Its bad to compare games from 80's and 90's, because it was all new then so everything felt exciting, besides theres some nostalgia towards those early years that probably happened to be lots of peoples teenage years aswell.
There's also the fact that the '80s and '90s saw videogames as a low-budget, high-margin industry. People came out with everything and anything for those original systems. Sometimes it stuck and became a franchise, sometimes it made money but didn't justify sequels, and sometimes it failed. But I remember much more sheer variety than we have today because developers had the freedom to try different things instead of all competing on how many polys they can push and how many innocents they can have the player kill.
And all of the keeping research results under lock-and-chain, all of the demanding short-term marketable results, all of the hushing up research with unpleasant implications, and all of the selectively funding research into making products rather than into nature.
It's sci-fi. If I watched it for the acting I'd be crazy as Alan Tudyk's character.
Well OK, not quite that crazy. I still only have the one personality, but I'm looking for a little nuance here. Can I not like it when a sci-fi show ends up having really good acting?
By the way, am I the only person who thinks that Alan Tudyk deserves to be the real star of "Dollhouse"? In two episodes he out-acted Eliza Dushku's entire season.
Bender's Game wasn't about environmentalism, it just used non-renewable fuels as a plot device. Into the Wild Green Yonder, on the other hand, was definitely anvilicious.
For one thing, Up was most definitely not a children's film. In children's films, the villain doesn't tie a protagonist to a chair and drop him out of a blimp. That's straight over the moral event horizon for a kids' film.
Actually, if the article's right and people could start using the Negev as a water source, I can think of several million people with a real economic incentive to use these things.
OTOH, Futurama, unlike the Simpsons, is far more willing to make major continuity events, like the Fry and Leela situation. I'll be interested to see how they handle that; I'm embarrassed to say I knew enough about the show Friends that I wouldn't want to see the "Ross and Rachel" debacle take place on Futurama.
Remember "Beast with a Billion Backs"? OK, now that I've jogged your memory have the suppressed images come back to mind? That film reset every major character relationship in the entire show. Yet another reason it sucked, in addition to being a really transparent author tract on polyamory.
Because violence against the right sort of people is delicious to Abrahamic religions. OTOH, strict control and rationing of sex via marriage is part of how they maintain social control.
Please shut up about your vendetta against Abrahamic religions. Grand Theft Auto doesn't depict religious armies fighting a glorious Crusade/Jihad/(note the absence of a relevant Hebrew term, by the way) against deviants, atheists, criminals, and members of other religions. It depicts deviants, atheists and criminals engaging in violence, theft, murder, and prostitution for fun and profit. I could say roughly the same thing for pretty much every violent or sexual game out there, with the possible exception of certain Christian-themed Game Boy games.
The reason for the prohibitions on sex rather than violence come out of the simple, retarded American impulse to mother everything and everyone in range, to infantilize and protect "children" from anything and everything. Sex is viewed as "adult" and therefore censored, while any idiot can see that children commit violence among themselves all the time. But of course, you have people trying to censor the violence too -- just look at Jack Thompson!
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Its bad to compare games from 80's and 90's, because it was all new then so everything felt exciting, besides theres some nostalgia towards those early years that probably happened to be lots of peoples teenage years aswell.
There's also the fact that the '80s and '90s saw videogames as a low-budget, high-margin industry. People came out with everything and anything for those original systems. Sometimes it stuck and became a franchise, sometimes it made money but didn't justify sequels, and sometimes it failed. But I remember much more sheer variety than we have today because developers had the freedom to try different things instead of all competing on how many polys they can push and how many innocents they can have the player kill.
Excuse me, but I fucking loved Assassin's Creed. One of the best gameplay ideas I've ever played!
I've gotten blisters on my palms before.
Actually, Galileo was declared a heretic because he was a complete douchebag and deliberately offended men powerful in the Church.
It's not so much that you have license as that you believe you have license.
Couldn't we just have the government fund the research at universities and pay for it to go into the public domain in the first place?
And all of the keeping research results under lock-and-chain, all of the demanding short-term marketable results, all of the hushing up research with unpleasant implications, and all of the selectively funding research into making products rather than into nature.
It's sci-fi. If I watched it for the acting I'd be crazy as Alan Tudyk's character.
Well OK, not quite that crazy. I still only have the one personality, but I'm looking for a little nuance here. Can I not like it when a sci-fi show ends up having really good acting?
By the way, am I the only person who thinks that Alan Tudyk deserves to be the real star of "Dollhouse"? In two episodes he out-acted Eliza Dushku's entire season.
Bender's Game wasn't about environmentalism, it just used non-renewable fuels as a plot device. Into the Wild Green Yonder, on the other hand, was definitely anvilicious.
You mean to tell me there's going to be MOAR?
Return to 4chan whence thou came, foul beast!
You can't take the sky from me...
But the Feds most definitely can.
And Frank Herbert wrote all 6 Dune books!
Have you had it with these mother-fucking snakes on this mother-fucking plane? I know I have.
For one thing, Up was most definitely not a children's film. In children's films, the villain doesn't tie a protagonist to a chair and drop him out of a blimp. That's straight over the moral event horizon for a kids' film.
Mawt al-kafir! I will cut you down for Muad'dib!!!
Actually, if the article's right and people could start using the Negev as a water source, I can think of several million people with a real economic incentive to use these things.
OTOH, Futurama, unlike the Simpsons, is far more willing to make major continuity events, like the Fry and Leela situation. I'll be interested to see how they handle that; I'm embarrassed to say I knew enough about the show Friends that I wouldn't want to see the "Ross and Rachel" debacle take place on Futurama.
Remember "Beast with a Billion Backs"? OK, now that I've jogged your memory have the suppressed images come back to mind? That film reset every major character relationship in the entire show. Yet another reason it sucked, in addition to being a really transparent author tract on polyamory.
Yeah, well he wasn't expecting it.
Well, reading that gave me my daily dose of squick.
Because violence against the right sort of people is delicious to Abrahamic religions. OTOH, strict control and rationing of sex via marriage is part of how they maintain social control.
Please shut up about your vendetta against Abrahamic religions. Grand Theft Auto doesn't depict religious armies fighting a glorious Crusade/Jihad/(note the absence of a relevant Hebrew term, by the way) against deviants, atheists, criminals, and members of other religions. It depicts deviants, atheists and criminals engaging in violence, theft, murder, and prostitution for fun and profit. I could say roughly the same thing for pretty much every violent or sexual game out there, with the possible exception of certain Christian-themed Game Boy games.
The reason for the prohibitions on sex rather than violence come out of the simple, retarded American impulse to mother everything and everyone in range, to infantilize and protect "children" from anything and everything. Sex is viewed as "adult" and therefore censored, while any idiot can see that children commit violence among themselves all the time. But of course, you have people trying to censor the violence too -- just look at Jack Thompson!
Capitalising on humiliation and misery is arguably a form of rape
No it isn't. Rape is forcing sexual acts on someone. Period.
Or perhaps it's because the hikikomori can't be bothered to leave their damned rooms to go rape someone.
You do realize that the last major moral panic was in the prosperous '90s?
Real universities don't want to admit students of his age in the vast majority of cases. It's just plain ageism.