You’re a good person and I appreciate you doing that. Thank you.

Half a house for half off?

This is why I’m afraid to move. I got into a rent-controlled apartment in Echo Park during the crash, and I pay well below market (and all I have to do is live with 1,000 roommates of the order Blattodea). I could buy a place in another state for what I pay here, but if I move I can probably never come back.

I would go so far as to say that was a design aim of the game, to give you that experience of feeling distanced from the humanity of what you’re trying to make.

That’s incredible. Not the housing thing, I’d expect the military to waste money on putting officers up in fancy digs and not give a shit about lower-ranking people with families (it sucks but it’s not surprising), but the fact that “Hey guys, he’s cool” is enough to put somebody into a military intelligence position.

I’m not saying their rights are being forced from them. I’m saying the half-assed practice of psychology by a gaming company creeps me out. When Facebook was running psychological experiments on people everybody (rightly) lost their shit.

Isn’t there some kind of potential HIPAA issue with doing this?

Wait. So you can just apply for a job as an intelligence advisor and say “I was in the CIA” and they don’t even bother to check?

this may very well not be the answer

What good has bipartisanship done Obama? Republicans shut down the government once already, and it was by refusing to be “bipartisan” and cave to their agenda that Obama faced them down. The only reason we (temporarily) avoided a government shutdown this time is because Boehner threw himself on the live grenade that…

So I actually went to their website instead of just writing from my own bias, and I discovered the following:

I had the same thought. I wonder whether it’s deliberate, capitalizing on Contantine’s reemergence into the top of fans’ minds due to the tragically cancelled TV show.

This makes total sense when you consider the school. Pictured: the average Aliso Viejo/Laguna Niguel parent.

Breach & Clear is the only game they’ve done. It’s a game originally made for mobile and then ported to desktop, where you control a SWAT team in turn-based combat. It’s either top-down or you can change the camera angle a little; I can’t remember which. It’s not a bad game, but it’s also not a great game.

Who’s moving the goalposts? Your argument, as evidenced by your opening statement, is that Columbus Day should be preserved as a US holiday. But since I did not limit my argument to rebutting yours, I’ll bite: even if we celebrated Mesoamerican cultural accomplishments, that would be different from celebrating their…

I am not aware of a holiday celebrating the cultural accomplishments of the Mesoamerican cultures.

One could not construe this as limiting free speech, since it only applies to public schools that are an arm of the government and therefore do not have the right to freedom of speech. Private schools can still be as racist as they want to be.

The analogy is merely illustrative. The central point is that an unintentional positive outcome of a systematic atrocity does not justify the celebration of that atrocity.

Celebrating the unintentional benefits of a systematic enslavement/genocide/what have you is profoundly absurd. The Nazis invented rockets and without them we wouldn’t have a space program, or the very many wonderful things that have been the result of our space program. It does not follow that we should therefore…

Yes. More psychological horror please. All the psychological horror. I need more games I’m afraid to play at night. Only Silent Hill and Amnesia: The Dark Descent have ever done that for me (haven’t played Soma yet).