You have been marked! He speaks to you from R'lyeh, where he remains dead but dreaming!
[...]the secret priests would take great Cthulhu from His tomb to revive His subjects and resume His rule of earth....Then mankind would have become as the Great Old Ones; free and wild and beyond good and evil, with laws and morals thrown aside and all men shouting and killing and revelling in joy. Then the liberated Old Ones would teach them new ways to shout and kill and revel and enjoy themselves, and all the earth would flame with a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom.
I think the "X" rating has a stigma that needs to be changed in itself. I guess they do have the NC-17 stuff nowadays, but X is thought of as nothing but pornography. Of course, the MPAA doesn't even disclose how or why they rate things, which is why you have so much Hollywood trash dramatically cutting their films for theater release (no rating? no theater play!) and then making a big deal about the "totally unrated" DVD edition, as if they now have some integrity.
I really fail to see how an AO rating can hurt a game nowadays. With the publicity it has received, if anything, such a rating would INCREASE sales. Maybe you can't go down to Wal-Mart and buy it, but so friggin' what? Anyone old enough should have the means to order it online. And that's assuming that such a rating is as bad as everyone thinks. Surely their are some stores out there that would carry it simply BECAUSE of such the rating and the publicity.
MMO's aren't for roleplaying or atmosphere. They're for wasting money and time with the only pay-off being carpal tunnel syndrome. Maybe I'm just chained to the past though when we actually acted out characters in our tabletop sessions and even going so far as to indulge in a LARP more often than not. Even back then, I couldn't stand all of those level-grinding kiddies that played D&D or Rifts while sacrificing story and mood.
I'm not some PETA pal that subscribes to the "cute and fuzzy" ideology. Besides, I mentioned "gross from an ethical standpoint in the case of many factory farms and modern slaughter houses". Such situations are hardly natural, and certainly do not promote the food chain or the environment. Such things are torture and genocide. Humans do not promote nature at all however, from the food chain to natural selection. We've all but bred out NATURE from our species and thus are a threat to any other species' way of life. My personal distaste for most meats aside, I see little wrong with going out and humanely killing what you will use. My remark about humans was mainly sarcasm, though I don't see why we should draw a line of difference when genocide is already an acceptable value when it comes to our daily diet of store-bought steaks and foreign wars.
Oh and that nationalization of their industries have gone really well, unless you like to eat meat. Well, eating meat is pretty distasteful. Not to mention gross from an ethical standpoint in the case of many factory farms and modern slaughter houses. Maybe if human hunting, breeding, production, slaughter and sale was legalized I couldn't scream "hypocrites" as loudly...
Why would anyone buy any new car at all? They're all over priced and instantly loose a considerable chunk of their "value" the moment you drive them off of the lot.
Which is why we need giant robot scorpions to enforce a very basic set of laws and keep a socialist system going. A so-called Golden Age would be nice, you'd just have to get rid of the "unwanteds" first. Though really, as far as personal punishment goes, I'd rather break kneecaps and then slowly torture them in my basement for a few months. Outright death isn't good enough. But, as far as the system goes, death is a lot of easier to deal out. It would certainly be an improvement over measly pre-parole jail times with warm meals, socialization, cable television and class rooms. Howa bout, on that note, we just start using dungeons again? Maybe we wouldn't need to execute everyone then. Just shove them in a small, cold, damp, dingy room where they won't have access to other people, sunlight or fresh air and are fed water and moldy bread.
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It's no different than the MPAA... They're just a little more heavy handed about their control of the market.
Now city people can know what plants look like as well.
I think the "X" rating has a stigma that needs to be changed in itself. I guess they do have the NC-17 stuff nowadays, but X is thought of as nothing but pornography. Of course, the MPAA doesn't even disclose how or why they rate things, which is why you have so much Hollywood trash dramatically cutting their films for theater release (no rating? no theater play!) and then making a big deal about the "totally unrated" DVD edition, as if they now have some integrity.
I really fail to see how an AO rating can hurt a game nowadays. With the publicity it has received, if anything, such a rating would INCREASE sales. Maybe you can't go down to Wal-Mart and buy it, but so friggin' what? Anyone old enough should have the means to order it online. And that's assuming that such a rating is as bad as everyone thinks. Surely their are some stores out there that would carry it simply BECAUSE of such the rating and the publicity.
MMO's aren't for roleplaying or atmosphere. They're for wasting money and time with the only pay-off being carpal tunnel syndrome. Maybe I'm just chained to the past though when we actually acted out characters in our tabletop sessions and even going so far as to indulge in a LARP more often than not. Even back then, I couldn't stand all of those level-grinding kiddies that played D&D or Rifts while sacrificing story and mood.
Vote with our wallets? Ah, God bless capitalism! But seriously, I pirate Windows and legally download Linux for free, so I guess I'm doing my part...
With the elongated shape and "Wii" name, you can use the vibration feature for a lot more than anything from Sony and Microsoft!
I don't know what kind of value I would put behind that... ;)
Safari is even less enticing on Windows than it is in its native environment.
Is where IBM raises the dead in an attempt to takeover Earth without ever having to leave the mother ship.
D&D was lame to begin with however. Ask Conan instead. ;)
My bet is still on the Star Child...
I believe they prefer "chowda" throughout New England...
I'm not some PETA pal that subscribes to the "cute and fuzzy" ideology. Besides, I mentioned "gross from an ethical standpoint in the case of many factory farms and modern slaughter houses". Such situations are hardly natural, and certainly do not promote the food chain or the environment. Such things are torture and genocide. Humans do not promote nature at all however, from the food chain to natural selection. We've all but bred out NATURE from our species and thus are a threat to any other species' way of life. My personal distaste for most meats aside, I see little wrong with going out and humanely killing what you will use. My remark about humans was mainly sarcasm, though I don't see why we should draw a line of difference when genocide is already an acceptable value when it comes to our daily diet of store-bought steaks and foreign wars.
Cut out the middleman, vote "Satan"!
Why would anyone buy any new car at all? They're all over priced and instantly loose a considerable chunk of their "value" the moment you drive them off of the lot.
Legal? Sure, but that's only because there are no laws against yuppies.
Doubtful. I only downloaded it to test websites I build. I never much liked it on Mac OS and I like it even less out of its natural environment.
I'm usually alarmed by what humans do, though never surprised.
By about $350...
Which is why we need giant robot scorpions to enforce a very basic set of laws and keep a socialist system going. A so-called Golden Age would be nice, you'd just have to get rid of the "unwanteds" first. Though really, as far as personal punishment goes, I'd rather break kneecaps and then slowly torture them in my basement for a few months. Outright death isn't good enough. But, as far as the system goes, death is a lot of easier to deal out. It would certainly be an improvement over measly pre-parole jail times with warm meals, socialization, cable television and class rooms. Howa bout, on that note, we just start using dungeons again? Maybe we wouldn't need to execute everyone then. Just shove them in a small, cold, damp, dingy room where they won't have access to other people, sunlight or fresh air and are fed water and moldy bread.