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cinci zoo sniper posted:papers please and this war of mine are very aesthetically pleasing to me. not sure i find them psychologically brutal though I don't know that I'd say they are psychologically brutal, but they are very real in a way that makes it hard to view characters as simple NPC's. Particularly this war of mine. The story just hits too close to home.
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I can kinda see This War of Mine being considered "psychologically brutal" if it is the very first time you are ever confronted with the concept of war having an impact on the civilian population instead of just seeing wars as a thing that happens in history class.
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It's not a concentration camp sim randler. It's brutal because the game offers no escape from your situation as someone hosed by the war, similar to papers please offering you no way to change the SQ. Usually games are a way to avoid that.
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yeah these games are difficult to play because the concepts presented are so repellant and borderline unfun to engage with. like it's just misery. imagine a game where you were cleaning up a napoleonic era battlefield and were just rummaging around in dead soldiers things to identify and then bury them iirc the child expansion for this war of mine had variable pricing, and all of the money made from sales of the dlc went to child refugees of the syrian conflict boner confessor fucked around with this message at 22:05 on Dec 26, 2017 |
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https://twitter.com/EdKrassen/status/945737632805543936 Maybe seniors should've thought of that before they turned out in droves for Trump. Personal responsibility. They can pull themselves up by the bootstraps if they aren't happy with their lot in life.
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i watched paprika for the first time in un-subtitled italian last night and it was great (i don't speak italian)
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australiar posted:he is spoilt every day 
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Furnaceface posted:We got 25cm of snow last night. Theyre now calling for an additional 10-15 tonight. ☃
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Volkerball posted:I got this game called "this war of mine" on sale a couple weeks ago and I've mostly been playing that. vb mumbles to himself "if they had guns, this wouldn't happen"
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Watching a bunch of teenagers beat each other up, as is Canadian boxing day tradition. Still laughing my rear end off at the Russians losing to the Czechs. Latvia missed by one point to get back in next year, sorry kals.
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https://twitter.com/george_dungan/status/944250460050984961 Wait, is it only us that do this?
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boner confessor posted:maybe emotionally brutal, since it's not a game where you're mowing down nazis but you're really just an average person, it makes choices like "will you rob this old man so a child can eat for the first time in days" difficult. or in papers please you can have the problem "my wife needs medicine, but i can't afford it... if i send this dude who did nothing wrong to state police, i get a kickback"
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Volkerball posted:I don't know that I'd say they are psychologically brutal, but they are very real in a way that makes it hard to view characters as simple NPC's. Particularly this war of mine. The story just hits too close to home. oh right, you were from rural miswest which is basically eastern europe. the story is fairly relatable yeah, but i can't say it made the npcs palpable to any extent. better than jarl of markarth or whatever, but still it's a video game
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Furnaceface posted:Watching a bunch of teenagers beat each other up, as is Canadian boxing day tradition.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:oh right, you were from rural miswest which is basically eastern europe. the story is fairly relatable yeah, but i can't say it made the npcs palpable to any extent. better than jarl of markarth or whatever, but still it's a video game Sure, but I can kill the jarl of markarth, steal all his poo poo, and laugh about it. Murdering an innocent old couple so I can raid their fridge, and then slowly watching the character that did the killing become depressed and broken over having done it, makes it feel a lot less light-hearted.
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Volkerball posted:Particularly this war of mine. The story just hits too close to home. Huh, which war were you a civilian survivor, sounds interesting
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ArfJason posted:Huh, which war were you a civilian survivor, sounds interesting civil war, also don't ninja edit refugee jokes
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Volkerball posted:Sure, but I can kill the jarl of markarth, steal all his poo poo, and laugh about it. Murdering an innocent old couple so I can raid their fridge, and then slowly watching the character that did the killing become depressed and broken over having done it, makes it feel a lot less light-hearted. i think i just can't get the level of emotional involvement here. *pivots berkeshly* the old couple would've lived if they had guns
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As in, i didnt think the word refugee was the proper one to describe someone in their own country during a war. It might be, not a native speaker.
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ArfJason posted:Huh, which war were you a civilian survivor, sounds interesting I wasn't personally, but I know and have spoken with enough people who were that it's not an abstract concept like it is when you're dealing with people fighting giant cockroaches and mutants. And your definition of refugee is right. Someone under siege and forced to flee would be an internally displaced persons or IDP.
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World Junior hockey tournament. Latvia lost their last game which means they lost the division to Kazakhstan and wont be in next years tournament.
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Furnaceface posted:World Junior hockey tournament. Latvia lost their last game which means they lost the division to Kazakhstan and wont be in next years tournament. lol at watching juniors
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ArfJason posted:Huh, which war were you a civilian survivor, sounds interesting So what you’re saying to VB is, “You don’t have to live like a refugee”?
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Paracaidas posted:https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/945666538316722176 he's right
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cinci zoo sniper posted:lol at watching juniors Latvia will always be hockey country number 3 behind Canada and Finland if you keep up this attitude mister.
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people are really mad about this lame video https://twitter.com/VanityFair/status/944613785171501056
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ArfJason posted:As in, i didnt think the word refugee was the proper one to describe someone in their own country during a war. It might be, not a native speaker. more formally it's "internally displaced person" but refugee works
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i saw some picture of a trucking service like this who had a sign- SEPTIC TANKS PUMPED POOLS FILLED NOT SAME TRUCK
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exmarx posted:people are really mad about this lame video I don’t see why, none of the suggestions were a murder-suicide pact with bill
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one more loving draaugr cave
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seriously every quest is exactly the same
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I believe you mean every quest allows you to explore more of the vast and engaging world.... by doing the exact same poo poo every drat time.
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rear end struggle posted:seriously every quest is exactly the same It's amazing that the loving elder scrolls MMORPG has more quest and environment variety than skyrim
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rear end struggle posted:one more loving draaugr cave rear end struggle posted:seriously every quest is exactly the same Time for you to go read the bad mods thread.
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srsly in oblivion you had crazy quests and bigger cities. wtf bethesada
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oblivion had some great quests. almost all of assassins and thieves guild, the one dlc paladin one where you're basically on a grail quest. some good poo poo i never bothered finishing skyrim
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rear end struggle posted:srsly in oblivion you had crazy quests and bigger cities. wtf bethesada it was a trash game though cinci zoo sniper fucked around with this message at 11:45 on Dec 27, 2017 |
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