Everything posted by Amentep
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Prism Program ( Big Brother gone too far?)
Its a point that's been brought up before and I have no answer for it (which is why, for now, I don't buy that Snowden was acting out of a desire to do good for "the US people"). Since a senator could have presented the evidence in the house or senate and be protected by the "Speech or Debate" clause, in theory the information could have been put out there to "protect" the US citizens without having to reveal how the information was obtained protecting Snowden. But it would have also left Snwoden anonymous, and I gather that being known was important to him.
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Originality
I'd suspect when casting about for multi-limbed critters with which to show a long grasping reach of political leaders, the political cartoonist finds themselves with a short supply of animals with which to appropriate the body of and jam a caricature of a political leader on top. They could have thrown a squid in though just to shake things up a bit, though, to be fair.
- What you did today
- What you did today
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A video game survey
According to the 2010 census, 75.25% of the US had personal income less than 50K; 48.01% of that total was persons with income less than 25K. 88.10% earned less than 75K.
- What are you playing now?
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RANDOM VIDEO GAME NEWS
Its unclear, to be honest. Most of what I've read about the early info on THE DIVISION actually describe it as an MMO with opponents being other players who, in groups, are looking for the same resources as your group.
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A video game survey
There's an interesting problem that I think Video Games have over most other forms of entertainment in that their length may prevent the ability for a reviewer to be 100% accurate. Film and music time investment can be rather low, time-wise. Literature and video games are definitely up there in time commitment, but (traditional) publishing tends to work so far in advance that the ability to get reviews completed for publication is probably a lot easier to manage. It wouldn't surprise me to find out that a certain amount of reviews for any given game were done with the reviewer not completing the game at all.
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A video game survey
Thing about reviews - to me at least - is that they have to be contextualized as "one person's opinion". A professional reviewer may have just as much bias as a non-professional one. The key - IMO - to the reviewer-reader relationship is understanding where you fall in relation to what the other is writing, not in taking the reviewers opinion as the final word in opinion on the subject of the review. I agreed mostly with Roger Ebert but also had read enough of his reviews to know what kind of things we disagreed on. Roger Moore from the Orlando Sentinel almost never agrees with me on a film and yet I can use that too to know which films I might like too.
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What's on the idiot box...
Its been done, I'm pretty sure. Like most things have been turned into porn. Also, I'll just leave this here...not porn but humorously "naughty" in its own way - http://www.whoguide.com/anunruly.htm Opening of An Unruly Child by Charles Daniels -
- Lebronnnnnnnnnnn Jamessssssss !
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Movies You've Seen Recently
Watched MAN OF STEEL and enjoyed it. Also watched Battle Royale for the first time; it was good but I feel like there's some sort of overarching theme that I'm not quite fully grasping. The film feels like its making a statement, I'm not 100% sure I got the statement though.
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RANDOM VIDEO GAME NEWS
I certainly am not interested in any game where I'm online. And generally speaking I'd rather play single-player games; I don't think Skyrim would have been better had I been forced to group or trade or deal with other players.
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Lebronnnnnnnnnnn Jamessssssss !
Its poor sportsmanship; the rules being exploited are there to protect players from injury and it seems a bit unfair to exploit that, IMO. Its also against the rules in the NBA starting this season, so the idea that its not a problem is false (or else the NBA wouldn't have seen fit to create a rule against it albeit one that was 60 years coming...)
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RANDOM VIDEO GAME NEWS
"Aye, fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live... at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willin' to trade ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our Admiral Anderson, but they'll never take... OUR ROMANCES!" ~ speech from Bioheart
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RANDOM VIDEO GAME NEWS
My thought on this is - we know they were cloning people. There's no reason why Gat couldn't have been cloned, the clone killed and left as the "message" (and the never seen body for the funeral). That said, for this game I wouldn't be surprised if we see some Not-Quite-Really-Gats as they've also said in some of the VR missions we'll see some other dead characters (like members of the Vice Kings). Is that Laura Bailey? Yes
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Brazilian Riots
They're already financing the 2016 Summer Olympics though (which may be part of why the population is feeling a taxation crunch).
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RANDOM VIDEO GAME NEWS
IMDB says yes to that, but I wouldn't take credits there as confirmed until well after the game has been out. I watched an interview were Gat was mentioned and they seemed a bit coy on the point.
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RANDOM VIDEO GAME NEWS
So far Female Voice 1 is the only confirmed returning female player voice I've found. There seems to be conflicting information on who is voicing Shaundi too.
- Internet vs. debates
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RANDOM VIDEO GAME NEWS
After reading this, I searched to see who was coming back voice acting wise (I personally favor Rebecca Sanabria's Female 3 (Main Character Hispanic Female in SR2)) and while the idea of a Russian accented woman hasn't been dismissed the voice actor for Female 2, Tara Platt has confirmed she won't be back. https://twitter.com/taraplatt/status/343605756240752640 Since you're supposed to be able to import your character from SRtheThird, I wonder then if they're planning on getting someone with an authentic accent to do this voice?
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RANDOM VIDEO GAME NEWS
I'll be honest if they hadn't went crazy with SR2 I'd probably never have gotten it; I doubt I'll ever play a GTA game, for example. It was the more ludicrous stuff that I'd read about that convinced me to buy it. I'm SO looking forward to SRIV.
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Anyone looking forward to Tales of Xillia?
Give 5 a shot. Its almost as good as 2. 4 you can skip though. Dragon Quarter turned me off because it didn't feel like a Breath of Fire game. Didnt like any of the mechanics or the tone. Though really 4 was pushing it too. At this point I would just like a remake of 2 with a better translation and updated graphics. I'd love a better translation of BoF2. That was truly an AWFUL translation; there's a few sections in it that I'm still not entirely sure what was supposed to be said. How does a prequel to 1-3 work, exactly?
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Dragon Age III / The Witcher 3 trailers. Impressions?
Guess I'm glad I didn't get the PS3 version then. I can't imagine what was different between the PS3 and 360 versions though; both would have the same limitations of the controller for input. Was DA2's and ME3's first trailers the same sort of thing? My memory says "yes" but its a lying bastard sometimes.
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Dragon Age III / The Witcher 3 trailers. Impressions?
I played DAO on the X-Box 360 and enjoyed it. There was no problems with playing it on a console in my opinion.