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

[Frost]

Mars is a pretty cool place

And, speaking of water;

"Après moi, le déluge"--Chuck Hagel

[Vinylshadow]

Didn't Dobby die though?

Better watch yourself, Robo

[O. Hinds]

Well, I've "upgraded" away my ability to play New Vegas, among other things.  Hopefully the wrapper will get an update...
Honestly, if it wasn't for the fact that I'd have to change eventually, either to a newer Mac OS or, as a friend of mine keeps recommending, Linux, I'd just have stayed with Snow Leopard and, at least in my current mood, merely turned up my nose at software that thought it was too good for such a fine operating system.
Well, at least I've already moved from "depressed by the update" to "very very annoyed by the update".  Progress towards eventually accepting it.

[Epsilon]

Well, I've "upgraded" away my ability to play New Vegas, among other things.  Hopefully the wrapper will get an update...
Honestly, if it wasn't for the fact that I'd have to change eventually, either to a newer Mac OS or, as a friend of mine keeps recommending, Linux, I'd just have stayed with Snow Leopard and, at least in my current mood, merely turned up my nose at software that thought it was too good for such a fine operating system.
Well, at least I've already moved from "depressed by the update" to "very very annoyed by the update".  Progress towards eventually accepting it.

I think I've already reached the last stage there regarding OSY. But it's totally not because I've developed Stockholm's syndrome towards it. Really! I mean, it's just... it's not that bad! ..Right?

[Ironmonger]

Lulz:

On another note, I'm applying for two jobs later today, and I'll soon start my own online business. I've got my fingers crossed.

[Guest]

Just watched a video in which this lady talked about diversity and how pushing for it could just make the problem swing in the other direction. Basically lots of male characters women (apparently) can't relate to could become lots of female characters men (apparently) can't relate to. I agree to a very small extent, I think diversity or pushing for it in media could possibly result in some kind of quota, essentially we could get minority characters who's only characteristics are being minorities. Instead of being created because the creator had an idea for a character they thought was good they created them to round out a number.

Of course if this were the case a man would have a very hard time relating to a female character who's only character trait was that they were female, the opposite I'd imagine would also be true.

It just seems off to me to suggest men or woman couldn't relate to male or female characters. Same goes for race and sexuality, and if they can what's so important about diversity in media? Beyond having different kinds of characters so things don't get boring.

[Harmony Ltd.]

It just seems off to me to suggest men or woman couldn't relate to male or female characters. Same goes for race and sexuality, and if they can what's so important about diversity in media? Beyond having different kinds of characters so things don't get boring.

I would be more inclined to think that your audience not identifying with your characters simply because it is of a different gender or race is more indicative of your own abilities as a writer and storyteller or of the readers own frame of mind than of any real sociological problem.

But that's just my opinion.

[Harmony Ltd.]

Just saw this on the Humble Store, if people are interested in retro Sonic-like platformers.


*insert joke about the Sonic fandom and furries*

[Vinylshadow]

Can ya blame them though?:

Always nice to see a well-made indie game

I like games like that

Others are Noitu Love, Cave Story and AM2R

[RoboRed]

Didn't Dobby die though?

Better watch yourself, Robo

That reminds me...
30 lashes to Swicked for borderline Harmony Theory spoilers (I did check in on this thread from time to time, you know. Now I can't go back and actually catch up on stuff without my eye catching too much and sending my mind places when I finally get to reading that chapter), and 200 lashes to Vinylshadow for OR/AS spoilers (I haven't had the chance to play the damn game yet) and Memory Pending/Forgiveness Pending spoilers (I've read the story, but others might not have, and that ending part you gave away is pretty critical), and also...

Well, I've "upgraded" away my ability to play New Vegas, among other things.  Hopefully the wrapper will get an update...
Honestly, if it wasn't for the fact that I'd have to change eventually, either to a newer Mac OS or, as a friend of mine keeps recommending, Linux, I'd just have stayed with Snow Leopard and, at least in my current mood, merely turned up my nose at software that thought it was too good for such a fine operating system.
Well, at least I've already moved from "depressed by the update" to "very very annoyed by the update".  Progress towards eventually accepting it.

Which version did you upgrade to? Mavericks or Yosemite?

[Vinylshadow]

Love ya too, Robo, glad to have you back ^_^

"We missed your puckish charm"

[Harmony Ltd.]

On gaming:

[Vinylshadow]

Sounds like it was written by Yahtzee

Or is it just me?

[RoboRed]

It's starting to get a little crazy. Yesterday I was filling up my truck just enough so that I could make it to a party and back. I momentarily mixed up which set of numbers was gallons and which was how much I was paying.

[Vinylshadow]

A friend of mine only pays $10 for gas at any given time

Doesn't travel much...

[Guest]

I would be more inclined to think that your audience not identifying with your characters simply because it is of a different gender or race is more indicative of your own abilities as a writer and storyteller or of the readers own frame of mind than of any real sociological problem.

But that's just my opinion.

I agree with that. Not to say this is what you were getting at but the conclusion I'm coming to at the moment is the people who push for diversity in games (and more broadly media) and suggest that idea must be borderline obsessed with that specific aspect of themselves.

@Robo You, I, Guard and Moody should battle in X and Y again. As far as the gas goes I'm pretty sure that's a mental disorder.

[Harmony Ltd.]

Around my base, Gasoline (SP95-E10) is around €1.18/L / US$5.44/Gallon. It cost €0.10-0.20 more a few weeks ago. That was quite a price drop.

Back home, gasoline is more around €1.30/L / US$5.99/Gallon currently.


(1 Gallon = 3.78 Litre ; US$1  = €0.81 / €1 = US$1.22)

[Vinylshadow]

Lucky for me, everything around my apartment is within reasonable walking distance

The prices are only going to continue to rise - save your money

[Guest]

Played Ground Zeroes, I feel really bad for the people who paid full price for this. I have't played every MGS game either, but the ones that I have played follow a formula.

1) Go out on your first mission

2) Do well

3) Get fucked over at the end

4) Regroup, Retry, Kickass

Seems like they cut the first mission where you get fucked over at the end out of the game and sold it seperately. Though it's not bad for $7 though I can't really understand why they changed Snake's VA and left everyone else as is.

[O. Hinds]

Which version did you upgrade to? Mavericks or Yosemite?

Yosemite.  I thought that getting the latest version would be best, since I then could expect to go the longest without “upgrading” again.  I also wasn’t sure if it would still be possible to move to Mavericks, since Yosemite was out.
And TextEdit opens more slowly now, it seems…

[Frost]

Ah, home. Because how did I ever live without my dad and aunt pestering me about a girlfriend.
Unrelated artstuffs

[RoboRed]

@Robo You, I, Guard and Moody should battle in X and Y again. As far as the gas goes I'm pretty sure that's a mental disorder.

Nay, I owe you guys a few rounds of Halo Reach. Downloaded it right before everything got hyper busy and never had the chance to play.

Which version did you upgrade to? Mavericks or Yosemite?

Yosemite.  I thought that getting the latest version would be best, since I then could expect to go the longest without “upgrading” again.  I also wasn’t sure if it would still be possible to move to Mavericks, since Yosemite was out.
And TextEdit opens more slowly now, it seems…

I suppose there's gotta be a way to downgrade somehow, but I dunno. My foray into Mac-dom has only been recent. (My workplace gives all the devs Macbook Pros to do their work on, and I must say I'm rather enjoying my time on it.) I've heard mixed experiences about Yosemite, but no one I know locally has had any problems with it.

[Whiskey Rebellion]

The prices are only going to continue to rise - save your money

"Save your money"?

What the hell? Why? Don't you want to stimulate the economy? What are you, some sort of communist?

[Frost]

I don't think he's a communist; he just hates America and worships at the feet of Ho Chi Min

[Whiskey Rebellion]

I don't think he's a communist; he just hates America and worships at the feet of Ho Chi Min

Yeah, you're probably right. Just keep him away from the mangoes.

[RoboRed]

i'mfuckingdying:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPPzcterz44

[Vinylshadow]

I prefer the term Anarchist, thank you very much


Mangoes are delicious, lemme at 'em

[O. Hinds]

I suppose there's gotta be a way to downgrade somehow, but I dunno. My foray into Mac-dom has only been recent. (My workplace gives all the devs Macbook Pros to do their work on, and I must say I'm rather enjoying my time on it.) I've heard mixed experiences about Yosemite, but no one I know locally has had any problems with it.

Oh, yes, I could downgrade (though the longer I use it, the more difficult that gets).  The problem is that then I’d still have to update eventually.
As for no one you know locally having problems, well, Yosemite, from what I’ve seen, isn’t a bad OS.  It’s just worse than Snow Leopard in several ways, and some of those are a bit esoteric anyway.

[Epsilon]

I think the biggest problem I've had with it is the imparted performance hit. Compared to 10.6 on my computer, Yosemite runs considerably slower. I mean, fair enough, the Mac I have is a almost four years old now, but the disparity in performance between the two OS's has gotten fairly substantial. I've found that disabling memory compression has helped matters somewhat, but features such as this were supposed to improve performance, not degrade it.

Yosemite also suffers from some other major bugs, chiefly among these being that it doesn't seem to like restoring from hibernation if the battery runs out anymore; On startup the computer will just get a kernal panic and reboot. This is probably the only new problem that Mavericks didn't have, though.

Problems like this aside though, it does seem to work reasonably well at least. Not a huge fan of the new icon style mimicing the flat design of iOS, but I suppose you get used to such small minutiae over time.

[Vinylshadow]

I remember the days when you didn't have to upgrade your OS twice a month to stay afloat

I feel damned old

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