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Lord Tingeling

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  1. if I get high-speed internet around christmas, I'll certainly join. Especially if I get the chance to gun down Josh.
  2. Not like it's part of some sort of extreme-fringe genre either when it comes to Japan. EDIT: I thought the "charm" (HURRR) of Water Closet was the sort of jovial toilet humor that ensues when you have a mad "WC Professor" going around drinking people's urine and such. Trust me, when it comes to sick and evil rape games that make you die inside, there's much, much worse stuff than Water Closet. FAKE EDIT: The fact that I know this makes me cry inside.
  3. Jesus christ, guys. This is extremely tame considering some of the stuff that comes out of oh so glorious Nippon as it is. One casual stroll through The Internet proves that this is certainly not even a blip on the crazy-things-from-Japan-o-meter. That hack over at inverted castle needs to go play Water Closet or something.
  4. SWG is the most entertaining game I've never played. Had lots of fun in the SWG thread at SA- man, that game is a trainwreck. Don't play it unless you're into pain. Basically, it's to MMORPGs what ToEE is to RPGs. That is, if you multiply ToEE's bugginess and unplayability by a hundred times or so.
  5. It turns you into Oni Link. And MM was quite good. Much, much better than some of the gameboy stuff by Capcom. Also, I've completed OoT several times without bothering with the scarecrow song at all. Just look a bit more and you'll find the cell.
  6. Female Toreador get an extremely hot trenchcoat as their final armor model. Combined with a katana it's pwnage. EDIT: My malk got some money from VV's quests. Gee, I missed out on all the emo poetry!
  7. Samurai Champloo really needed a plot and some character development.
  8. Mom jokes are the epitome of refinement and good taste. The standard reply in any situation, that is; "that's what your mom said yesterday" never ceases to be useful. Case in point.
  9. Blood+ is the Blood TV series by I.G productions. I've watched seven episodes so far, and woo doggy, it's all kinds of awesome. You can probably find a fansubbed torrent on google or so- I did and it tides me over until I can buy the DVDs once they get to release them outside of glorious nippon. For all the times I've gone down the emo, NMS jerk path of "waaah I wish they'd make a TV series featuring Saya waaah", I didn't actually expect it to happen.
  10. Because of the rather combat-intensive nature of the game, especially the last half, the game does favor the better combat clans in general. Brujah are effective because you can just build unarmed and persuasion and toss the rest of your points into your disciplines, celerity first followed by potence and presence. Then you can put leftover points into melee or ranged or stealth or whatever you want. The other clans require a bit more hand-holding to develop. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> To be totally honest, the only real, tangible difference between the clans is the various disciplines they get. Pumping a Toreador's combat feats doesn't really involve anything other than spending a few more exp points. Also, Toreador and Brujah are roughly equal in their combat viability through disciplines, even though Brujah tend to do more damage in melee if they opt for potence. Though I guess Toreador get Auspex for buffing perception past 10 for MEGA HEADSHOT CRITS giving that extra point of damage for 60 or so exp. On a sidenote, Malkavians and Ventrue make excellent talkers even without any points put into charisma. Maggots! You are eating maggots!
  11. Heh, I still have FEAR kickin' around somewhere on my harddrive. Might give it a spin- Monolith shooters are usually good, seeing as shooters is like, all they ever do. Though to be totally honest I'd rather dig up my NOLF2 CDs. Man, that game is a masterpiece.
  12. Blood: The Last Vampire, again. Now with added plot. Thank god or bog for Blood+.
  13. I think some of you need to get back to reality. Yeah, hot damn. Because that's usually the way these things go. For every million or so sold copy of, say, Diablo, there's A BILLION of people just clicking said god-forsaken wishy-washy pinko commie link, depriving Blizzard of their hard-earned bucks. I thought about changing the above to something more connected to reality and then go "fixed" in my normal, unfunny way, but then decided against it. Suffice to say, the legal part to your post is very iffy, and depending in which country you might find yourself in, outright wrong. But then again, you know best, I guess. I still have fond memories of when you teached Silverbow how it really was in Slovakia when he was a wee lad. Oh, and speaking of piracy, I'll be visiting DreamHack in a few days. The world's largest LAN, as it happens (and about the only thing we stupid Swedes got right, at that!). They recently removed their "No DC++ hubs on the official network" policy, and as it stands currently file sharing is illegal in Sweden. I am quite looking forward to seeing more than five thousand people get "vigorously prosecuted". Should make quite the show.
  14. The best method is, ultimately, the plain old CD-key. Cheap, and prevents the pirates from playing the game on the internet. Most other stuff is worthless at best or can actually prevent paying customers from playing at worst.
  15. I knew that Rare haven't been in tip-top shape lately, but 5/10? Hah.
  16. Yeah, well, thinking rationally is overrated, anyway.
  17. It's debatable wheter piracy is "plain stealing" from a moral perspective (seeing as nothing is outright stolen, save perhaps from some abstract "potential revenue" or similar), and from a legal perspective (which is the perspective that matters most when discussing, uh, legality), it's even more so. That said, as to what can be done about it- I'd say nothing that interfers with the doings of the customers that do pay. Not like most copy protection holds up to the dedicated release teams, anyway.
  18. The book was decent enough. The game will surely be a pile of crap, however. Not that I know when it's due, what it's about or who's making it, but it's a game based on a movie that is based on a book.
  19. ^^To be totally honest I've never considered that sort of thinking to be any different than the sort of thinking you usually do in a hectic match of Q3. Where am I, where are the closests spawns, what weapon should I use, etc. As you said it's not given much credit, but a game that is skill based to such an extreme extent as Q3 is isn't something you can just breeze through without thinking. Likewise with Battlefield 2. The sort of awareness that these games require is something I really am quite fond of.
  20. If you go down to shard level, yes it is. Depends on the shard, of course, but there's usually a rather decent sense of community on certain shards, small ones in particular. Overall, playing on Earthen Ring/Moonglade and other RP(PVP) servers, I'd have to say the opposite. Being a member of the SA community and the new Goone Squade didn't exactly detract from this, either. I imagine this "mentaly" is more or less something confined to one's head, and thus subject to change depending on who you ask. How far did you get? The Deadmines and basically anything below Big Three five-mans isn't really supposed to be that hard, either. "Casual" in the context of MMORPGs usually means "devoid of as many time sinks as possible". If you by "casual" means "easy", then I suggest you go twenty-man BWL or similar. And there are enough goddamn idiotic time-sinks in WoW already (NEW FACTION LAWL) without asking to turn it into a Lineage or EQ2 already. Also, due to the nature of (MMO)RPGs, there really isn't much potential for epic tests of "skill" to begin with, as most of said tests of skill are character-based as opposed to player-based. Headshots vs. natural 20s and all that. Then again, I suggest you try to tackle Razorgore or above before deriding the tests of skill that do exist within the game.
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