I wonder how many people on this board have no valid arguement other than making completely baseless assumptions about the motives of others? Think I found at least one. Since you are so much more enlightened than the rest of us, why don't you tell us about this "misinformation"?
Police in select communities are now offering "write 'em yourself" tickets for a variety of misdemeanors. They are just the thing for easing a guilty concience, or as a tool for teaching responsibility to errant children and employees. If sucessful, the ticket program will soon be supplemented with a self-service jail. Just find an empty cell, set the timer, and close the door until it clicks.
I hate to be ignorant, but where the heck is Vanuatu? It really bugs me that they still have countries out there I've never heard of.
But, if they reasonable intellectual property laws I won't complain. Any country that is unfriendly to the RIAA is decent and civilized in my book.
I'd hate to see what would happen if a spammer got ahold of this thing. Imagine the shear volume of penis-enlargement emails it could send to us all...
Let's hope they remember to install a firewall.
Did anyone here NOT cry when Aeris died? Me, I curled up in my leather gaming chair and wept like a baby when Cloud released her into the pool under the City of Ancients. It wasn't until my Knights of the Round had finished whomping Sephiroth's final form that I could finally quit grieving and move on with my life.
My PSX controller still has the dried tears on it.
I'm just waiting for the day when some artist actually gets sued by their own label for uploading their own music. That's what we've about come to with this article, isn't it? And nobody doubts that the record companies would hesitate to file a lawsuit against a client, considering how they already treat them.
Ah yes, the vampire-western! I get it, they have taken two trite, overused stereotypes and merged them into one. But why stop there? Let's throw more cliques into the mix. All that's left to do now is merge in alien-horror, some demonology, and swords-and-sorcery. And some high-kicking martial arts. And nazis, gotta have nazis. Once they've mixed all that together, we can have this sort of omni-genre sludge that will satisfy entertainment needs for years to come.
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The most disgusting seen was when the bad guy was hanging out with no face, just this pizza-with-the-cheese-pulled-off kind of look. And imagine, if the surgery goes wrong that could be you! I'd stick with the scars. An ugly face is better than no face.
20 to 30 year old gamers may not have a lot of political sway, but guess what, 40 to 50 year old ex-gamers do. The crusade against gaming will blow over, like all other crusades, as the population of gamers age and become parents, politicians, judges, and so on, and by then we will realize that GTA and Doom didn't lead to the downfall of society. Of course by about then there will be some new-fangled invention for us all to get worked up about, so the whole cycle can continue for the next generation.
The thing that gets me about all these new (post FFVII) RPGs is how they feel the need to create teenage characters the player can supposably identify with. I'm sick of protaganists who wear "sk8er" pants, have gratuitously spiky hair, are constantly moody and speak with modern slang that will sound dated in 5 years. Cecily was a real RPG hero, no acne, no bitching, no hormones. He was a grown man, a professional knight with a steady girlfriend, not a surly teenager halfway through puberty. Please RPG-makers, give me characters that I can be proud to waste 30 hours of my life on.
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I wonder how many people on this board have no valid arguement other than making completely baseless assumptions about the motives of others? Think I found at least one. Since you are so much more enlightened than the rest of us, why don't you tell us about this "misinformation"?
Police in select communities are now offering "write 'em yourself" tickets for a variety of misdemeanors. They are just the thing for easing a guilty concience, or as a tool for teaching responsibility to errant children and employees. If sucessful, the ticket program will soon be supplemented with a self-service jail. Just find an empty cell, set the timer, and close the door until it clicks.
I hate to be ignorant, but where the heck is Vanuatu? It really bugs me that they still have countries out there I've never heard of. But, if they reasonable intellectual property laws I won't complain. Any country that is unfriendly to the RIAA is decent and civilized in my book.
I'd hate to see what would happen if a spammer got ahold of this thing. Imagine the shear volume of penis-enlargement emails it could send to us all... Let's hope they remember to install a firewall.
Did anyone here NOT cry when Aeris died? Me, I curled up in my leather gaming chair and wept like a baby when Cloud released her into the pool under the City of Ancients. It wasn't until my Knights of the Round had finished whomping Sephiroth's final form that I could finally quit grieving and move on with my life. My PSX controller still has the dried tears on it.
I'm just waiting for the day when some artist actually gets sued by their own label for uploading their own music. That's what we've about come to with this article, isn't it? And nobody doubts that the record companies would hesitate to file a lawsuit against a client, considering how they already treat them.
Ah yes, the vampire-western! I get it, they have taken two trite, overused stereotypes and merged them into one. But why stop there? Let's throw more cliques into the mix. All that's left to do now is merge in alien-horror, some demonology, and swords-and-sorcery. And some high-kicking martial arts. And nazis, gotta have nazis. Once they've mixed all that together, we can have this sort of omni-genre sludge that will satisfy entertainment needs for years to come.
The most disgusting seen was when the bad guy was hanging out with no face, just this pizza-with-the-cheese-pulled-off kind of look. And imagine, if the surgery goes wrong that could be you! I'd stick with the scars. An ugly face is better than no face.
20 to 30 year old gamers may not have a lot of political sway, but guess what, 40 to 50 year old ex-gamers do. The crusade against gaming will blow over, like all other crusades, as the population of gamers age and become parents, politicians, judges, and so on, and by then we will realize that GTA and Doom didn't lead to the downfall of society. Of course by about then there will be some new-fangled invention for us all to get worked up about, so the whole cycle can continue for the next generation.
I've haven't bought a physical CD in years, and with the new copy protection scams, I have no intention of starting ever again.
The thing that gets me about all these new (post FFVII) RPGs is how they feel the need to create teenage characters the player can supposably identify with. I'm sick of protaganists who wear "sk8er" pants, have gratuitously spiky hair, are constantly moody and speak with modern slang that will sound dated in 5 years. Cecily was a real RPG hero, no acne, no bitching, no hormones. He was a grown man, a professional knight with a steady girlfriend, not a surly teenager halfway through puberty. Please RPG-makers, give me characters that I can be proud to waste 30 hours of my life on.