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Dungeon Keeper.

A dark soul finds friendship at last.

The minute this goes on sale I'll grab it. I have to many unfinished titles in my backlog at the moment to justify springing for a full price game.

So the Stax's have arrived and it official now, I'm a audiophile douche. The detail that these "earspeakers" provide is just on another level. I bought these because I was curious if high end audio was really that good. I figured that if they were just a minor upgrade to my Sony's I could always return them. But after trying them out I understand why people are willing to spend so much (and you can easily spend even way more) on headphones. It's a bit of a cliché to say but I have heard things trough these headphones that I never heard before. Tracks that I knew inside out are suddenly full of detail that wasn't there before. Especially songs that have lots of layered sounds are amazing.For games they are good as well but they do not work with a VR headset because of their size. They also look absolutely ridiculous on my head.

This isn't me but yeah, these things look really dumb...

I know my posts have derailed this thread. And I am sorry for that.

@sethmode: This is what he wrote: Real talk: If you aren't interested in being the one who aggressively, physically refuses fascists a space to talk, alright, fine.

There are lots of reasons that people don't want to throw hands. I get that. I'm not asking everyone to be the dude who clocks Spencer.

But if you think that we really need to have a calm, rational debate with folks who regularly frame genocide as a logical action, then peace

If this disappoints you, if you thought I was "smarter" than this, then maybe take a second to consider I might not be talking out my ass.

While you encourage me to debate a brick wall, I'll be busy trying to keep it from fucking falling on my head.

I have been biting my tongue on this shit for two weeks now while literal white supremacists have been driving down my block shouting slurs

(That Shia installation piece really brought out the best of the best, truly.)

@sethmode: I have just read some comments Austin made on twitter that spurred me to write this remark. His stance on violence as a justified means of protest doesn't sit right with me at all.

I do agree that a story like that of the eatern front soldiers is nigh impossible to get right and I proposed it more to illustrate that when you look at history and the history of ideologies in particular you will find that it is hard to reduce things to the simplistic good/bad narrative we always see. People believe themselves as heroes and then turn out to be utterly wrong. It is the unspoken history that is avoided due to its complexity. There are no winners in these stories but there are deep lessons to be learned from them. I would say that people who are quick to condone violence against a group their ideology does not agree with would do well to listen to these stories.

I would be afraid Austin Walker would punch me or incite others to punch me. Other then that yeah I would like to play a game were I get to play from the perspective of a German soldier or even a SS guy. You could write a compelling story about how a person gets wrapped up in this vicious ideology and show that anyone could fall in this trap. You could set it on the eastern front were many ideologically brainwashed guys got to face the horrific consequences of their choice.

I saw an interview once with a Flemish eastern front guy. Here in Belgium many of them were seduced by the German war machine by stories about how Germany would support an independent Flanders. They enlisted with a combination of misguided hope and also a Catholitic inspired aversion to the ungodly Soviets. They saw themselves as freedom fighters and were generally respected in the community as heroes who were going of to fight the evil communists and who would come back to build an independent Flanders. Many of them were horrified by the reality of the war. They were disgusted by the actions of their German leaders but they were wearing German uniforms. When the few that survived the horror came back to my country they were not received as heroes at all. The population had endured the full brunt of war and many had lost family and friends in the death camps. The eastern front soldiers were (sometimes rightfully but other times unjustly) condemned and sentenced as collaborators. Some of them were staunch believers in the Nazi propaganda and had participated in atrocities but others were misguided and ultimately disillusioned by what had happened.

It is a very difficult chapter in the history of my country that is hard to tell without falling into the trap of stereotypes. If someone had the guts to tell this story from the perspective of someone who was lured into this madness without trying to justify what happened I would be more then interested to play it. Stories like this show that anyone can be seduced into using violence to support some vague ideas and that even emancipatory ideals can be used to entice people into a horrible war.

@bedouin: There is a disproportionate amount of gun related deaths in the US.If your only justification for gun ownership is self defence (and the numbers on that are all over the place) your case is very weak at best. Only a marginal amount of homicides are justified and you just have to look at how many guns end up being used to commit suicide or murder to realize that it probably is a bad idea to let everyone own a gun.All I can say is that in countries with strict gun laws there are less gun deaths and that is probably a good thing.

And Ok so an AR 15 is SEMI automatic is it? My mistake,I'm so sorry, I am sure that matters a lot to the people who end up death at the other side...

@devise22: I get that in more rural and open countries it makes some sense to allow people to have hunting rifles. But other then that I see no reasons why people should be allowed to have them. The self defence argument does not work. If you have a gun for self defence reasons you are far more likely to use that gun in any other way then in a self defence situation. And any self defence situation were a gun is used is far more likely to escalate. Self defence is always more wishy washy then most people think anyway. Sure there are situations were there clearly is an aggressor and a victim but more often then not things just escalate from rather minor conflicts that get out of hand.

I mean when I say I live in a bad neighbourhood I'm not joking. It is a low income, mixed race and overpopulated place. There are little conflicts here all the time. And I am sure that loads of people who live here would be all for guns as self defence. But I am also sure that as soon as this happens many of those little conflicts I see on a daily basis might end really badly. Again, nobody likes to believe they are the bad guy until they are in a situation were they do dumb things. Also when the police show up here they generaly don't act very nervous or have drawn guns. There is shouting and maybe someone ends up in handcuffs but that is generally as bad as it gets. The one time I have seen them really nervous and with guns out was at that Chechnyan wedding incident were there was a gun involved. If cops had to deal with that treath all the time I bet there would have been some police shootings here as well.

And yeah there will always be the professional criminals out there that buy their guns on the black market. But if a gun is highly illegal it is far less likely to be carried around and used in frivolous ways.