a PS2 emulator and it had problems), I'd be up for providing something. Judging by the length of this chat, you'd be needing a runtime of at least 3 hours yes? Also, alternating months of many videos and a single video works for me. Whatever minimises stress on your part eh. I'm listening while typing this, so may ask/comment more later on.

Omg, me too!!

Blizzard shuts down the World Of Warcraft servers permanently.

Sharpen your pencil, refill your pen and get some more paper for when it comes back from the bathroom. Help, I'm a rock!

Is your sister an un-house-trained dog?

Update: I've tried both Fraps and Mirillis Action, and in both instances, my framerate drops to about 12fps, with Fraps greatly diminishing video quality too. I tested it on a Steam game, however, and got good results (though Fraps still tarnishes the video). It looks like my system can't handle both the emulation and video capture simultaneously, which pretty much means I can't do anything more until I get a better system. Dammit.

Well for one thing, Machinima (the medium, not the company). Second, local multiplayer. Third, advanced technology.

Nu-Baroque Industrial Donk-Step Crab-Jazz-core. Brutal, catchy, complex Concerto Grossos, man Are you into spicy food? Where do you stand on the jalepeno?

My hard drive is nearly two-thirds full, so I've been reviewing what I have on it, and moving the more valuable things onto my backup drive. Turns out I forgot to delete the windows.old folder after I reinstalled windows..two years ago. EDIT: Now rockin' just under half full. Feels gooood.

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Mortal.

Nothing as yet, but a few games just got put into my Steam wishlist.

I've watched JackSepticEye play a bit of it. It's intriguing - it seems mainly like a puzzle game with scripted sequences. If you like creating pathways for falling keys, I think you'll enjoy it.

In many ways a lot of what you say here mirrors music culture too. It generally applies to anything that could be considered a 'hobby'. At the risk of sounding pretentious and such like, I'd say it's to do with self-identification in the sense of finding something that they can relate to - something that helps them express themselves. Taking a real-world example, the Emo movement of roughly 2004-2010. I had a friend in high-school who was *obsessed* with MCR. She had the clothes, the makeup, the attitude, she called herself Emo..it kinda pissed me off tbh as she became really hard to talk to, but that's beside the point. In the eyes of someone else (e.g. me at the time), MCR were a bunch of whiny dudes who tried to have this gothic-esque edginess to them, but didn't seem substantial at all. But for my friend, and countless other people, they were an 'antidote' to the alienation they felt from the rest of the world, in a sense giving them 'purpose'. And when there seems to be only one thing that makes sense to you, you're quite likely to hold onto it and defend it passionately. They saw in them something that I couldn't see. The same applies, I reckon, to many people who call themselves 'gamers'. I remember another high school friend of mine saying games "are my life" (or something along those lines). In much the same way, videogames like WoW were for him were the relatable medium that made sense when most other things in his life didn't seem to. So when you say "It doesn't need to be anything more than something to enjoy", for them, it does need to be. Or they could simply be a bunch of bellends that need to grow up For a more casual gamer like me, I'll rarely ever cream my pants over new releases or hype campaigns. I'm more likely to be automatically put off and resent games, movies, music etc that gets rabid hype and praise. In fact I've kind of been forced into a state of general apathy due to my own passions being trampled on by the very friends I mentioned (my love of videogames got shat on by the guy who later lived for WoW, and almost none of my friends got behind the idea that I loved Pink Floyd). As for old games being godly, well I guess the reasons for that are the same again. A metal snob will criticise a fusion genre for the same reasons as a hardcore Stealth fan criticises a predominantly Sneak 'em up game for having driving sections, or something like that. Culture is very important for the development of society, but the internet both helps and holds it back by simultaneously uniting and dividing people. I'm losing my train of thought here. This may or may not have provided any substantial answers, so I'll finish up now with a picture of a fish.

If I'm not mistaken, the same thing happened to Team 17 concerning the Worms games. Legendary in 2D, panned in 3D. In response, they return to 2D , and everyone is happy again. ---- Many years ago, when I was...12? One of my PS2 demodiscs featured the game 'Amplitude'. This essentially was the precursor to Guitar Hero and Rock Band. You move down a track, zapping notes at the right time to gain points. You 'build' the song by doing this across many different tracks (vox, drums, bass, keys etc), and it's a challenge to keep everything playing. I aced the four playable tracks, and really enjoyed it. Now, fast forward to the time when I bought Robot Wars (see page 1 on this thread), and also bought the full game for peanuts. In the intervening years I've become a much better musician with a keen ear for rhythm. And the result? I can't play Amplitude. At all. This is due to latency between pressing a button and the game processing the command. This is something I notice all the time in games. Click-pause-gunshot. I press these buttons in time with the song playing, but the game doesn't register it until after the beat I responded to has moved on. I need to preemptively press the button before I feel I should. Now, I can adapt to that in games such as shooters, but rhythm games? When you've been training your body to follow a beat spot-on, it feels wrong to ditch your senses. I got my sister - also a musician - to try it too, with the exact same results. Perhaps this is good training to become more fluid with rhythm, but I'm not convinced. What makes me wonder is *why* the latency, and why was I so good at Amplitude when I was younger? Either my hardware is old and failing (we're talking about 14 year old gear now), or I've become accustomed to more advanced technology with low-latency. Or maybe I just wasn't as tuned in to rhythm back then as I am now. Either way, I could give Amplitude one more stab and focus on what I'm seeing instead of what I'm hearing. But I reckon it's a lost cause.

Be very concerned about what might happen to the world in the next 4 years. Although I'm unsure how much things would change in Britain - probably not much. Considering what could be happening over here this year, I've got enough on my mind really. If you found a furry spider, gently purring in your bedroom?