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That statue should be the only confederate monument remaining, it's just too much of a work of art to lose.

And the fact that he still refuses to point blank say that white supremacists are bad, period, makes em feel even safer.

Actually, I believe he said exactly that, while using a teleprompter (which he rarely does, so you know it was not his words coming outa his mouth), a few days ago.

He immediately backtracked on it.

He may have said it, but he couldn't help but continue to talk about "violent leftists" in order to defend the nazi rally.

I think more than any kind of nebulous stock market number, the fact that white supremacists felt safe enough to form a torch wielding mob chanting "Jews will not replace us" and "blood and soil" under Trump just shows that America isn't in a very good place with him at the helm.

And the fact that he still refuses to point blank say that white supremacists are bad, period, makes em feel even safer.

That's a very bold claim, one which I don't think is historically substantiated at all. Just take a look at this, a list of medieval Arabic writers who speak in no uncertain terms about black people: http://www.colorq.org/Articles/article.aspx?d=2002&x=arabviews

I am specifically talking about "whiteness" and the racial lines drawn like that. Yes, in the past people did notice other people's skin colour, and I'm not denying that racism existed at all. My main point is that whiteness is not an ancient constant, not something formed naturally, as you posited. You go back before the 17th century and whiteness doesn't make sense.  Heck, whiteness has changed meanings between then and now.

Something white nationalists love to do is to eternalise the concept of whiteness, to say that it had always existed, to co opt symbology and cultures within itself to create a fictive timeline of white greatness. When, that just isn't the case, and its pretty harmful to pretend otherwise - because white nationalists will use it to say that the white race has a long and storied history and is struggling against the other races who are all bad.... which is bullshit.

Oh right of course, well there's no denying that. But what throws me is the use of the word 'creation' as if racial identities do not grow in a society organically as a matter of course. I would argue that politics may (or may not) employ preexisting racial identities but it does not create them. Warp them or change them certainly; but people were white and black and brown, and presumably identified and discriminated as such, many thousands of years before the invention of systems of politics.

Because "whiteness" WAS created, I got a link to a short article about it.

The term "white" as anything but a vague descriptor was invented in the 17th century in the context of the atlantic slave trade. Before then, there was no whiteness. It originated, I believe, in Virginia. In groups and out groups existed before then, but never along modern "racial" lines, but more cultural and linguistic ones.

And really, whiteness could not be more artificially constructed if you tried. It did not "grow organically".

Unfortunately, this administration is likely to murder and terrorise a lot of people during it's time, so "it ends eventually" is cold comfort.

Hey, look what the Trump administration has done so far:



Not to mention trying to repeal a law that allows a lot of people to have health insurance. It's not perfect, but it's better than what Trump is offering, which is tax breaks for the wealthy and death for the poor. And the fact that his administration doesn't have even half of it's positions filled. And the fact that everyone he's hiring is a wall street rich kid. And the fact that he thought Obamacare was around for 17 years, proving he can't even do basic math. And the fact that he wants to build a pointless border wall, that's transparent so that drugs don't fall on people. OH, and not to mention the treason his administration committed and openly admitted to.

Why does anyone still support this wretched bloated rotten tangerine again? I can see zero reason to.

I'd be totally happy making more 256 character fonts. I have a few more I can expand, mostly from old computer bioses and bitmap fonts.

I don't see how either tinting or lightlevel can work in paletted games, frankly.

Look up tables, mainly. I believe the 8-bit lightlevel uses this allegro function.

I'm stuck again.

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I have garlic, a stake and lard, but I still don't know what I need to do to free Byron.

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USE the LARD on the CHAIN. Also, if you haven't got a tankard of ale by now, you'll have to restart, since that's a walking dead we accidentily left in there. I've fixed it but haven't published the fixed version yet.

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Alright! I think I've fixed ALL the bugs. It shouldn't crash again. You can download it from the game site or from this mirror:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/0zq42b3o8gsmmsv/Terror_of_the_Vampire_v1.32.zip?dl=0

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Now this might be silly to ask but...
How do I get soup?

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Ask the Barman for some (There should be a "can I order anything"). If the cook won't let you have anything, well, you'd better solve his problem as well.

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Also, I think I may have solved all the bugs, I'm just having a couple of people run through the game before I release it again. I'm not sure if save games will work, I really doubt it, but it's a really short game.

I'm trying to fix it, I'll release a bugfixed version in a bit, I'm trying to get together all the bugs and do em at once.

Are you playing on fullscreen mode or something? What's different to the default?

Blondbraid:

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How does he steal your soup? Copy him.

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Shadow1000: Thanks for the exact bug, I won't need to trigger it to put in a patch for that.

Mandle: Some other people got that too, I'll have a look at what causes it.

I don't get it. I tested that bit over and over, there's no crash there! Can you give me the error message that pops up? I've been trying to crush bugs since we released so any information is good x3

If you change the Graphics Filter to 4x nearest neighbour, it should try to run the game at a higher resolution. Unfortunately, if your graphics card is too new, you may have to play in a window instead!

Shadow1000:

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while Hoxton is away, MOVE the table.

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Thanks for the feedback, everyone, I'll get to work bugfixing as soon as I can!

I hope at least y'all enjoy it even if it is (slightly) buggy.

I can tell you that using any item while sitting down is not the solution, at least.

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What did you use the meat tenderiser on? What was the error message? I can't find anything that would crash the game there.

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