Re: [Official!] Project Horizons Comment Crew Chat thread.

[Guest]

Did we swap friend codes? I can't remember.

[Tytan]

I think we did.

[Frost]

@Frost

spoilered by me for length:

I think you're right on that account. While the online community has been looking more into BDSM, it seems, every ancient and wizened guru of the whippin' arts has to start off with "alright, so it's pretty much nothing like in Realistically, more like two or three shades of Grey."

 Abuse is another matter and is a point of heavy contention already, with statistics varying widely and debates ongoing as to invading people's privacy vs. ensuring the safety of a possible abused party, among other things. Many make the argument that culture is too tolerant of obsessive, controlling, and possessive behavior even in a non-outright-violent context, and it's not really a matter of debate that Fallout 3's color palette portrays these and portrays them as normal. It's certainly drawing attention to the matter of abuse--in the worst way possible.

[Valikdu]

Fallout 3's color palette

...wouldn't it be 50 Shades of Brown with Green Filters?

[Frost]

Fallout 3's color palette

...wouldn't it be 50 Shades of Brown with Green Filters?

That's the scat-play sequel.

[Guest]

@swicked
For me, at least, hearsay, summaries, and excerpts - enough to know the prose sucks and that, if I'm not being lied to, it's not what most people would call a healthy relationship. Basic narrative of the trilogy seems to be "ultra-rich, damaged, god-man flirts with plain, average nobody-woman after chance meeting; goes out of his way to control every part of her life, in and out of the bedroom, which she finds uncomfortable yet erotic (I guess, since she keeps half-breaking up with him then sleeping with him immediately over it, according to the Wikipedia plot synopses); she 'fixes' him, they get married and have 2.5 kids." The BDSM folks have issues with the depictions of BDSM, 'cos the sex interest guy Gray seems to view the sub/dom relationship as extending to all parts of life, ignores safe words at some point, and literally looks at the relationship as a contract rather than, well, a relationship. Plus, there's the implication that the only reason Gray's like that is because he was statutorily raped by one of his mum's friends when he was 15, which I expect doesn't sit well with people who're already stuck with defending themselves from being seen as dangerous, damaged perverts. Most other folks are taking issue with the ultra-controlling aspects of Gray's obsession, such as his buying portraits a friend of hers painted so nobody else can have her image, his buying her company and using his position to keep her from leaving on a business trip, his extravagant gift-giving (first edition books, a laptop for the purpose of researching BDSM [something the author might have tried]), his insistence on setting hard boundaries on her personal conduct (no talking about their relationship, he has to okay her seeing friends), and how, even when they're broken up, he keeps on popping into her life. That's what I understand of it, anyway. Might well have missed some points.

[Frost]

I find this interesting

[Guest]

Huh, honestly I'm kinda surprised to see C.H. Sommers. Got the feeling she wouldn't have very many fans here.

If more Feminists were like her and they talked about privilege in the manner Frost had I wouldn't have a problem with either of those things.

[Tytan]

@Recent fimbulwinter:

[Frost]

Ain't that the damn truth:

[Valikdu]

...so I heard that Attila: Total War has the family trees back, that's good. What about the AI, is it still retarded like in Rome 2? And are the gates still melee-able?

[Frost]

Romance tips for Sci:

[Guest]

Got a few inches of snow. Unfortunately the snow on my roof has melted and froze my door shut, now I can't get out.

[Katarn]

There is always window.

[Guest]

But my windows don't open.

[Frost]

If your doors open outward, there's always the Infantry way of opening doors.

[Frost]

Hell, it works if it opens inward, too. Just a bit harder manlier.

[Katarn]

Alternatively you can make another window/door using saw..or someone/yourself as battering ram.

[Guest]

If your door was on fire, I bet the ice would melt.

edit: this is like a point and click adventure game. Have you tried rubbing everything in your pockets on the door?

[Guest]

The solution was nowhere near strange enough to be point and click adventure. Though I did try microwaving the water I had on hand and dumping the boiling mess outside the small crack in the door I could make, it was not effective.

It may have been close to the infantry solution as I used a shovel, which I'm sure is the bastard cousin of the e-tool.

[Guest]

This is some HP Lovecraft-story-spawning shit right here. Apparently, we had a pair of dead, foreign stars visit our solar system 70,000 years ago.

[Frost]

And like the comets that mark great Omens as signs from the gods, the passing dead stars marked the day that your mother was born.

[O. Hinds]

Notice: My internet is currently not working. I do not know when I will get it back. I'm typing this from somewhere that closes in less than two hours today and that I don't know when I'll be able to reach again. Please, therefore, do not expect prompt responses. I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. It's certainly causing me inconvenience.

This is some HP Lovecraft-story-spawning shit right here. Apparently, we had a pair of dead, foreign stars visit our solar system 70,000 years ago.

Neat!

[Harmony Ltd.]

I'll just note that given the absurdly long orbital period of comets that are that far in the Oort Cloud,

It may be possible that some of those that were disturbed by the passing of the Dark Star and the Unborn Star only now come to reach us.

Cue cosmic horror OR apocalypse story.

[Frost]

Speaking of bloated, dead stars, how is Arnie doing? Haven't seen him since The Last Stand

[Harmony Ltd.]

Isn't he still El Governator de la Nueva Republica de California?

[Tytan]

Not for a couple years.

He's acting again. The new Terminator remember?

[Harmony Ltd.]

Haven't followed either newsfeed, I'm afraid.

[Valikdu]

Speaking of bloated, dead stars, how is Arnie doing? Haven't seen him since The Last Stand

We can wait until July and see? Although I'm not sure how much of the movie he is in.

[Guest]

Why is MH4U being so pushy about upgrading my armor an weapons? I know it's a huge part of the game but I only just killed the first big monster. What's the rush?

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