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grabbing a goat's penis.

I'm loving those backgrounds.
I know they're just photos with the colour count lowered, but I love how you've mixed pixel art into them.

Wasteland?

goats are involved. The

Congratulations! 
I hope it sells well and leads to many opportunities for you in the future.

What led you to translate H.P. Lovecraft's work? How did you manage to land the job?
I'd love to know. 

"No... they are hilarious!"

[A Serbian Film]

I don't know if anyone's mentioned it yet, but I think a good contender is A Serbian Film.
Someone showed it to me, saying it was the most messed up film ever, and the most horrifying because of it. Personally, I laughed. I actually watched it with my sister (her boyfriend was the one who suggested it) and she actually laughed with me. So I guess I'm from a family of psychos.

I've probably watched a film that I've consider more messed up, but it's not currently coming to mind. I have watched my fair share of... weird films. And personally, weird always strikes me as being more messed up than shock horror. Because weird just makes you go "What the f*** did I just watch?"
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I think portions of The Star Wars Holiday Special fulfill that criteria quite adequately. Now that film was messed up. Not as messed up as A Serbian Film though.

Happy Birthday, Anas! I hope you have a great day!

Is it Anas' birthday today?
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Hey, it is!
Well in that case, happy birthday AnasAbdin!
I hope you have a great day. 

I still have no idea how they even work. 
I've played a game with them, all the way to completion. Even getting every single achievement, and I still have no idea how to access the steam cards for the game.
Which is a shame, because some of those cards contain additional lore.

of McDonalds food." Replied

is 42 years old.

own?" said the necroposter.

hint, its for catching something that has fallen into something else

Wait a minute, that's ringing a bell somewhere in the deep recesses of my brain.
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I still have no idea what it is though.
Damn my inability to remember one piece of random trivia I possibly heard somewhere a long time ago! 

As far as renaissance paintings go, that is AWESOME!
How have I never seen that painting before?

the dreaded necroposter of

It's a real shame how this overcompensation for better portrayals of women in media, has led to such a hostile pushback.

This is the same imaginary bad guy again. What "overcompensation?" Are the majority of video game characters women? Are most games marketed towards women? Are the majority of devs women?

You said yourself that women in video games are doing about as well as they used to. So what has the hostile pushback been against? It's been against a small handful of female creators, characters and performers who DARED to try to exist in nerd-bro-land.

Holy crap! What is with the sudden spike in hostility!
I haven't seen this kind of shit storm, since Trump was elected. 

The "overcompensation" isn't me saying that women are getting MORE representation. I'm saying that what representation they are getting, is being pushed more.
Am I making sense?

Look. Forget it. I'm out.
This is getting more hostile than when we talk about verbcoins. And at least then, people actually try to figure out the full intent of what someone is trying to say, rather than simply trying to find something to disagree with.

I recommend others to do the same.
Or at the very least. Wait a little bit before responding. I remember reading a long time ago (during a course I did) to never respond on a forum when you're emotional. And clearly this is a touchy subject for everyone here.

and the resurrection of

Holy crap, did things go off topic!
I mean, Gamergate was mentioned!
That thing's so old, that I made a comic about it two years ago, and it was old news even then!

Here's a shameless plug by the way:


Now to get back on topic. 

The reason why I feel as though people are annoyed with things like International Women's Day, and the Battlefield fiasco, and so on, and so on. Isn't because of women. But because of the political correctness that's constantly being shoehorned in. People are wanting to rebel, because of how annoying it is. I mean, there's nothing inherently wrong with women in BF5 when you consider other similar games, which has the same thing, and which didn't cause any controversy. It was the way it was presented that was the problem, and the way they reacted to people disliking it.
Everything with women in it is being weaponized. I think a good example is the recent Wonder Woman film that came out a few years ago. I know someone who was actually going to go out of her way to NOT see it, because she thought it was just going to push an agenda, just because of how the news made it out to be. It's a damn good movie as well!

It's a real shame how this overcompensation for better portrayals of women in media, has led to such a hostile pushback.
Of course you've also got the sexist pigs. Unfortunately on both sides. But loudmouths like them are present everywhere. And can usually be easily ignored. It's when you lump everyone who disagrees with you into that group that there's a problem.

As for how women are doing in the video game business these days.
As far as I can tell. Roughly the same as before. Make of that what you will. 

Indeed, it's LBA2. And yes, I fell in love with the game the moment I played the demo version from one of my countless shareware CDs...

Hey, I played a demo of it on a shareware CD too!
It wasn't until many MANY years later, when I finally got to play the full version. I never saw it in shops you see. (Probably because by the time I got that shareware CD, the game was way too old.)

I still have that shareware CD too. It also had a demo of Dungeon Keeper on it, and cultivated my love of that game as well. Thankfully I managed to find Dungeon Keeper in a shop.
Ah good times. 

The solution is to ditch discord, and embrace IRC. Embrace IRC, embrace old-school!

+1
Even though I barely know how to use IRC.