Does he not play a lot of adventure games? Someone should tell him that due to their slower pace, they all have little trouble running at 60 FPS.

At least The Longest Journey is in the sale—that thing was a gateway drug that hooked me on adventure games. It really takes a special game to change someone's mind about an entire genre.

Firstly because trans are still a stigmatized category, and our society is only starting to change about that. So we live in sensitive times about it, with still conflicting representations. So, it is a time of legitimate suspicion and sensitivity.

Secondly because, on the other side, you also have people who are genuinely transphobic (and not yet ashamed of it), and people who are just as categoric in their own interpretation ("nooo, nobody could see anything transphobic about that joke, are you crazy?") mostly as a knee-jerk attempt to shield interactive tales from the sort of ideological analysis that all other forms of art/entertainment are subject to. Which is a broader dispute, members of which usually don't care about the technicalities of individual cases (it's basically "all cases are oppressive" versus "no case is oppressive").

The subjective, "rorschach" aspect of this joke is being denied by both sides, with more or less similar bad faith, which makes each side look dishonest to the other (well it is), and strengthens postures. "Why trying when the other side doesn't even try ?" - the dishonesty of the other side only confirms one's own righteousness.

And thirdly because, after all, the purpose of it all is mostly the joy of breathing flames on a forum. Jumping to conclusions is its own reward. Strong categoric stances make one feel so badass.

I've not mentioned Gamergate, at all, seeing as it has never been much of an issue regarding GOG. Enough has been written on that subject, pro and con, for defenders and detractors to make up their own minds (or, even more wisely, not care one way or the other and simply go on enjoying the games one enjoys without bothering others with their hang-ups).

Rather, I was referring to a strange passage in your earlier post, regarding Donald Trump (whom no one outside of America cares much about and whom even most Americans consider an inconsequential bit of media theatre that will fade as fast as any mainstream outrage prop that runs through the mill). I realize my wording may have confused you, since I included it in response to your later post, so that may help clarify things for you. No one cares enough about Trump to invoke his name on a Polish site with an international audience, except for you, apparently.

An earlier commenter brought up the fact that he was unfamiliar with all of this "controversy" and didn't much care about it, seeing as he is from "the part of Europe that has bigger problems." He was from Serbia. Kinda puts things in perspective, for any reasonable person, I'd imagine. He came here to forget this sort of nit-picky nonsense (and far even far bigger issues in his reality) to find escape a fun diversion. That diversion is gaming. It's what this site is about. If you have other issues, there are forums for you to discuss these issues.
Why don't you stop parroting lingo that you evidently learned elsewhere and tell us about which games you enjoy? You've made your point. It's obvious that not everyone is going to share your opinion or your perception. So, if you cannot bring yourself to discuss which genres of games you enjoy, then it would appear you are absolutely wasting your time.
I have Longest Journey in my queue. Been waiting to embark on that one. Seems really cool. I have never been much of one for RPGs, or FPS, for whatever reason. I think they're neat, but I get quite engrossed by point-and-click games, for whatever reason.

Do the King's Bounty games have a skirmish sort of mode like Heroes 3 and 4? Single scenario, I mean?
I didn't include Heroes 5 because the amount of flexibility in creating single scenarios is terrible in it.

And now let's dig this celebrity for some really stupid joke (Yeah the joke is VERY stupid, but I wonder how many of you never did stupid jokes)

The day the people started to do "cultural criticism on videogames" instead of playing and enjoying them, decadence arrives everywhere...

People get old playing and now, they want to transform their "hobby" in politics and philosophy, sometimes I think is pure embarrassment to appear to be a mature and compromised person, wow good job!!!, concealing the real reason of still be playing games, the child that we all have inside.

Because PIXELS!!!! No wonders I pass to see much part of these new "videogame philosophers" crap, Jesus... I have enough games waiting to be played to lose time in moral fantasies applied to imaginary worlds...

No. It's "only" a campaign, since it's not a strategy game, but an RPG.
IIRC, the second (Crossworlds) also has a couple of mini-campaigns, but I wouldn't go there before completing The Legend.

This is great, I spent an hour polishing my lousy english to reply to this and when I tried to link another post to quote I lost it all.

TL;DR: I agree with what you posted.
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And there is this other poster that replied to me but apparently I cant see the message in wich I was quoted unless this other poster quoted the reply directed to me, weird, I think I need to get a bit more used to these forums.

To you my fried: Im going to fall in the the pitfall of stirring up the flames with a cathegoric line, but your post was a cartload of bogus, that wasnt fanfiction to rationalize the joke, it was an interpretation that cannot be more or less wrong than your own, we only have one line alluding to this misgendering of this one character and it only says "The last woman he bedded turned, out a man" and its not nearly as specific to tell us that this was, in fact, a transgender person, the whole ordeal is in need of much needed context that is frankly irrelevant to that interpretation, because Im assuming that the one who suffers at the end of this (and the one being made fun of) is the one who killed himself, and it wasnt this supposed transgender person. But you are still trying to hold that your subjective interpretation accounts for all interpretations.

The fact that obsidian pulled it seems to be an effect to the outrage rather than an honest realization that the joke was indeed ill-intentioned.

Im not advocating for everyone to see it as harmless as I see it, but I heavily dislike moral panicking, and I find the way this subject was handled by certain groups to be utterly disgusting. I have no problems with video games being scrutinized like other entertainment is, but, again, the way this ussue was handled turned out horrible, authoritative and a big threat to one´s right to freedom of expression.

I think that that is the only thing I should respond to, because the rest of what you wrote its just angry recycled rabble and wishful thinking that has been spewed for at least a year now.

And so I hope my grammar does not undermine my point, but whatever, yes to videogames, no to endless back and forth slapping.
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I might get another game from the sale, but now Im in divided between Act of War or Zeus/Poseidon, I never played the Impressions games nor I played C&C generals so I dont know wich one shoudl I get...

You're in for a treat. There are two puzzles that tend to trip people up, but the game is otherwise just about perfect. Great music, great characters, great locations, self-contained and coherent story (which is more than can be said of Dreamfall), and it has a certain amount of "heart" to it. Which is hard to describe, but it was obviously made with love. Plus I played it for the first time in 2012, so that would seem to indicate that it has a certain timeless quality to it.

Maybe I'm overselling it; the game page has a few lukewarm reviews mixed in, suggesting that some were less smitten than I was, but it's seriously become one of my all-time favorites and I think an adventure game fan like yourself would especially appreciate it.

My friend, you've just helped make my mind up to move it up the queue! It looks beautiful, and it'll make a nice juxtaposition to the last few games I've played, which were all quite dark and scary. I buy the darn games in these sprees, during the insomnia sales and summer sales and whatnot, so the backlog has become massive. I'm dreadful at making decisions, in these sorts of matters. Thanks so much for your recommendation!

Oh, my pleasure. It's definitely a beautiful game in many respects. I only hope you come to love it as much as I did.

And many of us forumites are all too familiar with the malevolent force known as "the backlog."

A very elegant and astute post, relevant to our individual perception (and reception) of humor in general. +1!

Thank you for doing this sale, GOG. Giana Sisters had a massive discount; it's great. I'm surprised TB recommended as many platformers as he did, I thought he hated the genre. Cheers!

Great sale GOG, thanks for running it. Ignore the complainers, they don't buy games anyways.

Wtf ... how the fuck do you know how many games the " complainers" as you call them buy ?

And pretty sure it would've been someone who still had male genitalia at the time of said sex - unless magical sex change is a thing in the PoE universe.

Also, given the setting, I find it far more likely that the drunkard simply had sex with a man who wasn't "trans"-anything at all. I bet if the epitaph was about him waking up in a barn with a goat, PETA would be all up in arms, right? "Oh, they're poking fun at goats!"