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Actually make up words. Entirely made up concepts, and just go with it until he twigs that it's bullshit.

EDIT: See this convenient example.

Hey hey, crexen based Halen particles are serious business. They can cause headaches you know.

Person A makes product, A has sex with journalist B, B writes good review of product.

How people can not see that this is troubling and undermines the credibility of the publication the journalist works for is beyond me. I don't give a toss about anything surrounding this. Everything else is superfluous. The above series of events is the only thing I care about in this whole mess and the people defending that behaviour is the very reason games journalism is not respected as real journalism.

Just imagine a reporter at cnn having sex with the boss of some start up company and then proceeding to write fluff pieces for that company, the backlash against cnn would be immense but here for some reason the opposite is true. It doesn't even matter if the product is bloody amazing, the journalistic piece will still be tainted and should have been written by another person.

Those are my two cents and all I will say on this issue. There is a reason I don't follow "games journalism".

EDIT: I also don't see how. "Other corrupt behaviour occurs so this is not that important." Is a valid defense. If anything, that is FURTHER damnation. And don't forget, journalists DO get called out on undue corporate influences. Doritogate and the person from giant bomb who got fired are examples. What is 'shocking' is that people somehow think that just because you are an indie dev you get a free pass and can obviously not be as bad as the big companies. Big companies are also made of people, and all people have the potential to do fucking terrible things. Indie or not.

I can't get over the fact that Let it go tries to rhyme 'go' with 'more'. I just wince every time that part starts.

More amethystium, I can't stop listening.
Amethystium - Avalon

Quote from: Aptus on August 18, 2014, 06:35:58 am

This sounds really fun.

It is, I have been playing it pretty much all day.

To stay on topic, last death was being run over by a car as I was hiding in a bush, apparently he had seen me before I took cover :p

On a serious note I'd like to recommend Unreal World. Doesn't get much more survival...y.

EDIT: Damn you ninja!

My first time playing Battle Royale (mod for ARMA 3), a short story:

Why the hell had I been chosen for this? I was just a [insert menial labour here] assistant, and now I was to engage in a free for all deathmatch with 31 other people. Only... one... survivor... I had never shot a gun before, hell, we were not even issued guns, the thought was that we would all have to scavenge for them as we made landfall on the small island off the coast.
Find a gun, kill everyone else, survive and you are free.

That was the plan anyways.

I started to sweat and could hear my own heartbeat as I looked over my fellow "chosen ones" in the aircraft carrying us to our destination. Some of them looked as scared as me, others bobbed their heads up and down rhytmically as one person performed a perfect rendition of Darude - Sandstorm using only his mouth. I assume he was a professional beat boxer before this.

All of a sudden, we were thrown out of the plane, if you were lucky you had looked up how a parachute worked before this. Two people were not so lucky and painted the farmlands below with their bloodied corpses. I pulled my string early, thinking I would get as far away from everyone else as possible, maybe find a nice shack to hole up in until everyone had killed everyone else and I would win by default.
The air tugged at my clothes as I slowly descended on the far corner of the island, aiming for a deserted farmhouse.

Closing in on the ground I tried to steer the parachute to land in the 'courtyard' of the farmhouse, but I misjudged the turning speed and hit the roof instead, stumbling from the forwards momentum I immediately fell off the edge and broke my neck.

3 down, 29 to go.

Looking for a new server.

EDIT: Heh, I thought I was about to cheese myself to victory in my fourth game. I managed to get to a care package dropped from an airplane. I found a rebreather. I proceeded to spend the rest of my time under the sea, singing the song associated with that.
The plan would have worked too, if not for you meddling kids if I had rememberd that the blue zone will shrink every few minutes and moved towards the center. Instead I was happy sitting on the seabed singing like a crab which meant that went the circle shrank I didn't have time to swim there :p I am fucking loving this mod.