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Because men and women talk crap about each other all day long. I welcome thee to the sausageparty.

I have heard the phrase "Gender is just social construct" several times during my university-years. However, i can't understand how biological differences can be a form of a social construct.

Slayer - Serenity in Murder

What a coincidence, i played that level last night.

Nah, i was in the finnish marines (not to the same as THE marines, mind you). But i have fired a bazooka once. Probably not even comparable

"The women give birth to babies, the men goes to the military" Some gal told me that once during a party.

Here i thought that Conservapedia was something for the lulz, done by the /b/-tards at 4chan.

If you have been studying/working at a university you would have encountered or heard these 'slogans' from members of the Women studies department. I was studying engineering, but i still managed to meet these kinds of people on an occassional basis.

That's good IMO. The only issue is that the new things they tried follow the same 'CINEMATICK" / emo approach. That is just a low blow. They do sort of follow a pattern though. "Formulaic" if you want. Based on NWN and Kotor I would expect to show up at a council which declare me very special and the saviour of the universe, sending me off to the four courners of game world to gather clues, which leads me to the hidden place where an ancient evil awaits me for a show down. It can be fun if well done though. I did like Kotor True. The anti-thesis of 'formulaic' is organic i suppose, meaning that the story develops, albeit deterministically, into several different branches. Basically, the story and pacing reflects on the original premises of the game. I would like to see that in a game sometimes, even if it would impose a greater risk for the developer. Doing it according to a 'formulaic'-pattern would be mean that there would be a higher risk of having redudant situations(game must be 40hs long!), characters with too little development(Sorry, we were really shooting for 20hs), stereotyping(We need a silent warrior, a happy girl blabla...) and extremely predictable in the long run(The chosen one must save the world). Both Bioware and Obsidian are guilty of these.

The patriarchy has destroyed the western civilization with its demeaning imagry of women. I shout "Forward!" to my fellow feminists and paradise shall be ours! (i'm bored at work)

All of this seems like a less-than-romantic version of Pirates of the Caribbean. I mean instead of: And And And But in reality, we have: And And Reality is such a dull and boring place sometimes.

That's what a constitutional court is for. When the citizens are getting silly and trying to do forbid other citizens to enjoy the same silliness, then the courts and the judges step in and say: "Nu-uh!", and everything is back in order. Being silly, that is.

Ok, i can now come out of the closet myself, since i'm not the only one any more. I am greatly enjoying Last Remnant on the PC, i fail to see why it got such mediocre scores.

See? Just like Bioware. Actually, i take everything back. This is a much more resembling example.

Rationality is seldom comparable with ideology. However, a rational point of view can share traits with one though.

Nah, it has nothing to do about how fast the production-cycle is. Or some clever use of recycling the argument, i'm not that smart. The point was that being the McDonalds is to cater to the taste of the general public. Everyone loevs hamburger. The problem lies of course in finding something that the general public would want, which Bioware has done pretty well. I think that we got a case of being lost in translation; you, me or maybe both at the same time. What i meant is that there's no gamestudio that only serve the food of a certain higher standard, thus the five star rating. It might be troublesome though if we start disagreing on which is of better a quality: A pack of bananas, or a filet mignon flamb

So you'd prefer steak from a gourmet restaurant to a burger from a fast food chain. Okay, that's a popular analogy but it doesn't really clear anything up. What is it that makes a game a steak rather than a burger? What is it that makes a company a five star restaurant rather than a cheap burger joint? Is Bioware really the McDonalds of the gaming industry? Wouldn't a better fit be the casual game studios that make small, cheap, easily consumed games with minimal system requirements? Of course Bioware should be the McDonalds of the RPG-genre. Most people like burgers done well, me included. A five-course meal at a fivestar restaurant would of course more preferable, but it is often 1)expensive, and 2)Relatively exotic compared to a hamburger beef. There are no gamestudios that are equivalent of a five star restaurant. In the film industry, there are of course actors and directors (now and before) that could be considered as a five star restaurant, but no filmstudio though. The same can be found in the music industry; some artists might be (or have been) considered a five star restaurant, but no music distributor is a five star restaurant.

Gromnirs post are pure poetry. Those who do not understand his insightful use of linguistics are the lowest common denominator. This post was an argumentum ad hominem.

That didn't even sound like french, more like esperanto or maybe latin. Anyhoo, it looks like something nice and exotic that one might try to check out.

So... I can reanimate the dead to enslave people? ... AWSUM!1! Also: Hi Josh! I see that you're watching the thread, can we have a hint? Pleeeease. IIRC, Gaider or someone else from Bioware originally claimed at the Rpgcodex' forums that one could "enslave nations with necromancy" in the original campaign of Neverwinter Nights 1, which of course turned out to be false. Hilarity ensued by 'Codexians at the forums.

Yeah, i watched what little there was left of the race. Seems like there was a collective "whut?! can it rain this much?!" from all the contestants. It was a borderlining to become a travesty.

I think it looks worse than the previous games. At least in KoTOR lightsabers would clash and there were fancy parries and things that made the combat interesting to watch. In the combat video none of those things seem to really happen. Hopefully, they'll add more combat animations before final release. Its not a major point for me since I expect to play most of the game in isometric view, but still better animations would be welcome. Good point. And Niten_Ryu scores the same as well. What these animations need are parrying with either weapon or shield of choice, counter-strikes for a successful block and so on. These ideas should also be implemented for spells and other factors that can change the players attributes, such as nullifing a spell with strong resistance, countering a fear spell with strong will etc. Critical strikes would imply extra blood and gore....I think that I could go on for all day. All of these might be considered as superficial fluff, but it is that kind of fluff that many people would appriciate. Even the lowest common denominator!

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