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So now that I'm settled in back home, I can explain some things I left out at 4am:

Bachelor's in not-STEM = Bachelor's in English. If someone asks the specifics, I say Literary Analysis and Argumentation because 90% of my coursework was about that.

I don't really have any specific needs or wants from where I'm living outside of a good gym, an economy where I don't get my shit pushed in by immigrants who will (try) to do the same entry-level job I'm applying for but for far cheaper, and good internet. I can live with crappy pizza and no Manhattan, and I've got no need for night life because I don't smoke and I don't drink. The weather doesn't bother me and I wouldn't complain if I had to live through a Wisconsin winter but my mom is looking for something more temperate after a lifetime in NYC. Our plan is to move somewhere where we can both stand on our own two feet and then locate a place for me to live on my own once we're gucci.

Funny enough, Glassdoor just published a "25 Best Cities for Jobs" in 2015 and Raleigh hit #1 so that instantly grabbed mom's attention. ATL is also still up there. I'm still interested in PA because of Carnegie Mellon.

Another help request from yours truly. I couldn't find/be assed to find mana's thread and jack it for my own very similar question (would probably be a hardcore necropost at this point too) so here goes:

I've got one last semester here at Stony Brook and then I take my Bachelor's in not-STEM and start trying to find a way to pay off my loans right proper quick. Now the catch is that even though my costs are pretty low in comparison to other people both in and outside of my major, my mom is old and cost of living here in NY just keeps going up and up, and I don't have any local connect back in Queens that are strong enough to get something worth a shit to start carrying bill-paying weight. Sure things can change in the job market for my last semester if I get a hookup from the "career center" here but I've been going there for three semesters now and I ain't exactly holdin' my breath at this point, so my mom and I are thinking about moving somewhere with a lower cost of living within a year or two after I graduate. We're pretty keen on staying on the East Coast, although Central US is a possibility.

Following places we were kicking around:
Northern Florida
Pennsylvania (possibly Pittsburgh for CMU since they have a Master's program there that I'm thinking about)
Atlanta, Georgia
Wisconsin (mom mentioned Wisconsin as a possible place but she hates winter in NY and I was like "why do you think Wisconsin will be better?")
One of the Carolinas
Tennessee

What's good, what ain't, holla @ me.

Discounted at $5 for 6 days because the squad has finally declared that Reflex has left prototyping and is now officially in Alpha testing.

It looks like Dustbowl across the TF generations where the attackers just throw bodies at the defenders and hope the defenders can't see over the bodies, and that's already not fun.

I'd also like to point out that the "play of the game" went to the SWEDEN YES engineer where he just held left click near people's models and got 4 fucking kills.

This. Open teams specifically, please use IRC. IRC being hard to use has become nothing more than a myth since whenever the fuck mibbit was made and then whenever atf2 came about.

ESEA season started already but for new players such as yourself you should check out UGC:
http://www.ugcleague.com/index.cfm

Bought Ys VI off of GoG, haven't played it yet since the season started and all. Comes with a 1gb artbook though, god bless Falcom's heart.

Ys 1 and 2 are actually pretty great until you play either the boss rush or the story on Nightmare. I still can't bring myself to beat Ys 1 on Nightmare.

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Can't go wrong with a buddy of Memedozer. You should check out UGC if you want to play HL, though.

This. Chances of Reflex taking off don't sound too good, though. I don't have the pinpoint precision needed for CS and the climb to get it would probably kill me. I'm not a big fan of fighting games, either, and I've played enough dota to last me a lifetime.

Time will tell if something fun and competitive comes out in the future, though.

It's mostly this for me, honestly. For Star Wars Battlefront 2 there's a lot of user-generated content to add some more stuff to the game that gameplay-wise is pretty radical but kinda looks like ass in some cases (for instance the entire KoTOR war mod). For all intents and purposes it adds somewhere in the ballpark of another gigabyte of content considering all of the map ports as well as the units added. Not to mention that a group released an unofficial network patch years ago to prepare for the inevitable server death that did end up coming around when Gamespy kicked the bucket.

Most of the people who made these mods have long since vanished from the video game scene despite their contributions.

Now imagine all of that behind a paywall.

What we're going to see is an extreme knee-jerk reaction rise in piracy in one form or another, be it sharing mods through filesharing sites and programs like Retroshare or people grabbing paid mods, making minute changes to them, and putting them up as free mods (the reverse of people taking once free mods made by other people and making them paid).

This whole "paid mods" thing has been nothing but a disaster and could have been completely circumvented if Valve turned it into a donate button and then offered modders some sort of content-creation assistance plan that Valve would get a cut from (example: modder puts some work into creating something actually feasible like the SWBF2 patches, they put in an application for Valve to help with cleanup and refinement, and then Valve would get a cut of each donation (5% or something). That way, a modder could either put in work themselves and earn full donations or request help from Valve and use whatever donation percentage as an exchange of services. This idea has a lot of holes but I'll be damned if it isn't already better than having black and white "paid mods" and "free mods".

https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/33uplp/mods_and_steam/

I hate when people link me shit that's posted on reddit because that site is innumerable levels of garbage for content and navigation but this is pretty relevant. Gabe's apparently sitting in a coffee shop for two hours and reading over stuff people are posting. Most of it is negative and asking why the hell the entire system didn't revolve around a donation button (which would have been a million times more effective and a whole lot more logical to do) and Gabe's answers haven't been too great. If you're like me and hate actually reading reddit, https://www.reddit.com/user/GabeNewellBellevue shows all of his responses. So far he seems keen on applying some damage control onto moderators editing and deleting user posts and changing from the paywall to a "pay what you want" system.

man you guys are posting about how NOT BAITED you are again in a pankeyman thread

Bump, seekin' a hand before the season starts