Everything posted by Blarghagh
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Your Top Ten Games
Actually, Monolith did make AvP 2, but Third Law made the expansion.
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Horror writer King blasts banning violent videogames
The thing is, there is such a system in place. The parents, however, seem to be completely unaware of this because they take zero interest. I call it "old fart syndrome". It's the opinion that still exists almost everywhere outside gaming communities that "only kids play videogames anyway".
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Horror writer King blasts banning violent videogames
It's not exactly the problem that the government is acting as a surrogate parent. It's that they're taking this too far because the parents are shirking their responsibilites themselves (and I don't mean in a passive manner, they screw up in a very active way) Sometimes a kid can get their hands on a game because a store is dumb enough to sell a violent game to them anyway, but this actually doesn't happen often at all, especially since stores, due to all the controversy, have been enforcing the rating system more and more themselves. Most of the times, however, it's not because of the store. Most of the times, these kids will get their hands on these games because their PARENTS know nothing about these games, apparently taking ZERO interest in their child's hobby, and will actually BUY them FOR their kids. Subsequently they will nag at the government because it was possible their pure, innocent children got exposed to this kind of content despite their perfect parenting. So, who is making the biggest mistake here? The parents.
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Horror writer King blasts banning violent videogames
I think you're missing what the issue here is. It's not the impact of violence in videogames. It's whether or not it's neccesary for the government to become surrogate parents by banning violent videogames.
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What you did today
At school right now. We were told to "work on our new project", which we have not yet gotten. Yay for stupidity.
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Your Top Ten Games
Hm. NOT in order: Dungeon Keeper Overlord Theme Park Pok
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Ken Levine: Computer game plots must be stupid
That's not fair. I have nose-problems that usually force me to breathe through my mouth.
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Horror writer King blasts banning violent videogames
Thankfully all these claims are based on common sense for which does not require you to be an authority on anything.
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Biggest nonsense you've ever seen from a game.
I thought it was pretty effective against massed drones, have we played the same game? Well, I don't know about you guys but when I played online, people playing Xenomorphs were smart enough not to bunch up or all attack from the same side to counter that.
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The Music Thread
Skyclad - The Widdershin's Jig Skyclad is one of the greatest bands ever. Or was, anyway.
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The Music Thread
The new Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan collaboration, which sounds remarkably like the first Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan collaboration.
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Biggest nonsense you've ever seen from a game.
Aliens vs Predator 2: The Smart Gun. A gun that automatically aims at your enemies? How can you balance that? You can't. That's why they ended up making it so weak that it was completely useless. I agree with making Worms 3D. A bad descision if there ever was one. The WarWind games were pretty bad offenders. Upgrading every unit individually? A right clicking system ala Windows in an RTS? Also, in WarWind 2 especially, you had to find civillians of your particular race or faction on the map and hire them before you could train them into useful units.
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Obsidian Entertainment and Future D&D/Forgotten Realms Games
Out of those, I think only Middle-Earth is actually more loved than the Forgotten Realms. Potter too, but that's just set in England, isn't it?
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The Music Thread
Eddie Vedder - Hard Sun There's a big A big hard sun Beatin' on the big people In a big hard world
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Indiana Jones IV
Favourite line: "You're a teacher?" "Part-time."
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Indiana Jones IV
Marion, from Raiders, is back, I suspect as the love interest. The Russian villain is played by Kate Blanchett. Also, I was worried about Fords age, but then I saw the teaser. Seriously, he looks good.
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Indiana Jones IV
No, it's been stated the badguys here are Russians, not Nazis. Also Marion is back! Also, Thank-God-For-Beef is not playing Indy's son as it was rumoured, he plays a different character, a greaser by the name of Mutt Williams.
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The Music Thread
Mark Lanegan - Lexington Slow Down I don't mind bein' stoned They say Jesus was
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Happy Easter!
Whoo fertility festival. :D
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The Music Thread
The lyrics are not as angry and aggressive as they seem. Quite often they're just bad poetry. Kamelot - Karma
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The closest thing to Skynet so far
The earth is saved!
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What Grinds your Gears?
First, I have to take a 45 minute train ride, then a 15 minute bus-ride. Getting up at 6 am. So yeah, biking that to and fro every day is not something I'd dig. Our busses are darned clean though. The schedules are just ****ed up.
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What Grinds your Gears?
Hah. I wish I had that luxury but I have to get to school and I cannot afford to travel there any other way (dutch college students can get a special student card that allows free travel on busses and trains).
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What Grinds your Gears?
What really grinds my gears is that whenever I'm waiting for a bus, they generally keep me waiting for something like 20-30 minutes, then when the first one arrives, there's always two or three others right behind it going the same way.
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The Music Thread
Within Temptation - Dark Wings I like their older stuff better than their newer. They're still good, but every album I worry more that they are going to go on sounding more like Evanescence.