Re: [Official!] Project Horizons Comment Crew Chat thread.

[Vinylshadow]

Haaaaaah, finally hammered out another 5000 word chapter

Now to fine tune it and have my wife pick it to pieces

and then added in another 200-500 words because I have to allow glimpses into my characters pasts, which requires me to more or less write out the entire plot from the game I am referencing

*siiiiiighs*

Because crossovers are fuuuuunnnnn

[OneMoreDaySK]

Re: EA
Hence the "No one was surprised" line.  I am not sure that EA actually puts out good things, more like take over existing good things and butcher IPs into "fun sized" pieces.  Now I am just scared for Mirror's Edge 2.  How would you nickel and dime an open-world free-running game anyways? Chop up story-mode?  Between EA's monetizing policy and the decision to put Anita onto the story board, I might just have to not grab the game.
*sighs*

[Katarn]

I'll just lie here and relax a bit..:

[Katarn]

@SK
Few 'exclusive-day-one-dlc-skins-and-boost' sort of things. Then they would sell some fancy skins/clothes and, more likely, alt. characters.

[RoboRed]

Lastbait:
http://cosmicunicorn.deviantart.com/art/Queen-Chrysalis-479656038
http://alasou.deviantart.com/art/Feeding-Time-479874679

Swickedbait:
http://novaquinmat.deviantart.com/art/Celestia-is-resting-479773906
http://gsphere.deviantart.com/art/Humanized-And-Regular-Trixie-479793890
http://rinasunshine.deviantart.com/art/Sunrise-479793776
http://nightshroud.deviantart.com/art/Brighten-the-Darkness-479865161
http://jowybean.deviantart.com/art/Tale-As-Old-As-Time-479902460

Derpmindbait:
http://aosion.deviantart.com/art/Wisdom-Derpy-479840758
http://twilightflopple.deviantart.com/art/I-m-A-Little-Self-Conscious-479778261
http://mrs1989.deviantart.com/art/Nothing-better-than-U-479966889

[O. Hinds]

I dunno. I guess I just kinda imagined you looking kinda bookish. Kinda wiry and skinny. But I imagined you having hair sorta like the main character from Atlantis but much darker brown.

Ah, okay; thanks.

I have, after some consideration, decided to join in and post a picture of myself, though.  Hopefully it won't ruin anyone's mental images.  I don't know how this works for people.

It takes a special kind of person to be able to wear a greatcoat (with brushed-back hair, no less) and not look like a douchebag. And yet, there you are, looking all dashing and shit.

Thanks! I have been told before that I look good in a longcoat. My hair's actually tied back, though, not brushed.

Well, poetry's not really my thing, but these seem pretty good.  I don't think I'll favourite them, at least at the moment, but you have my upvote.

...I'm not asking you to upvote or favorite it. I can't even submit it yet since it doesn't it 1000 words.
Besides, you probably shouldn't read them since they're the stories my storytelling zebra will (well, might) be recounting in that prpg2 group you invited me to.

Oh. Sorry.

Huh.

Cool.

[OneMoreDaySK]

Re: EA
Imagine if they were selling chunks of the city in DLC sized pieces.
At this point, it would not be a far cry from anything.

[Vinylshadow]

Things, ponies, Princesses:

[Tytan]

Re: EA
Imagine if they were selling chunks of the city in DLC sized pieces.
At this point, it would not be a far cry from anything.

How much for the red light district?

[Scienza]

Because they actually put out good shit.

It'd be better shit if they didn't chop it to bits and try to sell it to us for five bucks a piece, but still.

Aye. I hate their business practices, but I'm still stuck with the fact that they bought some of my favorite devs.

[Guest]

Does anyone even know what a straw man is? The way that I've seen it used lately leads me to believe that the people that use it think it's the get out of jail free card of arguments.

[Tytan]

It's a fallacy used in arguements. Basically it's trying to defeat another persons argument by talking about a similar issue.

A: Sunny days are good.
B: If all days were sunny, we'd never have rain, and without rain, we'd have famine and death.

[Stringtheory]

It's a fallacy used in arguements. Basically it's trying to defeat another persons argument by talking about a similar issue.

A: Sunny days are good.
B: If all days were sunny, we'd never have rain, and without rain, we'd have famine and death.

Actually, it's more like turning your opponent's argument into an easily defeatable version, example: "The NRA supports the right to bear arms, so they support private ownership of nuclear weapons."

[OneMoreDaySK]

@last
A straw man is a target set up with beliefs and evidence that is easily refutable. Much like a cardboard cutout at a shooting range, the target is given no opportunity to fight back. Poor debaters use these or paint people as such in order to bash almost without repurcussion, because the arguments they set up for the opposing side are very weak. This is why in early debate they teach you to view things from the other side as well thoroughly.

[Guest]

I know what it is Ty, I was saying the way I'm seeing it used is essentially this:

Argument: "Blah blah blah."

Counter argument: "Blah blah blah."

Response to counter argument: "STRAW MAN!11111111!"

Leading me to believe the person who responded to the counter argument has no idea what that means. Of course that's a bad example because it was all blahs.

What I'm seeing lately are people who are claiming to understand an argument well enough to recognize a strawman (They didn't look that way to me) but at the same time proving that they didn't understand by not being able to explain why the counter argument is a strawman. They just act like the word (phrase, term, whatever) is the equivalent of yelling "Yahtzee!" or "Blackjack!".

[Tytan]

@Last, Oh. That's just idiots.

[Guest]

@Strawman
What SK said, with an addendum: part of why this has come up so much is because people are taking actual quotes and arguments made by actual people that are still effectively strawmen because the people represent themselves and their arguments so poorly. This is one of the reasons why debate is problematic on the internet: yes, you should argue against the strongest version of someone's argument, not their weakest, but if you haven't actually HEARD a strong version of an argument, that becomes difficult... and then opens you up to accusations of strawman. That's my take, anyway.

[Vinylshadow]

Blame Canada

It's not like they can do anything about it since it doesn't exist

That large landmass above the US is all part of Alaska

[Harmony Ltd.]

Meanwhile, in Russia: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Wnsdc7cTPuU

[Vinylshadow]

In Soviet Union:

Um...paintings watch you?

[Guest]

@SK

You were talking about a humanized Alouette the other day. I took a shot at it, I think I forgot her bow or something. It's not too gooud but this is what I came up with.

https://i.servimg.com/u/f39/17/78/95/55/pictur10.jpg

[Katarn]

insert terminator music:

[Ironmonger]

insert terminator music:

I hate it when that happens.

[Vinylshadow]

She has a blue shell

[Katarn]

mean while in real world:

[Ironmonger]

Imagine if Police stopped cars with blue shells. Roads in winter time would be a lot more interesting. Hell, my friends and I would probably go out into the cold just to watch for an inevitable pile-up.

[Frost]

See terror:

[Vinylshadow]

Imagine if Mario Kart items existed in real life

Well, we do have Banana peels...and bombs

[Katarn]

[Harmony Ltd.]

Hey frost, lookit what I found:

http://theptbelt.com/

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