@TNP The thing I love about Betty White is that she was around before sliced bread was mass-produced. So if anyone asks what the best thing was before sliced bread, it's Betty White.
@GangOfDolls Yeah, he was the last one grabbed by 2016. (At least, I saw the stories before it hit midnight here, and I'm EST +1)
My bad, I forgot this is 2017 and people don't actually read content anymore, they just automatically jump to being outraged and offended.
Thank you to those of you who did reach out in PMs, I believe I've answered them all, but I won't be following this thread further, so please get back to me in pms!
I might as well stick this here, rather than just make myself a shameless plug thread:
I've been accepted into the GreenManGaming Affiliate program. Basically, I have a code to give out to people which will work on most of the games, even knew ones like the New Mortal Kombat and GTA V. And as an affiliate I get a small percentage when people buy games through my link. I also get some neat things if I get certain numbers of subscribers / followers.
Click this link to get to the page and then click this link when you're ready to get a voucher to apply to your purchase. (I have a neat button, but I have no idea how to add images. Enjoy!
Twitch for livestreams.
Youtube for daily videos.
Twitter for updates on when a video goes up, or when I go live on the Livestream.
Also it's not a game, but it is free:
Don't forget Free Comicbook Day is TODAY!
@surreality said in Regarding administration on MSB:
I have said this before and will say it again. If I'm ever running a place, and it comes up on MSB, or a problem comes up on MSB... ? First, I'm gonna be upset that they didn't come to staff about it first, but at least I will become aware of the problem and can do something to solve it.
I had -- to the surprise of literally no one -- policy on this.
It went like so:
We don't care if you bitch about the game or the staff on game forums; that is not something we consider 'doing harm to the game or staff' and participants here should feel free to do so without fear of reprisal on the game itself.
If that's what it takes for us to find out there's an issue we can try to resolve for you somehow, that's what it takes. We'd rather you come to us if you have a problem, but understand some players are extremely wary about approaching staff at all due to negative experiences reporting an issue in the hobby, and thus might prefer to post something elsewhere as a sounding board or other outlet. We'd ultimately rather have a game with fewer problems than a public reputation for having no problems that only exists because no one spoke up somewhere, even if that somewhere isn't here.
Bear in mind, if you burn a bridge with another player by attacking them elsewhere in this way, we're not going to rebuild it for you. Similarly, if you spread nasty gossip about someone on skype or discord or a similar venue and it gets back to them -- and it always eventually does -- we're not going to demand they pretend it never happened, and we're not going to insist that they continue to interact with you if this is brought to us with a request to sever contact with you and your characters.
Stealing this, for if I ever actually do get a game going. But I'm Canadian, so I'm informing you in advance of the theft.
I'm doing it again this year. It's my 7th year. My goal this year is to raise $601. I know money is tight for everyone this time of year, but they take donations right through to December 31st and if you donate $0.25 for every hour I'm going to stream, that's $6. That's an extra fancy coffee!
Seriously though, I do appreciate every donation I get for this. People donating is why I've been able to do this for 7 years now.
Oh, and Theno will be around for a bit as well. (And you'll be able to watch him here when he is live.
And here's a direct link to my Extra Life page.
Cool. Still going to keep posting free games though, even if people hate them.
I keep promising myself that maybe some day I will do a Supernatural place, in an alternate timeline where Sam said yes, and the virus is out there. Monsters but survival horror-y too. But I don't know how to code. I have the books and I know how to say what I want, but I am no coder. I think Theno said I was a good theoretical coder once, or something.
@auspice The thing about Takei though is he was playing a part, though it wasn't scripted. He'd been playing the Dirty Grandpa on the Howard Stern show for a while - something he later said he regretted doing. Stern pushes the boundaries as he can, and in improv you aren't supposed to say no ever. You say yes and go with whatever your partner says. So when Stern asks if he's done things like this and leads him there, all he can do is be coy and agree, or ruin the bit.
Plus, I'm not saying he did or didn't do something in his personal life, no one is perfect. But unless more people came out saying he's done things, not the clips of the Stern show but actual complaints It's still wildly different than Weinstein, and the years of abuse of his power he had. I'm not saying it did or didn't happen, and if it did I'm not trying to downplay it as a bad date experience for one person.
It's just, for me anyway Takei is not a scummy person to me. I'm not excusing it, but no one is perfect and whether we like to admit it or not, at some point, we've probably all been scummy people in some form or another. For me holding him up to a different standard because he is a celebrity for possibly making a bad choice, but then also disliking him from being a celebrity because of one action is the thing about celebrity worship I really hate about how society has changed over the years. It's like we feel that we made them famous, so we have some ownership over celebrities. If they don't act how we want, or do what we want we're entitled to be scummy ourselves but at the same time look down on them because they are celebrities and should be better people because of that?
TL;DR It's going to take a lot more for Takei to be on my dead list. Also still apparently pissed off at those people who got mad at the Stranger Things / It kid for not saying hello to them.
@packrat I highly suggest OBS Studio, it's free and easy to use. Also Windows 10 can just be an asshole when it comes to sound, I'd also suggest a USB plug in for the mic as well.
Since some people mentioned learning / getting better with Python, Humble Bundle has a Python Bundle.
Not a coder so no idea how good a deal it is for 24 ebooks and a 3 month licence for something for $15 what with the holidays just over and wallets hurting, but there you go!
@derp The funny part was the music was Carol of the Bells, but the words were Carol of the Old Ones and my voice is high enough to sing the part, so I guess vaguely Korean?
FYI, if you play Town of Salem:
You've been pwned!
You signed up for notifications when your account was pwned in a data breach and unfortunately, it's happened. Here's what's known about the breach:
Email found:
Breach: BlankMediaGames
Date of breach: 28 Dec 2018
Number of accounts: 7,633,234
Compromised data: Browser user agent details, Email addresses, IP addresses, Passwords, Purchases, Usernames, Website activity
Description: In December 2018, the Town of Salem website produced by BlankMediaGames suffered a data breach. Reported to HIBP by DeHashed, the data contained 7.6M unique user email addresses alongside usernames, IP addresses, purchase histories and passwords stored as phpass hashes. DeHashed made multiple attempts to contact BlankMediaGames over various channels and many days but had yet to receive a response at the time of publishing.
@deadculture Cool, I had to ask, because I'm still all 'roided up a bit, and a bit touchy, because possible perceived peeve. Have a cookie.
Because now that I know that gif exists, I had to find a way to use it at least once!
When you go to take a drink of something expecting it to be one thing, but it turns out to be another. And you like both things, but you weren't expecting the second thing so it just tastes wrong at first.
This is doubly worse when you are expecting gingerale, but it's golden gingerale, so it's the same thing but more, and you were not expecting it, so it tastes even more, more.
I haven't really been updating this lately because I am off work and am therefore trying to ignore all the sales going on which seemed to appear as soon as I had to start buying antibiotics rather than games.
So anyway, GoG just announced GoG Connect which is a service that links your GoG account to your steam account. It's not all the games yet and it seems to rotate and or will be adding new games eventually. Right now the available games to add to your GoG library have a time limit that you can add them. The FAQ doesn't say if they might come back.
But @Insomnia, you might think. "If I already have the game on Steam it isn't a free game!" Well it is, kinda. By linking your GoG and Steam accounts, you get a free GoG copy of that game. So you get a free DRM free copy of the game as yours to keep.
(Everyone and their mother is signing up for this right now though, so expect a wait message of hours to days wait (It was hours to connect and over night to import for me.).)
Oh and the FAQ said you'll be able to use most Steam save games and play multiplayer on the GoG versions. Depends on the game. And if you already have the Steam Version and GoG version, you don't get a new copy.
@surreality said in I owe a lot of people some apologies.:
insomnia-slog through something binge-watchable
I'm currently binging Riverdale. 
@shelbeast said in Vampyr:
So, there's a new game out where you play a doctor in Victorian London, returning from World War I, who is promptly turned into a freshly minted vampire. He gets embroiled in supernatural skullduggery, and has to establish connections with his neighbors and such during the course of the game. It has a really very unique mechanic that pits gameplay directly against story in an antagonistic relationship. Essentially, in order to gain "XP" type stuff, you'll need to feed on your fellow Londoners, thus killing them. This allows you to get points to purchase skills and grow stronger. You can avoid doing this altogether, and play the game, but you will progressively find it harder and harder to advance because you're just woefully underpowered.
The other side of this is that the characters are all very human. They have dreams and hopes and foibles and nuances. They all have their own lives and issues and essentially sidequests for you that allows you to discover who they are, and through that, make London better, and try to stave off the chaos and the plague that's sweeping the city. The trick is that... the more you progress with a character, the more XP you get for killing them, basically. But this also cuts their storyline short.
So you have to choose. Do you end a storyline short for quick burst of XP? And if so, then... deviously, the game has been designed in such a way that you have to humanize your meal to get the most out of it. It truly brings to the forefront the dichotomy of the Man versus The Beast struggle that is supposed to be at the forefront of themes in regards to WoD/coD vamp.
I highly recommend this.
You can read a much more literate review here: Vampyr Review: The Story in Blood
One thing you forgot to mention, aside from the humanity of it all, is the health of the area you are in; the more people you eat, the less healthy an area is, and if you let it get too bad people will be openly hostile towards you. It also destabilizes the economy so merchants will charge you more, and give you less money. So if you do go the eating everyone route you make things a little more difficult on that end.
Also you get xp from doing story stuff, even just talking to people. And if you are really desperate for xp you know how rats give away that there is a hideout around? The hunters around your hideout also respawn each time you sleep. It's slow, but it is xp.
Peeve, my eyes are all red and evil why does no one notice this or care?
Skyrim remaster is available for pre-load right now. And if you already own Skyrim? You get it for free.
I think part of the problem with men who are a problem to women online is wish fulfilment, and they might not even know it. Because at the end of the day it's anonymous. There is also a novelty to it, which is silly. Woman as gamers make up something like 48% of gamers, and i'm not even thinking about mobile games. We're out there but we hide so it seems like there aren't any. But they aren't told any better. Or they are given examples of how it's okay.
And then you have the guys like Rex who are just assholes and actively seek out women to treat badly, because they are assholes. It's separating the two that is the issue. And really that shouldn't be up to the woman who is being bothered to sort it out. The problem is that unfortunately the real problem is that women generally don't feel comfortable being able to say no which... I don't know how we can fix that. It's easy enough to say "well speak up." but yeah... my last relationship it would have been easier had he hit me. I could have easily left. Sometimes speaking up just doesn't feel like an option. or even worse doesn't even register as an option.
How to fix it? Don't be a dick. Everything would be so much easier if everyone was just Excellent to each other.
