I don't see how it's any different than the idea of building something with Legos that's not intended by the manual.  Looking at it from an artist's perspective is only covering a fraction of what goes into the original product.  There's a much more technical backend keeping that art afloat; an extremely complex backend that some curious kid shouldn't be forced to develop from scratch just so they can explore the tiniest sliver of a concept like game AI, level design, or animation.

Modding is good for the industry.  It's how a lot of people develop an interest and learn about game development, as well as join the scene.  To get all pretentious about the artistic value of any singular product completely undersells the work that it's built upon.  Most modders are interested in the canvas, not the painting.

The polls used to be "remember the holiday items that became the most valuable things in the game's economy?  Would you be pissed if we gave them away again?"

So far all of your arguments have been pushing shallow and unimportant virtues, and you use it to justify childish and insensitive behavior and shift the blame on the developer.  Why do you think "bbbut it's a community game" means Jagex answers to you?  Why do you think a bunch of good things means you're just automatically owed whatever you want?  Everyone can vote with their wallets, but why do you think you're entitled to anything more than that?  Why do you think you're so important that you have the authority to intimidate devs with "you asked for this", and then play victim when people's shitty and offensive actions lead to bans?

I think the real mental gymnastics revolve around thinking this kind of behavior is not only acceptable, but justified for what Jagex pulled.  I get that it feels like they're lying to their community, which is shitty, but this is blown a million times out of proportion.

And virtue signaling?  Deal with it.  It's completely different from the tokenism a lot of games are going for.  It's an online game running on a living ecosystem, and Jagex wanted a subset of it to feel accepted and comfortable, while the rest can choose to ignore it and be completely unaffected by it.  What monsters.

What's so amazing about this is that it's apparently such an outrage to hold this on what would have been just another ordinary day.  It's not like this is replacing Christmas.  This is not the same as any other poll, because those were "should this Christmas give you the 2006 reward, but it won't be tradeable this time around?"  It's even harder to feel any sympathy for "muh lack of transparency" when the event affects literally nothing and no one.

If it's not actually about gay tolerance to these people, then it's pretty sickening to see where their priories are. There's nothing bad coming to the people that don't like the event, but only good to the ones that do, but that's apparently not good enough.  Jagex doesn't need your permission for that kind of integration.  It's insulting, egocentric, and immature to think that (and put ridiculous amounts of effort into complaining about) the feeling of the dev going behind your back is more important than the dev supporting someone in a way that doesn't affect you.

Like I said, this kind of controversy shows exactly why the community can fuck themselves if they think they're entitled to involvement in the dev process of the game.  It takes a special kind of child to think that Jagex is more at fault for the community's disgusting behavior than they are, all over something that makes no difference to them either way. They don't owe you shit: they don't owe you a seat in their board meetings, they don't owe you a poll, and they don't owe you answers for your childish fits.

Jagex gets called autistic from a bunch of nerds protesting gay rights on an old as shit MMO while roleplaying as KKK members.  Wow.

If you're mad about the content-creep from a preserved 2007 recreation, give it a rest.  You all got a second chance at party hats and santa hats: that's not the same game. 

You're an idiot if you think they aren't entitled to their own product, and a bigger one if you're actually bothered by the event's existence.  But the biggest mong in the bunch is the one that plays the victim card after spending the afternoon spewing hate-speech dressed up as a KKK member, as if that wasn't subject to action in the terms & conditions from 10 years ago.

Lastly, woah.  6k unconfirmed players voted in this offsite poll, so it clearly represents everyone.  Better roll back that content that doesn't affect them in the first place.

I'm only at a pitiful 2400 from last season, but I've only ever played placements.  In that time, I had one guy throw the game because the team politely asked him to switch off Reaper, and another where the dude was stoned off his ass and couldn't play, but swore "I have aimbot accuracy with Pharah when I'm stoned".

Something something more excuses.  Generic statement, but I definitely think I'm better than that, and I definitely want to start learning from people better than me.  I've kinda held off on comp, though, because I'm ideally only looking to play if I can guarantee solid coordination with a solid 3 or 4 other people.

Glad to see xbl didn't change much.

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Fucking roasted, bk scrub.

If you think it should be collected and put in a museum where a government can control the context in which it's shown, then that's your downfall.

Funny, since that's already been the case...since it's government-owned public property and they're choosing to change the context by removing the thing.

This is no different, and should be put in a different context. One that's preferably not on a pedestal.

Why are you up at 5am?!

He didn't get any sleep over that comment.

Without the DLC, it's pretty shy of content.  Without XBL, you can't play strikes or raids, which are pretty much the only interesting parts of the game.

-Know that game design has nothing to do with being an "idea guy".  Too many people think that and undermine what makes a good game designer.

-Teach yourself basic programming and work in engines like Unity & Unreal: they're really good engines for delivering quick prototypes.  They have good documentation on their sites and tutorials on YouTube.

-Look up Game Jams in your area, if you have any: they're where a bunch of people get together and try to create a game in the span of a weekend.

-Make a ton of games.  Get in the habit of coming up with random ideas and trying to build off them in short sprints.

-Getting a job in that kind of industry has less to do with the classes you took and more with what work you have to show off.  Make a website to be your portfolio and have a bunch of professional blog posts covering the work you've done, what you've learned, and why it's significant.

Meh, I wouldn't let something like that stop you from doing something you want to do.

I think openly judging a quiet stranger for something like that warrants a weirder look.

Pretty much all seafood.  Tuna is bottom-tier, though.

Quote from: Coco on May 04, 2017, 06:35:16 PM

Just curious, are you mad that high pingers are against you or on your team?

It ain't even the ping dawg. I deal with 300-800 daily so I know their struggle.

They just play the cheapest fucking bullshit strats (that work because of their absurd ping) and are generally a nuisance.

I notice that they play pretty aggressive, but they kinda have to.  If you're playing on games with dedicated servers, they're usually at a disadvantage in almost every way if the game doesn't handle latency poorly.

Quote from: Ian on April 29, 2017, 11:36:55 PM

You fucking take that back you self-righteous goldfish!

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The skin on her face is like that so she can breathe, dude.