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That facts that don't suit the overriding agenda can be handwaved away and the person presenting them should be called into question for making "false equivalencies", "arguing in bad faith" and yadda yadda yadda . That suggestions for progress that aren't based only on skin colour, gender and sexuality are not suggestions for progress at all. That I have been presented with this binary choice: It's either chance, or black people and women are incapable. Couldn't possibly be anything else... Extremely narrow view of the world and people who make opposing arguments. It's like those people who claim to want to listen to the other side of a discussion and then say "So what you're saying is..." before they inevitably put words in your mouth and misrepresent your point of view. This is why it's a waste of time to argue with such people.

This is such a ResetEra response. I've explained why it's a waste of time to engage with intersectionalists and this post is a pretty good example of why. Long-winded and says a lot without actually saying anything at all. Attack the character of the person ("disingenuous" - "are black people or women simply incapable?"), attach silly little commentary and labels like "false equivalence". Hence why engaging doesn't really serve any purpose. Tell my why my equivalencies are false. Is it the one where we should ignore some sections of society, like Indians and white working-class, and only focus on the ones which support our argument like Black British communities? Go a few pages back and you'll see my suggestion of how things could be improved in a way that doesn't burn society to the ground. I guess my suggestions are not the right way of progressing things. No interest in BLM's version of progress from me whatsoever, you're right. Of the last seven British Prime Ministers, two have been female. Of the last seven US presidents, one has been black. Looks like representation is increasing, doesn't it? Not sure what point you're trying to make here. Progress has ONLY netted us much better representation in the last 50 years. But no, it's much better to measure from the beginning of history so it looks better for our cause! It really is all or nothing with the left isn't it? No progress will ever be enough. So what have I rambled about? I've offered solutions. Haven't seen anyone else do that so far apart from Will and Animal (sorry, Beast) who actually considered my points and raised their issues with some of them, which I agree with. Good job calling me out on using stats and adding videos of people who are better at arguing and making a point than I am. I guess statistics and academia really doesn't matter after all. Might as well do away with it all if we're going to embrace our socialist utopia! Then no-one will be allowed to disagree! I'll remember next time that people on the internet are objectively more truthful than research and respected scientists. I guess your videos are the only ones that should be watched because they back up your objective truth that society is racist. My bad.

Day 8 - Best musical moment I'm not playing hard mode so excuse me for using Skyward Sword again. Zelda finally had an orchestrated OST. This is cool for those that didn't know:

So I think I'm done with the Steam Sale now. I've added 40 games to my collection. Most of them are older titles I've been wanting to play for a while but never had the means to do so. I also picked up a few more recent and expensive titles. I got Sea of Thieves at full price because I've been waiting to jump in on that for a while. Also picked up Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Monster Hunter World (first time with the series), Final Fantasy XV, Titanfall II and a whole bunch of fairly recent indie games (new Ori and the Will of the Wisps, Hyperchage Unboxed and Disco Elysium). Think I spent around £120-130 overall. I'm hoping this keeps me well occupied until the next inevitable Steam sale. I just hope it happens before my Russian bank card expires in November

+ 1 for Xbox One controller love. I've had mine for about a year now and it is easily the best controller on the market. It fits my hands like a glove and is great for a whole manner of games like FPSs, Racing (cough, analogue triggers, cough) and even Indie games which use the D-Pad. I've had no problems on Crypt of the Necrodancer, for example. I agree about the button layout though, going between Switch and Xbox is such a pain and I'm constantly getting A/B and X/Y mixed up.

Day 7 - Favourite ranged combat Still the GOAT Star Wars game.

Styrian GP Predctions Pole - Bottas FL - Albon 1st - Verstappen 2nd - Bottas 3rd - Albon 4th - Norris 5th - Perez

Quoting for truth. Easily gets my vote too.

I finished GTA3 with a friend in school and got less interested as the series went on. Though the atmosphere of Vice City sublimely captured the time, and the motorbikes were a great addition, I never had the desire to finish it. San Andreas went too far for me. I loved Los Santos but quickly became disinterested after it expanded out of there. I felt it was too big for its own good and too aimless at times. No surprise that I loved IV, it did away with the stuff I didn’t like about SA.

3D Platformer Man this was so tough. At first I wanted to go with @bob and choose Banjo-Kazooie. It's not a secret that I loved it more than Mario 64 and I agree with him on every point. I Love both Mario Sunshine and Mario Odyssey and have particularly special memories of the former. Mario Galaxy has been beaten twice to 120 stars, the only Mario game I've 100%d, and is probably the most inventive platformer I've ever played (only played 3 or 4 hours of the second, to my shame). I think overall though, I'm going to go with @Ronnie. I just had so much FUN playing this game and loved the level design, the visuals and the OST. Hate that it gets so much criticism from some quarters because I just for the life of me can't see it. This was Nintendo reinventing the wheel AGAIN by blending 2D and 3D mechanics so seamlessly. Yeah, I know 3D Land did it first, but this perfected the formula. Super Mario 3D World

God I LOVE formula one

Local Multiplayer Like others, my best memories of local gaming is from the N64 era. Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, Smash Bros. 64 and Diddy Kong Racing all deserve a mention here, but I'm going to plump for Mario Party. Me and my brothers spent hours and hours playing this game and destroyed all three of our controllers in the process. Best villain This is a tougher one. I think Wind Waker Ganon would probably take it for me too, superb re-imagining after Ocarina of Time. I think I'm going to go for this guy though. I really like his design and how different he is from other Nintendo bad guys. Has a lot of personality and an Emo hairstyle that hearkens back to the era he was conceived in.

Just picked this up on Steam. Looking forward to playing though it after reading all your impressions. Definitely more hyped than for the new Paper Mario.

Finally. I feel like I’ve been waiting for that forever. Almost teary eyed at the F1 music intro.

Interestingly, I could never really get into 5. GTA4 is one of my favourite games of all time. I loved the gritty and realistic direction they went in for that one and thought the world they built felt more alive than anything I'd every experienced before it. The hazy and grey art style really captures New York well. It still looks amazing today. I've given 5 a go a few times but I just feel it's lacking what made 4 so special.

I've had friends arrested for stuff they've posted on social media and had friends planted with drugs when they attended unsanctioned political gatherings or unofficial pride parades. When you have to stop and think before you post something on social media, the game is already over. When you walk around with cash in your pocket in case you get stopped by the police and might need to bribe your way out of a situation, something is very, very wrong. The UK is far from perfect, but the authoritarian nature of these movements is extremely worrying and everyone needs to take a step back and think about where they want to be in five or ten years time. We already see this sort of behaviour in the online space, particularly on social media, it's creeping into the mainstream and it will be too late before many people realise what's happening.

Technically not an opening, so I apologise. After what had already been an incredible opening section of a game, this took it one step further.

The two main problems I see with Postmodernism, and intersectionality as an off-shoot. 1) It never aims to solve any problems, but endlessly find more and more. 2) It is replacing religion in the West. That's why you see people "taking a knee" to show their 'purity' and commitment to the cause. That's why you see people getting cancelled for the most minor of transgressions, even if they happened 5, 10, 20 years ago. There is no redemption unless they completely cave to the mob and atone for their sins. That's why people are labelled "alt-right" - as they don't subscribe to the religion, they must be silenced so that the masses of sensible people don't tune in to their message. Anyone in a debate that focuses on illegitimacy of someone to speak based on their skin, race, gender or sexuality is not arguing from a place of intellectual honesty, but because they want power over that person to shape the narrative. And of course, that makes them racist, sexist or whatever -ist by default, there's no other way to put it. They will never acknowledge that and instead will tell you to "check your privilege" and other various word-soup nonsense that is designed to distract from a proper argument or debate and highlight how "bad" the other person is. Postmodernists never build, only destroy. It is a waste of time to engage with such people because you will never be afforded the position of having a potentially legitimate argument. Your solutions will never be considered and you will instead be attacked as being some kind of -ist if you come from a position of accepted modernist truth. That is why the phrase post-truth has some resonance in modern society. To them, it simply doesn't matter. I want everyone to be free to make up their own minds. The facts and the truth are out there, you just have to do the work yourself. Some people prefer to ignore it because it's not convenient and they're happy to just go by ignoring the noise, but censorship is coming if these groups get any more power. I'll add to my input by playing the postmodernist game - "my truth" I became a hardcore Marxist in University, you can go over my post history on this site if you have any doubts. I bought into it all, social justice, postmodernism, the lot. I wanted to make the world a better place for everyone. I didn't understand why there was so much injustice in the world, particularly the West. I hated my own country and hated capitalism. So much so, that I took myself to Russia and learnt Russian to an almost-native level so I could read everything in the original language and try to understand how socialism failed and how it could work in practice. When I eventually came back after the Brexit vote, I immediately joined Labour and Momentum and started getting involved, 100% behind Corbyn, I never thought someone like him would be the head of a major party in my lifetime. The people in Momentum were some of the most vile and dangerous people I've ever come across, oh and antisemites. Real hardcore antisemites. They have no interest in making anything better for anyone except themselves. They want power and are happy to use every single minority to get it. All you have to do is look at ResetEra to see where this is going. The postmodernists took positions of power at NeoGAF during the last US election, tried to frame the owner for a sexual digression and when they couldn't fully take over GAF, they broke off and started Era. In the space of 2 years, they had banned 20% of the entire userbase. Over 10,000 people. This sounds like ridiculous fan fiction, but it's playing out right in front of our eyes, these people want power at the expense of anyone that gets in their way. Democracy, liberty and freedom of speech will all be sacrificed in the name of "social justice". Go read any thread on ResetEra and you'll see the open, blatant and disgusting vitriol directed at anyone who identifies as white, straight, or as a "gamer". Call them out or disagree and you're wiped off the face of the Earth. Well, Era, not Earth. But still, some people have even been targeted in their jobs for stuff they've said on Era (that's why they make you sign up with a work e-mail address ). I 100% support equal rights and equality of opportunity for all regardless of race, gender and sexuality. I am 100% in favour of having a rational debate and trying to find real solutions to make Britain a better place for all. I am 100% against Black Lives Matter. So again, thanks to the people who engaged honestly. Everyone else, feel free to ignore me, but let me give you a warning: living in a country that doesn't have freedom of speech, democracy and liberty, really makes you appreciate it a whole lot more.

Thanks, @londragon, got it.

Wait, I'm getting confused with all these currencies. I just checked and It's £4.49 per character in the U.K. and £22.49 for the pass, my bad. So £45 for both packs. It's not a massive difference, but still feels like a lot. I've got the first one and love three of the five characters, will probably get the second at reveal 3 / 4. Min Min is a great start. Give me Hollow Knight and it's an instabuy

90s School kids, can I get a hell yeah?! It's our planet, it's our place, we must save the human race, eaaaaaarth warp, we must save the woooorld! Definitely remember playing Earth Warp on the BBC Mirco in Mrs. Hill's class (year 4) at Woodthorpe Primary School. Ollie the Alien, what a guy. + 10 internet points for remembering "Through the Dragon's eye". Also had a BBC Micro game as far as I remember...

Hahah, yes! I was probably a lot older than you (maybe 11 or 12) but I still remember absolutely shitting myself playing this game. It was the first "horror" game I ever played. What a game. Still love it more than the PS1 Resi games to this day. Again, older than you, which is why me and my friend tried the "Naked Lara Croft" cheat. Absolutely not worth it.

That's fair enough regarding Smash characters and value. I know a lot of work goes into them, and Greg did bring up the task of balancing everything, to be fair. Can't be a simple process! Smash Bros. is insane value getting 70+ characters at the base price, but then again, I guess most of them have been largely balanced in previous games. This is already a 20+ year old series after all. I appreciate the fact they throw in a stage and remixed music with every one, but still 5 or 6 pounds still feels like a lot. The pass is better value, of course. But getting the 2 passes is 50 quid. You're talking the price of a full game there for 10 characters! Maybe good in comparison with other fighters like MK or SFV, but still a lot of money to drop. I've got Sans and Cuphead, so I guess it's true that the completionist incentive doesn't really apply here. People will drop a small amount of money on the things they specifically want. These are two of my favourite characters of the past 5 years, so it makes sense that I bought in. I still think the price is a little steep, but the music definitely sweetens the deal. The rest of the costumes don't really interest me (bar fallout guy), but I do think it would be wise for Nintendo to offer a bundle of all of them for a massively reduced price. I'd pay a fiver, for example, to get them all. I'm not massively familiar with the FE3H DLC (still haven't picked it up), I guess I was too presumptive in the podcast, but I know it was fairly substantial and added a lot to the story. So like Xenoblade 2, it seems like it might be worth it even if the price is quite high. With regards to the 3DS games, I'd argue that development costs are substantially lower in that case, so making a sequel requires less of an investment. With the 3D graphics and assets etc. that can't be such an easy task. I know the bulk of the work is done building the engine and stuff, but FE in 3D is a perfect example of a game I'd take one iteration per gen + substantial DLC if I'd enjoyed the full base game. For me, I wouldn't particularly want to play through two games of the genre in one gen. I agree with this on the whole. I said it in the podcast myself that I'd want a sequel to BOTW and Mario Odyssey. I think you're right about single player games (despite my earlier point about FE) that single player games are often better with a sequel. For me, bookending the gen is the best way to do this. Mario and Zelda at the start to attract the early adopters and the full sequels at the end of the gen to show "how far" they've come in terms of understanding the tech. Though this, I would argue, means it's less likely we'd start the next gen with these games. At the same time, I still believe though that one Splatoon, one Mario Kart, Animal Crossing and one Smash Bros. per gen is more than enough. I'd buy in to paid DLC and substantial support for any of these. As for more "obscure" single player games like Xenoblade and Fire Emblem, I'm also happy with one iteration per gen. + substantial DLC with minor improvements should I want to jump back in a year or two later.

Earliest gaming memory Standing in the corner of the living room by the table lamp because my dad refused to switch on "the big light" 20 minutes an evening was all I was allowed. 1990. Some great memories of this and Tetris. I may have played a NES and SMB3 at my next door neighbour's house before this, but honestly it's all a haze these days. The GB was the first one I owned by proxy (Dad got one for boat trips across the bay in Hong Kong when he was working there). Don't think he realised his mistake when he introduced me to it once he came home. He still regrets picking one up to this day, I'm sure.

@Jonnas I'll respond to the rest of this later, but for now...