Today's Best Dreamcast Games

Retrogaming with racketboy has up an interesting feature, a piece intended to discuss the best and most relevant Dreamcast games available today. Not intended as a 'top ten list', his goal is to suggest titles that will resonate with gamers of today who are likely to own other consoles. By suggesting titles that haven't been topped by further works, or that may have been the basis for other popular games, he's hoping that today's gamers will still stop and play the classics once in a while. From the article: "Not only is the gameplay in Jet Grind Radio compelling and unique, but the audio and visual qualities stand up extremely well to today's standards. First of all, the graphical style hits you like a brick in the face (in a good way) with its well-executed cel-shaded models and landscapes. Jet Grind Radio was one of the pioneering games in the cel-shading movement before mainstream games like Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker made it popular for cartoon/anime-style games. The Jet Grind Radio soundtrack is also one of the most popular gaming lineups of all time featuring an array of eclectic songs combining the musical genres of J-pop, Trip-hop, Hip-hop and Electronica. This is one game that is not done justice on TV speakers -- you should definitely try to hook up some decent speakers in order to experience it at its best."

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Re:1999 called....

[Wizard Drongo]

Dude, I hate to break it to you, but outside of freakworldUSA (and Israel, one would assume), most men are not circumcised. Where circumcision does exist it is almost always done for religious reasons or totally valid medical reasons (ie sometimes complications can occur that mean if the child is not circumcised, their penis will get gangrene). As far as I can discover, the USA is virtually the only nation on earth that routinely circumcises baby boys with the false and totally bogus claim that it is somehow healthier that way. Balls it is. Unlike the appendix, the foreskin is NOT a relic of a bygone era of evolution. It is a totally functional and required piece of our anatomy. Those poor individuals that were abused at a young age by their parents (were circumcised) have a large amount of scar tissue on their glans that those of us whose genitalia has not been mutilated do not have. Quite aside from the fact that the pro-circumcision medical lobby in the USA was totally driven by Jewish doctors in the 19th century, who, fearing an outright ban on circumcision tried to spread the myth that it's 'healthier' or 'cleaner', there is also a personal rights issue; it is NOT a necessary medical procedure in the least (except in the aforementioned individuals at risk of gangrene et al), and performing a non-necessary medical procedure on someone who is unable to give their consent is abhorrent. It is on a level with female-circumcision (illegal in most nations) and feet-binding (illegal in most nations). If you've got some weirdo religious belief that requires you to mutilate your genitalia, feel free, by all means to go and do it; hell, I'd even support it being done in hospitals so you don't end up bleeding to death or something. But to do it to a child who isn't even old enough to know they've got one, that's just plain wrong. Apart from anything else, you're causing them a world of unnecessary pain, and the prospect of a loss of sensation when they have sex, having to masturbate with lube instead of just their hand, and numerous other oddities. And for the record, I've gotten plenty of head (referring to a poster down the way). And of all the girls I've been with, not one of them has ever known a guy with an uncut cock (it's one of these things I ask from time to time, out of interest). And some of those girls were fairly promiscous, and have 'put it about a bit'. Stop mutilating babies. You wouldn't circumcise a baby girl, stop doing it to baby boy's.