The Pezman

I haven't played any games with DLC yet, however... Telltale games has proved that episodic gaming can work. At least for the fun, light genre of games they make. Those games only take about 1-2 hours to complete, depending on how quick you are with the puzzles. The stories are also connected in terms of plot, so you really get a sense of progression. Sam & Max is the only game I have played through at college because I can pick it up and put it down so readily.

BTW, I still have games to sell you but I can't do it til I get back to my house on May 17. Please be patient w. me.

https://www.boltbus.com/ So I just heard about this today. Apparently it's a super-roomy, super cheap, super free WIFI-connected bus. It travels between New York, DC, Boston and Philly. The biggest downside seems to be that you have to book it at least a day in advance. Anyone used it, heard of it, wondering why it's not more well known?

On this day, the hallowed 26th of April, Pez leveled up. He was no longer 21, but 22. Word.

I think this kind of thinking, while reasonable in certain cases, can lead to dangerous consequences. Essentially, I think it has to be a case by case basis. What is your aversion to frat boys or playboy bunnies as a group? What reasonable conclusions can you draw about these people based on this one characteristic about them? What if that frat boy needed a strong social base because he came from a broken family? What if this playboy bunny had to do this work to pay her bills? And if they were headed for careers where this sort of thing wouldn't have been an issue, but then decided to head in a different direction where they run into these problems, what recourse do they have? Basically, when we get down to individuals, I think we have to take everything in context. Let's take someone applying to a competitive grad school. The school looks over the GPA and see it's not too hot. Sure, they COULD toss the applicant out right then and there, but is that ultimately the smart thing to do without considering other factors as well? I wouldn't think so. Making assumptions about any group based on something they do only leads to trouble. I've learned this about smokers, for example, the hard way.

Why have they not submitted anything here? I'll have to help change that... And yet it's the same guy doing nearly all of them. Probably digitally altered, though.

First I need to go offtopic again because I need to address an important point. I am also high functioning autistic, and that my parents caught it early and dedicated their professional lives to it is both a blessing and a curse. They were doing everything they could to help me, but they were always asking me questions and trying to figure out how I might react to certain situations. They encouraged me to explain myself to my classmates to account for any odd behavior. And for a while I did that, without them fully understanding or appreciating what I meant. I don't think I had much recourse then, because I was doing things that were definitely and obviously out of whack. But once I hit college, and especially once I started doing a specialized neurotherapy I'm more than happy to talk to you about, I realized that continually bringing this point up no longer served me. It was better for people to understand me as a person, not an autistic. The disorder is so varied anyway it's impossible to make an effective prediction of how someone will or won't react to something. I don't know whether my particular quirks and issues are things I'll ever be able to move fully past, but that's my goal, and I think the first step in doing so is to identify them as MY quirks and issues, not an autistic's. Just needed to get that out there. Now, the issue at hand. It sounds to me like you're upset with the proliferation of these social networks. That they're becoming the culturally in thing to have. Some people go crazy with them, but they're usually highly extroverted and don't mind being in contact with as many people as possible, with little to no regard for who they actually are. In my case, and from what it sounds like the case with most people here, I use them in more practical ways. I don't use Myspace or Twitter. I especially don't see the point of Twitter. I do use Facebook, and I do create and respond to events on them. I just made an event earlier. Let's face it, how else will I invite over a hundred people to a birthday party? A mass email would probably leave a bad taste in their mouths (who likes a form letter?). The Facebook event gets right to the point: are you coming? Yes, no, maybe. Mechanically, it's not much different, but psychologically it really is. I also write on people's walls, have Facebook chats, and troll around sometimes. I have over 500 friends, but I make sure they are limited to the people I would actually consider friends (which can be a judgment call sometimes, but I'm allowed to be arbitrary about who a friend is). I'm also more lenient with keeping people who might no longer be my friends who are from my past and don't live on campus. I'm also probably guilty of spending a bit too much time on Facebook, but not to the extent where it eclipses my real life. Then again, I'm still in college. It's harder to have an offline social life after college, and I'm going to have to learn how to do it. So Facebook definitely serves some needs and fills some holes. But like everyone has said, use wisely.

Why do you want to keep this unofficial?

I hope so. At any rate, I'm wondering whether OC Submissions are limited to tracks which are actually in the soundtrack or whether it's also open to work solidly related to or inspired by games. For example, the Pole Position theme, or the tracks of Richard Jacques' albums that he handed out at MAGFest. Are they eligible?

Really? Really? I think this is not a good way to go about this. At all. First off, people are going to be a part of the "new tech" whether they like it or not. As stated, artists and industries have had to evolve through this several times. The gramophone and radio meant less of a market for live performance. Television meant movie theater owners and operators had to scale back. Videocassettes changed the game again, and all of a sudden people were able to not only watch video on their own time, but preserve broadcast video with little overhead cost. How do you think the networks felt about that at the time, and what do you think they tried to do? Let's not even get into rental stores. Yet no one would think to try and prevent recording today. Whenever something new like this comes along, somebody will get burned. Fortunately, that's usually temporary. Legislation won't solve this. It didn't stop any of these other technologies. Both you and the RIAA are advocating a lot of it, and you do seem to be more reasonable in your approach. However, I really think that trying to impose limits on the potential of this technology will be trying to fit a square peg into what has inextricably morphed into a round hole. The change has to come from your side, not theirs. Trying to bring trackers to justice will be you busting alcohol traffickers during prohibition. And marijuana traffickers now. The economy forced the question, but the idea of cannibus legalization indicates that the government has realized it is not a battle they can win, nor is it one worth winning. There's money to be made. There always is. Maybe not by the people who were making it before, but ultimately by the people who find intelligent ways to take advantage of the new scenario and therefore, in my opinion, deserve it. It's just a matter of finding your legs. I also think that a "matter replicator" or any similar argument trying to relate the digital word to the analog one is facetious, simply because they aren't the same and different rules do apply. It's like comparing our culture to tribal Africa's.

How long will this offer extend for? I want to start Remixing this summer, and that's about a month away.

If you don't think that's so bad, look at him here ( 0:08 ): He's a bandicoot, so I'm not sure if it's bestiality or not, but it is DAMN freaky.

Teh subtitles?

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, YES!!! I loved this game in middle/high school. There was an afterschool activity where we could play, and we had a lot of fun with it. The activity kind of disbanded my junior and senior years of high school, but for my Diplomatic History course we got to play that game for an assignment. It was awesome. I'd love to play it again.

Yeah, so it upgraded all of those while adding a few new things of its own. I don't see how that derails my point.

I've got a fever, and the only cure is releasing this VST for Mac.

Thank you! Honestly, I think that, like anything else, this new technology means a modality shift in how the material is distributed. Period.

Have you not heard of this or do you not count it? If you haven't heard of it, yes, there's conducting in it.

With all that spare cash we've got lying around, I'm sure.

I don't understand why you'd consider giving a presentation in the movie guy voice something to be avoided.

Those monkey-fighting snakes!

Thought we agreed no birthday threads. If not, mine's coming up pretty shortly. Just sayin'. EDIT: Oh yeah, have a good one, Brad.

Any thoughts on this?

Anything's possible, though since I haven't done even one regular remix yet I'm kinda doubting... Just wait til the summer. And til FFIV is done.

Threads of Fate. One of the most underrated games evar.