Ok I played your game and made a blind screenshot
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Even if it does, there's little chance of it matching the quality of $30 worth of your wishlisted games bought during the upcoming Steam winter sale.
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We are not fortune tellers. well, you can ask doctorofjournalism's ball
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This isn't a regular Humble Bundle. This is mainly a Yogscast charity event that gives all money donated to charities.This whole thing is mainly about donating and helping people and the games are a Thank you for your donation.
As for the games though.. In the first 9 days they've included 18 things, 15 games and 3 DLC type of things. I think what they are giving as a thank you so far is pretty nice. There's still 22 more days of unlocking to go. Overall I believe there will be way over $30 in value when all is said and done.
EDIT: Was incorrect about this being the first one with games, so I've removed it from my comment.
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which normally has no games at all
It usually has a handful and even more exclusive cosmetics/perks for other games. [2015 >>]
OP:
the games have been lower quality than usual
Overall I believe there will be way over $30 in value when all is said and done.
Compared to previous years, this is definitely a lot more bang for one's buck, and quite a few reasonably appealing games have been included so far. It's really hard to tell if it'll, say, compare to three Humble Monthly bundles, but the game quality has been far better than expected, so far (especially as Jingle Jams aren't known for their efficient returns [though they do seem to get the occasional game that never rebundles, so that's of potential note]).
It certainly isn't likely to reach $30 of value from a typical bundle-purchasing mindset, of course, given that the appeal of Jingle Jams is in their newly bundled games and exclusive content, not in their high-value inclusions. However, given how much this bundle is offering, it doesn't seem likely to disappoint those who kept the charitable angle in mind when purchasing- especially given that so far the CV value seems to be leaning toward the Humble Monthly range.
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That's interesting I thought this was the first.. did they have games before last years?
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This is their third year under the Jingle Jam label (I linked 2015's SG post above, here's a link for the games offered in 2014), though they've been doing the holiday charity drive since 2011. I believe 2013 was the first year they began doing Humble-associated game bundles for the event.
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i think you are failure as a human being
OP was just asking a question. You didn't have to launch a personal attack.
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but didn't you just did the same
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The major part of Humble Bundle is the charity, but that's not all, they have consistently delivered quality games. The OP and I'm sure others are surprised by the low quality games within this bundle and was just curious as to whether this bundle is going to consistently deliver the lower quality games or expect an increase in quality as it gets closer to the holidays since this is unusual for Humble Bundle and it's something we're not used to.
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These are much better than expected already (early expectations leaned toward nothing but pre-bundled games and a few obscure indie titles), so I wouldn't hold your breath. The Jingle Jam promoters indicated some high profile games may be thrown in, so there's a chance, but things like that often boil down too much to differences in perspective, so building up your expectations up is likely to lead to you being frustrated.
Just keep in mind what last year's Jingle Jam was like, and how vastly more generous this one is toward contributors. Keep in mind also that you're not intended to be buying a bundle, you're intended to be donating to charity, and the devs/publishers involved are donating things freely to the event as incentives for that purpose.
This isn't about good returns, though currently the bundle is actually shaping up to reasonably give such, once you remove personal genre preferences and expectations toward AAA/etc games. Is it going to pay itself off, from an efficient bundle-buying perspective? Very unlikely, but that was expected from the start (and well discussed), and if you jumped in blindly, at that price point, then that's not on Humble or the event. The bundle may thrown in a few high profile surprises near the end, but it seems unlikely the bundle is going to shift very much from the current theme of inclusions.
Besides, saying "consistantly ... low quality games" leans toward being offensive toward those who appreciate some of the bundle's contents, given that a couple of reasonably high interest games have already been included. I mean, games like Shadwen, Goat Simulator, Toy Odyssey, and Guilty Gear wouldn't headline a Monthly (then again, Payday 2 did, so no telling), but they'd be decent BTAs or Monthly side-inclusions.
Rather, that's the heart of it- if you're expecting anything more compelling than what'd generally be considered BTA or monthly side-inclusions (or are expecting a bundle of nothing but such content), odds of being satisfied are going to be low.
Just keep in mind this isn't a Monthly bundle. It isn't intended to be quite as appealing. It's already going well beyond established quality expectations for this kind of bundle. It's fine to regret a purchasing decision, but only up to the point where the regret is expressed as negativity toward the sentiments of those who appreciated the purchase, or expressed as negativity toward an event that offered no quality guarantees and has already by far surpassed their previously established expectations.
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He meant "human being" as a term. Is it not proper English? O:
... Or you're just trolling. I can't tell...
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I'm neither picking at the grammar nor trying to incite a reaction through baiting. Simply engaging in a bit of punmanship.
:mumbles: Was supposed to be good for a mood-lightening laugh. :(
Oh well, when in doubt, link a random Nichijou clip, I guess.
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Oh D: I didn't mean to spoil your pun!
(Pretend this is a cute cat GIF, or whatever Sooth likes :3)
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You might want to add about 80% of SG users to that blacklist then.
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I usually don't go for this bundle every year because of the price, but Humble Bundle/Yogscast/Whoever made the decision to allow you to choose what charity gets your money definitely influenced my purchase.
Seeing that the Mental Health Foundation charity that was part of the groups benefiting from this by default was mainly British made me want to find a US based mental health charity to donate to. So I found Mental Health Advocacy Services in CA who sound like they do great work and that's exactly what the mentally ill need in this country: advocacy.
Even with 5000+ games I've already gotten a few new ones from the bundle (Choplifter HD, Frog Climbers, Guilty Gear XX, Shadwen, and Toy Odyssey) and it wasn't hard to find friends who wanted games I already had to gift the keys to as early Christmas presents.
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I think it is ok to get 30 games or DLC for 30$ ... I even would spend more money if I could choose a charity from central Europe and not only from USA and UK. This makes me to spend less as I don't have a real connection to these far away or worldwide charities
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They are complaining of the human sea, I know many souls that
toss and whirl and pass, but none there are that intrigue me
more than the Souls of White Folk.
Of them I am singularly clairvoyant. I see in and through
them. I view them from unusual points of vantage. Not as a
foreigner do I come, for I am native, not foreign, bone of
their thought and flesh of their language. Mine is not the
knowledge of the traveler or the colonial composite of dear
memories, words and wonder. Nor yet is my knowledge that
which servants have of masters, or mass of class, or capitalist
of artisan. Rather I see these souls undressed and from the
back and side. I see the working of their entrails. I know their
thoughts and they know that I know. This knowledge makes
them now embarrassed, now furious! They deny my right to
live and be and call me misbirth! My word is to them mere
bitterness and my soul, pessimism. And yet as they preach
and strut and shout and threaten, crouching as they clutch at
rags of facts and fancies to hide their nakedness, they go
twisting, flying by my tired eyes and I see them ever
stripped,-ugly, human.
The discovery of personal whiteness among the world's
peoples is a very modern thing,-a nineteenth and twentieth
century matter, indeed. The ancient world would have
laughed at such a distinction. The Middle Age regarded skin
color with mild curiosity; and even up into the eighteenth
century we were hammering our national manikins into one,
great, Universal Man, with fine frenzy which ignored color
and race even more than birth. Today we have changed all
that, and the world in a sudden, emotional conversion has
discovered that it is white and by that token, wonderful!
This assumption that of all the hues of God whiteness alone to curious acts;
even the sweeter souls of the dominant world
as they discourse with me on weather, weal, and woe are continually
playing above their actual words an obligation of tune.
"My poor, un-white thing! Weep not nor rage. I know, too
well, that the curse of God lies heavy on you. Why? That is
not for me to say, but be brave! Do your work in your lowly
sphere, praying the good Lord that into heaven above, where
all is love, you may, one day, be born-white!"
I do not laugh. I am quite straight-faced as I ask soberly:
"But what on earth is whiteness that one should so desire
it?" Then always, somehow, some way, silently but clearly, I
am given to understand that whiteness is the ownership of
the earth forever and ever, Amen!
Now what is the effect on a man or a nation when it comes
passionately to believe such an extraordinary dictum as this?
That nations are coming to believe it is manifest daily. Wave
on wave, each with increasing virulence, is dashing this new
religion of whiteness on the shores of our time. Its first effects
are funny: the strut of the Southerner, the arrogance of the
Englishman amuck, the whoop of the hoodlum who vicariously
leads your mob. Next it appears dampening generous
enthusiasm in what we once counted glorious; to free the
slave is discovered to be tolerable only in so far as it freed his
master! Do we sense somnolent writhings in black Africa or
angry groans in India or triumphant banzais in Japan? "To
your tents, 0 Israel!" These nations are not white
Such sense of duty assumes two things: a real possession
of the heritage and its frank appreciation by the humbleborn.
So long, then, as humble black folk, voluble with
thanks, receive barrels of old clothes from lordly and generous
whites, there is much mental peace and moral satisfaction.
But when the black man begins to dispute the white man's
title to certain alleged bequests of the Fathers in wage and
position, authority and training; and when his attitude toward
charity is sullen anger rather than humble jollity; when
he insists on his human right to swagger and swear and
waste,-then the spell is suddenly broken and the philanthropist
is ready to believe that Blacks are impudent, that
the South is right, and that Japan wants to fight America.
After this the descent to Hell is easy. On the pale, white
faces which the great billows whirl upward to my tower I see
again and again, often and still more often, a writing of human
hatred, a deep and passionate hatred, vast by the very
vagueness of its expressions. Down through the green waters,
on the bottom of the world, where men move to and fro, I
have seen a man-an educated gentleman-grow livid with
anger because a little, silent, black woman was sitting by herself
in a Pullman car. He was a white man. I have seen a
great, grown man curse a little child, who had wandered into
the wrong waiting-room, searching for its mother: "Here,
you damned black--" He was white. In Central Park I have
seen the upper lip of a quiet, peaceful man curl back in a
tigerish snarl of rage because black folk rode by in a motor
car. He was a white man. We have seen, you and I, city after
city drunk and furious with ungovernable lust of blood; mad
with murder, destroying, killing, and cursing; torturing human
victims because somebody accused of crime happened to
be of the same color as the mob's innocent victims and because
that color was not white! We have seen,-Merciful
God! in these wild days and in the name of Civilization, Justice,
and Motherhood,-what have we not seen, right here in
America, of orgy, cruelty, barbarism, and murder done to
men and women of African descent.
war,-it is but the beginning!
We see Europe's greatest sin precisely where we found Africa's
and Asia's,-in human hatred, the despising of men;
with this difference, however: Europe has the awful lesson of
the past before her, has the splendid results of widened areas
of tolerance, sympathy, and love among men, and she faces a
greater, an infinitely greater, world of men than any preceding
civilization ever faced.
It is curious to see America, the United States, looking on
herself, first, as a sort of natural peacemaker, then as a moral
protagonist in this terrible time. No nation is less fitted for
this role. For two or more centuries America has marched
proudly in the van of human hatred,-making bonfires of human
flesh and laughing at them hideously, and making the
insulting of millions more than a matter of dislike,-rather a
great religion, a world war-cry: Up white, down black; to
your tents, 0 white folk, and world war with black and particolored
mongrel beasts!
Instead of standing as a great example of the success of
democracy and the possibility of human brotherhood America
has taken her place as an awful example of its pitfalls and
failures, so far as black and brown and yellow peoples are
concerned. And this, too, in spite of the fact that there has
been no actual failure; the Indian is not dying out, the Japanese
and Chinese have not menaced the land, and the experiment
of the African ethnicity has resulted in the uplift of twelve
million people at a rate probably unparalleled in history. But
what of this? America, Land of Democracy, wanted to believe
in the failure of democracy so far as darker peoples were concerned.
Absolutely without excuse she established a caste system,
rushed into preparation for war, and conquered tropical
colonies. She stands today shoulder to shoulder with Europe
in Europe's worst sin against civilization. She aspires to sit
among the great nations who arbitrate the fate of "lesser
breeds without the law" and she is at times heartily ashamed
even of the large number of "new" white people whom her
democracy has admitted to place and power. Against this
surging forward of Irish and German, of Russian Jew, Slav
and "dago" her social bars have not availed against them
she can and does take her unflinching and immovable
stand, backed by this new public policy of Europe. She
trains her immigrants to this despising of "niggers" from the
day of their landing, and they carry and send the news back
to the submerged classes in the fatherlands.
All this I see and hear up in my tower, above the thunder
of the seven seas. From my narrowed windows I stare into
the night that looms beneath the cloud-swept stars. Eastward
and westward storms are breaking,-great, ugly whirlwinds
of hatred and blood and cruelty. I will not believe them inevitable.
I will not believe that all that was must be, that all
the shameful drama of the past must be done again today
before the sunlight sweeps the silver seas.
If I cry amid this roar of elemental forces, must my cry be
in vain, because it is but a cry,-a small and human cry amid
Promethean gloom?
Back beyond the world and swept by these wild, white
faces of the awful dead, why will this Soul of White Folk,this
modem Prometheus,-hang bound by his own binding,
tethered by a fable of the past? I hear his mighty cry reverberating
through the world, "I am white!" Well and good, 0
Prometheus, divine thief! Is not the world wide enough for
two colors, for many little shinings of the sun? Why, then,
devour your own vitals if I answer even as proudly, "I am
black!"
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I've been waiting and seeing what I get everyday from humble bundles month long giveaway for december and have noticed the games have been lower quality than usual....
Anyone think they'll get any better?
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