Khantael

Since the paid members update, I have been unable to access any videos on Giantbomb or other Whiskey Media sites - mostly. 
 
I've been experimenting for a while after Animevice worked just fine. Then it stopped working again and I figured out what I'd done differently. I have found what seems to be (part) of the issue: the add-on noscript, but not in the way you might think.
 
If I set noscript to allow Giantbomb, I can navigate the site but can't view videos. It's like a still picture, and the play etc. bar just won't appear.
 
If I forbid Giantbomb through noscript, I can watch videos but can't otherwise navigate the site too well. 
 
Removing no script is not an option after some scripts hidden in adverts have twice almost destroyed my computer.
 
This can't be the whole issue - videos aren't working on IE8 for me, either, though that might need a player update which I can try tomorrow - but I was wondering if anybody had seen something like this before and might have some idea of the cause. I'ven tried both low and high detail, progressive and streaming. 

Oh, and in case it's relevant: I do have adblock, but it's disabled on Giantbomb.  
 
(My apologies if this isn't a correct area as I don't know if it's a technical issue here, or some wider issue that other people may be experiencing and not realising what the issue is.)

Fjordson has a good list. They're mostly stand alones too. Day of the Tentacle is technically a sequel to Maniac Mansion but you could play them in either order - it doesn't really require knowledge of the first game. There's the new Telltale games now, too. 
 
I will say this for Grim Fandango: it's a great game, but the controls may drive you a bit insane but it's well worth it. (I am mostly talking about the many times I walked into doors, suddenly about turning and heading back the other way and leaving me going "damnit!" a lot, haha.)

I'm less of a fan of modern games than I was with the games that came out in the 90s when I was a kid. Mostly because my favourite game genre is considerably downsized (adventure games). I don't play shooters generally, so I don't really care about advancements there to be honest, same with most fighting games. I like RPGs, but it feels like less are being made, certainly for the consoles that I own anyway... and I see ones for other consoles and I'm very hesitant.
 
So, 'm not as happy, but that's a personal thing as it doesn't cater so well for me. I'm sure for people who do love shooters etc. it's great.

 I think it's partially a demographic thing. They assume it'll sell more - and whether it would make a difference is difficult to tell as nobody has really tried and tested it any other way. That, or it's assumed a "default" person is white (or Asian for Asian games, which can come across as looking like white) for whatever reason (I'd guess it's to do with the ethnic majority of the country the developers are from, but that's a guess).
 
I think ethnic minorities and women in games also tend to be shoehorned into being rather stereotypical. Heck, you get it in voice casting (or film casting) sometimes. Is a character a drunkard? What's the likelihood they'll be cast as being Irish? They are less characters in their own right and more of a representation, if that makes sense, and not necessarily an accurate one. It's an assumption on the part of the developers. 
 
I see it a lot with women in games. There are plenty of women in games who are there to look sexy and sell copies. They don't have a character beyond that, or beyond being a love interest or whatever. It's pretty sad really as far as I'm concerned. As a girl, I've yet to see a woman in a videogame I've been able to relate to - yet I have with a few male characters. Funny, that.  
 
As for women... how many women older than in the mid twenties do you see in games? Not many. 

I had a very different party to you... I ended up using Aigis, Koromaru and Ken which worked out pretty well for me. Ken in battle amuses me. For being a little kid, he's the one to say stuff like "aw, crap!" and gets the attacks like kill rush and quite possibly fatal end. XD

The dog is amazing. Really. :D

So I've been thinking about this lately...
 
Say you play an online strategy game of some kind (I'm not talking about a specific game) that awards points for winning, either less points or no points for drawing, and docks points for losing. You end up losing really badly... do you fight it out to the end, or do you resign so the other player can't get a win to spite them? If it makes any difference, there's a hiscore table for the points.
 
I've heard some people complaining about the latter (not on this site) lately, so I was wondering how many people actually do that. 
 
Personally, I don't resign if I'm losing badly, because watching another player teaches me how to play the game a heck of a lot better than me reading instructions does...
 
Beyond that, if anbody does resign in games... what normally makes you resign? I will if somebody is idle for a ridiculous amount of time, personally...

When I was young (no older than eight, but probably younger), I played the first two Monkey Island games. Well, I played the first. The second... I got up to the swamp area of LeChuck's Revenge and had nightmares and refused to go to bed for a while... so I got temporarily banned from playing it (not that I'd have wanted to for a while!). 
 
Another game I played when it was new out that creeped me out... Fahrenheit (or I ndigo Prophecy as the wiki calls it). Probably didn't help that I was playing the game while sick which makes me a bit jumpier. There's this part where you're in a church and get attacked by stone angels or something like that and it seriously creeped me out, and I refused to ever put it on again without the company of a (several years younger) cousin. I'd had creeped out issues with the game before (my PS2 hanging on a truly terrifyingly murderous face so that I had to pull the plug as the button didn't wanna work being one of them), but that's the point where I "fear-quit".

I don't like the idea of filtering via author (or via main crew vs. not main crew), personally. 
 
I like this site, and I generally like the community. What I don't like is the constant instance that whatever Brad, Vinny, Ryan and Jeff do is faultless and anything done by anybody else has fifty million issues. I know not everybody does this, and that not everybody who dislikes the new news stories dislikes them because they're written by a new name.
 
But there are people that do, and I don't like that attitude. To me, filtering by author/old crew does more harm than good as it feeds the idea that only the original four have anything worth saying. And I also really don't have any desire to read yet more whining about new staff... by people who've filtered out being able to read their stuff anyway. Because you can guarantee that will happen. 
 
I like the original Giant Bomb crew a great deal. But I think it does everyone a huge disservice when people start being elitist about this for no reason. 
 
In principle, I'd agree with filters (though to be fair, this site doesn't have that much news that it's massively necessary) - but not sorting by staff.  
 
(Now back to the original post suggestion...)
 
I do, however, like the suggestion in the original post. Filtering by game would be very useful... though I suppose in some ways we can do that now, if we go to a main game page and click 'news and blogs'. But I guess you mean something a bit more in depth? I wouldn't mind seeing a videos only feed either, although again... pretty easy just to click 'videos'.

There are quite a few girls on Giant Bomb; we just like to ninja hide or something. :D 
 
It's funny, but FF8 was one of my first game experiences too. It really got me into games. I practically hero-worshipped Squall as a kid!
 
Until using the internet, I'd never really seen any of this girl gamer prejudice. I used to hang out in my next door neighbour's house and play Tekken and Mortal Kombat games with great frequency! Some wrestling ones too. I also had my own games on gameboy and playstation... nobody around here found it weird. Maybe because I did hang around with boys rather than girls if with anyone at all, I dunno. 
 
It was never a big deal to me until I saw what a big deal other people make of it on the internet.