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I thought I was fairly good at understanding British, but I have to admit, I only got about a 1/3 of what he said. Was it the good bits?

No I didn't. And I wouldn't have wanted either.Cannot unsee! Please stand by to receive Inquisition agents. Dark, crazy stuff. But as that article points out, it's all to do with the pervasive influence of that darkness.

LOL. I can still remember those adverts in the 80s with the tombstone. Scared the **** out of me. I'm a fundamentalist now. The... I'll shut up now. ~~ Great about him getting a phonecall from the convict Charles Bronson. One of my favourite youtube clips ever. Language NSFW.

I shoudl stress I'm not having a go at you, Hurlshot. You teach schoolkids. I doubt HIV or syphilis is uppermost in your mind. But a cop will certainly be aware of it. If not because of the danger then because of all the public programs out there trying to convince sex industry workers to use protection.

Your criticism then, is threefold: 1) You complain that the painting of light and dark in Mask of the Betrayer was simplistic. Then immediately recognise that this is a function of the setting. It was epic level characters in an epic setting, travelling between planes made from pure good and pure evil. Talking to a being infested with pretty much pure evil. 2) Your objection to Dog/God is that his style of exposition was weak. I ask again what you expect by way of dialogue with a schizophrenic super mutant? 3) You object to maudlin introspection. In my experience people who have been through a lot are quite given to introspection, once they open up. I doubt they'd do so while fending off scads of ghost people. But when else are they going to do it in a game? ~~ So far you're sole purpose appears to be to assert an intellectual superiority over both the writers and the people who enjoy the writing, simply because you feel a nebulous attachment to some other form of writing. You do so by exploiting the old lie that video games aren't art and can't be because gamers play them. AND you've done so in a style which only indicates more self-elevation above us hoi polloi who grub around in plain English. I'm annoyed because it's insulting to people who are actually reading this thread, and whose work I respect. Which is merely rude. But the thought that you might actually convince them they're doing something wrong merely to serve your ego is completely appalling.

Considering the name of the movie, that's pretty hilarious. Is that the one about Bob Dylan?

I don't think it's weird to carry a bunch of condoms. But far more importantly it means that prostitutes may NOT carry them to avoid being busted. And that's an outcome I'd have thought the most brain dead public official would want to avoid.

Oi!

You lost me, what do you mean? If GW wants to get it's act together, they need to lose Matt Ward first. I presume you've never seen a copy of The Lost and the Damned or Slaves to Darkness? http://wargamestuff.blogspot.com/2011/06/b...s-of-chaos.html

It seems a bit crude, since he puts up with my bouts of drinking, and the endless singing.

It's been a long time since I wrote any critical literary appraissals, so I'm not sure if this fair: can you actually point at some dialogue and explain why it's bad?

You're saying one just dips them in butter?

Meanwhile, in Sweden (literally)

LOL. It's good for you. Clears out the parasites, opens the pores in your skin. Brulees your 'other' beard... All good.

IMO it's the way that they've handled Chaos which shows the rot best. Rick Priestley came up with this completely mental set of gods which are genuinely scary. Decay, lust, rage, the will to power. These are all actually evil things. And they've been replaced with Marvel super-villains. Abnett's about the only writer left with them who actually gets it. And even he gets distracted. The consequence is that as the bad guys have got less bad, the good guys have become more confusing. And I don't think that either is what teenage boys are looking for. I know what drew me in was the contrast of light and dark. The moral chiaroscuro.

I'm not sure what you want from Chris, though. You want Eastenders in the ruins of a post-apocalyptic love dream? Sam Becket between two people with radioactive blood? The whole point of sci fi is to be bigger than life so it can paint feelings and principles which are so faint that they drift by in normal life. I've no doubt that other authors can and do communicate the same point in more finely nuanced ways. But who do they communicate WITH? A handful of arts majors? _If_ Avellone's writing is crude then it may cost him artistic kudos, but to my mind it gains him merit. Like playing jazz on an oppossum. He certainly speaks to me, and for that at least I am grateful.

He's gone back to being a mong... Here's a thought: how hard would it be to put some mystic looking chappies in orange robes into the Sink with him? Philosophical arguments as to why what he's doing is wrong? I'm thinking at the very least we should put in a buddhist talking about the futility of material possessions. One of your German philsophers talking about the value of sensory experience, and maybe mkreku simply urging him to spend the time more productively looking at boobies. Although those last two are really one and the same. It's a profoundly distyurbing notion. The man has more caps than he can ever usefully spend now. He's certainly got enough glue to repair the Capitol building. What is he doing it FOR? I mean I'm replaying New Vegas now for perhaps the sixth time. But exploring the moral dilemmas, helping different people, concentrating LESS on the materials side. Am I only annoyed because he's doing the opposite?

It gives me no joy to relate, but the finding sof the inquiry into the death of Baha Moussa (an Iraqi) in British custody have found http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14825889 that it was the result of banned interrogation techniques and 'corporate failure' by the British Army. I mention this partly to underscore that I do not dodge the truth. And also to highlight the standard by which we might do well to judge the actions of the unregulated Libyan militias.

I have to say that cruelty to animals is happening in your house, and that animal is YOU. Seriously, man. You're getting bongo'd.

Eat crab in curry? Failing that, experiment. ...And that was how I wound up in A&E...

I think GW in general is in danger of a schism in its oferring. It needs to get back to the dark roots. Kid market be damned. Why do they think kids fell in love with it in the first place?

Roger that. Except as I may have mentioned he's recently had a kid, so calling him a virgin could be either nonsensical or explosively insulting.

Funnily enough I did exactly the same thing over the weekend. It's not so much inconvenient, as creepy.

I don't know what you could have against dog/god. I thought he was rather eloquent and moving FOR A SUPER MUTANT.