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^ I bow to your superior tastes in memes Rarity.

On a different subject entirely, who among you is a fan of bad tattoos? Everyone is, surely?

WEEE AM DUM CHAMPUNS

DEE PLANT

Where in the world is Lionel Wally?

I'm not sure I want to know what kind of ore these dwarves are hi-ho!ing for.

[/applies for a job. involves working with children.]

Destiny by Aritus

I'm not that familiar with Jim Sterling's stuff, I've only ever watched his review of the bull-fighting game Toro which I found quite amusing. I sometimes think some Youtuber's get a reputation for being over-entitled and needlessly angry. That being said unless a reviewer has actively encouraged a campaign of slander or harassment towards an individual no game developer, no matter how large, has any excuse or moral high-ground to then go and sue the reviewer for having an unfavourable impression of your new release. To paraphrase Ross Scott; "There are no good reasons! Only legal ones!" ;p

If this was some sort of cynical marketing attempt by Digital Homicide to garnish their game with the cultural cache of notoriety, it's a pretty silly move. The internet gaming fraternity on the whole tend to not react well to censorship or litigation. It's the advertising equivalent of mustard gas. It's going to ruin everyone's day, and it will more than likely drift back into your own trenches and give you horrible cytotoxic blisters.

The Puzzle Agent episode; the episode's amazing, but it's the "You don't like Wallace and Gromit?" bit that puts it in a special place in my heart. (no need to cry ross, i like wallace and gromit :c)

I was slightly surprised to find out that Ross being a fan of the Wallace & Gromit films. I'm English, so obviously the characters are as familiar to me as Jesus is to the rest of the world. But it did make it wonder if the films are particularly well-known and/or well-regarded in America, or elsewhere.

I really really don't like doing math, it just doesn't work for me. I failed my second finance exam, and I studied for days and took practice tests too.

Dem feelz, man. I've often wondered if I'm borderline/undiagnosed dyscalculic (not a typo of dyslexia, before anyone cracks wise ;p) for I still lack competency and confidence with maths. I can fathom the concepts and I'm hardly short of various technological aids or hand-written means of "cheating" arithmetic. When I'm given a little bit of time I can obviously work things out, but I sometimes have to re-check my own calculations twice or more times, even when they turn out to be correct the first time.

Are you me?

Depends. Has there been some kind of bizarre accident involving multiplanar versions of ourselves? Unless you were just talking about my similar difficulties with maths, in which case I'm glad you could relate.

6/10, not bad. Though personally I think dying for a cause or for simple poetic justice is overrated.

"I have no conscience at all - least of all an artistic conscience. All I have is nerves." - Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

Befuddling Terrific Guy, Drinker Of Foul Concoctions And Darts Thrower Extraordinaire.

Images taken from Marie Mirgaine's & Lucie Larousse's zine Sous Le Lit ("Under The Bed")

I feel like this is nature's way of saying "ay, mon then".

7/10. Perhaps it needs a update, maybe Data's could transform into the IMMA CHARGIN MAH LAZER guy and make Guinan's eyes explode.

Says and does things I could of never imagined, delightfully confounding.

Would it help you feel more depressed if I told you that I felt great? Did it help? BTG, buddy?

I have this crippling fear that a stern nun is always lurking behind me, just outside of my visual range. What should I do?

I'm afraid not. Largely because I'm not a fan of MMORPG's, though I happen to be an unapologetic trekkie. I kind of wish there was a Skyrim style open world (would open sector be more appropriate?) adventure RPG set in the Star Trek universe, in which you didn't necessarily have to belong to any of the franchises major factions and empires. As cool as the customizable alien race option for STO is, it's not as if the series is short of humanoid alien species that could easily be available as a player race, most having only minor cosmetic differences.

If you were to found and lead a new nation based on a particular game's principles, characteristics and just plain ol' content, what game would you pick to inspire your country's direction?

So ever since my dad has started background acting again the outfits he comes home from work in get more an more interesting as time goes on.

 

I still can't get over the butler outfit.

That seems like a cool occupation, especially if people ask him what he does for a living. When you say background acting I presume you mean for television? Or are we talking about something more theatre orientated?

If you've ever wanted to have a DnD Beholder as your waifu, I think I've found your future bride.

Katie Lisk, In the Kawaii of the Beholder

Although I've never played Team Fortress 2, I can't help reading these in Heavy's voice.

I'm sorry about these I hope none of you think I'm a russophobe.

My friend Pete is planning a new DnD campaign. I'm leaning towards playing as some sort of non-human humanoid wight. I've never understood the blatant human bias when it comes to undead monsters in fantasy settings.

I really really don't like doing math, it just doesn't work for me. I failed my second finance exam, and I studied for days and took practice tests too.

Dem feelz, man. I've often wondered if I'm borderline/undiagnosed dyscalculic (not a typo of dyslexia, before anyone cracks wise ;p) for I still lack competency and confidence with maths. I can fathom the concepts and I'm hardly short of various technological aids or hand-written means of "cheating" arithmetic. When I'm given a little bit of time I can obviously work things out, but I sometimes have to re-check my own calculations twice or more times, even when they turn out to be correct the first time.

A Silent Place by Sol Invictus

Psychotic Ninja The Rather Agreeable, Chief Cheek Smusher

Was it your intention to give me nightmares Helio? :3

I want to cry for 4 days... Ughhhh... I was given a bunch of documents by my teacher to study for my English class, I don't bother taking it out of my bag, take my bag with me to my excursion thing and it gets DRENCHED. All the non re-printable documents are ruined, my journal is ruined, a library book is drenched and I'm thanking God 5000x times because I decided this morning I wouldn't take my art journal with me. And I take my art journal with me EVERYWHERE. So now I need to decide what the fuck I'm supposed to do, how I'll tell my teacher. I don't know... I'm so fucked... I'm so depressed. And it doesn't help that my bag is STILL wet and I'm just carrying around a reminder of my pain and misery until I get home.

I don't know what kind of a person your teacher is, but maybe it's worth being honest about what happened. Any teacher worth their salt should be able to accept that accidents can happen to even the best students.

Excuse me Mr. Alhazred, can you sign my copy of the Necronomicon?

Ghetto Beauty by [email protected]

A couple of you might recall a post I made regarding an odd dream I recently had, in which I watched what was clearly an episode of Freeman's Mind taking place in the first locale in the game Slender: The Arrival. Recalling it just now, it got me thinking about other third-person games which could potentially make for interesting and amusing series broadly fitting within the established "Mind" format. Note, what I specifically mean are series with an original titular character, and not just Gordon himself transplanted into another game's setting Freeman Across The Universe style (although feel free to talk about and extrapolate on that video, if you wish)

I reckon one of my all-time favourite first-person shooter games, Clive Barker's Undying, could be an amazing mind series. Galloway's Mind if you will. The aforementioned protagonist Patrick Galloway is voiced, but not to the degree that his dialogue couldn't easily be supplanted by new material, even in the game's cutscenes where he is seen speaking - the graphics aren't nearly realistic enough to sync up with the actual voice acting, let alone re-dubbed comedic lines. Galloway's personality could fall somewhere between Freeman's homicidal neuroticism and Father Ted's well-meaning but ultimately self-serving cowardice, especially if you could get an Irish voice actor to play the role, rather than some English or American actor sporting a nauseatingly obvious tacked-on "plastic paddy" accent.

The game is big enough to warrant a mind series of it's own (it would easily reach as many episodes as our beloved Freeman's Mind), it has plenty of chatty villains and NPC's for Galloway to lulzily respond to, the enemies are as diverse and weird as anything offered in Half Life, several other planes of existence to explore, numerous moments of horror (including a "scrying" ability that allows Galloway to see traumatic past events) rife with irreverent potential, bizarre and outlandish weapons and spells, and even one scene where a praying monk gets squished by his churches roof... :3

Let me know what you think of Undying's potential for mindification, or suggest games of your own.

"So these are drugs, right? Only one really fast way of finding out!" [/injects self with plasmid]

"Hey, I wanna raise. I just rescued the statue of liberty... Did you hear me? I said THE STATUE OF LI- "

"I don't understand. There's no known physics model for this. Unless... OH MY GOD I'M TWO-DIMENSIONAL!!!"