STORMCROW'S PROFILE

Thanks! The other side of this game has its first episode released, if you haven't checked that out already.

On this side of the game, the first release of Episode I should be coming out in the next few weeks. The to-do list right now looks like this, ideally:

• Fix all dialogue boxes and item descriptions so that the new font fits in correctly.
  
• Take screenshots/videos of a couple of the features I planned on blogging about last week.
  
• Cap off the new version, which will include two difficulties ('Bring It On' and 'I Just Don't Find Losing Repeatedly Very Fun, It Detracts From The Story"), and send it to my two playtesters, kumada and JustAShyDoge.
  
• Hear back from testers that nothing I fixed broke anything else.
  
• Final check to avoid a disastrous screw up like my release of the other half.
  
• Road To Paradise: The Staircase Episode I: Downstairs v0.5 public release.

Apologies for the shoddy video editing (artifacts and awkward cropping). Just learning the software, hopefully video quality will improve with time.

EDIT: Unborked, at least for me. Thanks Wheelman Zero for pointing out it was borked.

author=Darken

author=Shinan
I can understand the unfortune of not having Parasite Eve, but who really cares about Parasite Eve?

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Yeah I just wanted to +1 this.

author=Solitayre
I'm a thirty-three year old white man. Also from Detroit. I went to a conservative catholic high school. The vast majority of my family are deeply conservative. I have been around conservative people my whole life.

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This is the future of American conservatism, and there's literally nothing good in it. Nothing. Everything they say is horseshit. Every syllable.

American conservatism's future is a white nationalist movement, and I genuinely fear what will happen if it gets what it wants.

As one liberal to another, has it ever occurred to you that your rejection of and rebellion against your conservative upbringing was a major contributing factor in your rather extreme view of American conservatism?

author=Solitayre
Who's calling the shots? White nationalists. People promoting racial animus and a strong desire to lash out against, women, feminists, """SJWs""" or any attempts on progress or equality. They don't care about fiscal policy or spending except as means to hurt their enemies, so don't let them tell you they think its important.

So, you're absolutely right about who's calling the shots in American society. But the flip side of the coin is that SJWs (I feel no need to insulate it with three layers of scare quotes) have an equally problematical lock down on American culture. In a dozen different ways white people are being shamed and shit on for being born wrong and held accountable for things that chances are even their ancestors didn't do. Anti-white racism (it's a thing-really, I just don't have the time to find the at-least a dozen articles (which incidentally, is sickening) to Q.E.D. it) is running rampant throughout our culture.

As South Park explains beautifully in this video, SJWs essentially created and empowered the White Nationalist movement in our country. While we must never forget that the White Nationalist movement is WORSE than SJWs, we must also always remember that SJWs created it. I'm not saying there weren't White Racists before there were identity politics race-baiting radicals. I'm saying that the SJWs provided pressure and cause for the White Nationalist movement to organize.

First off, I 100% stand by my assertion that assassinating Trump is a fundamentally sane (and heroic, and patriotic) action. I am backing off from this statement zero percent. He is not only the greatest threat to American Democracy since Hitler, he is also the greatest threat to world geopolitical stability since Hitler. The fact that some clever internet debater once invented an axiom called "Godwin's Law" does literally nothing to change this. The only negative of Trump's death would be the very real possibility that it might kick off, as I once heard someone very cynically refer to it, "Civil War Part II". I was not alone in suffering a mental breakdown when Trump was elected. For starters, as a Christian I find it utterly appalling. This man is a venal, utterly selfish, egomaniacal cretin and his very existence repudiates every single Christian value. Secondly, as an intelligent person, it terrified me that the country had fallen into the hands of a complete and utter moron. Finally, as a progressive and a classical liberal, it terrified me because he was an avowed, unrepentant racist, sexist xenophobe. It is not inaccurate to say that I was proud to be an American until Trump was elected, and have not been since. Possibly that is the single thing I hate him the most for is that I can no longer honestly say I love my country or that I'm proud of it, which used to be a big part of my identity.

I feel less than zero shame for wanting Trump dead. What's that word for the opposite of shame? Oh yeah: pride.

Now let me try to respond to a thing or two here or there in this thread without it RUINING my entire day. This means I'm probably going to say some facts without proper citations. Oh well. I'll try to mostly stick to stating my opinions.

author=slash
The idea that GOP encourage "hard work" and liberals encourage "giving away free stuff" is laughable and easily disproven. It's based off the Republican idea that we live in a meritocracy - a society where hard work leads to success. Historically, however, the most hyper-successful people are those who have either inherited wealth or created it through evil means. Our president was made from his father's fortunes. Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and Richest Man In The World, makes $4,000 a second because his company has been fraught with worker abuse and underpayment for a decade - "hard work" didn't lead to his wealth; creating a monopoly that screws its workers did. And as a resident of Michigan, the result of our governor "running the state like a business" led to an environmental disaster than has been plaguing a major city for years.

The GOP's policies do nothing to encourage hard work - they benefit corporations, not employees. The theory is that giving a corporation more money (by cutting taxes) will help their workers, but historically, companies will just give themselves and the stockholders bigger bonuses. The lion's share of the benefit goes to a small, wealthy group, once again. This is not a meritocracy, and Republican fiscal policies do not benefit those who work hard - they benefit those who already have money, and those who make the rules.

Preach, brother! I agree with 99.9% of what you're saying here. The only amendment I'd make is that successful businessmen, successful conservatives, and successful conservative businessmen may very well be very, very hard workers. I had cause to know a millionaire Libertarian and he did indeed work very, very hard and in fact his family was one of those that had come from nothing, absolute dirt-poor poverty.

However, what Republicans and Libertarians seem to find impossible to perceive is that the Mexican-American single mother working double shifts at McDonald's to try and feed her three kids or the white kid whittling his life away at a GameStop while he desperately tries to monetize his indie game design career are working just as hard. These people just haven't had any of the breaks that they've had, and/or have made different choices. If you work equally hard, you're going to earn a lot more from Halliburton (like the bootstrapping Libertarian mentioned above) than say, trying to be a novelist or working as a vet tech.