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Insane prediction time: Terezi died in a very hopeful manner => next update will have a Hope hero in it.

My own prediction:
Time till midnight has been counting down by roughly 2 minutes/update =>big update will occur next Friday (at exactly midnight).

Quote from: XXXXYYYY on December 15, 2014, 06:38:26 pm

For a few examples of the shit I was referencing before, view into the spoiler.

Spoiler: Remember these? (NSFW because BS marketing) (will remove if against forum guidelines) (click to show/hide)

I always did wonder which shitty marketing firm advises that this is a good ad. Like, who is that actually going to get to buy their thing.

I'm pretty sure it's Free-to-play, so the ads are in effect clickbait. It's bullshit, but if the forum has 300,000 posts, someone is playing it.

EDIT:

Quote from: pisskop on December 15, 2014, 06:44:38 pm

Hunh?  Those dont operate on the Facebook game principle?

Free to P(l)ay?

Free to Play games can't run without money. Really, it's probably pay for perks, I used to be an admin for a mud like that, and people would drop upwards of $10k over a few years to get an edge on other people. It's addictive.

Geez that must have been depressing.

Because that group are their main consumers. You said women are almost half of gamers, but that is all games, including casual ones. For the titles you mentioned (COD/assassin's creed), men are still the main audience. It's consumer targeting.

Basically this. It's a bullshit feedback loop fueled by money. One group buys a game > Marketing starts to put a larger amount of money to advertising to that group > that group buys the game more >Marketing puts an even larger amount of money to advertising to that group etc.
Over time, this has led to the completely ridiculous ads you sometimes see.
Most of the time, the games don't even do that kind of stuff in the beginning, but then marketing starts saying "Ok, we need this and that to boost sales" [MMO armor. seriously.], and then the game is tarnished by that.

Of course, some gave devs are sexist dicks, but the amount of them (per capita of game devs) should be roughly the same as the amount in a larger population. Often, as far as I can tell, they (the game devs) are forced to do this shit on danger of losing their jobs.

Slowly, they're realizing that they'd make more money if they stopped this crap, and are tuning it back. Still, MMO armor.

Took a while, but still relevant, I think.

Quote from: Metalsie on December 15, 2014, 05:40:19 pm

Quote from: smeeprocket on December 15, 2014, 05:36:12 pm

Quote from: Metalsie on December 15, 2014, 05:34:06 pm

I don't believe people should push their identity politics into this game, especially "inclusion", which is very subjective. I do think however that this is a good idea to implement. One problem though is the number of people who will be non-binary pre-world generation and this can cause problems for the creation of new sites for civilizations who had less "breeders". Also, how will the gender of the people born during the world generation be determined? Its unrealistic to depend on random chance since majority of people are straight and cap for the number of non-binary people born will likely be arbitrary.

this game already has homosexuality. And inclusion isn't a politic. That's the problem, you dudes see this as an inconvenienced on your divine right to be at the top of everything.

The rest of us play the games too. You are going to have to start sharing. Get used to it.

I disagree, inclusion is highly political and not everyone has the same perception of it as you do. Also, try to calm down, not everyone is out to get you.

you have apparently not read the rest of the thread. I am exhausted from this cyclical argument and have little patience for it now.

I don't care about perception. I, and others that are not like you and other white, straight, cis-gendered males, have just as much right to inclusion as you and it is not political. It is political for you because you are apathetic to the issue. The rest of us just want to feel like we are part of the game.

If we were to not include men in the game at all would you be okay with that? Or would you make a fuss?

Please don't clump all of us["white, straight, cis-gendered males"] into one group. Please?

Humanity is a very diverse group of people and one set of characteristics does not make a person behave a certain way. To believe otherwise is to incite all sorts of flaws into your thinking process.

I'm mostly restraining from this discussion, but please tone down the stereotyping.
If you were not, I am deeply sorry.

OH LAWD NINJAS

Quote from: smeeprocket on December 15, 2014, 04:49:46 pm

Which thing are you cursing at? There are so very many.

Australian News. Hostage situation ends with 3 dead including the gunmen.

Why. Why does this stuff happen. Why do people do these kinds of things.

Because people are [cannot think of a bad enough word for this]s, I guess. The question remains, however, about why people are such [cannot think of a bad enough word for this]s.

"Hmm. Useful."
Etszu searches for a tree that might have an expansive root system, or a parasitic tree, if there is one, while making another 3 LW essences.

I think your air elemental and fire elemental symbols are a bit too similar. >_>
I really like that line in the first picture though.

Yeah, they are. The main difference is that air has the "wind lines", while fire was closed and shaded end to center, though the wind lines aren't present in the last picture yet. I don't really know what to do for air. :/

Turn the tube, allowing us to see the glowing thing.