Everything posted by Hurlshort
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Movies You've Seen Recently
The Ice Age movies aren't really dumber than any of the other direct to DVD fare that is out there for children. It's pretty typical. Also my daughter woke up on Sunday and asked to watch Star Wars. I asked her which one and she said the one with Princess Leia. I've watched Goonies with her as well, but it's actually pretty scary for her. In fact a lot of the 80's kids movies are a bit edgy by today's standards.
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The End of America (and Western World)
To say that this has caused quite a ****ing ****storm is an understatement. I don't really get why the LAPD is even reopening his case. His actions have proved without a doubt that he was not fit to be an officer. I'm sure there is plenty of corruption in such a large police department, but he clearly never should have been allowed to wear a badge in the first place. While he was an officer, he was a responsible man that protected the people and tattle taled on his fellow officers when they would abuse. See that's you believing one side of a story. You are better off not believing either side of the story and looking at the results, which show he was clearly a disturbed individual. People lose jobs all the time for unfair crap, but most don't proceed to kill the family members of those they feel wronged them.
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The End of America (and Western World)
To say that this has caused quite a ****ing ****storm is an understatement. I don't really get why the LAPD is even reopening his case. His actions have proved without a doubt that he was not fit to be an officer. I'm sure there is plenty of corruption in such a large police department, but he clearly never should have been allowed to wear a badge in the first place.
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New Star Wars RPG
Dream just needs to go get a controller. The game played great on my PC with my Xbox 360 controller. Also DS2 came out in 2005, so expecting DS3 to play the same was not a very realist expectation. Different developer and publisher, different scale and scope, really it was Dungeon Siege in name of the king only! Thank goodness for that too, DS1 and 2 were lame.
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New Star Wars RPG
Obsidian has a history of bug issues, but they've been vocal about their intent to change that. Dungeon Siege 3 showed that they can release a clean game. Regardless, I'd rather deal with a few bugs and play their games than some of the stable AAA titles that are popular today.
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I also missed the Wasteland 2 KS, but I am on a fence here... On a one hand it has a lot of features that I'd love to see, but the dialog in the current form is a huge turn off for me... If they would go with the dialog system similar to NWN2: SoZ it would be a must buy (so actual dialog trees, but special dialog options from different party members based on their attributes/skills), For me a dialog is a huge part of a good RPG. @ Morgoth I am in same boat, I didn't pledge back then because I didn't really understand or appreciate the potential of KS Did you pledge enough to Project Eternity to get the Wasteland 2 key? I also wasn't sure about Kickstarter until after the Wasteland 2 drive was over, so I'm glad that it was offered through PE.
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New Star Wars RPG
I'm not going to get too excited about this, a lot has to happen for this to get close to development. It would be great though.
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Your first cRPG
That's mine too, but I still think it was closer to an adventure game so it didn't fully convert me to an RPG gamer. I believe Might & Magic 3 was my first full scale RPG, which I played a couple years after I started in on all the Sierra adventure games. I was in 8th grade and a friend gave me his copy, and I fell in love with RPG's after that.
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The NHL Thread.
Jagr went to go play hockey in his home country, I respect that completely. Thomas has shown disrespect for the game and for the USA with his actions. There are plenty of ways to voice your political opinions in a respectful manner, and he has gone out of his way to do the opposite. He has a contract to play hockey this year. I'm a bit confused on why they can't cancel it or he can't simply retire and return in another year if he wants, but it seems like he put the Bruins in a bad situation here.
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Gilbert Grape, Howard Hughes, and his recent turn as a slave owner in Django Unchained were pretty far away from his stereotype. Sure, his roles in Shutter Island, Departed, and Gangs of New York are all pretty similar, but they don't share much with Catch Me if You Can or Basketball Diaries.
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Gay Marriage to be legalized in the UK
I'm not entirely sure what Trash man is arguing, but it sounds like he is upset about the aggressiveness of the LGBT rights movement. That is a common argument, I know quite a few people who say they don't care if someone is gay but that doesn't mean they need parades to show it off. But honestly, that is how human nature works. For centuries gay people have been repressed and persecuted. In the last 30 years that has been slowly changing, and we are really at the peak here where gay people are being allowed to openly embrace their identities. So of course there is going to be some hypersensitivity, some that go overboard on the political correctness. It is important to have voices of reason to combat that hypersensitivity, but it is so much better than the centuries of condemnation that came before the shift. Let's also not fool ourselves, there are huge parts of the world and even developed nations like the US that continue to tar and feather anyone suspected of being gay. As long as the word gay is still thrown around as an insult on the playgrounds of our nations, we have a long way to go. Racial epitaphs used to be thrown around in the same way, and it took decades of social sensitivity to change that.
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I haven't seen Trouble with the Curve, but I've enjoyed Justin Timberlake in a couple movies. He was really good in Alpha Dog. And yeah, his Saturday Night Live appearances are pretty much the best thing out there. It's pretty hard to hate on a guy who has no trouble lampooning himself over and over again.
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Gay Marriage to be legalized in the UK
What I'm saying is that act is a lot more rare than most people think and it doesn't even apply to female relationships. It's also a private matter between the couple and not really something that anyone else should concern themselves over. There are plenty of ways to be intimate with someone that don't involve that. It's also very unrealistic to simply say the government should get out of the marriage business. I agree with those of you who state that, but there simply isn't a large movement to do so. You are avoiding the issue when you do this though. The fact is many governments ARE involved in marriage and there are many benefits to being married. The question is should the government be allowed to discriminate between which couples deserve those benefits. My answer is emphatically no. Governments have a duty to protect the minorities against the tyranny of the majority. Gay couples are not provided the same rights as straight couples, and that is a major injustice.
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Gay Marriage to be legalized in the UK
Bringing up anal sex when discussing gay marriage is always a head scratcher for me. It really has nothing to do with it. In fact bringing up sex in general when talking about a lifelong commitment to another person shows a lack of understanding about what it takes to have such a relationship.