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Thank you Volo. I don't think I can please your post. I didn't. Sorry I'm not getting this post? I thought you were saying you can compare the Island to SA ? No, I wasn't saying anything. I was trying to clarify the point of someone else which seemed to be misunderstood, while making no statement regarding my thoughts on any matter at all.

Thank you Volo. I don't think I can please your post. I didn't.

Your entire country is a hellhole where sexual abuse is rampant. What does that have to do with anything though? Someone from Brazil saying Chicago's gun violence is too high isn't invalidated as Rio is worse, no? Takes one to know one, eh? Seriously I think the point is, unless you're going to equally condemn both in the situation, pointing out the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye while having a plank in yours is considered bad form, perhaps?

Well of that list, 20 are rip-offs of Mad Max and 15 are rip-offs of Night of the Living Dead. Heck 8 are Planet of the Apes films and 4 of those films are the same basic story (albeit 1 of those is the inverse of that story). And 80% of everything is "terrible", its the "law" of creative media. I find it interesting that Fallout is seen as a "stroke of genius" given that it's origins are completely derivative - yes it built SPECIAL (because the already implemented GURPS system had to be removed because they didn't get the rights to it). Sure it created a tongue-in-cheek iconography and set its own tone. But at the end of the day, the game is built on that which came before - Mad Max and Mad Max 2, Wasteland and X-Com. It is as original as it is derivative.

What other games are you talking about? Wasteland Fallout Fallout 2 Fallout Tactics Fallout Brotherhood of Steel Fallout 3 Wasteland 2 Fallout New Vegas Fallout 4 the end of the world never ends Its worked of the moves for at least 50 years. Titles off the top of my head in the "Post-Apocalyptic" genre include - Mad Max, Mad Max 2, Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, Mad Max: Fury Road, Cherry 2000, 1990: The Bronx Warriors, Escape from The Bronx, The New Barbarians, Exterminators of the Year 3000, Warlords of the 21st Century, 2019 - After the Fall of New York, Warriors of the Apocalypse, A Man Called Rage, Equalizer 2000, Wheels of Fire, Hell Comes to Frogtown, Steel Frontier, Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn, Gas-s-s-s, The Ultimate Warrior, Steel Dawn, Waterworld, Stryker, World Gone Wild, Cyborg, Doomsday Tank Girl, New Gladiators, The Sisterhood, America 3000, She-Wolves of the Wasteland, Warrior of the Wasteland, Zardoz, Quintet, Night of the Living Dead, Day of the Dead Dawn of the Dead, Panic in Year Zero!, Last Man on Earth, The Omega Man, I Am Legend, Bellflower, Waterworld, Salute of the Juggler, The Postman, Book of Eli, Enemy Empire, The Road, Land of the Dead, Night of the Comet, The Prophecy, The Prophecy 2, 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later, Day of the Triffids, Resident Evil, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Resident Evil: Extinction, Resident Evil: Retribution, Resident Evil: Afterlife, The Time Machine, the other version of The Time Machine, Zombieland, Shaun of the Dead, After Earth, Wall-E, Planet of the Apes, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, Battle for the Planet of the Apes, the other Planet of the Apes, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Wizards, Silent Running, Logan's Run, The Bed-Sitting Room and, arguably, The Terminator franchise.

Well I did say "generally" worthless. There were times they could come in handy, but for the most part I found them not worth spending time using. Mind you its been ages since I played either the PC or Console version of the game. I still think the intent was the styles were to encourage multiple play-throughs even if its not very effective at that.

There's an extra male character model in the PC version. Monk Tieng was available in the Limited Edition of Jade Empire for the consoles. The Limited Edition also had a Weapon Style, Tien's Justice. The Special Edition on PC has Monk Tieng, but not Tien's Justice. It also has Iron Palm, Viper, and Rhino Demon Transformation Style not in the Limited Edition. EDIT: IIRC there was an AI reworking for the PC port as well. As to the fighting styles, I think Jade Empire wanted to do the "replayability" thing with them by allowing you different choices and combinations. That said the execution of the styles is one of my biggest problems with the title (which I overall liked an awful lot) as the requirement of the paper-rock-scissor's style meant that your character - for all the choices they could have - was generally speaking going to be very similar because you really had no choice. Also the Demon Transformations were generally worthless, IMO. But I loved the setting, would have liked Bioware to revisit it with maybe a bit more work on the styles system.

To be fair, everyone seems to have missed where Gfted1 said he thought Hillary looked worse than Trump (implying he thought Trump looked bad too) and then said that he judged everyone on looks. So he's not applying a double-standard to Hillary (judging Hillary by looks but Trump by some other standard), he's applying a standard you don't agree with (judging primarily by looks).

Online polls? Really? They might as well include our little presidential election thread. Why not? It's a valuable public record! Well except we didn't appear to run a poll in 2012.

Not to anyone who wouldn't vote for either of them. Maybe if they'd actually let a third party candidate into the debates, it'd have been exciting...

The original MacGyver actually always reminded me of The Six Million Dollar Man in its set up. Sure, Steve Austin worked for a "spy agency" but other than some specific story reasons, Oscar Goldman was usually the only connection to that agency and Austin was left to do his thing solo. Similarly Dana Elcar's Pete Thornton was really Mac's only connection to the DXS and later the Phoenix Foundation and usually the setup was done so Mac could do his thing. So I'm not surprised to see modern Mac ape aspects of other shows for its set-up borrowing a bit from Chuck, Arrow, Human Target and whatever else it can get its hands on.

Watched the MacGyver pilot. It's not really MacGyver as we know it (it actually reminds me a bit more of FOX's version of The Human Target crossed with, say, Arrow but working for the government.) That said I wasn't un-entertained, so I might watch more - assuming it doesn't hit post pilot blues.

No. These kind of statements make it very clear you do not understand how things work in the US. Which is fine, I couldn't tell you anything about how things work in Poland. Also, FWIW, Ike Perlmutter the CEO of Marvel is a big Trump supporter.

Macgyver doesn't premier until tomorrow night, AFAIK. Unless they've released it online somewhere, or have a different premiere date in Canada, I'd expect no one's seen it.

Mad Max (1979) - It'd been awhile since I'd seen it. Its an unusual post-apocalyptic world because - unlike the rest of the series - society hasn't broken so much as it has almost completely decayed away from the bone. Sure there appears to still be some modern society infrastructure (police, hospitals) but what we see in them is not a society protecting itself but a society going through the motions just before losing all pretense that it still matters. Its a uniquely stark vision - part THE WARRIORS, part DEATH WISH and part commentary on the easy decline of civilization. Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981) - The first of the series that gives the modern view of the post-apocalypse. Has there been a film as influential to its genre after its release since this? I'd argue that it really created its own genre of post-apocalyptic tale that most follow from in the same way that Night of the Living Dead did. Really strong movie, I'd forgotten how nuanced Humongous' group actually was. Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (1985) - I actually liked it better this time. The film is definitely a film of two parts and they could have integrated the two halves better but I thought overall the story held together fairly well. The main heavy starts being played for laughs, though, and the final chase is probably the least exciting of the series. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) - The film still holds up - a great chase, a good view of the post-apocalypse and a lot of imagination and great visuals. The Gunfighter (1950) - Sort of the grand-daddy of a lot of a westerns; a meditation on the downside of having a reputation as a fast draw killer on both the gunfighter and the people around them. Good performances from Gregory Peck, Millard Mitchell, Karl Malden and Skip Homeier. Fantastic Plant (1973) - An allegorical science fantasy film. Lots of ideas, but also a lot of animation that exists to show spectacle in the animated landscapes and wild life. After the languid pace of the first two thirds, the last third rushes to a conclusion.

I blame twitter. I think the only thing adequately expressed in 140 characters is outrage.

Weird. As you say there is an option within the link button to "Link to Anchor in Text" but I can't find anyway to designate an anchor. Can't say I've ever noticed that before (but haven't really had reason to do an anchor either, so...)

I can only imagine a musical Thor leading to an immediate outcry against it, with comparisons to Der Ring des Nibelungen and details of Wagner's shortcomings with respect to his professed antisemtism, Aryanism and the subsequent Nazi party's adoption of him and his work. Perhaps I'm just too pessimistic, though, and no one would say a thing.

Dazzler is pretty much crying out to be a musical, really.

I realized the series is not for me - in fact Persona 3 burned me out on the genre (mostly) for good. 70 hours of grind in a randomly generated 200 level dungeon (all of it very similar) to see the outcome of a story that ultimately collapsed in on itself and amounted to nothing was the most soul draining experience I ever had in my 18 years of gaming. Haven't touched a jRPG for any length of time since. I admit that my tolerance for level-grind in JRPGs has diminished from what it was in the 1990s (when, for example, I got the entire roster of one of my multiple run-throughs of Final Fantasy III (VI) to level 99). That said I've tended to find the SMT games less reliant on grinding, but its still there and in some cases required (particularly early on when you don't have enough Macca to just summon what you want from the Codex for fusing). That said, I liked Persona 3's story - didn't really feel let down by it and I didn't mind the way the dungeon was set up either; after the first 10-20 levels, there was a rinse/repeat approach to levels, though.

While I agree with you that SMT IV was a big letdown (and shouldn't ever be put in a 9/10 score), if you don't like SMT:Nocturne, Persona 3, Persona 4, Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army or Devil Summoner 2: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon then the SMT series as a whole is probably not ever going to be for you. Because to me those were all excellent games that I enjoyed playing multiple times.

Well in a normal Roguelike, I'd expect the world and the character to start over. What I can't tell in this case is if the character is completely starting over or not (since, in theory, the same entity should be brought forth each realm). My guess is "yes" but it'd be kind of neat if you did carry over something from the old world.

Kinda curious where that came from as well. As near as I can tell there were some stunt people on fire for the opening of the games, but no actual sports that set people on fire. EDIT: Found it, it wasn't a competition sport this time but an exhibition sport called Oert Jalymdagan Chabandes which involves riding a horse while on fire (can't find more details atm).

Westerns were the dominant genre for US movies for about 30 years. I doubt Superheroes are going anywhere anytime soon (particularly given that they dovetail into the existing and perennially popular "action movie" summer film and, like Westerns, can combine with other genres to create different approaches to the material).

Interesting, though, is that it appears to be the permadeath of that world itself. The Core ressurects the player in a new-world, starting the player from the beginning. What's unclear to me is if the player starts over or if the player carries over stats (I can understand items being lost with the old world).