Everything posted by Rosbjerg
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I tell you a story, you tell me one.
"While your character doesn't need to eat and drink. Remember you do! we don't want to lose any dedicated players" .. it was actually a good warning, funny and true! :D although I always eat and/or drink when playing rpgs .. it's hard to make a moral decision on a emtpy stomach!
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There goes 35 hours....
sounds like I will enjoy it .. yay .. I think this muddy not black/white sounds intriguing! I like to question the firm and established ideas and apply my own interpretation! will I be able to do that?
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Violence in Video Games
well if we can somehow stop that development wouldn't that be preferable? normal people are well able to distingush games and reality .. and most people are well able to take responsibility of their own actions! but some seem to have trouble doing so, and why not help them before the problem gets out of hands, and they end up killing themselves and/or others in the process!
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Happy New Year
well it did take a serious determination to accomplish! Well here's to hoping your year will be better than New Years Eve then!! (to all of those who had a bad day/night)
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Violence in Video Games
yes Mrkeku .. and throw in addiction to adrenalin in the ****tail and you have a dangerous mix!
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Happy New Year
congratulation on what? still being drunk? :D
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Violence in Video Games
unfortunatly alot of people are weak .. and easily swayed by the opinions of others! if they were a minority we could disregard it! but they are not! and it seems young people are having a hard time resisting it these days .. especially here! and that affects me, because they want to fight .. now I could blame parents, but I know how my mom toiled as a single parent to pay for a house with 3 kids! I mean parents are just human .. they can't do everything perfect! so society needs to help where it can to lift the burden when possible and necessary! and I find it strange that all of a sudden every new parent apperantly suck at raising their kids! there has to be something more than just neglect!
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Violence in Video Games
but there's a big difference imo, between a child drowing by accident .. and a teenager going beserk on drugs and kills someone in a fight! or just fighting every weekend when drinking! now a big part in danish culture is drinking at social events, and some people can't control themselves as easily when they drink or taking drugs (although they are still responsible for their actions imo) .. now I'm not blaming games as a whole for that, nor society, parents! I blame the kid .. but! the kid did it because he never learned how to control his abuse .. he never learned how to control his anger! that's the parents job to at least try to teach this, and if unsuccesful, then prohibit the kid from going drinking without some kind of supervision! but culture is to blame too .. and group pressure, because all his friends drink (and why do they drink?)! so he feels a pressure to drink, perhaps even if he knows the consequences! while this is a thread about violence in games and TV.. this, imo, trancends to the general view on violence! because games and TV are just showing what people want to see .. that's why a change of attitude on ALL fronts are required .. society needs to take a look at it's own bad habits! parents need to take a look at the consequences of their inaction! and the individual must learn to excersize selfcontrol if he wishes to live in this kind of society! (I get the feeling I'm not making any sense .. still a bit affected from the alcohol from last night (ha ironic isn't it) do I make sense? or is just that you don't agree?)
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Happy New Year
it's 4 pm here now .. still kinda tipsy actually! The
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Violence in Video Games
A person is always responsible for his own actions .. very true! and something I firmly believe in! but when you are forging your personality you are very impressionable! at a young age, complete indifference of violence by everyone around you, will breed an indifferent attitude towards it in you! so therefore society (as I said the most abstract of all) can be blamed, since we seem to wanna place the blame elsewhere! you and I are endorsing violence as entertainment, by buying games where that is the case! and we blame the parents, who blame TV/Games .. that is the indifference that society creates, the lack of responsibility people are taking for their own actions..
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Future games you are seriously looking forward to.
Seed: The Human Condition KOTOR 2 (PC) and GTA:SA (PC)
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Violence in Video Games
now first of all .. I see this as a from of addiction .. and as we all now, some people are more receptive to addiction than others! and read the following with that in mind: I think there's a deeper psychological perspective.. Humans seem to enjoy a certain degree of violence, I mean most people laugh when they see Jackas$ .. in this new time of non-violence and peace in the western world (I know we fight wars, but no wars are fought in our own countries), violence is only seen on TV and on games, so a dangerous degree of distance is taken to the images, we become immune to images, because our minds can't fully comprehend the truth about what we see .. then it becomes entertainment (though few take offence to it out of principle), but still not fully understanding it! I mean the closet thing average joe in the western world comes to violence is the occasional bar brawl .. which seldom results in more than a black eye or broken bones! the problem is then that we get the adrenalin from playing those games, and while having fun and getting relief endorphins are released, but not the fear and other consequences such actions would normally produce .. this creates an addiction to the adrenalin and the relief (our body needs the occasional burst of adrenalin and endorphins) subconsciously your brain sees gaming, as a positive behavioural pattern, which in turn creates a crave to repeat that behaviour .. we see this everyday, people are becoming addicted to games and the internet in a much higher degree .. then the real problem arises (talking about gamers) .. what will a person do when simple gaming is no longer enough, because any addiction requires an increase in the behaviour or drug .. will he turn to real life violence? which will release a MUCH higher level of adrenaline (and if he does that he is already at a point of his addiction where the fear and broken bones only fuel his twisted need for more adrenaline).. or will he simply play more games? we don't know, but fact is that more and more young people *are* turning violent! (I don't know if it's only Denmark, but for each year I see more and more violence in the streets, more people taking drugs .. more people taking harder drugs! it seems our society some how forces us to seek our primal thrills in a higher degree than before .. perhaps because they can't be expressed otherwise!) so who's to blame? the one commiting the crime? the parents? TV/games? society? I think it's a combination of all of them .. Tv and games endorse violence .. and endorses violence as entertainment! but parents aren't helping their kids by setting proper rules of behavior! and society, the most abstract of them all, endorses violence by indifference!
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I tell you a story, you tell me one.
never passed out from gaming .. although at a lan party once (with 700 people) for 4 days .. I didn't sleep at all and started to hallucinate on day 4, and shadows began moving and I got tunnel vision .. but I needed to focus on the game .. so all around the screen went completly black, all I could see was the screen .. and all I could move was my hands .. so I continued playing as it didn't affect my reflexes or anything! when the party was over my gf came to pick me up, and just stared at me .. "Rosbjerg .. you are completly gray!!" and I looked down, my skin had turned greyish white .. when I came outside (completly clouded) I couldn't open my eyes because the "sun" was too bright .. she had to walk me to the car because I couldn't see! sunday night I went to sleep .. woke up a couple of time, but slept all the way to tuesday!
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Best RPG of the following?
of this list I liked Shadows of Amn and Throne of Baal the most .. with Torment and Fallout very close behind ..
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Geek love
naah that's boring .. unless severe mutilation is part of it?
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Why can't life be more like RPG's?
I like the: "If she isn't willing, use force. Then drink her blood and sacrifice her eyes to Satan and her heart to Baal. " works everytime!
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Half Life 3
U kall my stupide??
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Holy Crap...sucks to be in Southern Asia.
love everyone one of them!! :D oh wait Bender isn't a cyborg .. ah well, the principle is the same I guess..
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Holy Crap...sucks to be in Southern Asia.
haven't you seen Futurama??
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Half Life 3
U kall my stupide?
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Holy Crap...sucks to be in Southern Asia.
who knows? I mean people aren't in the habit of showing up and annoucing their death last time I checked .. :D
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Half Life 3
haha I gave that screenshot to a dozen people .. all believed it was HL3! muhaha we'll probably see it on websites soon!
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favorite music
all the wierd music I listen to is from the website I mentioned .. DOI, Oziris, K
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favorite music
^^ my kind of list ^^ !! :D ahh so many good artist mentioned here! I see I have forgotten well over a dusin on my list ..it's so hard to remember them all! but most of my all time favorites are danish bands .. I spent alot of my time on a website called "MyMusic" where all danish underground bands "publish" their music .. free for download or streaming! it's a great site .. but since they are all completely unknown it would be pretty useless to mention them!
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favorite music
ah yes Danny Elfman! forgot about him .. love his music to Burtons films but great lists -- I'll have to take a look at those of them I don't know!