> There is no pause or discussion of coping after you mow down pedestrians in GTA3.
Rockstar aims to rectify this in the next installment of the GTA series with a "remorse meter". If you reach the six-hankies level without visiting a therapist, your character collapses from self-loathing and it counts as a "Wasted."
I'll second that. When I first saw it in the bookstore over a decade ago, I quickly thumbed through it, figured it was some big inside joke, and set it down. Then my mom got it for me for Christmas and I gave it a try. Since then I've bought copies for several friends.
Once you get into the quirky rhythm of the writing, it's very entertaining. There are even some sections, like the Book of Rationalizations and some parts of the Punk Testament, that make me all weepy.
I'm really quite surprised it hasn't developed a larger "cult following" by now. Oh well... or should I say, shammadamma?
Yeah, that was my reaction too. The monster was kind of a letdown as well -- it wasn't completely cheesy, but it just wasn't as disturbing as I'd been expecting. Still, it was fun while it lasted.
View Askew had to phrase it that way in order to get even an inkling of the concept into the thick studio exec's heads.
I enjoyed Mallrats, but it's hard to imagine that "the concept" was going to make anyone's brain explode. I guess I should listen to the commentary and find out what mysteries lie behind the veil...
This was a topic in my Philosophy 101 class in college. One of my pals and I muttered back and forth a little, and then we asked the professor: "But couldn't there be a good deceiver? What if the real universe is so awful that being shielded from it is a blessing?" His reply was "That would be stranger than the strangest science fiction." It's still a catchphrase with us.
I'm pretty sure there were a few deaths on the Corkscrew when it was first introduced. It does seem to have a good reputation for safety all in all, though. Now if they'd just bring back the Earthquake Ride, the Pirate Ride, the Funhouse, the Rotor, the Slide, and Coca-Cola, it'd be perfect! (Of course it's been a couple years so they may have done all this... a man can dream, anyway.)
The actual quote is "Evil can only live when the few good men spell it backwards."
Kidding aside, you're probably thinking of "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." It's attributed to Burke... at least by the random Google blurb I grabbed it from.
From the man himself:
"Those who win one hundred triumphs in one hundred conflicts do not have supreme skill. Those who have supreme skill use strategy to bend others without coming to conflict"
What Saddam actually said was "Those who have supreme skill use the rack to bend others."
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Even the very rich have a hard time affording a completely toxin-free environment. See the epochal Romero/King documentary Creepshow for a prime example. Wealthy industrialist Upson Pratt was killed by his living environment, and not very slowly either.
I would rather be eating cheese and reading Sartre on the banks of the river Seine than eating popcorn with a born again bible-belt fundamentalist Republican administration in Crawford, Texas, execution capital of the world.
Well, diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks. Since you asked, I'd rather be sitting down with a sack of Rusty Brown's Ring Donuts at the Front Page Cafe in Vice City. Now that's the execution capital of the world!
If I remember correctly, this is available on the MAD CD library (it was in stores a few years ago -- every issue of MAD scanned in, from the '50's to 1999 or so).
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Holy smokes! That's a new one on me... what's the reasoning behind it?
Rockstar aims to rectify this in the next installment of the GTA series with a "remorse meter". If you reach the six-hankies level without visiting a therapist, your character collapses from self-loathing and it counts as a "Wasted."
Very droll, but you left out the part about the big mass grave in the basement.
Not to mention being charged with hate crimes if you preface your attack with "Filthy Orcish scum!"
I'll second that. When I first saw it in the bookstore over a decade ago, I quickly thumbed through it, figured it was some big inside joke, and set it down. Then my mom got it for me for Christmas and I gave it a try. Since then I've bought copies for several friends.
Once you get into the quirky rhythm of the writing, it's very entertaining. There are even some sections, like the Book of Rationalizations and some parts of the Punk Testament, that make me all weepy.
I'm really quite surprised it hasn't developed a larger "cult following" by now. Oh well... or should I say, shammadamma?
Yeah, that was my reaction too. The monster was kind of a letdown as well -- it wasn't completely cheesy, but it just wasn't as disturbing as I'd been expecting. Still, it was fun while it lasted.
I enjoyed Mallrats, but it's hard to imagine that "the concept" was going to make anyone's brain explode. I guess I should listen to the commentary and find out what mysteries lie behind the veil...
Women of Exceptional Size are apparently not worth protecting in AmeriKKKa's superficial appearance-based culture!
Yeah, it's just flamebait. But hey, it's Friday.
Under American law, interviewers aren't supposed to ask about candidates' spouses and children. Isn't this pretty much the same thing?
"True, some offerings are more draining than others, as, for example, some intense action titles leave me limp."
"Grammer"? You're just trolling, aren't you?
This was a topic in my Philosophy 101 class in college. One of my pals and I muttered back and forth a little, and then we asked the professor: "But couldn't there be a good deceiver? What if the real universe is so awful that being shielded from it is a blessing?" His reply was "That would be stranger than the strangest science fiction." It's still a catchphrase with us.
I'm pretty sure there were a few deaths on the Corkscrew when it was first introduced. It does seem to have a good reputation for safety all in all, though. Now if they'd just bring back the Earthquake Ride, the Pirate Ride, the Funhouse, the Rotor, the Slide, and Coca-Cola, it'd be perfect! (Of course it's been a couple years so they may have done all this... a man can dream, anyway.)
Take whatever Reynolds says with a grain of salt. That's how he takes his puppies.
You may be thinking of a Dyson sphere, an artificial world built around a sun. I don't know where to find books about them, but Google does!
If this proof is correct, it will forever change the way we do texture-mapping on 4-dimensional graphics cards.
The actual quote is "Evil can only live when the few good men spell it backwards."
Kidding aside, you're probably thinking of "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." It's attributed to Burke... at least by the random Google blurb I grabbed it from.
From what I've heard, "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" has some information on the subject.
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"Those who win one hundred triumphs in one hundred conflicts do not have supreme skill. Those who have supreme skill use strategy to bend others without coming to conflict"
What Saddam actually said was "Those who have supreme skill use the rack to bend others."
That was very informative. Thank you.
Even the very rich have a hard time affording a completely toxin-free environment. See the epochal Romero/King documentary Creepshow for a prime example. Wealthy industrialist Upson Pratt was killed by his living environment, and not very slowly either.
> Sorry, but bombast, sensationalism, and spewing hate sells.
"Spewing hate"? Now, honestly -- I'll concede the bit about bombast and sensationalism, but "spewing hate" is just bombastic and sensationalist.
Well, diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks. Since you asked, I'd rather be sitting down with a sack of Rusty Brown's Ring Donuts at the Front Page Cafe in Vice City. Now that's the execution capital of the world!
If I remember correctly, this is available on the MAD CD library (it was in stores a few years ago -- every issue of MAD scanned in, from the '50's to 1999 or so).