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  1. There are some obvious homages to Cubric. like the robot thingies look almost identical to the obilisks from the 2000 - series. The whole gist of the thing, mankind reachíng another level of evolution through a mysterious date flow etc. Anyway that was my first offering when discussing the thing comming out of the cinema.
  2. Interstellar. Basically inception in space inlcuding all the
  3. Whats the point of a fireplace that can't be used as a fireplace. I mean aside from the fact that you don't need a chimey, why not just put in another radiator.
  4. Gamergate should totally do a kickstarter and ask for 500.000$ to do a handful of youtube vids.
  5. Review said the open world design was borrowing a lot from the Ubisoft playbook. Ubisoft is horrible at open world design. I mean it looks gorgeous but everything is copy/paste and NPCs have nothing to say. The same 10 different minigames or collectibles in every local area overlooked by an eagles nest/radio tower/what were they called in watchdogs and no surprises whatsoever. On top of that instant fail stealth gameplay (that's when it's game over if you are discovered) and mission failure if you should happen to step outside of the mission area. This is not something to emulate surely.
  6. The real reason is probably having to make all the extra animation work.
  7. Professors should shy away from deliberate stunts, just my (what's the ASCII for 'cent' anyway)
  8. It would be interesting to find out in more detail who compromises GG, as in demographics and and such, since so many people seem to be engaged in telling you.
  9. Personally I haven't visited most of those websites ever, I've been to a couple of them one or twice though. But reviews still have power, think of that stuff with New Vegas and metacritic, granted I doubt New Vegas got bad reviews for not being progressive, but it still goes to show that reviewers hold some slight power. Besides, if you don't know other gamers and don't like to hang around forums, without reviews you'll have no way of finding out what the chances are that you'll like a game before buying it. If a metacritic score determines whether a contract pays out a bonus then I'd say reviews matter.
  10. Countries that have 10 or more parties divide the same way. There is nearly always two competing wings taking turns at being in opposition. The advantage of having 10 or more is that there will be more flavors available and that you will be more likely to be able to vote for a party representing more or less your demographic interests. When it comes to governing, a coalition vs a majority of the same party, it really doesn't matter as much as one would think. I would even suggest that having to bargain for most major pieces of legislation is an advantage.
  11. And in 8 years or so we will have more or less the same discussion about the republicans. It's obvious isn't it, they are all scum. In ancient Rome it was impossible to run for office without having done something the people would remember you for, usually it was military service but it could be building temples and infrastructure. Corruption was very much out in the open, making it that much easier to guess who really owned who, no need for PACs and lobby firms.
  12. DDR forces fought in Vietnam ? I'm sure you have something ready for when people say 'No, they literally didn't', so lets hear it.
  13. To be fair, Blizzard often branches out and tries different genres. They just tend to cancel them instead of releasing a product they don't feel will be exceptional. Warcraft Adventures and Starcraft Ghost were both out of their wheelhouse. They released Hearthstone and that seems super popular, and of course WoW was a surprising new direction for Blizzard way back when it came out. A Team Fortress style game is out of their normal wheelhouse too, but it looks like they have a pretty solid entry into the genre. It's a silly card game. Any card game efficionado could have done that in his basement
  14. Multiplayer coop is a horrible horrible phenomenon while team deathmatch is of course still the awesome it has always been. The distinction is immensely important. I assume this is deathmatch and CTF and the like oriented with team oriented obejctives. That's fine I suppose but for my money splitting everyone into different classes is sometimes more trouble than it's worth.
  15. It's TF2 just different enough to avoid a lawsuit. Don't like that art style either, it's like a pest invading everything these days.
  16. Well, he could just be 14 years old and Russian, did you ever consider that.
  17. I Played UT(2004) yesterday against an old friend. It didn't take that long for the rust to wear off and your arena blood to start rising again. We were even able to hold our own against drop in players. Amazing that there is still a thriving comunity and tons of public servers 10 years on. It's true through, you have to move where you think your opponent is going to be, both defensively and offensively, you come to rely on that feeling like it's a radar or a sixth sense.
  18. We contain multitudes. The temptation to laugh at Mojo Jojo is too much for my weak will to endure. I think having bad hair is a requirement for the pro-corruption crowd. It doesn't matter to the issues. However, I was suggesting a personal attachment, perhaps as part of an identity with one particular side of the divide. I realise it might be considered crude to bring it up. What I am really talking about is subjectivity, as in the different POV every human views the world with, which is of course completely inescapable.
  19. I was wondering about Briana Wu. Didn't she use to be a man. Just sayin', maybe that explains all the hyperbole. It's like she wants desperately to belong among this new wave of feminist developers. Not saying she can't belong, but maybe it's important to her personally to be constantly 'figthing the good fight', as it were. Even if that means picking a fight herself when there's nothing going on.
  20. That was bizarre. I kinda wished the reporter had persisted. I mean he didn't walk away but tried to bully his way out of a question.
  21. Reading the main stream media's (it's such a tired term) coverage of gamergate has done nothing to instil in me a sense that surely there are 'journalists' and there are, you know, old fashioned actual journalists - that those still exist. They barely even mention what was my main grievance the whole time that games journalists are in a symbiotic relationship to games publishers and PR departments and that it is therefore practically impossible for them not to be aware of one another's needs. Imagine a food critic who relied on revenue from the resturant he was reviewing to have a pay check every month. What would such a review be worth to anyone ?. At the end of the day the customers still need to know if the food is any good. There is going to be some kind of evaluation of that... The metaphor is getting long winded but you get my point. That's the stake I have in Gamergate. I had vain hopes that there would be some kind of groundswell of shame swept on game sites that would force them to change. Anita Sarkeesian, I wish her well in her career as a media critic, or whatever she is. May she sell milions of books, as long as I don't have to read them.
  22. I'd just like to state that I in no way condone or associate myself with this statement. /rapidly backs away from Malcador Dont write stuff like that (Malacador). It's more potential work for the mod squad. Find some other way to
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