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Cosigning the person who suggested the drug trial, which for me was triggered by approaching a poster on the wall you face when you enter the northern opening to the alley with the dance goblins in it.

I also love the club Sunshine stuff so much (to the point that I got VERY EXCITED before I realized the new east coast feature was about Mario and not hostesses) but I know there's a ton of it and it's not feasible to see it all. I do think it's more worth pursuing than the real estate, largely because the Platinum girls are really great to interact with and also Majima's ultimate secret fighting style that you unlock at the end of it is INCREDIBLY fun (might be worth looking up a video of that, it's called Mad Dog of Shimano).

Hear me out anyway, because I've gotta make my pitch about finishing just one of the girls' "arcs". You're actually very close to finishing Yuki's, I think you're actually like 3 training sessions (the special thing you can do with a platinum hostess before opening the club) from seeing the culmination her story/relationship. And one of those dates is karaoke with a special very cute music video just for her, it's VERY good (two of the other girls you recruit down the line, Chika and Hibiki, also have these, and those might be worth looking up separately?) After that you get a cute sub-story with her when you cap the relationship, which also unlocks one of those bikini balloon videos.

(Those videos are unlocked by doing sub-stories with the ladies in world/maxing their relationships btw, totally separate from collecting the porno phone cards which also feature the same models. So you have a video for the girl you saved from the cult, for instance, the girl who wanted Majima to fake being her boyfriend, the "daddy" club girl, etc.)

Anyway, capping Yuki's stuff would also very likely be enough to wrap up the Club Mars rivalry too, and to just see how the general pattern of that stuff goes.

So that's my hard sell. Regardless of what you all decide to focus on for the wrap-up stream, Beast in the East has been one of my favourite features in a while. I looked forward to it every week, so thank you guys for all of your hard, hooligan-pummeling, orange-in-mouth-punching, Mr.-Libido-side-eyeing work!

I want to join the chorus of thank yous here, but I want to say something else as well. I really really like Giant Bomb. I like Patrick's clever criticism and Vinny's effortless charm and Alex's dry wit and Drew's cheerful earnestness and Jeff's world-weariness and Brad's barely restrained reactions to Dan and Rorie's on-point approach to moderation and I could go on and on. I'm also a lady, and I'm enthusiastic as hell about the industry and the social issues within. Of course I wish my favourite gaming site wasn't another line up of white guys, but I still like you all a whole bunch and I can't see that changing any time soon. That's why coming out and writing pieces like this, even when they're about a topic that you would rather ignore than lend any legitimacy to, is really important.

Just speaking for myself, it's a reassurance. I never felt like you guys were pro-GG, or indifferent to the harassment, that was never a concern that crossed my mind given things that have come up in the past. It was more like when you've had a rough week (or month, or two) and you're having lunch with a a friend and they pat your back, or treat you to dessert, or just ask "Hey, are you doing okay?" You already knew that they cared -- that was never in question -- but that little gesture still means quite a lot.

"... a conceptually similar game for 'kids and girls'..."

(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ

This was my first attempt at transcribing junk into .abc so the timing's not 100%, but still.

Download it here.

To install, just drop it into Starbound> Assets > Songs and it should be in your songlist the next time you start the game & use an instrument.

I wrote about why people shouldn't feel embarrassed for grieving over a man they may have never met... And also made these for New Leaf:

Something I put together this evening, shirt and not-shirt versions

The Star is pretty trashy tbh. I hope that reporter is pleased with herself.

Some people are just broken records, and you will never change their minds. I guess it must really suck when people want to discuss an issue that you don't deem important, but thankfully we don't live in a fascist state controlled by the GB crew where the penalty for skipping one of Patrick's articles is a free gulag vacay.

Anyway, this was an interesting post, and even though I agree that this sexy severed torso thing is in ridiculously poor taste, I would have liked to read opinions from notable people falling on both sides of the spectrum. Then again 2012 saw a lot of progress on this subject, so I can also see why people in certain positions wouldn't want to share a potentially controversial opinion. I'm glad Patrick writes these pieces, regardless. This is not what trashy internet journalism looks like at all. Get over it.

Patrick, I hope you know that you're pretty great.