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    Okay, just to come out of left field, for the comparison aspects in general.. GTA in general always has that "gangsta & ho" approach. Which, by everyones fair standards is pretty much not about female empowerment.. While it takes a lot of elements to silly levels - America's love of guns, and the gunshops they put in the game to make a point, they never quite seem to do so with the women. Compare it to Saints Row (well, from SR2 onwards) where , yes, they equally have boobs and prostitutes and suchlike, but they obviously make it tongue-in-cheek and so overblown it's clearly not serious, and never quite as offensively thrust into your face. That, and they throw in various female characters that have depth beyond wiggling around. It's all about finding the right balance point I would say. Not necessarily blunting it to be pro-feminist or pushing it to pro-macho dude.
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    It's all about the eyes.. honest guv..
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    Well he got de-balled a couple of years back. He peed on two beds, so that Christmas week we took him to the vets and he got the snip. That's what you call a serious Christmas present..
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    I suppose we should have something to balance it out and for the general variation...
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    Oh for those physical workout experts out there.. this one might be of interest: CrossFit's Dirty Little Secret
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    I have no idea why, but the cat has been wandering about and going into bouts of loud yowling off and on since about 5am....
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    Alabama Elementary School asks Parents for Permission to Hit the Kids
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    Well I've had hm, it crashed twice just after I first installed it, but apart from that it's been rock solid on my pc. So the pc version seems to be running fairly well...
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    Rather then deal with practical cooking tonight.. Went for an indian takeout. So I've gone for my old standby of a Lamb Balti with Peshwari Naan..
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    She is. It's been a running thing from Saints Row 3, the boss loves Period Romance and Jane Austen. It turns out that Zinyak is also a major fan of her work. Dedicated.
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    Gamespot actually makes a point of saying that while the game play is great and a shining step forward for open world games, there are problems with characters not being coherent, and how so many story issues crop up that seem to step over how they'd been behaving earlier. Also, noting the extreme misogyny of the entire thing that almost seems to be taking it to silly levels to make a point, but in a manner then ends up glorifying it rather then pointing out how crappy it is.
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    Arkane is working on a sequel, so more of that is on it's way. And I hear the dlc are good, going to get them myself when they pop on steam sale. I just hope Arkane can improve their storytelling for the sequel, that's the only thing I found lacking in Dishonored to say the least. I thought their use of books, notes, and general world building was fantastic. There were also some compelling characters like Slackjaw and the Spymaster. But they went in an odd direction with the story, it was almost like they were rushing it at the end and trying to force the plot to work in a way that didn't make too much sense. I'm not explaining it well, but hopefully they can iron it out for the sequel. An example of storytelling that isn't that great in my opinion: What I found interesting is that in a lot of cases, the "nonlethal" version was incredibly much more traumatic and nasty then just killing them.
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    For the people who liked stripes.. For those not into stripes..
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    "Geek Thunderdome - Two Nerds Enter. Bad Fanfiction Leaves."
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    Well, if you want to take a stab at dream analysis, I woke up from one where I was leading a horde of Chaos Space Marines and plotting how to attack a Space Marine Fortress Monastery for some reason. Including vivid sequences of setting the initial sneak attack to disrupt defenses, involved aerial attacks, and darkened corridors with blood spray and plenty of stabby-slashy melee moments.
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    I need to get back to giving it some more tries, but I've barely played any games over the last week.
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    I just decided I'm not going to play this game after all. Oh, it's all done in good taste and tongue firmly planted in cheek.
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    Autumn Reeser and Emmanuele Vaugier. Reeser was one of the Command & Conquer girls as well as a whole bunch of tv. Vaugier turns up in a lot of tv shows and as a supporting actress in a fair few films as well.
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    For the evil.. http://youtu.be/u0N9OoCKmqs
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    Any series that has Clancy Brown in it has a certain amount of win. Then they kill him off in the first 15 minutes. But did I miss any particular reason or how you end up going from "he has no id and thinks he's from 250 years in the past" to "hey, we're not throwing you in the mental asylum and since you were walking around with a skeletal head in a jar we're going to invite you into this case"? I mean sure, two street cops saw a weird headless guy armed to the teeth, and another country sherrif's deputy pulled a gun on the girl, but really there seems to be a large leap somewhere in that mess...
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    If we're going to go with more famous faces again....
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    For the non-sunglass variety just for Woldan then..
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    Hm, the skies are going overcast again. Sister's popped around and got us to look after her big dog while she's getting her car MOT'd. A little bit out of focus in general for some reason. I've spent the week doing bits and pieces but realised I have no idea if I actually achieved anything or really have any idea of what I've spent time doing. Although on a side note I was able to catch up on the last season of Supernatural at some point in the middle of everything.
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    I wandered in here about 6 months before the release of Alpha Protocol and been skulking around ever since...
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    Maybe not so weird, but since the Firefly/Serenity discussion went on a bit on the other thread, I thought it might be of interest to a few: Dark Horse - Can't Stop the Signal
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