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When I was still playing a few months back every Cat was either dual PPC, dual Gauss or a SSRM boat. Gauss happens to be my fav weapon so the nerf kinda killed my mood. That and juggling 3 multiplayer + one or two SP games is hard.

Looks sweet. Too bad they nerfed the Gauss rifle to a liability.

Oooh, happy birthsday!

To me it's more like they try to act cute to make you pledge money, which is just lame, hoax or not. Give them money because the girl is cute and the brothers are mean? Also, they let their 9 year old daughter play Dragon Age II? Doesn't necessarily make them bad parents, but I'm wary.

One of the red flags for me was the KS pitch being written as if said by a 9 year old, but clearly written by an adult.

How about I start a KS too? Give me money so I can hire professional advisor to help me find a better job. At $20 I say thanks, at $50 you get a Thank You. Smash hit to be sure. Whatever. It's cute, but I won't be pledging.

Could we please have some bearable companions please? Obsidian does great writing but companions are usually either annyoing people, or hate everyone around them. KotOR2: Kreia: arrogant hag, looks down on everyone. Atton: Punk, looks down on everyone (except maybe Bao-Dur), etc. NWN2: Quara: ungh.. Sand: Funny but a smartass. The gnome bard: village idiot, etc. AP: Everyone in the Graybox who isn't Mina (and maybe Westridge. I liked him, but I can see why others would be annoyed by his demeanor). I'm not saying Obs should make flawless characters, but how about some positive personalities (and I don't mean obvious comic relief) and a sense of camaraderie? It's a party afterall, let those people bond, please?

Maybe its just me, but that doesn't seem to be out of the norm. Modern popular critical thought seems to boil down to snark and clever one-liners. The sad part is that discourse today is less about presenting ideas with rhetoric and more about one liners, catchy catchphrases and overall just being an ass. We had rhetoric classes at school. One lesson I remember is to leave your strongest argument for last, to make the biggest impact. In practice? Your audience will stop listening at the part they think is wrong or the stupidest and call you out on it. That was my experience, at least. No wonder rhetoric died. :D

Re: SC2 There's a "small" misconception about a certain Overmind related plot twist that I think should be cleared up.

I doubt they could pul another borderlinenonsensicalyetunbelievablyawesome plot again, after x years, wihout the lead writer.

That was the plan, man.

"Furthermore, it's interesting to me that there are so many who take a video like this so... defensively." No offense, but this is silly. If people disagree, they are defensive, if they deliver counter-argumens, they are misogynists or haters or whatever. If they don't give detailed critique, they are mindless bashers. If they give detailed critique, they (and I quote from another site's comments) "fine combing her video for the smallest errors". Could we just skip the silly labels please?

Don't see why I couldn't be both, to be honest.

Heart of the Swarm also. I wonder if the Zerus missions are optional? Could be interesting if you could skip what happens there. Really love it though, the Zerg going home and seeing where they come from, and how different they've become. Then learning new things from the "old ways".

This quoting system is a turd... pimp10: Yes, it's true it's fanservice, but that doesn't mean the game/characters is without merit. Or that she isn't talking nonsense half the time.

This is my belief, but I doubt we ever get there, especially since the internet has allowed everyone to whine about anything.

Sorry, it seems I won't be able to play. I created another account on NA and the system acts as if the acc didn't exist, yet I can ask for a new password for the "nonexistant" acc.

Have you played Bayonetta? Me neither, so I can't say how sexist or not the game is, I can only repeat what I read about it. Bayonetta wears her sexuality on her sleeve, what's wrong with that? She eats lollipops, what's wrong with that? She's an over-the-top parody, what's wrong with that? She is strong, confident, etc. But that's not why I linked the video. For what is supposed to be a review, she dismisses the story as beside the point (and it's clearly not because story isn't the focus of spectacle fighters), is laden with inaccurate statements, and acts like the game has 0 good things about it. That kind of review is frankly, trash and makes me question her competence and doubt the quality of her future videos. Plus I saw a video of her yesterday where she states that 'I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus' is a song about a woman cheating on her husband with Santa. ... ...

You are misunderstanding me a little. I'm not saying she's necessarily wrong, just that these are details that make it hard for me personally, to care about her arguments. I'm not a testosterone-fueled, big muscled, brown haired walking manhunk that crushes everything and gets all the women. Yet I don't sneer with disgust at every game that features them and don't complain on the internet how wrong that is and how boys playing these games get a twisted sense of what it means to be a man. I just can't understand the attitudes some people have. Sarkeesian is trying to make some proper points in this series, I see, which is good (though I still think she should focus on WHY the treatment of women in games is bad instead of just nagging on that it's evil). Yet I've seen one or two videos from her and I don't trust her. Her current "educating" attitude seems to me like an act, and the "regressive crap part" and her Bayonetta review are the cracks. But that's just my opinion.

Errr, her point with that was that the damsel in distress trope has its roots in early gaming, and she illustrated that the theme of Peach being captured has remained the central motivation for the game in 13 of 14 different iterations of Mario games, and that the trope continues today. Though she does acknowledge that the mere existence of this trope in a game doesn't mean that a game must be sexist. My point is that she took offense at Peach being a DiD because she's a woman too. Were she not, she wouldn't care, just as she doesn't care about fat, accented italians and a whole kingdom of evil turtles. That and it's still a children's game for a young boy market, what kind of plot is she expecting? I mean, if she had started with more modern games, where you know, there is a proper plot and you can practically touch the discrimination, I'd agree with her. But a silly little game wherein there was obviously no malice?

It has been a while, but I read some quotes from SC1 that seem to hint at the new Zerg twist. Maybe I was just reading too much into it though.

The response to Jack Thompson is still typically just as bad, but you're right that it's a bit of a double standard when the target of the ire is more uniformly agreed upon. Thompson had the unfortunate perspective of taking a very extreme stance on the games being "murder simulators" and with his whole getting disbarred shortly afterwards, ended up fading into irrelevance. The principle difference with Anita and Jack, in my opinion, is that Anita just wanted to investigate female tropes in video games (since she is a female gamer. Her perspective/concern is hardly new) and has been much more moderate in her assessment, whereas Jack Thompson was on a hellbent crusade to show how violent video games creates violent people (a proposition that already has a lot of research done to illustrate this isn't the case). I'd like to say that post Jack Thompson people possibly just got fed up with the constant crap flinging that went over video games, but.. How should I know what a few ten-million people think. Yep, was cute.

I didn't remember whether the redesign or the Zerg came first.

Dunno what the comments are whining for, this looks hilarous.

Possibly. Not their ideas, though they seem don't seem to care about that anymore either. 'Nids = Starship Troopers bugs + Aliens Space Marines = Starship Troopers again, maybe other sources too Tau may be inspired by Protoss