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Megachat: Tomb Raider Marketing

Sonic Rob: god dammit
Sonic Rob: I just blew my nose so hard I farted
FyreHaar: damn
Sonic Rob: I am so skeeved out by this new Tomb Raider game
FyreHaar: por qua?
Sonic Rob: well, they say they want to give us a younger, vulnerable Lara Croft
Sonic Rob: so instead of a confident woman with huge tits being awesome
Sonic Rob: you have a scared woman with huge tits being wounded and chased around
Sonic Rob: they’ve disempowered her
Sonic Rob: it’s the beating her up that makes me feel worst
FyreHaar: this should be the story of her empowerment
FyreHaar: how she got tough
Sonic Rob: I don’t know what the game is like as a whole, but all of the preview coverage mentions her getting impaled, gutted, dropped off of high places
FyreHaar: gah!
Sonic Rob: see, you can look at it either way
Sonic Rob: is it about the journey to empowerment?
Sonic Rob: or about the status of fear and pain?
Sonic Rob: we know who she’ll become
Sonic Rob: so seeing her like this is like seeing her tied up
Sonic Rob: and cut
Sonic Rob: I’ve said it before: the preview coverage makes the game look like violent, degrading pornography without the sex
Sonic Rob: just the power over and degradation of an independent woman
FyreHaar: damnit
FyreHaar: this often happens with female empowerment story lines
FyreHaar: it’s like sucker punch
FyreHaar: it’s purportedly about how this woman will come to her strength
FyreHaar: but it’s really all about watching the degradation that requires her to become strong to survive.
Sonic Rob: sucker punch was about all you have is your ass
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Sonic Rob: http://www.shacknews.com/article/68921/dawn-war-3-combines-dow1
FyreHaar: “Now Dawn of War III, either way, is going to have a much larger strategic component to it, more of a global battle going on with little tactical things, sort of MMO-like.”
FyreHaar: how do we feel about this statement?
FyreHaar: that is very DOWI actually
Sonic Rob: sounds like Dark Crusade to me
FyreHaar: indeed
FyreHaar: I liked in DOWI that the planet was going to shit
FyreHaar: you just had very discreet goals within the larger conflict
Sonic Rob: well, maybe they will do a thing in DoW 3 where the results of your games affect the flow of everyone on the server
Sonic Rob: kinda like in the Warhammer MMO
FyreHaar: oohhh
Sonic Rob: world PVP in an RTS
FyreHaar: whoa
Sonic Rob: but honestly, I’d wager they don’t have a line of code yet
Sonic Rob: there are many routes they could take
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FyreHaar: I think every person should be issued a copy of the first silverchair album on their 14th birthday
Sonic Rob: That was your personal soundtrack for a summer, wasn’t it?
Sonic Rob: while you were working in a library or something?
FyreHaar: OPS music department
FyreHaar: with Superunknown
FyreHaar: both of which I borrowed from you
Sonic Rob: oh man, Superunknown was a great one too
Sonic Rob: but that’s more for when you’re 16
FyreHaar: I was
FyreHaar: Like albums I’m going to surreptitiously load onto my child’s mp3 player
FyreHaar: so it’ll shuffle through them
FyreHaar: and then they’ll be like, what is this!!
Sonic Rob: you can play those albums up against your womb, and then later on when your kid hears them they’ll find them strangely comforting and familiar…
FyreHaar: ha!!
FyreHaar: totally
Sonic Rob: or they’ll be born deaf
FyreHaar: eep!

Chat Box: Fire and Forget

SonicRob: http://km-515.livejournal.com/746.html
SonicRob: haha, amazing

 

SonicRob: http://hauteslides.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Game-of-Thrones-Infographic-Full-Screen.png
SonicRob: handy

 

SonicRob: http://wonkette.com/445855/afa-christian-women-who-do-yoga-are-heathen-witches
SonicRob: LOLOL

 

SonicRob: http://dubiousquality.blogspot.com/2011/05/bending-of-future.html
SonicRob: whoa, crazy

 

SonicRob: http://www.npr.org/2011/04/25/135705721/crochet-vandals-do-graffiti-like-your-grandma
SonicRob: also insane

 

SonicRob: http://thog.org/thogmatic.php
SonicRob: omg best toy ever

 

SonicRob: http://bibrarian.posterous.com/freerunning-academy
SonicRob: ezio school

 

SonicRob: http://vimeo.com/9688132
SonicRob: whoa

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FyreHaar: I have returned!!
SonicRob: wb
FyreHaar: oh, yarnbombing
FyreHaar: that’s a whole thing now
SonicRob: wtf?
SonicRob: oh yeah
SonicRob: the crochet thing
SonicRob: you are going through days of links that I fired at you and forgot
FyreHaar: yes
FyreHaar: most of them are pretty cool
SonicRob: I apparently thought so at the time

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FyreHaar: is the typo in the schmead intentional?
SonicRob: no typos are intentional
SonicRob: what is it?
FyreHaar: is it a typo?
FyreHaar: “Typos, missing or redundant words, and other simple errors abound. In literally the first paragraph of The Bleeding Chalice the word “som” appears in place of “so,”. It’s distracting and detracts from the experience of reading the novels, to the point where I soend some passages wondering when the typo will appear rather than paying attention to the action.”
SonicRob: gah
FyreHaar: it’s sort of beautiful and I think you should leave it
FyreHaar: dude doesn’t know what plasma is?
FyreHaar: ffs
FyreHaar: it’s a tiny star
SonicRob: he thinks the guns shoot hot fluid
FyreHaar: it’s a tiny star cannon
SonicRob: he talks about it flowing and gooshing on things
FyreHaar: dumbass
FyreHaar: it’s burning
FyreHaar: lots and lots of burning

Cannonball Read #4 – The Feminine Mystique

The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan. The book that gave a name to the problem with no name.

If you are a feminist or you agree with some of the principles of feminism (that women and men deserve equal opportunities and treatment) and you haven’t read this book you should. You should get ready to get mad. If you think we don’t need feminism anymore, or that we didn’t need it in the first place, you should read this book. Continue reading Cannonball Read #4 – The Feminine Mystique

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Sonic Rob: http://www.joystickdivision.com/2011/05/gamers_love_to_right_and_it_ma.php
Sonic Rob: guy complains about nerds tearing apart the “Space Marine looks like Gears” guy
Sonic Rob: nerds promptly tear the new guy apart as well
FyreHaar: dude, seriously
FyreHaar: take your beating and go home
FyreHaar: gamers don’t love to be right
FyreHaar: they love to prove you wrong
Sonic Rob: ha
FyreHaar: and especially when you are so demonstrably incorrect
FyreHaar: you are gonna get jumped on
Sonic Rob: I really think it’s somehow related to console wars
Sonic Rob: people get really invested in things
FyreHaar: “This sad affair says more about gamers than it does about Dean Takahashi’s journalistic chops.”
FyreHaar: really?
FyreHaar: That he has none
FyreHaar: or that he decided to be lazy and got fucked for it?
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Chat Box – Mother’s Day

FyreHaar: also
FyreHaar: really got into Ass Creed Brotherhood this weekend
FyreHaar: I suddenly remembered: I love stabbing people in the neck!
FyreHaar: I also really like the 100% conditions
FyreHaar: and replaying to get it
SonicRob: yeah
SonicRob: you can do it the easy way or the hard way
FyreHaar: it ups the challenge at your discretion
FyreHaar: in discrete bits
SonicRob: yerp
FyreHaar: well for the mazes with the wolf dudes
SonicRob: and you can always go back and redo stuff
FyreHaar: the first time through I’m getting the chests and the flags
FyreHaar: later I’ll do speed runs
SonicRob: oh man, the Romulus temples are a pain
FyreHaar: I enjoy them
SonicRob: they are the new Templar lair
SonicRob: psst do them all ASAP
FyreHaar: good swag?
SonicRob: so good
FyreHaar: nice…
FyreHaar: dude, I am digging this game hard
FyreHaar: but I played it on Mother’s Day
SonicRob: yeah, I spent a hard month just playing nothing else
SonicRob: you can do
SonicRob: a lot
SonicRob: the city building goes on much longer
FyreHaar: and I want to talk to her about it so much
SonicRob: you can
FyreHaar: I want her to answer back!
SonicRob: well that’s asking a lot
FyreHaar: Ass Creed II made me weep with frustration because I wanted to know what she thought
FyreHaar: I think she would like it
FyreHaar: but also be snarky about what they get wrong