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Wow, thanks for all the votes and congratulations to the other winners!

It grinds my gears when people try to insist that a rare steak would be objectively better than a well done steak.

Apart from the fact that you could make a list longer than the Star Wars intro crawl on all the diseases you can get from poorly cooked meat, taste is subjective, and just because some prefer their steak a little raw in the middle it doesn't mean that all do.

I'm especially cross with resturants that automatcally serve any meat that I order rare without asking first, and then act as if wanting a well done steak is some act of barbary, just because I find raw meat slightly nauseating.

[Step 8]

It's nice to see so many good entries this time around!
Very well, times up now and it's time for voting.
The entries are:

Step 8 by Mandle
Queened by SilverSpook
ONE MORE STEP by Roccinator
Endless Story by Sinitrena
The Jolly Abysmal Sinner by Baron

The voting categories are:
Best Character arc
Best Setting/World
Best Writing/Style

Voting ends on August 13th.

Is the talk-icon going to be a golden skull?
Now that's pretty metal!

I'm working on something, but I'll probably just make the deadline.

I could extend it by a day if you like.

Dammit, my one weakness!

Thanks to everyone who voted and congratulations to Roccinator!

Great to see new tracks, good work!

Wile I agree with ClickClickClick on story achievements for linear games, I think achievements for special actions is a fun way
to encourage the player to explore and examine the game world further as well as experimenting with the gameplay mechanics.

As for the trading cards, I've never really bothered to learn what to use them for...

Who wrote this kind of book, and more importantly, who reads it?

Lovely screenshots, absolutely stunning!
But even if the last changes to the computer screen is an improvement, it is a bit hard to make out green bars against a striped green background.
With that said, it does look beautiful with the light and plants visible through the semi-transparent screen!

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Concept: xBRANEx
Playability: Rocchinator
Artistic execution: Cassiebsg
It was a hard choice since I liked all of them, Cassiebsg's café looked the most like a screenshot from a finished game, while Roccinator's biker bar had so many cool details I could imagine interacting with, but xBRANEx's animal café looked fun too, and I liked that you animated the waggling tails!

That just sounds like a VIP partition. You still get those in any nightclub and many other entertainment activities.

Are VIP partition dependent on someone's profession, education or name? The better half of the ball was reserved for officers, professors, doctors and their families while the other half was for workers, farmers and the like, so it was still very much divided by class.

It would be more scientific if there had been some blacks in the room too. Then we could have seen how the room was really partitioned. Even if there was no black/white separation I'm willing to bet they would have formed thwir own partition, rather than mingled. I'm also willing to bet the black/white distribution wouldn't have been the same on both sides of the social class partition.

It's hard to tell, since there was very little immigration in Sweden at the time, but the point I wanted to make is that people can create divisions in the population even when there are no different visible races. Also worth mentioning is that lots of groups now considered white weren't treated as such a hundred years ago, like the Irish or Italians, and when when Finland was part of Sweden, finns were discriminated against by the swedes.

But to get back to Trump, I once heard an argument that the reason he's popular among the white working class is that he's a poor man's idea of what a rich person would be,
like having everything made of gold with his name stamped on it, eating steak with ketchup and boasting about all the things he could do.

While the idea of race itself isn't new, most people didn't consider it a large or important part of their identity until the nineteenth century.
Before that, the most important differences between people was religion, class and culture, and the social divide between classes could sometimes be almost as big as the one between races.

To give an example, when my grandfather was young and there was a ball in his home town, the hall where it was held was divided in two halves with a rope. One side was reserved for the finer folks and the other provided to those who weren't. Now, the thing is, everyone in the room was white. Instead of race, people were divided by their social class, and that was the most important difference there and then. I think that much of the current discussion of race could also be applied to class, and many right-wing thinkers have used the idea of a collective white identity to downplay the divide between upper class and the working class.

Sounds intriguing, you have me hooked!

I just read a pretty interesting article on Cracked about transgender soldiers in America, and I thought I could share the link.

And I also think that it's worth mentioning that women joining the army under a male identity isn't a new, or even particularly rare, phenomenon.

Well, here is my entry:

[Blondbraid]

Hey Blondbraid, can you manage to finish your entry by tomorrow? Otherwise I can extend the deadline by a day or two, if no one minds.

Well, I'm almost half-way done and I think I might be finished today, if not I'll let you know.

Wow, that last image is both hilarious and absolutely terrifying!

Great entry, xBRANEx! The only thing missing is a few dogs playing poker in the back!
I've been thinking of entering myself, if I get the time to finish my entry!