WHAT ARE YOU THINKING ABOUT RIGHT NOW?

author=Max McGee
we're all just yelling in a big empty room full of deaf idiots. Clumsy-as-shit, that metaphor, but marginally apt, I think.

That sums up life in general, albeit in a Lydia Deetz-ian sort of way.

By the way, I don't know if it has been brought up before ( I don't feel like sifting at the moment) or if you even talk about it, but have you worked on anything I would recognize?

In any case, I applaud you for being able to support yourself in that way. In the past, the few paid writing positions I've had never worked out well, largely because I usually ended up sinking way more time and effort into them than I could reasonably expect to be reimbursed for, to the point that they actually ended up costing me money. Granted, this wasn't for games, just some magazine and newspaper stuff that I was more than happy to bury under nom de plumes and attempt to forget about.

Hmmmm...

(So, I have that new "Zelda" game, right? Right? Ah...I bought it almost a week ago and still haven't played it, yet. Um...I think I'm finding myself so -- lazy -- that I can't even turn on the "Power Button," or something...)

...Also, I'm thinking about "Boobs". No joke. :D

RIP, just in case. ='(

author=Brent
Um...I think I'm finding myself so -- lazy -- that I can't even turn on the "Power Button," or something...

Either that or your brain literally cannot process the fact that there's actually a GAME to play on your Wii. Lord knows that'd be my reaction if I still had mine.

Craze
oh god I need to shave but I am so tired

if I never post again I accidentally died in the bathroom :<

glad to see my wild neckbeard has inspired one man to groom their facial hair. Godspeed, brother.

Khos
This reminds me of those smashed-face cats.


:v

I CAN HAS RAZOR?!

that pirate game.

I'm thinking about the SNES being sent to my house so I can play Chrono Trigger
on its home system and not my computer.
Also. about Cait Sith's theme song- love that cat despite being allergic to them.
Edit: And why is this the Welp, Welp! forum?

NewBlacks avatar is amaaazing.
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I'm about to make a fairly radical statement. This might subconsciously follow off of "never hate a movie", I don't know.

Don't review indie games the same way you'd want commercial games to be reviewed. Because it is your responsibility first and foremost to nurture this community.

If you're going to write a review that gives a game one star, just don't do it. The best way you can help the community is just by not doing this. One star reviews don't help anyone. They will keep people who might have liked the game from experiencing it. They will cause people who would have avoided the game anyway to play it out of curiosity. And even assuming the most humble and receptive designer imaginable, assuming that she takes your review as gospel and changes every single thing you suggest, the blow to her will to continue is not justified by it, and the possibility for drama does not well serve the community.

If you think you'd be likely to give a game a one star review, just don't play it. If every time that someone had been about to write a one star review, they had instead just sat on their asses and done absolutely nothing, this community would be a much better place in every imaginable way: more games, more complete games, and a bigger userbase to enjoy them.

One star reviews don't serve the community at all. They only harm it.

I'm not saying the scale should begin at two--that would be retarded. The choice not to give games a one star review only matters if it's in the face of the possibility of doing so.

I am being way more specific than that, man.

There is a HUGE difference between "not writing a one star review" and "saying nothing". You're leaving out the entire concept of feedback and criticism without a specific value judgement such as a rating. If you thought a game had major problems, then tell the creator that by a PM or a comment. There's no need to take an action that specifically prevents other people from playing it. To do that is wrong.

I'm not saying "never say anything" I'm saying never say "no one should ever play this" which is a one star review says; it's a terrible thing to ascribe to someone's earnest effort.

I know what I'm saying is really radical, so I wasn't NOT expecting to have to defend it.