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Edit: Also, just how fucking badly narcissistic this society is, when you have to get your positive fucking reinforcement around the "you"-centric popular media shit? I mean, it's kinda nice that Hepler gave that kid some hope and direction, but holy fuck, REALLY? The guy could find no positive reinforcement to his model of life in mass media and so he thought to kill himself? How about, oh, I don't know, actually thinking a little? Do these people have a functional brain or did someone turn off the oxygen for them as they'd just been born, for a moment?

Fuck.
Leaving aside for a moment that Hepler might have just told us a story and not anything that actually happened, it's not exactly uncommon that teenagers around the age of 18 kill themselves because they lack a feeling of self worth. It's the statistically most dangerous age regarding spontaneous suicide. The rate among gays is even higher. It's not really about positive reinforcement from media, it's about any positive reinforcement at all.

Anyway, given the track record, I guess most of what Hepler said is just PR speak, so any relation of her statements to reality may be considered as tenuous at best.
 

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Josh Sawyer says he and a bunch of others at Obsidian get the "I was going to kill myself but your game stopped me" letters a lot so I believe that's genuine. M:
 

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Josh Sawyer says he and a bunch of others at Obsidian get the "I was going to kill myself but your game stopped me" letters a lot so I believe that's genuine. M:
"I was going to kill myself, then I played Alpha Protocol and decided I wanted to kill you first instead."
 
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Edit: Also, just how fucking badly narcissistic this society is, when you have to get your positive fucking reinforcement around the "you"-centric popular media shit? I mean, it's kinda nice that Hepler gave that kid some hope and direction, but holy fuck, REALLY? The guy could find no positive reinforcement to his model of life in mass media and so he thought to kill himself? How about, oh, I don't know, actually thinking a little? Do these people have a functional brain or did someone turn off the oxygen for them as they'd just been born, for a moment?

People who are depressed to the point of considering suicide aren't in a very sound state of mind, it's not just a matter of thinking. It's like asking for your drunk friend driving the car to stop being so drunk and focus on the road.
 

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http://www.gamespot.com/news/rebellion-suing-stardock-over-sins-of-a-solar-empire-rebellion-6392131

Rebellion suing Stardock over Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion

The trademark suit, which was filed in June in Stardock's home district of Eastern Michigan, alleges that Stardock knowingly infringed on Rebellion's trademark on its name as it pertains to video games both with the title of the space-faring real-time strategy game and in its promotional materials.

Rebellion did not stipulate a set amount of damages, instead leaving it to the court to determine how much it was "deprived of substantial sales of its products" and "the value of its trademarks as commercial assets." Rebellion provided several examples where it claimed consumers would have been easily misled, including promotional materials which displayed the word "Rebellion" much larger than the preceding "Sins of a Solar Empire" and some that referred to the game only by the disputed trademark.

Rebellion, which is based in the UK, is the developer behind Sniper Elite V2 and both the 1999 and 2010 Aliens vs. Predator games.

legal doc here.
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B_zz3inaULaXa2Y0bExwN3RZZ00
 
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Divinity: Original Sin Project: Eternity Torment: Tides of Numenera
To properly understand this you have to be Morrowind connoisseur (if you're not, you can easily skip reading those two pics) and preferably alone at home at night:
http://i.imgur.com/xTjJ5.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/hTOt6.jpg

I'm wondering how much of this is true.
Running Morrowind mod on Dosbox? WTF
NPCs going from exterior to interior in real time? WTF
Either way, it's epic.

I wish that mod were real...

I really do.
 

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To properly understand this you have to be Morrowind connoisseur (if you're not, you can easily skip reading those two pics) and preferably alone at home at night:
http://i.imgur.com/xTjJ5.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/hTOt6.jpg

I'm wondering how much of this is true.
Running Morrowind mod on Dosbox? WTF
NPCs going from exterior to interior in real time? WTF
Either way, it's epic.
People keep their porn in My Pictures file? WTF?
 

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j.j. abrams... i hate you so much right now



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Divinity: Original Sin Project: Eternity Torment: Tides of Numenera Wasteland 2
Its five year mission: to explode strange, new worlds...

So it looks like Kirk and Spock are going to genocide out the Gorn. Why do I think they are the Gorn and not some new race? Because they are big, green, and extremely unfaithful to the original--therefore they are completely consistent with every portrayal since (even TAS was more consistent). It amazes me that everyone removes the giant, silvery compound eyes to make them into simple Space Dinosaurs. Instead of making them more alien we get more of what ENT did for their mirror universe episode. We don't need more space dinosaurs. Voyager had enough of them.
 

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